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We have a complete stock, all sizes and styles
of Monuments, Statuary, Slabs and Markers just
ready to cui the inscriptions. We can fill any size
order in one or two days notice
We employ only the most skill
ed workmen and have the lat s
est improved machinery and
are giving our customers a bet-
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ter class of work than you are able to get at other
places. We invite you to visit ourjfinishing plant
and the quality of work and low prices will speak
for themselves.
Iron Fencing is cheaper than wood. |;See our line.
launched on a bedstead, swiss window flowers. Professional
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Carrollton iVlarble Works
DEPOT STREET
GREAT ATTRACTIONS
IN SUMMER GOODS
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Roop Hardware Co
Screen Doors, Screen Windows, Screen
Wire—galvanized and black. Hammocks from
2.5o to 5.00. the best and prettiest made in Geor
gia. Porch Shades. Porch Swings, Summer
Furniture and Rockers. Summer Shade Fixtures
to roll shade from either top or bottom. Seins.
Fishing Tackle. Glass Ice Tea Pitchers and
Tumblers. Aluminum Drinking Cups. English,
Plain and Gold Band Crockery, net limited. Gar
den Hose. Summer Oil Cooking Stoves. Ice
Cream Freezers and Refrigerators. Electric Globes.
Springs and Mattresses. Mattings. Crex Ruge.
Enameled ware, Cuttlery, Vases, Spoons, Forks
and Knives. Hardware and Furniture.
We do the best and satisfetory guaranteed
sanitery plumbing at low prices, . Mr. Dunlap is
ready to hguro with you on your pluming work.
Boop Hardware Company
Cresting a River In India on a Novel
Sort of Ferryboat.
In a country where rivers are sub
ject to sudden and heavy floods
Linages uie suinelimcb so insecure
that ferries are kept up through
centuries. Such is the ease in In
dia. and the methods of crossing
the streams are now what they have
been from the earliest times. Colo
nel Davidson, in his “Memories of
ft Long Life,” tells how he was
taken across a river of that country
in time of freshet. The contrivance
was simple and may have been used
in the orient as long as history
shows any record.
A cord having been fastened to a
large elongated gourd and a small
er gourd being tied to the other, the
native gets astride and, laying his
brenst on tlie larger gourd, with
hands and feet he paddles himself
across.
Women, too. avail themselves of
this singular conveyance under the
escort of a, ferryman who, similarly
mounted, for the small remunera
tion of a farthing takes his charge
in tow. carries her basket, with per
haps a child in it, on his head and
conveys them safe across.
Herds of cattle swim these flood
ed rivers like water rats, and the
herd boy as a matter of course takes
the tail of the hindmost bullock in
his hand and thus gains a very com
fortable lift across.
These methods of crossing rivers,
however, are hardly in accordance
with our European ideas of com
fort. So thought I one day as I
stood after n long ride on the bank
of a wide and rapid stream which
separated me from my halting
place. I did not relish the idea of
buffeting the muddy current on a
horse of gourds, but as there was
no boat within twenty miles it
seemed ns if I must either do this or
bivouac on the bank without my
dinner.
While T was in this dilemma a
native signified that he would soon
6et me right. From a neighboring
hut he brought a native bedstead—
not a four poster such as we luxuri
ous people use. but a small, light
frame of wood having four little
legs and held together by the inter
lacing of a piece of cord, which thus
forms n sort of netted bottom to
this simple piece of furniture.
He next brought out four round
earthen pots, and after protecting
the bottom of each with a few
inches of sand he put the legs of
this cot into those pots and signified
that the vessel was ready to be
launched.
As 1 sat doubled up on the ex
temporized raft, in company with
mv saddle, I found myself raised an
inch or two above the level of the
water, the earthen* pots forming
admirable floats. A couple of lusty
swimmers then took me in tow and
soon landed me on the opposite
bank.
Potted Plant* Qraoa Every Hauaa In
tha Town af La Gruyara.
