The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-08
W|KLE DEMANDS
 ROAD TAX MONEY Calhoun Commissioners Re-
 fuse Payment c ID. MARTIN IS ILL Representative Blackmon Returns From Trip To Washington.
 Towns of Alexandria and
 Wellington in Fight

Anniston, March 7.-(SpeciaL) )-Dr. J. L.
 Wille, mayor of Anniston, went before
 the Calhoun county board of revenue com
 missioners Tuesday morning and entered
 a formal demand for the city's pro rata
 of the road and bridge tax fund collect
 ed by the county and provided for division
 under the terms of the new municipal
 code.
 The share of Anniston in this fund
 now amounts to about 5000. The com
 missioners have contested payment of the
 fund for several years, however, and they
 now have the payment under advise
 ment. notwithstanding the recent decision
 of the supreme court that the provision is legal They claim that road improve ment in the county will be hindered If the
 money is paid. and they will not make the payment if a loophole can be found. Representative Martin Of this county | now has measure before the house at Montgomery to abolish the provision for division of the funds. This measure
 will not be retroactive, however, and 1t | is said that tine county has no way now | known to pay the sum due. The cities | of Anniston and Jacksonville have united | in a protest against the measure of the Calhoun representative.
 The towns of Alexandria and Wellington are waging an interesting fight before the board of county commissioners over
 the proposed establishment of new beat,
 with Wellington as the polling place. A
 large number of citizens in the neighbor- hood of Wellington have petitioned for
 the establishment of the new beat, while AleXandrians have petftioned against the change. No decision is expected at this session of the board.
 | Mrs. c. D. Martin has been called to Montgomery from her home at Jackson | vile to attend the bedside of her hus- band. Representative Martin, in the lower I house of the legislature, who Is reported 1 to be seriously i'll with pneumonia at the Capital City. MT. Martin was stricken with grip several days ago, and this mal- ady developed into pneumonia. He was reported to be some better Tuesday after noon.
 "I have arrested all the alleged blind | tigers in Anniston who did not fiee," said Sheriff J. T.. Brooks Monday afternoon in referring to the indictments returned by
 
 only course of time until I will have ar rested those who fed"
 Fred L. Blackmon, former state senator and now representative-elect from the | Fourth congressional district of Alabama, | has returned from Washington, where | he attended the closing of the Sixty-first Congress. He will return next month and | take his seat as the successor of w. B. | Craig of Selma who did not stand for re- election.
 l At the meeting of the projectors of the proposed Calhoun County Fair association | Monday afternoon tentative plans were | made and committees were appointed on | site, date, etc, to report next Saturday,
 when the association will be perfected. | The body of J. w. Hawke, the we'll | known Calhoun county miller and capi- | talst, who dropped dead in the office of | J. T. Gardner, manager of the Anniston Yarn mills, Monday afternoon was taken to Piedmont Tuesday morning, and from | there it will be taken to Swarthmore Pa. his former home. As manager of the Coosa Manufacturing companys plant at Piedmont. one of the organizers of the Ide inently connected financially, MT. Hawke was one of the best-known men in Cal houn county, where he was universally liked. He was regarded as a man of un- usual ability.