The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-08
F|REMEN PREPARE
 FOR TOURNAMENT TaIIadega Wants Bonds for
 Public Improvements
GRAY MARBLE DEPOSITS
Intercollegiate Debate Between Alt lanta Baptist College and TaIIadega College Will Be Held Tomorrow
 Night at the Latter Place.

Tal1adega, April 7.-(Specal )-The local fremen are busy with preparations to en-
 certain the tri-state tournament in May
 A hustlng committee. consisting of Fire men George Bauerlein Howard Jemison and Richmond Franks, and Citizens R.
 Heine. J. E. Camp and T. R. Williams,
 are soliciting subscriptions, and are al- ready not far away from securing $10O0
 which will be added to the fund already
 secured. Plans are under way to give the Georgia-Alabama Volunteer Fireman's as soeiation real good time
 It is likely that the city will in the near future vote on an issue of $9O0O0 worth of per cent bonds for public improve ments. It Is proposed to pave the pub lie square and business streets leading
 therefrom, and to extend the sewerage
 system to the northern part of the city
 Already the city has about IA miles of
 paved sidewalks, and with these contem- 1 plated improvements added, Talladega
 will be as clean and sanitary as any | city in the south.
 Thursday evening at the armory will oc-
 cur the regular annual inspection of Com N l Gen. Bibb Graves of the state troops and
 Major Thurston, U. s. A, will conduct
 the inspection. The soldiers have been
 anticipating the inspection for some time
 past. and every man will be at his post
 in the position of soldier.
 , The County Medical society held it's
 quarterly meeting yesterday. This is one
 of the oldest and strongest medical socie-
 ties In Alabama. Various local members
 read papers and listened with pleasure to articles from pr. J. M. Mason of Bir-
 mingham and Dr. Thomas F. Huey of
 Anniston The delegates selected to the
 May meeting of the state association in
 Birmingham were Drs. w. E. Burt, J. P.
 Colvin; alternates, Drs E. P. Cason and W. II. Hutchinson
 | The stockholders of the Alabama Power
 Development company met in their annual
 meeting yesterday and elected as directors | Seymour Knight, E. W. Hill, G. J. Ander- 1 son, R. J. McClelland, A. E. Smith, H.
 M Francis. J. D. Mortimer, all of New i York; R. A. Mitchell of Gadsden and J. 1 K. Dixon of Talladega. This corporation l Is actively engaged in developing and in-
 creasng the power at Jackson shoals, nine
 miles north of the city, and is at present
 furnishing light and power to Talladega. A needed shower fell Wednesday morn
 ing. For ten days past there had been | no rain, and the ground was hard on top | Farmers and gardeners in this section re-
 joiced over the favorable weather of last
 week for agricultural operations. Much | corn and cotton has been put in the | ground.
 The officers elected to serve out the
 present annual term of the Highland City l Book club are, president, Mrs. w. H. | Burr; vice president, Mrs. B. w. Toole; I secretary, Mrs. w. M. Groce treasurer,
 Mrs. s. c. Oliver. This club is composed
 of twenty-five matrons, and is the oldest
 and most exclusive ladies club of the city
 Jeweler R. Heine has on display in his i window a beautiful card table of solid i dove-gray marble quarried f1>--n the Nor l etu deposit three miles from the city | The work Is from the chisel of Signor | Moretti. No description can do justice to
 the soft uniform gray shade of the mar 1 ble, or to the artistic elegance of the de-
 sign. Hitherto nearly all of the marble | quarried has been of dazzling white,
 and 1t was not thought that there was
 any colored deposit near by until this 1 gray marble unearthed.
 i Friday evening. April g. is the occasion 1 of the intercollegiate debate between the l Atlanta Baptist college and the Talladega | college, the subject being the ship subsidy. | The question as formulated reads Re | solved, that American Ships Plying Be-
 tween the United States and Foreign | Countries Should Be Subsidized by Our 1 National Government On the part of 1 the affirmative, held by Talladega college, | the speakers will be Charles w. Burton, 1 Joseph ". Nave. and Andrew H. Saw | age. Atlanta Baptist college, for the neg 1 ative, Solomon w. Ross, Benjamin F. 1 Hubert and Mordecai W. Johnson In | rebuttal there will be six speeches al | lowed. The judges. w. H. Boynton, Rev 1 George Dunglinson and J. w. Vandiver. 1 will decide without comforting, merely | writing their decision on slip of paper | and passing 1t to the presiding officer. | The debate will be largely attended