The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-23

----v-------------------------- 200 acres paid for. It is worth s per are men all over Butler that that own ct ct much as roo acres of land. all paid for. 1 Very few lose their land after they once get it. One of my neighbors made seventy bales of cotton"
 Chaplain Penney urged the Import ance of the making of wills, property insurance and life insurance. pr. l Washington urged that when a mort gage is paid care should be taken to see that 1t Is properly satisfied on the
 Scott Bond. of Arkansas. said his l people got got aroused by the confer enee. He has two thousand one hun- dred acres of land and three stores, l etc. and no debts on any of this prop erty: The people near him formed a | stock company and bought a whole town and paid for 1t. They sold 1t out in ten and twenty. acre lots. He said they kept their schools open from six to nine months in the year. Scott Bond carries SS,000 life insurance in favor of his wife and has deeded three farms to her.
 said people in his part of the State were buying land. Six farms were bought and paid for since last NovCm- Der, averaging eighty acres each. Some | nave uiQHSV lkl bnS nhnhs
 T. Vines from Talladega County. said | they had bought much land In hts neiEhborhood lately. He owns 300 acres.
 l 72O acres of land had been bought near | him since the last conference. Several said the way to reduce the 1 cotton acreage was to raise more food. James Nicholson, of Monroe County i said there were Q large number of col ored people near him who had bouEht | land the last year. None have lost their land. They mortgage their crops and stock but net their land. They are run ming a school six months this year. ard I hope to run 1t nine months herafter. They have received nothing from the public funds yet. They have raised S350 in cash themselves
 | Immoral preachers cannot stay in our Community
 William Reed of Tuscaloosa, said he owned 27S acres OS land which he pal1 for himself. He. 2s years old. H ten mules. He did not mortgage his | crop last year. He first started at S5 per month under an ovorseer who worked hi mhard. After six months he bad $10 ger month and the next year s10 per month and a crop of five acres, worked in his employers time. Then bought one horse and raised another. | Then l bought a mule and rented S0 acres. At the end of three years I of hauling on the railroad and made | S900 in seven months" He paid $S an acre for his land.
 Rev. Peterson said he knew of a com pany in Tuscaloosa County that owned | 1 1,000 acres of land. all paid for. | A man from PicBens County reported 4,053 acres of land owned by 100 fani lies. They have cotton enough on hand to pay all their debts They have a town of their own, called Mamiesville | The ten Singleton Brothers are putting in steam plant. On Christmas Day my family presented me with suit of backs of my own sheep. The cloth was | woven by my girls and the suit made by them. My whole family Is dressed with cloth made in our own home. vice os his own make for controlling unruly cattle. also device for con trolling goats Ills name is J. N. Sani- fer. Ethelville, Pickens County, Ala bama. He wore the suit made by h1s girls to the conference and 1t was greatly admired by all. It afforded a striking object lesson to the entire con- ference.
 spoke of keeping the boys and girls ai home. He said we must have some | thing to interest them. 'I am In the land business hand and foot. Land is high in our community. Wo must have something to give our children when they are grown up, and don't want ! any young man to marry my girl who has not got something. have four rooms in my house. When our children | marry off we ought to have a horse ot | mule or COW to give them.
 l Mrs. Thompson said she did not know of more than one family in her com | munity living in a one-room house. Sha has two homes. She began by spin ming and weaving cloth for her own clothes and ploughed with an OK to get her home. She has educated two chil- | dren at her own expense.
 A man from Conecuh County sald tne people were improving their houses In | his district They have good sehool house. Their teacher is a carpenter and made the benches for the school
 John Thomas. of Union Springs salo the people of Bullock County were making great improvements in theiI homes. He said, the white people
 were building better houses for then tenants One planter, alone, bought
 $1,900 worth of lumber to build Dettel
 houses for tenants
 John Jones of Lowndes County, said
 the continuance of the one room cabir
 was due, largely, to the fact that th'
 colored man does not ask for bettel
 house He thought there was a mucl
 Mrs. Nelson. of Tallapoosa County
 said, T am building a two-room house
 for myself. I had one room before
 and have added two rooms. It |
 weather boarded and comfortable.
 am a widow"
 Thomas Green. of South Carolina
 said some of his neighbors were buy
 ing land and improving their homes
 But few live fin one room cabins. Th'
 interest In education is not what |
 ought to be. The people depend to'
 much on the public funds.
 H. A. Carlisle said one of his neigh
 bors in Chambers County has 900 acre
 of land with steam gln and gris
 mill.
 The psopla are buying land anl
 building bettsg houses. l can tell Q