The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-05
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George McIver came back yesterday and took ID his old stand on lower Dex- ter Avenue. George Is the poor crip- pied lad who sells pencils. He has been mas season for three years or more, and nc Is during his stay. quite promi- nent citizen. except that he is much more interesting than the r. 2. usually good-natured soul and whether you buy pencil and take 1t away with you, which is extremely discourteous, or buy the pencil and leave 1t with the pencil cil at all but merely pass by on the oth- CT side as if you didn't see George, he says. Thank you. Brother much oDssa to na yoap and inssa very He believes that advertising pays and makes friendly overtures to the pa- per persons. When yesterday he saw one of them that he had known in the
 How are you, Brotherg he called ar- fably: Just. In from Columbus Geor, gia-bIind baggage? Me? Nitzeree! velvet. I haven't ridden on a freight train in so lcng guess l would Tall on if tried 1t; I'd get scared. Net much happened except that in Columbus l got touched for Sss. Awful painful jolt, but not fatal. i'll make 1t up; I am ex- pecting a fine Christmas trade--eariy shopping and all that. you know. Mont, gomery always was geod to mo, ana III that I take clearing house certificates.
 This Is positively my last appear ance in Montgomery, ne contlnuea. That's no prima donna Jolly, neither. I'm saving up enough to set up nttIe cigar stand over in Greensboro, N. C.. where I'll live out the rest of my match. I'd have just about enough now IT tnat so-and-so In Columbus hadn.t gwen me that steam hammer toucL. But I'll get it together by spring, and then I'll get
 Say. sIseau. tell 'em take clearing house certificates. CioverdaIe Citizen, Complains.
 "Oh. MT. Paper Person" called Cloverdaie citizen yesterday as the common street walking reporter was oughfare of Dexter Avenue and watch ing the wind play havoc with skirts ana hats, "Oh. MT. Paper Person, I've got kick coming that l want you to print: nay sayings are p get into print but have stood this long enough
 What's the trouble" asked the Paper Person sympathetically.
 Its the way the street cars on the Cioverdale line are run" said the Glow erdale citizen. Now let me tell you"
 About o'clock every evening. seven days in the week, the cars on that busy line make little If any scheduiei some times 1t takes me fcrty minutes to get home. I have tc wait fer a car on Court Square for, 1t seems to me. hair an hour But I can stand that; I can interest myself in the passers- by. It's when the car you are on gets to the switch near South Street. that the rub comes. I've waited on that switch some nights as long as fifteen minutes. Ac- tual time. I've had my watch out on several occasions and the conductor has noticed 1t with a grin.
 "The trouble, I've heard from talk ing with the motormen and the conduc- tors of the line, is that after o'clock each car tries to kill the schedule so that their car will be first in the barn and will not have to make the last trip at 11:45 o'clock"
 Now it seems to me that the only way to remedy this jockeying for last man on busy line as the Cloverdale line is will be to print a Kick as final resort toward getting better service.
 The Paper Person. knowing what the Cloverdaie citizen said to be true on account of sundry trips on that line himself, sadly smiled and thought or the troubles he had had on his own street car line in getting car when wanted.