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NEWS.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF DOOLY COUNTY AND OF 1HE CITY OF VIENNA. LARGEST BONA FIDE CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE COUNTY.
VOL. III. NO. 4.
VIENNA, «A„ FRIDAY, JUNE 2(5, 100 8.
12 PAGES.
R PROTRACTED MEETING
y_‘ AT BAPTIST CHURCH.
The Meeting Commenced Sunday and
Is Making Great Progress—Much
Interest Is Manifested.
% A protracted meeting was com-
^kujenccd at the Baptist church last
*unday morning according to
previous announcement. The pas
tor, Rev. E. S. Atkinson, is doing
the preaching and his sermons are
always interesting and instructive.
He has secured the service of Bro.
Langston, of High Schools, to
conduct the singing, which is one
() of the most enjoyable parts of
the sen he.
BEAUTIFUL WEDDING
TO OCCUR JULY 8TH.
Invitations have been sent out
by Mr. and Mrs. J. Polhill Heard
announcing the marriage of their
daughter, Miss Lucy America, to
Mr. Walter Franklin George, to
take place at her home at half-past
five o’clock Wodnesdry afternoon
July 8th.
Miss Heard has long boon con
sidered one of Vienna’s most beau
tiful and popular young ladies.
She is a graduate of the Lagrange
Female college. She is noted for
her kind disposition and her
friends are numbered by her ac
quaintances.
Cel. George is one of Vienna’s
most prominent attorneys, having
built up a lucurative practice since
locating here about two years ago.
He is fine literary speaker, having
won the medal in the state oratori
cal contest between the different
SOME INTERESTING FACTS
ABOUT THE U. S. MONEY.
Last week the Bankers’Associa-1 against outstanding gold certifl-
tion of Georgia held a very inter- cates four hundred million dollars
esting annual meeting in Atlanta, j in gold coin. Most of the large
Among the subjects discussed certificates that are issued by the
were national, State and private treasury are gold cert ificates, while
banks. the smaller ones are silver eertifi-
liobert Morris was Superintend- cates.
cut of Finance during the Revo
lutionary War. Ho was the father
of the American banking system.
Was born in England, January,
1784; ho located in Maryland;
later in Pennsylvania. He es
poused the cause of the colonies.
Freedom and independence never
had more able advocate than lie.
He borrowed money on his own
credit to supply Washington with
army supplies; was a member of
colleges a few years ago. He is the Continental Congress, am!
REV. E. S. ATKINSON'
Pastor of the Baptist church and
who is conducting the revival
(.services this week.
VI
to be congratulated upon winnin
such a prize ns a life companion.
They will probably leave over
the A. & B. after the marriage for
a ten days’ trip to the mountains.
The News extends congratula
tions in advance for a happy and
prosperous married life.
A GREAT GAME OF
BALL YESTERDAY
Two services a day are being
held and the congregation eontin-
p Wties to increase in number at each
' <T service. The morning service is
; hold at 10 :C0 and the night sor-
7, vice at 8 o’clock. In order to be
[7 ^Jesent at the song service you
fi will have to get there promptly at
the appointed hour.
jjfLct all of the business men
(give up this much time and attend
I ' theso meetings. There never was Vienna
» a time when a revival was needed
the more in Vienna than at the
present time.
A cordial invtation is extended
to everybody to attend these ser
vices as they could not help hut
lie benefitted by having attended.
VIENNA VS THE
G. S.&F. BALL TEAM
The G. S. & F. railroad office
boys came down Saturday after
noon from Macon and crossed bats
with the homo team of this city
out at the fair ground park. The
ganto was too one-sided to be
interesting and there were few
good plays made in tin 1 game.
