i The Guntersville Democrat. $1.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE. 0-MARSHALL COUNTY FIRST, LAST, AND ALL THE TIME. ESTABLISHED 1880. NUMBER 20.
GUNTERSVILLE, ALABAMA, THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1898. VOLUME XIII. A TYPICAL SAND MOUNTAIN TOWN. is Taking a Stand in the Commercial and Industrial World. Boaz, Marshall County, Alabama, BY BALMY BREEZES AND THROUGH BOAZ IS MADE PLEASANT A DAY SPENT IN LOOKING CORDIAL HOSPITALITY.
This gentleman, one of the most successful business men in Marshall county, operates an extensive busiis practically a selfmade man. Mr. Snead was born in Murfree's valley in the year 1852. His early days were spent on the farm of his father, and he had to work very hard as a boy. By dint of hard work he lated a little cash and bought a small farm.
Saving his money and putting it into land as he grew older. In 1881 he had five hundred dollars, over and above his farm lands, which constituted Mr. Snead's first venture into mercantile pursuits. This money he put into a stock of goods at Snead, several miles west of Boaz, which at that time, had never been dreamed of. From the first he was successful.
Naturally being a man of good judgement and conservative dealings, he practiced economy and observed good habits until the results are seen for themselves. Mr. Snead owns sixteen and forty acres of land and reports a yearly business of $35,000.00. Moving from Snead to Boaz in 1891 be put up a two story business house and a pretty dwelling, besides other improvements. Heowns five dwellings and two store houses in Boaz, eleven business lots and pine acres suburban lots, which will prove valuable as the town grows.
His present stock embraces a full line of general merchandise and planters supplies. Two hundred tons of guano were sold by him this season. In the management of his store he is ably assisted by J. D. McCleskey and John W.
McMahan, two live young business men whose experience has been valuable to the trade. Mr. Snead was married in 1871 to Miss Josie McCleskey at Red Bud, Etowah county. They are both consistent members of the Methodist church at Boaz and Mr. Snead is of the Masonic order and the Indepeudent Order of Odd Fellows.
ROBERT R. McCLESKEY. J. H. SNEAD.
The above shows the head of the firm cf McCleskey Co. who was born near Walnut Grove, Etowah county, Alabama, in the year 1866. He was given the usual common school education and passed bis younger days at laborious toil on the farm. When eighteen years old he went to clerking at Howelton, for a salary of ten dollars a month. His duties included cleaning up the store, lifting and hauling guano, currying horses, and anything else which came bandy.
He stayed four years with the same store and the last year was given full charge of the business. His latent energy made 1 itself felt about this time by branching ont for bimself. He and his brother, J. D. McCleskey, conducted a business for two years as McCleskey at Snead.
When the iron horse was about to strike Boaz and the trade naturally gravitated to the rail road, the subject of this sketch sold out his interest at Snead and moved to Boaz, where his trade has been flattering ever since. He has taken his father. J. E. McCleskey, into partnership and the two are kept busy catering to the increased trade which is enjoyed by the house.
Socially Mr. McCleskey is a genial young man of pleasing address. His wife, formerly Miss Orlepa Harper, is well known all over this county, and is esteemed for her many qualities of bead and heart. Mr. McCleskey is a member of the I.
0. 0. F. and is steward in the Methodiet church. The excellent crayon portraits executed by Miss Mollie Geiger are a source of pride to that young lady's friends.
Miss Geiger makes a business of enlarging from photographs and her work is the source of a comfortable income to her. It is gratifying to see a young lady thus put her talents to practical use and making for herself fame as well as money. C. G. Gieger has lately started photographic gallery.
He is prepared to do much better work than one would judge from the four pictures today shown in this paper. These cuts are exact reproductions of the photos, which were taken in the very poor light of a temporary tent, before Mr. Geiger moved into his present gallery. While the cuts of Messers Suead, Bartlett, McCleskey and Mann are fairly good likenesses, it is safe to that each of these gentleman is say better looking than the photo or cut. BOAZ LETTER.
Mr. EDITOR: Our friends and readers of the DEMOCRAT must hear from us again. Farmers are badly behind with their work but they are making great efforts while the sun shines. It has kept our salesmen busy waiting on customers during the rainy weather but we hope for a few days rest. Miss May Williama, of Calhoun county, who has been visiting, Dr.
