The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-21

mopolis. are visiting Mrs. Houze's pa- rents, Mir. and Mrs. !. K. Connor. in Linden this week.
 The big ginnery of the Linden oil Mlli has been started already this sea- son. This gin plant is capable of gin- ning and packing a bale of cotton every six minutes and it can therefore put q great deal of the staple In mar ketable condition in a season. The oil mill of this company will be started September 1st with a view to running regularly day and night for the next eight months. The mill here Is the largest one which the Southern Cotton oil Company operates in this part of the South, and Mir. E. E.. Cobb. the manager. Is said to have the Inside track on more cotton seed agents than almost any other man in the State.
 A severe wind and rain storm swoop- ed down on Linden about o'clock Tuesday afternoon which came near doing serious damage 1 all parts of the city. There were two distinct wind storms about thirty minutes apart and during the entire time the rain poured down In torrents. During the prog ress of the storm the wind was from the west and blew at the rate of about sixty-fIve miles per hour for several minutes. Sign boards were thrown down in differen. parts of town. while awninGs also suffered a complete wrecking at several places. At one time while the wind was at its highest velocity houses creaked and shook so that many citizens ran out upon the sidewalks and into the streets think ing that the buildings would be blown away. However. no serious damage was done.
 The question of the proposed new county at the north of Marengo Is be- .f..-a A A YNa- aa In this part of the state. If the amend ment to the state constitution Is pass ed permitting the organization of new counties throughout Alabama there Is little doubt but that there will be a new county formed north of Linden with Demopolis as the county site Some of the people in that part of Ma rengo. life some of the people In and near Bessemer are toiling, sweating and talking for the proposed eonstitu- tional amendment which will permit them to vote on the new county propo- sition.
 Many people are. however. fighting the new movement and are counseiing voters to turn down the proposed amendment to the state constitution with the adnlonition to let we'll enough alone and let Alabama go on prosper Ing in the future as she has In the past.
 On every hand the amendment is being discussed and strong arguments are advanced on both sides of the Ques- tion. However 1t Is believed that 1t will be overwhelmingly defeated at the general election In November One strong argument which has been ad- vanced against the passage of the con- stitutional amendment Is that it will throw the entire state into turmoil in one way or another and that much harm will be done to the general pros perity of Alabama by the needless strife which will be engendered in consequence of the many new county propositions.
 The advocates of the passage of the amendment. however. claim that more court houses and jails are necessary in Alabama. They say that If people within the bonds of proposed new coun- ties are willing to vote to tax them selves sufficiently to build court houses and jails and support a separate set of county officers they ought to be al- lowed to do so.
 There Is much discussion on the sub ject in this section of the state at present and the issues grow more in- teresting every day. However there IS little doubt but that the enemies of the proposed amendment are greatly in the majority at the present time.