The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-30
Advertiser Bureau,
 4 Mobile, Sept, g.

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 AspetItion went forward from Mobile to Montgomery this morning which win be presented, possibly,sto the Legislature. The petition is from the Committee on Mercantile Interests of the Commercial Club of Mobile. and is urgent in behalf of the pending bill appertaining to the tradinng stamp business. Mobile has had . share of the experience with this so- called promoter of business for the retail dealer. and the general verdict, so far as could be learned, was decidedly unfavor- able to the trading stamps. In fact 1t Is safe to say that there are in Mobile to- day enough trading stamps, unredeemed, to paper the walls of the magnificent old pile on Capital Hill. known as the Cradle of the Confederacy. The sentiment here ts against the trading stamp and the Com mercial Club, realizing this, approved the
 action of the Mercantile Committee in it's
 petition tothe Legislature.
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 Local baseball enthusiasts. comprisinp
 members of the defunct city league, have
 arranged to play . game of ball the com
 ing week. the full proceeds to be rendered
 Mrs. Sterling Thrower.y It will be recalled
 that last week in the Louisville and Nashville freight yard Sterling .Thrower. a most exemplary young man, was killed
 by an engine. He was a baseball player and pitcher of repute in amateur cir cles. He had been seen on the diamond in Montgomery and received favorable men. ton from the sporting, editors of Mont gomery. The beneft game will undoubt- edly prove remunerative one.
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 A man thoroughly competent to ex- press an opinion as to the conditions among the truck farmers. said this morn- ing that the promise for good yield of vegetables, such as are common to this season of the year, despite the unfavor- able weather conditions, is good. The truck farmers have had an unusual drought to contend with this summer. but the sweet and Irish potato crops promise a fine yield at least 75 per cent. Cab bage and turnips are fair to good, while the hay and corn crops are exceptionally so and virtually made.
 From conservative estimate there are today in Mobile, from North and Middle Alabama, and East Mississippi no less than 2,000 visitors. Not only did the Southern Railway bring in an immense crowd last night, but at midnight the Mobile and Ohio brought down from the North an excursion almost at large. Not this unusual influx of visit ors. the city last night was quiet.
 The remains of Mrs. Lucretia Connolly arrived in Mobile over the L. and N. Railroad at o'clock this afternoon and were taken to Magnolia cemetery from the train for interment. Rev. D. A. Planck was the officiating minister at the grave. The pali-bearers were William F. Stoutz. James M. Henderson, William H. and Charles Witman.
 Sheriff Powers last night. with a posse. while on a roundup in the vicinity of Creola, this county. in search of the ring leaders in the out-cropping troubles of negroes, found William Gaines, a stran- ger. though already sufficiently we'll known to be e dangerous man in the with 44-calibre gun in his shirt bosom. He was arrested on the charge of weapons. yet the sheriff hopes