The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-14
FINE CHERT BEDS
 NEAR TALLADEGA
Intangible Assets for 1aIladega
 County Are Filed
VERY BUSY THIRTEENTH
Four Couples Are Divorced and Start Life Again on Friday, Sept. f3. The Prohibition Fiqht
 Is Lively.

Talladega. September 13.-tSpecial3-A very deep bed of pure white chert has been uncovered in Laniers precinct by .he grading of the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic railroad. The deposit is oyer two miles long, through which the line of the road has been graded. The public road parallels the railroad at this point, and where the chert has been thrown out of the railroad cuts over the dirt road 1t is perfectly smooth and hard in rain jest weather. There is enough chert there to cover every dirt road in the county. and no doubt as soon as the railroad Is running the streets of this city will be dressed with this beautiful white cover- ing.
 The state tax commission has finished an estimate of the intangible assets sub- ject to taxation in Talladega county, and has forwarded an itemized list to Tax Collector Woodward. The sum foots up the gratifying amount of $4SOS47.S6.
 Notwithstanding that this day is Fri- day and also the 18th of the month, u number of persons who were unhappily welded have submitted requests to City Judge Miller to be unloosed from the bonds, and allowed a chance to adven- ture again into the uncertain realm of matrmony That official has divorced four uneongenial couples this morning. and 1t has been a very poor morning for | divorces at that.
 
 for prohibition, world without end" is the report of the speakers and spellbind- CTS who daily address the voters on the issues of the day. In the city there will be Kilkenny cat fight, with chance of an even break, as there are moneyed in- terests, and loss of city revenue involved, but out where the sun shines on the way ing hay the horny handed ruralist don't care hang for the financial embarra ss- ment of the city nor the revenues thereof The prohibition people down in Sylacau- ga, headed by Committeeman J. w. Brown have gone to work for prohibition in a serious, hard-headed, practical Way that Is bearing fruit with a Vengean e. Every merchant in the city, with one or two exceptions, has signed an address to the voters advocating the abolition of the l SdlOOn. "A cluD or mercnantS HaS put up 1 a purse, employed stenographer, and 1 each day one member of the club of eign- l teen dictates and sends out personal let. | ter to eighteen friends asking his sup 1 port for the cause. The next day an- l other member sends out eighteen letters | to voters whom he can influence, and so 1 on until every member of the club has written his quota. The ladies of the city are organized into an active, aggressive working club and 1t can be safely as- serted that Syllacauga will go as dry as the desert of Sahara in midsummer. The electric fittings and plate glass windows of the new three-story building on the corner of East street and North street, are being put in today. A metal ceiling was finished a day or two snco. Four arc lights with q thousand sandle capacity will illuminate the lower floor in the salesroom. The window space will contain 300 incandescents. The railways above and the offices will be lighted with modern cluster lights and shaded lamps. J. C. Lanier, l.. c. Branscomb and Wellington Vandiver spoke in Laniers precinct yesterday to a good crowd on the subject of prohibition. At the close of the addresses a vote was taken and every 1 man in the audience without an excep- tion pledged himself to vote for prohi- biton.