The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-22
AUBURN OBSERVES
 ALABAMA DAY
All Counties and Congress sional Districts Were
 Represented

happy and unique feature of the week
 at Auburn summer session was the ob-
 servation of Alabama Day with appro-
 priate exercises in Langdon hall More
 than 800 students, representing 57 coun-
 ties and the 10 congressional districts,
 made quite effective groupings with their
 standards and banners, each person be-
 ing decorated with small Alabama flag
 made by the pupils of the drawing classes
 and representatives from each district
 made short speeches setting forth the
 respective merits of their section of the
 state.
 The First district comprising the coun-
 ties of Choctaw, Clarke, Marengo Mo
 bile, Monroe and Washington, was rep
 resented by Miss Anne Taylor of De-
 mopolis. Among the many interesting historical events presented perhaps the
 most picturesque was the displaying of
 the five flags that have foated over Mo bile, namely those of France, England. Spain the Stars and Stripes and the flag of the Confederacy.
 Mrs J M Stabler of Greenville gave some important statements about the Second district which includes Baldwin, Butler, Conecuh, Covington, CrenshaW, F,ScamDla, cox. Five counties in this district have voted the mill school tax seven coun- ties have high schools; the state normal school is located at Troy; an agrlcultural school at Evergreen; the Womans col ilege at Montgomery. This district claims among her many noted sons, e1-GoV' Thomas Watts, the Hon. Sol D. Black, | Col Hillary Herbert, Governor Hender- son and State Superintendent William Y. Feagin.
 MT. w. c. Blassingame of Auburn was l the spokesman for the Third dlstrlcl, Barbour, Bullock, Coffee, Dale, GeneVa | Henry Houston, Lee and Russell. ne dwelt upon the fact that the eouIties es | of this district are reaping great beneht l from their organization and cooperation I in the marketing of their farm and live stock products. He also called attention | to the importance of Dothan as pro gressve business center and town or me school spirit and to Girard also, TOT US I effective spirit (s).
 The Fourth district. comprising the counties of Calhoun, Chiffon, Cleburne Dallas Shelby and Talladega, was rep resented by Miss Hattie McMahan or 1 Cleburne. She spoke of Anniston as an | industrial center, of Talladega as an ed ucational center of the Alabama Girls Technical Institute at Montevallo, and l of the marble quarries of Sylacauga She noted among the honored names of this l district those of William R. King, res | ident of the United States; the gallant Pelham two governors-Parsons and Cobbs-and confidently prophesied fu- 1 ture one.
 1 The Fifth district produced the largest enrolment of representatives. These came from Autauga, Chambers, Clay, Coosa Elmore, Lowndes, Macon Ran 1 dolph and Tallapoosa. Prof. H. T. Wal llace of Prattviile gave these interesting { -I..k I,,r Nf 1n developing wonderfully state agrlcui- tural school and the state penitentlary are located at Wetumpka; the famous 1 Tuskegee institute is at Tuskegee. EVery l county of this district has a county high 1 school, and the Macon county school mas
 the distinction of graduating the highest | per cent of boys this year of any county l high school in the state.
 | MT. c. w. Reeves of the Sixth district' made up of Bibb, Greene, Hale, Ferry, Sumter and Tuscaloosa, mentioned the large number of educational institutions
 within this district namely Llvlngston normal, Moundville normal, Marion Mill tary institute, Judson, university Greehs-
 boro and the state university The Coun- 1 ty High school at Centreville is one or lthe largest and best in the state Thls tdstrict claims Walter D. Seed. Samuel
 M. Peck, Eugene A. Smith, General Cor
 gas Richard P. Hobson and the beloved | Miss Julia Tutwller.
 ! The Seventh district, taking in the
 counties of Blount, Cherokee Cullman, | DeKalb, Etowah, Marshall St. Clair, was
 presented in a distinctive manner A line ] led by Superintendent J. M. Tucker Of
 Fort Payne formed by the representatives, one from each county, wearing whte 1 pennant with name of the county in red letters Each person then gave short sketch of the countys merits. This dis I trict is proud of Sand mountain, of the l smallest negro population, of her District
 Agricultural school, and of her noted men l and women among whom are John w.. 1 Abercrombie, o. D. Street, John l.. Bur
 nett Miss Emma Carson and Major Gen. eral Sibert who is now fighting under 1 the Stars and Stripes in France.
 The eulogy of the Eighth district by 1 Mrs. Marjorie Camper was both strik- ing and picturesque. This district, com prising Colbert Jackson, Lauderdale i Lawrence, Limestone, Madison and Nor I gan. kas given to the state nine govern
 ors. and not only these but lawyers
 and authors such as Judge Daniel Cole
 man. Nick Davis. Luke Pryor, Richard
 son, two McClellans. Nora Davis, How
 ard Weeden, Mrs. Virginia Clay Clop- ! ton, Maud Lindsay. Helen Keller and
 'Fighting" Joe Wheeler This district clans the first cotton mills (the Bell Cot 1 ton factory, Madison county, being in :, operation in 1S32), also the largest in the south the Merrimac and Dallas mills CT i Huntsville) The first railroad west of l the Alleghaney mountains was built in l 1882 from Tuscumbia to Decatur, a dis
 tance of 40 miles, The first legislative
 assembly was held in Huntsville with