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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-26

of the most important developments oi the recent past.
 The new pipe plant is working now practically half as many men as VII be employed regularly in the future but within another sixty days it will be turning into the channels of ship ment and use several carloads of pipe each week, adding to the business growth of this city weekly pay roll ranging between $500 and s4.0O0.
 Operation of the plant of the United States Cast Iron, Pipe and Foundry company to its normal capacity. and where a steady and forward going pro gramme has for many years kept the big pipe shop in the front rank of sub stantfaI concerns has been uninterrupt- ed during the war and afterward, and under the expert management of W. F Lewis will maintain it's splendid recore of production.
 The recent announcement that tho Anniston Cordage Company had pur- chased property adjacent to the plant for the doubling of the plant in sig and capacity. coupled with the long ane faithful operation of one of the best textile plants in the city. attracts fla vorable and convincing attention to the success of that industry.
 The unofficial announcement tha this city is to have another bank with in a short space of time has attracted much attention in business circles, ana the fact that amply able business men are giving consideration to the ques tion makes 1t practical certainty tha with the opening up of spring solid institution will he added to the cityt list of banking houses.
 The general air of expansion ana
 H. 1.I-.1 AI, plants Of the city and during the win ter months some transformation in th- nature of genuine revelations have been wrought. The Woodstock cotton mill have been almost entirely re-equippes V ith modern machinery, the interior oi the plant has been changed to meet the new conditions, and the plant T. now one of the show plants of the elt%
 Much the same can be said of thf plant of the Anniston Manufacturing Company, where influential changes have been made in the last few months New hardwood floors have been in stalled. modern machinery has been in stalled in great quantities, and the output of the oldest and most substan- tial mill in the city has been material lv increased The improvement in the living conditions have been marked al this plant in the last few years, and where once stood indifferent lookine homes for the operatives a large elus- ter of neat and well kept cottages now advertise the pioneer plant as one o' the best conducted and operated Tn the city.
 improvement of substantial kinds have been made at practically every nlant in the city during the year jus gone, and what is true of the two big mills of the city can be said ot all th' other similar industries in the city an' district. Adjacent and nearby resi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-26

S75.00O. This will enable the company to handle a great deal more business than they have been able te do in the past.
 Albany Advertiser. According to prediction, the Morgan County Ma tional Bank has increased its capital stock from sf00000 to S200.O00. This bank, which grew out of the private banking establishment of Bibb & Hoff many years ago. now dominates the whole of this section of the state. along with one or two other conforms.
 Andalusia Star. Andalusia has just be- gun to grow. With s2o0, coco worth of paw ing being down, with two skyscrapers al- ready planned for, with a wholesale drug establishment assured for the near future and with number of other enterprises contemplated there is no telling what growth will be shown by the end of the year.
 Greenville Advocates. Figures just re. leased show that Butler county farmers realized the neat little sum of above a quarter million dollars during 1919 iron the sale of hogs alone.
 Beginning in the year 1914 from a com klste zero in shipping out live stock of i'any Kind. and with a record of sHipping
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-26
Bx R. J. RICE

Dg 1s AAANAN
 Opelika, January 25.-(Special) )-Thts city is nursing an incpient boom, if pres ent indications may be diagnosed as sym ptoms of a business reaction. Opelika has been recognized for many years as the metropolis of East Alabama and as one of the best small citEes in the state and the prospects are looming up big for one of the most prosperous eras in it's history Farsighted, astute business men recognize this fact and are showing their faith in the future of the town by their works And never before probably has such a spirit of get-together and pull-to- gether manifested itself in the rank and file of the whole people. It is solid phalanx that nothing less than a calamity can halt.
 Twelve months ago there were many vacant dwellings and stores in the city and apparently decadence had set in, but today all of that has changed and there is hardly even vacant shack in town, and the crying need is. more houses. building boom is now due, and no doubt necessity will compel it's fruition
 ' A few months reconstruction was be- gun on Sf00OOO annex to the Opslika cotton mills. and when this building IS completed the best up-to-date machinery will be installed and thousands of new spindles added to the already large mum Der. 1t is understood that the Opeiika cotton mills is one of the most success full enterprises of it's kind in the country | It's able management assures this. Alse there is well authenticated rumor tt the effect that another large cotton mil l is being planned here. In fact, it is be Ilieved that land has been purchased anC 1 the location selected for the mill.
 | eThe half million dollar corporation Una
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-26
THE HUM OF INDUSTRY IN THE SOUTH
Another Large Cotton MiH
 Being Planned For Opelika

