The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-20
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| County sends the following to The Advertiser:
 .Bossie. dey done tole me you kin write printin on de merchine an I wants you to write some fur me-" said
 Uncle Alfred" Davis. one of the old sspann negroes. and after unwTapping ages and coiors handed me the follow ing. written in the familiar ehiregra- png or the late Colonel R. D. spann: so,b osSs gss born tns in sumStsr sstS lsss. One hundred and twenty years ago his ancestors were in the tmme- diate employ of my ancestors as faith time sa to tSe 'presn presens ahe shs successive @ generations have continued to live on the same terms of mutual regard. At the request of Alfred Davis hereby testify to the good character he has
 -, a' - "R. D. spann.
 June 2sth, 1884"
 darky d.; ;lect and with quaver In his voice. 'De ole boss done g2pe now an l want fur to keep dis paper long as % live an. bout to wear em out in my
 T copied the precious paper on 'de printin' merchine" and handed Uncle Alfred both original and copy. ] but would not offend him by asking for 1t. With many graceful expressions of | thanks accompanied with such courtly bows as only a spann darkie ark can ,Sdnass: make: If there is such thing as artstocraey among the negroes. these Spann dar- keys are the negro artstoerats or the county. Their peculiar South Carolina brogue, their universal good nature, accommodating ways, and their strik- ingly polished manners, mark them
 I remember passing through the old Spann plantation a few years since with the financial correspondent of life insurance company. inspecting cer,, wanted direction by a near cut" through the plantation and called one | of the old Spann darkeys who was at work near his cabin; He dropped his the road, and not satisfied with point ing out the way insisted on 'walkin' cross de branch" a matter Of half mile road. My friend was impressed with | these negroes and frequently spoke of them during the day and said surely there is no negro problem as far as | They live together on this big spann place almost like one big family and there are hundreds of them too. They if one of them gets in trouble they all chip in" to help him.
 One of them is the father of seven- teen legitimate children--one .mother- | . with him and work under him, and their obedience to and respect for him would be lesson for some white folks | knaw. Surely this is family after MT. Roosevelt's own heart.
 The love these people bear for the l living Spann's and their reverence for the memory e.g of the, the ests,, dead pnes ,,a IS tnot slaves) and their descendants to kind. humane masters and their descen- dants.
 Movements of DE. Gregory.
 Rev. o. F. Gregory, D. D., who re- signed some time ago as pastor of the Adams Street Baptist Church, but has psenaring m to remoye from nsN here Sas zone to Greeieyyilie, Williamsburg County, North Carolina, to hold meet ing and may be addressed there for the
 pr. Gregory will no doubt receive a warm welcome to this section of the Tarheei State as he served several churches in that section as pastor from
 The future plans of pr. Gregory have be engaged foh some time in evanse- l Baltimore until he has located perma- nently. Before leaving Montgomery he said that mall addressed to him at 4l4 North Broadway, Baltimore, would
 While here D,. Gregory preached three times at the First Church, at Highland Park and at his old church received and many persons stopped after the services to bid him farewell
 The Adams Street Church has not yet called pastor
 | Mfr. AppersOn Visitor.
 R. D. Apperson. president of the Montgomery Traction Company, reach ed Montgomery at II o'clock yesterday morning, coming here direct from his home in Lynchburg, Va. He will re- turn to Virginia this morning;
 ,ssrdas s4nocS AgRsrsSn %h aqd Manager W. H. Ragland and other of finials of the Traction Company and later they attended the baseball game, ton that the ball players have won the s1 900 which he offered on his last trip 1 here if the team should close the season 1 in as good as third place.
 There is nothing significant in the visit of MT. Apperson." said an official of the Traction Company; There is merely one of his periodical trips to
 Since he visited Montgomery last summer MT. Apperson has been in Europe on account of i'll health. He is greatly improved.
 Friends of Leon c. MeCord. private | secretary of the Supreme Court of Ala bama will be sorry to hear of his seri- l | in Albertville. Mr. MeCord was on his vacation when taken sick and his numerous acquaintances throughout the State are hoping that he will recover In time to be in his office when the November term of the Supreme Court opens.
 The new assistant observer to be at- tached to the local weather bureau, l Stanley S. Schworm, will arrive in | Montgomery today from Binghampton, N Y where he has been serving the | government in a similar capacity MT. 1 Schworn was named as the successor l of B. H. Duffy, who was recently In 1 the city until he was transferred to | Toledo, o.
 l pr. c. A Cary, professor of physio- | logy and veterinary science in the Ala bama Polytechnic Institute, arrived in Montgomery from Auburn last night. | MT Samuel c. Jones, son of Judge 1 Jones, returned home yesterday after l an extended visit to North Carolina.
 Messrs. c. E. whetstone and James Nunn, of Autaugaville, came to Mont gomery last night.
 Dr. Robert G. Patrick. president of