The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-04

Marbury-"T are after them"-the weevls are being run down in Autauga county by adults and children, who are offered by the First National bank and the Oil and Fertilizer company 1 cent each for as many as 5000 weevils picked in Autauga county and delivered to M. w. D. Barton, the Autauga county farm demonstrator, by June 10. It is expected that more than 5000 weevils will be cap tured during the chase, but the firms mentioned will pay to those who are first claimants.
 Dothan-Great damage is being done the corn crop in Houston county by bud worms. G. H. Malone, after visiting a field of very fine corn on his farm near Dothan today, estimated that his crop had already been damaged 9 per cent. Num- erous complaints of boil weevil already at work on the cotton crop are also com ing in.
 Marion-The highest academic honor in the great American university is election to membership in the Phi Beta Kappa honorary society, which is the blue rib
 
 graduation the highest honor members of the senior class are elected to member ship in Phi Beta Kappa upon their schol- astc record in the university, and also upon their prominence as leaders in college activities and their promise of fu- ture achievement.
 Two graduates of Marion institute have recently won membership in Phi Beta Kappa-Patton Kimbrough Pierce of Ralph, who graduated with the degree B. A. at the University of Alabama, and John Earle Bomar, Marion, son of Presi- dent P. V. Momar of Judson college, who graduated with the degree M. A. from the University of Virginia. P. K. Pierce has also been honored by election as instruc- tor in the summer school of the Univer- sity of Alabama J. E. Bomar has been elected as instructor in the department of engineering at the University of Vir- ginia.
 courses with distinction at Harvard, Cor nell, Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins, Wash ington and Lee, Tulane, Michigan, Wis consin, Annapolis and West Point.
 Wyatt Rushton, first honor graduate of Marion institute, who has recently won the Rhodes scholarship at Oxford uni versity, England, will graduate with the
 
 Wisconsin in June
 Greenville.-V. R. Thagard, former ed- itor of the Greenville Living Truth, has sold his weekly publication to A. F. Smith, former editor of the Bullock County Breeze of Union Springs. MT. Smith is we'll known in the newspaper field and within a few days he will come to Greenville and at once begin the pub ljCa tiOn of the Greenyille Living Truth
 Mobile-The Eubanks Farms company expects soon to own the largest exclusive fig grove in the world. It now has 765 acres planted in fig trees which bear fruit. They will convert 2500 acres into figs, according to H. H. Bolton, indus trial agent of the New Orleans, Mobile and Chicago railroad. Two hundred thou sand trees are to be planted this fall. Machinery for large fig preserving plant is now en route here
 Huntsville-Judge James H. Ballentine, judge of the law and equity court of Mad ison county, has issued an order for the convening of special grand jury here on next Monday June 5, for the purpose of probing rumors of wholesale frauds and vote buying in the democratic pri- mary election of May 9. There have been a great many reports of frauds and vio- lations of the corrupt practices act during the last few weeks, and Solicitor Z. I. Drake addressed letter to Judge Ballen- tine asking a special grand jury for the purpose of making an investigation. Sher- if Phillips has been instructed tc summon 36 men and from this number Is will be chosen to serve on the grand jury. The contests instituted by Zac l. Drake in the nomination of w. T. Law