The age-herald., 1897-09-28
Milk and Butter Men Promise a
 Firm Fight.
MIR. THORNTON SCORCHED
Dairymen Insulted at His lnsinuations That Some of Their Number Sold CoIored But
 tef-CalIed Meeting of Association.

inaugurated iast week grows warm day S by day.
 The dairymen say they have God and the law with which to fight Armours money ,aIsd are going to see which Is mose powerful in the state of Alabama. They VIII have called meeting at thsir hall Wednesday morning to de- eide on a plan of action.
 The dairymen. are decidedly raw over the charges made by Mir Thornton, that some of them have net only been colo1'ing their butter but have besn buying ol.omargerine for the purpose of mixing with genuine butter and sell ing same to their customers.
 J. A. Mansfield, one of the dairymen who was on the detective committee that visited Thofnton's grocery a few days ago said yesterday to an Age Herald reporter:
 'Tf Thornton goes into the dairy busi- ness in order to run us out of 1t we'll show him how to play game of freeze out. Our association is going to have a called meeting. next Wednesday, and we are going to call on MT. Thornton to come up and make good his charges against us, by stating who it is that has been buying oleomargerine to mix with their butter. Our association is as much for the purpose of protecting its members from dishonest dairymen as from dishonest merchants and we will rsnder MT. Thornton all the assistance possible in his efforts to bring the cul- prfts to justice
 Mr. Mansfield also said that if MT. Thornton had caused any new laws to be made since the sitting of the legis7 latule thereby creating a legal stand ard for butter or milk, he'd lik= for him to enlighten the association tomorrow.
 Continuing he said:
 "The agitation of this thing has about taken olsomargerine off the Birmingham market-for a time. We had only yis,; fted three or four places when wa found that a warning had been sent all round and a merchant told me yesterday that it was impossible to buy any on Morris avenue, though the jobbers say they will have a plentiful supply in about ten days-but don't lhink it will be col cred yellow"
 w H. Baker, another member of the detective party, said: 'I was a msm- Der of the committee which was ap- pointed to find out who were selling colcred oleonargsrine. I don't think Mr. Thornton intends to put in any dairies I think he is trying to run big bluff. If he knows any dairymen who are adulterating their butter CT milk I hope he will prosecute them. That is just what we want. I am sat- izfled that soms of the da.rymen sell skinned milk for whole milk, but if thsre is any legal standard I know noith- ing of it, but that is what we want and will ask of the next legislature"
 w. M Glass, of the Hillside dairy, said that the State Dairymens associa- ton was behind the movement made by the county association; that the state association was composed of sorie of the wealthiest and most influential men of the state, and that they were going to push the fight to the bitter end.
 Instancing the magnitude of harm done the dairy interests, Mr. Glass said that Isaac N. Ross, president of the state organizations. called at the office of the Armours in this city to make in- uuiries regarding the price and quality of their goods, and the clerk, mistaking him for prospective buyer, took him behind the counter and showed him by the books of the company that it was selling sixty tons of oleomorgarine per month from the local office.
 MT. Glass said that prior to the time when the Armours began selling colored oleomargarine in this market he had regular contracts to sell merchants of this city 900 pounds of butter week, but in eight weeks after the Armours put their "oieo" on the market he could only sell seventy pounds a week, and had to get out of the butter business, and that all other butter men, not only here, but all over the state, had suffered the same. He said that MT. Thorn tons claim, that he could not obtain supply of butter from dairymen here was not true; that he would be glad to furnish MT. Thornton 400 pounds week, and that he knew of four other dairy men who had tried to sell MT Thornton butter repeatedly, but were told by that gentleman that he didn't want any.
 He said further that MT. Thornton's claim that he could get butter in New York for 10c pound was also untrue. MT. Glass said that on the day when MT. Thornton made that assertion but ter was quoted in New York at 23 cents at the creamery. At Pulaski, the largest creamery in the south, milking 1900 jerseys daily. butter was quoted at A cents. He said that the idea of MT. Thornton running the dairymen of Jef- ferson county out of the business was ridiculous bluff-intended to frighten somebody, but didn't. zs,
 Miss Deloney Dead.
 Miss Nellie Deloney died at Woodlawn