The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-03
STATE NEWS ITEMS.


 The ladies of Ozark have organized United Daughters of the Confederacy. A bottling works Is the latest addition to Florence industries.
 The Methodists of Dothan will build new church at a cost of $l1,00O. The movement to establish a colony at Alexander City bids fair to be suc- cess.
 Expert miners from Mexico have been examining the gold mines of Dadeville and vicinity.
 It is stated that the school at Center vile was closed on account of the pre- valence of smallpox.
 The first session of the commissioners court of the new county of Houston will be held at Dothan April 6.
 
 The will of the late Judge W. A. Aus l tin of Wetumpka was admitted to pro- bate without contest this week. The es- tate is said to be worth s2O,OO0.
 Eufaula Times: The river has risen 111s feet since Saturday night and is still rising. The guage early this morning showed a height of twenty-six feet. The lower warehouse was half covered with water.
 Mobile Register: Lieut.. Col. Nassau Stephens, recently appointed British con- sul at Mobile, vice A. s. Benn, resigned, has arrived in the city and opened the vice consulate for the transaction of bus mess.
 Ozark Southern Star: The Ozark oil company will shut down for this season in about three weeks. Considering the fact that they did not begin until very late the company has had very satis- factory season.
 Mobile Register Last night at o'clock Sergeant John McCarron retired from the i police force after continuous service for thirty-one years For all these years he has served the city as a custodian of the peace and his record is above reproach. | | Greenville Advocate: One of the finest beeves that has been in the market in some time was the COW killed by Lam drum & Holder last week. It weighed 11G0 pounds and was equal to any of the best Kansas City beef ever brought to this market.
 Mobile Register: Dr. c. s. Burr, a wealthy Chicago physician, has returned from Baldwin county, where he has been looking up a location for colony. He enjoyed the trip very much and saw things that were pleasant to him. Some time today he will leave for Florida, mak- ing headquarters at Pensaloca. Huntsville Mercury: If the commercial | and industrial bodies of Alabama want to do great work let them organize and put a ereditable exhibit of Alabama pro ducts at St. Louis. The legislature failed to make provisions for an exhibit and thus left the work to the active and ene- getic men who always bear an unfair share of public burdens. l this point was rising this morning The | Times learns from the clever wharf agent, MT. Owens, that it has risen eight feet l this morning and the news from up the river, is that it is expected that there will be another boom in 1t. These spring freshets are serious, but at the same time, we should submit cheerfully to natures laws.
 Mobile Herald: Between twenty and thirty thousand dollars will have been spent in repairs and additions to the Grand hotel at Point Clear before the work now in hand is completed.
 The new owners have bought all the | stretch of hummock land north of the old property, giving them about 12O acres in l their enclosure. This will be drained and laid out as a park. A wharf Is building in fact. is approximately completed-lead- ing to deep water on the north side of | the point on which the hotel stands.
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