The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-01
AUBURN BOYS
 COMING HERE Entire School Will See Good Roads Work. CAPT. FALKNER'S IDEA They Will Be Here the Whole Day Thursday.
 The Students, as Future Statesmen,
 Should Know How to Build Roads, Says Captain Falkner, Hence the Attendance Here.

The faculty and all the students of the | Alabama Polytechnic Institute at Au- burn, will attend the Good Roads Con vention in a body next Thursday. This was brought about through the efforts of Captain J. NJ. Falkner. who took the matter up with President Wickersham, of the Western Railway and arranged | for free transportation for the college. l Captain Falkner has long been an ad- l yocate of good roads and he has taken l great interest in the approaching Con | yention to be held in Montgomery. He attended the Convention in Birmingham and delivered a most instructive address there.
 He says the young men on whose shoulders the future of the State rests should he further instructed in the inn portant work of building good roads and he developed the idea of bringing the The students will leave Auburn at 7:30 o'clock Thursday morning and will leave Montgomery at 7:30 o'clock that night Captain Falkner says he will be glad if every boy who contemplates coming will | telegraph his father or guardian to meet him at the depot.
 Montgomery. Ala. Nov. 30, 1901. Hon. Leroy Broun, President. Auburn, "if I will arrange to transport all your
  to Montgomery and return for next Thursday to enable you to attend the Good Roads Convention will you come think 1t will be a great thing for your school as well as for the whole State of Alabama. Please wire me that the fac ultty, and all the boys TillM be rs,rnsr- here;
 > Auburn. Ala, Nov 30 1901. Colonel J. M. Falkner. Montgomery Ala: ..,,
 Thursday. 5th. have train leave Auburn about 7:30 a. m. and leave Montgomery esiened.1 Wm. Leroy Mroun." feature of the Good Roads Convention. C. A. Allen. Clerk of the Board of Revenue. says the Board will perfect final arrangements for the Good Roads The Board has already instructed two of the road overseers to be prepared to furnish mules. wagons or any other road ediuncts to the Good Roads people. The interest in the approaching Convention.
 After the completion of tho work of grading and grayeling Sayre Street the Good Roads outnt will 6e shipped on a a Showdown. where half mile of grading and graveling will be made. The Plant System will also furnish special train to carry those interested in good roads.
  country will attract many people. From out the flood of letters that are being received daily by the Secretary Of the Invitation Committe to the Good Roads Convention a few may be selected at random to indicate the widespread in- | terest felt throughout the State, and by all classes of people for the betterment of public highways in the State of Ala | bama.
 Auburn. Ala, Nov. %, 1901. MT. l.. L. Gilbert. Secty, etc.
 Montgomery. Ala.
 Dear Si::-A circular letter from the | committee of which you are the Secre- tary. requesting me to be present at the 1 Good Roads Convention that will be held in your city on the 4th 5th and 9th prox, | was received today. This convention is certainly a movement in the right drec- | ton for the well being of the State-a movement, indeed. from which none but | the happiest results can flow. Not only business. but the cause of education, and what + more important still, that of re- Iigon. are benefited by good roads. It Is my purpose to attend if possible Hur- riedly yours, $. s. Scot. l Huntsville, Nov. 29, 1901.
 Realizing the gocd results we are en- | loving from a system of free turn rikes ir | cur county which was inauguratr -s years ago. I want to endorse the j ment now on fobt to secure to cGci " in the State better public roaus. =N
 we begin to build our free bikes
 prosperous era dawned upon
 Hundreds of energetic fam
 settled in different parts of
 ntS. from almost every section of f'l )untry Small manufacturing con- e. $ have sprung up. four of the largest 'r it tree nurseries in this country have located here truck gardens and poultry ras rs have coma. and every one doing a pro perou business. trust next week s Good Roads Convention in your city will prove boon to our entire State Hon. | C. p. Lane and I expect to meet with you as representatives of our Chamber | of commerce. Very truly.
 "R. F. Pettus." l THE pASSINi ThDNNG