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street The anti-dispensary people Statesboro have organized a club. There appears to be a regular epidemic of burglaries in Savan nah. Macon county teachers institute will meet in Oglethorpe on the 10th. North Augusta is wrestling with an incorporation or no incorpora tion issue. Oconee superior court is in see sion at Watkinsville, Judge Rus sell presiding. Last year Wilkes tax values were $2,729,761; this year they are $2,747,270. The Twenty-third Georgia regi ment will hold its annual reunion at Ac worth Aug. 12. A reunion of all the Confederate veterans id Cobb county will be held Aug. 5 th in Marietta. August term of Hancock supe rior court, owing to illness of cer tain counsel, has been postponed to Monday, the 31st. H. A. Clinch camp, U. C. V., will hold its reunion dinner at Culberton camp ground, Hancock county, August 19 th.. Taylor county’s taxable proper ty last year amounted to $944,242; this year it is $1,009,507, making a total increase of $65,255. Pierce county last year had 629,650 in taxable property, this year it is $1,797,691. The polls are 1,547, an increase of 33. If the newspapers, mass meet ings, resolutions and judges’ charges can give Augusta a pure ballot she is sure to have it. Mercer Baptist Association will hold a union meeting at. the Fel lowship Baptist church, two miles east of Cecil, on August 28-30. No danger of the automobiles running over the people of Bulloch The sand will hold them down to a slow time, says the Statesboro News. Crops in Clay county are in ex cellent shape at present. The corn crop is about as good or bet ter than farmers have had in sev eral years. The Tribune calls the proposi tion to sell the Augusta canal to a private corporation ridiculous. It is said $3,000,000 can be se cured for it. Savannah’s new city exchange project is meeting with some oppo sition from members of the Cham ber of Commerce. The question of increased taxation is the cause of it. Railroad ticket offices and post- offices seem to be favorite places for burglars in Georgia. The re cent theft of $108.20 from Gab bettville postoffice adds another to the list. When it comes to peaches and tomatoes Jonesboro and Clayton county can easily take the prize, says the Enterprise. One citizen is exhibiting a 13 1-2 ounce El- berta peach and another a 3-pound tomato. Greene county’s school census shows the whites have gained a total of 108, about 6 1-2 per cent. The colored lost 444, a loss of 10 12 per cent. The totals of both white and colored show a loss of 336, about 5 2-3 per cent. In all about sixty negro men are said to have left the Twin Cities (West Point and Lanett) this week to work on the extension of the Seaboard Airline railway, in north Georgia and the work now being done on the Mississippi river levees. The Schley County News is justly proud that that county gained $53,*41 over last year’s re turns, “which is a neat sum when you consider the jfact that Schley is one of the smallest counties in the state with no manufacturing interests.” Moultrie News: Ira Sims, a prominent farmer living near Mer rillville, planted 45 acres in mel ons this year and has realized from this crop to date something more than $1,900. Mr. Sims raises one of the best varieties grown in the state. Among those he raised this year was one weighing 78 pounds, which he sold for $15; an other one weighing 76 pounds, he sold for $10; another weighing 74 pounds was sold for $5.00. The fifth regiment broke camp at Rome on Thursday morning. Contracts have been let for a new academy building at Augusta. I has just finished a month’s vacation in California. Lawerenceville is to have a cot | ton seed oil mill. Moultrie council will elect a mayor Tuesday night. The Rome Tribune is demand ing a new depot for that place. A four-legged chicken is one of Cuthbert’s present curiosities. H. J. Cross is now the pub lisher, of the Dawson Recorder. Rev. Alonzo Monk, of Atlanta, The wife of Sheriff Milton Davis was found dead in her bed at Daniels ville. Within sixteen months six per sons have died in one family at Pendergrass. The old soldiers of Johnson will hold a reunion at Kite Satur day, the 