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11 TIMES-ENTERPRISEg
SEMI-WEEKLY EDITION
P> THE COTTON GOODS MOVEMENT beyond any doubt hta fighting quail-
leaned Erery Tuesday and EMday
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forward step front Mrs. Z. I. Fitz-
patrirk. of this city, President of
, *2&iSS2rg’JltETS "» «•— •> »“"■
“ Hubs. to induce the more gen-
K. R. JEUGKU Editor
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terprise Company, ThomaavSle, Ga. j an
eral v. earing of cotton goods by the
women of the South, seems to have
spread with remarkable freedom
throughout the entire South. The
ladles clubs have taken the matter
up in many parts of Georgia, and
in other states and It bids fair *
become a Southwide campaign, to
It’s a question of who can best maJ<e a .m ttr j| e t f or the cotton which
fight and stand fighting in dear old j south produces.
France. | j n a s j lor t interview on the sub-
| jert a short time ago, Mrs. Fitzpat
rick stated that while she did not
take t redit tor the idea, she be-
^ Heved that the club women could
well afford to give it thought and
j endeavor to spread the movement
) so that It v.ould amount to some-
j thing worth while to the South,
j She stated that not only were the
women going to wear coton goods,
* hut they were "oing to make a cun-
^ J sistenl effort to induce tile use of
Hi^ase is ^rtr^Tto resign bis! cott "" K° ot,s wherever it was possi-
ble In commercial life. She bellev-
AND ITS POSSIBILITIES. | ties. He has shown that he can
| fight to the end and he Is general
! enough to come out on the winning
The movement which had Its first „ We „ e „„ master at tie state
Convention, and as such he deserved
all he received. His election will
be ratified at the coming general
election and he begins his service
at the next session of Congress.
Wonder if 3t. Petersburg feels]
any better with its spanking, brand ]
new name.
“Russian soldiers land in Eng
land’’—would sound peculiar if you
didn’t know the circumstances.
Richard Harding Davis is peeved
because he isn’t being given a fair
show at sending in war dope.
arduous task and go to the German
court as advisor to the Kaiser.
THOMAS SHOWS REMARKABLE
INCREASE.
Oily three counties in the State
of Georgia show
present or absent. Thomasvllle’s
chapter, Children of the Confederacy
Is named for him. He always had
some little gift for every child he
met. It Is a popular superstition that
every newspaper editor has an ‘un
limited supply of circus tickets.
Whenever the circus came to town
the kids flocked in mass to the Cap
tain for their tickets. I have known
him to give away his entire allott-
ment and buy fifty others, just to
keep from disappointing some
urchin. It was his annual vacation
to go with the Georgia Press Associ
ation on their outing. On one of
these the boys were engaged In a
little game of poker—for small
stakes, of course, being country
editors—and the Captain was ob
served to stick his hand in the deck
“ll’E SOUGHT 1 SUE
OF CSTTH. HUE TIT ;
Is the Insignia on Buttons Which !
Are Being Circulated in Atlanta, i
by the Atlanta Journal Campaign |
Committee, j
Atlanta, Sept. 5.—Buttons bear
ing the insignia: "I’ve bought a bale
of cotton—have you?" will be worn
by hundreds and perhaps thousands
of Atlantans within the next week,
as a rcsul*. of one of tie most busi
ness-like campaigns for quick and
certain relief ever Inaugurated. It
he Atlanta Journal's “Buy a
Bale” campaign, and It is spread-
larger Increase At astounded by stander said, “Why i ng like wild fire.
iCnntnl-i von Sn/i four nines. "He Tke "Buy a Bale" movement has
been the subject of a great deal oi
ICaptaln you had four nines,
in taxes this year than Thomas. j re plled: "I know ny boy. but that
They are Pulton, *10,1»8,0S5. Bibb!was loo goo a hand to play. The
$4,343,145, and Chatham, $2,348,-
from corn at a much cheaper price
than from any other product.
There will be a large number of
immigrants to flee the stricken
countries of Europe, when the strug
gle has lightened sufficiently [for
them to get avay.
