The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-07
SECOND STEAMER
 F0R RIVER TRADE
Chattanooga Packet Company
 Extends Its Business
LOCKER CLUBS CLOSE
sherif of Hamilton County Is Bothered By Sunday Drupks in the Sub urbs and Orders Clubs Closed
 on Sunday

Chattanooga, February 6.-tSpecial.)-- An important epoch in the development of the through traffic on the Tennessee river was passed yesterday when the di- rectors of the Chattanooga Packet com pany determined 10 place q second steam CT in the Paducah-Chaitanoosa trade. This steamer. which is to leave Psdnesh February ls on her initial trip in the trade. has been christened James \. Trss." The Trigg is now being eom- pleted by the American Tanning and ship building company st New Decatur. Ala. She measures 165 feet long. sSts feet wide. 4Is feet draught. and has two fine boil CTS with machinery, 12it-inch draw and 4is-foot stroke. She is of about s0o tons capacity and has 9 staterooms. The Chattsnoogs and the TrigS will make all ternate trips between Chattanooga and the Ohio river. The Chattanooga will leave Paducah February 9. reaching Chat tanooga a week later and on the day that the Chattanooga leaves on the re- turn trip to Paducah, February 15. the Trigg will leave Padueah. loaded for Chat tanooga, where she will arrive Febru- ary 2s.
 The general store owned by J. w. Price at Whiteside, Tenn, was entered some time Thursday night by burglars. who carried off a considerable amount of cloth ing and the cash register. containing about $40 in money. The register was broken open q short distance from the store and the contents removed, the regis ter being left at the side of the road.
 H. C. Jeffers, who has been taAlng or ders for shears in this city and county for the Thomas Manufacturing company of Dayton, O., and delivering the orders for several weeks, has been arrested by Li- cense Inspector Fred ". Hill The charge against Jeffers was doing business with out license.
 In accordance with instructions from the board of directors of the chamber of commerce, made at Its meeting Thursday of this week. Secretary Reynolds will make the preliminary trip to Huntsvnle and Decatur next week for the purpose of arranging the schedules and other de- tails of the trip. It will be taken. very probably, February 25. Over 135 subscrlp- tions have already been received and from all indications the coming trip will be the biggest yet taken.
 It is rumored in this city that Sheriff Sam Conner has ordered all locker clubs In the city to close up on Sundays 1t is also understood that he will ca.a on the chief of police to help him enforce the commands given the proprietors of clubs but that in case he does not secure the support of the chief it is understood the sherif proposes to go it alone The reas- on is understood to be the Sunday drunks that infest the suburbs. Men who ton all through the week and stay sober while toiling come into the city on Sunday and celebrate their membership in some club by getting gIoriously drun., and they gen. orally proceed to advertise the fact that they are full in no uncertain terms.
 According to the January birth report, which has been compiled in the office of the board of health, Monday. January Sl, will stand for many years as the red letter birthday in Chattanooga. Nineteen births were reported to the board on that day. raising the total reported during the month to 6S.
 The committee to investigate the indis- criminate sale of morphine and other opi- ates on the part of druggists has reported that the practice was so universal that nothing effective could be done without the employment of a special officer for that class of investigation. One druggist had boldly confessed to selling morphine whenever he got ready, giving as his de- fense that The had to as all the other fellows were doing 1t as well as he" The ordinance prohibiting tho sale of narcotics without prescriptions is on the city's statute books. but has never been en- forced. and there are no funds to employ a special officer.t
 The railroad fare refunding plan de- cidsd upon by the Retail Merchants asso- ciation will be submitted to the assembled merchants of the city next Tuesday at 12:30 o'clock, the meeting having been postponed till that date on account of the absence from the city of F. E. Ma honey, president of the association,
 Increase of well over S400,00O above the corresponding week of 1909 is shown oy the clearing house figures for the week ending Thursday. The exact increase Ia 3406, ,636.96. The total for the week 1ust closed is 2. .ssS, ,51s.s se. For similar period last year the aggregate was s1, ,2so, ,ss2 4S.
 
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