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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.
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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
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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.
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