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ALLEGED SLAVERS
OF EATON HAYNES
TO BE ARRAIGNED
Rives And Sons And Ne
gro To Face Judge At
Letohatchie
HAYNEVILLB, Ala., Dec. 30.—
Preliminary trial of C. O. Rives and
his two sons, Gordon and C. G. Rives,
Jr., and James Dnncan, negro, charged
with the shooting to death of W. Eaton
Haynes, Monday night of last week, will
be held in Letohatchie Friday, Janu
ary 2, it was announced today by Sher
iff Meadows of Lowndes county.
Thomas E. Martin of Montgomery
and B. G. Goldsmith of Haynesville
have been retained as counsel for the
defense, while Solicitor Poole and J.
R. Bell will represent the state in the
prosecution.
. C. G. Rives, Sr., is confined to his
bed, it is said, and is under the care of
a physician. He is said to have been ill
on the night of the shooting.
Two negroes, believed to possess evi
dence of importance to the state in con
nection with the shootidg of Haynes,
who were lodged ih Dallas county jail
at Selma, have been released on bond
of $100 each.
Bond for the negroes, Dennis Jackson
and Alberta Dunklin, was furnished
by L. T. Faulk and H. G. Rives. The
negroes 'were arrested Sunday night
and literally spirited away to Selma, a
search by Lowndes county citizens yes
terday, revealing their whereabouts.
Dennis Jackson is said to have been
an eye witness to the shooting of Hugh
Rives last spring and for which Eaton
and Russell Haynes’ were charged with
murder.
Gordon Rives, C. H. Rives and C. G.
Rives, Jr., are held in connection with
the slaying of Haynes on warrants
■worn out by Russell Haynes.
UNIVERSITY READY
TO REOPEN FRIDAY
Tuscaloosa Public Schools Will
Resume Wednesday
TUSCALOOSA, Ala., Dec. 30.—The
public schools, which have been closed
for the holidays, will resume Wednes
day morning and will not observe New
Years Day this year. The University
of Alabama will resnme classes Friday
and already students are beginning to
arrive after spending the holidays at
their homes. There will be no public
celebration on New Years Day here.
DISCUSSES CITY PLANNING
Dr. George Jacobs of the University
of Alabama /addressed the luncheon
meeting of t/e Rotary club Tuesday on
city planning and zoning. He is an
authority on the subject. A test was
made on how many could remember the
initials of each memb.erg and how many
knew the fixed objects of Rotary.
BIBLE CLASS ELECTS
L. A. Sweatt has been elected presi
dent of the men's Bible class of the
First Presbyterian church; F. H. Wil
liams, first vice president; R. R. Mont
gomery, second vice president: P. H.
Hassell, secretary-treasurer; Rev. I.
Alvahart and Dr. Lee Bidgood were
chosen teachers of the class.
P>0||**V’4»*LEGATRS CHOSEN
B. F. Holmes, B. C. Williams and
Secretary W. S. Osburn have been
chosen by the local Civitan club as dele
gates to the state convention of Civitan
clubs to be held at Huntsville on
January 23.
FAMOUS RATE CASE
FLARES UP AGAIN
Railroads Raise Issue With Util
ity Board
(State Capital Bureau.)
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Dec. 30.—A
sharp difference of opinion has arisen
between the Alabama Public Service
coramixcion and the South, Alabama
Great Southern and Alabama, Tennes
see and Northern railroads, parties to
the Meridian rate case, it was learned
today. The difference is over the au
thority of the Alabama commission to
require the observance of the rates
which it recently prescribed on brick,
clay and clay products between Bir
mingham, Demopolis, Mobile, Mont
gomery, Selma and Tuscaloosa on the
one hand and stations on the railroads
involved within 200 miles of Meridian,
Miss., on the other.
This controversy represents a new
phase of the long litigation in the Me
ridian case. The railroads have taken
the position that the Alabama com
mission has no authority to change any
rates prescribed by the interstate com
merce commission in the Meridian ter
ritory, while the Alabama commission
insists that the federal commission by
issuance of a later decision has in ef
fect abrogated its original order in the
Meridian case insofar as rates on brick
clay and clay products are concerned,
which automatically restored the juris
diction of the Alabama commission.
