The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-11
ANN|STON MAY HAVE
CREMATORY PLANT
City Council May Solve the
Garbage Problem
OFFICIALS REELECTED
Bridal Presents Burned in Fire Which
Consumed Bailey Residence in
Talladega-Girl Makes Cot
ton Record

! Admission. October 1D.-tSpecial.)- the
| regular meeting of the Admission city
| council Thursday evening, the question
of purchasing an ineinerator and the es-
tablishment of a erematorv plant for the
disposition of the citys garbage was re-
ferred to the committee on sanitation
with instructions to report at the next
meeting.
| The garbage question has long been
a problem in Admission, and it is believed
| that it will be disposed of to certain
extent by the sanitary tax law, which
recently went into effect here, as this
will enable the city to secure more money
for this department
The garbage is at present loaded on
| wagons and carried outside the city limits.
The departments expenses now amount
to $1,000 a year and it Is said that an
| incinerator can be purchased for 5000,
the distance of hauling the garbage cut
down and other economies effected
| H. A. Stewart of Jenifer, who was in
Admission Friday afternoon, en- route to
| the state fair at Birmingham. gave full
particulars in regard to the fire which
destroyed the home of DR.. d. r. Bailey
at Silver Run, Talladega county, south
of here, Thursday evening, entailing a
loss estimated at several thousand dol
lars, with only $500 in insurance.
! DR.. Bailey, a Confederate veteran and
a well known citizen of this section, was
John Bailey, being the only ones at home.
They could not account for the origin
of the fire, which spread rapidly on ac-
count of the absence of fire-fighting para
phernalia.
| Miss Ellen Bailey had been married
! the day before TO p. A. Duncan. All of
| the wedding presents, including large
amount of jewelry, out glass and furni-
| ture, besides a part of the brides trous-
seau. We're consumed in the flames. The
| personal and household effects of DIR.
Bailey and his. family, $3.50 which he had
received from the sale of cotton and other
valuables were likewise destroyed as we'll
as outhouses on the place.
| Judge Hugh b. Merrill presided at the
session of the city court of Admission Fri
day on account of the absence of Judge
Thomas w. Coleman, who was called
| to Atlanta The regular Judge will re-
turn Monday and resume his bench.
| Recorder j. f. Green, Ch1ef of Police
Harry ShretzlSi, Warden ]. w. Wakley,
| Sanitary Inspector Edwin Jewell and
members of the Admission police force
were reelected without opposition at the
meeting of the Admission city council
Thursday evening. Mayor j. L. Wikle
also appointed w e. Parker street over
| seer, who has been employed by the
| county, to serve the city until Jan
uary l, and named Martin SHE'D assistant
warden. Hs
| M. j. Stephens. a well known citizen
prominent in educational and farming
affairs of Beat 7, who was in Admission
| Thursday, told of a cotton record made
| by Miss Arden McCullers, aged 90 Her
| father, J. b. McCullers, gave her one
acre of land and on this she has already
raised a bale of cotton weighing 400
pounds. ginned by Mr.. Stephens. She
did all the work on her plat and has
about 200 or 800 pounds of cotton yet
ungathered