The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-19
TUSCALOOSA WILL HAVE BOX FACTORY
 OPERATING SOON
Baby Rotary Club of This District Will Attend the Montgomery Enter
 tainment

tuscaloosa, January 1S.-(Special )-An- other pay roll will be added to Tusca loosa's long list this week when the Tus-
 caloosa box and basket factory begins operations. MT. Hulsart came to Tusca
 loosa few weeks ago from Knoxville Tenn, and after looking over the ground decided to locate here and has erected | his mill on the Burks place just south ] Of the city. Twenty-Five men will be em- ployed at the beginning and as soon as the
 plant gets under good headway this will
 be increased to 50 men. The employees of box and basket factory are classed as
 skilled labor with the exception of a few laborers that are used around such a fac itory.
 "On to Montgomery is a slogan that mas been adopted by the Rotarians of Tuscaloosa and about 10 members will make the trip to the capital city Friday might when members of the Tuscaloosa club will be the guests of the Montgom- cry Rotary club at their ladies night en- tertainment The Rotary club of Tus- caloosa is the baby organization in the | fifth district which is composed of the states of Alabama Georgia and Florida and the elder brothers are taking this means of becoming acquainted as well as to instill the principles of rotary in the newcomers into the great organization Tuscaloosa is probably the smallest city in the whole country to have a Rotary club and the report of the investigation that was made by Governor Ralph Quinsenberry was most flattering to the membership in Tuscaloosa. It is thought that in short time notice will be re- ceived that the Rotary club of Tuscaloosa has been accepted as a member of the International Rotary clubs, which only comes about when a local organization has demonstrated that its organization is on firm footing
 Greensboro avenue is to be placed ir condition for coat of bitulithic or a surface dressing similar to that employed
 by the county in building the Huntsville
 road beyond the University of Alabama
 This was decided at a meeting of the city Commission, when Commissioner of
 Streets Harris introduced a resolution
 authorizing him to begin that work.
 Manager C. G. Northfngton of the Southern Express company has returned
 from Chattanooga, where he attended a
 meeting of the managers, to decide upon the bonus that is to be given the salary
 men that receive about $900 per year, The express company gave these a bonus about Christmas and is now giving the higher salaried men their bonuses.
 President F. G. Blair of the Rotary club of Tuscaloosa has named the ncdni- hating committee of the club to report al the annual meeting to be held on the first Tuesday in February. The committed will nominate officers fors the club fol the next year and is as follows Messrs. J. F. Aston, A. c. Cade, Murray Cannon, F. l.. Clarkson Luther Davis L. O. Dawson and w. T. Edmondson. The first suit to be filed in the circuit court under the new regime was filed by Smith & Van de Graaff, attorneys. The suit was for $100, GOO damages, which i. asked of the Henderson Land and Lum Der company for injuries to negro Alex Wright. It is claimed by the sui that the negro received a blow on the head from an instrument in the hands oi the woods foreman, Robertson, the ne gro's skull being crushed by the blow.