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I (01112 EPIHUUZII'QRPFIIYIBY Page2 Thursday, May 12‘, 2016 READERS Write Letters of Their 0 inions . . . . Send Your Letter to P. O. Box 480040 Linden Alabama 36748 Compliments to Carolyn Bell Friends of Gaineswood: in the April 11 ewsletter of the their hard work. Alabama istoric Commission. We are pleased to report that Carolyn Bell, Site Director, John Northcutt , recent activities at " and her staff at Gaineswood President Gaineswood " were highlighted should be complimented for Friends of Gaineswood, Inc. E DW©RHAE§ Comments by the editor are opinions, reasons, or recommendations. . . Send your written and signed opinions to the Editor. P. O. Box 480040, Linden, Alabama 36748 Capitalist will be best Laughable is how we see television news and daily newspaper commentaries on the presidential campaign. Sadly, these partially educated joumal— ists don’t get out and mingle with people. They would know that there will be a first coming of Donald Trump with Archie Bunker’s full support against the meatheads in America. Thank goodness for the weather chan- Town elections are coming the history of this country. Barely any know anything aobut the running of state ' Municipal elections are coming in August and already the piranahas are cir- cling the prey in Demopolis. Linden has a few grass carps slushing around the edge of the political pond. From the president of this country all the way down to the meter readers in town, the education system in America is reflected poorly. Perhaps weshogldinclude the edgga— R, tion symem in Kenxaiatbis analysis; : seat. Few in America know anything about nel. We can switch from the babbling talking heads to something interestin and useful. ' Being socially correct for the Ivy Leaguers who run Washington, D. C., today doesn’t get a war won nor people working. We still believe the capitalist will beat the communist in November. government, county government, and municipal government until they get into an elected position and it hits them smack in the face. If you are wondering why the elemen- tary school teachers are not teaching the youngsters about govemment, perhaps it is because theteachers were never , _ M, Branner smarter than lvy David Bronneri the financial expert who runs the Retirement Systems of Alabama, has responded to recent com- ments that the money will run out. Bronner avows that the legislature in 2011 and 2012 passed pension reforms to address the very issues that people today are claiming is causing a crisis. The critics say the fund has a $15 bil- lion unfunded liability. Bronner answered it this way: it repre- sents pension benefit obiligations to be "ritmtaauu in... paid in the future over a long period of time like a mortgage. The income from employees is more than sufficient to make the mortgage payments. "Bronner charges that the Wall Street billionaires are pushing the “crisis” . agenda because they want to get the money for themselves. We don’t know how much cotton David Bronner has picked, but he sure is smarter than those Ivy Leaguers. 12 Emma 331211111: a USPS 153-380 Published every Thursday at The Democrat-Reporter at 108 East Coats Avenue, Linden, Marengo County, Alabama 36748. Postmaster, please send changes of addresses to: Editor-Publisher Goodloe Sutton OLD TIMES BY THE LATE JOEL D. JONES ORIGINALLY PUBUSHED JANUARY 23, 1941 Cyclone hit Jefferson same day as one hit Linden, Demopolis We are again called on to mourn the pass- ing of one of our old friends, William Harrison Gregory, one who we have known for over 50 years. Fifty years ago, I spent some time at his father’s home, just north of Jefferson, where I surveyed the land where the home was located on, and at the same time surveying lands owned by Mr. John Gregory, uncle of Harrison. At the time Harrison was a young man and was with me on these‘ surveys. During these days I sur— veyed for Dr. Whitfield, John W. Jones, Lou Simmons, Smith Brothers, Fred Westbrook, some of the Comptons, McSpeed, Kirven Allen, Williams, Grant, Dobson, Evans, Calhoun and other families of Jeffferson community. Since that time I have done a lot of survey work for Harrison, his plantations on the river, his home place, east of Jefferson, known as the “Heart of the Hills,” where he was living at the time of his death. .1 The day the cyclone passed through Linden, leaving death and destruction in its path, one passed near Jefferson, completely destroying the house Harrison was living in at the time. The next morning when I learned of the storm, I went to Linden, Spring Hill, Demopolis, and Jefferson, viewing the destruction of three storms that had visited these neighborhoods the evening before. When I reached the Gregory home, I found Harrison limping around where once stood the nice dwelling, looking to see what he could find of the house and goods. He had in his hand a silver spoon, all he could find of the silverware. It was a sad story he related to me about the storm and destruction of his home and the narrow escape of himself and his family, who was buried in the timbers of the home, and