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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-30
PARADOX IN TEAM AVERAGES FIGURES SHOW FALLING OFF Batting and Playing of Montgomery Nine, How
 ever, is More Consistent and Outlook
 Better Than for Some Time.

Notwithstanding the fact that there Is an almost imperceptibie falling of in both the team batting and fielding this morning the aspect of things in Mulianey's camp looks more encourag- ing right now than 1t has for some time past
 sc |hs team Satt9g ss a.t %ssR aaa while 1t seems almost paradoxical, yet the batting right now is. heavier and more consistent than 1t has been for played during the week ending July quite eight a game During the week s in the s'3seo ve sa%es, exactly 's nie s game
 The sudden return to their old bat ting form was not the only gratifying fSnange Sast Week k Fer wSek tSe Ve James endns July 21. twelve runs were scored. This was barely over two game. and the team was sluggish and iifeless all that twenty-five runs were scored. five a game. and during the latter part Of the week the team more nearly resem- they have in a month.
 How to account for this. is one Of those things that are mystifying. Yet imbued with confidence and ginger. % and instead of playing desultory kind of game. they are working for the sue cess of the team as whole. and re- suits are telling.
 Mike McCann leads the individual batting with an average of 1908. He had eight hits in the five games. and three of them were two-baggers. Sam Aapperious is second. with an average ofI -297. raise of eleven points. and he also had eight hits in the five games. one of them a two-bagger. Mullaneyl IS third, with five hits in the five games and McAleese fourth with four hits in three games. The most de- Iightfui features of last weeks games was the team work in general, espe-I cially the base-running of Sam Appe- rious and Clayton Perry, Apperiousl having four and Perry three stolen
 Mullaney stili leads the fieIding with nine errors in S10 chances, for the sea- son, flfty-four of them assists from first base McAleese has eight errors fin BPS chances In 425 chances, Bill Hausen has fourteen errors. but a num- Der of his games have been played at first and second He is playing second now, and Is working like 8 Trojan. In 255 chances, Perry has nineteen errors, and Is playing an unusually fast game. Kid Busch has 42S chances and thirty-eight errors, and Is playing the fastest shortstop and covering more ground than has eyer been seen In Montgomery Houtz, Apperious and and the throwing of one of them is a feature of every game
 Maxwell still leads the box staff but his game of last week was not a trucl index of his work. Still he won. Not
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-30
GARDNER LEADS
INDIVIDUAL RAFTING IN COTTON
 STATES.
Only Three ken Hitting 300 Who Have Played in 60 Games, Results of a Better State of Pitchers Mobile Third fin Both Team
 BaftiMg and Team
 EIeldlnx.
From n. c. scarbrongb.

From IT. G. ScareFOuKb. cial1meeurtis Memeuii oardner. % former southern league player. who wore uniforms ID Montgomery and other cities, IS ieao- ing the Cotton States league batters and bids fair to retain the title of king bee batter among the regular players. Gar liner has plucked S6 hits. totaling 103 bases during his 6S games and has stolen 17 bases.
 woodruff, nephew or Manager Harry Vaughan of Birmingham aud brother of Orville Woodruff, Is second on the list of Cotton Pickers with an average of .317. Ace Stewart, Jackson'S man ager Is third on the list of regulars with a per centage of .Sos for S2 games
 Dusty Miller. who was always prom mont as a hitter during his connection with the Southern League smashed at a .237 clip for eleven games he has played in as manager and out fielder of the Mobile Club. Not including the few players who. have played in put a few games and who appear at the top of the batting list, there have been but three batters smashing at better than a 300 clip this. season in the Cotton States and critics who have followed the games explain this by the claim that the pitchers are better, talk en collectively. than the batters.
 Jeftries of Jackson leads the base stealers with S2 purloined, closely ppr- sued by Wagner of Mobile and Bob TarIeton who finished the season in 1905 as a member of Birmingham 8 team.
 Cav Sample, former Nashville and Shreveport all round player is lead ing the catchers in the Cotton States. Pete Lyons is leading tho first base-- man, Wee Willie Prout the second baseman. Murch the third baseman, Hoffman the short stops and ThomD- son the outfielders
 The Jackson team leads in team field ing and team hitting, respectively with averages of .94S and 255.
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-30
TO THE PUBLIC.

