The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-25
TO CLEAR SIDEWALKS
SWEEPING ORDER ISSUED BY
 MAYOR M'LEoD.
Merchants will Make a Vigorous Kick-special Term of Court to Try Will Harris is Be-
 ing Urged.
Advertiser Bureau.

Advertiser Bureau, Selma, Oct. A Mayor Mcleod issued orders yesterday to Chief of Police Walters to enforce the ordinance against merchants and trades people obstructing the sidewalks with their wares and mercnandise. There are a great many business men in Selma who use good part of the sidewalks in front Of their places of business for the dis play of their goods and the order created good deal of consternation among them. A few merchants use the space close to the wall for storing boxes, etc.. and to was not relished by them. Several of these merchants. who will be greatly in- convenienced by strict enforcement of l the Mayor. and after he hears fully what | they have to say on the subject. he may | modify his order, especially on side
 streets where pedestrians do not need the entire sidewalk. Chief Walters will
 endeavor to enforce the law to the letter. however, unless Mayor Mcleod sees fit | to modify his instructions. | On account of the dangerous illness of
 Judge P. H. Pitts's daughter. Miss Kittie. he could not go to Hayneville to fill his | appointment in a joint discussion on the
 merits of the new Consultation with Hon. Jesse Stallings Judge Pitts got Hon. H. | F. Reese to go in his stead. For some
 reason MT. stallings also failed to put l in an appearance Ex-Congressman Brew
 CT was invited by the opposition to the |
 SO It was late when the speaking com
 menced and it was after 10 o'clock be- | fore MT. Reese concluded his remarks | Colonel Brewer was then called fer and | he arose and opened his remarks as If | he did not intend or did not wish to make | a speech. but 1t was after II o'clock be- fore he concluded. too late for MT. Reese
 to reply to the many fallicies he brought forward against the adoption of the new | Constitution. Colonel Brewer stated that
 he was not acquainted with the pEevisions
 had finished his argument against the | adoption of an instrument that he con
 fessed that he knew nothing about, Mr:
 Reese heartily concurred with him that | he had told the whole truth when he
 made the above statement. Colonel Brew | CT also warmly defended President Roose-
 welt in his policy of inviting Booker T.
 Washington to dine With him at the
 in Hayneville. Before MT. Reese spoke
 MT. Hinson. a delegate to the Constitu- tional Convention, made strong talk of
 about thirty minutes in favor Of the new
 There has been more opposition to the l adoption of the new Constitution from
 Lowndes County than any other black
 from there that a wonderful change of
 sentiment is going on. and that before
 election day rolls around this sentiment | will have grown so that Lowndes will
 be safe in the ratification column. News reached Selma today that MT. R.
 N. Hix. who at one time resided in this city and was well and favorably known
 to & large number of persons had died at | his home in San Sabert, Tex. MT. Hix was a fine salesman and had large cir cle of acauaintances in this section. | At the last meeting of the City Council l the resignation of MT. Joseph Pollock was accepted as a member of the Council from
 the Fourth Ward. At. the next meeting
 to fill the vacancy. There are two names mentioned as possible candidates to sue
 ceed MT. Pollock. viz, Messrs Leonard
 and Donner, MT. Donner is out making
 in which they reside and 1t is thought
 that the contest between them will be | exciting.
 pr. R. J. Brevard and wife of Mecklen-
 berg N. C., are the guests of MT. and
 Mrs. A. D. Pitts at their cottage home
 for some time, pr. Breyard is a direct
 descendant of Epharim Brevard, the au-
 thor of the Mecklenburg Declaration of
 Independence. Mrs. Brevard Is brother
 Navy. They will be the recipients of
 great many social attentions while visit 1 ing Selma.
 | MT. Carter Jones has come to Selma and | accepted position as engineer on the | Southern Railroad. MT. Jones is popular
 in railroad circles and has been most cor
 dially welcomed to Selma.
 The parents of Rev. T. J. Crosby of | Texas, are now on visit to their son. the rector of St. Pauls
 Invitations have been received in Selma to the marriage of MT. John V. coe to Miss Margaret Ware Smith, which event will occur in Birmingham, November 6. MT. Coe Is a prominent young business l man of Selma wh" recently moved to Br- | mingham. He still has large business in-
 terests in Selma and vicinity. and the announcement of his approaching mar riage will be received here with a great deal of genuine pleasure.
 MT. Frank Jones of Decatur who has
 been appointed to succeed MT. A. B. Free man as Travelling Passenger Agent for the Southern. with headquarters in Selma,
 has arrived and entered upon the dis charge of his duties. He is a most affa- ble. competent and energetic young rail- road man.
 On account of the great fsrbearance not taking the law into their hands and hanging Will Harris. the alleged mur- dererr of Hattie Bell when he was can demand that Judge J. W. Mahry' Judge of the City Court, call special grand JGTy to lnulCL HlIH anu tnCn nave bpFtuy trial If the murdered girl had been white the brute who murdered hor would probably never have gotten inside the walls of the jail, and would have graccd the first convenient limb after he was captured. The colored people of the western part of the city were greatly in- censed over the brutal and outrageous
 manner in which the little child was taken out into the woods and murdered and the colored men of Selma certainly showed great forbt arance and respect for law when they failed to take the law into their own hands and put him to death as soon as they got him in their DC wer. ,
 On this account and because the little girl murdered was the daughter of an humble colored lahorer, the white people of Selma think that special term ot the court should he held and speedy trial had Of course the question of tn, the cost of a special term of the court will have to be taken into 1nsideEation, but if the cost is not too great 1t would have wholesome effect on the lawless ele- FAMOUS FOR HALF A CENTURY.