The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-01
ANDALUSIA CONTINUES
 TO KEEP APACE WITH TIMES

l usual growth of this puandan coun- | try town was imperfectly but sincerely l reflected in those published letters An earnest effort, which may or may ] not have been successful was made to | describe the impression of the town development made upon a visitor no matter how slight his interest might | have been.
 Coming back, on other business. when eighteen months had elapsed, one | felt a naturable curiosity to learn it Andalusia had broken step in the rap i'd march she had set for herself There was an unrebuked wonder to l learn if there had been halt or hin- , drance in her advance. There was none. Her step forward was as firm and as rapid as it had ever been. There hae "'e- no delay. no halt by the way fA
 s44F pace had been accelerated, he; movements had been greater. It has already been set down that the little city claims 4,000 inhabitants. This encouraging statement is ac- companied bv the positive declaration that In the past fifteen months more than GG T5s oat haye Sesn Ss visitor can see that the Andalusia homes have rapidly increased In num- bers and he can appreciate, too, the OI some OI the new houses, which would be decorative of some of the residential streets of Alabama's largest cities.
 The handsome new Masonic Temple, pressed brick is an achievement of the past eighteen months Any town. as Andalusia is, might we'll be proud Of such monument of progress, and if that is a course for pride in Anda- lusia. no less so Is the beautiful opera, house, an ornament that came to Ans dalusia within the past eighteen months
 AndaIusin's Fine Theatre.
 It Is Andalusia's bost that outside of the big cities of the State there IS no finer opera house in Alabama The bost is we'll founded for the building, pressed brick structure, is three stories in height and built In accordance with the most modern plans and ideals.
 In the same period the new city hall ana the new city prison have gone up, the two being combined in one iri- pressive building, of which any little eity might we'll be proud. J. W. s,nreve s, IS erecting a two story addi- his buggies and his harness. j. B Shreve has built a spacious ware- house of brick and corrugated iron. s,ohi. E Henderson is putting up big staple or pressed brick for his grow ing business. O. L. Benson has built a handsome two story building. and the Andalusia Ice and Bottline Works nave completed a modern structure for the accommodation of its business Tn addition to all these fmprovemenfs an Andalusia man figured out today that Tn the same period of eighteen roonths no less than twelve stores of hricts nave been finished and opened for business in the past tyelve months 10 say. nothing of the extensive addf' lions being made to the large store property of the sessoms Grocery Com
 The Methodist Church, a beaut,tp, structure, has just been paid for, anj work has been inaugurated on the new Baptist Church. which, It Is proposed. shall cost S25.000.
 The Presbyterians have begun a movement for the building of a house of worship which Is to cost not less than s 900.
 And all this within a period of eigh- teen months. How Is that for a place which was only village of 500 people six years ago. And this is the way the Wiregrass grows. Andalusia shows how it is doEe
 Not Committed To Negro.
 Tn the WireRrass the white man has not committed the country to the negro. He has not passed over the