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PlIE OFFICIAL ORGAN OK Mt'DUKKlK
County.
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THOMSON. OA., FEI5. 5, 1000
Mr. llarrimnn, the great, mil*
road magnet, owns the controlling
interest in the Central of Georgia
Railway, and recently mode a visit
to Gcraift, and he also imule
several speeches. Ho made
several promises, and among wns
to spend ten million dollars on
the Central. “Blit,” said he **it is
not enough to elect a governor
anti legislature frinodl.v to the
railroads, tub kmbakoo must he
raised. ”
And this latter expression lias
created consternation in the ranks
Have not the hoys pointed with
pride to the fact that they prevent
ed the Hoke Smith legislature
from passing any hiws hostile to
railroads? Have they not stated
that our laws are fair and just?
EDITORIAL NOTES.
When Sir. Bon L. Jones, one
of
the wealthiest citizens of Macao,
(la., committed suicide by shoo',-
ing himself to death with u revol
ver he again illit*.l rated a fact
that, the wealth of this world does
not. bring happiness and content*
uient. Though not an old man,
his life had heen a success in a
financial way, and ho had ac
cumulated a hall million dollars
which was well invested. But
after lie had accomplished this,
nnd when ho was beyond the
possibility of want, he took a re
volver and so.it liis soul into eter
nity. It is the same old tale that
lias often been told.
It limy bo true, as stated in the
papers, t hat ill health was respon
sible for his net. But that would
oily illustrate the poverty ol
riches. Whvn health is h**ne a
half million dollars could not
tempt a man to live, and yet
think of the countless thousands
who would give health for a hall
tn ill ion dollars I
o o 0
And yet there is another view
to take of it. Think of the
thousands who have health ami do
not appreciate it. They look up
on the man with the million dol
lars and see no reason why he
should not be nappy, and the man
with the million looks upon the
man who has t’uo robust lmu'tli
and would gladly exchange posi
tions with him. Truly this is a
strange world in which wo are
living..
to deal In furpentino and to buy, luiute or I
soil turpentine privileges, and generally to
do mieli oilier things as may lie necossary I
hir tho best handling of timber, lumber or ,
other assets of like character owned or leas' j
ed by them.
(ti) The capital utock of sub I corporation
Is to he Fifteen Thousand Dollars, and pe
titioners desire the privilege of increasing
name to a sum dot exceeding Fifty Tlious-
I an 1 Dollars by a majority vote of the stock
holders, said slock to be divided into
shares of One Hundred Dollars each.
(7) Petitioners further show that ten per
cent of tho capital to bs employed by them
has been actually paid (n.
(8) Petitioners desire tho rigid, to have
the subset ipth ns to said capital stock to be
paid in money,.or properly, to bo taken at
a fair valuation.
(!i) Petitioners desire tin* right to sue
and lie sued, to plead and i e i'uple i dud, to
have and use u common seal, to make all
necessary by-laws and regulations, and in
do all other tilings that may be BHCessary
for the successful carrying on of said bus
iness, Including the right to liny, hold, and
sell real estate and personal property, and
to execute, notes and bonds as evidence of
indebtedness In the affairs of the corpora"
lion, and to secure same by mortgage, seen-
Why Do We Advertise?
To secure more business, of course.
We have money to loan, you may want to borrow.
Come in and see us about it.
You may have money that you don’t need at the present
moment, and its unsafe to keep around the home, for fear
of fire or theives.
Come in deposit it with us, and you can get it when
needed.
We carry Burglary Insurance and our vault is fire proof.
We are constantly adding new accounts.
Why not yours f
The First National Bank
Under United States Supervision
And Control.
While it will have to bo ad
mitted that wealth does not bring
happiness, it. does not necessarily
follow that poverty does, In fact,
it does not. Abject povfiitv brings
with it misery, but rarly sutlioiont
t o cause snicitb.
o o o
But after all the prayer of the
Psalmist for “neither poverty or
riches” should be the prayer and
desire of all men. One extreme
appears to be uh dangerious ns t he
other, and we do not doubt that
the happiest people the world
over are those who neither eulVer
the pinching of poverty or tho
burdens of riches.
pn not the railroads themselves
admit, that, the lawn are as just as
those of other states? All of
which compels them (the hoys) to
say that. Mr, llarrimnn is mis-
t.ukon ns to what is the law.