 We beg to announce to our friends and she public that the firms now doing real eatgte and insurance business of Henry C. Davidson and Holt & Strauss will consoli- date on August list. under the name of Davidson, Holt & Strauss. and their office will be at No. 113 Montgo9tery Street. Individually and collectively we desire to express our sincere appreciation to our many patrons who have so kindly entrust- cd their patronage to us. thereby assisting us in building up and maintaining xhe two leading insurance and real estate agencies in the city
 fourteen of the worlds leading fire insur- ance companies thereby giving us the best facilities to handle all classes of busi- ness in this line and our successful record N surely evidence that We understand our businssa. and sell to the public Insurance The buying. ceiling, exchanging and rsnt- ing real estate. will also he a leading branch of our business well as Life, Accident and Plate Glass Insurance and unusual splendid facilities for negotiating loanR
 we respectfully solicit the continuance of your patronage, assuring you that any and all business entrusted to us. will re- 0sfve our prompt personal attention.
 Very truly yours.
 HENRY (. DAVIDSON,
 N. BENTON HOLT.
 LEOPOLD STRAUSS
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-30
TWO ARDS ARRESTED.
Brothers Charged With Disturbing
 Peace and Other Things.

Having split quart of malt whis- key on Saturday night oIin and Oscar Ard. brothers. late Saturday night end ed their spree in the city lookup. Mean while the police say they had fractured the peace and dignity of the law in several places
 They went to the home of Mrs, Mo Cloud at SOP May Street where they board They cursed Mrs. McCloud and her daughters, the latter say, and 1t is charged slapped one of them. It is also charge that one of the men had a knife in his hand. though he did not use 1t.
 Earlier in the evening the pair had met Charles Miller on the street and though he was an entire stranger to them. he reports they cursed him also Both Mrs. McCloud and Miller swore out warrants for the men.
 When mounted officers Prendergrass and Murrell went after them, the Ards fled and it took a good chase to over haul them. They were locked up and will be before the Recorder this after noon.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-30

five hits a game have been made off Malarky while he has been giving less than two bases on balls game, and has struck out five game. A fraction made feV off Walsb fs wh,5e sih he has riven e bit over two bases on balls a game and struck out five game. In his two games, one when he relieved Malarky and that was lost when he went in, a fraction over three hits a game have been made or Tribble. He has given three bases on balls and struck out four men in the two games. and won the only game In which he started, he and Walsh being tied in per centage Of games won. About seven hits a game have been made off Breitenstein while he has given two bases on balls and struck out twenty-tw men in the four teen games.
 The batting. fielding and pitching averages for the games, including Sat-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-30
BIDS WANTED.

Bids will be received at oface of County Engineer until ?. rn-. Wednesday, August 1st. for grading road 60 feet wide from Lower Wetump- ka Road to the Southeast corner of Alabama Agricultural Association grounds. a distance of $500 feet: the road to be graveled for a width of 30 feet and depth of inches Contract or to furnish clay gravel acceptable to County Engineer.
 Separate bids will also be received until the same hour for grading 3 thirty foot road from southeast corner of Alabama Agricultural Association grounds to the Upper Wetumpka Road. For full particulars, specifications, proffies, etc, apply to County Engineer.
 J. T. Bullen,
 County Engineer.
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-30
Mechanics Wanted
To Our Friends.

We wish to announce to our friends and the public that on or about October first. we win open store in tho New Exchange Hotel Building. (next to the cafeb under the firm name of Simon Bros. We will handle an exclusive line of Gentleman's furnish 3nas ana hats. Our store will be known as the "store of Quality" and we we'll adhere strictly to the policy of carrying only such goods as will merit the confidence and sat- tHfactton of our patrons We will q preciate your patronage and assure you of our best efforts to serve you well at all times.
 Respectfully.
 IKE H SIMON
 GUSTAVE SIMON
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-30
LESSER WILL INVESTIGATE.
Prominent German of Birmingham
 Leaves for L0ekhart Camp.

Birmingham. July 2s. s.-(Special )- Dmil Lesser. president of the Ger man Immigration Association left here today for Pensacola and Lockhart for the purpose of investigating reports of istreatment of German lnmlgran%s Of Alabama
 The reports emanating from Pensa- cola were to the effect that the Ger mYan vice-consul at that point had hEen appealed to by German immi- grants who said they had been treated worse than slaves by lumber company at Lockhart.
 Governor Jelks has promised that the state would also investigate the conditions.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-30
ALABAMA BONDS. At ros s--c. and interest, subject to prior Sale.
 { Central Trust Company of Mobile.
 Mobile, Ala.
LIGHTNING PLAYS HAVOC.
Farmer At Fayetteville Killed and Wife
 Badly Shocked.

