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*'w THE ELLIJ COURIER. VOL XXV11* Georgia Callings Curtailed Items of Interest Gathered at Random. Ordinaries Meet June 26 . The ordinaries’ convention will bi hold on June 26 at Indian Spring. couuiy officers’ association of will meet at the same place just week previous, the 19th. The ordinaries separated from county officers last year, forming body of their own, although iudivid ually still holding membership in larger body. Road Will Obey Order. “The Atlanta, Birmingham and lantic Hailway company, it is under stood, has decided not to enjoin railroad commission's recent order classifying that road, by changing i from class D to class C, and thereby causing a reduction of approximately 10 per cent in the maximum rates freight which it is allowed to Soldiers’ Hospital Ready. Announcement is made of the ple ion of the new hospital at Confederate Soldiers’ Home near At¬ lanta, for which the last appropriated $7,500. The keys of new hospital have been turned by the contractors to the Ur. Amos Fox, and it will be at once for the recep.ion of those veterans at the home in need of med¬ ical attention. Georgia Honors Jefferson Davis. Governor Terrrell Issued a proclama¬ tion in consonance with that ly issued by General Stephen D. Lee, commander-in-chief of the United Con¬ federate Veterans, as a result of which many of the railroads and oth¬ er industries throughout Georgia ceas¬ ed all work and stopped every wheel for a period of live minutes at 2 o'clock last Monday, at which time the monument to President Jefferson Darts of the Confederate states, was unveiled in Richmond. * * * Governor Honors Requisition. Governor Terrell has honored two requisitions for the governor of Lou iana for it. F. Garner, who Ms want¬ ed in tliaj, state for the embezzlement of some $40,000 from tile Southern Pacific railroad company, The requi¬ sition warrants charge specifically for¬ gery and obtaining money under false pretenses. The two requisitions after being honored by the governor were sent to Sheriff Tinsley of Bartow' county, where Garner is in the Car tersville jail. It was in Cartersville that ho was recently arrested by Pin¬ kerton men. * * * Farmer Kills Two Negroes. Early Sunday morning Joe and Toll¬ man liarues, negroes, aroused J. B. Morgan, a white farmer, living near Augusta, by knocking on his front door. Morgan's suspicions were arous¬ ed and lie went through the rear oi and around the house, finding one ne¬ gro standing on the steps with a drawn revolver and the other crouch¬ ed by the door with a knife. The negro was ordered by Morgan to drop liis pistol, but attempted to fire. He was shot dead by Morgan. Joe Barnes then rushed upon Morgan with his knife and was fatally wound¬ ed by a second shot from the farmer. * * * Ready for School Exhibits. State School Commissioner Merritt announces that the educational build¬ ing at the Jamestown exposition has been completed, and that the man¬ agement is now ready to place all ex¬ hibits that might be sent. This building was delayed in con¬ struction, but work on it was hurried so as to make room for the education¬ al exhibits. They will be the largest and most complete, perhaps, ever shown at an exposition in this coun¬ try. Commissioner Merritt is especially anxious that the state be well repre¬ sented educationally at the exposition and he urges that those who can send exhibits right away so that they may be given good space. Orders Cotton from England. A Georgia cotton mill has taken a step rarely heard of in the history of the cotton trade. This mill has just ordered 560 hales of cotton ship¬ ped back from Liverpool, at an ex¬ pense of nearly 2 cents a pound more than the market price in this country. It is claimed the order was placed as a result of the scarcity of unsold raw cotton in this country. Cotton lias been shipped back to the country from Liverpool to New York and New Orleans for speculative purposes, but so far as is known this is the first instance in which a mil! has had to place abroad an order for the Ameri¬ can staple. Dispute Over County Line. There is a heated row on between Baldwin and Jones counties, which will have to be settled by Secretary of State Philip Cook. This dispute, over the county line, is of long standing, and is said to involve about acres of vluable land, valuable at for the purposes of taxation. About two years ago, the governor apiioiiited Iloyal Smith to survey the county line between Baldwin