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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-17
AFTERNOON MUSIC AT
 CHURCH OF THE ADVENT

Beginning with the first Sunday in October, full musical Sunday after noon services will be inaugurated at the Church of the Advent. The service will be patterned after the English cathedral service, and Il include the chanting of the Psalms. an anthem at the appointed place, besides solo or another anthem for the offertory.
 Ferdinand Dunkley, the organist and choirmaster. will be glad to have special volunteers in the choir for this afternoon service. in addition to the regular choir.
 Those who would enjoy taking part in such a service, even though members of other choirs not having afternoon services, would be well comed as members of the Advent afternoon choir. Rehearsals are now in progress on Tuesday and Friday afternoons at 5:15 o'clock
 On the last Sunday of each month an organ recital will be given by MT. Dunkley following the afternoon service.
 coming season will be: Mrs. O. L. Stephenson, soprano; Miss Rebecca Bazemore. contralto; Thomas E. punham, baritone. and a tenor yet to be engaged.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-17
RED CROSS TO REOPEN
 SELMA HEADQUARTERS

Selma, September l6.-(Special.)- Red Cross headquarters, which have been closed here during the summer months, all business being trans acted by Miss Ellen Calhoun. acting secretary from her home. will be re-opened at an early date, to dispose or the constant calls which are being made by eX-service men and their families, relative to adjustments of all sorts.
 The re-opening of the downtown office of the Red Cross was determ- ined upon at meeting of Red Cross officials, held at the City National bank and presided over by H. c. Armstrong, chairman.
 Hours and the office to be occupied will be announced in a few days by Mrs. Law Lamar ST, chairman of Home Service, under whose direction a great volume of post war work has been disposed of Miss Ellen Cal houn will again be in charge of the Red Cross office as secretary
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-17

were received by the Commission or the City of Birmingham up to twelve o'clock noon on September 16, 1921. for the purchase of City of Birming ham st15, ,500.00 per cent Public I'm provement Bonds dated, September l. 1921:
 Ward. sterne & Co, bid $1l7, 7,30o.00 with accrued interest to date of de- livery.
 Steiner Brothers bid s116,436.dO with accrued interest to date of de livery.
 otto Marx & Company bid s117.- 24S.5O with accrued interest to date of delivery.
 R. NJ. Grant & Company bid s11T.- Ss2.65 with accrued interest to date of delivery.
 N. A. BARRETT, President of the Commission of the City of Birmingham.
 Age-Herald, September r, IS, 19, 20, 2l, 22. 23, 2i, 25. 26. 1921.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-17

i1lets and manholes of brick, with cast iron covers, shall be constructed along said street between said points.
 Sec. 3. That said improvements shall be made in accordance with the established grades on file in the of floe of the City Engineer for said DOT tons of said highways, and acco1 l. ing to full details, drawings, plans, specifications and surveys of said work and estimates, which shall be pr epared by the City Engineer, 8 early as practicable, and placed ty Linn on file In his office in the City Hall, not later than two weeks prior to the date named in Section of this ordinance, where property owners who may be affected by said inn provements may see and examine the same.
 Sec. 3. That the cost of construct ing said improvements shall be as sessed against the property abutting on the portions of the highways SC improved, provided:
 Gal That the cost of improvements at or upon street. avenue or alley Intersections shall be assessed against the lots or parcels of land abutting on said highways so in- tersecting for one-half block in eacs direction.
 (b) That the cost of sidewalk im- movements on street and avenue cor sers shall be assessed against the lots abutting on or nearest to said improvements, and the cost or sld' - walk improvements at the lntersec- ton of any alley with street, av' Q nue or other highway shall be as sessed in fair proportion against the respective lots or parcels Of lar abutting or cornering on the alley such intersection.
 Go That no assessment snail eN- ceed the cost of such improvements or the increased value of such prop erty by reason of the special bene- fits derived from such improvements.
 Sec. {. That the estimated cost or said improvements is $2,60O, and that the Commission of the City of Bir- mingham will meet on the 4th oay or october, 1921. in the Council Cham Der of the City Hall of Btrmins- ham, at . o'clock D. m., to hear any objections, remonstrances or protests that may be made against said im- provements, the manner of making the same or the character Of ma terial to be used.
 Approved September 13, 1921. N. A. BARRETT, President of the Commi sslon.
 A true copy:
 H. S. RYALL, City Clerk.
 Age Herald, September 17-24, 1921
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-17
WIFE MUST MAKE PLEA TN WRITING TO SAVE
 SLAYER HUSBAND LIFE
By Associated Presa

