The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-22
WALKER WORKS ON
GOOD ROADS BONDS
Plan to Issue $25O,OO0 Meets
Much Favor
SOME POLITICAL GOSSIP
Biennial Sessions Will Not Have Much
Encouragement from Walker
County Which Is Senator
Bankhead's Home.

Jasper, July 21.-(6pecial. )-Walker coun-
tvs good roads proposition, which means
the issuance of s25o,OOO bonds for modern
road construction Is gathering strength
each day by names added to the petition
to the county commissioners to call an
election. Walker countys citizenship
is progressive and always votes to
go forward when opportunity is afforded it
to do SO. 1t will be remembered that last
week in an election in Jasper for the is
suance of $4,000 High school bonds only
II votes were cast against it.
J. Hammell, the Missouri man. who
came here and was shown the great ad-
vantages Jasper enjoys as point for the
establishment of manufacturing Industries,
is busily at work erecting buildings on
the six-acre site he purchased for great
hub factory. Here he found cheap coal,
free water, forests of timber and the finest
shipping facilities imaginable
The announcement that the Sheffield
Coal and Iron company Is soon TO resume
operations, having fully recovered from
it's recent season of inactivity, means
good for Jasper. This company owns u
battery of 800 coke ovens in this town,
which, when in operation, give employ
ment to large force of well paid men.
1t also owns valuable coal lands In Walk
er county, which are to be developed
A recent preliminary survey for the ex-
tension Of the Alabama Central railroad
from this point and Manchester to De-
catur will result In q very encouraging
owns terminal facilities In Jasper, and It
Is understood that New Decatur has Of
fered everything needful at that end
Nearly everybody here is enthused over
the splendid medicinal qualities of the
water of Jaspers deep public well. Recent
analysis made at the University shows
most valuable properties In this water
and it Is confidently believed that so soon
as the health-seeking public learns of this
Jasper will become resort Of import
ance.
The political pot is beginning to boil
in Walker-its intensity increased by
Governor Corners call for the special ses-
sion of the legislature. Jasper Is the abid-
Ing place of two state senators (Senator
Leath of this district and Senator Gum
of Clark county,, and Representatives
Crawford and Lacy Of Walker These
gentlemen have been kept quite busy the
past few days answering the question.
What are you going to do about it?'
Representative Lacy, junior member. is
not recorded as having at any time been
in accord with the Conner idea and Rep
resentative Crawford seems to have re-
pented, IL he ever was. Jasper is the home
of United States Senator John II. Bank
head and each of these senators and rep
resentatives Is accounted his warm per-
sonal and political friend. Therefore.
having discovered that the gist of the
governors call is that biennial session
item 1t Is predicted that the Walker
county delegation will move very eau
tionously on Candidate Comer's recon-
mendations. In other words 1t rs not be-
lieved that they will follow the dictates
or succumb to the lash of Mr.. Conner.
Walker county is not going to have
crop failure this year II this were to hap
pen II would be the first time In the
agricultural history of this section. The
farmers seem cheerful and hopeful. II 1t
be true that cotton production has been
reduced by heavy rains, it is likewise
true that abundant food crops have been
planted and the prospect for good cot
ton prices gives assurance OF perfect
safety. The Walker county farmers are
not much In evidence In the towns just
now They are busily at work and that
spells prosperity" and plenty for the
season of harvest.
Quite a number of Jasperites are in at
tendance at the Seattle exposition, skim
ing over the Rockies and dipping them
selves in the waters of the Pacific this
month. Among them Mr.. and Mrs. T. l..
Long, Mr. and Mrs. ]. H. Bankhead, Jr.,
Mrs. Perry, daughter of Senator Bank
head; Miss Susie Brombaugh and 9TH
ers Mrs. Bankhead Sr., and Miss Huey
Hayes have returned. Other parties have
gone to the mountains of Tennessee and
North Carolina but many more have
pitched tents in the health giving woods
of Walker along the ripping streams and
are enjoying the delights of summer out
ing without interference with daily busi-
ness toll. The automobiles bring the Of
flee and camp close together.
Rev. w. e. Daniel, formerly of Bir-
mingham, but now preaching in Mecklen-
burg, N. c., has been called to the pas
torate of the Jasper Presbyterian church.