HUNTERS FINED
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Dee. 30.—
(Special.)—The following convictions
for violation of game laws were re
ported today to the department of game
and fisheries: Butler county, Harry
Story and Tom Story, fined $25, each
for hunting without license; Will Hay.
ler, fined. $25 for hunting out of sea
son; Jessie Lee Norris, Roland Booker
and Hinson Booker, fined $10 each for
hunting without permit Marion county,
Nolan Smith and Murff Parr,, fined $10
each for hunting without license.
MRS. LUCY DRAWHAN
SELMA, Ala., Dec. 30.—(Special.)—
Mrs. Lucy Drawban, age 92 years,
died at her home on Alabama avenue
at 5 o’clockq Tuesday morning after
two or three days of illness with pneu
monia. The funeral will take place
from the family residence Thursday
with Dr. Edgar Gammon of the First
Presbyter^n church officiating.
No Aspirin Relieves
Like BROMO-ASPIRIN
The Kind Thai Does Not De
press the Heart Action But
Gives Immediate Relief.
A box of Bromo-Aspirin tablets is
insurance against colds, headache, fe
ver, backache, grippe or neuralgia.
Bromo-Aspirin gives immediate relief
from such ailments. There is no as
pirin like Taylor’s Btomo-Aspirin. It
is the kind that does not depress the
heart. Contains no juinine but has
* all the good qual.ties of aspirin.
For sale at all drug stores in boxes
containing fifteen tablets for twenty
five cents. Each ‘ablet is a pain kill
er and a useful aid :n the protection
and maintenance of your health.—Adv.
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MILLPORT BUILDS
MANY NEW HOMES
Town Expects New Year To Be
Prosperous One
MILLPOBT, Ala., Dec. 30.—(Spe
cial)—Several new homes were built in
Millport during the year of 1924. G.
Prater’s fine new residence is now oc
cupied bjr him. The new home of Lewis
Gentry, located near the high school,
is now being finished. J. E. Dowdle
has recently purchased a house and lot
on “Millionaire street” and is having
is beautifully remodeled for rental pur
poses. Joe Coleman had a new home
completed in November, and the J. 0.
Praster garage 1b being remodeled. Sev
eral buildings are anticipated for the
year 1926 at Millport.
HIGH SCHOOL OPENS
The Millport Vocational High school
opened Monday after the holidays, but
some of the high school teachers have
not returned from their Christmas va
cation and the high school work conld
not be carried on today. Classes in the
public school grades were held today.
The local high school is experiencing
a very successful year thus far under
the principalship of Prof. J. F. Bone.
ANNMPLANS
$20,000 PAVING
Tenth Street To Be Im
proved To L. & N.
Railroad Tracks
(Anniston Bureau)
ANNISTON, Ala., Dec. 30.—At a
called meeting the city council last night
passed an improvement ordinance pro
viding for the paving of West Tenth
street from the western corporate limits
of the city to the spur tracks of the
Louisville and Nashville railway near
the intersection of Tenth stret and
Moore avenue. The estimated cost is
about $20,406.
The proposed pavement meets the de
mand for an improved roadway over
one of the city’s busiest streets leading
to the heart of the manufacturing dis
trict. The road has for several years
been in need of improvement.
The paving will be of Kentucky
rock asphalt one ;-nd a half inches in
thickness. According to plans it will
be laid on a reconstructed slag base or
with two inch warrenite bitulithic pav
ing on a reconstructed slag base with
necessary concrete structures and re
inforcements to give it durability. The
cost of the improvement on Tenth
street will be assessed against land
abutting the street.
At the* same meeting of the Annis
ton council the mayor was authorized
to sell and deliver to Ward, Sterne and
company of Birmingham, $100,000 face
value, city of Anniston, ten year, five
and a half per cent improvement bonds,
upon payment of $100,000 plus interest
on the bonds. ,
FETES NEWSBOYS
W. W. Stringfellow Is Host At Ban
quet
Fifty Anniston newsboys were the
guests of W. W. Stringfellow, retired
Anniston business man, at a banquet
held in their hopor at the Calhoun ho
tel Monday evening. The event marks
the sixth annual feast that has been
given the newsboys here by Mr. String
fellow. On this occasion he had invited
them tj a Christmas tree celebration at
his home and when circumstances pre
vented his being in the city at Christ
mas this year, 1 e left $50 for the boys
to use as they might see fit. They
chose to have a banquet naming it the
Stringfellow banquet.
