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TELEPHONE NUMBER 166
HEETINQ OF THE WEEKLY
EDITORS
The weekly editors of the state
met at Gainesville, July 14 and
15 for their twenty-second annual
convention, after which they de
parted for the southern coast of
Georgia to spend their annual
outing.
The features of the stay in
Gainesville and of the outin
were enteresting business sess
ions of the editors; a trip in bugg
gies, furnished by the city, over
the macadamized highways of
Hall county to a point where the
machinery is engaged in macada
mizing the county roads; a fruit
feast, made up of practically
every variety of fruit grown in
Hall county, at the country home
of the ever-gentle and widely
known clerk of Hall Superior
Court, Bill Smith: an elegant
evening reception on the lawn of
the beautiful city home of S. C.
Dunlap; a barbecue at Chatta
hoochee park on the banks of the
river made famous by Georgia’s
sweet-singing Sidney Lanier; a
trip to Brunswick over the new
and well equipped electric-fanned
railroad via Fitzgerald where the
mayor, a brass band, and five
hundred wide-awake, patriotic,
cooperating, Fitzgerald worship
ing citizens met us at the depot,
loading our special cars with
every mentionable fruit that a
South Georgia section can pro
d ice; via of Douglas, that indus
trious, rapidly-rising town of
five-thousand people where the
editors will convene in 1909,
whose citizens remembered our
party with luscious South Geor
gia watermelons, in such quanti
ties that the baggage car was
•culled upon for assistance; a com
plimentary boat-ride given by
the city of Brunswick up and
down her magnificent waters and
deep harbors, toJekyl island, the
club-home of the nation's million
aires; to St. Simons island where
a bounteous fish-fry was served
in the shadow of Fort Frederica,
one hundred and seventy-five
years old, built by Oglethorpe,
and ought to be known us the
Thermopylae of Georgia history;
meir the now-fallen Episcopalian
guarded tree beneath which John
Wesley told the Indians and
come; a boat-excursion to Fer
naudina. Florida, where a most
htiautiful beach calls deep unto
deep, but where the would-be
bathers, such as our party, are
dished out filthy quantities of
insulting iaziness by the sour
faced chef; a trip to Cumberland
island where outside of an aver
age beach, you can find nothing
' under the blue heavens ty. enter-
I tain you except a bum hotel
| where you are soothed into mid
j day wakefulness by tns mid-nighc
j serenades of the ever-patient,
I long-billed mosquito, and wmere
you pay $2.50 per day todiinx
what some doctors have called
rotten sulphur water, eat fish,
and fish again, and then some
more fish, fight mosquitoes and
comb your hair or admire your
beauty in the soot that is on your
two-inch-in-diameter, and six
inch-tall lamp chimney.
So you see that some unpleas
ant features were attached to
the trip as well as pleasant ones.
But not so in our stay in Gaines
ville, the Gate City of the moun
tains, where we were met at the
depot by citizens of the town,
had our pockets filled with street
car tickets, and escorted straight
way through the open doors and
and into the arms of the beauti
ful and hospitable homes of that
fair city. The city council of
Gainesville had appropriated SSOO
for our entertainment and no
editor while there neither heard
from the lips or saw in the face
of a single tax payer a shadow of
a hint that this money had been
misappropriated. This money
was ours and we were made to
know it; hospitality, generosity,
kindness abounded.
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Gainesville is a city of about
ten thousand; with splendid
transportation facilities and all
the modern conveniences, such as
electric lignts. waterworks, street
car system, three weekly news
papers. A splendid agricultural
field surrounds it.
Hall county is teaching the
state a lesson on improving her
roads. Each year that passes
sees five miles of her roads mac
adamized, and at a cost of about
S2OOO per mile. The money is
paid by direct taxation and the
tax rate has not been raised at
all.
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Near Gainesville at Cornelia is
located the big peach orchard of
Dr. Jarrell, who kept the editors
supplied with his product while
in Gainesville. The doctor, not
our local doctor however, is one
of the leading peach-growers in
that section, so famous, for its
peaches. . •
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All in all. the editors had a
most pleasant and profitable stay
at Gainesville and on their out
ing, in spite of the fact that the
days of the free pass is gone,
the day when we could have our
little annual session in some
Georgia city and then hike to
Canada or San Francisco; or, in
spite of the fact, that the street
car motormen in Fernandina, up
on seeing a fat negro woman
come hobbling up the street fifty
yards away, and imagining that
she would like to take a ride
through the main thoroughfares
of that enterprising metropolis,
cuts olf the juice, slaps on the
brakes, and turns his face com
passionately towards her as he
waits fifteen minutes for her
ebony soul to approach and crawl
aboard. If you are in a hurry
for the sake of your religion keep
away from Fernandina.