and Jones, with a view to seeing if the dispute could not be settled. Mr. Smith gave quite a slice of tile laud claim¬ ed bv Jones to Baldwin, whereat Jones entered emphatic protest. Still determined on conciliation H possible, the governor appoint, d C. C. Anderson of Bibb county to survey llie Haldwin-Jones line. Mr. Anderson, it seems, gave Baldwin county about 500 acres more than di.l Mr. Smith, and Jones county's kick became more vigorouo than be; are. lir. Anderson only recently filed his tvport, and as a result of Jones' protest the case will have to go before the secretary of stc; * for judicial dcleraiiua.iou. Scaie-Infected Trees Burned. At a meeting of the state entomo¬ logical board, held at the eapitol, a few days ago, the recent action of State Enoiuologist li. I. Smith, in condemning and ordering burned peach trees in the orchard of Dr. J. A. Johnson of Gordon county was approved. This action probably means a test in the courts of the legal extent to which the state entomologist can go in proi.ee.ing the orchards of the state against pests. An examination of Dr. Johnson's orehhard showed it to be infested with ban Jose scale. He was directed to spray liis trees in accord¬ ance with the rules laid down by the department. This he refused to do. Tota! Ccct of Gordon Monument. Tho Gordon monument commission has settled up practically ail of its in¬ debtedness, and the sculptor, Solon 11. Borgium, has been paid in full, except for the bronze bas-reliefs, which are to go on the sides of the pedestal/and which have no yet been made. These will cost about $i,iJOO. The total cost of the monument and pedestal was $18,400. This does not include any of the incidental expenses or the bas reliefs, which will bring the total cost to about $23,000. Even at that the Gordon monument was erected for $7,000 less than the Wade Hampton monument and $13,000 less than the General Forrest monument at Nash¬ ville. * * * Georgia Day Plana at Jamestown. President ltoosevc5t has, upon his own initiative, made one change in the program lUr t. -orgia u ay at the Jamestown exposition, June 10. In¬ stead. of transferring from the May¬ flower to the battleship Georgia and completing the trip to Jamestown on the battleship, lie will remain on board the yacht from the time he leaves Washington navy yard until lie reaches the exposition grounds, lie will visit the battleship during the day, but his headquarters will he on hoard the Mayflower. President Roosevelt will speak from the exposition grandstand at 11 o’clock in the morning. From there lie and his party will drive direct to flic Geor¬ gia building. Arrangements have been made for the reception there of the party. Mrs. Roosevelt will be met by Mrs. Terrell and Mrs. Hughes, hostess of the Georgia building. The president and Ills party will he entertained at luncheon by the Geor¬ gia lady commissioners. Following the luncheon there will be a reception to Georgians only, ad¬ mission by card. This arrangement was made at the request of the pres¬ ident. Later in the afternoon there will be a reception given by Atlanta, and on June 11 Savannah will give a reception in the Georgia building. Governor Terrell and President Mitchell have been invited by Presi¬ dent Roosevelt to accompany him on the Mayflower on the morning of June 10, when lie will review the fleet. VARDAMAN-WILLIAMS CONTEST Will Be Settled in Mississippi Prima¬ ries During August. j The Mississippi democratic state executive committee met in Jackson and fixed August 1 as the Gate for ihe first primary to nominate sena orial, state, district and county offi¬ cers. The seeond primary will follow. All contests are to he settled at these events, including the senatorial race between Governor Vardanian and Con¬ gressman John Sharp Williams. MERCHAHT GROOVER ACQUITTED Jury Frees Man Charged With Murder of Woman by Poison. After being out twenty-four hours the jury at Summerville, Ga., in the case of the state against G. L. Groo¬ ver, charged with poisoning Mrs. K. E. Hooks, at Cheisea, on October 2., 1900, returned a verdict of not guilty Saturday afternoon. On account of (he prominence of the parties the case attracted wide attention. ANOTHER AMBUSCADE VICTIM. Sixth Death Occurs as Result of At tempt to Arrest Negro. W. B. Preston, a victim of t'n< Tattnall county, Georgia, ambuscade died iii S:\v.un.di Wednesday, where he was brought the day after being shot. Mr. Preston leaves a wife anc a number of relatives. He makes the sixth victim of the trouble, two whites find four negroes. DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS ELLIJAY AND GILMER COUNTY. ELLIJ.tV. 0A.. TltUttSDA Y. JUKE (!. 