The courier-index., 1920-10-15
PROBLEM
 ALMOST SETTLED r
COMMITTEE RAISES FUNDS
 WITH WHICH TO PURCHASE MODERN, SELF PROPELLED BOAT FOR ST. FRANCIS RIVER

BOAT FOR ST. FRANCIS RIVER l While the work of the soliciting committee is not yet finished, Paul Benham, Walter Reed, Morris Les ser, Tom Conner and Geo. Kausler, members of the committee, announce they have practically enough money raised to pay the contract price of | $4,000 for modern, substantial and adequate ferry boat to be placed | in the St. Francis river at Cody. | The committee has been negotiating with the officers of the Memphis Dry Docks Company for several l weeks and finally decided on the | type of ferry boat most practical for the purposes for which 1t will be used. The boat is to be constructed of durable materials, will be sew | enty feet long, which is ten feet longer than the old boat now in use, will be wide enough to accomo- | date vehicles on both sides of the small cabin which in the center of the boat and which will house the gas engine. The blue prints and specifications of the boat were submitted to Max D. Miller and to Capt. G. T. Watkins, both practi- cal and experienced boat men, and received the approval of these gen | tlemen.
 The committee states the contract price of the boat on the docks in t, Memphis is approximately S3,4OO. The cost of the gasoline engine, its installation and the cost of towing the boat down the Mississippi river to the mouth of the St. Francis and then up to Cody will bring the aggregate outlay to at least $4,000. The committee will not sign the contract for the construction of the boat until the full amount of money has been paid in. The busi- scribed literally to the boat fund and within a few days the com mittee expects to have the full amount and will then award the contract. It will take thirty to forty days to complete the boat.
 left the party on the yacht and were taken to the city of Galveston, some twenty miles distant, for view of the gulf and She immense sea wall erected to protect the city from the storms and great tidal waves which sometime prevail on the gulf coast
 After a pleasant drive of an hour about the city, Max headed his car | for Houston, 52 miles distant, which run he accomplished in an hour and thirty seven minutes, over an almost perftc crushed-shell road way.
 One of the most pleasant evenings we four old Marianna veterans spent while there was when we were met at the home of our good lady host tess, Miss Annie Abercrombie by several former residents of Mari anna-Garland Brickey, his mother and two children, Dorothy and Gar, land, Mrs. Wallace Foreman and son, Walter of San Angelo. Walter saw service as a captain in the army across the sea and being the son of a gallant old ex-Confederate, o1 course, made good. We'll, for feai we may encroach too much upon the space of good friend, Jackson we must bring this lengthy commu nication to a close.
 Summed up as whole, through the generosity of neighbors anc friends, the four old Marianna vet erans were given the time of theil lives and shall never cease to ap | preciate it. Through the fortunate and life long acquaintanceship o1 the party with Garland Brickey anc Max Rotholz, they were, as tho saying goes, to have the time o1 their lives. We are proud to note the regard and esteem with which these two are held in their new homes. May success and prosperity ever attend them. We trust wt | may have them with us some day I again. God bless them.
 Now we have saved a mention o1 the sweetest and best treat of the stay or trip for the last. When the hour came for leaving we four were taken to the train at II o'clock al night by our clever hosts, accom- panied by their ladies, and remained with us until the train was ready tc pull out, and then, listen; tell il not in Gath--each and every one ot these charming ladies kissed us 2 fond farewell. "Now what do you know about that. "Uncle" George says that "Uncle" Alb hasn't hac | any sense since. We see no diff ference in his conduct. He is the same old thing (?).-Old Vet.
 | Col. J. E. Wood and the other Confederate veterans who attended the reunion at Houston, Texas, hay
 ing their expenses paid by the func so generously contributed by tho people of Marianna, wish to extenc their thanks to Judge J. A. Plum
 mer in particular for his thoughtful
 ness in raising the fund and to al
 who made contributions. Judge
 Hummer has taken it upon himseli
 for several years to see that tho
 veterans were provided with ex
 pense money for their trips to tho reunions and the veterans are dul! grateful to him for his interest il