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FRIDAY WOR.VINO JAN. 2, 1914. NUMBER II ESTABLISHED 1842. FIVE CENTS A CuVpY. Mills Art d Banks Piay Annual, Semi A{! nual And Quarterly Dividends This Week iiilli IF.YOU WOULD BE TRUTHFUL RESOLVE THIS I am going;( i, V: , ! place an order, "foi* my spring ccw\ 'he at once so that I shall get it beffore Mrs. Jones gets hers. I I am going to learn the new dances even if my husKand doesn’t exactly approve and I expect to use my own discretion in the selection of my danc ing partner. I’m going to to all the parties this year that I aL invited to and I qxpect to give uoi\ae few myself. . I don’t intend to Way at home any more than cur ton, j requires and I shall do very littly sewing, reading or housework whild I am there, but most of my time ftdll b by telephone conveiwtioi members of my cluh 8 aOt ing my complexion, j. \ I am going to crifciciz'; XMAS RHH handle! Well Thousands of Packagl Postoffice With and Dispatc land led by •iency ran, died at his home on Hines 1 * . street late Thursday afternoon, ® a ^ ° n ' alr Christmas day, the cause of his e< T , ep , ’ , death being paralysis. Funeral ser- ne ,‘jf 01 ,°°, vices were held at St. John’s church, . aB . 0 1 of which Mr. Baehellor was a mem- U81 ” ess ber, and Were conducted by Rev. C. a I" 0 . W * S. Martin, the pastor. Interment was w a W1 pl made at Hill View cemetery. . year ? or bul1 Mr. Baehellor, who was eighty-six “ vel nowq. . , . - r , foundation a years old, is survived by his wife and four sons, Messrs. Burton, Brewster an no ou * Humphries and Harmon. All of his nouncerri ® ntR sons were at his bedside when the im P c * r an end came with the exception of Mr. ' n c ° n emp ‘ Brewster Baehellor, who was in tles 8 ‘ another city and could not reai^uiU't ■=” Grange in time. > 7ac-? , ' ! J Th '» i Ut/l/lipily.Ms from : 50c to a sy %| Tie Clasps and Pins from 50c sa ' il Watch Charms and Lockets When you opened T which contained the Af inas present sent tojj'g friend last week, did J J, consider what an efficie*/ necessary to insure a prW of the package? There were thousand!^ ands of others to pass local postoffice and ever,* thousands were delivery promptly as was yours. B According to reports fi. Grange postoffice, there fifteen undelivered pack;,, office at three o’clock or,, eve afternoon! LaGrange is singularly in having such an efficieij ter and corps of clerks. ' there were a great many ages to go through the offh 1. package, 4y Christ- I by your . 1 stop to iy'stem was pi, delivery an,l thous- iroiugh the lie (of these l! just as Ai the La- lw-ere only ies in the |ffihi-istmas Poet of Sierras ‘Talks From Grave.’ Mrs. Abby Miller, widow of Joa quin Miller, poet of the Sierras, de clared at San Francisco he bad com municated witli her from beyond tin grave. She is corroborated by hei (laughter. Juanita. Tales are curren- that the poet’s ghost has been seer near the cairn he built on thi “Heights” as his monument. fortunate poutmaa- aW vaek-J,«xitft tVe-*'' 1 (Continued on last HISTORY OF LAGRANGE FOR 1913 TOLD IN NEWS ITEMS SUMMING UP OF HAPPENINGS What Has Been Done And 'What Has Happened In The City During Year Just Gom \ The year of 1913 with all its joys for some and sorrows for others has gone. The future that we looked forward bo at this time last year has been present, and now is past. During the year that has elapsed many events, which go to make up the reading matter for newspapers Ibave happened and the pages of his tory have been increased. A summary of the most important af these events will no doubt be of ■interest to the people of LaGrange, And we give below some of (he hap penings in LaGrange of which you have read before in the columns of this newspaper: Jan. 1st. Inauguration of fthe par- rtj post system and first ! package sent through the local pastpffice. Tan. 2nd. Pike Bros, buy Hanson Hardware & Furniture Cd .Tan. 7th. Dunson Bros, lj>uy