The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-25
PULLMAN

Cullman, May 24-(Special.) )-According | to reports, there have been shipped from the county this season 16000 bales of cotton. Between 22,0o0 and 23,000 bales were ginned, according to ginners' re- ports. This leaves something like 6oov bales of cotton still in the county, most of which will bring 30 cents per pound which indicates that there will be over a half million dollars brought into the county yet from the cotton crop.
 A number of farmers over the county have been holding their cotton awaiting better prices, much of which has been badly damaged from not being stored properly. A man recently brought II, two bales, which were so badly damageu that only one good bale could be got ten out of the two, and the remainder thrown away. In the large warehouse here now there are approximately 1900 bales of cotton, about 800 bales of this being cottoIit \ stored there by farmers. The rest has been sold.
 The Odd Fellows home, which is To- cated near Cullman, was recently exam ined by a federal inspector, whose duty it is to inspect institutions of this kind all over the south He gave the l. U. To. F. home here the highest rating ot any like institution in the south in point of sanitation and general upkeep. Tne next in rank was that of the Episcopal l orphanage in Mobile.
 | The home here has 1S4 acres of land and a building worth sl5o,O00 Since it's erection, hundreds of orphan children have been taken in, clothed, fed and ed- l ucated They receive splendid train ! ing in the usual school branches and then each one is fitted for some useful occupation. A training school is main- I tained for boys and domestic science school for girls, and in addition all the l boys get practical farm training, so that I they understand scientific farming. I Since 1914, there has been debt Of l 5000 over the home for maintenance. I There were not sufficient funds to feed I the family of children, and this debt has I been hanging over and interest pelng T paid on it. It was decided that eacn I Odd Fellow in the state should pay 50 l cents per year on the debt. The result is that this year the debt was paid and there now remeains s40O0 for improve ments at the home of this fund. This l will be used to refurnish certain parts of the home.
 On the first of April the home had saved $3750 out of their $15,00O allow ance for maintainance. It is now in
  ever been in And in addition, there is a fund of $s00 ready for use. which was raised when Hon. George Stiefel- meyer was grand master for the bulld- ing of anew kitchen.
 | The home children raised $12000
 worth of farm products this past year. There are now 100 children in the home.
 A remarkable record, too, is that the children had inf1Aenza-92 at one time Lin the home this winter and there
 was not a single death. Physicians state that this was due to the splendid
 physical condition of the children. who
 had been so well nourished and cared for before the epidemic II MT. and Mrs. Miller are in charge of the home.
 Pierce Johnston, Cullman county boy, was elected principal of the city l school here last night at a meeting of
 the city school board The other
 teachers will be elected the last of : the week.
 MT. Johnston is a graduate of the l high school here, of Florence, and has attended the University of Alabama He will spend the summer at Peabody
 college in Nashville.
 Miss Lydia M. Brown, field secretary
 of first aid from the gulf division, was
 in Cullman recently to consult witl , members of the Cullman County Rec e Cross chapter. pr. T. D. McAdory vii
 be chairman of this organization, with
 Mrs. Ed Herrin as organizing secre.
 tary.
 tenders for a righteous catIse whethe