15th, Editor Bankston thinks a bird bill about the caliber of the pres ent legislative session. Several negroes have passed through Macon,, claiming to have fled from Danville, Ill. More than ninety bills of a gen eral nature are now awaiting action . , - , ,, , , ... I by the state legislature. A meeting of the farmers insti-1 f ° tute for Worth county will be held j at Poulan Wednesday. Euough carpenters and brick masons cannot be obtained to keep up with the building pace in Mil- ledge ville. Albany Herald: There will be another session of this same Geor gia legislature next summer. Think of that! Mickey Culpepper has been ap pointed postmaster at Liberty, vice P. L. Culpepper, dead. The Senoia Enterprise-Gazette thinks the capitol question was settled a number of years ago. Robert Smith, the Franklin county wife murderer; has been lodged in the Carroll county jail. The Jarvis Ice Cream Parlor at Rome has gone into voluntary The quarterly meeting of the Fayette County Sunday school | bankruptcy, with $4,000 liabilities association will be held at Line Creek church Friday. Cures Eczema, Itching; Humors, PIm pies and Carbuncles.—Costs Noth ing to Try. B. B. B. (Botanio Blood Balm) is a certain and sore cure for eczema, itching skin, humors, soabs, scales, watery blis ters, pimples, aching bones or joints, boils, carbuncles, prickling pain in the skin, old, eating sores, ulcere, etc. Bo tanio Blood Balm cures the worst and most deep-seated oases by enriching, purifying and vitalizing the blood, there by giving a healthy blood supply to the skin. HealB every sore and gives the rich glow of health to the skin. Builds up the broken down body and makes the blood red and nourishing. Especially advised for chronic, old cases that doc tors, patent medioines and hot springs fail to cure. Druggists, $1, with com plete directions for home cure. To prove B. B. B. cures, sample sent free and pre paid by writing Biood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga. Describe trouble, and free medical advice sent in sealed letter. aug, Troops Still at Danville. Springfield, Ill., Aug. 3.—Adjt. Gen. Scott received a telegram from Danville, from Capt. Frank Beggs, commanding company A, Fourth Infantry, of Areola, an nouncing that his company had arrived there this morning and relieved companies H and I, Seventh Cavalry, John M. Closby commanding, which returned to Chicago on arrival of the Areola company. IS YOUR LIFE WORTH 50 CENTS If So Try a Bottle of Buy a Graphophone We defy the world to produce a med icine for the cure of all forms of Kidney and Bladder troubles and all diseases E eculiar to women, that will equal mith’s Sure Kidney Cure. Ninety- eight per cent, of the cases treated with Smith’s Sure Kictney Cure that have come under our observation have been cured. We sell our medicine on a positive guarantee, if directions are followed, and money will be refunded if cure is not effected. Price 60 cents and $1.00. For sale by | FINCHER & NICHOLS. and entertain your childn at home. You can them musical "HIS MASTER’S VOICE” en give entertain ments that will keep them at home, make them I 0Te home and be happy, Muncy & Bate will sell you one. Call and see them Wanted, Feathers! New or old, in exchange for| mattresses, or will pay cash. Write to Parham’s Mattress Factory CHATTANOOGA, TENN. The farmers’ institute for the Thirty-third senatorial district is Dublin must be a good field for I in session today at Harmony fire insurance men. The last 121 Grove. months they received $22,427 in I premiums and paid out $8,240 for ] losses. The total amount of taxable pioperty macintosh county, ex clusive of the railroads in this county, is $690,445. Last year it was $726,843, a decrease of $36,- 398. Buford Enterprise: Who dallies is a dastard, who doubts is damned, and who slides into the cloakroom to keep from voting will shoot-the- chutes at the next election. Colquitt county’s local option election may be called off because the registration book for Moultrie has been lost. The Cedartown Courier has just issued a very creditable and interesting industrial and illus trated edition. The Thomasville Times- Enter [ prise suggests “The Dead March From Saul” as