The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-01
COMPLETING THE ROAD
WILL LAY STEEL RAILS ON THE
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Vacant Probate Judgeship Continues the Absorbing Topic in Selma. Progress Making on the
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Advertiser Bureau.


 Selma. Sept. 30.
 Ten miles of the grading on the Bir- mingham, Selma and New Orleans Divi-' sion of the Louisville and Nashville Rail of putting down the steel rails will com mence this week. This ten miles will put the track some two or three miles beyond Thomaston ' It Is twenty-one miles from Thomaston to the terminus of the road at Myrtlewood. near the home of Senator J. D .Meador.
 The entire road will be nnisher to its n t nSpsaa to Of fss ss grad ss ing is to be completed by November. 1. according to the contract. hut the heavy rains that occurred a few weeks asS se ns s norF finished up. However. the rails will be laid just as fast as the grading Is com pleted and a mile or two of the work will be put in order at a time until the whole is finished. t@ Frr.
 The Probate Judgeship.
 The all absorbing topic on the streets today has been the vacant Probate hardly be more intense if the decision as to who was to fill that important office was about to be decided, by a vote of the people, with several candidates running are intensely partisan and on this occa- sion they have not varied from their rule. but have lined up for this man or for that man and are doing all in their bitterness in the fight but there is an intense earnestneas that gives decided snap to the contest 30 much interest ts taken in the contest that business is / The Probate office. in the meantime. is ciosSd and the large volume of business that necessarily goes through that office atSthfs time of the year is stoppped for the time being. If primary election should be decided on by the Democratic Executive Committee tomorrow and the Governor should concur in the same. 1t would be at least ten days or two weeks before one could be held. and in the meantime business would still be tied up in that; office. while the people were set Then. again. the question arises: If the Governor will hardly appoint any one butsa lawyer. and laymen should go before the people and win. what sort of If a primary is held 1t is certain that Mir. Felix M. Wood and Captain w. P. Mollett will enter the race. Both are popular and one or the other might get would the Governor do? These are aues- tions that naturally arise in the discus sion of the matter and they are printed as food for thought.
 The city looked a little deserted today. The Western Railroad did a good busi- ness between Selma and Montgomery this morning. for several large delega- tions went there to lay the claims of their respective favorites before Cover nor Jelks, Mr. P H. Pitts was accom- panied by Messrs. L. F. Jeffries. J. R. Satterfield, Chambless Keith and several others. Major A. L. Mcleod took along with him Colonel H. S.. D. Mallory, W.. ". Burns. Walter. Shafer and others. Captain W. P. MoIlett went by himself to find out the lay of the land. and to see whether CT not the Governor intended to stand by his decision to hardly appoint fook oa sIong s"yeral strcn pex fS,smds M woSd % will do all in their power to convince the Governor that he Is the proper man to appoint. MT. B H. Craig is not mak- ing a scramble for the place He has applied for the position, filed his endorse ments and is waiting patiently tor tho Governor to act, feeling perfectly satis- ned that If the Chief Executive should see fit to appoint him that he would serve the people faithfully as Probate Judge. as he has done for thirty years as Register in Chancerv