From Baldwin County, Alabama.

 

To the Editor of the New York Times:

 

The attention of the Judge of Probate and of the County Commissioners for Baldwin County, Alabama, has been called to the letter from J. W. Roberts of Perdido Station, Alabama, published in your issue of Sunday, Aug. 13, in which the statement is made that starvation, desolation, and destitution exist in Baldwin, Monroe, and Clarke Couties, Alabama. The undersigned beg to state that as far as concerns Baldwin County, Alabama, there is no foundation for the statements made in the letter.

 

J. H. H. Smith, Judge of Probate fro Baldwin County, Ala.

P. J. Cooney, County Commissioner.

W. R. Lackey, County Commissioner.

Chas. M. Nelson, County Commissioner.

C. S. Tompkins, County Commissioner.

 

Bay Miette, Ala., Aug 13, 1916

Published in The New York Times August 18, 1916

 

Transcribed by Dawn Conway.

 

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