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gflftfl.CnSKKLY TME8.BKTEBPBI8E, TUESDAY, JUNE 80, 1014.
' IKE MS-ENTERPRISE
DIVIDING THE COUNTY.
LET THE TAX ACT STAND.
SEMI-WEEKLY EDITION
Issued Every Tnesday —d
members associated press
\Ve understand that the backers
of the Hansell Counter movement, a j
proposition to form a new county j
out of territory taken from Mitch-
Dally and Semi-Weekly Times- Enter- e)] Grady. Thomas and Colquitt
nrlse Published by the Times En-
terprlso Company, ThomasvBIe, Oa. counties, are preparing to go before
”7" the legislature again this summer
•a n JEROER eases. . EtlltOr
W. D. HARGRAVE. Bus. Mgr.land push the plan vigorously. Fol-
—~—TI lowing the encouragement received
Offl E ce , f r or d Tren t sml.2on m Throagh the'at the last session of the leglsla-
Jlnlls as Second Class Mall Matter, j ture , with a properly directed light
the
Subscription Rates:
One Year ....'
Six Montha
im
. .19
this year, they hope to brfn
matter to a successful conclusion.
The movement Is opposed In this
. .. .. _ r^rala part of Mitchell county and in all of
The heat Is hotter than Georgia ••
, the othor counties named, but so
P ‘ j far the opposition has made no ef-
Another revolution may break j tort that we have heard of to mar-
out any old time In Venexuela. J shal their forces in a concerted ef-
0 j fort to prevent the formation of the
Even the thermometor Is afflicted ] county of Hansell. If any effort Is
with unusual ambition to rise. | to be made to counteract the pres-
sure being brought to bear on .nem-
J. R. Smith smiled when ninety-j hers of the Legislature by the
asked • friends ot Hansell County, It will
l have to be made at once, or It will
two men In bis home town
him to run for the Senate.
be useless.
The opposition to Hansell county
i not the result of mere sectional
! jealousy,though some may be actu
ated by such narrow motives, but U
I based on the belief that to carve
Judge Speer hasnt done anything I be new county out of the best por-
much, ibut a little more than tie j tjong of the f our oonn ties named
* ought to have done, according
"He rambled all around and the,
butcher cut him down." greets Ty j
To-bb, as he comes on tihe Hold.
vlll work a great hardship on the
the committee.
citizens remaining. It is easy to see
the advantage to the business Inter-
This world Is In hysterics, says a ests of those situated In the new
county seat but little for the aver
age citizen who must foot the bill
for establishing and maintaining
the new county. Thgse are not our
concerns, however, and do not enter
Into our reasons for opposing the
new county movement.
What does concern us is the prob.
able effect on that portion ot the
old county left and those citizens left
!n It. The expense of government
Jack Johnson won over Moran,. and maintenance will not be rc
and the only pity Is that he didn’t, ducea and the citizens of this part
knock .him out and settle his hash 0 j the county will be forcod to sub-
for good, and all. j mit to a raise In the tax rate. There
o ; has been considerable complaint
There Js a dry hill and a wetter I a t, 011 t our present tax rate, but the
bill than Is now od force In the, man who own3 tarm i and has not
Legislature. The compromise will ^ tgit this burden like those who
probably be the present laxity ot en- ^ have been paying taxes on personal
forcing tho present law. property in the towns. It developed
College head. In Ann Arbor. Won
der what the cure he would advo
cate would do to change It?
The insurance rates have been re
duced live cents /because of an
autio truck. They would bo reduced
another five cents If the city would
Install a pumper.
Why Is so desperato a tight to
be made during the present cession
of the Legislature to repeal the tax
act? Whence comeB the Inspiration
for all this zeal of those who would
kill tax equalization In Georgia al
most before It haJ begun?
Ope of the Brit general hills in
troduced In the House yesterday was
one providing for the repeal of the
new laiw, and It Is stated that advo
cates pf the measure will make a
desperate fight to secure Its pas
sage.
We do not kntvv Just how many
votes tho authors of the repeal
measure hope to bo able to muster,
though faith in the common sense ot
our state lawmaking body enables
us to feel reasonably «uro that they
will not be able to secure enough
votes to set aside ona of the best
laws ever placed on the statute
books.
