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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 ■ 1 ** torture* of the dtmntd 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 ■ ■ feel ilk* * new man." I *itz. mu j o nes St., Sioux City, la. CANOV B CATHARTIC fewcam® ■ a*as mmuko r. ala, *hle. Potent. Taste Good. Do ■ s fteTer Sicken. Weaken, or Gripe. 10c. 35c. SOc K; cure constipation. ... I ' — —*W4y Cewp— y, rhteeao, testra.l. Sew Torb. 819 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 >f it driven out. This S. S. S. does, and 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: A small pimple came on my jaw about an inch below the ear on the left side or my face. It gavt me no pain or iticonven eince. and I should have forgotten about it had it not begun to inflame and Itch; it would bleed a tf little, then scab over, but /rould not heal. This |K4Bp oflCw continued for some time, Vj tfgSK wm 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. jfVMj is the greatest of all blood purifiers, and the only one guaranteed WJp purely vegetable. Send 7T * or our * re book on Cancer, containing valuable and interest ing information about this disease, and write our physicians about your case. W Bake no charge for medical advice. " 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