The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-27

his six years with them.
 An attempt Is being made to find a sec- retary to fill MT. Jackson's place, but as yet no one has been located.
 ABOUT BIRMINGHAM
 Eufaula Times: Atlanta is trying to keep pace with Birmingham by taking in adjacent suburbs.
 Gadsden Times News: The Birmingham Barons are softly singing Down in the Coal Mines. Underneath the Ground"
 Chattanooga Star: The Tennessee Coal. Iron and Railway company is now in full blast and Birmingham Is correspondingly happy.
 Bullock County Breeze: Memphis will have a hard time pulling off a more successful reunion next year than did Birmingham.
 Dadeville Spot Cash: Birmingham is being showered with compliments upon
 
 veterans last week.
 Pell City Progress: Birmingham is try ing to blush with becoming modesty over al the compliments hurled at her about the way the reunion was handled.
 Sumter County Call: The veterans have returned; they all say that Birmingham stands in class by itself when 1t comes to entertaining the veterans at a reunion
 Chicago Record Herald: An Atlanta paper refers to Birmingham as the Pitts burg of the south. The rivalry between Birmingham and Atlanta must be grow ing intense.
 Tuscumbia Alabamian-Dispatch: The people of Birmingham, desiring to be in line with the other progressive towns of the state, are talking about organizing a "City Beautiful club"
 Oneonta Southern Democrat The Bir- mingham papers claim that there are more industries seeking locations in that city now than ever before in it's history This sounds good, and looks like the panic was over.
 Athens Courier: Birmingham did her self great honor in the splendid manner in which she cared for the great Con- federate reunion, and the entire state was honored in this excellent handling of the thousands who visited the iron metropolis of the south.
 Ashland Standard Birmingham did herself proud in entertaining the old vet erans last week There might have been some defects in the arrangements at first, but they were soon corrected and if any one failed to be cared for it was his own fault and not intentional on the part of the city.
 Oneonta Southern Democrat: Birming- ham is making preparations to hold the best state fair this fall that has ever been held in the state. Blount county ought to be represented at this fair. It Is one of the best counties in the state, and we are doing ourselves an injustice by not letting the outside world know what we have.
 Florence Times: The Confederate re- union at Birmingham last week was a grand success in every particular Re- turned veterans are loud in their praise of Birmingham and its citizens, who with one accord gave themselves over to un- stinted hospitality. In honoring the vet erans Birmingham has honored herself and brought credit to the entire state
 Cullman Tribune: Mayor Ward of Bir- 'mingham Is wise beyond his bachelor years when he says that the ladies should take the lead in beautifying their towns He has learned that while a woman can not work with her hands she can work wonders with men folks. We had an idea that only ''us married men" knew the power of woman to have her way when she sets her pretty head, but 1t seems the Mayor. though a bachelor has discovered it. too. And it looks like all the young fellows will never be satisfied till they learn the same lesson-if then Gadsden Journal: The Birmingham pa pers alege that there are more indus tries seeking locations in that city right now than at any time in the history of l the town. And to substantiate the claim goodly list of prospective enterprises 1 is named, together with a number that have been located the past few days. This would seem to indicate that it is time | for us\ to get busy if we would secure our share of new developments in the Alabama mineral district. The time to locate new industries is when they are to | be had and if ne-v e9Ge of development l has set in we shovid lose no time in mak- | ing essSrts 60 get all that's coming to i us.