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The Gainesville [ajle.
/i’ntered at the Gainesville Postoffice as
Second-class mail matter.
Official Organ of Hall County.
Official Organ of White County.
Official Organ of the City of Gainesville.
W. H. CRAIG,
Editor and Business Manager.
Thursday, December 8, 1898.
THE CITY HALL.
The question of building the
projected city hall is now upon us
aid must be decided for good or
evil in a few days. We would that
every citizen of our town would ap
proach the subject with the calm,
judicial spirit, with intent to de
termine, in the light of all consider
ations, whether it will or will not
redound to the city’s permanent
welfare. All sentiments of nig
gardly stinginess on the one hand
and incautious extravagance on the
other should be merged into a de
sire for the common good. The
rights of the taxpayer are paramount
to all other considerations in the
conduct of free government, and
there come times in the lives of all
young cities when the unprogressive
element must be protected against
itself—against its hide bound and
miserly tendency to ignore the
instrumentalities making for the
good of the community.
There is no man in Gainesville
who would feel more pride than we
in seeing the city the possessor of a
handsome and substantial city hall,
but in this time of high taxes and
crop failures, when every one is
pinching and skimping to make
buckle and tongue meet, we would
waive all questions ot pride and place
the matter upon the unemotional
plane of business utility.
And we will give a few facts and
figures. The only source of protec
tion to our houses and property is
our fire engine and equipment. It
is housed now in an old wooden
building that is actually falling in
from decay. It is a building in which,
if the fatal spark were dropped, the
flames would spread with irresistible
fury, destroying or disabling the fire
apparatus in an inconceivably short
time, and going without let or
hindrance where the winds might
carry it. The barn and stable used
by the city are crumbling and de
caying, filled with mud aud water,
and no longer fit for use. They, as
well as the engine house, will have
to be abandoned. The old calaboose
is inadequate for the detention of
criminals, and it is only a question of
prejudice with them whether they
remain o r go hence.
Now, if the city hall be not built
a new barn and stable will have to
be procured, at a cost for rental of
about $l2O a year. Another engine
house will have to be rented at a
cost of about $96. We will have to
continue renting a council chamber
at $75. This will be an annual cost
to the city of $291. Can not any
one see that the city could borrow
the $5,000 to build the city hall, and
pay its customary rate of 5 1-2 per
cent interest, and make a saving of
sl6 a year.
But we will not have to borrow a
cent. The city has on hand $2,500,
saved by economical administration
after a reduction of the tax rate 10
per cent. The calaboose lot can be
easily sold for $1,500. That will
leave SI,OOO to raise next year, which
can be easily done and the tax rate
still further reduced.
Now, what shall we do ? Shall we
rent other quarters for engine house
and barn and go ahead paying the
$291 per year expenses, which is the
interest on more than $5,000? or
shall we use the money and assets
we have on band and put up a hand
some and substantial city hall, with
engine house, barn, and calaboose in
connection—a building safe and
efficient for all purposes, a source of
profit, convenience, and pleasure,
and an honor to our progressive and
rapidly-grow'ing city of 5,000 people?
Can you as a progressive man—as
a business man—halt for a moment
between the two propositions, more
especially as the money for material
and work will be spent among our
own people—among our mills and
brick makers, our carpenters, brick
layers and laborers, who, the Lord
knows, need it badly enough ?
Now, gentlemen, we do not appeal
to you in the name of city pride, nor
even in the name of progress, but
simply in the name of business prin
ciples, and in the name of the pub
lic safety.
VOTE FOR THE CITY HALL.
It is an absolute necessity. The
old calaboose is in a dilapidated con
dition and entirely inadequate to the
needs of the police department. It
will not hold criminals; they can get
out faster than the police can catch
them. The tire department badly
needs a safe place in which to keep
engine, hose reels, hook and ladders,
trucks, etc., and they deserve a com
fortable, decent place in which to
hold their meetings. These firemen
should be encouraged and sustained
in their efforts to protect the two
million dollars’ worth of city prop
erty. The city has one of the best
volunteer fire departments in the
State and a No. 1 fire equipment
that cost the city more than five
thousand dollars, and this fire pro
tection to the whole city is now’ ex
posed to being destroyed in the old
firetrap which it calls its home. Any
day, any night, a fire may break
forth and this entire fire protection
to the city swept away in ten min
utes time. Then how can the brave
fire boys protect your property, or
the city escape a large conflagration ?
No fire department of like size and
equipment in the State has such a
miserable firetrap for its home. The
city could well afford for its own
protection to build this city hall, if
for no other purpose than for our
fire department.
