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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-31

harnessed 120000 horsepower The work on this great undertaking will begin tomorrow morning.
 There was no end to the hospitality Of the Tri-Cities, the boundary lines of the three cities being obliterated when it came to taking care of their guests for the day They fed the throng. told them the romance of all this development. droVe them over the vast domains of industrial activities in a manner that proved their gladness at having the vis- ltors as their guests, and in thousand and one ways made the trip, first edu- cational; second, pleasant and enjoyable. and third-but not least by any means they got acquainted with Birminghamers and Birminghamers got acquainted with them, and their interests became mu- f,1as
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-31

The total amount the government provides the President for clerk hire and White House expenses. including his salary. is $36o.000 annually Of this. $75.0o0 is salary s25.o0 travelling .ex- penses and s1eo,O0O for the other ex~ penses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-31
} TO 5 YEARS TO BuMD

It will take from three to five years to build this dam, which is dam No. 2
 as water and weather conditions must be considered in the programme. When it is completed there will have been
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-31
MESS HALL A FEATURE

In this enormous mess hall General Manager Young explained to the visit ors that it will be possible to feed 5000 men in 40 minutes, taking care Of the workmen in two shifts. There are others eIvployed there of course the foremen, officials. office forces, po- iicemen and various other attaches of this great corps of wonder workers
 The party went from plant No. 1 to Tuscumbia. where this beautiful town dawned upon them as prospcr- ous as country editor in a political campaisn Homes that looked like three meals day and bed of goose. hair. farmlands that would make the Kaiser ill., and people as cordial and glad to see us as if they had an idea of returning the visit. A great big. boiling, bubbling spring was circled en route to the splendid fair grounds Of the Colbert county capital, that is said to be good place to keep ice from melting, due to the fact that It is the coldest water issuing from the ground anywhere.
 # was from Tuscumbia that the party passed through the great do-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-31

main of plant No. ?, where all is yet in course of construction, but with permanency that spells millions and millions. and solidity for the tr-cit- ies. Leaving No. , nitrate plant all appetites were motored into Florenc ,, where the inimitable Muscle. ShoalS'' (alas Mason J) Dillard was standing in the lobby of his Jefferson hotel, with q grin on his face that furnished enough room for a quarter of July watermelon, and with that same oid optimism, greatly reinforced prevalent, ordered all hands to turn to and march to the grub pile.
 MASON DILLARD'S GRIN
 Just a word about this fellow Dill lard He has been regular hound for newspaper publicity for Muscle Shoals. I have seen the time when on Birmingham streets I had by far rath CT have accused him of being a gas meter and called him everything from a motion picture show that dealt in Cleopatra photoplays to a peanut ven der who sold raw peanuts for parched ones, than to have intimated to him that Muscle Shoals would not land the nitrate plant. If ever man believed anything, Mason billiard believed this to such an extent until I at times be-
 
 nation from old Noah on this water power stuff.
 From Florence the visitors journeyed over pleasant countrysdes on good roads to the government locks, 10 miles above Florence, where one of natures beauty spots snuggles close to the shoals of the great Tennessee, which rambles snake like and with natural grace through the northern section Of Alabama. Here the government main- tains dredge boats, crews of en- gineers property men, and build the ships for the government used on this river. It is pity almost to think that when Uncle sam has completed the big gest dam in the world just south of this point that water will back up and take from view all of the beauty of this spot. and that the water will rise to such level as to reach the upper story of the home of the officer in charge of the work. which now rests. on the crest of the hill overlooking the locks.
 The dam is going to be the most enormous structure of its kind in the world There will be 4900 feet of con- crete wall stretching from shore to shore of the Tennessee. 440 feet wide at the base, 40 feet at the top, and 1O9 feet, in height. On the top of this dam there will be erected concrete posts which will support driveway 40 feet wide across the top of the dam, there being sufficient space in the sspillway between the bridge and the top of the dam to allow the water to overflow and drop to the level below
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-31
ELKS' CLUB MEETING

At the lIllSs' club in the evening Flor erce turned out and heard Frank s. White, Frank Willis, Barnett, ex-Gov. Emmett O'Neal, c. w. Ashcraft and the Boys Industrial band. which by no means was overlooked anywhere the party stopped long enough for them to toot their horns with patriotic fervor These talks were vocferously applauded. and the concert numbers offered by the band drew hilarious approval. The little men of the band were royalty welcomed everywhere they appeared, and Prof. Henley was congratulated at every place for his wonderful work with these youth ful musicians. These boys are manly little fellows and took their honors with good grace, and there never was bet ter behaved lot of boys anywhere. They won the admiration of all who heard them play and talked to them.
 The trip was in every way most event ful, beneficial both to the Tri-Cities and to the members of the Birmingham Win the War" special party. Birmingham men got acquainted with men they had never known in Birmingham before, and they got to be real "buddies, to cop q phrase of the genial commissioner of public utilities Ellis Brown
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-31
State that was most pTuIItd bIcs
 "THE TWMS''