Those who think all the delights
of Switzerland lie among the high
Alpine peaks or in the joy of win
ter sports will lind upon visiting it
that much of its strong appeal lies
in the picturesque charm of its farm
and village scenes.
Famous for its chocolate and
ohecse works, the town of La Gru-
yere still clings to its ancient cus
toms aud surroundings. Many of
the houses date back to the fif
teenth and sixteenth centuries,
while the chateau of the counts of
La Gniyere is of an even earlier
period.
Ancient buildings, however, soon
become commonplace to the Euro
pean traveler, says Country Life In
America, aud so probably the first
thing one notices in this interesting
village is the prevalence of window
boxes.
They are everywhere. No mat
ter how old or tumbledown the
house may be, there are always
flowering plants in the windows,
and they brighten up the whole
town wonderfully. Gav colors are
the rule; pink and red geraniums
are most common, although one
sees a few nasturtiums and carna
tions, with an occasional hydrangea.
Unlike American window boxes,
which are boxes in actuulity con
taining a considerable quantity of
soil, those usually found in Swit
zerland are a sort of grated box,
with sides much like a picket fence,
in which potted plants arc placed.
These boxes are either set upon the
broad window sill itself or just out
side upon brackets secured to the
wall of the house.
When there are very heavy
storms which might do damage to
the plants the blinds may be closed
to afford protection in the former
case or the pots may be taken in
doors one bv one in the Intter.
A Wonderful Borer.
The most wonderful boring appa
ratus in the world is possessed by
the great ichneumon fly. It is com
posed of three black filaments, all
extremely fragile, no larger or stifT-
er than a horsehair and about five
inches long. These (it together with
grooves and glide easily along their
entire length. The three when fit
ted together nre no lnrger in diam
eter than a small needle and so flex
ible that a slight breath of air will
bend them. Yet with this remark
able instrument its owner can bore
three or four inches into the hard
est wood. This borer is possessed
only by the female and is her ovi
positor, or egg laying apparatus.
Boring, which takes hours to accom
plish, is for the purpose of laying
one egg.
BOYKIN & BCYKIN,
Attorneysat-Law.
Represents Georgia Loan an
Trust Co.
City and Farm Loans.
Rooms 38-40-42-First National Bl
Building.
PHONE 105.
CARROLLTON, GA.
DR. HOMER BOATRIGHT,
Office Phone 222 Resipence,
Rooms I2-I4-I6
First National BanK Building.
Hours 7 to 9-U-I2-4-2,
J. M. L. STRICKLAND,
DENTIST.
Carrollton, oa,
First Nat. Bank Bldg. Room No.ii
—Phone 149.
J. D. HAMRICK, M. D.
C ounty Physician and Surgeon.
Registered Optician.
Diseases of Eye, Ear and Throat,
Phones, Office 73, Residence 4$,
Carrollton, aa.
L. Z. DORSETT
ATToR NEY-AT-LAW
Will practice in all the Courts,
State and Federal. Special attention
tc administration of estates and
commercial law.
DR. J. H. POWELL,
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
ATLANTA A.
Hours 9 to I2 and I to 4—Sunday
6, to lo a. in. Office 315-I6 Century
building. Bell Phone Main 1875.,
J. E. CRAMER
DENTIST,
Carrollton, Ga.
Office, No. 15 Roop Building—
Phone No. 107.
L. J. BROCK.
DENTIST,
Carrollton, oa
Office in Stewart Building, over
Harris’ Hardware Store—Phone
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Lakes Tipped by Winds.
Under the force of great gales
large lakes and tideless sens, like
the Caspian, have boon observed to
experience surprising changes of
level, aR if they were huge basins of
water tipped by the hand of n giant.
In the Caspian a difference of level
between the two-sides of the sea
amounting to twelve feet has been
noted during the prevalence of a
heavy wind. In Lake Erie a differ
ence of level of fifteen feet has oc
curred in similar circumstances.
Analogous observations have been
made on other lakes and in the Bal
tic sea.—Scientific American.
Now She Call* Him Father.
Yes, he loved the girl, and he
must seek her widowed mother’s
consent to lead the fair one to the
altar. But lie blundered sadly.
