The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-01
JASPER CATCHES
 AUTO INFECTION Will Result In Demand For Bet
 ter Roads EDUCATIONAL MAT TERS Walker County Teachers Association Holds Most Enthusiastic Meet ing in It's Hlstory-PeopIe
 Want High School.

Jasper. March 31.-(Specia1. )-Jasper has
 caught the auto infection and during this
 month quite a number of handsome ma
 chimes have been purchased and put in
 commission here. Great benefit is bound
 to result In this automobile movement,
 for the men who are buying are the real
 leading, active spirits of Walker, infuen-
 cling and controlling in large measure
 the political and business affairs of the
 county. Most of them, too, are large tax
 payers, and now that they have become
 autoists they will see the necessity for
 good roads and go for them in good
 shape
 Walker county is taking unusual in-
 terest In educational matters just now.
 The March meeting of the Walker Coun-
 ty Teachers association was possibly the
 most successful meeting in the history Of the organization The attendance was the largest on record. Every person whose name was on the programme was present, and the papers read were un-
 usually interesting. This was the last
 meeting of the association for the pres-
 ent school year. At the close of the pro- gramme several of the members made short talks expressing their appreciation 1 of the work done by the association and 1 of the benefit which 1t had been to them. All present seemed to agree that the meet
 ings had been of great benefit to all who
 had taken part in them.
 l At this meeting the ladies present or
 ganized themselves into body to be
 called the Walker County School Im-
 provement association. Temporary off cers were. elected and the meeting ad- 1 journed. This association If properly
 supported by the ladies of Walker coun- 1 ty should be one of the very greatest agencies in the educational progress of i the county. tstsH
 Under section 5144 or the code of Ala
 bama the birthday of thomas Jefferson
 is made legal holiday in this state The anniversary comes on Tuesday, April 13
 and County Superintendent Lamar Is
 anxious that 1t should be especially ob-
 served by all the school children of Wal ker county.
 The high school commission not having yet located the high school for Walker, provided for by law, the teachers associa- tion on Saturday adopted the following
 resolutions and forwarded them to Mont gomery:
 Fro the High School oomrpission, Mont gomery, Ala:
 l Whereas, There is an immediate and imperative need of county high school in Walker county; first, because there are g. large number of pupils in the county now ready to enter the county high 1 school; second, without the county high ! school the majority of these pupils will not be able to continue their education, and. e
 'Whereas, Until the county high school is established the existing county schools cannot advantageously arrange their
 courses of study to lead up to that cor
 relation of school work demanded by the ideal public school system; and, Whereas, Two towns in the county have complied with the conditions for lo- eating the county high school; therefore, be 1t
 Resolved, That the Walker County Teachers association, now in session, do earnestly. request the high school com mission to locate county high school in Walker county at an early date in order that the high school may begin work in September 1909.''
 Henry M. Kintz, assistant in the division
 of salaries and allowance in the postoffice department, spent Saturday in Jasper
 looking into the needs of the postoffice here. MT. Kintz finds that the business
 of the office for the year ending April will be about $6500, an increase of about $500 over last year. On investigation he
 recommends in his report that a new post
 office building be provided and new furni- ture placed therein, to cost about $1600. He is asking for bids by property own- CTS of Jasper for the erection and furnish ing of new building, the government
 to take lease thereon for a term of from
  ences with several real estate owners on the subject, and the matter will probably be taken up at once
 | It Is understood that the Masonic fra l ternity of Jasper, which owns a splendid | lot on Nineteenth street, will consider the postoffice proposition at it's meeting next Friday night. This may mean the erec- l ton of a temple with ground floor for l the postoffice.
 It has been suggested that the entering 1 into long lease by the government for postoffice building would postpone that l much longer the erection of permanent 1 government building; but necessity now l calls for immediate relief, as the post l office business has outgrown the present quarters immensely
 If business continues to increase it will
 not be long before Jasper will become a l second-class office, as $S000 business puts it in that class.
 The farmers of Walker are delighted at the announcement that Congressman Hobson has induced Secretary of Agricul- ture Wilson and part of his able staff to
 make tour of this district in April. This gives the Sixth district the strongest group of agricultural experts ever as- sembled to arouse the people and inform
 them of the wealth of their soil Jasper is
 one of the principal points to be visited, and at which the distinguished men will speak.
 Decree of Separation. Now York, March 31-A decree of sepa- ration was today granted Mrs. Hazel B. Pierre from her husband, Italian Hawkins Pierre, son of John T. Pierre of Chicago. The degree awards Mrs. Pierre the cus-
 tody of her daughter, Hazeltine, and