The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-24
COTTON REACHES
19-CENT MARK ON
SELMA MARKET
Dallas County Herds Win
Prizes at Atlanta Fair.
Street Paving Work
Being Planned

Selma, October 23-(SpeciaI)-Cotton
TOOK a sensational jump on the local
exchange today, going to 100 for good
inidoling' and 1SAc for middling Many
Oh the local spectators were reported
to have made tidy clean up.
Application was made in the probate
court late this afternoon to admit Lee
FRYER to the Tuscaloosa institution for
the insane. Fryer is prominent plant
er of Hazen, about Is miles from Selma
and is a son of the late DR.. Lee FRYER
well known throughout the country and
the southern section of Alabama. A few
weeks ago Mr.. Fryer assaulted ]. M.
Williamson, who owns the adjoining
plantation He was arrested and held
mere pending inquiry into his sanity. He
is said to have been sent to the in
stitution at Tuscaloosa once before
Announcement was made TODAY Of the
death of Mrs. Della Ramsey, wife of s
NJ Ramsey, a we'll known planter If
zine Hill. The remains were inferred at
Plantersville.
winning herds to the Montgomery Live
'.ook snow VIII not have a walk-away
Win their entries, as it is confidently
expected some of the Alabama herds will
give them a surprise. J. B. Jones of the
Blackbelt farms at Marion junction. has
received word from Atlanta that his Jer-
SAYS mad regular cleanup in all en-
trios, taking senior and grand cham
plon bull, junior and champion female
hrst on all herds, aged herd youngest
herd, calf and get of sire, in addition to
a long string Of seconds and thirds in
all TIE entries.
With herd such as this to encounter
Alabama will probably hold it's own as
a cattle raising state, especially from the
Dallas county section.
A unique record from the 'buy-a-bale''
days of 1914 has come to light on account
of the present high prices of cotton. A.
G. Parrish, president of the City Ma
tional bank, was one of the original "buy-
a-balers" and still has his bale, pur-
chased at 10c pound, although the price
at that time generally ranged around &c.
If the ->~ice goes to zoe, however, says
Mr.. Par4<1h, he will be tempted to let
go of his souvenir quick.
Great surprise was caused in business
circles by the announcement of the dis
solution of the real estate firm of Smith
& ellis, which has had a large proper
ton of the rentable property of the city
on it's lists. Mr.. Smith will go to the
Oscar Smith farm in West Dallas to en-
gage in the live stock industry with his
father, and Mr.. Gillis assumes the full
control of the business Mr.. Smith has
had scientific training and expects to en-
ter the lists of the foremost stock rails
ers of the state.
If the plans of DR.. Fl. B. Rockwell go
through visitors will be pleasantly sur
prised in the near future at finding Selma
laid with new bithulithic pavement
from Lauderdale street to the cemetery.
A petition is out among the property
owners, and to date the street car COM
shown reluctance to bear a proper share
of the cost.
Rev. Father Maynihinl, provincial of the
Jesuits of the SOUTH with his secretary,
Father Potter, both from New Orleans,
stopped at the Priests Home in Selma on
| their way to Macon, Ga.
Morgan Richards, secretary of the
Chamber of Commerce, is in Knoxville at
| tending the meeting of the representa-
tives of southern Rotary clubs, the OBJ
ject of which, is to make the convention
at Atlanta Southern Convention" in.
stead of an Atlanta one