Liddell's family for several days, has returned, home. She is au young lady and we would complished like for her to visit our town again. Dr. J. W.
Baker and wife, of High Mound, were in our town yesterday. The doctor is wide awake and full fun, and is getting a good practice. The Boaz Warehouse Co. and others interested are having a lively time over the burned cotton. Mr.
Lusk came over and ordered it shipped before the warehouse charges were paid. J. H. Snead and W. Bartlett went down to Gadsden and stopped the cotton and bad a receiver appointed to take charge of it, the lawyers and receiver will guess get it.
J. M. Jackson, the assignee pointed to close the Whitman business, has employed Emory Mann to sell out the stock of goods. We are very sorry because of man misfortune, but hope they will come again. They have a great many friends on the mountain.
There will be an all day singing Boaz the 4th Sunday. Everybody Invited. Prof. A. J.
Showalter will sing Boaz on the second Sunday in June, One thousand people are expected. Come one, come all, and don't forget little baskets. There will your children's exercises at night. Mr. Bean, a guano man, has spent several days with us looking after guano his firm had sold Whitman Co.
I think he got all the notes fixed He left this morning for home. up. J. W. Thomas says he is still in be sells a spot of sky (patent spring territory), every ouce awhile.
W. H. Bynum, one of our cleverthing he wants lu this life; that est merchants, says he bas everyone of W. F. Bradford's fair daughtors.
We wish them much pleasure. D. MARSHALL. Uncle Bennie Wood is very low with a cancer. He had it taken out but it is feared he waited too long.
Some of the boys have been trying their luck at fishing but with poor success. P. G. Broadwell's spelling class has closed on account of short nights. Masters Dave and George Patterson are frequently seen riding their young steers alongside of horses.
The joke on our base ball club is that they challenged the Watts club aud then rued the action before the time to play. Rev. Mr. Jones is running a week's meeting at Liberty. This settlement is in good health.
Sunday school is held every Sunday morning at Chestnut Grove. B. W. Prizes for Southern Stories. An offer of prizes for original sketches of Southern life is announced by the Southern States magazine, which is published by tho Manufacturers' Record Publishing of Baltimore.
A prize of $50.00 is otfered for the best original sketch or story dealing with Southern life and conditions, and $25.00 will be given for the story that shall be judged worthy of second prize. The only conditions are that the sketches submitted shall present true pictures of Southern life, that they shall be original, and that shall not exceed 5000 words i in they length. This offer holds good until July 1, and the prizes will be awarded A8 8000 after that date as the manuscripts submitted can be examined. This offer is made in the hope of securing contributions of a character that will benefit the South by their wide publication in the Southern States magazine. with their building at the opening of the woods World's Fair was in a better state of laugb readiness than was any other.
It set good example. It is a pleasant fact for women that Ever Read the Constitution? THE SILVER STREAM. BY B. R. BERRY Little silver, sparkling, Subtiing stream Pure as the dew drop on the flower, Came like the sweetest dream, Whose age is recorded by the hour.
A little silver strewn sos Weet, Smiling faces near so bright, Kindred bless and blissfully meet, To rejoice with all their might. Down the stream of Iffe it must go, Rippling, crawling, suroly downy On to manhood it must flow. Into channels deep to drown. Silver stream march along so slow, Ripple under blossoms sweet, In the channel traveling so, And will a mighty river meet. Sparkling eyes and rosy cheek, Rippling a silver fountain flows, On to become a mighty creek, Flowing where? No one knows.
Marching slowly, a river wide, Whose face is smiling waves, Moving on to ocean tide, Trusting him who saves. Arriving on the briney shore, Looking back to view, A flowery path to be seen no more, Nor sip the silver dew. On the ocean's silent breast, The silver stream it lies, To be numbered with the blest, In the house above the skles. Red Hill, May 10th, 1893. MY NEIGHBOR.
I will not ask my neighbor of his creed, Nor what he deems of doctrine old or new, Nor what rites his honest soul may need To worship -the only wise and trueNor what he thinks of the anointed Christ, Nor with what baptism he has been baptized. I ask not what tomptations have beset. His human heart, now self debased and sore. Nor by what wayside well the Lord he met, Nor where was uttered, "Go and sin no more," Between his soul and God, that business lies; Not mine to cavil, question or despise. I ask not by which name among the rest That Christians go by, he is named known; Whether his faith has ever been "professed," Or whether proven by his deeds alone, So there be Christhood in him, all is well; He is my brother, and in peace we dwell.
