The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-05
.1912L LICENSES
 BEING COLLECTED Gadsden Is Proceeding With
 Collections CANDIDATES AT WORK Plant of the Southern Manufacturing
CANDIDATES AT WORK
Plant of the Southern Manufacturing Company Will Be Ready for Oper- ation in Application Re
 ceipts Increase

Gadsden, January 4.-(Speeial. )--De- lays in the collections of licenses for
 the year 1912 are not being tolerated. Under the direction of the finance com-
 mittee of the city, Cfoode Stallings has proceeded to make the collections and
 notice has been given business firms
 and corporations that they must come across with the money without hesita- tion. In auditing the books of the city it was found that licenses and police
 fines had not always been paid prompt- ly.
 Goode Stallirss. the license inspector
 and street tax collector was put in charge of the work and within a very
 short time he collected 5000 in police
 fines. It is estimated that from 5000
 to s4000 will be saved to the city on accounts which run over last year
 Candidates for the various county off, fees are extremely busy. Interest in
 the campaign has been strengthened by the call issued by Chairman W. T.
 Murphree of the county democratic ex- ecutive committee, for meeting of
 the committee on Saturday, January 20.
  candidates will be in the field and ar
 engagements will be made for holding
 tbe primary. MT. Murphree will resign the chairmanship because he is a can didate for judge of the city court, op- posing Judge j. H. Disque, the incum- bent of the office.
 The Southern Manufacturing com pany, which lost its plant last october, estimates that the plant which is being erected on Nineteenth street will be ready for operation in 90 days. Con tracts have been closed for machinery costing several thousand dollars and it will commence arriving within the next SO days. The plant will represent an investment of more. than $150,000 and will furnish employment to from 50 to 200 men.
 II. c. Henderson. prominent busi- ness man of Marshall county, has pur- chased the bank of Guntersville from W. M. Cantril. The bank Is capitalized at s50,000 and one of the strong insti- tutions of North Alabama.
 Seventeen applications were made at the civil service examination at the Gadsden postoffice for the position of
 clerk carrier. The examining board is
 composed of Thos. c. Griffin, J. J.
 Moore and c. F. Norris The appoint
 ment will be made after the papers have been passed upon in Washington. Cotton receipts are again increasing | in Gadsden. Bad weather cut the cot | ton receipts down to nothing. The
 weather has been favorable this week
 and some ginning will be done by Sat
 urday.
 | Charged with murder John Mitchell 1 will be placed on trial in the county court Friday. The case is one that at l tracts considerable interest because of | the peculiar circumstances The two young men had quarrel and John Nit | chell struck Chester Mitchell over the | head with barrel stave. causing his | death. Relatives of the dead man do not want John Mitchell prosecuted It is reported here that another change in the schedule on the South
 ern railroad will be made to meet the demands of the people of Rome, Ga. The present schedule was adopted at
 the request of Gadsden business men,
 It is said that the new schedule will be acceptable to both communities.