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The Vienna News
Published Weekly
C.S. GURR, L, L. WOODWARD,
EMILY WOODWARD
Owners and Publishers
C. S. GURR Manager
MISS EMILY WOODWARD
Editor and Asst. Mgr.
$l.SO PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
' Entered at the post office in Vien
na, Ga., os second class mail matter,
according to tho act of Congress,
March 8rd, 1878.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1916
the other class needs to be taught
tint he can’t have it because he does
not deserve it This fourteen and fif
teen cent cotton is,giving everybody
a chance to pay-up and get a new
start It would be agood time for
the farmer and business man to be
gin a new system of business in this
county.
EACH COUNTY'S VOTE ®
IN THE CONVENTION
FOLLOWING IS A LIST OF COUN-
Dooly was among those who hon
ored the Confederate Veteran.
Of course everybody can’t be hap
py over the election results but at
least everybody is happy, that it is
Vienna needs a public library. Wont
somebody get busy and start the ball
to rolling? It would be easy if we
would puil 1 oget.her.
Miss Prosperity is in our midst and
Mr. Boll Weevil is with us also. The
question is can these two visitors tarry
long in the same place.
We don’t want to be a calamity
howler but we do believe that there
Is trouble, ahead if we dont use intel
ligent methods tofight the boll weevil.
THE ELECTION TUESDAY.
The finish of the great state elec
tion has come. The results of some
of the campaigns havecaused no lit
tle surprise and in many cases disap
pointment and chagrin. It is altogeth
er possible that the decree of the peo
ple in conferring the state’s highest
political honor will not work out to
the state's best interest. It is the in
evitable, however, and there is no al
ternative save to abide by it. There
is no reason to fear that the state will
be carried to destruction during one
administration, even though many
may be justified in the belief that the
man who has been chosen to fill the
governor’s chair will be dominated
by powers that do not have for their
highest purpose the conservation of
the state’s interests.
Circumstances some times alter
cases and occasfonally characters.
There is a chance that this new and bi
responsibility will bd held more sacred
by this man than some people hope
for, that the big brain which even his
enemies concede that he possesses,
will be used for Georgia’s aggrandiz-
ment rather than to her detriment,
^kt least it is fair not to predict the
TIES AND NUMBER OF VOTES
EACH HAS IN CONVENTION.
Sinceithere is nothing in a name,
the fact that u Mrs. Catt has been
elected, president of the national suf
frage league shouldn’t suggest any-
P '■ ‘
The people of the Third District
have spoken. And they have spoken
so loudly there is no chance for them
to be misunderstood about the con
gressional race.
Since tho fust of July $40,000 has
been collected by the federal interna]
revenue service f mm liquor dealers in
Georgia. Thin of course includes the
taxes collected from druggists who
Bell alcoholic preparations.
From West Virginia comes the an
nouncement that more than six mil
lion dollars will be spent for good
roads in that state this year. This
means that the flood gates of prog
ress will be opened up in West Virgin
ia for no other thing contributes more
to the development of a state than the
building of good and permanent
highways.
It is an ill wind that blows no good.
It ia to bs regretted that so much mud
slinging hud to be injected in many
of the political campaigns and much
of it could tiavc been avoided. The
fact that the politicians thought it
was necessary und saw fit to adver
tise it did no doubt help many an ed
itor through what would have other
wise been right “dry times.”
Special feature of the Southeastern
Fair that is to be held in Atlanta in
October is the Woman's Department.
Arrangements are being made to take
care of a mammoth exhibit of all kinds
of domestic art and the women
ihroughout the territory that the fail
will include are being urged to take
part in this work.
From the various newspaper
ports it ie difficult to determine just
where Thomas county stands on the
tick eradication question. Ons re
port will state that the majority of the
substantial men are in favor of dip
ping vats while another will assert
that a strong faction in Thomas it de
termined to eradicate tick eradication.