For years, Georgia has been
struggling to "make both ends
meet” m her slate finances. 3he
has literally lived "from hand to
mouth,” borrowing money every
year to meet deficiencies In revenue,
and being forced to stint dozens of
state Institutions that clamored year
rfter year for an opportunity to en
large the scope ot their usefulness.
The governor has been forced to the
embarrassing expedient of paying
their pensions to but halt the old
soldiers of the state, selecting the
counties by lot, while the state's
ter to a half'mtlHou dollars higher I DGQ||P|IT[jl| HIV
than last year. 1 think the increase j DHOUbH I Ull
will approximate one ond one-half
million over 1913.
“I want to common 1 the zyetem
adopted by our, boatd of county com
missionary In enforcing this tax
law. They api ointed three good
men In each militia district as an
advisory board to sit with the three
members of the county board while
their particular district was' being
worked, therefore we bad six equal
lzers working each day. These dis
trict men were acquainted with every
farm and taxpayer in their district,
therefore their work was predicated
on positive knowledge rathor than
guess work, as to values. The state
has not had a better law In halt a
century than this. There 'has not
been a single arbitration In the
county and all fair-minded men en
dorse the lalw and Us method of en
forcement In our county.
Very ttuly,
"J. S. MONTGOMERY.”
Lot the tax law stand, gentlemen
of the Legislature. The state need
ed It. and the people are pleased
with the results It ts getting.
Let It alone!—Albany Herald.
TO GEORGIA
Atlanta, Juno.*26.—Baptists and
other church members all over, the
State are Interested In the effort
now being made by the Baptist Tah-j
ernacle to persuade Dr. Len G.
Broughton to return from London
to the Atlanta church, which he
founded and -built Into one of the'
most Important organizations In the
South.
Since the resignation of Dr. Liu- 1
coin McConnell, the congregation
decided no other- man ihan Or.
Broughton would DU their pulpit
successfully and hold together the
factions which have made the tab
ernacle fill many columns of news
paper space. He was cabled regard
ing the likelihood of his return, 1?
called, and he answered:
-Willing to he shown the will of
God.”
Invigorating to tho Palo and Sickly
At Old (tandud general etrengthcnlng, tonic,
GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC, drives out
Malerla.entlcbeetbe blond, and bulidanntfecirt-
— .— 'alunnd children. 50c
coiran roucEMii a am mm
/■Weak Heart
Dr. Pierced Golden Medical Discovery
It trips the human system In the constant msnofsetorc of rich, rs
help* the stomach to nssfmflitc or taksqp tho proper dements from the £
down, amende, thin-blooded people, the “Discovery” is nfrashlng and i
U lltmid or ItbUl form «t ssost irm Steves er send SO mm mrt
stems, ter trtaltevSeDv.fftsrw’.SseeE/P/fataC Qefi’eis.N. Y.
^-Ml—————
LITTLE ELIZABETH WHITE
DEAD
Little Daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John White of Pelham Dies Yes
terday of Dlptheria—Is Burled in
Pelham Today.
0 I at the recent session ol the tax j
On Wednesday, the people of equa | lzer5 of thla county that while | n « unjust burden upon any class of
Thomas County vote for fence or no, t . orporatlon9 and flrmB | n the town? | citizens, but it does do what was
fence, and there is every prospect of j are asked to glve |n th „, r „ r0 p er ty j never done before—it requires all
a large vote on that day, especially j on # 60 per cent basl3i farj) laEd „ J property owners to contribute, ac-
in the country districts. i g i ven in on a basis of 15 to 20 per j cording to their wealth, to the aup-
0 J cent of its actual valuation. Any j por * government. Property
The watermelon crop this yoarj further raise in the tax Is going to: owners who have for years been tax
has been fairly good, although the j bring about a demand for an equall- /ledgers, either intontlonally or
farmers wont realize nearly so much | za tion between the town and the
as they at first expected. Tho long j farm and this may be expected to be
drought was bad for hundreds ot | one of the results In case the county
Is divided.
