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(iERICAN 13 • ■
111 RICH CHINESE
Hiss Ah Fong- Daughter of Chi
-8 nese Millionaire
liSTOßY OF NOTED CHINFbE
■ne father Wert Back to China
If and Did Not Return—Family
■ still Entertains Magnifies!.tlv
H y distinguished gentleman of
Bjrtgon is about to be married to
Ah Fong, one of the thirteen
■ aU Miters of the millionaire China-
■ ;3 n whose hospitality has made
Honolulu famous among tourists
■iul naval officers. Several of the
Boting lady’s sisters have married
Billed cans and two are engaged to
Bgcers of the army and navy. The
Brange and romantic history of this
■oted family is thus told by the
B'ew Orleans Picayune:
B Still another of the famously
Brdtv Ah Pong sisters of Honolulu
Bill be led to the marriage altar by
Bi American. The Honolulu
Bewspapers say that the approach-
Ha wedding in the great Ah Fong
B an sion in the suburbs of Hono-
B will be the mcst notable
Bent, in point of ceremony and
B'le, of any similar affairs that
Hve taken place there. Miss Sue
B Fong will l>e wedded to Samuel
B Hocroft, wlio had been consid-
Bed one of the foremost matrimo-
B a ! catches in Oregon for several
Bars. He is a Harvard University
Ban an heir to large mining
jßaltli. and a traveler and polished
{Hub man. After ten years of
Bingling in society in Flu rope and
of America, he has laid his
Bart at the feet of a lovely daugh
of the tropical islands in the
seas and he snaps his fingers
|B ail talk about the Chinese father
Mh:> prospective bride.
H\o home in all the broad Pacific
H been so well known by Anieri-
Hn and British naval officers and
jHobe-trotting tourists for longer
Ban a dozen years as the Ah Fong
Bansion in Honolulu. Naval
Bikers say that very few homes
Bve l>een so hospitably open to
Bern in their cruises as has been
Bat of Ah Fong, the millionaire
Bhinese in the Hawaiian islands.
|l Ask any naval officer who has
Bet: al>oard a ship that lay at an-
Bor in the harbor of Honolulu
Biether he remembers the Ah
B°ng home and note the flitting of
Heasant memories through his
Bain. If he is talkative he may
81l you of the liberal and eharm-
H hospitality dispensed in the Ah
Hong mansion among the wonder*
H grounds filled with trees and
Brubs from all tropical lands and
B the thirteen Ah Fong girls rang-
B from toddling tot to winsome
Bnng womanhood. He may tell
B u also °f the oriental dinners
Brved in the Ah Fong home,
■here covers were laid for fifty or
■ore guests, of the lovely balls in
Be hatnboo rooms; of the many
Baz/.as where ladies and gentle-
Ben were welcomed day and even-
B- and entertained with music and
B-rth that seemed to have no end.
Bhe has a bit of sentiment be-
Bath his blue uniform he may tell
Bu of the languorous ballads he
Bard sung at the Ah Kong home,
B the blackeyed, jolly Ah Fong
Bis and their skill in dancing.
■ Among foreign people there have
Ben few more ardent admirers of
Bnericans than the big Ah Fong
■roily. Long before Hawaii be-
B me an American possession the
B Fongs longed for the union.
■ hen the American soldiers were
B their way to the Phillippines
Bd stopped at Hawaii the Ah
B° n g girls were always among the
B st in Honolulu to entertain the
■ ys in blue with feasts and public
Btertainment. Six of the sisters
B Ve married American husbands,
Bd each has had a happy wedded
m- Mi ss Janet Ah Fong is now
Biased to marry a lieutenant in
■ e 1 nited States army in the
PILES
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Km ol ru<3 i"* PUee brought on by eonstips
, which I wm sffiteted for twenty
■wn of V *? roB your CASCARETS in th
■ I% -> and never found anything
■** nfl 1 ftm <*n“iely wee from
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■ s fteTer Sicken. Weaken, or Gripe. 10c. 35c. SOc
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P’TO Bflf* Sold and guaranteed by ail drug
■ gists to CL JEK Tobacco Habit.