was formed here recently seems to have added impetus to all lines of business. The new corporation has acquired by purchase favorable locations for the various industries it yill conduct, such as tn manufactufe of ice, holdings, house building materials and many other com modities. The company now has large force of laborers reconstructing it's work shops that were taken over from the Opeika Lumber Company.
 Within the past few days a coterie Of well known business men have set on foot movement to establish new bank in the city with S150,oO0 or $2Oo,000 capital stock The promoters propose to SC se- cure a large number of farmers and smal investors as stockholders. and canvass for this purpose is being made. The plans now are only tentative. but the enter prise is an assured fact,
 HuckinsEy X Rubin of Shellman, Ga, have leased a large storeroom on Ninth street which they are now renovating preparatory to putting in S500oo stock
 of drygoods for the spring trade.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-26
CAR SHORTAGE

The Black Diamond of Saturday last said:
 Car shortage in the various coal fields continued to dominate the situation dur ing the past week. With the exception of Alabama. no state Was free from it's local plant int othe largest and best equipped iron, steel and brass foundry south of the Ohio river.
 Several of the, local foundry plant are devoting a great deal of their time to the casting of the parts for tho valves, engipes and cars being turned out at the steel plant, and with every section of the plant in moderate ant continuous operation it is rapidly com. ing to the point where. it is to bt classed as one of the leading industries in the entire district.
 All of the above corfdi tions and sit nations in the city, coupled with th' general optimistic conditions sur rounding the permanency of Camp Nc CRllan. the likelihood that it will b' continued as a storage and salvag' depot for the southeastern departmen and it's early occupancy by troops O the regular army, leads Annistonians t' the point where. it is hard to realiz another boom has not arrived in thei midst.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-26

dence property has been acquired by many of the local industrial concerns for the use of their respective opere ators, and the inauguration of system of free life. health and accident insur- anee for operatives of different plants tells story of general forward move- ment among every element of activity in the city.
 Perhaps the greatest transformation noticeable during the past year ha: been the changes brought about at the plant of the Anniston Steel Company and where upward of four hundred skilled men are now engaged in pro- duction of lines of goods entirely new to this city.
 The big plant is now being operated to approximately one-third of its nor nal and expected capacity during the coming year. That portion of the plant used years ago as a car erecting shed is now used as a machine shop for tho making of high pressure valves and other equipment being used in the oil fields, around twenty of the big valves being turned out each day in addition to the complete making and setting up of an oil engage for the same purpose each day.
 Mining cars to the number of 25f ] will be turned out there during the | month of February, and with the com 1 ing months a foundry for the casting of gray iron, steel and brass will bt | put in operation. The present intention ! of the management is to transform the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-26
FnduStry Huns h AnnistonIn Large and Substantial Way

Anniston. January 25.-(speciaL)- While the glitter and excitement which Is usually attendant and. pronounced in s'boom" periods is entirely absent, and Fonspicuously so. industrial and busi- hess indications for Anniston during \ he year 1920 are far brighter than hey have been in many years.
 Organization of new foundry apo machine shop under the name of the Max Foundry and Machine Company slnd to be located in the southern part bf the city, enlargement of the plant oi The Central Foundry Company, re- gumption of work at the plant of the Iynchbury Foundry Company, the making of tentative plans for forming building and loan association for the housing of those who want to make knniston their homes, erection of eight modern cottages on Mccoy avenue by he Alabama Pipe and Foundry Com bany, the purchase of great deal ot Residence property by the Anniston rarn mills and the Anniston knitting hills, the steady operation of the va
 ious larger and smaller industries of
 he city, and the general air of pros berity which pervades the entire local
 ituation is responsible for the creation
 f the most optimistic feeling since tho
 arly days of the city.
 Making Anniston the headquarters
 or the eastern district of Alabama fo1
 he Alabama Power Company, with J
 I. Barry in charge of the district, en-
 argement of the scope of the big cor
 poration, and the extension of the linef If that concern. foretells story oi till greater achievement to be wrough'
 Turing the present year
 Shipment of the first carload of soil
 pipe manufactured at the plant of the
 Anniston Soil Pipe Company Saturday
 O Detorit attracts unusual attention to
 he newest of the new industries now
 urning out is produc to still further
 dvertise this city as a rapidly ad-
 ancing pipe center, is regarded as ons
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-26

