The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-29
JASPER PULLING
FOR ENTERPRISES
Industrial Club Goes After New
Plants
POLITICS IN WALKER
PHncnaCfiNa
Prospective Candidates Are Watching
Constitutional Amendment and
Hardly Know Where To
Land-Crawford Talks.
BY FRANK v. EVANS.

Jasper, August Special THE
initiatory work of the Jasper Indus
trial club, recently organized here, is
/ already having good effect in that it
is receiving inquiries every day from
! prospective investors in the estab-
/ lishment of, industries One of the
/ largest and best known manufacturing
concerns in the state is in correspond
/ ence now with the officers of the club,
and strong efforts are being made to
move 1t to Jasper.
! Close proximity to Birmingham, the
cheapest coal in the state, plenty of
cheap water. timber and land, and a
low tax rate, perhaps absolute free
dom from city tax, with five railroads
entering here present an eloquent APP
peal to the economic side of indus
trial development, and all these Jasper
has. The club is growing in member
ship and in enthusiasm, and promises
to accomplish great good for this
town and county.
The political skies of Walker are
much perturbed by the action of the
special session of the legislature, and
there promises to be lively times in this
county and district this fall and until
the November, 1910, election. Following
the very early opening of the Hobson-
Davis congressional campaign, sur
charged with Dynamite force and
uttered personal invective, came the
constitutional prohibition stunt from
Montgomery, which met with conser-
vative objection and rebounded into
fallowland here and there where it
may or may not take root and spread
as the upas tree destroying peace and
engendering bitterness.
Aspirants for the several county Of
fees seem somewhat disturbed. They
feel that the pros and cons of the con-
stitutional amendment proposition will
watch their antics and demand COM
initials on that subject, in which event
no man will know just where he lis
at"
It must not be forgotten in all these
priamry contentious that Walker coun-
ty has within its limits very large
republican voting element and that 1t
will require the utmost harmony to
make good perfect democratic success.
In the election last November the re-
! publicans of Walker cast 1855 votes
| for Taft against 1886 democratic votes
! for Bryan and 1908 votes for Kitchens,
/ republican candidate for treasurer
! against 1889 for the democratic nomi-
nee, thus breaking the democratic
slate. And these republicans of Walk
er are white men too. They will not be
| asleep in 1910 as painful as the state
ment may appear.
Twenty nine Walker county appli-
cants for admission to the teachers
profession have received certificates of
competency from the state education
al department, having successfully
stood the required examination in July
OF the 40 applicants, IL failed and 20
won out. The successful ones are:
First Grade-Dover Phillips, Lucy
Alice Burton, Henry Grady Odom, Kath.
arine L. Walston.
Second Grade-Alta Gresham, Hazel
Carter Lizzie Chain, oscar King,
Kathleen Norvell, Annie Thomasine
Palmer, Thomas Owen Gamble, Rufus
Myers, Martha Douglas, Callie Louise
Evans, Coleman D. Shepherd, F. M
Kirkpatrick, Ida Douglas, George Kill
gore, Mollie Henson, Mae Elmira Amiss
Third Grade-Belle Byars, Virgil
Naramore, Jane Benton, Mrs. M. Kate
Rice, Lettuce Lollar, Dora Argo, Meta
Blanton, Bessie Rooves
Colored-( Third Grade)-Ida Mary
Glover.
The terrific heat of the past few weeks
and the prevailing drouth has made ex-
ceedingly dusty the roads Of Walker and
the streets of Jasper, but the farmers of