The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-30
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A Man Looked Up To. sCo1oneF A. Al. Powell is the name lof that giant drummer stopping at the New Exchange Hotel. He looks like an a eqlarged portrait of a typical Tex. Tex. stop and stare at his seven feet four inches. enhanced by high heeled shoes. Why Tni almost ashamed oI my Advertiser reporter, I'm the ,runf of our family. There were six brothers of us. and with our father we traveled seven giants. was was the smallest of that lot. and the biggest one was over eisht feet. Tom Thumb was With nm nm walls Of q room nine feet wide and can reach spot ten feet from the floor. Being tall is all right, but 1t
 Puliap 1n hsr9S a1S 1Sr s Sleeping car blankets are nll right for 2; little man Of; say. four feet seven inches, .at put Tour, well. when I travel l Just nave to sit up all the time When walk trolley ear with the trolley on, for my cord. When I go to tue theatre have to get an aisle seat. When l sieer must have an open footed iron ped or place two heds. side by side, so can sleep on the bias, or take my rest on the floor. In walking around Mont gomery feel like taking to the miodIe of the awnings or the limbs of trees. At my home In Fort Wayne. Indiana. l have all those little inconvcniences
 T get a lot of fun out of my strung outedness. though. When I'm trying to sell soda I tell 'em that it's the only brand ever used in our family and that It is to that cause that attribute my rise in this world. Then l tack few signs on the ceiling. tell the mer- chant how dusty his upper shelves are, and dodge the transom in leaving We long men should start a campaign to get business men to cut out the pieces across the tops of the doors to their Wholesale house to sell a biii Of goods. and start into the little private box where the genius of the concern Is start by having that little cross piece land me right in the Adams apple Then l have time liko that thing set my nFoss sreafS eSse ana m se soda Used to wear silk hat. but l quit that long time ago"
 Home Grown Peaches.
 A business man stepped in front or fruit store yesterday, where a nice lot ., of early peaches were on st, ga, sale; soa Not from California,
 'No, sir.' answerd the proprietor of the stand. Every peach l have ali of them from Montgomery or the near vicinity. The finest peaches. we get at any time, l believe, are no bet own State. The peaches this year are especially nice. and they bring good price. People buy them. because they are are geod. and because they know know the few sections in the country where peaches can be procured so early in the year, and none that l know Of as they do in this State. While the peaches from Alabama are always good. the. crop this spring, think. them at this time, they must be grown under special cultivation, and must be protected from the early frosts. If they were not nur.ured carefully they would not mature so early in the year."
 A Record Breaking Mortgage.
 While paper must be expensive iN Pike county. A mortgage was filed in the probate court of Montgomery coun- ty Tuesday by persons at Troy which would seem to bear out this conclu- sion. It was on piece of pa per about been acknowledged before a magis- trate on the form provided 1t could not have been legally recorded, for the law requires the probate judge to stamp on the mortgage the fact that the tax has been paid Had the ac- knowledgement been filled out this could not nave been 00Te .Wltnoul. tilating the document. which showed that Pike county nan mortgaged his mules to money lender. The mort gage was written on the smallest piece of paper ever recorded at the Mont gomery court house.
 Hon. R. NJ. Cunningham. candidate for Governor, reached Montgomery last night from SSylacauga, where he deliv- cred the commencement address at the Fourth District Agricultural School. He will leave this morning for Eufau- la, where he delivers an address at II o'clock this morning in the inter- est of his candidacy for overnor. pr. Cunningham is registered at the New Exchange.
 Mir. W. E. Striplin of Gadsden. ex- president of the Alabama Educational Association and Superintendent of the Gadsden schools, came to Montgomery last night from Gadsden. He will leave this morning for Brewton, to deliver the commencement address at the Brewton Institute.
 Messrs. F; H: Lathrop. W; 1T; Ket- formed a party of prominent bust ness men of Birmingham who spent yesterday in Montgomery.
 Hon. H. s. D. Mallory. of Selma, chairman Of the State Democratic Com mittee, is in Montgomery, to attend the annual meeting of the State Negro
 Hon. James Crook, of Jacksonville. is in the city. He is a candidate for Commissioner of Agriculture and has a large number of friends i'll all parts of the State.
 MT. w. F. Feagtn, secretary of the Board of Examiners of the State Edu- cation Department, Is In Clayton, at-T tending the sick bed of his sister.
 Hon. John w. CsyeFton, of wedowee, nominee for senator from Randolph and Chambers county, is in MontgSm- cry for few days.
 J.K. Dickson. of Talladega. who has been in Montgomery on legal business. returned home yesterday.
 Hon. J. J. willett and Hon. W. P. Acker of Anniston are in Montgom- cry.