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1903 Epitomized.
Local Events of Interest of the Past
Year in Diary Form for Reference.
JANUARY.
1. City officers chosen for 1903 by
City Council.
2. Dr. E. E. Dixon critically ill.
8. Celebrated. Bellton municipal con
test heard by ordinary of Banks county.
9. Boiler at Whaley’s gin exploded,
hurting two men.
10. Gainesville Cotton Mill directors
authorized issue of $350,000 preferred
stock.
12. County Commissioners elected
road overseers for districts.
13. Chamber of Commerce elected
officers.
13. Train-load cloth left New Hol
land cotton mill, bound for Shanghai,
China.
15. Carter Bros. Co. applied for char
ter.
15. Gainesville post-office receipts for
1902 reported to be about $9,000.
19. Hall superior court convened.
19. Lee’s birthday observed by
Daughters of Confederacy.
20. Seventeen divorce cases heard in
Hall superior court.
21. Gainesville Medicine Co. granted
charter.
21. Jno. T. Waters and W. D. Haw
kins elected county commissioners by
grand jury.
24. Firt car on electric line ran from
Southern R. R. depot to Brenau.
25. John Coffee died at Lula.
29. Mrs. J. A. Young died.
FEBRUARY.
2. Gainesville Ice Co. decided to en
large its factory.
1. Dr. Emmett E. Dixon died.
8. Electric line began schedule to
New Holland.
5. Mrs. H. C. Flowers died.
2. Work going forward planning for
Confederate monument on public square.
9. Thos. M. Bell announced for con
gress against F. C. Tate.
15. Work begun on Chattahoochee
Park electric line.
16. City court convened.
19. Five new R. F. D. mail routes
announced for Gainesville.
17. First carload freight shipped over
electric line to Pacolet.
14. Bill introduced to provide for a
post-office building for Gainesville.
20. W. B. Buffington lost an arm in
a cotton gin.
25. Body of unknown negro found in
creek near Flowery Branch.
27. Lemuel Brooks, aged 86, died at
Candler.
27. Jeff Baugh attempted life of Miss
l\nnie Pitman of Bellton.
MARCH.
1. Mr. B. L. Potter, aged 81, died at
his son’s home, Green Street.
5. North Georgia Gold Co. applied
for charter.
10. Hall county commissioners talked
bond issue for building better roads.
7. Thos. Brown run over by car on
Main street and badly hurt.
12. Col. C. C. Sanders wrote from
Palestine, where he was touring.
17. Candler Ashford hurt by fall
from electric pole.
14. Fletcher Farmer knocked from
Southern R. R. track; wagon smashed,
driver unhurt.
17. Drs. M. M. and E. P. Ham en
joined trolley line; Drs. Bailey and
Daniel bought Ham property and
stopped injunction.
19. Final deals made for electric
line's right-of-way to Chattahoochee
Park.
20. Lightning fired W. H. Cochran’s
residence, Main street.
26. Gainesville Shoe & Clothing Co.
asked for charter.
19. Arrangements made for sewerage
system for city.
28. Rev. L. Williams died at Flowery
Branch.
APRIL.
2. Planters’ Oil Mill applied for
charter.
2. “Greater Georgia” meeting for
Gainesville at court house.
6. Five sites offered for post-office
building.
8. Wm. Waldrip and Pledger Bonds
drowned in Chattahoochee near Brown’s
Bridge.
12. Body of Wm. W T aldrip found
after four days search.
13. Severest hailstorm of decade
visited Hall county, heaviest fall on
f Factory Hill.
19. Body of Pledger Bonds found
after 11 days search.
18. Frank Redmond shot by Chief of
Police Parks; officer exonerated by cor
oner’s jury.
27. Memorial Day exercises held at
court house.
27. Rev. A. Van Hoose died at Bre
nau, aged 85.
29. G. J. & S. R. R. case called in
special term of Hall superior court.
28. Mrs. W. W. Blair died at Judge
J. B. M. Winburn’s.
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P | CURES CONSTIPATION. Q >
Special Agent, Dr. J• B. George.
MAY.
6. City tax assessors find Gainesville
real estate has increased in value $272,-
970 over 1902.
I. Daughters of Confederacy give
“Trip around the World.”
15. Dirt broken for new public
school building.
13. Grand Council I. O. R. M. of
Georgia, selected Gainesville for meet
ing in 1904.