Well, wha do you think of that?"
 working their memories overtime and Decatur and Albany had together the history of the two cities known nnunicinal Twins of nohAl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-31
"THE TRLPLETS"

Down Albany of night that will filter through the likely hotel lobby the
 Alabama and interest column:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-31

double with us I fo to our Decatur citizens and they say you fellows in All bany won't hook up with us-now, I am going to make you dare.
 AS president of the Decatur Boosters club. l want to dare the Albany Board of Commerce to send committee to Decatur to meet with the Decatur Boost CTS club, and arrange joint meeting to entertain the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, which will be here for a few hours next Wednesday afternoon and evening
 We are game" said Otto Moebes, president of the Albany Board of Com merce, and you had better beat it back to Decatur and get that bunch of boost CTS i'll line, for we are going to be there shortly"
 And they were. Decatur boosters showed the glad hand right into their extended palms, and Ire best meeting that was ever held in the Twin Cities was the dividend on that little invest ment of give and take. And it is un- derstood that another dividend will be declared next Saturday, when the two organizations are going to meet in a great patriotic rally.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-31

James A. Nelson mayor of Decatur, and B. C. Payne, mayor of Albany, hard ly knew how it happened In fact they could neither of them tell you how they happened to get into the habit of re- neging when a mutual municiptl prob- lem confronted the Twin Cities, but 1t is fact that they had gotten into that status, and never really knew what 1t was all about. Something happened, though.
 One day redently Decatur awoke to the fact that there was a fellow in their midst who was as full of pep as a pot of Mexican ehili, and that he had an idea that Albany and Decatur, though twins, living in the same midst, did not know each other. This person, imbued with the idea that there were no differences between the two municipalities, but merly friendly rivalry, refused to lis- ten to the tales of the past, but, like q bloodhound. kept on the trail for a scent that would lead him to the pl&per solution of the one idea of which he Mad become obsessed-to bring these two splendid cities together in a unity of purpose and a cordiality of effort in busi- ness as well as social intercourse that would wipe out the imaginary boundary sues Of common good and municipal well ia
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-31
THE OPPORTUNITY ARRIVES

ms man received a letter early last week from A. c. Crowder, president of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce. asking him to see if he could not unite Decatur and Albany in joint meeting which could be arranged in connection With the trip of the Birmingham Win the War Special to Muscle Shoals. which special passed through Albany and De- catur on last Wednesday afternoon
 Presto says H. La Morrill, (for he was the man), head Of the Decatur, Boosters club, here is where we put the old jinx out of commission"
 MT Morrill, is Decatur citizen of two months standing. and he had turned a deaf ear to the old imaginary troubles of the two towns, and if you didn't have something that would create a move closer feeling between the Twin Cities. ne was busy as switch engine get tlng away from the sore-toes
 The result of this letter Ofrom Presi- dent Crowder was the creating of an opportunity that was badly needed. Mir. Morrill, went to Albany called a bunch Of leading Albanians together, members of the Board of Commerce and said.
 Now, you fellows tell me every time mention getting together with Decatur on any proposition for our mutual good that there is no use-Decatur won't work
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-31
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-31
FELLOWS cor ACQUAINTED

As an instance of how we'll they be- came acquainted, the writer and Ellis Brown ate breakfast at Sheffield with the same knife and fork and coffee spoon. This was caused by the great onslaught into Manager Davis dining room at the Sheffield hotel, every fellow being in hurry to get into an auto to see just how the millions were being spent
 The inimitable Dave Holt. known among all old heads of the newspaper game in Alabama as Statesman Holt. was on the job with both feet, aiding and abetting Florence in turing those anxious for an ideal place to live and grow fat in this worl~s goods into their corporation limits. he being the secre- tary of the Florence Chamber of Com merce
 Col. J. W. Worthington and "Cy'' w. Ashcraft made life worth while to the visitors through thtir hospitality and unlimited knowledge of the project being discussed. There was no one w77o did not show his appreciation of the visitors. and not man fro.r Birmingham will ever forget the 'Triplets." The visit will be memory long to be cherished by every man who made the trip.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-31

