Military Officers Association of America Presentation
"Yeah, well, the Dude abides." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYsw0KVRjCM&t=3s
abide: to endure without yielding
Ecclesiastes 1:4
"One generation goeth, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth for ever."
Kingdoms rise and fall, the ground they're built upon is the only constant.
ROD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_(unit)
What is an acre? https://www.vantrumpreport.com/2022/02/01/whats-in-an-acre/
The Bitter "Weed. EDITOK GAZETTE : In the last nnm-b-r of the Gazdte you had bonietbing timely to say about the " Bitter Weed," with whk-u. the Street" and Lawns of Tuskaloosa are how so umih infested. 1 am glad that you bav siiested to onr worth Board of Aldermen the ueeeity of declaring Uittsf war agaiuat tlxa Bi ter Weed. This troublesome intruder Is a species of (enixni or Sneeze Weed.
It made it appearance in our streets about six yearsajio, and wad . at fir t supposed to bt a new m it of Dog FeimtL Where it earn.; from i r who brought it here are. questions that b.ljug to that class of questfons that no Mlo is expected to find out. Tha moat important question for the people of Tus-kaloora is how can we get lid it ? From ii very small cluster of staks it bi.n in the course of a lew years increased so rapidly, and spread so widely that our streets are now like a vast yellow ciirpet spread out iu the buu. This Weii- ium is the worst pest iu the way of a weed we have ever had to contend.
J. lie ug rennei dies out before July and is vexatious mainly on account of the red bugs with which it is iu- lesled : b iorula tojtee come in lute in tne season, and is troublesome only on account of its obatim ting the side-walks and paths ; but this noxious lSMer W eed itu its pretty name, llcl- f ilium, comes like an army of Cossacs, with the first grass ot spring, destroys all the good pasturage during the summer and autumn; tiuil like Yellow Fever, disappears only .on the ad7 vent of a bhek frost. The city fathers ought to t ike measures to destroy it, root and branch. It may be impossible to extirpate it in one sen-sou : but it it is persistently fought, before it goes to seed, there is scarcity any doubt that it can :ne cm rid of in two or three years. Th.it the trial ought to be made, is the opin ion ol il .a 11 TA.-f.i i Mia.
The writer we know represents the views of a large, and iutelligint un in ner of pur citizens. 1 he ebd id now in full bloom: If cut; a large; perhaps three fourths; of the Seed would not come up next spring, wneu another mow ing would give it a qui etus. The heavy fall dews are set- ting in, many of the side walks are now mere loot paens; wc know the ladies do not like drabbled dresses. Wheu shall the mowing begin !.
Complaining Of Wide Streets. Selma has often complained of her wide streets. The city was laid out when the land was cheap and the hopes of the pioneers high and their views large. Tuskaloosa suffered from the same grandiose ideas of its projectors. There is a great deal too much street in those cities, although Tuskaloosa has mitigated the evil somewhat by planting trees down the middle of the streets in double rows.
We can give an idea of the width of a Tuskaloosa street by saying that a block of buildings could be placed along the center lines and leave street enough on each side for all the traffic that now prevalls. Most of the time of the merchants and others is taken up in crossing and recrossing streets. Selma proposes a remedy that appears a good one, namely, to remove the property line out toward the center of the street twelve or fifteen feet on a side, so as to give a grassy lawn between the sidewalks and the houses. The remaining roadway will be sufficiently wide and money can be found with which to pave It. At present, with streets of utmost width, it is hopeless for a town of Selma's size to look to paving AS a relief from the dust storms that prevan there.-Mobile Register..
STORIES Of I FACT AND FICTION I was much Interested In a beautifully Illustrated article in the May Arichitectural Record, entitled The Greek Revival of the Far South as it is In Tuskaloosa, Ala. said a reader of that magazine. 'The article begins by saying that perhaps no where over the South can be found a town which more perfectly blends the relics of the old -regime with that of the new, than we find here In the quaint old town of Tuskaloosa, with Its wide streets and their rows of massive oaks, forming overhead a veritable canopy of verdant green, and lined with houses and grounds roaming about with the Due Southern disregard of space. Following, a history of the town Is given, dating back to its founding in 1816. The article further says, But the point which really interests one Is the high degree of enlightenment its society attained In ante-bellum days.
