The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-05
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Fun on a street Car.

Fun on q Street Car.
 saw a funny thing on car going good I iaSgh % en ame freSa yeSeefSay of myine % sad @ well known Montgomerian.
 was riding on q trailer and notic- & ed In the motor car ahead. q friend ,S od community and an unsuccessful candl- date for>aldermanic honors in the last primary. beckoned him to come back and enjoy a cigar with me. At the first stop. he did so. and we were preparing ourselves for pleasant ride, when the conductor jostled us with his fare, conductor that he had paid in the for. ward car. Then back to the forward ear with you; said the scrupulous con son whenever change my seatT asked my friend. Nope replied the conductor, but you stay on the car you started on.
 Just then my friend saw the con, ductor of the motor car. HI, there!' he shouted, Didn't I pay youT Yep, with him. said the trailer conductor. Things we're mode worse by a man on the car, pulling out a note book and ny. The conductor became persistent, Finally a brilliant idea struck my friend. He boarded the front car and the conductor there gave him trans fer to the Pickett Springs line; He then returned. The conductor also re- turned. Fare please he said: Heres sn SSnded datf the lRva feliow the n transfer ] The conductor examined the slip. stuck 1t in his pocket and rang up transfer. We resumed our smoke"
 Influence of Newspapers. The statement is often made nova days that the supposed influence of the Paess Paper is man ya fhe ssa Statement is wholly without truth. The influence Of the newspaper grows daily; Modern pa than were the sheets of twenty years ago. In the olden times people read papers to find out the views cf the. edi- tor. of that paper. who was generaily ment. The editorial page was practi- cally the only live page in the paper, and the. editorials were practically all
 fine news columns of today have their influence and while all papers still endeayor to, maintain live and ness and influence are shared with the other departments. Take for instance in the olden days one heard of no peo- ple on a paper except the editorial Wri- ters. The Greelys, and Bennetts. the Wattersons and Danas were known to all, but nowadays the fame of the most pared with special writers and news writers. such as Ade, Dunne. Lewis, Creelman. Hawthorne, Bonsal, Curtis Wellman.. Davis. and many others; ,;soa the entire nation for woman, who at best may be classed as nothing but a prohigate. and who Is perhaps, 9 mua- hearing. and the Molineux case. were due to the news columns of papers,. That Park Commission. '"The action taken by the City Coun- ordinance or creating a Park Commission is a step. in the right direction, for | Nature intended 1t should be-" said a we'll known citizen yesterday FIve men are to constitute the Commission | and it shall be their duty to enhance | the natural beauty of Montgomery in
 SAeting Mayor .; P; M Mcintyre Int ,s ha, feel sure that he is in sympathy with srch a movement and that he will affiS | his signature to the ordinance at an
 r "In talking of the proposed Park | of Leslie L. Gilbert, Joseph Nachman Frank W. Jackson; and F F Glass ass l Commission. who are to be chosen bS the Council"
 Mir. H. H. Golson of The wetumpka | Herald was in Montgomery last night | en route to Abbeville, where he goes tc l attend the wetumpka- -Abbeviile debate
 Captain Richmond Pearson Hobsor l of Greensboro, has returned to hi: home after a day spent In Montgomery
 Mir. J. T. Ellison, a well knowr young lawyer of Centerville spent yes terday in Montgomery.
 Among the Birmingham men in tht city are R. c. Perrie, c. D. Gilliam, ana John H. Loveman.
 I
 Hon. H. S. D. Mallory of Selma. spen yesterday in Montgomery on legal bus | mess.
 Colonel Rolfe S. Sanders of Athens | Is spending a few days in Montgomery
 MT. W. Y. Lovelace, a prominent citi izen of Brewton is in the city.
 Postmaster P. n. Barker, of Mobile isIvisiting Montgomery.
 MT. Paul Menzel of cullman, is at thu | New Mabson.
 MT. J. H. Millat of Birmingham, is fl l Montgomery.