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WEN EXPECTS
E :
Prominent Politicians Will
Also Mingle Among the
Thousands of Visitors
BURNETT WILL BE
AMONG SPEAKERS
Koib and Wallace Will Also Be Heard,
While Comer Is to Make His
Speech at Attalla
Tomorrow
By CLYDE W. E\\ IS
Gadsden, July 22.—(Special.)—All ar
rangemenls have been completed for the
conference of farmers which will open
here today, when President J. B. Wads
worth of the Chamber of Comraaree, calls
the meeting to order at 9:30 o’clock.
From that early morning hour until
late in tho afternoon speeches will be
mado by some of the leading men of the
state on subjects of interest to the far
mers. The conference will last only one
day. However, there has been evidenced
the moat unusual interest In tlie arrange
ments and from indications'now there will
be an immense outpouring of farmers to
the meeting.
Visitors Already Arriving
On trains reaching here last night camo
John H. "Wallace, stale game and fish
warden, and candidate for governor, who
will deliver an address during the after*
noon; Capt. Reuben F. Kolb, also a can
didate for governor, is here. Congress
man John L* Burnett, who is the political
idol of people in this section, has readied
his old home town and will be given
an enthusiastic reception by the people.
The programme includes speeches by all
of the three foregoing men as well as
others.
The meeting here* will be primarily for
the discussion of business connected with
'bettering farm conditions. However, the
usual summer time political line will en
ter into the affair. While the celebra
tion here will l»e somewhat incomplete
without former Governor Braxton it. Co
mer yet it is believed every purpose of
the meeting will be attained and every
thing will go smoothly and pleasantly.
The chancel* am? that a large number of
those attending the conference will visit
Attalla tomorrow when Governor Comer
will speak.
Official Programme
The following inf the official programme:
9 a. m.—Opened by President J. |j.
Wadsworth of the -Chamber of Commerce,
"What Caused Pa to Get Together?"
9:20—Address of welcome to the city by
Mayor Holcomb.
9:30—Address by R. F. Kolb, commis
sioner of agriculture, ' Diversified Farm
ing in Alabama."
10:10— Address by J. D. Hobdy of Au*
burn. "Club Work and Its Tendency To
wards Diversified Farming."
10:50—Address by B. Ij. Moss, state agent
bureau* of plants, "Bur and Crimson
Clover for Alabama Farmers.”
11:30—Appointment of credentials com
mittee, organization and resolution com
initiecs; discussion of plans.
1:30 p. m.—Report of committees on or
ganization and resolutions.
2:00—Address by Miss Diana Bankston.
"Girls’ Tomato Clubs and a Demonstra
tion.”
2:30—Address by Mrs. Ada A. Mathis,
"'Ghe Work of a Woman to Make a Mod
ern Farm.”
3:00—Address by John H. Wallace, Jr.,
commissioner, “Economic Value of Fish
Culture to Farmers.”
3:45—Address by John L. Burnett, “Tho
Benefits to Be Had by Close Co-Operation
Between Farmers and the City of Gads
den.”
4:15—Comments on the meeting and gen
eral talks.
Adjournment to meet again at the Eto
wah County fair at Gadsden, 1914.
LETTERS TO EDITOR
Moving Toward Single Tax
To the Editor of The Age-Herald.
I am reading with keen interest the
account given In your issue of today
(Juy 20th) of the recent tax reform in
the city of Pittsburg. At the risk of be
ing regarded as an enthusiast, I venture
to predict that the good results promised
by the civic commission of Pittsburg will
accrue in due time; and that the applica
tion of the “single tax” in a modified
form will justify itself to the full.
For those of us wrho have long mem
ories It is amusing to recall the scorn and
derision that greeted the single tax agi
tation when it made its first appearance
in the arena of political discussion. The
confiscation of land values was held to
be contrary to common sense, repugnant
to revealed religion and false to the sacred
traditions of our fathers. Yet, in spite
of all, the special tax on land values is
still with us. And Mr. Burns’ account,
instructive as it is. does not tell the whole
story. The “differential” tax on land
has not been solely confined to municipali
ties. 'I have read that two Canadian
provinces in the far west have adopted
it; certainly the German empire in its
federal capacity has levied an “unearned
increment tax.”
