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THE GAINESVILLE EAGLE.
the Publishing Company.
VOLUME LV
Foil owing Our Usual Ciustom,
We offer for the season of 1914, a prize of $5.00 in
Gold for rhe best exhibit of Turnips grown from
Seeds sold by this store. Terms and specifications
of the contest will be announced later. Plenty of
I urnip Seeds of this year’s growth now on hand.
George’s Drug Store.
GOVERNOR SLATON DEFENDS
TAX EQUALIZATION LAW.
Nearly Three Thousand People Hear Him — '
Now they Know More About the Law
Than they Did.
-
Governor .John M. Slaton spoke}
to something like three thousand :
tax payers in front of the court house i
here yesterday at noon in defense I
of tax equalization lav.'.
There are many in Hall county I
who did hot understand the law, and
many who have fought it. that are!
now in sympathy with it.
Governor Slaton made many illus- !
(rations of the advantages of the ■
law, that were convincing. After |
the speaking he and Mrs. Slaton
were tendered a reception by friends j
at tiie Princeton Hotel.
A committee from the VC. C. T.
U. and various citizens who were
interested in the Cantrell boys per- ,
suaded the governor to pay’the;
boys a visit in jail. He did so, but
with the understanding that hemake
the call only as a private citizen, and
not as tiie Governor of the State of
Georgia, ami that the boys were not
to know who he was.
Tomorrow is the day that the boys ;
are to hang, and owing to the dem
ons!] iti. n of the citizens of the i
county at large a-king the governor
in person, and rhe vari-ou-s commit
tees ir in different organizations,
ai I that it was Iris good friend’s, Col.
F. M. Johnson’s, dying request, it i
is hoped that he will grant the re- 1
quest, ven if at the last minute,’-
ami tl at the hoys w ill be given a
■comm nta tion to life im piwonment.
Flowery Brassch. (
I
I
’Mrs. Sam Cheek of Gainesville:
spent Tuesday with M,r«. Stella j
Cheek.
I
Mrs. ■). S. McCurry of Belton is >
visiting her sister, Mrs. Chastain, ■
who is very ill.
Mr«. Byer of Gainesville is-spend-.-
ing a few days with her brother, :
Mr. Pleas Mathis.
I
Mr. Jim Bob Jackson and family ;
•of Atlanta Spent the week end with ,
Mrs. Jackson’s uncle. Mr. Harvey ;
Charles. i
I
Mrs. Talley of Central, Tex-a-s is j
guest other sister. Miss Bills and;
Miss Rachel Porter.
Mr. Forrest Additon has been i
traveling in North Carolina in in
terest of the Chattahoochee Furai- ;
ture Co. for the last two weeks.
Mrs. Janie Stevenson is visiting in I
Gainesville.
Mrs. Melvin, Misses Annie and. •
Bessie Smith are going to Washing- !
ton, 1). C., soon on a pleasure trip. ;
Mrs. W. L. Hawkinsspent Sunday ‘
with her mother, Mrs. Crow, in ■
Forsvth County.
‘ I
Mrs. J. L. Hagrison of Gainesville
spent a few hours with her sister. I
Mrs. John Roark. Friday p. m.
Misses Bonnie Roberts and Willie 1
Bagwell spent Saturday in Gaine-- ;
ville.
i
Mr. C. B. Millikin and laniily re-I
turned from St "'i: ions Monday.
The ■!. W. A.
Os Central Baptist church will have,
an ice cream festival tomorrow ;
eve -ing on the lawn in front of the j
church at 6 p. m.
HON. W. A. CHARTERS TO
SPEAK AT NEW HOLLAND.
[ Wn fiddress Voters at that Place Tomorrow
Evening at 8.00 O’clock.
I Hon. W. A. Charters has an
. pounced that he will address the
■ people at New Holland tomorrow
[evening at 8 o'clock.
I Mr. Charters has many warm
! friends and supporters at that place
■ and will be given an enthusiastic
j hearing by a big majority 7 of our
■ neighboring little town.
BELLTON.
' Mr. Frank Bryan of Jacksonville,
Fla., is spending some time with his
[mother, Mrs. Alice Bryan.
i Mrs. Sarah Williams continues
quite ill, to the regret of her many
friends.
I Mrs. H. C. Jones of Atlanta is vis
iting her son. Mr. T. H. Jones.
Mr. Asa Payne of Sand Mountain,
Ala., visited his aunt. Mrs. Sarah
Williams, recently.
Mrs. Arthur Martin and little son.
