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CL. XVII.
Railroad Meeting
The citizens of Lula and Homer
met at the Commercial Hotel in
Lifla Monday at 1 o’clock for the
purpose organizing the L ila
llmimi Baihoad Company. S. 8.
u .t- elected president, J. B.
G Logan, secretary. E* F. hit
worth. Treas.
8. 8. Carter, W. A. Boling, K.
B. Chapman, J< el Coffee, E. F.
Whitworth, J. N. Hill, L X
Tutk, K. C. Alexander, C. 11.
<'hi mild's, E. A. Mize, Oscar
Brow n and O. Walton were ap
apointrd as a commitUe to solicit
stock.
D. G. Zeigler, .1. X. Hill and \Y.
A. Boling were appointed to act
wit it the attorneys tor the road.
A delegation visited Gainesville
and laid the plans before some of
the representative citizt ns of that
j-hav and w cie assured of financial
ii.--istiii.ee at the proper time.
Gainesville does a lug wholesale
business in this section and if this
road is built she will get about all
the business of that kind from this
point Besides this, many people
... „ las elion 'ill do much
u.ore ot their letail business is that
town than at present when they
are comp* lied to drive ten or
twelve miles to board a train.
The people in Lula and Homer
and along the proposal line
are very enthusiastic over
the prospects and are de
termined this road shall be built.
Mne Children Bit by Dog
With Rabies
Nine boys and girls, ranging in
age from eight to fourteen years,
are under ticatmeut to avoid the
possible development of hydropho
bia. They are the sons and
daughters of W. 11. Mini-h, Henry
Darnell, Warren Wilson. Claud
Barnett and “Bill’.’ .'jeay, respee
tively, all of whom reside torn*
miles west of Commerce.
Last Saturday, at the home of
Mr. Darnell, his children and
some of those of his neighbors
weie playing in the yard. A
hound pup playfully bit the chil
dren on the legs but not a one
of them evei thought<f thettog be
ing vicious. Later in the day the
canine displayed symptons of be
ing affected with hydrophobia.
Mr. Darnell killed the animal and
sent his head to the local physician
who examine i the children.
The children are going along
just as nothing had happened. It
would require three weeks for hy
drophobia to develop but the at
tenuated virus being administered
in time will possibly save them
Irom any pain or appreciable dis
comfort.—< ,’ommerce < observer.
A dollar spent with a home mer
chant is worth two in a mail order
mau’spocket says Rochelle New Era.
We ditt'er with ti e New Era very
much. You cannot tell the real
valued a dollar spent with a
home merchant, but the value of a
dollar sent to a mail order house
is iot worth the real value ol a
silver dollar, for the reason that
tl e goods are not always worth the
price paid, and again the dollar
will never be known in these parts
any more. A dollar spent with
the home merchant Is disposited
home bank which pays it out to
the cotton seller who pays it the
home merchant who deposits it in
the bank again to be paid out for
more cotton. Tnese transactions
are kept up daily with the dollar
spent with the home merchant,
but the mail order dollar never
gets in a local bank.—Milton
County News.
One of the Chief Ingredients.
The aelf-made man baa hardly eve:
a* glee ted to begin by laying in a large
C i •6& a CBteXZL
BANKS COUNTY JOURNAL
A Letter From
Hon. Thos. M. Bell
Editor of Journal: <>f course
the slump in the price of cotton is
due to the European war. 1 can
not bring myself to believe that
| the war will last many months as
winter activities between the belig
erent countries would be very dif
ficult and will doubtless Is? aban I
oned. In the meantime I favor
and have and will vote for any
legislation or lawful measure in
iOongiess which will give the fatm
j ers having cotton for sale im
mediate relief. 1 am not wedded
; to any particular uuasuro, but will
aid in the passage of any measure
which will give the people sub
lantial relief with the least injury
to them in the futme.
Federal aid by the issuance of
emergency currency to be loaned
to the cotton producer through
State and National banks at a low
rate of interest upon warehouse re
ceipts where cotton is propelly in
sured, or the sale of 240 Million
<'anal Bonds is good. These in* as
tires can be speedily repealed when
no longer needed, or limited by
I their terms. Such measures arc
demanded by the emergency.
The suspension ol the eollection
jof ten per cent tax on State Banks
! which I have been lighting for w ill
| relieve the situation in the South
very materially. The conference
jof Southern members of Congress
which was called together by Hei
lin, of Alabama, Vaughan, of Tex
a--, Chas.S. Bairett, and myself,
resulted in the bill which was
voted on Oct. 21 and which re
eeiv and Oi votes, a majority of the
South rn membership in Con
gruss. This amendment is now
pending and the first tiling in ord
er when Congress convenes in I>e
ccnilier.
