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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-19
BIBLE CLASS TO MEET. Phenix City Organization Has Great Growth Under CarIt0n's Growth.

PHENIX CITY, Ala, Jan. 1s.- (Special) The regular meeting of the Mems Bible class of the Girard Metho- dist church will be held tomorrow night when the officers for the year 1924 will be elected. A fish fry and oyster roast has been arranged for the program. At the time Rev. A. B. Carlton assumed the pastorate of the church the Bible class was composed of only four members, but it has grown until today the membership is 40, of which T. P. Cunba is president.
 Named Traffic Officer.
 Charles G. Reed, an experienced motorcycle rider, has been employed by Chief Gill to fill vacancy left open when Cecil Hall was promoted to the office of clerk of the police depart ment.
 Big Liquor Seizure.
 One of the largest whisky raids made by local police officers occurred Thursday when officers seized Ill quarts of choice whisky, wine, brandy and gin in a haul made on a river shack near Phenix City.
 HEAR TALKS ON LEE
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-19
RE'MODELED PIPE
 PLANT TO OPEN
Modern Steel And Concrete Structure Erected At Cost
 Of $75,000
GADSDEN BUREAU Gadsden, Ala., Jan. i8
 TAE ABE. ERAlO

The soil pipe plant of the Coosa Pipe and Foundry company, which has recently undergone repairs and ad- ditions, will resume operation Monday after an idleness of several months. The old wooden structure has been re- placed with modern steel and con- crete building at cost of over $75, ,000. The additions will increase the ca pacity by 25 per cent. The shop of the Gadsden Pipe company, which has also been rebuilt and enlarged, will re- sume Monday week.
 Killed In Atlanta
 The body of Chester Campbell, %, who was killed in cotton mill at At lanta Wednesday, arrived in Alabama City Thursday night. The funeral will be held Saturday morning, the burial to be at Clayton cemetery. It is reported that Campbell was struck by lever and almost instantly killed. Politics Simmer
 Municipal politics began to simmer Friday when it became known that the executive committee will probably meet in a few days to set the date for an early primary. Among those men toned for mayor are W. E. Weir, R. w. Camp, w. F. Archer, c. M. Adams and G. E. Christopher. Mir. Weir was chief of police at Birmingham for many years. Mr. Christopher is pres ent mayor and is almost certain to seek a second term. Evan J. Owen is the only announced candidate for president of the council, but it is known that he will have opposition.
 Realty Deals Made
 Announcement was made Friday that o. J. Stocks had purchased the Cobb apartments on South Fourth street from W. r. Cobb, formerly sec retary of state for Alabama, the price being $12,500. It was also announced that Sheriff R. A. Leath had bought the Eleventh street home of the late Judge James F.. Blackwood.
 Falls From Train
 J. H. O'Shields is in a hospital suf- fering from injuries as the result of falling from a freight train near the Louisville and Nashville river bridge to board the train for Anniston in
 
 To Refurnish Rest Room
 The county commissioners have ac- cepted the offer of the Axis club to re- furnish the public rest room in the basement of the court house, provided the county will make some needed re- pairs. The room is to be repainted and refloored and when the work is finished the Axis club will put in new furniture, rugs and tables.
 Pastor Is H0n0red
 Because of his faithful services in conducting chapel exercises without a break for one year, Rev. A. s. Roberts, Methodist pastor, was Friday present ed with a gold fountain pen by the students of the Hokes Bluff High school. The presentation was made by Miss Christine Posey.
 Delegates Appointed
 The Civitan club Friday afternoon appointed J. E. Loner and A. l.. Green as delegates to a countrywide agricul- tural conference to be held at the court house here next Thursday. It is understood the meeting will adopt scientific methods of agricultural de- velopment for the county during 1924. After their luncheon the Civilians in spected the new high school building, which will be thrown open Monday, January 2S
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-19
MORE STREET BECONS
Commissioner Cloe Working For An
 Addition Of Seven

Seven additional units of the cleo Ari. t-3ff control system in the down. &owa dist jet will be installed as soon es funds can be raised, Commissioner W T. Cine declared Friday.
 Tie commissioner announced that 1he systerl had speeded up traffic fully loo per ent.
 Civic organizations and clubs prob nbly wifi be called upon to raise money ik lne new equipment, he said. About QUO foc each unit is required.
 Commissioner Cloe also plans the in- gtallation of telephone connections with fine tower and fire, ambulance and po- Isce headquarters, as well as banks and Ather cn ergency points.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-19
VACCINATION, OR NO SCHOOL,
 IS NEW ORDER