Jack, ol Gibson, are spending some
time with Mrs. Martin s aunts, Mrs.
C. Wade and ?»Irs. V. 1. Carter.
Mrs. Rober: F. Quillian of Gaines
ville spent one day 7 recently with
Mrs. Sarah Williams.
Mrs. Mamie White and little
daughter, Mary, of Mobile. Ala.,
were recent visitors to Mr. and Mrs.
' J ames Echoes.
Mr. and Mrs. Carlton of Com
merce ami daughter. Mrs. Garnett
Faulkner, of New Holland, have re
; cently moved to Bellton.
[ Rev. A. W. Quillian, Sr., of Bu
j fold, ami -on, Rev. A. W. Quillian,
I Jr., of Lula, visited Dr. and Mrs.
jW. H. Quill* an Monday 7 . Rev. A.
• W. Quillian, Sr., of Buford slopped
i over en route to Cleveland, wfiiere he
: goes to attend the district eonfer-
I ence.
■ Mrs. Brown of Uniea Point is vis
iting her daughter, Mrs.. T. W.
i Carlton,
i Relatives and friends of Mr. and
[Mrs. Guy Carley 'of Atlanta were
I very sorry to learn of the death of
I their baby 7 .
i Mr. Ma ynard Sa un d er* di ed ai his
; home in Atlanta last Friday 7 and
was brought to Bellton Saturday for
■ burial. Rev. A. W. Quillian, pastor
of the Bellton M. E. church. <e»u-
i ducted the funeral services at the
I Bellton Baptist ••hurch Saturday .af
ternoon at 2.30. Mrs. W. H. Quil
lian presided at the organ. Ker.
iQuillian and Mrs. W. H. Quillian
[sang “Shall we gather ar the River"
[at the grave. Mr. Saunders leaves
; a wife and two daughters in Atlanta
' and a sister in Bellton.
;
! Mrs. May Davis and baby and
, Miss Edith Poole, who is Mrs. Da
; vis’ sister, of Cocoa. Fla., are visit-
I ing Mrs. Elbert Davidson. They 7
■ will spend the remainder of the
summer with relatives and friends
’ in and- near Bellton.
Mrs. India Jones and little son
i from near Gainesville spent a few
day s last week with her sisters, Mrs.
j Ira Carter and Mrs. Alex Garner.
: She w;.- accompanied home by Miss
j o innie Garner, who will stay some
I Mrs. W. W. Bibb of Adairsville is
i visiting her parents. Mr. ami Mrs.
[ W. A. Palmour. on West Washing
j ton street.
GAINES\ILLE» GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1914.
Col. Fletcher Johnson Dead.
Col. Fletcher M. Johnson, the big
hearted attorney, as he was known
and familiarly termed by thous
ands, of friends throughout the
State, died Sunday afternoon at his
residence on Green street, as a re
sult of internal injuries.
Col. Johnson was known promi
nently as an attorney, but perhaps
better known as just big-hearted
Fletcher Johnson, who looked for
the comfort and pleasure of others
before he thought of his own well
being. As further evidence of this
fact, his last letter was written in
the interest of humanity—in the in
terest of his fellow being —a client
for whom he had spent over two
hundred dollars out of his own
pocket without the hope of remuner
ation. Yes, he had Mrs. Johnson
prop him up in bed ’that he might
write his farewell letter to Governor
Slaton in the interest of Jim and
Bartow Cantrell, who are to hang
here Friday.
He wrote the governor that he
was on his dying bed and that was
the last opportunity that he would
have of being of service to his fel
lowman and he begged the governor
to giant the boys a commutation to_
life sentence.
And here is a letter that he wrote
to the Atlanta Journal on last Thurs
day on account of Mrs. Palmour’s
feeling so bad over the incident.
And his last words were imploring
his wife not to let Mrs. Palmour
worry over the unfortunate affair,
his last words being, “it’s all right;
I’m ready to go.’’
| The following letter from Mr.
j Johnson appeared in Sunday’s
Journal, written on Sunday after
noon, at which time he was already
dying:
Gainesville. Ga., July 16, 1914.
Editor Journal, Atlanta, Ga.—
■ Your Gainesville correspondent was
: misinformed as to the extent of my
j injuries, for there is no doubt of my
i recovery 7 , and my friends are not in
[ the least apprehensive as to my 7 re
-1 co very.
| The only trouble in the case, and
i the only fear, is that my friends,
[ with their generous and affectionate
i kindness and attention, may 7 kill me.
It almost makes me glad that I
I was injured to 'nave such comforting
: assurances of the sweet affections of
my friends.
