The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-21
OFFICIALS WILL
 INSPECT PLANTS
Look Over Wausau Southern
 Lumber Company
TEACHERS EXAMINATION
New Farmers and Traders Bank of Laurel Names Board of Directors, Officers Will Be Elected at
 Meeting Wednesday.

Laurel. Miss March 20.-It having been definitely aseertained that the officials of the Wausau Southern Lumber company and their guests. making a party of IS distinguished gentlemen in all, will be in Laurel tomorrow, to remain for several days while they make a thorough inspec- tion of the Wausau holdings in the vicin- ity, the business men of Laurel, headed by the Tallahoma club, are making ar engagements to tender the visitors an elab- crate entertainment in the nature of a smoker at the Tallahoma club rooms The visiting party will include all the high officials of the Wausau company as well as many of their friends from Wisconsin, Chicago and other parts of the north, all of whom are interested in southern lum- Der property D. J. Murray has charge of the trip, and in the party are W. H. Bis sell, president of the Wausau Southern Lumber company; D. J. Murray, John Manser, C. s. Curtis, c. J. Winton, c. &. Gilbert, Robert Blackburn, A. l.. Kreut- ger, Joseph Marsh, ". T. Culver, w. H. Doyler II. H. Foster, Benjamin Ham, liiOhd, u. b. M JI.s anu President Bissell writes to Dr. P H. Saunders of this city that this is purely trip of inspection, and he desires that the people of this section shall not draw from it any inferences as to the early building of the big mill in this city. New ertheless the people hre have hopes that the visit will be the immediate precursor Fa which has now been delayed by unfavora- ble trade conditions for over a year.
 T. E. Waldrup, superintendent of in- structlon for Jones county, makes an- nouncement of teachers examinations for this county as follows: Ellisville, for white teachers. April ? and 3; Ellisville, for ne- gro teachers, April g and 10; Laurel, for white teachers, April IS and IT; Laurel, for negro teachers, April 22 and 24 The oratorical and athletic contests will be held at Ellisville April 3. The graduation exercises and flower contest will be at Laurel May s; meeting of Jones County Alumni association, Ellisville July 8; corn, cooking and sewing contests at Laurel October 30. Jones County Teachers Asso- ciation will meet. at Laurel May 8. There will be eight girls and boys to enter the oratorcal contest.
 Ths first formal meeting held by the stockholders of the new Farmers and Traders Bank of Laurel resulted Tn the selection of board of directors as fol- lows: K. c. Hall N. W. Collins, c. H. Ferrall, T. B. Bonner, B. F. Ferrall, M w. Walrup and J. l.. Blacklidge. These directors will meet next Wednesday to aI1 aFa l. f, 14n1 o+ that time the quarters being prepared for the bank will be far enough forward to permit the officials to make definite an- nouncement as to the time of opening. This will make the third bank in this city. The quarters that are being pre- pared on Central avenue and Oak street will be elegant In every respect.
 Preparations are being made for two special elections to be held here soon. One, on March 23, will be an extraordinary city election to determine whether or not the people want the city council to adopt an ordinance to prevent live stock from roaming at large on the streets. The election officers are D, T. Beard, D. $. Ingram and J. o. Heidelberg, clerks, and Alfred Bridges and D. B. Cooley, regis trars The other election will be in Beat 3 of the county, to select a constable, for which election the county commissioners are now making arrangements.
 An entire change in the street nomen- clature of Laurel has been accomplished by the action of the city council in adopt ing an ordinance putting into effect a re- port prepared by commission of citizens a few months ago having that end in view. The name of every important busi- ness and residence street in the city is changed, with the exception of Oak, Mag nolia and Pine streets. The new nomen- clature is E~5ed on the numeral system. The change Is made preparatory to appli- cation for free mail delivery in Laurel, and the next step to be taken by the council will be to induce property owners to affx numbers to their houses and places of business.