But this is not all: the city also
needs badly a mayor’s office, a clerk’s
office, a police headquarters, and
a public hall in which the citizens
can meet at any and all times to dis
cuss public matters that claim atten
tion. No other city the size and im
portance of ours in the State but
what has one, and no other city any
more able to build it than we are.
With more than half the money now
in band, saved up by the present
mayor and council by economical ad
ministration of the city government,
the balance to complete this hall can
be saved the coming year the same
way, and the year of our Lord 1900
will find the city in ownership and
possession of a substantial city build
ing without being taxed one dollar
extra for its erection, and without a
single dollar’s worth of bonds being
issued to build it.
Surely the citizens of the town
will not refuse to endorse the mayor
and council in this their efforts to
1 best serve the interests of its citiz?ns
and property holders. Certainly no
man who has at heart the best in
terest of the city will stultify himself
by saying the mayor and council
have not acted for the best interests
of the city.
Croakers aud pessimists of course
abound io every community who can
see nothing ahead but evil, but these
are a small minority in every wide
awake town or city and are relegated
to the rear of the procession-. These
men do not do a city or a town much
good. They do not build it up; they
do not build railroads, or county
bridges, or business blocks, or facto
ries, or public schools, or churches,
or public buildings, or anything else
that goes to the upbuilding of a town
or city. Some of them do not even
want to pay the hire of their preach
er who is daily praying that “light”
may enter their hearts and save their
souls.
I believe a large majority of the
citizens of this little city are for its
continued growth and upbuilding—
giving investment to capital and
work to its citizens. The city now
needs to do something to start this
growth for the year 1899. Now, let
us all lead off the New Year with
this city hall, and no doubt the effect
will be contagious, and before the
year is gone many more improve
ments and business houses will go up
to add increased revenue to the city
treasury.
Therefore, ye business men, ye
professional men, ye mechanics, ye
laboring men, ye honest men, one
and all, come out on next election
day and cast your ballots for Gaines
ville’s improvement and upbuilding
—“For City Hall”—and see that
you vote for no councilman who is
not in favor of it.
Remember, the saving in rents and
the income from the hall will more
than pay the expenses of the fire de
partment. This will be SSOO to
S6OO a year income to the city treas
ury—worth saving.
Respectfully, your obedient servant,
J. G. Hynds.
THE CITY HALL.
FROM A LABORING MAN’S STANDPOINT.
Mr Editor : 1 have noticed with
a great deal of interest the discus
sions on the streets and in the papers
for and against the building of a city
hall, and I am firmly of the opinion
that it should be built. In the first
place, the city needs a hall. In the
next place, we are assured by the
mayor and council that it be put up
without increasing the rate of tax
ation. And, next, it will furnish
employment to our mechanics and
laboring men, all of whom need
w’ork. As a principle every citizen
who has contributed materially to
the upbuilding of the town, and who
feel-* an interest in its growth and
prosperity, is entitled to a voice in
its government and a share in the
distribution of its patronage. I
notice in last weeks Eagle an article
from Mr. E. P. Chambeis, ex city
clerk, opposing the building of the
city hall. He says, in effect, that
the money will come out of the
pockets of the taxpayers. Now, Mr.
Editor, that is a bright idea. No
one doubts that. Where else could
it come from ? Os couase the money
spent in buildirg a city hall would
not be thrown away or lost. On the
contrary, it would be put back into
circulation among our taxpayers, by
giving employment to our mechanics
and laboring men, who would use it
to supply their families with the
necessaries of life ; and the money
thus spent by the city would give us
a city hall, furnish employment, and
gradually find its way back into the
city treasury.
The city should be impartial in
the distribution of its patronage.
We are willing to be taxed for the
support of the city government and
its officers; at the same time we
think those who have fattened on its
patronage, should not grow selfish to
such an extent as to withhold from
the laboring man any wt rk he so
much needs.
Very Respectfully,
W. K. Merck.
THE LEGISLATURE.
The bill to cut the salaries of rail
road commissioners from $2,500 to
$2,000 has passed the house by a vote
of 89 to 44.
The house committee on appropri
ations have recommended that the
military appropriation be cut from
$25,000 to $2,500. A cut of $15,000
on the lunatic asylum. A cut of
SB,OOO on Geological survey. The
public buildings fund cut SB,OOO.
The academy for the blind cut $2,000.
The technological school $2,500.
The girls’ industrial school $2,500.
The state normal school SIO,OOO.
