Has Plenty of Hog and Hominy
                 at Home and Some to Spare.

     L. N. Sparks, a most excellent citizen and prosperous farmer living out on Russellville route four, was in the city first of the week on a visit to his son.  Mr. Sparks honored our sanctum with a pleasant visit and reported everything moving along nicely.  He said notwithstanding the short crop this year in which he only made a half crop of cotton he would have five hundred bushels of corn to sell and about five hundred pounds of meat for market.
     In speaking of their school in district No. 42 said that they had a very fine school with Pinkney G. Gray as teacher who had proven himself to not only to be a fine instructor, but his management of the school room could not be surpassed in the country schools of the state and best of all he had won the greatest of esteem from every pupil in the school.  Mr. Gray he said was one of our country's model young men with a bright and promising future.
     Mr. Sparks said that in the near future the hopes of his good community was to have completed one of the neatest district school buildings in the country and this he believes will soon be done as the patrons and pupils of the district had took hold of the school situation now as never before.

NOTICE.

     To whom it may concern:  This is to certify that by mutual consent I have this day dissolved partnership with the firm of Weatherford, Wren & Co. and severed all my connection with said firm and I am in no way responsible for any of their acts, deeds or contracts in the past or future.  This December 11, 1909.
                    W. W. WEATHERFORD

Announcement for Primary
     Election of 1910 for Probate Judge

     To the Democratic Voters of Franklin county, Alabama:  I hereby announce myself a Candidate for election to the office of Probate Judge, subject to the action of the Democratic voters.
                   W. W. WASH OZBIRN

     It is said by those in position to know that the public drinking cup is the spreader of many diseases.  It is reasonable that it should be when you think of all who drink out of the cup -- the sick, the well, the clean and the unclean.  A number of states by law have abolished the public drinking cup, not only in the public schools but in all other public places and even some of the railroad companies are preparing to have individual drinking cups for its passengers.

An Industrious Horse Thief.

     H. P. Webster, of Maury county Tenn., was in the city Tuesday and Wednesday and unfolded to our officers an interesting tale of horse thieves who had been operating in his section of the county, by which many people had been improperly deprived of their live stock, to the extent of from fifteen to twenty horses and mules--and maybe more.  The business has been going on for more than a year; but the attention of the sufferers was only recently directed this way, when a negro named Will Brown happened to be caught red-handed in the stealing of a mule, which he sold here.  Investigation has led to the discovery that several other Maury county stolen animals have been sold here.  Mr. Webster says that one of these horses, which is now in possession of C. L. Haley, is a horse stolen, it is believed, by Will Brown from J. D. Frieson of Mount Pleasant, Mr. Haley being an innocent purchaser.  This is a trained racer, and Mr. Webster says it was valued by its owner at $1,000.  It is probable that other horses may be found here in the possession of innocent purchasers, who may lose by the rascality of this industrious thief, who, it is said most shrewdly covered his tracks in order to impose on those who bought from him.  Brown is now in jail at Columbia, and it is thought he will finally strecth* hemp.
                ----Florence Times.

*word typed as it was in the Franklin Times.

     Marshmallows, cut loaf and powdered sugar at B. F. Orman's

Notice for Publication.

Department of the Interior, U. S. Land Office at Montgomery, Ala. December 3d, 1909.
     Notice is hereby given that Pal. S. Mullins, of Phil Campbell, Ala., who on February 10th, 1903, made serial No. 01298, (H. E. No. 27558, H. S. Feb 10, 1903) for Se1/4 of the sw1/4, section 13, township 8 south, range 12 west, Huntsville meridian, has filed notice of intention to make final five year proof, to establish claim to the land above described before clerk of the circuit court, at Russellville, Ala., on the 15th day of January, 1910.
     Claimant names as witness:  Robert Whitfield, Albert Whitfield, Wesley Hill, Joel W. Sherrill, all of Phil Campbell, Alabama.

NATHAN H. ALEXANDER
9-6                                             Register.

ALABAMA NEWS.

     The county commissioners of Baldwin county, through a Mobile firm of architects, have asked for bids for the erection of the new $20,000 county jail.
     The residence of Deputy Sheriff Wheeler Mitchell in Patton Grove Madison county was burned last Wednesday night, causing a loss of $1,200 with insurance of about $1,000.
     Charlie Poor, a white man employed at the steel plant in Gadsden, was badly hurt Saturday, and a negro whose name could not be learned, was instantly killed by an explosion of dynamite.
     Walter Streaty of St. Clair county must serve a life term for the murder of his wife, who is said to have been killed by shooting with a gun.  The decision of the lower court having been affirmed by the supreme court.
     Mrs. Alice Bowen, of Tuscumbia, killed a hog during the recent cold snap which weighed 500 pounds, and was fattened on the refuse from the kitchen.  It was the largest "town hog" of which there is yet any record for the present season.
     Jim Kennedy, the negro who shot and killed Alonzo Dorsett at Ewing ferry, a few miles from Centre, Saturday evening, has been placed in jail at Gadsden.  The shooting followed an altercation between the two men over a trivial matter.
     A voluntary petition in bankruptcy was filed Wednesday with the referee in bankruptcy at Huntsville, by James W. Bowser, a well known grocery merchant of Tuscumbia.  His liabilities are scheduled at $3,000 with assets estimated at $1,000.
     Cooper & Cooper, attorneys to the Chattanooga Savings Bank and the Royal Coal & Coke Co., of Knoxville, have filed a petition in bankruptcy against the Pierce Coal Co., of Huntsville, asking that the company be declared bankrupt and that a receiver be appointed.
     Fire Thursday morning destroyed the millinery store of M. C. Jones in Centerville.  The loss to the Jones stock will amount to about $2,000 and to the building about $2,000.  About five hundred dollars worth of plate glass in stores across the street was cracked and ruined.
     Lillian Bowden, the eight-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Bowden, who reside two miles north of Prattville, was so severely burned Saturday that she died five hours later.  She and her oldest sister were standing by the fire in their home warming, when the skirt of the little one caught in flames.

     Alabama's representatives in congress have already introduced a number of bills.  Representative Barnett has reintroduced his bills for improvements of Coosa river, appropriating $125,000 to complete government building in Gadsden and $68,000 for postoffice building at Cullman.