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VOL. XVII.
Maysville Locals
(From Our Regular Correspondent.)
The notes and accounts of Carr
Boyd & Cos., were sold here last
Saturday for three huudred and
fifty dollars to Mr. Horatio,Lyle.
Mrs. Lillie Jackson, of Athens,
spent a few days the first of the
week wi'h her sister, Mrs. I’.
Boone.
Mrs. Dr. McCurdy and daughter
of Tallapoosa, spent the week end
here as guests of Mr. and Mis. ('.
W. McCurdy and Miss Kroily Me
< urdy.
Messrs Lon and Tom Itlaekwell
with their families and Mrs. Lizzie
Anderson spent Sunday at Mr.
Horton Blackwell's.
Mr. George Sheridan and Misses
Inez Suddath. Mae Wood and
Claudine Henry went to Athens
Saturday to see the Georgia-Tech
Ball game. This was one of the
most interesting games ever wit
nessed in this section and was won
by the Georgia team. Among ot h
ers who wont from here Messrs. W.
Bacon, H. I‘. Camp, H.S. Smith,
('has. Moore, Ed Sims, Paul White,
< >sear Voyles, Morgan White, C.
A. Meeks, Logan Perkins, I. K.
Miller and A. Smith.
Mr. Henry Bacon, a poular sales
man for the Athens Hardware Cos.,
spent Sunday with homefolks and
friends here.
Mr. and Mrs. Hoy White were
visitors to Atlanta the first of the
week.
Mrs. Paul Deadwyler has return
ed from a short visit to her parents
at Chattanooga, Tcnn.
The Thir/a David Chapter IJ. D.
C. met with Miss Fannie Lee
Atkins on Friday afternoon of last
week. A large number of members
were present.
Mrs. Walter Lockhart and Mis.
I. K. Mider spent a few days last
week with relatives in Gainesville.
Mr. Luke Simmons died in At
lanta Tuesday at <> oelock after an
operatian. His remains were in
terred at the McDonald burying
graund in this county Wednesday.
The Mations Social Club gave a
picnic at Bacon's pasture on Thurs
day of last week in honor of Mrs.
E (’.Jackson, who is moving to
Tallapoosa this week. The families
and a few friends of the club mem
bers were present. The club pre
sented to Mrs. Jackson a beautiful
silver cold meat fork as a parting
gift and as a token of their love.
Miss Pauline ( handler, of Hull,
is spending the week here with her
cousins Mac Wood and Claudine
Henry.
Mrs. Boone Suddath had as her
guests a few days recently her sis
ter, Mrs. Dr. Ham, and son, of
Gainesville.
Mrs. Scott Hopkins and little
daughter, of Atlanta, are visitors
here this week.
Miss Clade Reynolds, of Gaines
ville, spent Sunday with homefolks
here.
Miss Lillian Stephens spent a
few days this week in Gainesville
as the guest of Miss Jannie Jones.
Misses Glays and Floy Bryan
of Lula,-and Miss Curtice Gardiner, j
of Homer, were delightfully enter
tained several days recently by j
their cousin, Miss Lillie Smith.
Rev. and Mrs. Sam’l. Hagan, of
Homer, spent Monday in our little
town as guests of Mr. and Mrs. C.
A. Meeks.
Mr. Allen E. Carr, of Athens,
spent Sunday with homefolks
here.
A number of people from here
went to Gainesville last Thursday
to see the air ship fly, and for a
wonder were not disappointed.
Gainesville is a firstciass little city
and is fast making for herself a
business reputation.
Among others from here who
are attending the Shriners Conven
tion in Atlanta this week are Mr.
an and Mrs. H. P. Camp, little Mias
Frances McCurdy, Mrs. C. T. Ba
con, Mrs. W. G. Sharp and Miss
Mary Deadwyler.
BANKS COUNTY JOURNAL
Devoted to Giving the News, Encouraging the Progress, and Aiding the Prosperity of BanKs County.
ASKS TRANSFER OF TRIAL
Banks County Farmer May
Be Tried in Atlanta Be
fore U S- Judge.
Indicted by a federal grand jury
at Columbus, Ga. last October for
a violation of the Maun act, J. B.
