The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-25
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How Real Estate Advances. T have. just finished calculating the seat. I wili be at liberty in few minutes"
 Nothing 10th. the visitor to the office ous and to no little degree nonplussed. took the seat, He was anxious to know what for.
 Marvellous. marvellous. A nice little study in figures. and with 1t all an idea of the immensity of this deal can not be gathered" The real estate agent was certainly enthused, and his glance evidenced the triumph that his math- ematical cranium had solved.
 You see," he said to his visitor, Il have piece of property In my pos session that I am getting ready to of fer for sale. It is the chance of life time. How anybody can keep from Jumping at such a bargain do not we'll" agreed the friend, but what has that to do with the North Starr Can't you see, man? Cant you seer responded the agent. Why, l was just trying to figure out what would con- stitute good sum, and to grasp from that an idea of how much wealth this property would bring 10 the purchas- CT two weeks after I sell it to him. It od is oeh cheap property' too. costing only times more than the price at which l offer it. I'm a perfectly fair minded man, you know, so that there can be
 
 That being the case" said the vts- itor what have you deduced from the North Starr"
 .'To be sure" said the agent. What stellation is only 360, ,771, 1,S56,000, 900 miles away from the earth; second, that it would take one shaft. of Its be equally as long to journey to it, travelling at the rate of lS6,oo0 miles per second.
 nrorsr,v Thas Q, the ns waE oyg frsRd S tnis 1t is disposed of Now what do you think of itY"
 Now what do think of it?" in one thing to think-one> >thing to do. And I'm doing 1t"
 That, said the real estate agent to himself: watching the wide spread floated through the doorway, lis al- ways the penalty of fellow who tries to help out a neighbor. What hard possible is believable and the possible always Is misunderstood"
 
 Censor Sees stagnnnt Water. ,n The sanitary censor Is again getting is a certain part of Dexter avenue that needs sanitary attention and he would recommend to the city sanitary officers that they take a look at the particular part of the avenue, which he has criticised only in suggesting capacity.
 we just SSk at that said .ts tss noticed that beforeY' The censor and the reporter were leaning against one of Uncle Sams mail boxes at the Perry street. This isn't the first time this breach of sanitation has come un- der my observation For at least a week or two I have been seeing stag n q sidewalk in front of this store.
 T can't understand why you good people of Montgomery have never mo- ticed it: When 1t rains. I have ob served the unhygienic condition espe- cially because of the fact that this backed up water has no place to drain out a more minute inspection, is You mean to say you haven't taken note of the rainbow colored scum that the attention of a merchant to the stagnation and he is trying to have1 the sanitary department do somehing to unstop the drainage. So far, though, 1t looks like the water has no outlet and, as long as the sun is as hot as 1t is today, there will be plenty of mos quitoes and other germs bred from this source."
 Governor Goes to BirminRham. Governor Conner was In the city for a few moments last eveHing. He has been spending the last couple of days at Ozark and Abbeville. at each of which places he made speeches. being greeted by large audiences. He reached the city late Yesterday afternoon, and immediately left for his home in Bir- mingham, where he will spend Sun day
 The Governor had nothing to say re- garding, the railroad situation while in the city.
 -+ Judge W. W. Pearson of the circuit court, has been called to Sylaeauga by the serious illness of his brother, Dr. Pearson. On this account, Judge Pear son was not in attendance on the cir cult court yesterday and several appIi- cations for Judgments by default were
 
 Mir. John K. Barry left yesterday morning for a weeks stay at Borden Wheeler Springs.