Conditions will improve, in my
judgement, greatly in the Mouth in
the next 50 days. The Candler
proposition to lend the people
money at <> per cent on the cotton
will aid some. The -‘Huy a Hale”
movement has helped. r I he pool
ol‘ 150 million dollars will, it con
sumated, be an additional help.
The 5)1 Southern members who
recorded themselves in the fight in
aid of the cotton producers will
continue the tight, and when pres
ent conditions in the South affect
the East arid West, as it is certain
to do, the people of those sections
ivill demand of their Representa-
I fives that they go to the rebel ol
| the £outh, and then we will
I have some effective legisla
! tion.
If the fanners curtail their eot
i ton crop at 50 per cent and pro
duce mostly food stuffs, the South
! will return to prosperous days in
11)15, whether the European' war
continues or not.
Thos. M. Bell.
Bad Dog
. Some mountaneers are giving
some Commerce citizens dog ‘trou
ble. One Commerce man paid
five dollars for a possum dog. He
took that dog to the woods several
nights and he now’ declaies that
and g is not worth a tinker’s dam.
It wouldn’t even tree a pole cat.
Another Commerce man bought a
good possum dog from a mountain
man, but when he went to the
woods that dog went right behind
the man who had paid his hard
cash for a possum dog. It
: wouldn’t even raise its tail to a
level. After hunting two nights
he took his axe an 1 knocked that
dog in the head.—Commerce News.
School 800 Ks.
Shite adopted Common and
High School books for sale by
j John C. Beil, Homer, Ga.
Devoted to Giving the News, Encouraging the Progress, and Aiding the Prosperity of Banks County.
Homer, Banks County, Ceorgia, Friday, October 30, 1914.
Personals
Miss Miriam Hill was shopping
in Maysville last Monday.
Clerk C. \V. Gillespie aceompi
; nied by Miss “Joe’’ Nash were
i shopping in Athens one day last
*
week.
Col. J. A. Martin, of Washing
; ton District was in town Monday.
Misses Joe Nash and Myrtle
Cook entertained a few of their
fiicnds at a card party last Sal or
lay evening at the home of ,41 r.
and Mrs. J. C. Bell. At the
| conclusion of several games sand
wiches and chocolate was served.
Mr. C arenee Hill who is at
tending the high school at Mays
ville spent the week end with
home folks.
I’iof. J. C. Bell and son, John
! Jr. spent a few days in Atlanta
la t week.
Messrs. J. N. and Howard Hill
was in Gainesville last Saturday
on business.
Mrs. Ida Gillespie and Mrs. 8.
L. Hagan sp lit last Tuesday with
Mrs. J. J. IYiidergrass at Arp.
Mr. John <2 Hill made a busi
ness trip to Maysville one day last
week.
A number of our citizens at
tended the ltiilroad meet! ‘g at
Lula .Monday.
< 01. J. <2 Edwards, of Clarkes
vi I It*, was in town last Thursday
on Professional business.
Judge Logan Perkins and
daughter, Boyce, spent last Sun
day with Mr. and Mrs. G. C.
Mason.
Mr. It. C. Alexander is con lined
to bis room this week on account
of illne s.
Mr. E. I*. Jones was in our town
'1 uesday on business.
Mrs. Minnie Lumsilen, of Na
euoeheo Valey isvisitiug her par
cots Mr. and Mrs. L. N. Turk.
Dr. .1. N. Wallace, of Bushvillc,
w as here on business Saturday.
Col. B. (1. Logan was in
Muysville Satm y.
Tax Collector N. ('handler
was shaking hands vitli his friends
here Saturday.
M iss Sybil and Ethel Fowler, ol
Camming (la., will arrive Sunday
to lie the guest of Miss Lola Bard
eu.
Several of the young people at
tended the singing at Lula Sun
day.
Messrs. Oba Walton, an 1 C. W .
Gillespie were ii Gainesville Mon
day.
Mr. John Hood, of Commerce,
passed through our city Monday.
Mr. R. P. Gober, of BmVville,
I was here on business Monday af
ternoon.
Several of the Homerites at
tended the Four County Fair at
Commerce Wednesday.
Miss Vera Bellamy visited
friends here Saturday.
Miss Ruth Turk of the State
School was at home with her p tr
eats the first of the week.
-,.y Years’ Loss of Memory.
A < vada case i3 reported where a
man wandered away from his wlfa
and three children. For ten years he
was not heard from. Passing through
the state again something seemed to
snap in his head and he knew him
self again. He had gone to Texas,
married and bad another little f„n,,iy.