24. Brenau began its 24th annual
commencement occasion.
10. Harry Davis of Norfolk, Va.,
died at Ervin’s boarding house from in
juries seceived while stealing a ride on
Southern R. R. freight train.
11. Mrs. Gus Lowe hanged herself
near A. J. Julian’s home.
17. City public schools commence
ment preached.
15. Fireman Jno. A. Davis killed by
his own train at Southern depot.
23. Wiley Tanner, married six weeks,
died at his home, Chestnut Mountain.
Cause of his death mysterious. His
wife, formerly Miss Onie Duncan, held
to answer to charge of poisoning.
24/ Insane negro hides in Mr. Bud
Howington’s chimney near Bellmont.
25. B. W. Reed, sr., attempted sui
cide, Morgan’s district.
25. Work going forward macad
amizing Main street.
27. Mr. T. H. Robertson of this city
elected grand warden, I. O. ,0. F., of
Georgia.
28. Survey for sewer system com
pleted.
JUNE.
1. Cyclone ploughed its way through
south end of city, spreading death,
destruction and desolation from Gaines
ville Cotton Mills to New Holland; 125
killed, many more injured, property
loss estimated at $400,000.
2. Entire country responded with
financial aid and personal assistance —
subscriptions to storm sufferers reach
ing $30,000.
4. Rescue work continued in rain;
50 funerals occurred at New Holland in
an hour. Relief headquarters opened
and hospitals improvised at New Hol
land and at county court house.
6. Preliminary hearing of Mrs. Onie
Tanner for poisoning her husband, had
today.
7. Thousands visited Gainesville to
view the scenes of cyclone. Gaines
ville raised SSOO to sufferers from cloud
burst in S. C.
11. Wounded in hospitals improved
nicely.
15. Colored hospital closed.
15. County school enumerators began
their work.
17. Judge Kiinsey renders decision
in G. J. &. S. R. R. case.
18. Railroad line surveyed to Pyrites
mmC'S.
22. Wholesale jail delivery from
Hall county prison.
22. City teachers elected.
22. City and county invited to sup
press vagrancy.
23. Storm relief commissary closed.
24. Brenau summer school opened.
25. City sexton Jno. W. Bailey died.
27. Fifty-four applicants to teach in
county schools examined.
28. Great Thanksgiving exercises at
auditorium, expressing gratefulness for
all assistance rendered to tornado suf
ferers.
29. Mr. J. P. Flanders died suddenly
at M. C. Brown’s home.
JULY.
1. Work progressing rebuilding fac
tories, stores, and homes destroyed or
damaged by storm.
1. White hospital closed.
2. Mrs. W. B. Bell, mother of Clerk
superior court, Hall county, died.
2. City census reported population of
Gainesville, 6,009.
5. Mr. J. M. Towery, one of the old-
7. County school census reports 4,918
children of school age, excluding city
and city district.
12. Gen. James hongstreet quite ill.
12. 52 persons baptised by Rev. D. S.
Grindle, at New Holland.
est members of the local bar, died.
13. New Holland hospital closed.
17. Baptist S. S. Institute convened.
20. Suit off and decree issued for sale
of G. J. & S. R. R., Hall superior court,
special term.
21. Bob Roberts, young white man,
met awful death by being run over by
train on Southern R. R.
22. Tax digest showed increase of
$305, 306 in Hall county property.
27. Mrs, Onie Tanner, charged with
poisoning her husband, admitted to
$2,000 bail; trial set for Sept. 22.
AUGUST.
5. City council decided to build sys
tem of sewers.
6. Atlanta, Buford, and Gainesville
Electric R. R. Co. applies for charter.
8. Mrs. M. F. VauHoose died.
8 Mrs. B. B. Landers died.
17. Hall county democratic execu
tive committee selected. Sept. 30 fixed
as date of white primary for city court
judge and solicitor.
17. Geo. C. Clements died.
THE GAINESVILLE EAGLE, JANUARY 21, 1904.
18. Work begun on new Chestnut
street Baptist church.
19. City tax rate fixed at SI.OO.
20. Messrs. L. G. Potter and B. H.
Whelchel hurt in wreck on Gainesville
Electric Line.
28. “Military Day.”
31. City shools open; attendance,
600.
SEPTEMBER.
1. Five new R. F. D. routes begin
operation.
