Pocahontas star herald., 1923-06-29
Cole Writes to Friends
birmingham, Ala, June 18th,
lt0r Star Herald,

/ - ''''A A T. ANAAh
have so many good friends IN Ar
kansas that asked me to write TO them
when | got TO Alabama, and Of course,
] promised them | would do 50, but in
the voice Of the jailer who held Joseph
down in Egypt To-day l remember
my faults l have found it next
to impossible to write each Of them,
and ! am handing you few general
words that / will ask the boys to take
as personal words, and ask you to
please hand it to them in the columns
of your paper. have found things in
Alabama far different to what l ex-
pected. Birmingham as you know is
the county site Of jefferson county,
and after went over the state some,
came TO the conclusion that the peo-
pie had moved all the rest Of the state
TO Jefferson county. In fact, if l
had my choice of Jefferson county or
all the rest of the state, would pre-
fer Birmingham and Jefferson county,
and let the other fellow have the rest
of Alabama The people Of Arkansas.
or at least those who have never been
here, have no conception of what Bir-
| mingham and this part of the state Of
Alabama is. Birmingham, running
northeast and southwest is twenty
five miles long, and is connected by
street ears with every city in twenty
miles Of il every way. Bessemer is
the next size city, fifteen or twenty
miles away, with population Of
thirty thousand and is connected with
Birmingham by street car line. JEFF
ferson county is dotted with large cot
ton mills, and steel and iron manu-
featuring plants. They make every
thing here in the large foundries from
small wire nail TO a large locomotive.
Some factories specialize on car wheels
some on heavy railroad railing, some
on one thing and some on another
but all are large factories, and it is
great sight to see cotton mills here
making all kinds of cotton cloth, hose,
etc, where they work thousand
hands. II some of you boys want to
know what they do with all Of that
cotton you raise up in Arkansas, come
to Alabama and they will show you
in about two minutes. / can look
: from my Office window ON the 9th floor
of the First National Bank Building,
in Birmingham, and see a dozen large
I iron mines out on Red Mountain,
where they are taking the iron out Of
the mountain, and just little way
1 from there il goes into the big fac
tories and then is made into all kinds
of things that iron is used for, except
small needles, they do not make those
here. but make the smallest of tacks.
] went to Mobile last Thursday, made
a public speech to NJ. w. A. bar
becue gathering Of two thousand peo-
pie, saw my first orange orchards. and
sailed across the upper part of the
Gulf Of Mexico, from Fair Hope to
Mobile. They have fine crops down on
the Gulf, fine corn and it is in fun
roasting ears. Cotton looks mighty
poor, and not much Of it.
Well, | do not want to burden you,
Frank, with this letter so | will cut
it out, and / will he in Pocahontas
the 4th Of July, If the Lord is willing,
and then | can see the dear boys and
talk to them. but | do not expect to
be here but a few days, as | am com
ing for the sweetest woman that
know anything Of, and expect to
bring her and her two little girls back
with me, where she will take care Of
my Office while sing the attributes
of the Modern Woodmen TO all cor
ners Of Alabama. and the little girls
will have fine chance to go to school.
| am yours I'm thousand ways
Jack Cole,
906 First National Bank Building,
Birmingham, Alabama.