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GOVERNOR WILL NOI
ATTEND AW FINALS
Will Be in Wisconsin at That
Time Attending the Gov
ernors’ Conference
Montgomery. May 23. —^(Special.)
Owing to the meeting of the gover
nors’ conference at Madison, Wis.. dur
ing the second week in June, the gov
ernor of Alabama will not he able to
attend the commencement of .the Ala
bama. Polytechnic institute this year.
The governor was scheduled to review
with his staff the Auburn cadets ono
day of commencement week, but in
the absence of the governor the re
view will be held by Adjt. Gen. Joseph
B. Scully, whom the executive has
designated to represent him on that oc
casion. General Scully* will issue or
ders to the members of the stuff with
in the next few days.
The governor’s conference, which has
become an annual institution for the
Various chief executives of the states
of the union, will be held this year
nt Madison, Wis.,'and Alabama’s gov
ernor will occupy an important place
on the programme.
The governor will leave Montgomery
for Madison the latter part of next
week, and will probably be absent two
weeks more. It Is his purpose to take
a brief vacation following the meet
ing of the governors. He will be ac
companied by Mrs. O’Neal and Miss
Olivia O’Neal.
CAPTAIN SCREWS OFF
ON INSTRUCTION TRIP
Montgomery, May 23.—(Special.)
Capt. William P. Screws. U. S. A., left
tonight for Knoxville, where he will
be the senior instructing officer next
week at the officers’ school o‘f the
Tennessee National Guard. Captain
Screws is at present stationed in Mont
gomery, his duties being those of a
regular army instructor. He was the
senior instructing officer at the school
for the Alabama National Guard, which
( was hi id here about three weeks ago.
Captain Screws will spend the entire
Iwqek in Knoxville, after which in- will
go' to Fredericksburg, Va., where he
will conduct a school for the officers
of the Virginia National Guard.
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CLAYTON WILL TAKE'
UP HIS NEW DUTIES
IN NEXT FEW DAYS
i
Informs Governor He Will
Take Place on Federal
Bench Soon—To Call
Special Election
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| Montgomery. May- 22.—(Special.!—Henry
' D. Clayton, recently appointed federal
; Judge for the northern and middle dis
I triet of Alabama, to succeed the late
i Judge Thomas G. Jones, has written the
! governor that he expects to take up his
: new duties within the next few days. Mr.
(Mayton informed the governor that he
was then engaged in making preparation
to come to Alabama to take up his resi
dence.
Air. Clayton will present his resigna
tion to the governor as representative
of the Third congressional district just
as soon as he comes to Montgomery. The
chief executive will then immediately
eaJl a special election in the Third dis
trict to fill the baeaney.
The various aspirants for Mr. Clayton's
seat in Congress, for both the short and
long terms, are all sanguine of success.
Two candidates will probably enter the
race for the short term—J. J. Speight of
Eufaula, secretary to Mr. Clayton, and
Oscar Alulkey of Geneva. However, Mr.
Mulkey intimated when in Montgomery
a few days ago that there was some
doubt that he would be a candidate.
A spirited contest is expected to develop
in the dace for the long term. There are
four eandiates—Judge A. A. Evans, mem
ber of the state tax commission; Col. T.
Sydney Frazier of Union Springs; Henry i
R. Steagall of Ozark, and Byrd G. Far- j
mer of Dothan, all of whom, with the
possible exception of Mr. Farmer, who
may not run for the office, have already
begun a campaign in their behalf.
It is expected that Air. Clayton's res
ignation will be in the hands of the gov- j
ernor by the middle of next week, in
which event he will immediately coll a
special election. The special election will
be held about five weeks later.
youncT andIfeagin
HOLD CONFERENCE
Newly Elected President Moundville
Normal Discusses Matters Con
nected With School
Alontgomery, Alay 23.—(Special.!
Prof. G. A. Young of Birmingham, re
cently elected president of the state
normal school at Moundville. held a
conference with Superintendent of Ed
ucation William F. Feagin today rela
tive to matters connected with his new
employment. Professor Young suc
ceeds President A. S. Ford, who lias
accepted an important position in North
Carolina.
Within the next few weeks Profes
sor Young will recommend to the state
superintendent of education a list of
instructors for the Aioundville Institu
tion for next session. At present he is
looking over the situation.
