From: The Webster Echo, March 22, 1901. HECHMER. Business is booming. The new railroad is a sure thing this time. Mrs. Sallie Wine, of Braxton, is staying with Mrs. J. P. White. Loyd Carnes and J. P. White were called to Palmer on business last Friday. J. P. White our hustling merchant and lumberman, spent several days in Addison last week. Oscar Griffith, of Pickens, spent a day or two in our town last week looking after business interests. A small child of G. P. Gillespie's died of fever last Friday and was taken to Braxton for burial. J. P. White and W. B. Pettit, two of our most prominet lumbermen, were calling on old friends at Mud Lick last Sunday. Lewis Lumbard has moved his family from Cherry River to Desert Fork. Mr. Lumbard will grade the branch railroad from Desert Fork to Hodom. Everybody is delighted over the prospects of the new railroads, both to Hodom and Addison. The track from Palmer to Grassy Creek will be taken up and replaced with heavier steel. The steel taken up will be used to extend to extend the road to Hodom. JAKIE.