The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-10
ROAD WORK IS GOING ALONG WITH A RUSH WOrkmen Busy in Dallas
 and Wilcox Counties POLITICS SIMMERING Link Being Constructed in Road Be- tween Selma and Camden Will
 Mean Fifty-Mile Stretch
 of Graveled Highway
POLITICS sIMMERING

Selma, December g. Special. )---Road ~ work in this section of the state is going along with a rush. and while
 Dallas county is doing her share in 4 making a better highway system, other N counties have contractors at work, and are preparing to complete stretches of graveled bikes. In Wilcox county con- tractors are graveling a road from ! Camden to Pineapple, distance of 22 f, miles; in 90 days road will be com l pleted from Pine Hill to the Dallas county line. distance of 30 miles z This will be a part of the proposed x Jackson highway
 A road in course of construction from the Pineapple road to the Dallas county
 line at Tilden will give Selma a road zl anto Camden, distance of 90 miles, VI all graveled. Perry county is complet- K ing road from Uniontown to Marion, & a distance of 20 miles, road con- meeting with Dallas county's will give N a graveled road from Selma to Union- town, distance of 26 miles. Most of the work is being done by contract, except in Dallas county, where both contractors and county convicts are at work.
 David Riley Cook, local road con tractor, who is doing much of the work told The Age Herald Thursday that all road work being done in this section 4l of the state compares favorab1y with v that done in any section of the coun- N try, and says that the roads now in v course of construction will last for ages N with proper maintenance.
 ': POLITICAL POT x The Dallas county political pot is ss beginning to simmer. but gives little as promise of coming to a boil. So far N not an office holder has been faced by af opposition, and the SuppOSition is that as every man now in office will be a can Qa didate to succeed himself. The offices IA to be filled at the primary in May will N be those of probate judge, circuit clerk. El tax collector, tax assessor, circuit K judge and five members of the board of N education. The board of education ap- El points the superintendent for the E county. E The committee in charge of the sale of Red Cross seals here report the sale ki of $3575 worth in the first mornings IN work
 N The city sanitary department will Ni this week begin Mayor Benish's plan |E for keeping the streets and alleys in |Sl the city clear of garbage Mayor Ben IA 1sh plans to have the vehicles of the E department make regular schedule |f through the residential section. Citi- Es zens will be asked to have all garbage M on the sidewalks in time to catch the |E wagons.
 |F Workmen Thursday morning put the E finishing touches on large quantity E of machinery placed in the plant of the ' Selma Lighting company. The new ma M chinery includes large electric gene IM 1ator and six new gas retorts, Gen # era1 manager Ellis stated Thursday Ea that the new equipment would make it &t possible to give Selmians much better N service, and that the improvements
 were the first of number planned for
 the next few months.
 Nine violators of the prohibition laws Es are on docket at police headquarters. . and will be given hearings this week. E The eases were on call for Monday E morning, but many attorneys busy in
 circuit court, asked for combinations, M which were granted.
 B According to announcement given out tby the Southern Engine and Boiles com tpany, E. c. Christie, seevral miles from 9Selma, has prepared for an unusually Aheavy acreage in oats and wheat, and has purchased modern harvesting ma chine for handling the crop
 The Uniontown Cotton Oil company of 8Jniontown, Perry county, has completed
 
 fchinery and is now turning out large < amounts of stock food of all sllinds The
 outfit placed by the Uniontown company
 includes machine which shucks and
 lsEells corn just as it comes from the
 4 field. The company plans the placing sof world of storage space for use next syear.
 H. L. Fitch of Snow Hill, Wilcox coun-
 kty, is another black belt farmer planning
 V- lxs<
 purchased machinery for fhulling and
 lcleaning the beans. The velvet bean in &fdustry promises to become big item in Xthis sections farming activities.
 Reports from Thomaston, Marengo
 4county, state that the negro named Steele,
 fcharged with the murder of Thomas
 fSmiley Tuesday night is still at large
 1A posse sought Steele all of Wednesday
 hand Wednesday night, but without sue
 scess, and it is thought the negro left the
 Tcounty immediately after the killing. The
 tkilling of Smiley is the second within the
 rmcnth in which the negro slayer made his
 3escape Two weeks ago Allie Wallace
 econstable at Stafford, Dallas county, was
 sshot and killed by negro who made
 this escape after the killing.
 q committee headed by Rabbi Isadore
 tIsaacson is preparing the programme
 ifor the Jewish Sunday School convention
 (which meets here December 21 for three
 1day session. Rabbis from all over the
 isouth will come for the gathering. while
 tRabbi zepin of Cincinnati will be the
 eprincipal speaker.
 Five negroes charged with the robbery
 4cf several stores in the neighborhood of
 k1inter and Farmersville were sentenced
 Wednesday afternoon to terms in the
 hententiary ranging from two to three
 ~ ears. The negroes were members of
 fa band rounded up by the Dallas county
 fofficers after investigations lasting sew
 3eral months
 Ellis Brown a negro. was sentenced to
 three years for assault to murder. Brown