The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-03
.ALBERTVILLE HAS CITIZEN BOOSTERS Mayor Is As Good As a Com
 merciaI Club LEON M'CORD JOKE TELLER His Fellow Citizens Gall Him the Chauncey Depew of Alabama. How AIbertviIIe People Are
 Getting Rich.
LEON M'CORD JOKE TELLER
BY WALTER HARPER.

Albertvile, June 2.-(Special. .)-Albert- vile produced Leon McCord, the champion Chauncey Depew of Alabama If Albert vile had done nothing more, it might fold it's arms in peace, well satisfied with it's accomplishment.
 As clerk of the supreme court of Ala bama Leon is held under an irksome re- straint, as that court Is not given to much merriment, but between times he finds many opportunities to slip away and test the latest on the hungering, joke-1oving population. It Is said that the judges on the supreme court bench even skip the jokes in the newspapers, as inoffensive as some of them are.
 How Leon came to get himself ma rooned in such an incongenial atmos- phere I can't understand.
 Leon's father was an insurance man. It is said that when the old gentleman got victim up to the point of insuring he let Leon tell him a funny story. This served as a heart test, and determined the risk. The amount of medical examin- ation fee Leon got is not recorded in the annals of Albertville.
 Goodwin Is Mayor.
 
 W. P. Goodwin, mayor of Albertville, is full double-page advertisement, print ed in big type and all colors. He ex- hausts the dictionary when he talks about Albertville and not one word is super 1uous.
 He deserves an extra salary for boost ing. He is better than a Commercial club, board of trade and boosters club combined. He is a candle set on the mountain; a city built upon a hill His enthusiasm is sincere and infectious, and 1t is never more eloquent than when boosting his town and community.
 Albertville is the best town in north Alabama, Marshall is the best county in the state and w. P. Goodwin is their prophet.
 He delights in speaking for the thrift and honesty of the people, the prosperity of the farmers hereabout, the enterprise of his town and the future promise for the Sand Mountain plateau.
 MT. Goodwin Talks.
 why, my dear sir" he exclaimed in the midst of an enthusiastic outburst, q can see the day in the very near future when this plateau will feed the thousands of industrial people in Birming- ham and Chattanooga
 "This is the finest soil and climate in the south for the production of all food crops and there Is no end to the possible achievements in that direction here.
 we have only begun the growing of Irish potatoes. This Is the second year of systematic culture and the crop will to venture an estimate on what will be done next year and the years to follow.
 The Marshall Hen.
 "Other veget tables and fruits grow equally well. The product from. our poultry yards is coming to be enormous. As little as you may think of 1t the Marshall county hen is a veritable gold mine. She is producing more than $10O, 900 in cash for the farmers of this county every year I believe the fig ures will go close to $200,O00. The Mar shall county hen lays the best eggs in he world. She is a rirect descendant of the mother hen that laid the golden egg.
 Electric Railway.
 q can see in the no great distant future an electric railway from Chat tanooga to Birmingham. It's principal business will be to carry fresh vegeta- bles, chickens and eggs to the tables in these two cities every morning for dinner. This may look like the dream of a hot air boaster but I can see 1t. The development on this, plateau is marvellous You cannot realize the full extent of it but I can see it.
 You people in Birmingham must be fed You will take the stuff from your next door neighbor If you can get 1t and we are going to supply the de- mand. When the creator buried the rich treasures of mineral in the hills along Jones valley He knew that they would attract a large population. He provided for the ultimate feeding of these people by spreading this broad,