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UP ON ARMURCHEE
Water Ground Meal and Wheat and
How It Is Made.
WHY SO SWEET AND HEALTHFUL
Mirny Roma.. Has Visited this Mill* Mil
ler Ross Explains the Precess of
Scab Wright’s Mill.
The tollowing appeared in Sunday’s
Atlanta Constitution:
Eight miles (north of Rome the fa
mous Indian fishing stream, Armuohee
week, tumbles down from the moun
tains into the rich bottom lands of the
Oostanaula valley.
Fifty years ago, where the Summer
ville pike crosses this stream, Uncle
Johnnie Williamson, one of the pioneers
of North Georgia, dammed up its crys
tal waters until they forced their way
through the swift revolving water
wheel, and then for the first time the
forests echoed to the * ‘click of the mill,”
and the Indian corn crushed between
the “upper and nether mill stones” fell
into the hoppers white as snow, and
“sweeter than the honeycomb.”
The music of the corn rocks was
mingled with the song of the wheat
rocks as the golden grain went crushed
and pulverized between their mighty
weight to the sack of the mill boy under
the spout.
This mill now belongs to Hon. Bea
born Wright. When I asked him about
“water-ground flour and meal,” he
said:
“Uncle Johnnie Williamson told me
one day that the flour of those good old
days was golden, like a rich cream, and
the meal as white as the ring around a
wild goose’s neck. But now, he declared,
they have got flour like skimmed milk
and meal like a ‘yallerhammer’s’ tail.”
For twenty years the wheel turned
and the stones sang of the field and
opulent harvests. -Then the war came.
The farmer left his plow in the furrow,
and with musket in hand went to Vir
ginia. After a while the mill boy,
frowned at by their sweethearts, went,
too. Then the wheat stones ceased their
song Only now and then a snatch of a
tune was heard from the corn burrs—
the mill went to decay.
The war ended with no seed wheat in
the bin and only a few nubbins in the
crib, but cotton was a dollar a pound!
So the new owners of the old mill rolled
the wheat rocks under the mill house
and put a cotton gin in their place. The
old mill with the corn rocks getting only
a bite now and then, and its cotton
shirt growing thinner year by year till
the winter of 1895, when it collapsed.
The wheat rooks have again displaced
the gins.
Water Ground vs. Merchant Milling.
Now, as to the practical part of the
story. A short while ago Hon. Seaborn
Wright bought this water power, fur
nished the money to erect a new mill
building, new race and dam. John Ross,
the best miller in the Cherokee coun
try, furnishes the brains and experience
to run it.
John Ross makes his meal this way:
• ‘The large white Indian corn is selected
and bought in the ear. Before it is
shelled the little end is cut oft, so as to
leave none but large whole grains on
the ear. After it is shelled it is poured
into the bin, where the chaff is blown
out. Though the burrs are large and the
power ample to grind with great rapid
ity, they are not run fast, so that the
The woman
? wli ° k * lls
ba^e fc y ncs ''
■ °f the
It health
“ivigor of her
S own womanly organism
during the period preced
ing motherhood, is inno
cently and without realiz
ing it, as much responsible
her child’s death, as the
d woman who slays her
>e after its birth. Thou
ids of babes are still-born
every year because women in
nocently and ignorantly neglect, during the
expectant period, to take proper care of the
delicate and important organs that bear the
burdens of maternity.
There is just one known medicine that
prepares a woman for capable motherhood.
It is Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription. It
acts directly and only on the organs con
cerned in motherhood making them strong
and healthy. It imparts to them vigor and
elasticity. It allays inflammation, heals
ulceration, soothes pain and gives rest to
the tortured nerves. It does away with the
discomforts of the expectant period, and
makes the coming of baby easy and almost
painless. It insures the health of baby.
Over 90,000 have testified to its virtues.
All good druggists sell it.
"In the fall of 1803.” writes Mrs. N. A. Thomas,
of 400 Pulaski St, Little Rock, Ark., “while on a
visit to Texarkana, Ark., I was taken with a se
vere pain in my head and was hardly able to get
home. I was prostrated for four weeks, not being
able to sit up. During that time the doctors
failed to give me any refief whatever. At length
I was induced to try Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Pre
scription. One bottle cured me entirely. I felt
relieved after the first three doses, and have
never felt the pain since. I send this testimonial
that others may be benefited by it. Yours with
a thousands thanks.”
