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The real estate booms in Alabama towns have pretty well been succeeded by wide awake building boom. The Magic City of Birmingham, as also Anniston, Decatur, and several others are rapidly improving. Less than a year ago the little town of Decatur was looked upon by most people as being "finished" and such a thing as a boom to equal the one she now has was unthought of. This proves clearly what a little capital in the hands of live energetic men can do, as this same town now has capital pouring into her from every quarter, and scores of dwellings and various manufacturing enterprises are going up every day. There are hundreds of thousands of dollars being invested in industries of one kind and other. While millions of dollars of Northern capital are now being invested in the South, Southern men and Southern capital are the chief instruments in building them up. The reports has been circulated abroad that the men of the South have but little share in the industrial enterprises of Alabama. This is a grand mistake. The energy and talent of Southern men are entitled to the credit for most of them.
Marion Herald, (Marion County, AL) - July 14, 1887 - transcribed and submitted by Veneta McKinney
Mr. John R. Fowler has taken editorial control of the Morgan County News. We are glad to learn that News has fallen into hands so competent and well qualified as Mr. Folwer's, and we feel quite sure that no effort on his part will be left unmade to advance the cause of old Morgan and her people. The Herald extends a hearty welcome and says long may you soar friend Johnnie.
Marion Herald, (Marion County, AL), May 19, 1887, pg 1, transcribed and submitted by Veneta McKinney
Gus Edmison, the fiendish brute who murdered his wife not long since in Morgan County and then fled the county was captured near Scottsboro, and lodged in Huntsville jail a few days go. The parties who made the arrest wisely concluded that the climate of old Morgan was at present by no means ----- for the gentleman as Judge Lynch has been known to interfere in cases not half so terrible as this one. We sincerely hope that justice will be done and the guilty one to pay the penalty.
Marion Herald, Marion County, AL - June 16, 1887 - Transcribed and submitted by Veneta McKinney
ABANDONED THEIR BABE - Some time ago a man calling himself C. P. Jones, accompanied by a young woman who posed as his wife, arrived in Decatur. The couple took rooms and board with the Barnes Bros. restaurant men, for some time. They the rented a small cottage in the most fashionable part of the city, where they lived until Wednesday night, and left during the night for parts unknown, leaving an infant locked up in the house, apparently about 1 month old, which had been born since their residence in Decatur. They left $25 with the child, and a note telling their neighbors that any once caring for the child would be well paid for it. The note was thrown, with the house key, upon the porch floor of a neighbor, and the baby was found Thursday morning alone in the house.
Hamilton News Press, Marion County AL, March 7, 1895 - Transcribed and submitted by veneta McKinney
