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A Resume of the More Important Events of Interest Condensed To An Epitomized Farm Contract for three road projects to talling over $170,000 have been award ed by the state highway commission. Hurled nearly 50 feet by an L. N. train at the crossing at Fulton Springs, Grady Whaley, 26, of Fulton Springs, escaped almost without in jury. The Fishtrap bridge route has been chosen for the new highway to be built from Troy to Laverne, according to news received in Troy from Mont gomery. A part of the professional library of the late J. Louis Schillinger of Bir mingham, has been presented to the Alabama Polytechnic Institute by his mother. An ordinance to provide for the con struction of a new city hall to, cost about $300,000, was introduced at a recent meeting of the Bessemer city council. The supreme court has affirmed the conviction of Willie Prince, Wil cox county, who received 25 years for second degree murder for killing Joe Pritchett. Etowah county ganned 15,112 bales of cotton prior to November 1, ac cording to official figures. This is compared to 15,037 for the same peri od a year ago. Anderson Merriwether, Lowndes county convict, whose parole has been revoked by Governor Brandon has been returned to Kilby prison to serve out his sentence. Dave Bell, negro escaped from Al bany county jail, Maud Simpson and Eva Simpson are back in jail, follow ing their capture at Green Brier, Limestone county. The American Bakeries company has secured a permit and begun work on building five additional stories to its plant in Birmingham, to cost ap proximately $100,000. Miss Marion Schirmer of the Gor gas Girls club, Tuscaloosa, has been selected to represent Alabama at the boys’ and girls’ conference in Chicago the first week in December. R. J. Gulmeyer of Walkhart, Ind., new secretary of the Tuscaloosa Chamber of Commerce, has arrived in that city and taking up the active Management of the chamber. Mistaking a jug of sulphuric acid for his jug of drinking water, Edward M. Phillips, a miner at Empire, drank some of the acid and was found un conscious in a mine at that place. The 15 kitchens of Tuscaloosa county entered in the county contest in kitchen improvement as a part of better homes observance will be scored between December 6 and 11. There were 16,301 bales of cotton ginned in Calhoun county up to No vember 1, according to R. C. L. Jen nings, special agent. The report shows an increase of 1,481 bales over the same period of 1926. Claud Robertson, 22, after being captured by blood hounds near At talla, was locked up in the county jail at Gadsden on a warrant charging him with forcibly entering the home of J. D. Redden at that place. Services of an additional teacher are to be obtained for the Alexandria consolidated high school on account of crowded conditions in all classes Miss Annie Hargett of Russellville, has been selected for the position. With property valued at nearly $200,000 endangered in Montgomery by fire during October, a net loss of only $2,050 was sustained, according to the monthly report submitted to Fire Commissioner J. H. Hardaway. Exploding gasoline tanks of tank cars in the path of a fire which swept through part of the negro business section of Tuscaloosa, destroyed a block of buildings. The flames ignit ed the tank cars which were side tracked. The Jefferson Dairies company of Birmingham has been sold to P. W. Ferris, representing a large dairy company of New York state, by Judge EK. H. Dryer, referee in bankruptcy, for $109,000, the highest bid. The company has been in the hands of a receiver for a year. In a decision in the case of the Bir mingham Excelsior company vs. the Alabama Great Southern and South ern railroads, the Alabama Public Service commission denied the con tention of the railroads who claimed that excelsior bolts should take the same rate as logs. Having heard of Hchols Hill, that portion of the Bee Line highway made famous in story and by the continued wrangle between the state highway commission and the city of Albany p. Tock asphalt company has offered to give the city of Albany sufficient tock asphalt to repair the hill.
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Clanton, Alabama, US
Thu, Dec 02, 1926
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