It is as much a woman’s duty to look after
the health of the family as to care for the
cleanliness of the home. Dr. Pierce’s Com
mon Sense Medical Adviser enables her to
do this. It contains 1,008 pages and 300 il
lustrations, and is written tn language that
any one may understand. Over a million
women own copies. A new edition is just
out and for a limited time copies will be
given free to those who write for them.
If you want a paper - covered copy, send
twenty-one one-cent stamps, to cover the
cost of mailing only, to the World’s Dis
pensary Medical Association, No. 663 Main
Street, Btflfalo, N. Y. Or for cloth binding,
send ten cents extra, 31 cents in all.
meal as it pours from the spout falls
cool and sweet.”
- The merchant miller, whether using
steam or water power, makes bls meal
this way:
“He gets 99 per cent of his corn from
the west, shelled in sack or bulk in oar
load lots. The grain is small and hard,
not clean and has scarcely any of the
sweetness of the big southern corn. This
western corn is shelled in great quanti
ties, to be nsed’in feeding hogs or men,
as the oase may be. When the merchant
miller grinds it from the vast bin in the
upper story it pours into fast revolving
corn rooks, from which it pours out hot
and putrid, and is sacked for cityjtrade.”
In comparing the two methode of
meal making, Mr. Wright remarked:
“Is it any wonder that Bill Draper,
Charley Kingsbery, Joel Chandler Har
ris and all southern 'men sigh for the
fat corn pones of their boyhood days?”
Coat of Pure Wheat JFlour.
The various publications.in The At
lanta Constitution on the subject .of
waterground meal and flour have ore
ated widespread interest. A correspond
ent of The Constitution claims that the
people will always buy the cheapest
flour and that it was necessary to meet
this demand by adulteration. As Mr.
Wright does not sell flour, although he
has received orders from Texas to Vir
ginia since The Constitution published
his article on'the subject, he can afford
to give inside cost figures on pure wheat
flour, which he says are as follows:
“Take two and a.half bushels of
wheat (150 pounds,) costing $2.50.
Deduct one-eight for mill toll and there
is left 130 pounds, yields of
flour and about thirty pounds of bran.
Add 10 cents for sacking, making the
total cost $2.60, and deduct 20 cents for
value of the bran, and the cost of the
flour is seen to be $2.40. ”
This compared to cost of the flour sold
in the stores shows that pure flour can
be sold at a reasonable price.
Mr. Wright is enthusiastic on the sub
ject of wheat raising. Any mdn, he
says, can make money raising wheat
and peas. Not only make money, but
make his land. Cotton at 5 cents per
pound means universal ruin; wheat and
peas, universal prosperity.
The way to induce the people to plant
wheat is to rebuild the little wheat
mills. A good wheat mill can be
equipped for SSOO. It is simply marvel
ous the increase in wheat raising since
the Armuohee mill was rebuilt. Scarcely
a farmer in that entire section who does
not raise his own wheat for- bread. Be
sides what is consumed, over fifteen
thousand bushels of home raised wheat
was sold in Rome this year,
‘ * W hen wheat is harvested next year,”
says Mr. Wright, “lam going to get
Frank Stanton and take him up to my
mill. I want him to see the farmer come
in with this golden grain and the mill
boy with his sack of -white corn on his
pony, and the boy on the sack. I want
him to listen to the fall of the water and
the song of the burrs; get his hair ful
of Hour and his mouth full of sweet
meal—then shut bis eyes and dream
and dream, until he sings the sweetest
song since Tom Moore died.”
Houstoun R. Harpeb.
This Tells Where Health May Be Fonud
And that is more important than
making money. If your blood is im
pure, Hood’s Sarsaparilla is the medi
cine for you. It cures scrofula, salt
rheum, rheumatism, catarrh, and all
other diseases originating in or pro
moted by impure blood and low state
of the system.
Hood’s Piils are easy to take, easy
to operate. Cures indigestion, head
ache.
