The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-13
cALHoUN,s FINANCES.
County Treasury shows Big IncreaEe
 over Former Years.


 Anniston, July 12-(Special. )--cal- houn county had in her treasury on July 1. amounts at follows:
 On common fund. $24.5S9.97: on road fund, $S,291.61; on emergency fund. $2.- 009.s3; on common coupon fund. $3O; on courthouse coupon fund, $3.3i2.26; on fine and forfeiture fund. 1.635.S S9; total 3e.S69.56.
 On the first of July 1902. there was in the common fund ss2s.62. The road money for that year was $S,106 65. The tax rate that year was sixty cents. On the first of July, this year, as shown above, there was in the common fund $24,5S9.97; and the road money for the year Is $13,935. The receipts of the county have shown such a substan- tial gain that the commissioners, in session this week, have decided to re- duce the tax rate to forty-five cents on the hundred, which, however, does not include the special school tax. The people of this section are abund-
 sntlv providing for the winter months in the preservation of fruits and veg etable. The Anniston Trading Com
 panv has already sold four carloads of glass preserving jars this season. q total of 96,060, and expect to sell more Their sales of jelly glasses will reach considerably over a million Other dealers in the city have had propor- tionateIy large sales
 At recent meeting of the Farmer
 Union of Beat IS. officers were elected as follows: President w. T. Dodd vfce-President. c. W. Curvin; Secre- tary and Treasurer. W, F. Curvin; Chaplain, E. H. Clark; Conductor, F. | W Horn; Doorkeeper, c. A. Braswell Col. Fred L. Blackmon of the staff of Governor Jelks. has been ordered | to report at the encampment of the I and regiment of infantry now in camp i at Selma, the latter part of the week He will leave today for Selma Colonel
 Blackmon will proceed with the Gov ernor to Mobile, where the 3rd regi-
 ment will be inspected the first a. next week.
 Last week was one of the most pros-
 porous in the history of the local plant
 of the Western Steli Car and Found
 " Company, as they employed during part of the week as many as 1,T00 workmen. making an average for the week of about 1.600.s They also set a precedent by turning out on one day as many at twenty-four cars, main taiuing an average of about twenty two cars per day. The payroll of the plant now stated in, round numbers is $75,000 per month.
 General William c. Oates. candidate for alternate United State Senator and ex- Governor of Alabama, WAS in the city today. leaving at 2:20 for Gads- den, where he spoke yesterday with W. c. Fitts candidate for the same of1ce. Governor Oates has many friends here. where he will likely
 pr. John M Crook of Columbus. Ga.
 who arrived in this city on a visit to
 Judge Emmett F. Crook yesterday af- ternoon. says he. is greatly impressed
 with the growth of the Model City since he was here three years ago. Dy.
 Crook left this afternoon for Jack
 sonVille. where he will visit Capt. James Crook
 Sheriff Browning of Monroe. La. fla
 here today to assume charge of Luther DeVaunt, colored. who was arrested by Chief Deputy Sherin LeGrande on a
 charge of securing money under false pretenses. Walter Burns. colored. wanted at Co.,
 dSrtown. Ca. on charge of selling Whiskey without a license, was ar- | rested today by Chief Deputy Sheriff LeGrandA Burns will he sent to Geor.. gia tomorrow.
 Gordon Memorial Camp. U. c. V. met | In Oxford today. The meeting
 was full of enthusiasm, and there Was
 a good attendance. Colonel Sam
 smith, of this city, spoke of the Sons | Of Veterant paying a tribute to the
 work and aims of this organization pr. W. T. Ayers, returned mission
 ary from China, left yesterday after.
 noon for Rome, Ga, where he is to
 lecture on China
 c. w Carlton, an architect of this city, spent yesterday at Heflin. where
 he submitted plans for Jne new court house that Is to be built at that place
 by Cleburne county. The new court house Is to cost $20.000.
 MT. Julius Lumpkin brought in tho | first crate of ripe Elberta's yester. day from his farm north of the city.
 He expects to have about a thousand 1 hushels