Though an agricultural state, there are important branches of agriculture that arc all but wanting in Cuba. Thus ce- reals are not raised on a large scale the hay crop is unimportant and large quantities of flour, potatoes. meats, beans canned goods, apples and other agricul- tural products are imported. Though many cattle are raised on the island, the dairy industry is as vet undeYeioped, and much milk butter and cheese are broVght from the United States and other coun- tries.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-26
Continued ActiUity In Industrial
 Circles Throughout This Section
Pig Strong Idle and Several of Those Undergoing Repairs-Buldng Operations Booming Various
 Enterprises in Different Parts of the State Brisk

in the county near million dollars worth of meats and meat products, in five short years, under war conditions, Butler coun- ty is now a shipping county for hogs and cattle that ranks we'll up Tn the list in Alabama and the south.
 There were 1l6 carloads of live stock shipped during 1919 from Greenville alone, .S5 of these care of hogs and 21 of cattle.
 This includes the shipments of>the But
 Ter County Hog Marketing Association. II is from their records that the following statistics were taken. and when we con slider that they handled hardly half os the shipments, but that the prices were largely controlled by their prices it is
 easily seen that the status of the whole year may be safely judged from their rec ords
 During 1919 there were 72S,619 pounds Of hogs sold through the association, whcf brought $90,1SS There were 4566 hogs solo at an average price of 1419 cents. The average weight of the hogs was 1oSH pounds.
 | During 1918 there were Sl7,770 pounds oi hogs sold through the Association, whicf brought S41,S441S. There were 1915 hog sold at ap average price of 1886 cents ! The average weight fas 1a7.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-26
WANTED ON
 EMBEZZLING CHARGE
 PUT UNDER ARREST
sy Associated Press

Kemmerer, wyo, January 25.-R. A. Collins. alias R. A. Thompson, wanted in Un dilla, Ga. on the charge of em- bezzling funds of the Commercial Bank there, of which he formerly was cans fer, was arrested at Opal, near here, to- day.
 Sheriff Pennington of Dooly county Ga, is now enroute here from Colo rado to take Collins back for trial
 The arrest of Collins marks the end of a hation- wide search. Private de- tectives are said to have trailed him te Denver thence to Opal where he se' cured a position as hookkeeper Ac' cording to the detectives Collins made the trip to Denver in an automobile
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-26

production in many case to 50 per cent or less.
 Other outstanding influences in the trade were the renewed restrictions on export and the strike of tugmen at New
 York harbor. Added to this, the Toledo
 gateway was clogged with cars, hinder
 ing distribution to Michigan and other points. While efforts are being put for
 ward to clear the congestion. so far little headway has been made
 1 That fhere is little immediate prospect Of a return to anything like normal car 1 supply is evidenced in the attitude of | the railroad administration which this | week sent out lengthy statement point | ing out difficulties which it faces, and | asking cooperation of shippers Many of
 the cars shipped to the far west are yet
 to be returned to their accustomed chan
 nels, and motive power is insufficient to
 make expeditions return possible.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-26

