The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-21
SHOPS IN OPERATION.
A. G. 8. Will start Up Their Gadsde
 Plant.

A. G. s. Will Start Up Their Gadsden Plant.
 Gadsden, Aug. 20.-(Special. )--After an fdleness of two years or more, the old Elliot car shops. recently purchased by the A. c. S. Railroad Company, will go into active operation Monday with & crew of seventy-five skilled workmen, which will be increased as rapidly as possible up to 225 men. A large force of men have been at work at the shops for the past month cleaning up the yards, adjusting the machinery and in- stallfng new machines that were need ed. In the meanwhile, the tracks in the yards and all the switch tracks have been tllling up with damaged cars from the A. c. 8. and the C.. N. and T. P. roads, which are to be repaired here fin the future. The plant will give em- ployment to 800 men when in full op- eration. increasing the monthly pay roll of Gadsden by some sS.00o every month. The plant presents busy Rcene now, where all was quiet and gloom few months ago.
 E. w. Whips. President of the Gads- den Commercial Club, is in receipt of a letter from T. E. Brooks. superintend- ent of the Birmingham Mineral division of the l.. and N., in which he states that the Altoona accommodation will be ex- tended to Anniston via Gadsden on Sun.
 
 Gadsden a morning train to Birming- ham and an evening train from Bir- mingham
 The Rural Carriers Association of Etowah County will meet at the court house in Gadsden on the second day of September to transact important busi- ness. The association is called togeth- CT by order Of President Huff
 Gadsden rural free delivery route No. { will be established on September 1, with Will W. Smith as carrier. This gives Gadsden four rural routes. the last one opening up an unusually rich section of Etowah County, and serving population of TOO people. A new route, No. 4, has been ordered estab- lished on October 6, out of Fort Payne, to serve 320 people Several other new routes in this territory will be estab- lished soon. Azell B. Britten, who has been in charge of the rural routes in this. the Seventh, Congressional District, has been transferred to Florida. While here. Mir. Britten went over every route in the Seventh District, some seventy five, and also examine ed about fifty pro- posed routes. of which he recommended quite a number.
 Superintendent John Lane has had a large crew of men at work on the road bed of the N. c. and St. L. for the past week. and they are still at work re- pairing the road between Gadsden and Guntersville, getting 1t in condition for the heavy winter trade, This road is said to have the best roadbed in the State and accidents are of very rare nature.
 The Etowah County Sacred Harp Singing Association was in session for three days the past week-Friday, Sat urday and today-and large crowds have been present every day and enjoy ad ha ala fo ab OF ott Quite a number of well-known local singers were present each day. and the crowds were large, and the Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, In West Gadsden, where the singing was held. was too small to hold the crowds.
 Dr. o. V. Mite. a divine healer of all the ills of the flesh, Is a member of the city convict gang, and Is doing hard labor for imposing upon the Ignorant of his race. Mite Is negro and claims that he is from the West Indies. and is endowed with power from on high to cure sickness. He has been practising his art among the ignorant negroes un- til he was arrested yesterday on the complaint of an old negro woman 80 years old, for securing money on the promise to cure her. which he failed to do. Considerable evidence was brought out to prove his practice of his profess sion. He went to the home of negro woman and saw her child sick, where upon he told the negro that he 'smelled death" in her house. but that he could drive 1t away for $2.50. The woman paid him the money and he caught hold of the child's feet and said: Co way death," after which he washed his hands in water and blessed it and told the woman to wash the child in the water and 1t would get well. This she did. but the child did not recover, as Mite said 1t would. He was fined $10 for his offense.
 Gadsden public schools will open up on the 4th of September. after their va- cation of several months. The princi- pal of the schools. Prof. w. E. Striplin, has recently made a canvas of the school children of the city and he finds that the number Is largely increased over that of two years ago. A hns corps of teachers have been secured for the coming term.