At the end of tlie ninth inningi I'-uide an exceptionallv tint
the score stood 18 to 4 in favor of
Vienna. The G. S. & F. boys are
a clever set of ball players and I teams will put in t heir best men.
with a little team work and prao-l Score. 1 2 !i 4 5 <17 8 II
tice could put up a fair game of I Vienna (Ml o o (I 0 (I () 0—(I
ball. , TiEton 0 0 2 0 0 I (l 0 x—il
The Tifton base-ball team ar
rived in the city Thursday morn
ing front Cordele, having lost two
and won one with the team at that
place. They crossed bats with our
crack nine yesterday afternoon,
being the first of a series of three
games to be played this week.
Both teams uro composed of
some of the very host players in
Georgia and Alabamma, and the
game yesterday was one of the
best played this season.
Owing to very hard luck for
the third inniung,
caused by Catcher Moore getting
his hand badly smashed by the
bull, Tifton won the game, the
score standing II to 0 in favor of
Tifton.
The playing of both team was
superb, but the home team was
put to a great disadvantage by the
loss of t heir catcher, being com
pelled to place a green man for
this position behind the hat.
The batteries for Tifton wore
Bavne and Lee; for Vienna,
Hogg. Wilson, Moore and Broxton
Strike-outs for Hogg, 8; Wil
son, !!; Bavne, 0.
Base-hits for Tifton, 2 two-base
hit and !? singles. For Vienna, 2.
Errors: Vienna f>; Tifton, il.
Woodward, in the left field,
atch.
Todays’game is exported to In'
the best of the series, as both
NO COUNTY FAIR DOOLY COUNTY
WILL BE HELDj' CAMP-MEETING.
The .directors of the Doolv Begins Saturday Niaht July 25th, and
County Fair Association held a a Large Delegation is Expected,
meeting a few days ago and after Everybody Is Invited,
discussion pro and con decided
that they would not undertake to
hold a countv fair this full.
served on many important com
mittees. He was the ablest finan
cier of his time. He had all the
financial management of the coun
try during the period from 1770
to 1784. Washington urged him
to become his first secretary of
the treasury, I ait he declined in
favor of Alexander Hamilton
He died May 8, 1800. The United
.States owes him a debt of grati
tude for his patriotic services.
Secretary of the Treasury, Hon
L. M. Shaw is the great official
head of our national financial
system. Many of our citizens re
gard the position of Secretary of
the Treasury as of more import
ance than Secretary of State.
It is no easy task for our officials
who are charged with providing
convenient and suitable currency
for the people of the United
States.
It requires much work and wis
dom to carry on the great volume
of business of the government of
our nation, ns well as the traffic,
commerce, the exports and im
ports of the country.
It is of the greatest importance
for our government officials—the
legislative, judicial and executive
—to see to it that a sound, safe
and just currency is kept intact.
There are nearly one thousand,
three hundred tons of gold lying
today in the vaults of the treasury
of the United States. This is the
grestest amount of gold ever col
lected in the history of the world.
Four hundred tons of this amount
are put in sacks and deposited in
f lic sub-treasury in New York.
There is about an equal amount
of gold coin in circulation to the
amount in the vaults of the gov
ernment, making over two thou
sand. live hundred tons of gold in
the United States.
We have in the United States
alone over one billion, two hun
dred and sixty million dollars,
and yet the government is still
placing the gold away in the re
serve vault.
This great volume of gold is the
foundation of the honor and
credit of the United States.
While the official reports show
that one-half of the money in
circulat ion in tlm United States
is gold, yet in some parts of the
I country one will rarely see any
1 gold coin.
1 In England and other foreign
I countries gold is the chief money
| in circulat ion.
| Eighty million dollars a year arc
! a lbed t>> our already large amount
j of gold. About three-fourths of
i this out-put is sent to the mints.
I The annual coinage of gold is
J almost ns much ns the entire cir-
I dilation of silver dollars in actual
THE VIENNA BAPTIST CHBBCH, WHERE PROTRACTED SERVICES ARE BEING value.