GERMANY TO MAKE A GRAB!
Some Talk of Emperor William Selling
the Hawaiinu Islands and Samoa.
Washington, Dec. 20.—The policy
which Germany is pursuing in the Pa
cific is a matter of much speculation
here. It is generally believed that the
emperor has simply been influenced by
his desire to secure the passage by the
reichstag of the bill to increase the
German navy. It was said at the navy
department that Germany is expending
$9,000,000 during the year 1897-98 for
vessels under construction. One battle
ship and two gunboats have been au
thorized, but work has not yet been
commenced upon' them. The vessels
under construction include two first
class battleships, one armored cruiser,,
five protected cruisers, one torpedo boat
destroyer and eight torpedo boats.
The report that Germany proposes to
seize Hawaii and Samoa is regarded as
ridiculous by administration officials.
Germany has little interest, as com
pared to other nations, in the Hawaiian
Islands. It is estimated that her inter
ests in Samoa are large. The last ad
ministration was willing to renounce
the treaty of June 14, 1889, between the
United States, Great Britain and Ger
many, Mr. Olney informing the Ger
man ambassador here that “the treaty
is unsatisfactory to the United States
and is one which its interests require to
be essentially modified or altogether
abrogated. ’ ’
President proposes that the
United States shall retain its grip on
Samoa and will agree to no propositsou
which contemplates the turning over of
she share of this government in Samoa
;o either Germany or Great Britain.
»j»SkvuCU LU 4.H.
Fontenelle listened to everything
and he offended no one by disputing
anything. At the close of his life he
was asked the secret of his success, and
he replied that it was by observing two
maxims, “Everybody may be right”
and “Everything may be so. ”
THE ROME TRIBUNE, TUESDAY DECEMBER 21. 1891
ROME COTTON MARKET.
Only a Few Days Past Week Propitloas
For Marketing the Staple
The week’s receipts of potton in
Rome, in spite of the unfavorableness
of the weather several days, were
heavier than for the corresponding
week any year for the past four, ex
cept 1894, when the big crop was
made.
The totals todate, however, fall
under all of the past four except last
year. The shipments are very nearly as
heavy now as the receipts.
The receipts for last week were
13,912 bales, against 3,398 bales last
year, 3,117 bales the year before, 5.149
bales three years ago, and 3,116 bales
the year previous. Total to date
49,521 bales, against 54,568 bales cor
responding time a year ago, 42,555
bales two years ago, 75,164 bales the
“big crop” year, and 51,721 bales four
years ago. Stock on hand 6,895 bales,
against 5,048 bales bales a year ags
7,436 bales the year previous, 9,477
bales three years ago, and 8,486 bales
the year before.
Arnold’s Bromo-Celery cures head
ache, causes sleep, claims presidenoe.
lOcts.
For Sale —1,000 bushels of im
prove! King Cotton Seed, This cotton
is one of the best, and is a prolific
bearer, Apply to T. C, Ayer. Rome,
Ga,
SHOE SHOP ROBBED.
Thief Entered Mr. A. W. Hart’s Place and
Took #lB in Money.
Sunday morning about 2 o’clock a
policeman found the front door to A.
W. Hart’s shoe shop in the Central Hotel
block slightly ajar. He examined the
interior, but found nothing wrong ap
parently.
Sunday Mr. Hart was notified, but he
missed nothing. Yesterday morning
while at work he happened to glance at
hie safe and saw that the door was slight
ly open. He made a hasty examination
and found that some one had stolen $lB
in clean cash from him. Mr. Hart
thinks that he must have forgotten to
close the safe door Saturday night, and
that the thief found the door open.
The loss fell quite heavily on Mr. Hart,
as he had saved the money up to pay his
taxes with.
One Minute Cough Cure cures quick
ly. Tbat’s what you want. —Curry
Arrington Co.
CASTOniA..
Dealers in Pure Liquors.
Elsewhere in this issue of The Tribune
appears a very handsome column adver
tisement of the popular firm of Curran,
Scott & Co. These gentlemen appreciate
the value of The Tribune as an advertis
ing medium, and patronize its columns
liberally. They have some choice offer
ings in pure whiskeys today. They
carry in stock the very choicest distil
lations of the great whiskey makers.