Birmingham children who cannot show vaccination scars and certifi- cates by January 28 will have to drop out of school, it was announced Friday by Superintendent c. B. Glenn.
 City and county health officers have declared they will enforce this rule vigorously. Children may be vaccinated at the city hall daily be- tween 2 and 4 o'clock p. m., by presenting a parents request.
 The drastic action to insure vac cinations is taken to prevent the spread of smallpox and other com municable diseases, officials said.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-19
MEETS IN MONTREAL
Commercial Law League Decides On
 Convention City

Claude D. Ritter, Birmingham at torney, and president of the Commer- cial Law league of America, Friday wired friends in Birmingham that the league, whose executive committee is now meeting in New Orleans, had chosen Montreal, Canada, as the place for its 1924 annual meeting.
 Mir. Ritter, who is a member of the firm of Ritter, Wynn X Car michael, will attend the meeting, he said.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-19
Troy Kiwanis Club To Hold Minstrel
 During FAhHuarY

TROY, Ala, Jan. 17.-(Special Leased Wire.)-The Kiwanis club staged an excellent program Thursday night, with President Gerald Tender son presiding. A feature of the eve ming was very comprehensive address given by Auxford Sartain, professor of history of the State Normal school, on Robert D. Lee. Emory Folmar, president of the Rotary club, who was guest of Sellers Lightfoot, also gave a good talk on General Lee. Plans for minstrel to be held the last part of February were discussed and plans made for it. Sam Bowers was a guest of the evening and was introduced by William Anderson.
 Plan Big Crop
 The Pike county farmers are pre- pairing for bumper crop for 1924. The fields are being put into condition and blowing is being done and every thing necessary for the planting of the fields. The immense cotton crop of 1923 has attracted much attention to the county.
 Visited By Band
 The Baptist orphanage was visited Thursday night by the Brundidge band. This band is composed of 16 members, both girls and boys. The children of the orphanage, numbering 27, were grouped on the porch and on the lawn in front of the building for the music. HELPED LITTLE GIRLS COUGH
 "FOLEY'S HONEY AND TAR COMPOUND is fine. My little girl had an awful cough. I got bottle of FOLEY'S HONEY AND TAR COMPOUND and gave her few doses and she was greatly relieved" writes Clyde H. Benson, Marlbrook, Virginia. The best remedy for coughs, colds, hoarseness; relieves promptly and effectively. FOLEY'S HONEY AND TAR COMPOUND has stood the test of time, serving three genera tions. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-19
LITTLE GIRL IS Z BY MOTORIST

While returning from school Fri day, Elizabeth Bnsinleker, seyen- year-old daughter of Mir. and Mrs. J. P. Businleker, 1738 Cleveland avenue, was knocked down and badly bruised by the unidentified lriver, of an automobile, who kept going after striking the child.
 She was carried to the Baptist hospital, where she received medical attention, and allowed to go home. The child, who attends the West End Catholic school, had reached Tuscaloosa avenue, near the hospital, when struck.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-07-23
Once ThriDing TotDn
NotU but Memory

On section SO, in township 81 and
range 80, in Hamilton county leans an
old building partly covered with tar
paper, and slightly north stand a few
dwarf trees. They are the only marks
left Of Federal City, one of the lost
towns Of Hamilton county. Federal
City, the hope of its promoters and
the despair of its investors, was iocat-
ed on the Hamilton-K earney county
line 16 miles straight north of Ken
dali.
1t was surveyed and divided into
blocks and lots in the winter of 1885
and 1886, almost thirty-eight years ago.
Among its promoters were Henry AL
tenberg, S. j. Perring, Ben Hall, j.
P. Francis and George Chilcote. A
general store, blacksmith shop and a
dugout made up the business section
of the town. Settlers soon began to
come in and before many months
large community conferred around Fed
eral City. The proprietor of the store,
Mr.. Smith, was also postmaster The
mail was carried out from Kendall.
In short time there were a Sunday
school, a literary society and a ball
team which furnished plenty of amuse-
ment for the community. Farming
kept on the increase for a few years
up to the year 1892, when the wheat
produced from twenty to forty bushels
to the acre. 1t was hauled to Ken
dali and Syracuse, distance of six
teen to twenty-five miles, and sold
for 40 cents a bushel. A large acreage
was sown in the fall of 1892 and then
came the drought and hot winds which
burned up the wheat, the spring crops
and the buffalo grass.
Settlers became discouraged, loaded
their household goods into wagons and
departed-a few back East from
whence they came, some further West
seeking new fields, and quite a num-
Der went to Oklahoma to participate
in the opening of the Cherokee strip.
In less than two years two-thirds of
the settlers had drifted to other lands.
With this migration the glory and
splendor of Federal City began to
fade, the smith cast aside his tools, the
store closed for want of trade and the
old dugout soon began to fill in from
oil sides. Not long ago former citi-
zen of Federal City visited the site
and picked up pieces of broken pot
terry and few links of chain. 1t
was all there was left of Federal City.
Syracuse Correspondence, Hutchin-
son (Kans.) News.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-07-23
Early Bird En1ulators