, Now we can put a bug into the
ears of Editor Envious and others,
as to wlmt Mr. llarrimau means
by “lift ing the embargo,” Allow
the Central of Georgia to issue
twenty .million dollars in bonds
and sell them to Mr. Jlarnman at
fifty cents in the dollar, and then
allow it to earn enough to pay five
per cent on the twenty millions
of bonds, and Mr. Harriman will
spend tho ten millions in improve
ments, He cant do that ns the
law now stands, nnd that is tho
Embargo to which ho refers and
which ho wishes lifted.
Will they do it? It will bo lip
to Governor Joe Brown and bis
administration to decide. Mr.
Harriman has told them what he
will do. It, is a tempting offer,
and wo heliovo that some way will
ho found whereby the embargo
can he lifted.
BE CAREFUL WITH FIRE.
If you vend the daily papers you
will see the necessity of being un
usually careful with fire at the
present time, and during such
weather as we have had recently.
From every section of the country
reports come of the destruction of
property in towns, cities and tho
county. There is not a section of
Georgia that, did not witness a
destructive fire during the recent
windy weather and in a number
of towns and cities the losses were
heavy.
And in the country tires have
done disastrous work. Fences,
houses and cattle have been de
stroyed and many thousand of
acres of woods burned over.
Ofeourso, we will have these
tires in t he future, but their num
ber will he greatly reduced by the
exercise ot a little more care and
prudence in handling lire—es-
whon the weather is
pecinlly
wi idv,
rity (liaid or other form of lien nmlor exist
ing in'VS.
(10) IVtitionors ilesiro for said corpora
tion the power and authority to apply for
and accept cmendments for its charter
either in form or auhstanuo hy a vote of the
majority of the stock outstanding at the
time..They aisoask authority for said corpo
ration to wind uu Uh affairs, liquidate and
discontinue Us business at any time it may
lie determined to do so by a majority of its
stock.
Wherefore peMtloners pray to he ineorpo
rated under tint name and style aforesaid
with tho powers, privileges, and intmuni.
ties herein set forth, ami as are now, or
may hereafter he allowed a corporation of
similar character under the laws of Geor
gia.
Ika K Fakmku,
Attorney lor Tetitiouors.
STATE OK GEORGIA- McDuffie County.
I (iW. W. Hardaway, Clerk of tho Stipe
rlor Coxrt, of said county, <lw hcreh.v certify
that the foregoing is a true and correct copy
of the application for charier of the llow-
dnn-Cliult Lumber [Company as the same
appears on file in this ollicc.
Witness my official signature this the !!rd
day of Feliy IttO'.l.
W. W. Haiu>away
Clerk Superior Court McDuffie Co.
Lecjal Advertisements
ST AT E OF GEORGIA - McDuffie County.
To tho Superior Court of Said County:
The petition of P. A. Bowden, J, E 011-
att, J. '„C. Cliatt and Ira E. Farmer, all of
McDuffie County Georgia respectfully
•hows:
(1) That they desire for themselves, their
associates, and successors to he incorpora
ted and mu do a body politic under the
name and style of the Bowden—Cliatt
Limbi r Company.
(2) That they desire to he incorporated
for a period of twenty years, with the priv
ilege of renewal at the end of that time.
(;!) That lie principal office of tho corpo
ration will be in the town of Tb muon, Mc
Duffie County, Georgia, and petitioners
desire tho right to establish branch offices
and transact their business at any other
place, in this state or elsewhere.
(4) The object of said corporation is pe
cuniary gain and profit to itself and stock
holders.
(5) The business to be carried on by said
corporation is that of a general saw mill
and lumber business in all of its various
branches Petitioners desire the right to
do a general saw mill and lumber business,
operating saw mills, buying, selling and
leasing timber, buying, selling and leasing
I a mil operating farms on
said bind, luunufnoturing timber into lum
ber, and running in connection with their
business any manufacturing plant for the
more profitable handling of their lumber
products. Petitioners atso desire the right
to operate turpentine stills and generally
G EOUG IA—McDuffie ('ounty.
