The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-11
COUNTY REGISTRARS
 DO GOOD BUSINESS
SKty-fye Names Added In
 BeSSemer Yesterday
SMITH MINES PAY TODAY
Merchants Are Expecting Good Busi- ness-Business Men Make Inter- esting Comments on Trade
 Outlook For Future.

ls Bessemer, April 10. Especial )-Sixty- five names were added to the reg istration list today. The country regis trars, D. R. Dunlap and E. H. Wright arrived in the city at an early hour this morning and they announced immediately upon their arrival that they were ready and waiting for business. They had not | long to wait however, because there were many young men in the city who had just arrived at the supposed age of discretion and of course they were anxi- ous to vote.
 The registrars did a good business and it is believed that they will also have good days business tomorrow. The fact that registrars for the state and county were going to be in the city for two days was source of much pleasure to a great number of young men who have just reached the age of A and also to several who had been in the state just long enough to have forfeited the privilege of voting in the last election.
 The county books will close tomorrow afternoon at o'clock and after that time no one will be allowed to register
 Good Pay Day.
 The merchants all over the city are rejoicing that tomorrow is to be a real payday Smith mines will pay off and when that is said it means something from the fact that the mere word Smith when employed in connection with the mines stands for a great deal as far as the miners and the merchants of Besse- mer are concerned. Chess Crooks of the Bessemer Grocery company, stated this evening that while he did not expect to see as large a pay as has formerly been the case he was very hopeful that the day would be a good one for all concerned ana ne believed 1t would be.
 J. R. Waldrop, of the firm of J. R. Waldrop & Co.,, stated this afternoon that he believed business was mending slowly and he could see no reason why tomorrow should not be a good day in al lines of business.
 E. L. Huey, of the E. L. Huey Furni- ture company, stated that he hoped to see a good business as the direct re- suit of the Smith mines payday and he believed that general conditions were be- coming better as each day passed.
 Thomas Benton, of Benton Bros. x Rob erts, stated late this evening that while business generally had fallen off to a extent QuflI1R tue past leW months, as far he could see conditions looked better than they had for some time and he could not help but believe that business in all lines would gradual ly creep up to its old standard.
 Sam Lefkovits, of Brick & Lefkovits, said this morning that the dry goods bus mess was picking up considerably along all lines and he believed that the end of the month would show quite fair bus mess.
 Lacy Edmundson and Dave Fulton. the former of the firm of Edmundson Drug company, and the latter of the firm of Fulton Bros, both stated this evening that business was good and they had no reason to complain. W. J. Long of the Bessemer Cornice works stated that his firm had had quite a run in farming utensils during the past 60 days and he believed that the business would continue to show favorable results