But these contrasting stories would
not matter so much if they did not
reveal the true status of affairs in
Thomas—Division and strife over a
question that it of vita) concern to the
county. And what is true of Thomas
in regard to the tick eradication is
true of other counties concerning that
and other progressive movements. The
greatest difficulty in successfully car
rying out any great work that hat to
do with the masses is usually found
to be that of convincing them that
they as individuals are to be benefit-
ted thereby.
PROSPEROUS TIMES.
When the farmer emiles the world
■miles with him. Dooly fanners are
wearing broad grins this fall and
a result a spirit of good cheer pre
vails among all classes of business
men.
The country has not enjoyed such
prosperity in many years. Many are
taking advantage of these conditions
to clear themselves of indebtedness,
and it is a splendid thing to do. We
need to get away from the credit bus-
ir.esa. The man who is honest snd in
tends to pay needs to know that he
can get along without it and he of
worst until it comes, it is always right
to give a man a chance. One man,
even though'he is the state’s highest
official cannot steer this great com
monwealth into hopeless ruin in one
term and in the meantime if Georgia
has made a mistake she will have had
time to repent and. will make satisfac
tory amends when the opportunity
Cimes agafn.
THE CHEROKEE ROSE
Thcfame of the Cherokee rose,
which by recent legislative enact-
meht became the official flower of
Georgia, has traveled far. The Chris
tian Science Monitor (Boston Mass.)
makes this interesting reference:
“Georgia has formerly adopted the
Cherokee rose as its official floral
emblem, and thus has fixed beyond
peradventure a generally accepted
opinion and custom. This felicittous
idea or ideal of each commonwealth
having its emblematic flower began
with the public schools, and in most
of the states has not got beyond that
stage. But what children in the Unit
ed States want they usually get, and
to the states, by legislative action, one
by one, have begun to convert senti
ment into a statute. Thus Ohio is
committed to the scarlet carnation,
and Montana to bitterroot. Why
Maine should choose the pine
cone, Louisiana the Magnolia, New
Mexico the cactus, and Hawaii the
lehua, it is not difficult to see. But
some of the choices are explicable
only by the fact that juveniles were
the original electors.”—The Way.
GRIFFIN TO HEAR LONG
DISTANCE TELEPHONE TALKS
Jail fHiUinmj
Under the rules prescribed by the
State Democratic Executive commit
tee the nomination of candidates run
ning in Teusday’s primary must be de
cided by a majority of the county
unit vote. Each county is entitled to
twice as many county unit votes as it
has representatives ip tho lower house
of the legislature.
There are 152 counties in the state.
Six of these have six county unit votes
each, twenty-six have four votes and
120 have two votes each. This makes
a total of 380 county unit votes in the
state. Therefore, 191 votes is a ma
jority.
The six-vote counties are as fol
lows: Bibb, Chatham, Fulton, Floyd,
Muscogee and Richmond.
The twenty four-vote counties are
Bartow, Erooks, Bullock, Burke, Car-
roll, Clarke, Cobb, Coweta, DeKalb,
Elbert, Emanuel, Gwinnett, Hall,
Houston, Jackson, Laurens, Lowndes,
Meriwether, Sumter, Troup, Walton,
Ware, Washington and Wilkes.