191.7. FOR MORE FARMERS President Makes Urgent Plea at College Celebration. COMMENDS ALL TOILERS Agricultural Colleges of the Country Are Boosted and Boys Are Urged to Pay More Attention to * Scientific Methods. Speaking upon the topic, "The Man Who Works with His Hands,” Presi¬ dent Voosevefi. said, in part: "The fiftieth anniversary of the founding of this c'/Hge is an event national significance, for Michigan was the first state in the union to found this, the first agricultural col¬ lege in America. The nation is to be on the fact that the at Washington has repeated¬ ly enacted laws designed to aid the states in establishing and agricultural and mechani¬ colleges. “For at least a generation we* have been waking to the knowledge* that in us. ho additional education be¬ that provided in the* public as it is managed today. Our system has hitherto been well wholly lacking on the side of in¬ dustrial training, of the training which fits a man for the shop and the We of the United States must a system under which each citizen shall be trained so to be effective individually as an unit, and lit to be organized liis . fellows so that he and they work in efficient fashion together. "But it is a curious thing that in training we have tended to our energies to produce high men at the top rather than in ranks. Our engineering schools, instance, compare favorably with best in Europe, whereas we have almost nothing to equip the pri soldiers of the industrial army— mechanic, the metal worker, the indeed, too often our train away from the shop and forge; and this fact,"together with abandonment of the old appren¬ system, has resulted in such an of facilities for providing journeymen that in many of trades almost all the recruits the workmen are foreigners. this means that there mus: be systematic method provided for young men in the trades, and this must be co-ordinated with public school system. "There is but one person whose wel¬ fare is as vital to the welfare of the whole country as is that of the wage worker who does manual labor, and is the tiller of the soil—the far mer. if there is one lesson taught by it is that of the permanent of any state must ultimate¬ ly depend more upon the character of its country jiopulation than, upon any¬ thing else. * "Ambitious native-born young men and women who now tend away from the farm must be brought back to it, and therefore they must have social as well as economic opo,rtunities. Kv erything should be done to encourage the growth in the open farming coun¬ try of such institutional and social movements as will meet the demand of the best type of farmers. There should be libraries, assembly halls, so¬ cial organizations of all kinds. The school building and the teacher in the school building should, throughout the country districts, he of the very high¬ est type, able to fit the boys and girls not merely to live in, but thoroughly to enjoy and to make the most of the country. The country church must be revived. All kinds of agencies, from rural free delivery^to the bicycle and the telephone, should should he he utilized utilized to to the utmost; good roads should be fa¬ vored; everything should be done to mane it easier for the farmer to lead the most active and effective intellec¬ tual, political and economic life. "The farmer must prepare for using the knowledge that can be obtained through agricultural colleges by in¬ sisting upon a constantly more practi¬ cal curriculum in the schools in which his children are taught. He must not lose his independence, his initiative, his rugged self-sufficiency; and yet he must learn to work in the heartiest co-operation wi.h his fellows. ^.President Roosevelt delivered an Friday afternoon on the cam¬ pus of the Michigan Agricultural Col¬ lege at Lansing, which was the cli¬ max of the semi-centennial celebration of the founding of that famous insti WHITE MAN AND NEGRO Found Guilty by Jury of Murder of Reese Jones. The jury at Buchanan, Ga., in the of Bon Adams, white, and Hil¬ Lee, colored, charged with the of Reese Jones, a white man, being out ail night came in at o'clock Thursday morning with a of guilty and recommending sentences. I FRE ° ^feuimo. Atianta Man on* fr a! for Sending In fernal Machi’ to Young Woman E. Jnerated. At Atlanta Frida 1 ^afternoon, after being out one bon. aa