an appropriate mosquito-killing tune. The annual reunion of Humph ries’ cavalry and Capt. Joe Al bert’s company will be held at Shingleroof camp ground. There will be an election held in Jesup Tuesday for a county school commissioner to fill the un Catoosa county shows an in crease in the return of her property for taxation. Last year the amount was $817,556, while this year it is $855,054. Poll tax shows a de crease of $78. The Madison Advertiser thinks I eI P ired tetm of J ' H - Ca,m011 the Milledgeville News modest in Charlton returns show an m- its request for the removal of the crease of $112,000 in tax values, state capital to that place. “Why more than $50,000 of this increase not ask for something bigger?” being in the Folkston district. Around Sowatchee, Early coun- The veterans of Camp No. ty, corn will be plenty, but meat, 1138, U. C. V., of Jones county unless hogs can be got elsewhere, will meet in Clinton to appoint t will be short. Several of the day and place for the annual re farmers have lost nearly all of | union. their hogs with cholera. , „ , , . , Griffin News. If the legislature Next Friday, will be held in does nothing but defeat the pres- Norcross the annual meeting of ent convict lease system, it will the L. P. Thomas Camp, No. 1468, have done enough to justify its United Confederate * Veterans. | existence Gen. West and L. P. Thomas will| deliver addresses. this C. C, Weeks, who resides at Ellen N.,on the Southern railway, was killed instantly by a passenger train near that station, the body Darien Gazette: It is a waste Elbert county tax values year are $2,330,381 against 303,851 last year. In the county I being mangled horribly, are 1,629 white tax payers, 1,176 colored, twelve lawyers, twenty-, . _ . , . 1 of time to organize clubs in the interest of presidential favorites. An examination of Jasper’s I Wait until the party nominates a court house by an expert shows candidate and then organize your that building, in his opinion, to be clubs, as safe twenty years hence as it is today, and nothing but a regular , • Gainesville cyclone could ijosfleit. were ® ^ 1S . ^ ear ^®y J J are $3,307,J61, an increase of There is a lot of building going $305, 717. The colored people on at Hoschton. Since April 1, return property this year at $176,. 51 car loads of brick, 37 car loads 1192, as against $172,975 last Brooks’ tax this values of lumber, 3 cars of lime, and sev eral ears of other building material have been received. year, an increase of $3,207. Walton’s tax returns show the following figures: Gain, white, $273,628; colored, $16,028; total Walker county tax values in creased during the last year $141,-1 gain for 1903, $290,150; gain for 823. Returns white taxpayers 3 901, $260,322; for 1902, $101,- ,444,693; colored taxpayers 288; total gain for last three years. $24,749; defaulters, white, 36,262; $651,761. The total amount of colored, 1,260; wild land $36,167 taxable property in Walton for —total for 1903, $2,542,121. 1903 is $3,423,573. With groaning eorncriba, well L The prospects in Cobb are very filled smokehouses and a good cot- flattenn S f <? » «»* crop B the ton crop celling at 10 cen ts or bet- ?P lnl °? °f. the . Coone . r - The ter, the farmere about Americas h< $ P^"g “ " ow ">*rtu>g- will indeed feel in excellent humor f ar ’ has flne °°} or ' 8 ood "Wk, and this fail, says the Americas Times- larg6 . “V* The latei- plantings Recorder also *°°k we “’ Cotton is small, but growing well, and has ample A temporary camp of Confed-1 time to make yet. erate veterans of Taylor county Albany Herald : The people of has been organized with twenty Georgia will find it necessary after members. On August 8 they will awhile to pay more attention to organize permanently. That day the election of members of the ] they will have a basket diuner, legislature. It is getting to be so j and Gen. Gordon has been invited that it is almost impossible to get 1 to speak. a measure that is in the interest The Times Enterprise says Wal-h^ the f"P le ‘i'ongh the two ter Redding of Thomas county has hou8ea o£ the 8 eneral 7- five acres in cotton and competent Perry Home Journal: So far no judges say that he will raise at mistake