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Thursday, April 9, 2015
Cctmm by t_he editar are aNz2am, reasam, crY...
Send your written and signed opinions to the Editor, E O. Box 48[]040, Unden; Alabama 36748
Democrats shut down bank
Democratic Party policies have shut down
the bank in Uniontown.
General Motors has gone bankrupt except
for the government take-over of its opera-
tions. The ignition scandal which caused cars
to lose power and control are direct responses
to Barack Obama's policies. Cheap parts
were used in the switches and nobody cared
until people died.
The American military is bankrupt.
'Nobody in congress cares.
, Nothaving grown up in America, Barack
Obama harbors no pride in this country. He
thinks of it as a welfare state where the
money source is unlimited.
His policies are, simply put: give a
Democrat a job and a weekly pay check.
His appointments to cabinet positions are
not based on experience and capabilities.
How could they be? Obama has none.
Look at the stupid mistakes Hillary Clinton
made as secretary of state. She drew her pay
check and let people die because she is too
inept to do the job.
Even the secret service which is to protect
the president goes oft" on drunken orgies and
allows all sorts of people to break into the
White House. They still get their checks.
The Veterans Administration has ignored
requests from our military service men and
women for health care. The scand is heap-
ing more dirt on Democrats. But those folks
not only kept gett!ng, their pay checks, they
got bonuses. Just like white folks get on tic-
tional television.
We could tell Obama was nothing but a
shallow yard boy out of his element after his
first speech eight years ago.
Why did not the television news shows
jump on this hard?
Their Ivy League bosses told them to stay
off the boy.
Lawlessness breeds lawlessness
Permitting or inviting lawlessness in immi-
gration is the policy of Bavack Obama.
He has never known and has never under-
stood the United States of America.
When the government and the people allow
lawlessness in one element of the country,
other lawlessness will manifest itself in other
torms and other parts of society.
The constitution spells it out clearly, the
president shall take care that the laws are
fully and faithfully executed. Obama has
snubbed the constitution and is trying to
declare anmesty for illegal aliens.
Of course fie can't do this but he is going
to try. With the Republicans in control of the
U. S. House and Senate, Obama will fail.
It is a shame that this matter wasn't attend-
ed to as it was after World War I and World
War II. The illegals were gathered up and
• deported and our returning soldiers had plen-
ty jobs waiting on them.
Moving had its problems
We moved in three days last week and dis-
covered much, much old worn out, obsolete,
and useless junk in our building. We left it.
In the new location, we will be able to dis-
play this differently even if not better.
Our newspaper format is forced to change
a little but the truth in news will remain.
(Suicides are not short illnesses. They are
crimes in Alabama.)
We would also include cigarette smoking
as intentionally killing ones self. This brings
jeers from those who smoke. Young people
who puff" are doing so to cover the odor of
marijuana or crack or some other odor they
don't want mama to smell.
Moving is frustrating and chaotic. We don't
like it and those who helped are due rewards.
Some of the problems with technology
cropped up in the design of last week's paper.
The traditional name was supposed to be in
Old English type. The headlines were sup-
posed to be bold.
A missed keystroke by our compositor was
the reason. The default type laces replaced
our regular ones.
We'll try to return to the tradition this
week.
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Coats Avenue. Linden. Matrengo County, Alabatla 36748. Postmaster; Editor-Publisher Goodloe Sutton
please send changes addres.'"s to:
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Linden Relxaer estahlisht'l 1879. Marengo I.'J, erntxzrat establisNxl
1889. Conlktmed 1911 osTheOemocrat-RePCn'ter. PerilicalspostNe Sports Jinl DeWitt
paid at L)emoplis, Alabama.
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READERS
Write Letters of Their Opinions ....
Send Your Letter to P. O. Box 480040, Linden Alabama 36748
Tennessee
William B. Green
556 County Road 3
Pine Hill, AL 36769
(334) 412-4017
March 27. 2015
Goodloe Sutton, Editor
The Democrat Reporter
108 E. Coats St.
Linden, AL 36748
Dear Mr. Sutton:
Just wanted to give you some
reader feedback pertaining to your
articles about 15"ofessor Kenneth
Holditch and his recollections
about the late author and play-
wright, Tennessee Williams. I
understand that Holditch recently
held a book signing, and a small
coterie of theater students present-
ed dramatic readings of selective
works by Tennessee Williams at
historic Gaineswood.
I have personally collected
books by Tennessee Williams for
several years: finding vintage
Williams fan responds
copies of Williams' nwterial has
been challenging as much of his
plays are short stories were pub-
lished in relatively small printings.
It is also interesting to note that
many libraries and some book-
stores in the 1940's and "50s exer-
cised a fair amount of censorship
whereas his works were con-
cerned: one would be hard-pressed
to find a vintage copy of anything
by Williams on a library shelf
even today.
On the Rare Book market, first
editions can be pricey to collect.
An example of a 'rarity' would be:
"The Roman Spring of Mrs.
Stone" 1950 limited and signed
edition. This was Tennessee
Williams' first and only novel,
beautifully slipcased and limitcd
to just 500 copies. Remarkably,
this particular book sold for $7.50
in 1950. Of course, the value of
the book today is greatly augment-
ed because of Williams" signature.
I also have a first edition "A
Streetcar Named Desire" once
owned by an American actress in
Budapest, Hungary...a testimony
to the international appeal of this
play. Also contained within my
collection is a first edition "'Cat on
Hot Tin Roof' with its dust jacket
depicting a cosmic panorama.
Collecting modern first editions
can be a rewarding hobby. Signed
works are preferable as they
appreciate greatly in value, espe-
cially if the writer is deceased, but
condition and rarity should always
dictate one's collecting endeavors.
