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ALABAMA ITEMS The First National bank of Sylacauga had to close its doors last week in order to safeguard depositors of the bank following a run on the bank. Hundreds of acres in Etowah county planted in corn and cotton were destroyed by the flood waters following the heavy rains of the past three weeks. At Manchester and Camak Mill section north of Jasper, a heavy wind storm hit and did much damage to timber on Wednesday of last week. Winston county farmers will hold a big pienie and spread dinner in the grove at Haleyville, July 28th. An entertaining program of many features has been arranged for the day. The store of Norman Lee at Leesburg, Cherokee county, was robbed of $200 worth of merchandise last Wednesday. The burglars used a truck to burst the back door down. The plant of the Concrete Steel company in Birmingham was destroyed by fire last Wednesday night. Three members of the fire company were injured by the collapse of the building. Loss is near $100,000. The dead body of a 17-year-old boy, Tom D. Carmichael of Montgomery, who attempted to escape arrest for stealing an automobile, was found Friday on a trash pile, near where he was fired upon as he fled in darkness, by officers. Ingalls Iron Works of Birmingham, has been awarded a contract for 1,150 tons of steel for the new postoffice building in Knoxville, Tenn. H. R. Jordan, one of the oldest and best known citizens of Collinsville, died at his home in He that city last Thursday. would have been 98 years old on October 7th. He had been a member of the Baptist church for more than 60 years and served as postmaster of his home town a number of years. As a result of the conditions of the financial condition of his customers, Wiley Littlejohn, a retired merchant of Clanton, cancelled all accounts on his books and made his former customers a receipt in full in hopes of aiding them pull through with their unfortunate conditions financial- Dr. L. H. Ford of Russellville, a leading and popular physician of Franklin county, was killed by Green Duke at the home of Duke near Phil Campbell, Monday afternoon of last week. The two men were brother-in-laws and when they engaged in a dispute the fatal blow was struck by Duke. After binding and placing the night policeman of Childersburg in a car, six bandits robbed four stores, then carried the policeman out of town for a mile and dumped him out on the roadside. The policeman was later picked up by a passing automobile and carried back to town, where he gave an alarm, but the bandits had made good their escape. The Rockwood Alabama Stone company has been awarded a contract to supply all of the finished stone for the courts and interior department of the justice building in Washington, D. C. This contract means the employment of 200 men day and night for seven or eight months.