The Aioundville normal school is re
ported to have made great progress
during the past session, having had
the largest attendance in the history
of the institution. There were 175 mat
riculates last session.
—
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druggists, grocers and dealers, $1.25 a
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let and doctor’s advice sent free.
The Duffy Malt Whiskey Co., Rochester, N. T.
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JUDGE JOHN PURI 10Y
Confederate veteran who will be A labama's next secretary of state
Since the stormy days of the early
sixties Judge John Purifoy, recently
nominated for the important position of
secretary of state of Alabama, has been
on the firing line by choice and by di
rection of hia people. Few men In this
state, or any other state, have had so
remarkable a records for practically
continuous service in public life.
Judge Purifoy left school to enter
the service of the confederacy, where
he made a splendid record; he aban
doned his private life to lead his peo
ple out of the domination and terror
of negro and carpetbag rule; he was
tlie man chosen to put into effect one
of the most far reaching laws of the
state; that of carefully checking public
officials.
That his work was well done results
abundantly testify. Here are his re
wards: Probate Judge of ills county of
Wilcox, state auditor first by appoint
ment and then by election, chief exam
iner of public accounts under two gov
retary of state, his vote for this office
being 60,166 out of a total of 111,991,
just 5810 less than a majority over his
ernors, state treasurer and now sec
three opponents, all of w'him are well
known and popular men.
A Soldier and Citizen
After advantages afforded by coun
try log school houses, sandwiched in
! between farm w’ork and general chores,
I Judge John Purifoy, who had been j
born March 21, 1842, and later moved
with his family from Dallas to Wilcox
county, entered the University of Ten
tennessec at Knoxville. It was then the
fall of 1860. and he had an ambition to
secure a finished education. But tlie
active events of the early spring fol
lowing saw' him back at his home, seek
ing place in the arjjiies of his country
men, and he was never able to resume
his college course.
He cast his lot with the famous Jeff
Davis artillery, made up or Dallas ami
Wilcox county boys, and was sent to
the army of Northern Virginia. For
the four years following lie was in
every engagement of his command
and practically all of his division. Lie
was himself wounded three times and
saw hundreds of his neighbors and
friends sacrificed to the god of battle.
And, as a fitting climax, lie and his
associates were of the heroic bund of
2,500 who, on that fateful morning of
April 9, 1865, made up the forlorn hope
led by the gallant John B. (Jordon in
his fruitless effort to break down tlie
cordon which Grant had woven around
the devoted and starving remnant of
Bee's destitute army.
Back to Desoluate Home
The judge, with thousands of others,
found himself far from home and pos
sessed of a ten dollar confederate
"promise to pay" as his only fortune.
But lie walked his way back, fed and
assisted by the loyal people along the
route, until the end of his journey
found him in his own section again.
And here began what looked to be a
losing fight to retrieve fortune and re
store order. Negroes, deceived and led
by as unconsciable a herd of pirates
and renegades as ever hung like barna
cles on any ship of state, were making
a reign of terror. Men trembled for
their families, and women lived in
a nightmare of horror and fear.
But the spirit that had made a
Southland was only temporarily crush
ed. The men who had followed Bee
came again to their own in resource
fulness and leadership, and by the early
eighties had rescued the country and
restored harmony. Judge Purifoy, one
of the foremost of this class, w'as
chosen to reorganize and right the af
fairs of his county in the position of
probate judge, and the every day
events of the campaign were at times
tragic and always dangerous andv ex
citing.
Went to the Legislature
After four years of private life, fol
lowing tlie expiration of his term as I
probate judge in 1886. tlie Judge re
ceived tlie nomination to the legislature
by acclamation, and took his place as a
(member of tlie session of 1890-91. Hia
.nomination for auditor of state came
'in June. 1892. after six ballots in the
state convention. A vacancy in the po
sition existed at tlie time of the noinl
I nation. which he \was appointed by
j Gov. Thomas G. Jones to fill, and he was
j given a second full term, as hgd been
I mocrat in usage, and which kept him
. in the position four years and five
j mouths.
, judge Purifoy made from his early
[manhood a study of revnue matters,
and was for this reason appointed clerk
of the ways and means committee of
the house in 1896-7. He wrote the re
nue bill that wras submitted by that
committee. Shortly after he was made
deputy tax commissioner, and in 1897
was appointed chief examine!? of public
accounts by Gov. Joseph F. Johnston.
