Newspaper Page Text
\
T j, .
A.i VC/
a l
6
communica-
week.
The S:
I i .... opiums Library
op.Mi Ir >m two to four o
On June the 1st a l). S Forcsl
.Jiiingel' will !>e stationed at Dah-
Jyueya. Who will occupy the old
Clerk’s office., up stairs in court
Jiotuse. Later.—lias arrived.
The fanners had’a nice time for
working week. Jt didn’t fain
but little until Saturday afternoon
but in an hour enough fell to make
up for the week. We never saw a
harder rain fall.
We were under the impression
Jliat all the farmers in this section
were done planting. But some of j
lho.se with bottom land are not
through yet on account of the very
ivet spring. And it’s getting late.
After a severe spoil of sickness
f'rof Vickery was able to be in his
class room last week, though yet
right feeble. We are all glad to
see him out again and hope he
will noon regain his usual health.
Next year Georgia cars will
have to carry two tags. One in
front and one in the rear, in order
lo comply with an act passed by
the last legislature. So this will
require the officers to have to take
a double look.
The expected visiting singers
didn’t reach Siloam last Sunday
on account of the rain but it was
announced that they would be
there later on. A crowd met
to hear them, a number of whom
sang some. So the congregation
heard some music’ any way.
Case Fowler & Co., of Macon,
have a crowd of hands cutting
logs in a few miles of Dahlonega,
trucking them over to Brookloi!,
shipping a car a day. At this
rate, if continued for a few y ars
there will be but little timber
in Lumpkin county except
that which is on the goverment s
yroperty. Years ago settlers had
to have log rollings in preparing to
farm and burn up the big
line timber which’was useless then,
to get rid of it. But fhis is a thing
of the past.
dust as they were started up op
eration at t!ie dredge down on
Cane Creek last week the motor
became unruly and kicked Mr.
Geo. Mays, one of the northern
gentlemen who came down with
the others to see if their dredge
would work successfully here, and
broke one of his arms, then kicked
Mr. Mays around and gave him an
other kick in the back. 1 l' e
pump, or whatever they call it,
draws or sucks up the sand from
the bed of the creek all right, but
the question is will it bring up the
gold from the crevices? This is
what they are seeing about now.
If it does another boat will he
built for this stream.
Although the people had only
one days notice in the Nugget that
a change had been made in tire
Commencement program and the
young lady’s play would take
place at the College last triday
night- the auditorium was c:owd-
£d to its full capacity soon after
the bell rang. Every seat was full,
til! standing room occupied and a
number of persons on 'he outside,
eateh hoping that some one would
come out so they couid enter. But
everybody kept their places until
Mr. John /Lakh's’
lion w\i!l appear next
The price of beefsteak Is II5 cents ,un ° 1,1 UH ' a -
; per pound n.nv, an 1 scarce besides.
Mr. Henry Johnson has sold tho
Collin house and lot to Mr. Char
lie
lie Free.
Mrs. Lizzie Wcllutit, a very old
lady, is dangerously ill out in Mill
Creek District.
Mr. Williams, a first class work
man, is now at Fred Jones’ Garage
ready to do any kind of auto re
pair work.
In tew days Commencement will
end and the students will begone.
They are a nice lot of boys and
girls, well behaved and wo will
miss them.
Mr. John Holding, who has been
superilending some highway work
for some time, has gone to South
Carolina to make some road im
provements there.
Mr and Mrs. E. IV. Root, of
Brockport, N. Y , dropped in last
Wednesday morning to subscribe
for the Nugget, so they can keep
up with what we are doing here.
Ye editor is engaged now a part
of the time in eating strawberries
and sugar—berries grown at home,
causing him to be fat and pretty
yet don’t show it much unless you
are close to him or have a magni
fying glass.
The Orilorical contest will
come of! tomorrow night. The
Champion Debate next Friday
night June l. Competitive Drill
the morning of the 2nd. Sham
Battle in the afternoon and Alum
ni Association at night.
We do not regret the little con
tribution we made towards the
erection of the Athletic Hall. Of
course our style of dancing—the
cake walk and similar steps, dif
fer somewhat to the dancing done
now, but we can sit in our office
porch and listen to the music. It
is fine.
Friday.
There was an electric storm and
much rain here last Monday after
noon an I night, And the town in i
darkness for a while.
It has been too wet this week
for the farmers to any thing, And
but little of any kind of outdoor
work could be do ie .
Rev. A. C. Johnson, Pastor of
the Baptist church here, traveled
about sixteen hundred mites re
cently by request, to preach a fu
neral.
The youngest daughter of Mr.
IS cl Bruce, who recently died with
pellagra, is very sick with the same
disease, so severe that it is causing
her to have convulsions.
Col. Pat Haralson, of Rlairsvillc,
dropped in to see us Wednesday as
he was returning from Dawson
county where he had been to look
over some wild lands he had re
cently bought.
We saw Mr. Arthur Woody, a
Forestry man, in town Tuesday in
company with two oilier gentle
men who we suppose were in the
same business. Mr. Woody has
been in the service of the govern
ment for many years, spending his
time in the mountains.
