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THE GAINESVILLE EAGLE. rhe Cagle Publishing Company. ' V >LfMK L>, .SOW ALFALFA! With Cotton at 15c a pound, Alfalfa would still be a profitable crop. How much better it would be now, with cotton at or * below the 10c level! Try a patch this fall. Alfalfa, Red Clover, or Crimson Clover, any or all, will pay you well. Fresh Fancy Seed at— c -■ =- George’s Drug Store. ,|3 ' , >ms B | ALAMO THEATER B H$ v M jri pl i -H aEm 0 • Bi Jfek A s lls ■’”•1 c B J WMV Z H k ' iJ F- H || Coming Soon j| ••» *| E»»«S § —— IBE TREVO'ffGWTS |J : <■ 30. Zv\ $5- 50 $3- 50 ,iTL «• $5-oo • ===^*-— ss oo nn A few SpecicJs al Ju 3'K s6 ”° . JV a Variety of Style u kKtUK.'-A4^*«»>.■ USD SBW ) : 1 THE Woman who is Shoe-Particular will |: i find something to please her in our • Fall Line—just opened. /ll THERE is a big variety of styles to choose from. There is a shoe for every foot, Z/J * and a price for every purse. m nn /V\ WILL you come in soon and look? That /I \ ' is all we ask-just a chance to show you some Real Shoes. COME Early—tomorrow or the next day! W. J. & E. C. Palmour { Ms JASJS GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, <914 BUY-A-BALE-OF-COTTON-AT-Wc MOVEMENT PROVES SUCCESS. Many Progressive Firms of Gainesvi/Ze Enter Enthusiastically into the Movement —Hotel Princeton’s Bale Bears U. S. Flag. Following the start made last week by the Farmers and Merchants bank and the Robertson Drug Co., many other citizens and business people have joined the movement, and now a bale of cotton decorating a show window is common. The Princeton Hotel now has a bale in the lobby decorated with two 1 nited States flags, and it makes a nice ornament, too. And Newman - Frierson - McEver Company have bought a bale, and Mr. H. A. Terrell of the Southern Express Company has bought a bale and Mr. Geo. P. Estes has bought a bale. And so by next week it is a pretty safe calculation that nearly every business house in Gainesville will have bought a bale of cotton. The cotton mills are working a full force of help, and the demand will be*as great as the supply from the output of these mills for this year and next. Taking into consideration the fact that the United States imported $29,000,000 worth of manufactured cotton goods from the European markets last year, should wake our home milisi up to their possibilities in sales of the manufactured prod* nets. 1 < 1 Now at Palmour’s. Miss Aland Whelchel, an efficient and popular saleslady, who has been for a long while at Newman-Frier son-McEver Co’s, is now to be found at the department store of W. J.l& E. C. Palmour. She invites her numerous friends to come to see her. Mr. William Bridges Dead. Mr. Williarfifßridges, age about 60 years, died suddenly at his home in Talmo Saturday morning, sup posedlyjfrom appoplexy. The funeral and interment occurred at Mountain Creek Sunday afternoon, the Masons having charge of the services. The deceased leaves a wife and several children. He was a con secrated Christian gentleman. Bienau's Splendid Opening. Brenau College opened its fall ses sion today at 1 o'clock with an at- . tendance as full or fuller than last ■ year or any previous year. j About forty prospective students canceled their engagements on ac count of the war. The opening entertainments at Brenau are; 'Thursday 8.30 p. m., Bonawitz, voice, and Michaelis, violin. Sunday afternoon at 5.00, song re cital, Linscott. Monday 8.30 p. m., dramatic re cital.|School of Oratory. Tuesday 8.30 p. m., organ recital, and lecture, Hanchett. May Get Them Cheap. Judge W. D. Whelchel has two marriagejlicenses that any aspirant to the altar of Hymen might be able to get at a greatly induced price— being sorter second-hand ones. And here is how it happened: Two young men went to the Or dinary la-t week and purchased licenses to float their -anoes on the sea of matrimony at high-tide, but the young ladies who had promised to help them paddle the canoes re niged. Therefore the Judge had the licenses shoved back at him. and now has them in stock. If there are two other young men aspiring to the Hymeneal altar, they might -ee the , Judge and get a bargain. To Organize Eastern Star. For a long time The question of or- i ganizing a chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star, the woman's branch of Masonry, has been de- ; bated among the Masons of this city and vicinity. This has taken a def inite form, and next Tuesday eve ning at 8 o’clock, in the Masonic Temple, a meeting will be held in order to take the necessary steps to organize such a chapter. Those eligible for membership are Master Masons, and the wives, wid ows. sisters, daughters, and adopted daughters of Master Masons. The age limit is 18 years and over. Those who are interested in such an organization are requested to at tend Tuesday evening, as then the charter list will be made out and the list closed. So any one who wants ‘ to be a “charter member'’ should at i tend. Established in i&OO, erecting Large Building. Mr. J. A. Gaines is erecting a new brick building on S. Bradford street, next to Hughes' grist mill. It will . be 90x100. _ Will Move Jan. 1. The mercantile firm of Parks & ' Bowen will after January 1, 1915, move into the store room next to Dr. J. B. George's, now occupied by ; Barron’s case. » i ■ Broke His Arm. ■ Uncle Tom Williams got tangled up with a scrape last week while working a road in the Fork district