It grace and patience in his actions speak Or fall in words of kindness from his tongue, Which raise the fallen, fortify the weak, And heal the heart by sorrow rent and wrung, If he give good for Ill and love for hate- Friend to the friendless, poor and desolateI find in him discipleship so. true. So full, that nothing further I demand, He may be bondman, freeman, Gentile, Jew, But we are brothers- walk we hand in hand, In his white life let me the Christhood see, It is enough for him, enough for me. -Exchange. THE OLD OAKEN BUCKET.
BY SAMUEL WOODWORTH. How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood. When fond recollection presents them to view! The orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled wild wood, And every dear spot which my infancy knew; The wide-spreading pond, and the mill which stood by it, The bridge and the rock where the cataract fell: The cot of my father, the dairy house nigh it, And e'en the rude bucket which hung in the well: The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket which hung in the well. That vessel I hailed as a treasure; For often, at noon, when returned from the feld. I found It the source of an exquisite pleasure, The purest and sweetest that nature can yield, How ardent I seized it, with hands that were glowing! And quick to the white-pebbled bottom It tell: Then soon, with the emblem of truth overRowing, And dripping with coolness, it rose from the well, The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket.
The moss covered bucket, arose from the well. How sweet from the green mossy brim to receive it, As poised on the curb it inclined to my lips! Not a full blushing goblet could tempt me to leave it. Though Alled with the nectar that Jupiter sips, And now, far removed from the loved situation, The tear of regret will intrusively swell, As fancy reverts to my father's plantation, And sighs for the bucket which hangs in the well; The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, which hangs in the well. AT THE BABY'S BEDTIME. This is baby's bedtime; My little one comes to me In her snowy little nightgown, And kneels down at my knee; And I fancy a sweet child-angel Is for a time my guest, As she says her little prayer over With her hand upon her breast.
I lay me," she whispers In low volce, "down to sleep; I pray the the blue eyes Halt close- soul to keep, If I should -Oh! the shiver At my I wake, I pray the the eyelids Droop soul to take." Then I lift up the little one, clasping Her close to my loving heart, And give her warm good-night kisses Till the closed lids break apart As the leaves do, folding a flower, And the violets of her eyes Look up in their drowsy fashion, And smile at me, angel-wise. "Dood night," she whispers to me softly, And sleepily, with a kiss That lingers with me in slumber, And stirs my heart with bliss, As I think of the little one dreaming, With her head against my breast, Till my sleep is as full of rapture As her dreaming is of rest. -Sunny South. The Livingston Journal carries level head. It understands the situation when it says: "Where is the impediment to a re-union, a "getting together?" There is none.
All that is necessary is for those who broke ranks on the last march to rejoin the column as it advances under the same old conquering banner. It would be "just as easy as rolling off log," and would be creditable; it would be manly- as it always is- to correct an error when discovered. Yes, let's get together." SITUATION. The table lands of the Cumberland mountains are famed the world over for their fertility and healthfulness, for the profitable fruit culture, the mellow apple, the juicy peach, the luscious grapes and berries. The Cumberland plateau extends into Alabama and forms a plateau less elevated but more level, milder and more easily cultivated.
Such is Sand mountain, in the north eastern part of the great state of Alabama. The plateau of Sand mountain er is from ten to thirty miles in width and perhaps a hundred miles in length, ruuning northeast and southwest, midway between CHATTANOOGA AND BIRMINGHAM. The broad and placid Tennessee river washes the base of Sand mountain bluffs on the north. Five dred feet above the river the plateau stretches away in the distance, an undulating well drained body of land with sandy soil having a vast natural forest growth of oak and pine. Here and there on this broad expause of forest may be seen the modest home of a settler, but the hand of man has yet to clear two thirds of this and turn it into prosperous farms.
