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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1913
Page
1
J Adam Bede, Statesman and teacher, delivers a vision sermon at Redpath Chautauqua. The talk outlines moral reform, education, and civic responsibility with emphasis on religious and secular leadership guiding public life.
Minnesota congressman J Adam Bele delivers a sermon inspired by Isaiah on Isiah 32 3 declaring the eyes of the seen shall not be dim. He casts a vision of America as a new Republic and calls for unity, liberty and justice amid past prejudices and distractions.
Ethel Barrymore, stalling amid a diphtheria scare, stays two weeks in Minturn Hospital with her 32 year old daughter. Mrs Colt cancels New Britain Theater engagements and Europe sailing plans after exposure prompts a mandatory fourteen day quarantine.
Plans announce a new city near Nashville to be governed by idealistic laws. It will admit all races and be led by three prominent Nashville African Americans. Land distribution limits liquor sales and denominational rivalry. Clergy and police share payrolls and citizens vote for their pastor in elections.
Lee Worley and Lu'te Rogers, 12 year old white boys, nearly drowned when their rowboat capsized beneath a drawbridge. They wer e swept into the water but, aided by bystanders, reached the riverbank unharmed.
Harold A. Sanderson was named president of the International Mercantile Marine Company, succeeding J Bruce Ismay. Ismay, linked to the Titanic disaster, faced global criticism and congressional scrutiny, and has been in frail health, with retirement likely.
Rome June 2 Pope Pius X is 78 years old today. He spent his birthday quietly, admitting only relatives and entourage to his apartments. He received Cardinal OConner of Boston in farewell audience and discussed ecclesiastical questions and the upcoming missionary congress in Boston this October.
James Hopper alias Shine 4 ne gro was convicted in Law and Equity court this afternoon of attempting to assault a white girl near Valermega Springs in February. Judge Thos Wert sentenced him to 20 years in the penitentiary, saying he was giving the maximum penalty for the offense.
Oakland Park will open on Tuesday June 3 and will operate each Tuesday and Friday during the summer season. Street cars will run until 10 30 P M on these nights connecting east and west streams.
The Morgan County revenue court is in session reviewing the county tax books. The court comprises the Board of Commissioners the Tax Assessor the Probate Judge and the Back Tax Commissioner.
The L. A. N. R. will attach a special coach to the 12 35 southbound Thursday June 5 between Decatur and Falkville to serve delegates attending the District Conference in Falkville that day.
The Probate Judge issues a marriage license for Claude Jackson Lamon of New Decatur to Velma Sheats of Trinity.
Outside a sculptor’s home a poor girl is taken in by a kind mother and son. The son falls for a distant beauty who inspires a statue that critics hail as a masterpiece. The beauty uses him, the statue chooses the rightful owner, and the tale intertwines love, art, and loyalty.
L. E. Boeglen departs tomorrow for New Orleans to study as an operator machinist at the Mergenthaler school. He has served the paper since entering publishing and will return to The Decatur Daily after completing his course. The staff wishes him God speed and safe return.
A sand box device for cars mirrors locomotive equipment to distribute sand under tires and reduce skidding, patented by a Massachusetts inventor.
In a tale where a man wakes from a dream to discover the beauty he loves has pledged to another, he destroys a statue in his studio. Marguerite Snow and James Cruze head the cast in this dramatic film shown at the Delite tomorrow.
Birmingham June 2. Two hundred fifty workers from chiselled trades join two hundred plus colleagues at the American Steel and Wire Company plant in Fairfield. Total planned labor could reach 1,200 to 1,500 once production lines fully resume by November 16. The plant, part of United States Steel, paused during downturns and politics. The Tennessee Coal and Iron Railroad Company provides steel for the operation.
Officers Bell and Cobb and Chief Davidson raided a Crawford's Row game Saturday night and seized four dark skinned men. One paid his fine and was released. the other three were arraigned before Mayor Wolcott.
Leavenworth Kansas 107 Abilene 106 Salina 104 topped a region heat record on Saturday with Des Moines Iowa at 96. The note calls the Decacurss a mild heat spell and a summer resort and heart resort as well.
The Ireland Home Rule bill was issued for its second reading in the House of Commons with heated debate following. Leaders and senators argued over the measure as the bill moved through parliament.
Miss Frances Scoville daughter of C C Scoville a Seneca Kansas banker married Walter de Mumm of champagne fame at St George's Church Hanover Square London. Bride’s trousseau cost 25000 with 100 gowns and fifty other items. De Mumm was shot in Paris last December by Marie Van Rensimer Barnes.
The case of 8. P. Owens of Trinity charged with attempted rape was continued until Wednesday in Equity Court. The sickness of the physician who examined the girl is noted in the proceedings.
London June 2 Eddie Moran popular in America will clash with Mig ger Stanley twenty for the bantam championship of the National Sporting. There is an additional purse of 1 Lonsdale Belt.
Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors presented by The Ben Gregg company at Chautauqua Monday evening. Admission 60 cents.
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