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VOL. XVII.
The Primary
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The primary held last Friday;
was a great improvement over some
elections we have seen held at this
place. If there was any vote buy -
ing, or liquor being given lor votes,
we heard nothing of it. Elections
shout 1 be held on a higher plane j
than has Wen the custom. 1 hope
to see the time when every man
will consider it an insult lor an
other man to interfere in any way
with his voting privilege. Every
American citizen has the right to
vote his own sentiments and he
should consider it an insult to his
intelligence when another party
steps up to him and even in a
‘‘round a l>out” way insinuates
how he would like for him to vote.
Yon often hear the remark that
“Mr. so and so ‘controls’ so many
v otes.” If yon are in that class
controlled by “Mr. so and so,” for
God’s sake get out and stay out —
W* a man, and vote your own sent)
incuts regardless of who you live
with or where you live. It is all
right for candidate themselves to
solicit votes, but it would be W>t
ter still if they would simply an
nounce their candidacy and tell
the people why they seek the of
fice and what they intend to do if
elected, and let the voters take
their choice. It would make it!
much easier on the candidates and
more satisfaction to the people gen
erally.
About two thirds of the people
in an <>hio county were convicted
a few years ago for buying and
selling votes. It'this kind ol prose
cution was carried on in some oth
er sections it would put a check on
a practice that is a disgrace to our
civilization.
The Australian ballot system
would do much towards purifying
our elections and the day is not
far distant when I believe it will
be adopted in this state. It will
then lx- impossible for one man to
lead another man to the ballot box
and see that “he votes ’er right.”
Read, Read. Farmers of
Northeast Georgia
On Saturday, May the Oth, the
farmers and citizens of Jackson
county, and Northeast Georgia,
will have the opportunity to hear
the following national famed ora
tors: Domblazer of Texas, L. M.
Nodes of Tennessee, and ( has. 8.
Barrett, national president Farm
ers Union of America.
Never before have these world
lamed characters appeared before
an audience in Northeast Geor
gia.
No matter how busy you are with
your farm work, it will pay you to
come and hear these orators; you
never had the opportunity before,
aud may uevei have it again.
On Saturday, May the 9th, at
Jefferson, Ga. Make your plans,
and be there. It took a promise
of a thousand farmers to be pres
ent, |o get this appointment. Let’s
see how many will be there.
Sincerely,
T. S. JOHNSON,
Lecturerand Organizer .1.
Grand Father BlacK
Plants Watermelons
Mr. R. J. Dvar has been busily
engaged in plowing the lot of land
back of his home preparing to
plant watermelons, potatoes, etc.
He has plowed it many times and
if preparation counts, and they
say it does, he will make a bumper
crop. Mr. Dyar is 74 years old
and the best preserved man at that
age we have ever known. He is
stronger now than naif the people
in Ranks county at the age of
forty.
Small boys can be sitting in the
shade watching the old gentleman
prepare his watermelon patch and
they no doubt will get their share
of the proceeds of his labor.
BANKS COUNTY JOURNAL
Homer Locals
(’. A. Meeks and Logan Perkins
spent Saturday in Homer. When
a boy gets interested in politics he
seldom ever loses that interest.
One candidate said to us after
the primary: “I know eighteen
people in Banks county who have j
sold whiskey, but I am too much
of a gentleman to prosecute them.”
Hon. and Mrs. Tom E. Ander
son spent a few days in Atlanta
last week, consulting a specialist.!
Mrs. Anderson’s health has been
failing for some time, but at pres
ent she is some better.
J. M. Frix, auto salesman for
the Boyston Hardware (’o., spent
Satur.lay in Homer. Mr. Frix
sells the old reliable Ford car and
will place several machines in
Banks this year.
When elections are held many
misunderstandings arise, friends
are often made enemies, neighbors
have ill feelings towards each other,
relatives sometimes become es
tranged, and the county generally
is in a state of excitement, whiskey
flows freely and some money is us
nally “placed” (whether it is used
in the election or not.) The aver
age primary has a bad effect on any
county.
The colums of this paper were
not used in the interest of any one
candidate or any set of candidates.
It was our intentions to accord the
same treatment, to all. In the
small writeups, that usually a:
company announcements, we tried
to be impartial, to say something
good about all of them but give one
no advantage over the other.
Most of the candidates were our
friends and we felt kindly towards
all of them. Besides this, we never,
at any time or place, before or on
election day even insinuate to any
human being how we would like
for him to vote, nor did we take
any side for or against any candi
dale, and any man who says we
did violates the flth command
rnent and eligible to membership in
the Ananias Club.
BANKRUPT SALE
Accounts Receivable and notes
due estate of < 'arr, Boyd & < ’o., and
H. I). Watkins, Maysville, Ga.
Georgia—Hall County.
Pursuant to an order as passed
by the Hon. W. B. Sloan, Referee
in Bankruptcy, I will offer for sale
at public outcry at Maysville,
Banks County Georgia, on Satur
day, May 9th, at twelve o’clock,
norm,-all of the remaining uncol
leeted accounts receivable and
notes due the estate of Carr, Boyd
& (Jo., Bankrupts. Said uncol
leeted accounts aggregate % 29770.59
and uncollected notes £17144.02.
