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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1920-07-23
CROP PROSPECTS,
IN DISTRICT ARE
FINE SAYS DEAN
CORN FIELDS ARE ALL CLEAN
AND RAINS CAME JUST AT
RIGHT TIME FOR THEM.
BIG ACREAGE CRIMSON GLOVER
Winter Cover Crops WIN Exceed IN
Area Those Sown In Any Former
Year In the History Of the State,
Declares Agricultural Expert. ~
tFrom Mondays Daily Herald.

7 tfrom Mondays Daily Herald.
Never have the prospects for fine
crop yields been better, according to
ffot. j. NJ. Dean, the districf agent
OF this district, and whose is in close
touch with conditions in TWENTY-FIVE
OF the best counties of the state The
corn yield will be cut short only as
the acreage has necessarily been re-
duced because of labor shortage The
yieid per acre Is going to be fine. The
rains came just at the right time and
they came in the greatest abundance
frof. Dean stated that the yield of
nay was almost unprecedented and
most OF it has been safely hopsed
or III TICKS. The pastures have never
Deen so good, there being generally
more pasturage on the average farm
than there was live stock and the oat
crop was good. The corn has all been
worked clean and is ready for RAINY
Season.
one OF the most gratifying things |
nthe view of the agricultural ex
perts, is the fact that preparations
are being made by the farmers to SOW
the largest acreage of crimson clover
that mas ever been sown in this sec
llon or the state Thousands of acres
OF land in every county of this dis.
lflct Is being prepared for a winter
cover crop, which means better corn
next year and more pasturage this
winter.
Despite the labor shortage and the
lump in hogs and cattle which wiped
'ut all the profits and with many
afmers meant an actual loss of oper- \
tlng expenses and feed used. the ,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1920-07-23

herald Cheap ', Column Al. Pay.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1920-07-23

ough overhauling and will place a
STOCK OF groceries in the front of the
building and grist mill in the rear.
Mr.. Beard has been in the grocery
business in Columbia for number
OF years, and up until short time
ago operated store in South Column
bia on the Pulaski pike.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1920-07-23
FORD BUYS KENTUCKY
COAL CORPORATION.

LYNCHBURG. Va. July 17.-Pay-
ment was made today through local
bank by the Ford IOtor Company, of
Detroit. for the Banner Fork Coal
Vorporation. of Harlan county. Ken
lucky. The price paid was Sl.O00,0OO
cash and 100000 in notes. The Ban
ner Fork Corporation paid 100000
FOR the property three years ago.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1920-07-23

James II. Cox, democratic nominee
for president, bears the same Chris.
tian name as five of the presidents
Madison, Monroe, Polk, Buchanan and
Garfield.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1920-07-23
/" Bogatzky & Bauman,
WEST 7TH STREET.

year gives every indication of being
a fairly good one with the farmers of
the state.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1920-07-23
C. ". BEARD BUYS
HARRISON BUILDING

3 q. W. Beard has purchased the Mrs,
Wyatt Harrison store house in West
End and is giving the building a thor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-02
COMMUNITY SING
 IS MUCH ENJOYED Recess to Be Taken Until September First-Chorus
 Is Organized

Music by an orchestra in charge oi :. R. Klenk and solo by Bill Car loll, boy soprano, featured the com .nunity sing programme at Woodrow Wilson Park yesterday afternoon. Thii was the last sing previous to the sum. Aer vacation and was well attended And much enjoyed. Adjournment was taken until the first Sunday in Sep- tember.
 In the absence of H. E. Davenny, di- rector, E. P. Lee was in charge of the programme and directed the singing for everybody" The music of the fifteen-piece orchestra was especially enjoyed.
 Daddy, You've Been a Mother to Me" was the solo sung by little Billy Carroll. a. j. Turner played Sullivan s The Lost Chord" as cornet solo. M Dunning, soIoisu at the First Baptist Church sang Perfect Day. as bari- tone solo. Each or these numbers were thoroughly enjoyed as was shown by the applause of the audience.
 The vacation will be the first one taken by the community sing since it was inaugurated over three years ago
 Plans are now being made by the community sing committee to increase che organized chorus from 400 to about 500 voices so as to be ready for the Christmas carols and other holiday festivals. Further plans will be an nounced by MT. Davenny upon his re- turn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-02
Grand at Bessemer
 Is Popular Hotel

