The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-25
mLOlElS TAKE TESTS
10 TO NEW ORLEANS IoR ANxukx
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peneaeela 01lcers Prefer Walking Trial e Rlafae Daeyc1e ee nerse-- Heturn1ng Sul1~rp Tu1k
 ef Key West..


 nel Newcombe. In command of the Ninth Artillery District. left this morning for New Orlsans. where no 10 to foin other army eficera who are 10 take the test prescribed fer ofFicers over the age of SO ysars.
 The ofacers have the choice of 100 miIss on horseback, ninety miles on . must be done in three days. Colonel Newcombe. who is hale and hearty, despite his long service in the army, prefers to walk the sixty miles. and Colonel Foote. of Jackson Barracks, has decided he Will also take this walk. It ts. therefore. probable that the " c colonels will keep each other company on the jaunt. which Colonel Newcombs believes he can finish In much less time and in good shape.
 Refurn From Key West.
 The tug Monarch. Captain Roche blave. which recently went to Key West with a cargo of supplies for the hurricane sufferers, has returacd to port and the crew reports that the dispatches sent out regarding the de- vastation wrought by the hurrisane have not been in the feast exaggeeated. Many of the poor people. they state. are out of employment and but for the nssistance rendered by other cities would have starved.
 Heads New Company.
 n. F. Mitchell. of this city. has been selected President of the new. United Lumber Company. which has taken over the property of the Manistee Isu.nber Company, of which V. !. Heriong was formerly proprietor. The latter was forced into bankruptcy several months ago. and in order to preserve the prop erty the creditors formed the new company and piaced Mir. Mitchell in charge. rt-fs understood Mir. Herions will be interested In the new company, probably acting in the capacity of inana&er.
 Pensacola Is rapidly forging 10 the front as q coaling port for vessels load ing fin the Gulf. and hardly day passes but that steamers out in 10 i'll their bunkers. particularly those from Galveston and Mississippi ports. 1t was formerly the case that vessels would stop at Norfolk for coal, but this practice has ceased and they now put In here. Up to the present 10 less than eighteen steamers have called here for bunker coal. taking out nearly 15s00o tons.
 Commodore James c, Watson of the Pensacola Yacht and Motor Club, which Is preparing for the biggest re- gatta ever given on the Gulf coast. has appointed the following offtclais for the races of November II. then motor boats from Tampa to Galveston will come here to compete for tine handsorne cups and prises offared: Lieut. F. ". Davis. Mayor Frank Reii- iy and Capt. John B. Guttman. judges: John G. Ward. George P. Wentworth and F. c Brent. IT,. timekeepers; Dr. S. R. Mallory Kennedy. starters Capt A. e. Moreno. referee; F. F. Bingham. clerk of course. The club already has entries of more than a dozen of the fastest motor boats owned In ether cities, as we'll as about two dozen owned here.
 A special from Florala today says that w.. H. Britton. one of the msst rrominent men of that section. died yesterday in a Nashville hospital, as the result of an operation. which was performed a few days ago. The de- ean mas4t, vvan well kuoWn hara. v.hara