The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-14
STREET FAIR WAS PLEASANT SUCCESS Though Merchants Claim It Is
 Poor Trade Getter STORE IS BURGLARlZED Large Force of Men Is Developing Ore Mines Near TalIadega-sheriff
 Middleton Is Painfully
 Injured.
STORE IS BURGLARlZED
By WELLINGTON vANplvER.

By YELLING ON VANDlVER.
 Talladega, December 13.-(Special )-The street fair for the benefit of the local fremen closed it's performances at mid right and was loaded on the Atlanta, Bir- niingham and Atlantic railroad bound for IaGrange Sunday morning. The show | filled a weeks engagement here, stretch ing from cast to west half of the length Of Battle street. In the main the various attractions were quite good, only one of the shows, that of the Oriental village. being objectionable, and this one was promptly closed. The firemen will receive about $400 as their portion of the pro- ceeds. The merchants insist that street fair is a irade-killer as Saturday, when there were several thousand people in town, was the dullest day in trade for years. Should another street fair be al- lowed to come here it will probably be dated during the summer months when trade Is dull.
 The store of the Talladega Shoe and Clothing company was burglarized Satur day night, rne thief entering through the transom It the rear of the store. But small amount of cash and a few goods were missing It is thought that the bur glars became alarmed, as a package of shoes was left on the inside near the Ilace where the entry was made.
 Just after midnight Saturday night the meat market of Tom Collins on the west side of East street was discovered 1 to be on fire. The three stores in this block are mere frames covered with gall vanized iron, and this fact probably saved the First Baptist church. which adjoins l it on the north. By hard work the fire | department confined the fire to this block, but the three stores are ruined, and will have to be rebuilt. The loss is about half covered with insurance.
 ] Special Advent services during the en- tire week are being held in St. Peters Episcopal church. The special feature of these services will be the Rev. J. R. Matthews, who has wide reputation as a speaker and biblical scholar. Sunday afternoon the address to men by the Rev.
 Matthews was a masterly one
 Cards of invitation have been issued by MT. and Mrs. Thomas Scales Plowman
 to the wedding of their daughter. Olive, | to MT. Thomas Weir Labatt on Wednes- | day, December 30 at 1 :30 O clock at home,
 Talladega. Miss Plowman is the pretty and attractive daughter of Thomas s. l Plowman, formerly congressman from
 this district and a very popular belle in 1 Talladega.
 A large force of hands is at work de-
 yelopng the ore banks near Shoccho l Springs, two miles north of the city. Ore l has been mined near this point in the recent past a spur line of railway hav- | ing been -un out to it from the main stem ! of the Birmingham and Atlantic railroad. | 1t is understood that the work is being 1 done by the Alabama Consolidated. MT.
 William Costner is directing the work at this place.
 [ During the entire week of the street fair there was ideal good order. Not l fight; not drunk Some of the days were
 wet, muddy and chily-typical days for | the topper to excuse himself for getting l loaded There was much noise, great crowds and some excitement all the time, hut everybody was sober and everybody l enjoyed themselves. Under the former saloon regime such a state of things would not have been possible Prohibi- ton has come to stay In Talladega county.
 Sheriff w. R. Middleton, while serving process a few evenings since, caught his | heel on the edge of a stair as he was about to descend, and slipping, fell the en- | tire length of 30 steps, injuring himself l painfully. After few days in the hands of A. doctor he is able to walk about with ] the assistance of a cane.