The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-20
SOIL SURVEYORS
 WILL GO SOUTH Work In North Will Be Con-
 pIeted Soon LEGRAND WILL RETIRE J. Kirk Jackson Is Elected President of Beauvolr Club at Montgomery. w. c. Bruce Transferred
 From Pensacola.
LEGRAND WILL RETIRE

Montgomery, December 19.-(Special)- Members of the combination state and government soil survey parties at work In North Alabama will be sent to southern counties after January 1, according to a ! report made by Commissioner of Agricul- ture J. A. Wilkinson. The following are at work now and will be moved
 w. G. Smith and J. c. Britton, from Colbert county; H. c. Smith and E. s. Pace, Jefferson countyi L. A. Hurst and P. H. Avery, Calhoun county; w. E. Sharpe and w. L. Lett, Cullman county; W. s. Lyman and c. s. Waidrop, Etowah county. The new work will be taken up in Clarke, Baldwin, Coffee, Tallapoosa and Hale counties.
 In each county that is to be left the work will have been completed by the early part of the year. Thus 1t is that, according to MT. Wilkinson, the counties of Colbert, Jefferson, Calhoun, Cullman and Etowah will be complete, adding these to the already large number that are now surveyed.
 | LeGrand Going Out.
 M. P. LeGrand, for 22 years an officer of l Montgomery banks, at no time in less important place than that of vice , president, will, on January 12, retire as , vice president of the First National bank i and the business. He began his career as vice president of the Bank of Mont gcmery in 1887, and became president on the death of his father, who held that position in 1893. After consolidation with the Merchants and Planters he was still vice president, Robert Goldthwaite being president; he held the same position with the organization growing out of eonsolida- ton with the Merchants and Planters Farley National in 1903.
 l When the latter organization was ab- sorbed by the First National in 1906, Col onel LeGrand, who had tried to get out consented to serve as vice president Every consolidation had been suggested by him with view of being himself re- Ieved and he has now concluded that the time has come to quit. He went into the business from the practice of law, and though he will give his time to the care of his plantations and city property he has never given up his place as member of the law firm of Stringfellow & Le- Grand.
 Inero are IeW 1Icu III Ilo oldeo DosSCA known that Colonel LeGrand and 1t Is ] no more than the truth to say that he has as many friends as any man In the state. He owns immense tracts Of lands in this and adjoining counties.
 For Lower Taxes.
 Insurance Commissioner Frank N. Julian and Deputy Commissioner A. c. Sexton have begun crusade to induce the lower ing of taxes on insurance companies ir the municipalities of the state. It has been shown for some time that this sort T Of tax has been drain on the companies to the extent that many of them have not been able to get into great number i Of the towns.
 Kirk Jackson Honored.
 J. Kirk Jackson, cashier of the FIX change National bank, and for many years private secretary to Alabama gover- nors, has been complimented by his neigh bors in his election as president of the Beauyoir club. He succeeds Charles Gunter It Is said that Kirk Jackson knows more men and women than any other man in Alabama. As private secre- tary he had opportunity to build up a wide acquaintance. MT. Jackson married Miss Helen Gunter. one of the most beau tiful women of the state, 10 years ago and has kept up his social relations since as he did before
 New Phone Manager.
 W. c. Bruce, for some time manager of the Bell Telephone company at Pensa- cola, Fla, has been sent to Montgomery taking the place of A. R. Nininger, whc will take up special work out of the At lanta office. Mr. Bruce is succeeded al Pensacola by A. c. Hobson of Decatur who is in turn succeeded by A. McC Huggins of Cullman.