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THE CARROLL FREE PRESS, CARROLLTON, GA.
“No Doubt of frank’s Guilt,”
Says Mrs. J. W. Coleman
"I could not begin to tell you how
glad and relieved I feel, now that it
Is all over,” said Mrs. J. W. Coleman,
mother of Mary Phagan, talking to
a Constitution reporter last night.
“For weeks I have felt that I just
could not sleep another wink for
thinking of that man Frank, and the
possibility that he might escape the
consequences of his crime. I have
felt satisfied all the time he was
guilty, and the verdict of the jury is
no surprise to me. They are good,
noble men, and should be commend
ed by all for doing their duty as
they have done. I do not see how
anyone who has read all the evi
dence could possibly think there is
the smallest doubt as to Frank’s
guilt.
“I have not been well for the last
week, and my mother also has been
sick, so you see I could not attend
all the sessions of the court, but I
have gone as often as possible, and
I have read every line regarding the
progress of the trial published in
the papers. I hope that they will
not be hard on that Conley negro.
Although he lied a great deal at
first, he did turn round and tell the
whole truth at the last, and in my
opinion, he should be let off with a
light sentence.
"The only real regret I feel about
the entire trial is that I was unable
to attend court this afternoon, and
shake hands with each member of
the jury and with Judge Roan. I
will take the first opportunity of
seeing every one of them and thank
ing them for the patient, careful
consideration they have shown to
everything connected with the trial
any way.”—Atlanta Constitution.
Bowdon College
Stepfather of Murdered
Girl Thanks the Jury
Scarcely had Judge Roan con
eluded his statement thanking the
jurors for their attention and care
ful consideration of every point in
the case, when J. W. Coleman, step
father of the murdered girl, walked
over to the jury box with the tears
streaming down his face, and silently
thanked each man on the jury with
a grip of the hand. He then turned
to Judge Roan, and, shaking his
hand, thanked him for the pains he
had taken with the trial and for his
fair dealing with all parties con
cerned.
To a Constitution reporter Mr.
Coleman made the following state
ment:
"I want to say that I am entirely
satisfied with the manner in which
the trial has been conducted, and
also with the verdict returned.
"I knew by looking at the fuces of
the jurors as they were chosen that
they were all men who could be re
lied upon to give fair and careful
consideration to each point and that
they were of the high type of char
acter who would give their best ef
forts as citizens of this common
wealth without thought of them
selves to determine the guiit or in
nocence of Leo Frank.
"I would not, for any considera
tion like to see an innocent man
pay the death penalty, but I feel
sure that anyone in the world who
has kept up with the trial in all its
phases and with every scrap of evi
dence submitted, would have found
Frank guilty as these honorable
gentlemen have done. I am deeply
grateful to them and to Judge Roan.
—Atlanta Constitution.
Mr. Coleman was reared in this
county, and besides a number of rel
atives, he has a host of friends here
who have felt much interest in the
trial of Leo Frank, many of them
believing that a just verdict has
been rendered.—Ed.
Bowdon College has long been the
pride of our town. It was founded
1837 by Rev. Chas. A. McDaniel, and
since that time has had many noted
men at its head. Its beneficient in
fluence has been widespread, and it
has sent out from its walls many
graduates who have become famous.
Prof. V. D. Whatley having de
clined re-election, the board of trus
tees chose Prof. W. M. Rogers presi
dent and superintendent of the pub
lic school. Prof. Rogers is a Ten
nesseean, but has been in Georgia
about three years, having been
elected superintendent of schools of
Quitman, Ga., when first coming to
the state. He was formerly con
nected with the Knoxville, Tenn.,
city schools eleven years as princi
pal and superintendent.
V. F. Meece, the dean, is a Ken-
tuckyan. He is a normal school
graduate, and has had five years ex
perience in teaching.
The following are the teachers in
the public school department: Mrs.
Mamie Brook, Miss Nelah Johnson,
Miss Nell Downs, Miss Bonnie Mor
ris, Miss Eva Jones and Miss Ruth
Smith.
Miss Reba Hubbard, of Alabama,
will be in charge of the music de-
partmunt. She comes to us with
very high recommendations. The
grade teachers are our own own
home girls.
Mrs. Brook and Miss Morris at
tended the summer school at Knox
ville, Tenn., during the term recently
closed.
The trustees believe they have a
competent corps of instructors: and
as they have employed two teachers
more than last year, are confident
better service will be rendered.
Monday, September 1st, is the
day set for the beginning of next
term. No change has yet been
made in the college curriculum, but
the board contemplate extending it
alter this year. Few schools offer
berter advantages as to cheapness
healthfulness and moral surround
ings than Bowdon College.
Things Concerning Farms a« d Farmers
Barren Corn Stalks—
The Cause and Remedy
Had Never Been Told Before
A farmer writes me as follows:
“Will you please write again on bar
ren corn. I read your article some
time ago advising to detassel, but
that seems like putting out a house' ]jj g acC ount, it was not known by
Our cotton is good, but late, stiii
we except to make a bale per acre.
