The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-21
TO VOTE ON BONDS
FOR BUILDING NEW SCHOOLS IN
 BIRMINGHAM
wkeu Vice Presidential Candidate viaits Birmingham Next Week. He VIII Receive Housing
 and Hearty Welcome.

Birmingham. Sept 20.--(speciai.)-- In addition to the municipal election. Rirmingham citizens will vote on a bond issue of s350,ooo. the proceeds from the same to be employed in the building of new schools and the i'm provement of those already here.
 There appears to be no doubt but that the proposition win be favorabiy voted on and that the steps will be taken in the near future to carry out the plans already formulated. There Is need for new schools In East Birming- ham and Avondale which were recent Iy taken into the big city as well as in the city proper. Birmingham schools as well as in the various mu- the new term on tomorrow also. The attendance this year promises to be larger than 1t ever was the enrolment on Friday and Saturday of the past week when the classification took place being remarkably large.
 There has been several new teachers added to the rolls in this city and ef- forts are being made to increase the facilities for handling the pupils until new schools can be erected.
 Dice Game Raided.
 Deputy sheriHs made their appear ance at a negro house on avenue c near Twenty-th third street at an early hour this morning and as a conse- quencs seven negroes were locked up In the county jail on a charge of Sun. day gaming. There were dice and card games both on, say officers who visit cd the place.
 Socialist Speaker.
 Sumner W. Rose of Mississippi. na- tional organizer of the Socialist Party. was In Birmingham today and deliver cd an address. MT. Rose has been an ardent advocate of Socialism for many years. He published "The Grander South and was the first Socialist nom- lnee for the United States Senate from Mississippi. According to his lltera- ture his speeches answers questions which run about as follows: "why must millions of people hunger7" Why are millions unemployed7- Why do we have panics?". Who owns the worlds wealth"
 Negro Democratic Club.
 A negro Democratic Club has been organized at Avondale. a part of Birm- ingham. and effort will be made to get the negro voters in this district to turn out in the general election in No vember and vote for the Bryan-Kern ticket, The membership is said to be upwards of fifty.
 VIII Receive Hearty Welcome.
 When Vice Presidential Candidate Kern, of the Democratic Party comes to Birmingham next Friday a week. he will receive a rousIng and hearty welcome. The local Bryan Club has taken up the work already of mak- Ing preparations for the event Mir. Kern will arrive In Birmingham about II o'clock In the morning. He is due to leave at ?. m.. the same day, for Macon. Ga. It is now Intended to nave a monster speaking at either the Hippodron1e or the Bijou Theatre at o'clock in the afternoon. The crowd which will turn out to greet one of the leaders of the party promises to be very large. in fact. 1t will most likely exceed any political meeting ever held in this city. Jere c. King. secretary of the local Bryan-Kern Club. asserts that much enthusiasm is being worked up and that the Demo- erats are waking up rapidly. He ex. presses the belief that there will be several thousand people at the speak Ing and the Vice Presidential candl- date will receive an enthusiastic re- ception when he comes to BIrning ham.