The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-11-13
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS


 the first time the busy men of Birning. ham are attending the sessions. I saw unknown bankers. manufacturers, mer. chants, lawyers and doctors in the aud. ience
 Among the first delegates from out of the city I got to greet was the Pettus brothers from Huntsville R. E. towers away above the average Baptist for he looks to be at least six feet and half. He has filled about every position a man can fill in his denomination. for he has been deacon, Suneday school superintend- ent moderator of his association and president Of the state convention. His brother. W. E., is a standby when it comes to quiet work
 
 If R. E. Pettus is the ta1lest Baptist In attendance I am sure there is none to dispute with my friend Thomas F. Scale of Livingston the honor of being the big gest Baptist on the ground. Tom is tbe lawyer and also keeps an eye on the po- litical game, but admits that when it comes to Shorthorns that Bob has got him horned off the lot Both of them are institutions down their way, and a line pair they are. It takes such men to make a community.
 There are two men here that have Damon and Pythias pushed off the boards. but they cannot be blamed for if as thelr fathers before them were bud dies of the old school. I refer to the famous firm of Campbell 6, Wright pr Wright & Campbell of Tuskegee. for it makes no difference which name led. they never had any trouble in walking through life side by side. Now Carter Wright of Roanoke and Wright Campbell Of Tuskegee are following in the foot steps of their sires. They are both here and somehow they always manage to get in on the ground floor when there is any big giving going on.
 Now. Roanoke furnishes two other splendid laymen. They are not brothers put they are in business together and Doth are hustlers W. P. Nichols, or Park as he is familiarly and low ingly called is one of the best known men in east Alabama, and numbers his friends by the hundreds. He is the best man I have ever known to take charge of any civic, social or religious affair and put fife into it. J. R. Hollinger. is wheel horse when any pulling is neces- sary and put over everything he at tempted during the war He and Park make a fine team and have never been known to balk
 Ernest W. Lamar of Selma is another layman that always can be counted upon to do his full share of denomination work He is mighty busy man, but never too engaged to respond to the call or his church or the general work. happened, few years back. to drop in on a prayer meeting in his church, and greatly enjoyed an account he gave Of the preaching and prayer meeting ser vices he had attended during his two months trip to New York He seemed to have gotten more pleasure out of it than if he had spent the time in the Broadway shows.
 
 got to shake hands with J. c. Max we'll the bighearted banker from Alex ander Clsy. He is one of the strong men In Tallapoosa county. I have seen him time and again act as moderator and he doesn't stand any foolishness, but dis patches business, and when time for ad Journment comes he goes on the Grover Clevaland ix, rency' the best way to resume is to re- sume" When the time comes to adjourn Uncle lake, as he is lovingly called "adjourns.' You can count him in on anything which makes for the uplift of his people
 There is one man at the convention who knows more about it's internal work lngs than anyone connected with it. He has got it card-indexed in his mind and when anything comes up about the con- stltution or bylaws or something which was done in the past quarter of a cen tury there is no use going back to the minutes, for it is so much easier just to ask w. A. Davis, and the information is had without any trouble, and when he speaks there is no one to question him. for he has never yet been ripped There was time when some doubting Thomas used to doubt him, but on the showdown found out that Win was right
 saw two Jasper citizens in the lobby One was the well-known lawyer. w C. Davis, and the other was Sheriff Lacey. Both of these men are Baptist laymen who take great interest in their local church as well as in the organized work or the denomination. It will be remem bered that MT. Davis was one of inc strong men at Montgomery during tho Henderson legislature. I asked Sheriff Lacey how he got the name of .Sheriff', and he told me that it had come down rom his grandfather, and that as a mat ter of fact he had never filled the of- flee.
 There is no better man in north Ala bama than is Perry Henderson of Ath- ems, the staunch Baptist who year in and year out maintained that the Baptists of Athens should have place of worship. It was an uphill fight. but with the aid of a few brethren and band of conse- crated women he lived to see the time when they could adjourn from the coust. house to occupy a beautiful modern church building of their own His name will go down in Limestone county as one