The desire to conquer the air and
emulate the birds is no modern fancy,
but has agitated the minds of men
mechanically inclined for ages. Rec
ords of a meeting of the Royal So
ciety, held in London, England, in
1879, give the information that "Mr.
Hooke read paper containing a de-
scription of the way Of flying, invent
ed and practiced by one Monsignor
Besnier, a smith, the contrivance of
which consisted in ordering four wings
folding and shutting to be moved by
his hands before and his legs behind,
by which he was, it was said, able to
fly from a high place across a river to
a pretty distance" One of the men,
bers of the Royal society apparently
cast some doubts upon the practicable
ity Of the invention. "Mr. Henshawe
conceived that by reason of the weak
ness of a mans arms for such kind Of
motions, 1t would be much more prob
able to make a chariot or such like
machine with springs and wheels,
that should serve to carry one or
more men in it to act and guide it."
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-07-23
Culinary Heroisr71

Once in a while we find a young
wife, even in these days, who knows
that the surest way to please hus-
band is through his stomach. A bride
who had not the slightest knowledge
of cooking determined to make a noble
effort to please her husband.
His mother told her he was very
fond Of Welsh rarebit. She set about
perfecting herself in the preparation
of the dish and spent several after
moons in her kitchen. Her failures
were many. She finally exhausted
the supply of cheese in the neighbor-
hood and gave up discouraged. A few
mornings afterward her husband was
leaving the apartment building in
which they lived when he was stopped
by the superintendent.
"See here, young man." said the SUI
perintendent, "tell your wife to stop
throwing that linoleum out into the
ourt."-Thrift Magazine.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-07-23
Selects Home Carefully

When a youthful oyster that for
an exciting period Of two weeks or
so has been swimming about looking
for home decides to settle down, the
step is a serious one, says Science
Service. For when he ties himself
down to a rock or similar stationary
object, the attachment is for life. This
the oyster seems to appreciate. It
has been found that before tying up to
any definite location, the young mol
lusca circle carefully around and test
every part of the object with their
one and only foot. When they find
just the place they were looking
for, they fasten themselves to It
with their foot, which, the need for
travelling having ended, serves as an
anchor for the rest of their lives.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-07-23
By LAURA MILLER
9, 1924. by Laura Miller
WHY SHE LIVES IN
ARIZONA

A few weeks ago the story of Leora
Lobban Brewer was typed for the edi-
tor. 1t told of CHEEKY woman who
wrote in snatches, between running
the Brewer Furniture" business, and
nursing her husband through an i'll
ness. 1.-THE business is transacted in
Tucson, Ariz.," it said lightly. Nov
the United States census places Tucson
in the Cities and Towns Having From
10000 to $4,000 Inhabitants Tourists
on fast trains to California whiz past
asking, Don't we ever get through the
deSertY
Are you sorry for Mrs. Brewer?
Don't be! OF a pile of letters on
my desk, hers is the happiest. j.
" is better. Last Saturday she closed
early to speak at the prohibition rally
In the Baptist church. Swaying ones
audience brings the same thrill in
Tucson as in New York. The post
mistress, Mrs. Brewers candidate, has
been elected president of the new
business women's club. Furthermore,
Leora Brewer has just been asked to
travel through the state in the inter-
ests of a big national organization.
"'Of course, won't take salary for
work so near my heart she writes.
Store clerk as I am, manage to make
a comfortable amount so that can do
this other work for pleasure
All this the story of a few weeks
hQPk Thnrn'o onnfhnrs 1otf01. NTrc
Brewer today. 1t, too, is scrubbed,
but this time on train. Mr.. Brewers
illness in May proved more serious
than she had let herself believe, and
the reason for living in the desert
country is passed.
Her brief little correspondence card
says, II am almost home" Then her
honesty puts a question mark, thus,
home o., and goes on, that Is, my
native home, where l shall visit. {.
plan to remain in Arizona. have
my business, the furniture store. And
there also, I believe, is my field for
the Master"
So she's going back to the desert
country, that isn't a desert for her.
When the Arizona Star has included
her in series on Interesting Tucsoni-
ans; when as daughter and wife
Of storekeeper and proprietor of
store she has learned to write ads that
attract attention and customers when
she feels that "city parks cannot make
up for country in the best climate on
earth; and when a girlhood vow to
help create dry country mas brought
an additional field of usefulness and
honor, why should Mrs. Brewer have
anything but love for Arizona?
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-07-23
italy Gets Art Treasure