2. Gainesville’s first bale of cotton
for season marketed; brought $73.06.
7. Mrs. H. T. Martin died.—Rev. A.
B. Merck died.
8. Henry C. Deadwyler, of Harmony
Grove, found dead near railroad north
of New Holland. Six negroes arrested
on suspicion.
16. Brenau begins 26th year.
16. Judge Jno. B. Estes, prominent
citizen and jurist, died.
21. “Oakwood district” petitions for
organization.
24. Eagle began printing by electric
power.
26. Six negroes bound over for kill
ing of H. C. Deadwyler.
30. Primary for judge and solicitor
city court chose G. H. Prior and F. M.
Johnson.
OCTOBER.
1. Mrs. Sallie Duckett, mother of
Deputy Sheriff Ducket, died.
2. Government accepts property cor
ner of Washington and Green streets
for post-office site; price, $5,000.
2. Col. J. L. Baird, veteran of Mexi
can war, died.
3. Mr. J. R. Barnes accidentally
killed by train near Montgomery, Ala.
7. Cornerstone of new public school
building laid.
8. Chattahoochee Baptist Association
met at Flat Creek in 79th session.
11. A. O. King, aged citizen, killed
15. Work on city sewer system
begun. -
by train near Bellton.
31. Messrs. W. O. Petty and J. B.
Lipscomb exchange shots.
NOVEMBER.
2. Candler Horse Guards Carnival.
10. A law and order league, 200 best
citizens of the city, enthusiastically and
determinedly organize for suppression
of blind-tigers and dives; $550 raised to
enforce laws.
14. Bud Smith appointed special
“tiger” bailiff.
19. Eagle publishes petition for
liquor election with list of signers.
20. County Commissioners decide to
build new jail.
22. Ordinary ordered local option
election for Dec. 14th.
23. Mrs. Onie Tanner on trial, call
term superior court, for murder.
23. Rev. M. L. Troutman sent to
First M. E. church and Rev. R. M.
Dixon to Myrtle Street for 1904.
26. Dozens deny publicly signing
election petition.
26. Campaign against blind tigers
goes vigorously forward.
27. Mrs. Onie Tanner acquitted.
27. John W. Eden died at Klondike.
DECEMBER.
4. Five negroes convicted of killing
H. C. Deadwyler on excursion train;
sentenced to terms in penitentiary.
5. White primary selects: Mayor,
Howard Thompson; Councilmen, Hud
son, Allen, and Bell.
10. Mrs. Mary Woodward died.
14. Local option election; Hall went
dry by 1,518 —over 7 to’l.
15. Sidney Smith won medal for
Hall county in North Georgia Oratori
cal contest.
23. W. H. Craig elected to City
Council.
SECRETS
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G. F. Turner Go’s
Great Sacrifice Sale
INAUGURATED,
To Clean Out Balance of Our Fall and Winter Goods and Get Ready for Our New Spring Stock.
THIS SALE WILL LAST THROUGH JANUARY AND FEBRUARY,
and through that time all the goods mentioned here, and many others all over the
store, will be sold regardless of cost. These goods must be closed out, and, to
make them go, we put the bargain knife deep down into them.
In addition to these closing-out goods, we have just received a shipment of
beautiful-style Shirt Waist Goods, and also the largest shipment of Laces and
Embroideries ever brought to Gainesville. These goods were bought for us eight
months ago, in Switzerland, the home of laces and embroideries, and at a time
when they touched the lowest price-mark ever made, and imported direct to us.
They have just come in, and in order to dispose of so large a quantity we mark
them low.
DRESS GOODS,
In looking through our Dress Goods Depart
ment we find hundreds of odds and ends and rem
nants, pieces from two to eight yard lengths.
These were some of our best sellers, but we can’t
afford to carry them over, so we put every piece
at just half price. Goods that sold at 25c., 50c.,
75e., SI.OO, and $1.50 you can get now for just
half these prices. Good opportunity for the
children to get a good warm wool dress for little
money. In addition to our great Remnant sale,
we put out about a dozen pieces assorted Dress
Goods, including Mixed Suitings, Camel’s Hairs,
Worsteds, etc., worth from 50c. to 75c., at 25c.
MILLINERY.