HELD THIS WEEK. j The treasury holds in trust
People in the Eastern States
prefer greenbacks to any other
kind of money, while those in the
Western States prefer silver mon
ey. It is quite evident that tlie
people of the United States are
getting tired of silver money and
are becoming more friendly to
paper money. Jn many parts of
the country people will even apolo
gize forgiving one silver money in
making change.
People arc demanding paper
money for hand-to-hand circula
tion. There was almost double
(lie amount of paper money made
during the past year of that issued
the year before.
There has been a large amount
of one and two dollar bills issued
of lute.
It is surprising to note the small
amount of silver that is now in
circulation in our country.
There arc five hundred and fifty
million silver dollars outstanding,
and the mints are sending out fif
teen hundred thousand a month.
There are only about seventy-five
million dollars of this amount
outside of the treasury.
It takes a tunnel seven feet in
diameter and a mile long to hold
the silver in the sub-treasury. Of
this amount four hundred and
seventy million dollars are held in
trust against silver certificates,
the most of which are in circula
tion.
Our international commerce
amounts to twenty billions of dol
lars per year, equal to the entire
foreign commerce of all the na
tions of the earth.
Tlu-rc are twenty-nine dollars
and thirty-four cents for every
person in the United States. This
is a much larger amount than any
previous year in our national his
tory.
Two-thirds of our circulating
currency is paper money.
There are three hundred and
forty-five million dollars in gold
certificates, guaranteed by gold
coin, in the treasury; four hun
dred and sixty-five in illion dollars
in silver certificates backed by
silver dollars, in the treasury;
three hundred and seventy mil
lion dollars in national bank notes,
against which government
are deposited with the treasury to
guarantee their payment; three
hundred and forty-live million
dollars. United States notes.
We have only five mints now in
operat ion, but our printing presses
are kept busy.
Our mints are located at Phila
delphia, I’a., New Orleans, La.,
Denver, Colo., San Francisco.,
Cal., and Seattle, Wash.
All paper money is made in the
bureau of engraving and printing
at Washington, D. C. I visited
this department onee. Il is in a
large three-story building located
near the Washington monument.
stamps ami revenue
re also made here. No
n's picture is allowed to
appear on <-it her money or stamps.
The room where the plates are
kept for printing money is care
fully guarded; this is done to
prevent counterfeiting.
Where the money is made tln-re
is a large number of men and wo
men ut their printing-presses and
The main reason as given for
this decision upon their part us
related by one of the directors was
that the time was so short and the
buildings not yet commenced, it
was not thought that a creditable
fair could be arranged for this fall.
This will no doubt be learned
with great regret throughout the
county by a number of the enter
prising farmers and business men.
But the fair directors thought that
it would be better not to have any
ut all than to have a failure.
Every enterprise has to crawl
before it can walk and by next
year everything can be put in
readiness for a first-class county
fai r.
A Fish Fry
\ party of country people com
posed of the following and their
families attended a fish fry at the
Double lime sink last Friday: F.
.1. Dollar, B. 1!. Parker, Lee Nobles
Causey Bowen, Coot Bowen and
others. The day was very pleas
antly spent and 21(5 fish was caught
and fryed for dinner. A large
quantity was also caught in the
afternoon by some of the party
and carried to their homes.
The day will long lie remember
ed by those who attended as one
of the most enjoyable ever spent -
Oasom-Day
Sunday afternoon at the home
of the bride’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. C. B. Easoin, bis daughter,
Miss Emma, was joined in the
holy bonds of matrimony to Mr.
Wiilie Day, Rev. J. D. Norris, of
this city performing the ceremony.
Both parties are very prominent
in their respective communities
and have a host of relatives and
friends who join the News in
wishing for them a long and hap
py married life.