At the same time aud place 1 will
also offer for sale the uncollected
notes due the estate of H. D. Wat
kins, Bankrupt, said notes aggre
gate £267.11. Terms of this sale
will be cash and all bids will be
subject to the approval of the Ref
eree. An itemi7.ed list of said
notes and accounts can 1m; had by
inqyiring of the Atkius National
Rank of Maysville, and W. F.
Morris of Maysville, or the under
I signed.
H. A. Ferris, Trustee,
304 Chamber of Commerce Rldg.,
Atlanta, Georgia.
In the International Family.
“You don’t figure very strongly in
diplomatic relations,” said the great
Nation. "No,” replied the small,
struggling government. “I’m one or
the poor relations.” Washington
Star.
Then He Thought Again.
The young man was fighting out
ways and means. ‘ They say two can
live as cheaply as one.” “Do not de
lude yourself. Ferdinand,” said the
girl. "For one thing, I shall positive
1/ have to have a separate car.”
Devot’d to Giving the News, Encouraging the Progress, and Aiding the Prosperity of Banks County.
Homer, ESanks County, Georgia, Friday, May I, 1914.
The primary this year was dis
tinguished for “goose eggs.”
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. J. E.
Vaughn, a girl.
Miss Ethel Gillespie was on the
sick list last Saturday and Sun
day.
Prof. Solomon Bolw of Canon,
spent Sunday with her sister, Mrs.
B. J. Dyar.
Mrs. Geo. M. Barden, who has
been in poor health lor some time
is now improving.
We notice that the brilliant edi
tor of the Gainesville Engle has
seen (it to take unto himself a wife.
We have not space to give you
the names of all the “ailing” peo
ple in the county during the post
week.
Dick Mason captured atcirapin
at IJuillian’s mill last Saturday
that was old enough to vote, if it
had tieen eligible. The name of
“W. 1). Hall,” and date “May IS,
1892,” had been chiselled on the
back of the teirapin, and was as
plain as though it had been cut
yesterday. Mr. Hall left here over
twenty years ago for South Georgia
and it is supposed that he caught
the terrapin and lettered it before
he left.
One young fellow imbibed to
freely when the potash liquor was
passed around last I* riday, and
lost use of his nether limbs as lie
passed the north west corner ol the
court house where he fell peace
fully to sleep under the spreading
shade of a beautiful oak, and there
remained until rescued by friends.
A nother one anchored on a tele
phone pole at 2:.‘(0 o’clock but was
towed away by kind hands.
The school trustees have pur
chased the three acres of land, ly
ing north of the school house, from
Mis. W. B. Mason. It will be
used as a play ground lor the chil
dren. This is a good investment,
for the pupils have heretofore been
forced to play between the school
house and church, and kept the
I window lights knocked out of both
buildings.
Official Consolidated Vote Banks County Primary, April 24.
Anderson 191 123 51 20 16 59 45 40 18 14 11 1 16 27 40 0 23 15 1 73 0 8 5 10 0 55 4
]{er]ill in 7 26 61 20 17 4 29 7 16 5 30 16 42 3 15 0 7 0 24 2 7 22 9 1 1
Rush vi lie 122 26 60 37 1 106 3 4 8 2 27 45 38 12 15 1 0 1 2 91 5 3 1 6 4
Columbia 31 0 *7 25 25 3 0 2 1 1 2 2 0 28 0 0 0 5 8 0 2 0 14 3 0 0
j )avids 154 23 33 100 36 66 3 22 22 6 21 86 18 30 1 5 12 1 12 0 31 24 50 1 3 15
Golden Hill 36 5 10 21 15 8 0 11 1 1 6 1 15 14 0 1 0 4 0 0 0 12 17 0 2 0
A l to 28 2 12 14 07 13 1 5 2 0 1 1 6 20 0 2 0 1 01099024
Grove River 82 45 17 19 0 6 1 68 0 5 6 2 51 23 0 3 1 12 7 2 8 29 18 0 1 0
Homer 191 30 122 45 22 42 9 105 6 11 15 78 53 48 11 35 1 34 10 9 19 18 13 1 39 3
Hollingsworth 60 11 27 23 49 7 0 1 1 2 5 2 7 45 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 49 0 2 1
Baldwin 14 0 5 12 1 70343 41 1 802 52 1 0 0 0 5 0 1 1
Poplar Springs 103 27 74 317 30 5433545 93 302 032 .1 0 160 2 0 5 2
BeHton 12 84104262004731 1 1 00061203 0
Washington 137 13 63 62 92 12 0 1 3 10 10 16 32 20 68 1 1 10 6 1 4 5 1 67 10 5 23
Wilmots 99 1C 42 47 6 10 2 4 50 28 41 1 40 19 6 2 32 1 0 32 7 8 7 1 0 3
Total 1351 330 553 490 307 383 75 456 134 104 ( 264 306 392 403 24 98 78 107 114 74 182 179 288' 26 125 61
Mrs. A. M. Mason has been quite
ill the past week.