Hya letter received from a rela-
FRER AIR free WATER
Wmi til’s** Scm ice {Station
Dahlonega, Oa.
CARS STORED AND WASHED
VULCANIZING A SPECIALTY
live in Oklahoma, wo learn that torney located at Cleveland,
j i 1 . . • 1 • . f 1)..
Mr. S. W. Garvin, on Route 2,
sent us a large pocket knife to look
at this week which belonged to his
great grand father, believed to be
near 100 years old. Oil one end
of the bundle is the picture of
President Taylor. Mr. Garvin’s
father refused to take $20 for the
knife.
The County Commissioners are
arranging to repair the court house
and put it in good shape. Iron
railings will take the place of the
decayed wooden ones, steel sheet
ing will be used overhead in the
court room and the outside ot tbu
building, including the root,
will receive the proper attention.
They drove in from the country
Friday night to attend the ente-
tainment we suppose, and in order
to have enough sweetness to last
him nutil it was over stopped his
car on the street near the court
house long enough to hug and
kiss, attracting the attention of
those near enough to see them by
the electric lights. Autos are a
great convenience for such pleas
ure. We are thinking about buy-
U3 a car.
Homer Dotson and ‘‘Flat” An
derson were put in the calaboose
Sunday night for drinking “funy
drops. A while after they were
a very destructive rain and hail
storm visited that country recently
extehdiug for eighty miles, caus
ing the farmers to have to plant
their corn and cotton over. Gar
den stuff was also destroyed.
Some men are strange. They
will drink liquor and go to see the
women, until they take a notion
to marry. Then they will begin
to talk prohibition because they do
not want their legitimate boys to
drink. Yet it don’t matter a darn
to them about their others who
some body else are feeding.
It looked for a while the other
day like Alderman Fred Jones and
County Policemen Joe Davis and
Emory Brackett would have seri
ous trouble, caused by Jones at-
tacting Brackett, accusing him of
cursing in front of Mrs. Jones
Cafe the day before while arrest
ing one of tho Beardens lor run
ning a car without a tag. Jones
and Davis were fined ten and cost
each. The ladies not heating
Brackett swear he was acquitted.
Preachers differ widely about
liquor. A portion of them intimate
that those who make or sell it are
sura to be guests of tbe devil.
While some of the ministers make,
sell and drink liquor. There is a
ministir from our county now serv
ing a sentence for handling it. It
looks like all the preachers could
see alike on this subject so printers
and sinners would not be kept in
confusion and losing sleep in try-
ing to got the matter straightened
out.
the most splendid
was over. As it is well known
young ladies know no such word
as fail when they appear on the
stage.
entertainment jLc^ed up a boy in passing saw
Many boys used to - save tip
money and buy them a pair of
Brogan shoes for winter use
an usual light in the prison, who
reported it and Mr. John Moore
was soon there with water to pour
through the grates. Marshal \\ at-
son made a quick run with the
key. when it was learned that the
prisoners had taken somo oil used
to heat up an oil stove tor the com-
went barefooted during the sutn- j f ort G f guests on a cold day, pour-
mer. Now whtfn the most of them t(1 it on . [, c floor and set a match
got hold of a nickle or n dime they (0 it This was a very dangerous
go right straight to a drink stand j. ict> localise it it had been a late
and spend it. And pap or m » 71 ! hour they might have lost their
have to keep them shod up the |j ves nm i mabe caused a big e, n- y ^ .nint, then
year round with nice expensive j fl a g ra tion. A prison—the jail, was
shoes, and pretty socks bought out burupd on the adjoining lot during
of the store with legs half a yard t i K .-('ivil Y. ar, and two prisoners
long. Couldn’t find a boy now xV( .,. e H o overcome by the smoke
who would wear a pair of copper : they were speechless and so
toed Brogan shoes. We have seen hapless that they had to be car-
girls wear such shoes and glad to.I ri . q out , mid soon afterwards the
get them. And 11 calico dress for , y w is nothing but a heap ofash-
Sunday, the tail of which reached j cS _ Mayor Moore fixed tl e price
to the tops of these was very , f starting a fire in lit
, . .. at «tf> and cost each,
pleasing to them. I
The old Academy, located in
Dahlonega, was the only place a
boy or girl could receive any pa;t
of an education in Lumpkin coun
ty for years. A pupil was not load
ed down with books then, from
one to four books and a slate and
pencil filled the requirements.
AU day teaching by one man or la
dy, Lustra 1 rf being given a mark
or demerit forbad lessons gave
a whipping. No free education
in those days,and no dangerous
games, or a boy allowed to even
climb a tree.
On Sunday last Editor Melton,
of the Griffin News, two sons, and
Mr. D. F. Davenport, of Americas,
after spending the night at the
Mountain Lodge, gave the Nugget
office a very pleasant call. Mr.