Finally I cannot allow Mr. Burns’ state
ment that Pittsburg and Scranton are
the first in the field to pass without
question. An editorial of the Mobile Reg
ister dated four months ago describes
the lax system of Houston, Tex. Ac
cording to the Register, Houston im
poses a rate of 70 per cent on land ami
only 25 per cent on Improvements. This
is. of course, the rate of assessment, and
indicates a discrimination against “land”
quite as heavy as that which obtains in
Pittsburg. Moreover. Houston sets a,
shining example to her sister cities by
the total exemption of personal property,
as well as every ordinary business or oc
cupation.
We of the south are not always so un
progressive as we seem. Yours very truly,
M. C. BURKE.
■402 Queen City avenue, Tuscaloosa, July
20, 191.1.
Politicians and Agriculture
To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
Alabama is purely^ an agricultural
state and the advancement of her ag
ricultural interests has been wonderful
within the last five years.
The farmer is the producer of wealth
apd upon his shoulders rests the finan
cial responsibility of the state. If lie
fails the state fails. It Is the duty
of every business enterprise and every
citizen to encourage and assist him in
his efforts for a greater and pnore pros
perous condition. We are on the eve
of an enlightened era: we are begin
ning to apply modern methods a\id
i business ability to the raising and
It Is Cool amid Comfortable
In the Great North Woods
and Beautiful Lake Country
of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Northern Michigan
*2 There are hundreds of delightful outing places located
on the direct lines of theChicagoand Northwestern Ry.,
any one of which is ideal for “week-end” or summer
vacation»outings. •
•A A day or'two in this lake-dotted, balsam-laden region—
fishing, sailing and tramping—will provide the rest and
relaxation every city dweller must have at least once
a year to keep in good fighting trim.
*J The Great .North Woods where the air ia keen and tingling with
the scent of the pine trees and a thousand sparkling lakes and swift
flowing trout streams teeming with gamy fish can be reached com
fortably in a night’a ride on the Chicago and North Western Ry.
Q You can dine on the train, sleep in comfort in a luxurious sleeper
and roll out in time for a crisp-country breakfast in ths exuberant
North Country.
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marketing farm products and t,o the
restoration of our unproductive soils.
The greatest detriment to the ad
vancement of our agricultural inter
ests is the wave of political agitation
that sweeps over her every four years.
Alabama is cursed with politics. Pol
itics that handicap the efforts of us
who belong to the *'red neck” fra
ternity. Politics that are of a brand
more deadly to the agricultural in
| terests of the state than the cattle
; tick, the hog cholera and the boll wee
vil.
Even at this early date there are a
few bobbing up here and there over
the state who are advocating great and
wonderful reforms; great and wonder
ful measures for the regulation of rail
roads and the sale of whisky, or ad
vocating the wonderful results from
the creation of some new courts or the
change of some judicial circuit; some
are more solicitous of the welfare of
the convicts than they are of the wel
fare of the farmer; they are more in
terested in the income derived from
the sale of the convicts’ hire than they
are in the income derived from tho
sale of the products of a well regu
lated farm. Some are more interested
in the protection of the hog. It is
amusing to hear the average politician
when at a gathering of farmers twist
ing their great measures to suit tin
need of the farmers. Then they delight
to tell of their earlier days on the farm;
they talk of the new-mown hay, and
of the great yields of corn, of tile big
sides of bacon and the Juicy hams
They make their own mouths’ water as
they tell of the old farm table groan
ing under the weight of good things
to eat. The big fat tdscultg and the
generous siloes of ham forming islands
In a sea of rich brown gravy; the great
dish of stewed corn.
vm. my, jusv lu liiiuiv oi mat pyramid
of yellow butter, the rich thick cream,
the pitcher of cool buttermilk; then the
corn meal battercakea, sorghum mo
lasses and the delicious glass ot sweet
milk. They assume a hungry look and
tell us they have sacrificed all for the
privilege of serving their stale. By
their flights ot oratory they endeavor
to make us forget their tailor-made
suit, patent leather .shoes, stiff-bosom
shirt and high collar, and to picture
them as a meek and lowly prohpela
come to lead us out of the land of
Ignorance and toil. They want us to
see them only as a humble being weal
ing a crown of hayseed and yarn sock.t,
hut having been buncoed so often we
can only see them in their true light.