Columb bia, s. C., September 16-Mrs. s. J. Kirbys oral plea for executive clemency for her husband yesterday, made to Governor Cooper, will not have official consideration. It was stated at the governors office today that unless petition is filed with the executive, no consideration would be given to the plea for clemency.
 Mrs Kirby and her 11-year- daughter called on the governor and asked that he change the sentence rom death to life Imprisonment. as her husband had often been subject to temporary periods of insanity.
 Relatives of Jesse Cappns also Will also make similar plea to the governor, it was said
 c. Q. Fox is resigned to his fate. Ills aged father who is here, states that his only concern is that the eternal Welfare of his sons soul be saved. He has advised the boy to try to get right with God.
 The three men are under death sem tence for the murder of William c. Brazell, Columbia taxicab driver.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-17
Improvement Ordinance
 No. 148-D
An ordinance to provide for the con-
 struction of certain sanitary

An ordinance to provide for the con-
 struction of certain sanitary
 sewers.
 Be It Ordained by the Commission of the City of Birmingham, as fol- lows
 Section l. That sanitary sewers be constructed as follows: Beginning at point on the sanitary sewer in AL lamont Road, 20 feet northeast of the
 west line of of Lot 22, Highland Terrace Survey; thence southwest along Altamont Road to point op- posite the center of Lot 10, Mountain View survey.
 Also beginning at point on the sanitary sewer in Altamont Road. s
 feet north of the center line of Ma
 zuma avenue; thence eastward aIons Niazuma avenue to a point 20 feet 1 east of the east line of Fourteenth avenue, south.
 That four-inch branch sewers shall be constructed from the main
 sewer to the back edge of the curh 1 in front of each lot or parcel of land 1 abutting on said sewers.
 1 Sec. 9 That said sewers shall be constructed with manholes and con | nections and in accordance with full details. drawings. plans. surveys and estimates on file in the office of the 1 City Engineer. where property own CTS who may be affected by said im- provements may see and examine the same to which reference is hereby l made.
 Said sewers and appurtenances are to be constructed of brick and con 1 crete masonry, terra cotta pipe and iron castings, as shown or described
 in said details, drawings. plans and specifications.
 That said sewers are constructed for the purpose of draining the terri tory or area bounded as follows: Be l ginning at a point on the south line l of Altamont Road and the west line of Lot 10, Mountain View Survey thence southward along the west line 1 of said Lot 10, Mountain Terract | Survey, to the south line of tho
 Mountain View Survey; thence eas | along the south line of the Mountain View Survey to the north propert,
 line of Niazuma avenue: thence 1 southeast along the north line O. 1 Niazuma avenue 100 feet: tbenc,
 northeast and parallel to Fourteentt
 avenue. south, 50 feet; thence north
 west and parallel to Niazuma avenue to the east line of Fourteenth ave
 nue, south; thence northward to thu
 north line of Lot 45, Highland Ter
 race Survey; thence northwest alons the said north line of Lot 45. to thu
 east line of Altamont Road alley l thence southwest along the said eas
 line of Altamont Road alley to th' south line of NiAzuma avenue; thenc'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-17
INDIVIDUAL RIFLE MATCH IS WON BY
 MARINE GUNNER