Marshall county is separated from Georgia and Tennessee by the width of one county. DeKalb on the east intervening between her and Georgia, while Jackson only is traversed in golug to the Tennessee state line. It is only about twenty years since Sand mountain began to settled up. Previous to that time the population was very much scattered and the idea prevailed abroad that Sand mountain was a God forsaken territory inhabited by fugitives from justice and THE FESTIVE MOONSHINER. Within that time however, there has been a steady immigration into Marshall county from Georgia, South Carolina, and other parts of Alabama.
Sturdy men of good families and good character poured into the country. The woods began to be dotted with settlements and the farm houses multiplied and sawmills operated and towns built until the people of Sand mountain are PROUD OF THEIR WORK. The completion of the Tennessee Coosa Railway from Gadsden to Guntersville last year was the means of giving a still greater impetus to the growth of the territory and today the plateau is about to enter upon a new era of prosperity heretofore undreamed of by its own people. Although only just at the threshold of its prosperity, the plateau sends thousands of bales of the purest white cotton to market and grows successfully all the corn, vegetables, fruits, and root crops her people have tried to handle. In the center of an excellent trading territory, surrounded by a stantly increasing population of self- supporting people, the TOWN OF BOAZ bas sprung up within a couple of years.
Fifteen miles from the Tennessee river at Guntersville and the same distance to the Queen Crescent system of railroad at Attalla, Boaz has during the season just past made herself felt in the commercial marts of the country. In 1885 the present site of Boaz was cleared and a small store was built by Emory Mann. This was all there was of the town for eral years. Today a nice hotel stands by the side of that store and the town is growing at a fine rate. What constitutes Boaz today? Ten bustness houses, one depot, one warehouse, a saw mill, cotton gin, a grist mill and planer, a wood and blacksmith shop.
photograph gallery, two churches, a school building and twenty seven dwelling houses. This town handled during the past season seven hundred and eighty-five tons of guano and sold over a thousand dollars of goods in one day recently (Apr.16th.) so I am informed by her business men. The destruction of the Boaz warehouse two weeks ago. struck by lightning, burning up twelve thousand dollars worth of cotton, was the most serious blow ever dealt the town but it will be rebuilt by the Boaz Warehouse Co. by next Reason ready for cotton storage again.
THE TWO CHURCHES. Two substantial houses of worship are in town. The M. E. Church, South, has for ite pastor Rev.
J. T. Black. The M. E.
Church has Rev. William Rains for pastor. A Union Sunday school is in successful operation, conducted by Superintendents J. E. McCleskey and J.
A. Patterson, INDUSTRIAL. Henry J. Benefeld is proprietor of the saw mill, grist mill, cotton giu and planing mill. Several industries auder one management which are of great convenience to the growlng town and surrounding country.
the style of a Arm that handles buggies, carte, hardware, disc barplows, harness and farming A. J. Hunt, better known Jack Hunt, of Friendship, and W. Bobo, are the partners. Mr.
Hunt moved to Friendship Carroll county, Georgia, before late war and was one of the first Georgians to try his fortunes on Sand mountain. He and Mre. Hunt reon their farm near Friendship several miles west of Boaz, while the junior partner lives at Boaz and looks the store. Jack Hunt is a big hearted man a host of friends, and is a his precinot of the county democratic executive committee. W.
S. Bobo was born in Franklin county Georgia, Sept. 30, 1866, and moved with his father's family to Alabama shortly after, He has spent cousiderable of his time traveling, havlived a while in Texas and other western states. Mr. Bobo was marin 1888 to Miss Hannie Murdock near Friendship and they have two children.
His mother, Mrs. Amelia Bobo, lives with them. Bobo Hunt are building a new store house -four by sixty feet will soon have more room to store vehicles, DOCTORS DODD LIDDELL. The drug store is operated by DocJ. T.
Dodd and F. A. Liddell, who are also partners in a general medical practice. Dr. J.
T. Dodd moved to Boaz year or so ago from Clayton county, Georgia, having been given up to die from a lung trouble, and made the change in the hope that the elevation and piny woods air of the plateau would prolong his life. To the astonishment of his friends and self he has practically recovered his health and bids fair to live to a ripe age. So much for the health giving ozone of Marshall county! Dr. Dodd graduated in 1856 the old Atlanta Medical College, and in 1858 at the New York Metropolitan College.
1882 he again went through a special course which WAS taken at the Atlanta Eclectic Medical College. EIGHTEEN CHILDREN LIVE bless the home life of Dr. aud Mrs. J.T. Dodd.
