The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-11
TOWN OF THOMASTOl,
HCSTLING LITTLE CITY OF EARENGo COUNTY.
A Hotel Will Be Built and Bored Well Sunk-The Plans of the ProgI Isssive Mayor
 oi the Town.
Advertiser Bureau,


 night and Was entertained at the home of MaJor G. brooks Inemas, who Is on. of the cleverest, bisgesr-nearted men that ever lived. Dr. Thomas is the nov ing spirit of the new town of Thomas ton and all of the people look up to him. W hat ne says is law. lie has worked ia season and out Of season to develop
 rhomiston, and 1t begins to look as if hl5 enorts are going to be crowned with success
 The little town of Thomaston now has about three hundred inhabitants and 1t IS growing at rapid rate. MT. White Mason of Selma moved there this week and has gone into business. Besides him there are six other merchants and all or them seem to be doing a prosperous
 business. There Is also a dispeasary and it does a fine business. There is lit tie drunkenness and people send from as far as Linden and Dayton to Tnom- aston to purchase whiskey. The dispen- aston that would go elsewhere, but for the fact that they can purchase their whiskey there.
 owns the B.. s. and N. O., is building a fine depot at Thomaston. and it will be finished, in the course of two or three months. The first depot that the road started to build there was found to be too small and it was torn down and a more commodious structure started. The fact of the l.. and N. tearing away the small depot building for the purpose of
 
 taches great Importance to the fu.ure growth and development of the place. It l must have cost the road Ss, 600 to do the grading where the depot stands. The present town of Thomaston is on a high. sandy plateau, three hundred feet above tide water. and it is one of the finest sites for a town imaginable. The water drains off from the town in all directions and there is nothing to cause malaria, as the town site is so much higher than the surrounding country. A street sixty feet wide has been graded from the depot to town, and 1t makes a beautiful drive way, being as hard as a macadamized road and as smooth as a fioor
 The deal was closed yesterday while your representative was in--Thomaston for tho erection of a twenty-room hotel The hotel will be built near the depot and eventually the whole town will move nearer, except the residences that are alreaoy erected. There are at present four handsome two-story residences going up in the new portion of the city. big, commodious school house is also to be erected, and a bored we'll will be sunk city cannot be built without schools hotels and pure water and that is what ne proposes to have as the basis for
 t the tature growth and greatness of the Mayor Thomas is in Selma today en route to Pennsylvania to confer with
 the capitalists who are backing the town. |
 the B., S. and N. O. division of the L. and N. but it will not be the end of | the road great many days from now The grading has been completed as far | as Linden. The trackman has telegraphed
 to Pensacola for this track-laying force and 1t is expected that the track will | be finished to Linden within two or three | weeks.
 MT. T. H. Bledsoe and The Advertiser
 core spondent di owe to Einden from | Ihomaston. MT. Bledsoe Is a brother of Colonel Henry Bledsoe of Selma. He | related many pleasant and amusing in-
 eieven.mile drive to and from the county Ste of Marengo.
 | A big dispute is going on between the | Commissioners Court and the citizens of l Linaen in reference to the removal of | the court house from its present site to | the Eew town near the depot. A large
 majority of the board are in favor of
 keeping step with the progress of the 1 day, and are for moving the court house nearer the depot, but the property holders or the town naturally resent the idea on | the theory that 1t will depreciate prop erty in the old town and advance the prices of realty in the new addition. Marengo needs a new temple of justice, and if the town of Linden would turn school and let the new building be moved nearer the depot, both the old and new towns would be benefited.
 The grading force is now far beyond Linden, on the way to Myrtlewood and in about three months more the trains will be whstling in the neighborhood of Sen ator Meadows's palatial country home. A splendid depot building Is also going up at Consol. which is the home of Hon. J. J. King, and which is destined to be trading point of no small importance.
 All along the lire of tie road from here to ThOmaston squads of mules and hands can be seen at work, straighten- ing out the crooks in the road and low ering the grades The road will cross the Cahaba about hundred yards be- low its present crossing and will then wind around Saltmarsh Hill and will come into the depot at Beloit on its pres ent track. A large grading force com menced work there this morning.
 The road will also be strengthened at Central Mills. The old town of Central Mills was left about half a mile to the south of the present track, and the grade is too steep and the track will be moved to within about two hundred yards of the old town, couole of valleys having been found that can be united by a short deep cut. thus doing away with the heavy grade by which the present town of Central Mills is reached This will necessitate the removal of all the stores and other improvements that have gone up around the depot to the new depot that will be built, near the old town. Fortunately for the railroad 1t has not erected its depot building. The new depot will be situated on the land of Mir. E. M. Sheppard.
 MT. w. L. Sheppard has been appoint ed Justice of the Peace to succeed his father. who was appointed one of the Registrars of Dallas County by Governor Jelks It will be gratifying news to Cap tain Sheppards host of friends in Dal- las to know that he is gradually recov- ering from his recent severe attack of illness and will be able to go on his rounds in April to register the voters of Dallas.
 Dr. W. c. Phillips. one of the Dallas County Board of Revenue. was visitor to the city today. He says he has been on an inspection of the roads of the Fork and informs your representative | that he never saw the roads in better fix at this time of the year
 Mir. John McHugh and Miss Edna Hill man were united in marriage at Orrvile | night before last. Both are well and fa- vorably known in Selma and shower of congratulations have been heaped on the happy young couple
 MT. and Mrs. H. B. Elkau entertained last evening in honor of Mesdames A. Fl. Gross, w. K. Never and Della Sterne A most delightful evening was spent
 In a few days now large force of hands will be put to work grading King Jones, Union and Alabama Streets, pre- paratory to having the gravel put down.
 Y. T. Keenan, the oldest Justice of the Peace in Dallas County, is a visitor to the city today.
 Major J. c. w. Leftwlch of Birming- ham passed through the city today on his way to Mobile to visit his sons.