Camp Perry Ohio. September 16.-- The national individual rifle match. the feature of the weeks shootingin the national tournament was won by Gunner Otho Wiggs, United States marine corps, who outranked Capt. Ray F. Hall of the United States in- fantry. The match was started yes- terday and finished today.
 Both men had scores of 33S out of a possible $50 over the seven-range course. but Captain Hall had 49 on the 50O-yard rapid fire range against Wiggs' 50
 The small bore Swiss rifle match was won by Virgil Richards of New Haven, Conn, with total of 110.
 Richards also took first place in the small bore long range entry rifle match, with a total of 120, havingN70 over possible 50.
 Capt. F. c. Bonham, United States infantry, won the Wimbledon small bore rifle match with a score of 99. Virgil Richards had the same total, but was outranked by Bonham.
 The marine corps small bore rifle match was won by r. w. Rogers, New Haven, with 19S.
 The shot gun team match went to the Gentucky civilian team with a total of 442 out of possible 500.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-17
Improvement Ordinance
 No. 143-D
An ordinance to provide for certain improvements on Coosa street,
 from the south property line of 18th avenue, to the south proper.

 improvements on Coosa street,
 from the south property line of 18th avenue, to the south proper ty line of 18th avenue. Be it ordained, by the Commission lows:
 Section 1. That Coosa street, from the south property line of Twelfth avenue to the south property line of Thirteenth avenue. shall be graded. That 36-foot roadway along the ceBter line of Coosa street, from the south property line of Twelfth ave- nue. to the south property line of Thirteenth avenue, shall be curbed with portland cement concrete com bined curb and gutter, the curb and gutter to be inches thick and the gutter 3 feet wide.
 That the north and south edges of 40-foot roadway along the center line of Twelfth avenue shall be con nected with the east and west curb lines of Coosa street with by 2e inch granite curb of 10-foot radiua.
 That the gutters adjoinging the granite curb at the northeast, north west. southeast and southwest cor ncrs of Twelfth avenue and Coosa street. shall be paved for a width of 8 feet with vitrified brick gutter paw ing on a cinder foundation.
 That the sidewalks on both sides of Coosa street, from the south prop erty line of Twelfth avenue to the south property line of Thirteenth avenue, shall be paved for width of 4 feet with portland cement con- crete sidewalk paving. located ? feet from and parallel to the east and west property lines of Coosa street respectively.
 l That the entrances to lots along all of said streets. where the side- walks are to be paved. shall be paved for width of feet with portland cement concrete sidewalk paving for the full width of the sidewalks. ane the driveways into lots and the alley ways shall be paved for the full width of the sidewalk and gutter with vitrified brick paving on cin' 1 Ter found9tion.
 That yftrined clay drainage pipes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-17
Improvement Ordinance
 No. 147-D
An ordinance to provide for Il

An ordinance to provide for the K construction of certain sanitary
 sewers.
 Be 1t ordained by the Commission of the City of Birmingham. as fol- lows:
 Section 1. That sanitary sewers bo constructed as follows: Beginning at point on the sanitary sewer in Twelfth avenue and Huron alley Ensley; thence westward along Twelfth avenue. Ensley, to a point 25 feet west of the east line of lot 13, block IT. M. A. & Henry Warten's survey.
 Also beginning at point on the sanitary sewer in Twelfth avenue Ensley. and Jersey street. Ensley thence northward alons Jersey street
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-17
TURKS ATTEMPT ID
 OUTFLANK GREEKS
By Associated Press

By Associated Press
 London, September 17.-According to information received in London the Greek army is likely to retire on Eski-Shehr. The Turks are believed to be trying to outflank .he Greeks both from the south and the north.
 Brusa, Asia Minor, September 16.- Final estimates of casualties in their recent offensive against the Turkish nationalists have been made public by the Greeks. The Turkish in dead and wounded are given at approxi- mately 1s,o0O men and those of the Greeks are placed at 12.0O0. The Greeks took 1,500 prisoners, no guns and little material, while the Turks captured 800 prisoners.
 The principal reasons for the ces- sation of the Greek drive are given as inability to break down the na- tionalists' resistance by storming the strong natural positions east of the Sangarius river. the fatigue of the Greek troops and the necessity of re- arranging and shortening lines of communication.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-17
FIVE CHARGED WITH
 PROHI VIOLATIONS

w. H. Hill, F. M. Wilkerson. L. ". Thomas and c. E. Conner, white, and Jessie Hardy, negro, were Tn the county iail last night charged with violating the prohibition law.
 They were arrested by Mat'ock and Wilson, deputy sheriffs, while they are alleged to have been transporting liquor in an automobile. Tha arrest was made in West End.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-17