their storehouse from estate of (Mrs. M A. Abraham. Jan. 19th. Union churiih in South LaGrange dedicated. Jan. 21 st. Pharr Bros. A Childs and Bradfield Drug Co,, buy Dunson street, roof fire extinguished The 1913 Fires in LaGrange The following is a list of all the fires that have occurred in LaGrange since January 1st, 1918, together with the amount of property loss on each one. Some of the smaller fire loss es are only estimations, but the estimations were made by fire chief C. W. Corless and are pretty ac curate. The total fire loss in LaGrange this year has been $14,360, which is a good deal larger than that of last owing to the fact that the fire of December 12th which destroyed the old poRtoffice and the store of Strong & Robinson caused a loss of $6,000, nnd there have been several fires this year, which partially or totally de stroyed expensive residences. Most of the losses have been covered by insurance. Jan. 8th. Grass fire, property own ed by C. H. Griffin, occupied by E. A. Jones. No damage, extinguished with chemicals. Feb. 24th. # Gus Dixon house, on Hamilton street, owned by The La Grange Bank nnd Trust Co., loss about $800 partly covered by insur ance. Mar. 6th. J. W. P. Smith, on Cherry with block on Main street. Jan. 21st. LaGrange Baseball As sociation organized. Feb. 13th. Henry Boo: er acquitted for the killing of C. I). Philpot at Bogans ville. Feb. 16th. Little Ann Childs, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. -Childs, dies. Feb. 18th. Pike BrcM.-Jmya from Guinn Investment Co. W Jfeet front age of property on Mipni street, at a price of $100 per frolt Ifoot.^ Ed- mondson-Christopher buy I 100 feet just below this property X;r the same price. Goldstein Bros, bqy 80 feet for $125 per front foot! Feb. 19th. Mr. George Dix sells Haberdasher to Mr. James White. Feb. 20th. LaGrange Chamber of Commerce leases new offices. Mar. 9th. Protracted services be gin at First Methodist church. Mar. 10th. Mr. H. C. Odom dies suddenly in Callaways old store Mar. 14th. Opening of Callaways and Kress new stores. Mar. 18th. J. N. Hazelhurst, of At lanta. appointed engineer for city gas plant. Mar. 24th. Opening of LaGrange Electric Laundry. Mar. 27th. Banque* driven by La Grange Chamber of Commerce. Apr. 2nd. Mr. Fuller Callaway of fered position as Commissioner of Indian affairs by President WiDon. Apr. 2nd. Surveys made for gas plant. chemicals, loss about $30. Mar. 7th. Cabin, owned by W. G, Cleaveland, on Harrison street, fire started in clothes closet, damage about $100, covered by insurance. Jdar. 10th. Prof. Brown (colored), Cannon street, gasolene fire, two chil dren fatally injured, little property damaged. Apr. 22nd.. . .W. T. Wilson, Cherry street, total loss, being out side of district reached by water. Loss $1,500, insurance $1,200. July 14th. R. F. Kellum, on Lewis street, partially destroyed, loss about $2,600, covered with insurance. July 28th. Fire in roof of La Grange Mills, caused By lightning, damage about $60, covered with in surance. Aug. 16th. R. E. Crowford, on Main street, partially destroyed, damage about $1,600, covered with insurance. Sep 25th. Car of cotton, Atlanta and West Point track, car burned, damage to cotton about $400. Oct. 10th. LaGrange High- School, on Harwell avenue, fire in supply room in basement, damage about $125. Oct 25th. A. B. & A. residence occupied by tenants, only a small roof fire, extinguished with chemi cals, damage $10. Nov, 9th. Harts store, on Green ville street, burned entirely up, dam age about $1,000 covered by insurance- Nov. 17th. Mrs. J. E. Witherspoon on Broad street, damage about $100 LARC& Y TO local people Apr. nth. LaGrange High School * covered b y insurance, leaves for High School meet at Beunaj Nov ’ 24tb - Grass fire - property own- Vista. led by L. J. Render, extinguished with Aor. 16th. Meeting of directors of LaGrange College. Apr. 21st. Chamlier of Commerce Apr. 26th. Memorial day