rent unfurnished lots that are 50 feet square, upon which you rave the priv ilege of hoisting tent home in which to sojourn until you can get a better place to eat and sleep. Many neat little tents are in use, the wife having few house cleaning troubles, but bridge parties are inconvenient, and will be even more out of form when old Sol begins to bear down as summer comes on.
 $l.50 PER FLOP
 over in Florence 1 heard the hotel clerk tell man that he and his friends Were being considered for the next flop in room with two beds, they to have one of the beds, sleeping double, at 1.50 per flop. And the moral of it, as 1 learned from a travelling salesman. was, be glad to get it at that price, for they were lucky
 About the most plentiful things to be found in the Muscle Shoals territory are water and sand. They need more sand than anything else just now to build nitrate plants homes, business houses and power plants and dams. and the wonder of 1t all is that with all the sand in the craws of that game bunch who have held the low cards so long, still they can't get sand enough to rush the building as rapidly as they would like to-
 The Birmingham party visited nitrate plant No. l, following a breakfast and royal welcome at Sheffield early Thurs day morning. and it is certainly going to be some plant An army engineer. Captain Hemphill in charge of the con structon work at this plant. explained the magnitude of the building pro- gramme. with an exceptional statement that certain things were secrets which he had been advised to keep under his hat and all members of the party left his courteous and hospitable presence with their heads cracking with figures. and their nostrils full of imaginary an-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-31
Birninghan1's "Win-the- War" Special Was Chamber Of Commerce Most Successful
 Get-Acquainted Trip Euer Conducted

Delighted Withthe Albany and Decatur Twins Unce Sheffield
Sharp County record., 1918-12-13
Edwards
Nero. 60.
RED CROSS ROLL CALL week
!. /. CHAIRMAN NAMES COMMITTEES

The undersigned has been ap-
pointed chairman for Sharp county
In the work Of Red Cross Roll Call
Week, which begins December 18th
and ends December 23d, and has
appointed committees for the var
ious townships to carry on this
work. These committees will call
upon all who are already members
OF the Red Cross organization ano
secure their renewal of member
ship by payment of the annual let
Of 81, Also they will solicit new
members. | trust the committees
named will take up their duties IL
earnest, and that we will be able to
make a fine report from this coun-
ty. The Importance Of Red Cross
work Is thoroughly understood, ana
the need for 1t is yet very great.
Following are the township COM
mittees for the Southern District;
Lave Creek-Henry Paysineer
Melvin Simpson, Mrs. +. P. SmaIley
Plney Fork w. S, Stokes, IS. A.
Barnett, Mrs, II. J. Radcliffe.
Sullivan-R. G. Founders, 0uo
Cathey, Miss Lou McGee.
Cave--Dr &. 7, Lamar, Dave
Anderson, Miss Allie Barnett.
A.Scott-S l.. Shaver, John Mullen,
Mrs. Marvin Taylor,
Big Creek--0. j. Bowers, Roscoe
Sullivan, Mrs. Lee Street.
Strawberry-Roe Wells, j, A.
Gay, Mrs, Joe Sparks,
North Big Rock--M, D. Barnett,
N, V. HutcbiSon, Mrs. L. l.. Sulii.
van,
South Big Rock-Haze Mobley
Emery Rodgers, Miss Roxie Curtis,
Washington Bacon Mar.
Gus Whitlock, Mrs. Luke Atkinson.
Morean-Luke Yates, A. Paden
Mrs, Luetta Stewart.
Johneon-Henry Bone, PhilliI
Kinks, Mro. j. Y, Huddleetop.
W. 7, Horn, Chairman.
Sharp County record., 1918-12-13
lnge In Telephone Rents
Of Hardy Telephone Company

0n January /, 1919, the Hardy
elephone Co. rental charge for all
eIephones on their lines will be:
Company telephone, business
l.6O; residence, SIPS per month
'ubocriber owned telephone, ST pei
month on company line. Rura
'ates same as town, except sub
'criber may own line to town limits
and telephone at SOC per month
All town lines will be owned and
operated by the telephone company
Pay in advance at telephone ex.
change. If not paid by the 5!h ol
ne month service will be discon.
tinued without further notice.
R. M. Gray, Manager.
Sharp County record., 1918-12-13
the MAxvILLE MITES
Everybody Will Vote Against Adoption
Of The New Constitution.

