The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-14
TAX ASSESSMENT
 SHOWS GOOD GAIN PrattyiIIe Has a Raise of Over
 S400,000
RUMPUS IN CITY COUNCIL
Disagreement Arises Over Questions Propounded By a New Member, But Town Marshal Promptly
 Stops Trouble.

Prattville, October -(Special.)- The tax assessment of this couny has been completed and the judge of pro- bate is making the legal abstract for the collector to start on his rounds. The assessment for the present year amounts to the total of s4159,975, as against sS,4s154S for 1906. Of the gains shown by these figures, s423,S45 represents the raises assessed by the back tax commissioner. This means the people of this county will pay sev- oral thousand dollars more taxes for this year than for last year. Not all these taxpayers are very cheerful over this prospect, as they have not felt the great saving promised by the can didate for governor in freights paid to railroads.
 The Prattville Progress has pur- chased a large press and in a few days It will be installed in the home of this weekly, and the matter of getting off the weekly issue will not be so much work as 1t is at present. The Progress is improving it's facilities all the time to do the work for it's patrons.
 Dr. l.. H. Robinson. of Robinson Springs. is, in some respects at least, one of the most remarkab able men in this section of the state. He has practiced medicine for nearly fifty-eight years where he now resides, and in all that time he has not been for a period of twenty days at one time unable to at tend to all calls for his services. He is as hearty and vigorous today as if he were but 35 years old. He att tributes his remarkably good health to his temperate habits in all things. He boasts that he has not, in all his life, drunk as much as pint of whisky, and during the past forty-five years. he has not touched tea or coffee. He has never refused to relieve the sick, and has performed some wonderful cures in his modest way.
 At a special meeting of the town council yesterday afternoon, two of the Prattville city fathers who had been reading of how othe cities had men who did things. undertook to show how Prattville councilmen could do. but the marshal was on the ground and quilted the bellgerents. It ap- pears that a newly elected councilman desired some information of the doings of the street committee. and after an- swering several questions put by the new councilman. the chairman of the street committee became enraged and drew chair upon the new council man. There was no damage as the town marshal caught the chair.
 The matter was smoothed over at the time and the business of the meet ing went along in the usual course. The council failed again yesterday to elect q marshal, the vote standing to 3. The peculiar condition exist here of making the mayor presiding officer of the council and gives him a vote, too. A part of the newly elected council men have taken the position that the new municipal code being in force. the old charter of the city of Prattville is not in force, but the older members of the council take the view that the municipal code will not go into effect until in 1909.
 It is easy to see that this town with quite number of others in the state are at sea to know what to do. The municipal code seems to be indefinite and uncertain in some respects. and lawyers do not agree as 10 what some of it's sections mean.