q ten minutes, the jury brought -h . a verdict of not guilty in the case o, Kred Bush, churg ed with sending ;v infernal bomb to the McCarthy hon on the night of May 8. The case went tof|}, e j urv a t exact¬ ly 2:30 o’clock, arJ at 3:40 the ver¬ dict had been inaiT ’ihe state introd Y,,q comparatively little direct new nature. evidence,|„ M jd defense, none of it of a on tne whatever, filler hand, aithougt^ pn.i^K.,) no witnesses i, ad summoned several. Its efforts tfccrc direeled, for the most part, in , a attack against the prosccution’s_if ;tj n!0 ny. it was largely making a able battle of lawyers, both sides and, :* time, heated ar¬ guments. * The state introduced three witness¬ es. They were Patrojhnan mj-enger McGill, John Ballinger, a negro hoy; and Ed McGill, a whiti messenger boy. Patrolman McGill tfstifled to having seen Bush twice oujthe night of the explosion, ami at a \f>pe an hour or more after Bush hr.; sa id ha wa s in his room asleep. The negro boy saiq that Bu h look¬ ed like the man Wi,o gave him a package in front oC y North Forsyth street, on the night* 0 j the explosion. He could not identi him positively, however, and his testimony V was ruled out. The McGill boy srLply testified as to having taken the NatKage from Bal¬ linger and delivered V.t at the McCar¬ thy residence. vL Bush’s statement in the nature of a general denial cif what the state charged against him! He protested that his wish to interfere with the proposed marriage iTttweep Doolittle anil Miss Katie MeC ■e.thy, for whom the machine was ir ended, was a business one, au Do ilittle spent too | much time at the i done talking to j her. Rush unpertuifccd ‘hroughout : was ! the trial. Not even when Mr. Hill I pointed him out to tl spectators and the jury as guiify man did he wince. He taikoiKoii; the stand vvith o il nervousness, anu^e > !herately. He detailed aii his moTbments on (he night of the explosion. Mr. Hill had characterized the rela¬ tions between Bush T.nd Doolittle as strange ones, and salji ko that the affec¬ tion shown by llush Doolittle sur¬ passed that of a iiiufi for a woman. He made an able speech. Mr. Good¬ win, associate country for Bush, de¬ clared that the newsifipers had black¬ ened the characters ox both Bush and Doolittle, but he wait interrupted by the court and told t, confine his ar¬ gument strictly to tln^ evidence in the case. Mr. Rosser, ciiief. counsel for Bush, also took a fling at the “argus i eyed” reporter. j ! on the announcement of the jury’s verdict applause br ibe out in the court room. The j«s^* cautioned the spectators about making any display. The deputy sheriff rapped loudly for order, and the judge demanded to know who had applauded, but nobody could tell him. | “I do not mean to say that I ap¬ prove or disapprove of the verdict,” said Judge Roan. “There has been a fair and full trial, -itnd twelve good men have made a -erdict. I simply ' wish you to understf^id that the court room is not a place iTr any such dis¬ play, no matter wb-Vphe verdict may be.” j ----- 1 IMPALED ON PICKET FENCE. j Telephone Employee Meets Tragic Death at Cartersville. j While talking with some friends, B. C. Peters, an employee of the South , ern xiell Telephone,, company, fell j , over t j le baluster of-ihe second-story p orc h a t the Bell hotn at Cartersville, and as be. dropped toward the ground his body wis impaled on a i picket fence. Two of the pickets pass¬ ed through his bod , causing death aii hour later. MAYOR SLAPS MAN'S FACE For Mentioning Young Lady’s Name During a Stree': Harangue. The case of Mayor George Ward of Birmingham, Alp , who slapped Lawyer W. E. Gibsf-s- because the lat¬ ter mentioned the name of a young lady in a labor union speech, will lie aired in the police court. The action cf Ward is generally'commended. Gib¬ son was speaking xt the street car sympathizers’ meeting when he made the personal and offensive remark. TO HELP BROTHER HOWARD George and Frank Could Will Testify in Divords Case. When Howard Gojild is haled into court at New Yo;:l., to answer the suit for separation’ brought by his wife, his brothers, George and Frank, will be called to testify in his behalf. It is announced by an intimate friend of Mr. Gould that, >though it would be distasteful to members of the fam¬ ily to appear in court, the two bro¬ thers baj expressed, their willingness to qo so. „»> qr|2ZLY VETERANS Of the Lost Cause Gather in Reunion at Richmond. WELCOME ENTHUSIASTIC Seventeenth Annual Meeting of Old