To whom it may concern:
Mrs. Nannie J. Hardaway, as
Guardian of the estate of Richard A.
Jackson, a lunati.: and recently de
ceased, having applied for leave to sell
the land helonginir to said estate for
distiibutlon among the heirs, notice is
hereby given that said application will
be heard on the llrst Monday in March,
1901).
This 1st. day February, 1909.
\V. K. GnuESMNO, Ordlnajy.
SUER IFF S A I, F.
HTATK O K G EG R G 1 A—McDuffie
County,
Will be sold before the Georgia Rail-
mad Depot in Thomson, Ga., within
the usual hours of snle,*on the first
Tuesday in March 1909, the following
described property, towit: One 15 H.
1’. Locomotive Atlas boiler on ski Is,
one 15 H. I*, center crank Atlas engi ne,
and one No l Deloach Saw Mill, all
levied on as tire property of E. N.
Broome and M. \Y. Broome to satisfy
an execution issued from the city court
of Washington in favor or J. S. and J-
Oh, Walt "tTii He Returns.
“Wily, my dear.” exclaimed the good
friend on finding Mrs. No wed In floods
of tears, “what is the matter?”
The young wife wiped her eyes nnd
tried to compose herself and be in
humanly calm.
“Well,” she began, with folded
hands, “you know John Is away for a
week."
"Yes. dear." helped the lady friend.
“Well. Ik* writes to mo regularly, !
nnd In his—bis last letter he telle mo j
ue gels my photo out and kisses It ev
ery day."
“But that is nothing for you to cn
about!" exclaimed the good friend.
••yen, it Is." cried Mrs. Newed
bursting Info tears afresh, “he-because
1 took ni.v picture «r.il of his ba-bag bo
before be started jn-jtist for a Jo-joke
and put one of mo-mo-mother's In its
place!”
Ncr a Hocpita! Iirti!«i«*.
‘Talking of our British cousins?” In
quired the tax attorney of tec South
ern Pacific. “Well, l beard one tho
ether day. Big fat Britisher shoved ;
Into one of those compartments at tho'
last moment. There was an American |
In there reeding his newspaper.
"‘It's sixty tulles to my station,’ re-1
marked the Englishman, ‘and. ! say. j
old chap, I’m treating myself for a j
wounded fool, nnd I say. if yoq don’t,
ut’nd. I’ll put some of tills Iodoform on I
my ankle. Beastly smelling stuff.’
“•Go ahead.’ said the American. But
vt hen lie got the full odor of It hq j
•drived up a window and pulled out a
tlgar and lighted it ami began puffing
away vigorously.
“’Here. here, nr.y pood fellow,’ pro '
tested the Englishman, ‘this is no
smoking cnmpnrlineut!’San Frail,
ciaro Chronicle.
Why They Don’t Desert.
.“instances of desertion from the
army lu Mexico are very rare and foi
the best of reasons." said Seuor Jose
de Mlnnldoz of Nuevo Leon.
“Tlu* reason lies la the almost sure
capture of the fugitive nud the certain
ty that he will get not one out nunier
otis laggings on hla bare buck. These
ui-dikvs are done In the presence ol
(he comrades of the deserter, nnd when
l ie me:) sec how great is the suffering
of Mu* a ; ( "able wretch who tried in
urn to '| . t Ills military obligations
Uu-y a it fi-reud to conclude that It Is
better t'i ■ irk (o the army than to un
dergo am !i a terrible ordenl.”—Balti
more American.
.jHERYt^OIL
:irrs, Sores, Burns
& Rheumatism _25&
Sameas talking Man.
Samoa's talking mtui, or tolafall; h
a character. All the affairs of utnt*
of the village In which lie bolds offi'.*
Rre carried upon his shoulders. In or
dinary be is the chief advisor, per-
p-.mder, convinccr and re.drainer of the
leading chiefs. Having the gift of elo
quence. he in,:ken the most of it. U*
enjoys Immunity from many things.