Sellars, a prominent young farmer,
of Banks county, has asked for a
transfer of his trial and will ac
cordingly be tried iti Atlanta at
the next term of court before Judge
William T. Newman, United States
Judge for the northern district of
Georgia.
Accordingto Lewis J. Baley,
special agent for the department of
justice, Sellars, who is a married
man, is alleged to have lured l'rem
her home in Georgia, Miss Susie
Coker, a young girl, and carrying
her to Mineral Wells, Tex., where
he shortly afterwards left her, giv
ing her 45 cents with which to
travel over 2,200 miles.
The fugitive was lost to gover
ment agents for some time until he
wrote the girl a letter to Mineral
Wells, giving his address as a post
otlice box in a distant city. An
agent left on the same train with
Miss Coker’s reply and arrested
Sellars as be was at the box named.
He was taken to Columbus, where
the charge w as put before the grand
j a ry—Atlanta Constitution.
Fiddlers Convention.
Fiddlers conventions are held in
all parts of the country each year
and they are a source of pleasure to
the people and especially the old
people, who need cheering most.
There is nothing that will bring to
mind the scenes of childnood and
erase them to pass before your
eyes like a panorama as will the
tunes of long ago played on a fid
die. That was the most cherished
instruement in this country for
generations and today the music of
a violin is sweetest to the (sirs of a
majority of our people. It is true
that the fiddle has some enemies,
in ad:; possibly because it has given
so much music for dancing, when
drinking and fighting would some
times come in “after the ball,”
but this is all wrong. It should
not fall into disrepute beeause in
has been in bad company. All the
parts it took in “frolics” were el
eyating. Homer should have a;
fiddlers convention with ap
propriate prizes for the best mu
sicians. This summer is a good,
time to start. If yon are inter |
ested let us hear from you.
40 Acre Play Ground |
The Board of Education of tha
Homer (Ga.) school recently
bought three acres of land near the
school building for a play ground
for the pupils. This school now
has about forty acres of play
ground, though there are a few
residences and a court house on
same. Eoyston continues to get
along with a few narrow streets.
Boyston Record.
The editor of the Boyston Record
spent the happiest hours of his
life on the forty acres surrounding
this school —that Ls when he pass
ed through the paregoric and
green apple periods of life. Of
course he feels his confinment in
the narrow streets of Kojstou.
Stop In Atlanta
At Hotel Empire
Opposite Uuiou Depot on Pryor
St. Renovated and refurnished
throughout. Reservations made
on application. Hot and cold
water, private baths, electric lights
and elevator.
First class accommodations at
extremely moderate rates. Euro
pean plan 75 cents up.
John L. Edmondson,
i Propietor.
Homer, Banks County, Georgia, Friday, May 15, 1914.
Homer Locals
A. J. Cash has purchased an
; Oakland ear.
Lou Burns of Apple Valley, vis
ited the family of L. X. Turk Sun
day.
Rev. Lamar Ferguson preached
two sermons at the Presbyterian
; church Sunday.
Mat Rylee of Hall county, and
Wilkey Rylec spent Tuesday iu
Homer.
Early Chambers and Newton
Bellamy attended the Georgia-Tech
game in Athens Saturday.
J. C. Wheeler and J. Jr. Mur
phy, twoot the healthiest looking
men we have seen in some time, vis
ited us yesterday.
Prof, and M is. J. C. Bell, <’laude
Bell, Boy Black, J. J. Turk and
Plumcr Barden attended the Hying
machine exhibition at Gainesville
last Thursday.
W. T. Brooks of Alto, says the
peach crop in that section is good
and he hopes to ship two car loads
from Kitchens’ side track.
Clerk (’. W. Gillespie and How
ard Hill went to Atlanta Tuesday
and witnessed the Shriners parade.
They report it wonderful.
Mrs. Walter Chandler, Mr. and
Mrs. (tip Chandler and Mack
Chandler of Atlanta, visited the
family of Sheriff Barden Sunday.
Alter the .Shriners iu Atlanta
Macon will have her jubilee on
May 19-20 and 21st. You will
have somo place to go from now
until October, if you have the
cash.