and got his left arm broken just above the wrist. People who will work ought to be very careful. Bible Class Friday Night. By urgent request Mrs. Kendall will open the Bible Class Friday evening 8.00 o'clock in S. S. room. First Methodist church. Lesson will embrace the 2d and 7th chapters of Daniel. All cordially invited. Makes Investment. Mr. W. A. Roper this week pur chased from Mr. J. W. W. Sim mons the two-story building ad joining the post-office .lot, on E. Washington street. The lot fronts 44 feet and runs back 98)£ feet. The consideration was not made public, but it is understood that it was near -*6,600. Mr. Roper bought the lot as an investment. The Horrors of War. There is something in an appeal for recruits to fill up gaps in a fighting army; nothing inspiring in the call issued by the french government for 5,000 excavators. What are they wanted for? Are they needed to help the troops to throw up intrench ments? Not altogether. Most of them are needed to dig graves. Two or three whole regimentes will be armed only with shovels and it will be their duty to put out of sight the mangled clay that once was bravely stepping soldiers filled Avith patriotic and converted into what the gravediggers will find and hide. CRACKERS WILL PLAY HOME NINE TOMORROW AFTERNOON Bill Smith and His Crackers Cross Bals with the Gainesville Team at Brenau Park — Benefit Harry Welchonce. The local fans will have the oppor tunity of witnessing a game of base ball tomorrow that will be far beyond the average games, for Bill Smith and the Atlanta Southern League team will meet with the local nine at Brenau Park tomorrow afternoon, when the game will be called at 4 o'clock. George Kircher, the Crackers' in imitable comedian, will catch for the Gainesville team, and this feat ure within itself will be more than worth the 35 cents admission. Perryman, who played with the Gainesville team one season, will be again seen on the local diamond, but will be pitching big league ball this time for the Crackers, and not Gainesville. Everybody will be expected to pay the small admission fee of 35 cents, owing to the fact that the Atlanta team will receive the entire gate receipts which are for the benefit of Harry Welchonce, who is in North Carolina suffering from tuberculosis. In addition to having the time of your life rooting at the game, you will be doing alms by helping’ Wel chonce. Every fan knows Harry Welchonce and will avail themselves of this opportunity to help him in his struggle against the White Plague. Billie Smith and his team are to be congratulated upon this move to help their comrade. Howell Smith says the local team takes the contract of furnishing the balls. Better put your right and left fielders over about New Holland, hadn’t you, Howell? Everybody come and enjoy your self tomorrow afternoon. The outlook is that a great deal of cotton is going to be held on the farms and in warehouses. Some of it will be; on that account a word of warning is not out of place. Care shuold be taken that no cotton is ginned unless it is thoroughly dry for if it is damp when it is ginned and baled it is likely to deteriorate before it is placed on the maket and if held very long will lose a consid erable part of its value. At First Baptist. At 11.30 service the pastor will use as a theme. "Georgia and its People;” and at 8 o'clock "The Devil and his tactics." In Florida for Health. Mr. Harry Fox Galloway, accom panied by his sister. Miss Irene Galloway, left Monday for Miami. Fla., in the interest of his health. Chief Richardson Very Sick. Chief of Police Hymen L. Rich ardson is very ill and his physician has almost given up hope of his re covery. For many months he has been suffering from diabetes. First Methodist Church. Rev. T. R. Kendall, the pastor, will preach morning and evening next Sunday on special gospel themes. Members of the congregation af fectionately requested to attend. Read it Yourself. In this issue we publish the pro posed amendment to the charter of Gainesville, providing for a com mission form of government. You must read it for youself and see what it provides for before you vote on the question. Athens by 90 majority defeated the proposition for a commission form at an election held Tuesday. Distinguished Visitors. Mrs. Annie Burton Hawk and little Mi** Charlie Burton Hawk, of Valdosta, have been spending August and September in Gaines ville at the Princeton hotel, guests of Mrs. Hawk’s sister, Mrs. J. W. Wherry’. Mrs. Hawk has been connected with daily papers in Georgia and Florida as editor of the Woman s Page. She will return home soon and again take up news paper work. Cotton Bringing 3 Mr. H. B. smith began buying cotton for the local mills Tuesday morning, paying 8 cents for the staple. Yesterday’ he raised to A few years ago this would have been considered a good price, and at that time the seed brought only 12 cents a bushel. Now it is many times that much. But the farmer will say: “At that time meat was 8 and 10 cents and Hour was cheaper than now.” Now. there’s the rub. If you had raised your own meat and wheat your 8-cent cotton would look a good deal larger, wouldn’t it? Are the people ever going to learn? This is a first-class hog and wheat country. Returned from Pleasant Trip. Mr. John A. Hobbs accompanied by Mrs. Hobbs is at home after a visit to points in Georgia and Ala bama, which combined business with pleasure. A pleasure stop-over