The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-07
.The town has 2,5O0 to 5000 people.

The town has 2,500 to 5000 people. and is on both the Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe roads, some fine busi- ness houses, and large mercantile es- establishments. Few houses that cost as much as $3,500 to $6,000. Resi- dences neat cottages. Streets broad. Shade everywhere--shade trees and shrubbery in excess. Artesian water drug stores use 1t instead of distilled water.
 "More than necessary perhaps of this, but l give you the facts, that you may fit them to your own wants.
 "A furnished cottage would De found rather by accident. Sometimes a family intending to be absent for a few months. will rent their place. This is more apt to be the case in the sum mer months. Some of our people go to mountain resorts. During the fruit drying season, families occasion ally go to the orchards or vineyards ana camp out, that all their members may have profitable employment. At almost any time housekeeping apart ments, furnished, may be had.
 This is the most democratic people on the face of the earth. They do their own work. when they have any to do, and when they have none of their own do that of any other that needs them. So far as 1 can hear, there are but two families in town who have cooks, in both cases Chinese. In case of sickness or other necessity, the daughter of some neighbor. social equal, becomes q servant for the time being, for @ good round consideration. A Chinese is the best cook.
 '"The dominant sentiment of the coun- try is Southern. During the war, the county was much in a state little short of revolt. And there are some very lovely people here-women more par ticularly than men.
 "A trained nurse here Is an expensive luxury, but l infer that you do not need a trained one. take 1t for granted that in this respect you can be suited.
 T have written a whole book. be- cause l want to tell you all that occurs to me that may be useful to you If you should come here, you know with what pleasure I will often see you"
 MT. H. Y. Brooke, editor of The Crenshaw County Critic of LuveTne, was in Montgomery last night. He is en route to Atlanta to attend a meet ing of the Executive Committee of the Cotton Growers Association, of which he is a member.
 The condition of Mayor Thomas H. Carr who is ill at his home on South Court Street was reported yesterday as not being so favorable as it has been in the last week.
 Dr. Thomas M. Owen has returned from Birmingham where he went to att tend the bedside of his mother who is i'll.
 Mir. William T. Glover a prominent attorney of Butler, Choctaw County, was in Montgomery yesterday.
 Messrs. J. A. Mitchell and c. T. Brockway of Livingston are in the city.
 
 Mir. J. T. Thrasher of Dothan arrived in Montgomery last night.
 MT. J. o. Middleton of Clanton was in Montgomery yesterday.
 MT. c. E. Foster of Birmingham was in the city yesterday.
 Mir. c. s. Chapman of Hayneville Is a visitor to the city.
 MT, W. H. Daniel of Birmingham is in Montgomery.
 Mir. c. K. Abraham of Demopolis is in Montgomery.
 MT. Shell Toomer of Auburn is in Montgomery.
 Mir. J. A. Jenkins of Geneva is in Montgomery.
 Mir. M. A. Boyett of Andalusia Is at Clancey's.
 MT. w. c. Lee of Union Springs is in the city.