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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-08
Jasper in Midst Of Biggest
 Building Boom in History

J. w. Cole Realty company of BrnliDg- ham, is to begin Monday. The First Methodist church of Jasper, with Rev; J. M. McClesky as pastor, has just fin- ished drive for s2000 to complete the payment of all indebtedness on this church.
 Jasper now can boast of having one of the finest churches in the North Ala bama Conference. Eighteen months ago. when Rev. Mir. McClesky became pastor of the church, it was very far from being completed and the people took hold with a determination to finish this church. In the IS months there have been added to the church more than 20U members, and in addition, the church has been completed, including all fur nishings, at an expenditure of more than $3O,0o0. This drive, just finished, pays the entire indebtedness and gives the town church free of debt.
 The people are very outspoken in their praise of the work of the pastor.
 Jasper can now boast of being one or the most aggressive towns in north Alabama.
 The Walker county highway commls- sion has just completed plans for the beginning of permanent highway from Jasper to the Jefferson county line This road, when completed, will cost a little more than $300,OO0. The survey has Jusr been completed to the line and the con- tract will be let about the middle or June.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-08
VACANT LOTS ARE
 MUCH IN DEMAND,
 STATE REALTY MEN

Real estate business during March and April held up we'll with many small deals being negotiated, according to real estate men seen yesterday. Vacant lots are much in demand, they state.
 Frank Clark said yesterday his business i'll March and April was the best he has experienced since being in business. He has sold number of vacant lots within the last week.
 Another Fifth avenue, north, transac- tion was reported yesterday when Jem- ison & Co.,, announced the sale of a 507foot lot on that thoroughfare to Frances Miller. The property is located between Twenty-thrd and Twenty fourth streets According to It'll Ferguson, the number of sales and developments on Fifth avenue show the appreciation on the part of the investing public nQf the increasing values of property on this im- portant thoroughfare. HY
 Other sales by the Jemison company include the following: Hill Ferguson to Miss Jennie Wilson, home on Bessemer boulevard, Central park, 5000; Mrs. Mary ]. Nelson to Miss Daisy Carlton, S10 Twenty first street, north, s4,000; Mason- cite company to B. c. Johnston. 4204 Wal nut street, Central park. $4000; w. L. DeShazo to R. c. Miles, Sycamore street and Burgin avenue, Central park, lot $659
 Reid Realty company report very successful week in sales. Vacant lots and contracts to build houses formed the bulk of their business. According to John B Reid of this company, the working mar is having his inning now. Taking ad- vantage of prices which have about reached the bottom rung, many persons are building homes on easy payment plans and for cash.
 Henley-Spurgeon Realty company an nounced earlier in the week that they would construct five one-story brick and tile business houses on the north side of Fifth avenue, north.@ between the Mol ton and Oregon hotels.
 McConnell-Anglin-T Terry, Montgomery Real Estate and Insurance company, Es- tes Real Estate and Insurance company and other members of the real estate fraternity are optimistic over the situa- ton. All declare business to be holding up fairly well.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-08

sign his position when he takes up the business of the government. Senator Dial, himself Is president of bank or two and of a cotton mill.
 Many members of Congress do not and could not exist on the salaries paid them by the government Seventy five hundred dollars per annum, ;n some instances, does not suffice to pay the rent on their Washington apart ments or their residences. Some mem bers of Congress spend more than s7, 800 per annum in entertaining, It. is cer- tain that they will not vote tbem- selves out of business.
 And yet according to the idea in- volved in the Kenyon amendment that very thing Congress would do to Judge Landis.
 As for the Borah amendment, that which would prevent any member of Congress engaging in litigation to which the government is d party, it is apparently unnecessary. The oath of a member makes him a defender of the government. The member who "goes after" the government generally awai $ the conclusion of his service.
 And then, he has acquired such knowledge as to how best to proceed despite red tape. that his clients think him the very man to pull their chest nuts out of the fire.
 The amendments proposed to the Dial bill have, however, jeopardized it's chance of enactment. It is regarded as probable that Congress rather than en- ter into a prolonged and probably bit ter and personal debate, will eschew .fEe whole subject
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-08

Jasper, May -(special)-Jasper Is undergoing a building campaign greater than she has ever had before. Build ing material Is being shipped here by the carload. Sand and brick are being loaded. as fast as teams and trucks can unload them.
 J. M. Haynes new store at the cor ner of Nineteenth street and Third ave- nue is rapidly going up. There are three stores being built on West Nine teenth street by the Jasper Land com pany. The Chesford hotel is nearing completion. This hotel, when completed, will have 20 rooms, all outside. It will be under the management of Maj. A. A. Wall
 A. B. Legg will soon have his under taking parlors completed, which are said to be the finest in Alabama. Cranford hardware store is pushing work new store on South Second street. The First National bank is beginning the erection of a very handsome bank and office building on the corner of Nine teenth street and Second avenue.
 There are some 20 or 25 residences un- der construction. The paving has prac- tically been completed on the west side of Town creek Work on paving the streets adjacent to the Musgrove prop erty, which was recently acquired by the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-08
LIFE UNDERWRITERS
 / MEET HERE MAY 19