If dear Mrs. Palmour would quit
worrying ) would be happy 7 , for !
am ’playing the game’—that is, ‘to
be happy about everything.’
I am happy because it was a light
! machine, for a heavy machine would
I have killed me. Then, of course, I
lam happy that I was not killed;
then my friends drive away every
I ache and pain and that makes me
! happy.
I am slightly disfigured, but still in
rhe ring, and am happy 7 to feel I
will be up and able to vote for our
peerless senator, Hon. Hoke Smith.
Let this little notehave a prominent
place so my friends in the State can
make me happy by doing their duty
and electing Senator Smith. ’There's
life in the old land yet.' I write
this fiat my back.
-Fletcher M. Johnson..
[ Col. Jbohnson was born jn 1858, in
[ Coweta county, near Newnan.,
' where he resided until he was eigh
teen years old, then removed to
i Gainesville, where he resided con
j tinually until his death. Fie was
married in 1884 to Miss Lizzie E.
Sullivan of Tumlin’s Shoals, Lau
rens county, S. C., and to this union
were bom four children, Messrs.
[ Hammond, Edward, and Fletcher
Johnson, Jr., and Miss Carrie John-
I son, ail of who survive him. He
: was married the second time to
Miss Lucy Keen of Oglethorpe
county, in 1897, and to this union
there were born two children, Doug
las and Marion Dean Johnson,
' who survive him.
He was admitted to the bar in 1879,
and followed actively 7 upon duties
of the office from that time.
The funeral services were con
■ ducted at the First Methodist church
Tuesday morning at 10.39, a large
concourse of people assembling to
pay 7 a last tribute of love and respect
[to him. and as evidence of the great
love of his friends, one of the pret
i nest fforal offerings ever seen in
Gainesville covered the bier.
] Judge Jones adjourned court and
the local bar turned out to the fu
neral-
Mr. Johnson expressed the be
lief that the accident was Provi
dential, He said that he hud re
-1 fused to ride home from his office
with several friends, offering to take
him in autos, and had he done so
the accident would not have oc
curred.
He walked ou ( of the post-office
| and started across the -treet. to
' catch his car, and being somewhat
, deaf, he did not hear the approach
[ of th-e auto, the accident being abso
lutely unavoidable.
And it was that which made Col. :
Johnson believe tha the unfortu- I
nate occurence was Providential. ;
Established in 1860.
i THERE MIGHT HAVE BEEN
/I THOUSAND STRIGHT,
BUT WE DIDN’T SEE ’EM
It Grew and Grew and is Still Growing—from
225 Upward it fs Near the 1,000
Mile Post.
I
L (By Stickem)
It was advertised Friday morning
that there would be a “Tom Bell
Rally” at the court house Friday
-slight, and our understanding was
that it was a free-for-all meeting, so
laboring under tljis impression we
thought we would take it"iu, ajid
might, if nothing busted, learn
something.
And we did learn something. We
found out that the object of the
meeting was to organize a club, and
being already a member of another
club, we shortly vacated.
So Brother Byron Mitchell was
elected Chairman and Brother Will.
Merk Secretary.
But before organization Brother
Hardy arose to announce that the
club would raise hell a little later
on—and you know these newspaper
men are strong on raising such stuff.
We learned, too, from Brother
Byron Mitchell that Charters was
the weakest man in the district to
run against Mr. Bell.
But the biggest thing we learned
was “on the morning after the night
before. We learned that there
were nearly seven hundred present.
We had calculated there were
about 225 present.
But it is still growing. We have
, now heard that it was a thousand.
Cream Festival.
There will be an ice cream festi
val at Dunagan’s Chapel Saturday
afternoon, July 25. Everybody
cordially invited.
The Boys Go to Camp.
Jl’be local troop of the National
Guards, Troop F., Ist. Ga. cavalry,
left Tuesday afternoon to go in camp
at Augusta, where the troops are
! taking their annual outing thisyear.
Joe Blalock Called.
■
Our old friend Joe Blalock, who
■is now bookkeeper in the State
. Treasurer’s office, was in Gainesville
Monday. Joe was just rusticating
I around and dropped up to see some
■of his friends here. And he is for
! Speer, too.
Home Again.
Miss Cora Barron, who has been
seriously ill for some time, on ac
-1 count of failla while in Royston, and
the result of which made an opera
tion absoutely necessary, is now at
home, to the delight of her many
friends.
Visited Parents for Week-end.
Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Martin of AG
I lanta visited the former’s parents,
I Mr. and Mrs. Green Martin 1 on S.
: Main street, for the week-end. Mr.
' Martin is an old Gainesville boy who
is also connected with the Atlanta
(Constitution, totaling three Hall
! county boys who are with this
breezy morning paper.
Plenty of Handshaking.
■Candidates from all over Hall
' county, and from nearly all over the
i State, were here Monday shaking
hands and buttonholing with the
: voters. Especially was this true
with the brethren running for the
: legislature. And they all had good
! grounds upon which to ask for the
' suffrage of the people.
King Baggot,
This tallented and versatile actor,
will be seen at the Alamo theatre
tomorrow in a most remarkable pic
ture entitled “Across the Atlantic,”
in three parts.
This picture was produced in Eu
rope. and Mr. Baggot was assisted
in some of the most thrilling scenes
by Claud Graham White and Gustav
Hamel, the world famous aviators.
Hon. Hugh M. Dorsey
Will speak at Gainesville next Tues
day, July 28, at noon, in the interest
of Hon. Jos. M. Brown's candidacy
for the United States Senate.
This will be Mr. Dorsey’s opening
speech of the campaign and he will
be at his best.
Plenty of acommodation will be
provided at Gainesville for taking ■
care of the crowd.
Low rates on all railroads.
COL. W. A. CHARTERS
MAKES MASTER SPEECH
TO TWO THOUSAND VOTERS.
Largest Crowd Ever Seen at Court House
Heard Charters Monday—Outlines
Principles on Which He Stands.
Col. W. A. Charters made a force
ful and eloquent speech tosomethiug
like two thousand voters Monday
at ll o’clock in front of the court
house, and his words were received
with an ovation by his hearers.
And he will make his final speech
in the interest of his candidacy here
in front of the course house on Au
gust IS. when the final campaigning
will close.
He was introduced by Hon. R. D.
Mitchell, who is President of the
Hall county Charters Club, and who
has been president of every Tom
Bell club here-to-fore that was or
ganized in the county.
He then outlined the principles he
stood upon, and he scored many
rounds of applause from the audi
ence, speaking of Mr. Bell as “Har
dy’s congressman.”
He spoke of Mr. Bid I poking him
self out to be for the common people
and the workingman, and then vot
ing against every important measure
that ever came up of benefit to the
common people. Especially the
tariff on sugar, and parcels post.
He read a letter from Mr. Bell in
which the latter said that Parcels
Post would ruin the rural free de
livery of the United States, and
Col. Perry ran against Mr. Bell in
1910 and Perry advocated Parcels
Post and Bell stood pat against it,
and it has done more to increase
Rural Free delivery routes than
anything that has happened in the
mail service.
Mr. Bell also voted against free
sugar, said Mr. Charters, and that
is for common people, reducing
sugar, a necessity of life, of two
cents a pound.
Mr. Charters then spoke of the
Sam Cheek incident, and read a
letter from Mr. Bell trying to pro
cure the discharge of Sam Cheek
from the employment of his com
pany, because Sam. was for Charters
instead of Bell, and Cheek had been
for Beil heretofore. He also read a
copy 7 of the letter from Cheek’s
company 7 allowing Cheek to have
his own political views, and saying
that he «old more goods than any 7
other man they 7 had on the roads
“And they all sell them, when they
are for me,” said Mr. Charters, ami
he received a big round of applause
from this statement.
He also spoke of Mr. Bell trying
l force Mr. Hardy 7 over the people
into the Gaine - . die post-office when
there were petitions signed by 3,500
Hall county citizens asking that the
; widow Ham be appointed to this
I position? “That is the way he sticks
i to the widows,” said Mr. Charters,
i “No, Mr. Bell would not have any
[ one else and would not give any
[ other name presented any consider
j ation whatsoever, except that of his
I political henchman. Albert Hardy.”
No, the widow didn’tgetthe appoint
ment from Hardy’s Congressman.
He spoke at length upon Norman
McNeil getting the appointment to
West Point, McNeil being a North
: Carolinian, while there were many
I poor boys in the 9th District who
I wanted the apointment and tried
for it. “No, some of the baseball
fans,” said he, “wanted McNeil to
have it, and he got it.
“And Mr. Bell —the common peo
ple’s friend,” said he, “voted to
■ take twenty 7 cents of the people's
money 7 per mile to pay his expenses
[in going and coming from Washing
i ton, when in reality it only 7 costs
1 him two cents. The record shows
it,” said he. “He can afford to buy
rolling chairs for the cripples and
, sacks of flour, when it doesn't cost
! him anything; it comes out of the
common people’s pocket. He makes
i two hundred and sixteen dollars on
; every trip he makes going and com
ing from Washington, and iie voted
| to keep this law on the books.”
