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THE GAINESVILLE EAGLE.
By the Eagle Publishing Company.
VOLUME Lil.
EVERYDAY
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Always have a stock of medical ne
cessities in the house for every day
accidents—sometimes for brnises—for cuts—for burns and for the dozen and one
little accidents that are continually happening to yourself and those around
you. Neglect of little accidents often causes serious conditions, such as blood
poison and deformities.
If you need anything’ that comes from a drug store. Phone 132;
we deliver promply.
Piedmont Drug Company
If it’s from the Piedmont, it’s the best.
We send for and deliver your prescriptions free.
STAR WITNESS IN NEGRO
MURDER SHOT TO DEATH.
Was Present at Crap Game at Bellton Camp
meeting Last Week.
Last Saturday night a negro woman *
known as “Belle McDonald,” but no •
relation of “Kentucky Belle,” was |
killed near Pendergrass. Her alleged {
husband, Frank Harris, did the shooting. I
She was shot in the leg and bled to,
death, no doctor being sent for. Harris '
claims the shooting was an accident,
but has left for part unknown, however,
Belle McDonald was present at the
crap game near Bellton when Gete
Brown beat so up Jim Poole with
the butt end of a buggy whip that
he is expected to die. She was the only
witness, all the others having fled. She
told Sheriff Crow about the affair, and i
led him to where the fatal club h«d •
been hidden by the murderer.
It is an almost universal thing for
negroes to stand by each other in
crime and defend and protect each other.
But here was one who gave away a i
criminal of her race.
And observe her fate.
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ABSALOM. |
Mrs. Joseph Smith is still quite help- '
less.
"Will soon have the cotton crop out of •
the field. A fine one it is.
Mr. Borders has broken Lis cotton i
press. If any one can fix it he can.
Loop Delong’s wife can pick more
cotton than he can, we believe.
Mrs Minnie Gould has come sixteen j
hundred miles to nurse her sick mother. I
Mrs. Joseph Smith.
This beat has now been struck by
the marrying idea Mr. Tom Cagle and
Mr. Cooper Delong, two fine men, have
led the way, and others are expected to
follow.
The Woman’s Missionary Society
Os the First Methodist church will hold
their literary meeting Monday after
noon in the Sunday School room at
four o’clock.
Mrs. H. H. Perry will have charge of
the program. Subject: Educational
work. Motto: “The mission school
bells ring around the world.”
Bible study: Fidelity with our talents.
Let members avail themselves of
these opportunsties of getting in touch
with the great forward movements in
missions
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They All Come.
Dr. J. E. Whelchel, for long years a
physician of Gillsville, where he has
made a snug little pile, is coming to
Gainesville and make it his home. Dr.
Whelchel is a good physician and a
gilt-edge gentlemen.
TWO NEGROES BEATEN AND
ONE OTHER BADLY CUT
In a Cutting and Beating Affray on Athens
Street Last Saturday Night.
In a three-cornered epat on Ath
ene street, last Saturday night about
10 o’clock. Samuel Ram and Rucker
College, are suffering from pretty
severe cuts and bruises about the
head and shoulders.
It seems that these negroes, all of
whom were drinking, engaged in a
crap game, and the row followed,
with the above result.
In another fight between Bessie
Morgan, colored, and Ernest Allen,
the latter was badly cut over the
eye with a whiskey bottle.
It seems that Ernest Allen had
given Bessie Morgan 75 cents to
get him a pint of liquor. Well,
she produced the said booze, and
she and Allen drank it together,
It proved to be “fightin’ liquor” as
you will observe by the above con
es quenee.
Now With B. A. Rogers.
It will be of interest to the many
friends of Mr. C. B. Stovall to know
that he is now connected with the store
of B. A. Rogers. Mr. Stovall for some
time was on the road for a Tennessee
firm, and his many friends will be glad
to know that he is located in the city
again.
A Trip Around the World.
There will be given soon an oppor
tunity lor the people of Gainesville of
making a trip around the world right
here in our city.
A number of the homes of Gaines
ville’s prominent citizens will be thrown
open for the occasion, each artistically
decorated and made to represent many
of the leading nations of the world
The characters taking part will be cos
tumed in the garb of the nationality
they are to represent, the customs and
habits accurately portrayed, and re
freshments characteristic of' each will
be served to those making the journey.
i A Union Station will be appointed
where all will gather to take passage.
