The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-22
GOVERN R FEELS THE
TOUCH OF SPRING
Longs for the Tug of the
Fish Line
SCHOOLS ARE DOING WELL
Superintendent Gunnels and Commits
soner Williamson Return From In
spection of Agricultural
School-Depositarie

Montgomery, March Especial Gov.
| Il. 3. Conner has gone 10 Birmingham
for the balance of the week to look after
/ his business interests ard possibly to
have a day of recreation Just before
4 leaving he stretched his arms UP over his
head, yawned and remarked that he
wanted to go fishing. And he talked later
as if he might go before he came back
on Monday next
"While the pressure of the legislature
was on" said the governor Il did not
notice the work that we were doing
Since the adjournment, however, l am
beginning to feel the strain of the con-
fnement and long to get out in the happy
spring days and hear the birds sing and
feel the tug of the line. 1t gets into ones
bones, this early spring weather"
! The last few days have been taken up
with clearing the deck of minor accumu-
Iaton. Private Secretary W. e. Fort and
Recording Secretary Nunellee have been
getting all of the applications for beat
officers to the Governor, and he got more
than a score of the docket as II result.
There are seevral others, but they will
not get attention until next week. Sec
rotary Nunellee has special charge of
this feature of the office and he is a
very busy man. as it seems to him some
| times as If half the people in the state
want to be appointed.
Schools Doing Well.
Superintendent of Education IL. c. Gun
nells and Commissioner of Agriculture
Wilkinson have returned from inspections
of the agricultural schools at Evergreen
and Jackson. There are three hundred
students at each place. Both officers are
pleased with the experiments on the farms
and especially that made in alfalfa.
The members of the Twentieth Massa
chusetts regiment L. S. A, desire to re
cover their battle flag, lost August %
1864, at Reims Station, Va, and ask tina
Alabama veterans of the other side hell
to locate it, Charles o. Howell, Il Cliff
ton Place, Boston, has sent the follow
ing letter to the department of archives
and history of the state of Alabama con
corning it:
"The forces in front were composed
of Lanes, Seals, MCGOWAN S, Anderson
and Hampton's brigades. If you are on
of those vets you know what pleasure /
you a short time ago, colors you Tough
so bravely under and suffered so mucl
for. The members of the Twentieth Mas
sachusetts feel the same for the color.
they had carried from Balls Bun t
Reims Station. In all of their battles
they seem to have faced the same troops
Now can you in any way put me in touel
with the one that has them? l thinl
they are in possession of some one VIII
was in that battle"
Banks as Depositaries.
The Governor has announced a new lis
of banks as depostaries for state cash
twenty-one in number. They all receiv
$1,000 each, save the Opelka First Ma
tional. which gets $40, 900. The list fol
lows: First National, Collinsville: Firs
National, Elba; First National, Greens
boro; First National Enterprise; Morga
County, New Decatur; First National
Abbevllle; Merchants and Planters, Lu
verne; Planters and Merchants. Ozark
Enterprise Banking Co., Enterprise; Firs
National, Dothan; First National. Colum
bla; First National. Samson; First Ma
tional, Slocomb First National Unto
Springs; the Bank of Tuskegee. Tuskegee
Merchants bank, Scottsboro; Merchant:
bank, CORTLAND; Merchants bank. Tus
, cumbia: Merchants bank. Haleyville; til
Bank of Andalusia, Andalusia; First Ma
tional bank, Opelika.
The Enslen Development company, OF
ganized at Birmingham, has been report
ed to the secretary of state. 1t has
capital OF $4,000 and will deal in real es
tate. The incorporators are L. C. and I
| L. Enslen and L. L. Anglin.
! The Carbon Hill Loan and Inyestmen
company is another new corporation re
ported. F. II. and Laura Hamilton an
G. II. McGinnis are the incorporation.
the capital being $1,000.
Many Appointments.
The following minor appointments hav
been made by the governor:
Justices of the Peace-J. S. Martin
Beat T. Chiffon county; w. j. Caskre!
Spring Hill; Artis Langford, Beat s, Pix
county; j. 3. Carter, Malcolm; w.
Helton, Foley; G. w. owens. Beat L
} Henry county; l.. c. Phillips, Coffe
Springs; J. w. Ayers. Tyffe.
Constabes-D. NJ. Cowley, Seottsbort
A. Il. Graves, Dalton; j. 4. Carr, Lees
burg; Joseph Ferguson, Forney; n. {
Daley, Beat Z, Monroe county: w. "
Johnson, Beat 6, Perry county; r. |
! West, Level Road; J. l. Holman. Mad
sons Cross Roads; j. Il. Trull, Beat Il
Lamar county; II. A. Hildreth, Vernon
Hammonds, Kellerman; w. NJ Low,
Cleveland; ]. NJ Dodd. Beat IS, Blour
county; 3. G. Todd, Oneonta; A. Vas
sar, Milton; j. w. Burns, Slocomb; W
IL. Tarwater Fayette; A. L. Lee, Atmore
r. X. Webster, Brewton; John Reid, Bea
IL, DeKalb
Notares Public and Justices of tn
Peace-H. j. jackson, Stevenson; A. I
Wood. Beat %, Jefferson; A. X. Hucka
bee Beat II, Marshall; w. H. Meek.
Banks; w. Il. Darby, Henderson; j. 5
Watts, Oakman; b. d. Ports, Lowe
Peachtree; C. B. Bryan, Canton; w. "
Thompson, Elkwood.
Notaries Public--Harold jacob, Mont
gomery; j. f. Jones, Evergreen; J. "
Lapsley Selma; j. K. Wharton Birming
ham; s. n. Gore, Birmingham; T.
Shirley, Birmingham; r.. IL. Wharton, Jr
Birmingham.
New Exchange Annex.
The stockholders of the New Eek
change hotel are contemplating the erec
ton of a five or six-story building In tn
rear of the present building, on its ow
property. where rooms can be secured TO
70 cents to 81 per day.
There seems to be a demand for
cheaper hotel, that is hotel wher
guests can get rooms for 10 cents an
81" stakeholder said, land II is impos
sible to give a room in well ventilated
fire-proof hotel with every modern i'm
provement, and costly furnished, TO
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