The Grand hotel at Bessemer is lo- cated in the heart of the business dis trict, which is probably one of the main reasons why this popular hotel is enjoy ing one of the best seasons that 1t has ever known.
 It is under the personal management of Fred Counter, which Is without a doubt another one of the main reasons
 But the third and most important req son that can be given for the popularity of the hotel is the fact that 1t is run just like a big business organization.
 Everything is in it's proper place Your room is neat. clean and inviting, no mat ter what time of day or night you may choose to stop there.
 It Is run on the American plan. Rates are & per day, and many of the rooms have connecting baths. It is proving popular with quite large number of people who often have business to Gt- tend to in that section of the city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-02
RED CROSS ID HOLD
 SUMMER SCHOOL Noted Welfare Workers to Make Addresses-CIass
 to Register

Beginning Wednesday at o'clock, the
 ummer school of the Red Cross will be 1eld in the rooms of the Civic Associa- ion each Wednesday and Friday during
 he month of August
 This school will give courses in family welfare, taking up every phase of human. nental physical and moral betterment. Experts will lecture on subjects of inter est at every session.
 This is the initial step in the peace time programme of the American Red Cross. The Jefferson county chapter is one of the first to take up the idea
 Classes will be held from 2 to o'clock vice a week. Several lectures will be gwen each day. Those who have enrolled IS students will only be required to take aotes and ask questions concerning any point they wish information. There will oe no home study required. J. K. Brockman, president of the sum ner school, has secured Birmingham 5 nost noted welfare workers to lecture. With only two exceptions all speakers will be Birmingham people. Among those who will address tho Ichool are Dr. J. D. Bowling. city health officer; Dr. George Enves of the Anti Tuberculosis Association. Judge Aber- nathy Miss Irene Shields and others, 1 Those who have put off registering un- l il now can still become member or the class by registering at the Red Cross 1 headquarters in the Jefferson County 1 Bank building.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-02
FORMAL OPENING
 NEW AUTO PLANT Public Invited to Visit Pres ton Motor Corporations
 New Plant Today

Birmfngham's new automobile manu- featuring plant, the Preston Motors
 Corporation, will be formally thrown open for public inspection from 1;SO o'clock to 9:30 o'clock this afternoon. The factory is located on Vanderbilt
 avenue, three blocks east of Norwood
 boulevard. Every person in the city is extended an invitation to visit 1t some time during the opening hours. Automobiles from the plant will meet all Norwood cars and busses. The plant may be reached in an automobile by driving out Twelfth avenue to the end and then turning to the left and Keeping straight on to the factory. The opening of this large plant is i'm | portant, because it represents the be- | ginning of the automobile manufactur- | ing industry in this city. Hundreds of Birmingham persons have stock in the concern and for this reason the success l of the industry means more puslnses 1 for this district.
 l The Premocar automobile is manufac- tured by the Preston Motors Corpora 1 t1on Every part of this car Is manu- factured by this plant No eady-made pieces are used. The corporation is entirely independent of public service utilitiu. It has its own lighting, heat ing and water plants.
 The factory is situated at place where a few months ago there was
 nothing but an abundance of grass and trees. A group of local men got to- gether and erected one Of the pest | equipped factories in the south.
 l Visitors will not only be given 3
 chance to see the workings of this huge plant, but a programme has oee' l provided for their amusement. The Boys Industrial School Band will TUT nish music and souvenirs will be giver 1 to each person who enters the plant. l Citizens of Birmingham do not have
 to visit Detroit to see big automo- | bile factory in operation. They have one in their midst. They are invited tc visit it today and become acquainted with a home industry. The hours are from 1.30 to 9:30 o'clock.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-02
BROWN HAS PLAN TO REMOVE BEGGARS OFF STREETS OF THE CITY