He wras again selected for this high of
fice by Gov. B. B. Tomer, holding «l
until lie became state treasurer, to
which lie had been elected in the fall
of 1910.
In Fight for People Always
It will thus be seen that the judge
has been In the, thick of the nghts of
I his people from youth. As a soldier
from Bull Run to Appomatox: as a cit
izen leading In the onslaught that res
cued his county and his slate from ne
gro and radical rule:’a* a civil offtr»r.
nutting Into effoe| new and untried
laws; aq an auditor, complimenting the
worthy and forcing the unworthy to
make true account: as a guardian of
the state’s funds and overseer of the
hanking connections, watchful and at
tentive tiiat no undue delay or unlaw
ful acts he allowed. He is a Mason, a
Knight of Pythias and a Red Man, and
he is more—a good companion and a
true friend.
Since the reuniting of the people
Judge Purifoy has worked and planned
for the care of the needy soldiers of
the Lost, but much beloved Cause. He
is commander of Jeff Falkner Camp U.
C. V., at Montgomery, and one of the
best friends of the soldiers home at
Mountain Creek. He asks no greater
privilege than to be useful to his old
comrades, of service to his state and a
pleasure to his friends. They are al
ready saying something like this:
“John Purifoy can be governor in
1919."
"What about it. Judge?’’ asked a
friend.
"Four years is a long time at my
age," he responded, "but 1 have found
that T am safe In leaving my interests
to the people: they have never failed
to take good care of me."
Raid Militant Quarters
London. May 23.—The police today
raided the headquarters of Ihe Women’s
.Social and Political union, the militant
suffragette organization. They took pos
session of offices and detained all the
members of the staff on duty.
JAMES SANATORIUM
692 ALABAMA AVE.,
MEMPHIS, TENN.
A Private Sanatorium for tlie Treat
ment of Drug Addiction*, Alco
holism, Nervous Dlsenaea, To
bacco amt Cigarettes
To -reach sanatorium take Poplar
avenue cars to corner Poplar and Ala
1 unm avenues, or Main street cars from
Union station and transfer to Poplar.
Patients’ Testimonials
Having received their freedom from
Morphine. Whiskey ami Tobacco, they
are loud in their praise of the James
Treatment. Head their testimonials:
Uhas. H. James, care Chan. B. James
Cured of Drug Habit
Sanatorium <**o., Memphis, Tenn.
Dear Sir—1 am feeling so much bet
ter and so much more like living this
morning that f concluded I would write
you, telling you of my improvement and
how much happier we all are. When I
went to your sanatorium for treatment
1 was using 15 grains of morphia (hy
podermically) per day. The first dose
of the drug was given me by the family
physician when 1 had typhoid fever—
later I bad pneumonia and morphia was
again used, and as a result I was left
a helpless drug user (could not sleep
and only weighed about 140 pounds),
and continued to use it until I was re
lieved at your sanatorium. Now I
weigh 190 pounds, sleep well, have a
good appetite and the family is so
hueh happier. I now feel it my duty
to advise all such unfortunates to talc*
treatment and rid themselves of this
soul-sapping. life-destroying drug.
Strange to say. 1 never knew when 1
took the last dose of morphine. I suf
fered no pain on account of its with
drawal and have suffered none since.
As a matter of fact, my stay at your
sanatorium was both pleasant and
profitable. I found your sanatorium
more like a pleasant home, where the
patients are well fed and allowed to
answer letters from persons interested.
We have a good many unfortunates in
my section, and I hope they will read
this letter and go to you for relief.
Wish 1 rig you and all connected with
your sanatorium a happy and prosper
ous New Year, 1 am, jours truly,
W. S. FOUST.
Cotton Plant. Miss., Jan. 1, 1914.
From Mo., Does Not Drink
"My health is good, and I have not
drank any more nor had any desire for
drink. I am, very thankful for the
benefit that 1 received while there. Wish
ing you success with the good work, F am
yours very truly. P. I*. GAYLOR.
Gibson, Mo.”
