The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-15
COLBERT COUNTS
 COTTON CROP IS
 25 PER CENT OFF
This Is Shown in Report of Amount Ginned Up to
 First of Year

Sheffield, January 14.--(Special) )-N. Pride Tompkins of Tuscumbia, who was elected probate judge of Colbert county in November, will be sworn in at the county courthouse Monday morning, and will immediately enter upon his du- ! ties as probate judge. That he will make a capable and efficient judge, and will serve the people with the same pleasure an1 satisfaction as has his predecessor, Judge T. W. Williams, is not doubted in the least. Judge Williams retires from office with the full assurance of having discharged his duties and leaves a clean record behind him. Miss Mary Hyde, cousin to Judge Tompkins, will, on Feb ruary l, enter the office as assistant clerk.
 T. Frank Simpson, who has been the faithful, efficient and highly accommodate ing chief clerk in the probate office for many years, will remain in the office un- til October l, at which time he will be- come tax assessor of this county, to which office he was elected in the No vember election His many friends are highly elated that he is to remain "on
  terruption.
 There were 1O,4s7 bales of cotton, count bert county from the crop of 1916, prior to January 1. 1917, as compared with 13,- 9S3 bales ginned in 1915 up to January l, 1916
 
 The annex which is being built to the Tuscumbia Public school is nearing com pletion. Miller Brothers of Birmingham, the contractors, expect to complete the building within few more days. The new building will fill long felt need and will be ample to accommodate the large attendance of the public school. H. C. Bates, farm products agent of the Southern railway, with headquarters at Huntsville, and c. W. Humphrey of Birmingham, agent of the industrial and agricultural department of the Southern lines visited here last week. They made known that they were seeking the aid and co operation of all the people that bet ter results may be obtained by united and cooperative efforts for the preven- tion and destruction of farm and agricul- tural products.
 The campaign for presenting the ne- cessity of the 3-mill educational tax in Colbert county will be launched at once, and speakers will visit the voters and point out the importance of levying the tax. It is probable that a committee of leading citizens will be organized to take charge of the campaign, and arrange speaking dates throughout the county The election takes place February 1.
 The Rogersville News is the name of the most recent publication to make it's appearance in Lauderdale county. It is published in Rogersvlle, in the extreme eastern part of the county and the only
 incorporated town in the county except ing Florence. The new paper will be edited by Ollis McMeans. and will be published weekly on Tuesday
 J. R. and Sam Streit of Brick. sthis county, last week sold a herd of beef cattle to Lewis Gusmus of this city, at a price of $565 This is proof that the local market pays top prices for live stock. Prior to eradication of ticks in this county this same herd would not have brought nearly so much. The farm CTS are profiting by tick eradication in this county as they are now giving more attention to cattle raising.