The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-30
Housing Celebration OF
 Fourth Of July Is Planned
 By Muscle Shoals Workers
Women Employees of Nitrate Corporation Comfortably Housed in Their Own Bulding-Business of New Postoffice Increasing Rapdly-Orchestra Is Or ganized-Baseball League Formed-nfor-
 nation Bureau Opened-The Fire
 Department Is Efficient
nv H FoNTAINE LITTLE

Muscle Shoals, June 29.-( Special Ut is true that we are intensiyely engaged
 in hurrying forward the construction pro- gra mme al Muscle Shoals in the build ing of nitrate plant No. ? for the gov
 eriment, but. nevertheless, we are plan-
 ming for rousing celebration of the
 Fourth of July" said J. w. Young res- ident manager of the Air Nitrates corpor- ation, in discussing conditions in general at Muscle Shoals. We believe that it is quite apropos for the 15,000 men engaged
 here to observe and celebrate in a pa triotic fashion the nations natal holi- day." he continued, and with this idea in mind committees from the various
 arranging an attractive programme, re-
 plete with interesting features for the days celebration"
 Those who are busying themselves in making plans for the celebration intend making the historic day a memora ble one at Muscle Shoals Among the fea- lures of the day will be the reading of the Declaration of Independence and also
 the American creed. Parades, pageants "fandangoes'' and other features will be featured during the day. A continuous performance will be given at the motion
 picture houses, and it is probable there will be a brilliant fireworks display in the evening All in all, the day will be 6lorously celebrated here.
 DORMITORY FOR LADIES
 One of the brightest spots around Mi trate camp No 7 at Muscle Shoals is the ladies' dormitory, where many young women engaged here as clerks, assist
 ants and stenograp phers, make their home. The dormitory is presided over by Miss Margaret Mitchell of Chicago. who looks after the interests and chaperones the young ladies at their camp home The dormtory is situated upon high knoll, facing the large concrete reservoir and consists of two long buildings, each 150 feet in length, with wide porches. The young women have become enthu- siastic over their "camp life, and aside from doing their bit" for the govern mert in various capacities, have organ 1 ized clubs, societies and q Red Cross auxiliary. One o4 the leaders in the so- cial activities is Miss Mildred Potts of St. Elmo, Tenn.
 An ong the young ladies living at the do, mitory are: Misses Margaret Mitchell,
 Florence Heckenhauer, Luella Taylor, Millican Pitts, Mildred LandDlade, Leila Screven, Josephine Johnson. Clementine Haley, Mary Bakers, Blanche Dickson, Martha Axley and Helen Smith and Mes
 danes A. Mckenzie, c, A. Richards. A. 1 L. Lindsey, c. V. Martin and F. Elm erson.
 BUSY U. S. POSTOFFICE l The amount of business handled at the ! Muscle Shoals postoffice, at United States Nitrate Plant No 2, woulG easily place this office in the rank of first-class l offices Fifteen employees handle the heavy mails in prompt and efficient man | ner, under the direction of Postmaster l H. R. Cohen, assisted by L. T. Farrar i Recently it became necessary to inerea Sc ] the capacity of the postoffice, and five | general delivery" windows were in 1 stalled In addition, two money order 1 clerks, one register clerk and one stamp l clerk were gut on, and tbese, assisted Dy
 a general dispatcher, receiving clerk