Phillippii cs w en h s term of ser
vice will have expired next year.
Four of the Ah Fong sisters have
been educated at seminaries in San
Francisco and Oakland, and Miss
Martha Ah Fong (now wife of
Lieutenant Dougherty, in Manila)
took high rank at Mills Seminary
as pianist and composer.
The Ah Fong children comprise
thirteen girls and one boy. The
eldest (Mrs. Morgan, of New Or
leans) is about thirty-five, and the
youngest (Miss Anna) is just
twelve. Mrs. Ah Fong is a hand
some woman with olive complex
ion, large black eyes and unusual
ly pleasing manners and is of Por
tuguese birth. All of the daugh
ters have her disposition and love
music, and some of them have the
Chinese nose and high check bones
of Papa Ah Fong. The mother’s
manners and the father's commer
cial Seti.se are observable in every
one of the Ah Fong progeny.
Miss Nellie Ah Fong is now in
Paris studying art. She is a strik
ingly handsome brunette, notwith
standing she inherits her father’s
slanting eyes more than any of her
sisters. Mrs. Arthur Ah Johnston,
who was Miss Helena Ah Fong
until four years ago, is a demi
blonde, and the combination of her
blue eyes and dark eyelashes and
hair and her pink-and-white com
plexion makes her the most gener
ally accepttd beauty of the family.
Several of the sisters have their
father’s tall stature, but the rest
are of petite figures. Three have
a pronounced suggestion of Chi
nese almond-shaped eyes, and
nearly every one of them has the
mother’s complexion and soft mode
of speech, No less authority than
Sir Edward Arnold said that the
few days he spent at the Ah Fong
home a few years ago were the
“most tropically charming” he
ever knew in south seas.
About 1858 a young Chinaman
named Wing Ah Fong came with
a ship load of Chinese to Honolulu.
He was highly intelligent and gen
ial, and with a little capital soon
built up a prosperous business in
Chinese crockery, silks and Lric-a
brac. He was soon the leading
merchant in Honolulu. He spent
money freely and was well liked
by whites andbh.cks in the quaint
old town, As he grew in wealth
he made love to the daughter,
Conception, of a poor Portuguese
sailor, who had floated into Hawaii.
The Chinaman’s money and his
superiority to his fellow coolies
made him an accepted suitor. So
Ah Fong was married in 1862.
His wife was fine looking and en
tergetic for that land of languor
and siesta. Ah Fong invested in
sugar cane plantations, and in the
old time, when sugar plantations
paid almost incredibly 7 large pro
fits, he grew very rich. In ten
years Ah Fong was worth oyer
$300,000, and was adding $35,000
to it annually. He was careful
and prudent, while his business
associates droned and took no
heed of the morrow. He was
ceaselessly watching chances to
buy plantation land cheap from
the improvident Hawaiians. By
1870 the Ah Fong sugar plantation
on the island of Hilo had become
one of the most productive there.
While such men as Claus Spreckles
made $700,000 and SBOO,OOO annu
ally from sugar exports, Ah Fong
made $50,000 and $60,000 annually
in the same way.
In 1890 Wing Ah Fong was
supposed to be worth over $3,000,-
000. He refused some $300,000
for his holdings on the island of
Maui alone. There has always
been a mystery about the reason
that Mr. Ah Fong left Honolulu
and sailed for a visit at bis boy
hood home in China in June 1892.
He spent months getting his enor
mous business in shape to leave it,
and he sailed away with his boy.
When months passed and Ah
Fong was still unreturned there
began to be rumors among the
Chinese in Honolulu that the
millionaire merchant had been de
tained in China. When a year
went by and he was yet absent,
the gossips talked more actively
than ever. Mrs. Ah Fong and her
daughters kept closely at home for
a long time and never spoke on the
subject to outsiders.
