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' THE LAGRANGE REPORTER. FRIDAY MORNING, OCT 9. 1914. /AIT |\/\\TT ENGRAVING UU UUN. 1 PRTMAR1I/Y TO ECONOMISE' ANYMORE THAN AMAN SMOKES A TEN CENT CIGAR TO ECONO MIZE. PRICES ON FINE WORK THAT PROP- 1 ERLY REPRESENTS YOUR PERSONALITY ARE TOO REASONABLE FOR YOU TO USE PUNCHED LETTERING AND SHODDY.WORK. sc£ cs/r rov tVAArr ro jb& cvmjict. The LaGrange Reporter, LaGrange, Georgia. .^HARCOURT&CO. MANT'G ENC/RAVT-P-S LOUI>SVII>I>Ii/, JYYT 0M.POrVA7 *.P In New "Eeey* Opening- Bos” BLACK WHITE TAN nHOEH "POLISHES" Barnes Furniture Co. Best Goods- -Lowest Prices Easiest Terms 91.00 Saved in 95.00. LaGrange, Ga. LaGrange Foundry and Machine Co. We are now prepared to make all kinds of castings from iron and brass and to repair machinery of every description. Our foundry is modem in every detail, being equipped with the latest machin ery and appliances. We have secured the services of workmen of long experience and whom we know are in every way qualified to give perfect satisfac tion. Our machine shop is equipped with the Intest machines and tools and our workmen in this department are also capable of turning out high class work. COMMUNICATE WITH US IF YOU NEED ANYTHING IN OUR LINE. IT WILL PAY YOU GOOD SERVICE AT REASONABLE PRICES IS OUR POLICY. P. S. BRING ALL YOUR OLD IRON AND BRASS TO OUR SHOPS. WE PAY HIGHEST MARKET PRICES. * wfMNE LaGrange Foundry and Machine Co. The Southern Mutual Insurance Company INSURES AGAINST LIGHTNING WITHOUT ADVANCE IN RATES Ga. ( Is now empowered to include the "Lightning of its policies without advance in rate. The addition of this feature, coupled with the large dividends returned to policyholders makes Southern Mutual insurance "The Best at Lowest Cost” ^25*™ L. H. Adams In case of vacancy or alteration notify Agent. PHONE 79 I TAXI-CAB SERVICE TROUP GARAGE Terms Strictly CASH At your service day and night. Preet-O-Lite Service, Trouble Service. Filtered Gasoline. « All repair work done by Expert Mechanics at reasoa- ible rates. MOTTO—Prompt and Efficient Service. Troup Garage WALTER ATKINSON, Proprietor. Send us $1.00 and be a reader of the Best Weekly Paper in Ga. THIS MIDNIGHT VISIT TO CHICK EN YARD HAS UNEXPECTED SEQUEL. Atlanta, Oct. 8.—Forty-five dollars each for chickens is a price that would appeal to the fanciest fancier, but that’s what an Atlanta woman got for two of hers this week, and they were not registered stock, eith er. She lives out Highland avenue, and just before dawn she heard a squawk from her chicken yard. She scream ed, and the noise of a man scrambl ing over a fence followed. Then silence. Early in the morning the lady went out to take an inventory and found two chickens missing, but just inside the fence lay a pocketbook con taining ninety dollars, evidently drop ped by the thief in his rush. He has not called for the money yet. GA. RAILWAY AND POWER CO. BUY 300 BALES COTTON. Atlanta, Oct. 8.—One of the latest moves in the great "Buy-a-Bale-of- Cotton" campaign is announced by the Georgia Railway and Power Com pany of Atlanta, which will retire 300 hales from the market. The cot ton is now being warehoused at Can ton, Ilogansville, Cartersville, Car rollton and Gainesville. The company appears in the role of landlord, for in connection with its purchases of rights of way for its power lines and of river lowlands subject to be overflowed later as plans are developed the com pany owns about 3,000 acres of Geor gia farm lands. Such as remain fit for cultivation have been rented to far mers. Such rents as are payable in cash or cotton arc being accepted by the company in cotton grown on the land at ten cents a pound, and the staple will be held by the company until the market reaches ten cents or more. MRS. JORDAN WRITES UP NEW ORLEANS COTTON CONFERENCE Atlanta, Oct. 8.—Mrs. Harvie Jor dan of Atlanta, with the assistance of her husband, president of the Southern Cotton Association, is preparing an article on the recent New'Orleans Cotton conference for The Call of the South, the well known Atlanta monthly published by Jonat han B. Frost. Mrs. Jordan, a brilliant writer, was commissioned by Mr. Frost to cover the conference as special represea- tative of the magazine and the forth coming issue will contain not only her article but several interesting and instructive articles on the crop and cotton condition of Georgia and the South. .. ATLANTA BUSINESS MAN ECONOMIZES ON UNCLE SAM Atlanta, Oct. 8.