The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-14
Sidetook Penciiings
when Bushes. i. Forgotten.


 T see 1t coming" said a Montgomery business man yesterday. There was gloom and pessimism in his tone. See what coming?" asked the friend standing in the doorway with him
 T see the sort of time coming we had two years ago when Montgomery had winning baseball team--the time when merchants leave off business pe- cause it interferes with baseball. You remember how it was. There was no chance to have man talk sensibly to you on a business matter. If drum mer came in to sell bill of goods he always took his customer out to the ball game and sold the goods between derstanding among the travelling men that when they sold goods In Mont gomery'it meant taking the merchant to the ball park and picking the time to sell goods. There used to be guar rel in every store on who was to stay and keep the doors open while the rest of the force went out to the ball park.
 T see 1t coming again. If you see are they talking business? Not much. One of them says that Wye Is too weak ho play second on team as fast as Montgomery and hot argument 1ol- ture of the cotton crop. Not much; They are talking of the lucky hnd Malarky made when he picked up Ball. Are they worrying about the prospects for the fall trade? No, they are spend ing their time wondering where Mont gomery is going to get hrst-class right-fielder."
 Montgomery Should Get Headquarters. ," 'Twould be a mighty nice thing for Montgomery" said prominent cit izen yesterday, morning, after reading of the intention of the Southern Music Association to vote upon its perma- nent headquarters in today's session. If the members of the Association would decide to give this honor to Alabam's Capital City. She is the most centrally located of all the cities whose representatives are now in attendance upon the eighth annual session, and she has undoubted advantages that mark her as the city -eminently adapted for the headquarters of the great organization.
 Montgomery, say what you will. is after all music loving city. She has South within her limits; her musicians are live, up- p-to-date and eager. and are thoroughly capable of warranting sat- isfaction if the vote today should prove in her favor.
 ure of the citizens at large should such course be pursued. It would be as great a thing for the city as for the Association, and for this reason. am anxious to hear the ieSuitS oA tho Son"aoS'
 Objects to old Question.
 T say. my friend remarked /The Perspiring Person, 'don't you ever again ask me if 1t IS hot ,n enough & TOT me 70 and that is a sufficiency of converse tion on that theme.
 The question is old and it has been steadily deplored for many years-for almost if not quite, as many as 1t has been asked. In the enlightenment of the nineteenth or twentieth, or what ever number it is--in the high civili- zation of the present century, remarks which were new enough to be minstrel jokes in the Stone Age are entirely out question to me, L am going to have a paranoiac brain-storm, and you will be lifted clean off your flat-footed founda- tions."
 MT. W. c. Ray has resigned as trav- cling seed agent of the Alabama Cot ton oil Company and has invested in some farm lands with his son-in-law near Memphis, and has moved to that city. He had been a resident of Mont gomery for many years and has many friends in this city who wish him well.
 Mir. Isadore Shapiro. a we'll known young man of Birmingham. and an eff flcient member of the clerical force of the Legislature, is visiting Montgom- cry.
 Mir James 1T. Morelle. a prominent citizen of Mobile Is visiting the city, a guest at the Glenmore.
 
 MT. A. L. Ruskin, a leading attor- ney of Andalusia, spent yesterday in Montgomery.
 MT. Herndon B Mabson of Birming- ham spent yesterday in Montgomery.
 
 MT, Frank Coleman of the United States Land Office has gone to Mobile. Hon. 8. c. Jenkins of Bay Minette is fin Montgomery.