It will be a trip full of unusual interest
and pleasure, gaiety and merriment
will abound along the way, and the
whole a very interesting and instructive
tour. It will be given under the aus
pices of the Geiger Memorial Associa
tion. Automobiles and other fast trans
portation facilities will be used to con
vey the tourists from one county to
another, all for one fare for the round
trip. Be sure to make the trip and
help a worthy cause.
GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1911.
THE FIGHT IS ON—WHO, OH,
WHO WILL BE VICTORIOUS?
The Echo Answers Who, While the Battle
Waxes Warm—Give it to The Black
Jacks. They are It.
Every old resident in Gainesville is
familiar with the “Old Reliable
I Black Jack Association.” It is one of
the oldest organizations of the kind in
the city, having been organized by Uncle
Tom button when he first came to these
parts.
Now, we have also another associa
tion, of a more recent date, known as
“The Terror of the Cops,” or “The
Royal Order of Black Cats.”
This is a pretty fair association itself
but you know Jhe old saying—“ The
old reliable for me,” and this is where
our sympathy kinder runs towards the
Black Jacks, in this their deepest hour
of afflction.
The Black Jacks came firstand thereby
have rhe first right. But the Black
Cats are vtying to run them out, while
the former won’t budge an inch.
The Black Jacks claim that under
their charter no other organization of a
like character can establish itself within
the bounds of the city and suburbs, and
therefore they have the first right and,
will in nowise give way to the Black
Cats.'
We offered the suggestion, just to
bring about peace,that the orders throw
heads and tails together and be known
as the “Royal Order of Black Jack
Cats.” But the Black Jacks with one
accord said no. They claim that they
are of a more peaceful trend of mind,
and while their funds go only to quench
their thirst, the Black Cats waste theirs
in riotous living. And that the Mayor
gets at least two-thirds of it for the city
and local authorities. Well, if this be
the case, we think they have a perfect
right to take the position they do.
They go further and say, when “the
blackberry crop is not short they have
more money than they can well spend
ere the spring time, when mother nature
brings the berry’s back again.” And
that the Black Cats barely have funds
enough to pay fines, buy “Kentucky
Belle,” and keep up “incidentals.”
And with a number of various reasons
that they made plain to us, we ’
about come to the conclusion that they'
are right, and it will be up to Bagwell!
and Hughes to keep the Black Cats off
their territory.
See to it, gentlemen!
IN OPENING GAME OF SEASON
RIVERSIDE WINS BIG SCORE, :
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By a Score of 20 to 0, Riverside Walks Away
with the Atlanta High School Boys.
By a score of tenty to nothing, River
side completely avalanched the Boys’ ■
High School eleven in a one-sided game I
last Saturday at Riverside Park. A ;
good crowd was in attendance to wel- .
come the opening game of the season. •
Except for the gruelling offense put up ;
by the Riverside team, ttiere were but |
few features. The smaller team was j
overwhelmed by the heavy line and
back field of the local eleven. Not at!
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any juncture of the game did the visi
tors have even a chance to possess the '
ball for any creditable length of time.
Hovever, considering that they have
not had the generalship of a coach, and
have been working out for a short time
only, the Boys’ High School Club did
exceedingly well.
Coming Hen Too.
Mr. Alfred Miller, a well-to-do citi
zen of Maysville, has sold his fine farm
and is thinking very strongly on the
subject of moving to the Queen City.
R. M. A. Elects Captain.
i Mr. Roy Smith has been selected as
Captain of the Riverside eleven to suc
ceed’ Mr. Harvey Lofcey, who was cap
tain of that gritty little team in 1910.
Smith has developed into quite a star
in the line of foot ball since connect
ing with Riverside, and that this team
will put up some classy playing under
his guiding hand goes without saying.
Smith —Smith.
A wedding that has caused unusual
interest was that of Mrs. W. B. Smith
of this city and Mr. Jasper J. Smith of
near Flowery Branch. The groom is
a well-to-do farmer, while the bride is
well known and highly esteemed by
scores of friends in this city.
The wedding occurred Monday night,
Rev. F. D. Harris officiating. Mrs.
Smith was the widow of the late W. B.
Smith who for a number of years, and
up to the time of his demise, was Clerk
>of the Superior Court.
The Eagle with numbers of friends
joins in extending hearty congratula
tions to the happv couple.
Established in iB6O.
UNCLE DAVY HARRIS, THE
MAN WITH WONDER-
FUL WAR HISTORY.
Belonged to “The Immortal Six Hundred”
who Starved at Fort Delaware.