COURT TERMS SET
Judge Parks Fixes Schedule At Troy
In January, March And April
TROY, Ala., Dec. 30.—(Special)—
The first court of the Twelfth judicial
circuit to be held in Troy in 1925 will
be the non-jury and equity term which
will be held beginning the Fourth Mon
day in January. The regular circuit
court with grand jury and jury civil
will be held on the fifth Monday in
March and first and second Mondays in
April. This is according to the an
nouncement of his chedule by Judge
W. L. Purks, a judge of the Twelfth
judicial circuit.
' FORGERY CHARGED
P. D. Neal, a negro, was arrested by
county officials Saturduj on a charge
of forgery. On December 5 Neal, it is
alleged, forged a check on Porter
Holmes, a prominent farmer living about
five miles southeast of "Troy.
STORE IS ROBBED
FOR FOURTH TIME
Greensboro Merchant Hard Hit
By' Burglars
GREENSBORO, Ala., Dec. 30.—
(Special)—The store of W. C. Holli
way was broken into last night and
lot of merchandise, principally tobacco
and flour, was taken. This is the fourth j
time this winter the store has been rob
bed. Mr. Holliway is an aged mer
chant.
DU. OPIE HOLDo SERVICE
Dr. Thomas Opie of Burlington, N.
C., who with his wife is visiting his
mother-in-law, Mrs. Mary Pickens in
Greensboro, held services in St. Paul’s
Episcopal church Sunday at 11 o’clock.
A part of this service was the baptizing
of the infant son of Prof, and Mrs.
E. L. Colebeck.
VISITS GREENSBORO
Mrs. Leo Randolph of Washington,
D. C., and Mrs. Charles Stickney of
Seattle, W’ash., are in GKreesboro for a
brief visit to friends and relatives be
fore going on to Seattle, where Mrs.
Stickney has made her home since her
removal from Birmingham.
RECKLESS DRIVING
CHARGED TO NEGRO
Selma Man Knocked Down On
Orrville Road
SELMA, Ala., Dec. 30.—(Special)—
Robert Watts, negro, is in jail charged
with reckless driving. An auto he was
driving on the Orrville road Sunday aft
ernoon knocked down B. B. Downing.
The accident happened near the “Oaks”
on the Orrville road, about 4 miles from
Selma, Sunday. Mr. Downing was
walking down the road to spea’: to F.
B. Lindsay, when Watts drove by and
knocked him down.
Mr. Lindsay, after seeing that the
young man was not seriously hurt, took
the negro into custody and brought
Downing to the Baptist hospital.
LEAVES FOR CONFERENCE
Leaving for the annual mid-winter
agricultlural meeting at Auburn, which
opened at 3 o’clock Monday afternoon,
were Clifton Kirkpatrick, president of
the Pecan Growers’ association; John
Bluke, Dallas county agent; J. D. Giles,
president of Dallas County Poultry as
sociation^ Mrs. Annette Tyndal, home
demonstration agent and others repre
senting the cotton association and other
phases of farming in this section.
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BETTER HOMES
ON FARM URGED
AT CONFERENCE
County Demonstrations
In Model Rural Resi- ~
dences Proposed
AUBURN, Ala., Dec. 30.—The farm
home occupied the center of the stateg
during Tuesday, the second day of the
annual winter conference of farmer*
farm., women and agricultural workers
in session here this week. It was pre
sented by Miss Margaret Ambrose, state
home demonstration agent of Tennessee,
with the statement “farm homes ain’t
what they were 23 yean ago,” and a
second thought, “farm homes are not
what they are going to be 23 years from"
now.”
With this as her subject, Miss Am
brose kept the large audience thrilled
for an hour as she discussed the farm
home and its place in rural develop
ments. She reminded her audience that
“we must have rural homes of the right
kind in order to have good farms and
farm products to sell.”
After calling attention to the fact that
country homes, as a whole, are far be'
low what they should be she said that
one of the first duties of extension work
ers, men and women, is to create a desire
for ’better homes and after having done
so they will be well started on their
farm home improvement program. To
help this desire the speakers suggested
standard model demonstration homes,
country borne improvement days, a study
of pictures in advertisements appearing
in magazines, and the naming of homes.
