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BLITHE BUCHANAN
DOWN IN HARALSON
A My Land Where Wine, Milk, and
Honey Flow.
ITS PROGRESS AND ITS PROSPECTS
Those Who Are Leading In Its
Development.
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A PLEASANT LAND IN WHICH TO LIVE
First Class Educational Facilities, a Bright
Newspaper, Good Hotel, and Other
Institutions.
Haralson county lies in what may
be described as the great fruit belt of
Georgia.
Fruit and grape culture is coming
to be one of the biggest and, most
profitable industries in the South and
no where is it becoming more exten
sively and profitably followed than in
Middle West Georgia.
The lands of Haralson are peculiarly
adapted to grape and fruit growing
and the people are not slow to realize
it.
In many localities northern fruit
growers are setting and making the
earth fairly teem with luscious riches.
These northern people are industrious
and thrifty and are doing a great deal
towards improving our great and
fertile southland
Buchanan, the county seat of Har
alson, is in the midst of this great
fruit growing country.
Buchanan is a town of seven hun
dred inhabitants and i& noted for its
sobriety and and the hospitality of its
people.
There have been many business
improvements here recently. Haral
son has an elegant court house that
is an honor to the citizens of the
county. The Baptists have a fine
new new church building, and there
are several new buildings going up in
(lie place.
Preparations are being made to erect
large school building at once, and
v ork will begin soon. The building
will be an elegant one and something
that Buchanan has long needed The
trustees of this new institution are
G. M. Roberts, E. C. Wilson, Joel
Phillips, W. C. Sewell and A. E. Nix.
These gentlemen are all enterpi ising
citizens and stand ever ready to serve
the town and people. They are work
ing hard for this great cause and
merited su'ccess will no doubt reward
them. The institution will be made
a chartered college and Prof. W. T.
Daniels will be made principal. Prof.
Daniels has taught here before and
the people are eloquent in their
praises of his great ability and moral
sobriety. He will be instrumental in
building up a good school if the people
back him up well and they have
shown their determination to do so.
Prof. G. D. Griffith is teaching a
normal school here now. He has a
good class and is doing great good in
preparing teachers. Prof. Griffith is
County School Commissioner and
spoke very encouragingly of the
schools of the county. A very large
percent of the children of the county
are in school.
Buchanan is well provided with
church facilities. The town in the
last few years has experienced a won
derful improvement in spiritual and
educational matters. The churches
have been greatly improved, both
spiritually and materially. The Bap
tists have just erected" a fine new
church. Rev. W. W. Roop, of Car
rollton, is pastor. They have a fine
Sunday school with Mr. A. C. Auch
muty superintendent. The Method
ists have an elegant church. Rev.
Mr. Searcy and Mr. Robins the new
pastor and J. A. Cantrell is superin
tendent of the Sunday school.
Buchanan has a splendid paper in
the Banner-Messenger. Mr. A. E.
Nix is a progressive gentleman and is
making a first-class weekly journal of
his paper. Col. Nix is an enthusiastic
citizen of Buchanan and Haralson
county and is among the foremost
rank of the county’s enterprising citi
zens.
J. T. Loveless & Son keep one of the
best hotels in the country. They
spread a princely table and their ac
comodations in every particular are
simply first class. They also keep a
feed and livery stable.
Mr. J T. Loveless is one of the old
est and best business men in Buch
hanan and carries a full line of all
kinds of merchandise, groceries and
furniture.
Mr. G. W. Bullard is the sheriff of
Haralson county and is one of the
most active and efficient in the state.
He is highly respected by every one
and will no doubt hold his office the
remainder of his life unless turned'
down by an opponent. There is one
thing certain; there is no better man
to beat him.
Mr. Joe W. Kelley, the efficient or
dinary of the connty was born in Polk
county in 1855, the year that Haral
son was made a county. His father
moved to Buchanan shortly after this
©vent and Mr. Joe Kelly has not lived
out of the county but fifteen months
since. He has served the county as
tax collector and is one of its best
citizens. He is a quiet, conscientious
man and guards his official trust with
jealous care.
