The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-26
ALBANY

Albany, February 25.-(Special )-Price
 Ellis, IS months old son of MT. and Mrs.
 R. E. Ellis, was drowned near here
 while playing in small branch that ran
 close to the Ellis home. The child, it is
 thought, had fallen into the water and
 was unable to get out, although che
 stream was less than one foot deep. The
 iitrIe boy was dead when discovered and
 efforts at resuscitation failed. The re-
 mains were conveyed to Johnson chapel
 fo: inrerment.
 The Albany Board of Commerce, young institution that mas accomplished
 much tor the upbuilding of this city,
 has opened the years work by employ
 ing H. F. Henley of Indianapolis, Ind,
 q trained man, as it's permanent secre-
 tary. MT. Henley assumed his new du-
 tie3 today. At a membership banquet
 to 5e gwen Friday evening at the Young
 Mems Christian association, he will ad
 dress the organization and outline his
 plans for the year.
 Thieves who broke into the drug store Of $ M. Thompson here Sunday night
 secured two $lO gold pieces and one $2O
 gold riece from punch board. Their |
 taiued hv smashing the glass of a rear door.
 Twenty Morgan county selectmen, nine white men and Il negroes, reported this afternoon at the courthouse to the coun- ty beard ol exemption and will entrain tomorrow for the cantonments. The white men go 10 Till vacancies at Camp Pike and the negroes to Camp Dodge .1. t- +.t
 under the first cali, unless other men are sent home iron, tine camps because cf physical disabilities.
 The examination of class 1 men of Morgan county will begin at the court house Wednesday morning and will coll t.l,ue until the task is completed, 40 man being examined d;tily. No intimaton has as yet been rs, aived by the county board
 as to Wien these men will be called to the colors.
 Two Hillsboro men, C. N. Robinson
 and J. o. Harlan. have just disposed of l moro than 200 bales of cotton on the local
 markets, for which they received 32 cents per pound, the highest price paid here since the civil war. The sales netted
 nearly $4o,000. Mr. Robinson disposed of IA bales and MT. Hardan of 90 bales. EOtil planters, ueSplte the nlSl pTice oi cotton, stated that they would not m crease their acreage this year, but
 would Tlant more foodstuffs as a pa triotic effort to help win the war. l Dr. Frank F. Pettey, chairman of the district medical advisory board, has been called to Atlanta to take special instrue- l tions in medical advisory board work. 1 It is understood here that this is pre- | lminary to increasing the Jurisdiction of | the district medical board from four | counties to 22. Official announcement of l the change has net yet been made. 1 Funeral services for J. E. McBride. I former manager of the Decatur Ice and | Coal company, and a former resident Of l iucted here from St. Anne's Catholic church, q large concourse of friends at tending.
 Announcement of the recommendation | of Secretary of War Baker that the full 1 SEC. .o000c0 appropriation for Muscle 1 Shoals be expended at once, and that Dam No. shall be constructed at an : satly date. was received here with much cnthasas~ The Twin Cities expect to profit greatly by the building of the dams of the shoals. as in addition to making the Tennessee river navigahie all-the-year from Chattanooga to :ts mouth. !: will make cheap electric cur rent available for the location of fac. tories and industrial plants here. Ow- ing to superior transportation facilities. due to two trunk-line railroads and .h. l river. it Is believed that Albany and De. l catur will become the manufacturins 1 centers of north Alabama