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ITB THE BIRMINGHAM NEWS, BIRMINGHAM SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, J914 DANCING WILL BE FEATURE OF SUNDA SCHOOL CONFERENCE However, It Will Not Include the Maxixe, Nor Other Such Naughty Steps, But Will Be Indian Dancing of the Olden Days. CANNING FACTORY WILL PROBABLY BE ERECTED Monthly Meeting of Truck Growers' Association Will Be Held Thursday. the year on Johnson grass, nine kinds of clover that grow here naturally and alfalfa. They will bring thousands of dollars to the thrifty, Intelligent farmers who have been wise enough to step from under the all-cotton menace. Many farmers around Demopolls are still growing some cotton.

The majority only plant cotton as a surplus. Many farms have not one acre of the weed growing. Prosperity of this section seems to be In exact ratio to the smallness of cotton acreage. Cotton farmers In this section are rapidly realizing that diversification Is the only means to permanent prosperty. and they are falling In line.

This diversification Is not only holding up the price of land, but It Is actually boosting prices even In the face of the boll weevil and war. In a group about twelve miles east of Demopolls is a colony of high-class Kentucky farmers. Thev own from two and three hundied to- fifteen hundred acres of lund. Thev are planting no cotton. Thev are building good wlie fencing and devoting most their attention to the It 8 quite true therell be dancing at the council fire of the Older Boys Conference In Birmingham, October 18.

When this fact became known there was much comment among Sunday School and church workers of Birmingham, for the Boys Conference Is made up of leaders In Sunday School work. A meeting of the Executive Committee was called to probe the matter, for no one seemed to know how the little Item about dancing got into the printed program of the meeting. Then the Publicity Committee of the conference fessed up. It also explained quite satisfactorily. No thoughts of the fox trot, maxixe and lame duck were In the minds of members of the committee when thev put In the Item about dancing.

Thev should say not! Tuberculosis Sanatorium Will Be Dedicated Formally On Sunday, October 4. PROGRAM BEING PREPARED The Anti-Tuberculosis Association asks that all who havs at any time contributed to Its funds oe present at the dedication of Its buildings Sunday, October 4. Up to the present there has never been anv public celebration of tire hospital and sanatorium work of tho association. By means of he Uhristmas seals sold In past years the fund wna collected, and upwards of $7,000 has been expended. It will be seen that much of these funds must have come from small donors These, as well as those who have given more largely will have an opportunity to Inspect the little settlement and Its methods.

An Interesting program, with strong speakers, will be presented. The nurses will have charge of the social side of ths gathering. Past and present officials will together rejoice In the progress accomplished. "Those who may be apprehensive of Its Indian dances that were meant the kind danced by the braves long ago. ouch as the "dog dance and scalp dance.

The former dance le dedlcarea to the faithfulness and usefulness of the dog, and tributes to this favorite animal are worked Into the movements of the dance. The "scalp dance opens with a parade of young braves before the girls of the village, each youth expanding his chest with pride when he passes hla best girl. The step quickens suddenly as the Indians go after their prey. Ons of the braves is killed In the chase and Is left behind by bis comrades. Ills wife finds him and falls upon his breast, weeping.

Then the warriors return with their squaws and carry the body away, while the women trail behind, singing the funeral song, which dies In the distance a ths dance ends. DR. EAVES WILL PREACH. Dr. George Eaves will occupy Rev.

J. A. Bryans pulpit. Third Presbyter! arv Church, Avenue and Twenty-SeconA Street, at the morning service Sunday-The topic will be The Palace and the Door. Without Fertilization Soil Black Belt Will Grow Big Hay Crops.

MANY HERDS OF CATTLE BY WALTER HARPER, Staff Correspondent Birmingham Newt. DEMOPOLI8, Sept. 28. Those who expected to buy lands In the Black Bolt of Alabama at a reduced price after the boll weevil Invasion will be disappointed. The boll weevil has been In the fields about Demopolla three years.