The 120 two-vote counties are:
Appling, Bacon, Baker, Baldwin,
Banks, Barrow, Ben Hill, Berrien,
Bleckley, Bryan, Butts, Calhoun, Cam
den, Campbell, Candler, Catoosa,
Charlton, Chattahoochee, Chattooga,
Cherokee, Clay, Clayton, Clinch, fief-
fee, Colquitt, Columbia, Crawford,
Crisp, Dade, Dawson, Early, Ecbols,
Effingham, Evans, Fannin, Fayette,
Forsyth, Franklin, Gilmer, Glascock,
Glynn, Gordon, Grady, Greene, Hab
ersham, Hancock, Haralson, Harris,
Hart, Heard, Thdrpe, Paulding, Pick
ens, Pierce, Pike, Polk, Pulaski, Put
nam, Quitman, Rabun, Randolph,
Rockdale, Schley, Screven, Spalding,
Stephens, Stewart, Talbot, HenTy, Ir
win, Jasper, Jeff Davis, Jefferson,
Jenkins, Johnson, Jones, Lee, Liber-
ty, Lincoln, Lumpkin, McDuffie, McIn
tosh, Macon, Madison, Marion, Miller,
Milton, Mitchell, Monroe, Montgom
ery, Morgan, Murray, Newton, Ocon
ee, Oglethorpe, Taliferro, Tattnall,
Taylor, Telfair, Terrell, Tift, Towns,
Toombs, Turner, Twiggs, Union, Up-
sm. Walker, Warren, Wayne, Web
ster, White, Whitfield, Wilcox, Wil
kinson, Worth.
utill be exhibited IFribatj anb Saturday
Atlanta, Ga., Sept.—Members of
Griffin, Ga., famous as the “Turkish
Towel! Town,"board of trade are
shortly to enjoy the unique experience
of listening to after-dinner speakers
address them over long distance tel
ephone wires from Washington, D.
C.
A banquet will be served at the
board of trade and special long dis
tance telephone equipment will be in
stalled for the occasion free of charge
by the Southern Bell Telephone £
Telegraph company. This equipment
will consist of 100 or moreiong dis
tance telephone instruments, one of
which will be installed for each guest
at the banquet table. In addition to
this equipment special facilities will
be provided in Washington for the !
convenience of the speakers who will
address the gathering.
in recent weeks Atlantans have at?
tended “long distance” banquets and
listened to speeches delivered by
prominent speakers in far-distant
cities. At one of these banquets, at
tended by men engaged in the elec
trical industries, more than a dozen
cities extending from the Atlantic to
the Pacific’ were connected together
on the same long distance wire, and
one or two epeakera in each city de
livered addressee, including Thomas
A. Edison and Theo. N. Vail, Presi
dent of the American Telephone £
Telegraph Company.
Federal Court Halts Attempt to In
crease Freight Rate on Shoes.
Savannah, Ga., September.!—In
thefederal court Judge W. W. Lamb-
tiin restrained the Ocean Steamship
company and the Central of Georgia
railway from, putting in an increased
freight rate on shoes from New York
and Atlanta via Savannah. :l ' ’ •
The increase, which was to become
effective September 15, was $1.15 per
100 pounds against 05 cents, the rate
formerly charged. The restraining or
der was granted upon the petition of
the M. C. Kiser company and the'J.
K. Orr Shoe company, both of Atlan
ta. The case ia to be heard Sept.' 12.
iSra. (Srrtntitp Saggart’a
$mt arc moat rnrbiaTIy imiitrb
to attrnb tl;ia nprning
To Ask About Bombardment.
Washington, D. C., Sept.—Inquiry
will be made of the French govern
ment regarding circumstances of the
bombardment Sept. 4 by a French
fleet of Alexandretta, Asiatic Turkey,
during which the building occupied
by William M. Brewster, of New York
American consular agent, was riddled.
Officials said that the state depart-
emnt would ask whether the shelling
of the building was' a result of care
lessness.
Nine shells struck the building oc
cupied by-Brewster, doing about 1000
lires worth of damage, but as the of
fice equipments furnished by the Unit
ed States cost only a few hundred
dollars, no claim for damage will be
filed 'by the department.
Wood Will laspect Georgia Soldier*.
Atlanta, Ga.—Adjutant General J.
Van Holt Nash received a letter from
Major General Leonard Wood, of the
department of the east, United States
army, in which the general makes
known his plan to visit the Georgia
mobilization camp at Macon. The ex
act date of the proposed visit General
Wood does not state in his communi
cation further than to say that he will
make such a visit “in connection with
tho inspection of the militia camps of
tho south.”