Be It ordained. by the Commission or the City of Birmingham, as fol- lows.
 section. l. That Tenth alley, south rom the east property line of Thir- S-eIshth street, south. to the west property line of Thirty-ninth street south, and Eighth Court alley, south rom a point $40 feet west Of the west line of Forty first street, south, to a point 800 feet west of the west me Of Forty-first street, south, shall | be graded
 Ihat driveway 16 feet wide along the center line of Tenth alley, south rom the east property line of Thir- 1 ty-eighth street, south, to the west property line of Thirty-ninth street scuth and driveway 14 feet wide along the center line of Eighth court alley, south. from a point 34C Feet west of the west property line Of Forty first street, south. to point ot S9O feet west of the west line oi Forty-first street, south. shall be paved with portland cement concrete alley paving 6 inches thick.
 That at all driveways and walk ways into lots abutting on said alleys 1 between said points, the pavement shall be extended the full width ol
 
 cie etc alley paving inches thick.
 Sec. ?. That said improvements shall be made in accordance with the established grades on file in the of lice of the City Engineer for saic portions of said highways and accord ing to full details, drawings, plans specifications and 'suryeys of said work and estimates, which shall be prepared by the City Engineer. as carly as practicable, and placed by him on file In his office in the City 1 Hall not later than two weeks prioi ] to the date named in Sec. of this or. | dinance, where property owners whc may be affected by said improve. ments may see and examine the same
 Sec. 3. That the cost of constructing said improvements shall be assessed against the property abutting or the portions of the highways so i'm. proved, provided:
 (a) That the cost of improvement. at or upon street. avenue or alley l intersections shall be Assessed against the lots or parcels of lanc abutting on said highways so inter. secting for one-half block in eacf direction.
 1 (b) That the cost of sidewalk i'm. provements on street and avenue corners shall be assessed against tho lots abutting on or nearest >t to saic | Improvements and the cost of side walk improvements at the intersec. ton of any alley with a street or avenue or other highway shall bt assessed in fair proportion against the respective lots or parcels of land abutting or cornering on the alley at such intersection.
 Sec. 4. That the estimated cost oi said improvements Is s3,100, and that the Commission of the City of Bir- mingham will meet on the 4th day of October. 1921. in the Council Chamber of the City Hall of Birming ham, at 3 o'clock D. m., to hear any objections, remonstrances or protests that may be made against said i'm. provements, the manner of makir the same or the character of ma. | terial to be used.
 Approved September 13, 1921.
 N. A. BARRETT. | President of the Commission.
 A true copy:
 IT. s. RYALL. City Clerk l Age Herald, September 17-2i 1921
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-17
MRS. FLOYD DIES

Selma, September 16.-tspeciaL)- Mrs. s. F. Floyd, wife Of well known resident of Consul, died snort ly after 1 o'clock this morning TOT lowing a sudden illness, which mani tested itself several days ago. Mrs Floyd was Miss Kate Perkins or MIC Kinley before her marriage some wears ago. She is survived by her husband and a number of near rela- lives at Mckinley and Consul.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-17
Sale of $115, 5,5OO.0O City of Birmingham Public Inn
 nroxement Ronda
prOVement bon'

After advertisement as required by law, the following bids or proposals
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-17
Improvement Ordinance
 No. 141-D

An ordinance to provide for certain
 improvements on 10th alley, south, from the east property line of 3Sth street, south, to the west property line of 39th street, south, and on Sth Court alley, south, from a point $40 feet yves, of the west line of 41st street, south, to point 39O feet west of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-17
Improvement Ordinance
 No. 145-D

An ordinance to provide for certain improvements on Cahaba street, formerly 46th street, from the north property line of 10th ave- nue, to the south property line of 1lth avenue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-17
Improvement Ordinance
 No. 144-D

