The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-04
LOOK FOR LIGHTNER
GEORGIA OFFICERS ANXIOUS TO
 APPREHEgD HIM.
Alleged That He Has Deen Living In Terrell County with . Negress Whom he Claimed ss His
 Wife

Dothan, Feb. Especial. )--seorgia officers who have been here searching for one Lightner a young white man badly wanted by the authorities in the southeast part of that State. found that the fugutive had given them the slip here. but the deputies are hot on his trail still, and say they will land him within the next few days. He IS believed to have gone from here to the White Pond neighborhoCd. There IS said to be considerable feeling against Lightner in Terrell county. Georgia where for some time, it is alleged, he
 has been claiming a negress as his wife. and leaving in her care his own baby. Lightner, it is said. became indignant because cisfzens of that jugaI preferences. and on one or two occasions emphasized his feeling in the matter Ky displaying double-par- relied shotgun and threatening to use it He is wanted by the Georgia
 officers on more than one charge, but more particularly on the che named. and they express Il determination to nRb him before returning.
 Dothan Is half in darkness these nights. and 1t is expected that this .condition af affairs will continue for 1 a week or more, because of a burn
 cut in one of the big dynamcs at the electric lighting plant. Efforts are being made to repair the damage as
 rapidly as possible but in the mean while a long suffering public is wondering what will be the next thing to happen at the plant. Dothan 1 has never had good electric lights, and within the past few months the con ditfon of this important facility has grown continually worse. Often at night the iights aro shut off for hours at the time. and when they do burn at all, as a local paper puts 1t, "they | give glow which talicw cancie would feel utterly ashamed te claim
 as its own" The plant is owned oy the city, and tax payers freely ex- press a wish that if this be a fair example of minicipal ownership they wish to be delivered from that much
 vaunted method of conducting public utilities.
 Through carelessness or indifference many citizens neglected to pay their roll tax. Municipal and county i politics is not worry absorbing in in- l terest just at present. and the people l hereabout are devcting their time and
 attention to business. Tn this line
 Dothan is showing wonderful pro- gress and prosperity. Every day seems
 Saturday, when one notices tne cIowo- 1 cd condition of the streets. Merchants
 say that the great luIl in trade which almost invariably comes just after the IChristmas holidays has failed to put l fin its annua appearance this time, and lthat collections are holding up we'll 1 Everybody seems to have money, and | the five banks which are now doing business here show statements which prove this to be a fact. One of the banks among the five is the largest l In Southeast Alabama, having a capital
 stock of over half a million dollars. Rev. w. M. Anderson of St. Joseph
 Mo, recently called by the Baptist church as its pastor, has arrived and
 will preach his first sermon to his new
 charge tomorrow.
 | The Hatfield company has hands. R,
 L. Hatfield having disposed Of his controlling interest and moved 70
 Eufauia. Malone & Faulk are the new
 owners of the business.
 It is said that George H. Malone
 may announce as legislative can
 didate from Houston county. There is no question but that Mir. Malone
 would make a strong race, He is one
 of the leading business men and H. lnanciers of the State, having interests all over this section.
 Half a dozen local sportman went cunning yesterday, the hunt netting I25 doves on a very short while. The immediate vicinity of Dothan is some thing of a paradise for lovers of the gun and the dog, and birds are being
 killed by thousands.
 Volume 1, number I, of the Samson Ledger has made It's appearance. W. lT. Borland is editor and publisher, and the paper does credit to Dothan's enterprising little neighbor.