The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-19
COLUMBUS, MISS.

Columbus Miss. July 1S.-(Special) At meeting of the municipal council which was held last night bonds Tn the sum of $50000, which were authorlzed ] to be issued at special election hed several weeks ago, were sold to the Hibernia Bank and Trust company or New Orleans. ,l.s bonds bear interest
 at the rate of 5A per cent and brought a premium of s260 There was quite
 scramble for the securities, no less
 than 16 different firms and corpora
 tions having submitted bids thereon.
 The Hibernia Bank and Trust company
 was represented by Parker Reeves,
 cashier of the Merchants and Farmers 1 bank in this city, while several other l bidders had special representatives present at the meeting. The contract 1 for the paving, which will include II
 blocks in the business district of the I city, will probably be awarded within | the next two weeks.
 1 The annual barbecue of the Lowndes l County Confederate Veterans assocla-
 tion will take place Saturday The feast will be given arthe Tucker vine yard in the northwestern suburbs Of 1 the city, and the old soldiers, as well '
 been invited to be present. are anticl-
 pating a royal time.
 A party made up or good roads en- I thusiasts from Monroe county and &C., companied by two engineers in the em- l ploy of the federal government visited Columbus yesterday for the purpose of 1 interesting local men in scheme to
 build an air line highway from Aber- 1 deen to this city. The road at present
 used requires travellers between the ! two places to cover a distance of oS
 miles, while the proposed plan reduces
 the distance to 2S miles. While here
 the visitors consulted with Gus E. Hauser, a local highway engineer. and | other good roads enthusiasts.
 1 The party included the following | gentlemen: Eugene l.. Sykes. Abe-- deen: A. S. Baskin. Drew Stewart, Ros
 COG Wilmore J. NJ. Morgan, George Wilmore Solon Mattox, J. $. Longmira, l Harry Chapman. Curtis Cobb, D. K.
 Anderson. Charles Mayors Hamilton; D. K Caldwell Montgomery; H. C. Diester. Jackson, Miss. The two last named gentlemen are highway en- gineers in the employ of the federal government.
 Bonds in the sum of $6o,OO0 for the improvement of public highways in the Crawford road taxing district were
  terday to Sidney Spitzer & Co. of To- i ledo, Ohio. The securities sold at par
 and bear interest at the rate of X per cent.
 1 According to advertisements appear 1 ing in local newspapers. contracts for
 the construction of public highways In
 the Mayhew road taxing district and the road taxing district comprising
 supervisors beat No were to have been awarded the same day. but the { bids were all considered too, high and neither one of these contracts was awarded
 Iudson P. Comfort and Miss Olga Wright both of Reform, Ala. were
 married here yesterday. the ceremon, taking place at the courthouse and be-
 ing performed by Justice of the Peace
 T. NJ. Cummings. MT. Comfort is
 mail carrier on rural route out of Reform, while his bride is a young 1 lady of decidedly prepossessing ap- , pearance:
 I Homer Clark, widely known trap
 shooter, gave an exhibition at the reg ular weekly meet of the Magowah Gun club Thursday afternoon. The nee. was held at the clubs grounds, near Schaeffer's chapel on the Jackson highway. and spectators from various
 portions of the county were in attend- ance