The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-18
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2 Geasipn ef Publishers. Of the men who attraeted ~. a issnt taanI G Palmer, the able young IspressatsiSivs e of the Heaston Post. ,,a,s He os .ooa ,1ks sds. yoanss'ebp boys e pockets of marbles and fish hooks xr
 He was called out by President aemp nsu wore times than any other nsu as inc Chicago News was talking he wss an attention and propounded dnessht"n9t hast that brought out some Of the pss'
 It 1s deubtfui if any guest st the ssif more shas s &eyerner ysIfs. wa9 re sRTsSSdsd TSs so toast to in TAls9sma A,aSama more thorcu8hiy saturated with wna, known In the business as the hews paper germ" than the able young uor sditer and puhiisher of the EafaulA Times and his purgent editorial, para gfaph9 gave that newspaper ST. newspaper, too. and under his direetfen 1t was an influential journal .oa .s
 The Govern2r has been h,,,dn du0,eta st the ssoss sssss er ss ss as ssisf ts to De the editor of good Aiaoa p'''
 AmcnSs sse visitors attracted to Ssnssss M9si wss syelsn s ne HRarps City Editor of the Atlanta cens.'trs tsa tion and nowr a, special agent ol sns southern Bell Telephone ana feiesrspn
 MT. Harris is newspaper man by birth. rearing and environmenti ns is 9 son ef Joel Chandler asrr1sf' nf 'Gse Georgia who was many years an editoIial ns cf CT of The ConstftutioH. Three sons ol Joel Chandler Harris became neMsgi xarris is is now city Editor of the constitution and younger brother serves thde he"" paper as rsporter.
 Ideal Csnvention City,
 member of the Southern NewspapSa Publishers Association, who had oesh in attendance at the fourth annual co1t c1t. city, gave hts opinion of Montgomery as a Convention city while waiting Tor nis train at the Union Station yesteraas
 ''Mont somery Is the ideal convention city, he said. ~and I heartily am gIao that it was selected for our meetms this year. Not only has our meetms lavish hospitality shown us here mas made our stay one of the most pleasant of nay life. :.
 T have been greatly int interested I;ass ssn ,n fore coming. of course, l had heard o5 the 191e movement, and of the rapfd rise the city has made during the iast year. But l had no idea of the extens to which the forward movement nao gone until made this trip.
 The las time was ln MontsomeIy tsers wsss sa few aS to build ings. and the city generally was sWo decades behind the modern up,to-aa,e city. But today, find paved. wen. kept streets, handsome buildings, and everywhere an air of prosperity ana hustle The attitude of Montgomerians toward visiting bodies, and the warmtn with which they entertain them them ma maAes es town who visit the place Everyone of the members of the Publishers As sociation who was here, has left witn the convention was held in Montgom- cry.
 ChIidren en Streets.
 Tt is a matter for congratulatien for the citizens of Montgomery" said a prominent man of the city last evening, ''that there are so few children seen playing on the streets at night.
 "I have just returned from visit to a city in the North, where the people are agitatfng the matter of introducing curfew law. In that place. and m many of the Northern cities of the nrst and second class. this topic has become a question of great importance. Tn the place I visited, 1t was no uneom- mon thing to see children, both boys than eight or ten years of age. running about the streets as late as 10 or II o'clock at night. We don't find that practice here. and l think one 9d me ae Montgomery is the fact that the ehil- dren are Kept of of the streets after an early hour of the evening.
 "A curfew law is good thing, put the evidence of the need for such law is bad sign. It Is seldom indeed, that we see small children running about the streets of Montgomery after dark ark daylight furnish sufficient time for them to play, and Montgomery will grow better class of citizens for the coming generation if the parents of the city watch closely over the whereabouts of their boys and girls as they do now.
 Hon. John D, Burnett, g prominent banker of Evergreen. who has been in Montgomery since Tuesday night, ac- companied by his daughters, Misses Mary V. and Daisy M Burnett, returned to Evergreen with them last night
 MT Judge S. Williams. prominent young lawyer of Clayton and nominee from Barbour County to the House of Representatives. came to town last night.
 Hon. Alfred M. Tunstali of Greens boro, Speaker of the House of Repre- sentatives. is in the city Dr. J. Heustis Jones, physician of Camden, Is in the city.
 Mir. R. F. Hall of Uniontown was in Montgomery last night.
 Mir F. P. Nichols of Roanoke is in Montgomery.
 Mir W. L. Wild of Evergreen is visit ing the city.
 Mir. L. S. Metzger of Mobile is in | town
 Mir. J. F. Johnston of Sheffield Is in | town.
 1 MF. Conner and C0tton. | Talledega Mountain Home. MT Conner says as a cotton manufac- | turer he might think cotton at five l cents a pound would be fair price, but