These cuts, with the $400,000 cut
in the school fund, and cuts of other
smaller items, makes a total reduction
of about $488,000.
Add to this amount $14,500 that
was appropriated to the State
University last ytar in excess of the
regular fund, and which is not needed
this year, and it will make the yearly
savings $502,500.
From this must be subtracted the
following increased appropriations:
On pension account, $40,000; pages
and porters, S3OO, and $5,000 as a
necessary and probable increase in
the agricultural department, which
will probably be allowed in
bills already proposed. This would
represent a total of $45,300, and if
appropriation of SIO,OOO is allowed
the textile department of the Tech
nological school, a most probable
speculation, the net savings in ap
propriations would be $447,200.
This will not cover the actual de
ficit contended for by Treasurer
Speer, to wit, $484,683.50, by $37,-
483.50.
The house, in committee of the
whole, decided yesterday to cut the
school fund $2003)00 Toa tko
1899 and 1900, making it SBOO,OOO.
It was a compromise between those
those who wanted it to remain at
$1,000,000 and those who wanted it
at $600,000.
Mr. Sloan spoke against a cut in
the school fund, and is reported as
having said that those who favored
the cut were the tax dodgers. In
this he misrepresents his people. We
can truthfully say that there is a
large number of citizens in Hall
county who favor a cut in the school
fund and who gave in their taxes as
honestly as any man in the state.
Brother Sloan’s remarks seem to be
long to that peculiar genus known as
poppycock politics.
GOSSIP.
Gossip s a monster of hideous
mein. It is the bane of society and
a curse to civilization. Often is it
seen in nodding plumes and clothed
in all King Solomon’s glory. Yet
all the beauty and charm of manner
cannot hide the blight that withers
and shrivels the fairest characters of
our land.
In all civilized lands, men are not
condemned without a fair trial before
judge and jurors, but gossip does not
give them this privilege. They are
held up to the public gaze and pelted
with poisonous arrows of scorn and
derision. Jealousy often prompts
that uncontrollable fiend to transcend
the bounds of modesty and propri tj
and inopportunely makes one forget
that virtue and modesty go hand in
hand.
When a lady so far forgets herself
as to undertake to avenge an imagi
nary wrong, she has stepped from
the pedestal from which mxu wor
ships woman and thereby becomes
mannish, and the victim of her own
folly.
Some things are far best left un
said. It is like the ol 1 adage of mar
rying in baste to repent at leisure.
*
A WAR FOR HUMANITY.
Major General M. C. Butler, a
member of the Cuban evacuation
con mission, who has been in Wash
ington for several days in consulta
tion with the president, tells a some
what startling tale about the distress
and starvation existing at present in
the city of Havana. He says at least
3,000 people are starving to death
there, many of them people of edu
cation and refinement. The human
ity clause in our declaration of war
seems to have been eclipsed in the
passion for the annexation of mala
rial islands.
HORSE SENSE TELLS.
Horse sense and backbone are the
principal elements in the make-up of
Governor Allen Candler. These are
not brilliant qualities, but they out
weigh oil others when you compute
their value to the commonwealth.
Those qualities that made Grover
Cleveland the greatest American
president will place Allen Candler in
the galaxy of Georgia’s greatest
executives. This will be the universal
verdict when the animosities en
gendered by straightforward de
votion to duty shall have passed
away.
The Harmony Grove Echo thus
condenses a whole volume of truth
into less than a dozen lines ;
Governor Candler is already demon
strating the fact that he is to make one
of the best governors Georgia ever had.
He is not afraid of public opinion and is
seeking to do “the right” rather than
seeking transient popularity. It does us
good to see a man occasionally who has a
spinal column, familiarly known as
“back bone.”
General Evans, in a private letter
to us this week, says : “Allen Can
dler is going to make the best
governor Georgia has had in a long
time.” He might have said he “is
already making it.”
R. R. Commissioner.
Hon. L. N. Trammell, who has
served twelve years as a member of
the railroad commission and has
been chairman of that body since
the death of Campbell Wallace, was
last Friday appointed for another
term of six years, beginning with
the expiration of his present term.
Governor Candler sent the message
to the senate and the appointment
was unanimously confirmed.
South Dakota by an overwhelming
majority of the votes at the last
election has determined to put the
initiative and referendum principle
into its constitution.
Like Angels’ Visits.
Dear old Dave Johnson —may his tribe
increase—came poling into our sanctum
yesterday morning with a big poke full
of good old country cracklins. Think of
it ! He must have had a revelation, to
fit our aspirations so nicely. There’s
life in the old land yet—cracklin bread
and sassafrack tea—who said hard times?