When you are buying your whiskeys for
the holidays Curran, Scott & Co. cannot
fail to please you.
To Cure A Cold In One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money if it
fails to cure. 25c. The genuine has L.
B. Q. on each tablet.
An Elegant assortment of fine
pocket knives and scissors at Ter/
hune Nixon Co’s.
Notice.
The Merchants National Bank,
located at Rome in the state of Geor
gia. is closing up its affairs. All note
holders and others, creditors of said
association are therefore hereby noti
fied to present the notes and other
claims against the association for pay
ment. E. A. Heard,
Dated Dec. 15th, 1897. Cashier.
POOLS ON RACES;
Pools on the New Orleans
races sold every day at Bi!/
Hard Hall of Armstrong Hotel,
Rome Turf Exchange,
Coming Concert.
The junior pupils of the Southern
Conservatory of Music will give a
concert on Tnursday evening, Decern
ber 23rd at 8 o’clock. The program
will appear in The Tribune.
The large and handsome dol
in the show window of Bass
Bros & Co’s store will be raffled
on the 24th,
CITY TAX NOTICE,
Tax executions have been issued
and are in the hands of the city mar/
shal, All persons owing city taxes,
and desiring to save cost and ex/
penses are notified to call at once at
the City Hall and pay the amounts
due by them. Otherwise the mar/
shal will be compelled to procede
with levies and sales. This Nov. 24.
1897,
Halsted Smith, Clerk.
KILLED AN INSULTING NEGRO.
Wyley Snyder, a Former Rome Boy, Ac
cidently Kills a Man In Florida.
A copy of the Jacksonville (Fla).
Times-Union and Citizen, received
here tells of the killing of a negro in
that city last Thursday by J. Wyley
Snyder, a former citizen of Rome.
The negro grossly insulted Snyder,
and a fight ensued between them.
In the scuffle the pistol was accident
ly discharged, the bullet piercing the
negro’s heart. The paper says of the
coronor’s inquest:
* ‘The testimony showed that Snyder
first struek Palmer in the head with a
pistol, that a souffle followed, and in
the scuffle the pistol was discharged,
the jury holding that while an assault
was made by Snjder for the purpose
of resenting insulting words used by
Palmer, yet that Snyder did not in
tend to effect death.”
Snyder was discharged, the jury
rendering a verdict of accidental
Killing.
To Cure A Cold cin One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets,
All druggists refund the money if it
fails to cure. 25c, The genuine has L. B.
Q. on each tablet.
For Sale —Two bicycles suitable
for Xmas presents for boys 5 and 7
years of age, Bicycles in good repair
and can be had cheap, Apply to S, S.
King & Co, ’
REPORT OF THE CONDITION
Os the First National Bank at
Rome, in the State of Geor
gia, at the Close of Busi
ness, Dec. IS, ’97.
BESOUBCBS DOLLARS.
Loans and discounts4B4 278 87
Overdrafts, secured and unsecured 11,405 35
U. 8. Bonds to secure circulation 37,500 OS
Premiums on U. 8. Bonds 3,500 00
Stocks, securities, etc 23,215 00
Banking bouse, furniture and fixtures 19,100 00
Other real estate and mor .gages
owned... 2,735 00
Due from National banks (not re-
serve agents) 31,957 II
Due from state banks and bankers.... 6 159 It
Due from approved reserve agents.... 14,669 31
Checks and other cash items 3,144 98
Notes of other National banks 12,880 00
Fractional paper currency, nickels and
cents 503 00
Lawful money reserve in bank, viz:
Specie 30,436 90-
Legal-tender notes 9 000 00— 39,436 90
Redemption fund with U. 8. Treasurer
(5 per cent of circulation) 1,687 50
T0ta1692,168 90
LIABILITIES. DOLLARS
Capital stock paid inlso 000 00
Surplus fundlso,ooo OS
Undivided profits, less expenses and
taxes bald 28.424 46
National bank notes outstanding33,7so (•
Due to other National banks 19,868 47
Due to state banks and bankers» 16,819 87
Individual deposits subject to
check 257 994 19
Demand! certificate of deposit 20,306 91-218 301 10
Notes and bills rediscounted 15,000 03
T0ta1692,168 90
STATE OF GEORGIA—FIoyd County.