Albert Wilson says they circu
lated falsehoods on him, and he
seems to think his defeat was due
to the circulation thereof.
11. C. McDonald says if he ever
again enters the great political
arena it will be as a candidate for
president where everybody can’t
run.
A large number of our people
have declared their intentions of
going over to Gainesville May 7th,
to see Aviator Beech make his two
flights in the air ship.
Unde John Bellamy says he is
thankful for the votes he received,
but the next time he will run for
governor when candidates will not
be so plentiful.
If it is true that “No liar shall
enter the kingdom of Heaven,”
what rejocing there must be in the
regions Inflow when a county pri
mary is pulled off.
Frank Richey, one of Com
merce’s horsemen, visited us last
week. He didn’t appear in his
swapping garb but had on his
glad lags and we suppose he was
simply making a pleasure trip.
The convicts will soon go over
(o Washington district and do
some much needed work. This is
a large district with some very bad
roads, lint have so far received no
benefits from the work of convicts.
The postmaster is weighing all
the mail that is received or de
parts from this office and will do
so for the next fifty days. This
necessarily makes it a little later
being placed in the boxes on its
arrival in the morning.
One of the boys who failed to
land enough votes to place him ir.
the pew with the chosen few suggest
that all the defeatist candidates
meet on August the Ist, 1914, at a
watermelon cutting in Homer, and
then and there form a permanent
organization, the name to lie fixed
by some member.
For CleikJSuperior Court-
C. W. Gillespie.
For Sheriff.
W. E. Reynolds
George M. Barden
J. C. Wood.
For Tax Collector.
J. W. Cochran
R. G. Wallace
J. M. Mintz
Fred Rucker
Geo. W. Wiley
L. J. Ragsdale.
For Tax Receiver.
M. W. Gillespie
J. Ed Vaughn
Claud J. Smelley
Carroll- Chambers
For County Treasurer
H. C. McDonald
J. K. Chambers
S. M. Strange
W. L. Acrev
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T. B Burns
J. S. Bellamy
J. A. Mize
Joseph M. Jones
M.O. Scoggins
W.'A. Wilson
J. A.Hill
H. F. Miller
John Hancock spent Monday in
Homer.
Mr. Harvie Anderson and wife
were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Dock
Lord Sunday.—Berea Cor. in Com
merce Observer.
Rev. J. M. Hawkins and wife, of
Decatur Orphanage, spent last
Sunday with the parents of the
letter,Mr. and Mrs. M. A. M il
banks of Bushville. —Commerce
News.
Paul Sanders, 21 years of age,
son of the late Mark Sanders of
Banks county, died at his home
here Tuesday night of this week of
scrofula. —Commerce News.
The Fitzgerehl High School, of
w hich Mr. Horace Richey is super
intendent, won the laurels in the
Third district high school meet.
This is a compliment to Mr. Richey
ability at an educator. —Commerce
Observer.
Mrs. J. T. Wise of Hollingsworth,
Mrs. George Smith, Miss Myrtle
Smith and Miss Esther 'Vise were
shopping in Gainesville Saturday.
—Cornelia Enterprise.
Mr. E. Philbrick lias been called
to Illinois on account of the death
of his brother who was a prominent
judge.— Cornelia Enterprise.
Advertising Pays
K. N. Sharp placed a small po
tato ad with us a short rime ago.
He writes us. “Leave my ad out.
1 now need to advertise for people
to send for no more plants as I
can’t fill the orders. Send for your
money.” We have 1700 subscrib
ers and when you place an ad with
us it brings results.
POTATO PLANTS
Sweet potato plants in season.
150,000 for sale from the Ist of
April till July. Price 20c per
hundred.
N. C. Faulkner,
Lula, Ga.
Executive Committee Meets
The Democratic Evecutive Com
! inittec of Banks met at the court
house last Saturday at noon and
consolidated the vote of the pri
nu*ry election held the day before.
You will find a table in another
column giving the vote by districts.
After paying the expenses of the
primary the committee will have a
surplus of something like *.10.00
left in the treasury. The members
were divided as to what disposition
to make of this surplus cash.
Some wanted to return it to the
candidates, some favored holding
it for cases of emergency, others
thought that it could be used in
the general election to be held in
the late summer. Col. Jones Mar
tin made quite a lengthy speech on
this surplus cash problem, but the
commiteee adjourned without
hiking any definite action on the
matter.
Each candidate was assessed
#B.OO for the purpose of holding
this primary, and there is no good
reason wiry this money should be
used for any purpose other than
the primary in which the men run
who paid it in. Therefore, it ap
pears to us that the proper dis
position of this surplus cash would
be to return each candidate his
pro rata share of the money, and
let the candidate in future elections
pay their own expenses.
We have a large lot of crop notes
for sale at 50 cents per hundred.
Postage prepaid.
Journal Publishing Cos.
Homer, Ga.
Since Eve’s Time.
A woman can say “dear” to another
woman and make It sound like “I’m a
lUr.“
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