We see their great ideas for the ad
vancement of the farmer are but warts
upon their Intellect, and would rather
see them quarantined with the buzzards,
oat tie ticks and the sheep killing dogs.
This hunch of wind jamming “retired
agriculturists” are always lined up to the
trough bellow'lng to be fed from the pub
lic crib. They are oniv asking fur a good
fat salary and a title in order lo be able
to show their ability to do grefit tilings
for the wealth producers of the state.
Place the whole crowd upon the nlost
productive farm in the state without the
supervision of u good farmer and they
would all starve to death in less than li
months. If all their agricultural brains
were placed tinder one hill of corn there
would not be found enough plant food in
them to produce a fair size nubbin. Yet
they are permitted to roam over tile state
with tlic whiskers on their Intellect filled
with germs deterimental to every interest
of the farmer.
The affairs of the sLate need as much
Intelligence in their management as do
the affairs of a well regulated farm. No
farmer would trust the average wind
Jamming parasite to p!owr a row of corn
for him, yet we trust the affairs of the
slate lo them simply because they would
starve to death in any line of business
or become a burden upon their wife's
folks. 'It Is Hie. duty of their relatives
to care for them and not the duty of
the state. ..
The farmers of this state would b«
unanimous In their desire to have the
next legislature make an appropriation
for a demonstration farm where we could
confine a few fine siiecimens of Alabama
political parasites and by a light course
in agriculture and a daily compulsory
exercise of their muscles we could see if
It were not possible to make real intelli
gent beings of them. There Is one tiling
sure the intelligent farmers of Alabama
have had proof sufficient to convince
them that a well bred beer bull is a
more valuable citizen than the oratorical
efforts that float over the state, attempt
ing to ride Into office on the shortcom
ings of their predecessors.
What our state needs at tills time Is
a business man for Its governor, and for
its commissioner of agriculture a man
who knows the difference between a sasa
fras thicket and a corn field and a legis
lature that is able to distinguish the dif
ference between the requirements of the
agricultural class and the requirements
of the office seeking class, composed
mostly of the past failures.
For a business governor It seems we
could no better than elect Mr. Charles
Henderson to that office. He Is a man
of proven business and executive ability
and a good farmer.
For commissioner of agriculture I know
of no one more competent to fill that of
fice than Mr. J. T. Watt of Talladega.
A plain common sense man who Is thor
oughly familiar with the agriculture In
terests of the state, and a man who would
he our next commissioner If he could be
prevailed upon to make the race. Yours
very tfuly, OHA,REDON DAVIS.
Huntsville, July 22, 1913.
Visit to Drury’s Bluff
To the Editor of The Age-Herald.
On 29th tilto. our party of six left for
Gettysburg, via. Washington and Balti
more. Returning via. Richmond, Va.
Brother Ellis Gullicege and myself
spent the 4th inst. and went over the
Drury's Bluff battlefield where the
Fifty-ninth Alabama regiment, to which
he and many other of our friends be
longed, were in the thick of the fight.
We boarded the Petersburg car at
Seventh avenue and got off opposite
the noted bluff, which was our block
ade point on the .James river during
our struggle from '61 to *65. We went
straight way to the bluff, where we
found a Fourth, of July picnic In prog
ress. Those In charge were profuse in
their efforts to make us feel that we
were a part and parcel of their party,
and insisted we return for dinner. We,
however, went our way. Half mile be
low, after Inspecting breastworks and
battery banks, we came to the river
dock at which all munitions of war
were loaded and unloaded, including the
wounded after the battle on May 16,
1864.
