The age-herald., 1900-08-31


 It's erection. one of the largest country merchants in Lowndes County. crenshaw' s store, in the Lowndes part of the famous Little Texas district of Lowndes and But Ter, was named as a post office. and it's trade was very large, though 1t was some thirteen miles from the railway station at Fort Deposit, on the Mobile and Montgom- cry Railway, now division of the Louis vile and Nashville Mir. Crenshaw built the storehouse in young Birmingham for his own trade, and occupied it for several years, though he never resided in this city. A kinsman of his, the late Major Boiling Hall of Montgomery, was one of the five great men of the old Elyton Land Com pany. MT. Crenshaw removed many years ago to Elmore County. He has been all his life a militant prohibitionist, and his name has been on the State tickets of the Prohi- btionist party.
 A son of Captain Edward Crenshaw of Greenvilie and therefore a cousin Of the late lamented Captain Frank Crenshaw or Atlanta, is an officer in the American Navy; he having secured his appointment to Annapolis through his fathers old friend associate and neighbor, Hon. Hilary A. Herbert, sometime Secretary Of the Navy to whom more young Alabamians are indebted for official advancement than to any other sources whatever
 General Louis V. Clark has gone to Pu- laski, Va, to spend his vacation. He will be absent from Birmingham several weeks.
 
 Second avenue, between Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets, has not been hopeiessiy rough and filthy and generally bad more than thirty years, for it has not been In existence longer than that; but it's obJec- tionable features seem to have been con- spicuous for centuries, so greatly has the public suffered. Yet there is reason to hope for better things. Several wagon loads of paving brick have been placed on the sidewalk near Nineteenth street, and the understanding is that the avenue is to be paved Joy! Just how long 1t will be before the pavement is laid and the thor oughfare free to traffic is conjectural; but, oh. let it be soon! Twentieth street, upon the southern hills, has been long under going the process of paving and the end Is not yet; but maybe Second avenue will fare better. As the Irishman said of his op- pressed country, the cup of paveless Sec ond avenue woes has been overfowing for centuries and is not yet full. But!
 
 Robert Loveman, poet and prince of good fellows, departed from this town Georgia ward yesterday afternoon, after spending a fortnight with friends here and at Bes- semer. He made those friends happy by his coming; they are sorry that he Is gone
 The Rev. Dr. E. w. Jones, the we'll known Methodist minister and Justice of the Peace, said yesterday that he would apply to Governor Sanford for appoint ment as convict inspector. He believes himself to be entirely competent, and he believes it best to have minister on the board of inspectors of convicts.
 Tom O. Hall, a member of the Louisville Commercial staff, a Confederate Veteran, and secretary of the Louisville Veteran Firemen's Association, was in Birmingham yesterday, under the excellent guidance of City Clerk Edgar Mitchell of Bessemer, whom he is visiting. MT. Hall is charmed with Bessemer as is every visitor to that progressive town. Birmingham impresses him strongly by it's present power and its vast probabilities.
 George Huntington Clark has returned from the Gulf coast where he has been spending his vacation.