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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07
SUNDAY SERVICES 0N MOTHERS DAY Churches Will Call for Aid
 of Home for Elderly Ladies Here

While tomorrow, the eighth day of May. is nearly always observed as Mothers Day, the churches throughout the Birmingham district are planning to celebrate the coming Sunday with special services both in the morning and in the evening.
 Sermons vii be preached along the lines of what the mother is to the world, and special exercises will be given by the younger grades of the Sunday schools.
 Last year. when the world was just recovering from the effects of the war, the churches throughout the entire city observed Mothers Day with especially arranged programmes and song services.
 The little tots in the kindergarten classes were all dressed in white. and each had special piece to recite be- fore the members of the church. Every man wore a white or red carnation on his coat, and a special collection was taken up in the churches to take care of the aged women of the city who had no homes of their own or a son to call them mother.
 It is understood that many of the churches of Birmingham are going to make special donations to the home in Woodlawn, where the elderly ladies of the city are taken care of and where they have at least place that they can call their own.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07
AUTO CLUB NOW
 HAS S37 MEMBERS
Dozen Visitors Day Come In For
 Information

X "At least a dozen persons per diem fmingham. visit the headquarters of the Birmingham Automobile Club in the Tutwiler hotel building" said Al Harris secretary of the club.
 MT. Harris went on to say that the club now had S7 members, but he be- lieved if the 14,000 owners of machines in Jefferson county appreciated the service which this organization is ca pable of performing for them there would be from 4.00O to 5000 members
 The Automobile Club has the 1920 auto guide or file for ready reference In the volue giving the routes in the states of the southeast there are owe, 200 pages describing those out of Birmingham alone. Almost as much space is given to those leading in and cut of Montgomery. By consulting this guide the tourist knows which route to take wheresoever he may be going.
 Our headquarters is rapidly becom- ins a clearing house of tourists" said MT. Harris. "We have direct connec- ton with auto. clubs throughout the country and are automatically in re- cepit of dail yinformation as to state Of roads and the like Altogether the member gets much more than the value of his membership in actual serv- ire besides being associated with fell tlow owners of machines in their com ! mon effort for better roads and the public welfare.
 "The Automobile Club is Vnakins special effort to have the city enforce the idimmer law, which has been de- c'ared impossible Reinforcement. The club does not believe it is an impossi- bility.
 ''The clvb takes much interest in good roads legislation and was solidly be- hind the s25,0o0.000 state bond issue and the s5,ooo,oo0 county bond issue"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07
Local InUestn1ent GrolUth
 SholUs 279 Per Cent Gain
Frst Four Months of 1920 List Compared to $2,416OO0 for January February, March and
 April of 1919, in Birmingham

The increase Of 143 per cent In Rir+ minghams building record during tha first four months ot the year, as shown in figures presented in The ASe" Herald yesterday. has been bested-
 The record of money invested in new corporations and in increases of capital stock of old corporations fon expansion purposes during the first four months of the year shows gain of 2T9 per cent.
 In the first four months of 1920J money invested in new corporations and increases in capita. stock amount ed to $9.171. 900, compared with $2,- 416.000 in the same period of 1919-
 The increase for 1920 is s6,755, ,000. or 279 per cent. Nearly three times as much new money .tas gone into en. terprise in Jefferson county in 1920 so far than In the same period in 1919.
 Notable items of ibe April record, which set new high mark for sin gle month. were increase of $500, 900
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07
RESCUE TRUCK TO
 MAKE MINE TOUR