Land prices have been steadily advanced every year. The pest almost totally destroyed the crop this year. Yet the prices of land has advanced and will be higher next year than It Is now. Lands that sold at $35 an acre three yeais ago aie held at $60 an acre now. fc'ome of them are not for sale.

This Is the only section In the South, so far as I have been Informed, where land prices did not decline upon the arrival of the boll weevil. There Is a reason. Without cullvatlqn or fertilization these lands will grow from two to four tons of Johnson grass to the acre. With only the labor and expense of cutting and shipping this native grass brings more than cotton. Hundreds of acres that heretofore have been devoted to cotton have been permitted to grow up In grass grass that in the old cotton days was considered a nuisance.

One little station east of Dcmopolls danger from Infeetlon should be reassured to learn that the sanatorium Is safer than almost any place In Alabama In this respect since the germs of disease are not propagated, said Secretary Georg Eaves Saturday. Services will begin at 330 p. m. BY JULIA TRUITT BI9HOP. The monthly meeting of the Truck Growers Association will he held next Thursday, October 1, at 11:30, In the City Halt.

At this meeting a constitution will be considered and adopted; and a movement will be set on foot, looking to the establishing of a cannery for the truck-growers of Jefferson County. It Is probable that not a farmer could be found In the limits of the county who does not believe that a cannery would be an immense benefit to the Jefferson County farmers, and who would not willing to worlg for It. Now Is the time for every man who holds this opinion to put his shoulder to the wheel and give good, hard, whole-hearted push. Let the attendance at Thursday mornings meeting be a fine one. The Five Points market still holds Its own.

Saturday morning there was tang In the air that foretokened coming frosts, but the marketgoers were out In force, with baskets and pocketbooks, and the buying was very lively. The variety of farm products Is still good, In spite of the changing season. Fresh meat was plentiful: there were a few chickens-some of the farmers had butter; corn was a fine as In the early days of Summer: pumpkins were there, suggesting Thanksgiving and goodly feasts; fall turnips and radishes and other vegetables held the boards, and any housekeeper who went to the market to select her dinner was assured of fine quality and unlimited quantity. Women Make Great Saving. It Is a great saving, to come here to market," said one woman who buys for a household away up on Mountain Terrace.

"I have been a regular attendant here, ever since the market was opened and I know what economies 1 have beer able to practice. Kven where the prices of the farmers and the peddlers ai the same, the articles bought from the farmers are so superior that it makes the raising of cattle, growing grain and hay. Home of them have large acreages In alfalfa. One Kentuckian has seven hundred acres In a body. These farmers from the Blue Grass section ure delighted with results here.

They sav the land Is better than they sold In Kentucky for $150 an acre. Added to this, the climate and larger varieties of crops that can be grown combine to make them more than satisfied with the change they hate made. C. C. Olay, of Dcmopolls, Is managing a fifteen hundred acre farm for a Kentucky man to whom he sold the place a year ago.

The purchaaor is not yet ready to move to It. There are more than two hundred negroes on the place who have been cultivating It as tenants. Mr. Clay desires to hold this labor. He has done It this year by taking personal supervision of all farm oprations.

has mad god crps, cnsld borthevv 111. ETAOIN SHRDLUNW opeiatlons. He has made good crops, considering the ravages of the boll weevil. Next year he will require every tenant on the place to plant two acres In Irish potatoes. This crop will come off early In the Summer and give the tenant enough onsh money to buy his supplies for the remainder of the year.

All these tenants are also required to plant some cot n. Mr. Olay has a large herd of cattle on the place with fine clover pastures. that never shipped a bale of cotton direct Is one of the largest hav shipping Mints In this section. Hundreds of car oads are going out from this little village.

