THE M1DVILLE NEWS. MIDVILLE. GEORGIA.
The Midville News
Published Weekly
Entered ns second-class matter
September 14, 1929, at the postoffice
at Midville, Georgia, under the Act
of March 3, 1879.
Official Organ of City of Midville
HENRY FUTRELL .
. Editor
Wc arc not responsible for opinions of
others expressed through our columns.
SEND THE MONEY
Do not forget to send the money
with copy for obituaries and cards of
thanks. Send $1 for cards of thanks
and $1 for each hundred words obit
uary and resolutions. You need not
say send bill, as we send no bills for
this class of advertising.
Down to Brass Tacks
In 1929 The Midville News was
established. Many predicted that it
would go as other papers before it—
run about 3 months and then sus
pend. Many would not subscribe for
that reason. They did not want to
lose their money.
The News will soon be five years
old. The paper has struggled
through the depression and thanks
to national advertisers will soon be
ready to enlarge to six columns.
Through it all, our local merchants
have given the paper small patron
age. Their advertising have been
small and irregular. Wo don’t want
anyone to give us anything—but ad
vertising is a newspaper’s stock in
trade, same as meat, meal, flour, etc.,
is to a grocery. We feel that we are
entitled to the homo merchant’s
trade as much ns they are to ours.
Wc have always believed in and
agitated home trade—hut believe it
should bo distributed all around.
Mr. Merchant, try spending a few
dollars every month—say for three
months in your home paper and then
compare your sales records with the
months you did not advertise and
note the difference. We intend im
proving The News, so that our
readers » ill enjoy it as a visitor to
their homes and we hope Midville
merchants will cooperate with us by
giving us at least some advertisin
ind help us to help them, our town
und community.
Thousands See President Light New World’s Fair
Politicians and candidates are sure
funny. Some of them are so sure of
their strength in some sections that
they put forth no efforts there. They
even ignore the newspapers in those
sections. We fear they will awaken
to their mistake too late. Too had.
BLANKENSHIP
> fSSE.
Jeweler-Optometrist
Swainsboro, Ga.
Through the medium of a motion
picture shown at the Lagoon theater,
President Roosevelt turned on the
lights of the new World Fair In Chi
cago for a record opening day crowd
to see May 26. Visitors, v/ho thronged
In great numbers to the flfteer. for
eign villages that feature the exposi
tion this summer, were surprised when
they found that the Fair was complcto
In every detail and ready to receive
them.
Coinnjo Statistics
The United Siutes gold dollar con
tnlns 2h.8 troy grains. A troy pound
contains fi.700 troy grains, bur the
more familiar avoirdupois pound
contains 7.000 troy gra'ns. A mil
lion dollars in United States cola,
therefore, weighs 3.080.4 pounds
avoirdupois. The standard silver
dollar weighs 41i!.f> troy grains, and
a million dollars In such coin would
weigh fiG,l)31 pounds, or nearly 24V£
ton*.
J±~
Namod for 2enofactov
Purdue university. Lafayette,
ind.. was established by act of tlu>
general assembly o; the state of In
diana following tlie act passed by
congress concerning land-grant col
leges. iu ISC!) John Purdue, a
philanthropy business man of La
fayette. and other citizens, contrib
uted $200,000 and a tract of 100
acres of land io the school. The
major part of the contribution was
frjMi Mr. Perdue, and because ot
this the Institution wus celled I'w
due unlversltv.
They Have Disadvantages
Jud Tunklns says differences o!
opinion are right enough ti.Mll they
hinder progress by maltin' every
body want to talk at once.—Wuslv-
'.~4Tion Sfiir
Means "Hold"
The word "whoa" Is equivalent
to an earlier spelling "ho," which
Is prnhuhly an abbreviation for
■’hold." since this Is essentially the
Pennine of the exclamation.