A. J. Lamar and wife spent Sun.
day with relatives and friends at
Cave City.
C. W. Boles and family were the
guests Of relatives in Cave town
snip this week.
Etherd Marlin and wife were Wis.
itine relatives near Calamine the
first part Of the week,
G. H. Matheny and Elmer Brickle
we're at Batesville the latter part Of
last week marketing cotton.
Several people from this section
attended church at Rings Chapel
Sunday and Sunday night, and re-
port good services
W. H. Eason has purchased the
Frank Robinson farm, a mile west
Of this place, the consideration be.
lDg unknown to us,
Ed Kunkle is recovering from an
attack Of influenza, He will move
with his family to Craiahead coun-
ty In the next few days,
George Anderson Of the Calamine
section was visiting at the home Of
Uncle Billy" Brashears the first
part Of the week. He brought up
some big pumpkins, which looked
good to we hillbillies,l
7. L. Pickens. and G.: P, Bray
spent several days lately at Jones'
boro with their brother, John Bray,
who underwent an operation In a
hospital there for appendicitis, The
latest report Is that Mr. Bray Is re-
covering nicely, which is GOOD news
to bis Sharp county friends,
Everybody in this section, we
think, is expecting to cast a vote
against the new constitution next
Saturday. II everybody Is ae
much opposed to the new constitu'
ton as Byron Andrews Of Wild Cat
Corner we guarantee II will be
knocked higher than q kite.
Several Of our people are moving
about and changing homes. Some
have not DOT their minds fixed yet
90 to where they may locate,
whether at the right eide Of the
hill, to the left Of the spring or In
Sharp County record., 1918-12-13
HE NEW CONSTITUTION

t<%.
Tcmorrow the people of Arkansas
an express themselves either for
: radainst the adoption of the new
onstitution.
The Record has already stated a
umber Of its objections to the new
onstitution.
We are opposed to it because it
reates a number of new offices,
hen there already too many feed
II from the public trough now.
We are opposed to it because it
.creases the salaries Of a large
umher of officers all out of reason.
hat means more taxes to pay
ithout return Of benefit.
we are opposed to it because it
.akes the terms Of officers four
ears and does not provide for the
,call Of unworthy officials.
We are opposed to it because it
royides that money invested in
onds shall be exempt from taxa
Oh. This will develop the state,
ley bay. The poor devil and the
lule was developing the state be-
Ire the bond-holder arrived. Why
ot Exempt the poor devil and his
iulei
we are opposed to it because it
oes not provide for a graduated
TX On land. No man nor no few
len should be permitted to own
le lace of the earth. Land mo-
opoly has a strangle.hold on the
ldustrial progress of many parts Of
le country, and ought to be forced
)dissolve j ITSELF
Senator Bush Of Prescott defies
ny man to point out sentence in
le Dew constitution that favors
le common people that. is not also
)und in the old constitution. The
ew constitution is written for the
iGhbrows.
Defeat the new constitution. And
3 sure that you take time to 90 to
be polls and vote.
Sharp County record., 1918-12-13
LIST OF JURORS FOR NORTHERN
DISTRICT CIRCUIT COURT TERM

Circuit court will convene at
Hardy January 5. Following ere
the jurors for the term
GRAND JURY
C. r. DeBoer, Ralph Vance OF
Highland township, Charles W. Will
son, Thomas Armstrong of Rich
woods, J, T. Rogers, Lester Stewart
of Davidson Forest Fletcher of
Lebanon, F. N. Broyles, Nuel Ar
mold Jack QualIs Of Jackson, Jeff
Davis, Allen Morton of Union,
George 2. Wirth Of North, K. M.
Jackson, Oscar Pttman, v A.
Mayberry Of Hardy,
ALrERNATEs
W. j. Rumsey OF Richw0ols
township, Jesse Norton of David.
son, Farmer Sanders of Lebanon,
A. I. Henry Of Jackson, j. Wes
Weaver OF North, George W. Mclean
of Hardy.
PETIT JURY
John Miller, Fred Graham, |, J.
Ray, W, r. Walker of Hardy town
ship, W, S. Dunlap, Ralph Pollock
of Highland, Marvin Stephens, WilI
Howell, J. II. Turner of Richwoods,
Cornelius Holt, Luther Underwood,
Robert Henshew of Davidson, +. "
Talbot, Newton Davis of Lebanon
Alex, Fletcher, hlillard Phillips,
Morgan Goode, I. j, Grimes VI
Jackson, Hamp Sitz, John Going,
j, S. Yates of Union, A, +. Thomp.
son, John With, W, l.. Cleveland
of North,
ALlERNAfES
W. W, Tucker OF Hardy town
ship, j. s. Golf OF Highland, ]. IL.
WileS of Richwoods, A. }. Millner VI
Davidson, jeff Davis of Jackson,
r. d. Taylor Of North.
Sharp County record., 1918-12-13
Against Fireworks And Kid Loaiing