The Chinese merchants in Hon
olulu began to say that Mr. Ah
Fong had secretly gone on a visit
to a former wife and her two sons
in Pekin and that by the laws of
China he had come very near go
ing to prison for a long term for
deserting his family in China and
going to a foreign land. The gos
sips had it that also Mr. Ah Fong
had paid a fine of many thousands
of dollars, and had settled down
with a good sized fortune to live
all his days with his first family
in Pekin. No one seems to know
how much of this is gossip or fact
The Ah Fong family in Honolulu
has, however, never seen its father
since that day in June seven years
ago. Every one m" Honolulu be
lieves the gossip story as to the
fate that befell Papa Ah Fong in
Pekin. Moreover, the Honolulu
newspapers have several times
published the gossip about Mr. Ah
Fong without contradiction.
The hospitality of the Ah Fong
mansion has never waned during
the years of absence of Mr. Ah
Fong. The family business affairs
have been kept in fine shape, while
the real estate and shipping inter
ests have largely ■ increased in
' T alue since the annexation of
Hawaii to the United States.
Ghosts would frighten many
people who are not afraid of germs.
Yet the germ is a real danger. It
this microscopic animalism could
be magnified to a size in propor
tion to its deadliness it would
show like a giant python, or fire
breathing dragon. The one fact
to remember is that the germ is
powerless t,o harm the body when
the blood is pure. It is far easier
to keep) the germ out than to drive
it out after it obtains a hold in the
system. Dr. Pierce’s Golden Med
ical Discovery is the most power
ful and perfect of blood purifying
medicines. It increases the quan
tity as well as the quality of the
blood, and enables the body to re
sist disease, or to throw it off if
disease has obtained a footing in
some weak organ. Wherever the
digestion is impaired, the nutri
tion of the body is diminished, for
the blood is mad _■ from the food
which is eaten, and half digested
food cannot supply the body with
blood in quantity and quality ade
quate to its needs. For this con
dition there is no remedy equal to
“Golden Medical Discovery.” It
cures ninety-eight out of every
hundred persons who give it a fair
trial. When there is constipation
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets will
promptly relieve and permanently
cure.
Maylit the Det*pst Mine.
Milwaukee, August 30. —It will
require a deep shaft to develop a
mine to the west of the Tamarack
—9 shaft of nearly two miles in
depth—but in view of the wonder
ful strides made in deep mining in
the past decade it is not beyond
the range of possibilities that such
a shaft may be started soon. Fif
teen years ago the sinking of No.
1 Tamarack to a vertical depth of
2,270 feet made a few new world’s
record, and the men who sunk it
were denounced as lunatics until
the phenomenal success closed the
mouths of their detractois.
The bottoming of the Red Jacket
shaft only a few years ago, at a
depth of 4,900 feet, was regarded
with wonder, and held by many to
be the ultimate limit iu deep min
ing, vet today the No. 5 shaft of
the Tamarack lacks but a month’s
work of being a full 5,000 feet in
depth, and the hoisting plant just
installed is built for service to a
depth of 6,000 feet —nearly three
times the depth at which the orig
inal Tamarack shaft cut the lode,
although then denounce t a c azy
undertaking by some of the best
mining men in this district.
If the planned limits of deep
mining have been extended to al
most three times their original
bounds, within less than two de
cades, the jump from 6,000 to io,-
000 feet is not such an impossible
one as it now seems to many. A
shaft two miles in depth could be
sunk in ten years at a cost, includ
ing equipment, of $2,000,000 of
$3,000,000. In other words, a two
mile shaft could be sunk and equip
ped at about the same cost and in
about the same time as the Red
Jacket shaft, which lacks a little of
a mile in depth.
They Are in Every Town-
Exchange.
People who wish to be enterpris
ing until it begins to look as if it
might cost something.
People who w r ant good public
buildings if they can be had with
out increasing the taxes.
People who don’t go to church
because they don’t like the min
ister; others because the coutribu
tion box is passed.
