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Mr. John Cody moved his fam
ily io Sijfith Caryl 1 mi several days
ngJ.
^\’e are indebted to Mr. Virge
Parks for a nice lot of good mel
low apples.
\Ve now have a better grade of
envelopes' to sell at the ^lngget of
fice—either blank or printed, and
most any kind of writing paper.
Mr. I y . \V. Stnncil, formerly of
Iytimpkin county, but for years a
resident of Kannapolis, N. C-,
called in to see us and get the Nug
get last week, being ibe first time
he bad been back to bis old home
eounty in fwq years.
We had a little ice here Fiiday
mojuing. But the next .morning
Union county beat us three to one
by having snow, sleet and rain,
just across the Hue. And some of it
might have been unloaded on top
of the Blue Ridge, in LjUippkin.
Rev. J. G. Logan, Presiding El
der of the Gainesville District' re
cently said in his report that “Pos
sible the best ' .Senior 15pworth
League in the District is at Dah
lonega. Those attending the
League services almost lill the
church building.’’
No more legal ads will appear
in the Nugget until next year on
account of having no issue of the
paper during the holidays, as tho
editor desires to have time to meet
and Talk’with Santa Claus and as
certain how all his children are
getting along.
The oilier day we saw Mr. Ben
Smith go by the office to dinner
in a hurry aud'much earlier than
usual, A hog had been killed at
his place that morning and he was
leaking his way to tlie dining ta
ble tq sample-some of it. Tt was
just cool cnqugli tq . make pork
tasty r'ght,
A few days ago while the City
anthori! ies..w.&rc-,,blastiug- away the
stone to build a concrete sidewalk
in front of Prof. Vickerys a big
rock dropped on and went through
the roof of his house, so we under
stand. If there was much BiTfeting
like iMs those near would have to
dig pits like they were expecting
a cyclone.
The time for the Aldermans’
election is on the first Saturday in
December. Wonder if there is go
ing to be any? The registration
book ought to have been open be
fore how for new comers, accord
ing to law. And if any body wants
a this; kind they have
to file their names with the Mayor
in duo time.
The country people not wishing
to feed but few, if any cattle this
winter, are bringing them in and-
selling, and being more for beef
than the demand, nre being put in
trucks and shipped to Gainesville.
And later no beef cattle can be had
here and the shipuients will be
coming the other way at a much
higher price.
On Wednesday night after the
big election, when it was thodglu
that a majority of the ballots of the
gounirv were cast for everything
to go ciiyrGrover Anderson, Ciif j mken up, having nothing on ex-
Adams and Bob Walker got hold cept a shirt. Those were happy
of enough liquor to make them feel days which we would he glad to
jolly an ! funny and go and disturb call back if wc could, except one
Mrs. Vickery is reeqvei ing from
anattnet of fill,
There stems to be a big demand
for ’possum dugs now.
DriverX of autos should always
go slow in turning a curve.
We will furnish, and print 20.0.
.envelopes at the Nugget office for
$l.oo, for a while.
g | Prof, Vickery caught a line, fat
’possum Tuesday night—iu his
house with an iron rake.
Talk about prohibition. It’s a
failure. Lots of liquor made and
sold and n,o. taxes heiug paid for
its sale.
Col. Pruett is having mechanics
with saw and hammer to improve
the looks of his residence both in
and outside.
Mr. T. M. Brooksher has been
sick for several days. Was able to
be out a little while Tuesday but
had to go in.
The commissious for the Notary
and new members for the Lump
kin Board of education have not
yet been received by the Ordinary.
W. E. Dendy, Jr., of Atlanta,
appeared in Dahlonega one night
full enough of the “overjoyful” to
have to pay $14, ten of it to buy
'cement for sidewalks.
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Mrs. Lomax, mother of Mr. Van
Lomax,'who died in the eastern
part of Lumpkin a few days ago.
aged about 85, was carried to
Clemons’ Cliapel in Hall for inter
ment.
The North Georgia Conference
is now in session in Atlanta and it
won’t be but a few days until ev
ery preacher belonging to it will
know where their next year’s
home will be.
Although the time for the pol-
lection of City taxes was up
the 1st of October, all have not
been collected yet, and cqu’t be
this year if any |aijd has to be lev
ied on and sold for its Uses,
We had the pleasure of meeting
Mr. T. A. Chastain, of Pickens
county, while he was here last
Friday, being over to see his
family, having moved over, some
time ago to receive the benefits of
the educational institutions in
Dahlonega.
One side of the public square
in Dahlonega has a rock finish
made bv nature, a little rough but
not muddy. Though we are
looking for the stone to be blasted
up and a concrete touch given
it. We haven’t the money for it,
but something else can be let go.