A German flag has been ordered,
to be swung from the Elfel tower,
•and you know where that tower Is.
The order was placed with a Bel
gian firm.
The congressmen who are absent
wont get any pay. This rule would
have hurt at least one Georgia Con
gressman had it been put on soon
er.
Thomas County hasn’t a man on
the State Executive committee this
time, but the county was represent
ed at the last meeting, so we can
afford to wait until next year.
Thomas County folks can well he
glad that the tax rate is to be low
ered this year. It is a needed help
to many people and the more equal
distribution of taxes brought It
about.
Thost* German Zeppelins that
used to burst and flop around gen
erally, seem to have struck their
stride, now that the war la on and
Paris the objective point.
A Canadian can’t go to war un
less his wife gives her consent. The
boys will be very attentive and kind
at home until all danger if their
being wanted is passed.
Taat warship off St. Augustine
ought to stop scaring the natives
so often. They are afraid the old
Spanish fort will be damaged by a
stray shell.
How* the English got those Rus
sian troops to France, still remains
a myster}\ There may be more
where they came from, and they
would be mighty useful to the Al
lies in front of Paris.
There are various hints of a po
litical revolt In Georgia. Revolts
in the Democratic ranks don’t count
for much in thin State, although
thero is a possibility or some hot
fighting. j mi
While a woman eighty years of
age was marrying for the fourth
time for longevity, a Brooklyn wom
an, just across the river, argued
that women ought to stay single if
they would live to be an hundred,
as she la.
Somehow, we cannot believe that
Thomas S. Felder made any trade
at the State convention. We know
Mr. Felder for a thoroughly honest
and unimpeachable man and one in
whom there is not the slighest sem
blance to political trickery or con
niving We believe Mr. Felder eaw
that the convention would be dead
locked and that he had no chance
and exercised his right to select the
man he most desired to see win.
ed that the women r-ould make
this a splendid success if they took
I hold and worked. We believe Mrs.
They say that sugar can be made ] pjt Z pot r ick is eminently correct.
With the end in view of adver
tising the movement, which Editor
McIntosh calls a “patriotic fad,’’ a
miniature cotton exposition is to he
held at Albany at the meeting of
the State Federation, at which time
cotton In all of Its stages of pro
duction and manufacture will be
displayed and the various products
are to be shown so as to Induce a
more general appreciation of its
usefulness and adaptability In a
crisis such as the South now faces.
As an instance of the many uses
to which It could be put, Mr. F. B,
Harris, of this city, recently received
a shipment of meats. The ship
ment came in cotton sacks, instead
of the usual burlaps. The company
asked a report from him of its con
dition and he was able to report
the shipment satisfactory In every
way, and that the cotton bag met
every demand. In many lines, the
cotton idea will sp r ead until the
consumption in the South will
crease the demand and that, In turn,
will increase the producing power
and capacity of the 'South, which is
earnestly to he desired, not only
during this financial stringency, but
even after normal has been
stored.
Much good will come out of this
movement if tho women will get
behind it with their every effort,
and energy, for it is rare that the
women register a failure in any pro
ject they attempt. We are proud to
congratulate Mrs. Fitzpatrick upon
the campaign which she has start
ed, and assure her of our best
wishes.
OUR NEW SENATOR.
101. Thomas returns come next,
being an increase over last year of
$2,111,028. This is a remarkable
showing, of which Thomas is Justly
proud.
The assessors have been tho--
oughly conscientious in their work,
and it has peen satisfactory in ev
ery instance, differences be i ng easily
adjusted and satisfactory to
parties concerned. The new tax
law is working to advantage
eve.y part of the State, and the to
tal increase so far has been over
eighty millions, which will mean an
additional revenue to the State of
three hundred thousand dollars.
Thomas takes first rank among
the four-vote counties.
CAPTAIN TRIPLETT BY ONE WHO
SUCCEEDED HIM.
Thomas W. Hardwick Is to repre
sent Georgia In the next United
States Senate. This decision of the
Democratic convention has met
with hearty approval from many
people in Georgia, many of them
who voted for Felder in the race
before the people.
