About The Cedartown standard. (Cedartown, Ga.) 1889-1946 | View Entire Issue (April 4, 1907)
HUHINIOWH CAUUH. THE CKDARTOWH STANDARD “.f"' W. C. BUNN. C. C. BUNN. JR. BUNN it BUNN, Attorneys-* at Law. Illcfcar'.Bon Bid*, CBDAHTOWN. All business placed in our handH will be given prompt and viglant at tention. C. Cl. JANES. G. It. HUTCHENS. JANrS & HUTCHENS, LAWYERS, Office in Richardson Bldg. Phone 209. CEDARTOWN. QA. ATTORNEY • AT . LAW, Offico in Chamberlain Building, CEDARTOWN, QA. W. K FIELDER, Attorney -‘Ji- Law, Office In Pitts & Holmes Illiig. CKDARTOWN. OA. P. R. TURNER. ATTORNEY - AT - LAW. CEDARTOWN, GA. W. W. MUNDY. IVY P. MUNDY MUNDY & MUNDY, Attorneys at Law. Special attention to collections Mo- ritorouB damage claims, drawing wills and the administration of estate. Office up stuira in Mundy Bldg., Ce- dartown. J. MALLORY HUNT, Attorney at Law, Office in Richardson Block, CEDARTOWN, GA. W. H. TRAWI0K, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Will practice in all the courts, both State anil Federal, In Georgia and Alabama. Office In the Pitta-Holmes building. Local and long dlstanc phone 241, J. A. LIDDELL. H. M. HALL LIDDELL & HAI.L, Physicians and Surgeons, Office: Chamberlain Building, CEDARTOWN, GA. W. A. CHAPMAN, Physician £ga Surgeon, CEDARTOWN. GA. R. J*. SPIRKS, fc=PhyBician and Surgeon, CEDAnTOWN, GA. Calls answered promptly day or night. W. G. ENGLAND, PHYSICIAN <S SURGEON CEDARTOWN, GA. Calls attended day ana night. CHAS. VANN WOOD, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Offico over Philpot’b Btore. ' CEDARTOWN, GA. Entered in the Postoffice at Cedar- town as second-cliiBH mall matter. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF CEDARTOWN AND POLK COUNTY. Published every Thursday in the Year SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One Year $1.00 Six Months 50 Three Months 26 Advertising rules will be furnished on application. THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1907 TilK GUAM) Jl'ItY AND THE HOARD OF (OMMISNIONEIIS. SEALS L. WHITELY, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Phone 216, CEDARTOWN, GA. T. E. NIcBRYDE, Physician and Surgeon, ROCKMAIIT, GA. \* O. H. MORRISi Physician 0 Surgeon. Diseases of Women and Children a Specialty, , ROCKMAIIT, GA. B. F. SIMS, DENTIST. or- Offers his services to the public, ftoe in Bank of Cedartowu building. Offkw hours 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. Tele phone No. 64. When there is an impending or uct- ual scrimmage going on, th sir U ourse for the non-combatant Is to pass on until at a sate distance from the firing line. I felt the wisdom of this so strongly when the Grand Jury d its gun at or "went off" In the direction of the Board that I passed and kept mum, like a prudent peo ple should and did. The Standard's statement, that this week’s isaue would carry a three-bar relit d" broadside from the members of the Board by way of eponse bus tempted me to "rush wive re angels fear to tread." I am reasonably sure that all, or nearly all,the errors and mistakes that the Jury Presentments mentioned are real, and perh&im many more might have been enumerated. But I am also quite sure that It Is a mistake—a big Injustice, In fact,—to put all ill*, blame for these regrettable conditions upon the County Commissioners. How successfully and aatUfardorlly could you—I mean YOU, who are reading these lines—conduct your own bust nets, whether ahop. stole, mill,farm profession, if you devoted to it one or two or even hilf-a-dozoni days per month? Stop just a moment now and think about it. Would you expect to make a brilliant success of it, from many a blunder free and foolish no tion? Let us suppose that by rea son of unusual executive ability and tlrekse, industry ,youi were able to make a success of your own private business by devoting to It only a day or tw every month. It is not at all llkel, but grant that you could. Do yt fe?l that you could successfully and, sat tsfactorily to yourself and to the public administer the affairs of the county? Stop just one moment be fore answering and consider what it m ans to do this. There Is about live millions of dollars woith of