“Yes. he is the common people’s
friend, but when it comes to a show
down, he is for the rich man, and
he gives the rich man the plums.'’
“And another measure that is of
vital importance to the poor man.
and to the builders and contractors,
was a bill introduced six years
ago to put lumber on the free list.
Did Mr. Bell vote for that measure?
No. He voted against it, and when
Tom Watson jumped him about it.
he denied it. Then Watson went to
the record and proved that he voted
against it. showed him the page that
it was on. Then Mr. Bell hushed I
SI.OO a Year in Advance
NUMBER 30
up. He didn’t reply to Watson,
although he was. offered space in
! one of the local papers to publish a
reply to Watson. That is the way
I Hardy’s Congressman is for the
! poor people.”
i Mr. Charters began speaking by
[paying a beautiful tribute to Col.
| F. M. Johnson, and said that he had-
I decided not to speak, out of defer
[ ence and respect to the deceased, but
■ that he had been asked by so many 7
who had come to Gainesville for
the purpose of hearing him, that he
I had re-considered and decided that
he wotifd make the address.
Sunday Busy for Jailor.
There were upward of six hundred
people that visited Hall county jail
Sunday to have a farewell with the
Cantrell boys who hang here to
morrow. Rev. David Watson held
two services Sunday and the jail
was packed at both services, and
Deputy Sheriff Buffington tells us
that the jail was packed throughout
rhe day, many haying to wait out
side until they could get in.
There were many 7 who visited the
boys Sunday who stated that they
did not sign the petitions circulated
at first but would sign now if they
had an opportunity, in an effort to
save the boys.
Grace Church.
Services will be next Sunday as
follows: Holy communion at 8
o’clock: morning service at 11:80 and
evening service at 8:30 o’clock.
Sunday 7 school at 10 a. m. Full ser
vices will be continued throughout
the summer. There will be uovaea
tion. Morning subject: “The Lay
ing on of hands and the Apostolic
Benediction.” Evening: “Preparing
for Confirmation.”
On the Second Sunday evening in
August the Right Rev. C. K. Nelson,
D. D., bishop of the diocese, will
visit Grace church ami will adminis
ter the apostolic sacrament of con
firmation. Those desiring to be con
firmed should see the Vicar as soon
as possible.
Leg Broken by Auto.
Air. T. T. Moore was knocked
down by an automobile driven by
Mr. James Castleberry Tuesday
about one o’clock and sustained a
broken leg. The accident is said to
have happened just as Mr. Moore
was leaving the ear at his home on
Main street.
Mr Moore in stepping from the
car did not see Mr. Castleberry ap
proaching from the rear, and just as
he stepped to the ground the auto
mobile hit him. knocking him to the
ground and running over his right
leg, and breaking both bones just
above the ankle.
Mr. Moore was given medical at
tention immediately and it is not
thought that the accident will prove
fatal as no internal injuries were re
ceived.
Saxon.
School started last Monday under
the able directorship of Miss Attice
Aderholdt of Gainesville. Attend
ance good and school moving along
nicely.
Farmers have practially laid-by.
Crops are very 7 good and a bright
future in store.
Mr. Gordon Barnwell left Monday
morning for South Georgia to take
a position with Mr J. H. Hunt of
Gainesville, who has extensive in
terest in saw-milling and einning in
that section.
Mr. Fred Roark attended church
at Gainesville Sunday night. Won
der who Fred is ••fur” in Gainesville.
Miss Ethel Barnwell hastaken the
School at Shallow Ford and has en
tered actively upon her duties.
Mr. Clyde Mason has purchased a
new buggy. Had it been a gourd,
we would have thought tiiat he had
a Martin in view.
The “School Manager” was out
around Saxon last Sunday. What in
the world was a school manager
doing loafing around this time of the
se ason.
Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Carter, who
has been spending some time with
latter s sister, Mrs. A. S. Robinson
and Mrs. O. G. Whelchel, left Sun
day 7 tor Wylam, Ala., for a short
visit to Mrs. Carter's sister. Mrs. J.
A. Wheeler, before returning to
their home in Memphis. Tenn.
Mr-. Carter will be very pleasantly
remembered as Mi-- Eula Keith.
Miss Lillian Beatty of Suwanee is
this week guest of Mrs. W. H. Car
lisle of this ciiy.