The famous Byzantine cross which
has been the subject of law case In
Glasgow, Scotland, has been returned
to the church from which 1t has been
missing in Italy.
The cross, which Is said to be worth
thousands of dollars, has been in the
possession of an Ice cream salesman
for some time, and was few years
ago offered for sale in the window of
a shop in Glasgow. The cross having
been recognized as the one missing
from the parish church at Borgo Cole
fegato, in southern Italy, the church
made a claim for it's return, and an
order was made for the cross to be
restored. This was contested, but the
ice cream salesman has now lost the
appeal, so that the cross will once
more adorn the church.
1t is a beautiful piece of work, and
Is said to have been found in the ruins
OF a castle after the Messina earth
quake.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-07-23
THRILLS ON "THE MAIN
STREET MESSENGER"

The life of the small-toWn reporter
has many thrills. Eva Hunt Dockery
of the Idaho Daily Statesman of Boise
lists, as a few of the more dramatic,
interviewing Paderewski through q
knothole, being set upon bodily by an
irate wife who mistook Mrs. Dockery
for her husbands affinity, writing up
the first motor trip to California while
the dusty gentleman gave out details
from a barber-shop bath house, and
having the police called when she tried
to get a picture of murdered woman.
The woman reporter In the smaller
place, Mrs. Dockery says, gets a
chance to interview notables when
they come through the town. If she
were on big city daily these inter-
views would go to the star reporters
and her own progress toward the most
interesting feature of news writing
would thus be delayed or curtailed.
Among Mrs. Dockery's choicest pos
sessions are notes from Schumann-
Heinck, Ida Tarbell, and other nota-
bles. A silver dagger, specially In
scribed, is a memento Of what prom
Used to be an impossible interview with
Nine. Nordica, but which eventuated
into such a friendship that the singer
always sent for the writer when she
reached Boise.
Originally a trained librarian. the
secretary of the Idaho state free IL
brary commission once lost her posi-
ton through change Of political
color at the statehouse. Just then the
Statesman was short a society editor,
hunted her up and offered her the Job.
at was when went to San Fran
cisco and talked with the newspaper
women there" Mrs. Dockery writes,
shat first realized my good fortune
In receiving training on small-town
paper. OF course we consider ours the
biggest little newspaper In the coun-
try. Anyway, the bright young news
paper girls l met claimed quite to
envy me my varied experience cover
ing police and Supreme courts, hotel
interviews and celebrities-everythin
at one time or another except the leg
islature. Even In the matter Of f.
nances / believe the small-town news
paper woman has the best of the ar
gument. While the pay is small, liv.
ing expenses are cheaper and there is
always a chance at sidelines such as
writing ads for stores which cannot
pay regular ad writer, doing pub
icity Tor campaigns, etc."
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-07-23
"Pe0nufS''

The other day Harry Black, Jr,
ten-year-old Terre Haute boy, took his
new dog to the baseball game with him.
The little dog was led by chain. He
sat down beside Junior and seemed
contented until the vendors began to
call, "Ice cream cones" and peanuts"
Then he almost went mad. He
jerked at his chain, he stood up and
howled. The grand stand was in laugh
ter until the boy bought some peanuts
and fed part Of them to the dog. That
evening he found out that the dog had
been named Peanuts by it's former
owner, and knew that every time the
vendor shouted he had thought they
were calling him.-Indianapoli Star.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-07-23
SONGS OF THE CIVIL
AND THE WORLD WAR
Refrains Differed in Charac-
ter, but Times Change.

