The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-09
Sidesualk Psnciiines
Bsx Crowd. at Fair.

-s4A OH0Nus 6s v eA@e the Montgomery fair this year." said Cnarles x. Stewart, of the Seaboaro Ar Line, yesterday People through out Alabama are beginning to. recog- nize the Far as regular institution, and l believe that the attendance this year will be eyen larger than 1t was
 The Fair is particularly well adver- tixed this year." said MT. stewart. and c~rywhere have been within the las. few days have found people talking it. We are going to make special prep arations for handling the crowds.
 MT. Stewart says that the Seaboards s attitude in the contest between the State and the railroads Is hat the roau Is wiling t9 do anything that is fair road should not be considered as agree ing to the justice of the enforced rates simply because 1t had agreed to accept them.
 The fact that Northern roads are forced to these rates means nothing to the roads In the South, he said, as the greater the volume of business tho cheaper 1t could be nandIed by tn, roads. If the roads in the South, he said, had the same amount of business as those in the North, they could more readily meet the rates which are being enforced in some of the Statss
 Entertainment of Press Club.
 Hon. Ross C. Smith, former ailroad Commissioner and former newspaper man. was in Montgomery yesterday on business trip. Mir. Smith is at the head of the Alabama Immigratfon Bu- reau. a Birmingham institution. the purpose of which is to keep up the la Dor supply in the rapidly developing mineral district of AlabaIna.
 He Is also president of the 6irmins- ham Press Club which will shortly en- certain the International League of Press Clubs and which will bring to Birmingham representatives of the press from all sections of the country. MT. will get a wider advertising from this convention than from any other conven- tion that ever met in the Stater
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 Mir. W. C. pinwiddie. editor of The last night, en route home from At lanta. Mr Dinwiddie not only runs one of the best weekly papers in the sats nsses sss es s S srsss %sas ra s engaged in developing Baldwin
 4 splendid exhibit from Baldwin cry is being gathered by Captain Will liam Selden. and Mir. Dinwiddie Is confident that 1t will overtop any ex- hibit that any other county Will show.
 Captain James B. Cavanagh, the United States Engineer. who has had charge of the work In Alabama for the past few years, left last evening for Washington. D. cy where he is tS he Enslnfeg Wiii go wess He wifi e0s Be succeed ed in Montgomery by Captain Fergu- son.
 Hon. M. W. Rushton of Luverne. Representative in the House of Rep resentatives from Crenshaw County, was a visitor to. Montgomery yester- day.
 MT. W. H. Murphy. who has been quite i'll at a local infirmary for sev- eral days, was reported last evening to be getting along nicely
 Hon. Charles w. Thompson. of Tuske- gee is at the Exchange Hotel accom- panied by his wife.
 Capt. J. W. Dimmic9 has returned to Montgomery, after spending month In Shelby Springs.
 Mir. Albert Smith. of Lafayette, made a business visit to Montgomery Mon-| day.
 MT. R. W. Smith, of Birmingham, spent last night in the city. t
 Mir H. A. Denton, oT Selma, was in Montgomery last night
 Mir. F. M. Blacksher. of Brewton. is visiting the city.
 Mir T. w. Bethea, of Talladega, Is in Montgomery.