The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-02-04
MAKING AN EFFORT
To SAVE CHILDREN
City of Montgomery VIII Be
Asked to Help
THE ASSESSMENT BOARD
VIII Hold Meeting Tomorrow To Take
Up Matter of Assessing Property
of Corporations In
the State.

Montgomery, February 3.-(Special.)-
An effort is to be made to have the city
take a hand in the effort to get white
children from the care of negro women
and from houses where the influences are
immoral. The Salvation army has been
trying to secure this in the chancery
court and the hope now is that they can
be taken away and put into homes and
institutions where they win have proper
training. This is a part of a great move-
ment all over the country, and on the
results in Montgomery will depend the
efforts largely in other cities along the
same line.
Assessment Board.
The State Board of Assessment, COM
posed of the governor, the auditor, the
secretary of state, the treasurer and the
attorney general, will meet in the office of
the auditor on Wednesday to take up
the matter of assessing the properties
OF the railroads, telegraph and telephone
lines. The board increased the assess
ments on these holdings in the state ST.
10000 last year, and it is not now thought
that there will be any great raises this
year.
Senator Hamburger Loses.
Max Hamburger, Jr., senator from Mo
bile. spent a part of Monday in the city,
en- route to South Alabama. He has re-
Gently lost heavily in storm in Missis-
sippf, in which a number of timber tracts
in which he was interested were devas-
tated by the winds. T or some time Mr..
Hamburger has been taking it easy over
in South Georgia. He called on Cover
nor Conner before leaving for the south.
Church Burns.
A special from Georgiana tells of the
destruction of the Baptist church there
on Sunday. Fire broke out from defec-
tive fue just after Sunday school and
the building was soon destroyed, with a
loss of over $500. The organ was the only
thing saved.
Old Wagon Man Out.
All Of Alabama hears with regret of
the retirement of d. A. Bellamy as head
of the Florence wagon works and from
the wagon making trade in the south. The
Florence plant is one of the best in south,
as 1t was among the first, and under DR..
Bellamy it has grown from shop to a
manufacturing plant of large size. 1t is
of special interest to South Alabama that
John r. Ashcraft, formerly of Dale coun-
ty is TO take his place.
Father Against Son.
q Just across the Georgia line from Girard
H. A williams has had his son, Lester
Williams, arrested for alleged assault it
being said that when he tried to prevent
the boy hitting his brother with bricks
the misles were turned on him.
"Good Mrs. Martini
News comes from Union Springs of the
death of Mrs. j. f. Martin, known the
country over as Good Mrs. Martin"
She was 20 years of age and had spent
her life in ministering to those about her.
Homes Burned.
The home of u. w. Folsom and the
kitchen of the residence occupied by Hugo
Schloss at Eufaula were burned Sunday,
the loss to the former being 5000. There
was insurance of $1,000 on the Folsom
home but nothing on the other.
Dog Law Pays.
That the dog law, passed for Russell
county by Senator Glenn, is a good thing
is shown by the receipts so far the
amount being $4,000. This money is ap-
piled to the building and keeping OF
roads.
Governor Spoke.
GOV. b. Is. Conner WIS the leaulHS speak
er at the Sunday school rally at Brewton
Saturday and Sunday. He spoke Sun
day to a large audience. The governor
was for many years superintendent Of
the First Methodist Sunday school at
Birmingham, the largest in the state.
Child Is Burned.
Clayton o Bannon, the 6-year-old son of
J. b. O Bannon at Brewton, ran too close
to the fire in his night robe and caught
fire. He was painfully burned before it
was extinguished.