Truck No. 1 of the mine rescue station. of mines of the interior department. at West End, will make tour of the mines of Alabama, extending through the month of August. The experts accom- panying the truck will act as demonstra- tors. showing how to work the apparatus in time of disaster.
 James E. Cobb is foreman miner in charge of the truck. and will be assisted by K E. Chsolm. another forman miner.
 The office at West End Is open at all times. Telegrams and mail should be ad- ressed to United States Bureau of Mines West End. In case Of disaster. this of flee should be notified.
 The itinerary of Truck No is as fol- lows
 Carbon Hill, Galloway Coal Company. May 10-15; Townley, Galloway, Coal Company May 10-15; Sipsey, DeBardel- eben Coal Company, May 17-22: Cordo- va. Borden Coal Company. May 24-2s; Majestic. Majestic Coal Company, May 31-June g. Summit. Waldron K. Kirk wood, May 31 to June 5; Spaulding, Re- public Iron and Steel Company. June to 12 Reno and Goethite, Republic Iron and Steel Company. June 14-19; Payne's I.end. DeBardeleben Coal Company, June 21 to 26: Acton. Alabama Fuel and Iron Company June 2S to July Ac- mar, Alabama Fuel and Iron Company, July 5-1O; Margaret. Alabama Fuel and Iron Company. July 12 to IT; Roebuck. Eureka Coal Company, July 1924; Garnsey. Galloway, July 26-31; Marvel. Roden Coal Company August IT, Searles. Alabama Company, August g. IA; Brookwood. Alabama Company. Au- gust 16-21: Mulga, Woodward Iron Company, August 232S.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07
RULES CONCERNING
 SALES OF SUGAR Irregular Dealers RespOn- sible for High Price of
 Sugar, Says Spain

Tt is not the sugar refineries, nor the wholesale merchant (often re- ferred to as the middleman), nor is it the retail groceryman who is caus- ing the extra high price of sugar that is being charged all over the country at the present time; 1t is the irregu- lar dealer" said Frank Spain, chair man of the fair price board of Bir- mingham, yesterday, when he received a telegram from Attorney General Palmer at Washington, calling his at tention to certain rules concerning sugar dealers here.
 The sugar refinery states that the last shipment of sugar they made was sold at IT cents a pound. The con sumer pays from 28 to 35 cents pound for it when he buys 1t from the retail merchant, and then raises kick, saying that the middleman is making the profit.
 But the, trouble lies in the fact that the sugar refineries did sell their last shipment of sugar for IT cents pound, and have a contract for all the sugar they can supply in the next three. months TOT that Saine price. He contract is in the hands of a body Of men who are not even engaged in the grocery business in any form, and it is this kind of people who are hold ing up the price of sugar today.
 There is a law which prvides that any person unless engaged in the gro- cery business in some form is in vio- lation of the law if he buys food from the wholesale merchant and sells 1t to the retail merchant on his own ac- count, thus making profit for him. self without being engaged in the husiness"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07
WiU Erect Modest Cottage For Each Lot Purchaser m
 Effort To Ease Situation
Birmingham Realty Company Announces Plan to Create Home Owners of the Right Sort-Four-Room House Goes With Lot Later to Be Used
 Servants Quarters

If citizens of Birmingham are willing to live in modest quarters, eventually to be the abode of their servants and their garage, pending the time when they will be able ot build their permanent resi- dence on the lot. the Birmingham Realty Company stands ready to help them.
 General Manager I. c. Beatty is au- thority for the statement that the com pany is going to make a try-out of this method of economically satisfying the housing demand. If American manhood and grit of womanhood responds to tue suggestion, the company will go into this department on a large scale.
 The plan in detail is this;
 Immediately adjacent to the Norwood boulevard the company has desirable property MT. Beatty proposes to sell lots and build on each a four-room house. situated in the rear of the lot. This house is to have two bedrooms, living room, kitchen and bath. It is to have one flue and grate. The owner can use coal heater if he desires. The house is to be plain but neat. It is to be no more than what comfortable servant s house should be.
 lot with a--house of this kind will
  men who otherwise find it impossible at this time to become home owners. The two-story brick veneer, formerly within reach of the $2OO to s30O-per-month man, now costs around $10,000. That Is beyond tho average salaried mans pocketbook.
 Lots of Birmingham folk are living In tents now. Lots more of them will be tented by October 1,' said MT. Beatty. Our company has built about 150 houses
 md in hn past year to citizens for the acquisition of homes. We are still at it. We are developing in Norwood, on Chestnut Fill and in Forest Park. It Is, however costing more and more to build Labor alone stands for as much, and even more. than the entire house did in 1915.
 q see no signs of lower prices In any direction A modern home of modest pre- tension has become luxury to him wht goes out to build. In fact, very few pri- yate citizens are doing any house build ing The number who can afford the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07