There we got a line on the real bat
tlefield one and a half miles south of
the dock. We made our way through
farms and woods until we struck the
old Darby Town stage road, now more
than 100 years old, to “Rocky Run," a
rocky cheek running east and west just
north of the battlefield, and where
brother said the army lined up for ac
tion. On we went over to the ice
pond, in which near the breastworks
Company "H,” Fifty-ninth regiment,
had killed and wounded 15 out of 31
going in.
We found the spot where brother fell,
causing the loss of his left leg; four
bullet holes in his left arm and 41 holes
through his blanket. We found the spot
by a large red oak in the old road cut
where brother was carried by the “lit
ter bearers” to protect him as he lay
on the field. Of the six killed were "Big
Bill* Hull, Lieut. Mill McGrad.v and
three others, I don’t now recall. Of the
wounded of said Company “H,” were
Brother Ellis and Brother Bob, the
latter captain of the company, who
fell near the works, and was later
wounded again at Hatcher's Run, near
Peterburg. March 31, 1835, and was the
last real battle General Lee ever had
In which Company “H" lost, wounded
and killed, 71 per cent of its men.
After leaving the long sought spot,
we went out on general inspection of
the fighting grounds of the two armies.
In which I remarked to brother. “This
is a beautiful place for a battle.” To
which he replied, "It's a nice place to
wrestle, but a d-d poor place to be
killed.” After a tramp of six hours,
brother on his peg kg, in which we
covered not less than 10 or 12 miles,
we got back to the car line, when I
said. “Ellis, are you tired?” “Not a d—d
bit,” was his reply. On our trip that
day In meeting the different people
nearly all natives, we w>re Invariably
accorded the best possible treatment
which is a thing for which Virginia,
and especially Richmond, has ever been
famous, the greqtness and goodness of
whose people all who ever visited this
beautiful city can attest. Her people
being both aristocratic as well as dem
ocratic. Long may they live.
Our final return was Sunday, the 5th
inst. While at Gettysburg T was im
pressed with the gfeat lack of fairness
on the part of the government toward
the southern army, as shown by the
missing tablets to our honor on the
field at Gettysburg. Although I had
visited the field before some years ago.
The commission now in power there
had so arranged to show visitors
around as to give the unposted visitor
the most exalted opinion of the move
ments of Mead s army in that fatal con
flict.
I visited the “Battle, of Gettysburg"
now showing in a city of our stale a
few nights ago, and T say It does not
represent the grounds nor the true con
ditions as detailed by those now living
and who took part in that three days’
struggle for supremacy.
F. A. GULLEDGE.
Verbena, July 11. 1913.
The Splendid Record of Alabamians
To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
Fifty years is a long, long lapse of
time to trust to memory for facts relat
ing to say, SCO or more men in a regiment,
and the desertion of two sergeants, and
yet this is what Major Crow would have
“us accept in his challenge of the record
made, the very day it occurred, and filed
officially in the archives in Washington,
it is true I secured my information from
“the enemy,” as lie writes it; it is also
true that, from the same source comes the
most splendid uncolored tributes to the
bravery and splendid generaliship of the
confederates. The “Rebellion Records” (l
dislike the titte, but it is official! is to
| my mind the most valuable asset the peo
ple of the United States have today from
the point of authenticity; reliable because
the documents printed therein are taken,
not only from the archives at Washing
j ton, but also such as were not destroyed
when Richmond was captured by the fed
erate. These records—some of them—
were written even while the very artil
lery was speaking in the thunder tones of
war! Many of them, the night after the
battle or the march. Wfien the march
of years has blurred the scroll of mem
ory, where shall we turn for historic
facts? Why, to the record, if preserved,
of the day and the hour!
