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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1913
Page
1
Indianapolis reports say brewery wagon drivers, part of brewery workers union, operate outside Teamsters jurisdiction amid bread milk and supply wagon interference. Ministers seek facts from both sides to ease conflict as rioting rumors halt.
Nearly $1,500,000 has been used by Red Cross Christmas Seals in five years. Origin traces to 1862 when women sold stamps at fairs for soldiers' hospitals in Brooklyn and Boston. Jacob Riis and Miss Emily P. Bissell helped launch the national sale in 1908, yielding $126,000 that year and rising to tens of millions by 1910.
Nashville Tenn December 4 Twenty cases of Smallpox one malignant are treated at the local isolation hospital Among the patients two Vanderbilt students including Tom Brown All Southern tackle Brox3 developed the disease after the Thanksgiving game with Sewanee Fans patronize doctors Vaccination becomes popular and smallpox vaccine is scarce in Nashville
The Northern District Convention of the Christian Endeavor of Alabama meets this afternoon at 4 at First Presbyterian Church Decatur. Local societies send delegates. speakers include Rev. J W Atwood Coutland Rev F L Brubaker Ensley and Rev H P Atkins Birmingham.
The De Armond Sisters Company opens at the Masonic tonight with the society drama An American Actress. The troupe comes with strong recommendations and is expected to draw crowds through the week, offering an entire change of program each night.
Lieutenant Governor Theodore Bilbo and Senator G D Hobbs were arrested in separate cities on charges of accepting payments to influence votes for creating a new county in the delta. Bilbo, bond posted, denounced his political enemies while Governor Brewer rejected any parley with indicted officials.
Paris reports rising infant crime with 12 to 16 year olds committing arson burglary and murder. Edmond Harcourt leads a children’s newspaper project promising to channel youth impulses toward good through news and information for youngsters.
The House approved Army Bill 15 after a discussion that tied the Mexican situation into the debate on the volunteer bill. Lawmakers argued over policy details and potential implications for recruitment and national security.
Washington reports the house passed a war volunteer bill now headed to the senate. It would place volunteer forces on equal footing with the regular army and allow the president to appoint officers, with modest regular officer limits, to volunteer regiments for the duration of the war.
Decatur business leaders formed a Bridge Committee to study the Tennessee river bridge proposal. Though no regular meetings have occurred, the group has sent numerous letters to Congress and other parties and received several responses from contractors and capitalists. A meeting is expected next week to summarize progress and possibly propose funding steps.
Governor Emmet O Neal of Alabama visits Decatur on the way to Montgomery after stopping at Florence. In Birmingham he will receive a petition to call an extra legislative session.
Special to Decatur Daily reports in Fall River Mass that a meeting of unions last night voted down a strike by about thirty thousand textile workers.
The Morgan County Medical Society held a regular session in Decatur at the Chenaults offices. Elected for the coming year were Dr. A. M. White of Hartselle as president, Dr. H. D. Greet of Decatur as vice president, Dr. J. W. Crow of New Decatur as censor, with Drs. W. Bailey and J. L. Gunter as health officers.
Fort Worth Texas reports a continuing severe flood. A ten day downpour has damaged cotton crops and threatens many cotton compresses. The flood damage in this state is record setting with no cotton picked since December.
F F Everett of Columbia, Tennessee, known as a hardware dealer, toured the city today in his Belknapp Hardware role. Residents welcomed him as a longtime trader who has served the area for years and often offers a friendly greeting and helpful trade.
In Sheffield Dee 4 Dr Jackson reports 7 year old Robert Beacken was struck on the head by a dangerous ape at a creek site. The skull was fractured exposing brain tissue but Dr Jackson believes there may be a chance of recovery.
"Private" John Allen of Mississippi, the only Confederate private after the war, spoke at the ninth annual Association of Commerce banquet at the Hotel LaSalle. He recalled Roosevelt's question, noted his 16 years as a congressman, and said he once opposed woman suffrage but is becoming reconciled. He called himself a southern farmer from Tapley, Mississippi, and joked about dancing and local religion.
Dr J H Phillips superintendent of Birmingham public schools speaks tonight at 8 30 at Decatur City Hall for the Dd x R on education.
Zaurez Dec 4 rebels move 2000 strong under General Milla from Jaurez toward Chihuahua. They seize Ahumada and Montezuma, plan to establish temporary headquarters in the state capital with 7000 total armed forces. Carranza’s location and possible moves remain uncertain as telegraph service is restored and railway repairs begin.
The Alabama conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South opened in Montgomery with Bishop E R Hendrix presiding. Ministers praised the college of bishops for rejecting Andrew Carnegie’s 1.9 million offer to Vanderbilt University’s medical department.
Shelly Maybethey a Negro section hand had his left foot cut off at the ankle by a double header freight train around two o clock. The accident occurred beneath the Church Street ridge where workers were on the track. He was treated on site and then taken home.
Mr Elwood delivered a spiritual talk titled My Mother's Bible to an enthusiastic Willoughby Church audience last night. He spoke of personal sin and salvation, tracing his ancestry to Thomas Ellwood and John Knox Presbyterians, and urged a better day for the community with a firm stand against the saloon.
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