houses which we are building is becom- ing smaller and smaller.
 Tt is with view to remedy this sit
 uation that the company has conceived the plan of building the servant houses for temporary use, pending the purchas- CTS ability to finance and build his ovu residence. These houses are to be placed on the rear of the lot. and will be mod est in the extreme. but they will be in
 excellent neighborhoods We will sell
 these lots and build only for the charac- ter of persons that should reside in and
 close by the Norwood boulevard. In fact, we may build some of them along the boulevard proper
 Tt is all question of whether Bir- mingham householders, who have not ths
 means of acquiring sl0,ooO homes now, are willing to make a beginning of a
 home in the modest manner which our plan makes feasible. We will try 1t out.
 It may succeed It may not but 1 sgn rather inclined to believe that there is
 certain amount of robustness still left
 in the American man and woman that will respond.
 Il shall suggest to purchasers of lots
 and homes on this plan that they make no great outlay for lawn, but that they devote the site of their future home to flower and vegetable garden. If that is done. the little home in the rear will not present drab appearance" MT. Beatty had diagram of the type of house he expects to build before him when an Age-Herald reporter entered bis office. It was quite modest, but when ,, one thinks of the size of the usual apart
 ment, two bedrooms, living room and kitchenette and bath associated ~~-h a large and roomy lot for a playground and garden spot, it did not look at all bad.
 The Birmingham Realty Company has lbeen progressive. The Norwood boule- | yard was sprung at a time when precious l little in the way of modern nome ouiio- l ing was going on In that entire section. Now it is one of the most beautiful in the 1 ertire district.
 | The servants house plan is to be in exact keeping with the character of the neighborhood. and the same class of cit | izenship as Is already domiciled there is
 that to whom the Realty Company vii
 hold out opportunity
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07
MUSGROVE SAYS DRY LAW IS IN DANGER
Asks For Opportunity to Continue His Work for
 Public Schools
of Birmingham, Ala. Statement February 2Sth, 1920.
 BE S0I IIRCEG

At an outdoor mass meeting held in Woodrow Wilson park last night l.. B. Musgrove, candidate for the United States Senate, in an address which lasted fifty-five minutes told his audi ence their temperance laws were in grave danger, and to be careful and vote for the right man in the right place unless they wanted the breweries working full force back in the state again.
 "FeIlow citizens" he said, "I come before you tonight, not as a big man in my own estimation, but as one of you. I am not seeking a seat in the United States Senate for what there is in it for me, or what I can get out of it. I am running for the office at the request of hundreds of men who have worked with me all their lives. These men believe I will give every one a square deal if l am elected to the Senate.
 'I am a business man and believe that the Senate of the United States needs level headed business man at the present time. I have lived and been engaged in business in Walker county nearly all of my life. Not one single time in that whole lapse of time have I ever heard any man say any thing against my good name. I have always worked for the interests of the people, and the citizens of Walker county are showing their appreciation of it by backing me in the race for the Senate.
 With my own money and time taken from my business I have helped to build up the standards of the schools of Walker county so that today edu. cators from all over the United States point to them as an example for what the schools in other cities should be like. If I am elected to the United States Senate, and I believe that stand a good chance of being elected the first thing that I shall do will try to bring up the standards of the schools in every city in the state equal if not superior to the standards of the pub lie schools as they are at the present time in Walker county.
 "The next thing that I shall try to do for the good people of this state and for the interests of the liberty low ing people of the entire nation, will be to try and preserve the temperance laws which are now in effect and which may be shattered to pieces if a candidate of the wet" forces is elected to the office of the United States Senate"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07
FOUR-MINUTE MEN
 TOMORROW NIGHT
Noted Local Orators to Speak for
 Two-Mill Tax

In an effort to end the campaign for the 2-mill tax with a rush, the canl- paign committee of the Civic Association is bending all energies on the four-minuts speakers.
 The. speakers who have appeared be- fore the audiences in the theaters each night this week are reporting that their efforts were we'll received by the audi ences.
 Following is the list of the men who will speak on the subject Friday night: Bijou, s. J. Bowie; Lyric Hugh A. Locke; Majestic. Fl. M. Abercrombie; Strand, Judge w. E. Fort; Colonial, R. D. Coff- man; Alcazar, M. M. Ullman; Odeon, w p NcCrossin. Princess. C.. l.. Bailes: Rialto. J. R. Hornady; Trianon, Frank Willis Barnett.
 common house sparrows fly at the rate of seventy-two miles an hour
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07
WHITE READY FOR
 DEBATE TONIGHT AT MONTGOMERY
Will Wind Up His Senatorial Cam paign Through Lee and Clay Counties Saturday and
 Monday

