Newspaper Page Text
THF LAGRANGE REPORTER.
FRIDAY MORNING DEC. 18, 1914,
'madonna DEUATEHDA — RaphAe^ 3
DOINGS AROUND §
g STATE CAPITAL jl
GEORGIA PAPER ON
.THE COTTON QUESTION
Atlanta, Dec. 17.—'“Why are we
groaning under the low price of cot
ton?” asks one Southern paper this
week, and it answers its own question
with the following paragraph from
another Dixie paper:
“Another car load of potatoes
onions and apples will arrive here
from Michigan this week,-and still wo
worry about seven-cent cotton.”
“What is true of this town is true
of all others in the South,” says the
editor. “Not until the farmers raise
enough vegetables, grain and meat
to live upon will the South cease to
I groan and starve when the bottom
t4y guns and soldiers
ARE POPULAR THIS YEAR
Atlanta, Dec. 17.—A journey down
Whitehall street this week would
make one think he was in the midst
of a Lilliputian battlefield, so thick
are the toy soldiers and tiny cannons
and guns.
The war spirit has captured toydom
and Old Santa will carry this year j drops out of cotton. In diversification
- . . of crops lies the economic salvation
a rather unfitting line of goods toj^ of ^ South .
celebrate the birth of the Prince ofi
OTTLEY NOW HEADS THE
ATLANTA CLEARING HOUSE
Atlanta, Dec. 17.—Georgia finan
ciers will be interested in learning of
the election of John K. Ottley of At
lanta to the presidency of the Atlanta
clearing house association, succeed
ing Colonel Robert J. Lowry, the dean
of Atlanta bankers, who retired after
six years of service.
THE RAILROADS APPEALING
FOR PAY FOR PARCEL POST
Atlanta, Dec. 17.—The growth of
the parcel post system and the failure
of the government to adjust its rates
of payment to the railroads for trans
porting the additional weight have
worked a heavy hardship on South
ern railroads, according - to officials.
When the parcel post was estah-
Mr. Ottley, though a comparatively lished no provision was made to pny
young man, is one of the best known | f 0 r transportation and all the roads
financial experts in the South. For
several years he has been head of the
clearing house section of the Ameri
can bankers’ association, and enjoys
a wide acquaintance among bankers
of the nntion. He iB vice president of
the Fourth National bank.
"SPUGS" ARE HARD AT WORK
IN ATLANTA THIS XMAS
Atlanta, • Dec. 17.—The Spugs are
working hard in Atlanta this Christ
mas to break up the foolish custom
of giving something that is no good
to a person you don’t care a hang
for just because that person is likely
to give you something you don’t want
and make you feel sorry Christmas
was invented.
The Spugs are really the society for
the prevention of useless giving, and
they are pretty well organized. It is
believed that their work will mean
fewer carpet slippers for father and
fewer pin cushions for mother, and a
lot less of these mysterious articles on
sale at Christmas time and for which
nobody can discover a use.
But the Spugs are not against real
Christmas gifts. They urge that
everybody cut out the merely per
functory giving and give where it will
do some real good.
Peace. The toy makers are turning j ||gyy
out siege guns which shoot rubber
balls, fortresses of tin and wood,
armored automobiles which run by a
spring, and regiments and regiments 1
tiny soldiers which may be maneu-
ed upon a board.
of tir
v^ed
ADVISES FARMERS NOT TO
RAISE TOO MANY MELONS
Atlanta, Dec. 17.—One Georgia
farm expert in a card this week ad
visee Georgia farmers not to plant
too many watermelons and canta
loupes ‘for a selling crop.
“In reducing their cotton acreage
let the farmer beware of banking too
heavily on these melons," he says.
“The watermelon and canteloupe
business has been overdone in the
past several times and few planters
made anything out at them. They
are of precarious growth and matur
ity. A hot, dry spell or a little too
much rain at the wrong time will
blast their prospects. There is al
ways a great deal of trouble in mar
keting them, too. The markets easily
become glutted and there is a heavy
loss to the grower.
fifiB POWER COMPANY MAKES
AN INTERESTING EXHIBIT
Atlanta, Dec. 17.—An exhibit which
is attracting an unusual amount of
attention in Atlanta is that of the
Georgia Railway and Power Com
pany, in the new Healy building,
where members of the Rotary, club
are making a business exhibit. There
is a crowd in front of the electric
window all day.