There hospitality ripened into a fine art and never flowered to a more exquisite display than In this old town. The men were honorable, chlvalric and thoroughbred. The mala thought In the article is, however, the architectural beauty of the old homes which have been preserved many of them since ante-bellum days, and which are now beautiful land marks of the Druid City. There are numerous Illustrations of Tuskaloosa homes given, bearing no name of the owner, but among others are those of the Battle house, the Snow house, the mansion of the president of the Alabama University built In 1827, the Spence home, the old state eapitol, the Foster and the Hays homes and many others. The article Is attractively written and Illustrated and forma one of the best In the magazine..
from the October 20, 1821 NATCHEZ GAZETTE
3y the President of the United States. WHEREAS ty the second lection of an art of Con-1 tress, patsed on the 20th of April', 13 Jo, entiUed "An act respe:tiu(r the sprveyinj and sale of the public I lands in the Alabama Territory," the President of the I in , Uuiled SUUs it authorized to designate and reserve iroin salo a certaiu uutubar ot sections, not excced.ng ten, I iu any one destrict in the Territory aforesaid, for the purpose of laying out and establishing towns thereon; Mutch sections, so designated and reserved lor tlie pur pose aforesaid, re required to be laid off iuto lots, and to be offered at public sal in the tame manuer, and ou I the same terms and conditions, aa are prescribed tor the disposal of similar lands of the United States: 1 het-efor. be it known, tliat 1. James Monroe. Presi dent of the Vnited States of America, do hereby declare end publish; this my Proclamation, that a public sale shall be held on the fith Monday in October next.
-at the laua Uilice st' Tuscaloosa, in the state of Alabama, for the disposal at public auction of Lots numbered one to I nve iiuudrea ana eleven, inclusive, sitaate in, the Uwtrict j nn-of Tuscaloosa, and forming the town of Tuscaloosa, ly ing I ...w ...v, u. un ..Hi.... .cuu ... i.uui - . -T - , with iheTeqaisitions of act aforesaid.
. - ' I .No" lots to be sold foe a leu pries than at tha rate of! .1. ii . . .
.I. uouars per acre, j, . ,-. . .
; , 1 he sale to commence with th lowest number, and to proceed in regular numerical order, until all th lot thall bar beeo offered-i ; ' - Ci veo under my kind, at tha city of Washington, this zju cay ol August, A. u. lCl. ' ' i MONROE. Bthe PreMJont: ' 1 " ; , .
, , ' C JOUH MFIG3,' ' ,:'""',' V... 39. 6 Commissioner of ihdGei'L Land Oflira,.
STORIES Of I FACT AND FICTION I was much Interested In a beautifully Illustrated article in the May Arichitectural Record, entitled The Greek Revival of the Far South as it is In Tuskaloosa, Ala. said a reader of that magazine. 'The article begins by saying that perhaps no where over the South can be found a town which more perfectly blends the relics of the old -regime with that of the new, than we find here In the quaint old town of Tuskaloosa, with Its wide streets and their rows of massive oaks, forming overhead a veritable canopy of verdant green, and lined with houses and grounds roaming about with the Due Southern disregard of space. Following, a history of the town Is given, dating back to its founding in 1816. The article further says, But the point which really interests one Is the high degree of enlightenment its society attained In ante-bellum days.
There hospitality ripened into a fine art and never flowered to a more exquisite display than In this old town. The men were honorable, chlvalric and thoroughbred. The mala thought In the article is, however, the architectural beauty of the old homes which have been preserved many of them since ante-bellum days, and which are now beautiful land marks of the Druid City. There are numerous Illustrations of Tuskaloosa homes given, bearing no name of the owner, but among others are those of the Battle house, the Snow house, the mansion of the president of the Alabama University built In 1827, the Spence home, the old state eapitol, the Foster and the Hays homes and many others. The article Is attractively written and Illustrated and forma one of the best In the magazine..
Complaining Of Wide Streets. Selma has often complained of her wide streets. The city was laid out when the land was cheap and the hopes of the pioneers high and their views large. Tuskaloosa suffered from the same grandiose ideas of its projectors. There is a great deal too much street in those cities, although Tuskaloosa has mitigated the evil somewhat by planting trees down the middle of the streets in double rows.
We can give an idea of the width of a Tuskaloosa street by saying that a block of buildings could be placed along the center lines and leave street enough on each side for all the traffic that now prevalls. Most of the time of the merchants and others is taken up in crossing and recrossing streets. Selma proposes a remedy that appears a good one, namely, to remove the property line out toward the center of the street twelve or fifteen feet on a side, so as to give a grassy lawn between the sidewalks and the houses. The remaining roadway will be sufficiently wide and money can be found with which to pave It. At present, with streets of utmost width, it is hopeless for a town of Selma's size to look to paving AS a relief from the dust storms that prevan there.-Mobile Register..
A NOVEL PARADE. Sells Brothers and Barrett with their united shows will introduce more novel features in their street parade this year than all other show: in America combined can produce. Each of these shows was fully equipped for the tenting season, and intended 10 tour the country seperately, but by a stroke of genius, more bold than has ever before beet. attempted, they ar' ranged to travel and exhibit in conjunction. It was a difficult task to find room on their sixty long cars for the two shows, and in order to add a brand new feature never before introduced in this country, ten new cars, each sixty ilve feet in length, had to be built.
