The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-07
A FERTILIZER PLANT
SELMA sBcS7es ANOTHER Br, FACTORY.
sunday BssebalI PIayers Are Arraign- ed fn Police Court and Fined Death of Mrs. '. H.
 woIfe.

Selma, Suiy D. The second fertilizer plant for Selma is now . certainty, negotiations hay ing been concluded for the lease of the | Franklin warehouse property in the | northeastern part of the city from the l l Southern Railway by the Virginia | and North Carolina Fertilizer Com pany. The lease for this property is stated l l to hays been closed few days ago l but was only made public this morn ing. The Franklin warehouse property ! in the northeastern part of the city !
 which has been leased by the Virginia | and North Carolina Fertilizer Company |
 is most suitably adapted for the Ioca- \ ton of fertilizer mflls. It Is close to | | spur of the Southern Railway and is | also on. the banks of the Alabama I river and will give the plant excellent l shipping facilities. | It is likely that work of repairing l and remodling the Franklin warehouse property will be started this week and | that the building will be placed in con l | dition as quickly as possible. whether 1t is the intention of the | 1 concern to put large plant in Selma | or just q mixing mill is not known. With the lease of the Franklin ware | l house property by the Virginia North | l Carolina Company. Selma is assured of | two fertilizer plants both of which I will be runnins On full time by spring. l | The Selma Guano Company. which win | | be branch of the Jefferson Fertilizer | Company purchased site for mill | last week or the Western Railway of | Alabama right of way and St. Ann | street and plans for the building are | being drawn and the work of con- structing the same will be started at an early date.
 
 | sunday BaiI Players Fined. | The eighteen young citizens who on Sunday morning were arrested by the l police department were arraigned in l police court this morning on the charge | of playing baseball on Sunday and vio- I lating a Sunday ordinance. | The cases against the eighteen young Il men were consolidated and a fine of | one cent and cost or . total of s2.s1 | was assessed against them. Previous l to the assessing of the fine Mayor Att | lxins gave the players lecture and | made them promise that they would not I play baseball within the jurisdiction of the police force again on Sunday. !. B. Harris is Fined. 1 Tn police court today. T. B. Harris, | white man. who beat a woman. Pauline l webster, at house on North street
 Saturday night was tried on the charge of assault and battery. He was l fined s26 and costs l Bruce Cook. Wailes Madison. Joe | RosepburR. Durrah and George Moore. \ negroes who were arrested early Sum- l day morning for gaming were tried. | They were fined si0 and costs each. | A number of violations of the san | itary laws were tried. Tn each case fine of $t0 was assessed. All of these cases were held up for a few days and the fines will be remitted If sewer con- nections are made.
 The cases against Walter Bell. Walter Bell, IT., and John Hall. and
 who are charged with rsceivine stolen I property were called. The cases were continued fora hearing uHtil the ses-
 sion of the court tomorrow morning. | s4rt Fime Samples of Tobacco.
 I There was exhibited in Selma today two fne specimens of tobacco from the crop which is being raised on the line ! of Ferry and Dallas counties by George l w. Thomas of Marion. MT. Thomas has six acres of Sumatra tobacco under cultivation and which I Il has grown to between six and eight l ] feet fin height ana which is now being l gather -. | The specimens of the tobacco shown ! l in Selma today were two leaves of the plant. One of the leaves was twenty l Inches wide the second leaf was twen- | | Inches long. the second leaf was twen- 1 | Ny-AONA AhChCS AOh8 0hA AAtVCH AhSftOS I | wide, l It is said that Mfr Thonas expects to i clear between $500 and $500 an acre
 pn his crop. I Death of Mrs. Wolfe. Mrs J. H. Wolfe died at her home on | Lawrence street this morning about I o'clock after an illness of several | ! weeks from a complication of diseases. 1 The deceased was most estimable l woman who was greatly beloved by all | who knew iaer.i The remains will be eaken to Chll- | dersburg tomorrow morning where l they will be inferred. She leaves two | sons William G. Wolfe and O. C. Wolfe | besides other relatives. An Enjoyable Affair. A large number of young couples | participated In a barn dance tonight | Kiven complimentary to Miss Louise | Daniels of Winston-Salem. who 10 the | guest of Miss Laura Jones. About thirty young people were present and | the evening was a very enjoyable one.
 Social and Personal.
 Jan4es Fowlkes has returned home after a short stay in Pulaski. Va, with | his mother, who is i'll there.
 Miss Dora counolsy will leave this 61L0TnOGu IOT Cn6utauQu8g Gs Gsg NuGIo | she will spend the summer.
 Misses Jessie Lee and Mamie Young | blood have returned to their homes In | Carlowville after visiting Miss Bessie I Robertson. who accompanied them home and win be their guest for few
 days
 Miss Carrie McFaddin of Greensboro arrived here today and Is the attrac-
 tive guest of Miss Louise Johnson. Larue McCown has returned here af-
 ter few weeks visit to his old home
 in Lexington, Va.
 Mir. and Mrs. W. A. Auderton re-
 turned home last night after q two
 weeks trip to Detroit. Chicago and Co.,
 tumbus. O.
 Misses Alta Chapman and Mamie
 Ware and little Miss Mary Hooper Bishop. left today for sewanee. Tenn, where they will spend the summer.
 Master Thomas walker of Corinth, Miss. Is here with his sisters, Misses Olive and Anna walker. at Mfr. and Mrs. H. Fl. Callen's.
 Albert Meyer received q telegram 1wN.H