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ones County News.
M. C. GREENE. Propr.
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Fat, stall fed beef, also fresh
hsh. Come early to see me Satur-
day. ^ '
bvRev'f^F , fnvitaL g p a ,nnH ray ' Service! ’t^ nnf!te iiU
foriUiilly
he held in the court, house.
Miss Adabel Greene and bro-
ther, accompanied by Miss Sadie
Poland, visited relatives in Put-
ngm last Thursday and Friday.
A piano will be needed at the
court house during the teacher’s
institute. Will not some one
heed t he request of Mr Sammons
and kii dly furnish one.
Haddock school will give a pic¬
nic in Blount’s Grove, near Had¬
dock, on June 1st. All are invit¬
ed to come and bring well-filled
baske's.
Misses Susie and Irene Eth¬
ridge joined the large crowd from
Macon that picniced in Americas
last Saturday. They report a
most delightful time.
Mieses Annie and Mamie D
Smit ■ entertained quite a number
of ’’ ends at dinner last Sunday.
The. cordial hospitality was
thorc ghly enjoyed by all pres¬
ent.
Henry Morgan came down last
Sunday and spent the day with
his biother, W E Morgan, who
has been confined to his bed for
several days. We are glad to re¬
port him at his post of duty.
Miss Nora Morton, our assis¬
tant teacher, was confined to her
bed last Thursday. Her place in
the school room was filled very
acceptably by Miss Mamie I>
■« »j11.
irst peaches that we have
heard of being shipped from the
county this year was shipped by
Col- 1 H Johnson yesterday. He
shipped a crave to Atlanta. He
expects to ship several more crates
this veek.
Next Wednesday is a logal>l-
iday and the rural , mail , •
earners
will observe it. Attention of the
mail carriers of the county is
called to the meeting of the mail
carriers convention for this dis-
trict to be held m Macon on that
•day.
The teacher’s institute will be
hold at Gray beginning June 11th
and continuing five days. Board
should be provided for the teach¬
ers and our people help in every
way to make the occasion one of
profit and pleasure.
Efforts are heinp made to pur¬
chase an organ to be used at the
school house until the new church
is erected. Those interested
stale the organ will be securely
locked and protected when not in
use. It will be purchased this
week.
Mrs W C Roberts, who has been
on an extended visit to relatives
in Louisiana and Mississippi, re-
turned home last Friday. Her
letters published in the News
were exceedingly interesting and
were eagerly read and enjoyed by
her many friends. Contributions
from her pen would be appreciate
ed at any time, both by the pub-
lisher and the readers generally.
Don’t. forget the picnic at Brad¬
ley next Friday (tomorrow). All
the schools of the county are in¬
vited and an interesting and in¬
structive program is being pre¬
pared. In all probability Prof
Macon will be present and make
fin address.
GRAY, JONES CO.. GA., THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1906
.
j Whyis it that no one wants to
live in the country anymore?
Cities are full of people who live
fT ° m '‘ han(l t() mouth” and whose
*?"'! “ f el ’ rese,,t, ‘ d "> the
elotlinig they have on. lt'ais
go by and these poisons ne\ei
I have . al W homeB , * 1 hf T lose that
independence that the' proud own*
| er of a farm has. If there is one
needed reform it is to keep peo¬
ple on farms and away from cit-
ies.
No one is so independent as the
farmer; He doesn’t have to
truckle; if he is insulted he can
resent the insult without fear of
losing trade, and there is no
earthly reason, with the improv¬
ed farm machinery he now has in
use why he should not have an
eight-hour day and such leisure
for reading and study as would
soon make him one of the best
informed men in kny calling.
Why shouldn’t the farmer be all
this and more? Surely lie has
the possibilities,
Two daughters of Mr J D Rob¬
erts and one of W H Lowe’s had
a narrow escape from serious in¬
jury last Sunday. They were all
three in a buggy, when near Slo-
cumb Station the horse became
frightened and ran away. The
buggy was overturned and the
girls thrown over and into a
wire fence. The younger daugh-
ter of Mr Roberts was severely
cut by the barbs on the wire,
while the other two escaped with
slight injuries. Moral. Be care-
ful how you trust women with
horses. Few horses ale safe for
women to drive alone.
The beautiful should biiuum exist exist in m
the school life of the child. The
school building and grounds
should portray the artistic and
beautiful. Those things which
adorn the tasty home should em-
hellish the school property—the
lawns, terraces, walks, trees and
flowers. Within should be
ness and refinement. A neglect-
ed school house is a terrible de-
inoralizer. Place a child at a
mutilated desk, put in his hands
torn and soiled books and we find
an almost irresistable temptation
to continue the destruction with
knife and pencil. Place the same
child in a neat clean room with
suitable and beautiful furniture
and we immediately remove the
temptation for destruction.