The Hardy town council has
passed an ordinance prohibiting the
use or sale Of fireworks in the town
for twelve months, and another
prohibiting children under l6 years
Of ODE from loahne on the streets
after 7 o'clock at night.
Sharp County record., 1918-12-13
ALfERNATES
Troy Adams Dead

Several days oeo the r. Smith
papers contained a notice Of tie
death Of Troy Adams, who VIII
plobably be remembered as a boy
BY a number Of Evening Shede
wpI 10. lie was a son of the h TO
Fillmore Adams, who once resid, d
here, aud was born at Hardy In
1899 Mr. Adams had become a
Sharp County record., 1918-12-13
PARAGRAPHS FROM CORINTH
Luther King Dies In France-Miss
Attic Rogers Dead.

Mrs. S. j. King of Stuart was
the guest Of relatives in this section
last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Henshaw
are the happy parents of a r.
pound boy,
Our farmers have about com
pleted their crop gathering during
the pretty days recently,
A. F. Rogers is suffering from in
f1uenza. He was sick when he re-
turned home from Jonesboro Sun
day.
S. A. Kelley was here from Har-
dy day or two last week meeting
his many friends and attending to
business.
Il W. W. Horton is building a new
barn on his farm near here, which
adds very much to the value of his
property.
Elmer Kissineer and family of
Richwoods township were here last
Sunday, guests at the home of Mar
Gus Rogers.
Misses Pleasant and Letha Roe-
ers of Ash Flat we're here a few
days last week visiting relatives
and friends.
W. C. Holt had the misfortune to
lose a fine milk COW one day last
week. The animals death is be-
lieved to have been caused from
eating mustard.
c. W. Peters, who some time ago
purchased a farm near here, return,
ed Saturday from Walnut Ridge,
and declares he is going to begin
living at home now.
Rev. Jesse Martin, our new Meth
odist preacher, was here Sunday
and delivered his first sermon for
the conference year. We are wish
ing him very prosperous year on
the circuit.
u JIM. Whited has recently bought
the Lewis Thomas farm near here.
G Mr.. Thomas will move with his
family to Oklahoma as soon as the
health Of his wife will permit her
!. undertaking the trip.
u A message was received here
|l last week that Miss Attic Rogers
|, was dead She was a daughter OF
S W. 0. Rogers and wife, who now re-
:. side near Jonesboro. A. F, and
S Lindsey Rogers of this place attend
\ ed the burial. Mr. and Mrs, Roe-
5 ers have many friends and rela-
O tives in this section who sympa-
:. thize with them,
I The news reached here Saturday
\ that Luther King died in a hospital
; in France on the 14th of November
i from pneumonia. Luther was a
o promising young man, a son OF
!. W, G. King and wife Of Stuart, and
S was raised in this community,
q where he has three sisters and a
brother now living, lie had been
= living at Memphis, Tenn, for three
or four years, and has o wife living
there. The bereaved relatives have
the sympathy Of a host of friends
here.
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Sharp County record., 1918-12-13

| ing
Sharp County record., 1918-12-13

TAKEN UP-0ne year.old. past
oilndle steer, white spots, unmark-
ed' Owner can have same by pay.
ms expenses Henry paysineer
Evenine Shade.
Sharp County record., 1918-12-13
Mrs. 7. {. Brewer Dead

Mrs. 7. E, Brewer, an old resident
of This community, who left only @
very few weeks ago with her daueh.
Ter. Mrs.JaInes Hamilton, to live at
Hoxie, died several days ago at the
home Of another daughter, Mrs
Jeck Qualls Of Williford, following
o. Illness Of pneumonia. Besides
Nd Hamilton and Mrs. Qualls
leaves third daughter, Mrs
Aoolph Kunkle Of Maxville, and O
oon James Brewer Of Little Rock
Brewer was IA years Of aee, q
oovout member OF the Christian
cnurch, and for many years had O
hQot OF friends In this section.
Sharp County record., 1918-12-13
Increase Of Influenza Cases
Causes Quarantine Al Batesvill,

On account Of the increasing
number Of influenza cases at Bates
vile the city board Of health the
frat part Of the week again placed
a strict quarantine on all public