Gas Mains Extended
TENNESSEE VALLEY BUREAU 1
THE AGE-HKKALD \
HantBrllFe, Ala., Nor. 24 J
Woodard Morris, well known farm
er of Elkwood community, with his
wife and two children, narrowly es
caped death yesterday morning when
they were awakened by blazing em
bers falling in their rooms and a mo
ment after their escape it collapsed
in a heap of blazing ruins. They
saved nothing except the clothing in
which they were sleeping. The house
was worth $2,000 and furnishings
about $1,000, the insurance carried on
both coming to only $400.
GAS MAINS EXTENDED
The Huntsville Gas company is ex
tending- its mains into newly built up
parts of the city and is making exten
sive improvements in the plant to
meet the increased consumption,
i Company officials expect also that
there will b6 a much larger con
sumption when the Alabama public
l service commission allows them to
make a reduction in rates that have
already been appUed for.
CECIL F. FAIN ILL
Friends in Huntsville have been no
tified of the serious, illness of Cecil
V. Fain, until few weeks ago princi
pal of the Joe Bradley school at Mer
rimack. Mr. Fain is suffering with
typhoid fever at his home at Lu
verne.