The feature alluded to above is the Children's Dream of Fairyland, exemplified with many golden chariots. representing the principal features of fairy lore -among which is Robinson Crusoe, Old Mother Goose, Cinderella, Bine Beard, Littie Red Lidin. Hood, Santa Claus and the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe. These golden chariots, drawn by ponies, together with the miniature Tally Ho conch with monkey footmen and attendants, will appear in the parade. Over fifty cages, two droves of camels, two herds of elephants many bands of music.
and hundreds of other features will be worth going many miles to see, and is only a partial index of the wealth of wonder displayed under the huge canvases. It requires four extra large locomotives to haul this immense show upon the levelest railroads. This grand parade will appear about 10 o'clock on the streets or Tuskaloosa on October 9..
FOR SALE. House of nine rooms kitchen and coal house, stable, carriage house, harness and tool room, two corn cribs, brick well of fine water, watf r connection, peach trees and grape arbors, a perpetual pas ture on lot 01 nearly nve acres, situated on Lawrence and East Margin streets in Tuskaloosa. Brick store house and lot, two residence and lots in Northport. Joshua H Foatir..
The Bitter "Weed. EDITOK GAZETTE : In the last nnm-b-r of the Gazdte you had bonietbing timely to say about the " Bitter Weed," with whk-u. the Street" and Lawns of Tuskaloosa are how so umih infested. 1 am glad that you bav siiested to onr worth Board of Aldermen the ueeeity of declaring Uittsf war agaiuat tlxa Bi ter Weed. This troublesome intruder Is a species of (enixni or Sneeze Weed.
It made it appearance in our streets about six yearsajio, and wad . at fir t supposed to bt a new m it of Dog FeimtL Where it earn.; from i r who brought it here are. questions that b.ljug to that class of questfons that no Mlo is expected to find out. Tha moat important question for the people of Tus-kaloora is how can we get lid it ? From ii very small cluster of staks it bi.n in the course of a lew years increased so rapidly, and spread so widely that our streets are now like a vast yellow ciirpet spread out iu the buu. This Weii- ium is the worst pest iu the way of a weed we have ever had to contend.
J. lie ug rennei dies out before July and is vexatious mainly on account of the red bugs with which it is iu- lesled : b iorula tojtee come in lute in tne season, and is troublesome only on account of its obatim ting the side-walks and paths ; but this noxious lSMer W eed itu its pretty name, llcl- f ilium, comes like an army of Cossacs, with the first grass ot spring, destroys all the good pasturage during the summer and autumn; tiuil like Yellow Fever, disappears only .on the ad7 vent of a bhek frost. The city fathers ought to t ike measures to destroy it, root and branch. It may be impossible to extirpate it in one sen-sou : but it it is persistently fought, before it goes to seed, there is scarcity any doubt that it can :ne cm rid of in two or three years. Th.it the trial ought to be made, is the opin ion ol il .a 11 TA.-f.i i Mia.
The writer we know represents the views of a large, and iutelligint un in ner of pur citizens. 1 he ebd id now in full bloom: If cut; a large; perhaps three fourths; of the Seed would not come up next spring, wneu another mow ing would give it a qui etus. The heavy fall dews are set- ting in, many of the side walks are now mere loot paens; wc know the ladies do not like drabbled dresses. Wheu shall the mowing begin !.
Correspondence of the Gazette. of the rights of tbe people, Mr. Editor, inalienable and inherent, is to complain at the office-holders. They are a privileged class. Now, I propose to give them one of their privileges that of being abused.
I shall complain, first, that they promise more than they perform. Let ub take up our City authorities What are they doing ? As I was walking down town this morn ing, I was almost lost in the weeds that hedg ed my. path. It is true there was no hog hiding in the rank tangle to frighten me by his ugh ! tigh ! but The scent ot the swill ' Hangs 'round it still." Crossing one of the bridges, ono foot caught against a nail that caused me to Btumble and catch the other in an opening in the plauks, This happens frequently. A buggy, the other dT, got its wheel lodged between two planks of the flooring of the Street Railway crossing and was nearly wrecked, striking agaiust the ends of the cross-ties.
They will cover thera up in due time, of course. Tho City Fathers owe it to their constituency to give us safe ways for foot and vehicles. Did yon ever, Mr. Editor, stop and look at tnat enolosnro of trees on Greensboro St.? It is a picture of real loveliness. Let our colored folk come into town and hitch their lean cattle to the tailing and fallen planks that environ those lovely oaks, and you have a picture that Harper would envy.
Sunday is here now. What do you see on this sacred day, Mr. Editor? Ton don't see it? There are those who do, aud they have the power to arrest it While here goes an orderly procession of cheerful and happy faces to the house of God, there goes a line ot almost equal leng'th, finding its way, bv the aid ot hired ushers, to the den of the Rum-sailer and the doom of the drunkard. We have men in our midst doing more mischief than the worst plague that ever visited a people, I complain that there is no resistance to tuis worse than small-pox scourge. The City Fathers can do something and the whole city intelligence will support them ia it 1 - Gbdmblee, The boys are going to afflict Entaw with a game of Base Ball next week.
The 'Druids' have been practicing a little this week, and the Entawans will have to dauce around right sharp to eome out first best!..
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