The industrial situation in the south continues to improve. Activity all along the line is the rule.
 Building operations are brisk in every citv and small town,
 Here in the Birmingham district the ron industry is strong Twenty three to 24 furnaces are in blast and several of the idle stacks are under going repairs. Iron is firm at $40 a ton.
 A note of optimism pervades the en- tire south. The year 1920 promises to be one of exceptional bueyanee. The following clippings from The A -Her7 aids state exchanges show some Of the things that are being done:
 Pickens County Herald: According to those who have kept up with the progress. about 20 car loads of high priced mules. amounting to- about S150 GOO. were sold in Pickens in the last three months. Some mules brought as high as s1000 a pair What more proof is necessary as to the flourishing condition in Pickense
 Albany Advertiser: The Decatur Ice Company has called meeting to see ii it Is the wish of the stockholders 10 increase their stock from $5U.00O to
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1920-06-25
PETTIBONE FOR GOVERNOR

Under date line of June 2lSt
the Grangeville correspondent of
the Lewiston Tribune had the
following to say in regard to
Nate Pettibone who has been
named as a candidate for the
highest office in the state, that
of governor:
In interviewing some of the
delegates from Idaho county,
who have just returned from the
democratic convention, held in
the city of Lewiston. it is found
that they all speak in the highest
terms of praise of the grand
treatment accorded them in
Lewiston.
One of the most gratifying
features of the gathering is the
report here in Idaho county that
the candidacy of State Senator
N. B. Pettibone met with the
best of response from delegates
all over Idaho. While Canyon
county spoke in high terms of
their friend. Judge Walters, for
governor, there appeared to be
no chrystalized sentiment for
any one southern man. In fact,
Mr.. Pettibone had the warm sup
port of many southern delegates.
The northern delegates of course
were quite loyal to Mr.. Pettibone
and expressed themselves in no
uncertain terms favorable to
him.
While the state convention is
some weeks away, the Idaho de-
legation feel now like making an
aggressive campaign for Mr..
Pettibone. His record in the
state legislature the past two
sessions has been such that his
name is quite well known in the
political life of the state. Idaho
county democrats feel now that
he can be nominated for cover
nor in the state convention at
idaho Falls.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1920-06-25
PIONEER PICNIC JUNE 30.

The Idaho County Pioneer
Association holds its annual re-
union and picnic at the historic
camp grounds at Mount Idaho on
Wednesday, June 80, 1920, with
a short program before and after
the picnic, to which all hands are
invited. We hope to have a visit
from a lot of the old timers and
their wives and daughters from
the Cottonwood side of the prai-
RE, and hope they will bring
their lunch baskets and coffee
pots and join us in having a good
( time.
The celebration winds up with
a Pioneer dance at the Odd Fell
lows hall on Wednesday evening,
with all the old fashioned square
dances and Virginia reels which
have lately been put out of BUSH
ness by the razzle-dazzle, jazz
and shimmy affairs. All are
welcome.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1920-06-25
AUTO ACCIDENT.

Mr.. and Mrs. T. p. Mitchell
received a telegram last week
with the sad news that Mrs.
MitchelPs brother-in-law Peter
De Young of Pendleton, Oregon,
was a victim of an auto accident
in Peoria, ILL.,. where Mr.. De-
Young with his wife and daugh-
ter were visiting with relatives
of Mrs. De Young. The acci-
dent occurred near the Horton
home they were visiting. Mr..
De Young and daughter and Mr..
Horton were in the car and
started across a railroad cross
ing when the approaching train,
which they did not see until too
late struck the car. The daugh-
ter was in the front seat with
her father and jumped getting
clear of the car. Mr.. Horton was
thrown about 20 feet and Mr..
Horton, who was in the back seat
was dragged with the car about
35 feet crushing his back and
hips and he died within an hour.
Mr.. De Young lived "a hours.
His body was shipped back to his
home at Pendleton where burial
took place.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1920-06-25
COUNTY SEAT NEWS ITEMS

