The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-20
JEFFERSON DAVIS
 ID BE HONORED Birthplace Will be Made Into
 Memorial Park GEN. BUCKNER HEADS PLAN Suggestions Will Be Received as to
Suggestions Will Be Received as to the Best Method to Accomplish
 This Purpose-History of eA ,$
 the Place. e.R

, Nenlucky's famous old Q. 0 ses srigade' has started movemep ? n will at tract interest througho south. The fighting brigade has ap, ced a commit tee of it's members. headed by Gen. Sl- mon Bolivar Buckner. to investigate the matter of purchasing the birthplace of Jefferson Davis, President of the Confed- eracy. with the Irtention of converting it into memorial park. The birthplace of Davis is at Farview, Todd county, Ken lucky Some years ago Baptist church was erected on the spot where Davis was born.
 General Buckner says he will be glad to receive suggestions and contributions for carrying the plan into effect.
 M. H. Clark of Clarksville, Tenn. is glad to another project on foot to raise a memorial to the President of the lost cause. He writes:
 l am glad to see of the effort to raise another memorial to President Davis. The place is a very fitting one The his- tory of the Fairview memorial Is as fol- lows: The house where the President was born in was still standing when l took
 
 about 1875. The people there wished to erect memorial church on the site and wanted proof that 1t was his birthplace ana have 1t on record, and conceived the idea of the President buying it and do- nating it, and wrote the President 10 that effect. He wrote me, troubled about the matter wishing to place the people. After conference with pr. Stewart, Capt. Will liam Jesup MT. Downes and others, We raised a subscription and my brother, Capt Lewis R. Black, and myself fur nshed about two-thirds some $500, if l re- member correctly. The President did not have the money to buy the place and frankly told me SO
 The lot was bought in the Presidents name and a deed sent to him to sign, coh- veying 1t to the Baptist association So it is now on record at Ellkton. The church was built ard d tablet inserted in the wall. The church burned down and was rebuilt. and l suppose the tablet replaced. l took the President to the church when 1t was dedicated, he took part in the cere- monies and made d short address. Mrs. Davis afterward sent sacramental gob-
 
 ford at the time. She and the President intended adding t. it. The Confederate camps and chapters of the U D. c. of Kentucky could wei take this patriotic and pious work into their hands now, and not leave it to some other genera. tion, for some day Il will be done. The land, l suppose, can be bought for S3O to $40 per acre, if d full park Is intended and fund raised for Keeping it in order perpetually. l know that you and t.e Fairview people (particularly) have this matter at heart and will push it, and that grand old soldier, Gen. S. B. Buck ner, will use his great influence to give fruiton to the idea of law.
 Cheap DistiIlery.
 Consul General Skinner of Marseilles, France, in report to the state depart ment on denatured alcohol. calls atten- tion to the fact that many French farm CTS are no wusing still which cost but $3l 1t consists of sheet iron furnace and alembie and accessories, and has d boiler capacity of 264 gallons. Since the passage of the denatured al- cohol bill in the last Congress q little surprise is manifested that the American farmer does not take advantage of his opportunities to manufacture this non beverage alcohol There Is every reason to believe that the waste upon tn aver az farm could be made to yield a hand some return, and that decaying vege- tables, such as beets. potatoes and other starch or sugar vegetables, can be turned into cash.
 New Union Station. On October l Washington will rid ner- self of it's old third-class railroad stations and go into the handsome new union sta ton, which has been under course of con struction for four years. The new station will be the finest in the United States. 1t will not be entirely completed for a year, but sufficient progress has been made to admit of it's use by the travelling public. W. $. SHOT IN A QUARREL