“Mrs. Desmond,” he began in a
voice beseeching and agitated. “1
have come to ask you for the blessed
privilege of working for your dear
daughter, taking care of her, giv
ing her a home and”—
But lie got no further
the widow throw herself
arms.
“Oil, Herbert.” she whispered, “1
gladly give you (lie privilege! You
don't know how 1 have hoped and
longed for a model man like you to
be a father to my darling daugh
ter!”
Eagerly
into his
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No. 203.
R. W. ADAMSON,
LAWYER,
Carrollton oa.
Office in Bradley building.
ADAMSON & JACKSON.
LAWYERS,
Carrollton, oa.
f Foreign capitalists loan money on
first-class terms for five years at 6
and 7 per cent. See me if you want
money. R. D. JACKSON.
R. E. FOSTER,
Physician and Surgeon.
Special Attention to Diseases of
Women. Office in Bradley Bldg.
Day Phone 176-3,
Carrollton, Ga.
L. M. LOVVORN
Dentists office over Lovvorn’s drug
store. Bowdon, Ga.
RAY F. SOX,
DENTIST
Office hours: 8 a. m. to 4
Bradley Building
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CARROLLTON. GEORGIA.
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J. T. COLEMAN,
Watchmaker
Expert Watch and Clock Repairing
Jewelry Repairing and Engraving.
South West Corner Public Square
with “HAMRICKS”
CARROLLTON. - GA.
Prices reasonable. Work
Guaranteed.
J. B. F, DIAL,
The Roman Woman’s Liberty.
Among ancient societies the Ro
man was probably that in which, at
least among the better classes, wo
man enjoyed the greatest social lib
erty and the greatest legal and eco
nomic autonomy. There she most
nearly approached that condition of
moral and civil equality with man
which makes her his comrade and
not his slave, that equality in which
modern civilization sees one of the
supreme ends of moral progress.—
Professor Ferrero in Century.
Gave Him a Jolt.
“I try to keep young,” said Mr.
GTaytop, “and I keep right on fan
cying that I look so, but every now
and then something happens that
jars me. Only this morning as I
was walking along the street a sweet
little child ran up to me and said:
“ ‘Are you grandpa ?’
“This, you see. was the comment
of a quite unprejudiced .observer,
and it is things like this that jar,
that more than jar—that jolt me.”
—New York Sun.
Very 8hy.
Jade—I tried to teach Ethel how
to play billiards last night. She’s
the shiest girl 1 over saw.
Will—How shy, for instance?
Jack—Why, she blushed every
Improving a Proverb.
The class was having a lesson on
paraphrasing, and the teacher wrote
on the blackboard the following ad
age, toiling the boys to put it down
in their own words: “A wink is as
good as a nod to a blind horse.”
At the end of the lesson certain
attempts were read out, and one
was as follows:
“A spasmodic movement of the
optics is as adequate as a slight in
clination of the cranium to a horse
void of its visionary capacities.”
HATCHED RIGHT?
Buys and Sells Real Estate
Phone 988-34 Carrollton, Ga,
GET READY
FOR JULY
4th
The A. & M. Fair Associ
ation will have man}’ attrac
tions at the fair grounds July
4th, surely the greatest feat
ure of the day will be the Bi
cycle Races. Different prizes
will be awarded the winners.
Let us help you to be a win
ner. We have the best grade
Look out now (or thet white, pasty symptom
:allcd White Diarrhea.
It may occur anytime from the3rd dayto the4t’.:
■eck of iha hatch. Incurable? Not now I \V(
jvc Conkey’8 White Diarrhea Remedy thir
.ason, a new discovery. Saves chicks even badiy
“teted. T>tter have a package, price 50c. Ur-
: anyway, in the drinking water as a preventive
'a Chick Insu'nwy; why lose from C5 to 100pci
.nt cf too hatch?
BICYCLES
for all purposes ever brought
to Carrollton. We also carry
a complete line of Bicycle ,
sundries, and db all kinds of b
repair work.