The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-13
.SideDalk Penciiings
Eneet af prnhIbition.

Effect of ProhIbition. "If prohibition carries in Montgom- cry County" said the Experienced Per, Ito see the city levy per capita tax 1 to make up for the large loss there will be to the. city from the withdraw al of whiskey>and beer licenses. The city will. be compelled to do some I thing to offset this large decrease in It's revenue and it seems to me the in- | dividual will be the first one to re- | s5 year. Something will have to De done to keep the city government go- ing.
 our cities. recall distinctly how rig | idly 1t is enforced in Meridian, Miss, | where there is tax of $5 per head on aa a1i males males between the ages of ls and weeks before they had. looked me up and demanded my tax. I protested but 1t did me 10 good I either had to pay or work ten days for the city
 Tn Meridian they have a city tax assessor just like we have our county assessor, and his principal business tax: He, noses around all the time looking for persons who are liable to the fee and he also makes house to house canvass to ascertain the names of all males who shall pay. The tax collector doesn't worry with collect ing this money, but each patroIman Ia required to collect the taxes from the persons in his beat or ward. and if they don't come across they are taken up for chaingang service. With some of us it would come a little hard to pay such an snnual tax" Immensity of Paving Work. We hear of paving ordinances in the Councils meetings and we see the WiiiopYs.Wallopus sedately rolling along ns.,ih this ,s. or that street but few of ing is being done" said prominent of the. City Engineer Is made public have been done to make Montgomery streets straight and smooth.
 rne p3aying ls done under the airsot rn Inspector and he Is busy all the time. Contracts are in force all over the city, Here there is grading, there paving of sidewalks, here again the paving of roadways. It amounts to whole lot of labor and much money, and in my opinion 1t is one of the biggest works being done for advancing Montscrn- ery's interests.
 are striving for paving, whereas the citizens of other towns are opposing It. People here realize that 1t is not so much 8 tax as an Investment: They their property far more than 1t costs. I regard paving as the making of city and rot the making of a city as preliminary to paving"
 Did You Evers
 A story is being told on a member of the bar here, who has lately become a benedict, to the effect thst he was 1 son1e friends at the club, and as the rules of the club prohibit playing after t2 o'clock, and the aforesaid benedict being loser; he invited the crowd 10 ing that he was the. King" at his house. and that verything he. did and said went. The crowd agreed to the of the King" lie still insisted that he was the King" in tones loud enough to be heard up stairs. But an- other Richmond appeared upon the vitation to go to the den, where they would find everything in readiness for the continuing of the game but that they would have to play minus the fifth stairs to bed. whereupon MT. King was led off meekly expostulating and expressing his regrets.
 Arranging for Fair.
 "I wish you would state that all ex- hlbitors at the fair should meet me at Vandiver Park Monday morning to ar range for their space and gSts things 
 Secretary Tait yesterday, for I don't want it 10 be like it was last year with a lot of carpenters at work on the opening day. When the gates are thrown open I want everything to be in the same complete condition that it will be at the close of the fair" { MT. Tait had just come back from Birmingham where he went to make final arrangements with some of .the attractions booked for Vandiver Park. The attractions at the fair this year promise to be on a much more ambi- tious scale than those of last year. Mir. Tait says that he has contracts for eighteen shows on his Midway, be- sides other high class attractions.
 MT. Joseph R. Rosson, editor, ex- press agent, progressive citizen and several other things, of Cullman, was in Montgomery yesterday on a busi- ness trip. MT. Rosson not only runs one of the best weekly papers of the terest in various matters in the town of Cullman. which is just now under going remarkable growth.
 / General W. c. Oates has Eeturned from Henry County. where he has been in attendance upon the Circuit Court all the week. A full civil docket WAS was occupied all of the timf. General Oates says that the people, of Henry are very prosperous and busied with diverse occupations.
 MT. E. K. Mcdowell of BirnNNg ham is registered at the Hotel sum mersv
 MT. D. T. Smith of Birmingham was at he al