From the point ol convenience to
the county seat, the new county of
Hansell will be very favorably sit
uation, but the old county will on-
joy no such advantage. The portion
of Mitchell county left will stretch
for about thirty miles from noith-
west to southwest. Thosa who uow
live farthest from the county teat
will be as far away as ever and will
receive absolutely no benefit from
the change.
We would like to see South Geor
gia's representation Increased but If
Elizabeth White, the three year
old daughter ot Mr. and Mrs. John
t White, of Pelham, and granddaugh-
school teachers long ago learned to of yj r and virs. John Davidson,
be professional waiters—waiters for j of this city died yesterday at the
the pay so hardly earned, but which home of Mr. and Mrs. White, In Pel
ls never forthcoming In full when i
due The little one bad been sick for a
(week or more with a complication of
Year after year creditors ef the troubles resulting finally in dlpther-
State have had to wait through ted- 1 la, and In spite of every effort of
Ions weeks or months for inonev the attending physicians, the disease
which should have been promptly prove ' 1 fata ' -
• ,. . „ , . . i Elizabeth was a particularly
paid, and all because of a wholly 1 .. „
bright and attractive child, the light
Inefficient method of collecting state M the hou8e hold and the Idol of her
taxes. The passage of the tax oqual- parents and grand-parents to whom
izlng act now In effect was the first her sad taking away comes as a
real step toward bringing Georgia great blow.
..... . . The Interment took place this
abreast of the progressive states of , , „ .. . . , .
morning In Pelham at 9 o clock,
the Union In the matter of tax col- '
lection, and there are many evi
dences of the highly satisfactory
manner in which the new plan Is
working.
The tax equalization law places
Purifies Blood
With Telling Effect
Gives Conscious Evidence ot
Its Direct Action.
When they pass a hill prohibiting
cigar smoking, the people will begin
to realize the enormity ot the task
the Legislature places on officers.
Lots ot laws they know aren't going
to be enforced when they pass them,
and yet the bills are put on record
every year.
Mr. Dorsey Id being commended
for refusing to run for the Gover
norship. We are willing to give Mr.
Dorsey credit for his political acu
men, but we wouldn't dare say he
wouldn’t have run If he hud been
anyway near certain that he would
have been elected.
through Inadvertence, ere now "com
ing across,” and the results are
most gratifying.
talks as It sweeps Its wsy through the dr-: 2
For instance, wo find In today’s dilation, its action Is so direct that very
„ _ , , often In some forms of skin affliction the
Macon Telegraph an Atlanta dls- appearance of the eruptions changes over
patch whloh quotes a letter from a
prominent citizen ot Thomas county
to State Tax Commissioner John C.
the Itch and redness are gbno and
recovery begins Immediately.
As a matter of fact, then Is cos lngredl- (
eat la S. 8. 8. which serves tha active pur
pose of stimulating each cellular part of
the body to tho healthy and Judldous selec-
Hart, telling of the splendid work- tlou of Its own essential nutriment. That.
■ , Is why It regenerates the blood supply; why |
lng of the new law tu Thomas conn- it has such a- tremendous Influence In over-,
coming eczema, rash, pimples, and all skin
afflictions.
And In regenerating the tisanes 8. 8. “
ty. ' The letters follows:
“Thomasvilie, Ga„ June 23, 1911.
“Judge John C. Hart,
Atlanta, Ga.
“Dear Judge—The equalizers for
Thomas County have completed
has a rapid and positive antidotal effect
upon all those Irritating tnflnencet that
anas rheumatism, sore throat, weak eyes,
lost of weight, thin, pale cheeks, and that
weariness of moada and tltrva that la geo-
Atlanta, June 26.—If W. A. Riley,
a county policeman, |s as bad a citi
zen as his .wife testified to in -the
Fulton divorce court, he deserves a
medal.
She told ibe court, in addition to
other things, that Riley had put
some white powder in her custard,
that the cook warned her not to eat
it, that she fed It to the chickens,
and ten of them died. Then, she
says, he threatened to kill their
five-year-old son, and was actually
leaving for the woods with the boy
to carry out his threat when she and
her sister interferred. The divorce
salt is still pending.
Always Lead'to Better Hewlth.
