The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-13
ANNISTON MAY YET
 GET THE COLLEGE
Dr. Anderson Replies te H. L.
 Mckee
SCHOOL IN NEW QUARTERS
Criminal Term of City Court of Annis- ton Begins-Four Murder Cases Are To Be Tried-Arm-
 strong Honored.

Annston, october 12.-(Special )-Dr. ]. G. Anderson, pastor of the First Pres byterian church of Anniston, who has been prominently identified with the movement looking to relocation of the Alabama Synodical College for Women at present located in Talladega, has made a public statement in answer to the story sent out yesterday from Montgomery to newspapers through the state to the effect that the Synodical college can not be legally removed from Talladega and further that Anniston has withdrawn from the contest to have the institution removed from that place to this city Dr. Anderson's statement is in answer to the following, bearing the Montgom- cry date line: That the Alabama Synod ical College for Women, situated at Tal- ladega cannot be legally moved from that place to another city in the state is the opinion lof H. L. Mckee, president of the Presbyterian Orphans Home and fl nancial agent of the college. MT. Mckee was in Montgomery this morning in the interest of the college and while here made the above statement The Pres byterans of the state are tied to the Talladega site, MT. Mckee said, legally and morally When the college was planted at Talladega the word was given that it should remain there. The Pres byterians of Talladega have worked for it and are entitled to it. In addition n ic dnlaf uraio oh ct hoe to the college which would have to be carried to whatever new location secured it. That would be an injustice to ths ether city We are paying off the col lege's debts at Talladega and 1t is now getting to be in a useful attitude. The talk of removal is quite impossible Mr Mckee says that Anniston has practice ally withdrawn from the location squab- ble so far as he has been able to learn Not a city in the state so far, he says, has replied to the bids of the Synod ical college committee which last week met in Montgomery for the purpose of launching the removal matter upon the for the honor, owing to the general un- derstanding that the college is morally obligated 10 Talladega''
 In reference to the interview given out in Montgomery by President H. L. Mo Kee, Dr. Anderson said that these state- ments are absolutely misleading and that it is evident that MT. Mckee is either. misinformed or is being used as a cats paw by parties interested in preventing the removal of the college from Talla- dega. Dr. Anderson says that at the last called meeting of the synod of Alabama committee was named to take charge of the matter of relocating the Synodical college and that this action was taken with the hearty approval and concurrence of the citizens of Talla- dega who represented the interests of that city on the floor of the assembly, This committee is to report to the sy- nod at the annual meeting to be held in Mobile in November and final set clement of the matter will be had on the floor of the synod
 Dr. Anderson says further that An niston has not withdrawn from the con- test for the location of the college in this city, that Annistons chances for securing the institution are better than the chances of Talladega or any other place in the state. In support of the claim Dr. Anderson states that O. C. Whitson of Talladega stated in a con- versation some time ago that Talladega had decided that the college was lost to that place and would be removed to Anniston or elsewhere.
 Dr. Anderson emphatically condemns the effort being made to settle this mat ter outside the jurisdiction of the sy- nod and before that body hears the re- port of its special committee and says that the purport of the whole movement Is to so muddy the waters that Talla- dega will be able to retain the college. This, pr. Anderson says. clnDot be ac- complished as the question is bound to come before the synod and that body will relocate the college in Anniston or elsewhere Anniston's chances for secur- ing the institution, Dr. Anderson states, are better than Talladega's chances for keeping 1t in that place.
 School In New Quarters.
 Monday the high school department of Anniston's public schools assembled in the new quarters provided in the Will mer Avenue building. The city school has not yet officially accepted the ad- dition just constructed for the high school but will probably do so this week. It is said that so far as has been observed the construction has been done according to the contract and specifica- tions and it is improbable that any fault will be found with the job.
 Court Is Busy.
 The criminal term of the city court of Anniston began Monday morning. A mum Der of cases appear on the docket and the trials of the same will probably con- sume two or three weeks.
 \ Four murder cases will come up for hearing, the accused being Collie Reaves, charged with killing a negro a few miles below Oxford; Ira Perryman who is >aid to have slain Phillip Crook, a ne@o; John Jones, who killed his child with a hammer, the fatal blow having been intended for his wife, and Luther Woods, the alleged slayer of a negro named