W. P. Robinson is an able lawyer
of wide experience and is very effi
cient in all kinds of law practice. He
has been practicing for twelve years
and stands high in his profession and
as a gentleman of honor and en
terprise.
Sewell & Sewell are doing an exten
tensive business in all kinds of gen
eral merchandise. They are enter
prising young men and are a shining
honor to their town and community.
Mr. J. A. Sewell, the junior partner,
has a first-class hotel run on improved
methods.
Dr. E. B. Hutchinson has a wide
reputation as a first-class physician.
He has been practicing Here for nearly
five years and always gives entire sat
isfaction. He has the entire confidence
of his community and no one has
more firm friends. His father was n
well known practitioner in this county
and represented the county once in
the legislature with marked ability.
J. S. Williams is doing a fine busi
ness in first-class blacksmithing and
general iron and wood work. He
makes and repairs all kinds of farming
implements.
Miss Lillie O’Kelley, music and
elocution teacher in Howard college,
is teaching a large class in music here.
Miss O’Kelley is a brilliant and ac
complished young lady and makes
warm friends everywhere she goes.
Mr. E. S. Ault, railroad agent; is a
clever young man and fills his posi
tion well. He is the Tribune’s rep
resentative at this place.
McCalman & Cantrell are doing a
No. 1 mercantile business. Mr. Can
trell is mayor and a good one, too.
Buchanan is a No. 1 placp and is
destined to be one of the best towns
on the Chattanooga, Rome and Col
umbus railroad.
DEAN & DEAN.
One of the Most Prominent Law Firms in
For.h Georgia.
Mr. L. A. Dean, the member of this
law firm was born in January 1855, in
Floyd county. He is a graduate of Mer
cer college and also of Columbus Law
school, of Washington, D. C. He has
been engaged in the active practice
of law since 1871. He represented this
district in the State Senator in 1862-7.
MR. J. E. DEAN.
J. E Dean is also a native of the county
having been born here in 1871. He is a
graduate of the University of Georgia.
He associated himself with his brother
in 1893, and is devoting his entire time
to the practice of law. He is also proud
of the fact that he is a Mason.
WIDEEY KNOWN.,
Is Henry G. Stoffregan, Senior Councilman
Erom the Third Ward.
From his birth place in Talladega
county, Alabama, came Henry G. Stoff
regen, in 1870, and engaged in business
in Rome. When he attained his majority
in 1883, he went into the restaurant busi
ness for himself, and his popular place,
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HENRY G. STOFFREGEN.
is one of the best known resorts in the
city.
You can always get what you want at
Stoffregen’s, and the genial proprietor
attends strictly to business and looks
after the wants of his large list of patrons
who are constantly on the increase, as
well as the stranger within our gates.
He was assistant chief of the fire de
partment in 1890-91, and at the munici
pal election in 1894 was chosen to repre
sent the Third ward in the city council, a
position which he has filled to the entire
satisfaction of his friends. He is still a
faithful member and ooe of the main
stays in the fire department.
A GROWING TOWN.
Some Facts Concerning Cartersville and
Bartow County.
Cartersville, Ga., is the county seat of
Bartow county, one of the very best
counties in Northern Georgia, and the
lucky winner of the second prize for
county exhibits at the Atlanta exposi
tion. ' Cartersville is a thriving place of
5,200 people, and one of the healthiest
localities in the South.
The town offers superior advantages to
the merchant, the manufacturer and the
capitalist, while the mild climate, rich
soil and good markets are strong induce
ments for the farmer. No man seeking
a location in the Jouth should fail to
visit Cartersville. He can save time and
expense, for he will have no need of go
ing further.
Among the energetic citizens is L. Bur
roughs, who is serving h : s second term
as sheriff, and, judging from the gen-
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will be kept in office for some time to
come.
