The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-07
TROY

Troy, February s.-(Special) )-The Pike County Fair directors and others held most enthusiastic meeting this week and made plans for the big Pike County Fair to be held in fhe fall officers were elected for the year. as follows: President, F. L. Jones; secre- tary, T. J. Wood; treasurer Key Mur- pnree; executive committee, F. L. Jones, T. J. Wood, w. s. Sanders, pr. J. M. Watkins, L. D. Ogletree The of ficers and executive committee wer au- thorized to name the committees for the work of the fair.
 The building committee reported that $S,0OO was needed to improve and re- pair the buildings and grounds. The officers were authorized to borrow part of this amount and with the cash on hand, begin work on the grounds
 At the cooperative hog sales day here Tuesday, more than three hundred hogs were sold and brought $1310 per hundredweight. w. H. Allison aauc- toned the hogs and they were bought by MT Dickinson of Fort Worth, Tex. The farmers of Pike county have been greatly benefited by these cooperative sales.
 The druggists of Troy and Brundidge in fact, all druggists in Pike county, will begin using individual paper cups on the first of April for the serving of all soft drinks. This is in accordance with an order of the state board of health. Dr. Wickliffe of the Pike county health unit states that all drug gists have cheerfully complied with this order and will not wait until April, but will begin using them as soon as a supply is obtained.
 The Brooks Flowers Lumber Com pany of Montgomery is contemplating establishing blaming mill in Troy. Secretary Cox of the board of com merce is in correspondence with them in regard to the matter.
 B. P. Floyd, who lives on one of the Harris places across Conecuh river from Troy brought into town this week a beautiful otter skin. II e shot the otter not far from his home. while he and Mr Harris were hunting rab- bits. The otter put its head up over the edge of the river bank and MT Floyd, thinking it was rabbit, shot 1t. The pelt is very beautiful with line soft fur and was in splendid condition, having been taken carefully from the body. The otter was about 54 inches long and was a female. Judging from the teeth it must have been very old, as they were worn down,
 MT. Harris bought the fur and in- tends having it made into a neckpiece for his wife.
 According to Crop Reporting Agent Jeff Starling, Pike county had ginned, up to January l, 9,062 bales of cotton. This compared to 7,730 bales that were ginned mp to the same date last year, shows an increase of 1882 bales of cot ton Final reports for the 1919 crop will be made on the first of March and the gain over the past year will be considerably larger
 Evan Kelly, young man reared in this section, is now scout executive in charge of the Boy Scout work at Me Alester okla He has charge of the work at McAlester and about dozen of the smaller cities in that section. He is making "Citizenship" and 'Ameri- canism, his main work among the boys and doing a great work in that line
 The High School at McAlester has two troops for. boys of different ages.
  fostering the work, In McAlester the Rotary Club, Commercial Club and pri- vate citizens are giving literally to the work. One business man gave s2.500, stating that he believed in investing in boys.
 The census work in Troy is now prac- tically complete While no figures have been given out. it is stated that the population of Troy made a good showing However. it is greatly re- gretted that so many citizens of Troy will not be counted. The city limits have not been extended for some years and only extend a mile in radius from the courthouse. Many of the streets have extended far beyond this limit. but, although the people living on these street extensions claim Troy as their home and are citizens of Troy to all intents and purposes. still they can not be included in the city's population
 Sunday the Methodists of Troy will make a religious census or survey of the city It will be done to ascertain inst how many Methodists there are living here now; how many attend Sun day school church. etc. T. E, Murphree is chairman of the survey and will work in connection with the pastor. pr. H. C. Threadgill. Committees have been appointed for the various streets.
 May Test New Laws
 Tuscaloosa. February 6.-(SpeciaI)- A well authenticated rumor has reached Tuscaloosa that within d few days E. C. Melvin, president of the