The Leighton News from Leighton, Alabama • 1

Devoted to the Interests of Leighton and Country Surrounding. VOL. XVI. LEIGHTON, COLBERT FRIDAY, NOV. 1907 NO.

36. BURGLAR WOUNDED. PROHIBITION WINS Blossburg, Brookside and Lewis- LOCAL AND PERSONAL. We have but to mention the fact to a possible new subscriber that we will send The News free tor the remainder of this year and all of next year for one dollar, cash in advance, to book his sub New Plan for Prohibit iun. Montgomery, Oct.

24. The prohibitionists have a great scheme on foot which they propose to carry out as soon as the legislature meets, and will pass a general prohibition law with novel local Option features. It is the purpose burg went against prohibition. The day was clear and cold and the vote cast was the largest ever recorded in the county. Mayor George B.

Ward issued this statement at 10 o'clock: "The election has been fairly won by the prohibitionists. It is now the duty of every citizen to accept the situation and to the plan an honest and fair trial. The mayor's office will do its part. So will Judge Feagin's court andH our police department." From Rev. Wallace Wear.

Birmingham, Oct. 29. Dear Fred: I send greetings from the election. Our majority is 1,847 with three boxes to hear from in our favor. Jt was a hard fight but a glorious victory.

I have never spoken in a regular campaign before but am glad I had the opportunity. It was a revival scene at the polls, opening and closing with prayer. Wallace Whar. News Notes of Interest. Returns frotri the election Monday indicate that Etowah county gave prohibition a big majority.

Approximately 2,000 votes were polled, with 1,600 for prohibition. The city of Gadsden gave prohibition 277 majority. Advices from Wilcox county, where a local option election was held Saturday, is that the county went for prohibition by a large ma jority; This is the ninth county to hold a local option election since the new law was passed, and every one of them has gone for prohibition. With the adoption of prohibition, in Jefferson and Etowah counties, there are thirty-eight counties al ready prohibition, or will be after 1 he ist oi They are with the two mentioned, as follows: Lauderdale, Jackson, DeKalb, Cherokee, Marshall, Lawrence, Franklin, Marion, Lamar, Calhoun, St. Pickens, Tuscaloosa, Talladega, Clay, Randolph, Coosa, Chilton, Dale, Sumter, Autauga.

Lowndes, Lee, Russell, Butler, Choctaw," Clark, Washington, Monroe, Conecuh, Escambia, Henry, Wilcox and Houston. The N. B. Hall Sons Basket Factory, in Decatur, including machinery and a large amount of material, was totally de stroyed by fire Tuesday night Three small cottages were also de stroyed. The cause of the fire is unknown.

The total loss will be fully $50, 000, partially insured. The stove plant of the King Stove and Range Company, in Sheffield, known as the "King Bee" plant, was burned Wednesday night. The loss was 'between $15,000 and $20,000, with iusur auce of about 50 per cent. Robert Henley, aged 20 years died in Florence Tuesday after noon at 4 o'clock, after aa illness of weeks with typhoid fever He was the only surviving son ot Mr. and Mrs.

R. P. Henley, of Russellville, who recently lost an other son. Mr. M.

M. LeMay is agent for The News and is duly authorized to accept uew subscriptions, re newals, etc. Our friends at Tow a Creek, Step, Brick, Mt. and surrounding country visited by him on his rounds every week may give him their subscriptions with the full assurance that he will take pleasure in attending to the matter for them. A.

ITOIIIA. ftMfitto Bifattan Tin Kini tw Haw Always BoojM Thr Nswi and the Commercial Ap peal, fr.is. Id Jefferson County By Nearly 2,000 Majority. Birmingham, Oct. 28.

Prohibition carried Jefferson coun ty, the largest county in Alabama, today by a majority close to 2,600. All the returns were riot in up to late tonight, but thirty -eight boxes, including Birmingham, all the suburban towns and the larger coun try precincts, give a total majority of 1,519 for prohibition. The boxes yet to hear from will, it is ex pected, give majority for prohibition in each instance, according to the custom of the rural precincts, which will run the total majority elo.se to 2,000. The city of Birmingham proper went against prohibition by a ma jority of 302. Total in city: For prohibition, against prohi bition, 1,743..

Bessemer, Ensley, Pratt City, Wylam, East Lake, Avondale, Woodlawn, West End and every suburban town gave prohibition majorities. The 'country districts went overwhelmingly against the saloon. The result at the industrial cen ters of Ensley, Bessemer and Pratt City was a great surprise, especial ly in view of the large working population at. those places. The day was full of excitement.

