The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-22
PURE FOOD LAW
TO Be ENFORCED
Retail GrOcers Must Not Sell
Drugs
WITHOUT SPECIAL PERMIT
Hotel Porters With Loud Mouths Are
Suppressed At the Depot in
Montqomery-Wil Steven
son To Hang Today.

Montgomery October H.-(Special.)-
Grocers who sell drugs of any kind in
the state of Alabama without special
permit so to do will be prosecuted to
the full extent of the law, according
to announcement of w. E. Bingham a
member of the state pharmacy board. The
plans of the board with respect to the
prosecution were mapped out prior to
their adjournment this afternoon. De-
cision was reached that the pure food law
must be complied with In every respect.
1.-THE board is determined to keep re-
tail grocers from selling drugs" said
Mr.. Bingham. Under the new drug law
passed by the recent legislature no
grocer is allowed to handle drugs UNI
der certain restrictions laid down by the
pharmacy board.
I'm order to do so the grocer must
secure permit from the board designat-
ing precisely what drugs may be sold"
According to the law no grocer is al
lowed to handle drugs in towns of 800
Inhabitants or more In towns of less
population he is allowed to sell them
under surveillance of the board.
Drugs such as laudanum, paregofc and
salts have been regularly handled by
most of the state grocers. Now nothing
New Yard Offices.
According to advices Just received in
this city Superintendent j. I. Mckinney
of the Louisville and Nashville railroad
has been Instructed to contract for the
erection of new yard offices for the rail-
road in north Montgomery The building
is to be thoroughly commodious and is
to cost $4,000.
Sham Battle.
Adjt Cen Bib Graves has allowed the
Alabama Agricultural association to send
transportation to the military companies
at Troy Eufaula and Luverne to at
tend the Montgomery state fair on Sat
urday, military day." A sham battle
has been arranged for the entertainment
of the fair visitors. The local battery
of artillery cavalry troop, two compan-
les of infantry and signal corps will
also be on hand to make the occasion
successful.
Hotel Porters Angry.
Orders have been issued by the Union
depot authorities prohibiting hotel por-
tiers from waylaying all travellers who
alight from trains with the end in view
of having them put up at their ho-
tells" The porters have been told that
they are nuisances and that any fur
Their solicitation of business will be the
means Of bringing about their arrest.
WilIlamson's Corn Method.
W. H Seymour, director of cotton sta
tistics, who has promoted the contests
for the Williamson corn method prize
yield of corn, gives out the announce
ment that the contest may, or may not
| be decided at the state fair on Tues
day. October 26. This day has been set
aside as the Williamson corn day and
will be one of the most popular of the
fair.
Mr., Seymour makes especial note of
the fact that the contestants are not ex-
pected to break any world records. nor
to accomplish a heavy Yield by virtue
of extraordinary expenditures for the
purchase of fertilizers. Nearly 800 con-
testants are entered for prizes.
Stevenson To Hang.
Will Stevenson, murderer of his wife
and stepdaughter, must die on the gall
lows tomorrow, according to word
ceived from Evergreen, where Judge ].
c. Richardson refused to allow the pc
tition of the prisoners friends for re-
mandal to jail on pleas of insanity.
Stevenson killed his wife and step
daughter in Crenshaw county several
weeks ago. Pleas of insanity were en-
tered by friends few days ago when
it became definitely known that the gov
ernor would not extend clemency.
He will be taken from the Montgonf-
cry Jail to Luverne early tomorrow morn
ing.