When the doctor reached Sand mountain he weighed only ninety pounds; now he tips the beam at one bundred and forty-seven, and is getting fatter every day. Then he was not strong enough for any kind exercise; now he can put in a good days work in the field, and is loud praise of Marshall county as a place of resort for consumptives. Dr. F. A.
Liddell moved here from Atlanta four years ago, having graduated at the Southeru 'Medical lege, Atlanta, and has been practicing medicine since 1880. He was ried to Miss Emma Vanzant in and they have two children. and Mrs. Liddell are members of M. E.
Church, South, and the doctor is a member of the Boaz lodge of Fellows. ED. F. WHITMAN. BOBO HUNT The N.
C. St. L. Ry. depot is in charge of Ed.
Whitman who is also agent of the Southern Express Co. at Boaz. This live young man has for two years or more operated a general business under the firm name of Whitman 1 and this season sold 337 tons guano and other goods in proportion, but the lightning striking the Boaz warehouse a few weeks ago burned up ten thousand dollars worth of cotton and resulted in an assignment being made by the firm. The insurance bad expired on the cotton only a short while before, hence the cotton was total loss. Besides having been busy with his general furnishing of planters supplies, and, since the new railroad has been running, with the freight and agency, Ed.
has found time express to act as secretary and treasurer of the Boaz Warehouse is an officer in the Beas lodge of Odd Fellows, and has figured prominently in the social and commercial, life of Boaz and vicinity. Ed, is twenty-six years old and was married five years ago to Miss Jennie Street, the accomplished daughter of the probate judge of Marsball ty. They have two children. W. H.
BYNUM. This jolly young bachelor bandles a nice line of grocerien. Mr. Bynum was born in 1862 in Blount county near Hoods Cross Roads; was a plow boy in his youth, moved to the vieinIty of Walnut Grove where he remained until coming to Boaz in 1891. He has built a nice residence here, and Dr.
Dodd sage he is on the look out for a life partner. Mr. Bynum is a blonde of pleasing address and will make some young lady a comparionable life partner. LATER. Mr.
Bynum was married since the above copy was prepared, to Miss Sudie Bradford, an attractive young lady of Aurora. The happy couple have the warmest congratulations of a host of friends. Gum being 24 and Albert 22 years old, and have found time, besides lookiug after to enter into the tan bark business in partnership with H. J. Benefteld.
Tan bark collection and shipping quite a big business during the spring months and very profitable wheu correctly managed. THE HIGH SCHOOL. Rev. J. A.
Patterson, formerly of Cullmau county, has conducted profitable school at Boaz this term. The cause of education is too closely allied to the prosperity of the ple to allow its interests to lag and become dormant, and the citizens of Boaz feel that it is their duty to their children to secure the best teachers that can be had. THE I. 0. 0.
F. LODGE. A flourishing lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows is at Boaz. Its officers are as follows; John W. McMahan, noble grand.
W. H. Bartlett, vice grand. F. W.
Duffey, W. T. Gillespie, recording secretary. Ed. F.
Whitman, treasurer. J. D. McCleskey, right supporter to noble grand. H.
J. Benefield, left supporter to noble grand. J. C. Creel, chaplain.
Dr. F. A. Liddell, right supporter to vice grand. Dr.
J. T. Dodd, left supporter to vice grand. F. M.
Sparks, venerable warden. M. G. Whitman, conductor. G.
M. E. Mann, right scene supporter. W. H.
Bynum, left scene supporter. J. G. Snelgrove, inside guardian. J.
T. Morton, outside guardian. NOTES AND PERSONALS. F. W.
Duffy is a rising young business man employed at Whitman's. W. T. Gillespie has been taking a business course at Walnut Grove college. Miss Pauline Jordan is music teacher at Boaz and Miss Mollie Geiger is art teacher.
J. E. McCleskey, father of Robert, the partner in the firm of R. R. McCleskey Co.
R. M. Benefield and J. T. Morton are the polite salesmen in W.
H. Bartlett's store. Sam Stewart is in Georgia selling patent bed spring. Mrs. Stewart is home in Boaz.
The new Methodist church, now about completed, will cost nearly one thousand dollars. John W. McMahan i is one of the healthiest looking young men to found in a day's travel. John W. Thomas, the agent of the Southern States for Hardin's patent bed spring and brace, makes Boaz headquarters.