She strongly endorsed demonstration,
just as county agents conduct demon
strations in fertilizers, terracing, fruit
production, livestock, ennning, garden
ing, club work and other projects.
Making Careful Study
In introducing Miss Ambrose, Miss
Agnes Ellen Harris, dean of women
and state home demonstration agent
for Alabama, said that during the week
the farm women and home demonstra
tion agents who are attending the con
ference are making a careful study of
the Alabama farm future. She said
that they are formulating a home im
provement program which will make it
what it should be and that “every home
should be economically sound, mechani
cally convenient, physically healthful,
inorally wholesome, artisieally satisfy
ing mentally stimulating, socially re
sponsible, spiritually inspiring and
founded upon mutual affection and re
spect.
In summarizing the home program
Prof. I/. N. Duncan, director of the
Alabama extension service, who is in
general charge of the meeting, referred
to the home ns “ark of the covenant of
what we are trying to do,” and added,
"wlita we think, talk, and plan around
our fireside determines to a large extent
the thought, attitude and progress of
the nation.” The third day of the con
ference will open with a general session
followed by special committee meetings,
and perhaps some of the committees will
make reports during the day.
JEFFERSONMAN
SLAIN IN FIGHT
Another Stabbed Follow
ing Alleged Gambling
Game
(State Capital Bureau)
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Dee. 30.—
Johnny Krahenbuhl, formerly of Bir
mingham, was killed and W. E. King of
I^dependece, Ala., was dangerously
wounded in a fight which occurred in
the club rooms of the Working Men's
Benevolent association Tuesday morn
ing about 5 o’clock. Much mystery
surronnds the fight. Krahenbuhl was
dead when police arrived. King was
carried to a local infirmary where it
was found that knife wounds had beer
inflicted in vital parts of the body.
Police stated that both men had been
in a gambling game. However, no evi
dence was found to indicate that a
game had been in progress in the dub
rooms, according to statements of police.
Coroner John J. Dlffly found $1,600 in
currency in Krahenbuhl’s pockets and
it was given to his —idow.
When police were notified that
shots had been fired is the club rooms
they made an investigation and found
the dead body of Krahenbuhl. A bullet
had pierced the heart. In Krahenbuhl’s
hand was found a knife which bore
stains of blood. .
King is reported to be in a dangerous
condition. He told police, who called
on him at the. hospital, that he does not
know who stabbed him. Police claim
to have evidence that the fight started
suddenly and without warning^ that
King fired the shot that killed Krahen
buhl and that Krahenbuhl stabbed
King.
Krahenbuhl’s mother, Mrs. Jacob
Krahenbuhl, resides at Bessemer. One
sister, Mrs. L. Gorff, lives at Ensley.
He is survived by three brothers, Jack,
of Bessemer; Thomas, of Ashville, N.
C., and Samuel T. of Atlanta.
The body was shipped to Bessemer
Tuesday afternoon and funeral services
will be held there Wednesday.
CLUB IS DONATED
SITE FOR HOMti
Sheffield Man Also Offers Loca
toin To New Industry
(Muscle Shoals Bureau)
SHEFFIELD, Ala., Dec. 30.—The
Colbert County Boosters club recently
organized in Sheffield, has been donated
a business lot fronting (JO feet by C. L.
Harry, local realtor, for the construc
tion of a home for the club. Mr. Harry
also stated today that he would turn
over to the club without cost nn addi
tional business lot to be given the first
industry locating in the district ap
proved by the club. The club was or
ganised for the purpose of interesting
manufacturers in Colbert county and al
ready has a large membership, which
includes prominent citizens and busi
ness men from throughout the county.
W. B. HICKS DIES
SELMA, Ala., Dec. 30.—(Special.)—
W. B. Hicks, well-known business man
of Ortville, who was manager of the
lumber business and store of W. B.
Barry and .Sons, died during Tuesday
night at the Voughan Memorial hos
pital, where he was brought last Tues
day. Mr. Hicks’ mother is very ill at
Akron, Ohio, and could not be with
her son during his illness. He was the
brother-in-law of Bill Berry and Sam
Berry of OrrviUe and Selma.
