The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-09
BUSINESS MEN
 TO WORK ROAD
Twins City Citizens Will Spend Day On Court
 land Highway
tTsnn. Valley Bureau)

ALBAEY-DECATUR Ala-, May 4 men of the Twin Cities Thursday will show the remainder of Alabama that one way to get good roads is to build them. Promptly al 80 o'clock they will gather at the designated meeting place on Bank street for a day's work on the Court land highway which is now impossible They expect to make it very much more than passable by evening. They plan to have the road so that people not only can get over 1t but get over it in comfort. They expect the peo- pie of Courtland to do some work on the other end of the highway at an early date. Ladies of the Twin Cities will serve lunch at noon enabling vol unteer workers to put in a full day of labor.
 To Drain Pond-Lillie Pond near Flint will be drained soon 1t is expected following survey to be made by N. H. Rector, engineer for the Tennessee Valley. Several surveys for drainage projects have been made in Morgan county and others are to be made soon. The work of fighting the mosquito breeding places in the county is well under way.
 Decision Withdrawn-The decision of the attorney generals office recently announced holding unconstitutional the school law of Morgan county creating five districts has been withdrawn, ac- eOrding to a letter received here today by representative J. A. FOrman, au- thor of the act. The letter was signed by Harwell c. Davis, attorney general IA Anx s..h you refer declaring this act unconstitu- tional has been withdrawn and the state superintendent of education is 50 advising the parties today"
 Gees to Talhaega-Friends here were interested today in the announce ment that Rev. Joseph H. Harvey. who was ordained a deacon in St. Johns Episcopal church in 1910. will become rector of the Episcopal church at Talla- dega. Rev. Harvey now is an assistant rector of Christ church cathedral in St. Louis and assistant rector in the Epis- cOpal church mission there.
 Favor Ford Bid. .Seventy-five per cent of the people in Anniston are in favor of the acceptance of Henry Ford's !. J. Peebles of that city who were nCAG NU<A4t-
 Ship Yards BuSy-The ship yards of the American Oak Leather company de clared to be the largest dry docks on the Tennessee river south of .Paducah, Ky. now are very busy. The bsFges used by the N.-. C. < St. l.. railroad at GuntersviIle are repaired here. The yards recently completed 'SThe Twin Cities" a ferry boat to be used at the Bee Line crossing and IS now engaged on a contract for barges for Huntsville people who are using the barges in hauling sand and gravel for building purposes
 Albany High Wins-Albank High school defeated Huntsville High school here 9 to s in a 1O-inning thriller.
 OutelaSSeS Rerlin-There are more Automobiles on the streets of Albany than on the streets of Berlin, Germany, a city of 3,OOO, 900 people, according to Dr. Henry M. EdmOnds, of Birming- ham, who is conducting a revival at the Westminster Presbyterian church here. In several European cities bi- cycles supplant automobiles for trans pOrtatiOn, he added. Tf Mrs. Jennie Rean-Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon for Mrs. Jennie Bean, widow of the late l.. G. Bean- The services were held at the residence of a relative, J. J. Dinsmore, near FaIkville.