We Heard of a fellow the other
day who had decided to reduce his
liquor-expenses enough to buy n
shont to fatten and make his meat,
and the day after it was brought
and,put in the petf, ho began re
peating: “I love my wife, I love
my baby, I love my biscuit sopped
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in gravy.
Last week when the mercury
got down to 36 we could smell
fresh meat frying at various homes
being a time we enjoyed in our
boyhood days when we would take
a piece of bread and sop out the
ski lie l (imatuvOS then) loft on the
hearth after meat was fried and
Wo laid away our Smith badge, ! They are working right along at
joined tho Rod Cross and got one the Dugas Mine,
of u,diHerent kin,., j Hound dogs sell for £7f> a piece
The thermometer registered 30 j anil pigs Jour and five dollars.
lust Friday morning, being tho! w . , .
J * '*e print visiting cards at the
coldest of any morning up to that, v . • 11
J s 1 Nugget office nice and cheap.
time.
The Mayor's contest was post
itpq appYT/ri
oM.ll
Mo oMiVHjL
Mr. Stevo Free and Miss Mary
Thompson were married Monday 1
night. Ordinary Townsend offi
ciating.
Jack frost shows up of mornings
and the butterflies come out about
noon for a while. They hate to
give it up.
Sunday was Armistice Day but
aside from church services Mon
day was observed here oy the clos
ing of the Post Office and Banks.
Tunt’s all.
Bob Meaders says the editor of
the Nugget will live to be Jor,
but is like all telephone operators,
won’t tell us where he got his im
formtion.
thing: Don’t think we would
like to sit there sopping and eat
ing without any breeches on if it
was a coof day and the wood pop-
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ping arid the sparks flying.
the old lady Adams enough to
cause Mayor Moore to charge each
one tyu dollars and cost,
A Je w nigths ago a car wreck oc
curred near the turn of the high
way close to the cemetery. Mr. '['lie Dahlonega High Basket
Walt West and Sam Davis were in p a p 'p oam p ) a yed Cleveland
one, and Mr. B. R. Menders and j{ 1{ ,t» Sefioo Monday. Boys score
Mr, Will Zimmer, Jr., in thqotli- _g lo Played five minutes
er. Neither of the last two hurt , no re and tied again—lo to lo.
except a little cut on Mr. Zimmer s j s score _ 8 to 4 in favorof Dali-
forehead. But the other two wei- Miss Genevieve McKee
not so fortunate. One of • 1 is girls’coech. Dahlonega boys
Wtst’s aims was broken and crush- j j llivc j os: ,. 0 game—defeaied Mur
ed and otherwise cut and[ bruised j rivv ,;p ( , t() recently. Boys
on the laxly. Sam was badly ‘- 111 | no coach. Dahlonega teams
am! bri.i-<"l in man v places nu 1 lie j | (;,i, (VWi I,.-,-,
limbs ai.il body. One ph.Cc ne.,i pi ,, Clu ster, iio> t Davis, K
the m. nth was cut clear through. , 3i;c i, ibhVttd fc’eaboU. Girls:
It is claimed l '* at Mr- ^ 1 s \j Ca| t. Jo Jtfies,- Manager, Ruth
drinking was the cause ot the- n - s {lH |J t . s> q L . McDougald, Minnie
rj.i, m We know nothing afoul . b ,
i, -1 he cars showed that sc me* ^orl.-y, l aunte beabolt, Grace
bad had happened, j Hawser, Laura Thornton.
thing ptetty
Mrs. W. T. Stringer, who has
been reading the Nugget for many
years, paid our office her first visit
last week, accompanied by Mrs.
Pierce, one of her daughters.
The Palm Beacli Independent
has also found that Editor Towns-'
send lives at Dahlonega, runs the
Nugget and refers to him in a very
pleasant manner on 9th inst.
One of Mr, Cleve Calloway's lit
tle children, about two or three
years old, died last week and was
buried at W.a^oo. The baby died
last Sunday and was also buried
atWahoo. Both had whooping-
cough.
Our old friend, Mr. W. M. Dow
dy, who left Lumpkin a few years
ago and located at Knoxville, call
ed in Monday to renew liis sub
scription while back on a visit to
his former home. Mr. Dowdy,
although 76 years of age, says
lie works every day in a plant with
1,600 laborers, and never ge's
lonesome.
On Monday three p-jrties from
Alphafelta vV6iit twelve miles be
yond Neel’s Gap after a truck
load of boxwood, making it in a'
day [from Alpharetta and back.
They said it brought a good
price. But it is such a slow growth
that a person would have ter- start
it when ten or fifteen years old to
be able to get his crop ready for
market before he died with old
age.