Kansas City-Florida Special
New fait train to Atlanta and Jack
sonville. Leave Birmingham 3:30 p.
m., arrive Atlanta 8:40 J>. m., arrive
Jacksonville 7:45 a. m. .Observation
car.
Southern Railway >System
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ELECTORS TO CAST
PRESIDENTIAL VOTE
Formal Action To Be Taken In
Montgomery
(State Capital Bureau)
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Dec. 30.—
Presidential electors who were chosen
at the general election November 4 will
meet in the office of the secretary of
state Monday, January 12, and cast
their ballots for president and vice
president of the United States. A mes
senger will be elected to carry the vote
to the president of the senate at Wash
ington, D. ,C.
The presidential electors of Ala
bama, all democrats of course, are;
Atticus Mullen, R. B. Vail, L. J. Bugg,
Harvey M. Blue, John Q. Adams, H. I.
Shelley, S. J. Nolen, Jerome T. Fuller,
W. E. James, Henry A. Bradshaw, S.
W. Hawkins and Y. M. Quinn.
PAROLES GRANTED
Parole granted to George IV. John
son, Limestone county, was revoked to
day by order of the governor, and the
prisoner ordered returned to the peni
tentiary to serve out his sentence.
Johnson was convicted of grand lar
ceny, receiving two sentences, 13 to 13
months each.
FALKVILLE OPENS
NEW Him SCHOOL
$35,000 Institution Will
Be Formally Dedicated
Tuesday
(Tennessee Valley Bureau)
ALBANY-DECATUR, Ala., Dec. 30.
30.—The handsome new high school at
Falkvilla, Ala., was occupied for the
first time on Monday and is to be for
mally dedicated with suitable ceremonies
on Thursday when addresses will be
made by leaders in educational work
in the state and a basket dinner will
be served.
The school is declared to be second
to none in any city of similar size
in the state. It cost approximately
$35,000 and funds were raised from
several sources. The citizens voted on
themselves a three mill tax and the
city of Falkville also issued bonds
and citizens subscribed money for the
equipment. The agricultural depart
ment which was established sometime
ago will continue to be an important
part of the school.
NEW COUNCIL PLANNED
! American Mechanics To Reorganize At
Moulton
A new council of the ogder of United
American Mechanics will be installed
at Moulton on Wednesday night when
75 charter members of the body will
be initiated into the order. State Secre
tary E. L. Calhoun of Birmingham and
State Vice Counsel W. E. James of
Cullman will be present at the cere
monies.
JOHN MARTIN JOURNEY
Funeral services will be held at 11
o’clock Tuesday morning foi little John
Martin Journey, the infant son of Mr.
rnd Mrs. E. S. Journey of Tuscaloosa.
Because of illness the parents were
unable to attend the last rites over
their only son officiated by Rev. Mundy
of St. Johns Episcopal church.
DRUG STORE HAS FIRE
The basement of Thompson's Drug
store here was the secene of an excit
ing fire Monday evening when some
waste alcohol became ignited. The fire
department extinguished the blaze with
chemicals before much damage was
done.
BOAZ WOMAN DIES
BOAZ, Ala., Dec. 30.—Mrs. J. C.
Creel, after a brief illness, died at her
home here yesterday. The funeral serv
ices were held at the Boaz Baptist
church. The services were conducted
by her pastor, Rev. W. C. Crowder, as
sisted by Rev. Mr. McCinty, pastor of
the First Baptist church of Uunters
ville. Besides her husband, she leaves
the following sons and daughters:
William and Howard Creel, merchants
of Boaz; Prof. Luther Creel of the
Huntsville city school; E. O. Creel, su
perintendent of education of Marshall
county; Mrs. Bohannan of Oklahoma,
and Mrs. L. O, Cox of Boaz. Besides
her immediate family there survive her
one brother, Mr. Lassiter of Albertville,
and five sisters, Mrs. J. C. Gillespie,
Mrs. llughie Dedd, Mrs. Collier, Mrs.
Shadriek, all of Boaz, and Mrs. Nelson
of Gadsden, and a large number of
grandchildren and other relatives.
PROF. CREEL BACK
Prof. L. E. Creel, superintendent of
the Sheffield city schools, and Mrs.
Creel returned Monday night from
Boaz, Ala., where they attended the
funeral of Mr. Creel’s mother, held in
that place Monday morning.