Plans to help and relieve the pencil selling, crippled beggars that are to De found on the streets of Birming aam are being worked out by Rev. Walter s. Brown, superintendent of the department of relief and correction
 While Rev. Brown has not an- nounced his plans it is known that he mas in mind home for men some ching like the Woman's Industrial Home for Women. The rag rug fac- cory at the woman's home has solved che problem of how to take care of many women and their little children.
 rcev. Brown believes something can be done to relieve the streets of the men beggars. No professional or trav- cling beggars will be helped by the plan. Only needy persons living in Birmingham will De given any assist ance. Some kind of work will be pro- vided so that these unfortunates will be able to help support themselves.
 Merchants will be asked to donate all scraps of both food and clothing to this cause and individuals will also be given a chance to help finance the project for the care of cripples and mendicants among men.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-02
.ENS[EY SWIMMING POOL IS DELAYED Rains Interfere With Con- struction of Municipal
 NatatOrium

Continual rains are interfering with work on the Ensley swimming pool. According to Commissioner J. Elhs Brown, it will now be impossible to have 1t ready for use by August 1o, as first announced.
 Excavations tor the twin pools nave been made, but almost daily rains are interfering with the concreting or the sides and bottoms. Construction gangs from the Tennessee Coal, Iron anu Railroad company are rendering Val uable assistance in rushing to compio- tion this municipal bathing resorS.
 Unless rains continue to interfere
 Commissioner Brown hopes to have the pool ready for use by the last or August The pool Is located on Avenue I, Ensley, between Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth streets When completed 1, city.
 The entire cost of the pool and bath house will be about $35,000. The erec- ton Of the pool was largely made pos sipie by the Tennessee Coal and IroI Company. Commissioner Brown suc' ceeded in interesting the company Il the proposed pool because of the large number Of employees of that compan, living in Ensley.
 Plans for the bath house call for ar ornamental T-shaped structure whic,
 will enclose the pool. Dressing room and shower baths for both men an' women will be provided. No perso' can enter the pool without first pass ing through a bath. Each pool Is 5 xl00 feet, with 8 moveable petition 1 between.
 1 Water for the pools will be pumped | from the city mains. Every precau ! ton Is taken for the qualification 0 | the water. A filtration system will b installed and the water will be sun 1 jected to ultraviolet rays. A numDe 1 of seats are provided for the spectator of any aquatic meets.
 | When the Ensley pool Is completes
 Birmi gham will have nine first-clas I swimming pools.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-02

The army recruiting service for the dis-
 rict of Alabama broke all records fos
 ny one month by accepting PA men in July.
 This exceeds the number of men ac- ccpted in June by 67.
 Enlistments in the army have increased wonderfully throughout the United states n the past three months It IS estf- mated by the war department that 4,Wo
 men will be recruited for the army dur ing July.
 The strength of the army on June A
 was 195,OO0 men and 15,l66 officers, ap- proximately half of whom are emergency officers. The act of Congress of June 1. authorized 2So,o0O men and HIT offi- cers for the new peace-time army. The recruiting service is doing its best to se- | cure the number of men authorized Colonl Saffarrans, the recruiting or | Hcer for this district, attributes this
 marked increase in enlistments in the Army to the fact that it is becoming gem 1 .rally known to young men, as well as
 70 their parents, that the army IS really | what it claims to be. the greatest tram ing school in the world for young men | The kind of men that the army wants cannot as rule, be attracted by the pay allowed by law. For that reason
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-02
FUNERAL SERVICES !. OF JAS. W. CORNETT
Large Crowd Attends Mill tary Funeral of Soldier
 Who Died In France