—Atlanta folk are trying in many ways to cut down ex penses without firing their help and are swapping yarns about pet econo mies. Several have quit shaving and are turning out a fine crop of whisk ers. But Forrest Adair, a prominent real estate man who has a heavy ren tal business, took his economy out on Uncle Sam. Mr. Adair has thousands of cus tomers with offices in the heart of the city, in a half-mile radius, and the total amount of two cent stamps used in mailing them monthly rent checks was appalling. So he figured a bit and found he could send his “mail” by a private messenger con siderably cheaper than through the postoffice, and now the messenger makes his rounds, delivering several hundred letters a day. It is a plan likely to be adopted by others. TANGO CAUSES DIVORCES, SAYS ATLANTA CLERGYMAN. Atlanta, Oct. 8.—Now they’re blam ing the divorce mania on the tango. The increase in marital unhappiness in the past has been laid at the door of wine, woman and song and vari ous other things but a prominent At lanta clergyman now comes forward and says that the Dansantes and the ■Tango teas are playing merry h avoc with married life and that’s the reason the divorce calendar is over crowded. “Well, it’s enough to make a man wish for freedom,” remarked one married man this week. “My wife gets up too late to clean up the house, rushes off to a dancing lesson at 11 o’clock, hurries to an afternoon dance at the club, gets home just in time to grab a bite and then drags me off to a dance which lasts until two o'clock in the morning. And then, of course, she’s too tired to do anything before its time to dance again. And I’m just one of a thousand men in the same fix,” Certainly Atlanta is more dance mad than ever before. A hundred teachers of fancy steps are coining money, the banquet halls of hotels and restaurants are given over to teaching and dancing, and every 1 home has its phonograph and its dance re cords. They’re even giving “dancing breakfasts” at some of the homes in order not to waste good dancing time. GARDEN CALENDAR FOR OCT. Prepare beds for fall planting. Plant hyacinths, tulips, daffodils, and all hardy bulbs. Take up dahlia and canna roots as soon as frosted. Pot ferns and tender plants used in win ter boxes. Put tub plants under cov er. Place sash on violet frames. Make cuttings from summer flowering plants for next year. Verbenas and petunias can be wintered in the cold frame.—Mrs. Alex Caldwell, ia So*- them Woman's Magadbe. THE FARMER WHO IS HOLDING.| In all the enthusiasm over the buy- a-bale movement sight has been lost' of the farmer who is holding his cot-' ton, sometimes under the most trying circumstances. j It is the farmer, the small farmer, j who depends almost entirely on his j cotton crop for sustenance, who should be helped nowadays, if any body is helped. It is a great tempta tion to him to part with his staple at almost any price when he and his family need the necessities of life, and yet there are hundreds of them who are clinging tenaciously to their crops. Indicative of this is the following from the Moultrie Observer: “A man who has recently made an I automobile trip in southwest Geor gia says that at practically every farmhouse there is to be seen cotton ginned and stored about the premises. I Never in memory of present day busi ness men has there been such a stub born and insistent holding movement. The cotton years have been accustom-; ed to so-called holding movements in ' the past that failed to Hold, but the wolf has come in earnest this year, and the farmers are demanding more money or no sale.” The banks of Macon, and the mer chants, too, as well as banks and mer chants elsewhere throughout the state arc giving these farmers of the “hold ing” class much assistance—Macon News. BUY THAT BALE. From the Pickens County Herald. If you have $50 that is not work ing invest in one bale of cotton. It will bring you a profit in the near future and you will at the same time help out some poor farmer who can not afford to sell his cotton at the present market price, and pay his living expense. You will not only help the farmer but possibly help yourself by allowing your $50 to go in circulation and enable somebody to pay if he owes you. COTTON SEED ADVANCE. From the Evergreen Courant. The price of cotton seed is now $15 per ton, just $2 more than the trust- fixed price. The price usually com mences at $13 on Monday and gra dually creeps up during the week. Some people sell because it seems as if they are forced to do so, but many of them are taking their seed home. This matter of price fixing is being investigated by the federal authori ties. COMMUNITY HABITS. Communities are like humans, 'they get habits. Ench community makes its own collection, selects the particu lar kinds it likes. This makes it a “peculiar place,”—as the phrase goes, — gives it individuality, really makes it different from the rest. Now the character of a community—whether it is good or bad—depends on the kind of stuff it packs into itR habit- trunk. Furthermore, communities sometimes get chronic. They get “sot in their ways.” The habit ruts get deep. Judgments about things get twisted. Ambition grows tired and quits. Whatever the community is it stays, until it begins to slip back— back, perhaps to the condition of that New England rural community which finally raised only two crops a year— “huckleberries in summer and hell in winter."