The new insulating devices used on
the great power line between Tallulah
Falls and Atlanta, each one several
feet long and with plate after plate
of porcelain, show what a terrific
current is carried on the power lines
especially when by the aids of an
unused insulator. is a fragment left
of one which had been struck iby
lightning. Photographs of the great
power plant at the Falls and of the
other plants of the big company are
alpo of interest. The people who ride
in the cars and use the lights had but
a faint conception of the magnitude
of the planto necessary to handle the
traffic until this exhibit was made.
METHODIST COLLEGE
WILL BE IN DRUID HILLS
Atlanta, Dec. 17.—Methodists all ov
er the state and the south are gratified
to leant that the great new Metho
dist University to be established in
Atlanta will be located at the border
of Druid Hills, the most beautiful
residence mburb of the city.
The north and south Georgia con
ferences have agreed on this location
after several sites were offered and
a charter will be applied for in a few
days.
Druid Hills, just at the edge of
Atlanta in DeKalb county, is consider
ed by experts the handsomest home
park in the 8outh, and is the site of
many of the city’s most beautiful
homes.
"Hie new university will be easy of
access, close be the city yet removed
from its disadvantages. A tract of
100 acres will be laid out for build
ings and campus.
GOV. SLATON WILL NOT GRANT
^“WHOLESALE XMAS PARDONS”
Atlanta, Dec. 17;—Governor John
M. Slaton, though feeling the Christ
mas spirit ns much as any man, can
not reconcile with his duty the prac
tice of granting indiscriminate
“Christmas pardons" to state con
victs.
“The pardoning power is an of
ficial duty and not a private matter,”
he says. “I have no more right to
free a prisoner because it is Christ
mas than I have to spend the state’s
money on Christinas charities.
“I should like to see every man
happy on Christmas day, not only be
cause It is Christmas but it is my
birthday as well. But I have no right
to open the doors of the prisons."
The governor is being besieged with
demands for Christmas pardons. His
desk is stacked high with letters and
he has hosts of callers. But he merely
refers them to the fact that the fourth
Thursday and Friday in each motith
are set apart'for the hearing of par
don applications.
carried the traffic for nothing for the
first six months. In 1913 the mails
in the middle Atlantic states were
weighed, and the mail pay on those
roads was increased. Last spring
the mails were weighed in the far
west, and then they got an increased
payment. But the mails have not
been weighed in the south yet, while
weights elsewhere show that a prop
er increased in pay would be twenty to
twenty-five per cent. The ronds are
appealing to congress that mails be
weighed everywhere once a year and
the roads paid for the annual increase
in volume of traffic carried.
THE HOME INDUSTRY
MOVEMENT IS SPREADING
Atlanta, Dec. 17.—The Home In
dustry movement is spreading rapidly
among the smaller cities and towns
of Georgia, urged on by the live
newspapers, and it is producing re
sults. There is hardly a town in the
state which does not manufacture;
something, which has not a factory
of some typo. When the home people
give first choice to home articles they
aid directly in employing the factory
workers and the money stays at
home. /
Many, large factories In the bigger
cities have complained that they found
a market more readily far away from
home than close by, and are uniting
in a “Homo Products” campaign.
There is no town in the state where
a similar movement would not be an
aid. But one reason why home pro
ducts frequently are not purchased is
because they are unknown. Systema
tic advertising at home is a remedy
for this.
XMAS OFFERINGS FOR THE
WESLEY MEMORIAL FUND
Atlanta, Dec. 17.—The annual
Christmas offering for the charity
work fund of Wesley Memorial Hos
pital will be taken next Sunday, Dec.
20, in all churches of the North and
South Georgia Methodist conference
as the work has been approved by
those bodies and it was directed that
the collection be taken. The fund is
for the purpose of helping to famish
treatment for the poor who are sent
to the hospital. It is not for the hos
pital itself, for every bed could be fill
ed with pay patients and the hospital
could make a profit, but in so doing
would not fulfill its purpose, Every
care is taken to see that the fund is
properly used.