People who wish some one
would open up another store, shop
O ' market, because they are un
able to get trusted any longer by
those already doing business.
People who will tell you whr t
your neighbois say about you f
you will promise not to tell who
told you.
People who want good walks
and streets, provided they are not
taxed to pay for them.
Men who do not need to work
because their wives or mothers
are supporting them.
Girls who have nothing to do
hut dress, fix up, walk around,
try to look pretty, and catch a
beau.
Women who do not make their
homes pleasant for husband and
children, because they must be
continually away attending so
cieties to other people’s affairs.
OASTORIA.
Busts the Tflß Kfflt! VfniThftj BoUjilli
CANCER
Sufferers from this horrible tnalady
nearly always inherit it not necessarily
from the parents, but may be from some
remote ancestor, for Cancer often runs
through several generations. This deadly
poison may lay dormant in the blood foi
years, or until you reach middle life, then
the first little sore or ulcer makes its ap
pearance — or a swollen gland in the
breast, or some other part of the body,
gives the first wanting.
To cure Cancer thoroughly and perma
nently all the poisonous virus must be
•liminated from the blood—every vestags
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is the only medicine that can reach deep
seated, obstinate blood troubles like- this.
When all the poison has been forced oul
of the system the Cancer heals, and the
disease never returns.
Cancer begins often in a small way, asth<
following letter from Mrs. Shirershows:
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v.hen my jaw began to B MZJjt V-- fib
swell, becoming very Mr
painful. The Cancer be- \ iWiA
<>au to eat and spread, -ojl v jJaUv
until it was as large as a or: /]PW\
half dollar, when I heard .4%^.
of S. S. S. and deterrain- 4HK3&adK9!'f
ed to give it a fair trial,
and it was lemarkable : ’
what a wonderful effect 1 ™
it had from the very beginning; the sore began ta
heal and after taking a few bottles disappeared
entirely. This was two years ago ; tlieie are still
no signs of the Cancer, and my general heatlh
.-ontinues good.—Mrs. R. Shirbr, La Plata, Mo.
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TM MM FT WCMFte Ml. ATLANTA, <UL
Commissioner’s Sale of Valua
ble farming Lands.
By virtue of an order from the Supe
rior Court or Bartow county. Georgia,
in re 8. W. Brad lord vs. A. E, Vincent
and MrS. Sarah E. Higgins, petition for
partition,No. 18,January term 1901. The
undersigned, as commissioner, will sell
at public outcry to the highest bidder
for cash at the court house door in Car
tersville, said county, within the legal
sale hours, on the first Tuesday, the 3d
day of September, 1901, the lollowing
property, to-wit: The place known as
the William H.King farm, consisting
of whole lots numbers 277 and 278. and
ninety-four and one half acres of lot
number 299 and ninety-four acres of lot
number 300, ail in the fith district and
3d section of Bartow county, Georgia,
and all ot lot numuer 252 in the 23d dis
trict and 2<l section of said county of
Bartow, the whole tract containing
008J4 acres, more or less. Said lands
sold under and by virtue of the aiore
said order tor the purjaise of division
among the said S. W. Bradford, A. E.
Vincent and Mrs. Sarali E. Higgins,
according to their several interests as
appears from said order.
This is a valuable farm. Pine Log
creek runs through the place, several
springs and branches, good pastures
with running water in them, will make
tine stock farm. Well timbered, good
barns and tenant houses. Altogether
one of finest and moat desirable farma
in north Georgia.
This 31st July, 1901.
K. L. GRIFFIN.
Commissioner,
VIRGINIA COLLEGE
For YOUNC LADIES, Rtanoke, V*
♦ - o
Opens Sent. 21at, U)ul. One of the
leading .School* Tor Young I,*(lie* ill
the south. New building*, piano* and
equipment. Campus ten acre*. Grand
mountain scenery in Vallep of V.,
famed for health European and Amer
ican teachers Full course. Conserv
atory advantages in Art. Music and El
ocution. Students from thirty States.
