The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-06
Letters to The Editor
MONTGOMERY FARMERS
PROTEST AGAINST HOLIDAYS

MONTGOMERY FARMERS
PROTEST AGAINST HOLIDAYS
He Points Out that There Are Entire-
" Too Many Of Them i'm
These Times.
Editor The Advertiser:
loathe. abhor, detest. despise.
ADominate. dried apple pies.
9S sr ss ssrss sVGd ro snsy fcr si5sns
Until ready to make pies.
like good bread. I like good meat.
Or anything that's Mt to eat.
OF ali the grub beneath the skies.
Inc poorest is dried apple pies.
give me toothache. or sore eyes
IN preferences to such pies"
Isduote the above from memory, and
therefore cannot vouch for its correct
ness, but the authors disgust for dried
apple pies cannot be more marked
Holiday drops in on an r.. +. D..
reader OF several papers.
To be left out in the cold. and cut
sg st, from the news q the world Ir from p
Few days since. Is calculated to make
one feel worse than trying to eat dried
apple pies, though they served a roost
for files before baked into pies.
A customer Of r. p. d. route must
be most excellent specimen of the
genus homo not. to loathe. abhor. de-
spise these legal holidays, when they
following Monday. the rural reuter- be-
comes confused and befuddled to such
an extent that he would be puzzled to
tell whether next "Wednesday week
would be a legal holiday.
There are 50 many legal holidays
that they are almost in 9 sense, NUTS
especially to our business men. and the
day laborer, who searns today. the
money. to purchase tomorrow's food.
Less holidays and more opportunities
sources Of our common country. It
seems to me would be blessing in
which all would share. "a
It may not be out of place to state
In the United States during one year:
January, three days, February, three
days. March,, one day: April, six days,
May. three days, June. one day; July.
Der. four days; October, one day; Mo-
yember, three days: December. one
day.
there are now thirty days virtually lost
so far as money making is concerned.
I am really afraid to attempt an esti-
mate of the loss the country sustains
by. the observance of these different
]. R. McLendon.
Gen. John w. \. Sanford az Judge
Jones' Lecture 30 Prattvflle,
Prattville, Ala, June 4, 1909
Editor The Advertiser:
Among the distinguished Montgom-
erians who came over to Prattvills
on last Tuesday evening to hear Judge
Jones lecture. was General John W. A.
Sanford, a gallant Confederate officer.
whom almost every Confederate veter-
an in Alabama knows and loves.
General Sanford had been written to
by old army friends asking him to
come, but as he did not come on the
train with Judge Jones and others who
arrived in our city on the Mobile and
he was not expected. He finally came
on the Louisville and Nashville train,
which arrived Just before dark
Prattville's $4,000 notef has not yet
been completed, and he was taken to
one of the leading boarding houses OF
the city.
There was a terrific rain and wind
storm early In the night. After sup.
the wind still blowing. General San
ford walked out of his room to the
portico. where there were a number OF
gentlemen seated. ne addressed the
crowd and asked IL any one was going
made Thereupon, the General said:
have come to Pratt
vile tonight 10 honor this occasion.
and the rain viii have to fall harder
and the wind blow more furiously than
II is now raining a5fdF blosEiag tnnlSeep
me away from the court house, ~ 4aoiE >
And although over SO years Of age,
gone. through slush and mud, to hear
Judge Jones' lecture on the, Last Days
of the Army of Northern Virginia."
Grand old man! Grand old Confed-
his life for years to come with health,
Confederate veteran,
Beware Of the HOuse-Ay.
(By S. B. Flexner.)
Editor The Advertiser: 4gr -
Death turks on the feet and wings
OF the innocent-looking house-fl Tx
anime the furry legs and feet under
ciate how matter will cling to their
furry surfaces
must come TO the aid of the people TO
fight the diseases that travel. from
sick rooms to babies in the cribs. ON
There are many sanitary regulations.
your windows and doors before fly
time Screen all food. particularly
milk and meat. Keep MES saway from
the sick room. especially where there
is contagion. Kill the fly at once.
Use sticky fy-paper to entice them;
traps and liquids poisons. 1t is i'm
portant to eliminate breeding places
for flies. Sprinkle chloride of lime or
kerosene oyer contents OF garbage
boxes, and other surfaces.
Keep garbage receptacles tightly
covered. Clean the cans daily. Sprin-
kle them with chloride or kero-
sene. Pour kerosene into the drains.
Keep sewerage systems in perfect or
der. Clean cuspidors every day, Keep
Ave per cent solution of carbolic acid
in them all the time.
Don't allow dirt TO accumulate In
corners, behind doors, back of radia-
tors or under stoves. Do not allow any
decaying matter OF any kind TO accum.
ulate on or near your premises.
Be absolutely c1eanly, for remember
No dirt. no flies!
Florence, Ala.
Prepare for Paving.
Editor The Advertiser:
Hull Street paved with asphalt is
beautiful, and probably the pride of the
people. But already the tearing up
and patching process has begun. Two
large holes have been cut near Burton
Avenue for sewer connections. This
Is tnexcusab BILE. All such connections
should be made before paving is done.
Let Perry Street take the hint. In
sist that every connection of water.
gas and sewer for every lot on the
street be made before the paving IL
done. There is no possible excuse for
not doing so, and especially where It Is
aIraadv bitilk nm The ordinances ra.