No patient has ever been denied
entrance when there was an unoc
cupied bed in the wards unless he
had some disease that was infectious,
contagious or incurable. Of the 1128
patients treated in the past year, 110
were charity patients unable • to pay
foe treatment and 409 were part-pay
patients. More than 76 per, cent of
the counties of Georgia were repre
sented by patients. The cost to the
hospital above what was paid was
over ten thousand dollars. Last year
345 pastoral charges In Georgia gave
$5,006.73 for free work at Wesley
Memorial.
SHOULD PAY DEBTS AND
END THE 0EADL0CK
Atlanta, Dec. 17.—That farmers
who have cotton on hand which they
do not wish to Bell should borrow on
it and pay their debts is being urged
strongly by Robert F, Maddox, of
Atlanta, who is Georgia chairman of
the national cotton loan committee
and vice president of the American
National bank.
“There are considerably more than
a million bales of cotton in Georgia
unsold and ready for market,” de
clared Mr. Maddox. “If the owners
do not care to sell at the prevailing
prices they should borrow a con
siderable amount on it, which if put
into circulation by payments of debts,
will be of much relief throughout the
state.”
A TELEPHONE IN EVERY RURAL'
HOME IN THE COUNTRY
Atlanta, Dec. 17.—A telephone In
every rural home in the county is
a movement now being taken up by
many county seat towns in the South,
and the residents are finding the tele
phone companies heartily ready to
co-operate with them in every way
possible. The country customer gets
a telephone at what a city dweller
would consider a ridiculously low
price, and it is noticed! that these
counties which have the most far
mers’ phones are the most thriving
and prosperous.
At Anderson, S. C., the chamber of
commerce and the Southern Boll Tele
phone Company are working togeth
er to put a phone into every farm
house in the county, and the cost per
year to many of the subscribers is
only eight dollars—a little more than
an Atlanta man pays for a month’s
service. The Cpmpany is aiding in
the movement in other towns, and the
spread of the rural phone, which puts
the farmer in close touch with the
markets and reduces hia feeling of
isolation is becoming remarkable.
Christ the Csrrtor.
It is not a mere figure of speech that
Christ, the anniversary of whose birth
We celebrate, is lo «ur mom! and spirit
nal wbat the sup Is to oor. planetary
system. The dependence In both cases
(s alike. If the body has appetite*
die aoul has ambition, and both inusl
be satisfied or human equilibrium Is
lost We must possess the two. linked
together In Some mysterious way. or
we shall fly to social and moral chaos
Good government, good morals and ev
ary orderly, well directed progression
rests on that concession.
To bo b-.fldel to It Is to destroy the
ideal, to shrivel the heart of the race,
to make might right, to enthrone selfish
ness and greed and to displace and do
violence to the public conscience.
The Man of Nazareth and what he
represents are the embodiment of the
law of moral gravitation which bolds
the world In Its orbit He gave us the
ideas on which orderly communities
base their legislation. He furnished ua
with the spiritual Ideal, created new
motives, made quiet, humble endurance
a cardinal virtue and placed on the
brow of bereavement the radiant coro
net of hope.
Others have sought the same end,
the same crowning achievement Corfu
dua, Zoroaster. Mohammed aud Bud
dba were of the royal family of souls,
but at most they were mere princes
in the presence of the King. They gave
much: he gave all.
WOMAN IS RESTORED TO LIFE
AFTER BEING DEAD 10 MIN.
Atlanta, Dec. 17.—Atlanta physici
ans are discussing with interest the
case of Dr. C. 8. Hutchison, of Los
Angeles, Cal., who restored a woman
to life after she had been actually
dead for ten minutes. They look
upon It as the moat marvelous bit
of modern surgery.
Mrs. Walker W. Akers, having un
dergone an operation, was really dtad,
say the physicians. Her heart had
stopped; there was no pulse, there
was no response to any test. But Dr.
Hutchinson put his hand through the
incision made by the operation, grasp
ed her heart at the top and bottom
and began to compress it gently.
Under this artificial pumping the blood
began to course through the veins
once more. The patient rallied, and
is on the road to recovery.
A Christmas Vision.
At Christmas, when the pealing balls
Ring back our hearts to Bethlehem.
Whence the fair flower of Mass's at<
Eternally our loye compels;
Borne on the peal my fancy goes,
Far from the Thames and noisy Strand.