STILLS CAPTURED
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Dec. 30.—
(Special.)—Capture of a 200 and a
300-gallon still in Shelby county, with
2.000 gallons o,f beer, one gallon of
whiskey and one arrest was reported
today to state law enforcement head
quarters.
GADSDEN STACK
TO BE BLOWN IN
——;—"
Another Furnace May
Also Be Placed In Op
eration Soon
(Gadsden Bureau)
GADSDEN, 'Ala., Dec. 30.—The
Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron company
will begin filling furnace number one
here Wednesday and will light the fires
in the stack at 0 o’clock Thursday
morning. It is thought here that the
company will shortly order repairs on
furnace number two, which was blown
out a few weeks ago because of an ac
cident, It being understood that it is
desired to operate both stacks as early
as possible. During the first nine
months of the year number two made
250 tons of iroh every day, 50 tons more
than its indicated capacity, and the be
lief is expressed by local foundrymen
that number one will do even better.
REGISTRAR NAMED
Walter N. Thompson Gets Etowah
County Post
Walter N. Thompson, well known
Gadsden attorney, was Tuesday ap
pointed registrar in chancei. for Eto
wah county to succeed tne late Judge
.Tames A. Bilbro. He is a graduate of
the law school of the University of Ala
bama and the University of Chatta
nooga, president of the Civitan club, ex
commander of the Etowah county post
of the American Legion, ex-vice com
mander of the Alabama division of the
legion, major of fhe second battalion of
the 167th regiment, Alabama National
guard, and wears a Croix de Guerre
conferred, by the French .government for
gallantry in action at hill No. 1»«, in
the Argonne campaign.
DIES ON ROOF
R. L. King, formerly engineer in chief
for the Dwight cotton mills and one of
the best known citizens of Gadsden,
died late Monday while working on
the roof of his home. He was stricken
with paralysis and expired in a few
minutes. The funeral will be con
ducted by Rev. Robert Jones of Col
linsville Wednesday afternoon.
HEADS PYTHIANS LODGE
J. P. Preston was elected chancellor
commander of the Knights of Pythias
Lodge Monday night and will be in
stalled next Monday night. Other of
ficers named were: Vice chancellor,
J. K. Stanley; prelate, C. T. Lewis;
master of work, W. C* Sturdivant;
keeper of records and seals, 1 E.
Wimpee; master of finance, >\. B.
Greene; master of exchequer, II. Clay
Leath; master at arms, L. S. Herron;
inner guard, Thomas Richardson;
outer guard, William Bensinger;
trustee, J. J. Stanley; representative
to grand lodge, F. E. W impee, and al
ternate, W. C. Sturdivant. ^
rebuilding plans
At a meeting of the Etowah County
Tuberculosis association Monday night
it was decided to leave it to the public
whether the tuberculosis hospital, which
was burned on Lookout mountain Mon
day morning, is to l>e rebuilt. A formal
call was issued Tuesday for subscrip
tions and it was stated that there will
be no drive or campaign. If the peo
ple want the work continued they
will voluntarily come in and help with
cash and material donations, President
Loui Loveman declared.
TO ENFORCE SPEED LAW
Following the erection of sign boards
on every road leading into the town,
all warning motorists that the speed
limit is 18 miles an hour, Mayor Burns
of Alabama City gave orders to the
police force to enforce the traffic laws
to the letter. It is said strangers have
been complaining that they had no way
of telling what the law is in that town.
DOGS FOUND RABID
MONTGOMERY, Aia., Dec. 30.—
(Special.)—Two dog heads examined at
the state laboratory today showed posi
tive signs of rabies. One was sent in
by Dr. P. T. Donald of Selma and had
bitten a negro child; the other was
from C. P. Deming of Evergreen and
had bitten a number of cows and dogs,
but no persons.
GAS TAX RECEIVED
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Dec. 30.—
(Special.)—Receipts from the slate
rWo cent per gallon gasoline tax for
November amounted to $105,^51.51 net,
according to figures today from the of
fice of the state tax commission. This
money is divided equally among the 67
counties, for road purposes, so that
eutt> county gets $2,470.91.
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No need for tiresome exercise or starva
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we send home ironed.
