The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-05

a4 ter being in session two days, The meeting adjourned to convene in Mo- pile next year. that city being the strongest bidder for the next meet ing.
 The nominating committs through It's chairman, J. B. Babb, of Birming- nam, nominated for reelection. A. G. Forbes. of Montgomery, as president of the association and L. L. Gilbert, of montgomery. as secretary. Both Of these officers were unanimously re- elected
 The session of the association which came to close this afternoon has been a most profitable and interesting one.
 The session of the association this morning was opened with the reading or paper by Isaac Schwarz upon Alabama Portland Cement Posibili-i J ties" Mir. iSchwarz had prepared no regular paper for the occasion but read extracts from a number of ar ticies upon the cement rock in Central Alabama and discussed them
 He said that of the five cement plants In the South only one of them were To- cated in the State of Alabama, that being the one at Demopolis. Another In the course of construction would be located at Epes. Then he pointed out why the cement industry will in the future be one Of the principle fea- lures of business in this State. The easy accessibility of the Selma chalk or cement rock made this possible and as 1t was to be found in unlimited quantities 1t could be easily manufac- tured into the finished product. Anoth- CT great feature in the manufacture Of cement would be the easy and cheap manner in which 1t could be shipped to all parts of the world.
 Mir. Glass Reads Paper.
 F. P. Glass of Montgomery, read an interesting paper on Municipal Gov ernment by Commission" The paper proved an interesting feature of the session of the day and illustrated at length how effective had become muni- cipal government by a commission and how quite a number of cities had been greatly benefited thereby. e.
 The paper read by MT. Glass was re- ceiyed with hearty outburst of ap- plause and it was decided that 1t should be given wide publicity.
 Future Development of AIabama's 2 Water Power" was the subject of the next paper which was read by H. O. Jones, os Montgomery. The paper proved most entertaining and brought out many facts that before had not been generally known. ~
 It was moved by John Craft, Of Mo- bile. that this paper should be printed and brought to the attention of the members of the legislature. W. c. Agee of Selma, amended MT. Crafts motion that the paper should be referred to the attention of the congressman from the State of Alabama. This latter motion was carried.
 The reports of the various standing , committees wer ethen taken up. The committee on Press and Advertising. reported that the state association had done but little advertising during the year on account of the lack of funds. but that each individual association had done quite an amount of advertis- ing. During the year. Montgomery had raised $10.000 for advertising purposes and about 5000 of that amount had been expended in adssDs4sing In north ern periodicals. Birmingham had s. cured great deal of special advertis- ing through 8 recent deal which had been made in that city.
 The committee advised the different associations of the state not to coun- tenance the fake advertising schemesl
 Talks On Tobacco.
 c. H. Greer. editor of The Marion Standard. and chairman of the agricul- tural committed. made an interesting talk upon tobacco raising. He said he thought tobacco would soon become one of the principal industries of the state, and told how three years ago the rais- ing of tobacco had been started upon three acres and that this year there was planted in the staple over 500 acres. He told how the experiment had first been started upon three acres of his land near Marion. and that the government had done all of the work and that on this three acres they had raised 1900 pounds and for his share, he had one day received check for $15O.
 The question of tobacco raising proved a most interesting subject, and Mir. Greer was asked questions by a number of delegates. In explaining the crop. he said that 1t could be plant ed and marketed in about ninety days,