We would that Dave might live to the
millennium; but if he is called earlier, it
is our wish that be may get in on the
ground floor and go up on the elevator
like Enoch and Elijah.
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women, regulates bladder trouble in
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One small bottle is two months’ treat
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_Px» .W Hall Wnoc-
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Tom Boone Come Back.
T. K. Boone and family have mo”ed
back to the city from Elberton and are
occupying the Rice residence on corner
of Main and College avenue. Mr. Boone
has secured a situation iu the book keep
ing department of Hynds Co’s store, and
entered ou his duties there Monday
morning,
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Union County in a Fix.
Union county is in a mess over their
court house and Towns county will soon
have to build a now one.
We have been apnroached by a number
of citizens from both this and Union
county as to consolidating Union and
Towns and locating the county seat at
this place or county line near here and
thereby save the expense of building a
court house in each county. We are not
advocating this consolidation at all, but
have been requested by these parties to
mention the matter and see what the
people generally think on this line.
—Young Harris News.
The Modern Mother
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of a gentle remedy than by any other.
Children enjoy it and it benefits them.
The true remedy, Syrup of Figs, is man
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Co. only.
Runs on a Schedule.
Our neighbor, Tom Hunt, has a cow
that gives about 5 gallons of milk per
day and about 2 gallons of it is butter.
This remarkable cow has plenty to eat,
but sometimes the family are engaged
iu some other business and the hour for
milking will be delayed, but it will not be
long, for the cow has some way of
measuring time herself, and when the
hour arrives for her feed if she does not
get it on time she walks up to the bell
rope and rings the bell to let the home
folks know they are late with their milk
ing and that the cow has not been fed.
—Y’oung Harris News.
SIOO Reward SIOO.
The readers of this paper will be pleased to
learn that there is at least one dreaded disease
that science has been able to cure in all its
stages and that is Catarrh. Hall’s Catarrh
Cure is the only positive cure now known to
the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a con
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treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken inter
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Another Aspirant for Hemp.
Cassius Law Kills Sarah Curry on
the Quiet Sabbath.
The community near Hynds Co’s plan
ing mill was startled early Sunday morn
ing by the report of a pistol which rang
out on the frosty damp air and disturbed
the stillness of the Sabbath day.
Another soul had been dashed into
eternity!
Cassius Law, colored, bad walked iuto
rhe house of Sarah Curry, colored, on
Dr. Green’s lot, near the planing mill,
and had put his pistol against her breast
as she lay in the bed and sent a pistol
ball through her heart.
This was about 7 o’clock. After he
had committed the terrible act he walked
into the adjoining room, occupied by
Ida Hester, who was up cooking her
breakfast. The wounded woman cried,
“I’m shot!” and sprang from the bed.
The Hester woman ran by the murderer,
who stood with the smoking revolver in
his hand, to Sarah Curry, whom she laid
on the floor and there left her to die, as
she ran for fear that Law would kill her
also.
The shooting was promptly reported to
the authorities. When they reached the
house Law was gone and Sarah lay dead
on the floor.
A coroner’s inquest was held at 10
o’clok with the following jury: R. E.
Green, M. D. Hudson, W. D. Whelchel,
J. E. Davis, F. A. Watkins and B. H.
Whelchel.
In addition to the testimony of Ida
Hester, who told what happened at the
house at the time of the shooting, Joe
Moigan testified that Law had threat
ened to kill Sarah Curry the night before
at Tom Sanders’ restaurant if she did
anything wrong that night. She replied
she “would if she wanted to.” To which
he said, “If you do I will kill you.”
The jury rendered a verdict that Sarah
Curry was killed by Cassius Law and
that the killing was wilful murder.
The murderer came to Gainesville with
the Gypsies several months ago and af
terwards had been at work for R. J.
Mooney, two miles from the city.
The officers tracked him from the
house some distance into the country
but to no avail, as he made his escape.
However, our vigilant officers were on
his trail and he was arrested Monday
afternoon at the Bill Looper old place,
two miles south of Dawsonville, in Daw
son county, by Chief of Police Smith and
Bailiff McDonald, who had heard of the
route be had gone about 10 o’clock in
the morning. He had staid at T. J.
Williams’, in the Fork district, Sunday
night, and when the officers heaid of
this they got on horses and left at once
for their game. They tracked him
through the woods, pig-paths and roads
until they overtook him sitting behind a
crib at the old Looper place, where a Mr.
Connor now lives. He had hired to Mr.
