The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-13
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

There is street fair going on in Roam oke.
 Selma Times: The storage battery for the Gameweil fire alarm system is now being put in by an agent of that com pany. It will cost the city between s1000 and H2OO, and it is thought that it will effect a saving of about $400 per an- mum.
 Anniston Star: President Davis of the Barber Memorial seminary. a college for negro girls, has added a trained nurse de- partment to that institution. The new department will be In charge of Miss Baggs of Philadelphia, trained nurse of wide experience.
 Following is the official report of the Tuscaloosa dispensary for the month or January: Cash sales, S,9s9eo' largest days sale s574eO; smallest days sale s171. 40; average days sale, $296.22; number of days ppen for business, g7i net proht for January, $2e6s.1o; number of regis trations, 25,84s; average days registra- ton, 9oO
 Manager Simmons of the Southern Plan tation company, announced in Mobile this afternoon that party of six would ar rive here on February r to remain until after the carnival Others are expected to come here from the northwest to Joln the first party and these with a view to locating. One point to be visited will be Marlow, Baldwin county.
 Montgomery Advertiser: A. S. Pettel- kow of the engineering division of the United States treasury department was in Montgomery yesterday inspecting the government building having in view i'm provements in the heating, lighting and elevator facilities of the present struc- ture. Mr. Pettelkow will also make re- commentators in regard to the heating and lights of the addition to the building plans for which are now being drawn in Washington.
 Montgomery Advertiser: A declaration of the incorporation of the Castleberry Strawberry company was filed yesterday in the office of the judge of probate of Montgomery county. The subscribers to the stock of the company are J. l. Mc- Kinney, F. C. Shepard, J. H. Burton, L. H. Lister, R. IT. Davis, W. G. Arn. The capital stock of the corporation is $10000 Its business will be the cultivation pro- duce and sales of strawberries and other fruits and berries. Montgomery will be the principal place of business. 
 Mobile Register: The Detective, of fcial journal of chiefs of police says in its February issue: Chief of Police c. w. Soost of Mobile, Ala, one of the | board of directors of the International Association of Chiefs of Police of the United States and Canada, will retire as head of the Mobile police department March 15, next. As the Detective is uni versally read by the profession, amongst whom he has many warm friends, he de- 1 sires, through its columns, to thank them for the many courtesies received and also for the valuable aid rendered by the members of the international asso- citation and brother officials In conduct ing the work of his department" Talladega Mountain Home: The home learns that the Louisville and Nashville railroad will buid handsome new two story passenger depot in Talladega ane enlarge the capacity of the freight house The new passenger depot will come IF even with the street and will be raised out of the mud hole in which the present one is located. It is intended to make many improvements around the depot and as soon as the plans are complete the Home will give full information. That the improvements will be made Is cer- tainty, for the Home has it from high authority. The "old reliable is progress sive and Taladega will appreciate the improved transportation facilities.