The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-28
MEN, WOMEN
AND THINGS

Court week is always a busy one in
county seat, and oneonta was very much
alive when a party of us from the Age
Herald staff reached it on Monday night.
Mr. Barrett was at its head, and in it
was Leon Bradley, the city editor fresh
from France, Fl. II. Harper, the prtoon-
ist n. A. Graham. Jr,, the lawyer; and
your humble servant as chaplain. Lieu
tenant Governor Nathan l.. Miller and
Hugh Morrow being detained on account
of pressing engagements at Montgomery.
AT the Central Hotel we found Judge
Weakley. Congressman George Huddles-
ton, and John Altman. The business
calling to the hustling little city being
the case of George Huddleston VS. The
Age Herald Publishing Co. But there
were other lawyers and litigants domi-
! ciled in the same hosiery and for once
the travelling men had to take back
seat.
| Court in city and court in small
ttown are two different things. You can
spend a day in wandering from one court
without finding much local color to
catch ones attention, for. the courts are
at it so continuously that it takes or
the nature of grind and appears to Re
purely business affair and almost rob-
| bed of human interest.
! But at a county seat like Oneonta,
all was life and hustle and excitement
1t was easy to run across interested
groups in animated conversation around
the hotel, in the stores, on the streets,
under the trees in the court yard, in the
various offices in the court house, and
| in the court room itself. 1t takes an
unusual case to draw a crowd to our
halls of justice in Birmingham, but at
Oneonta there was always quite bunch
( of spectators.
! Tuesday was a busy day. The county
Sunday School convention was scheduled
for the NJ. E. church. / met Dr. A. J.
Dickinson on the street and he told me
he was down on the program. / walked
up with him to hear him speak, for he
has great message about the need o.
| an awakening to the danger of the So
cial diseases which if unchecked will un
dernine the virility of our people, but
found Bro. Adcock, the pastor and only
a faithful few and it was called off and
set for a later time
Then the county high school had it's
opening. This is one Of the best schools
of its kind in the state. Professor Hicks
is to be congratulated on the fine open
ing. l had the pleasure of delivering
| the commencement address before the
graduates while the war was progressing
and have taken deep interest in the
institution ever since.\Quite number
of improvements have been recently in
stalled and the faculty is forward
looking one.
Coming out from dinner at the hotea
l ran across T. P. Hay, Jr., and soon
spied Hill Ferguson. and then w. r..
Heiie came into sight and 1 knew that
| was face to face with committee OF
Birmingham's best citizens who were out
to try to bring sOneonta into closer touch
with its big neghbor. With the party
!
Telephone Co. They Immediately com.
Wandered me to go around with them
to meet the merchants lawyers. bank
ers, doctors and leading business men.
With court in progress it was inpos-
sble to get the court room for speech
making and map showing, and therefore
meeting was called for the Central
Hotel, but owing to the many distrac-
lions it was hard to get representative
crowd out and the committee adjourned
to Bynums corner and put me up on a
dry goods box to drum up crowd and in
a little while enough came together for
Secretary Hay to announce the purpose
of the visit and to introduce Hill Fer
guson who made telling talk as he
showed the maps.
Mr.. Helie, the president and general
] manager of the Hollywood Creamery, OF
, Birmingham, then made a practical adj
5 market for milk in the Magic City. He
. was followed by Mr.. Bowron Bowen VIII.
/. told them of numerous cases where di-
r versification and specialization had pro
: duced highly satisfactory results in Mis-
: sissippi and Georgia. He cited the growth
/ of hog markets, the establishment o
: elevators, the conversion of cotton seet
t oil mills into peanut mills. of cannerie:
i etc.
was asked to tell about the Rooster
sale. but before doing so | told of my
!, visit to the state horticultural society
meeting at Auburn and of Professo
: Starcher's statement about the possibil
tiles of apple growing in Blount and alst
: of the splendid exhibition of Alabam;
"a grown apples now on display in the lob
; by of the capitol at Montgomery. evidenc
ing the fact that with little care ap
pie growing could be made most prof
liable industry and that Blount count,
apples already had reputation and al
that was needed TO cash in on then
would be for the growers to get to
v gether and map out a growing and
IL marketing campai ign.
II 1t was jolly jarty at the Central Ho
tel Some of the local ways called tn
d proprietor Commodore while other
g used a shorter sobriquet and made,
: Iplain fluff" while every now and the
10 some dignifed person would address hr
& as Mr. rIuffstutler; but it didn't seer