Manning Leading Cole Blceae.
Charleston, S. C., Sept With 97,-
000 votes accounted for at 8:30
o’clock Richard I. Manning, incum
bent, enjoys a lead of 5,000 votes
over Coleman L. Blease for the demo-
1 vatic nomination for governor of
South Carolina, Nomination is the
democratic primary election is equiv
alent to election.
Thomai P. Stoney, of Charleston,
has defeated Francis M. Bryan for ao-
licitor of thg fourteenth district
Another Note la Expected
Washington, D. C.—Secretary Lan
sing stated that another communica
tion from Austria-Hungary regarding
the attack by an Austrian submarine
upon the American oil tanker Petro-
lite was expected shortly. The Unit
ed States has demanded an apology,
punishment of the submarine com
mander and reparation.
Deaths in Collapse of Bridge Put at 11
Quebec, Sept—That the bodies of
seven victims of the bridge collapse
are still pinned beneath the 5,000 ton
span that fell into the St Lawrence
River wae the theory advanced after
a vain search had been made for ad
ditional dead in the vicinity. Thus
far four bodies have been recovered
and the number of dead is officially
placed at 11, but several others are
not yet definitely accounted for.
P. F. Lawrence, president of the St
Lawrence and Dominion Bridge com
pany said he was unable to explain
the disaster, the apparatus that hoist
ed the span showing no eigne of weak-
Just arrived, one car Acme Cement
Plaster, and one car Alpha Cement,
One cqr Lime, one car Texas Red
Star Seed Oats, one ‘ car building
sand. D. B. Thsmpson 7-31-41
RUB-MY-TISMl
Will cure Rheumatism, Neu
ralgia, Headaches, Cramps, Colic
Sprains-Bruises, Cuts, Burns, Old
Sores, Tetter, Ring-Worm. Ec-J
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Med infernally or externally. 25e,
A FINANCIAL DISCOVERY
. . HAS BEEN MADE by the economical folks of this town. They
find our line of five and ten cent goods can't be {duplicated anywhere
and our courteous and ^prompt service ie unbeatable. This ie tbe
bouse of a thousand specialties and it would bo wise for you to enlist
yourself atone of our many satisfied customers.
Vienna Ten Cent Company
No Hopo Held Out For Wilson’s Sister
New London, Conn., Sept—The
condition of Mrs. Annie E. Howe, Pres
ident Wilson’s sister, who is critical
ly ill with peritonitis, was reported
as unchanged. She is gradually sink
ing, and no hope is held out by the
attending physicians. The President,
who spent the night on hie yacht, the
Mayflower, wae told of hie sister’s
condition.
The Girl and the Game, a comedy
and a good two reel Weetern drama
make np the program at the Dixie ev
ery Saturday.
Competition is so keen these days that
you’ve got to make considerable noise to
wake opportunity up.
Several years ago she got tired of being
an alarm clock for sleepy heads—nowa
days you’ve got to look the lady up and
present a pleasing appearance before she
will be willing to co-operate with you.
Stroll in—purchase the appearance.
J. P. Heard & Sons’ Co.
Seeds Seeds Seeds
THE FARMERS EXCHANGE -
We buy, sell, and exchange all kinds of Seeds and Farm
Produce for the farmer. We buy second hand bags, Field
Peas, etc. We buy Cotton Seed, Hay, etc.
WHAT HAVE YOU TO BUY ? WHAT HAVE YOU TO SELL ?
WHAT HAVE YOU TO EXCHANGE ?
Now is the tim/to buy and plant Fulghum Seed Oats,
Abruzzie or Italian Seed Rye, Seed Wheat, Clover, Alfalfa,
Vetch, Turnips, etc. Call, write or phone.
The Farmers Exchange
Kelly’s Early Bird Weevil Proof Cotton Seed Are The Seed
To Beat the Weevil