We were not for Mr. Hardwick,
but v>e sincerely appreciate the many
qualities he possesses that will make
him a valuable man la the Senate,
and one who will be found assist
ing with his full strength and power
In the measures which the Progres
sive Democracy of this country will
inaugurate. He is a personal friend
and political ally of Hon. Hoke
Smith, and it is expected that the
two will work In perfect harmony
in Washington.
We are of the Democratic faith
enough to believe that the man
with the most votes ought to win.
Under the ruling of the State Demo
cratic executive committee, rules
were promulgated which make it
possible for a man who did not get
the majority of votes to be selected,
and as such adopted and ratified
we believed Mr. Hardwick would
eventually win. We offer him sin
cere congratulations and best wishes
for his country aad his state, and
assure him of the hearty co-opera-
tlon of the county of his birth.
J. D. McCartney, associate editor
of t ic Rome Tribune-Herald, who
succeeded Captain Triplett as edi
tor of The Times-Enterprise, has
given the following interesting
write-up of hie impressions of the
life and character of Captain Trip
lett, which will prove very interest
ing to the friends of the deceased
editor in this section of the State:
ThTe was a little :tem on the
'•ack Page of the Atlanta papers
Thursday evening, crowded there by
ravh of political news that earn*
more of a griet to many Georgians
than the aveia e death notice,
told of the pausing o? Captain John
Triplett, of Thomasvllle. who died
at the Soldiers Home in Atlanta.
His death causes a sense of personal
loss to the newspaper fraternity
throughout the state and particular
ly to me, because he was my first
orte.iior almost in newspaper
and I feel that I owe a great deal
to his wise counsel and kindly advice
and the garnished wisdom of years
that was mine without the asking.
Indeed I feel that the world with
Capt. Trlv'ett gone is not so good a
place, that much of sunshine has de
parted with his kindly smile. He
will ho buried In Thomasvllle, and
hen the earth closes over his grave
1 know that little children will
mourn and good women will sorrow
for he was one of God’s own gentle
men.
1 wish that everybody In Rome
might have known him 1 wish that
1 could give the readers of the Tri
bune-Herald a pen picture of him,
and tell them in words that they
would remember of his many aplen
did qualities. He was an editor of
the old school, who had been in the
newspaper from the close of
the war until 1902 when he sold the
Thomasvllle Times-JEnterprise
Wilson Hardy r-nd myself. His paper
mirror of his own kindly self
and he never at any time inserted in
its columns anything to cause shame
or sorrow to any person. It wasn't
journalism as we have to make it
today—but It was the reflection of
a beautiful spirit. I wish we could
get hack to It In every newspaper.
There was nothing sensational
spicy about the Tlmes-Eterprlse
during his regime. When President
elect McKinley and hie political ad
visor, Marcus A. Hanna, went tc
Thomasvllle to confer about the make
up of the Mcklnley cabinet, they w'ent
with a corps of correspondents In
their wake, but the fames-Enterprise
had only a “personal,” to the effect
that “Col William McKinley, and
‘Uncle Mark’ Hanna, of Ohio, are in
our city.” If a boy went wrong, or a
daughter brought sorrow to a home
or a foolish young couple eloped, or
two business men blackened one
anothoi’s eyes in a street-brawl, it
was not even necessary to ask Capt.
Triplett to “keep It out of the paper’’
He didn’t want to put It in.
Yet he had his high ideals of
newspaper ethics. One was that no
editor should seek office. The people
of Thomasvllle or Thomas county,
would have given him any office
within their power but he stead
fastly refused everything except those
delegate’s place, wherein the delegate
his own expenses. He was an
unswerving Democrat of the Tenn
essee type. Ho had a war record of
which he never boasted but occasion
ally one of his comrades would en
lighten us about it. He was a bach
elor with perhaps some hidden
romance of youth, and was the soul
of chivalrous courtesy to all woman
kind. He loved his work. Rig news
paper was wife and child to him.
He stent in a room over the printing
office and the night he signed the
bill of sale transferring his paper he
put ills head on his desk and wept.