Heroes Largest Since the War. City Gaily Bedecked for the Occasion. With the largest number of Confed¬ erate veterans gathered together since the war, and the vast horse show building, in which the conven¬ tion was held, beautiful with flags and bunting and portraits of the leaders of the Confederacy, the seventeenth annual reunion of the Confederate Veterans began at Richmond, Va., Thursday morning under the most au¬ spicious conditions. When, at ten o’clock, General Stith Bolling, acting temporarily fur Gen¬ eral Lee, called the convention to or¬ der, almost every chair in the build¬ ing was occupied and the benches around the sides of ihe hall were fill¬ ed with the surviving remnants of the glorious army of the Confeder¬ acy. General Bolling introduced Rev. J. William Jones, chaplain general of the grand camp, who presented Rev. Dr. J. J. Gravatt of Richmond and the latter offered the opening prayer. Governor Swanson of Virginia, amid the wildest enthusiasm, welcomed the veterans to the Old Dominion. Mayor McCarthy of Richmond wel¬ comed the visitors to the city, which forty-five* years ago they defended against the armies of Burnside, Pops, McCleilan, Sheriifan 'and Grant. B. li. Morgan of tile local camp of Sons of Veterans added the wel¬ come of those he represents to the welcomes which already had been ex¬ pressed. General Bolling introduced the com mander-in-chief of the Confederate Veterans, General Stephen D. Leo, anil the old soldiers rose to their fri t and received him witlt the ut¬ most enthusiasm. General Lee assum¬ ed the gavel of the presiding officer and delivered his annual address. He said, among other things, that the coming of a confederate to Rich¬ mond was like the return of a long absent child to its mother—that Rich »mond is to the Confederate what Ca¬ lais was to that French prince who compelled to live in England, said: “When I die you will find engraved on my heart the one word,’Calais.’ ” At noon the first session of the re¬ union adjourned for the veterans to take part in the unveiling of the equestrian statue of General J. E. 15. Stuart, erected by the Cavalry As¬ sociation of the army of northern Vir¬ ginia. The parade incident to this cere¬ mony started at 2 p. m., and was a brilliant pageant. The weather was beautiful and ihe display was witness¬ ed by a vast concourse estimated to number 75,000 to 80,000. The people were packed along the whole course of the parade, a dis¬ tance of about two miles, on the side¬ walks, on the porches and in the windows of the buildings on both sides of the street. The whole number in line and on the sidewalks is estimated at from 12-5,000 to 150,000-. There were about 10,000 actual veterans in the city. Of Sons of Veterans and other auxiliary bodies, military, etc., there were about 20.000, and in addition to these there were about 20,000 visitors drawn to the city by the reqnion cer¬ emonies. ’ Forty Thousand Idle in Frisco. According to the figures based on an investigation conducted by Har¬ bor Commissioner Stafford, there are approximately 40,000 persons idle in San Francisco as a direct result of the existing labor troubles. IT WAS HAILING SOME. Ice Pellets Cause Heavy Damage in Texas—More Than a Foot Deep. One of the worst hailstorms that ever visited Texas prevailed in the vi¬ cinity of Liano Friday” night. It was of such violence that wire fences were torn down and a large number of cat¬ tle, sheep, hogs and chickens killed; roofs torn off and trees stripped of leaf and iinib. Ten thousand acres of growing crops were completely ruined. The hail was more than a foot deep river the stricken disirict. HAYWOOD TRIAL RESUMED. After Recess of Four Days Work of Securing Jury is Continued. After a recess of four days, the trial of William D. Haywood, charg¬ ed with ihe murder of former Gover¬ nor Frank Steuiienberg, was resum¬ ed at Boise, Idaho, Friday morning. Sixty-one new talesmen were in court, and it was predicted that the jury will be soon completed, sop to t he ra ilroads Handed Out by President Roosevelt in Speech at Unveiling of Gen. Law ton Monument in Indianapolis. President Roosevelt was the prin¬ cipal speaker in Indianapolis Thurs¬ day at the decoration day exercises and the unveiling of the Lawton mon¬ ument. As was generally anticipated, the president took advantage of the opportunity to discuss exhaustively the national railway situation and to outline the administration’s program of regulation and control. The speaker was greeted by an audience