exercises at court house. Judge James B. Rid- ley. of Atlanta, delivers address. Apr. 29th. Mavor .T. T). Edmundson re-elected over Mr. P. H. Hutchinson by vote of almost 3 to 1. mass meeting held at court house. May. 5th. Opening of Georgia- LiGrange plays liamond. La- Scor-fj- 6 ip 2. First eume played on Alabama league. Newnan on latter'# Grange lost. May 10th. home diamond between LaGrange and Talladega. LaGrange lost by score of 4 to 1. LaGr ingt wins opening day attendance c< nte t by scoring 2,000 paid admissi ins. May 12th. Mayor uid council or ganizes for new ■ fiscal year. Action taken looking to ;establishing of re ^order’s court, j j May 12th. Bo^n- of Heard county eitizens lynch Sanfi (iirensby, a negro, who killed Brooks' Lace, a white man, at Franklin. May 13t'n. Col. Hatton Lovejoy goes to Washington, D. C. to fight freight rate cas*. May 23rd. Comniencement exer cises at Southern , College. May 30th. Graduating exercises of chemicals. Nov;. 26th. Grass fire, property owned by W. A. Reeves, no damage. Nov. 27th. Leaves fire, property owned by Southern Female College no damage. Dec. 9th. R. L. Burks, on Hill street fire in the roof, damage $160, cover ed by insurance. Dec. 12th. Park building south west corner of square, damage to building estimated at $3,000, covered by insurance. Damage to stock of goods about the same. Dec. 16th. Cabin, in yard of J. W. Castles, damage about $75, no in surance. Dec. 27th. Barn on property of W. H. Turner, loss about $100, no in surance. Goldstein Bros. Buy Johnson Place (Continued qi ! ast page). Messrs. Sam and Morris Goldstein have just purchased through the W, V. Gray Real Estate Agency the cot tage on Ridley avenue, which belong ed to Mrs. Jane Johnson. Mr. Sam Goldstein and family and his brother Morris, will move there soon and make this cottage their future home. If you would be truthful let yoiljr up with the ciwt of high 'living. VflOW MaAl»4-mno Ka 4k«n»> M t ' 1 !i:A.i . . .11 New Year resolutions be these: For the Average Husband. I will continue staying down town in the evenings just as long as I want to. If things don’t go to suit me at the office I am going to*Worry, be cross and if my wife is so unreason able as to want me to go anywhere with her when I come in tired at night I won’t go. I am going to keep on smoking just as long as tobacco is manufac tured. I will smoke cigars sometimes but when I prefer cigarettes I won’t have any scruples about “pulling) -a tack.” I expect to keep a little toddy at the house for medical purposes and if I feel the least bit indisposed at times I’m going to take a little. I’m not going to church on Sunday mornings except when we have com pany. I’m going to play along in about the same cld rut, with no extraordi nary effort to do anything except add to my bank account. For the Average Wife. Hurrah for 1914—the New Year. The first thing I intend to do is to induce my husband to increase my allowance in order that I may keep sary and I have Jtf \ aR 'J^ M right to participate in ies Ip as she has. | Although I can if ATUy V ect hub- by to buy a car, J >E\Wi golltig id be awfully nice to Mi! 1 iSoandso anid I will get to take tri 11 In he- car and people out of towr. Wril 1 think the machine belongs to I expect to get \I can out of life this year and J lo hope those horrid people, will buy more at hub by’s store in order t'haV hV' Won?t bfe‘ incessantly talking about hard times. For the average young man! this is 1914. I’ll go back to school this week and I am going to try awfully hard to make the ball team this spring. I’m going to keep on smoking cigarettes and spending just as much money as I can pull the old man for. I’m going to show my frat broth ers how to wear the latest styles. I’m going to show the girls in town what a sport I am and intend to make them all fall for me as a kid does for candy. I’m going to cut just a n many les sons as possible without the old folks getting on. I’m going to do my darndest to make the old man buy a car and have it ready for me when I get back home. I intend to take my physician’s ad vice and not burden my eyes and brain with over work this year. All in all, I intend to have a good time. Study? T should worry! Father has enough to make my future se cure. Come on boys! Over $45,00? is the tid y sum being disbursed in ?