—The Countryside Magazine and Suburban Life for October. NOTICE. Notice is hereby given to all per sons owning or interested in rural telephone lines, that such lines must be put in good condition at once. This applies to all lines on or near the right of -way of the public roads of Troup county. All lines found to be in such a condition as to be dan gerous to the traveling public, from rotten poles, sagging wires or other cause, will be cut down and removed by the toad authorities. The above was decided at a meet ing of the County Commissioners on September 22nd, 1914. C. W. SMITH, Chmn. Board County Corns. Oct 16. It seems quite clear that the aver age Republican politician is either bogtied to doctrine and argument some five years obsolete, or lacks either doctrine or argument of any kind whatsoever. Many of them have opposed the administration’s war emergency measures. Yet, for their part, what has been proposed? Not r. blessed thing! WHO WILL FURNISH THE BAJK LOTS FOR NOVEMBER STATM ELECTION? OLD TIME HYMNS ARE URGED. From The Camden County News. “We may be an old fogy, but we believe strongly enough to say it and stand up to it, that if our churches would quit using these rag-time jing les at their song services and go back to the old-time hymn book, that the old-time power would be revived and the church would again mean some thing in the community.” There have been enough corn fields ruined this year by laying by with a turning plow after cultivating on a ridge to convince any one who is open to conviction that level, shallow cultivation is best. Some will remain unconvinced, but many of those who have been “sot in their ways” have at last seen their error, and while the remedy is a hard one it will cer tainly lead to better methods in the future.—The Progressive Farmer. “Don't Stop Mills; Start Them!” is the title of an editorial in the Chicago Herald—and a mighty good title. Many inquiries .are coming into flfc office of Secretary of State Cook, m to where the supply of ballots for the state election to be held this year for the first time on November 3d is to come from. There is no provision in law for the state to supply the tickets voted i> the election. The law simply pro vides that the secretary of state shall supply all necessary blanks, with sample tickets showing constitutional amendments and the list of all state candidates to be voted for in such election. Heretofore, only congressmen were voted for in November, except in na tional election years. Georgia is for the first time recording a direct vote for United States senators, with the single exception of the late Senator Bacon. It appears to have been the univer sal custom in the past that con gressmen supplied the official ballots in their own districts. In state elec tions, where the county officers are also regularly elected at the same time, local county candidates furnish ed tickets, having put on such bal lots amendments and the names of state house officers. , Therefore, this custom will hove of f necessity to be followed this coming November. Local county candidates in the counties must have tickets printed and properly distributed in all voting districts. The official ballot this year will be a long one. There are ten constitu tional amendments to go on it, and these must be printed twice—“for”' and “against.” Then with all of the statehouse nominees, United States senators and judges and solicitors, to say nothing of the county officials, it will make about the longest ballot voted in years. In addition to the Democratic nomi nees for United States senators, prob ably three names will be embraced outside—one Progressive and one in dependent against Senator Smith, and one Progressive against T. W. Hard wick. The official blanks, forms, sample tickets and other necessary matter will be sent out the latter part of his week to every county. Each county must supply its own' ballots. This should not be forgotten, as the state has no way of supplying the same. Learn to Forget. |) Caesar was so ready to forgive tbat even Cicero, who was by no means a constant friend to him, relates, as a singular proof of htB noble heart, that he never used to forget anything ex cept the wrong done to him. Indeed, to pardon Is a most beautiful revenge; but to forget Is still more beautiful.-— Petrarch. Meal and Hulls From New Crop Col tton Seed * We Are Now Pn Fill Orders for Youi ments .* .* .* ’pared to Require- • • • • • • Get Them While They MEAL, PER SACK HULLS, (bulk) PER HUNDRED HULLS, (sacked) PER HUNDRED are Cheap $1.35 30c 45c Let Us Trade For Your Seed Farmers Cotton Oil Co. '