The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-07

success of this didIers' contest and enable every inmate of the Soldiers
 Home to have some spending money
 during the hoIidays
 The debt that the present genera
 tion owes to the old soldiers Is greater
 than they realize. and by helping this
 contest the lives of the old soldiers
 would be brighter and the donors would be happier for having done what they could do to do unto others
 as they would be done by"
 One of the prominent men in retail circles said Saturday that the negroes were sure index to the status of the
 condition of the community financial-
 ly:
 spent. he Said. you can rest assured
 the colored people have 1t. They are
 the best spenders of any class. In the first place, and in so many cases that
 exceptions hardly cornt; they have to Ali they get out of life is what they
 can buy for money. and that. naturaily
 and later winter is the time when they spend most of their money They
 make more then on the farms and when
 they are paid off, their first idea is to come into town and spend it. even
 those who raise q small crop of their own. Principally they buy clothing, food and furniture, those being. pos- sibly. the greatest necessities they are interested tn.
 Judging from the way they are spending their money these days. | money Is loosening from some source
 or other, for the streets are packed
 are laying in suppliesl for Christmas
 If these people are a criterion of the condition of commerce. and cer- | i. NAw VN-
 tron'f troi the n balance sse' of power in trade, times are brightening. The colored | folk are spending more money Just now than anyone else. and their pur. l chases are doing lot to improve local
 trade conditions. in retail circles. es,
 pecially just after the late financial panfc."
 For a few hours Saturday Mike liar vey, the famous old Auburn football l tackle, was shaking hands and swap ping old stories with friends in Mont goinery. Mike came over with Hagood Patterson and others from Auburn where they attended the annual foot ball banquet tendered. the, victorious | eleven representing orange and Blue.
 Auburn alumni remember Mike well. but probably the most lasting memo dies of this crack player of the '9S.
 '9s and '00 teams are retained by the opponents who had to face him in the memorable struggles of thosa years
 r was < pleasure for Mike 70 listen ] to his old Ceafn mate, c. N. Mitcham, star of '9S tell of the good old days
 beating Georgia.
 President F. N Brown. of the Mex ican International Railroad, passed through Montgomery on train No. I | Sunday morning at Il o'clock, return | ing to Mexico from a, business trip to | New Fork.
 Since the consolidation of the Mex ican International and the Mexican Ma 1 tional lines there is much talk of l further absorption of systems in the | Southwestern Republic It is said that 1 the New York capitalists. who control
 much of the stock in the Mexican | lines desire the absorption of smaller l independent lines in Mexico.
 Judge W. H. Thomas, of the City | Court of Montgomery. left Saturday for New York, where he goes, upon in-
 vitation, to attend the banquet tender~ cd President-elect Taft by the North | Carolina Club of New York at the Ho- l tel Astor. The banquet will be given
 on Monday.
 At the festal board will be present some of the most prominent of the United States. and especially of the South The loyalty of the Southerners | to the next President will be evidenced in the joyous flow of everything that is good to the gourmand and to the ora J tor. Judge Thomas will be gone proh- ably q week.