The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-12
Harry Jones Tells About
 Days When City Started
nr MIGNoN HAIL

Someone wrote in to the paper asking if it were ein the memory of anybody" when Harry fJones was not traveilng salesman.
 He is the oldest travelling man in the world" the letter stated.
 Harry was staiked to his place of business, cerralled at Moore & Handleys, Iasseed and asked why he had kept the thing ] dark secret for so long.
 Harry has "trnyeled the road,m for 46 years.
 He was flabBergasted for a minute when confronted With the statement. Then, said he;
 'l admit everything. The jig'ss up. am the oldest man on earth, if C. M. Sherrod of Court land, wrote you that
 ,"I do not remember the great auk. do not recall which elephant it was--the little one or the big one ~ hat came out of the ark first. 1Nor do l remem- Der the first girl named Sally
 But outside of that I remem- Der everything else that ever happened, to gnat'si hair"
 Clad was he in a palm beach suit, a small stogie III one cor ner of his mouth. Harry Jones was piled with questions. He was made Io repeat history from the time people were buying nails and hammers from his hardware company to tack board shingles on their log houses in the vicinity of Pratt City and Woodlawn.
 He was travelling then out Of Nashville He said 1t was only a mere matter of 34 years ago that he become associated with Moore & Iandley, and sold stuif to P. H. Earle, who had a big general merchandise store as Elyton.
 Used to have to hire a. buggy to go down there, and also to go out to Woods which is now Woodlawn Oh, that .'as ' in the days" the thousand year r-old stroSed his chin-"in the days when vehicles were sinking up above the hub in the mud on SeCoHu avenue 'hu "Sh tieth street"
 Then he grew rueful.
 'I don't know why C. M. Sher- rod wanted to tell my age like that. He and that gang down there promised faithfully never to reveal when I first showed up at Courtland. Now all my lady friends will be calling me grand pF TTnnla Harry VI
 Then he sighed as memories Of old Courtland came to him.
 You can just say to him that if I live to be a million I'll all ways cherish memories of those dances the young folks got up for Bob Goodall and me-the 'drummers' in town-and the mo- ble friend chicken that graced the board for< refreshments, flanke ed with cider and with pies They served them at 10 ?. m remember the exact hour.
 The oldest travelling man in the world grew more pensive still.
 There were three kinds of that ple-and all good--that was the trouble. 1 liked all of 'en Their names were openfaced, crossbarred and 'kivered' It was hard to beat the 'kivered pie.
 It was along in those days, MT. Jones said, the word "easy tray cling was unknown. A man went horseback, or rode in buggy He couldn't even have bicycle to ply his trade. He carried hts samples. catalogs and clothing swung to his saddle.
 q guess when c. M. Sherrod saw me I was just about the first drummer he ever saw, for he did not get to town as large as Courtland until they held him and put his first pair of shoes on at the age of 15 years Everybody knows Sherrod. Hes a great chap. and has been po- litically honored with the legis* lature and with responsibilities not ofAn gwen the common run of men"
 Harry Jones made all this territory in those old days; and Birmingham has always been 'home" to him even when he was