Alabama life insurance men will hold big one-day sales congress on May 1] at the Southern club, with several hun dred policy writers in attendance.
 According to the general secretary, Jack Caldwell, social and recreation fea- lures are merely incidental. Business ln- struction and inspiration are the fac tors of prime consideration, he says.
 The meeting will begin at o'clock in the morning and continue until 6 clock in the evening, with only one hour inter mission for lunch.
 On the programme will be some of Americas s most prominent and successful life insurance men; among them will be a number of home office officials of some of the largest companies in the east and middle west, After each address round able discussion will be led by an Ala oama underwater considered local au- thority upon the subject in hand.
 Orville Thorpe of Dallas, president ot the National Association of Life Under writers, will be one of the principal speakers.
 The attendance committee. consisting of w. F. F'itts of Tuscaloosa; A. w. Fowlkes, Mobile; w. B. Folmar, Troy; E. E. Hemer, Selma T. S. Christopher, c. s. Boswell, Huntsville; M. c. Russ Elba, and Sterling J. Foster, Birming- ham, is working overtime.
 Those interested in having hotel reser- vations made should communicate with the general secretary, Jack Caldwell, 6St Brown Marx building, Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-08
COMING ELECTIONS
 MAY FORECAST THE
 BOND ISSUE RESULT
Counties In Widely Different Sections of the State to Pass on Bonds for Road
 Improvements
By FRED H. GORMLEY Montgomery, Bureau. The Age-Herald 22I-2 First National Bank Building

Montgomery, May q. - ,(SpeclaL) = Before the end of another week tho people. of Alabama will have good idea of the public opinion regarding the issuance of bonds for road i'm provement work, which will be ac- cepted as an indication of the probabl result of the state bonod issue of $25.- 900, 900 to replace the one held to be invalid and unconstitutional by the supreme court
 During the coming week two coun- ties in widely separated sections or the state-Dade in the wiregrass and Madison in the Tennessee valley--wl'I T decide whether or not their boards or revenue may issue bonds for the carry, ing on of road building work. A third county, Montgomery, will pass upon an issue for the construction of new school buildings and the general re- building of the educational system.
 Madison county will vote Monday on a proposed issue of $250,000, while Dale will vote Tuesday on an issue of $150,000 Montgomery will cast its vote Monday for Or against an issue or $300,000 for school betterment work.
 During the past two weeks Mobile has voted overwhelmingly in favor or road bond issue of $250,0O0, while Tuscaloosa county gave a similar vote in favor of an issue of $150,000 for the same purpose.
 If Madison and Dale vote their bond issues for roads and Montgomery gives a majority for its school issue, the state will have an indication of the desire of the voters regarding the state bond issue which is necessary if the federal appropriation now allotted to Alabama is to be obtained for road construction. By the end of the wee k the state will have, an expression from every section. Mobile has indicated the opinion of south Alabama and Tus- caloosa of middle west Alabama; Mont gomery will speak for middle Ala = bama, Madison for the Tennessee val ley section of north Alabama, and Dale for the Wiregrass section of southeast Alabama.
 If the bond issues are carried next week, persons who have been urging an extra session of the legislature for the resubmission of the state high way bond issue will have a new argu- ment. and it is probable that. the for mai request for. the issuance of the call for an extra session will be made to Governor kilby without further de- lay.
 Uncertainty of the opinion of the people has delayed a final decision regarding the extra session Governor kilby has informed persons who have
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-08

8 days prior to the meeting of the na- tonal convention.
 One of the matters attracting the greatest interest on the part of legion members throughout the state is the election of state officers for the ensuing year. Chief interest centers in the cleo tion of a successor to Matt II. Murphy as state commander and the names ot number of prominent Iegionnaires are being talked of for this place. MT. Mur- phy has held the post sincse the legion was formed in Alabama in 1919.
 The election of the minor officers is aiso attracting interest as is the selec- ton of the place for the next convention. Montgomery, Tuscaloosa and several other places are said to have already started campaign to get the convention in 1922.
 Representation in the state convention at Florence. according to information contained in the official call, will be by posts. Each post shall be entitled te five delegates and one additional delegate for every 20 paid-up members on June l, 1920. Each post is also entitlede to one alternate for each regular delegate. u is stated that only delegates or alter mates present may vote, voting by proxy not being allowed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-08
CASE OF LANDS MAY CAUSE OTHERS ID
 CUT OUT SIDE LINES
Bill Aimed at Baseball Judge May Be Amended So as to Strike Home at Some Of
 His Enemies
By HUGH w. ROBERTS MAshInstoH Bureau Tns Ass- HsrsId
 800 DRyIdAon EultdIHR