Williams Sunday night and had got his
supper and breakfast. He intended to
work the same game on Mr. Connor, and
was waiting for him to return home from
his day’s work when the officers rode up
and asked Mrs. Connor if a strange negro
had been there. She replied “Yes, he is
behind the crib.’” He was arrested and
brought home Monday night, reaching
here about 12.45. He was lodged in
jail where he will remain until court.
This was a fine piece of work on the
part of these two officers and they merit
the thanks of the public.
The murderer acknowledges his guilt
and waived a preliminary trial. He says
he was jealous of Sarah Curry and that
_he was afraid she was going to have
audiher*rnan to kill him, so he just killed
her and left.
A Boston man paid $lO for beat
ing his wife. A New Orleans man
tbe same day paid $25 for beating
his mule.
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Libel for Divorce.
Mary D. Bagwell 1 Libel for Divorce in
vs. > Hall Superior Court,
Robert D. Bagwell.) January Tenn, 1899.
It appearing to the Court that the defendant
in the above stated case, Robert D. Bagwell,
does not reside in said county, and it further
appearing that he does not reside in this State,
it is therefore ordered by the Court that service
be perfected on the defendant by publication
as required by law, twice a month for two
months before the next term of this Court, in
the Gainesville Eagle, a newspaper published
in said county, and being the paper in which
the Sheriff’s advertisements are printed.
Oct. 11, 1898. J. J. KIMSEY, J. S. C.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
All persons having demands against the es
tate of William P. Whelchel, deceased, late of
Hall county, are hereby notified to rendtT in
their demands to the undersigned according to
law; and all persons indebted to said estate are
required to make immediate payment.
This Nov. 7, 1898.
W. D. WHELCHEL,
Executor of Wm. P. Whelchel, deceased.
Letters ot Administration.
GEORGIA —Hall County.
To all whom it may concern: Mrs. E. S.
Buchanan having in proper form applied
to me for Permanent Letters of Administra
tion on the estate of Mrs. Susan A. Huggons.
late of said county, this is to cite all ana
singular the creditors and next of kin of said
Mrs. Sasan A. Huggons to be and appear at
my office within the time allowed by law, and
show cause, if any they can, why permanent
administration should not be granted to some
tit and proper person on Mrs. Susan A. Hug
gons’ estate.
Witness my hand and official signature, this
Bth day of December, 1898.
A. RUDOLPH, Ordinary.
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GEORGIA- -HALL COUNTY:
Will be sold before the court house door, in
the city of Gainesville, Hall County, Ga., within
the legal hours of sale, on the first Tuesday in
January, 1899, the following described prop
erty, to wit:
One bay horse, eleven years old, named Dock;
one one-horse double-seated surrey. Levied on
as the property of A. R. Smith. Also one sorrel
horse, six years old, named Prince; one bay
horse, seven years old, named Don; one two
horse surrey, Bagwell make. Levied on as the
property of J. B. Gaston. Also one iron safe,
oue oak desk, roller top, one cane-bottom office
chair, one buggy. Levied on as the property
of F. M. Johnson. Also one house and lot’situ
ated in Flowery Branch, Ga., bounded as fol
lows: On the north by Pine street, on the east
by Chestnut street, on the south by W. J. Pra
ter, and on the west by Mitchell street. Levied
on as the property of Mrs. E. Camp.
All levied upon to satisfy a fi fa issued from
the City Court of Hall county in favor of J. H.
Hunt and against F. M. Johnson, principal, and
A. R. Smith, A. J. Mundy, J. B. Gaston, and
Eliza Camp, securities.
A. J. MUNDY, Sheriff.
Letters of Dismission.
GEORGIA—HaII County.
Ordinary’s Office, Dec. 1, 1898. Notice to all
concerned: J. D. Garner and G. G. Thompson,
administrators of the estate of W. R. Thompson
deceased, represent in their petition duly filed
in office, that theyhave fully and justly admin
istered the estate of said deceased, and pray to
be discharged from said administration. This
application will be considered and passed upon
on the first Monday in March, 1899.
A. RUDOLPH, Ordinary.
Letters of Dismission.
GEORGIA, Hall County.—Ordinary’s Office,
November 3, 1898. Notice to all concerned: L.
L. Strickland and W. R. Reed, administrators
of the estate of Ervin Strickland, deceased,
represent in their petition duly filed in office
that they have fully and justly administered
the estate of said deceased, and pray to be dis
charged from said administration. This appli
cation will be considered and passed upon on
the first Monday in February, 1899.