was enjoyed in Birmingham with Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Wing. Mrs. Wing is ar. old Gainesville girl, who has adopted Birmingham as her home since her marriage. She will be pleasantly remembered by friends in the city as Miss Leone Hobbs, daughter of Mrs. J. W. Wherry. At Waverly Mr. and Mrs. Hobbs were guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Garner, parents of Mrs. Hobbs. At Opelika they were shown many pleasant social attentions as guests of Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Sanders and J. W. Williams of the Clement hotel, Opelika, and St. Charles hotel. West Point. That Non-fading Smile. Ever since before the election we bad been hearing that Ja«per Pierce was still smiling. They would phone it down from up there and people | would come by the office and tell of it. Well, Jasper was in to see us yes terday morning—and all that we have been hearing is so. He is not I smiling still at that Tombellicus joke, but smiling because it is his, nature to smile —for he is indeed an apostle of good cheer. Jasper had come down to see his daughter, Mrs. D. P. Martin, who for several weeks has been very ill at her home on N. Bradford street, but who is at present on the road to recovery. Jasper is sensibly touched by the open-hearted kindness of the neigh bors of Mrs. Martin, who have visited and administered to her ever since the beginninir of her illness. He extends to all of them his gratefull thanks. SI.OO a Year :n Advance NUMBER 38 /. H. BROGDON INSTANTLY KILLED IN COTTON-GIN PRESS Mangled Terribly when Hervy Press Block Reversed and Fell —Went in Press to Recover Dropped Fork. Mr. I. H. Brogdon, a well-known ■ and prominent ‘itizen of Tadmorc I district, was instantly killed Friday I afternoon while at work in J. R. I Whaley's cotton gin. i Mr. Brogdon had dropped a cotton ' fork into the press of the gin. and jumped in after it while the press ; block was being raised. The press being a patent one. the block after rising drops back unless the belt is shifted to the dead pulley, and Mr. Brogdon being down in the press could not reach the belt shift, hence the block reversed and came down on him, crushing him to death. Mr. Brogdon leaves a wife and three children besides his mother. He was about 36 years old. a deacon in the Baptist church at Harmony, and a valued member of the order of Odd-Fellows, the latter, with Rev. ; Henderson, having charge of the funeral service which occurred in Harmony churchyard Saturday af ternoon at 4 o'clock. He was a brother of Mrs. A. E. Fuller of this city and a cousin to Mr. A. J. Mundy. » ■ The Citizens Bank Will after January 1. 1915. move into the room occupied by Parks & Bowen, northwest corner square. Grace Church, 66 Washington street, near the main entrance of Brenau College, the Rev. I. M. Merliujones, D. I).. Vicar, will hold services as follows Sunday: Early communion at 8 o’clock; morning service and sermon at 11.30 o’clock, and evening service with an instruction at 8.15 o'clock. i Sunday School and Bible Class at 110 a. m. Morning subject: “An ' Outlook.” Evening: "Why Chris tianity.” Special music. WHO ARE YOL'R FRIENDS? Now when the pinch is on. and i there is no cotton market, to whom do you look for aid? You have been skipping your home merchants and sending your orders, and your cash, to Sears, Roebuck <fc Co., and other mailorder houses. Y<»u pay about as much for a defective article as you would pay your home merchant for something better —and you pay cash, while you buy from your home merchant on credit. Yes, when you have a little ready cash you spend it with the mail-order houses —but you ask the home merchant to please charge it —and he charges it. Now your home merchant is ready to lend you a helping hand to tide over the pinch—he will take your cotton at a good and put it on what you owe him, ami extend i further credit for what you need. But is the mail-order house pro posing to help you any? If they are. we have failed to hear of it. You see. it is this way: We are a community ot mutual interests. No ! one can live to himself, but every one must help somebody. Reci procity must be the rule. "Praisethe i bridge that brings you over.” is a good maxim. And there i- no more ; admirable trait in human nature than the disposition to hang by your I friends —those who help you. ‘ Every merchant i:i Gainesville is ready to assist the farmers in tiding over the j>rese.ii emergency, and we do hope everyone ..iL show their ; appreciation of this by spending I their cash with the home merchants, instead of sending it to the cheap mail-order houses, that care nothing f .-r you —ex ept for y >ur money, and would not help you out of a hole to s ave your neck. LET US LOWER THE TAXES. The returns of taxable property for Hall county for this year are $8,485,- 870. against $7,607,950 for last year. Last year the tax levy for the county was 55 cents, and during the year more work on the public roads was done than in any year in the history of the county. So that the roads are now in better sha] e than ever before and there is no need for any extraordinary expenditures in that direction. Besides the county is out of debt, with money in the treasury. In the light of these facts a re duction of the county tax rate would be extremely welcome—also con sidering that cotton, our staple crop, is bringing little or nothing. It is up to our friends the Com missioners.