The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-18
ANNIsTON REALTY RISING

ANNISTON REALTY RISING i Anniston real estate reached a new high | figure Thursday when a lot fronting on l Noble street sold at the rate of $500 a l front foot. The lot in question adjons the office of the Ann.ston City Land company, on Noble street, near Twelfth 1 by whom it was owned It has front age of 30 feet and was sold for $15 GOO 1 to H. N Malony and J. R. Rubinstein of Birmingham.
 | Friday morning the work of cleaning up the lot was started, preparatory to erecting handsome building, which will be used by the purchasers. MT. Malony will establish a barber shop and MT. l Rubenstein plans to open a jewelry store l It was rumored that even higher price ] $500 a front foot--had been. refused for ] two lots on the west side of Noble street. ] just south of Eleventh. The price of l fered was s4S,O00 for 60-foot frontage. ] STATE BANK JOINS RESERVE | M. B. Wellborn, chairman of the At i lanta federal reserve board, states that 1 the Hibernia Bank and Trust company of New Orleans has just become member | of the federal reserve board. This bank l has resources of S35, ,00O,00O, and it's action 1 is expected to have important effect on I other state banks which nave been hold 1 ing out, is MT. Wellborns opinion l | Captain Hare of the depot quartermas- l ter's department at Camp Mcclellan stat ed Friday that all bids for supplying wood at the camp had been rejected be- | cause they were too high He now wants
 to buy wood standing near the camp to
 be cut by the government employees. l KENNEDY HOTEL RECEIVER 1 S. F. Kennedy president of the Ala oama public service commission, and pres- i ident of the Anniston Mercantile com | pany was on Thursday appointed receiver | of the firm of M, Clifford and J A. ] Clifford, partners doing business under ] the name of M Clifford & Son, lessees of the Anniston hotel The partners were I unable to agree as to the management of the hotel and Judge Hugh D. Merrill l solved the problem by taking the hotel out of the hands of both of them and placing it under the control of MT. Ken i nedy
 The proceeding is a very unusual one, being a remedy rarely invoked. As a | general rule receivers are appointed only l where there is a condition of insolvency. I This is not the condition here, as the ] hotel is understood to be enjoying a very ,profitable business, and the receiver was l appointed to run it solely because the two partners could not agree between | themselves
 This brings both of the leading hotels of the city into litigation, a petition be- :! ing now pending to discharge M. Clifford as administrator of the estate of his wife on the ground that he attempted to sell | the Alabama hotel without authority and contrary to the interests of the es- tate.
 l WITHDREW EXEMPTION CLAIM
 The local exemption board stated Fri day that one young man had withdrawn | his claim for exemption, based on de- pendencies Rather than make the af- I fdavit that, certain members of his fam fly were solely dependent upon him for 1 support he decided to waive exemption I and go into the army. The work of pass | ing upon the claims for exemption is progressing slowly, but it has gone far
 enough to learn that only about 65 men | will be available, and another call will
 have to be made to make up the balance l of the countrys quota, which is 137.
 FARMERS VISIT CALHOUN ! Farm Demonstration Agent l.. G. ! Prentice has been advised that dele | gation of IS leading farmers of St Claii county will visit Calhoun county next l Monday and motor over the principal roads of the county to see the various l Improvements that are being made along | agricultural lines.
 | MT Prentice will endeavor to have 8 number of Calhoun county farmers meet 1 the delegation at Ohatchie at o'clock i Monday morning, in automobiles. and es. |, cort the party on trip through the i Alexandria valley, thence to Anniston, tc the camps, across to White Plains and
 back through the Choccolocco valley tc | Oxford
 RETURN FROM SHORT COURSE
 Three Calhoun county boys Lee Sher- i bert of Ohatchie, Dewey Lee, who lives l between Ohatchie and Alexandria, and ! Fred Shultz of Alexandria, have returned | from Auburn, where, in company witr L. c. Prentice, they took what is knowr ! as the corn club short course.