The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-18
Woman MIth . Hmm mer.

Woman With q Hammer.
 Knockers are not so numerous in Alabama, said an >observant citizen yesterday. but by close pursuit you ting>in the, dining hall of q hotel when my discoverey was made. It was a woman and she was carrying her ham, mer good and strong. She seemed to enjoy it greatly. but 1t was q pitiful sight to the on-lookers. for you may be sure she talked more with her facial expression than her tongue. But that does not mean she did not use the en- zine of talk.
 .'Newspapers were her theme. She handed all papers out of town some of the prettiest boosts you have ever heard but when 1t came to the home sheet 1t lobster news service. bum editorial column, horrible type, stale appearance all round. The man she was talking to put the local paper back into his pocket. He thought 1t must be poison, this one from the lady by his side. She smiled as the paper was put back in the pocket. The man had and had not consumed all the news, but the Knockers hate of the thing seemed to turn him against the paper. Why did he not go up town and get fit to read in the whole town. The reporters think they are up-to date, she said. but they really belong to the tall and uncut timbers. The news she read hours before in New York paper and 1t took 1t more than twelve hours to come to that town. Needless to say. however, the hammer finally wore itself out and the man stole another look at his paper. and he read another half hour while the woman was not looking.
 T understand this member of the anvil chorus used to write society h. t., al1. r That Mobile sleeper. E ITO me" said a commercial traveller the best piece of news in The Adver- tiser this morning was the statement that the railroads had at last decided to put a sleeping car on night trains
 The man who is So fortunate as to spend every night in the year within the comforts of his own bedroom may have thought this was an unimportant announcement but the man. like me. whose business requires him to travel, and travel over this particular route one or two nights in every month, re- garded 1t as a most tiiimportant item Of news. i.4
 Mobile people especially have striven roads for many years and am sure 1t was hailed with delight in the Gulf City. .,s
 IJOulSRlIlG dllu NdSuNliie fkdiiIOdu UT tue Pullman Company that delayed this convenience to the public. It may have been neither of these companies. but 1t was delay that caused many the service has come to Us and | want to see that sleeping car well patroniz- ed. If 1t is not. of course, We cannot expect the companies to continue to maintain it"
 MT. Samuel Casseday. of Louisville. president of the Bank of Commerce and his wife are visiting their niece. Mrs. Frances J. Hagan at her country home :The Grove" on the Carter Hill Road.
 Judge T. Scott Sayre said positively yesterday that he was not, nor would he be an applicant for the position of Supreme Court Reporter to succeed Phares Coleman, resigned
 Judge J. J. Mayfield. of Tuscaloosa, was in Montgomery yesterday attend ing to business connected with the Code of Alabama for which he has the contract for preparation.
 Dr. R. c. Persons and wife are visit ing their brother. r. $. Persons. Dr. Persons is a medical director of the Naval Hospital at Norfolk, Va.
 Messrs J. F. Timmens. E. w Jones and W. G. Longshore, citizens of
 
 Mir will J. Conniff, Recording Secre- tary to the Governor, has gone to Birmingham to spend tke day
 Dr. E. c. Parker. of Gulfport, Miss. a former-Montgomery practitioner, is in townf -..
 Messrs E. M Pinckard and A. Kouter, of Clanton, are in the city.
 
 Hon. c. F. Thomas. of Prattville, came over to Montgomery yesterday.
 Mir. J. T. Hayes. of Union Springs, came to Montgomery last night.
 MT H. L. Bryan came in last night from his home in Fort Deposit.
 Mir. J. B. Minchner of Union Springs, is .n town.
 Mir. A. E. Killebrew, of Newton, Is in the city.