The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-10
EDUCATORS WANT NEW SCHOOL LAWS Meeting is Being Held in
 Tuscaloosa SECOND GOES INTO CAMP Important Decision Is Reached In the Matter of Payment of Counsel In
 Back Tax cases-other
 Montgomery News.
SECOND GOES INTO CAMP

Montgomery, July 9-(Special) Much interest Is felt here In the meeting of educators, which opened In Tuscaloosa to- day. This is a session of leading school men who have in view the betterment of | the general conditions, but are assembled particularly to discuss school laws and the prospect of school legislation at the next meeting of the state legislature. State Superintendent l. w Hill and his chief clerk, Harry c. Gunnells, are at the meeting. which was called at the in- stance of the members of the exehctlye committee of the Alabama Educational association. of which w R. Harrison of Union Springs Is chairman.
 The reason for calling the meeting in | Tuscaloosa lies In the fact that many of the leading teachers of the state are there attending the summer school at the | university. It is also well to have it there. because Judge J. J. Mayfied who is codifying the state laws, lives there, and can be called in and consulted about the various laws which cross and recross each other as a result of the legislation that has been going on for some years. State Superintendent I. W. Hill Is very anxious that the situation as regards the school laws be fully understood by all the teachers before the meeting of the next session of the legislature. Laws Desired. Among the laws desired are better reg ulations for taking the census, it now be- ing so that great difficulty is experienced in ascertainlng the number of children | it, other law much desired Is one which will prevent adverse possession running against school lands. This has been the cause of great losses to the state in the years past, and with the coming of twenty years after the granting of the | indemnity sections, the 1osses will be greater.
 The administration of Governor Jelks has been one of note for school advance ment. Last year the state expended s1,123, 7s1 in the free schools, and for the five years from 1900 to 1905, s5,424S26 For i the five years preceding 1905, the state spent in this cause 8, ,436, 1892 in the neigh 1 borhood of $3,000,000 gain for the one period against the other. well known edu- cator writing the governor this week, said of his record along this line;
 
 cause of education has attained during your administration would be sufficient | to characterize you as the school gov ernor of Alabama, if it were not that similar development and progress has been achieved In almost all other executive 1 departments"
 Important Ruling.
 An important decision has been reached by Auditor J. NJ Carmichael on the ad- vice of Attorney General Massey Wilson, in the matter of payment for counsel In back tax cases. The law now Is that when the back tax commissioner employs counsel the counsel so appointed is al- lowed 10 per cent of the receipts.
 The Belwood Lumber company has been incorporated at Bellwood, in Ge- neva county. with capital of $l50OO. J. T. Duncan and others are interested. The company has acquired a good tract of l timber.
 A new company at Slocomb Is the Met 1 calfe Hardware company, which has cap ital of $5O00. P NJ Metcalfe Is the lead ing spirit in the movement Slocomb, by l the way. is coming along at a rapid rate | The business men are now arranging 10 build a line of road from that place to | Pincard to save a long haul from the other points now desired to be reached
 The Home Telegraph company has been | organized at Jasjer, with J. N. Odom as one of the incorporators. It is to build and own and operate local phone systems.
 The Southern Paving and Construction company has been authorized to do busi- ness in Alabama, with R. E. Steiner Of 1 this city as Alabama agent, The com pany headquarters are in Charleston, W. Va.
 Samuel Sulzbacler. in Montgomery and H. C. Hendley of Carbon Hill have been appointed notaries public.
 No School Merger.
 Erie Pettus, a prominent young Ala l bama lawyer whose home is in Lime l stone county, was here today on legal business. Speaking of the proposition to 1 combine the Methodist schools of the state, he said: "So far as the Athens Female college Is concerned, I do not think there will be any combining It is wonder | to everybody who knows anything of the | situation how well Miss Mary Moore has done with the school. She has been able | to get everything she asked in the way | of improvements, and has discovered how | to secure the girls. The school Is doing we'll and there ts no sentiment In our | town that would for a moment stand for | losing Miss Moore and the school. l do not think Montgomery need ever expect ] the consolidation"
 Judge B. c. Jones of Bessemer, grand | chancellor Of the Oruer ol i>Hshts oi Pvthias in Alabama, Is here today. hay- | ing come to pay visit to Central Lodge | No. 9. He Is greatly pleased with the nrogress of the order fn the state. Since | he came into office new lodges have been | organized at Dudleyville, James and Nota- | suIga. and several others are reported on the way.
 Second to Camp. A special train today took the Mont eomery companies and several other com | panies near Montgomery to Selma for the I annual encampment of the Second regi- ment. which begins there this afternoon. Col. c. R. Bricken expects to have at | least 600 men in camp. This regiment will be in camp till next Monday, when they | will return home.
 | The companies composing this regiment are: Company A. Montgomery Greys | Capt k. H. Jackson; Company D, Mont l gomery Blues, Capt. w. F. Weiss; Com | pany E, Union Springs, Capt A. H. Fea- gin; Company B. Birmingham, Capt Chase Perkins; Company C. Selma, Capt E. M. Cothran; Company F, Tuscaloosa Capt. J E.. Walker; Company M Demop | clis. Capt. B. G. Wilson; Company G, Flu | faula, Capt. K B. Mckenzie; Company H, Opelika, Capt c. P. Stowe; Company | K Tuskegee, Capt George w. Griffin; Company I, Luverne, Capt. w. R. Routon, and Company L. Girard. Capt. NJ. C. Bal | lou
 The members of Colonel Bricken's staff are: Capt. William w. Brame, Jr., ad