The Jackson Lumber,Co retail
ed off their yards Monday, lum
ber to the amount of $293.50,
$125.00 of which was collected
in cash. This speaks well for the
business which is being done by
this well known firm under its
competent president, Mr. Frank
Outhouse.
FOR RENT.
Two-story brick build
ing corner Oak and Second
streets. Will be ready for
occupancy Sept. 1. Call
on or write.
Homer Carmichael,
Jackson, Ga.
Ist National Bank.
The best coal on earth
for sale at the Jackson
Lumber Company.
Miss Dollie McKibben will en
tertain a congenial crowd at a
house f>arty next week. Those
who will attend are, Misses An
nie Hoge of Charleston, S. C.
Maud Johnson, Phrosine LaFitte
of Atlanta, Martiele Stewart of
Cedartown, Alice Newton of For
syth, Mary Gaillard of Griffin,
Messrs Byron Matthews, Ben
Thompson of Atlanta, Otis and
Dee Tollerson of McDonough,
Clinton Woods of Monticello, Ivey
Wilson of Eatonton, Pitts McKib
ben of Cedartown, Mr. and Mrs.
Tom McKibben of Eatonton. A
number of parties are being
planned for the occasion.
I have for sale 10,000 feet of
good lumber. See me at once.
30-2tx R. A. THAXTON,
FOR SALE.
Two nice residences and several
building lots on West Avenue.
Call on or address W. M. Taylor,
tf Jackson, Ga.
Please place your order for ice
before six o’clock.
Conner & Crawford.
If you are thinking of purchas
ing an organ, see J. T. Mayo and
buy a “Chicago Cottage.”
ft
Blocks for kindling,
shavings for your horse
stalls at Jackson Lumber
Company.
FOR SALE.—IS 4 acres of good
land, 100 acres in cultivation, 54
in woods. Or, I will sell 51 acres
well improved. Must sell at
once. 3tx R. A. THAXTON.
FARMS FOR SALE.
•I have two good farms for sale
—one near Jackson, and the other
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near Forsyth. Will sell them at
reasonable prices. Come to see
or write me at once.
C. W. Buchanan,
Jackson, Ga.
FOR SALE.—Six room house
modern, convenient, new, on
large lot at Jenkinsburg.
James Warthen.
MONEY TO LOAN.
$20,000 to loan on Butts county
farms at T per cent. Come
quick if you need money.
T. J. DEMPSEY,
Jackson, Ga.
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Terra Cotta for your
wells, best made. 24-inch
going cheap at Jackson
Lumber Company.
FOR SALE*.
Five room cottage now building
in Parkland. New,convenient and
j cheap. SIOOO.OO easy terms. I
sell farms and city property.
Will find you a buyer if price is
reasonable. No sale, no expense.
Try me.
JAMES WARTHEN.
P. S.— I have a few more of the
Matchless Pen Policies left and
can fit you with the safest insur
ance at lowest cost
T£E
Jackson Banking Cos.
JACKSON, GEORGIA.
Is THE BANK at which to do your financial
business.
WHY?
Because it is organized under the Georgia Banking
Laws.
WHY?
Because it is not restricted, but can lend money on
REAL ESTATE and any other kind of good security.
WHY?
Because we pay five per cent interest on savings
accounts and time deposits.
WHY?
Because it is the oldest and strongest Bank in this
section, having served the people of this vicinity
twenty years.
WHY?
Because its Officers. Directors and Stockholders are
among the most prominent farmers and successful
business men in Butts county.
—just substitute the
name “Slaton” for the
name “Jamerson” and
you have the style of
the new firm which has
recently purchased the
well known
—we desire the con
tinued patronage of the
many customers of our
predecessors. We shall
increase the stock of
t
goods which we have
purchased and propose
to have one of the best
supplied drug stores in
this section. We guar
antee that our drugs are
pure and fresh and that
your, prescriptions will
be correctly filled.
—your patronage will
prove that our prices
are as low ais the lowest.
Slaton Drug Cos.
Machine Shop
\V . I. WAGNER, Proprietor
Machinery erected and repaired; Pipe Fitting!
Plumbing, Electric Wiring; Automobiles
and Gasoline Engines Repaired.
WANTED: Scrap Iron,Brass,Copper, Lead