His wife had died only the w> -It he
fore his knowledge of his rea 1 self
returned. He attributed his ioxs of
memory to overwork while figuring
on complicated contracts-
Experimenter.
"Even if she can’t cook, you've got
to give Green’s bride credit for being
original.” "What has she done?” “Tho
other day she made a pumpkin pie
with an upper crust.” —Detroit Free
Press.
Homer Locals
! Bov. D. X. Jordan preached at
the Baptist church Sunday.
Cotton is just 7c lower than it
was last year at this time.
Mr. Grover Griffin, of Gillsvillle,
spent Sunday with hotuefolks.
Mr. JesseShubert is dangerously
| ill at liis home two miles north of
| town.
Mr. Clayt Mason has returned
from-a visit to relatives in I.toys
ton.
Twenty-four people stood the
examination for rural carrier last
Saturday.
The convicts have linisliod their
work on the road leading by way
of Marion Paterson’s an 1 aie now
working near \Y. I. Smelly’s.
Mr. B. T. Thompson has 30
bales of cotton that he could have
sold for 14 1-2 c last year. It is
now worth about 0 3-4.
Apples are selling in Atlanta at
#1.50 per barrel, 50c. a bushel,
but the mou-itain men passing
through Homer want <3oc to #I.OO
a bushel for theirs.
A part of the Bose Killian show
passed through Homer Monday
morning. A man, li is wife, and
three children quit the show in
Maysville and were on their way
to their home ir. South Carolina.
While watching the gins run at
Thompson’s ginnery lastSatmday
Col .Jones Griffin dropped his
glasses among the saws. The saws
saw? I and Jones saw ’em saw but
he has saw the last object through
the pair of glasses that passed
through the gin saws.
Twenty years ago a big freeze
hit Florida and killed all Ihc
orange trees in the State but a few
on the east coast from Bock ledge
south. The people thought they
were ruined, and they did have a
hard time for a few years, but they
began to raise tobacco, corn and
vegetables of all kinds. They soon
found out that many crops besides
oranges would grow in this sandy
soil, and the state is now pros
pering as never before. Some of
the land, near Sanford, where cel
ery is raised, sells for as much as
one thousand dollars per acre.
It may be that the low price of
cotton will turn out to be a bless
ing in disguise for the South.
Business in Vcuth
The young man who is petted
too much at home is seldom any
good. What is wanted nowad ys
is a practical man who can <lo
something else besides smoke eig
arettes and twist a cane. The
time to learn business habits is
one’s youth. He who b ads the life
of a butterfly until'twenty five or
thirty years of age, and then recog
nizes the fact that he lias made an
j ape of himself, has preciom little
to rceomend him win i he applies
1 for a job. This may bsa chestnut,
j but it fits not a few \ mg men in
every city in the Union. fhe
1 Ixiys on the farm are better off, if
they only knew it, th n thousands
of the boys who are at large wan
dering hither and thither, searching
for “rich bonanzas” to turn up.
There is nothing like being piac
tical and there is a way to be so.
Acquire business habits and train
yourself to do, good’ honest hard
work. Don’t west your time
I learning to tic <• avat. You can
i buy cravants already tied. —Good
| Cisizenship.
Notice.
I will thrash syrup cane seed
Tuasday Nov. ifnl at my home.
John H. Chambers.
Notice.
All the schools in the county,
except one, have taught out their
live months public term for 1914.
They have therefore used all the
money for the year 1914. I
have written Mr. Brittain asking
him if we may teach one mouth be
fore Christinas and pay for it out
of the appropriation for 1915, and
he says it fs strictly against the
law (or illegal) to teach in 1914
and pay for it out of the school
funds for 1915. lam very sorry
ol this, but that is the law and I
can not change it. Next year, all
of the schools had better teach
four months in the winter and
spring, or in the summer, and leave
one month to be taught before
Christmas. By doing this next
year, all of the schools can always
hereafter open one month before
Christmas.
The Boys Corn Club and Girls
Home Life Club will have their
contest on November 25. Ihis
is the day set by the State agent,
Mr. Giles.
The boys and girls must have
written accounts of the preparation
of the land, the time of planting,
cultivating, fertilizing, etc.
Also, you must g t two disin
terested parties to see the corn
gathered and measured. Bring
your written accounts.
If you did not make as much as
you thought you would, come on
witli your report and exhibit any
way.
Bespt.
J. T. Wise.
An Indictment For Civili
zation
In Vienna there is a doddering
old man, the offspring of a tainted
house, who sits on the throue of
the dual empire.
In St. Petersburg there is a
weak, well-meaning neurotic, who
by the accident of birth happens
to be the Czar of all the Russias.