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SILHOUETTES OF
STATE CAPITOL
(State Capital Bureau.)
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Dec. 80
Present indications point to the win
ning of the Steiner banner offered as
a prize in the American‘Legion mem
bership work by the Ozark Post of the,
Legion, according to J. Fred Johnson,
department commander. The banner
will be won by the post which sends in
the largest number of renewals for 1925
by December 31. Commander Johnson
stated today that the Ozark post is in
the lead so far.
Commander Johnson stated algo that
the number of ex-service men signed
up for membership in the Legion for
1925 sc far in the state is five times
ns man>> as have ever been signed up
in December. v
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Asa Gibson, well known coal man
of Birmingham, was a visitor in the
capital today and called at the state
convict department.
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J. Fred Johnson and Attorney Gen
eral Davis will attend the national
convention of the Lee highway associa
tion which will be held in Florence
January 19-20.
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Attention has been called by I. T.
Quinn, state commissioner of game and
fisheries, to the fact that the open sea
son on deer in Alabama comes to a
close at sundown Wednesday, December
STEEL SHIPPERS
MOBILE, Ala., Dec. 30.—(Special)
The steamer King Bledyn that sailed
today for south and east Africa carried
record cargo of steel out of this port
In the cargo was a total of 7,101 tons
of steel rails and fittings.
W. E RICHARDSON
TO HEAD CHAMBER
Dr. Willingham To Be
Vice President Of
Florence Club
(Muscle Shoals Bureau)
FLORENCE, Dec.' 30.—W. M.
Richardson, Florence business man. is
slated to be president of the chamber
of commerce during the year 1925. The
newly elected board of directors of the
organization met Tuesday morning and
agreed that Mr. Richardson should be
president, and that Dr. II. J. Willing
ham, president of the Florence state
normal school, be vice president during
the coming year. They will succeed S. B.
Harlan and M. W. Darby.
New officers will be elected at the
first official meeting of the board next
Tuesday. The personnel of the new
board of directors was announced Mon
day night at the regular weekly meet
ing of the membership. The following
were elected: H. L. Reeder, C. W.
Ashcraft, W. M. Richardson, H. J.
Willingham, A. W. Darby, J. M. Rog
ers, A. P. Campbell, U. O. Redd, M. W.
Darby, A. F. Koonce and Turner Rice.
CURB ON PEDDLERS
Under the 1925 license schedule
adopted by the city commission of
Florence, itinenrant peddlers will be re
quired to pay a heavy license and where
any money is taken in advance they
will be required to furnish bond before
being allowed to operate in the city.
MASONIC TEMPLE
WILL BE ERECTED
Tascumbia Lodge Purchases
Extra Space
(Muscle Shoals Bureau)
TUSCUMBIA, Ala., Dec. 30.—The
Masonic lodge of Tuscumbia announced
today the purchase of a piece of ground,
43x47 feet, adjoining the Masonic tem
ple, on which, together with the ground
which is now occupied by the temple,
will be constructed a new Masonic tem
ple of the most modem type.
SISTER KIDDED
Mrs. George Mahuah of Tuscumbia
left for Memphis today, where she was
called on account of the death of her
sister and brother-in-law, who were
killed in an automobile accident, while
en route from Mississippi to their home
in Memphis.
Both parties profit by use of Age
Herald Want Ads. Sold before noon
is the frequent result of their use.
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We Close New Years!
Don’t Overlook the Values
At Porter’s Sale of
Suits and Overcoats
Come to this sale and find the same fine clothes we
sell all season. Not a “special purchase” to be
seen. Nothing but our own choice stocks—at
prices that class them as PERFECT BARGAINS.
If you want to save money without compromising
with quality—Porter’s is the store to come to—
TODAY.
Mail’s $35 Suits and
Overcoats
$2675
Men’s $45 Suits and
Overcoats
Men’s $40 Suits and
Overcoats
Men’s $50 Suits and
Overcoats
I EVERYTHING FOR THE BOY TO WEAR—
At Final Clean-Up Price*
Every Boys’ Suit and Overcoat in the house is marked
for final selling at QUIT PRICES!
Big genuine reductions on all Boys’ Shirts, Hats,
Shoes, Underwear, Sweaters, Pajamas, Hosiery.
COME TODAY AND MAKE YOUR SELECTION.
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