1 appreciate the, moving spirit of Major
('row in his desire to preserve, unsullied,
the record of that courageous regiment,
the Ninth Alabama, even In the matter of
the desertion of two sergeants. Does not
Major Crow know that there were thou
sands of men reported at roll calls, either
as dead, wounded or missing? To this
day there are hundreds in this last class,
in both armies, of which there is no
knowledge as to whether they were killed,
captured or deserted.
I am going to lay a tribute from the
same source as the charge of desertion ol
two sergeants of the Ninth Alabama—al
the feet of the survivQr^of that regiment
but first let me, not 'as a “vanltarian,
say, I glory in the record of Alabamian:
during the four years’ struggle. As c
little boy, I saw the “Walker Boys’
drawn up in front of a private home ir
Jacksonville, receive a flag and a bene
diction ,and march out at sunset to their
first night’s bivouac. That is my earliest
recollection of the war.
My father, Courtney J. Clark, nas al
ready at the front as surgeon of the Tenth
Alabama, and had his first day’s bloody
work in the late war on the field of the
First Manassas. He had been surgeon ot
the Palmetto (S. C.) regiment in Mex
ico. He was the te»r mate of its colonel,
James Martin, at Dranesville, where this
brave Christian soldier lost his life. He
told me Colonel Martin had a strong pre
sentment the night before of his ap
proaching fate.
In the Gettysburg compaign covering
some six weeks from the time Lee left
Fredericksburg until he recrossed the Po
tomac July 14, Wilcox’s brigade, composed
of the Eight, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh and
Fourteenth Alabama regiments, made a
record that stands t*he equal of even that
of the fresh troops of Pickett’s three
brigades in the celebrated charge. This
charge was more spectacular, but not
more daring, than that of the 2nd,
when McLaw's and Anderson’s divisions,
including- Wilcox's brigade, assaulted
Cemetery hill. (See General Anderson’s
report R. R. vol. 27, part 2, p. p. 014; also
Wilsox’s report p. p. 618, 619.)
ai Baiem enuren May s the Ninth Ala
bama, together with the other troops ol
Wiloox's command, held the center
against an assault of federal columns and
artillery. About 30 paces back of the
church was the schoolhouse, and the line
of the Tenth Alabama, having given way
at the church, an entire company of the
Ninth Alabama was captured in the
schoolhouse. General Wilcox says: “The
Ninth Alabama, in rear of this (the Tenth)
regiment sprang forward as one man, and
with the rapidity of lightning restored the
continuity of our line, breaking the lines
of the enemy by its deadly fire and forced
him to give way, and following him so
that he could not rally, retook the school
house, freed the captured company and In
turn took their captors. The entire line
of the enemy on the right of the road
(Bartlett's brigade) was repulsed, and our
men followed In rapid pursuit. The regi
ment that had given way to the first
onjjet of the enemy now returned to the
attack and joined In the pursuit. Thus
ended the spirited conflict at Salem
church. The success, so brilliant for our
men, was dearly earned by the sacrifice
of the lives of 75 of the noble sons of
Alabama and the wounding of 372.''
This was on Sunday. The day before
General Jackson had received a mortal
wound while returning from reconoltering
at Chancellorsville a few miles away.
General Lee, In his report on Chancel
lorsville (this Includes Salem church),
says, speaking of “the brave officers and
men who were mentioned for their extra
ordinary daring and merit,'' and “among
them will be found some who have passed,
by a glorious death, beyond the reach
of praise, but the memory of those whose
virtues and devoted patriotism will ever
be cherished by their grateful country
men.'1
And while we are talking of the brave
living, and the noble dead, Alabamians
read this from General Lee: “While it is
impossible to mention all who were con
spicous in the several engagements, it will
not (be considered an invidious distinc
tion to say that General Jackson, after he
was wounded, In expressing the satisfac
tion he derived /roin the conduct of his
whole command, commended to my par
ticular attention the services of Brigadier
(now Major General) Rodes and his gal
lant. division." In this division command
ed by an Alabamian were the Third, Fifth,
Sixth, Twelfth and Twenty-sixth Alabama
regiments: also 13 North Carolina and
five Georgia regiments.