In Beilin there s a brilliant tab
ei ted ambitious manipulator of
politics, who is German Emperor
by grace of the gen ions of Bisinark,
Moltke and Boon.
Of tln-se three men, only the one
in Berlin has more than mediocre
abilities; yet the three are per
mitted to play with the lives of
millions of men, with property
worth thousands of millions of dob
lars, with the commerce and in
dustry and prosperity and laws
and institutions not merely of ern
piles and kingdoms, but of conti
nents. It is left to them to de
termine whether the world is to
witness tin; inosf deadly and de
vastating war of all history.
The tiling would be huighable,
lediculous, if it were not ghastly.
War of itself may lie wise or un
wise’ just or unjust; but that the
issue of a world-wid • war should
rest in the hands of three men —
and that hundreds of millions who
j will bear the burden and affected
Jin (very relations of life by the
j outcome ol such a war, should
leave the decision to these three
men, is an indictment of civili
lization itself.
H uinan progress is slow indeed |
when a whole continent is still j
read} to fight for anything except;
the right to life, liberty and sell
goverment. —New York World.
Square Ft ot and Foot Square.
There Is no difference in area be
tween one square foot and one foot
square, though there may be a differ
ence in tj.e shape and dimensions of
the surfaces. For instance, one
square foot may be enclosed by a cir
cular line, a hexagon, a triangle, or a
rectangle. One foot square is an area
Of fixed form, the four sides being
equal and the four angles all right
angles. Seven square feet and seven
feet square are not equivalent, either
In the hinicnsi ol the sides or tbs
trea contained.
White Han Killed By Negro
Early Sunday Morning
in Madison County
LaFayetto Simmons, a young
white man of alio at thirty years,
with a wife and young children,
was shot to death Sunday morning
about 5 o,clock in Collins’ dis
trict, Madison comity, a few miles
from this city, Julius Lester, a ne
gro who has a criminal record back
of this affair being accused of the
shooting.
Lester escaped and posses, one
with the sheriff at it’s head, have
sought for him in three counties,
up to late yesterday eveniug he
had not been located.
Considerable excitement and
feeling were aroused over the kill
ing and over the couuty of Mad
ison Sunday and all day yesterday
the affair was the Subject of com
ment and remark by white people
and colored people alike —all and•-
ploring the tragedy.
The story of the shojting as it
came to the Bauuer yesterday
morning from Dauielsville parties
in the city, is abont as follows:
Lonnie Simmons, a younger and
unmarried brother of the man who
was shot, went to the house of the
negro, Lester, Saturday night, on
plantation of Mr. H. G. Garithers.
Jule Lester and other colored peo
pie were having a Saturday night
“hot supper,” and the young white
man became involved in a personal
row; the negro is said to have dealt
the young man a fearful liok aver
the head; the others present pre
vented further scrapping' and
Lonnie Simmons left and went to
the home ol his brother, Fayette
Simmons, and in three or four
hours they returned to the scene
of the difficulty of a!>out midnight
and found that Lester was at the
liou se of another negro, Will Row
ers, about a him !red yards distant.
They stationed themselves, one at
the front and one at the rear of
the cabin and waited for Lester to
come out.
The accounts of the move toward
the tragedy which resulted in the
a 1 most instant death of the broth
er who came to Lonnie Simmons’
assistance differ slightly. One ac
count says that Lester, about ft
o’clock raised a window of the
cabin on the side where Fayette
Simmons was standing and fired
at him shot, the load taking ef
fect. The other account says that
blister stepped out of the door and
seeing Simmons fired immediately,
his victim falling and soon expir
ing from the wounds in neck and
chest.
Lester has been several times in
Criminal courts. He was sent up
from this county once and served
a term for fighting and he was paid
out recently < f another scrape.—
Athens Bsmur.
0, You AnocKer, You Sore
head, Read This
After God had finished the rat
tlesnake, the toad and the vam
pire, he had some awfnl “sub
stance” left with which he made a
l ‘ knocker.” A knocker is a two
| legged animal with a corkscrew
j soul, a watcr-sogged brain and a
: combination backbone made of
I jelly and glue. Where other peo
1 pie have their hearts, he carries a
I tumor of rotten principles. When
the knocker comes down the street 1
honest men turn their backs, the
angels weep tears in heaven, and
the devil shuts the gates of hell to
keep him out. No man has the
right to knock as long as there is
a pool of water deep enough to
•!iown his body in, or a rope to
hang his carcass with. Judus Is
cariot was a gentlemen compared
10 a knocker, for after betraying
his master he had enough charac
ter to hang himself, and a knocker
has not.—Salt Lake City Times,
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