The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-10
Looks Like Selma May Yet Supply All Alabama With
 Its Product
FLOMATON IDEAL
 RAILROAD POINT
Said to Have the Best Kept Railroad Yards in the United States. Many Products in Sight
 Ready for Europe

Selma. November s,-(Special,) )-Selma
 ships Pensacola butter, Pensacola ships
 Selma bottles and other things and the
 old rule that "a fair exchange is no rob
 bery.' is thus exemplfled and thereby
 hangs this story
 Realizing that bucking the boil weevil
 was like playing the bank at Monte
 Carlo several progressive farmers got to-
 gether @ few dairy COWS and began to
 produce cream in a small way which is
 shipped in from the surrounding small
 towns and worked up by a cotton seed oil
 company here. desirous of helping along
 their friends, temporarily crippled by the
 advent of the bug that has made diversi-
 tication in the state a condition that gem
 orally obtains and not theory. The fac
 tory had just completed a shipment of
 1000 pounds to Pensacola and it appeared
 to be fully as good as the Omaha butter
 that the Five Points Grocery company
 insists on selling me. Why those fellows
 do not patronize industries in the state I
 cannot sec I know that it would have
 looked a whole lot better to see that Pen
 sacola shipment going to a a point within
 the state
 l made inquiry and I found that the
 business is a success and that it is only a question of few years until Dallas county will be producing all the butter
 she can consume, and making her ice cream with cream from Orrvile instead
 of the Gail Borden brand that we know
 so well. Speaking of Orrville: I saw something over there yesterday to make
 one sit up and take notice. Dunnaway x
 Lambert have seven monster slices and they were just completing the last one and filling 1t. It Is about the largest silo ill
 Alabama and I was informed that the
 firm was making good money They feed a large number of cattle and have them penned so that all the fertilizer is saved. The lands they have built up in this way rival the very fertile lands of the Missis- sippi delta.
 Orrville now enjoys the distinction of having rural route that supplies Caha-
 ba, the one-time capital of Alabama,
 where it is said more than 70 lawyers at
 one time had offices and where youth, beauty and elegance held sway. Railroad Mans Trouble My friend, T. E. Brooks. superintendent of the Louisville and Nashville, will have to come down in this section and see what good roads are doing for his friend, Su- perintendent Saltmarsh of Pensacola. When business got so poor Superntend- ent Saltmarsh had to cut off the passen- ger train on the Myrtlewood branch and operate a mixed train. The schedule is such that it takes 8 good while to make the trip and from around Thomaston on in to Selma the operators of automobiles are playing the mischief with Superin tendant Saltmarsh's revenues. And now to cap it all an Orrville firm has put on an automobile truck that carries heavy
 freight. The roads are wonderful and
 these auto trucks can easily make 12 to 15
 miles an hour. I am mighty glad I do
 not have to handle a knotty problem like
 that of trying to run a railroad in compe-
 tition with truck that does not have to pay heavy taxes all along the line But business is improving in that sec tion and it may be possible for the rail- way company to restore its passenger train.
 All the folks up home that go wild over the tango and all these new fangled dances ought to come down here to Sel ma and see an old Confederate soldier
 dance some of the old-time dances, and I rather fancy that they will tango less and Virginia reel more.
 During the Confederate reunion here they had a large part of Broad street roped off for dancing, and my good friend Mai D. M. Scott and MT. Bab-
 
 ing, you don't know anything about it until you have seen MT. Babcock. 1 am not quite sure that he had partaken of anything that Pensacola ships in bottles, but you would never have taken him for an old Vet had you seen him dancing. Ever and anon, between dances, he would take his fair partner over to a nearby soft drink stand and each time he would drink milk, sweet milk. and more sweet milk. If ever I wanted to get up an ad- vertisement for a dairy I would journey down to Selma and get Mir Babcock to give me an outline of the speeches he would make each time he went over to the soda fountain.
 Products for Europe had this European war brought home to me very vividly down at Flomaton. noticed a number of cars loaded with sawn ties which seemed to me unusually short. I ran across the general agent there, Mr. Mcleod, and on inquiry found that they were ties that were to go to l Europe for building military roads in and about Gallipoli. It appears that these tic are purposely cut short so that they can be more easily moved. We are not get ting all of the allies money up in Bir- minghalu for steel The lumbermen down at Flomaton are prospering also l MT. B. M. Starks ought to stop off in Flo maton some time and see what I count | the best kept railroad yard in the United States. It is as clean as a pin all the time. I asked Mcleod how he managed | it, and he told me it was simply case of educating the yard men to take pride l in the keeping of things like an advertise ment for Sapolio.
 l All these folks that take a whack at I the Louisville and Nashville and are too often prone to condemn them, ought to visit Flomaton and see what the com pany has done to promote the beautiful. They have one of the prettiest parks in | all the country there, and between trains one can get a view of beautiful flowers growing amid massive banana plants that actually bear punches of bananas. Ralph l Silver, with his penchant for welfare
 work. could get some fine dots from the way things are run at Flomaton.