A. RUDOLPH, Ordinary.
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REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF
The First National Bank
OF GAINESVILLE, GA.
At the Close of Business Dec. 1, 1898.
RESOURCES.
Loans and discounts ... §123,379.61
Overdrafts, secured and unsecured... 4,598.30
U. S. bonds to secure circulation 12,560.00
Premiums on U. S. bonds 1,625 00
Banking house, furniture and fix-
tures 2,500.00
Other real estate and mortgages
owned 3,100.00
Due from National Banks (not Re-
serve Agents) .... 7,172 31
Due from State Banks and Bankers.. 2,000.00
Due from approved reserve agents.. 7,450 87
Checks and other cash items 271.64
Gold bullion 63 36
U. S. Internal Revenue stamps 130 00
Notes of other National Banks 1,995.00-
Fractional paper currency, nickels
and cents .... 539.05
Lawful money reserve in bank, viz:
Specie§ls,o7l.9s
Legal tender notes. 8.000.00.... 23,071.95
Redemption fund with U. S. Treas-
urer (5 per cent of circulation).... 562.50
Total §190,959.59
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock paid in ... §50,000 00
Surplus fund 25,000.00
Undivided profits, less expenses and
taxes paid 7.828.91
National Bank notes outstanding.... 11,250.00
Due to State Banksand Bankers.... 339.25
Individual deposits subject to check 96,541.40
T0ta1§190,959 59
State of Georgia, County of Hall, ss:
I, J. W. Smith, Cashier of the above named
bank, do solemnly swear that the above state
ment is'rue to the best of my knowledge at:-.:
belief. J. W. SMITH, Cashier.
Subscribed and sw-orn to before me this 7th
day of Dec., 1898.
W. I. HOBBS, N. P. Hall Co., Ga.
Correct—Attest:
H. H. DEAN,
B. H. WHELCHEL,
Z. T. CASTLEBERRY,
Directors.
Administrators’ Sale.
GEORGIA- Hall County.
By virtue of an order granted by the Court ol
Ordinary of said county, will be sold at public
outcry, to the highest bidder, before the court
house door in the city of Gainesville, in said
county and State, within the legal hours of
sale, on the first Tuesday in January, 1899, the
following described property, to wit:
One lot of land on Green street, in the city of
Gainesville, in the county of Hall and State of
Georgia, known as the ’ Wolfe Wagon Yard
pro; erty, and containing two acres of land,
more or less, and is bounded on the east by
Green street, on the north-east and north by
the lands of A. Rudolph, and on the west anil
south-west by the lot of Mrs. A. W. Caldwell.
On this lot is located a nice new five-room
dwelling house, a wagon yard, and a livery
stable.
And also sixteen residence lots, four of which
lots front each one hundred feet on Green street
and run back at right angles two hundred feet,
and are Nos. 1,2, 3, and 4, Four of said lots,
Nos. 5,6, 7, and 8, front on Wood street one
hundred feet each and run back at right angles
toward Green street two hundred feet each.
Four of said lots, Nos. 9,10, 11, and 12, front
one hundred feet each on the west side of Wood
street and run back at right angles two bun
dred feet. And four other of said lots, Nos. 13,
14, 15, and 16, front on the east side of an un
named street next to R. V. Cobb’s property one
hundred feet each and run back at right angles
two hundred feet each, and abut against lots 9,
10, 11, and 12. All of said property contains
eight acres, and is bounded on the east by
Green street, on the south by North street, ou
the north by Gower street, and on the west by
an unnamed street. Wood street runs through
the center from north to south, and there is a
twenty-foot alley extending through the center
from Green street to R. V. Cobb’s property.
This is the most beautiful and best located
residence property in the city. The titles are
perfect. A plat of the property can be seen at
the office of Dunlap & Dunlap.
All the above described property sold as the
property of Jacob A. Wolfe, deceased.
Terms of sale: One-half cash and balance in
twelve months, the purchaser to pay eight per
cent interest on deferred payment and receive
bond for titles till last installment is paid.
MARGARET A. WOLFE,
FREDERICK A. WOLFE,
Administrators of Jacob A. Wolfe, dec’ll.
Local Legislation.
Notice is hereby given that a Bill will be in
troduced at the present session of the General
Assembly to amend Section IV of Act approved
August 14, 1891, establishing the City Court of
Hall County, so as to provide for the appoint
ment of a Solicitor for said Court, instead of
the Solicitor-General of the Northeastern cir
cuit being ex-officio Solicitor of said court.
Nov. 10, 1898.
