The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-29
SIDEWALK PENClLINGS
Preferr N.v ort.... Exchange.

Prefers New orleans Exchange. could do much much to rsguiate siH the alleged unfairness of the New York Cotton Ex- change without repairing to legal pro- sessss sg. and ana pfayine Congress & for re- How? By patronizing the New or leans Exchange and not the New York.
 One of the chief complaints against sion or encouragement, if you will, of settlement of contracts by the delivery of unsPipnable cotton. When settle the regular old stage property cotton which are kept in New York warehouses ssoek n oesr New TorkP TpsP9se s e5at a 6e Of which 10000 are the stage proper. ties Of course settlements are not n.ade in any considerable percentage of orders to buy and sell have been as high as 100000 bales in one day, and, as l said. there are not over so,ooo But to get back to our muttons. the New York Exchange permits the delivery, on future contracts, of any and is packed in bales. The certifcats plan of classification and storage in the warehouses protects the dealer In spots. and the dealer in futures based on his that man who. merely buys future con racts Tn the New York Exchange. In New Orleans. the delivery of unspinna- nliddilng. Is forbidden by the Exchange, and future contractors are thus pro- tected This is the explanation of the difference in prices prevalent in New ter now leads New York. 30 points. tainsd. New Orleans E now the domi: t<51 -r.g gxOA &~.f~ = rt4A Southern cotton men would do well to do their trading there as much as pos sible Without wishing to reflect upon inaent of the New orleans Exchange Is hfgher.'S
 Good Record for Department.
 If we continue like this until Jam ed iireman yesterday, the past three months will be record breakers, taken as whole, for small fire losses in nesyi had ao fre iosses tnF any ne conseSaencs S % We have had number of runs, as many as four a day, sometimes, but none of the fires have been of any mag
 But 1t doesn't do to boast in the hreman's iine of business. I remember | the month that those three residences the destruction of those three houses we hadn't had a loss during that month, and we were bragging about what a 1 clean record we were going to have. | fire department had almost more fire | to fight than 1t could handle. The same thing haspeNed when the | burned, entaiiing a loss of about s25o,- 1 000. During that nionths also. our | losses had been trifiing, until the big | compress caught ire and was razed to | the ground. It was {. case Of counting | chiekens before they were hatched. keep up like they have been. we will | have s q mighty clean bill of health for
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 DcmepoIis Forging Ahead.
 Mir. B. L.. Garber. a brother of Att the city from his fs'h home at Demopolls p for few days visit, and reports his | section of the. State to be prJsperous. All we need to make that the great est portion of the State." he said yes- terday. Ifs the additional railroad. All | we have now in the way of transpor- | tation, besides the rrtver, is the south: the South and which does not give us good service. We are now trying to secure another, and if we succeed, you can see Demopolis forge ahead right | sway"
 Sexton Goes to sAtlanta.
 Capt. Albert G.. Sexton left last even- | ing for Atlanta on business connected | with his co-receiyership of the Allan | ta- a-Birminghan Fire Insurance Com 1 pany Of that city. There are no new | phases to the litigation between the | oany. Captain Sexton reports.
 Rev. E. E. George, pastor of the Baptist Church at Prattvi1le, and son County. is in the city en route to We 
 Messrs. M. M Fountain and ". G. of Monroevnle are at the New 
 MT. w. C., Tunstall, Jr., of Anniston spent last night < i9 B MSH'S0"'Fy' S Mir. J. Nation Smith of Birmingham was in the city < last ,: } Risht' Mr. J. F. Turner of Dadeville spent last night in Montgomery.
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 Mir. ": A. Burns of Sylacauga is Montgomery < a in Montgomery.
 MT. F. M. Eubanks of Downing is
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 Mir J. F. Irwin of Evergreen is vis- iting the city.
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 MT W. Fl. Graves of Birmingham is in Montsomeryaa aa x *
 MT M. B. Abererombie of Tuskegee is in the city.
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 Mir James Weatherly of Birmingham is in the city.
 Mir. ". A. Davis of Anniston is at the Exchange.
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 MT. E. M. Robinson of Mobile is in Montgomery.
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 MT. Cecil Browne of Talladega is in the city.