For catologue address
MATTIE P. HAKKIS,
President, Roanoke, Va,
Bartow Sheriff's Sales.
Will be sold before the court house
door in the Sown of Cartersville, Hartow
county, Ga.. within the legal hours of
sale, on the first Tuesday in September,
1901, the following property, to-wit:
Lots of land numbers 536, 537, 539,545
and 542 in the fourth district and 3d sec
tion of Hartow county, Ge irgia. Levied
on and will be sold as the property of
Etowah Iron Company to satisfy' the
following fi fas, to-wit: 3fi fas each, in
favor of the Bartow Manganese, Mining
and Manufacturing company for use of
otters of Court vs. Etowah Iron Com
pany; one subpiens fi fa in favor of
John Richards vs. Etowah Iron Com
pany in case of I), J. Guyton vs. Etowah
iron Company, and one subptena fi fa
in favor of John Richards vs Etowah
Iron Company in case of Etowah Iron
Company vs. Georgia Iron and Coal
Company and others, Property in pos
session of defendants.
R L.GRIFFIN, Sheriff.
W. A, BRADLEY, Dep’tv Sheriff,
X. M. ADAMS, Dep’ty Sheriff.
August 10, 1901.
TO ALL PERSONS HAVINC
FARMING, TIMBERED 01t
MINERAL LANDS, OR
WATER POWERS
FOR SALE.
The Nashville, Chattanooga and Nt.
Louis Railway proposes to use its best
efforts to induce a good class of immi
grants to settle in territorj’ contiguous
to its lines, and to engage the attention
of capitalists seeking Manufacturing
Sites or Mining Property. It therefore
solicits the support, the co-operation
and the assistance of the people of every
county through which its lines pass.
The management earnestly requests
that all persons who have farms for sale
or lease, those who have timbered
lands, water powers or mineral lands
tor saie, will send a brief description ot
tha aaine to the railroad agent nearest
them, giving the prices and terms of
sale. The priees must correspond with
the prices asked of local buyers. The
management does not propose to aid in
selling lands to immigrants at exorbi
tant or speculative prices.
Large tracts suitable for colon iz a
at low prices, are especially wanteAgt.
J. B, Kii.lirrew,
Industrial and t'ornnieri-ial
H. F. Smith,
Traffic Manager,
N ashy die, Tenn.
Administrator s Sale.
j ti liOßli lA, Bartow County.
By virtue ot an orm-r from the Court
of Ordinary ol'sain count}’, will he sold
at .he court house door of said county,
on the first Tuesday in September next,
within the legal hours of sale, the fol
lowing property, to-wit: so acres ol
land bounded as follows, beginning al
a rock at foot of hill adjoining the .loll}
Ia rm (now Banisters) running northeast
on a straight tine 2*7 rods to a chestnut
tree; thence east to land ot G. A. Steph
ens, .lien e with the Stephen’s line to
the southwest corner, thence west to a
rock, thence south with creek 87 rods to
another rock, thence west up the lull Hit
rods to another rock, and thence north
87 rods to the beginning point. Also 20
acres, more or less, bounded west by
Harrison Dooley’s lands and others,
north by Charley Dooley’s land, south
by land formerly owned by Henry
Wright. Al! oi above described lands
are in the f'th district and :{d section of
said county Sold as the property of
Mrs P. A. f\ hit-worth,deceased. Terms
cash. JAMES W. WHITWORTH,
Administrator.
August sth, 1501.
Letters of Administration.
GEORG iA, Bartow County.
To whom it may concern: Lois Kse
ver has in due form applied to tile un
dersigned for permanent letters of ad
ministration on the estate of Daniel
Keever, deceased, and I will pass upon
said application first Monday in Sep
tember dext. August sth, HtOi.
O. W. HENDRICKS, Ordinary
Letters of Administration.
G EORGIA. Bartow Count v.
