The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-18
POOL ROOMS WILL
 CLOSE AT [ 7O'CLOCK
TaIIadega Council Takes An- other Think" on Question
CLOSE WITH THE SALOONS
Committee Is Named by County Com missioners to Investigate Matter of Issuing Bonds for
 Good Roads.

Talladega, May 11.--(Special )-The City
 Council at a called meeting last night
 took another think over the question
 of closing the pool rooms at the same
 time as the saloons. Heretofore the sa-
 looms have been closing at o'clock, but
 mass meeting of the laymen of the
 churches got busy, obtained the names of
 210 of the leading citizens of the city
 and through committee presented to the
 council at its meeting last Monday even ing request that the saloons and pool ! rooms close at : o'clock in the evening The city fathers voted to close the sa- looms all right, but when ii came to closing the pool room it wasn't so unan-
 imous. Alderman Simms offered the prop osition that pool rooms should close at
 I, the same as saloons, but Mayor Oli-
 yer, Aldermen Castleberry, Boynton Me Cargo and Freeman voted no" which
 was majority of the council. Last night,
 however a change evidently came over
 the spirit of their dreams as the proposition to close the pool rooms at : prevailed, the law to become effective June l. with a proviso that the pro rata portion of the pool room license shall be refunded should any pool room dealer wish to close out his business. The
 printed licenses of ordinance No. GO places | a license on pool tables at $25
 The county commissioners are at last
 awaking to the fact that neghboring counties have better roads than Tallade-
 ga and that this is a matter of some im-
 portance to the people of the county. At
 their last meeting they discussed the mat ter of a bond issue fer road improvement As a result of their discussion d commit-
 tee, composed of Senator John w. Hea-
 cock, Representatives J. B. Sanford and
 J. H. Lawson, Judge of Probate J. E. Camp and City Judge Hon. c. K. Miller will make visit to north Alabama next
 week, to make Investigations in counties
 that have issued bonds for road building
 and on their return will report whether
 in their opinion 1t is advisable to take
 steps to call an election to vote on the
 subject.
 The old bridge formerly used by the Birmingham and Atlantic railroad was
 rendered to the county through the com
 missoners' court by the Young Men S Commercial club, but the commissioners refused to accept 1t. It was the idea of
 the Young Mems Commercial club to floor and repair the bridge so that it could be used by wagons crossing the Coosa river,
 and thus avoid the fees paid out for ferrying across the stream, and also the delay consequent on crossing during high
 water. It is not ksawn what reasons
 actuated the commissioners for refusing l what appears on its surface to be quite
 a gift. It may be that they considered 1 the expense of repairing it too great Workmen are tearing out the front of the postoffce for the purpose of putting in more modern front, and to put down tiling floors An addition of sixty feet has already been built to the postoffiee
 at the east end. When all this is fin
 ished the building will lack a great deal of being the kind of building suitable
 to the needs of the people here. It IS
 nothing like large enough for the grow ing population, nor is it a suitable build ing for a postoffice however it may be arranged