No man knows the country better, and
none have done more for its advance
ment.
Attorney Neel, is another enterprising
citizen, who is doing all in his power for
the upbuilding of his city and county.
A fine lawyer and a thorough business
man, he is a credit to the locality of
which he is justly proud.
The leading hotel is the Shellman
house, which would do honor to a city of
50,000 people.
The Courant-American, under the
management of Freeman & Chapman, is
one of the best weekly papers in the
State.
HAIL., THANKSGIVING.
The Prealdeut’s Proclama’i n and How it
is Written.
A few days since the president issued
through the press his annual Thanks
giving proclamation. The custom of
Issuing a national proclamation has
been annual only since Lincoln’s time,
though George Washington issued as
early as 1789 a proclamation, which
has served as a model for his successors.
The Revolutionary fathers believed they
had particular reason for giving thanks,
and they lost few opportunities of doing
so. Thus in the continental congress
there were resolutions passed setting
aside days for acknowledging the kind
ness of Providence in giving victory to
the Revolutionist forces. The chaplains
of congress were the prime movers in
this. But the thanks of the nation were
given rather grudgingly afterward, and
it was due to a Boston woman’s efforts
that President Lincoln made a habit of
proclaiming a special day for giving
thanks.
. Since Lincoln’s time the presidents
have all issued Thanksgiving proclama
tions early in November. These procla
mations are composed Usually by the
presidents themselves, and in most in
stances they have been written with the
president’s own hand. From the White
House they have gone to the state de
partment, where they have been copied
with exactness on that office’s blue
paper. The proclamation is never type
written. The typewriter is used in all
the departments freely, with the excep
tion of the state department. Here Sec
retary Gresham used it for his corre
spondence, but before him it was not
used even for the secretary’s letters. No
official document emanating from the
state department is ever written on the
typewriter. It is invariably engrossed
in flowing script on the department's
blue bond paper.
When the proclamation has been en
grossed, it is sent to the office of the
clerk of pardons and commissions. He
has the custody of the great seal. No
impression of this can be made without
a special warrant signed by the presi
dent of the United States himself. This
seal is kept constantly under lock and
key, except when it is in use for the at
testing of pardons, commissions or proc
lamations of the president. It is an
elaborate affair, which cost SI,OOO, and
the making of the impression is accom
plished with much ceremony and not a
little labor.
When the seal has been affixed the
document is copied by clerks, and copies
are sent to the governors of all the
states. It is given to the press at the
same time, and the press associations
telegraph it to all the quarters of the
country for publication. It finds its way
into a good many thousand newspapers,
and probably is read by ten or fifteen
millions of the people of the United
States.
The first Thanksgiving proclamation,
that of President Washington, was is
sued in New York Oct. 3, 1789. Presi
dent Washington, it will be seen, took
time by the forelock. There was no tele
graph in his day to transmit the procla
mation to the uttermost parts of the
United States. It had to reach the in
terior by stage and carrier, and nodcubt
many of the people who had some reason
to give thanks did not hear of this ap
pointment of Nov. 26 for that purpose
until November was long past. The
original of the Washington proclama
tion is in the hands of the Rev. J. W.
Wellman, who inherited it remotely
from his great grandfather, William
Ripley of Cornish, N. H. It was much
like the proclamation of today. It began
with the formal, “By the President of
the United States of America—A Proc
lamation. ’’
In the first paragraph the president
•ays that “whereas it is the duty of all
nations to acknowledge the providence
of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be
grateful for his benefits and humbly to
implore his protection and favor, and
whereas both houses of congress have,
by their joint committee, requested me
‘to recommend to the people of the
United States a day of public thanks
giving and prayer, to be observed by
acknowledging with grateful hearts the
many signal favors of Almighty God,
especially by affording them an oppor
tunity peaceably to establish a form of
government for their safety and happi
ness,’ now, therefore, he recommends
and assigns Thursday, the 26tb day of
November, as a day of thanksgiving.”
—New York Sun.
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