has. been made in. the least 2,000 pounds of cotton on preparations for the Georgia state this land. He also has thirteen fair at Macon next October, and acres of corn, which will average the indications now are that it will more than twenty bushels to the be the largest and best exposition acre. His success is a htriking of agricultural and industrial example of what energy devoted products ever seen in the state, to a small plat of Thomas county It will be an object lesson in pro- jand will bring forth. J gressive energy and industry. ) Escaped an Awful Fate. Mr. H. Haggins of Melbourne, Fla. writes: “My doctor told me I had Con sumption and nothing could be done for me. I was given up to die. The offer of a free trial bottle of Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption, induced me to try it. Results were startling. I am now on the road to recovery and owe all to Dr. King’s New Discovery. It surely saved nay life.” This great cure is guar anteed for all throat and lung diseases by Fincher & Nichols, Druggists. Price 50o & $1 00. Trial BottleB free. aug The expenses of the legislature up to date amount to about $30,000, which is a little more than $1,000 a day. For Over Sixty Years Mbs. Winslow’s Soothing Sybup has been used by millions of mothers for their children while teething. If distur bed at night and broken of your rest by a sick child suffering and crying with pain of Cutting Teeth, send at once and get a bottle of “Mrs. Winslows Soothing Syrup” for children Tsethlng. It will relieve the poor little sufferer immediate ly. Depend upon it, mothers, there is Early Melons and Georgia Peaches specialties no mistake about it. It cures Diarrhoea, Your consignments solicited. .. .. regulates the Stomach and Bowels,cures Wind Colic, softens the Gums, reduces Inflammation, and gives tone and energy to the whole system. “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” for children teething is pleasant to the taste and is the prescrip tion of one of the oldest and best female hycianB and nurses in the United States, rice twenty-five centB a bottle. Sold by all druggists throughout the world. Be sure and ask for Mbs. Winslow’s Soothing Sybup. CASTOR IA Eor Infants and Children.* The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of The old wall of historic Wes leyan Female college, at Macon, is to be torn down and the front yard will be terraced and made into a beautiful lawn. AAaAMaAMAAAAAAA AH Headaches * CURED “ d ■» CAPUDINE, (Liquid) . 5 WWWVVWVWVWV Drug Stores WANTED—SEVERAL PERSONS OF character and good reputation in each state (one in this county required) to represent and advertise old established wealthy business house of solid financial standing. Salary $21.00 weekly with ex penses additional, all payable in cash each Wednesday direotfrom head offices. Horse and oarriage furnished when nec essary. References. Enclose self-ad dressed envelope. Colonial Co., 334 Dearborn SL, Chicago. 2-12-26t OA.STORIA. Bear* the /y The Kind Yin Hava Always Bought Signature S7? .//gTf-A Wood’s Seeds FOR FALL SOWING. Farmers and Gardeners who de sire the latest and fullest informa tion about M e and Farm Seeds e for Wood’s New Fall Catalogue. It tells all about the fall planting of Lettuce, Cab bage and other Vegetable crops which are proving so profitable to southern growers. Also about Crimson Cover, Vetches, Grasses and Govers, Seed Oats, Wheat, Rye, Barley, etc. Wood’s New Fall Catalogue mnilnd free on request. Write for it. T. W. WOOD & SONS, Seedsmen, - Richmond, Va. “TEN WHEELER” Union Made Overlls. Ask for Them and be Sure You Get Them. “Ten Wheeler” Overalls are the best made. STUDIED MHHJMCT0RM CO., ATLANTA, CA. MUNCY & BATE SELL DIAMONDS, WATCHES, CLOCKS. JEWELRY, SILVERWARE, CUT GLASS, GRAPHOPHONES, RECORDS, and NEW HOME SEWING MA CHINES. They do all kinds of Watch, Clock and Jewelry Repairing in first- class style. Eyes tested and correctly fitted. Call and see them. Don’t forget the place. MUNCY &BATC JEWELERS. Or. Biggers’ Huckleberry Cordial The Great Southern Remedy. Cures all Stomach and Bowel Troubles, such as Chronic Dysentery, Cholera Mor bus, Bloody Flux, and also children teething. It seldom falls to make quick and permanent cures of all stomach and bowel diseases. See testimonial of the late HEJVRy w. G'RADV. Dr. Walter A. Taylor, Atlanta, Ga. Dear Sir: This la the first certlfcate that I have ever given as to the merits of any medicine, but I take pleasure In recommending Dr. Biggers* Huckleberry Cordial. I consider It the best remedy that I have ever used In my family for Stomach and Bowel Troubles. 