The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-11-26

BIRMI.,
twills. wide sateens and sheetings.
Spindles. $4,000,
Looms, 504.
Employees, $50.
schoolhouses. two; three teachers;
modern equipment.
One church, Baptist and Methodist
ministers. three services week.
Nursery
kindergarten
Public bath house and swimming
pool.
Twenty six-piece brass band.
All streets electric lighted and
sanitary sewerage system.
Each house equipped with electric
lights. water closets, bathtubs and
lavatories
Group life insurance is carried on
each employee; accident insurance is
carried on every employe.
An average of so bales of cotton
per day is used.
Within the last year SO homes have
been bdi!t and IS old ones remodeled.
Pasture, COW barns and garages
furnished all employees,
Streets graded and named; all
houses numbered.
A beautiful park and playground
is now under construction. This Will
be lighted with electricity
Baseball park and grandstand
Two basketball courts; boys and
girls teams.
one clubhouse used by Boy Scouts.
Camp Fire Girls and Mothers club.
This mill is run by electricity from
the Alabama Power company and all
machinery is equipped with individual
motor drive.
Two steam boilers.
Deep we'll water.
Russell Mills
The Russell Manufacturing COM
pany of Alexander City is the largest
and most complete enterprise of its
kind in the south. There is one
knitting mill and four yarn mills,
named as follows:
Russell Manufacturing company,
underwear mill
Russell Manufacturing company,
yarn mill.
Bette Francis mill. cotton mills.
Roberta mills. yarn.
Russco mills, yarn.
Total spindles In these mills, So,
600; zoe knitting machines. with year
ly production of 100000 pounds
high quality fine count underwear
yarns and 100000 womens gar
ments. This concern manufactures
their own laces. braids, paper and
wooden boxes. Cotton is brought d.
rect from the gin and the finished
garment is turned out ready for the
wearer.
In these mills are 1900 employees.
all OF whom were raised in Alexander
City and vicinity.
There is ono school with 0Odern
equipment and has four teachers
There is one large brick church used
on alternate Sundays by three diff
ferent denominations.
| The entire mill village is lighted
with electric lights; has artesian wa
ter; sanitary closets
A baseball ground has been recent
| ly graded, with the outfield sodded
in grass.
There are basketball courts, play
grounds and parks.
Every house has a garden and a
| fine COW pasture.
The mills are all electrically driven
There is a brass band of 40 pieces,
with a competent instructor.
| All employees are insured at the ex
! pense of the mills. The schools are
free. The teachers are paid by the
mills.
The Russell Laundry
the laundry IS owned and operated
/ by the Russell Manufacturing com
/ pany and has sufficient capacity to
take care 81 the mila and the city.
This plant has nav ard modern
/ equipment, rrodue.ns the highest
class o. work.
The Russell Hospital-This insti-
| tuition Is now under construction and
| will ha r,,ndarnlu in,
respect. The hospital will have 60
beds
The Alexander City Manufacturing
| Company-Thls concern. manufac-
! lures wooden boxes sash, doors,
holdings, finished wood working
planning mill that is capable of finish
ing the output of the several sawmills
in Alexander City and vicinity
Alexander City Wholesale Grocery
company, Benjamin Russell, presi-
dent; T. C. Russell. vice president and
treasurer; Ross Barton, general man
ager.
This concern has a paid-in capital
stock of $4,000, and is doing a $780,
| 600 business year.
| Three travelling statesmen, Jack
Sellers. Eugene Smith and Ross Bar
! ton. Jr., work Alexander City, and
the nearby towns for a radius of 10
miles, c. l.. Howell is credit man.
! This concern has one of the most
convenient locations of any wholesale
firm in the state. The building is
! located right on the main line of the
| Central of Georgia tracks, cars can
be placed on the main sidings and
unloaded in the house. There is a
| driveway through the center of the
house used to a great advantage in
shipping.
The building covers exactly one
acre and is owned by the concern.
Railroad Facilities.
The main line of the Central of
Georgia railroad between savannah
and Birmingham is through the city
and through passenger service be-
tween Chicago and Jacksonville, Fla.
This through train service also make
it possible for express to leave Alex
| ander City one morning and reach
Chicago the following morning. The
freight receipts will average $780,
| 600 per month.
| The Alexander City bank, ]. c.
Maxwell, president; DR.. A. l.. Harlan,
! vice president; H. Herzfeld, vice
| president; L. M Willis. cashier, and
]. B. Ford. assistant cashier, has \
capital and surplus of $4,000, and
resources more than s350,o00. The
First National bank. Benjamin Rus