The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-10
ANNISTON
Troops to Begin Artillery Practice. Want Bond Issue for Public Schools. Mrs. Matthews Dead

l Anniston, July 10.-tSpecial )-.The
 first real practice to be held by the
 artillerymen at Camp Morgan will be- gin Saturday morning when Battery
 A of Savannah, organized militia oi
 Georgia will march a few miles north , of the city to the 14,000-acre reserva- ! tion and fire the three-inch guns al i targets in the mountains from 300d l to 5000 yards away.
 The battery will leave Camp Nor l gan at 6:30 a m., and will take foul | three-inch guns. They will carry cix I caissons each containing TO rounds ol ammunition Both nigh explosive and 1 shrapnel shells will be used, each shell
 weighing Is pounds. It will require so horses to pull the guns and cais-
 sons to the firing grounds.
 | Battery A is commanded by Captain l Thompson. There are 94 men in the 1 battery Other officers of the battery
 are Lieutenants Butler, Mcdonald and
 Ray and First Lieutenant Sanford oi iaedieal corps.
 The organized militia will get ar tillery practice under the direction of Capt ". M Michel. Lieut. Charles
 Daly. Lieutenant McMahon and Lieu tenant Cain of Battery c, Third Uni- ted States field artillery, and Lieut. B. M Bailey, instructor inspector Chi ted States field artillery. Lieutenant Cain is the range officer and l,ieuter ant McMahon is observer.
 There are now at Camp Morgan 135 regulars and five officers, and 94 mem
 bers of the organized militia and four officers. Practice will be held on the firing range on Saturday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday each week. Spectators will be allowed to witness the firing but they will be forced to stand behind the guns In place re- served for them.
 Visitors will also be welcomed at Camp Morgan. No drills will be held at the camp on the days when the soldiers are practicing, but on all days, eX- cept those mentioned above, drills will
 be held at the camp from 1880 a. m. until Il a. m.. and from 1:30 to 3:30 D.
 m. Visitors will be allowed to visit the camps at any hour until 8 D. m. Capt. W. M. Michel stated today that
 any shells fired into the mountains
 which fail to explode are dangerous.
 and any person finding them should not
 tamper with them, but should leave them alone.
 At the regular semi monthly meet ing of the city council, held Thursday night, an ordinance was introduced by
 James T. Gardner, Jr., chairman of the finance committee, providing for
 an election to be held for the pur- pose of issuing bonds to secure $20,- 000 with which to pay off the indebted :
 ness for the Wilmer avenue school and other purposes.
 A debt of S14,500 was incurred by the school ,board when the Winner avenue school was built and $2500 has been spent in improving the Pine street and Fourteenth street schools More rooms are needed at the audi torium to take care of the large num- Der of children who will apply for ad-
 mission to the public schools in the fall, and money is needed with which to buy the auditorium which the city is using for school purposes. It is said that the city can purchase this prop crty at very reasonable price and that it will be good investment to do so For all of the above purposes
 the sum of s2o,000 Is needed by tie city.
 Mrs Martha Ellen Matthews, wife of pr. c. A Matthews, died Thursday evening at her home, 1925 Noble street The deceased Is survived by her hus band and four daughters. The remains were inferred Friday afternoon at Hill eida ceueterv Rev Dr. w. F Yar-