Jenny, Thanks for this information. I hope that you will post the other months as you have time. Melba -----Original Message----- From: Wrenest25@aol.com <Wrenest25@aol.com> To: ALJEFFER-L@rootsweb.com <ALJEFFER-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 8:50 AM Subject: [ALJEFFER] January-Wylam Birmingfind Calendar >Hello >January shows a picture of Consolidated Mercantile founded in 1901 and the >statement provided everything needed for households in Wylam. > >Wylam >A longtime Wylam Resident >One time when I was a little girl, we lived back over here at #4 coal mine. >Poppa was doin something there. Some Italian people lived behind us. Some of >them said they were brought in here to break the strike. > >I remember gettin a whippin and made to come in the house,because when the >Italian men would come out of the mine they would strip naked in the >backyard. They didn't have no bath house,you know. So Mama spanked me and >made me stay in the house. > >You see people turn up their nose at the Italians. Them old hunkies,them old >strikebreakers. And some of them have turned out to be some of the finest >people and the backbone of Wylam. But they got it rough when they got brought >in here. > >I got back to Wylam in 31 with three young uns,one baby in my arms,had >nothing. Let me tell you one thing:people in Wylam were wonderful. They all >stuck to me. We made it Wylam is getting to be an old folks place. The young >people are moving out as they marry off- to Pleasant >Grove,Hueytown,Forestdale. > >Historical dates noted on the calendar for January > >Jan 1st >1910 Birmingham city limits expands to include East >Lake,Woodlawn,Avondale,North Birmingham,Ensley and Pratt City > >Jan 2nd >1930 Southern Natural Gas delivers natural gas to Birmingham for the first >time > >Jan 6th >1932 The League of Women Voters Employment Bureau reports that 11,00 people >are begging for jobs in Birmingham. > >Jan 9th >1921 Brother John Bryan,minister of the 3rd Presbyterian Church,is named >citzen who rendered greatest service to the city in 1920 > >Jan 20th >1927 The Bankhead Hotel opens > >Jan 14th >1914 The City Commission ask for Chief of Police Bodeker's removal after he >was charged with 17 counts of harboring vice especially prostitution. > >Jan 15th >1901 Sylvester Daly- Irish immigrant,rolling mill puddler and bar tender- >dies after a succesful career in city politics > >Jan 20 >1898 Robert Jemison and partners form the City Land Company which will >develop the neighborhood of Glen Iris > >Jan 26th >1891 The town of Woodlawn is incorporated > >Jan 30th >1922 After a series of ax murders of Italian grocers,the Italian Protective >Association is formed >