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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-10

around Sheffield and Florence are full of animation.
 Great interest is maintained in the annual convention of the United States Good Roads association and the meeting of the Bankhead high way commission to be held jointly at Mineral Wells. Tex, April II to 19, in- elusive. The Bankhead highway has been located from Washington, D. C., to Mem phis, by the way of Birmingham, and next month the route will be carried on to Los Angeles. The convention will be attended and addressed by many govern ors and hundreds of highway commits sinoers and road engineers. The result will be a fresh impetus to highway con- struction, in all parts Of the south.
 One of the mainstays of southern pros- perity is agriculture along progressive lines; and 1919 will witness greater farm production than ever before. Acreage Tn Alabama reached the maximum last year but with intensive methods employed the harvest will it is believed, mark new high record.
 In 1918, with lapor shortage a handi- cap, the crops were enormous, and 1t IS a noteworthy fact thta none of the yield was wasted. There will be no labor shortage this year and better still, ap- proved farm machinery, especially trac- tors, will be more generally used than in any previous year. The fact is thai southern agriculture will not come into it's own until the blowing of fields, ana even truck patches is done with tractors.
 The increase of livestock in Alabama IS enriching the individual and adding great wealth to agricultural communities. Not
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-10
TO BUILD GULF COAST RAILWAY

Initial steps toward the construction of an electric interurban railway along the gulf coast from New Orleans to Mobile were taken at Bay St. Louis, Miss February 2, when convention. representing the municipalities in this section, was held and a permanent organ ization effected for the purpose of car rying identical laws passed by the leg latures of Louisiana and Mississippi au- thorizing incorporated cities and towns to combine and cooperate with eacn other in the ownership and operation Of municipal interurban trolley lines, ac- cording to Pass Christian special to the Manufacturers Record.
 Mayor Martin Behrman of New Or leans was chosen chairman of the or ganization. The convention created an executive committee clothed with full au- thority to work out a plan of allottins the cost of construction among the muni cipalities and to secure estimates rom engineering firms. Mayor John J. Ken endy of Biloxi Miss, was made chalr' man of the executive committee, with , Mayor Frank Suter of Pass Christian, Miss, as secretary.
 The convention adopted tentative route for the proposed municipal inter-
 urban railway, the line beginning al
 lew Orleans and running via Slidel!
 Fayeland, Bay St. Louis, Pass Christian Long Beach, Gulfport, Handsboro, Bi. oxi. Ocean Springs. Pascagoula, Moss i Point. Grand Bay and Mobile.
 1 A duplicate of the Louisiana and Ms | sissippi interurban acts has been intro duced in the Alabama legislature bs
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-10
FUND IS LIBERAL
 FOR CLERGYMEN

New York. March 9.-(Special)-The
 Eniscopa1 church contributed in two
 years $11S1 057.76 for the protection
 of it's clergymen through the church
 pension fund. This was the amount or
 the assessments paid into the fund by
 churches throughout the country at the
 close of the two years of operation just ended.
 Mcneil Sayre, secretary and man ager of the church pension fund, an nounced that this total of $1,1S1.O57.76 was 9Sk per cent of all possible as sessments payable on the salaries or Episcopal clergymen in the United States and foreign missionary fields. Seven and one-half per cent of all sal aries which is the assessment rate, would amount to $1,20p,000 for the two- | year period.
 1 The church pension fund began oper- alton on March 1, 1917, with S,712,000 I raised in a campaign for $5. 900 to protect clergymen then in office. The l fund embraces 5000 parishes scattered throughout the United States and for eign missionary fields, and more than | 5000 clergymen who are protected by
 old age pensions, disability allowances and benefits for their widows and or | phans.
 l In a notice which has just been sent | to all the bishops of the church in the ] United States, Mr Sayre pointed out l that the amount of annual grants of | the fund make it once of half dozen largest pension granting corporations
 of the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-10
MISSISSIPPI YAM TO
 BE WELL ADVERTISED

