Dr. Partlow stated that the Bryce
hospital has .1,543 acres of iand. the
Alabama Huipc for the Feeble Mind
ed, US acres, and that the Mount Ver
non hospital also has a good fanning
acreage!. -
During the past year 520 tons of
slleage were put up and 5,200 bushels
of dry corn produced, Dr. Partlow
stated; while about 400 hogs are kept.
At Bryce hospital 1,500 peach trees
we.re planted three years ago, and
1,070 bushels of peaches were har
vested last year from this three-year
old orchard. Eleven hundred apple
trees have been planted also at the
Bryce hospital.
PItlSO.V STORES SHOW PnOFIT
Stores operated at state prisons
made sales in excess of 555,000 for the
calendar year of 1923, according to
figures today from the office of Roy
L. Nolen, associate member of the
state board of administration. The
gross profit from the operation of the
stores amounted to $14,600.90. All, or
practically all of the profits made
from the prison stores was used for
the benefit of the prisoners them
selves, it is stated, the money being
spent for motion picture shows, ath
letic goods, and otherwise for the en
tertainment and comfort of prisoners.
Wardens were instructed to charge
not in excess of 25 per cent profit on
goods sold.
this county are either happy and con
tented, or else, they are keeping
their domestic difficulties to them
selves.
PLAYER LOSES LEG
Howard Hamll, the popular high
school student, who suffered the loss
of his right leg, because of injuries
received in a football game, has re
turned home from a Birmingham hos
pital.
SCHOOL AHOIT COMPLETED
E. O. Creel, county superintendent
of education, reports that the D. A.