To Christmas In that distant land
Where a more ancient river flows
And there the desert’s changeless e
la troubled. Gods and goddesses,
All Egypt's monstrous deities.
Gather In fear by well and palm.
The cry Is heard: "O Egypt, hark!
We gods must die. Another comas."
Again the unrelenting drums
Bho***r the horror of the dark.
Afar, where sotne oasis, spiced
With palm and lotus, charms the NHw
The sphinx, with her mysterious I
Seas Mary kiss the sleeping Christ.
—r. rails “
In Our New Patent
EasyQpihing-Box',
10 Cents
best noli
tho handiest box.
Black, Tan
and White
The f. f. daluey Co.
ltd.
Buffalo, N.Y.
HemUtoSaOnt.
Machine Shop* andJFoundry Work
GENERAL REPAIR SHOP FOR ALL CLASSES OP MACHINERY
WE BUY SCRAP IRON AND BRASS.
ALL WORK GUARANTEED.
LaGrange Foundry and Machine Co.
Morgn Street
6
Farm Loans Lands. P
0 A ? ply Frank Harwell SSST
FARM LOANS
LIFE INSURANCE MONEY TO
LEND ON IMPROVED FARMS
REASONABLE INTEREST BATE. FOR TERMS APPLY TO
A. H. THOMPSON,
LAGRANGE,
GEORGIA.
ONE DOLLAR WILL START AN ACCOUNT
WITH THE
LAGRANGE SAVINGS BANK
4°
Interest Paid on Savings
q Accounts, Compoun
u 1 Semi-Annually
vmgi
ded
FULLER E. CALLAWAY, Pres. L. H. ADAMS, Cashier
L DIRECTORS:
F. E. Callaway F. M. Longley
C. V. Truitt J. G. Truitt
S. H. Truitt
Tax Notice
I will be at the following places on the dates and hours named
below, for the purpose flf collecting state and county taxes fsr the
year 1914.
Pyde, Wednesday, Dec. 2nd, 12 m. to 2 p. m.
Abbottsford, Thursday, Dec. 3rd, 12 m. to 1:30 p. m.
Gabbettville, Friday, Dec. 4th, 12 m. to 3 p. m.
Mountville, Friday, Dec. 11th 7:30 a. m. to 11:00 a. m.
Big Springs, Friday, Dec. 11 12 m. to 2:30 p. m.
Stovall, Friday, Dec. 11th, 2:30 p. m. to 5 p. m.
Chipley, Wednesday, Dec. 1.6th, 10:00 a. m. to 3:00 p. m.
Hogansville, two days, Mondays, Dee. 7-14, 7 a. m. to 3:00 p. m.
West Point, two days, Thursdays, Dec. 10-17, 9:00 a. m. to 3 p. m.
Will have some one in LaGrange every day.
To the voters: Examine your tax receipts and see if your poll tax is
paid.
Books close December 21st.
C. E. Poythress,
Tax Collector, Troup County, Ge.
Atlanta & West Point
Railroad Company
ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF TRAINS AT
GRANGE, GA. EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER 29, 1914.
SUBJECT TO CHANGE AND TY
POGRAPHICAL ERRORS.
LA-
Eastfcound. Leave.
No. 42 For Atlanta 5:35 A. M.
No. 88 For Atlanta 9:45 A. M.
No. 40 For Atlanta ....11:50 A. M.
No. 34 For Atlanta ....4:25 P. M.
Ne. 30 For Atlanta ......9:24 P. M.
Westbound. Leave.
No. 36 For Montgomery . .8:30 A. BL
No. 33 For Montgomery 11:50 A. ML
No. 39 For Montgomery . .4:25 F. M.
No. 37 For Montgomery 7:18 P. M.
No. 41 For West Point . .8:28 P. M.
All trains daily. Trains Nos. 35 and 36 have through coaches be
tween Washington and New Orleans*nd sleepers between New York arid
New Orleans. Parlor cars, dining car between Atlanta and Montgo
mery and Montgomery and New Orleans.
Trains Nos. 37 and 38 (New York and New Orleans Limited) Solid
Pullman train Detween New York and New Orleans.
Trains Nos. 89 and 40 carry Washington Sunset Route Tourist cam be
tween Washington and San Fraadno Dally. \i