syIacauga, July 29.-News was re- ceived here last night of the killing by lightning of Joe Phillips at Fay etteville, ten miles south west of here,
 The wife of Phillips was badly shocked and fears are entertained for her recovery.
 A little infant son of MT. and Mrs Gus Hosey, who was at the Phillips residence at the time of lightning stroke was so badly shocked and burned that 1t is not thought that 1t can possibly live but a short while.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-30
American Learne

St. Louis, July 29-A batting rally in the eighth inning when Tennehiil was driven from the box before any outs were made won today's game for St Louis. 8 to S.
 St Louis .. 900 1o2 o5x- Is 5
 Batteries: Howell. Jacobson and Spencer; Tennehfll. Young and Arm bruster. Time, 2:36. Umpire. Hurst
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-30

Home runs. Apperious. 8: McCann. I Mullanev, l: Perry. 1. Three base hits 3: Apperiouss 2; McAleese. I Perry, I; Mul1aney. l. Two base hits. Mullaney is; Apperious. IS; Mccann, i2; Hontz II: Hausen. 9; Perry. 2. Busch, 2 Me Tribble, 1. Stolen bases, Houtz, 24, Apperious. IS; Hausen, 13; Perry, i3; McCann. g: McAieese, 6: Busch, 6; Null Hausen, g: Perry, 8; Apperious, 6 Mo. Cam, 8; Mullaney. 2: Walsh, 2; Houtz l; Maxwell. l. Ma1arky,. 1.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-30

Now for duplicate of that glorious finish of last summer. After these bers are at home, Atlanta pA1ying three at Athletic Park Then they play three in Nashville and come home again for six games, Birping- ic Park Then the Climbers play three games in Atlanta and then start
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-30

Summary-StoIen basesy NobIett. Sacrifice hits, Brouthers. Hickey, Bret enstein. Struck out, by Manuel, by Brady, 5. Bases on balls. by Manuel, 8; by Brady, 0. Passed ball, Douglass, i. Left on bases, New Orleans, 3; Lit tie Rock, B. First base on errors. New Umpire, Rudderham.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-30
Bnton Rouge Trims Leaders.

Mobile, July 29.-(SpeciaL )-Baton Rouge won out from Meridian this af- ternoon in the ninth inning. The score was a tie until the last half Tarleton laced a two-sacked, advanced on sacrifice and scored on a passed ball. Baton Rouge -......... ...-.5 Meridian .. .. .............2 8 ]
 Batteries-Giddens and Guntier. Py- lant and Sample.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-30

coupled with Walsh's effective pitching gave Chicago the second game of the series with Washington here today Washington .010 900 1O1x .
 Batteries: Walsh and Sullivan; Smith and Wakefield Time. I:46. Um~ pire, OLoughlin.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-30

Poor old Trimmer don't seem to be able to win for losing-and if they a run looks like Pelicans shut them out again yesterday.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-30

The Climbers leave this. morning for Birmingham. where they play three games Null and his bunch are in excellent shape now and the three games promise to be warm proposi- tionS.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-30
NEW ORLEANS WINS
LITTLE ROCK DEFEATED IN CLOSE
 CONTEST.
Game Was Tied Until the Eighth In- ming when O'Brien Scored One
 Iy Run On Morie Manuel's

New Orleans, July 29.--New Orleans took a one to nothing game from Lit tie Rock today when Pitcher Manuel with line drive in the eighth inning scored o'Brien with the only run of
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-30
OLD 0TE STILL GOOD
sTOCKDALE AGAIN WENT EXTRA
 INNING ROUTE.
The Old Grey Fox and Hs.kmnm Efave Finr Rattle at Memphis, Each
 Side Scoring Three Rams.

Memphis, July 29.--For eleven in nings Shreveport and Memphis bat tied hard for today's game, but dark ness ended the contest w%h three runs to each team. After the second in-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-30

Memphis .U3U UUU UUU VU--a
 summary-Two base hits. Hurlburt. Owens. Three base hits. Powell. Nicholls. Stolen bases. Thiel, Owens. man q. Struck out by Hickman g., by Stockdale g. Hit by pitcher. Ma deau. Wild pitch, Hickman. Sacrifice hits, Kennedy, Suggs. Double plays. Kennedy to Hess. Time. 2:s0. Um-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-30

John Malarkyy will probably work today and he will come pretty near winning out.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-30
! MaIarky,
 Fielding.

