The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-30
Is Nominated to Succeed FOS-
 ter of Tuscaloosa
BOND ELECTION CALLED
Council and Board of Education Want $3o,ooo For School Pur- poses-Alston Will Build
 SISyseraper.

l day for the purpose of nominating a can
 ddate for the legislature at the approach l ing election called by the governor. There was vacancy created in this county by l the resignation of J. Manly Foster, who
 moved from here to Montgomery since the | last election. pr. s. F. May1eld was the
 only candidate announced for the office,
 and at the meeting this morning he was nominated without opposition. A com paratively full meeting of the commit tee was held. w. B. Oliver is chairman of the committee.
 The city council at joint meeting with the board of education of the city de- cided to issue S3000O worth of city bonds, provided an election to that end can be carried. The election has been set for July 12. The bonds are in different de- nominations and an effort will be made to sell all of them to citizens. In addi- tion to this the council authorized the mayor and finance committee to negotiate short loan on behalf of the city for 5000 for the purpose of building a new negro school building. The old building burned down several months ago, and since that time the negro school has been held in the former negro Baptist church. The 5000 referred to. together with the insur- anoe money on hand, will build and equip a suitable school on the former site. At this same meeting the city let a contract to Finnell Bros. of this place to build a large concrete Hume at the foot of Twen- ty-first avenue, just west of the Y. M. C. A. building, at the price of 1852.
 S. P. Aston has let the contract for a new building on the old courthouse site. The contract was awarded Carson & Tethrow, contractors of Birmingham. The building is to be a slzyscraper; that Is, for Tuscaloosa. It is to be seven stories high and modern and handsomely finished in every particular.
 A sale Of some yellow ochre beds has just been consummated here and the beds will be worked and developed at once. The sale was made by Lee Myer of this place, who some time ago bought these deposits at a good price. The purchasers were w. J. Thompson treasurer of COOK county, Illinois; Sol Goldberg, president
  and others. An inspection of the deposits was made by these capitalists last No vember, J. w. Porter of Chicago being the agent and the favorable impression made by this determined the development of the beds. MT. Myer retains one l seventh interest in the company.
 Dr. T. J. Ozment of this city has just closed negotiations for sale of real es- | tate in the Birmingham district. pr. | Ozement by this deal sold 25 acres of land between Woodlawn and Avondale to NJ B. Williams of Birmingham for the consideration of $1s,000. The deal was consummated by T. H. Thomas, real es- tate man of Birmingham.
 Rising Virtue Lodge, A. F. and A. M, elected the following officers last night for the ensuing year: Worshipful master, W. E. Bingham; senior warden, S. H. Card; junior warden, Woolsey Finnel; treasurer, W. F. Fitts; secretary, B. B. Cooper; tiler, S. F. Herman; senior dea- con. Marvin Rosser; junior deason, s. IT.. Sprott, Jr; senior steward, F. W. Needs; junior steward, Sam Birnbach. After the election of the officers refreshments were served and the lodge enjoyed a delightful social session.