The humble sweet potato has leaped into third place in value among Missis- sippi's crops and agricultural extension workers, cooperating with growers and canners, are laying plans for nation wide campaign for advertising this prod- uct, as well as increasing and standard izing it's production and sale, according to a Jackson special to the Manufactur- CTS Record.
 Growers and cannerS met here re- gently with company of experts and decided upon an organization to work out standardization plans. The Nancy Hali was decided upon as a variety to be featured by the Mississippi assocla- tion.
 There are already 15O curing-housea in the state built by government plans and 800 will be built during the current rear More than 20 factories are in successful operation, and where local factories cannot use local supplies, they are marketed according to the co-opera- tive system, which has proved immense ly valuable in the sale of all farm prod- ucts in this state
 Demonstrations presenting the value of the sweet potato and it deliciousness as a food will be held in cities in the north and west. The potato is already the largest cash crop in south Mississippi and the piney woods sections are finding it a very valuable agricultural product. Senator John Craft of Mobile and will be pressed for passage. The Florida legis- latures will be asked to pass a similar act. so as to enable the extension of the interurban from Mobile to Pensacola.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-10

IL will be several weeks, perhaps months. before business recovery from wartime dislocation approaches nor nal but improvement is in evidence. And as spring advances the improvement is more and more marked.
 The United States department of com merce points out the tendency to nor nal price levels, the building trades are beginning to show signs of activity and plans for highway construction are talk ing shape in every southern state.
 Alabamas highway commission is get ting ready to increase good road mile age on an extensive scale; and nearly every mile of road will be of a higher class than ever known before in this section of the country. Jefferson county is expendng $3G0,000 on hard road eX- tension, and it will not be long before the people vote large bond issue which will enable the county to go forward on a scale of great magnitude.
 Motor truck hauiase is already quite heavy, but it is small compared with what it win be F months from today The demand for paved highways is lm- perative and the road building activity will go a long way in hastening the era of prosperity which is confidently ex- pected.
 In the Birmingham district, the Mobile district and the Muscle Shoals district the pay rolls are well maintained. Work on the big dam at Muscle Shoals is be-
 ing steadily pushed and if the number of employees is not as large as during wartime operations the scenes in and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-10
Tendency Toward Normal Price
 Leuels Noted By High Authority
Being Gradually Planning Tor Activity This Road Construction to Be In Evidence ms
 Year-Alabama' Agricultural Prosperity Mainstay

only are swine and cattle being better bred than formerly-better bred even than last year-but as result of inn proved quality and better marketing they are bringins top prices Examples are furnished every few days by the Ala bam extension service. Here is recent bulletin that comes from Auburn:
 "The farmers of Tallapoosa county turned their hogs into cash last wee< and as a result about $20,000 in real money is being circulated for supplies, fertill- ger fencing, etc, and enabling many farmers to hold their cotton for bet ter prices.
 con Tuesday, February 25. five cars were sold at Alexander City, about 4So hogs, at $13.55 per 100 for tops, live stock commission man stating they were the best bunch of hogs he had yet seen south.
 .'At Camp Hill on Thursday, four more cars of hogs were sold at s13.25 per loo' both of these lots going to MT Will banks, local buyer.
 "At Dadeville on Wednesday, the BIT mingham Packing company secured the shipment of three cars, about 2oo hoss' for S1275. These 1130 hogs represent apout 12 carloads, and Fall of the hogs are not sold vet Last year only four carloads of hogs all together were marketed IhS sales were conducted by the Alabama eH- tension service, F. E. Binford, county agent and l.. T. Wells, assistant mar keting specialist"
 And so it goes. The farmer as wen as the manufacturer, is contriputlng Il, a high degree to tine souths lndustrlai hum,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-10
Sites Are Purchased
 for Fine Residences