of several thousand people from Indianapolis and the surround¬ ing territory. Enthusiasm manifested itself in continuous cheering, as the president spoke in the most tic terms of the railway situation, de daring emphatically that there was no occasion for alarm or uneasiness, and that the administration proposed holding the balance of justice ex¬ actly even as between the carriers and the people. In part he said: "For more than one reason 1 am peculiarly glad that this year I speak on memorial day in the state of In¬ diana. There is not another class of our citizens to whom we owe so much as to the veterans of the great war. To them it was given to per¬ form tho one feat with which no other feat can be compared, for to them it was given to preserve the union. 41^ “You have left a country so genu¬ inely reunited that all of us now, in whatever part of this union we live, have a right to feel the keenest pride, not only in the valor and self-devo¬ tion of you, the galiaut men who wore tho blue, but also in the valor and self-devotion of your gallant op¬ ponents who wore the gray. ‘•The hero whose tnonument we to¬ day unveil, by his life, bore singular testimony to the completeness of the reunion. General Lawton, in his you h, fought gallantly in the civil war. Thirty-three years afterward he again marched to war, this time against a foreign foe, and served with dis¬ tinguished ability and success as a general officer, both in Cuba, and in tin* Philippines. When he thus served it was in an armtv whose generals included not only many of his old comrades in arms, hut some of his old opponents also, as General Wheeler and General Fitzhugh Lee. Under him —both among the commissioned olli eers and in the ranks—-were many men whose fathers had worn the blue serving side by side with others whose fathers had worn the gray ; but all Americans now, and noth¬ ing but Americans, all united in their fealty and devotion to their common flag and their common country.” Reverting to the issues of the day, the president said in part: "Great social and industrial prob¬ lems confront us, and their solution demands on our part unfaltering coin¬ age, and yet a wise, good-natured self restraint; so that on the one hand we shall neither he daunted by dif¬ ficulties nor fooled by those who would seek to persuade us that the difficulties are insuperable; while on the other hand wo are not piisled into showing either rashness or vin¬ dictiveness. "One great problem that, we have before us is to preserve the rights of property; and these can only he preserved if we remember that they are in less jeopardy from the social is, and the anarchist than from the predatory rich man. “Every federal law dealing with corporations or with railroads that has been put upon the statute books during the last six years has been a step in advance in tho right direction. "There can be no swerving from the course that lias been thus mapped out in the legislation actually enact ed and in the messages in which I have asked for further legislation. \Ve best serve the interests of the honest railway r -n when we announce that we will follow out precisely this course. It is the course of real, of ultimate conservatism.” FLOODS SUBMERGE RICE LANDS. Whole County in Louisiana Under Wa¬ ter and People Refugee. Flood refugees are poruing into Lake Charles, La., from Cameron par¬ ish, a county of nearly 1,500 square miles, much of which is under water, from record-breaking rains, rising riv¬ ers and a wind which has blown the Gulf of Mexico water inshore. Nine families on a special train ar¬ rived from the Sulphur Mine district, where about ten thousand dollars damages has beffe done. No loss of life has been reported. GRAY VETERAN THE ORATOR Ex-Confederate Soldier Delivers Fed¬ eral Memorial Address. An unusual honor was bestowed up¬ on Dr. James 11. Reed of itattle Creek, Mich., who delivered the memorial day address at Climax, Mich., Thursday. The doctor, an ex-Confederate, has hoen an honorary member of the very union regiment he fought against the hardest. NO. Ili.VI Many ncwr\ .•.tir-r-:; i-ifr’r ”v- »»* / torcpcHrts l.»y :rr*»);irfii. *n. it ; that THE NEW HOME SEkYirtSfrtAf.;’ ,:"€9 liad entered a tm-l • r • *.• *»;■ * i• i in assure the |»til?li<* find* i* - »*■ ?### fruf/i 'a Slleh reports. \\> !i:iv *• •••» • i»:; sew ills ?!;;iel»iti«sfort»Y* r:» ■ - i *»»;i *• ‘ • ry, and ha%*eestah!i*V«i •; : i-•;* .d *? 4 * J - selves and « ur !l».i? ; * ir * s' ethers, t !.r Js*»*»*<**’ .