The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-06
sidewalk peneiIings
Riae Rsnre !. Needed.

RiAs Range is Needed.
 T saw in your gossip column a few days ago." said q Guardsman. where soldier spoke about the rife range near Pickett Springs. in Holt's Grove. ana asktng what had become of 1t! 1T ne will take the trouble to go out on the car line, he will see that all the frames have been broken down ana that there is no range there any more.
 Tt was impracticable anyway to nave a range there, and all talk of making that permanent range was out of the mind of those acquainted There Is no butt there and every time rife was fired there 1t was danger of doing harm. If the old range was opened up out there 1t might do for permanent range. but the wires of the Montgomery Light and Water Power Company cross the old route and that company will not consent to have It's wires raised and 1t would be almost impossible to do so.
 "Rine practice is absolutely neces- sary for the Guard to do any effective work with the arms they have as with out practice the rifle cannot be ham, dled with any satisfaction or shot with any accuracy. When the permanent camp ground is established on the sea | shore, where every Guardsman In the State wants 1t, then they can have rife ranges and soon learn to do effective work and be able to send teams which will make credftable records In the prize shoots all over the country.
 Alabama is not doing its part in the rife practicing that Is expected of the National Guard"
 Popular Theatrical Agents. Two agents of travelling theatrical companies, harbingers of frost In the South. reached Montgomery last night. Singularly enough each of them Is the representative of actors widely differ ent in their methods of entertaining the public. but men who are none the less popular in Montgomery. Wallace Munro is ahead of Louis James who has a stupendous produc- tion of ''virginius" this year and 0. merry minstrel. They are good friends these two theatrical agents and they have much in common. Atkinson was for several years Dramatic Editor of has been a brilliant newspaper man in his time. They have been coming to Montgomery every season for several years and they have many friends
 Messrs. Munro and Atkinson will be in Montgomery today.
 Wants Streets Cleaned. If was 'knocker' said a profess sionai man. us he stood on Dexter Ave. nue yesterday evening and looked l north on Perry Street. T would ask you to write something about the dirty condition of our streets. T hope I am not fault finder and I also realize that our street cleaning department has been kept very busy this summer, but there can be no good l excuse for the condition of some of the streets. Look at Perry Street and at Madison Avenue. for example. They | .l-- tial thoroughfares. The dirt has been allowed to accumulate on those streets until the dust there Is unbearable They are supposed to be swept and been.
 Tt seems to me some one ought to get behind the Sanitary Department on this matter"
 George A. Beauchamp of Montgom: cry, Secretary of the Alabama Grand Lodge F: A. M. came down last week and officiated in the conferring dates. He was assisted by W. J. Rem froe of Dothan.-Andalusia News.
 Mir. Al A. Reynolds is home on a visit to his mother and will be here two or three weeks. He is now living at Hot Springs, Ark, where he Is man. ager .of a fine hotel.
 Mir. s. F. Phillips of Uniontown was A visitor to the Capitol yesterday He was formerly Tax Collector of his | County and had acquaintances in the | Auditors office.
 | Judge Thomas R. Roulhac of Bir- min gham, United States District At torney for the Northern District, visit ed Montgomery yesterday. City Engineer D. W. Ford who un- | derwent an operation at an infirmary some time ago is reported to be inn proving slowly.
 Rev. G. w. Townsend has returned from Gainesville. Ga., where he has been visiting his daughter. 1 Mr. W. F. Vandiver has gone to Hot Springs where he will spend about two weeks.
 MT. O. G. Venable of Birmingham is a visitor in Montgomery. Colonel o. P. Gaut of Birmingham was in town yesterday.
 MT. W. l.. Via of Tuskegee is in Montgomery.
 | Judge J. c. Wood of Hayneville is | in town.
 MT. J. R. Lindsey of Pollard is in | town.