The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-14
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 0adsden, Aug. 13.-(Special )--News Of the sudden deeth of an aged and highly respected citizen of Etowah County, which occurred at Aurora, some twenty-flv miles west of Gads- den, on last Friday afternoon. has just reached this city. F. M. Hunt, aged 80 years, was standing In his barn loe about 5s9 o'clock wor taikng srn,,y to nis wife Ire fell to the ground and was dead be- fore his wife could reach him. Heart disease was the cause of death. MT. Hunt was not only one of the oldest citizens of the county. but was one of the most influential and wielded quite an influence in his section of the S so%nsy & Ms to do ae Was snrfy member of the Baptist Church and a good man.
 D. D. Fleming died at his home at Lawrence, Cherokee County. at IF of two years from catarrh of the stem- ach, aged 72 years. Mir. Fleming, while being sick SO long was ablo to be up he0 he took aIefd his bed. He leaves a wi Wife and five grown children, W. F. Fleming of Gadsden being his son. The remains were inferred Sunday at his home bury
 I. seems that aadsden is to be blessed or cursed with a waterworks plant. The old Gadsden Waterworks WHICH nus UeeH the city with water for the past twen. ty-flve years and whose contract will expire in December of this year. but in the. face of this fact and the fact have recently voted for the munich pality to float $1eo.000 worth of bonds to build a waterworks plant. the city nSs eS -tenths of "t mile fife % more of mains in order to furnish water to the Coosa Pipe and Foundry Company and to the Kyle Lumber Company; The old today for Chattanooga and other cities for the purpose of purchasing more machinery and he says thst s his com proponents within the next sixty days and that they expect to hold on to their contract with the city; The Weller Mitchell frsnehiss has S been h,e, the cause been in the courts for the past three good thing and will build their plant advertising the sale of $loo.ooo worth of thirty-year per cent. bonds for the purpose of erecting a. waterworks piat plants if the two new new @ ones s are built and the parties behind them say they will be built. Some new developments in the Sontroversy between the city soon. and it is thought that the old company has a card up its sleeve which will be played soon.
 The Street Committee has had a large force of men at work tho past week cleaning up the city and cutting down the weeks which line tho city from one street to the other and as result the city looks much cleaner and in fact Is cleaner than 1t has been in years. and not very likely to be. There are a but they are not serious. There are very few mosquitoes and the people feel secure on the question of yellow fever, in fact so secure that not even talked by any one.
 At meeting of the City Council held last night an ordinance was passed agent for any firm or corporation or person to carry on business of solicit l ing labor within the corporate limits of Gadsden to first take out a license to do
 placed at isoo per year There are any number of agents for cotton mills and various manufacturing concerns in
 thereby crippling the plants here. The
 ,ooo more iaborers and are offering
 Fe wages e worG f2r f hreIy yhG plant % in
 city Is working at much less than it's
 full capacity on account of the scarcity
 Alabama City is without doubt the South. There are about 800 cottages in | the village for the operatives, of which no two are of the same architecture
 nor of the same color. Just now the
 Dwight Manufacturing Company Is re- | painting every housesin the place and
 the paint alone costs $6.00o. For the
 past three years the company has been
 spending s100 per month building
 streets and sidewalks and the work has
 not yet been completed. Every street
 and sidewalk is being cut down to a
 grade and cherted and they now pre- | fortable to walk upon.
 Marion Newkirk Is charged with | stealing and driving off a yoke of fine | oxen belonging to Henry Burt of Sigs- | bee, DeKalb County, last Friday and
 driving them to Blue Pond, Cherokee | The oxen have. been recovered. but Newkirk escaped. George Webb was
 arrested and locked up on the charge
 of being an accessory to the thief. Silas Littiejohn, well known citi- zen of Skirum, Dekalb County. was
 ments charging him with selling whis- released upon making bond In the sum of $500. DeKalb County Is prohibi- | ton county.
 Etowah County tax values show a re- markable increase. in fact 1t is doubt full if there is another county in the crease within the past Ave years as can Etowah County. T. J. Walker. who | has just retired from the office of tax assessor, gives some very interesting | items on this question, which shows | that within the past five years the tax l The figures are as follows: In 1900 the ,ox yahIation amounted to SA34T 407. |.