The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-02
DEATH RATE IS
 BELOW AVERAGE

Anniston, September 1.-(Special) 1.-The extraordinary "anti-race- e-suicidedness" of Calhoun county has been the cause of a friendly dispute between State Health Officer w. H. Saunders and County Health Officer J. M. Whteside, the immediate cause of the affair being the July report of Dr. Whiteside report ing the number of deaths4in Calhoun county for that month to b@ only 26 and the number of births to be Ss. ' The estimated population of Calhoun county is S3,s42 persons. The death rate is placed at 15 per 1000 persons per an- mum, general average, and at this rate Calhoun should have about 525 deaths for the year, or about 43 per month Hence, Dr. Saunders has questioned the accuracy of Dr.. Whitesdes death re- port, believing that more than 26 per- sons died in this county during July Dr. Whiteside, however, says that his report was based on reports from every physician in the county, excepting two, and he has no reason to believe that the physicians would misrepresent the facts.
 Tired of constant anxiety consequent upon constant effort to elude detection and arrest and equally tired of hard work in a sawmill, William Davis, who says he deserted from the Eighth U. s. Cavalry, Troop c. Oklahoma, stationed at Fort Robertson, Neb., walked into the office of Sheriff LeGrand yesterday morning and surrendered to Deputy Phillips Davis said that he left the army on April 20th of this year, and that he wanted to serve his unexpired term and his eighteen months sentence Sheriff LeGrand notified the Fort Me- Emerson officials in Atlanta and the prisoner was taken there today to be forwarded to Fort Robertson.
 Whether or not the Anniston Evening Star prints all the news without re- spect of persons was the interesting cause of fight which was investigated in police court today. w. T. Grace took the affirmative in the question and J. L. Reaves took the negative. The lie was passed, and it is said that Reaves was knocked down by Grace. Reaves was fined s12.1o and Grace was discharged by the recorder
 At business meeting of the Anniston Library Association yesterday afternoon the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Mrs. J. c. Sproull; first vice president, Mrs. N. A. Lapsley; second vice president, Mrs. w. H. Weatherly; treasurer, Mrs. Louis Kidd; secretary, Mrs. T. D. Maybank The book committee was elected as fol- lows: Mrs. John Stilwell, chairman; Mrs. G. B. Randolph, Mrs. John Pelham, Miss Carrie Knox.
 The report of the retiring officers shows that a splendid work has been done, as the library has grown from practically nothing when they took charge of it at It's inception to splen- did library of about seven hundred vol- umes.
 The revival at Mount Zion church, near Alexandria has closed with 14S addi. tions to the church, that being prob ably the most successful revival ever held in the county outside of Anniston in
 point of additions to the church. The revival ran for several days and was conducted by Rev. MT. Rogers, of Bir- mingham, and Rev. MT. Stewart, of Troy.
 Jack Deacon, ,weil-known character, died last night about 12 o'clock at his home near the Anniston Manufacturing Company
 He resided here for some 23 years, | coming here from England. He was a rolling mill man by trade. but for some | time had been unable to work on ac- count of Ill health. He had no relatives here, but had several sons in Eng land.
 What was regarded as an attempt to