The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-28
WESTERN ALABAMA GENTLEMAN MAKES S3O,OOO PURCHASE
Big Deal Is Made in Missis- sippi Stock-Selma School Children Are Showing
 Their Patriotism

Selma, April -(special.)-E II. AL
 ston of the Alston-Tinlzle Cattle com
 pany, Pleasant Hill returned Friday from
 Chicago, where he succeeded in closing
 one of the biggest cattle deals pulled off by catteman of this section.
 Mir. Aston purchased l9o head of fed
 steers out of Vicksburg, Miss, reshippng 10 cars to the National Stock yards in Illinois, and sending the remaining three cars to Selma, where the cattle were
 unloaded this morning, and driven to the Alston-Tinkle ranch in Lowndes county, where they will be fed and grazed. 1 Thirty thousand dollars was involved in the deal, which brings to this terri tory bunch of the best beef cattle to be obtained at any market.
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 l The weekly salute to the flag, recently 1 instituted at the Dallas academy, has 1 become ceremony of no small propor- l tions in the eyes of the children, their teachers and their parents. To the children, it is the visible ex- ] pression of their highest and loftest l sentiments, and to the parents and teach CTS the ceremony has raSen on added meaning, when the realization of it's tre- mendous significance is brought home. At the noon recess this afternoon the salute was given with all the enthusiasm and energy of which the 433 children were capable
 The exercises opened with the singing 1 of "The Star-Spangled Banner" after which the pledge of service was given: T give my head, my heart, my hands to 1 my country. One country, one language, one flag"
 This was followed by ''The Red, White and Blue after which three rousng I cheers were given the flag, which floats 1 from the window of Miss Annie Hayes, 1 principal of the school.
 Effective May I. H. T Drane, now com l mercial agent at this point, is appointed traffic agent for Alabama Of the Louis vile and Nashville railroad. Mir Drane will have official headquarters in Mont gomery. but he will continue to make Selma his home.
 ] J. P. Buck, now soliciting agent of the Louisville and Nashville railroad at Bir-
 mingham, will succeed MT. Drane Mir. Buck will arrive in day or two to take
 charge of the Selma office as commercial agent
 l 1 day afternoon at 5 o'clock in Live Oak i cemetery, paid fitting tribute to the heroes of the gray, so many of whom lie buried there. The orator of the occasion, the l Hon. John T. Dale of Oak Hill, in ring l ing phrases. recalled the valor of the Con 1 federate dead, paying also well deserved land beautiful tribute to the women of
 the sixties, whose glory will never fade. i Maj. D. M. Scott, acting adjutant, in
 charge of the exercises, introduced the speaker.
 | Little Ann Slater, daughter of Mir. and Mrs. J. T.. Slater, formerly of Birming- | ham, who has unusual talents as a reel tationist, recited Your Flag, and My Flag"
 1 At the close of the exercises, which was interspersed with songs by the school children and the assemblage, taps were sounded.
 ] The number of floral tributes which
 decorated the graves of the dead were especially beautiful this year, due to the lunfailing efforts of the Ladies' Memorial association, which had the matter in 1 charge.
 1 Dr. Bass, welfare worker of the South ] ern railroad, will reach Selma Saturday
 and conduct meetings Sunday afternoon | and evening at the Alabama Methodist | church. At these meetings railroad men will be addressed especially. Dr. Bass will speak at the Railroad Young Mems 1 Christian association Sunday afternoon.