A Florida special to the Industrial In- dex says:
 Many deals in central and bayfront real estate in Miami are being made, and the activity is notable. Large sums of money are involved in many of the transactions, which Will be followed by much construction, particularly the build ing of fine residences.
 In the past two weeks more than 14OO feet of bayfront south of Miami, in the Cocoanut Grove section, involving more than $200 GOO, has been sold-most of 1t to northern investors who intend to build from 100 to 200 feet of riparian rights, and generally extend from the bay to the Cocoanut Grove road or beyond.
 One of the most important deals of the past few days was the purchase by J. C. and Edward Henne Of Mansfield, O., of choice building sites from the Alton Beach Realty company, these sites front ns on Collins avenue, near Lincoln road. Reward Henne has just enlarged his hold ing by buying an adjoining 1O0 feet 1ront- age, and upon this and his first pur- chase he proposes to erect winter home to cost not less than s60,000 Plans are now being drawn, the StTuctuTe to oe ol Italian villa design. It is probable that work will be started within the next 50 or 60 days. J. c. Henne will build home in keeping with that of his brother, but probably of a different design.
 c. l.. Brooks of New York city, a cap- italist and prominent Y. M. c. A. worker, has purchased a tract of land on the bou- levard between the Snowden and Pan coast residences, and has already broken ground for the erection of a beautiful home to cost not less than $20.oO0
 G. l.. Cleveland has bought one of the residences and sites recently build on the bay front by the Alton Beach Realty company The suite is just north of Lin coin road. and commands splendid view of the bay The consideration was $4o,- OO0 MT Cleveland has also purchased a valuable building site on Collins ave- nue, paying s10.000 for it.
 w. A. Evats of Boston has acquired two lots, one on the ocean front and the other near the park. paying $250O for each of them.
 w. s. Witham, the well known banker, who recently bought valuable lot from G. l.. Kline, on Miami avenue, has pur- chased another, an adjoining lot, from Mr. Kline for consideration of S3o0o
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-10
Actual Construction Work On
 Dan, Proper to Start Shortly
px H. FoNTAINE LITTLE

Sheffield. March 9.-(SpeciaL)-On the north bank of the Tennessee river. east of Florence, almost opposite United States Nitrate Plant No. ?, the site of which adjoins the city of Sheffield. one of the greatest internal improvements ever undertaken by this government, is fast passing the, preliminary stages. In fact, preparations for building the Muscle Shoals dam-the largest monolith struc- ture in the world-are all but concluded, and unless delayed by the rushing high waters of the Tennessee river which is now approaching flood stage, actual con struction work on the cam proper will be inaugurated within a few weeks.
 The railroad lines leading from the dam site to Florence and Sheffield are in the final stages of construction. These lines connect at the site with eight tracks of sidings, each of which is SG0 feet long, and constituting the railroad yards
 where machinery and materials will ar rive and be unloaded and distributed.
 On the high bluff overlooking the rive;
 the government has acquired 16C acres of land, which is being used as site
 for establishing villages where several hundred houses will be erected for hous- ing the thousands of laborers. One hun dred of these houses are completed and
 also five special type buildings, which
 N~%'N-
 his engineering forces, in charge of
 building operations at the dam, whose offices will be moved from the federal
 building in Florence within week or 10 days.
 Some of the features of the Muscle Shoals dam include a lock, which will
 be 300 feet long and 5S feet wide, with lift of AT feet, permitting the largest of river boats to pass through. The dam itself will be nearly one mile in length,
 including approaches, and will be of mass concrete, the weight of which will insure absolute stability. It will be nearly lOo feet in height, with a base S3 feet wide, with an apron extending 150 feet on the down-river side, and 10 feet wide at the top. The dam will be constructed in three sections one on each side of the river and one in midstream, and finally will be linked together It is estimated that four years will be required to com plete the job, during which time from 25OO to 5000 people will be engaged. Mai. D. A. Watt, United States dis trict engineer, is in charge of the con struction work the Muscle Shoals dam. and the personnel of his corps of ! assistants include:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-10
THE HUM OF INDUSTRY IN THE SOUTH
Prospectiue Builders Realize
 Wisdom ofStarting Righ NoV

