The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-27
CIVIC CHAMBER OF ALBANY COMPLETES
 SUCCESSFUL YEAR

Albany, January 2e.-(SpeciaLj The Albany board of commerce, or | ganized less than one year ago, at its
 annual membership meeting elected
 the following officers: Otto Moebes. president; I. J. Kuhn, first vice presi- dent; R. E. Chandler. second vice pres ! ident Marvin Rankin, treasurer; H. F. Thompson, corresponding secre- tary; B. L. Malone and W. E. Sivley. directors.
 The membership meeting was large ! ly attended and a number of new proj- ects were inaugurated. Among these was the naming of committee of ! five to take steps to erect a first class hotel in Albany, this being, per- haps, the largest city of its size in l the south without a hostlery, due | largely to the fact that the sister city of Decatur has three of ambitious [ proportions. The committee, composed of Mayor E. c. Payne, A. A. Hardage, | w. R. Smith, John Patterson and La
 mar Penney, will take steps to secure l subscriptions totaling $25,o00, and with this capital will begin the erec-
 tion of a $65,O0O building. the remain ing funds to be obtained from life insurance company that has already l made application for the loan. At the membership meeting the re- port of A. G. Patterson. the presid- ing officer, showed that during less than one year of it's existence the Board of Commerce has secured tho Albany silk mills, which is now in operation and employees about 75 oper- atives and which is housed in a new building especially designed for it's use; had financed the Albany broom works, and had founded the Albany overall factory. In addition, the board had conducted successful booster trip into nearby territory and had also spent more than 5000 in adver- Using the city. It was voted to place the fee for new members at $1 per month All present members are signed up for a period of three years at
 fee of $l2-50 per annum for individ-
 uals and S25 for firms
 The Albany public school teachers
 in a body have rendered their services
 to the county exemption board for the
 purpose of filling out the index class ification cards. The offer was made
 through Superintendent Cowart and was accepted. In addition, Miss Lor- raine Scheer of the Austinville school and Miss Lillian Odom of the Decatur schools have volunteered for this work. Provost Marshal General Crow der has made an especial appeal to teachers to come to the aid of the government in filling out the index
 blanks.
 United States Marshal Henry A. Skeggs of Birmingham, who is here today visiting relatives, has appealed to German enemy aliens who have been long time resident of the Uni ted States not to sleep on their rights by failing to register the week begin hing February 4. Mir. Skeggs stated that he knew of some instances where good citizens might place themselves liable to arrest by overlooking the federal requirements
 Dr. A. R. Haisfield, vice president of the Morgan County Medical society, and prominent local physician has arranged to engage in the practice of his profession at Sheffield. This is the third Twin City physician to move to the Tri-Cities in a year.
 John Patterson, county fuel admin istrator, has stood pat on his ruling that stores could be kept open in the Twin Cities next Monday the second of the "heatless days" by burning corn cobs. As the result of the ruling large number of retail establish ments are laying in the near fuel None of the stores. however will De allowed to burn lights at night on Mondays.