The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-19
An Imnortant Meeting

NO neetlnS or greater importance VIII be held in the south this year than that of the convention of the Southern Cat tlemen's association, which will assem- ble more than 600 breeders of the south in Atlanta on April {, and 6. for discussion of their problems said w. M. Brown. agricultural agent for the Southern railway.
 The live stock industry is developing so rapidly throughout the south that not only cattle breeders but also bankers, packing house people and other big business interests will be represented at this meeting. Officers of the Southern Cattlemen's association are boosting the meeting as the best of the association. Speakers of national reputation will be on the programme, and every minute of the time will be proftably spent by those attending
 "R. K. Boney of Duckport, La, is president of the Southern Cattlemens s association, and Nicely Bowen of Mem phis is secretary and treasurer. One of the interesting features of this meeting will be the sale of Hereford, Shorthorn and Angus cattle under the auspices of the respective national and state asso- citations. It is expected that several state breeders associations wills be. or ganized at the meeting"
 Glad Boys Are Coming Back
 q shall certainly be glad when all the guardsmen return home said Blanks Everett, acting general manager of the Chamber of Commerce. You can take it from me that those boys are some popular back home My phone has been ringing constantly for the past several days, inquiries from persons wanting to know when the boys would be back. "Of course shall be glad for other req sons Birmingham has some mighty fine boys on the border, and we need them here I have some mighty good friends among them, and it will certainly feel good to meet them once more Four months away from home for bunch of boys like that means a lot to a city, and I am sure we shall all rejoice when we get them back"
 Thunder, Lightning, Snow Did you ever see a snowstorm when Hiram Baggett, well known lawyer of Raleigh and Ellington, N. C., who is in Alabama looking after some of his real estate holding near Selma. well, we had one of these the other day up in Carolina" continued Mr. Bag gett.
 <! Ut was the prettiest snowfall you ever saw, and while the snow was falling it was laundering and flashing lightning, as | in the middle of summer. | q have talked to number of oldest I citizens and never before have they witnessed such phenomena.
 But getting away from snow and thunderstorms,' said Mr. Baggett, i've want everybody in Alabama to know that while North Carolina has not been in- vaded by the boil weevil yet. the farmers up our way are not going to try to flood l
 "Cotton is uncertain; hog and hominy is just as sure as breakfast We are going to stick by hog and hominy. in spite of everything"
 Many Living Writers on Drama Tt was a surprise to me to discover that fully half of the several hundred books on drama in the public library are by living authors" said Mrs '. lP. Engstfeld. cataloger at the public library. ''This is undoubtedly due to the library,s effort to supply the de- mand for modern. up-to-date plays and
 books about them demand which has
 resulted very largely from the activi-
 ties of the Birmingham Center of the . Drama League"
 WHIP BEHIND! From the Boston Transcript
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