Cured of Tobacco Habit
"Vour Tobacco Treatment has had
the desired effect. . I have not
tasted tobacco In any form since Oct.
lu. T have sained 13 pounds In sis
weeks. H. A. OWEN.
Alaben, Miss "
For further Information and booklet
containing testimonials In regard tc
sanatorium treatment, address Chas. II,
James Sanatorium, Dept. C. «92 Ala
bama Ave., Memphis, Tenn. Corres
pondence confidential.
JAMES’ HOME REMEDIES
Furnished at the following prices:
Whiskey. Wine or Beer .|25.0«
■ Tobacco. Cigarette or Snuff .... 10.dC
Nervousness and Insomnia. B.0(
Cost of specially prepared treatment
for drug addictions Is dependent upor
age and physical condition, kind anc
quality of drug used, etc. City office
, Home Remedy <’o.. Dept. A., fin Monrni
i uve . open Sunday from 9:30 to 12:30 a. in
1 Corflenpoudeuce confidential. Adv
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INTO every suit of Porter
clothes there is infused an el
gance of style and workmanship that .
stamps the wearer with that certain
“something’7 which, for want of a better
name, is called class.
Porter clothes are tailored by Rogers, Correct models for stout men, slim
Peet Co. and Schloes Bros., which, to '“J1 men’.8,u>rtTttU
tlic best weavings of foreign and do
men who are familiar with clothing mestic looms,
value, is a sufficient guarantee of ab
solute dependability.
“Everything in Men and Boys’ Wear”
1922-1924 First Avenue “In the Heart of Birmingham"
PRESS ASSOCIATION1
BE STATE ML BE
HEREJHIS WEEK
Plans Made Yesterday for
Entertainment of the Visi
tors Friday and
Saturday
Friday night at the newspaper cKib, The
Ago-Herald will serve a dinner in honor
of the members of the Alabama Press
association.
Ij. H. Nunnellee of Ontreville, presi
dent, and Joseph R. Rosson of Cullman,
secretary of the association, were in Bir
mingham yesterday making arrangements
for the annual convention, which will be
gin Its sessions in Birmingham Friday.
Friday afternoon, the members will be
the guests of the Birmingham Chamber
off- Commerce in an automobile ride
throughout the city. I.ater, the chamber
will serve a luncheon in honor of the
visitors. The first business session or
the association will begin Friday morn
ing at 11 o'clock.
Mr. Nunnellee ami Mr. Rosson were
much pleased with the promised attention
which Birmingham p#ople will pay to
the members of the association.
"We are very grateful,” said Mr. Nun
nellee, "to the Chamber of Commerce,
The Age-Herald and other institutions
which will he and have always been kind 1
to tlie members of our association. It'
so happens that editors of country news
papers cannot on account of limited facili
ties pay through their columns for the
courtesy due to people of Birmingham
for annual favors. However, I have In
formed the Chamber of Commerce that
our columns—and I mean the columns of
every newspaper in what is known as
rural Alabama—will be open to any mat
ter which might be prepared and put
Into metal iti the Interest of Birmingham.
Some individual should he appointed to
do the writing. In this way. we can
easily carry stories of the meeting of
the members and their entertainment,
stories which would reflect in a most
complimentary way on Birmingham and
its people.”
The sessions of tlie association will ha
extended to cover Saturday. Mr. Nunnel
lee stated that a new president would be
chosen, but that he hoped the members,
In realization of the good work of Mr.
Rosson. would keep him in the capacity
of secretary.
The association, according to the offi
cers, is in excellent condition, and the
prospect is said to be fine for reinaugu
rating the annual trip to various points
of the United States.
MANY SEASON TICKETS
SOLD IN ANNISTON
Model City Leads All Other Cities on
Chautauqtka Circuit—Anniston
Ministers Honored
Anniston, May 28.—(Special.)—According
to announcement made Friday afternoon
on the opening of thn Chautauqua week In
this city, more season tickets were sold
in Anniston this year than at any other
place on the entire Chautauqua circuit,
and this city was highly complimented by
the management, on its showing.
