The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-06-21
AGENTS ARE SEEKING
 MORE SKILLED LABOR
Will Be Put to Work in Plants
 at Gadsden
MAD DOGS ARE KILLED
Final Mechanical Inspection of New Federal BufldiDg-BasebalI Club Incorporated-TwO Greeks
 Are Arrested

| Gadsden, June 20.-(Special )-Agents oi | the Southern Iron and Steel company are | in the north making contracts for more skilled labor for the plants of the com pany here. Work to complete the fin l ishing mills Is being pushed as rapidly as possible and a much larger force of
 men who are trained in the work ol | making wire and nails will be needed within few weeks. The Weller roll | ing mill, a plant that makes merchant
 bar iron and special shapes, and which l was forced to shut down when the stee | company went into bankruptcy two years
 ago, and which was recently acquired by the Southern Iron and Steel company | is soon to be put in operation and wil l take most of the steel from the mill thai i cannot be worked up by the rod, wire and nall mill. Within a month or six weeks 1t is anticipated that nearly 4OO' men will be employed at the steel plants | Gadsden Is once more in the throes of Q
 mad dog scare. Yesterday mad dog l that had been on the streets for day
 or two, and Is known to have bitten a | number of other dogs, was rounded ur and killed. A second dog was killed late in the evening and considerapie ahA- | iety is felt because of the fear that many canines have been inoculated with the l virus of hydrophobia and that IL VIII | ba impossible to prevent a spread ol the malady. The head of one or the dogs killed yesterday has been sent t1 the Pasteur institute at Montgomery and | the result of the examination Will DC | awaited with much interest.
 The final mechanical inspection of the
 federal building just completed at this place will be made tomorrow Muci of the work has already been passed | upon and the inspection tomorrow VII
 be confined principally to the plumbing | and other fixtures.
 | A meeting of the stockholders of thu | Gadsden baseball club was held on Sat urday night and it was decided to In corporate the organization. The capita
 stock will probably be placed at $2ooo Temporary officers were elected at th' meeting as follows: H. O. Dumas presl
 dent. A. V. Lee, chairman; H. T. Bailey secretary. The Gadsden club left yes terday morning for trip of three weeks to play other teams of the Southeastern league.
 | Two Creeks, Theodore Frank anf | Charles Mavros, were arrested Satur' day night and charged with violation | of the prohibition law The Greeks wer' conducting a soft drink stand on Chest nut street and are said to have beer selling liquor as u side line for som | weeks, but the police were never abl to get sufficient evidence to warrant al morning the defendants asked for tim
 and the cases were continued.
 That the work of Congressman Johr L, Burnet Is appreciated is shown in th' following telegram which was sent hin
 last night by E. T. Hollingsworth, pres ident of the Gadsden Business Mems | club:
 | 'Gadsden. Ala. June 1s. 1910.
 "Hon. John L. Burnett. Washington
 ..rhe favorable report you have jus secured for an appropriation for the en
 largement of the federal building at thi' place, together with the splendid worl YOU have done for other portions of youi district and state and for the Coosa
 river at this session, added to your al ready long list of previous achievements for your district, state and country, ari accomplishments for which Gadsden is justly proud.
 "GADsDEN BUSINESS MEMS CLUB "By E. T. Hollingsworth, President"