Representative Isaac r. Sherwood
(Democrat) of Ohio, the oldest men,
Der of the house of representatives.
and probably the oldest living general
OF the Civil war, delivered a notable
Memorial day address by request be-
fore the members just before the
house resumed discussion of the agri-
cultural relief bill. 1t was different
from most addresses of the day In
that his topic was the songs of the Civil
war General Sherwood, who is eigh-
ty-eight years old, stated that the Civil
war was almost the only war in his
tory in which the men behind the guns,
on both sides of the controversy,
wrote the songs. He referred to "John
Browns Body" and said it was written
by Col. Fletcher Webster of the
Twelfth Massachusetts regiment. An
other old favorite was "The Vacant
Chair" "The Conquered Banner" he
said, written by Father Ryan, chaplain
of a Mobile (Ala.) regiment, was the
greatest dramatic poem of the South
the requiem of the Confederacy.
"Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp
Ground" written by Arthur Kittridge
of the Second New Hampshire infan-
try, and Maryland, My Maryland"
the work of James R. Randall, a tutor
in Louisiana college, he praised as
excellent poems.
General Sherwood is on firm ground,
In the opinion of the Brooklyn Citizen,
when he states that these songs re-
vealed the deep thoughts of the partici-
pants in the great struggle of 60 years
ago. He contrasts them with the
songs now in vogue, such as Eyes, We
Have No Bananas" "Take Us to the
Land of Jazz" and "Hail, Hail, the
Gangs All Here" 1--WE are living in
utilitarian age" he says, "and the
spirit that actuated that great war ap-
pears to have gone" But to be fair,
the old veteran should contrast the
Civil war songs, not with the songs of
the present moment, but with those of
the World war. If we had nothing
like 'Tenting Tonight" and "The Va
cant Chair" we at least had "Pack Up
Your Troubles" with it's refrain.
''Smile, Smile, Smile" which animated
our soldier boys and caused them to
march away singing with light hearts;
keep the Home Fires Burning"
which was sung everywhere here and
abroad, and There's a Long, Long
Trail" the soldiers favorite, even
though it was written a little while be-
fore the war broke ont
But it is deeply regrettable that the
seriousness, the high moral tone, which
was felt so deeply not only through
the Civil war but through the World
war, has vanished. There is spirit Of
levity apparent, as well as a condition
Of lawlessness which portends evil for
the republic unless it is checked.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-07-23
Camp Bed From, Boueb.

A little comfort in the camn
now and then, is relished by the
OF sportsmen. Here is a way to
little spring in the bed UNDER
ming: Cut four saplings about 81
feet long and set the butts in the
on either side of a log so they cr
In pairs. Lash short sticks to
outer ends, then lay poles across I'll
from end to end. Pad the poles
necessary, with leaves and moss. d
build your bed on top of that. Red
1t doesn't take much longer to md
1t than it does to tell how to do d
Sportsman's Digest.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-07-23

Seeing the family doctor passing,
Mrs. Flubdub called him in and in
CURED: "Have you some medicine suit
able for apoplexy?"
'Why, yes, l think So" answered the
doctor.
Kindly be seated" said the woman.
"But where is the case Of apo
plexy"
cit will happen In a minute"
I don't understand" said the puz-
zled physician.
"As soon as my husband comes in ]
am going to ask him for little extra
money"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-07-23
Lectures bv Wire

When a professor in an Iowa
lege was quarantined recently
smallpox some fifty miles away
his classes his students did not
ceive the holiday that they had
expecting. The professor, with
aid of the long-distance teleph
held classes daily so that his stud
were able to continue the course '
out any interruption. - TelepI
Press Service.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-07-23
The Rue de la Poix

Mrs. Henry Carnegie Phipps, at q
luncheon in her beautiful villa on the
North Ocean boulevard of Palm
Beach, said Of Paris fashions:
"They grow lovelier and dearer
every year. Although the franc is
only worth few cents, a Paris frock
costs more than ever. A man said al
the Plaza Athenee the other day when
his wife brought him a bill from the
leading dressmaker on the famous
street Of dressmakers:
Il know now why they call 1t the
Rue de la Pay"