The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-03
SIDEWALK PENClLINGS
The cetto, License.

M& N8tt0U Ltcenscs | We Will in all likelihood employ counsel and make legal test Of the city ordinance which imposes a tax ol LIZ cents per bale on every bale oa eoUon stored in our warehouses. saio Montgomery cotton warehouse man yesterday. Tt is not just to make warenousenlen pay the tax on their personal cotton. although l do not blame the city offscials TOT trying to make the cotton rnen comply with the iaw, as 1t Is in the City Code. The orr dlnauce requires the tax. and we insist that It IS not right to burden us with T have a little cotton business and l have to pay five different taxes to car ry on my business I believe men in tnes cotton business are taxed ana H. censed more than tbose in any other line. I suppose there will be nothing else for us to do but to get together, courts.
 To Test Illuminating Gas. II hope at some future time to se- cure for the city an apparatus for test ing illuminating gas, said Mayor Ieague yesterday. MT Biakey, the City Electrician, has informed me that there Is such an apparatus on the mar ket. and am interested in 1t.
 II understand that 1t tests the quality Of Illuminating gas and probably also enables one to determine the compost ton of the gas. I am contemplating having Mir. Blakey investigate the use fulness and cost of such machine and. if practical may recommend the purchase or the apparatus to the Coun- cil.
 T have noticed that gas lights in Montgomery are good at times and that they are dim at times. do not know whether poor lights are caused from bad quality of Illuminating gas or from local conditions, such as wa~ ter in the gas pipes. Such an instru. n1ent will tell us where the trouble lies.s
 Atiantan Boosts Montgomery.
 Montgomery has the makin's' of the prettiest city Tn the South" said one of the most rabId of the Atlanta boost CTS yesterday We have our Peach tree Street and some others that are hard to beat, but there are few cities which have such a general average of good looking streets as Montgomery. All they need is the paving which I understand has been provided for and they will look as good as the best The width of the uptown streets is another asset worth mentioning. It's relief the curbing onto the step of street car as Is almost the case Tn most other cities"
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 North Alabama and the Fair.
 You Montgomery people said man from Madison County, may look for the Tennessee Valley folk at your fair in October They are talking about it now and they are coming in large par ties with their products to show of. Our section regards Montgomery not only as the center of our political life but as the capital of the agricultural Alabama. Farmers of the Tennessee Valley expect the Montgomery fair to be great success and they are taking a deep interest in it.
 This fair project IS the best thing the business people of Montgomery ever did and it will rebound to the credit Of the city in more ways than one"
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 News has been received in Montgom- cry of the second promotion of MT. the Panama Canal Zone. He will have been on the Isthmus twelve months on August 1S. Several months ago he was Chief Engineer J. c. Sullivan. with headuarters at Empire. The office of Rrixte S seeTetsry M hs 5a nov b. oeen Iad a5oi to fill the newly.created office of chief clerk to Mir. Sullivan. Mir. Sands Is a son of Mir. Charles D. Sands of Mont gomery.
 MT. J. ). C. Due, editor of The Silent Eye, published in Birmir gham. Is in the city on his way home from Atlantic week with other members of the Ala banla Press Assoeiation.
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 Dr. Thomas F. Taylor, physician at the Insane Hospital at Tuscaloosa, is visiting his brother, Benjamin A. Tay- Tor, in Montgomery.
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 Adtutant-General VI W. Brandon, candidate for. State Auditor, was in Montgomery last evening. Today he will be in Talladega.
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 MT. J. H. Carpenter, prominent manufacturer of Columbia, Tenn, is stopping at the New Exchange
 MT. J. W. Thompson of The Trades man, Chattanooga, Tenn, is stopping at the Imperial Hotel
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 Messrs. O. NJ StegaII and c. G. Rey- holds of Abbevflle are guests at the New Exchange.
 MT. E. H. Reynolds of Notasulga is registered at the New Mabson Hotel. < % $
 Mayor Henry A. Skeggs, Jr., of De- catur is at the New Exchange x % &
 Mir. D. s. Boyd of Auburn Is at the New Exchange.
 MT. E. NJ Marshall of Orrville Is in Montgomery.
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 Mir. A. L. Watts of Luverne is in Montgomery.
 MT. Frank Fitts Of Tuscaloosa is in the city.