Washington, May 7.-(S (Special.)-- 1t more reprehensible for Judge LAndis to engage in paying side line than for senator? Is it more undignified for an interpreter of the law to lave additional employment than for a maker of the law?
 Congress will be forced to answer these questions. For the bill of Sena- tor Dial denying Judge Landis the right to serve on the bench and as the dictator of baseball, as well, is in dan CT of amendment. Senator Kenyon of Iowa has proposed an amendment mak ing it impossible for d member of Con : gress to have other business capable of dividing his attention, or making if necessary that he give some time to ether than the governments business.
 And Senator Borah has proposed an amendment whereby a member of Con gress cannot engage in litigation in which the government is a party.
 Senator Dial does not know whether the amendments were proposed from reason of ethics or justice, or whether they were intended so to load the bill that 1t could not survive. Irrespective of the fate of the Dial bill, it is req sonably certain that Congress will not legislate itself out of side line jobs which pay real money.
 The lawyers in Congress give up their practice when they come to Washington, although many of them, if not all of them, practice during re- cesses when they have opportunity. But the banker and the manufactures and the newspaper editor does not re-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-08
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-08
OFFICIAL CALL OF
 AMERICAN LEGION
Election of Officers and Amendments to Constitution
 Will Feature Convention

The official call for the third annual convention Of the American Legion of the department of Alabama. which meets June 10 and Il at Florence, has been mailed out by the state adjutant,, Joe A.. Yates.
 In the all the state commander. Matt H. Murphy. announces that two items of business to come before the conven- ton will be the ratification or amend rnent of the present state constitution which was adopted at last years conven- tion at Anniston. and the election of dele gates and alternates to the national con- .vention to be held at Kansas City. Mo, on October 31, November 1 and 2.
 The department of Alabama is entitled to five delegates and one additional dele- gate for each 1000 members or major fraction thereof whose current dues have been received by the national treasurer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-08
Big Crowds Will Attend East Lake Opening
 Wednesday

eve are expecting big crowds al the official opening of East Lake Park next Wednesday. as the weather indi cations at this time seem favorable Tor next week.. said Miles Bradford, man ager of the park
 This popular pleasure resort was to have opened officially last We'd nesday, but was postponed, owing to the cool weather which prevailed at that time ..
 When the big crowds visit East Lake Park on the opening day and night, they will be pleased with the many improvements which will greet them on every hand. Under the di- rection of MT. Bradford all. of the buildings have been freshly painted green and white, and present an at tractfve appearance. The amuse- ment features of the park have also been remodeled and a number of them enlarged, while the grounds have been beautified with flowers and walks. The bathing and boating facilities have been greatly improved. The bath houses have been added to with one third more bath houses than before, and the board walk out in the lake where the bathers go has been ex- tended. A new sand beach, which has just been completed. will also add to the pleasure and enjoyment of the bathers.
 One of the new big features. which will attract the attention of the visi- tors, is the model poultry farm, the idea of Manager Bradford. Here over 100 snow white Leghorn hens are to be seen, and the visiting public will be given booklets telling them how to successfully raise poultry in their backyards.
 A band of 20 pieces. which has been employed for the, season, will play at the opening next Wednesday, both day and night.-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-08
AUDITOR DECLARES
 AFFAIRS >OF ATHENS
 ARE IN BAD SHAPE
Says Audit Shows Over $40,- 900 Due City and Charges Lax Methods in Handling
 Towns Affairs

Athens, May 7.-(Special.) Le- Moyne of Birmingham, who has for sev- eral months been engaged in an audit or the affairs of the city of Athens, today completed his report for submission
 The audit shows there is due the city more than $40000, which has been lost from different causes but much of it Is said to be recoverable.
 Mir LeMoyne in his report sets out that he found very bad state of affairs apG especially lax methods in handling the city's business during period of sey- eral years. He recommends sSytem or handling the city's accounts which he be- lieves will prevent a recurrence of the situation disclosed by the present audit.
 A summary of his audit, showing the amounts due the city from various sources on April 30, 1920, is as follows.
 Items for which receipts were given, and city taxes were marked paid on tax assessment books, which never entered into the cash account. $2,65225
 Difference between amounts of fines collected as per mayors docket, and the amounts credited in the cash book in the city office, $1 1.452.15.
 Difference between the amounts which should have been deposited with the city treasurer and the amount actually received by him, $SS5.23.
 War taxes in error, which may be easily recovered, s3l51l.
 Amounts paid out illegally which may be recovered, $3, 26S.52.
 Uncollected fines in the mayors court $1,6SS11. Uncollected city taxes, s3,10S.33. | Uncollected street taxes. $,554. 1 Uncollected privilege licenses, S4,564. 6s l Uncollected water and light bills, $ll.- 046 GA
 | Due from 317 persons who have never paid fany taxes, $3,S04.
 Taxes due from persons removing from the city, $2,472.
 Due to the city from IS sources, the names of parties and the amounts paid by each not being obtainable, but the dates of the payments and numbers on the receipts issued being shown. The stubs for these receipts were destroyed case of the mutilation of the city rec ords, to destroy the missing information (estimated net loss). $500. Cash short in the city clerks olIice November 3. 1919, $76.15.
 Total, $40,3S7.12.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-08
ATHENS BALL TEAM