General Lee, speaking in words of praise
of General Anderson and his division,
says, “and Brigadier General (now Major
general) Wilcox Is entitled to especial
praise for the Judgment and bravery dis
played in impeding the advance of General
Sedgwick toward Chancellorsville, and for
the gallant and successful stand at Sa
AGAINST HALE CLERK
Charles Worsoe, Connected
With the Tax Collector’s
Office, Missing
Greensboro. July 22.—(Special.)—Charles
Worsoe, clerk In the office of the Hale
county tax assessor, Edwin S. Jack,
forged checks, It is alleged, amounting
to about 1200 and left for parts unknown.
The alleged forgery developed when
checks were turned Into the bank today,
signed with the names of Probate Judge
W. C. Christian and Edwin Jack, having
been cashed by the following local flrmr-:
Payne & Daniels, Northrup & Hanna, T.
F. Hall, J. E. Martin, and Somerville
Bros.
Worsoe left Greensboro on Sunday night
and went to Birmingham, having told his
wdfe, however, that lie had gone to Eit
taw and would return today, though up
to this time he has not been heard from.
Worsoe is a Norwegian, who came here
from New York about six years ago. He
is well educated and speaks and writes
several languages. He is a wonderful
draughtsman and an expert accountant.
New Jail at Bay Minette
Bay Minette, July 22.—(Special.)—
The town of Bay Minette, through It
council has announced that it Avould
build a Jail of its own instead of pur
chasing the old one "formerly used by
the county and announce that the; con
tract will be let on the first Monday
in August. The site has been selected
and after the contract has %been let
and the structure completed, the town
will keep its prisoners separate from
those of the county and state.
lem church.” And the Ninth Alabama
was there!
The Ninth Alabama, being In Hill's
corps, did not participate in the Winches
ter fight, when Milroy was stampeded and
lost 4000 men. 100 wagons, many supplies
and much artillery, and escaped to Har
per's Ferry with about 1000 men. Hill's
corps marched to Shepardstown, thence to
Chambersburg and opened the Getty s
berg drama July 1. On July 4, after
dark, General Hill’s troops began the re
treat. followed by Bongstreet’s and
Ewell’s. Hill’s corps was the last to
cross the Potomac about noon July 14.
,In conclusion, I beg to say that, hav
ing read with moistened eyes of the he
roic sacrifice of the ‘‘Old Guard” in Vic
tor Hugo’s “Battle of Waterloo;” having
often beard of Pickett’s sacrificial charge.
I desired to know all the details, and so I
have read and reread, and cross-checked
the more than 2000 pages of the R. R. cov
ering the Gettysburg campaigns. Having
become deeply interested, 1 had thought
’twould be meat for many to know the
facts from witnesses who, while not ex
actly under the rule, yet taken us the
records are, they may go to the great un
biased jury of the unborn, and the south
may proudly and confidently rest upon
the record all in nil. PERCY' CLARK. I
Birmingham, July 20, 1913.
S. S. ASSOCIATION IN
Annual Convention of Dal
las Sunday School Work
ers Convenes
Selma, July 22.—(Special.)—The annual
convention of the Dallas County Sunday
School association convened at the Church
Street Methodist church Tuesday morning
at 10 o’cloc hand during the day three ses
sions were held. The sessions of the con
vention are being presided over by W. T.
Alison and about 60 delegates represent
ing nearl yevery Sunday school in the
county are in attendance.
The different sessions held today were
devoted to routine work and the different
reports read showed that the work of the
association was growing rapidly through
out the county. During the sessions to be
held Wednesdays several of the most
prominent Sunday school workers in the
state will address the convention.
TEACHERS TAKING
EXAMINATIONS
Troy, July 22.—(Special.)—Eighty
two teachers are standing the state ex
amination held under the direction of
County Superintendent of Education C.
P. White. There are 57 whites and 15
negroes taking the tests. The negroes
are in charge of Mr. Darby, who is as
sisting Superintendent White.