60c In vested In a bottle of this medicine to be used In the beginning of any stomach trouble will often save life as wall as large' doctor's bill. I have a friend whose life was, In my opinion, saved by the prompt use of Dr. Biggers’ Huckleberry Cordial. For sale by all Druggists, 26 and 60c per bottle. (Signed) HENRY W. GRADY. Atlanta, Ga., May 23, 1887. Haltiwanger-Taylor Drug Go., Prop., Atlanta, Ga. *' Taylor’s Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Qum and Mullein will eure Coughs, Croup * ~ 25candJl * and Consumption. Price : SI a bottle. SULZBACHER G. GO., NASHVILLE, TENN. PRODUCE, FRUIT, VEGETABLES. I DROP BY DROP you count' with anxious care as you pour out the medicine that maybe the means of saving a dear ose’s life. Don’t you want the best medicine that can be had? Don’t yon know you should go to the most reliable and conscientious druggist, the most up-to-date drug gist who has up-to-date drugs and methods. We are that kind. Not alone be cause it pays, bat because there’s sat isfaction m feeling wo are helping to make sick people well. We charge just as little for putting up prescriptions as the use of the best drugs will allow. FINCHER & NICHOLS. Stencils en application. Reference; First National Bank and D. C. | Pierce, express agent, Nashville. Buy your Meat from B. R. Bowen & Son. Illinois Central Railroad OFFERS VERY LOW RATES ON FOLLOWING DATES: Colonist Tickets to California, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Oregon, Washington, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, on sale until June 15. St. Louis and Return ONE FARE PLUS 26 CENTS. On sale June 16-17, good to return until June 25th. San Francisco, Los Angeles and Return. National Encampment G. A. R. Tickets on sale July 31 to August 13, good to return until October 15. Denver, Col., and Return. On sale June 30 to July 9th, good to return until August 31st. Through Pullman Sleeping Car Daily between Jacksonville, Macon, Atlanta, Chattanooga, Nashville and St. Louis. Free Reclining Chair Car between Nash ville and St. Louis, and Through Pullman Sleeping Car Daily between Nashville and Chicago. This is the only Double Track line between Chicago and the Ohio river. For full particulars, rates, tickets and pamphlets, address FRED D. MILLER, Traveling Passenger Agent, No. I Brown Bldg., ATLANTA, CA. B. TERRY, Lawyer, Cannon Building, Dalton, Georgia. Practices in all courts. Speoial attention to Collections, Real Estate and Commercial law. Money to loan in unlimited quantities on Farming Lands and City Property. ' T ‘ commission oharged. Time, five Easy payments. FIRE INSURANCE. W. H. PRTJDEN & SON. ESTABLISHED 1869. Crwford Street, - - DALTON, GA. 50 CARS OF COAL We have in and on the way Fifty Car Loads of Coal. We bought sometime before the price went up and are id a posi tion to sell and save yon money. Now is the time to have it de livered. JOHN T. HOLLAND. C. L. PARHALEE, Plumbing f Gas Fitting § Fixtures. Tin and Sheet Iron Work, Bicycles and Repairs . * . Bicycle Repairing a Specialty. DALTON - - - GEORGIA TEE STAB * HEADQUARTERS FOR PURE LIQUORS SEND $2.10 and get yourself a gal lon jug of my Old Wild Cat Corn. Express charges pre paid. $250 Gets a Gallon Jug of my “Monogram Rye.” Express charg es prepaid. $2.50 Gets a Gallon Jug of my Lincoln County Sour Mash Whis key. Express charge* prepaid. You will find the** whiskies the very best ever offered for the price. Send me your order, will SURE treat you right. HOW SMOOTH AND MELLOW. Good Corn, Rye or Gin, $2.10 per Dozen Short Pints. Express charges prepaid. also Remember 1 Pay ® xpre8a char S es on two, three and four gallon jug shipment Yours for business and pure liquors, JIM McCARTY, Atlanta, Ga. BELL PHONE, 1662. St 1 36-38 Decatur St.» UNDER STAR THEATRE