The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-13
COURT LIBRARY IS
 ID BE ENLARGED
Judge Jones Will Reach Bir- mingham Tuesday at Noon
THE MCCLELLAN MEMORIAL
Governor Jelks Will Speak at the Ban quet of the Southern Publishers
 Association In Montgomery Wednesday Evening.

Montgomery, May 12.-(SpeeiaI )-With- in the next ten days arrangements will be made for the enlarging of the capa- city of the supreme court library by providing a place for overflow in the basement. Secretary of State E. k. Me- David, by direction of the capitol com nislson of which he is a member. will proceed with Marshal and Librarian Ju- nius Riggs. to work out the plans and ascertain the cost of the work Be- sides additional shelves in number suffl- cient to care for the demands, there will be other conveniences to look after.
 The first work to be done after the H. brary arrangements will be the refitting of the plumbing of the whole building Toilets will be put in on all the floors and all sanitary demands met. After that will be taken up the tiling of the main lobby down stairs and the wains- eoting with marble of the lower floor. Cork floors are to be put in the libra rles and legislative halls and linoleum on the corridors and outside spaces. The lower floor offices will have hard wood floors and modern inlshings and furni- ture. The dome will be restored and all the inside paintned and papered.
 Jones Comes Tuesday.
 Judge Thomas G. Jones of the United States court, is engaged In hearing tes- timony on an application to sell the prop critics of the Montgomery Hardwood and Cooperage company, now in bankruptcy. The hearing will run over into Mon day and he will not get to Birmingham to open the court there until Tuesday noon. The liabilities of the Hardwood and Cooperage company will run about $75 900 with assets nearly that much.
 Among the visitors to the city are Congressman John H. Bankhead of the Sixth district who has been defeated for .renomlnation by Richmond P. Hob son: Dr. J. w. Abercrombie, president and H. s. Persons of the faculty of the State university.
 The adiutant general has issued com mission to B. r. Noble of Montgomery. as adjutant and captain on the staff or Maj. V. B. Atkins, First Cavalry Squad ron, Alabama National Guard. He suc- ceeds Capt. c. E. Dexter, resigned.
 Mcclellan Memorial.
 There will be many lawyers here next Monday from all parts of the state to attend the memorial exercises to be held by the supreme court in memory of the late Chief Justice Thomas N. Mcclellan. Speeches will be made by Attorney Gen eral Massey Wilson and the members of the court, as well as by many others from the bars of the state. Several members of the bar of Limestone, the home coun- ty of the dead jurist, will be here.
 Dr. A. A. Parsons of the State univer- sity who has been selected by President Roosevelt as one of the board of visi- tors of the Military academy at West Point, will leave here May 20. to perform the duties Twenty years ago the same honor fell to Dr. T. c. McCorvey, pro- lessor of history now at the university. President John W. Abercrombie of the university also spent Saturday in Mont gomery, talking up the summer schools.
 Governor Jelks will respond to the toast "Alabama' at the banquet of the South ern Publishers association here next Wednesday evening. He accepted the invi- tation today The governor will leave Monday morning for Montevallo to attend the meeting of the trustees of the Girls school at Montevallo and will get back Tuesday night It is very likely he will not appoint a probate judge of Wilcox county before Wednesday.
 Capitol Notes.
 New corporations have been reported to the secretary of state as follows:
 Selma Electrical Supply company. Sel- ma, capital $500O. A. W. Cawthorn and others incorporators.
 Interstate Grocery company. Eufaula, capital $15,0O0. Incorporators, R. D.. , Thomas, B. s. Gibson, J. w. Marshall.
 The Cahaba Southern Mining company at Birmingham, has increased it's capital stock from 5000 to s4000 and the name
 
 gomery. has been changed to the Bar | nett-Sheppard Lumber company The following have been appointed mo- taries public by the governor: C. D. Con nor, Gadsden: J. G. Crews Birmingham: l. A. Matthews, Birmingham E. A. Del | champs. Mobile; A. B. LamlSin, New De- catur. Benners Vail is new justice of the | peace al Forlxland and T. M. Searcy at | Hadwiclsburg and J. s. Budkhart at | Battelle. have been named notares pub | lie and justices of the peace.