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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, NO. 31