The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-07
PULLMAN

Cullman, September 6-(SpeciaL )-It has been found that Cullman county farmers have only planted 100 more acres in wheat this year than last. and that the acreage of corn this year was very much less than last The drouth too has cut the corn crop short. Realiz- ing this state of affairs and the con-
 sequent scarcity of breadstuffs in tho
 county. the business men are urging
 the farmers to plant winter wheat.
 Much of the cotton of the county is
 being ruined by small red spider get
 ting into the bolls before they are ma
 ture and causing them to fall off R. F. Lee, county chaiEman of the
 Fourth Liberty Loan drive, assisted by s. J. Griffin, associate county chair
 man; Dwight Fuller, chairman publici-
 ty, and H. Clay Smith secretary; has
 appointed chairmen in each beat of the
 county, and is making all the prepara-
 tions possible to make the Fourth Lib
 erty Loan drive in this county a suc-
 cess. The farmers will soon be bring-
 ing their cotton to town and will have plenty of money to safely put Gull
 man county lover the top" in making
 up her quota.
 Several hundred students and patrons
 of the city school gathered in the
 courthouse here Tuesday morning for , the opening. Mayor Robertson pre- sided. assisted by the members of the school board, pr. Walter Cottingham, s. M. Lovelady, Sam Greene and Her man Steindorf
 Short talks nonIn hu nr Pnh | ertson. pastor of the First Methodist l church: Professor Southerland prin- | cipal of the high school; Superintcnd- ent George Metz and Professor Hays l newly elected principal of the city school.
 The following new teachers were in l troduced: Miss Kilgore of Troy, Miss
 Sewell of Trinity Miss Davidson of l Uniontown. Misses Oliver, Drake Big
 gers Eurnum and Mrs. Emma Brown
 will compose the remaindery of the fac ulty.
 Thirty-two boys left here Thursday | moi ming to enter training at Camp Pike, Ark. Several hundred people
 relatives and friends of the boys from
 the rural districts mostly, gathered at
 the station to bid the boys farewell l They left cheering and apparently in | Tuesday for Camp Mcclellan, whero
 they will be used for limited service. l number of Confederate veterans of /, the county and their sons and daugh- ters are preparing to attend the re- | union at Tulsa
 The won,ep's council of national de- fense has appointed chairmen over the county to in, nf II. Liberty Loan Mrs. I. E Daily is chair man for the county, and the following city chairmen have been selected: Mrs Carson, Miss Freda Hartung, Mrs I.e- roy McEntire, Mrs. Sufferer, Mrs. Armstrong, Mrs. Robertson Mrs Oscar Fisher, Mrs. Helene Pollak, Miss Dora Gray, Mrs Joe Thomson, Miss Fanny Rosson and Miss Mariglen Cornelius. Friends of Mrs. J. W. Little, a promi-
 nent woman Of the county, who made
 her home near Trimble, will be grieved to hear of her death which took place the first of the week. She is survived
 by her husband. a brother. J. II. Beam of Augusta, Ga. and one sister, Mrs.
 Bexley of Cullman.
 Several handsome new business
 buildings are being erected in Gull
 man. The Peoples Drug Store on
 First avenue, East, will be completed
 in 30 days at cost of $16,0oO; the
 Hanlin building, on the same street
 will also be completed within a short
 time. John Beyer will shortly start the erection of a brick building, just in the rear of the Hanln building, and a large brick store in West Cullman is well under way. Notwithstanding
 the high cost of material and the scarcity of labor the business district of Cullman Is improving raridiy