The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-27
JUDGE WEAKLEY
 ID MAKE ADDRESS
Jacksonville State Normal
 School Is Prosperous
WILL JEWELL MONUMENT
Handsome Statue to the Confederate Dead Will Be Placed in Public Square at Ile-Offi-
 cers Buy BIoodhounds.

Anniston, April Special. )-Pres- ident c. w. Daugette of the Jackson vile State Normal college announces that Judge Samuel D. Weakley of Bir- mingham, who has been prominently mentioned as the next governor of Alabama. has accepted the invitation to deliver the annual address at the commencement exercises at the school, June 8.
 This has been the most successful year within the history of the school, according to MT. Daugette. the enroll ment having reached the highwater mark of 630 ma atriculates, there being APO in the normal school and 210 in the training school under Professor High tower There will be 32 In the grad uating class. Besides this record breaking enrolment the faculty has been increased to the number of 1e teachers, the new additions being R.. F. Cooper, Ph. D., Johns Hopkins, mod ern languag ges; E. H. Wells, A. B., Wis consin athletics and oratory; Miss Susan Lancaster, librarian.
  put to the new s5O,o00 building, sit uated upon an elevation which is of ex- ceptional landscape advantage, com manding views of verdant, undulating s valleys, hills and mountains of the Appalachian chain, now green with the foliage of spring, besides the otherwise inspiring stacks of various industries, situated few blocks northwest of tn e college. The structure contains 27 rooms and is situated in the midst of campus comprising 27 acres. It is of red brick, with stone finishings, and is sensibly finished in the interior. everything being done with view to sanitation. The air changes every eight minutes, the floors are oiled so that there is not a particle of dust, the drinking water comes from sanitary fountains in the hall, and every depart ment of the building Is kept spick and span.
 At the Normal college they do eevry- thing from kicking footballs or throw ing baseballs to playing Chopin. There are excellent shower baths for the ath- letes on the basement floor and here also will be found scores of students at work in the manual training depart ment, where, to carry out the same idea, they make everything from a music rack to dumb bells, Indian clubs or tennis racquets.
 President Daugette works on the 'sound- mind ina -sound-body" princi- ple and in it's evolution he has achieved remarkable results.
 The unveiling of the monument to Con- federate veterans at Jacksonville on June 80 promises to be event of interest throughout the state of Alabama, ar engagements now being under way to make this one of the biggest occasions in the history of the former county seat of Calhoun county.
 The monument will be erected under the auspices of the United Daughters of the Confectionery, who have been collecting funds for the purpose for several years, and, besides being an ornament to the city, it will be another memorial to their patriotism and unceasing energy, they having already erected a lifesze statue over the grave of the gallant Pelham. The Confederate monument will be placed in the city square in the center of a beautiful little garden recently estab- lished It is now en route from Italy, where it was carved out of pure Italian marble The base is six feet square and the monument stands 19 feet high The