Hattiesburg American from Hattiesburg, Mississippi • 10

Pagt 10-A HATTIESBURG AMERICAN Mendiy, Miy 29, 1961 Letter to the editor Razing of old faofel wings hadi memories This sign has been gone for It was a beauty I saw the' largest, tallest, most beautiful building I had ever seen. For a few more days you can see it now as I saw it then, manv the clop clop of horses hooves on the pavement, the dackety-clack of the old time telegraph instruments operated by men with black arm sleeves and green eye shades sending messages in Morse code. May your balj room be crowded again with the youth of yesteryear, waltzing and fox trotting to tho music of Cooney's Band. May "Ole Gus" be headwaiter in your dining room again, demanding absolute perfection of the other colored waiters in white coats and black bow ties who knew their business as few waiters do these days, men who respected tha guests and were in turn respected by them. And if on cold winter nights a couple of helmeted policemen should drop in for coffee, I know it will be on thi house there, even as it used to be here long ago.

Yours truly, Wiley Allen Landrum 516 Elizabeth Aftnut many years but it was a marvelous thing in its day and well represented the position of the young City of Hattiesburg, geographically, among its neighbors. I cannot think of a single sign, neon or electric, in Hattiesburg today years older of course. But there P. that Is comparable to it. Editor, The American: An time passes, working its inevitable changes, many of the early landmarks of Hattiesburg are disappearing.

The razing of Hotel Hattiesburg now taking place gives rise to this letter. When I lived in Lumberton as a small boy a trip to Hattiesburg was a great event for me. There were three things in the town that had the greatest attraction for me. One was the horse drawn fire equipment in the lower part of the City Hall which stood then where the Forrest Hotel now stands. I went there to see the fire horses and glory in my noors and the marble wainscoting four feet high in the halls.

The depot On the east side, the lower floor, was the Union Depot for the Railroad and the Mississippi Central Railroad, as well as the Southern Express Office, and the dispatcher' office where the telegraph instruments clicked rapidly night and day, sending their messages in Morse code. Outside, are the tracks of the and the Mississippi Central Railroads, over which more than a dozen passenger trains a day came and went. The platform, the whole length of the building, was crowded night and day, just before and just after "train time." Hattiesburg is between three and four times as large as it was then but not a single passenger train ever arrives or departs from this once busy station. Grass and weeds grow through the joints and the cracks in the pavement where once departing and arriving guests and others mingled. Old Hotel, farewell.

May your many parts be re-assembled in Valhalla where there are no automobiles or taxi-cabs or motor courts or diesel engines. There may you stand forever beside the tracks where the vanished steam engine has gone with its wooden coaches discharging shadowy passengers from a world where they have grown old and long for The hotel The third and last of these at tractions of the Hattiesburg of my youth was the Hotel Hattiesburg, ,1, A' i known in more recent times as the Milner Hotel. I do not know wher. it was built but long time residents here have told me it was built about 1905 or 1906, when Hattiesburg was in its hey day as the center of the long leaf friendship with the firemen every time I came to town with my father. yellow pine lumber market and Japan's new 10-year-plan envisages raising the standard of living of workers and farmers 100 per cent.

I was there one day when an are the same copper cornices, and gutters and rain spouts; the same ornamental work under its eaves, the large shields with "H.H." on them at the corners of the building under the eaves. The small red trim and beautiful brick with the thin mortar lines between them such as one rarely ever sees today; more than a million of them according to the estimate of one of those in charge of wrecking the building, are still there, rising majestically, straight and true for five full stories. Over the entrance to the dining room at the northwest corner of the building, chiselled in stone, is the word "CAFE and at the opposite end the words "ENTRANCE G4SI RAILROAD DEPOT." Step inside the spacious lobby with its stately columns where once there was wall to wall carpeting into which the "high-top" shoes of another generation almost sank from sight, see what is left of the "desk" where the clerk held sway and the stand where the captain of the bell boys once ruled with military American Legion Citizenship Awards from County Judge William Haralson, representing Allen B. Carter Post of the Legion. (Photo by Gaston's Hyland Studio) GOOD CITIZENS-Ray Kahler.

son of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Kahler, and Judy Strickland, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Harmon Strickland, receive the Rawls Springs eighth grade alarm came in. The horses knew what was happening, they began to snort and paw the sawdust in their stalls. A fireman pulled a rcpe that dropped the chain in scores of lumber brokers maintained their offices here. The first time I was ever in Hattiesburg was as a small boy when my father brought the entire family here to purchase a family buggy horse from M.