Our trade in the Millinery Department has
been good this season—has been better than we
expected, but we still have left on hand a few
dozen Hats and some Trimmings. All these
goods are new and fresh, but we cannot afford to
carry them over. They would not be worth half
price next season; so we offer them now for less
than half price. Don’t fail to take advantage of
this opportunity to get a nice Hat.
Ready-to-Wear Bargains.
In taking stock in our Ready-to-Wear De
partment we find several large lots in Waists,
Petticoats, and Ladies’ Night Gowns, which have
overstayed their time. We put the bargain knife
deep into these goods and cut them down to un
heard-of prices. You can get a nice Shirt Waist,
Petticoat, or Night Gown for less than price of
the cloth.
Percal Shirt Waists worth 50c., now at - 25 c.
Nice quality Black Mercerized Sateen
Shirt Waist, worth 75c., now at • 39c.
Good Mercerized Oxford Shirt Waist,
worth $1.25, now at - - -69 c.
Silk Shirt Waist, worth $3.50, $4.50, and
SO.OO, to go in this sale at $2.50. $3.00,
and $4.00.
PETTICOATS.
Petticoats, $1.50 value, at - - 75e.
Petticoats, $2.00 value, at SI.OO.
Petticoats, $3.00 value, at - - 1.50.
Petticoats, $4.00 value, at - - 2.00.
One big lot Ladies’ Flannelette Night
Gowns. These goods must be closed
out, even if we get only a fraction of
what they cost.
One lot Ladies’ Night Gowns, regular
price 60c., now at - - - 29 c.
One lot Ladies’ Night Cowns, regular
price 80c., now at - - 39 c.
One lot Ladies’ Night Gowns, regular
price SI.OO, now at - - - 49 c.
BARGAINS IN MEN’S HATS.
150 Men’s Hats, all different kinds, worth
from SI.OO to $1.50, all on one table, at 60c.
G. F. TURNER CO.,
Gainesville, - - Georgia.
Twenty Thousand Yards
LACES AND EMBROIDERIES.
We offer all our last year’s Laces and Em
broideries at just a little more than half price.
All the 6c., 7|c., B|c., and 10c. quality goes in
one lot, to sell now at - - - se.
The 12|c., 15c., and 20c. quality in an-
other lot, at - - - - 10 c.
In addition to the above have just received a
shipment of new Laces and Embroideries, the
largest and prettiest line of goods ever brought
to this market; in fact will compare well with
any of the best lines in the larger cities. Here
you will find all the new and up-to-date things,
including Edgings, and Insertions to match, Baby
Sets, Flounces, and Demi-Flounces, Corset Cover
Widths, with and without Beading, Alloveraw
Mexican Drawn Work, Headings, etc., all at very
lowest price.
NEW SHIRT-WAIST GOODS.
Have just received our first shipment of new
Spring Shirt-Waist Goods. They are already
being sold out. Come quick and get your choice
befoie they are picked over.
SHOES.
50 pairs Men’s Fine Shoes, $3.00 and $3.50
Shoes, to go now at $2.00 and $2.50.
One job lot Women’s and Children’s Shoes,
worth from SI.OO to $2.00, now at - 69 c.
One lot Women’s Coarse Shoes, SI.OO,
$1.15, and $1.25 values, now at - 90 c.
One lot Men’s Coarse and Fine .Shoes,
regular $1.25 values, now at - 98 c.
CLOTHING.
We have about fifty Men’s Suits, all odds
and ends. They are out of different lots, and
only one Suit of a-kind. They range in price
from $6.00, $7.50, $8.50, and up to SIO.OO.
We think it better to cut the price down
now and close them out, than to carry them
over and let the moths do the cutting. So we
put them all in one lot at - - $5.00.
50 pairs odd Pants, worth $1.25 to $1.50,at 98c.
50 pairs odd Pants, worth $1.50 to $1.75,at 1.10.
50 pairs odd Pants, worth $2.50 to $3.25,at 2.00.
MEN’S SHIRTS.
The greatest bargains in Men’s Fine Shirts
ever thrown on the market in Gaines
ville. There is not a cheap Shirt in
the lot. They are our best 65c., 85c.,
SI.OO, and $1.50 values. We put
them down now to -48 c., 75c., 89c.
FLANNEL WAISTINGS,
We overbought in this particular line, and
have now got to make the greatest sacrifice to get
rid of them, so we put all our 40c., 50c., 65c.,
and 75c. Waistings down in one lot and offer
them at ----- - 25 c.