/ AOGNl oEA1 NEWS IIEmS
l.. III. Kerlee and family left
Sunday for California where
they expect to reside.
Frank E. Wyatt, arrived from
Lewiston Sunday, and will spend
several days in the city. He
anticipates higher prices for
beef cattle in the near future,
but says there is no demand for
stock at present.
The committee in charge of
the 9TH of July celebration are
working hard to perfect all of
the arrangements and plans, and
they announce that the celebra-
ton will be the best that has
ever been staged in this section
of Idaho.
Geo. II. Arnold returned We'd
nesday night from Mussellshell,
Montana where he visited at the
home of his son, Wayne Arnold,
and family. Mr.. Arnold states
that the oil industry is making
very rapid strides in that state
and brought home some samples
of the product taken from the
wells now in operation there.
Earl Hamili, well known
young man, formerly of the
Fem section, is now a resident
of Brooklyn, N. Y, where he is
an employee of the Mergenthaler
Linotype Co. He is engaged in
the magazine department of the
company where he has charge
of thirty men.
An extensive program of road
and trail improvement is con-
templated in plans of the Nez-
perez Forest this season. In
addition to the regular fire pa
troll, the local forest will employ
a number of small Improvement
crews on road and trail work.
A fifteen m IN crew will be used
throughout the season on the
Adams road. In addition a
smaller crew will work most of
the summer on the road between
Adams and the Buffalo Hump.
The combined efforts should re-
suit in fairly good auto road to
Adams and good wagon road to
Squaw Meadows.
A report was received in the
city recently that body of coal
had been discovered on the old
Bledsoe property, now owned by
+. S. Sweet. of this place. The
property is located about 8 miles
south of the city. Mr.. Lem
Neal, who made the discovery,
states that he has uncovered tie
vein at several places. and the
body of coal has never been dis
covered less than four feet. Mr..
Neal plans on forming a corpora
ton to take over the work of de-
velopment and already has en-
ough backing to insure success
to the venture. The company
would control a body of land
comprising about 1000 acres.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1920-06-25
IN CALIFORNIA.

The Chronicle this week recei-
wed a very interesting letter
from Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Ritter
who early this spring disposed of
their farm near here to Mike
Schubert, and they are now locat-
ed in the sunny state of Califor-
MIA. The letter reads as fol-
lows:
Los Angles, Calf,
June ID, 1920.
Cottonwood Chronicle,
Cottonwood, Idaho.
Dear Editor
Since leaving your
city we have had some very
pleasant days of leisurely sight
seeing in and about this part of
the state of California. We
have Just finished a stay of
about four weeks at the home of
Mrs. Fred Aiken and enjoyed
every bit of the time. We have
seen quite a few of the sights
when out motoring which was
quite often as Mrs. Aiken drives
her own car and we liked South
ern California so well that we
purchased a new home and will
settle near Hynes. We have
ten acres, all improved; one acre
in fine orange trees, a nice
roomy bungalow of six rooms
and bath, all modern improve
ments, including phone md
electricity, outbuildings, large
barn, chicken park, milk house,
all lit up by electricity. Two
flowing wells, which amply iiTi-
gate the place; home garden,
flowers and lawn in front of the
house, which faces on one of the
Long Beach Boulevards. Also
have a side driveway lined with
palms and we are only one block
from the Pacific Electric car
station and 8 miles from the
ocean. We can sit on our front
porch and watch the motor cars
go by to and from the beach and
we feel sure we will be very
happy in our new home as we
already have been made welcome
in the community and had a
most pleasant evening at one of
the birthday celebrations so we
trust we will have just as nice
friends as the many we left be-
hind in Cottonwood; of course
we miss our dear friends that we
had in dear Cottonwood, that is
only natural.
Please now send our paper to
our new address.
We also hope to hear from the
many kind neighbors and friends
we left behind. Kindest regards
and very best of wishes and luck
to you and all.
Sincerely.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Ritter.
r. F. ID. No. Box PIC
Hynes, California.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1920-06-25

If you want a Ford car, truck
OF Fordson tractor place your or
der at once. Cottonwood Gar
age. 25-2
If your Radiator leaks take it
to South & Prick. 14-tf
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1920-06-25

Pay the last half of your 1919
taxes at The First National
Bank, not later than Saturday
June 26th. 22-5
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1920-06-25

If you are in the market for
good seed or table potatoes leave
your orders with the Cotton
wood Milling and Elevator Co. e