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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1914
Page
5
City news item states a committee arranging a Pythean celebration this week needs 100 goats for the candidates. People with one or more goats to donate are asked to communicate with Mr. Witt.
This morning the recorder's Court Weta reported a calm weekend. Saturday had only one arrest and Sunday saw two or three minor offenses, reflecting a notably quiet period. Local advertisers include Paint Glass and Builders Supply Co and Omega Flour for various goods.
The welfare of S J Winchester the evangelist and the court burns yesterday afternoon attended by several hundred men. His subject was Give the Girls a Square Deal and he presented his arguments in a convincing manner.
Business men from Birmingham and Montgomery visit for a floor wax promotion at Paint Glass and Builders Supply Co. Omega Flow offered at special prices starting January first. The ad lists dry cleaning services for men and women, with garment prices and laundry notes.
Montgomery Dec 14 Resolutions adopted by Alabama bankers pledge not to extend credit to farmers who refuse to cut cotton acreage by fifty percent and diversify crops. Bank superintendent Alex E Walker reports requests for copies from bankers in Texas Louisiana Mississippi and Tennessee.
Mrs. Mary Echols of Ensley will conduct the installation of officers of the Ladies Auxiliary to the Knights of Pythias in Montgom ery Tuesday. Fifteen charter members have signed the petition for the auxiliary as daughters sisters and mothers of the Knights. The charter memory list includes Mesdames Hollowdy Inner Plack Dalvlerg Smith Cummings Fike Jetter Hammond Cohen Miller Johnson Mackett Perry Dunn Franson Vaughan Carrol Baker Hasselton Atkinson Hughes Sharpe.
The fire department rushed to a small house at Moore Avenue between Tenth and Kleverth streets at 12:45 a m. A second alarm followed at 1:25 am for a small blaze at The Globe but caused no damage.
Forecast for Anniston and vicinity calls for fair weather tonight and Tuesday with colder temperatures below freezing. Across Alabama, fair and colder conditions prevail, with similar freezing lows forecast. Barometer readings and temperature data are noted, including a high since yesterday and precipitation totals to date.
Oxford Alt Prec 14 reports city officials elected include Mayor C. H. McCraw, W. C. Bobo as night police chief, J. J. Draper as clerk, J. N. Marshel as tax collector, P. F. Howls as treasurer. The council also approved routine business as residents return home and local residents sample weekend activities.
War notes describe slight advances on the Slopes of Argonne and in the Meuse forests. French and Allied forces dig in as enemy batteries withdraw northward near the Woevre region and advance to within sight of Hill. Alsace includes further front movement toward a hill.
An official statement says Austrian efforts to reform their lines failed against King Peter's Serbians who press the attack. Serbs captured over two thousand prisoners, two flags, sixteen mortars, and a large quantity of equipment on December 11 as the enemy retreats toward Oorenovatz.
In Petrograd the Germans launch relentless assaults with up to five hundred thousand men against Russian lines near low to Glow, seeking a route to Warsaw. Attacks continue day and night but are repulsed, as Russian defense holds.
Miles Estelle Brantley reports at 4 Neew Street Francie Street that during early hours she heard someone at her front door. She frightened the intruder dropped a glass and fled, then she prayed for the burglar not to come back as he left shortly afterward.
Dan G. Magruder of Birmingham was appointed lawn demonstration agent of Jefferson County by the state board of agriculture. He will fill permanently a position held temporarily for several weeks. Magruder was nominated by J. T. Watt, state farm demonstration agent.
Army dispatch reports Russians driving toward the Thorn Soudia line while German forces fall back ten to twenty miles at several points. Germans abandon guns and ammunition as Russians pursue north of the Vistula and capture many prisoners.
Mayors engineers and road experts from the United States and Canada gathered in Chicago for the First American Good Roads Congress. The program featured speeches on modern road construction methods including a 20 foot wide boulevard around Union League amphitheater. debates on national versus local road funding and the push for federal aid while avoiding pork barrel politics.
A congress of 25 American city mayors and state engineers gathers at an amphitheatre opening the “School for the Open Road.” About 10 000 delegates attend as speakers including A McLean Geo W Tilhou Austin B Fletcher Paul D Sargent William Connell O A Kenyon and others press for a nationwide highway system and better roads over canals.
The list includes Kinale Brigh way Commission secretary, Henry Beechby Oregon highway engineer, Pramk Buffum Miecourt omatineer, George Cooley Minnesota state engineer, FB Goodrich New York consulting engineer, Walter Levi-Inger Chicago streets superintendent, Thomas McDonald Iowa state reviewer, and F J Edinson Saskatchewan highway commission.
December 14 report from Greenville details Ledbetter using a double barreled shotgun in a feud with the Jernigan brothers. Bob and Jim Jernigan were seriously wounded in a confrontation over wild hogs. Ledbetter allegedly began firing after arguing with his father and engaging peers.
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