The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-10
PYTHIANS WILL
 HAVE BIG TIME
At Annual Meeting Of Grand
 Lodge At Florence
STATE BANKERS TO MEET
Feature of State Convention Will Be Address of United States Treasurer Charles H. Treat-News of
 Montgomery.

Montgomery, May s.-(Special.) 1.-The grand lodge of the Knights of Pythias which will meet in Florence May IS and 19, Is going to have a great time in a social as well as a business way. The Rev J. M Dannelly the grand keeper of records and seal, who is a resident of this city, has received notice to this eff feet. W. H. Weakley, chancellor com mander of the Florence lodge, will be the master of ceremonies.
 The opening feature will be the singing of the ode on the morning of the 18th at g o'clock. Mayor A. E. Walker will well come the visitors for the city and R. T. Simpson for the Pythians. The response to the address of welcome will be by Grand Chancellor T. D. Stanford. Tues day will be given over then to work with local lodge meetings at night. The exercises of Wednesday will be carried over to the evening when the session will close with a great banquet
 Bankers to Meet.
 The feature of the 1909 meeting of the Alabama bankers, which will be held May Il and 12 in Mobile, will be the address of Charles H. Treat, treasurer of the United States, who will speak on the cur rency. Lynn H. Dirkins of New Orleans will talk of postal savings banks. An other speaker of interest is Fred E. Farnsworth of the American Bankers association. The business meeting will be on the second day, along with a trip down the bay, and later a visit to the ball game. On Wednesday evening the party will leave for New Orleans to spend a day with the Mississippi bankers, in ses- sion there.
 Cool Nights and Crops.
 The recent cool nights are said to have had bad effect on the crops, especially the cotton, In many cases lice having been reported on the young stalks. Planting, however has gone on in north Alabama to the extent that most of the cotton crop will be in the ground by the time this let ter Is being read. Middle and south Ala bama is chopping and the young plant is looking well. Corn is showing up nicely and the other crops are making good while the days are bright. Commissioner of Agriculture Wilkinson is agreeably impressed with the outlook for the year in all lines of crop culture. He Is re- ceiving all the time plenty of encour- agement for the prize contests which he thinks will be of great benefit to the farmers.
 Wilkinson to Women. Commissioner of Agriculture Wilkinson has been drawn into a new line, one wholly outside the business of raising corn and cotton and talking soil sur veys In a word. he has been elected member of the literary cult fact evil denced by an invitation to address the women's clubs of Birmingham, which he did on Saturday. He did not know what he expected to say when he left, and his family felt that 1t might be well to keep lookout, so they have not let him get out of hearing. However, re- ports are that he talked of industrial ed- ucation, subject near his own heart, and that of the club women of the state.
 Normal School Teachers.
 Eighty-five graduates of the Troy Nor nal school stood the examination to teach this week, the exercises being conducted by H. J. Willingham of the educational department. This is the first move of this kind under the new law, the exam nations for those taking being what would usually be at the July examina- tions. The same examinations were held at Florence, Moundsville and Jackson vii