line a long time and the needs for re- pairs and new construction are now in evidence on all sides.
 Now is the time to build. Let's get busy"
 The East Coast Lumber and Supply company, with headquarters in Ft. Pierce, Fla. and branches in a number of Florida cities says in one of its adVer- tisements:
 From all points along the east coast comes the reassuring and cheering in formation that accommodations for our winter visitors have been taxed to the utmost and in many cases they have not been great enough to take care of the crowds.
 This condition clearly indicates that new construction must be begun now and continued through the coming summer to take care of the crowds who will flock south next winter, and in line with this comes information from our various branches that plans are now being laid to do this.
 "A geenral review of the building ma terial market shows that building in general is looking up over the entire country. and there has been no falling in the demand for lumber even with the government out of the market, which would indicate that prices will remain about the same for the present; how eyer, this should not deter the farsighted business man from building now while land is relatively cheap, and reap the benefit of a general boost in real es-
 ate and property values that is already beginning to be felt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-10
NEW ORLEANS ENTERS
 ON NEW BUILDING ERA

New Orleans is entering on great building era, says a correspondent or the Manufacturers Record.
 Operations already commenced, those announced for early fulfi1lment, the known needs of the city and the men tai attitude of men of means warrant this statement. The wait-until- prices drop attitude is fading. DO it now IS becoming the motto.
 Under construction now in New Or leans are a s15,00o.O00 army ware house. an addition to the cotton ware house. and a coal tipple not to men
 ton the building development along
 the industrial canal and certain amount of private improvement A few days ago local interests bought
 a square of ground of the riverfront here for s5O,O00. Work is to be begun shortly on a factory costing in the hundreds of thousands of dollars Arch itects are now engaged on the plans. From Washington comes the news that a $600,000 appropriation has been reported on favorably for building a new quarantine station at New Orleans. 1 New Orleans Yacht club is consider. , ing elaborate building plans, SO0N1o0 l feet in size, and three stories high the proposed structure would be among 1 the finest yacht clubs in the world Besides the above, New Orleans is | about $12,000,000 behind in normal | building because of the war That IS l to say, if there had been no war, New 1 Orleans would have built office, factory and residential buildings to the value I of $12,000,000 more than it now has l Buildings that have been announced 1 for early construction. although nc definite plans have yet been adopted ! in every case, include new skyscrap ei for Hibernia bank building; new homl for Standard Oil company, addition tt l Whitney-Central bank. remodellng O 1 the Hennen building for the Liberty bank; new cotton exchange to go III 1 after the old one has been demolished l Orpheum circuit to build new anc l larger theatre two new hotels prom ised and needed; Times Picayune tC biuld a new home, Pan American Life l Insurance company, to erect. bu!ld' ing Delgado Trade school to go III I shortly; other school buildings contem | plated.
 Besides the buildings above men tened, New Orleans is short thousand: of homes. This is reflected in the r!s' in rents-20 per cent higher than they | were six years ago It is also reflected ill the difficulties new arrivals exper
 fence in finding houses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-10

W. M. Williamson, chief clerk and dis bursting agent.
 Joseph Wright, principal assistant en- gineer.
 John J. McCabe, field assistant en- gineer.
 II. C. Corns. assistant engineer, draft ing division.
 S D. Brown, assistant engineer
 s. T. Jones. Jr., superintendent of con- struction.
 T. J. Evans, junior engineer.
 w. A. Carney, assistant chief clerk.
 A. G. Fell, auditor accounts .depart@ ment.
 F. T. Samuel purchasing agents di- vision.
 George Kirkland, manager traffic de- partment.
 These forces will be augmented by oth- CT engineering experts as the construc- ton work progresses. At the present time 5o0 men are employed on the dam work, and this number will very proba- bly be doubled within few weeks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-10
COUGHING SPELLS
 BREAK YOUR REST.
Put a stop to them with old reliable Dr. Kings New
 Discovery