We met Uncle Warren Hen
dricks here last Monday for the
first time in quite a while, from
across the mountain at Gaddis-
town. He was on his way to
Gainesville with apples to buy su
gar and cufi'ee to do him during
■the winter, Has everything else
at home to eat and drink—that is
milk. Uncle Warren has worked
on the farm and made money and
saved it all his life, making a suc
cess and still works every clay
ai the age of 7j. Used to uiakq
frequent visits to market with his
produce, but don’t go now often
on account of being too old to en
dure the exposure a wagoner has
to. He came liis old route,
tho Ccoper Gap Road, because the
road that intersects with Woody
Gap highway does not receive
much attention, he states.
On Friday AIr. J. B. Herndon,
of Atlanta, and Mr. U. L. Bonner,
of Deoatef, two Old students of the
N. G. A. College in the years gone
by, appeared in our office, accom
panied by two beautiful young la
dies, as we thought, but were not
long in learning that they were
their wives, both having recently
married and were out on their
honeymoon, taking in tho sights
and natural scenery of the moun
tains, which the ladies had never
seen before, dropping into the Nug
get office early the next morning
to look at the one these ladies had
read and heard much about, but
never met before. Said we had a
nice little plant—didn’t say tlie.ed-
» .- .< - "vc. u •• « ' confident he
W.i.-j li.i/l i u . .; ul.i .0 lie h 1 1 on
liis checked apron and was just as
modest as a person could be. Let
this be as it may, we wish these
yoiiDg people a most happy and
pro-pacin'journey through life.
polled Monday until Thursday.
There is a lot of sickness in our
county—-bad colds and flu. Noth
ing soriotts so far.
Last Sunday ninht two houses
were burned at Whim Hill Mine
in Aurnria District.
Always inclose the money when
you send for the Nugget. We do
not have time to keep books.
Mr. Lamar Weaver, of Copper-
lull, Tenn., was over a few days
ago, accompanied by his family.
The North Georgia Electric
Company began last Monday clean
ing out the canal and making tho
necessary repairs to get water
in the dam at Seabolt Shoals.
Davis together with other offi
cers, have destroyed four distiller
ies in Lumpkin county within the
past few days. Atone place they
found I70 gallons of liquor.
We are informed that every
thing is getting along nice and
smooth at the College. Have not
lost but. one boy sinco the opening
of the term, being on account]} of
his conduct.
The preaching day and hours for
services at Alt. Sinai have been
changed to the 3 r d Saturday and
Sunday in each month. Services
being at il on Saturday and at
2 130 on Sunday.
l’at Welch and Floyd Adams
both had to pay fines for having
drank too much toddy. The for
mer $5 and cost, and the latter
$10 and cost—his djjuk Japing „the
fighting quality.
Wc understand that some par
ties from Rickettsville — didn t
learn names, attended a free show
at k GaiuesV ; ’le Saturday, night,
and upon returning !'!?* C ar turned
oyer-on, thorn, yet the injuries
werei {Slight.
The California mining parties,
who recently made tests on the
Briar Patch property, notified Mr.
W. B. Loggins to reopen the Cal
houn vein. He went to work'lues-
dav. This vein has produced thous
ands of pennyweights of gold.
The other .night beyond Wahoo
church the car of Mr. J. S. Speer
and one occupied, by Howell
Wheeler, Olen Barns and-Hubert
O’Kelly, collided, disfiguring both
cars to the amount of several dol
lars. Mr. Speer states that Wheel
er drew his knife and demanded of
him the money for damages to
bis car, causing Mr. Speer to
swear out a warrant for Mr.
Wheeler, who was arrested and
lodged in jail.
On Sunday night Eppa Hes(«f
and a fellow who say9 his name is
J. C. Ransom, who left out togeth
er a few nights ago without leaving
nuy address, were caught at the
woman’s mother living on Brick
Yard Hill, and lodged in jail by
County Policeman Davfs. 1 he
woman is charged with keeping a
disorderly house, and the man, be
sides taking Butler’s shirts, debts
unpaid,-including a board bill, was
wanted in Alabama.fot stealing a
car. Tire authorities there were
tY itifled. Later eh arge mistake.
Wo were infrodneed to an Atlan
ta gentleman last Sunday—we
have forgotten Ids name. He said
he had been reading ubou-t us iu
the Atlanta Journal and other pa
pers, who eyed 11s from head to
foot, no doubt be if 11 g surprised at
not seeing a man with gold rings,
diamonds and dressed in a most
expensive suit,- head sticking up
through a standing collar fastened
to it silk tie three inches broad
and a yard long. Yet there
we stood in our dollar pants, coat
to-mate’', and a yarn shirt cu 1 ’ a~'d
made during high water. Ncv.i*
theless we had a quar.er in 0110
pocket, feeing ioi.fjitab!e and
much 1 appisr than we would have
Dee 1 with a tire s i t on and all
pojkcta empty.
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