1 he great ditch on Grove River,
ten or twelve miles long, is being
surveyed this week and the work
of dredging will soon begin, which
will reclaim hundreds of acres of
fine land.
At an election held at the school
house last Saturday L. N. Turk,
H. 11. Wilson, H. C. Gardiner and
John Whelche! were elected school
trustees.
We are requested to state that
Rev. 1). N. Jordan will preach at
Grove Creek church the 4th Sunday
in May at 11 o’clock also prayer
meeting on Saturday night. Every
body invited.
You will find the announcement
of W. J. Speer in the Journal to
day. Mr. Speer is State Treasurer
and seeks re-election at the hands
ol the people. He is an excellent
officer and his friends in Banks,
where he has many, will lend their
aid in helping him win the nomi
nation at the election in Aug
ust.
J. J. Hill attended the big day
in (lainesyille last Thursday when
Aviator Beech flew over the city.
He says the people expected ti c
machine to light and stick its
claws iii the ground like a bird,
but instead when it it struck the
ground Beech jumped out and the
machine ran into the crowd knock
ing one old man down and cutting
off the ear ol a boy.
When writing anything to the
Journal always send your name.
We will not publish your name,
but we must have a name. It is
useless to send any thing tor
publication unless it is accom
panied by your name. We bought
a goat from Baker Moss recently
in order to have some place to store
these unsigned letters. We
have no fire in the stove now and
the civic league will not allow us
to throw them on the streets —
hence the goat
DENTAL NOTICE
Dr. D. M. Snelson, of Toccoa,
will be at Baldwin the first week
of each month prepared to do den
tal work in all its branches —office
over the Bank.
Tax Assessors at WorK
J. B. By lee, A. J. Cash and G.
G. Strange, the tax assessors for
Banks,are at work on the tax books
equalizing the taxes. The work
has just begun and the length of
time it will take isnotkuown. As
this is the first year the taxation
of property is to be regulated by
assessors it is very probable that
much more time will lie consumed
than in the years to follow. When
the people once know the amount
that is to be expected there will be
very little for the assessors to do.
Tax on about eight tenths ot the
land in the districts gone over has
l>een raised, but in many instances
not a great amount has been ad
ded. All whose taxes have been
raised will receive due notice of
same.
First-class mules have been
placed at $125, second class at
$1)0.00 to $lOO.OO, third class at
$7O 00 to $BO.OO and plugs at
$25.00.
The board of assessors are com
posed of men who are making
every effort arrive at an equal
values for the property, both real
and personal. It is a very disa
greeable duty they are performing
and they should have the co-opera
tion of every tax payer who can
assist in any way to arrive at an
equal value of the property in the
county.
Tax Receiver H. J. Blackwell is
assisting in the work and Mr. L. N.
Turk is acting clerk. Mr. Turk
has surveyed most of the land in
Banks and his advice is very val
uable to the assessors.
Ag in Dynamite
The Dahlonega Nugget goes on
record as opposing dynamite as a
farming substance. It says:
“When you do and teach such
doctrine as the explosive system
of farming it discourages the poor
man who has no money to pay for
dynamite and ho moves out from
between the plow handles, causing
less corn to be raised at home and
more brought in from the West.”
Post and Brown
Post is dead and Joe Brown has
taken his place as the arch enemy
of labor unions to which belong to
the highest elass of American
workingmen. His letter in last
Sunday’s Atlanta Journal should
be read by every workingman in
the country. His feeble attempts
to injure union labor I lielieve will
strenghten the cause. His letters
show the financial conditions < fthe
unions to be in excellent shape
which proves that the men who
compose these unions force a living
wage from the employers, which is
alKiut the only way to get it now
a (lays.
If our farmers would all join
their union,and stick, they would
soon be getting a much higher
price for their products, buy at a
better price and get lower freight
rates.
Brown can injure labor unions
by his card writing just alwut like
a barnacle damages a battle ship.
As some misunderstand the
special act concerning killing squir
rels in Lumpkin county, we copy
it from the Acts of 1913 on page
416 as follows: ‘lThat from and
after the passage of this Act all
citizens of White’ Union, Haber
sham and Lumpkin counties shall
have the right to kill all gray or fox
squrrels when they are destroying
crops or property at any season ot
the year.” So you can’t kill them
now as there is nothing for them
to destroy.—Dahlonega Nugget.