Notice—Stockholders’ Meeting,
The annual meeting of the stockholders of
the First National Bank of Gainesville, Ga.,
will be held at their bank at 5 o’clock p. m., on
the second Tuesday of January, 1899, for the
purpose of selecting Directors for the ensuing
year. A full attendance is desired.
J. W. SMITH, Cashier.
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Executors’ Sale.
GEORGIA—HaII County.
By virtue of the power granted to the execu
tors under the last will and testament ol Y. J.
Harrington, late ol said comity, deceased, will
be sold before the court house door in the city
of Gainesville, county of Hall and State of
Georgia, at public outcry, to the highest bid
der, within the legal hours of sale, on the first
Tuesday in January, 1899, the following de
scribed property belonging to the estate of
said deceased, to wit:
The Opera House, with the lot on which it
stands, on the corner of Bradford and W ash
ington streets, in the city ol Gainesville and
county of Hall ami State of Georgia, inciuding
the three stores composing said building, and
fronting seventy feet, more or less, on Wash
ington street, and running back same width
parallel with said Bradfora street one hundred
add twenty feet, more or less, to a tilteen-foot
alley.
The double one-story brick building, and the
lot upon which it is located, 1 ■mung on
said Washington street tuirty-two levl, more
or less, and running back the width ol said
house parallel with Bradford street one hun
dred feet, wore or less, and now occupied by
Drs. Ryder A Merritt as a dental office.
Two vacant lots between said double brick
building and Miss Lizzie Carroll’s lot, each
fronting twenty-two and one-hall led, more
or less, on Washington street, and i mining
back same width one hundred teet, more or
less; said vacant lots to be sold separately.
The lot known as the Livery Stable lot, in
cluding the livery stable, and sueds connected
therewith, said lot fronting titty-six ieet, more
or less, on said Bradford street, and running
back seventy ieet, more or less, along a niteeii
foot alley to the upper line of said Opera House;
thence south twenty feet, more or less, to the
Miss Carroll lot; thence eastward along the
back line of Miss Carroll’s lot, said vacant lots,
and the back line of said one-story brick Build
ing to the line ol Dr. J. W. Bailey's lot; thence
northward with said Bailey’s line to the line
ot H. H. Dean’s lot; thence witn the line of
said Dean’s lot in a westward direction to
Bradford street, and being the same properly
described in a deed from Russell Smith, as
receiver of the estate ol Daniel M. Stringer, de
ceased, to said Y. J. Harrington.
The terms of sale ot “the above described
property: One-third cash, one-third Ist of Jan
uary, 1900, and one-third Ist ot January, 1901;
notes for deferred payments with eight per
cent interest from date; bonds tor titles until
all purchase money is paid.
Also the following other property belonging
to the estate ot said Y. J. Harrington,deceased,
situated, lying and being in said city of Gaines
ville, said comity and State, will be sold at the
same time and place, to wit:
An undivided one-half interest in a twa room
house, and lot on which it is located, flouting
on Church street in said city, and bounded on
west by Hudson street, east by Athens street,
and south by lot ol J. W. Hudson. (R. O. Green
owns the other undivided half interest in said
lot.)
An undivided one-half interest in a five room
brick house, and lot on w’hich it is situated, on
Banks street, in said city, fronting on the south
side of said street, said lot containing one acre,
more or less. (R. Smith owning the other un
divided half interest in said lot.)
An undivided one-half interest in a small two
room house, and the lot on which it is located,
fronting on Armour street, in said city, said
lot containing one-fourth of one acre, more or
less. (The estate of W. I’. W helchel owning the
other undivided one-half interest.)
One five room house, and lot on which it is
located, on the corner of Athens and Myrtle
streets, in said city, said lot fronting on Hie
west side of Athens street, containing one acre,
more or less, rnd now occupied by Dr. T. C.
Gower, and adjoining lot of J. F. Duckett.
One two-story eight room house, and lot on
which it is located, situated on the south side
of Myrtle street, in said city, containing one
acre, more or less, adjoining the property of W.
I. Hobbs and others.
Also at the same time and place, will be sold
a certain tract or parcel of land situate, lying,
and being in said comity and State, containing
two hundred and fifty acres, more or less, and
bounded on the north by the Chattahoochee
River, on the west by lauds of J. S. Davis and •
Wm. O’Shields, on the south by land of B. A.
Merck and estate of John Merck, deceased, and
on the east by land of Wm. Moore and Wm.
Waters.
There is in said tract about twenty acres of
bottom land. . A large part of said land is in a
good state of cultivation, balance in old fields
and original forest, and being the land whereon
Dr. Kimsey lived luring the present year, and
is known as the Eberhart place.