Miller Mimms are blacksmiths and wood workmen whose territory should give them sufficient business to be quite profitable to them. Henry J. Benifield and Gum Whitman are working like beavers on their tan bark contract. They have a force of hands cutting the bark, which delivered on board cars at stations along the line of the new railroad. A Sanitarium is an institution ought to be profitable on Sand mountain, built with especial reference the cure of consumption and all Inng and throat troubles.
Who will be first to start a movement of this kind? The crack singers of the Boaz is club are John W. Thomas, Joel and C. B. McMahan. Their of celebrated song "Old Third Party" brought down the house at Rome December, when the business men's excursion visited the everlasting to of seven hills.
S. Dr. Dodd officiated at nine births in fourteen days, and he and his ner, Dr. Liddell, averaged one for the first twenty days in January of this year. The people of Mountain are great believers 'in Scriptural injunction "Be fruitful his multiply upon the face of the earth." on- Little Bertha Mann is only years old, but she can make a little speech all the same.
While of writer was in her papa's hotel, dainty little maid was asked to a speech. Standing erect with ing face she bowed and said, "Woses wed and wiolets boo, sugar feet a so am ME." The table at Mann's Boaz Hotel J. splendidly kept and the rooms clean and comfortable. Mr. and Mann ought to do well in keeping and summer boarders; persons of weak lungs could stop there benefit, breathe the pure piney esGun- air, drink freestone water, and men, aud grow fat.
The editor of Harper's Magazine suggests mildly that instead of so many attempts at amending the United States constitution an effort be made to amend the general intelligence in regard to that constitution. The hint is a good one. It has been proposed as a requirement for naturalization that the applicant be able to read the United States constitution and show that he understauds its provisions. Did it ever oceur to the reformers to apply the same text ty native born citizens who in some cases have been voting 40 years or more? In fact, if put upon the watness stand under oath to tell the truth in fear of death, how many of even intelligent people, men and wowen, would be forced to confess they had never read the constitution of their own country, that admirable document which Professor Goldwin Smith recently held up to the whole British nation, as showing how much superior our government was to theirs? The average American citizen ought at least to read that precious document twice a year. Classes should be formed for its study, if not now, then next winter.
The confounding-not to say confounded- commentaries that hare been written on it are not needed. It is not bard to understand in its splendid simplicity, with the added light of American common sence. The instrument alone, with the history of its adoption, will be the true basis of work and study. Teachers should first acquaint them selves with both, then teach the same carefully to their pupils. This will correct many fool idies in regard to legislation.
G. M. E. MANN. The above picture, made, like all the others on this page, from a dim and imperfect photograph, shows the features of the first merchant who ever sold goods at Boaz.
Emory Mann was born thirty miles southeast of Atlanta, May 12, 1860. His early life was passed on the farm. Moving to Alabama in 1884 he ran a farm a year or two before clearing the woods and erecting a store house at the present site of Boaz. In 1887 he got a postoffice located and a name given to the place, he being postmaster at Boaz until recently. Mr.
Mann was married to Miss Alice McCord of Albertville, sister of W. T. McCord, in the year 1884, and they have two bright children, Clyde, aged five, and Bertha, aged three years. The Boaz hotel, a new building containing twelve rooms, balls and verandas, is owned and operated by this worthy couple and is popular with commercial elers as well as the general public. The store house is devoted in part.
to a stock of groceries and in part to a nice line of millinery, handled by Mrs. Mann, whose taste in trimming is excellent. Emory Mann is a member of the Marshall county cratic executive committee. J. G.
SNELGROVE. Terrell county, Georgia, was the birth place of one of Boaz' merchants, Mr. Suelgrove having dated from there in 1860, and having received his education in Carroll county, Georgia. Mr. Snelgrove moved to Marshall county eight years ago and went to farming near Friendship, from whence he moved to Boaz six years later to engage in commercial pursuits.
Mrs. Snelgrove was 8 Miss Williams and their marriage occurred at VillaRica, in 1881. Three children have been the result of this union. In addition to the stock of groceries and farming supplies carried by Mr. part of the store is devotto millinery by Mrs.
Snelgrove. WILLIAM H. BARTLETT. One of the leading merhants, and the present postmaster at Boaz, W. H.
