The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-10
LITIGATION IS ON WAIVE IN CALHOUN
 OFFICIALS REPORT
Dockets Are Very Much Smaller and Cases of Less ImpOrtance-Civic Body
 to Hold Banquet

Anniston, February 9.-(Special.) )-Ac-
 cording to Calhoun county court officials
 there was less litigation in this county last year than at any time since the
 courthouse has been established in this city. Not only were there less cases on
 the dockets of the larger courts, but
 the cases were of less importance. This
 applies to both the civil and criminal
 cases.
 When asked if he had found litigation
 in this county to be decreasing, A. H.
 Sheppard replied in the affirmative. MT.
 Sheppard, who is register in equity, and
 who has been working at the courthouse
 for many years, is in position to know,
 and he admitted there was decidedly less litigation than formerly.
 Calhoun county has never been so litigious as some of its neighbors," said
 MT. Sheppard, and seems to be growing even less inclined to resort to the law | than formerly. It is noticeable that the number of claim cases against corpora
 tions is less-more cases being settled out of court" The railroad men say
 
 are fewer accidents-modern safety de- vices having prevented many accidents I and consequent claims. In addition to this, lawyers point out, clients have found that it pays to settle cases out of l court and they are willing to compromise l for cash. { 1 The annual banquet of the Anniston Chamber of Commerce will be held at the Alabama hotel on Tuesday, February l 13, at which time the work of the past l year will be reviewed and the members i of the civic body generally made ac- quainted with the plans than are on foot for the further development of the city next year. It is generally agreed that the year just closed was one of the most prosperous in the history of Anniston and the Chamber of Commerce officials state that they can show that this prosperity was the direct result of cooperative ef- fort through the central organization. They will begin soon 8 campaign for new members and the invitations to be mailed out this week will include large number of persons now not identified with the organization.
 | Len Mckinney, better known as Hog"
 Mckinney, a negro was arrested three years ago for shooting Jim Morgan and who left the city when released on &C., count of illness, returned to Anniston with the grounding and is again in the county jail. He is said to have been l in Birmingham since leaving this city. The Anniston city council failed to hold | its regular meeting Thursday evening | owing to the absence of a quorum. They will meet next Thursday, however, and at this time 1t is believed the meat ana | milk inspection ordinance, now in the hands of special committee for revision will be passed.
 Four persons, including the Rev" Nor man Burke, were rounded up by the police yesterday on 8 charge of violating ! the prohibition law, and police court was redolent Friday morning of redeye whis- l ky Burke, who had previous acqualn- ! tance with the local police and city Jail ! warden, was fined $100 and costs and given two months in jail for having six quarts of whisky in his possession. Lizzie Burke J. P. Glass and Hattie Glass were each fined $50 and costs for violating the prohibition law. j.. F. Glass had three quarters in his possession, which is one quart more than allowed by law. Matte Glass, who is sometimes known as cotton patch" had four quarts. Hattie promptly paid her flne or $50 and costs, nonchalantly stripping off the amount from a roll of greenbacks that would have choked cow
 One hundred Boy Scouts were present 1 in full uniform at the initial exercises incident to, the celebration of the Boy Scouts anniversary at Scout hall Thurs- day evening and an equally large number attended Friday night Saturday after noon every troop in the city will unite in a large parade through the business section of the city, the exercises to close with religious services on Sunday. Those
 present at the exercises so far belong
 to the troops of Rev. W. K. Simpson,
 Rev. Carleton Barnwell, Lloyd Rivers, J, T. Coleman and w. G. Baker
 Following a brief address Friday m
 which the work of the scouts in this city
 was praised, the annual message Of President Colin H. Livingstone was read by Rev. Carleton Barnwell. The feature of the evening was the scout oath, which
 was repeated by all scouts present 1t exactly 8:15 p. m. At the same hour this oath was repeated by every scout in the United States, thereby causing the coun- trv to echo with the pledges of loyalty to God and country by 20o,00O boys. Follow ing the scout oath. reports were read py
 scout masters, showi' progress made during the past year and then the Ameri- can flag was raised while the scouts stood at attention.