their res- cue. He received wounds that I guess fol— lowed him to the grave. Harrison was one of my best friends,he has visit- ed my home, and I have visited his home. When I visit Jefferson now, I do not see any of the people I worked for back 50 years ago. They have all passed on, and now the younger genera- tion are passing one by one, and new ones taking their places. There is almost every neighborhood in Marengo County, changed hands during the last 50 years. I have surveyed lands for peo- ple in every part of the county, who have passed away, and the lands have changed hands, and I often survey some of these lands for the present owners who cannot remember anything about the original made years ago, probably before, in many cases, the present owners were born. I have kept a record of all the surveys I have ever made, and I am now often called on to make divisions of estates I once surveyed, and the notes I have kept are of a great benefit to me making these divi- sions. I have also kept a record of the govem— ment comers identified by myself and also by the late W. E. Rhodes, where we marked new pointers, however the decay of the time and the destruction of timber by" the farmers The late Joel Desaker Jones been in business for many years, never keep any record of their work, never marking any comer they may find, with new pointers, and keeping no record whatever of their work. I have been called on surveys with some of these surveyors, who could remember fmd- ing comers back years before, but at the time we wanted identify the comers they had no new record, and all traces of the old pointers had disappeared and the only way to re- establish the comers were a lot of work, sur- veying from other comers, and then probably the comers cannot be located but what some contemptuous person will dispute the cor- rectness of the comers. I am sorry that some surveyors will run a line anywhere to the party who has them employed wants the line to go, and I have known such surveys to cause lawsuits, and cost the parties lots of money when in tlje l-final, the survey will be proved incorrect, the parties employing such surveyor will lose the suit. I know of some surveyors who have from two to three lines from probably one- half to two chains apart, dividing the lands of two parties, and on investigation, I find the last line established by him to be favor of the party he was last working for. I have been called upon many times to adjust some of these surveys, and in company with the sur- veyor who did the work, we would check the survey and find his survey to be wrong, and he would probably acknowledge the error, but later would contend that his survey was correct, when it had been proven in his pres- ence to be absolutely incorrect. I do not mean to say that there are survey- ors who do not make mistakes, for all of them are liable to error, even when they are working strictly by the United States Field notes, for we find many errors in the government notes. What I mean is a sur- veyor who will run a line knowing he is wrong, just to please the party that has him employed. We probably will run a line from the southeast corner of a section, west to survey the southeast forty of that section. The field notes says the section is 79 chains wide. We stop at 19 chains and 75 links for the comer of the forty being surveyed and then run north. Some time afterwards we run the entire mile line and we find it 81 chains long instead of 79 as given in notes. We then know our comer set at 19.75 chains is 50 links east of where it should be to give the southeast forty its share of the section. Such errors as this often occur when it is not really the fault of the surveyor. Again we often find the notes will say run a line due north, when we often find that the notes are in error when we find the line will run several degrees to the right or left. In this case the surveyor liable to survey a tract of land and all lines and comers will probably be wrong, which in the course of time he will from further surveys find out, and will become necessary for him to correct. This is P. 0. Box 480040, linden, Alabama 36748 Telephone 334/295-5224 a... a... “at... 1879. Mm... 13...... Office Manager established 1889. Consolidated 1911 as The Democrat- Reporter. Periodicals postage paid at Demopolis, Alabama . Subscription puces include sales tax plus postage and Productlon Manager Henry Walters and timber people, many of these comers cannot now be identified, even with the advantage of these new records. I am still keeping new notes of comers, which some day may be very important to young survey— ors in locating comers. I find some surveyors, some that have not the fault of the government surveyors. Often they tell us how far they miss the cor- nering closing the survey, and when this information is furnished, there is excuse for the surveyor to make and error running from one comer to another. So long until next time. Barbara Quinney handling. In Marengo, Clarke, Choctaw, Sumter, Greene, Hale, Pe ,Dallas, and Wilcox Counties, annual subscri tionsare ' ' $32}, P Composmon Jennifer Knight