The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16

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 physician cor. Dauby) from Virginia and had every attention paid him by MT. Dexter and the family of Mir. Ev- ans.
 After this occurrence Dexter proceed ed to examine his purchase and was much flatered with it's advantages for town site. and its central position for court house when the county becams sub-divided.
 He communicated all his plans to me that we were to jointly use our influence in drawing all the traders to the place intended for the town which would necessarily draw tho trade to that point, except from those on the road near Line Creek. i advised him to visit J. c. Farley. Carpenter and Ear- ris, Laprade, traders. and pr. Morrow practicing physician, offer each lot gratuitous and proceed to lay off the town. @
 My then locality was an unenviable one. SO l removed my goods to James vickers who lived on the bluff above the intended town. Dexter soon ob- tained the service of a MT. Hall survey or. who laid off the town.
 As soon after this as ould have the center of the town pointed out to me, I selected my lot. which was privilege of first choice and to name the place which called New Philadclphia,-and the name was never changed until 1S19.
 I employed MT. Bell to build me a cabin--and in showing him where we found a post or black oak in the way of the ground sill, when I immediately seized an axe and fefled .t--rcmarking to Bell: This is the first tlee-future ages will tell the tale" The house was built and we'll dug close by, at the junction of Market and Pearl treets. Dexter, before could occupy it,wish- ing to place 1t upon a more elevated portion of the qua-ter section. employed Mir. John Blackwell to resurvey 1t, which he did, and took my first choice again, built another cabin and occupied it. After built the first and before occupied the last J. c. Farley had frame store house put up which was weatherboarded with clap boards, but never occupied until had completed and was doing business in my second tenement.
 Next came Carpenter and Harris, John Falconer. John Goldthwaite, Fades, Dr. Outlet, James Vickars', Squire Loftin, John Hewitt, Teague-the last five were merchandising. During this time the Scott and Bibb Company, as 1t was called. from Milledgeville in Georgia, had bought arsey of nnds and among others the fraction that was situated on the bluff between DexteF's and the river. for which they were to pay as I understood $50 per acre if so 1t ac- counts for their having tried to build town below the New Philadelphia, called Alabama to rival he former or possibly impede it's growth; ] ut 1t was no go as all tn etraders were in New Philadelphia with the solitary excep- tion of a man named Campbell, with 8 few goods, among a few private fam lies; they being his only customers, he soon abdicated for want of goods or patronage.
 The business of locating 8 ste for court house came and commissioners were appointed for that purpose. Pub lie opinion had given the court house to New Philadelphia, whose citizens generally wide awake to their interest. by way of inducement, entered into a bond of $2o,0o0. payable to the com missloners for the purpose of building court and jail, if they would locate the court house in the last mined town, on the hill where a public square had been laid off for that purpose. The bond was signed by Dexter, John Fall coner Harris and Carpentry and myself taking a mortgage of the lots around the square as an indemnity in case the proposition had been acceded to by the Commissioners.
 From some cause or other q will not say prejudice or interest,". Yankee Town as 1t was sometimes jailed. did not get the court house. but 1t was awarded to Alabama town. Up to the fall of 1919 no court house had been