Senator Frank g. White. senatorial candidate for the short term, spoke at Dothan Wednesday night, at Headland and Abbeville, in Henry county, yes terday, and will meet Governor O'Neal again in joint debate in Montgomery tonight.
 He then commences a whirlwind speaking tour of Lee and Clay coun- ties winding up his campaign in Clay county on Monday night. Ben F. Ray, county campaign manager for Sena- tor White, made the following state- ment yesterday;
 .In the final weeks of the short term senatorial campaign the race has narrowed down to two candidates, prohibition being the issue that has |practically eliminated two of the four candidates. Sentor White, consist ent and lifelong prohibitionist. who has taken a positive and decided stand in favor of the maintenance and en- forcement of the Nolstead act. has rallied to him the prohibitionists of the state, and his opponent MT. ONeal. has declared as emphatieally in favor of an amendment to the Volstead en- forcement act which would permit the manufacture and sale of light wines and beer, which has crystallized the vets and the advocates of liquor be- hind him.
 sFrom- reports received at head quarters we confidently expect Sena- tor White to carry at least forty coun- ties in the state and to lead in first choice votes. He will get practically all of the second choice votes because the other three candidates in the race have vilified and maligned each other, while Sentor White has conducted a campaign free from mud singing and has been fair and courteous to his op- ponents. He will carry Jefferson, his home county. by an overwhelming vofa"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07
DESTROY STILL AND
 BIG MESS OF MASH

A 150-galIon fat-bottomed wooden still sas captured and destroyed by Deputies -Semp and Sandifer and Revenue Agent ,Btes and Haney in Shelby county about six miles east of Acton, in raie lesterday.
 The still was found in the woods Eleven sixty-gallon barrels of mash were destroyed. The still was not in opera ion and no arrests were made. Nf iquor was found at the still
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07
Jurors Summoned For
 Tuesday Are Excused

There will be no cases tried in the cir cult court on Tuesday. May Il, which is the day of the democratic primary Judee William E. Fort announced yesterday af- ternoon that the entire docket set in the criminal divisions of the court for Tues day will be passed to be reset. Jurors will be excused so that they may vote and witnesses summoned for that day need not appear. However, court will be held Monday as usual. and the docket will be taken up again Wednesday morn ing. The passing of the docket for Tues day was decided upon in order that all of the Jurors and others might have an opportunity to vote.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07
Health Day" Feature
 At the Civitan Club

Dr. J D. Bowling, head of the city health denartment. will be the principal speaker of the Civitan Club at its meet ing today at 1 o'clock, at the Southern Club.
 The occasion will be Health Day" ans Mir Bowling has chosen as the subject of his address Health Conditions in Bir- Members of the local board of health will be guests of honor They are: Drs Talley. Snyder. Lull. Ward. Mo- Adory and Commissioner John R. Hor- nady.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07
HIGH SCHOOL BAND
 ID GIVE CONCERT Benefit Concert at Fair grounds Tonight to Aid
 Fairview School

The Central-Ensley High School band will be heard In concert at the fairgrounds this evening. at which time the Fairview School Improvement Association will have a playground benefit concert to help equip a play ground at the Fairylew School. The band is directed by Prof. Amos and consists of seventy members Assist ing the band will bs the Scotch en- tertainers. readers and singers, who are we'll known for their entertaining qualities. Dr. J. H. Phillips and Com missioner J. Ellis Brown will give short talks.
 The public is invited tn attand
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07
NO ARRESTS YETIN
 ROBBERY AT REFORM

Reform, May -(Special)-No arrests have been made in connection with the robbery here Monday night. Owing to the heavy thunderstorm which struck town a few hours after the thefts We're discovered it was thought impracticable to bring the bloodhounds Further rains today will make the trail obscure.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07
BIDS CLOSED ON
 FEDERAL GARAGE