He had a soul above the dollar, and
his reason for quitting the editorl”’
tripod after 38 years was the
death of his business manager, and
other's wouldn’t have had a chance.
Of course raonoy slipped through
his fingers. He took no thought for
the morrow and never engaged In
active work after selling Ills paper.
When his capital was exhausted, he
very quietly gave away his personal
effects and arranged to go to the
Soldiers’ Home. The Thomasvllle
people—bless their good hearta—4
were shocked at the idea and told
him tc go along as he always done
that t iey would see to it that he did
not lack for comfort or for money
as long as bo lived. But he refused
that offer and said he would go
“where the old hoys were,” so enter
ed a year or two ago the institution
of whic.i he had long been a trustee.
After he got there -ie refused to
accept any delicacies or comforts
that the other “old boys” did not
have. He refused to allow Ills
friends to secure him an official
position at the Home or elsewhere,
lest It be too much like the charity
he was always ready to extend to
others and never willing to receive
himself. He helped with the work
did all In his power to cheer the lives
of his comrades, and finally answer
ed the last roll call.
The paper said he was 78 years of
age. He would never tell how old
he was, but if measured by un
selfish deeds '.its span of life was
about a thousand years. I could say
much more of him, but time and
space forbids. Whenever he wrote
of the death of a friend he -used one
phrase, often in kindly charity,
that may be said of him with truth,
and those words were: “He was
a golden-hearted gentleman. May
the t* rf rest lightly over his grave.
Peace to his ashes."
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rough and headache, and work* off cold. 25c.
adr.
Mrs. Seager, of Fort Worth, Tex
as, formerly Miss Lottie Houston, of
this oity, who, with her little daugh
ter, lies been spending a few days
with her brother, Mr. Louis Hous
ton. left yesterday to visit relatives
In Savannah. Mr. Seager, who is
with the Swift Packing Company,
has been transferred to Australia,
to take charge of the business
there, and he and Mrs. Seager will
go to Snn Francisco shortly, to take
passage for their new home.
NEGRO STOLE
FROM DRUG STORE
comment recently, but It brought
slight action. Yesterday, The Jour
nal called a meeting of business
men, laid the ulan before them, and
In ten minutes took cash subscrip
tions to purchase 301 bales of cot
ton at ten cents, or $50 a bale. Ev
ery mail there pledged himself to go
out and sell more, and Atlanta has
set its own mark at one- hundred
thousand bales.
Actual cotton will be purchased,
brought to Atlanta and stored. The
committees will see that the cotton
Is purchased direct from those plan
ters who actually need aid In han
dling tlielr crop. The big fellows
with money o’* fianncial backing can
get along for themselves.
The movement, it is expected, will
run the length and breadth of the
cotton states of the South within a
week. ’Telegrams and letters have
been sent every paper in the South,
urging that they start a similar
campaign, and thus assure the
purchase of eight million bales. The
buyers will hardly have a chance to
lose, and their purchase will proba
bly prove a fair Investment. The
buyers will pledge themselves to
hold the cotton for a year, or
such time as is necessary to assure
a profitable marketing of the crop.
“My firm will take ten bales, each
of the partners five bales and every
employe making $100 a month a
bale each," was the pledge of one
business man. "I believe every man
in Atlanta who get together fifty
dollars should buy a bale, and most
of them will."
Took Cigars and Perfumery From
Rear of Ingram Drug Company
In the Early Morning.
John Bunyan, a negro porter, at
one o: the business houses in town,
arrested Thursday, charged
with stealing from the Ingram Drug
Company. The negro operated ear
ly in the morning going to the back
of the store, while the clerks were
busy in front and taking away cig
ars, perfumes and other stuff he
could lay hands on In the rear of
the store.
He was caught red-handed, as
boys coming Into the store on busi
ness several times saw him taking
cigar boxes away. The city officers
got to work and the result waa his
arrest. He Is In the city lock-up.
IN ALL OUR
NEIGHBORHOOD
There Is Hardly A Woman
Who Does Not Rely Upon
Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
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hard headaches in the back of my neck
and a weakness all
caused by female
trouble, and I took
Lydia E. Pinkham’s
Vegetable Com
pound with such ex
cellent results that I
am now feeling fine.