The presence of the original dust
jacket is very important as it often
accounts for 80% of the book's
value.
With Best Regards,
William B. Green
P.S. Please share the photos
with your readers and/or literary
aficionados or keep as a memento
of the "grand bird".
OLD TIMES BY THE LATE JOEL D. JONES
ORiGiNALLY PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 9, 1939
Indian trails before whites came
became roads Marengo rides on
At the outbreak of the American Revolution in
1776 there was not a white settlement within the
limits of the preseut states of Alabama and
Mississippi, and in West Florida, except Mobile,
Natchez, and Pensacola. Here and there, however,
throughout this vast tenitory were occasional
white settlers, usually traders or trappers, but their
stay" in any one locality was never permanent.
During the progress of hostilities between the
Colonies and Great Britain, and immediately fol-
lowing its close, from time to time, small portions
of refugees from Georgia, and the Carolinas. drift-
ed into what was known as the Georgia Western
CountLv, and located themselves in the Alabama-
Tombigbee basin. The actual settlements were in
the present Clarke, Baldwin, and Washington
Counties. By 1798 when the Mississippi Territory
was formed, these settlements had expanded until
there were several hundred souls in the Tombigbee
country. The migration into this country moved
rapidly until checked by the Creek War of 1813-
14. Up to that time five counties had been formed.
The short campaign under General Jackson, end-
ing with the Battle of the Horse Shoe Bend March
27, 1814, broke Creek power, and within the next
years more than one hundred thousand people had
located the state of
Alabama. The
Alabama territot 3'
had been formed
March 3, 1817. and
December 14, 1819 a
joint resolution was
adopted admitting
the state iuto the
Federal uniou.
The coming of
pioneers, their settle-
ments here and there
throughout this part
of the state, and the
formation of towns,
affecting directly the
location and opening
up of permanent
roads, but at the same
time the early Indian
trails had themselves
in a measure shaped
and directed the trend
of the settlement.
The Great
Tombigbee Crossing
was at Black Bluff,
near our Paces land-
ing. The Choctaw
Indians used this
crossing, and contin-
ued with their trail eastward to our present Linden.
Another Indian trail crossed the Tombigbee near
the mouth of the Chickasawbogue, and ranging
eastward, along or about the road from Linden to
Myrtlewood. along near the location of Louisville
and Nashville railroad, intersecting the Black Bluff
trail at Linden, and then on east to Cahaba, on the
Alabama River. Another Indian mill led from
Putnam northward to Linden while still another
trail was from Choctaw Corner to Shiloh, and on
north, connecting with Cahaba trail near
Thomaston.
These trails have become improved highways,
while some of them have become improved coun-
ty roads. One from Linden. via Jefferson on to
Paces Landing, one from Linden to Coffeeville,
known as the Mobile road. for this trail extended
from Mobile to the Tennessee River; crossing the
Warrior River, a few miles from Demopolis. The
trail leading from Linden, to Cahaba, known as the
Linden and Cahaba road, crossed the Alabama
River at Cahaba. and led on to the mouth of Old
Town Creek, at our present Benton, in Dallas
County. The trail leading from Choctaw Corner,
via Shiloh, and on to Dayton and Greensboro, was
7"he late
Joel Desaker Jones
known as the Old State Road. It is claimed by
some people that General Jackson traveled this
trail while on his way to New Orleans, but it is
doubtful, as Jackson's trail has been well located
through Alabama, entering the State in the north-
ern part of Lauderdale County and crossing the
Tennessee River at Florence, continuing southwest
through Tuscumbia, Russellville in Franklin
County, where it crossed into Marion County, then
into and across Lamar Count,,', and then into
MississippL to Columbus on the Little Bigbee
Rive.
The mad from Demopolis via Linden to the
county line south of Putnam; the road from Paces
Landing via Linden to Cahaba; and the road from
Faunsdale to Choctaw Comer, were the first roads
opened in Marengo County, and established as
public roads. Parts of these roads have been aban-
done& and many changes made in their locations.
and we still find it necessary to make changes. It is
wonderful to note the improvements that have
been made in the roads of our county in the last 20
years. We well remember when it was possible to
travel some of the roads with buggy and horse dtu'-
ing the winter months. We can remember when
wagons bogged down in the road about one mile
south of Faunsdale,
and remained there
until spring, where
they were dug out
and moved. We can
remember when it
was impossible to
travel the roads lead-
ing fi:om Linden,
south and from
Linden to Rembert,
during part of the
winter, and we can
remember when it
was necessary to
travel through
woods, horseback,
even to get any
where north of the
Post Oak,
We now can travel
anywhere in the
county we wish,
without any mud or
trouble whatever.
Yet, some of us are
not satisfied, and
ready to grumble
because it costs so
much and nine out
of ten of us who are
grumblers, do not
pay tax enough to dig up one stump that happens
to be in the road, and if it was left to us to remove
the stump, we would drive around it until it rotted
out, before we would hit one lick toward removing
it, Yet, we grumble about the men that improve the
roads for our benefit.
When we remember how horrible the roads
were a few years back. and we look at the wonder-
ful improvement that has been made on all the
roads in the county, we should take our hats offto
our Board of Revenue, and bid them God's speed
in the good work. The southwest district should
forever reverence the memory of the late Gould
Lewis, for the splendid improvements of the roads
in that district, but what I think of his great work
he did to the roads while he was living.
While we speak of this good man, who has
passed to his rewar& we do not mean that the rest
are anything like short in their labors, for all are
good and all need praise for their good work. We
should be satisfied, and stand by them and help
them in their good work, and be proud of our
Board and keep them in harness, and let their good
work go on.
So long until next time ..........