An ordinance to provide for certain
 improvements on 10th avenue, from the west property line of
 Coosa street, to the east property line of Appalachee street, and on Appalachee street, from a point six feet south of the north prop erty line of 10th avenue, to the south property line of 11th ave-
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-11-03
TaUo Million. Dollars for
Better Georgia Roads

r-V-l TANKS to a competent highway COM
| mission and to the counties that con-
tribute their rightful part for such i'm
| provements, Georgia bids fair to receive ap-
proxmately two million dollars of a seventy
five million Federal fund for the aid of good
roads. A bill providing that sum has been
| favorably reported by the House and the
Senate conference committee, and hence is
| expected to pass in the immediate future.
| According to Washington advices one-thlrd
I of the appropriation will be available at once,
and the remaining fifty thousand around the
| first of the new year.
The construction made possible by TINS
fund, together with an equal amount from
the counties sharing it, will be OF lncalculaole
service to the Commonwealth. Forty per
cent of the two million dollars can be ap-
piled to the upbuilding of inter-county roads,
so that thousands of farm owners Will be dl-
rectly benefited, and also hundreds OF com
munitieS Sixty per cent must be expended
in DEVELOPMENT of Georgia's part of the in
terstate highway system. This will rebound
to the advantage, not alone OF towns ana
/ cities along the main routes, but as well to
the general good; for roads that link Geor-
gia to the country at large an
more intimately within the sphere OF national
interests, serve to advertise, to enrich, and
to quicken every province of her business and
agricultural affairs.
would not be available, be it remembered, II
the State were without competent highway
engineer and an approved highway commits
sion assuring efficient expenditure. This is
required by the National Government, and
wisely So for except there be adequate en-
gineering and administrative oversight,
money for road building is more than likely
to be frittered away. Even if no Federal
funds were involved, still Georgia would owe
it to herself to provide able supervision for
so important q department of public work;
as it is, millions available from the ma
tional treasury would be put in hazard, II not
forfeited altogether, were the principle OF
sound engineering and sound business aband-
| oned.
! 1t is worthy of note in this connection that
the pending measure from which two million
dollars is expected, allows Georgia three
| years in which to amend it's constitution so
! that the state, as we'll as the counties, may
| levy or utilize taxes for road building and
maintenance. AS the law is, funds for this
purpose are procurable through county chan
nels alone, with the result that those counties
which do not match the Federal fund With
| dollars of their own do not get better roads,
however greatly the improvements may be
needed for their neighbors' interests as we'll
| as for their own. By enabling the State to
| apply funds directly to such needs we shall
| do much to obviate this weakness, and at
| the same time shall conform to requirement
| of the prospective national aid road lava
requirement as resolute asst is reasonable
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-11-03
FRENCH TAXES

The French people paying many I'M
usual taxes as result of the heavy burdens
imposed by the war. The ministry OF finances
states that there are 1873 persons in the coun-
try who have incomes of 100000 francs or
1ore. t.
Taxes are collected on all and any paper
used in the transaction of current business
in France The little revenue stamp is ever
present on checks, invoices, promissory notes.
,fls receivable, bills of lading, receipts.
If one desires to travel to Nice or to any
other points in France, besides paying 100
per cent more for his fare than he would be-
fore the war, he will have to pay 10 per cent
for government tax and neat little stamp
on his berth ticket in the sleeping car Will
cost him another 10 per cent.
If he desires to send letters from Nice to
his friends in Paris in foreign countries.
he will find that the cost of the former Will
be rs confines instead of 10, and for the
latter SO confines, compared with 10 be-
fore the war. Should a postcard suffice his
epistolary needs, he will pay 20 centimes in
stead of one sou.
The waiter brings him his bill for tha
mount of his dinner and he notes charge
of 10 per cent is added to the total of the bill
as government tax. 1t is the last line. TICK
IT'S to the theater are taxed>10 per cent.
At the track, if he bets 100 trancss
he will find that he has only waged 80. Ih9
government retains 10 per cent as against
before the war.
The midinette who signs the receipt for the
rs or so francs of her weekly wages has to
)biterate a little government stamp OF 70
~7tres with her signature.
The most profitable tax in France is that
u tobacco which has been increased about
~oofold since 1914 and which brought into
the French treasury for the year 1920, 49,
100000 francs, as against the income tax OF
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