He cannot be spoken of In ordinary
terms. If it should lie necessary to
speak of his eyes or his moath or his
limbs, special Honorable words must,
be used, word? which nttach to him'
alone ami have never been applied to ’
the personal parts of ordinary men.!
As he stands to deliver Ills soft, per-j
siiasive, mellifluous oratory, with staff,
of office in his hand, any one can see-
that he is a man of great Importance,!
or if this 13 not apparent from Ids at- j
titnde It may he gathered from the at
tcntlon paid to lili utterances by gray
haired chiefs niul hy youth nud malt! j
can. If tho talking man I* a olevci
fellow and understands Ids business,
ho is the chief ruling power in his
tribe, n’thoiigh the nominal headship
is always vested In ,a chief or patrl
archal flgurebc K'.
Just a Fish Siet /.
Forty years ago, wheu m.v fa titer «tM
captain of an East India trailing ship,
while of? the coast of Africa near ths
equator the ship's carpenter was taken
^Ick and died. He was sewed up la
canvas, nud with him were sewed hW
Kit of tools and grindstone for ballast
•o sink him. Sendees were held
,■%<• body commut'd to the sea.
rvftD
Four days Infer the ship's boy
overboard, and a great shark came op
under the steru and swallowed tho baf
liefore lie could be reached.
The next day the shark was still fol
lowing the ship. A fihark hook woo
baited >’»'d pul over tire stern, nud th*
shark wax eauglit, but was so large It
could not be taken on board, nnd they
were obliged to shoot him. lie looked
so plump and lornt- me mate, who wu
an old whaler, wan red to go over the
side nnd cut the fish open. He was
lowered over nnd cut a hole In the
shark nnd was Burpr/sed 1° hear voices
sud on looking in saw the ship's boy,
turning tho grindstone for the fiUlp’s
carnenter, *rho was sharpening bin
ni to cut their way oat.
Sly father, who is “l^lity years old,
can vouch for this mat It is a
•lory.- Boston Journal.
Early Lamps and Wicks.
It would lie hazardous to conjecture
what the first wick consisted of, but
when we come to consider the Iron
lamp, of “crusie,” we know that the
tvlck commonly used was tho pith of
the rush, which was gathered and
partially stripped of Its outer green
covering, cut Into proper lengths, dried
end tied up into bundles ready for use.
Tbe Iron lamp was liummored out of
one piece of Iron lit a stone mold. Tills
was usually done by the blacksmith,
still (lie molds are : till to be s- n !u
museums, in the hands of private col
lectors and no doubt rt some of the
country blacksmiths’ shop-; They are
cf one uniform shape, v.it'.i some slight
varieties. The lamp cueists of two
cups, o:ie susjmiido.l above a:.d l.iside
tbe other. The sti p-uitVY Is so II 1
nnd notched ns to ens'dr the upper
cup. which holds t':o -s : and wick, to
nr shifted to keep the o'd .•oustautly In
contact with the wlr!:. The lower cup
catches tlu* drip of tin* oil, which can
be easily replai e.l In the upper cup hy
lifting it off until fie oil Is poured into
It. The upper cup lias sometimes a
movable lid.—Chambers' Journal..
i
Cnrr.e£|i-'s First Investment,
Ii was due to Tli min t A. Scott thai
Andrew Cnrmig'e made I (. first Invest
ment. ten shares of rfo-'U In the Adams
Express company, valued :t* $.lno. This
he did with considerable trepidation.
He had labored hard for the money lie
had saved up while I:e had worked as
a telegrapher. It Is part of railroad
history h.nv lie later fell In with the
Inventor of the sleeping ear. saw the
enormous advantages which that man
nor of travel held out to passengers
and promoters and how he Interested
others in tho Invention of Mr. TTo<w>
ruiT. This occurred .-hortly after Ids
return from Washington, when the
problems of transportation were still
uppermost In Ids mind. Me was now
on the road to success nud wealth as
he then pictured earthly possessions.