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 on August 1s the last trip West. On that trip they play twelve games, three in New Orleans, three in Little EEock, ESsa three in Memphis and three in Shreveport. snse ..h,os,. on September sra they sissisht ssnss % with ark tha iOs Magtssn sasstssn clubs. the PelicAns opening first and ntayinT pasy fanr games, 2 Memphis shrevc- Of these games viii be double h1aders @ -.postponed--so that something like twenty games will be played and from the the. zane the Climbers are playing year.
 If the Climbers could hear the roofing that will be done at HigEin's matinee this afternoon they would work harder than ever. Every fan in these Birmingham games-and the Climbers will not disappoint them,
 Mobile has twenty-one games vet to play on its home grounds, with pos siiDiy three postponed games. and only ease of Meridian. however, the Fcondi- tions are just reversed. Meridian has py pnly eighteen games scheduled for the from home, with two postponed games at Baton Rouge, making a total of twenty-three games yet to be played on the road
 In the manner in which these games occur, too, Mobile has all the advant- age. Meridian plays three at homo with six away from home: three at nome, nine away from home; six at nome, three away from home; three at home, three away from home; closes the season at home with a series of three games With only break of three games at home. Meridian has fifteen straights scheduled for the road.
 Mobile plays three at home, then three on the road: three at home, three on the road; three at home three on the road: three at home, nine on the road; closes the season with nine straight games at home That last bunch of nine games at Mobile, with Meridian jumping like a shuttlecock around the circuit, Is where Mobiles immense advantage will he seen
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-30

Pretty hard nRht over In Memphis. Mobiles finish promises to be as as that of the Climbers,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-30
A FEW FOUL TIPS.

Good luck. boys.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-25

Three weeks from today the Christ mas edition of The Advertiser will be sent out.
 That 1t will be the most superb newspaper, from all points of view ever issued in the South. is already an assured fact.
 Already many of the business men of MontGomery and Alabama have been quick to see the splendid advantages of this big paper, as general publicity medium. and have arranged for gener- ous representation.
 Two car loads of fine quality news paper will be used for this edition Specially good ink will be used, great care will be taken with the press work all of which means the best printed newspaper the South has ever seen.
 In addition to The Advertisers reg ular Sunday circulation, which now exceeds 17,5oO copies, more than 12.5OG extra copies of the Christmas edition will be disposed of to representative people in Montgomery and the territory tributary to Montgomery. This will give the Christmas edition a guaran- teed net paid circulation of exceeding SO,000 copies. and, figuring on the usu- ally accepted basis of five readers tt each paper. means that this great news paper will have more than l5O,0Ot readers
 The wide circulation this issue vii. have means a magnificent advertise
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-25

number of The American Magazine Science Is pale and blue nosed, with d pointer in her hand, and chalk dust in her hair" St. Skinhint is ''the straight laceds weazen faced god of BusIness.'' Santa Claus is about '.forty-two in gfrth, about thirty-eight chest meas ure, about i've feet ten-maybe Uncle Jimmy, who clerks in the store on Main street. Following fs a para- graph from the talk:
 Santa Claus whom Science cast of as myth, and Business sneered at as mad man. is the herald of q Kingdom coming. For men have not grown to evolution of man stiIl continues. The evolution of main still continues. The spiritual growth men have witnessed since the dawn of time has not stopped. And the joy that follows giving which men know for an hour or a day or a week or a month, at Christmas time, some day the whole race must know for thousand years and a day. The desire to make others happy by self sacrifice is big in men. When Christ man spirit releases it, the desire runs wild, like an unhoused schoolboy. There must have been a time in che world when every other god human instinct was caged by custom the year round and unleashed upon a holiday. There was a time when religion meant piety on Sunday and meanneDs six other days Hence the fanaticism of the church in the days of the Inquisition, hence the mad zeal of the witch -baiting Puritans, hence the bigotry of defenders of the faith in the middle ages There must have been time when men vaguely felt the call of virtue in their hearts: and then after many foolish fast days, after centuries of excesses of sack cloth and ashes, and after ages of flag citation, virtue rose and took real part in human life"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-25
A SUPERB NEWSPAPER
 FROM EVERY VIEW POINT
The Christmas Advertiser, to Re Issued Dec. 18th Will Be the Greatest Newspaper Ever
 Printed in the South.