The terms of sale of six last described inter
ests and parcels of land, cash.
All the foregoing described property sold as
the property of the estate of said Y. J. Harring
ton, deceased, and for the purpose of paying
debts and making distribution among the lega
tees under the will of said Y. J. Harrington,
deceased. J. K. THOMPSON,
J. C. HARRINGTON,
R. O. GREEN,
Executors of will of Y. J. Harrington, dec’d.
Dec. 1, 1898.
Administrator’s Sale.
GEORGIA—HaII County.
By virtue of an order granted by the Court of
Orainary of said county will be sold before the
court house door, in the city of Gainesville, in
the county of Hall and State of Georgia, at
public outcry, to the highest bidder, within the
legal hours of sale, on the first Tuesday in Jan
uary, 1899, the following described land situ
ate, lying, and being in the said county of Hall
and State of Georgia, to wit:
Fifty acres of land, more or less, lying on the
east side of the public road leading by the old
home place of S. C. Fraser, deceased, adjoining
the lands of Jacob Pirkle and Mrs. Nancy
Mauldin and said public road on the west, the
land of the estate ol L. C. Fraser, deceased, on
the north, the land of Rhoda I’irkle on the
east, and the dower land of Mrs. Sarah C. Fra
ser on the south.
Also, at the same time and place, will be sold
sixty acres of land, more or less, on the west
side of said pubic road, adjoining the land of
I. F. Duncan on the south, tae land of Maddox
and Mackey on the west, the land of the estate
of L. C. Fraser, deceased, on the north, and
said dower land and public road on the east.
Also tbe reversionary interest in the the
dower land of said Mrs. Sarah C. Fraser, con
taining eighty-four and thirty-five one-hun
dredth acres, more or less, adjoining the land
of T. H. Fraser on the south, the land of Mrs.
Nancy Mauluin on the east, the land of Jacob
Pirkle on the north, and other land of the es
tate of S. C. Fraser, deceased, on the west; it
being necessary to sell said reversionary inter
est to pay the debts of said deceased.
AH of tbe above described property to be sold
as the property belonging to the estate of said
S. U. Fraser, deceased, and sold for the pur
nose of paying the debts of said S.C. Fraser,
deceased. Terms cash. •
A. R. SMITH,
Adm’r de bonis non, with will annexed, of S. C.
Fraser, deceased.
Administrator’s Sale.
GEORGI A—Hall County.
By virtue of an order granted by the Court of
Ordina y of Mall County, will be sold before
the court house door, in the city of Gainesville,
in the county of Hall and State of Georgia, at
public outcry, to the highest bidder, with in the
legal hours ot sale, on the first Tuesday in Jan
uary, 1899, the following described land ying
and being in the county of Hall and State of
Georgia, to wit:
One tract of ninety acres, more or less, of
land in, one, tract, and another tract of
sixty acres, more or k ss; both tracts lying and
being in Gillsville District of said county. The
ninety-acre tract adjoins the lands ot R. J.
Wright, Nancy Wright, and W. B. Brian, and
lies on the west side of the Oconee River. The
sixty-acre tract joins the lands of R. J. Wright,
Allen Latty, John Brown, and the Gilmer lands.
All the above described property sold as the
property of the estate of T. N. Brian, late of
Hall county, deceased, for the purpose of pay
ing the debts of said deceased and for distribu
tiod. Terms of sale, cash.
G. P. PITTMAN,
M. B. CARTER,
Adm’rs of the Estate of T. N. Brian, dec’d.
Executrix’s Sale.
GEORGIA —Hall County.
Agreeably to an order of the Court of Ordi
nary of Morgan county, said State, will be sold
on the first Tuesday in January next, within
the legal hours of sale, at public outcry, at the
court house door of saict county of Hall, to the
highest bidder, the following described prop
erty, to wit:
That certain house and lot in the city of
Gainesville, said county of Hall, beginning at
the corner of Hub Merck’s lot, on Race street,
and running along said Race street in a north
erly direction one hundred and forty feet, more
or less, to Park street; thence along Park street
east three hundred and twenty-one feet, more
or less, to a stake; thence south, parallel with
Race street, one hundred and forty feet, more
or less, to stake even with Hub Merck’s line;
thence to Hub Merck's line and along this line
to the beginning point.
Sold as the property of W. T. Newton, late of
said comity ot Morgan, deceased. Terms cash.
This sth day ot December, 1898.
Mrs. R. A. NEWTON, Executrix.