•• *:’ - iw*y«t licenrVvalvtl a - e.* v n-. * »• . ■* stands at tin* head tira*ft 'j - machines,and s; i’H • -n *•: 1 ' The, “ Xete iS»n:e mn rs ft •p HIGH GSf.lin: *;*•»#'#»??/ ^ j ear the It is not necessary fiar t«*« r ti au¬ tosave our credit or |my any .• \v»* '? .»•*» ho debts to pay. V.V Imvc n* \*eji!«**-d in •• competition with pi »i»-i! i* , t*n* !•< •! low ur.-ott cheap muchr.n ? that ar»* u*ad-' «•* • : r»xard tess of any intrinsic meriis. ,j«» !••• »«• - ccivod, wl i n y<ri w; at .• •• if*i" *• 't-n t send your money a\v» - ii.-m o«»ni> * •'< m.*, ^ AVir Home *’ !>«**//*”#•• ■ ,f « ■ i>*en better machine for >• >sli«a:i you *... nu* -a ' elsewhere. If there i- ;• * * *•'*• r f ‘ ‘o write direct to i:s. THE NEWHONlESEW^e orange. Now York. Chime'*, ill.,Ft. I <”U ; . M-•. / !'! ta.tia., llaila.-. 'IV;.Sail! !\.r.is\a>, GILMER COUNTY DIRECTORY. Gilmer Superior Court inecl:- ITird Monday in May ami si eolid Monday in OctrSior. Hon Geo. F. tlola i. judge Blue Ridge Circuit; lion. li. F. Simpson, solicitor general. Court of Ordinary meet.; first Mon¬ day In each month. County Boa id of Education mo ts first Tuesday in each momh. Hr race M. Ellington, president Beard of Edu¬ cation. N. L. T'atikersley, count f school commissioner. COUNTT OFFICERS. T. II. Tabor, ordinary. 1'. \V. Craigo, Clerk Superior Court. A. J. FUison, sheriff. E. ,1. Chastain, lax collector. L. 1? Chastain, tax receiver. , R. F. Parks, treasurer. M. 85. Clayton, surveyor. J. rt. DeBorde, coroner. • tf COTTON CROP IN BAD WAY Is Assertion of President of Georgia Seed Crushers' Association. "Reports from all sections of the south, as given by the members of the Interstate Cotton Seed Crushers’ Association at Jamestown last week,’ said I.. A. Ransom, newly elected president of that organization, who has returned to Atlanta, “indicate.that the cotton crop of the south is today worse off than it. has been at tliia time of the season in years, in fact, wo got such distressing reports as to the necessity for replanting that tho association passed resolutions pledging (tie various cotton seed oil mills in the association to furnish cotton seed at a moderate cost for replanting from our supply on hand for crushing. "W’e realize,what a poor condition the crop is in and how hard it is going to be to get a stand, and are very anxious to help the planters in every way possible. These reports were not formal, but came from ev¬ ery one of tile 600 delegates at this convention from every cotton-growing state in the union. Mr. Ransom is enthusiastic ever the convention and declares it ihe most successful ever held. He states Hint Dr. li. W. Wiley, the head of. llics United States pure rood commission, made the association a talk, in which he declared the south could, noi con¬ ceive the possibilities in eo ton seed j oil and its by-products, which com [ modify is now in its infancy. Hon. | J. M. Carson, chief of the bureau of manufacturers in the department o: commerce and labor, was also a guest, and speaker. He read a specially pre¬ pared pamphlet, which gave reports from all of the Untied Stales consuls on the subjec, of this great southern product, which had Inin compil'd for this association through the oliiei s of j the state department, Benton it was of through Geor¬ him that Hon. .1. L. j gia was appointed United Sta report es ex¬ j pert abroad and his. first on { tb(> market for cotton seed oil and its | hv-products was r ad at this meet¬ ing. Mr. Ransom states that otic of ;he chief changes i.i the rules, as adopt¬ ed by the convention, was win-re by tin- food value of cotton seed lie a! giving the protein and fat percent¬ age in addition to the ammonia value for export trade. This do : not af¬ fect home commodity, but is. simply additional information for the export. The Georgia delegation with its special train has returned to the state and this was followed by special train ; from Texas, Tennessee and Hou ii Car olina. The place for the next meeting will be decided by the executive com¬ mittee at a later date. It will lie an¬ nounced from Atlanta, the headquar¬ ters of the association. "SOMEBODY ELSE’S TURN.” President’s Answer to Expressed Hope That He Would Run Again. At Rockwood, Pa., through which President Roosevelt passed a: 11:10 o'clock Saturday Mr. Roosevelt shook hands with a hundred or more peo¬ ple. “Hope you will be a can Opiate again,” shouted one man, to which the president replied quickly; ‘‘No, no. Somebody else’? turn next time.”