When we went out to attend
Terrell’s banquet last week we met
Uncle Davy Harris, the sprightly
old gentleman who is running the
four big gins of the Gainesville
Canning and Ginning Co. on
Athens street. He doesn’t look
old, and we were struck with his
activity and cheerfulness and the
ease with which he does bis work at
the age of 71.
On the way home we were told
that Uncle Davy had a remarkable
war history—that he was a member
of the “Immortal Six Hundred'’
upon whom the Yankees retaliated
in order to even up the Anderson
ville horrors.
When he learned we had cdme
out to tbe gm to see him Uncle
Davy knocked off for dinner and
came down and answered our ques
tions with a gleam in his eyes of
the old war days. In fact, if either
of us had had time he conld have
given enough to write several large
volumes, for when did you ever
meet an old soldier who didn’t love
to talk of the old days of danger
and privation?
Well, to tell the story:
Uncle Davy was Lieutenant
Harris of the Twenty-first Georgia
Regiment. He joined from For
syth county when he was barely 21.
In 1863 he came home on on a
furlough and was married to a beau
tiful young lady of his neighbor
hood and left again for the war two
days afterward.
At the battle of Spottsylvama, in
1864, he was wounded severely by
being struck on the head with the
butt end of a musket when the
enemy had charged the Rebel in
trenchments, and the next thing he
knew was when he and several
hundred others were being taken to
Fort Delaware as prisoners of war.
There were six hundred in all in
Uncle Davy's squad. The horrors
of Andersonville had aroused the
ire of the North, and it was de
termined to retaliate on this six
hundred.
There was some excuse for the
horrors of Andersonville, for under
the Yankee blackade the Confeder
ates could get very little food and
no medicines at all. The Confeder
ates did the best they could.
But here was a deliberate, cold
blood conspiracy to torture, in sheer
barbarism, against the rules of
all civilized people. For there
was food in plenty to be had at
Fort Delaware.
; Well, the Six Hundred caught it
hot and heavy—they got retaliation
from the word go. They got a
fifth of a loaf of bread and a quar
ter of a pound of meal twice a day.
Oh, think of that, ye eaters!
Think of it, Andy Conner and Tom
Cato I
And this lasted for seven months
—lasted till after Lee’s surrender.
Many of the “Immortal Six Hun
dred” had died, and about two
hundred were on crutches—hadn’t
strength to walk.
To keep his mind employed, Un
cle Davy, then Lieutenant Harris,
made jewelry out of tbe very silver
spoons that Sherman’s men “cap
tured” on the march to the sea.
He made it with an old file and a
jackknife. He has some of this
jewehy yet at home. While in
prison he sold much of it at fancy
I prices.
I Uncle Davy had a capital of $5.00
I when he arrived at the prison. He
i had captured a fiver from a dead
Yankee at Spottsylvania, before he
was captured himself. After the
prisoners had been properly herded
j preparatory to starting f or Fort
Delaware tbe Yankees went around
taking up a collection—gathering
in all the money that could be
found on the prisoners. “Oh, for
my fiver,” thought Uncle Davy,
very agitated. But he thought of
his canteen. He quickly emptied
out the water and put the fiver in.
And that was the capital he began
on to buy Rebel spoons to make
jewelry.
After the cruel war was over and
the survivors of the Six Hundred,
and several other odds and ends,
had been gathered up they were
taken to Philadelphia to be sent
home. There wasagain an even
six hundred m the crowd. And
such a crowd it was!
They had not yet been paroled
and were still under guard. They
came to a magnificent hotel—
tramped up to it and stopped. The
proprietor—a large, handsome man
—came out and spoke to them. He
said, “Boys, come in here at dinner
time and eat with me.” Then he
spoke confidentially to some of the
leaders and told them to not let the
Yankees know that he had given
them their dinners—told them to
say that they all had a little money
left, and were getting it at a cheap
rate. Then the man said, “Come
into the bar and all get a drink—
but don’t get drunk.’' All hands
piled in, and stayed there until
dinner was announced.
Then they tramped into the din
nig- room and the whole six hundred
were seated. Uncle Davy says it was
the most magnificently furnished
room he ever beheld, with grand
pictures hung everywhere finished
and burnished with silver and gold
—even like unto the palace of
fairies.
Said Uncle Davy: “I looked at
those walls—and then I looked at
the men sitting at the tables. Os
all the tatterdemallion assortments
of tramps and Loboee I/eveY looked i
upon this was far the worst —dirty,
lousy, ragged, unwashed, uncombed!
