The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-31

pal OIIlce to knOW that ne uOeS not have to have a commission, though one will be sent him as soon as pos sible to make them out. There is only one assistant in the office of the sec retary of state and he has his hands full to overflowing with work all the time.
 STATE HEALTH BOARD
 The secretary of the state board of health, Dr. J. D. Gilleylen, having died a few days since, Dr. c. D. Mitchell, president of the board, has called for a special meeting at Jackson on Jan uary for the purpose of electing his successor. Governor Bilbo states that he has determined on pr. Gilleylen's successor on the board, but that has nothing to do with the secretaryship, which may go to member of the board or not. The office is very important one, and no doubt there will be several candidates. Meantime pr. W. s. feathers is serving as secretary.
 FIRST WOMAN LAWYER
 few days since Miss Susie Blue Buchanan of Brandon was admitted to practice before the supreme court of the state, being the first woman who ever made such application. Miss Buchanan is the daughter of the late William Buchanan, a lawyer of promi- hence, who died few years ago, and her friends confidently predict for her brilliant career at the bar.
 RIDING IN AUTOS
 Planters from the northwestern part of the state, in what is known as the upper delta counties, declare that they have never made so much money in their lives, and that everybody, even the negro share hands, are literally rolling in wealth. With the best crop of cotton they ever made, and that selling at from $50 to 500 per bale, everybody is riding in autos. Many of the negroes of that section especially those who own land, have two or three automobiles-one for the head of the family and the others for the old woman and the children. Labor is /abundant and nobody ever hears of a negro leaving that section of Missis- sppi for the other side of the Ohio river. They are satisfied where they are, and the labor agent who would try to get one of them to leave would be roughly handled. Thousands of negroes have gone from the hill sections of the state wages, but a great many of them are now trying to get back to Dixie.
 HEAVY DAMAGE SUITS During the past few days two very heavy suits have been filed in the Hinds county circuit court. One of these is by J. E. Harris. administrator of the estate of Herbert Harris, one of the four trav- cling men killed at the Gallatin street crossing several months ago, when their automobile was run into by an Illinois Central passenger train. The adninis- trator of the estate of Charlie Saunders, another of the victims of that accident filed a similar suit month ago. The other suit filed this week was by the state board of bank examiners against the stockholders of a defunct bank To- cated at Newton for s65, ,000-that being said to be the difference between what the books called for when the bank closed doors and what it actually had. This is the first case of the kind to come up under the state banking law, which holds the stockholders liable for double the amount of their holdings in case of fail- ure The bill of complaint names 50 or 60 such stockholders.
 MORE FINE CATTLE
 Two carloads of high class Hereford and Holstein cattle arrived in Jackson during the week from Illinois and are now on the Enochs-W Wortman stock farm near the city. These gentlemen already had a magnificent bunch of Herefords on their farm, some of which took valuable prizes at western fairs and cattle shows last fall, but they have found the de- mand for beef animals so strong they could not furnish all demanded of them through natural increase and were forced to purchase more. There are now hundreds of head of Herefords in Hinds county, the more valuable being found on the Davis, Middleton and Enochs- Wort man farms, but many individual farmers have thoroughbred males at the head of their herds and are getting right into the beef raising class. The shipment of a cooperative carload of fat steers from Jackson to St. Louis one day this week marked new era in local business circles, being the first that ever was shipped from Jackson. Several carloads of rat hogs have been shipped during the past three or four months, and others are be- ing gotten in shape.
 WAS HOME FOR CHRISTMAS Senator James K. Vardaman spent Christmas with his family in Jackson, but left on Wednesday for Washington, stating that he had a good deal of work on his desk and. wanted to get 1t out of the way before Congress assemblies next Tuesday. Senator Vardaman says that Congress has done next to nothing dur ing the month of December, and does not seem to think it is going to accomplish a great deal in the way of important legislation before the end of the session. The only bills that can be gotten through Congress without long. hard fight, says the senator are those appropriating the peoples money. He had seen $30- 000,000 of $40000,000 voted away, he says, in as many minutes, so reckless had the average legislator grown to be. He ventured no prediction as to the labor bill. saying he would just as soon try to say what kind of weather washington would experience 8 year hence.