Athens, May 7.-(Special)-- )--The old time ball players of this city have or ganized and are now meeting the nearby teams in great style. Many interest ing games have been pulled off recently and the local nine has been demonstrat- ing that reserve punch which they have held for many years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-08
Mississippi Bank Robbed

By Associated Press
 Como, Miss. May 7.--Robbers gained entrance to the Planters bank here early today and rifled the safety de- posit boxes of Liberty bonds and oth- CT valuable papers after burning an opening in the bank vault with an acetylin torch.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-02-23
THIN ICE EREAkS
THREE BOYS DROWN

Muskc~on. Mich, Feb. 23.--Tbrca
Muskcgon Heights boys, playinr
''hookcr" FROM school yesterday af-
tcrnoon, drowned in Mona Lake,
when they vert through the thin icc:
Russell Canning and Frank ksASki,
aged ii. first went down and Hn"n
Lenc- and Jc;1n Howe started to
their I'D. They both went through
the ice, but Howe managed to reach
shore. His screams attracted work.
men half r.l" away, who rushed
to the scene. i woman Il mile across
the lake saw Inc boys go dcTn and
tcleEhoncd TO the police aS the boys
were still flomdcring in the water.
All ti.. bodies were recovered with
in one hour.
The boys Gccided to skip school
Yesterday afternoon. Howe said, and
were gong across thc:lakc for home
when they went down.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-02-23
Coal Distribution
T.. j. Fannon End Sons Ready to Give
Free Coal to the Worthy Poor
~Gc, the City

The Gazette has been advised by
Thcmas ]. Fanron and Sons, coal
dealers. that the soft coal they pro-
cared from the Southern Railway
Company has been placed in their
yards and is low ready for distrihu-
ton to the poor Of the city.
Mr.. Fann0n stated that he wants
it perfectly clear that there are no
strings attached to the procurement
of the coal. .Jr. Fannon will honor
orders from any clergyman in this
city, or from any representative OF
the relief or charitable organizations
and these parties have been 50 noti-
fed. As to the matter Of delivery O.
the soft coal, either the person Civ
ing the order or the recipient of the
order will have to provide means OF
taking the coal away from the yard.
as Nh. Fannon has not the facilities
for delivering this additional coal.
Mr.. Fannon, who alone was instru-
mental in procuring this coal, has
been the recipient of considerable
praise from the people of Alexandri;'
for the interest he has taken in this
relief step.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-02-23
WILSON TO DEVOTE
HIS LIFE TO PEACE

Washington. Feb. 23.--Prcsidcnt
WILSON expressed the determination
vest erday to Ccvote n;mself upon re-
tirement TO private life to continu-
alton Of his efforts toward world
peace. In his first public. uttcrancc
since the November election, the Pres
idcnt, in receiving a delegation from
the Woodrow Wilson Club of Har.
ward University at the White House,
declared he had no intention Of writ
ing history of the Paris Peace
Conference. He added that was a
task he preferred to leave to the pro-
fessional historian, as the public
might Lc proEc to take into considc-
ration the personal equation in any
accoun. Of the peace proceedings he
might write.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-02-23
Income Is Cut
Southern Railway Co.'S. Revenue S49S.
21s Less in Feb. 1921 Than in :.
February 1920

\ further falling eff in gross oper-
l.ing revenue for the second wr.I OF
February was reported by the South
arn Railway system. Gross income Tor
the period amounted % S3c2SO941,
which i reduction Of $45II -2--3 from
Inc corresponding week Of 1920. From
Jan. ! 70 Feb. II, 1921. gros: rgien"e
amounted 70 SCI, ,095.l70. which was
smaller than for the corresponding
period Of 1920 Dy 81. l.S0 ,772.
The Mobile anA Ohio, subsidiary
Of the Southern Railway, reported
gross ;rccme Of s376,6s5 for tae. se',-
end week Of this month, a GAIN Of
$50 ,5S2. From Jan. |, 1921. % da1e
r-oss ;nccmc was S2,42s'eS5. al IN
crease Of s295,716 over the cor'~sSand
ing period Of ias- year.