Davenport was a student of the
College here fifty years ago when
used for
c jllega purposes, was destroyed
by fire, lie was also present at tbe
Findley Mine when
A ro,ad superintendent with his
crew 7 , has been engaged lor some
time making the highway from
the Lumpkin county line on down
towards Silver City four feet
broader, giving it the same width
us the one in Lumpkin, which
will give the travelor a broad and
smooth road to and from the Gale
City — Atlanta. z\nd by tho way.
ono of the crew informed us that
they found DawsonviUe pencable
and quiet, the people there and all
along the line just as clever as
they can be.
Mr. Miller, who has been here
for six months with a small plant
on Crown Mountain making tests
of the mining values of that and
other property adjoining lor the
Canada people, informed 11s last
week that it has mot proven satis
factory, was pulling cut and
will be ready to leave tor home
about tho first of the month. Mr.
Miller says he regrets it very much
because this is an ideal country
and he likes to live here. The gen
tlemen have spent quite a lot of
money making tests and payments
on the property. The mining bus
iness is different lo any other.
Most of the mining property here
belongs to nonresidents. If
you go into a store to buy any
thing you are shown tbe article bo-
fore paying for it. But if you
wish to become tbe possessor ol a
gold mine you have to take an op
tion, pay a portion of the money
down and then prospect the prop
erty at your own expense to see if
the owner has anything that will
pay to work it. This company
had complied with the custom and
were expecting to put up a large
plant that would handle a vast
amount of low grade ore and pay,
if only worth a dollar per ton, av
eraging this clear across the prop
erties so they could pull it-in wiUi
steam sbovnls to keep their plat t
aunning steady. Wasn’t found in
sudliciently near the smface
to justify them to erect tbe intend
ed plant. No deep test was made.
One has never been made here,
and it may be that our mines are
as rich several hundred feet be
neath the surface as they are in
Janes fell in ; t [ ie west. The gold veins in this
they were CO nutry run in straaks—long but
It rtlir.s, itjrains and then rains.
Dr. 1. J. Mt D maid will Be in
Rahloncga 1‘rcm May Moth until
June tff.h to do dental work.
ff'lie new County Policeman
found one still last week an 1 are
out every day looking lor others.
One of the “log |iien”, a negro
by the name of Williams, was
fined ten and cost this week
by Mayor Moore for speeding.
If everybody with a garden had
a sow like Mr. Ben Smiths they
would not be troubled with their
neighbors chickens. We saw his
chrse a hen the other day until it
flew up 011 llie fence and the hog
treed or “fenced’’ the fowl like a
dog after a squirrel. She didn’t
bark but looked up at the hen and
giuuted.
The County Commissioners at
their inst meeting made these rules
for road working, the most of
them new. The road tax is $3 for
the year, if paid before Aug. tho
1st. Four dollars after this date
or four days work—ten hours a
day. Stock $1 a day. Overseers
$i.5o por day, who are not allow
ed to work more than ton days in
any District except by special per
mission of the Chairman.
Col. C. A. Edwarde and Mr. M. J.
Williams were down from White
But -Friday. The former is an at-
the latter i« cashier of the Bank at
Helen. Both are clever as people
get to be. Jap belongs to the
meating house while we are sitting
up on the printers mourning stool,
and things we botli talked about
when wo were young and chased
butterflies and called up doodle-
bungs are not of any inteiest to
us now.
Crown Service Station
Standard ‘J? roclncts
Polarine and Mobile Oils and
Cup Greases
Wojwill appreciate a share of your patronage
1: 1 ollege) H B SMITH, Pro-
A. & M. SUMMER SCHOOL
FOR
TEACI^ n:
June 11th to July 11th, iQ28.
Threejhours ot credit for the course.
All rural teachers should attend.
Professionalize your certificate.
A delightful place to spend your vacation and
earn ciedits at the same time.
Expenses for tbe term $22.00.
A. & M. SCHOOL
Clavkesvi l LE , Ga.
>0* t-rjwu- ***
IN < )TIOE
We carry a first class lino of
Toilet Articles,
Drugs,
Sundries, and
Patent Medicines
of all kinds.
Wo are
LICENSED DRUGGIST
And can fill
any kind of Proscriptions.
See us for School Supplies.
Lipscomb Ding Co.
ihe sluiee way while
r inning the ore down to the mill |1Qf) p r0ll q enough to do extensive
and was killed. We talked over 1 m i„ing of this nature. An places
many of the happenings in the j j„ pockets containing aeven or
j years of long ago. Mrs. Melton j eight thousand pennyweights Werj
, CC i a'so accompanied her husband to j [ iave seen such pockets taken from
sc » D “ 1 1 1|K J 01M3 , md F.udky shoots.
Your Attention a Moment
THE
BANK of I l.LIILONEO-A
is t J10
STATE DEPOSITORY
CITY DEPOSITORY
. and the
I *copied I depository
Can take enro of your money, or loan you some.
NEARY 40O DEPOSITORS
0 F F 1 C E R S:
J. F. PRUETT, President,
J. M. BR00KS11 Eli, Vice-President,
T. F. CHRISTIAN, Cashier.