The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-21
COUNTIES ID WORK
 FOR BETTER ROADS
Calhoun and Et0wah to h.
 augurate Movement
PAVING IS INSPECTED
Gadsden Visitors Entertained by the Chamber of Commerce-Efficie Saves Foundry Plant-News Butcher Heavily Fined

| Anniston, June 2O.-(special) Following
 city council. city engineer and other prom
 inent citizens to Anniston Friday, a move
 ment will probably be inaugurated to bring about cooperation on the part of | the officials of Calhoun and Etowah to | improve the highway between the two places.
 | Model roads have been constructed by both counties for a few miles of the way, but persons who make the trip by automo- | bile say that there are several miles on the l half way ground that are badly in need of repair. And inasmuch as the scbedules
 between the two places over the Louisville and Nashville are very poor, this road
 would be used to great advantage if 1t
 were in better condition.
 | The Gadsden visitors were the guests of the Anniston Chamber of Commerce while here at a luncheon at the Ala
 bama. Mayor Wikle piloted them over
 the city's model streets and explained how the work was done by city convicts. The plant of the Union Foundry com
 pany was probably saved from destruc- tion Friday afternoon by the insistence of Gerard Schumacher on efficiency when the plant was being erected. The cupelo building caught fire, and but for peculiar construction conceived by MT. Schumacher
 the blaze would have spread to the main
 building, causing a conflagration. MT. Schumacher stated Saturday that the loss will not exceed s1500. and that the
 plant will not be materially handicapped in the manufacture of white way posts, in which respect 1t Is said to have the largest output of any plant in the coun- try.
 Charles Kalodner. news butch on the Southern railway, who recently struck fellow employe a very severe blow on
 the cheekbone with his fist, smashing two bones, effected a settlement of his case Saturday by paying $65 fine and costs. Kaodner is said to have been a former bantam weight champion, and the
 man whom he assaulted was twice his
 size.
 When relatives of Reece Miller, an en- gineer, who was killed in an accident on , the Southern railway, were here Friday they received news of the death of T. J. Fleming of Rome, to which place they were going to attend the funeral of MT Miller. The dead engineer was broth l in-law of Joe McCaffrey of this city, and 1 lile party ltll odluiud io6tlhci oh tiio | very sad mission.
 | create a good impression in the Central | and South American states and remove | the prejudice against the United States
 existing among the Latin-Ameriean peo- pies.
 The President shares the views of his
 premier. He is strongly hopeful that the treaties will be ratified at this session l of Congress and it is possible that they
 will be- But not before or without a
 struggle. The political advantage to be gained out of the Colombian controversy 1 is not to be lost to the enemies of the | administration, and a full exploitation of | the alleged lawyers fees. and nation- wide lobbying in favor of the Colombian | treaty is to go hand in hand with the i ratification debate before the Senate.