In the city, where 5,000 women 'and children gathered early at Capital and formed into a long jrO' ce.ssi;u,the marchers who 1 oved th jough the principal downtown streets carried banners and signs. One sign read," "Boys or beer." Another said, 'Vote for bread a- gainst beer." Streaming from a baby buggy, in which a blue-eyed infant lay, was a sign which said, "Protect, the babies." The parade provoked he wildest enthusiasm. Following it came the students of the local colleges and many children from the public schools, which were almost completely abandoned for the day. The 'women and children then divided up into squads and spent the day around the polling places, singing and praying and serving hot lunches. Every voter who approached was "tackled" and immediately The scenes presented were so novel that many men quit business and went to the polls just to witness what was going on.

As a result the day was practically given over to the election by everybody. The crowd around the court house, the largest voting precinct in the city, was so dense that traffic in nearby streets was impeded. One man, who pushed a child aside was knocked almost senseless by an unknown prohibitionist. As the saloons have been closed since midnight Friday, there was very little disorder. Mrs.

Nannie Curtis, the prohibition orator from Texas, visited the polling places here and in the suburbs in an automobile during the day and made her final appeal to the voters. Other speakers also appeared at some of the voting places and harangued the crowds. The new law will take effect Jan. next. About 150 saloons in Birmingham, Bessemer, Ensley and Pratt City will be closed.

Gov. B. B. Comer, who resides here, voted for prohibition. Returns from forty-four boxes give prohibition a majority of 1,603.

Thirty-seven out of these forty-four boxes gave prohibition majorities. Twenty -two small country boxes are yet to be heard from. These will swell the prohibition majority close to 2,000, as practically all of them are expected to send up almost solid prohibition majorities. The mining towns of Coartland'g City Marshal Has Exciting Experience. A special from Courtland to the Montgomery Advertiser of Saturday states: Robert Ross mortally wounded, Lee Cosby in jail, and the officers hot persuit of 'Sherman Cosby, is the result of a burglary on the store' of S.

Moore, in this town Saturday night. For more than a month, Mr. Moore has been missing large quantities of goods from his store in Courtland. Silks, satins, clothing, shoes and dry goods were btolen with a liberal hand. Two weeks ago he put a watch on the house and since that time, T.

M. Crow, town marshal, has been sitting up in the the store at night. This morning at about 3 o'clock, while Mr. Crow and his son. Lacy Crow, were in the store, they heard the back door open.

Grabbing their shot guns, they commanded the intruders to halt. The command was not obeyed and the marshal fired two shots. Robert Ross, a negro, fell to the floor. Sherman Cosby, who was with him, 'got out of the door. Ross, who was mortally wounded, told all the details of the affair.

He said that this was his first of fense and that he was gotten into the scrape by the two other negroes, Sherman Cosby and Lee Cos by. The house of Lee Cosby searched this morning and silks and fiiwroodSto (Bevairie of more than $100 were found. Sherman Cosby was not caught At the fire of the gun, he ran out of the back door andgjnniped into a buggy that was waiting for him. The officers thinkJtheyUhave him located and have gone out looking this morning. There is no sj mpa thy expressed for the wounded man, or the others engaged in the plot, by the negroes of the community.

They think that they were treated right, and hope that Sherman will be caught. Plnnkelt Walker. iuscumbia, uct. 30. Chas.

N. Plonkett, foBessemer, and Miss Lula May Walker, of Spring Valley, were married this evening at 8 o'clock at the home of the bride's parents, Mr, and Mrs. O. M. Walker, Rev.

M. Howse, pastor of the Baptist church of this city, officiating. Mr. and Mrs. Plunkett will reside in Bessemer.

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Cottoti is a little i I Fall rains are holding off well. Post card albums at News office. Did you see any. "spooks" 1. night? Did you "take in" the oysters last night? Hunting season begins today November i.

The show Monday night was all right, all right! No, thank you; no more gasoline lamps far this office, please. Charlie Ford is" putting in his odd moments learning typesetting in The News office. It's the exception rather, than the rule for passenger trains to be time" these days. A beautiful line of post card al-bums-from $2 each, down to 15 cents each at office. The many friends of Mrs." Occie Smith are glad to see her up and able to be ouc again after her recent illuess.

Mrs. P. P. Gilchrist and "sister, Mrs. Herman, went to Nashville the first of this week to remain for some time.

Mrs. Bruce King will entertain the Fortnightly club next meeting. The discussion will be Ori-. gia.of Thanksgiviug. ,777.

MrIUberfc Guy has been, circu lating among his many friends here since Monday, and left this" morn ing for his home In Birmingham -Our bid friend.East Berry, i was in town yesterday for-the first time in lo! these many years. Glad to -see him and to know that we may consider him a life subscriber. Mr. J. a prominent -citizen of near Mehama, was iu the city Monday and handed us one dollar to enroll riim as a subscriber 41 to Jan.

