The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-15
pD0CpED0TTC is the Husling EVEDCDCCN TNUOTENUUO Little City of EvEKUkEEN
By D. W. McIver.

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 By D. W. McIver.
 | Evergreen. Dec. lL-(Special Corre- l spondence)-Evergreeni is one of the lead | ing and most progressive of all the | Southern Alabama towns. It was found- 1 ed in 1888 and grew gradually until now It has assumed the proportions of a city and Is advancing steadily towards wider and more extensive achievements. In 1922 | a small country school house was erected | near the site of the present town and around it gathered the population which afterwards went to make up the town of Evergreen. It was first proposed to call the town Perrymanville but it was not popular and the present name was final- ly chosen. The population now numbers near three thousand.
 NThe first merchant in Evergreen was Mir. Grant and the first dentist pr. Me- Intyre and the first dry goods store was owned by Dunklin & Reid, all names which are yet numerous in this local ty.
 There was a stage line from Pollard to Greenville from 1S43 to 1861, by way of Evergreen and that was the only facil- ity the town had for communicating with the outside world. The town was incorpo- rated in 1s40 with Major Nick Stallworth as the first Mayor, the corporate limits extensaing one mile in every direction from the Academy.
 The first church was built by the Meth odists in 1S40 and was for some years the only place of worship. Then other de- nominations erected churches until now there are half dozen. The county site was moved here from Sparta in 1865 and has continued here until the present time.
 Evergreen is about midway between Montgomery and Mobile on the Louis vile and Nashville Railroad and only about seventy-five miles from the Gulf of Mexico. The gentle and balmy breezes of the spring and summer have made the place famous. The sanitary | condition of the town Is unsurpassed and the statistics show that the death rate is as smaf as any town upon which the sun shines The water is pure and has been highly commented upon by all ex- perts who have examined 1t. noted | Chicago physician came to the town and | he portrays his own experience in these | words which give only the true facts and go to prove what magnificent climate and other advantages are to be found here: Climate and Water. q have found the climate of Evergreen this winter as pleasant as May or June in Illinois. There have been two frosts. one in January and one in February, neither of them severe enough to blight | the rosebuds in the gardens or check the | ripening of strawberries. The salt breeze | from the Gulf, tempered by the miles of pine forests through which it passes, | is mild, salubrious, bracing and free | from dampness. All my patients who re- quire change of climate, who are suf- | fering from diseases of the kidneys or | 1T hal Cnnd the future instead of to California, Colo ardo or Salt Lake. One of the greatest | things here is an artesian spring, known | as the Magnolia Mineral Spring, whose l water boiling up through the white sand. l is quite free from organic matter and | possesses great solvent properties. When I first came to Evergreen I regarded 1t with suspicion-as a kind of swamp wa ter-but as I was gradually running down, losing a pound week, and unable | to eat or sleep thought I would try it. To my surprise found 1t of speedy and positive benefit. My appetite returned, nausea left, my digestion improved, the l normal action of the liver was restored, kidneys commenced eliminating properly, pain in back and head was relieved, and have been gaining steadily in weight ever since. can now walk without tiring. when before a walk of a block would ex- haust my strength.
 The past municipal government of Ev- ergreen has been entrusted to the fol- lowing Mayors: J. s. Stearns. W. H. Harrington, J. A. McCreary, c. T. Talia- ferro, G. R. Farnham. F. L. Hickox, w. D. Atkinson, J. F. Irwin, H. M. King, c. S. Rabb,( J. M. Sims and the present in- cumbent, Mir. A. H. Shields.
 No whiskey or other intoxicants can be sold and this has been the law, SC far as the town is concerned, since 1854
 The Baptist orphanage.
 On the 8th day of March, 1893, the Louise Short Baptist Widows, and Orphans Home opened it's doors for the reception of those who were to be Its beneficiaries. It was then. and has since been, under the management of Rev. J. W. Stewart, who is certainly an able financier, and one who manages his large family of about eighty and frequently clothes and feeds all of them for a week at time on $1.75. He does not stint them at all; but. as the home Is dependent wholly upon the charity or us friends, they sometimes forget to be as prompt as they should. This splendid eleemosynary institution is now one ot the prominent and permanent features of Evergreen. The splendid brick edi- flee, that now shelters these unfortunates
 
 homes and will, with its wide halls, ex- pansive galleries. majestic and imposing exterior catch the eye of the traveller from afar The building and it's eighty acres of land surrounding it cost the Bap- lists of Alabama $5,4O0, and every cent has been paid.
 The Newspapers.
 The newspapers that have heretofore been published in Evergreen are The Banner. The Observer The News and The Star. The former editors were Mesers. Landrum Stearns, James, Mon- roe, c. s. James, J. w. Davison, H. w. King, M. D. Atkinson, pr. R. A. Lee and w. c. Crumpton. Its present journals are The Record and The Courant. both well edited and splendid index to the intelligence and character oi the population for whom they are depen' dent for their support. The merchant: and business men do not advertise anc maintain their local papers here, as 1T many towns. but they are awakening tt It simportance and value to themselves
 The Agricultural School.
 The establishment of the Southwes
 Alabama Agricultural College here has given impetus to the place. This schoo has for it's faculty as able and as hard
 working a set of teachers as can bt