To whom it may concern: J. .1. Max
well has in due form applied to the un
dersigned for permanent letters ot ad
ministration to be granted to J. M.
Moon on the estate id' 'oel P. Maxwell,
deceased, and I will pass upon sain ap
plication first Monday in September
next. August ,sth. 1901,
G. W. HENDRICKS, Ordinary.
Letters of Administration
GEORGIA, Bartow County.
To whom it may concern: H. M.
Green liaH in due form applied to the
undersigned lor permanent letters of
administration on the estate of T. C.
Barron, deceased, and I will pass upon
said application first Monday in Sep
tember next. August sth, 1901.
G. VV. HENDRICKS, Ordinary.
Twelve Mnath- ' lappert.
GEORGIA, Bartow County.
The Appraisers appointed to set apart
a twelvemonths’ support tor the family
of Tims. C. Barron, deceased, having
filed their return, all peraons concerned
are hereby cited and required to show
cause in the Court of Ordinary of said
county, within lour weeks from the
publication of this notice, why the ap
plication for said twelve months’ sup
port should not be granted,
Thi* August sth, 1901.
G. W. HENDRICKS, Ordinary.
Application to Make Titloa.
GEORGIA, Bartow County.
To whom it may concern: Carters
ville Land Company lias in due lorm
applied to the undersigned for :tn order
requiring It. A. Clayton, executor of J.
J Howard, toexecute titles to said com
pany to ceitain lands to which it holds
bond for titles, signed by J. J. Howard,
and said application will be heard on
first Monday in September next.
August sth, 1901.
G. W. HENDRICKS, Ordinary.
CStottM ter BUalMtea.
GEORGIA, Bartow County.
Chas. A Davis, esecutor of the last will and
testament of Martha E. Jackson, deceased, hav
ing tiled his petition for discharge from said ex
editorship, this is therefore to cite all persons
concerned, to show cause against the granting ol
ssid discharge, it any they can, at the regular
term of the Court of Ordinary for said county to
he held on the first Monday in September, 1901,
else the same will he granted as applied for. This
June 3, 1901.
G. W. HENDRICKS. Ordinary.
CMattoa ter I teoteten.
Estate J. D. Howdoin.
GEOEGIA, Baktow County.
Whereas, E C. Bowdoin. administratrix of J.
D- Bowdoin, represents to the court in her peti
tion duly tiled, that she_ has full* administered J.
1) Bowdoin’s estate. This is therefore to cite all
persons concerned, kindred and creditors, to show
cause if any they can, why said administration
and receive letters of dismission on the first Mon
day in October next. This July ist, 1901
G W. HENDRICKS, Ordinary.
Notice.
GEORGIA, Bartow County.
To Jane, Lindsey and Emma Milner, of said
county, and Robert Thompson, Sarah Parker/
Spencer Marsh, Ambrose Marsh and Carrie
Perkins non-residents of said state, heirs-at-law
of Timothy Marsh, deceased:
Notice is hereby given that I have tiled my ap
plication with the ordinary of said county, for an
order for distribution in kind of the residue of
the estate of Timothv Marsh, late of said county,
deceased, now remaining in my hands as adminis
trator and that said application will be heard at
the regular term of the Court of Ordinary for
said county to be held on the first Monday in Oc
tober, 1901. This June 4th, 1901.
JAMES UREN.
Administrator Estate of 1 imothy Marsh, dec
am <m >.
Libel for Divorce.
Mariah Young) In tne Superior Court
vs. V of Bartow County,
Ben Young ) Georgia. Libel for
Divorce. No. 28,
Jufy term, 1899.
To the defendant, Ben Young: You
are hereby notified, required and com
manded personally or by attorney, to
lie and appear at the Superior Court to
be held in and for said county of Bar
tow on the second Monday in January
next, then and there to answer the
plaintiffs libel fora divorce, and in de
fault thereof the court will proceed as
to justice shall appertain.
VVituess the Honorable A. VV. Fite,
judge ot said court, this Julv 30. 1901.
