The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-23
BOARD OF TRADE
 IS ORGANIZED Enthusiastic Meeting Is Held By Tuscaloosa Business Men CITY COUNCIL IS BUSY Fight Is On Between Property Owners and City Regarding Encroach-
 ments of Property on
 Public Streets.
CITY COUNCIL IS BUSY

Tuscaloosa, June 22.-(Special.)-A an- other mass meeting last night the organ ization of Board of Trade for Tusca- loosa was completed and the new organ ization starts out with 150 members. The meeting last night was held in the main court room of the courthouse and was presided over by Chairman w. M. Faulk. The object of this meeting the elec- ton of officers and of a board of direc- tors, the constitution and bylaws hav- ing been previously adopted. After some discussion a motion prevailed that the president be chosen by ballot This re- suited in the almost unanimous election of F. G. Blair, who from that time pre- sided. The election of the directors was by a balloting for five members, these five to constitute a committee for the recommendation of the other seven. The five elected were: M. P. Jemison, W. H. Raiford, M. J. Maloney, s. F. Alston and l.. H. Maxwell. These then retired and the list Vice president, E. B. Nuzum; treasurer, H. A. Snow; directors, D. L. Rosenau, w. E. Bingham, Joe Saks, F. w. Monnish, A. s. Van de Graaff, R. H. Little J. Hardin. This being the only business before the meeting at this time adjournment was then had.
 The city council of the city is exciting considerable interest at it's meetings at this time and large crowd is on hand at each meeting. Three matters now pending before it have attracted most in- terest. One is in regard to encroachments of property owners on the streets and the necessity, claimed by part of the council, of moving these back for beau- tifying the streets The fight has cen tered on Twenty-first avenue several property owners on this street objecting to being moved back. An ordinance has been introduced, to be voted on at the next meeting, making an exception in the cases of these property owners and projecting the sidewalk line considerably further toward the center of the street on three blocks of the street. Ordinances were also introduced at the last meeting prohibitive of the sale of white top and several other soft drinks which are claimed by some to be in violation of the county prohibition law. It will be re- membered that Tuscaloosa county, in local option election, voted In here per haps the strictest prohibition law in the state. It has therefore been question whether the city should follow this law in its ordinances or, so far as 1t is con cerned, modify 1t wit the limits of the state law. The pre T mary vote at 4l. sentiment in the council on tke propriety of adopting the stringenst ordinances. The blue Sunday law has also come in for some criticism and there may be an effort to modify this. For two Sundays now Tuscaloosa has been closed up as tight as a drum and some citizens regard this as unnecessarily irksome. All of these matters are receiving considerable atten- tion in street curb conversations and the action of the council at its next meeting will be watched with more than usual in- terest.
 The board of education has announced the election of the following teachers for the white public schools of the city for the ensuing year: Principal of High school. Miss Clara Werner; principal of the Jemison school, Miss Belle Strickland; |; teachers in High school, Miss Claude ouIIO M1bS MdIy 1dTheT, MISS Alc6 Walker, Miss Alice Wildman; teachers in Jemison school, Miss Elsie Burns, Miss Jane Gilium, Miss Lillian Wilds; teachers in Stafford school, Miss Lula Browne Miss Sara Gilbert, Miss Mary Kirby Mo Alpine, Miss la Parkinson, Miss Mary Werner. Miss Mary Des Prez It was also announced that for the ensuing year the school session would be reduced from nine to eight months actual work.
 The rain in this section continues to fall and is already far above normal in actual inches. There was a fall yesterday of 1.20 inches and more today. The gov ernment office here received advices that the gauge at Cordova on the Black War rior was 20 feet and rising over a foot an hour. This indicates, according to officials, 40 or 45-foot river here by tomorrow. The present stage is 25 feet and rising IA feet an hour. This rise means that the river bottom lands. the best in the county, will be overfiowed again. with the season too far advanced to replant any of the cotton.