-And yet this Is In the midst of the great cotton growing belt of Alabama. In this section there Rre many herds of fine sleek cattle now getting teadv for market Thev have been graving all CLEAN-SWEEP SALE Old Hickory PORCH FURNITURE Chair, regular price $4.00, for regular price $1.50, for Chair, regular price $4.00, for any ups or downs in clothes prices at this store. greatest difference. And anyhow, It la because the market le here that the peddlers have gone down In their prices, so that they can compete with the farmers I can't see how any woman could be hoodwinked by such a subterfuge as that after all we have suffered In Birmingham on account of high prices. The four markets In New York, farmers markets, such as those Birmingham has been growing familiar with during the past Summer, have been running two or three weeks, now, and the friends and the critics are both having their say-They brought prices down without delay-The retail stores dropped their prices to meet those of the markets, and even sent wagon-loads of staple groceries to sell In the markets.

And now the New York Commercial says that the air Is filled with the whining of women who refuse to carry home their purchases. Substantial savings in the cost of many of the prime necessities of life result from patronizing these free markets, the paper says. The prices speak for themselves, and the -uality Is all that can be desired. This Is a test of the common sense and thrift of ths people whose resources are limited. If they do not go to market In large numbers, now that they have the chance.

It will prove that they suffer from the cost of high living, and not the high cost of living. The same paper says that a plan la afoot to provide a ten cent delivery service for the new markets. The New Orleans Tlmes-Plcayane add to this comment. "It Is perfectly clear that consumers who complain about the high cost of living, and seek municipal. State and Federal aid to reduce It, must do something to help themselves.

Tvew Yorks free murkots have shown that It Is easily possible to reduce living costs. They are bringing producer and consumer together. But If the former demands the frills and refinements of service supplied by the middlemen, he must expect to pay the price." The citizens of Birmingham will noTe this, and will remember that every pros-peious citizen who "pajs the price, when he might patronize the market, making living harder and harder for his poorer neighbor, who finds it mere and more difficult to make ends meet. The convenient phone service, the swift deliverv, while they have made the life of the housekeeper easier In some ways, have done a great deal toward running up prices; and under their Influence, women have so coddled themselves that many of them have ceased to have any red blood in their veins Tliey want to he waited on, hand and foot. Women who ought to feel that thev must economize wherever they could for the sake of the hard-driven breadwinner of the family, will alt down complacently, and say, Well, Id rather pay a little more and be able to phone down and have things sent up.

"Am I mv brothers keeper?" Not In a. thousand years! Let him look out for himself. That Is the attitude. SUFFRAGISTS TO WORK AT FAIR Chairmen for the Various Special Days Are Named From League. List of chairmen, who will head suffrage committees each day at the Alabama State Fair, have been announced by Mrs H.

H. Snell, Pres'. the Birmingham Eifual Suffrage Association, and general chairman of the fair committees. Those appointed are as follows: Mrs. A.

J. Bowron, Mrs. Nell Wallace, Mrs. Oscar Hundley, Mrs Conrad Ohme, Mis. Sidney Ullman, Mrs C.

Brooks, Mrs, John Keirnan, Mis. Henry Fitts, Mrs. W. N. Wood and Mrs O.

J. Sharpe. Each chairman will appoint thiee helpers. Mrs. Sidney Ullman will be In charge of "Suffrage Day" at the fair.

She will have at least twenty helpers, who will wear Voles for Women" sashes. Any members of the local association wishing to help out ut the fair on Suffrage Day, which Is Saturday, October 3, are requested to call at suffrage headquarters Monday afternoon at 3 oclock. No regular booth will be used tiv the suffrage association this vear. but literature will he distributed at several points. The vntrcless speech method of presenting suffrage arguments will be developed at the fair.

Suffrage petitions will be circulated. profits wilITgo TO THE RED CROSS Anheuser-Busch Brewing Co. Will Purchase 2,000 Bales of Cotton. No. 10 Settee, No.

32 No. 33 Rocker, regular price $4.75, for No. 23 Rocker, regular price $4.00, for No. 82 Chair, regular price $6.50, for No. 93 Rocker, regular price $7.50, for COME QUICK AND YOUR PICK.

