The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-29
MAGIC CITY GETS
 LIBRARY MEET
New Book Wagon Of Birming- ham Library To Be -3 ssss Featured
ssfsr.ATE. CAPITAL BUREAID

WpNTGOMERY,SsA Ala, Feb. 2S.- ThksA Alabama Library association will he3dstits annual convention at Birming- hanns April ..24 -25-26, according to in fotM5a ation from Miss Mary R. Mullen, of Montgomery secretary of the asso- ciakiAn, Sessions will, be held at the BirMngham Public Library, the new library of Birmingham-So Southern col lege and the new Phillips Eigh school 1 library. Of especial interest to visit Ing librarians will be the, attractive new book wagons with it's glass sides, of the Birmingham public library, the first of its kind in Alabama which makes daily trips over Jefferson county, giv- ing excellent service to the people. En- tertainmentNwill include a tea, lunch con, and a visit to the Birmingham steel plants. During the absence of burny Miss Lila May Chapman, vice director of .the Birmingham public li- brary, will preside. Among speakers of note will be Charles E. Rush. librarian of the Indianapolis public library.
 Will Open Bids
 Bids will be opened at the state highway department April : on the section of road in Green county, which is to connect Eutaw with Livingston by way of Gainesville, according to information from the highway depart ment todays
 -\ Parrish Hearing Set
 The utility commission today fixed for hearing at Jasper March 6, the case against the Southern Railroad and Northern Alabama railroad relative to depot facilities at Parrish, the case having been fixed for hearing original ly March 5. t
 Sentence Commuted
 Governor w. W. Brandon today commuted to life imprisonment the death gentencesfof Monroe Dukes, Mobile county negro sentenced to hang for murder off another negro. The com mutation was unanimously recommend sd by the pardon board, and by the trial judge. and eleven members of the jury.
 Cherokee Man Paroled
 Governor w. w. Brandon today paroled l.. K. Burton, convicted ot distilling from Cherokee county, Janu NaFy 31, 1923 and who received a sen tenee of a year and a day to a year and three months.
 Much Fertilizer Sold ,
 Twenty-two thousand farmers who nre members of the Alabama Earn Bureau federation have received fer tilizer purchased through the associa fion, according to E.'A. O'Neal, presi dent of the federation. One. of tht Interesting facts in connection with tht distribution of this large amount oi Fertilizer is that practically all wa: Delivered by rail.
 " Shop Near Completion j. Construction of the shops of tht Atlantic Coast Line railroad will bt completed August l, according to an nouncement of contractors today. force of nearly three hundred workers will be used constantly and the weekly pay rool will be $125,O All. mate rails for the work have been purchased in Montgomery except such items al kould not be supplied by Montgomer, producers The shops will consist O ten buildings of brick, concrete ant steel.
 Df. Welch HOnOred
 Dr. $. 'Welch, state health officer has been accorded the distinction O delivering the Delamar lecture befor The John Hopkins school of publi health, Baltimore, on March 10. Tn lecture is an annual event at Johl Hopkins and it is regarded as a grea bonor to be. invited to deliver it. Dr Welch has for his subject. 'Publi, Health Administration"