Of the wrhito applicants there are
two standing for life certificates. Four
teen are applying for first grade; 30
for second grade and 21 for third grado
Of the negroes- one is standing for
first grade, five for second and nine for
third.
SHOT HERSELF TO
FRIGHTEN MOTHER
Mobile, July 22.—(Special.)—Hattie
GarretsOB, aged 17 years, residing- with
her mother, Mrs. M. V, Garretson, at
20 Maryland street, shot herself
through the left arm between the
shoulder and the elbow Monday even
ing because, she said, her mother ob
jected to her marirago with James
Parker Welsh of Creighton. ”1 did not
intend to kill myself,” she said to
day. **t just had to frighten mother.”
Mrs. Oarretsw>n'8 objections were on
the ground that the girl is too young.
BRICKELL POSITIVE
Robert C. Brick ell, attorney general of
tlie state, when last night asked if lie
would bo a candidate for the supreme
court bencli in tlie election next year,
replied in the negative.
“Not if I know myself,” was his trite
way of expressing it. Mr. Rrickell had
received mention in the press of the
state as a possible candidate.
ANALYZE MEDICINE
Preparation Known as “Tu
Ber-Ku” Being Sold in
Selma, Says Dr. Eaves
Montgomery, July 22.—(Special.)—
Homer C. Billingsley, pure food and
drug clerk of the department of agri
culture and Industries, has received a
letter from Dr. George Eaves of Bir
mingham, secretary of the Anti-Tuber
culosis Association of Jefferson county,
suggesting an investigation of a medi
cine known as “Tu-Ber-Ku," which
has been advertised in Heltna papers
as a specific for tuberculosis.
Eaves declared in his letter to the
pure food and drug bureau that it was
a well known fact that no specific had
been discovered for tuberculosis, and
advised that the alleged cure be at once
analyzed with a view to ascertaining
the ingredients of the medicine, as
well as to determine whether or not
"Tu-Ber-Ku” possesses any merit.
The secretary of the Jefferson County
Anti-Tuberculosis association stated in
his letter to Mr. Billingsley that peo
ple Infected with consumption are all
the time reaching out for some straw,
and indicated that It was evident that
“Tu-Ber-Ku” was being promoted for
purposes of gain rather than from a
humanitarian standpoint.
LINDEN NEWS
Unden, July 22.—(Special.)—A Ma
sonic county conference lias been
called at Linden on August 12, which
will mark the beginning of a perma
nent organization of such a confer
ence to meet annually with some lodge
in this county. Preparations are being
made for a large attendance at this
the first conference, and a competent
| lecturer will be secured for the occa
sion.
The Marengo county teachers’ ex
amination is being held at the court
house here this week, beginning Mon
day. There are 2f> white teachers and
31 negroes taking the examination.
A special session of circuit court has
been called to convene at Linden on
next Monday. Grand and petit Jurors
are no w'being summoned.
The Rev. Mr. Robinson, superintend
ent of the home mission work In the
Tuscaloosa presbytery, will will begin
a series of meetings In the Presby
terian church hero on the first Sunday
iu August, and continue through the
w'eek.
The Central Contracting company of
Birmingham, who was the successful
bidder for the construction of the
state aid road In this county, has ar
rived with their teams, machinery, etc.,
and have started aggressive operations.
The road work commences at the city
limits Just south of town and will
cross a section of country w'hich is
almost impassable at certain seasons.
THE.cool lunch for hot days.
Serve it in the country. Take the motor car, the
family, a friend or two, some sandwiches—and
Budweiser
7,500 Employes to Make It
The Anheuser-Busch main plant and
branches give employment to 7,500 people.
The main plant covers 142 acres, equal
to 70 city blocks. There are 110 separate
buildings, a city in themselves.
Hundreds of visitors every day go through
with guides to inspect this immaculate in
stitution.
One cannot see it without the convic
\ tion that quality is an Anheuser-Busch rule.
Anheuser-Busch, St. Louis
The Largest Plant of Its Kind Some of the Principal
in the World Puddings
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