The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-08
ANN|STON ID HAVE
 THREE FURNACES MODERATION SOON
Work Has Already Begun on Additions to Plant of the AnnistOn Steel
 Company

Anniston, February 7--(Special.) The new structure of the Anniston Steel company has been completed, and work was started Wednesday in the installation of the first of the three new furnaces which will be making steel within week. The other fur naces of the batteries will be installed as rapidly as possible
 The three electric furnaces now in operation are turning out great quan- titles of shell steel and merchants bar steel, part of which is being used by the Anniston Ordnance company and part by steel merchants throughout the south. When the two batteries of three electric furnaces each shall have been placed in operation, Anniston will have the biggest electric steel plant in the world.
 The Calhoun county school board has in circulation through the different beats of the county 25 petitions asking that an election be held to adopt the 3-n1ill tax for school purposes in this county. These petitions will be pre- sented to the school board at the next meeting of that body, which will be held in the county courthouse on Tues day February 12.
 It was learned today that when the election is called, the trustees in the different beats will be asked to act as election officials without pay. IL is believed all trustees will be willing to serve in this way, as proof of their interest in the school work. It cannot yet be stated with certainty when the election will be held, but it is known that it will eb sometime before May 1.
 Cecil Green, who was the star quar- terback for Alabama in the 1916 foot ball season has discontinued his studies at the university and is in this city on visit to his parents, Judge .J F Green and Mrs. Green. en route to Washington and. Lee university at Lexington, Va. where he will matricu- late and make an effort for quarter back on the Washington and Lee eleven in 1917.
 The action of the local boy will lessen the strength of Alabama football team considerably, and will be big boost for Washington and Lee. The Virginia university is not member of s. I. A. A., but belongs to a similar organiza- ton, known as the South Atlantic. Green, by entering college now, will be able to play on Washington and Lees 1917 football team, if he makes good, but will not be allowed to play on this years baseball club.
 That Green will be able to make good at Washington and Lee is not doubted, as the Virginia college loses their quarter this season, and Young, hal, rfa Io1f txyf11 a Green was mentioned by several as all-southern quarterback and was only inferior to Morriston of Tech and Cur " of Vanderbilt.
 A big celebration extending from Thursday through Sunday, to be known as Anniversary Week. has been planned by Anniston scouts to com memorate the seventh anniversary of tho Boy Scouts of America, features of which will be banquet and en- tertainment and a parade on Noble street.
 Thursday evening all troops of the city will meet at the scout hall over the Palace Drug company at 730 D. m. Reports will be read by each scout master present as to the progress of his troop during the past year. The an nual message from the president of
 
 Livingstone, will then be read. At S:15 every member of the Boy Scouts of America. wherever he may be, will stand attention with his hand at salute and repeat the scout oath. The flag will then be raised, scouts standing attention. The scouts will then give the scouts oath to the flag. followed by "America.'' The parents of the scouts their friends, and all scout of f.o,, l~ l. of { i, that night. Donald Fitzgerald will be master. of ceremonies.
 Sunday afternoon at D. m. all the scouts in the city will attend special service. which has been arranged at Grace Episcopal church. Rev. Carleton Barnwell. rector of Grace church, and scoutmaster of Troop 1. will preach special sermon to the boys. This service will end the biggest anniver- sary week programme ever attempted in Anniston.
 meeting will be held at Oxford Friday afternoon to perfect the or ganization of chamber of commerce in that city, initial steps for which were taken at meeting Tuesday eve ming. At this meeting it was pointed out that in years gone by Oxford did a thriving business and attracted more trade than it does today, but the build ing of railroad to the south drew away great deal of trade from the country that formerly came to Oxford Steps will be taken to regain some of this trade and committees will be ap- pointed looking to several matters of internal improvement.
 J. J. A. Box. Rev. J. E. Bird, w. z. Kidd were last night elected delegates to the state convention of the Wood men of the World, to be held at Dothan next month. These men will go to Dothan to represent Green Bay camp 165. Their alternates are J. T. Adams. J. E. Glenn and H. Somers Three members of the local w. O. w camp, Lamar Keffers, W. L. Bryan and J. E. Glenn, went to Jacksonville last night and assisted with the installa- tion of two candidates there.
 We'll Known Educator Dies