Much Interest Is being taken in the at
tractions and speakers In this city. Judge
Alden. .who made the tirst address, was
the guest of local attorneys after his ad
dress Friday afternoon and Edward Am
herst Ott, who has proclaimed Annis
ton the cleanest city in the United States
from platforms all over the country,
was given, a very cordial reception on
his return Saturday evening,
The Rev. John I). Wing, rector of Grace
Episcopal church In this city, has ac
cepted the Invitation tendered to him to
deliver the final address before the grad
uates and Young Women's Christian as
sociation at the Alabama Normal school
at Jacksonville, for which place he will
leave next Saturday. The Rev. fl. E.
Hodges, pastor of the First Presbyterian
church, preaches Sunday at the Oxford
High school commencement. The Rev.
George Hang will speak Wednesday at
Barber Memorial, a genool for training
negro girls.
“Christ and His Soldiers," a sacred
oratorio, will he rendered at tin* Church
of St. Michael and All Angels on May
31, next Sunday afternoon, for which 35
voices are now In training. The piece
was composed by John Farmer and was
sung at the church In i89T.
Still nothing has been heard from
Claude Johnson, t lie Anniston boy at
Vera Cruz, whose*father and mother have
died since he went to the front. His
sisters will take the matter up with the
navy department, it has been ascertained
that there are two other Anniston boys
at Vera Cruz. Howard Young on the
Rhode Island and Walter Pettus on the
New Hampshire. ^
T. G. Bush, Jr., who Is In the manu
facturing business at Chester, Pa., has
been in Anniston for the past two days on
a visit to old friends. He resided here
for many years with his father, Col. T
G. Bush, and states that he has alwayi
wanted to come bacV to the home ol
his boyhood to live.
Judge Thomas W. Coleman. Jr., ol
thlf city has won the record at th*
Anniston Country club in golf, having
made the nine holes of the course In
strokes, lowering his previous record b>
• one stroke. A tournament has Juat closer
at the club which has attracted aevara
, new members.
TO CONVENE JUNE 22
Will Consider Intangible As
sessments of Public Serv
ice Corporations
Montgomery, May 23.— (Special. 1—Tn
. tangible assessments of public sar
Vlist* uuipudiuone Of A Will UH
considered at a meeting of the state
tax commission on June 22. Notice of
the meeting has been sent out to the
various public service corporations of
the state, and they will be given an
opportunity to appear before the tax
commission at that time and make any
protest relative to the assessments
which were fixed by the board last
year.
It is probable that many of the cor
porations of the state will accept the
commission's assesments. in which
event no changes will be made. How
ever, there is likely to be some objec
tion on the part of certain corporations
to their assessments, and the commis
sion will give them a hearing at the
June meting. Under the law, intangible
asessinents, after having been fixed by
the commission, must stand for two
years.
Vanity
From the Stafford Chaparral.
She: “I like the way that man looks.''
He: “Why. he's positively ugly!”
She: “Yes: but he's looking at me.”
M. & 6. DEPOT BURNS
AT LAGRANGE, GA
Fire of Unknown Origin De
stroys Station Saturday.
Records Consumed
LaGrange, Ga., May 23.—iSpecial. 1—Tho
local M. A B. depot wa* totally de
stroyed by fire, the origin of which 1*
unknown. The fire was fir \ discovered
at 11 o'clock, but the back f the build
ing had begun to fall In i that time,
and the fire department labl red In vain.
One hundred sacks of feed, one piano,
some household goods, and much dry
goods, freight for the merchants here, as
well ns all of the rocords. were destroyed,
besides two empty freight cars. The total
loss will amount to about $7000, which
was only partially covered by insurance.
A car loaded with 43 caseH of liquor was
saved. This was a return shipment from
Macon to Kentucky. A new depot 1*
soon to be built.
L. D. Dozier Dead
St. Louis. May 23.—Louis D. Dozier,
capitalist, philanthropist and a member
of one of the oldest families of SjJ
Louts, died here today of hardening of
the arteries at the age of 58 years.
Counteractive
From Judge.
“Miss Passee suys she just does on
you!”
"Then T wish some one would admin
ister an antidote.”
Sweet
Girl
Graduates
Will Expect Sprays of
McVay’s
Beautiful
Flowers
We are receiving some exquisite cut St
flowers now for graduation gifts. Let fl
McVay’s make them up into artistic “
sprays that will befit the happy occasion
and delight the girlish hearts.
Order Early to Avoid Delay
McVay Seed Co.
2018 First Ave. Phones M. 41, 7396
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