Posing,
stamps a
living inn
tables carefully at work on one,
two, five, ten, twenty, etc., dollar
bills. It takes nearly ten days t<
make a ten-dollar bill. A onc-
dollar bill can be made in one
day.. Over fifty persons do some
little work on each bill. And
when one man receives a hill, lie
(gives a receipt for it, and works
on it some, and passes it to his
neighbor, from whom he takes a
.onds tor s ” nt night, if a
bill is not accounted for, the doors
jure locked mid all the people are
j kept in until (lie missing bill is
| located. If a person defaces or
mutilates a bill, lie or she will
I have to pay for its value; to spoil
in ten-dollar bill means ten dollars
i lost.
Most of tlm money is made by
ladies. Then> is n great deal of
hand work done in making paper
money.
1 saw the government ollicia
destroying old, worn-out bills and
making new ones in their place.
The banks collect tile old bills
and send them in ami new ones
are given in their place.
If any one is interested in this
subject, and desire further infor
mal ion, they should secure a copy
of the U. 8. Treasurer's Report,
which contains much valuable in
formation on the Bllbj
The Dooly county camp-meeting
will begin Saturday night, July 25,
1008. The friends of the camp-
meeting are anxious to build and
improve the grounds, and earnestly
ask the co-operation and help of
the entire county.
The campground is situated
three miles Northwest of Vienna
on the Atlantic & Birmingham
Railway. We have a beautiful
plot of ground, with a fine spring
and a large tabernacle, which has
just been recovered and repaired. *
This camp-meeting under the.
providence of God, has been a
blessing to many of the citizens
of this and surrounding counties,
and a strong pillow to the church,
hence we feel that every friend of
the church should rally to its sup
port. Wo hope to erect several
new cottages before campmeeting.
For the benefit of those who
wish to attend, a very convenient
schedule will be arranged, and all
trains will make stops on the
ground during comp-meeeting.
There will he ample hotel ac
commodation for all thoso who
wish entertainment, but there
will be no free entertainment at
tents
The A. & B. railroad will haul
all lumber for building cottnges,
etc., free. Thoso who wish to ar
range for cottnges can apply to
0. 1 J . Swearingen, Ch’r. Trustees,
or E. G. Greene, Secretary.
A GOOD CITIZEN
PASSED AWAY.
In the death of Mr. Rufus B.
Lane, who lived a few miles North
east of this city last Saturday
morning about daybreak, Dooly
county loses one of her oldest and
best citizens. Mr. Lane had been
in declining health for several
months and had been dangerously
ill f ir two weeks proceeding his
death.
Mr. Lane was nearly 78 years
old. He leaves an aged wife and
several grown children to mourn
his death. He was a consistent
member of the Methodist church
and bail been for a number of
years. His daily life was an ex
ample worthy to bo imitated.
His remains wore laid to rest in
the Lane graveyard near the home
about ten o’clock Sunday morning
in the presence of u large crowd
of sorrow-stricken relatives and
friends. Rev. Wesley Lane, of
Pinuhurst, officiated at the grave,
D. M. Stripling Dead.
M. I). Stripling, of the 14th
district passed away on June 20th
after an illness of several days
with catarrh of the stomach.
Mr. Stripling was born in Jones
county in October, I8!{8. Ho wns
not a member of any church, but
was a Primitive Baptist by faith.
He was a good and useful citizen
and a kind neighlwr. He moved
to Dooly county after the war and
lias lived here ever since.
He leaves a wife and eight chil
dren. three girls and live boys to
mourn his death.
Public Notice
Motico is lieredy given that on
Monday tlie 20th inst., before the
court house door in Vienna be
tween the hours os 1:8U and 2
o’clock p. m., there will be sold at
If Unde Sum is due me tw nt v-' public outcry the exclusive privi-
, it . , 4l . . r to I'olu clrinkB, citfarn.oto.
nm» <.<- ii h am nrt\- our«f-n n. (>|| t4j,. at the confederate
I have not yet received it; lmv«*■ V( .t<. r «n*s reunion at Unadilla, on
you received yours vet ? , July 4th 1‘Jutf. M. P. HALL,
—KEV. J. D. NORRIS, [ Committee,