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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. _____________ * 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, Sw J 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- ■ .rw’Wf I.N Z.H-’-71’’■ t 1 flu ? ’T« 5 . TRADE EDITION—SOME TRIBUNE, DECEMBER. I 89&. GARLOCK (FATEITTED.) Higli Grade backings! 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Louis, 415 Morgan Street. tieman’s popularity, it is safe to say he 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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Don’t fail to give us a call, as it gives us pleasure to show our goods, whether you wish to buy or not. WE SELL EITHER FOR CASH OR ON IN STALLMENT PLAN. City Full line of Coffins and Caskets on hand. Calls promptly attended to day or night. Yours for business, Rliudy <~to OPPOSITE MASONIC TEMPLE.