24 Aug 1917
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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1917
Page
1
Local musings praise Anniston’s rapid growth and civic projects while contrasting wartime vigor with everyday life. References to soldiers, expansion, a future Y M C A, flag practice, and water pipes at Camp Anniston appear alongside colorful quips about real estate, oysters, and the city’s direction.
The Red Cross made a liberal appropriation to help make Anniston sanitary and the city contributed generously in return. The piece argues charity yields rewards and suggests acting upon calls from this charity organization ensures ongoing local relief work.
A. L. Tyler resigns as chairman of the Anniston Board of Education. W. A. White and J. H. Edmondson are chosen to succeed him, with G. Rh. Todd noted for long service. The piece urges a new tax rate to fund schools amid rising population and a stronger constitution for local autonomy.
The Evening Star presses Anniston to submit a state constitutional amendment to raise taxes for city growth. With a military encampment nearby, city officials led by Mayor L L Scarborough push borrowing to fund meat and milk inspection and a city bacteriologist to meet Army recommendations and gain full camp benefits.
A remembered hamlet shows a single street and cheerful daily life until a distant war arrives. A ruined street, a pale sentry, a white hair loss and blood, a slain girl, a strangled baby, and a grieving woman respond with the Wacht am Rhein chorus as dusk falls.
The Legion of Death designation reflects Russian women soldiers sworn to immolate themselves rather than be captured. An American observer, Mr. Root, witnessed the unit marching from Petrograd, noting the vows born of fear of German desecration and the daughters of Siberian exiles marching to war. Some perished, others survived with a pledged sacrifice.
Montgomery Times notes the naval board recommends shipsyards be lent 400 million dollars by the government to enlarge plant capacity for constructing sub chasers. The article says the strategy aims to counter German submarine activity and protect merchant ships, which now sail guarded by armed escort.
Rt Rev Albion W Knight chancellor of the University of the South at Sewanee Tenn born at White Springs Florida 58 years ago he was ordained in 1883 and served as dean of the Atlanta cathedral elected first bishop of Cuba in 1904 later oversaw Panama Puerto Rico and Haiti in 1913 he became executive head of the University of the South today marks his birthday along with other noted figures.
A concise chronology notes 1682 transfer of three Delaware lower counties to William Penn, birth of Maria Letitia Bonaparte in 1750, Napoleon's mother, and Washington marching his army through Philadelphia in 1777 toward the Chesapeake. The entry ends with a British attack on American forces.
A compact chronology lists events from 1848 ship Ocean Monarch disaster with 178 deaths to 1916 actions in World War I and the Russian front. Highlights include 1857 US financial panic, 1862 Bragg move toward Kentucky, 1881 Catholic bishop consecration in La Crosse, 1893 Atlantic storm devastation, and Namur fall in 1914.
William M. Lindsay recalls Anniston’s founding era noting the 1883 arrival of a pioneer who opened the first store in what was then Aone's Town named after Miss Annie Tyler. He reflects fondly on early days and the Woodstock Iron Company forebear.
Prepared by Extension Service Auburn Alabama. Cotton, corn, velvet beans and other bulky crops require expanded farm storage. State yields rising with corn near 1,100,000 bushels and velvet beans over 2,400,000 acres. Storage shelters should be erected promptly to protect against price drops and to handle hand harvests.
Crimson clover can be grown on most Alabama farms as a soil improver and useful for grazing, cover cropping, or starting a food seed bed. It tolerates well drained soils though poor sandy lands may yield low first year growth until soil organic matter builds. Proper inoculation, seed placement, and timing from mid September to early October are crucial for a good stand and long term growth.
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