Private James W. Cornett, who died October 6, 1918, in France while on duty with the American expeditionary forces, was buried at o'clock yester- day afternoon with military honors. 1t was the anniversary of his nine eeenth birthday.
 Funeral services were held from Lige Loy's chapel and was attended by the relatives of the young soldier. friends of the family and several hundred otn- er people who turned out to pay last tribute to one who had given his fife for his country.
 Members of the local Typographical Union attended the funeral in a body. and all of the active pallbearers were members of the union who had seen active service during the war. The floral offerings were very beau ciful, and the funeral proc ession was considered to have been the largest that has been held here in many day A guard of honor composed of the members of the local post of the American Legion accompanied the body
 60 it's last resting place. l Ten members of the local post of the l legion with an officer in command
 served as firing squad and fired a last salute over the grave of their | former comrade in arms. Taps was sounded by Sergt. John McCord, regi- mental bugler of the One Hundred and Sixty Seventh Infantry. Rainbow Di- vision. Chaplain Oscar DeWolf Ran
 dolph of the local post of the legion. conducted the funeral services. 1 Private Cornett, before he enlisted 1 in the United States army, was an ap- i prentice in the composing room of The l Age-Herald and was well liked by all I his friends and associates.
 | He enlisted in the motor corps, but I became ill on board the ship while en l route to France. When his transpor; 1 landed on foreign soil he was placed m an army hospital near Brest | France but by this time his sickness mad developed into a serious case oi pneumonia, and he died a few days I later.
 He was buried in one of the big army cemeteries in France, where his body remained until few weeks ago, when at the request of his family 1t was sent to Birmingham for reinterment
 Private Cornett is survived by his father and mother, MT. and Mrs. N. F Cornett; three brothers, John H. Cor nett, a member of the headquarters
 company of the Rainbow division; w c. and N. F., Jr., and two sisters
 Misses Teresa and Nina Cornett.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-02
JUDGE N. 3. FEAGIN
 A NOTABLE FIGURE
Funeral Delayed Pending Arrival of Relatives-Had
 Distinguished Record

Funeral services for Judge N. B. Fea- mer recorder of the police court, who died in his seventy seventh year at local infirmary early yesterday morning, will be delayed pending the arrival or his wife and daughter, Miss Alma Fea- gin, who were spending vacation in the west when his death occurred.
 The body is being held at the Johns undertaking establishment, and several telegrams have been sent to his Wlie and daughter, but no answers have been received as yet.
 Judge Feagin had many friends and was widely known and well liked by hun dreds of people throughout the state. In his early life he was considered very promising young man, and always took an active lead in all the civic affairs oi the community in which he hved.
 He always maintained a deep interest in the welfare of young boys and was one of the leading factors in organizing the local juvenile court. He realized the need of such a place for young boys from the many cases of young boys that came before him in police cour' charged with some petty crime.
 He was of deep religious convictions and for many years taught tAo iiioi' Bible class at the Sunday school Of the Church of the Advent.
 Judge Feagin enlisted as private 1T the Confederate army at the outbreak ol inc civil war, and for many different deeds of bravery on the fighting fiell he was soon promoted to the rank ol captain.
 He served as captain on to the close of the war, having been wounded foul times. and having led his company into more than a dozen of the most 1mpor' tant battles of the war.
 At the close of the civil war ana dur ing the early part of the reconstruction period he farmed for time in an effor' to try and raise enough food to heis supply the hungry people.
 Later he gave up his farm anu moved to Union Springs and for time he ed tied a newspaper in that ,ity called th' Union Springs Times. This Le gave LII in 1871 and began there the practce O law. In 1884 he moved to An-iston.
 His pleasing personality and the deel interest he always maintained in the ciVi' affairs of the community made him yer! popular with the people of that secuoi of the country, and he was elected mayo of Anniston and served for one term He was also the mayor of Union springs
 In 1886 he came to Birmingham an' began at once to take an active lead Il any movement that had for it's motlv the development of the city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-02
BOOKLET ON LOCATION
 OF BAPTIST HOSPITAL

