The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-27
TOLL BRIDCEON
 STATE HIGHWAY
 ORDERED CLOSED
Span On Montgomery Road Is Declared Un. {. safe For Traffic
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 Montgomery highway, about three miles ' from Montgomerxsz #as ordered closed by the Montgomery board of revenue today. Engineers fof the State and county reported sthe4 e4bridge ,ins bad con dition and unsafe for all traffic. The board, responsible flor the protection of travellers on the public highways, in structed the. owner to keep the bridge closed until epairs had been completed.
 The steel bridge on the Wetumpka road on the ferry on the Prattville road must be used by travellers until the bridge has been placed in proper con ]; difion. J. D. Roy of DeatsYille Is the owner. In recent weeks ,an. effort has been made to persuade the Montgomery county board of revenue to purchase the bridge and remove the tolls.
 ChiId Burns To Death
 Lois Margaret Horn, 6, daughter of A. G. Horn, died at local infirmary early today from Injuries received by flames which were caught from an open s Erate. The accident occurred in m up- stairs room when no other person was in the room. The body was shipped to ,, Luverne for interment. @ !.
 \ TO Survey Road F
 A delegation headed by P. E. Jones , of Camden appeared before the state midway oommissfon at its meeting road from Camden to SSsfma via Acker- vile. The road from Camden;to Selma atspresent runs via way of Boykin Bridge and CaralVille to Selma. The proposed Ackerv iIIesroute wilfrun from Ackerville. to. CaflqFille and thence to the Brandon highway. The commission told the, Wilcox county citizens that a survey of both ru5ites fw0uldk be made before the IocatioH et the, proposed new road was decided. G
 Andersen Back
 John c. Anderson, chief justice of the Alabama supreme court, has returned from Washington, D. O., where he at tended a meeting of the Aemircan Law Institute Judge Anderson reported that the meeting was a very successful one. Soda Fountain Bandits" .. 4 aSoda fountains banditsy must have been responsible for recent fire in Birmingham, according to report made Tuesday to State Fire Marshal Chester k. Johnson. The report was on the store of A. Bumpass, which burned February 25.. The investigator stated that the blaze, which entailed trifling loss. appeared of .incendiary origin.
 Town Changes Name
 Notification was filed Monday with the state department of archives and history of the adoption of the name Hickory Grove by which community in Montgomery county, near the Lowndes county line, will be known in the future and so designated on the maps. This notification was filed by David s. Hurst, secretary of the meet ing held Friday in the school house of the community for the purpose of adopt ing the name. The community, 1t IS stated, was formerly known as Hickory Grove, but later a postoffice was estab- lished in the vicinity and named Daven- port. !, A total of five stills captured in Shelby county was reported Tuesday to the state law enforcement head duarters at the capitol.
 Dog Heads Positive
 Two dog heads received Monday at the state Pasteur laboratory were found positive. One sent in by Dr. w, w. Webb. of Opelika was from an animal that had bitten dogs only. The other, sent in by w. H. Abernathy of Troy, was from an animal that had bitten a person and treatment was sent Dr. Robert Beard to administer.
 Paroles Issued
 Parole was issued Monday by Cover nor W. W. Brandon to Steiner Griffith, conticted of mahslaughter in the first degree in the Wilcox circuit court. He began serving four-year sentence No vember 16, 1921. Parole was recom- mended by the trial judge, many good citizens of the community, the solicitor. the prison authorities and the board of pardons.
 Commissions Issued
 The following commissions have been issued by Secretary of State Blan: John NJ. Lyons, jury commissioner of Shelby county, Columbiana, Ala.
 Notary publics as follows: Mrs. Rosa Sutherland, Double Springs, Winston county J. c. Slone, Montevallo, Shelby county H. G. Gilbert, Florence, Lauder dale county; Miss Myrtle Houston, Florence, Lauderdale county; W. w. Alvey, Birmingham, Jefferson county i; Mrs. B. c. Catoe, Birmingham, Jeffer- son county; z. s. Nall, Birmingham, Jefferson county; H. H. Simpson, Pitts view,I Route 3, Barbour county; T. M. McLendon, Pike Road, Montgomery county.