It was the original Hungry Army.
And what a dinner! I will never
see the like again.”
This hotel man was a native of
the south, and he felt for these
men, although he had to be very
careful about showing his sympa
thies on account of the anti-South
ern feeling still existing. After
ward the story was published and
this hotel became the Mecca of
Southerners who visited Philadel
phia, and this generous man made
a large fortune.
After various vicissitudes Uncle
Davy and his squad arrived at Car
tersville by train. There the track
was torn up. Then a walk through
the country to his home—walked
100 miles without a bite te eat.
Hie young bride of two days had
not heard from him since the battle
of Spottsylvania, when he was re
ported missing. He was not al
lowed to write from Fort Delaware.
He didn’t know that she was yet
living,-and surely she must think
him long since dead. These were
his reflections on the way home.
As he neared the beloved spot his
heart beat faster, and so did his
feet. He was dirty, footsore,
ragged, lame would she know
him?
Yes—she was out looking for
him. A year and a halt without a
word, and yet she was out looking
for him.
And did she know him, with
all this disguise—Did she?
Uncle Davy says, “She knew
me when I first came round the
bend in the road, and she had me
round the neck before I got in a
’•undred yards of the house., I
netc did see a gal run so fast.”
The. was a reunion of the de
scendants *of the parents of Uncle
Davy last summer m Forsyth
county. Then, are lots of them.
This good old couple had 13 chil
dren, They all married and
bad large families. At the reunion
ibere were 465. and >< vt ra! absent.
SI.OO a Year in Advance
NUMBER 40
These are all good people—for
good people run in families. Uncle
Davy said, with a look of pride,
“And not one of them were ever
behind the bars.”
But he seems to have forgotten
himself.
Then we spoke of cotton gins.
He says there have been hundreds
of improvements since the gin was
invented by Eli Whitney, but the
principle is the. same between that
primitive one and the four giant
fellows he is now running.
Uncle Davy can do mere work
than half the young men in the
country, and do it far better—at
the age of 71.
VICIOUS NEGRO USED DEADLY
RAZOR ON TWO WHITE MEN.
Young Man of Jefferson has Throat Cut and
Another One Badly Wounded.
A bad negro mixed with bad
whiskey was the cause of a serious
cutting affair at Jefferson last Sat
urday night.
There was a small traveling show
on exhibition and this negro seems
to have been insulting to a young
white man, Lee White. A difficul
ty arose and the negro used the
deadly razor, the favorite weapon
of his race, and the jugular
vein of White. He also severely
cut Joel Alexander, who came to
the aid of White.
The negro then made his escape
to the woods, aided of course by
members of his own race. He was
afraid to leawe the woods during
the night, and next morning he
was arrested and lodged m jail by
Sheriff Collier.
White came near bleeding to
death before the flow ot blood
could be stopped, and his life hung
on the balance for several days.
Salt water was injected into his
veins by phisicians, which is
thought to have saved his life.
The Indian Passion Play,
“Hiawatha” will be given at Brenau
Lake on next Wednesday evening
at 8.30. This play will be given
under direction of the Brenau fac
ulty, and it is needless to say that
it will be a success.
All Roads Lead to Rome.
Our old friend Dock Suddath ,
tells us he is heading this way—that
he is going to buy him a place and
build himself a nice, snug residence
and move into it and become a per
manent citizen of the Queen City.
He has just sold his magnificent
farm in Banks county. It contained
450 acres and brought $35 an acre.
Mr. J. C. Henderson of Gillsville
was the purchaser.
Mr. Suddath and his gcod lady
are folks of the first class and will
be cordially welcomed m Gaines
ville.
Marion Gilmer Vice-president..
The new bank of Gillsville has
about got ready to open its doors
and start business. The new bank
building is now nearing completion
and will be an ornament to the
town. It is one-story structure,
built ot brick, with pressed brick
front and windows of plate glass.
Its size is 26 by 40 feet and its cost
about $2,000.
I A burglar proof safe at a cost of
S7OO has been installed. Within
ten days or two weeks the bank
building and equipment will be
ready for opening.
Mr. R. H. McCrary of Athens is
president of the company; Mr. M.
O. Gilmer ot Gillsville is vice presi
dent; Mr. Claud Meaders, secretary..
We congratulate tbe bank upon
the selection of Marion Gilmer a#
one of its important officers. He is
& good, solid, sensible business man.
And the other officers are good
ones too.