ment for Montgomery and Alabama and 1t is The Advertisers earnest wish that every business institution in Montgom- cry and Alabama shall be represented in this issue, either by a large display advertisement or an illustrated write up. The greater the volume of adver- tising the more perfect will be Mont gomery's and Alabama's showing, SC The Advertiser feels that all our busi- ness men will take great pride in aid ing the management in bringing out ar issue that will reflect great credit or this city and State.
 The art and engraving departments of The Advertiser are busy with work for this great paper, and 1t is safe tc assert that the advertisements which will appear in this issue will be incOm- parable.
 There will be nine days for Christ. mas shoppers after the big issue zoe; to the public. Merchants with holiday goods will readily see the advantage oI using liberal space for their holiday store news. Early copy insures the best positions and most attractive ty- geographical effect
 Business men who have not already arranged for representation should dc so as early as possible.
 The Advertising Department, the Art Department and the Engraving plant are at the public's service
 Representative of the Advertisine Department sent anywhere for busi- ness.
 Write. wire or telephone Ss7.-adv.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-25
The Railroads and the People.

bdlIulOI6 sun.
 An address by Mir. Samuel Spencer. president of the Southern Railway Company, upon The Relations of the Railroads and the People" recently de- livered before the Alabama Agricult- ural Association. is an able and inter esting discussion of a timely subject. Mir. Spencer's successful administration of great railroad system entities him to most respectful hearing when he speaks. The interests of the railroad and of it's patrons. he said. are identi- cal. One cannot prosper without the other. The railroad must do justice to the people. The people must do justice to the railroad. The railroads cannot prosper unless they foster trafic. The people cannot prosper unless agencies are provided for carrying the products of their industry to market. Mir. Spen- cer contends that the present prosper ity of the South shows that the trans portation companies of that section have not been derelict, but have done their part. Within fifteen years, he said. the cash value of the cotton crop of the South has doubled. the pro- duction of coal has invreased threefoId
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-25

dinner given Wednesday evening in honor of Lieutenant Governor elect | Henry B. Gray, of Birmingham, by Mir. and Mrs, James Gibboney
 Miss Irene King is spending today with her sister. Mrs. J. E. Gregory, at Mount Meigs. Miss Carrie Williams has gone to Union Springs to visit Miss Maggie Mabson.
 Mrs. Hervey ", Laird has gone to Birmingham to visit her mother, Mrs. l Cassady. l Miss Maggie Patterson, of Columbus, Ga. is visiting Mir. and Mrs. w. c. Pat terson at their home, Clayton Park.
 Miss Claude Law and Miss Dean, from Gainesville, Ga, are visiting Mir. and Mrs. ". F. Law, 73o South Court street.
 Mrs Ricketts and daughters, Miss Elizabeth Ricketts and Mrs. Walker, of Maplesville, have come to Montgomery | to make their home and have taken the residence, 7O7 South MoDonough street.
 Miss Minnie Giote of Montevallo is | spending today with Mrs. Frank G Browder at her home, SIP Highland Avenue.
 Miss Lola Tate of Washington IS the guest of her cousins, Mir and Mrs. W. J. Drum at their home on Monroe street. 1 The friends of Miss Ruth Beale will regret to learn that she has been i'll for the past two weeks at the home of her mother on Jefferson Davis Ave- nue.
 Mrs. Judson l.. Burke has returned to her home in Corona, Walker county, after a visit to MT. and Mrs. George T. Burke, parents of MT. Burke. She | was accompanied home by Hiss Mary Burke, who will spend some time with her
 Mrs. Henry Crommelin, Mrs. Terry Richardson and little son, Henry | Crommelin, have gone to Demopolis to see Mrs. George w. Taylor. | Little Lucie Crommelin Ward is out again after an accident with the city cart. much to the delight of her many friends
 Miss Mary Trentham has returned | run <AAAdAht@ ANAN ''' ''''' NNS'a spending some time & |2 Te l Mrs. I. H. DeWees has returned
 $ E & Mrs James Rushing of Td,lassee Is i the guest of Mrs. Homer LeGrand Ss N Ss
 Mrs. J. H. Winter has returned from Macon. Ga, where she has been visiting friends. Ss & 3s
 Mrs Philip Baum has returned from | a visit to Birmingham.
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 The friends of Miss Alma Jansen will be sorry to learn that she is ill at her home on North Hull street.
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 Mir and Mrs Fred West have moved into their new home. No. 4 Hammer Street # % $ A prety affair of the past week was | the linen show which Mrs. E. c. Fowler gave yesterday afternoon wheE l she eompIimented Miss Mabel Higgene,