The name of our town stands
i for a picture in the minds of all
" ho have lingered even for a few
fleeting days within the charm of
its wooing beauty. It stands not
alone as a pleasant picture, but
as the future ideal to its own loy-
al citizens. It is unique among
its citizens in this county as
an ideal town of homes, even as
the county is unique for its
wealth, fertility and manifold
attraction.
Miss Annie Morton has recent-
ly been on a visit to friends at
Locust Grove.
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Sheriff Ethridge went to the
home of Mr Hiram Vanzandt,
who lives near Popes Ferry, last
Monday for tne purpose of si m
moiling a jury to try a daughter
of Mr Vanzandt for lunacy, The
triftl waa before Judge Henry Me-
Kny, and she was found a fit sub-
j ec t for the asylum Mias Vanzandt
waB a ffli cte d in early youth with
an .,b S e 9 » on her head, which nf-
f ec t.ed her mind, and the course
pursued last Monday was found
necessary. A large number of
friends svmyathize with the fam-
ly in this affliction.
Here is a minister who appre-
cates the editor. At a recent ed-
itroial convention he offered the
following toast: < 4 To save an
editor from starvation, take his
paper and pay for it. promptly.
To save him from bankruptcy,
advertise in his paper liberally.
So save him from dispair, send
him every item of news of which
you can get hold. To save him
from profanity write your cor¬
respondence plainly on one side
of the sheet and send it as early
as possible. To save him from
mistakes, bury him. Dead peo¬
ple are the only ones who never
make mistakes.”
Work is a great, blessing. You
can not see now, biff, some day
you will say that you were fortu¬
nate in your boyhood days be¬
cause you were compelled to
work. Because you cunuoj,. get
power to do things save by doing
them. Look over the successful
men you know. Get their liisto-
ry. Nearly every one was coul¬
pelled to work in boyhood. They
toughened their muscles by hard
wook and sharpened their brains
by looking out for themselves.
If you know or hear of an inter¬
esting item in the community
make it a point to see that it
^ a place in your local paper
We would much appreciate your
effort and will send our reporter
to ascertain or verify any lacking
points. Anything which tenns to
bet t<' r or brighten the news ser-
m^h nmre value to the * com mu?
n ity, and the subscribers are the
ones mostly benefited thereby.
The county commissioners, con-
tractors and architect met at
Gray last. Friday and the new pub-
lie buildings were; formally ten-
dered to and accepted by the
county commissioners, and dating
from yesterday, May 21, Gray be-
came the active, operating county
site of Jones county, In the fu-
ture all legal business will be
transacted here. The county of-
fleers have moved over and are
comfortably situated in their new
quarters A portion of the con¬
victs were brought up Tuesday
aitd put to work extending the
sewerage across the public road
into the branch below. The wind
mill is not gi ing satisfaction and
will be disposed of and a gasoline
engine placed in its stead. The
county will lose nothing by this
change as ample deduction was
made by the contractors to insure
the county authorities against
any loss. The obstructions near
by make a wiud mill practically
useless in that locali y. With
water sufficient our public build-
ings will be modern in every res¬
pect, and for comfort, conve-
niepce and beauty second to none
ip the country towns of the state.
This fills a long felt want and our
commissioners and people are to
be congratulated.
VOL. XII. NO. 28
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Your SHOES?
If not
COME TO US
And get the Most, for your Money. Here you will find just.
what, you want and CHEAPER than elsewhere. We carry a
full line of strictly dependable SHOES suitable for you and
your family.
We <lo not Soil all the Horn! Shoos,
But all the SHOES we Sell are GOOD.
Macon Shoe Co.
THE STOKE WHERE QUALITY COUNTS.
Phone 740 MACON, GEORGIA.
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Our business continues to increase and we are
in a better position than ever to furnish supplies kind
on Reasonable Terms.. See us for any of
for Cash or On Time.
Our stock of SHOES is unsurpassed BEST. tn the coun¬
ty and prices as GOOD as the
Let us make you prices on Oats, Corn, Hay,
Bran, and Cotton Seed Hulls
Our line of HARDWARE and Farming Im¬
plements is Complete. Get our prices before
placing your order.
BUSH SUPPLY COMPANY.
GRAY, G A.
THE FARMER TILLING
HIS LAND
is the foundation of the wealth of
this gieut nation. So let him
lighten his labor us mneft as pos¬
sible in cultivating farm or gar¬
den. Our large assortment of ag¬
ricultural implements in ohifSed
iron or steel ploughs, field or gar¬
X ■ den cultivators, seed or grain
EMSSBP 5~\ drills, chines, make an wheel etc., arduous will rakes, tusk enable mowing one of yon com¬ ma¬ t<»
parative ease.
MC BALKCOM, Agt.
F. C. RIES. GUY ARMSTRONG,
RIES & ARMSTRONG,
JEWELERS.
DIAMONDS, WATCHES,; JEWELRY SILVERWARE, ETC
FINE REPAIRING.
EYES TESTED FREE. RELIABLE GOODS ONLY
315 Third Street Macon.