The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-26
TALLADEGA WILL
 OBSERVE THE DAY Memorial Address By Judge
 6, K. Miller GRAFTON BY 6. C. WHITSON The Atlantic, Birmingham and Atlanta Railway Is Building a Long Grade
 Fill Through the Center of
 the City of TaIIadeea.
GRAFTON BY 6. c. WHITS0N

l Talladega, April -J.-(Special.)- thir-
 weight years Talladega has annually ob-
 served Memorial Day, and decorated the
 graves of the soldiers buried here. To-
 morrow the programme of the exercises arranged by the Ladies' Memorial asso-
 citation is as follows: The procession will ] form at the Presbyterian church at 2:S0
 p. In. and march to Elks' theatre. where the following order of exercises will pre- 1 vail:
 Parade in charge of Dr. J. w. Hea- cock and assistants.
 Order of march as follows: Talladega
 Rifles, Veterans association, Mayor and
 Aldermen, pupils of Synodical institute,
 children public schools, pupils Orphans
 home, pupils of schools of the state, citi-
 zens on foot, citizens in carriages, Ladies'
 Memorial association.
 Invocation, the Rev. w. c. Hearn.
 Address, Judge c. K. Miller. Music. &
 Grafton, Hon. C. c. whitson
 Recitation, Children of the Confed-
 eracy," Gary Simms.
 Address D. B. Oden.
 Presentation of crosses of honor, Dr.
 w. c. Hearn.
 Collectors at the door, Miss Grace
 Wren, Alline Wilson, Lila Hubbard.
 Esther Hubbard, Carrie Remsen, Mary Jemison.
 Benediction, the Rev. J. D. Gwaltney. 
 Frank Willekes, who has superintended AL. -..a H.. 1a..
 ing in this city for Messrs. Conniff & Co.,,
 since last May, will on Saturday leave for San Francisco MT. Willekes has brother
 living in that city. During his stay in Talladega he has made many friends and has done a permanent work on the side
 walks that will be long remembered. AL ways smiling and pleasant, this genial Hollander will be both missed and regret ted in this city.
 Parallel with the Southern railroad from
 the high bridge to the Chinnabee Cotton mills, a distance of one and one-fourth
 miles; crossing North street east, Johnson Avenue, Hill street, East street, Court street, Spring street and Jackson street; the Talladega Construction company, with
 two fifty-ton locomotives, one seventyton steam shovel, thirty dump cars and an Oliver spreader, are filling for yards and
 
 The dirt will be obtained some three miles off as, strange to say, notwithstanding that Talladega is a city of hills, dirt for | filling and grading is very scarce. | Two miles or more of filling right | through the heart of the city will change | the looks of things somewhat, but 1t Is | necessary. as at least a mile of this track | is parallel with an immense drain ditch. | General Manager c. A. Matteson con- | templates working both day and night | forces on this contract.
 | Local people and local money composes l this construction company. In all its his- | tory whenever this city wanted any plant, | corporation, factory or industry, 1t sim | ply proceeded to organize few of its own 1 citizens into the wished-for corporation. pulled the money out of their pockets and | built it, without supplicating foreign cap | italists to deign to assist, although if the | eastern gentleman, with unlimited wealth, chased our citizens to loan ihem money,
 all of them would be easy to catch. | The sidewalk contractors are taking up | the center line of cement blocks on the | northeast side of the square from Tow ers' store to the corner, because of im- | perfections in the work. It requires all | the muscle of a husky workman, armed | with steel erowbar, to make an impress | sion in the solid concrete. The city has held the contractors to rigid compliance
 with the terms of the guaranty, which is | that the sidewalks shall be of an equal | degree of excellence with the block on l the south side of Battle street, from l Chambers corner to the water works. | John Warwick is tearing down the cot | tage on Coffee. east of the livery stable, | for the purpose of erecting a more mod ern structure. It is quite an old building,
 erected long previous to the war, and oc-
 cupied during the war by the father of | Mir Warwick. who was an Englishman 1 by birth and in fact never having re-
 nounced his allegiance to the King Dur | ing the war, and while the federal troops
 were raidng through this section MT. | Warwick, Sr.. flew English flag in | his yard, and was unmoested by the | Yankee soldiers.