Serious sicknesses start In disor
ders ot the stomach, liver and kid
neys. The best correedve and pre
ventive Is Dr. King's New Life
Pills. - They Purify the Blood—
Prevent Constipation, keep Liver,
Kidneys and Bowels In Healthy
Condition. Give you better health
by ridding the system of fermenting
snd gassy - foods. Effective and
mild. 25c at your druggist. Buck-
len's Arnica Salve for All Hurts, adv
$2.95
Real welts and hand
turned soles.
The purchasing power
of SPOT CASH is
demonstrated here.
Let us fit your
feet.
Harry
Steyerman’s
H SHOE STORE.
The Wisdom in
Saving
A man who saves a dollar is a benefactor. One who
teaches another to save a dollar Is a Public Benefactor, and
should be knighted by the state. A dollar put In the bank at
■compound Interest takes root Instantly; it Is not parched or
burned by drouths; not killed by froet or sleet. It can not
be Injured by heat or cold, by famine or pestilence, by fire or
flood. It will not be lost through a hole In your pocket, nor
borrowed by some pestilential friend or boon cmpanlon. It Is
beyond the reach of earthquake or lightning, accident, sneak-
i thief, thug or murderer. It works for you by day and by
night—Sundays, legal holidays and week days are all the same
to It. It will npt wilt, nor rnst nor rot, nor be eaten by
worms. It will sprout and mature a crop of Interest for you
every year throughout all eternity and then, be as fresh and
as ready to go on working for you and your descendants as the’
day It was first carried to the bank. It ujUl be a slave that
neither eats nor drinks, nor sleeps, nor dies, and needs no
overseer.
The Investment of money in a savings account at THE
BANK OP METCALFE at compound interest la the best Invest
ment, the most profitable business and the greatest and grand-
- eat speculation that we know anything about.
BANK QF METCALFE
1 - i -j METCALFE, GEORGIA. ’
The Bank That Is for the People.
OFFICERS:
E. M. SMITH. President. '3. W. HORNE, Vice-President,
W. O. CARTER, Cashier. H. C. COPELAND, V-Presldent.
MONEY
FARM LOANS PROMPTLY’ MADE
At S% Interest, payable annually. The borrower has the j
privilege of paying part or all of the principal at any interest > r
period, stopping Interest on such ayment. I will save you ' f
money. Come to see me. or write. Prompt attention given ' f
all written inquiries.
W. M. BRYAN,
OFFICE OVER POST OFFICE, THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA.
*
HOMER WILLIAMS
material" FOR' 'thEHOUSE" '
BUILDERS.
weariness of muscle ana nerve tut a gen
erally Experienced' ts-aprlng fever. Get a
bottle of 8. S. 8. at uy drug it ore, and In
a few days you will not only feel bright and
energetic, but you will be the picture ot;
their work. The increase la more. new life. Lilli prepared only In the,
.. .... ... .... laboratory ef The Swift Speclfle CU* 63g
... than a million dollars over 1913. Swift Bldg* Atlanta, Cta* who mslntaln a
, , . very efficient Medical Department, where all
we are to get nothing more than a ■ The result of their wotk speaks most' who have any blood disorder of a stubborn
„ , . ... 1 , ! nature may write freely for advice and i
slight political advantage, we can-, eloquently for Itself, and In mr - spectal book ot tnitructlon. 8. 8. S. ta sold
not see where we can afford It.—Ca- Judgment the taxpayers returned ‘ ^nera| ll etorBj bm^eware'ot afl'subetltutui.
mills Enterprise. " ‘ * “ ‘
Get Our Prices Before You-Buy.
Phone 485-L.
OFFICE ON A. C. L. >yt^ CLAY ST.
Dr. John Schreiber
PORMHK1.Y OP OCHLOCKNEK
Now Located on Madiaon Stree
Opposite Times-Enterprite Office
Thomaavilie Georgia.
Office Phone M Reddence Phone |S8
WANTED:
CORN SHELLED
or EAR, ANY QUANITY
PHONE OR WRITE
W, H. ZURICH & SON
ROCK HILL
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TERMS TO
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BU-GGI-E-S
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