prop erty to be taxed and th? money so raised to b® expended for the best In terests of those contributing' It. A special read tax of $2 each U collec ted from about 3,00b p?r»qpa A num ber of special t axes, upon peddlers, rlr curbs and the like, must bo looked after. The, property of the county both veal and personal, must h ive in .tplllge.nt care. Muchlnciy and t ol* and t?amis must be provided for the road-working squads. Cont.r. t ts for bridges tind public buildings must be let and settlements made. Tint ever present and pressing and difficult prol- loins involved in the proper living out and constructing and maintaining ouv public reads must be taken up and thrashed over and over again. These are a few of the principal items of business that will demand careful attention on. the day or two that you are to devote to the busi- tic8s monthly. Besides these there are a thousand and one matters of lesser moment, but not always easier t > dis pose of. that will engage your atten tion and tax your Ingenuity and re- sotireefulnars during the y ?.ir. Now, candidly, do you b?ll. va that you could master and nianago wisely and well all these vast and varied interests by giving to their > consideration only about one-fit f tee nth of your tlm??And you willing to assume this i-espon^ aibility and undertake this work for about $60 a year? If you an-;w:r both these- questions affirmatively, you are the man for the place. You can, almost Biblical warrant, "cast the first stone" at the present manage meat. You would be well worth $3,000 ill year to the county—and cheap at the method, the system, that I con demn, not the men. I doubt If we have three men In th? county who! will do better until a different plan U adopted. It Is somewhat comforting to have scapegoat, when things have gone rong. To this extent my sympathies ** with the Grand Jury. But I am >rry they did not setl; further and find the real clus? of th' misnnnag > ment and wastefuln >h cf wh ch they Justly and properly complafn, and polnL out u safe road out of the wll- vets. Let us hop? that although thfir huavy artilleiy w*.u trained In wrong direction Its booming will nc\ 'I he ake us up to ondl- tlon that must be i ni d ed s oner or liter—-and th? sooner the lie tier. About a year ago our foim?r Con- gn -wiian, th? Hon. John IV. Maddox, was chosen Mayor of Rome by a r - fonn movement inaugurated by the business Interests of that city. Th • city and county h id both b en plun dered for years by thlcvts and graft ers and tax money waged by in oin- petcnce ami mUmmag incnt. At last "the worm turned," and aftet a hard and hot caimpailgn th? fight was Won by those who Insisted upon the ne- c asity for a h mis.-cleaning. w ith Maddox at their head. The Juig? took off Ills coat and went to work with a vengeance. He ho* giv n that city the best year's work of h's life, and the best and most useful yen’s work that has ever been done for It, per haps, since h?r rivers were, small blanches. A few days ago. w his term was half out, h r?slgi and the reasons he gave are almost pathetic. He gays in part: "I am not financially able to work for the city longer for nothing 1 have given it a year of the best, work of my life. 1 have fulfilled every promise mad * to the city, and more. The*duties of the office hive occupied my entire time for th? year. Its petty details and annoyances have become unbearable." And for these twelve long months of hard and useful service the city of Romo paid him. how much, do you suppose? Five thousand (dollars? Nr, just one-tenth of that sum! Small 'Wondir that th.' affairs of cities and counties or? mismanaged. Why, there Is scarcely «. clerk in Rome with >ix months 'xpertence who could afford to be Mayor on the salary. It. would seem that this old world has been spinning around long enough for us to learn that th? art of get ting something for nothing with safety and regularity has not yet been dis covered. "Those, who dur? must pay th? fiddler," is tn'.te but true. Saving at the salaty spigot Is well enough if you do not thus wust* many times more through the bung of inbuilt n- agement. wm. Bradford. On "The Hill." Mch. 31. 1907. Whooping Cough. I have used Chamberlain' Remedy In Cough family whooping cough, and want to tell you it 1h t.he l est medicine I have ever used.—W. F. Gaston, Pose i, Oa. This remedy Is safe and sure. For s:»ln by E. Bradford. J-. X 3 . GKRIEXEXR,. DENTIST, Tenders his services to the public. Of fice over Collins’ store. Phone 116 F L. ROUNTREE, DENTIST, Offers his services to the public. Of fice in the Peek building. In Cave Spring every Thursday and Friday. ENNYbiBftfL PILLS .1M that 1 am not the apologist or defender of the present Board or their official actions. They ar? able to tak? en? of themselves. I believe them to b? honest and as caavrbl» a Hoard as the county ever had. If they have not made mistakes, they are more than human. But what I am driving at is this: Are we reasonable, or even half-reasonable, in expecting that they will or can do well the work that is placed in their hands for the pay they get and the time they are expected to devote to it? Are not the Board and the county both the help less victims of an antiquated, cumber some and wholly inadequate system of handling our county business? I do not know' whether it is the fault of the law*, or the blind following of a custom established for,or possibly well adapted to, a different age and con ditions, but I am quite sure that the present method of handling county Notice of Application hr Guardian for l.cavc to Sell Lands of Her Wards for Ite-iiivcstinciil. NEW IDEAS SPRING IN FOOTWEAR The very newest ideas in footwear con struction, the very best materials that can be procured and the best efforts of expert shoemakers have all combined to make our Spring line of Peters’ Diamond Brand Shoes sty- the best, the snappiest and most lish in town. If you want a pair of comfortably sty lish shoes that will fit your feet perfectly, come in and see our “Diamonds." C. M. SAWYER & CO. I. Mrs. Iris H. Swlnney. of Bartow CDuiUy, Geoigla. as guardian of the Person and property of my two minor children, Sally Fanny Swlnney and John T. Spinney, hliving beenappolnt- od such guardian by the Court of Or dinary of Polk county, Georgia, on the First Monday of August. 1899, do hereby publish notin', in accordance with the provisions or Section 2516 of t.b? Civil Code of Georgla.tibat as such guardian I will, on the Sixth day of May, 1907, at on? o’clock p. in., at the Coin t House in Douglas ville, Douglas county, in th? Tallapoosa Ju dicial Circuit In said State, (which cir cuit embraces the said ct unty of Polk) make my application by writt n peti tion as guardian aforesaid to t He Hon. BiUce Edwards, Judge of the Supe rior Courts of said Judicial Circuit, at. .Chambers, in vacation, for leave to .sell to \Y. A Dodd and A. G. White, #*f Battow county, Georgia, at private sale, for re-lnvestment, the following described 1 lauds belonging to my said wards, to-wit: "The undivided one-third (1-3) of a c rtain tract of land containing two hundred and thirty-eight (238) acres, more or less, whereon l and my chil dren lit *.: resided and lately known ae the Swluney place, all lying and being iu the 17th District and 3d Seel:ou of Bartow county, Georgia, consisting of land lot Number Eleven Hundred and Forty-five (1145.) and of that part of the old Dickerson plaice {p'ore particularly described in John W. Aiiint de?d to myself, recorded in Clerk’sOfflce, Bartow Superior Court, Deed Book "M M" page 598 > consisting of the following lots and parts of lots, to-wit: All of lot Num ber Eleven Hundred and Forty-five (1145) except a strip of land containing five (5) acres and running of even width across the entlr? south side of said lot, the south line of said lot being the south boundary of said five acre tract, which is in the form of a para IU Ingram; all of lot Number Eleven Hundred and Forty-four (1144) except a tract containing on? and one- half (lVfe) acres in the south uer thereof, being the trace of one and one-half acres heretofore cowveye* by L. F. Shaw to John H. Walker; the east half of lot Number Eleven Hundred and Slxty-one (1161); all of lot Number Twelve Hundred and Fifteen (1215); all of lot Number One seven (7) acres thereof; all of lota Number Twelve /Hundred and Thirteen (1213) and Twelve Hundred and Four teen (1214) lying und being on the south side of the center of a private road running from the cotton horns** eastward to the center of Eahorlee Creek, said private road starting from the east side of lot known as tbs May - son lot; all of lot Number Twelve Hundred and Thirty-five (1235) ly ing north of the center of a slough and the center of Euharlee Creek; a strip of land containing three anti on?-half (3V6) acres, mor* or less, of lot of land Number Twelve Hundred and Thirty-six (1236),said strip of land known as the neck between the slough and the creek, and extending to the center of th j creek on the south Hide of the slough from the mouth thereof, the center of th? cr*ek Ixdng the line; said undivided one-third (1-3) interest of said lands being all rights, titles, interests, equities and estates of my said wards in all of the above de scribed latnds." The reasons for desiring to make said sale and r.'-investment are as fol- FURNITURE, ® CARPETS, Mattings, Rugs, Crockery, Tinware, Cutlery, Stoves, Etc. (a) That I am a widow' and cannot personally manage and conduct farm ing operations on eald lands advanta geously or profitably, nor can said lands be rented to tenants so as to preserve the lands and at the same time derive a good profit therefrom. (b.) Because my sadd wards are now at an age wher? it Is naceasefy to send them to a better school thin Is uc- essible to us while residing on said Lands. (c.) Because hired labor is soiree and high, and hard to obtain, and efore I am not able to operate said farm with hired labor at a good profit. (d.) I, ipyself. individually own the undivided two-thirds (2-3) of the plantation and liqds above described, in which plantation and lands my atld aids own th? other undivided cue- third (1-3.) and the entire place can be sold to said Dodd and White at and for th? stint of seventy-five bun dred dollars ($7,600.00.) thus yielding to my said wards twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500.00) for th°ir one-third (1-3) interest, and five thousand dol lars ($5,000.00) to me for my two- thirds (2-3) interest, which is an ad vantageous trade both for me and my said wards, hrcause I can re-lnvest my money in a horn? for myself and chil dren near a good school and can re invest the Twenty-five Hundred dol lars ($2,500.00) belonging to my said wards from the proceeds of said sale by loaning the same out on good se curity, bearing interest at the rate of eight per cent, per annum, which will afford a larger and surer income for my said wards than could be ob tained from the rental of said Lands. A copy of my said petition, duly verified by myself, will be served per sonally upon each of my said wards and upon their next of kin. as re quired by law. at least ten days bafore the time for th? hearing of said ap plication. This March 27th, 1907. MRS. IRIS H. SWTNNEY Thousand ajid Ninety (1090) south of Guardian of Sallie Fannie Swlnney the Alabama Public Road, being about I and John T. Swlnney, minors. We have a complete stock of HOUSE- FURNISHING GOODS at prices that are right. m £2 Bed-Room Suits. Odd Dressers, Bureaus, Bedsteads, Chairs, Rockers. Lounges, Tables, Mattresses, Springs, Kitchen Safes, etc. Crockery, Glassware, Tinware, Lamps and numerous Kitchen utensils Our line of Cutlery is of the best make in Steel and Silver-Plate Knives, Forks and Spoons; also Pocket Knives, Butcher Knives Scissors, Razors, etc. CTflUCQ ! ^ ur '* ne ol S toves is complete, from the U I U V Lu i cheapest to the very best make Come to see us. We will make the prices right. , j. S. & G. D. COLLINS, R. 0. PITTS, President. E. S. AULT, Cashier. C. W. SMITH, Vice President. E. L. HENDERSON, Ass’t. Cashier. THE COMMERCIAL BANK OF CEDARTOWN. A Capital and Surplus, - $100,000.00 Designated Depository of the State, County and City. Our^large resources are a guarantee of our ability to extend every accommodation that is not contrary to safe banking princi, pies. The conservative management of the Bank, as well as the extra protection afforded in a strictly Burglary-Proof Vault, should commend themselves to those who have money to deposit. II YEABr