I recommend the
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it to all. Iahallbe
glad to have you
publish my letter.
There to scarcely a neighbor around me
who does not use your medicine. "—Mrs.
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Experience of * Nurse.
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male troubles would take it I took it
when pasting through the Change of
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—Mrs. Horace Newman, Poland, Her
kimer Co., N. Y.
SMOKES IN POLICE COURT
Atlanta, Sept. «.—Councilman
S. L. Dallas, acting as city recorder
in tho absence of Recorder Broyles,
who has lust been nominated to the
court of appeals, set a new precedent
for etiquette in the police court
this week. He disposed of a long
string of cases while puffing happily
on a fat cigar. It is the first time
on record that smoking was per
mitted In a court session, and the
newspaper men, who sit beside tho
recorder, hope it will become the
rule.
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of waste and fermenting body~pois-
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stomach and Liver and tone the gen
eral eystem. First dose will cure
you of that depressed, dizzy, bil
ious and constipated condition. 2'c
at all DrugglBts. adv.
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Children take it end never know it is Quinine.
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it the neat time you need Quinine for any pur.
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tame FISDRIUNB ia blown la bottle. 25 cento,
—adv.
Mr. T. C. Gandy has returned af
ter spending several weeks in- De
troit, Michigan.
If yon are ill do not drag along until
for four years of splendid aervlce his aversion to the countiess'dstaUs F **.£?£
of that branch of the work. Ctmpomd. ' Vegetable
He vas tho most thoughtful man i . k ; ; ^ .. ; , \
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Mr. Hardwick ass d-monstrated about .., he folks. ,| ck or well, Ur.
Freight Paid in 30 Dm Free Trial
. f««. DmdmUa llowla* Machlna,
•flsaV Aur exorbitant Prloaa
$u.oo DOMESTIC ^>00^31
■frluHl n4 tta twin—wa'll «iill>. miuias.
I Domes tie Sowing Maohtne Co.,
FARM LOANS
Now during the Summer to the
time to secure your term loan. It
you wait until your obligation is
due, tbe Fall rush prevents quick
service. -
] Wf have unlimited supply of
cheap Life Insurance money to lend
d can give prompt aervlce.
Levge loans on well-improved
farms at lowest rates.
BARROW LOAN * ABSTRACT 00„
DO NOT SACRIFICE
YOUR COTTON
We are in a position to store all the cotton
you bring us until the market opens up.
OUR STORAGE AND INSURANCE RATES
ARE VERY LOW.
Thomas Union Warehouse Co.,
Thomasville, Georgia.
HOMER WILLIAMS
MATERIAL FOR THE HOUSE
BUILDERS.
Get Our Prices Before You Buy.
Phone 4S5-L.
OFFICE ON A. C. L. WEST CLAY ST.
The
Standard
EverSince
CORTRIGHT
They’re still on—still in good condition, end
the only attention they’ve bad is an occasional
iat of paint
In addition to the lasting qualities, they’re
Fireproof, Stormproof and inexpensive. •
l For Sale by
NEEL BROS, Thomasville, Ga.
3 MONEY LOANED
FARM LOANS PROMPTLY MADE
At 6% Interest, payable annually. The borrower has the
privilege et paying part or all of the principal at any Interest
period, stopping Interest on such ayment. I will save yeu
meney. Come to see me, or write. Prompt attention given
all written Inquiries.
W. M. BRYAN,
OFFICE OVER POST OFFICE, THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA.
VAUGHAN’S NEW
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Jackson Street Opposite the City Hall.
IS NOW READY TO SERVE YOU.
Special Bargains Daily Thi» Week.
In Notions. Hardware, Tin and Enamelware, Dry Goods,
Toys, etc., School Supplies and a thousand other odds and
ends.
Nothing Charged to Anyone—Strictly Cash.
about property liberally supplied |with’ landscape that ia
really worth considering. Time was when they were quite
common, but now]they’re extraordinary in these parts and
r offer you builders seeking distinctiveness a fine opportun-
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