That raw. hoarse throat must b, soothed. That phlegm- loaded chest mus be loosened. That cough must be checks ed so you can sleep. =N
 Dr. Kings New Discovery has been relieving colds, and coughs for half century without the least disagreeable after effects.
 Your druggist has it because it is weIl-known and in big demand. COG and $1.20. ft'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-10

Knights Templar of Cyrene Com mandery are requested to meet at the temple mt 3;3O o'clock this afternoon for the purpose of conducting templar funeral services for William J. Thom- aston.
 Funeral services fin temple begin at o'clock. Full uniform required.
 JACK RIDDLE,
 Commander.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-10
Try this for Constipation

Keep the bowels on schedule time with Dr. Kings New Life Pills, the sys- tenn freed from poisonous wastes, the complexion clear. the stomach sweet. the tongue .uncoated, the. breath un-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-10
BETTER THAN W|||S'KEY FOR
 COLDS AND FLU

New Alcoholic Elixir, Called Aspironal, M e d ic t d With Latest Scientific Remedies Used and En- dorsed by European and American Army Surgeons to Cut Short a Cold and Prevent Complications
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-10

Every Druggist in U. s. ln- structed to Refund Price While You Wait at Coun- ter If Relief Does Not Come Within Two Min utes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-10

The following concerns are recommended by The
 Age-Herald to its readers worthy of patron
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New Britain herald., 1919-08-01

Odd Tapestry Chairs and Rock q tapestry Chairs and Rock 2rS, covered seat and back; mahogany frame; others overstuffed, with and with
New Britain herald., 1919-08-01

1t is only by spending much time on the cool comfortable furniture floors every day that you can realize the immen- sity of our stocks.
New Britain herald., 1919-08-01
Living ing Room
 Furniture

Odd mahogany fireside Chairs and Rockers, with and with ly
The Washington herald., 1919-03-24
BIT OF PAPER
MURDER CLEW

Mineols. n. Y, March 23.-DIs-
coyery o. a fragment of newspaper
In the trouser pocket OF DIR. Wal
ter X. Wilkins is regarded by
Nassau County police as one OF the
most important links in the chain
OF circumstantial evidence they are
constructing in the investigation
into the murder of Mrs. wilkins on
February 81 last and for which Will
kins is indicted. This piece of
paper is believed to be the missing
part of the Lynnbrook newspaper
which was wrapped about the ham
mer with which the woman was
killed and which DR.. wilkins claims
he had never seen.
Two pieces of this newspaper
have already been found and a
third was located in the pocket of
an old pair of trousers belonging
to the indicted husband. This third
scrap has been compared with the
two previously found and exactly
fits into the other two.
wilkins is being held in the
county Jail for the grand jury. His
trial is expected to come within six
weeks. He stoutly denies all
charges and declared he had every
thing to lose and nothing to gain
by his wife's death.
The Washington herald., 1919-03-24
HUNGARY AT WAR
WITH THE ALLIES;
EXPECT EARLY CLASH
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.

blockade. Food shipments into Hun
gary are expected to be stopped forth
with. and starvation may bring the
Hungarian masses back to reason.
The allies are relying upon the 10y
atty Of the bulk OF the Czecho-Slovak
forces. The sudden burst Of the Red
flames In the East servss. however. to
confirm the repeated warnings OF the
CZecho-Slovak commanders and poll
ticians that no time must be lost in
rushing substantial aid to them. They
have been facing formidable odds and
some elements in their army are worn
and disappointed
All Hungary Is under martial law.
The new government. which openly
calls itself an out-and-out Soviet
regime. is headed by Alexander Car
ooi as premier. Its first act was to
declare a dictatorship of the prole-
tariat and announce measures much
as those which swung the Russian
masses in line when Denine and Trot-
sky gained power in Moscow. A Red
army is being raised.
The reason given by Karolyi for the
declaration Of war and alliance with
Bolshevist Russia is that the decision
of the Paris Peace Conference to oc-
cupy further territory in Hungary
makes it impossible to feed the Hun
garian people anr maintain order.
Russian Red forces are some 20 miles
from Lemberg. the Galician capital