The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-19
PERSONAL AND LOCAL.

PERSONAL AND LOCAL. Hon. w. D. Dunn of Grove Hill. passed through the city yesterday on his way home from Demopo1s. He informed your correspondent that he would not be a candidate for solicitor of the First Cir. cult, to fill the place made vacant by the resignation of B. F. E!more. J. W. Gewin of Jackson, Ala. and Miss Florence Crenshaw of Marion. were quietly married at the mause of the Alabama Street Presbyterian Church by Rev. T. R. Best the pastor. yesterday afternoon and took the first train for their future home in Jackson. Will Brslin gives a barbecue annually to his friends. He put 1t of till late this year, and it came off yesterday at l Ravenwood Park. He had about forty | the splendid.y cooked meats and excel leat brunswick stew. The attorney in the case of John Daw- son. the negro who killed Deputy Sheriff Edwards today asked for change of venue on the ground that his client could not get a fair trial because of the in 1uence in the county of the family of the deceased.
 R. E. L. Mel has received the ap- pointment as special agent of the Census
  duties will be to collect statistics relative to the number of bales of cotton ginned
 in Dallas County each season. A gang of six or eight maimed beg i gars are in Selma. asking for aims. The question has often been asked on tho streets since they have been here as to whether or not they travel from one town to another in droves?
 Rev A. A. Little arrived home from
 Blowing Rock, N. C., this afternoon. He
 came back by way of Birmingham, where
 he stopped over to look after some mat
 ters connected with tho Alabama Synodi-
 cal school for boys.
 The three or four Dallas negroes who
 went to the Birmingham Republican Com
 vention and were refused admittance,
 returned home with big disgust for the c. O. F.
 A train coming up Peacock's Alley this
 morning struck and smashed k. F.
 Lockhart's buggy into splinters, but for tunately no one was in 1t at the time. A small blaze was discovered in a Washington Street barber shop last night at Il o'clock, but was extinguished De- fore a great deal of damage was done. The train on which Walter R. Shafer and bride returned to Selma on was
 delayed and they did not reach home
 until o'clock this morning. large force of hands Is at work out
 at Elkdale Park, cleaning off the ground
 and grubbing up the big trees where the | lake will be built
 J. Rothchlds was operated on at a | sanitorium this morning and his friends | now have strong hopes that he will get | entirely well.
 Miss Virginia Smith. after a visit of some days to Miss Jamie Portis in this city. has returned to her home in Pleas ant Hill.
 The Kettle Quill arrived at the wharf
 last night with 927 bales of cotton and
 1.2O0 sacks of seed. besides other freight I Mir. and Mrs. Floyd Kincey. after a | delightful visit of several days to At | lanta, have returned home l Mayor Brooks Thomas and T. H. Bled, | soc of Thomaston, are visitors to the
 city today.
 Dr. J. M. Mcdonald of Marion June.
 ton. spent yesterday among his Selma | friends.
 Hon. John J. King of Consul, MarenGo | County, Is visitor to Selma today. Colonel Ed Jones and daughter of Cam | den, are in the city today.
 Minthone Woolsey spent yesterday in Meridian.