The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-20
MISS LEA OWNS
 POULTRY FARM Mayor Wikle Will Enforce Stock Law CLUB IS PERFECTED Anniston Baseball Club Has Elected Officers and Everything Looks Pretty for Coming Season. 
CLUB IS PERFECTED


 Froebel and Pestalozzi to the poultry farm Is pretty long leap, but it has not been too much for Miss Margaret Lea, a niece of M. B. Wellborn, presi- dent of the First National bank of Anniston, on whose farm she has achieved remarkable success with eggs and chickens since she retired as prin- cipal of the Wimer avenue public school about year ago.
 Before Miss Lea responded to the cal back to the farm she made herself fa- mliar with every detail of poultry rais- ing by the study of books and practical life in the chicken yards of Alabama and Georgia. The result shows in her work. She has about 100 hens and six full-blooded cocks of the Rhode Island Red. White Wyandotte, Buff orpington, Leghorn, Plymouth Rock, besides Brown Leghorn and other varieties which are kept for laying purposes. Several hun dred young chicks stroll about her farm while the breeders are heavy with young sters in the shell. Miss Lea realizes about three dozen eggs a day and these are matched in two large incubators which have a capacity of 15o eggs each.
 Miss Lea keeps all her different broods separated. and she has applied every modern improvement in the erection of her houses. making particular effort to protect the young chicks from vermin and disease, while the cleaning of her houses Is a comparatively easy matter. She takes pride in her. work, which is developing very rapidly, and gives prom ise of attractive financial returns. She lives on the farm with her mother, who recently moved from West Virginia to join her. and she gives personal direction to everything about the place.
 Mayor Will Enfore Law
 Mayor J. L. Wikle, who has been served with a writ of mandamus to appear be- fore the city court of Anniston and state why he does not enforce the stock law in West End, states that he will answer the prayer of the petitioners by giving orders for the prompt enforcement of the law in that section. He says that the law has not been enforced there out of deference to the appeals of what seemed to be a majority of the citizens of that section of the city. but that he will now put on the lid irrespective of persons.
 Club Perfected
 with the perfection of the Anniston Baseball association and the purchase of franchise in the Southeastern league and the balmy weather that has been prevalent here within the past few days hoe too hrrvz Inc the fans are beginning to feel inocu- lated with that tired feeling" and that the dear old days are here seems evi- denced in the chroniclng of the first 19 to set-to by the yannigans of Four Mile and Weaver on Friday afternoon.
 With the best force of officers and directors that have ever been behind baseball in Anniston, the success or the Anniston league team seems assured. C. H. Mitchell, president, is manager of the Alabama hotel and a dyed-in-the-wool fan R. L. Rand, vice president. is man. ager of the Anniston Electric and Gas company, which controls the street rail- way system. Howard L. Smith, secre- tary, Is court reporter and a prom'- nent fan, as Is s. l.. Galbra1th, treas urer, who Is assistant cashier of the Anniston City National bank. The di- rectors consist of MT. Mitchell and MT. Smith, ex-officio: E. D. Willett and H D. McCarty, well-known attorneys; s. l.. Crook, Insurance man; Dr. A. N. Steele, physician and capitalist; E. T. Jones'. newspaper editor; L. A. Sterne, gro cer, and W. H. McKleroy. banker and capitalist.
 A meeting of the directors will be held in the office of MT. Crook on Monday for the purpose of electing a manager. George Wood, a well-known manager of Cedartown, Ga, has been favorably spoken of on several occasions. Secre- tary Howard L. Smith, who has been col lecting the subscribed stock, states that he Is meeting with marked success.
 Hanna Is Register
 Edgar G. Hanna, who has for sew eral years been acting register in chan cerv for Capt. w. M Flames, who re- cently passed away at his home at Jack sonville, was recently appointed to that position by Chancellor W. w. white side to succeed Captain flames Cap tain Flames had been register In chan cery since before the civil war. and was reappointed just before his death.
 Moore Made DemOnstratOr
 w. J. Moore, a well-known citizen of Oxford, who Is familiariy known in mii- itarv circles as Vet" Moore, has been annointed demonstrator for the demon stration work under the United States department of agriculture in this county He succeeds J. R. Turner, who has been made farm manager for the Syc- amore Mills company at Sycamore. and who did an excellent work in the in- terest of agriculture in Calhoun. MT. Moore will pursue the same methods in- aueurated by MT. Turner, entering upon his duties at once.
 The members of the Pelham Guards. Company D, Alabama National Guard. are hard at work in anticipation of the annual inspection and the second an nual competitive contest for the medal offered by State Senator Thomas B. Kilby for the best drilled man in the company
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