The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-24

that the church officials are contem-
 plating plans for increasing the room for | their accommodation.
 The Parker Memorial church now has
 under way extensive alterations and im- provements, which, when completed, will provide additional room, and the First Presbyterian church will soon start to | erect big Sunday school building on Quintard avenue. For several years An
 niston has been called the Brooklyn of
 the South" on account of the number and splendor of its churches and is now clinching it's right to the title by spend- ins vast sums of money on church i'm
 provements.
 Contract was today made for the im- mediate construction of a two-story
 brick addition to the Anniston Knitting Mill company's plant in this city The | building will be furnished with 100 addi- tional machines and will. when completed, result in the employment of about 50 ad- ditional employees.
 At a recent meeting of the stockhold- CTS of this company the capital stock
 was increased by the issue of $25,O00 in certificates of preferred stock and the following officers and directors elected: F. K. Perrow, president, and E. l.. Field, manager and ecretary-treasurer. The directors are F. K. Perrow, E. L. Field and W. P. Acker of Anniston and John M. Given of New York
 The Southern Manganese corpora tion recently organized in Anniston is now in full blast, but so quietly did the promoters and officials Of the company go about the work of or ganizing and installing electric fur naces of their own design that few people in Anniston or elsewhere have known until this week that such company existed.
 Anniston people have heard vaguely of manganese plant but thought 1t part of the Anniston Steel company's operations. It is a separate company, however, although located within the ,, big enclosure on Tenth street, for merly used by the Illinois Car and Equipment company, and at present oc- cupied by the Anniston Steel company and the Anniston Ordnance company. The company was incorporated in February with $3000 stock paid in. It is understood that this will soon be increased to $75,000. Theodore
 Swann of Birmingham is president; Ernest Ubamrt, vice president, and C.. M. Jesperson. secretary and treasurer.
 The company will soon have four furnaces in blast. which are designed by the company's engineers and have an output of about 20 tons per day The largest part of the output is shipped to steel mills in Chicago. Youngstown and other places. The plant now has orders that will in
 sure it being kept busy for the next F months, during which time it will employ 100 or more men day. The ore is brought from Brazil, Costa Rica and chemists who have analysed it say it is of the highest grade When combined with steel it acts as a de- oXidizing agent and also adds tough ness.
 While the furnaces of the Southern Manganese corporation will be used for making ferromanganese exclusive ly for the present 1t is possible that later other alloys, such as ferrochronic and ferrosilicon will be produced
 young white man named Bud Cupr was arrested about 2 o'clock Satur day morning in the store of Ben Pri- vett of Jacksonville, who had been notified by some negroes that a bur glar was in the store.
 There have been several robberies at Jacksonville lately, the last being that of the store of A. L. Stewart which was broken into and robbed last Thursday night of stock and cash to the amount of $50. Cobb is said co have confessed to the robbery of the Stewart store and it was also stated that he had implicated a relative.
 Revenue officers from this district again invaded Cleburne county las week and found three more illicit dis.
 tilleries. They were located about le miles north Of Fruithurst. not far from the Georgia line.
 The officers who made the raids were J. B. Edwards of Gadsden. John Draper of Oxford and c. J. Rollins, who has just been assigned to this district from Dothan.
 The officers also captured two al- legged moonshners. J. T. Payne and l. R. Williams. who were given a hear ing before United States Commission CT L. B. Lilies Saturday and bound over in the sum of $500 each to await the action of the federal grand jury which will meet here next month.