L. VV, RKEVfcS, JK.,
Clerk Superior Court.
Libel for Divorce.
Eva Little Pugh, alias Liberal for di-
Eva Little Fowler vorce, Bartow
vs. V Superiorcourt
Andrew Pugh, alias July term,
Andrew Fowler. J 1901.
To Andrew Pugh,(alias) Andrew Fow
ler:
It appearing to the court, bv the re
turn of the sheriff, that the defendant
does not reside in this county, and it
further appearing, that he uoes not re
side in this state. It is on motion o'
counsel ordered, that, the defendant ap
pear and answer at the next term of this
court, also, that the case he considered
in default, and the plaintifl allowed to
proceed, and it is further ordered that
this rule be published in the News and
Courant, a newspaper puldished in this
county twice a month for two months
prior to the next term of this court.
A. VV. FITE,
J. B. C. C. C.
A ugttxl 12. lgtd.
A true extract from the minutes ol
said court, LW. REEVES, JR.,
Clerk.
Application for Charter.
•S FATE OP GEORG 1 A, Bartow CTotintv.
To the Superior Court of said count! :
' r bc petition of L. C Gihn,J. M. Fie/d,
!J. I,.Smith A Son, K. A Smith. J, B.
j smith, M. G. Dobbins, Thos F. Junes,
I John li Hood, T. Warren Tinslev, J.
I \V. Harris, Watt H. Milner. J. P, M>-
I I ontieli, \\ Henry Mi.i.oi, ana Young
I Bros,, a!'o! said ststeandeouniv snow s;
j 1 ■ That they desire for themselves,
| their associates, successors and e-signs
tube incorporof-ed under the corporate
name and style of “Farmers Ginning
and Fertilizer Company ”
2- The term for which petitioners aslc
to be incorporated is twenty years.with
the privilege of renewal at the expira
tion of that time
3. The capital stock of said corpora
tion is to be Four Thousand Dollars, lo
be divided into forty shares of One
Hundred Dollars each. Petitioners how
ever ask thepri -liege of increasing said
capital stock from time to time, to an
amount not exceeding One Hundred
Thousand Dollars.
4. The object ol said corporation is the
pecuniary profit and gain to its stock
holders. The business of said corpora
tion to be a general ginning bus.ness,
and to erect and operate gins, presses
and other machinery ior the purpose of
ginning and packing cotton for the pub
lic for toll or cash; to erect and operate
cotton mills and other machinery for
the purpose of spinning and weaving
and printing cotton grodsot all kinus;
also to erect and operate machinery P>r
the purpose of manufactuiiug and mix
ing fertilizers ot all kinds; to buy and
sell cotton, cotton seed, commercial for
tilizeis.and to do a general merchan
dise business; also to erect and operate
machinery for the purpose of manufac
turing cotton seed oil and cotton seed
meal; and pet loners ask the power to
buy all materials necessary for the man
ufacture ol said products and the op
erating of said machinery, and the pow
er to sell the same, and to do such oilier
acts as are necessary and convenient to
carry on the business of said corpora
tion, and petitioners further ask the
power to purchase lease, have and own
lands, buildings, machinery, and any
other property, real or persona', that
they may dee’rn necessary for the pur
poses of the business of said corporation,
witli the power to hold and sell the
same, and reinvest the proceeds at their
pleasure; the right to borrow money
and issue notes and obligations there
for, ami to secure same by deed, mort
gage or otherwise, with the same rights
and powers as individuals have in like
matters; to make contracts and employ
agents and servants; to have and use a
corporate seal; to make by-laws not in
consistent with the laws of the land, ar.d
to aiter or repeal the same at pleasure;
to sue and lie sued in their corporate
name, and generally to have, enjoy and
exercise all the corporate powers and
privileges incident to private corpora
tions for business purposes, ss prescrib
ed bv the laws of Georgia.
5. The principal office and place of
business of said corporation is to be
Cartersville, Bartow county, Georgia.
