The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-07
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

The Eutaw oil mills will start in three or four weeks
 Shelby Chronicle: The spring poet and baseball crank are the next nuisances the public will have to put up with.
 John R. Scott of Chicago, prominent man in cement manufacturing circles, is in Demopolis Investigating the opening and establishing of million and half dollar plant.
 Dr. Martin Crook, a son of Captain James Crook of Calhoun county, has been appointed by the Pacific Cable company as surgeon for the company. He will be stationed on Midway Island in the Pacific ocean.
 Montevallo Sentinel: If the tax on all the cur dogs running loose in Montevallo is collected the town treasury ought to be in healthy condition. Most of them. however, ought to be killed on general principles.
 
 here the 14th of April, and will be in session several days. About fifty visiting ministers and elders will be in attendance, and our people should see that they are well entertained
 Scottsboro Citizen: The farmers are very much behind in planting their crops in this section, but we hope that they will get a good start in few days. These delays and disappointments will occur, so they should not be discouraged. There is brighter day ahead.
 Huntsville Mercury: And now the ladies have become interested in the city cam paign and will hold prayer meetings every afternoon. This is just as it should be- let the ladies do the praying and if the husbands and sons will vote as the ladies pray, the whisky ring will be swept off the face of the earth next Tuesday.
 Montevallo Sentinel: Every. farmer in Alabama could, if he would try, raise a dozen or two hogs every year-enough for his own consumption at least, and yet one-half of them don't do it. He would rather pay fifteen cents pound for his meat than to raise 1t at one-sixth that price Why they will do this Is beyond the ken of ordinary mortals.
 Mobile Register: MT. w. L. Henderson, the active agent of the land and h. dustrial department of the Southern rail- way, has returned from a business trip up the line. He was Tout in the woodsn most of the time this trip, showing pros pective buyers the good things of the country. He reports a great activity in immigration, and that large numbers of well to do northern people are coming to this country to build up homes.
 Anniston Star: The Model Ice company. Anniston's new Ice factory, will be placed in operation within the next few days. The tanks are now being filled with water and the remainder of today will be required to fill them. few other preiminaries will have to be arranged and the manufacture of lee begun. The plant will have capacity of thirty tons daily. The company also has one VI lit ieiA SSSl COlu plants In IniS section.
 Mobile Register: MT. w. l.. Henderson of the Southern railway has received letter from Secretary Tom Richardson of the Four States Immigration league, ad- vising him of the necessity of organizing Alabama. At present there are but two places in this state-Mobie and Birming- ham-whose commercial bodies belong to this league. and Secretary Richardson be- lieves they should all become members MT. Henderson will at once take the mat ter up with every town of importance along the Southern and urge their join ing this organization which is for the purpose of advertising and securing immi. grafton for the four states represented Alabama, Texas, Louisiana and Missis- sippi.