Thompson Sale Stable, which was then on West Pine St about where part of Belk's Store is now. front of each stall, the horses Answers to some farm-home questions leaped out and got under the harness which was suspended We, of course, came in on the areas. What control measures Railroad (Southern). The noise and bustle and excitement at the station as we alighted FAMOUS NEGRO SINGERS from the train thrilled me with a great excitement that I have never experienced again, though in the army I have seen most of the V- Patriarchs Militant Auxiliary elects new officers Ladies Auxiliary No. 3, Patriarchs Militant, I.

0. 0. MET in regular session in odd Fellows Hall, Hattiesburg, Friday night. Helen Kirkland, president, conducted the business session. Nomination, election and installation of officers was held with the following results: Vera Boyles, Hattiesburg, president; Katie Glenn, Laurel, vice president; Colonel John E.

May, Laurel, secretary; and Kay Tura Holder, Hattiesburg, treasurer. The installation was conducted by Captain Virgil O. Kirkland of Laurel as installing officer, assisted by Lt. Col. Jack Ptaschek, Hattiesburg, adjutant; and Made-lynne Ptaschek, Hattiesburg, chaplain.

The next regular meeting will be held in Laurel on Tuesday, June 13. At the close of the meeting refreshments were enjoyed at a local restaurant. large cities of the world. Hacks and porters Draymen with long whips in their hands reached for our "baggage checks," hack drivers (the You'll have to be careful in the lobby not to stumble over the large footed tubs and marble lav-atories of generous size that the workmen have lately placed there to be hauled away for use in other places. If you can still get up stairs go there and see the tile from the ceiling, another fireman pulled a rope which dropped the suspended harness on their backs, their collars were snapped shut, the lines were, snapped to the bits which the horses already wore and the firemen scrambled on the wagon.

The driver pounded the gong with his foot and the horses leaped forward in unison. Out into West Pine St, they went at a sharp trot; straightening out as they were turned right they broke into a hard gallop. The pounding of their hooves on the pavement, the loud clanging of the gong on the fire wagon, the wail of the fire whistle down at the water works and the sight of the firemen on the swaying wagon struggling into their rubber coats is something I will never forget. The Hub sign The second great attraction, in that order, was the sign atop the Ross Building "Hattiesburg The Hub." Spokes went out from taxi drivers of that day) cried should be applied? A. Rotenone or malathion are locally available and are effective against these pests.

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Three or four good lambs will buy a top commercial ram today. A. Locate hog buildings on a well drained site. Place building paper or plastic under the slab as a moisture barrier. On poorly drained soil, also use gravel and tile for drainage under the slab.

Damp, cold floors bring on trouble with hogs. Q. How should I go about making a rock garden? A. Try to choose an area "Haaaack, Haaack, get a hack," Ire. Jot MYi kVi'j -J tat tultr.

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Q. How late can I plant cotton and expect a favorable yield? A. Research at Stoneville, Miss, over a seven-year period showed that cotton planted May 11-15 averaged 1,899 pounds of seed cotton per acre, and May 21-25 plantings averaged 1,869 pounds. This data shows an average of a bale and a half of cotton yield per acre harvested from May 21-25 plantings. Q.

If my pre-emergence treated cotton comes up before a rain, how can I get rid of the crabgrass that comes up with the cotton? A. If the crabgrass bunches have deep roots and blades an inch and a half to two inches long, the chemical in the band will not kill it after a shower. Cut the grass out with a hoe or use post-herbicidal oil. Q. Cutworms are extremely heavy in vegetation next to cotton fields.

What should I do? A. Cutworms move heavily into cotton from areas of heavy vegetation such as vetch, ryegrass, oats, and weeds on ditch banks or turn rows adjacent to cotton fields. Band treat against the movement of cutworms from this vegetation into the cotton. Avoid spraying into pastures. Q.

When should I sidedress cotton? EAT YOUR FILL BOILED JUMBO SHRIMP $1.50 Monday Tuesday 5 P.M. to 10 P.M. THE PICKWICK I do rot remember. Father decided that we would go to Hotel Hattiesburg. It was only two blocks from the depot to the hotel so father, ignoring the hack drivers, decided that we should walk.

On the way over he showed us the Hub sign. It was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. I kept my head craned back and my eyes on it until father pointed and said "there is where we are going to stay Hotel Hattiesburg." with some slope for natural ap the hub of the wheel to the various towns of which Hattiesburg is the hub, or center. It was a tremendous big wheel, lighted with HUB CITY OFFICE SUPPLY CO. For ALL Your Office NMdt 220 WM Pint JU 2-3301 many hundred electric bulbs which were so arranged as to make the lighted wheel seem to the United States is about $2,000.

How much of this is usually spent for food? A. Consumers spent $394 per person for food in 1960, up from an average of $319 in 1947-49. But the 1960 expenditure represented only 20 percent of their disposal income, compared with 26 percent in 19479. Q. What about the sheep business today? turn round the Hub.

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