The Pennsylvania oil fields yielded
large returns when Carnegie nnd oth
ers turned their energies In the direc
tion of the newly discovered territory.
In one year land purchased for $ 10.000
Increased In value so that It paid a div
idend of $1,000.000.-Exchange.
A Woman's Country.
The Frenchwoman may not be ho
classical lu form or outline ns many of
England’s beautiful women, but she
has undoubtedly the gift of charm, and
by virtue of this elusive, tantalizing
quality she has for centuries bewitched
and enthralled all the men of her coun
try. France today Is the most woman
ridden country nnd also the most
pcieeful. prosperous and contented
'I'he women rule by charm.—Stormy
P'-tre 1 .
Net Deluded.
“Do you want employment?"
"Lady," answered Plodding Pete,
“you moans well but you can’t make
work sound any aiorc Invitin’ by usln
words of three svBahlesk"— Washing
ton Sin**
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THOMSON, GEORGIA.
,agaznle
A STAR SERIAL BEGINS
NOW
There is an article in this number with
a big jolt in it. DON’T MISS IT.
things
the
THIS IS
You know some of
Everybody’s has fane.
ANOTHER.
There is a ftory by the “ Tigs Is
Pigs ” man that is one long ache of
laughter, and back of these special
features a big, fine Everybody’s
Magazine.
For Sale by \V. \Y. Moody.
F. Hardin vs. K. N. Bjoome and M. j
\Y. tiroonie.
This property is located on tbe place!
of A. B. Wilkcrson in the 139 District
G. M. McDuffie County wtiere it may I
lie seen
This tbe 2nd day of February 1909. j
K W. Hawes, Sheriff. 1
Tired Women
RJIEYSHONEY^TAS
•tops tlx* cou^b and heals lun^J
No. 9302.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT OFFICE ;
OF COMPTROLLER OF THE CURREN
CY'.
Washington. 1). C„ Dee. 31, IOCS, j
Whereas, by satisfactory evidence prv-1
sentud to the undersigned, it has been
made to appear that
" Idle First National Bank ol Thomson,"
in the town cf Thomson, in the county of
McDuffie and state of Got rgia, lms com
pil'd with all the provisions of the Statutes
of tbe United States, required to lie com
plied with before nn assoob'.tiuii shall be
authorized to commcuen ttic business of
Banking:
Now therefore I. Thomas P. Kune, Deputy
anil Acting Comptroller of the Currency,
do hereby eertlty luut,
"Tlui First National Rank of Thomson,” !
iu tlu- iowii of Thomson, in the eount.v ol
McDuffie, and llie state of Geoigtn, is an
thorized to votarucnco the business of Rank
ing as provided in Section Fifty one hun
dred and sixty uiuo of I lie Revised Stat
utes of the United States.
Conversion of the Farmer.-. Si Merchants
Rnuk of d’h m'.Sv' u.
In testimony whereof witness [my
hand and seal of office this Thirty first day
of December 1908,
T. I*. Kane.
Deputy £ Acting, Comptroller of the
Currency. , c t.
Women, worn and tired
from over-work, need a
Ionic. That feeling ol weak*
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leave yon ol itself. Take
Cardui, that effectual remedy
for the ailments and weak
ness ot women. Thousands
ol women have tried Cardni
and write enthusiastically of
its great benefit to them.
JOHN E. SMITH,
President.
B. P. O’NEAL,
Vice-President.
J. T. NEAL,
Cashier.
H. A. BURNSIDE,
As’st. Cashier.
We solicit the
business of all
classes of our
people, and of
fer them every
favor consistent
with safe bank
ing, that can be
extended by a
bank with lar^e
resources a n d
exp erienced
management.
CAPITAL,
$25,000.00
SURPLUS,
$25,000.00
UNDIVIDED
PROFITS,
$25,000.00
STOCKHOLD
ERS LIABILITY,
$25,000.00
AVERAGE
DEPOSITS,
$125,000.00
TOTAL,
$225,000.00
Deposit your money with a safe strong bank.
Foreign Exchange Sold By Our Check Direct On All Principal Points,
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icine has done ior me. Be
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down. I shall always give
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