1, B. I Hughes, Cashier of the above
named bank, do solemnly swear that the above
statement Is true to the be. t of my knowledge
and belief. B. I. HUGHES, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 20th
day of December, 1897 B. B. Har is, Jr.,
N. P., Floyd County, Ga.
Correct—Attest
Jso. H. Riysolds )
Thompson Hiles, } Directors.
P, H, Habdin )
Buy a
Smooth
White
Skin
For Your Face!
It probably needs renewing, for It is rough, red,
freckled, blotched o. pimpled, until It has become
repulsive Instead of attractive Healthy akin is
always beautiful. The sun and wind, impuii
soaps and oosmetlcs Injure the akin.
Viola Cream
cleanses, nourishes and restores thd skin, making
ft soft, white and beautiful. It is not a cosmetic
—does not cover up. but blemishes. . It.
Is harmless and always •iocs ju. whut we claim
for it. The only prepurav’on ;hat will posltlve’y
remove Freckles, Blackheads. Tan, Sunburn and
Pimples. Hundreds of testimonials from promt,
nent ladies. Price 50 cents a jar at druggists*
O.C. BITTNER TOLEDO. OHIO—
M. A. THEDFORD’S
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DYSPEPSIA / KJ \ 5/CX OR
Indigestion \Nepvous-
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Biliousness \ fluff. l jA UND i CE
Sourness of
Stomach Appetite:
None Genuine Without The Likeness And
Signature ofM.A.Theoford on FrontOf
Each Wrapper. M.A.Thedford Med. <s-
• - Rome.ga.
Kill to Live.
That living germs oy millions infest
the human system and produce dis
eases of blood and nerves is no longer
a theory but a proven fact. That)
King's Royal Geimeteur
Cures these diseases in a speedy and
pleasant way, Is equally proven.
SPUING
Is here. Look to your health at the
beginning of the hot season. Keep
Germeteur on hand. Use it as a tonic
preventive and cure. Sold every
where. SI.OO per bottle.
Atlanta Chemical Co., Atlanta, Ga.
MANUFACTURERS.
AT COST SALES
Retiring from Business or another kind of sales are not
in it when compared to the salej we will make in
THE NEXT THIRTY DAYS!
Suits, Overcoats and Trousers
f
Choice of any suit in our house for sl2 50.
They are worth from $16.00 to $20.00.
150 Good ‘ All-Woolen Suits,
new and stylish patterns, for
$6.50, worth $10,00!
Our Entire Line of Trousers
at prices that have never been matched in Rome,
We don’t intend to carry over any winter clothing and are
to make this the biggest sale of big bargains ever seen
in Rome. Come and see us,
J. A. GAMMON & CO.,
New Stock of Short Pant Suits just Received,
Your Physician Aims
To put all his knowledge, experience and skill into*
the prescription he writes. It is an oMer for the
combination of remedies ycur case demands.
Pure and Reliable.
♦ •
He cannot rely on results unless the ingredients are
pure and reliable and are properly compounded.
Bring your prescriptions to the
ROME PHARMACY,
Where is carried one of the best stocks of drugs in.
town, and a complete line of Squibbs’ Shemicais for
prescription use. Everything of the purest quality
that money can buy or experience select
Prescriptions compounded
By a careful and experienced prescriptionist.
Everything at reasonable prices.
ROME PHARMACY,
309 Clark Building, Broad Street, Rome, Ga.
Economy Is The Road to Wealth!
Another route to Klondike!
By having your
Buggies, Carriages and Wagons
BUILT BY
H. J. KLASING’S.
Repair work done promptly. If your horses don’t
travel right, give him a call. Corner South Broad and
Cemetery streets, Fifth ward.
JOHN H. REYNOLDS, President. B. I. HUGHES, Cashier.
P. H. HARDIN, Vice-President.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
HOME, GEORGIA.
Capital and Surplus $300,000.
All Accommodations Consistent With Sa'e Banking Ex
tended to Our Customers.