The Washington herald., 1909-07-25
PROGRESS IN THE SOUTH

Receivers OF the Norfolk Cold Storage
and Ice Company report that the receipts
from May l to July ! were $l0.7z which
with the balance on hand May amounts
to Sl2626. Expenditures for the period
were S11,646.
Business men and public-spirited citi-
zens Of Norfolk are making preparations
for the convention of the Atlantic deep
waterways convention, which will meet
in that city October 10 to .. J. Hampton
Moore, OF philadelphia. is president OF
the convention. which Is composed OF
prominent business men Of the Atlantic
coast cities. One of It's main purposes Is
to secure the construction by the Federal
government OF an inland waterway from
Florida to the coast OF Maine.
More interest seems TO be taken in the
bond election in Macon. Ga. than in the
city primary which is to settle the qUes-
ton Of the rule OF the city for the next
two years.
Work upon the proposed automobile
highway between Rome. Co.. and Chat
tanooga. Tenn, has been started by the
commissioners Of Floyd County, Ca. The
road is being macadamized from Rome
TO the county line.
Work IL soon TO begin in Atlanta upon
the big annex to the Piedmont Hotel.
The addition Will be ten stories high,
fronting fifty-six feet on Peachtree street,
and viii cost about $4,000.
Besides shriveling up the cotton 10
some extent, the dry weather in Texas
is killing the boil weevil. according to the
report Of government experts who have
been making observations in the vicinity
Of Dallas.
A H. Buell. Of Atlanta, has sold his
handsome home at Peachtree View and
Columbia avenue to Beaumont Davidson
for $4,000 The lot on which the house
stands is 70 by 80 feet. making the cost
o. the property, as Deckoned in Wash
ington. about $3.50 a square foot. Peach
tree View is about two miles from the
center Of the city. on Atlanta's six
tenth street"
Authorities Of the two municipal cor
porations are getting ready the ordinance
by which North Birmingham viii be an
nexed to the city OF Birmingham, Ala.
Up 10 the end OF last week $50 carloads
OF peaches had been shipped out OF Geor-
gia 10 Northern markets. according to
the Georgia fruit exchange. The fruit
has been sold on the average at 81 TO $l.75
a crate.
Authorities Of Ben Hill County, Ca.
will lay the corner stone OF the new
courthouse at Fitzgerald on July 2S. The
exercises will be OF an interesting and
elaborate character. The third Masonic
district convention Of the Masonic fra
ternity will convene in Fitzgerald on the
same day.
Atlanta bought a block OF ground and
built big auditorium which is the pride
Of the city. The national automobile
show will be held in 1t next fall. and al
ready nearly all the available space in
the big building has been reserved and
the building is not big enough. The Con-
stitution urges the purchase OF additional
land and the erection at once of an an
mex sufficiently large to house the auto
mobile convention and any other which
may come 10 Atlanta.
Engineers OF the Norfolk and Western
Railway Company have staked OF the
ground for the new passenger station to
be erected by chat company in Norfolk
Va. The station will stand on the edge
OF Jackson Park.
The Virginia Bank and Trust Company
has opened It's new building IN Norfolk at
the corner of Main and Cranky streets.
The rooms and facilities are much ad-
mired by those who have seen them.
Prohibition has become a live question
in Stanton, Va. The business men Of
that city have taken up the cudgels
against the dry movement and have
held a meeting and put themselves on
record against even licensing the sale OF
intoxicants.
Authorities Of Staunton. Va. think
they have found a substitute for the
chain gang in Kidding the cutters Of the
streets OF weeds. A contractor is de-
them by the application Of
chemicals. it is said, with good effect
Northern Presbyterians will establish
theological seminary at Lebanon, Tenn.
Erection OF the necessary buildings will
be started next month.
Birmingham is much interested In the
movement started in Montgomery to op-
crate an independent boat line on the
Alabama River. According to dispatches
from Birmingham, considerable support
will be given the enterprise in that city.
Six hundred carloads OF watermelons
have been shipped this year ouu OF
Brooks County, S. c., the returns TO the
farmers having been $4,000. One farmer
alone realized 500 from his crop.