Bids for the garage to be operated by he government for the housing and 'aintenance of the fleet of twelve motor rrcks in use by the postoffice in hand ng the malls have closed. The bids ave been sent on to Washington for lction. There were a number of pro- posals submitted to Postmaster R. B. 5myer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07

in capital stock of the Plzitz DrY Goods Company. bringing it to $l,- 100000, and an increase of $4,700, ,000i in that of the Stockham Pipe and F'it- tiSgs Company. bringing it's capital stock up to s5,000.00o. These two con- cerns are essentially home enterprises. The new money entering into their expansion represents home effort, and constitutes the fruit of progressive conduct of business in Birmingham, beMdes being mute evidence of what can be done in Birmingham by men, of grit. capacity and imagination. The comparative showing of the four months period of 1920 and 1919 is, in detail. as follows:
 1920 1919 January .....$ 761,G00 s1,230,000 February .... 1.092.000 310,000, March .. S93.000 S20000 April .... 6.425060 556000
 
 Totals .$9.171.0e0 32,416 900 Increase for 1920. ss.755.Ooo, or 27s per cent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07
Marriage Licenser

The following marriage license was issued at the probate court yesterday
 Carl Ernest Anderson and Miss Bertha Letitia Garrett.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1920-01-29
COOPER WANTS $e,OOO,OOO.
Budget Committee Recommends Ire
mendous Appropriations.

The South Carolina budget commits
sion, composed of Robert A: Cooper
governor; Senator Niels Christensen,
chairman of the finance committee OF
the senate, and Representative Will
liam R. Bradford, chairman of the
ways and means committee of the
house, in it's initial report, recon-
mends total appropriations for 1920
amounting to s5,466,e31.65 and
levy of nine and one-half mills on the
taxable property of the State.
The recommendation sohw an
Increase og 81 1,346,2S0.6S over the
amount appropriated for 1919 and
reduction of s1,710,373.2s under the
request for s7,177,004.s4 made by
the various departments, institutions
and agencies of the State government
as expenses for the current year.
The total debt of the State from
outstanding bond issues, the report
shows, is $5,574,704.31 from which
is to be deducted securities and cash
in sinking funds to the amount OF
s224,375.90, leaving the net debt OF
the State s5,350,32S.41. The total
assets of the State, permanent and
current, are shown to be S19,S41,-
s94.S2, of which s17,S13,716.6S are
lands, buildings and equipment. The
total liabilities of the State are ST.
27O,55S.S2, leaving a surplus of s12,-
$780,.
The total revenue of the State for
1920 is estimated at S8,927, 1925,
derived from cash on hand in the
treasurer's Office January 1, 1920,
81, 075,52S.95; uncollected taxes,
s2,927,667.31; back taxes, $4,000;
nine and one-half mills levy on prop
erty, s3,S27,169.40; and special
revenues, s1,05S,133.51. The liabili-
ties are s7,s51,S36.s4, classified as
notes and interest s1,S75,2O5.19; &C
counts payable on 1919 appropria-
ton, $4,000, and appropriations
recommended for 1920, $685.
631.65. This leaves surplus of ST.
75,662.42.
The recapitulation table OF the
budget shows that in 1918 the State
government spent 81, ,1s6,613.75 more
than was appropriated and in 1919
s1,e34,242.0S. The major portion of
this money represents fees which va
rious departments and institutions
are allowed to expend without direct
appropriation.
The requests for appropriations for
1920 exceeded the total amount ap-
propriated for 1919 by s3,074,652.92.
Every division of the State govern
ment had it's requests trimmed, some
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1920-01-29
Farmers Talk Peanuts.

The regular monthly meeting OF
the Aiken Agricultural club was held
last Wednesday at the club house
with a good attendance of members
and friends. Agent E. j. Hammock,
of Alabama, who has been secured
by the oil mill people and bankers
as an expert for South Carolina, ad-
dressed the meeting in the interest of
the peanut crop. Mr.. James A. Wy
man, of Bamberg, also gave most
thorough talk on the planting, gath
3ring and disposal of the crop.
The usual very excellent barbecue
was enjoyed by the gathering.-Aiken
Journal and Review.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1920-01-29

of them radically with the exception
of the judiciary and legislative de-
partments, which the commission did
not touch this year.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1920-01-29
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