The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-25
BILL SKIES FINDS
WHY TROY DECIDED
TO PAVE STREETS
Story of the Interest in Hog
Raising in This Pros
porous Section
FINDS A BOY WHO
IS A GENUINE HERO
People Not Interested in Politics.
Devote Time to Discussing
Farming and Buying
Liberty Bonds

Troy. March A-(SpeciaL)-1 have
found out why the city fathers paved
the streets in this enterprising town.
II was done so that they could get
more trade. Paved streets make its
easier to tote hogs over.
1 saw two cars being loaded today
and I observed that when the corn
was thrown down on the nicely paved
streets the hogs could get it better
and did not get dust into their noses
There has been keen competition Pc
tween this town, Andalusia, ozark ana
Dothan for the hogs grown in this
section of the state. Andalusia had the
hacking house, Dothan had paved
streets. while ozark had the enter
prising buyers. Troy decided that tney
would have to offer some inducement
SO they paved the streets.
This is getting to be the hog town
OF Alabama and incidentally the farm
ers are riding in automobiles and be-
coming bloated bondholders. AS l stood
on the streets this morning 1 saw
hog buyer go up and speak to a MI
Thompson and ask him how many pigs
u L
INIT were too light for shipment yet
as they only weighed 225 each | Won
dered what Mr. Thompson would count
as a hog when "puercos" weighing
over zoo were considered pigs.
A BOYS STORY
AS 1 stood watching them load the
car my attention conferred on two
nd !
who were observing loading opera
tons AS the hogs went up the incline
into the car / heard the younger say:
"There goes our pigs. brother" and
/ saw him wipe tear from his eye
as he parted with them.
II got the little fellows story, for
your country boy while shy is contld-
ing and deeply attached to his work.
Some years back this city had dis.
pensary when the days of personal
liberty were in flower The father of
these lads looked on the wine when
it was red and lost about all his prop
erty and hit bottom. The mother OF
the boys was one of these old-fash-
tened Methodist mothers who never
loses faith. She kept the faith and saw
Pike go dry. With temptation out OF
the way the father Strengthened and
commenced to raising hogs as side
line with the result that he is now
RAPIDLY getting on his feet.
The boy showed me his bank book
AND I saw where he had $36 for his
part of the pigs whose shipment
brought the tears to his eyes l asked
him what he was going to do with the
money and he informed me with great
pride that he was going to help to pay
sisters way through the normal" and
he said: you know, that sister can
teach and help US when she gets her
diploma" Some of these fine days l
predict that boy from Pike may oc
cupy a high place in the hearts of
his countrymen for the little fellow 1
had the conversation with has the stuff
in him of which heroes are made.
This whole country Is feeling the
effects of diversification. I learned of
a negro farmer today who cleaned up
$4,000 last year and put $1,000 of it III
Liberty Bonds. Probably the fellows
who cleaned up the most are those
who brought cattle from the drouth-
stricken districts of Texas last fall
arc fed them here.
About the finest bunch of cattle l