The age-herald., 1898-07-16
PIcKLNS COUNTY DELIGHTED
By the Runningof Trains on the M & o.
 Veterans Meet-Personal Notes.
Special Dispatch to The Age-Herald.

Special Dispatch to The Age-Herald.
 Carrollton, July 15.-Every day brings nearer better business conditions in Pick ems county. Mixed daily trains, which are now running, will be succeeded before the end of the month by regular passenger and freight schedules. This means better mail facilities, and already steps have been taken to put on a daily service between this point and Reform. D. S. Curry now runs a daily hack line between these points.
 The following are the stations in Pick ems county along the railroad: EthelVllle' Selma, Farrar, Reform, Gordo, and Hol- mans Switch. At Reform and Gordo there seems to be a race in building and other improvements. A hotel at Reform IS nearing completion.
 T. S. Eggeston, representing the Cum berland Long Distance Telephone company, has been in the county some weeks putting up a line between Columbus and Tuscaloosa with a branch to this place from the Re- form office
 Notwithstanding carly drougths, the creps in the county are very promising Many farmers have finished up work and "laid by"
 The annual meeting of the Pickens county Camp, United Confederate Veterans, was held here yesterday, with large attetha- ance. Colonel M. l.. Stansel and Lieutenant w. G. Robertson were reelected com
  M. s. Stansel, pr. Joseph Moody and J. Il. Crocker were chosen delegates to the At lanta reunion. Resolutions faVoring the organization of a camp Of the Sons of Vet erans in the county, now being pro1ecleo' were unanimously adopted There was an enthusiastic discussion of the presentation of the records of the war, which resulted in a unanimous request that Colonei M. L. Stansel prepare a'"Iiistory or the forty- first Alabama Regiment of which he was colonel; that Dr. Jos. Moody prepare a l History of Lunesden's Battery" of which | he was a member, and that some one be | selected from each one of tn other com l mands from Pickns county to prepare it's 1 history. These records arc to be frst pub- | lished in the county papers, and after acdl- 1 tions or corrections to be arranged Tn | book form.
 Miss Edna Hood has returned home after
 a months visit to Tuscaloosa.
 Misses Fannie Toomer and Bessie Brown,
 of Auburn, are visiting the sister or .,l tne l latter here, Mrs. F. A. Fulghmer. The l latter are the daughters of Dr. W. l..
 Brown of the Alabama Polytechnic lnstl- 1 ute.
 Mrs William M. Owen, of Bessemer, is visiting her son, Thomas M. owen, Esq., 1 of this place.
 Hon. J. J. Willett, of Anniston, and D. l Alsey Clements of Tuscaloosa, have been 1 recent visitors here.
 Mrs H. B. Uuchurch and Miss Bessie l Latham, of this place, are spendlrl, Nhe 1 summer at Monteagle and Chattanooga. Charles Corwin, of Eutaw, is spending l his vacation here.
 Mrs Darby Heny, of Cliftonville, Miss, | is visiting Mrs. Stone.
 Recently Carrollton was honored with a visit from Prof Henry S. Halbert, of Craw- l ford. Miss, a distinguished Indianologist
 and student of archaeology. He is perhaps
 the most accomplished living I<'hority on l Choctaw Indian history, as well as the | archaeological remains of the gulf region. He has published many things of value l among them being history of the Creek
 war. in collaboration with Rev. T. H. Ball
 of Crownpoint, Ind. He is now engaged in
 prepafing a history of the Choctaws east | of the Mississippi river, and was here to l examine some rare manuscripts and papers | in the extensive library of Thomas M. l