"Where Locate the Baptist Hos . 3ital?" is the title of a booklet recently issued by the Birmingham Civic Asso- citation committee in the effort to pre- sent Birmingham advantages to the Baptist hosital location commission. The subtitle of the pamphlet is Read This and You Will Say Birmingham |"
 The booklet contains sixteen pages full of live information about Bir- mingham and the Birmingham district. The advantages are developed along eleven lines, each of which make the selection of Birmingham as the hos pjtal site almost certain.
 The committee, through subcom- nittee, will immediately select site l., offer the location commission when it begins its inspection of those cities which have bid for the hospital. This tr;r of inspection will be made in Sep tember, according to the present plans of the commission.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-02
Uniuersity tn Khaki New
 Name for AmericanArn

he army is offering them something more. This it is doing in the army schools and shops which are in open a' con everywhere, even where only few soldiers are stationed. From the limited schools at small stations and the schoots where illiterates are taught to read aTiu write, to the great schools at Camp Val. New Jersey, for the training of men fU he signal corps; Camp Jessup, Georgt&, where men are taught all that first :lass automobile mechanic should knosss he University in Khaki" at Camp Gos ior. and other divisional camps Gl-~ schools where enlisted men are prepare. tor the entrance examination to the nns ltary academy at West Point-the wos- IS being carried on with increased ( thusasm day by day.
 Congress has appropriated $S,500000 l. the coming year, in order that this wo may be carried on successfully. hne--. of the instructors in these schools L-- trained civilian educators.
 The army will keep up it's military g- iicency, but at the same time it offerf to the soldiers who serve in it's ranks every opportunity for their advancement, and improvement and will send then. | pack to civil life disciplined, intelligent. patriotic and productive citizens.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-02
UTILIZATION WILL
 STUDY METHODS OF
 RECREAT|NG LANDS
Arkansas Tourists Shown Over Industrial and Res idential Sections of
 City-Crops Are Fine

We are going to Georgia and the carolinas to study at first hand the uses made in those states of fertilizers, whose effect was to recreate worn-oue farm lands and make them wonderful " productive"
 This was the statement of J. D. Me Kee of Pine Bluff. Ark, member of ihe party of 15 bankers, farmers and manufacturers of that state who spent Sunday afternoon in Birmingham en route to points in Georgia and the Carolinas.
 The tourists are members of the Arkansas Profitable Farming League, ] statewide organization. and are trav- cling in special cars with buffet at tached. So popular was the excursion hat more. than ninety applications we're turned down for lack of accom- nodations.
 We have heard of the remarkable yields of corn and cotton in certain dis ric-s of the Carolinas and Georsla, where farmers have intelligently ap- piled fertilizers" said MT. Mckee, ana ke are going to these sections to see for ourselves just how they did it. we wish to apply the best knowledge tt me application of fertilizers on our lands and we could think of no better way of acquiring that knowledge than py getting it from those who had beeh successful.
 50 we organized the excursion. We accepted the kind invitation or the Progressive Farmer for sightseeing tour of Birmingham and we much en- joyedN our trip to the steel and iron mills and around your beautiful resi- dence section. The mills were quite sight to most of us agriculturalists.
 "We will have fine crops in Arkansas this year if nothing untoward happens from now on. The first crop of corn has been made and the young corn is coming along nicely. Our cotton is in very fair shape. We have a few boil weevils, but, if the weather remains dry and hot from now on, cotton will De fine yield.
 we are intensely interested in good roads in our state and We are doing q lot of building under the law, which Allows citizens resident three miles on each side of a proposed road to form road districts and tax the prop srty to raise funds for building the roads. It is a very satisfactory plan, because those who put up the money get the direct benefit of a road through their imm ediate section.
 Right now our road programme has l been somewhat halted. as in other states, by the tightness of the money market, which has prevented the float 1 Ing of bonds, but as soon as money be- comes easier we will forge ahead again | in a big way.
 | With good roads and good farming 4 cfa fa l incidental to good farming that we are | going to Georgia and the Carolinas tc learn few things from those whc have blazed the way to success" 1 The Arkansans left for Americus Ga at o'clock Sunday evening.