>v4dends the first of the year by Li G, ' an K e corporations, and the gratify!?* feature of it is that the greater j art " °f this sum re mains here in Lat ,ran * e > to go into circulation again aif* help wonderful ly as an addition t? Fhe circulating medium. The corporations piy* n Kdividends ttie first of' the year ail? amounts are: LaGrange BankP* & Trust Company, 6 per cent semi-annual,; $12,000; Elm City CotlB 1 Mills, 3 per cent quarterly, $10} fi h; Unity Cotton Mills, 4 per cent quarterly, 10,000; The LaGrange Natiojkl Bank, 4 per cent semi-annual, ^-,000; La Grange Savings Bank, 1 P er cent semi-annual, $1,000; and thfj.,,Rank of LaGgange will pay its regular 4 per cent semi-annual dividend about the middle of the month, amounting to $2,000. In addition, therj is a large amount of stock held locally in the Atlanta & West Point railroad Com pany, which paid a 3 per cent semi annual dividend. So considering this and the disbursements by Banks for interest on savings and time deposits, it is probable that the total January disbursements in LaGrange will amount to over $50,000. Congratulations to those so fortunate as to receive these dividend and in terest payments! To those not so fortunate let it be an inspirution-tff save, and put the savings to work. It is also a matter of congratulation that LaGrange corporations generally have been managed with such success as to command the confidence of La Grange p eople. Two New Modern Business Buildings Edmoudson-Christopher Co. and Pike Bros. Having Plans Drawn for Handsome Buildings to Cost About $25,000 Each. Mr. Joe Hanson Returns to City Mr. Joe Hanson, the popular young! man of this city has just returned from several months stay with Dr. W. T. Herring at loia, Fla. Joe has many strange and exciting tales to tell of his wonderful adventures jn the land of flowers with gun and dog. There were some bear hunts and a few big fish (caught?) and a wild turkey was really bagged for Joe brought an affidavit signed by Dr. Herring that he (Joe) did it with his little gun. Dr. Herring sends the message that he will be back to LaGrange some time this spring—in time to assist in keeping score for the LaGrange club and to assist in rooting for the home team. Death of Mr. H. L. Baehellor Thursday The definite announcement that S Edmondson-Christopher Company and Pike Bros, are having plans pre pared for a handsome new two-story brick buildings to be erected on Main street early in the year will be gene rally gratifying news. Plans are being prepared for both buildings by- Walker & Chase, the well known architects of Atlanta, which assures that the buildings will be hahdsome additions to this street, already established as the main business sec tion by the new buildings of the Ct-ank-er-up! 1 government and Callaways and Kress. Messrs. J. H. Edmondson and C. N. Pike, acting for their respective interests, announce their intention to make the new buildings fully in keep ing with their handsome neighbors on the same street. The two build ings will have frontages of 50 feet each on Main street, and 100 or 120 feet depth. They will cost in the neighborhood of $25,000 each. Thus do two of LaGrange’s lead ing business interests “start the ball a’rolling” with the New Year toward what will probably be the greatest year for building that LaGrange has ever knowq. Such faith in the city’s foundation and future is inspiring, and no doubt will be followed by anr nouncements at an early il&te of oth-* er important enterprises known to be in contemplation by prominent in terests. ■