1, 1909V Thanks. Mr.Phil King, o( Florence F. D. No. iy was a pleasant caller Tuesday, and handed to run his date up wo years together with the" Taylor-Trotwood Maga Arrangements are about to be completed between Sheffield and South Alabama parties by which we hope au abundant crop of "Peaches" next year will be as LeVert King has returned from a flying visit to wife and babies in Clarksdale, Miss.

By the way, wish he would bring his good lady and little ones up to make us a visit, if they will not consent to remain For one. dollar cash from hew subscribers we will send The News free for the remaining two months of this year, and then a full year's subscription, marking them paid up to Jan, 1909 Now is the time to subscribe. Bro. Stansell has been limping around for the past week with the aid of a stick, with the upper half of one of his shoes cut out. He says it is an in-growing toe-nail, but his congregation have been "mighty good" to him lately and he has been living "mighty high." Looks suspicious doesn't it? Despite the fact that we have adopted the cash in advance system striclly, and drop all subscriptions at expiration if not renewed, our circulation continues to grow, which we take to the best of evidence that our efforts to.

give our patrons a readable paper are scription. ten minutes Saturday afternoon we had enrolled the names of Mr. J. O. Berry, Leigh-ton, W.

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Looney, Cleaver. By subscribing right now you willj get fourteen months' subscription for the price of twelve mohths'; and when we add that for 25c more we will in clude a year's subscription to either the Commercial Appeal, Home and Farm or Southern Agriculturist (50c for two or 75c for all three)the offer is made al) the more attractive. We will also include the Weekly Constitution for 40c; the Tri-Weekly Constitution and Home and Farm for 75c. the Taylor- Trotwood Magazine for, 60c; and many others at like prices adver tised in each issue of The News. Now is the time to busy." Last week when Mr.

Golden brought in a five and a half pound sweet potato we thought the limit had surely been reached, but Mr, Henry Gargis, who certainly de selves the blue ribbon as a grower of vegetables "Pshaw, that's nothing. dug up a number out of my patch that weighed six and seven pounds, and here's one a red Bermuda yarn- that weighs nine" tell those. Texas boasters' that they deti't know" what vegetables are. i They'd better come back to Ala-" bam a and get their eyes, open before they talk so loud.l Said potato meaures 23x30 inches in circumfer ence and is as solid as a rock. Its' shadow hides Mr.

Golden's big potato completely. Mr. Gargis has thrown down the gauntlet to the Who will take it up? The Ladies' Aid society cleared $14. 15 at their oyster supper last night. With the addition of this sum they have something over $80 in the treasury.

They are very anxious to raise the sum to $100 in order to pay-off another note just due on the pewsr and if all who are members of the 'society will just payitheir monthly dues at once to Mrs. Lindsey the necessary amount will be raised. Let all attend to the matter at once. Little King packed his suit case and hied bim off to Hopkinsville, Monday, without saying a word to anybody where be was going; which makes it look "kinder suspicious" that there's a girl in the case not the suit case but a case of suitor. First thing you know Frank will be doing like Dick did bringing home a wife and sending out the invitations later.

Brown Roberts' drama "Jesse James," given here last Monday night, was one of the best little shows that ever visited Leighton. Two or three of their actors would make a hit- almost anywhere. This company shows the year rouud, putting on a new play the first of every year. Should they ever come this way again they will be assured a full house. Mr.

A. C. W. Rump, a well-known German citizen of this county, fortnely of the. Brick neighborhood, dropped dead at his son's home in Sheffield yesterday.

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34-io to have a general prohibition law and then make it necessary for those who want to have an election to see whether a county shall go wet, to get up the petition. This is just the opposite from the pres ent law, and it is expected will meet with much favor when the legislature meets. A Significant Prayer. "May the Lord help you make Bucklen's arnica salve" known to all," writes J. G.

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Kumpe's drug store. A. Home Sorely Bereaved. A sad home at Shady Grore. Two bright, beautiful little boys die within two weeks.

This is the sad loss of Mr. and Mrs. John. Brown. Little Lewis, aged two and a half years, laid aside all his playthings, left mama and papa, brothers, relatives and friends with grieved hearts and tearful eyes on Oct.

6th. How our heaats ached in sympathy for the bereaved ones. But when on last Sunday morning, Oct. 20, we heard that the Death Angel had again visited the borne and claimed- little Bennie, aged five it seemed that our hearts almost bled. As pastor, we had often been in the home and loved these children dearly so polite, so.

bright, so well behaved, so loving. Many little incidents present themselves to our mind as we write, but they are gone, we'll miss them. We laid both of their bodies away jn Shady Grove cemetery, but Lewis and Bennie have gone to be with their Saviour. We extend; our sincere sympathy to and prayers for the bereaved ones. WT.

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