Bartlett. He was born near Aurora in Etowah county in 1864 and passed his early days on the farm his father George W. Bartlett, triously following the plow and hapas a merry farmer boy. In the py year 1884 Mr. Bartlett was married Miss Susie Fowler, daughter of J.
Fowler. The following year he began selling goods at Red Apple, a few miles from Boaz. Four years ago they moved to Boaz and continued pushing a growing trade. In January 1892 Mr. Bartlett's store and stock of goods was burned out, but undaunted by misfortune, he started again.
In his first start the amount of cash invested in goods is given at ly sixty-four dollars. The stock carried by Mr. Bartlett embraces all lines of general merchandise, and he makes a specialty selling planters for cash or on time, and a large guano trade is also bandled. Mr. and Mrs.
Bartlett are members of the Methodist church and he is member of the I. 0. 0. F. lodge.
They have two children. The salesmen in this house are T. Morton and R. M. Benefield.
WHITMAN BROTHERS do a general trade in groceries provisions. The firm is composed Albert P. and Montgomery G. Whitman, sons of the well known and teemed James P. Whitman of tersville.
They are both young Is This All True? The Memphis Commercial give the following as one of the reasons for "hard times:" "Ore reason we hear so much about bard times is the way our farmers work. If you will look at it you will see that farm labor is carried on only about half the year. The soil is extremely fertile or our people could not get on nearly as well as they do. The Northern farmer works twice as hard as the Southern farmer and is careful of his product. He is self-sustaining.
He grows all his own vegetables, meat, poultry, and with the excess of the dairy and poultry supplies his table with sugar, coffee, rice and the necessaries and luxuries that do not grow in this climate." WORLD'S FAIR EXCURSION, The H. will allow stop-over at Cincinnati on all tickets reading that way. On all regular World's Fair tickets from the South or Southern Ohio and reading via Cincinnati and the C. H. D.
R. R. to Chicago, a stop-over will be allowed within the life of the ticket, and passengers can secure this stop-over privilege by depositing the ticket with the Merchants Manufacturers Association at Cincinnati. For Rates, Folders, and full information regardiug the World's Fair trip, including special iuducements offered by the citizens of Cincinnati for stop-over in the "Queen City" address E. 0.
McCormick, G. P. A. "World's Fair 200 W. Fourth Street, Ohio.
julyl. ENNIS, TEXAS. I see Bro. G. F.
Walker tries to make people believe Ellis county has no good water and says we drink tank and cistern water. We have good well water in this part of the county, some springs and tank water for stock. Bro. Walker said Bosque was in Eastern Texas and said he lived on the Brazos river. So Bosque is In Western Texas.
I would like to see Bro. Walker and get a lock of his hair. He says he has the advantage of me in water. We have good water and good land in this part of Ellis. We are farming right along and have girls to do our milking and other house work too.
We have good water but awful bad whiskey though. We use some of it any how though it is not fit to make camphor. Tell Bro. Walker to write often and tell him when he looks at his map again to turn the other side up, (ask him if he is not left handed.) We are having some nice weather for farming and the farmers are taking advantage of the fine weather too. I get news week from old Marshall.
The health every of this community is good. Tom Venable and wife are gone to McKinney to wee Mrs. Venable's sister who is down with consumption. So do as you like with this. put it the paper or waste basket.
STEVE CULBERT. The World's Fair Route. The C. H. D.
and Monon Between Cincinnati and Chicago. The superior train service and fast tine of the trains between Cincinuat: and Chicago via the C. H. D. and Monon earn for that line the title of "World's Fair Route." It is the only line ruoning Pullman safety vestibuled trains with dining cars between Cincinnati and Chicago and the sleepers and compartment cars are the acme of Pullman's construction and representative of the World's Fair Duplicates of these trains will be on exhibition in the tion Building.
A World's Fair Album will be sent to any address south of the Ohio river for 10cts in stamps; to any address north of the Obio river for 15ots in stamps. For albums, rates and information regarding a World's Fair trip address W. A. WIGGINS, Southern Pass'gr. Agent, ga, or E.
0. McCORMICK, Geni Passenger Ticket Agent, "World's Fair Ronte," 200 weet 4th. street, Cinciunati, O. feb.23-uf..