All Day Singing
We are ri quested to advertise an
all day ringing at Silver Shoal
church the sth Sunday in May.
Everybody aud especially good
singers are invited.
OUR HEROES OF PEACE
o
Let me picture to you the footsore Confederate soldier as, button
ing up in his faded gray jacket the parole which was to bear testimony
to his children of his iidelity and faith, he turned his face southward
from Appomattox in April, 1805.
What does he find, let me ask you—what does he find when, hav
ing followed the buttle stained cross against overwhelming odds,
dreading death not half so much as surrender, he reaches the home he
left so prosperous and beautiful?
He finds his house in ruins, his farm devasterl, his slaves free, his
stock killed, his barns empty, his trade destroyed, his money worth
less, his social system, feudal in its magnificence, swept away; his peo
ple without law or legal stains, his comrades slain and the burden ol
others heavy on his shoulders.
Crushed by defeat, his very traditions are gone; without money,
credit, employment, material or training, and, besides all this, con
fronted with the gravest problem that ever met human intelligence—the
establishing of a status for the vast body of his liberated slaves.
What does he do, this hero in gray with a heart of gold! Does he
sit down in sullenness and despair! Not for a day. Surely God, who
had stripped him of his prosperity, inspired him of his adversity.
As ruin was never before so overwhelming, never was restoration
swifter. The soldier stepped from the trenches into the furrow, horses
that had charged Federal guns marched before the plow, and fields
that ran red with human blood in April were green with the harvest
in .1 une.
The new south is enamored of her new work. Her soul is stirred
with the breath of anew life. The light of a grander day is falling
fair on her face. She is thrilling with the consciousness of growing
power and prosperity.
As she stands erect, full statured and equal among the people of
the earth, breathing the keen air and looking out upon the horizon
she understands that her emancipation came because, through the in
scrutable wisdom of God, her honest purpose was crossed and her
brave armies were beaten. —Henry W. Grady.
LET THE LAMP BE WHITE
o
The late Cy Warmau, who found poetry in the singing wheels of
his speeding engine,wrote these beautiful verses not long before he
“crossed over.”
“Oft, when I feel my engine swerve,
As o’er strange rails we fare,
1 strain my eyes around the curve,
For what awaits me there.
When swift and free she carries me
Thought yards p"kno\vn at uight,
I look along the line to s*
That all the lamps are white.
“The blue light marks the crippled ear,
The green liirhl signals slow;
The red light is a danger light,
The white light: Let her go,
Again the open lields we roam,
And when the night is fair
I look up in the starry dome
And wonder what is there.
For who can speak of those who dwell
Behind the curving sky!
No man has ever lived to tell
Just what it means to die,
Hwift toward life’s terminal 1 trend,
The run seems short tonight;
God only knows what’s at the end—
f hope the lamps are white.” —Atlanta Constitution
GEORGIA
o
Written by Lucian Lamar Knight while an exile in California
due to illness.
Ear, far to the Mouth lies a beautiful land,
By the tides of the tireless sea;
O land of my heart, on thy surf-beaten sand,
My spirit is dreaming of thee!
Yes, dreaniii.g of thee and the billows
That die on the wave-washed shore,
And the musical songs of the sirens
That call to the ships evermore.
Where the volets wander in wanton perfume
To the velvet edge of the sky,
And the willows bend and the roses bloom
O’er the beds where the loved ones lie.
Give me the hills of old Georgia
And lay my cold ashes to rest
Neath the shade oi the soft-sighing cedars,
Iu the land I love the best.
Notice To Tax Payers.
By order of the Board of Tax
Assessors of Banks county, all
parties who have not given in their
taxes for the year 1614 are required
to do so on or before May 21st.
I will be at Homer from Monday
until the 21st.
H. J. Blackwell.
Wanted
A woman, (white or colored) to
help do house work and cooking,
for a family of four-all grown.
Boom furnished in house with
family. Good wages and a perma
nant home for the right person.
G. P- Boone,
Maysville, Ga,
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