The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-01
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lEOUOkeD 0x c C0mw4lRAGRs tss I was sorry we couldn't get out larger registration for the election to- morrow, said . candidate yesterday. we candidates certainly worked hard enough enough trying s to induce everyone sf of reglstrars and qualify to vote.
 This Is my first experience in csnl- paigning and had heretofore consid- cred t lightly. but for the information as good political timber for the future. have been about the most laborious I have ever experienced. In my ward. l abandoned our business and stuck closely to the registration booth. 50 far as I know, not one. voter in my ward has escaped me and, if am not elected, it will not be because haven't tried as hard as any man could.
 T have found out that the hard thing about campaigning is that you can't work on voter Just once and have to keep on chinning him every time you see him and your biggest job is to see as, many of your consti- tuents every day as possible You get away from you and expect to win:
 Speaking about the total number Of persons registered, think there should have been at least three hundred more. We started of registering voters at a rapid gait and, in the beginning, 1t looked like the totals were going far beyond expectations. expect the trouble was that the candidates didn't give enough publicity to the impor- tance of registering"
 only the Comet Didn't Come.
 'Tt-is peculiar thing how prone the rumor of celestial disturbances as i'm pending danger, and the oldest thing Is that they are always ready to couple up the cause with the looked for cf-
 Now, of course, everybody in Mont gomery must have heard of Saturdays comet rumor. telling how the comet had caused the destruction of Great Britains greatest city and how the celestial body, travelling through space, would reach and destroy our little city here. But as soon as they heard IL, they verify believed 1t and, not alone that, they were ready to ascribe an effect of the comet before 1t reached
 'The suffering of our population dur ing the past week or two they charged directly up to the mean, old mythical comet There was, of course. some thing unusual in the atmosphere to cause such torrid temperatures Tn March, and the comet had caused It. As a matter of fact, all Of us can con lecture about the cause of terrestrial phenon ana but none of us know &C., curatefy about 1t.
 Just in the line of this past not weather, happened to meet a man yesterday who had just returned from Florida, and he turned up with another tale. His was that the people down there ascribed the high temperatures to the Jamaica earthquake, which nad the effect of changing the course of the Gulf stream so that the stream, ac- cording to the theory. has been forced m close to the Atlantic Coast, thereby. increasing the intensity of the neat It's really lots of fun to listen to all of this"
 We'll Lighted Streets.
 T am pleased to see that more cleo tric signs are being placed on the streets of the city" said a Dexter Avenue business man yesterday: 'Notn. ing advertises city better than 10 have the streets brilliantly lighted. IL makes a good impression on strangers and they leave to advertise the town abroad.
 Tt would not be a bad idea for the merchants on the principal thourough. fares of Montgomery to get together and see If they can not devise plans whereby arches of fncandescent iignts may be strung from one business house to another across the streets Such things are done in other. cities and Montgomery must not be behind the times in this respect.
 Tt would be a fine idea to. stretch lights across Commerce street rom the depot up to the Square. as then anyone coming to Montgomery would get a good impression as soon as ne alights from the train, an impression which would not be dispelled after the square was reached, as Dexter Avenue is already we'll lighted" 4 $ # Mir A. L. Cuesta. a wealthy cigar manufacturer of Tampa, Is visiting the city He is a member of the firm of Cuesta, Key and Company MT; Cuesta is registered at the Exchange Hotel
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 MT. William Higdon. of Maplesville, was in Montgomery yesterday. accom- panied by his wife.
 Mir E. G. Moore, of Talladega. is registered at Hotel Summers.
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 Mir. Gus Seligman. of Eufaula, spent last night in Montgomery.
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 MT. R. L. Laverty, of Talladega, is in Montgomery.
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 Mir. Gaynor s. Turner, of Mobile. Is at the Imperial
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 Colonel F. H. Graves, of Et <ula. is in Montgomery.
 F s v Mir. ]. V. Pierson, of Selma. was in the city last night.