Our superintendent, Mr. Carlisle,
showed us something about the cul
tivation of this cotton that we didn’t
know before. In fact, according to
For Sale
100 acres of land in Sixth dis
trict. Will sell in 50 acre tracts or
all in one tract. Apply : o J
Copeland, Bremen, Ga., N. N. Baxter,
Carrollton, Ga., or 0. D. Parish on
the place. 4taug5
Card of Thanks
We wish to thank our friends for
their assistance during the sickness
and death of our husband aDd fa
ther, W. M. Adams, who died Au
gust 18th. May God bless every
one who spoke a sympathizing word
is the prayer of
Mrs. W. M. Adams,
Mrs. R. 0. Creel,
A. M. Adams,
J. H. Adams,
Mrs. J. W. Ledbetter,
Mrs. Jessie Whitehead,
C. C. Adams,
W. R. Adams,
Mrs. W. M. Thomas.
MOTHER
SO POORLY
Could Hardly Care for Chil
dren — Finds Health in
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Veg
etable Compound.
Bovina Center, N. Y. — “ For six years
X have not had as good health as I have
now. I was very
young when my first
baby was born and
my health was very
bad after that. I
was not regular and
I had pains in my
back and was
poorly that I could
hardly take care of
my two children. I
doctored with sev
eral doctors but got
no better. They told me there was no
help without an operation. I have used
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com
pound and it has helped me wonderfully.
I do most of my own work now and take
care of my children. I recommend your
remedies to all suffering women.”—
Mrs. Willard A. Graham, Care of
Elsworth Tuttle, Bovina Center, N.Y.
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com
pound, made from native roots and
herbs, contains no narcotics or harmful
drugs, and today holds the record of
being the most successful remedy we
know for woman’s ills. If you need such
a medicine why don’t you try it ?
If you have the slightest doubt
that Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegeta'
hie Compound will help you,write
to Lydia E.Pinkliam MedicineCo.
(confidential) Lynn,Mass., for ad
vice. Your letter will be opened,
read and answered by a woman,
and held in strict confidence.
after it is on fire. I want to know
the cause of barren stalks, and if
there is any preventative, for it is a
vital matter and is robbing us of
thousands of bushels every year.
Several years ago a friend sent me
two of the largest ears of corn I ever
•aw. I had a small piece of ground
that had been used for hotbeds,
and the water rising I filled the pits
and planted this corn there. Never
saw com grow so rankly. It was
15 feet high and never made a silk.
What was the matter?”
That is the worst example of bar
ren corn I ever heard of. But there
is no doubt that barren stalks are
cutting the corn crop very seriously,
and it has been proved by at least
one farmei that they can be bred
out.
Now, to understand the matter,
we must recollect that the corn
plant, like many other plants, makes
its staminate or male flowers on an
other part. The male flowers of
corn are what we call the tassels,
and the female flowers are the silks.
Now, to make a grain of corn, each
grain must have its own silk and
every silk must get pollen while it
is fresh and receptive. Corn sel
dom sets its own grain, for the light
pollen grains are blown to all the
stalks around it, and few fall down
on the plant that bears the pollen.
Of course, there is no setting of
grain on the barren stalk, but the
pollen sets the grain on the silks
from all around it, and these will
inherit the tendency to make other
barren stalks. Barrenness, there
fore, is a matter of heredity or in
heritance. Now, to prevent the
barren stalks from infecting all
around it, we pull out its tassel as
soon as it appears and before it has
ripened tassel and made pollen. Of
course, if we let the tassel ripen and
scatter the pollen, it would be, as
you say, like putting out the fire af
ter the house is burned. But we
pull it out green and stop its career.
That the tendency to barrenness
can be eliminated is evident from
what has been done bv one careful
breeder of my acquaintance. After
years of careful culling out of the
tassels from all barren stalks he has
cleared his field of them. I went
through his 30-acre field in every
direction, and noted the splendid
growth of the corn, and failed to
find a stalk in the field that had no
ear. The officers of the Maryland
Experiment Station did the same
thing, and they reported that they
could not find a barren stalk. Bar
ren stalks in a field are the result
of careless seed selection, and al
lowing these barren males to infect
the silks all around them, and any
one who will year after year attend
to the removal of the green tassels,
can eliminate the barren stalks. It
cannot be done all at once, and de
mands annual roguing out for sev
eral years.—W. F. Massey, in Pro
gressive Farmer.
farmers generally, so we thought it
worthy of mention here.
We were walking over the farm
one morning and noticed that while
most of the cotton was limbing close
to the ground and fruiting well, that
on part of the field the cotton was
leggy, had long shanks and was not
setting fruit as closely. The seed
was the same, same fertilizer, land
and time of planting. We could
not understand it.
"The trouble here,” said Mr. Car-
liale, “is the the cultivation. