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BANKS COUNTY JOURNAL
VOL. XVI.
NEW TAX LAW
A. J. Cash, G. G. Strange
and J. R. Rylee Assesors
for Ban Ks.
Tax pavers are interested very
much just at this time of the year
in the tax collector and his require
ments.
After the tax collector, however,
comes the tax receiver who prepares
the way for the collector each year.
This year the requirements of the
Georgia law respecting the returns
of property for taxation are to be
different from the rules of l'oimer
years.
Some of the new things are:
“Tax payers are now required to
return all property held by them on
the first of January of each year
instead of the date formerly set by
thegovernor, treasurer, and comp
troller general —which was last
year the first of February.
•‘The tax receivers are required
to open their books lor receiving
tax returns on the first day of heb
ruary of each year instead ot the
first of April as heretOtore pro
scribed.”
“The tax receivers are required
to close theis books on the first day
of May each year.” The law was
till last year “the first of July.”
Within ten days after the first of
May the tax receive is arc required
to present the tax returns of the
county to the board of tax assessors.
This board is to complete
its revision of the returns by
the first of July and the tax receiv
er then makes his digest conform
to the recommendation of the board
of assessors.
G. G. Strange, A. J. Cash and
J. It. Rylee have been appointed
tax assestors for Ranks county.
Mr. Cash will serve two years, Mr.
Strange four years and Mr. Rylee
six years.
Laundry Closed Out
Take Notice.—The Townsend
laundry is being dosed out. I* or
years we have made an effort to do
this and have asked people not to
patronize it. Now any clothes sent
or carried there will be burned.
Let all parties interested rememlier
this. W. It. Townsend.
Dahlonega, Ga.
It is needless to say the laundry
business at this place will be its
dead as a door nail in two weeks.
If anything in the world will kill
a laundry business it is burning of
the clothes sent to be lauudried.
The average man will cuss the
laundry man two weeks aliout the
loss of one collar, but when it
comes to burning his whole outfit
in a spirit of gratitude for his for
mer patronage. Well, thats the
limit. But it will stop the busi
ness. How I wish that man could
invent an appliance to stop loco
motives and automobiles as quickly
as his laundry business will stop—
what a human life saver he would
be.
BOOK WANTED.
Some months ago i loaned a book
(Braun’s Iconolast II Vol.) to one
of the best men In this country and
a fiiend of mine. He has, through
neglect, failed to return it,and 1
have so far felt a delicacy in ask
ing him for it When he reads
this article I am sure he will bring
the book home, for his intentions
are good.
A. J. Hilton.
WANTED
To buy seed cotton any quantity,
highest market price. Bring it to
me. S. B. Sims,
4-t Maysville, Ga.
Take Their Payment That Way.
gome men want so much praise for
an act that it amounts to lib
eral eempemstlon.
Devoted to Giving the News, Encouraging the Progress, and Aiding the Prosperity of BanKs County.
A BILL
The following bill was introduced
by Lion. Thus. M. Bell in congress
recently. Mr. Bell is one ot the
common people of this section and
his heart is always with the farm
el's of the country,and naturally so,
for he was raised a farmer, and is
at present engaged in that business
las a side line. The apple industry
in Habersham and Kabuu is grow
ing fast and we hope Mr. Bell’s
l bill will pass and become a law as
! it will be a great help to the peo
| pie of this section.
A Bill
Authorizing and directing the
I Secretary of Agiicnlture to con
: duct experiments in the cultiva
; tion of apples and to establish an
| experiment station at Cornelia,
Habersham County, Georgia.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
! House of Representatives of the
: United States in Congress assem-
I bled. That the Department ol
Agriculture is hereby authortized
to conduct investigations and make
experiments in the culture of ap
pie trees and apples, with a view to
the improvment of the same in the
southern portion of the Appalach
ian region, and that an experiment
station for the cultivation of apple
trees and apples be establisthed at
< ornelia, Habersham (’ounty, Geor
gia, and the stun of #5,000 is here
by appropriated,out of any money
in the Treasury ol the United Suites
not otherwise appropriated,for that
purpose, and the Secretary of
Agriculture is hereby directed to
expend said sum for said purpose.
Death of W. H Allan
AtlantaT. P. A.’samlall Atlan
ta traveling men are sorrowed over
the death of William H. Allan,
which occurred at Covington, Ga.,
on January 2. Mr. Allen was a
representative of the H. L. Schles
inger company of Atlanta, and had
traveled out of this city for more
than thirty years. He was an ac
tive member of the T. P. A. and
was universally beloved. The
funeral w ill be held in Atlanta at
3 o’clock this afternoon from
Poole’s undertaking parlor.—At
lanta Journal.
Will Allan was a native of this
county and a brother of the late
Charlie Allan. He leaves a num
ber of relatives and friei ds in this
county who will regret to learn of
his sudden death.
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SMILES AND TEARS
Prof. Thos. L. Bryan, of the
Southern Shorthand and Business
University of Atlanta, will deliver
his lecture on Smiles and Tears in
the School Audi tori am at Mays
viile Friday evening .lan. 16.
Proceeds will be given to the school.
Prof. Bryan is an educator of note
and ranks among the leading plat
form entertainers of the South.
Admission 15 and 25 cents
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Homer, Banks County, Georgia, Thursday, January 8, 1914.
Maysville Locals
(Vtoiiif)ttr Regular Correspondent.)
| A dwelling house belonging to
Mr. Paul Deadwyler and occupied
by Mr. Jim Parr, was burned at
three o’clock last Sunday morning,
Mr. Parr is a widower with seven
children, the youngest being first
to discover the Haines which were
rapidly consuming all their belong
ings. As the roof was falling in
when they awoke, they barely es
caped and were unable to get ev en
their clothing. The people hide
helping.them liberally.
Mr. Jas. Garrard, of Atlanta, is
shaking hands with friends here
this week.
We welcome to our little city
Mr. Walt Henderson and family,
who are now occupying the house
recently vacated by Mr. Slig Mor
ris.
Our school opened Monday with
a full attendance, Miss McCurdy,
ot Tallapoosa taking charge of tho
work previously clonV by Miss
Boyd, Miss Boyd going to Cross
Roads to teach.
Miss Mamie Miller lias returned
to her home at Gainesville alter a
short visit to relatives and friends
here.
Miss Blanche Rims left Sunday
for Apple Valley where she will
teach the ensuing year.
Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Veargin
have returned from a short visit to
Atlanta.
Mr. A. G. Boyd moved his fam
ily from here to Gainesville last
week. These are good people and
will be missed in many ways here.
Alpharetta Slighted-
If Mr. Wilson had spent his out
ing at Alpharetta we would have
provided fresh eggs quail on toast,
pumpkin pie and fresh sausage
meat. Our own hens are laying
I tin? eggs of presidential size and
purity, Ed. Upshaw and Tommie
Manning would have brought in
the quails, Jesse Beles had already
sent us a fine pumpkin, and a
thousand Milton county farmers
wonld have chipped is sausage
meat. The President has no idea
what he has missed by not coming
to Alpharetta, bet him begin now
to make his plains to spend next
Christmas with us. The people of
this town and county have more
good things to eat than could be
cnumetated in a month of Sundays.
—Alpharatta Free Press.
If Mr. Pucker will have the
Gulf of Mexico jacked up and
ioiled into the suburbs of Alpha
retta posibly Dr. Wilson will call
on him next winter. .1 edging from
the name Alpharetta is a beautiful
place.
ELLISON- BROOKS
The marriage of Mr. Jim Brooks
and Miss Mae Ellison which oc
curred at the home of the bride at
10 o’clock a. m. Sunday quite a
large number of friends and rela
tives attended. A good dinner
was served at the brides home and
also a nice supper at Mr. Biooks,
the groom is the son of J. H. Brooks
a successful farmer and well known
throughout Banks county, while
the bride a very lieautiful and pop
ular young lady and the daughter
of J. O. Ellison.
Mr. Brooks has travelled a iot
and has many friends throughout
the West as well as Banks county
who will extend congratulations.
Wanted.
Highest cash price paid for seed
otton.
Walt a John Hill,
4 t Maysville, Ga.
Homer Locals
Mj-. Reuben Ninitially, of Hol
lingswol th, paid the Journal office
la pleasant visit this week.
Ram Dyar, accompanied by his
children spent a few days in Ho
mer last week.
Mr. Hubert Dyar, one of Roys
ton’s handsome young men, spent
Friday in Homer.
Miss Ethel Gillespie is assisting
her cousin, Mr. C. W. Gillespie,
with his work in the clerk’s office.
We have not yot received a load
of wood on subscription. Come on
boys with a load and warm us up—
we will then give you a better pa
per.-
13. King, and family spent the
holidays in the mountains of North
Carolina. One of his boys reports
seeing Dr. Rice seated in his office
at ilayesville, ready to deliver the
pills on short notice.
We could guess I lan e Craig’s
New Year resolution if we tried
right hard. Same one he has made
for ten years, but he lias never suc
ceeded . Tom is sti 11 in congress.—
Alpharetta Free Dress.
Miss Minnie Turk is teaching
music at Homer Academy. We
now haven large comfortable build
ing, a corps of good teachers and
an excellent location. Why can’t
we have one of the best schools in
this section?
Rev. W. B. Barber of Center,
Ga., a city near the town of Athens,
spent Monday in Homer. Barber
is the happiest preacher it has ever
been my good fortune to meet.
And why not? He lias “plenty of
money and no poor kin,” good
health and a ravenous appetite.
The convict cam}’ is being moved
to their winter quarters at Homer.
A surveyor will be here Friday to
survey a road through by the
Quit ban old mill place and work
will at once begin on this route.
This is a much travelled road and
wc arc glad to know that the
authorities have decided to better
it.
Jolly Nat <'handler spent Mon
day in JI oilier. It is always a
pleasure to meet a man like Nat.
It wsts not necessary for him to be
come a candidate to be a pleasant
gentleman—it is natural with him,
therefore he is a joy to himself and
others with whom becomes in con
tact.
Unde John Bellamy says that
he is an old time farmer and does
not care to study the new and
scientific methods of tilling the soil
so he will rent his farm next year
and move to town. Mr. Bellamy
says he has always been able to
keep in the front ranks with the
old time farmers, but these new
fellows who raise from two to three
bales to the acre are too heavy for
him, and it he can’t trot along with
the best of them he will quit alto
gether.
About every other local in the
JJahlonega Nugget tells something
of moonshine liquor being made in
that county. It seems that the
preachers, deacons and church
members are engaged in the busi
ness, and the editor of the Nugget
is getting alarmed. And why
shouldn’t he, when a man “tanked
up on mean liquor took advantage
of a dark rainy night and tried to
kill him with a brickbat.” To
be killed by a brickbat thrown
from the hands of a man tanked up
ou mean liquor made by a good
preacher, would bean unusual way
of passing out of existence. If the
brickbat had destroyed its victim
as intended, what a difficult mat
ter it would have been for that
preacher who made the liquor that
fired the brains that moved the arm
that hurled the brick that killed
Brother Townsend, to have preached
his funeral?
Miss Ruth Turk spent the holi
days with homefolks.
Mr. and Mrs. L. N. Dalton have
moved to Commerce.
Mrs. Wm. Ward and daughter
spent a few hours in Homer Tues
day.
Mr. Plumer Barden has returned
from Atlanta where he spent the
holidays.
Mrs. Arthur Barker has been on
tlio sick list for two weeks but we
are glad to know is now improving.
Miss Bonnie Black, of Cornelia,
is assisting Mr. and Mrs. Bell at
Homer Academy. 115 pupils were
enrolled Monday.
Paul I l '. Grant, sheriff of Haber
sham county, died at bis home in
Clarkesville last Friday after a
three week’s illness.
Mr. Noah English killed two
hogs that weighed l!7-f lbs. They
were fattened on turnips, and Noah
says the meet is very sweet.
Mr. Henry Furr has moved his
family to Silver Shoal where they
will reside for three months while
Mrs. Furr teaches. They will then
return to Homer when school
closes.
When writing to have your pa
per changed always give yourOLD
address as well the new. Please
remember this. By so doing you
will save us much trouble and also
get your paper changed much
quicker.
The cotton ginned in Banks
county prior to Dec. 15, 1913
amounted to 10,883 bales, while
only 8,084 bales was ginned prior
to that date in 1912. All other
crops were proportionly large this
year. Why shouldn’t Banks be
prosperous?
ALLEN—PITMAN
The wedding of Miss Pearl Allen
and Mr. Charlie Pitman which
took place at the residences of Mr.
J. Kisers at liighnoon, Dec. 31, was
an event of large social interest,
both young people being prominent
and widely known.
The bride was handsomely dress-'
ed in a going away gown of navy
blue cloth with hat and gloves to
match. Mr. Pitman is a young
man of remarkable talent and has
the confidence of the financial
world.
The ushers were Messrs. Thomas
Pitman, Bud and A1 Irvin, Howard
Wallace, Billie Pitman and Ver
non Kiser preceded the bridal
party Ollic Batty, Ruth
Webb, Ola Adams, Daisy Garrett,
Beulah Batty and Lei a Kiser.
After the ceremony the wedding
party went to the home of Mr. and
Mis. G. P. Pitman’s where the
guest were s< 'ted at a table in the
shape of a ho. low square, where
they enjoyed an elegant supper.
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The Rev- Irl.R. ' inks 1914
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Bellton Loses Good Citizen
It will be a source of deep regret
to many of Bellton and vicinity to
know that Mr. Mood Griffin will
soon move with his family to Cler
mont. Mr. Griffin has been in
Bellton several years and is a very
successful business man. Since
coming to Bellton he has built up
a fine mercantile business. But
being a line business man is not
all than can be said of Mood Grif
fin. He is a very popular man,
has served several terms as aider
man of flic town and is at present
major of the town. His adminis
tration has been a most creditable
one and will go down on record
as one of universal satisfaction to
its citizens. He has managed the
affairs well, despite the continued
underhand opposition of chronic
kickers. Mr. Griffin is a man of
conscience, with pluck, backbone
and honesty. W hen ho once puts
his shoulder to a task there is never
stalling nor turning back until it
is accomplished. If every man in
Bellton had done his civic duty as
mayor Griffin has done, Bellton
would to-day be a town of morals,
instead of so many immorals.
11. B. C.
Notice
I will be at the following places
for the purpose of registering all
voters who have not already done
so to-wit:
Jan. 12th.
Maysville 8 to 2
F. M. Hendersons at night
Jan. 13th.
Glllsvilh- 10 to 12
J. 10. Barretts at night
• Jan. lU!i.
I’oplar Springs 9 to 10
John Turners 12 to I
Lula 2 to 3
Bellton 3 to I
Yonah at night
Jan. 15th.
Alto 10 to 12
Baldwin 2 to 3
Hollingsworth, at night and until
10 o’clock the 10
Jan. Kith.
Golden Hill Court Ground 11 to I
Silver Shoals •"> to 4
Jan. 17th.
L. L. Hill’s • LI. to 2
B. F. Bollton’s 3 to 4
Jan. 19th.
Pendergrass’ store * 11 to 12
Bellamy’s store 2 to 3
Wilmots Court Ground 4 to o
Jap. 20th.
Coffee’s store 10 to II
Crump’s store 12 to 2
Ed 8. Martins 3 to 4
J. A. Martins 5 to 0
Jan. 21st.
J. J. Radsdale’s store 8 to 9
Henry Miller’s store 40 to I 1
Loudermilk’s store 11 to 1
A. J; Cash 2 to 3
Columbia Court Ground 4 to (i
Jan. 22nd.
Lane’s store 9 to 10
M. O. Scoggins’ store 1 1 to 1
Potts'store 3 to 4
Andy Aereys’ 5 to.o
Jan. 23rd.
S. R. Chambers’ 9 to 10
Berlin Li to 1
Asa Caudell’s 2 to 3
T. E. Anderson’s store 4 to 0
Jan. 24th.
Washington court ground 9to 12
Hall’s store 3 to 4
NOTICE!
To Boys’ and Girl s
All boys’who wish to join the
Boys’ Corn Club and all girl’s who
wish to join the Girls Home Life
Club for the year J 914, will please
send their names,ages and addresses
tome at Baldwin, Ga., by Jan.
20th, next, so that I can send them
in and secure the literature neces
sary for you to use in the year’s
work
Bespt.,
J. T. V isu, C. 8. 8,
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