The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-01-14
NE ENCOUNTY HEADS READY TO ASSUME OFFICE ON MONDAY
Six Major Changes in Jeffer- sons Personnel Slated. Sixty to Be Affected
 by Shift

Everything is in readiness for the change. Outgoing officials have placed their records In readiness their desks are clear Many of them left the grim old court house Satur- day, their last official task com pleted. Monday the successful can didates in last falls election will take their places quietly, unostenta- tiously and without pomp, for every thing has been prepared. Each in- coming official has signed his bond and taken the oath of office. Mon- day morning they will walk in, the old officials will walk out, and the wheels of political fortune will have turned again.
 Six major changes will be made g in the personnel of the governing and law enforcing branches of Jefferson county Monday, but these six changes will affect the political status of approximately 60 persons Three circuit judges. the sheriff. the solicitor and the circuit clerk are those who take office Monday. Of the men who fill these six places now, some were defeated for re-elec- tion and some did not offer for the office a second time.
 Despite these changes at the court
 
 interruption. There will be no court held in the civil division of circuit court and no cases are docketed in the chancery division for the week of January Is. This will permit the outgoing circuit clerk, William J. Waldrop, to arrange for a final set clement with the county. It will also give the incoming circuit judges a chance to familairlze themselves with the duties of their offices.
 Three New Judges.
 When the short respite from work has passed and the court again starts to grind, both in the civil and equity divisions, three new faces will be noted on the bench, for Monday will see the departure of Chancellor Hugh A. Locke and Judges J. B. Aird and J. Q. Smith of the civil di- vision. They will be replaced by William NJ. Walker as chancellor and J. C. Hail and Roger w. Snyder in the civil division. MT. Hall was elected 10 succeed Judge Smith and MT. Snyder was chosen as Judge Ards successor.
 James G. Davis, solicitor-elect, will enter upon his duties as the states representative in criminal courts in Jefferson county Monday. succeeding JOSepn It. late. MT. DdiNS Has per sistently refused to announce the appointment of his deputies, but it is thought that their names will be- come known some time after the so- licitor- elect enters office. J. W. Dickinson will succeed E. D. Algee as reporter for the grand jury. MT. Algee will enter the practice of law,
 Wooisey Morrow, who succeeds William J. Waldrop as circuit clerk, will appoint two new deputies They are Walter Howard and MT. Erwin This will be the only change in the clerks office at the present time. MT. Morrow said Saturday.
 In the office of Probate Judge James F. Stiles, who was reelected for the third time, F. B. Henry will be appointed chief clerk. succeeding Mir. Morrow. No other changes are scheduled in the probate office.
 Thomas J, Shirley will succeed Chris Hartsfield as sheriff Monday morning without causing any inter. ruption in the management of the office. MT. Shirley announced the appointment of his deputies some time ago and they will all be pres ent Monday morning to assume their duties.