Everybody knows Old Hickory is the Porch Furniture room fon new goods Our sacrifice Is your big gain. For Your Suit hen here Are None BetterT han Ours? Workmanship, Materials and Style Are Equal to the Highest Priced gives you unrestricted choice of the best clothes in built America By confining our suits to these three prices, we are able to save you from $5 to $15 on each suit you purchase. Planning to help the Red Cross fund and at the same time help the South to solve Its cotton problem, the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Company, of St. Louis, will pun base 2, Out) bales of cotton, paying Hou.buo for the lot, according to pledges made. This cotton will bo held until there is a pi out in view, then It will be marketed, and all the pioflts will be donated to the Bed Cross fuml.

Thu purchase will be made through the Ht. I.oula Business Mens League, and the company has pledged itselt to the foregoing amount. Just how the purchases will be distributed throughout the South is not known, but it is btheved each State will get its pro lata ol the purchase. The cotton will be stored until inure thun ten cents per pound can be realized. GRAND JURY INDICTSONE FOR ARSON AT GADSDEN Harmon HIM, Wealthy Farmer, la Charged With Murder.

GADSDEN, Sept 26. The Grand Jury recessed late Frlilni evening until some time later In the term. Trie Jury was In session eleven days and during that time found forty-three true bills and examined almost 500 witnesses The record was broken for the amount of work done in the length of time. The January term Grand Jury was In session more than a month and during that time found only about half as many bills. Mark Cunningham was Indicted for arson in the first degree, a hanging offense In Alabama, and Harmon Hill, a rich farmer living near Keenoi, was Indicted for the murder of Will Tidwell, his moonshine partner.

Three other bills were returned against Hill for violating the prohibition lawajid manufacturing whiskey. crossTaysdemocrats HAVE MADE A FAILURE Progressive Candidate for Governor Do-; dares Low Tariff Caused Depression. (iAUbDh.V, la Sept 2G. Dr IT. H.

I Cross, i oi l-smv oanutdale for Hover-i nor of Abihama, delivered his first ad- dress ut Pilgrim's Heat last night He was tvrl hi a largo crowd of farmers. I Hr. Cross spoke on the errors of the Dcrnociatic administration, blamed the I tariff for the low price of rotton and hold that because the tariff was cut lower than "tariff for revenue only," the government is forced to put on a war tax in times of peace, throwing additional burdens on the people, who are already forced out of employment by foreign competition and compelled to sell their products at a low price. Jr. Tress will cover the State, making address between now and the time of the election.

Kuppenheimer A tterbury System Styleplus Right now at the very beginning of the season you save $5 to $10 a suit and the same saving comes every time you buy here all the year round. Lean, Fat, Tall, Short All the Same to Us We Fit Anybody State air Visitors are Cordially Invited to Make This Store Headquarters Odim Browers Hats at $4.95 At this price our hats are far superior to the offerings of our nearest competitors. The styles are strictly up to the moment; the materials the best; the trimmings those that are most wanted. In many instances they command prices of $7.50 and $10. They are most excellent values at our price of $4.95.

Fair Visitors Are Welcome Fere LEAVE YOUR PACKAGES IN OUR CARE. MEET YOUR FRIENDS HERE. MAKE THIS HEADQUARTERS. GADSDEN ELECTRIC LINE WILL GET MORE CAPITAL Bellevue 'Railway to Be Strengthened By $50,000. GADBDEN, Sept.

2.The Gadsden Bellevue and Lookout Mountain Railroad, which was completed a year ago and whiih has slnre been In operation from Gadsden to Noeealula Fulls, Is to be strengthened by $6) ofu new capital. Many Improvements are contemplated whbh wdl make the balls one of the must popular Summer places In Alabama. Already several cottages have been built cm the mountain and (Jadsilen people have their Summer homes there Homes are alo maintained on the mountain by people living outside Galsden. It Is proposed to build a Hiv hotel as soon as business conditions hei-ome more Ml Prompt attention to mail order. Goods deli vored frea by parcel post.

1908 Second Avenue CL.OA.fc.yD SUIT STORE. 1923 SECOND AJ I I.