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VOL. XVI.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Let everybody talk fair for the
next ten days.
The program for the fair will he
full of interest both days. It will he
worth all it costs to see the display
alone.
Hamilton hopes to he full to over
flowing next Thursday and Friday,
Everybody will be cordially wel
corned.
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Come in next 1 hursday and !
day and see what the county is doing
in the way ot stock raising. You
will he gratified at the exhibit of
stock.
A committee has been appointed
to Yarn of the better things left at
home next »eelj and not shown at
the fair, and all of them will he pro¬
cured at once for the county display
at Columbus. •
Editor Persons, nf the Talbotton
Eew Era, is disposed to cavil at our
grammar. The purpose of language
is to convey ideas, and the idea we
purposed conveying in the sentence
criticised, seems to be perfectly clear.
It was that Harris has no grounds to
Talbot, even if Col. John B.
Gorman is to have charge of her
display, and if this isn’t sufficiently
clear now Editor Persons can have
ocular demonstration on or about
October the 4th, at Columbus.
The Chattahoochee Valley Expo
sition will he a grand success. From
its inception it has been managed
with great skill and ability. Its of¬
ficers planned everything upon a
liberal scale and in everything they
liave been sustained by a liberal pub
lie sentiment. The very name has
had a talismanic influence, proclaim
ing the fact that the Exposition is
not a local affair, but is designed to
benefit the whole Chattahoochee val
ley, in advertising and developing its
resources. Columbus is to be bene
hted, but she will share the -benefits
with the counties ot which _ she is the
trade center. J
JOSEPH L.DENNIS
PROPRIETOR.
Col. Harry Jackson whipped an
Atlanta editor last week simply to
keep his son from the danger neees
sarily attendant upon the operation,
In doing so the Col. perhaps estab
blished his reputation for valor, hut
lost it for what Honest John Falstaff
has assured us is the better part of
valor, discretion. Had he taken Ids
beligerently inclined son into the
hack yard and administered to him
that correction so forcibly commend¬
ed by Solomon, instead of pursuing
the course lie did, the whole world
wou j t { have applauded and the result
0 £ ^he primary on the next day would
have been very different. *
The county exhibits at the
tahoochee Valley Exposition will he
an interesting feature, Several
the counties of Georgia and
will make displays, hut none ot them
can excel Harris, Her varied
sources are unequaled by any county
in the entire section, her natural
vantages of soil and climate cannot
be surpassed, and her people are
wanting in skill or enterprise. They
were first to resdlve to mak a
exhibit, first to organize for it and
first to select a position for their
play. They led off right, have
lively since they started and
chances for the blue ribbon are tip
top.
Harris County’s Fair.
The exhibit of the resources of
Harris county, to be made here next
week, will mark an epoch in the his¬
tory of the county. It will be a no¬
table affair and one reflecting credit on
the county and her people. Much
work has been done, the officers
the assocaition working in perfect
harmony from the moment of organ
j za tion to the present, and nothing
they could do to make the fair a
cess, has been left undone. ’
-The exhibit will be worth seeing
and every citizen of the county
should see it. The admission to the
grounds has been fixed at a nominal
amount and the receipts will be used
after paying the premiums, to remov
ing t.ie display to Columbus and
making a county exhibit at the Chat-
HAMILTON, GA„ SEPTEMBER 21,1888.
tahoochee Valley Exposition. Let
every citizen cf the county help on
the good work by attending with his
family both days.
Senatorial Convention.
Under a call of the chairman of the
democratic executive committee of
the 25th Senatorial district, delegates
representing the several counties con
posing the district met in convention
in Talbotton on Tuesday morning,
the 18th, instant.
Judge J. M. Mathews, of Talbot,
was elected chairman and T. If. F.
Hadley Secretary, The counties
were represented as follows:
Harris—T. J. Neal, J. H. Mobley,
T. H. F. Hadley, 13 . Williams and J.
L. Dennis.
Talbot—J. M, Mathews.
Upson—T. D. Ferguson.
Capt. T. J. Neal placed in nomina¬
tion for the Senate the name of Hon.
B. H. Williams, of Harris. It was
seconded by ’Messrs Ferguson and
Mathews, and unanimously carried.
Messrs Mathews, Ferguson and
Dennis were appointed a committee
to notify Mr. Williams of his nomina¬
tion.
Upon motion the chair then ap¬
pointed the following executive com¬
mittee for the district:
Talbot—A. P. Persons and George
Harris— J H. Mobley, J. L. Den
ms.
Upson—T. ID. Ferguson, J. Y. Al
len.
Chattahoochee Valley FxjionlUou.
Judging fiom the reports and crit¬
icisms being made about the Chat¬
tahoochee Valley Exposition, which
opens in Columbus on the 4th day
of October, it will certainly be a
wonderful illustration of the vim and
pluck now animating the Queen City,
an(J an aggregation of the unmistaka
ble evidences* of the incalculable
wealth and progressive development
of the country by which she is sur
rounded. New home industries of
cve L v imaginable character will greet
anc * biterest the astonished visitor,
have not space to enumerate the
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bu[ mip|y say [hcy are we „ n igh i. -
numerable in number and variety
and cover all the interests more im.
ONEDOLLAR AYEAR,
STRICTLY IN ADVANCE.
portant to us and in the development
of which we must rejoice. Every
Georgian and every Alabamian should
feel justly proud of the grand effoit
of our sister city, and with a unanim¬
ity never before witnessed, rally to
her support. Yes, to her support,
not only in the work of preparation,
but by adding to her exhibits some
thing from every town, hamlet pre¬
cinot as evidence of handicraft, na
tural production or hidden wealth.
We would urge the people ot our
county not to be laggards in this mat¬
ter. Russell, Lee, Cham bets and
Randolph counties on the Alabama
side, Mnscogee, Harris and Talbot
on the Georgia side contesting for
the honors of the grand display.
It would be right and proper It r
Troup county to come in and a k
to be allowed to furnish the crown
piece or key stone, arching our noble
river, thus uniting these counties in
making one grand architectural dis
play the beauty of which would be
equaled or excelled, only by jj ie i f)
trinsic and productive wealth withm
its limits.
In these county exhibits there
no separation of groups, as for indi¬
vidual exhibitors, everything in the
whale catalogue—mineral, agricultu¬
ral, mechanical, domestic, fine arts—
all may be grouped as our exhibits,
from our county. With tin’s extra or
dinaiy privilege in favor of the coun¬
ty exhibits, offered by the exposition,
it seems that West Point, with her
manufactories, could easily bring the
country to her aid and get up such
an exhibit as would not only challenge
the admiration .of all competitors, but
take the handsome prize of $j,ooo.
If in luis, however, w r e should fail, it
would place us conspicuously among
the leading counties of two states,
and result in great good to us in days
to come. What say our people?
Who will be the first to move in this
matter? Let our farmers, through
their Alliance, and our merchants
and manufacturers meet upon “mid¬
dle” ground for once for mutual ben¬
efit, county and State pride.—South¬
ern Alliance.
A Knv More.
On the last cover page will be
found the card of the new store 21 ) .
Hamilton, at M. Wojfson’s old cor
ner. A visit to the store will show
j lict business in the best aml
j ie promises that if low prices and po
litc attention mean anything, to k< e n
tnings .iVe.j. I f is stock t goods is
and his shelves
are already full ot bargai USL Mi. Will
Parker is with the house and will be
to see ail his friends.
NO. 37.