The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-17
PUSH ROAD WORK
 NEAR HUNTSVILLE Contracts Are Being Let for
 Extensive Repairs MAY HAVE SAFE BLOWERS Two Suspicious Characters Are Arrest ed at HuntsvilIe-Joe Payne Is
 Charged With Stealing a
 Horse and Buggy.
MAY HAVE SAFE BLOWERS

Huntsville, August (SpeciaL)- County Road Supervisor Love has awarded three more additional con tracts for rebuilding about 20 miles of pike in the south heastern part of the county and in the vicinity of Gurley. Residents of the neigh hborhood got the contracts. MT. Love and the commis sioners have decided to use macadam in the repair of the bikes leading out of Huntsville, because of the heavy traffic that will pass over them and be- cause 1t is their opinion that rock is superior to gravel for heavy use.
 Contracts for rebuilding five of the bikes leading out of Huntsville to a point five miles from the corporation line on each of them will be let dur ing next week. The work of repair is being gotten under way in all portions of the county and dozens of men and teams are employed. The work of re. pair will extend through Madison coun- tvs pike system of nearly 200 miles and several months will be required to finish it even if the present rate Of progress is maintained.
 W. M. Scroggins, a prominent citizen of New Hope, is lying at his home at the point of death from injuries re- ceived when a mule fell on him. MT. Scroggins fell under the mule and was trampled on the breast. It is not be- lieved that he can live.
 Misses Alice and Maria Garth enter tained at dance at the home of their parents, MT. and Mrs. w. F. Garth, on Whitesburg pike Thursday evening in compliment to Miss Perish of Georgia and Miss Gardiner of New York Refresh ments were served. About 20 couples were present.
 Two men who are believed to be members of gang of three that cracked the safe of the Nashville, Chat tanooga and St. Louis railway depot in Guntersville few nights ago, were cap tured here last night by Policeman they have given fictitious names. The men came up on the train from Hobbs Island yesterday afternoon.
 They were seen near the city with a third man who was well dressed and carried grip. When a policeman ap- preached the crowd, the we'll dressed man ran off. The cripples were easily captured. Both of them had ticke cts to Chattanooga over the Southern railway and several dollars in change. The third man remained in hiding until the Chattanooga train left here and he is believed to have caught it and gone to that city.
 The alleged horse thief who was cap tured at Scottsboro with a horse and buggy stolen from a hitching yard in Huntsville Tuesday, has been identified as Joe Payne of Dallas village. Payne is well known to the police and deputy sheriffs, having been in trouble fre- quently. The present charge of grand larceny, however Is the most serious case ever made out against him. Payne is in jail.
 Several business men of this city have again begun agitating the question of an electric railroad from the city to the top of Monte Sano. They have se- cured options on 80 acres of mountain lands which will be divided into 200 or more lots. A public sale will be had and the money realized in this mapner will probably be enough to finish the railroad proposition.