9. Petitioners ask for said corporation
the right and oower to receive property
of any kind, at its fair market value, in
payment for subscriptions to Its capital
stock.
Wherefore petitioners pray to be
made a body corporate under the nan e
and style afoeesaid, entitled to all ilie
rights, priv'leges and immunities and
subject to ail the liabilities as fixed by
law. This August7th, 1901.
THOMAS W. MILNER A SONS,
Attorneys for Petitioners.
GEORGIA, Bartow County,
1, L. W Keeycs. Jr , clerk of the Su
perior Court of said county, do herebv
certify that the foregoing is a true and
correct copy of tiie original |>etition tor
charter for the “Farmers Ginning and
Fertiliser Company” now of tile in my
office.
Given under my hand and official
signature this 7th day of August, 1901,
L. W. REEVES, Clerk
Bartow Superior Court.
NOTICE CONTRACTORS.
GEORGIA, Bartow Couxtv.
Office Commissioners of Roads and
Revenues.
Wealed protiosals will be received bg
the County Commissioner* of Hartow
County at their office in the court
house, Cartersville. Georgia, up to 12
o’clock noon. Tuesday’ September 17th,
1901 for th* furnishing of all material
and labor in the erection of a countv
court houae for Hartow county, and
building the same in accordance with
the plans and s/ieciflcations.
Said plana and specifications are now
on file at the County Commissioners’
office at Cartersville, Ga., and also
on file at the office of Kenneth McDon
ald iV J. F. Sheblessy, architects, N. E.
corner 4th and Main Streets. Louisville.
Ky., and at the office of J. W. Golucke
ite 'ornpany, architects, 4th floor Tem
ple Court, Atlanta. Georgia where they
can be seen by prospective bidders.
The building will be two stories high,
abotu 80 x 108 met in size, constructed
of brick, stone,and terracotta and iron.
The first floor will contain rooms lor
the different county offices and vaults
for records. The second floor will con
taut the court room, jury rooms, judge’s
room, witness rooms, etc.
Bids will be received in two ways:
First, lor the complete foundation up to
the top of the w ater table, and also for
the entire building as per plans and
specifications.
r
Payments for said work are to be
made in cash from time to time as the
work progresses upon the estimates of
J. W. Oolucke A Cos., architects, reserv
ing out of each payment ten per cent.
(.10) of tiie amount of estimate until
the whole work is completed.
Kach contractor must enclose in his
bid a One Thousand (11.000.00) dollar
certified check made payable to the
Chairman of the County Commissioners
of Bartow county as a guarantee that he
will enter into contract at his bid, and
give a good and solvent bond in double
the amount of his bid to be approved bv
the Board ot County Commissioners
within twenty (20) days after said con
tract is awarded him, and on his failure
to comply with these terms, the said
check to revert to the County of Bartow
as liquidated damage.
The right is reserved to i eject any or
all bids. By order of the Countv Com
missioners of Bartow Countv sitting tor
county purposes this the 17th dav of Ju
ly, 1901. Address all tiids to the Hon.
L, B Matthews, chairman of the Board
of County Commissioners of Bartow
county, Cartersville. Ga
L B. MATTHEWS, Chairman.
Vv.M. KING,
A. M. PUCKETT,
T. A, JENKINS,
W. I). ROWLAND,
Commissioners of Roads and Reve
nues for Bartow County, Georgia.
Citation for Dismission.
Estate Caleb Gilreath.
GEORGIA, Baktow County:
Whereas. W. A. Jackson, executor of Caleb A.
Gi reath..represents to the Court in his petition,
duly tiled and entered on record, that he has fully
administered Caleb A. Gilreath’s estate. This is
therefore to cite all persons concerned, kindred
and creditors, to show cause, if any they c-n. why
said executor should not be discharged itoti hvs
administration, and receive 1-tters of dismission
on the first Monday in October next I
This July ist. iqoi
G W. HENDRICKS, Ordinarv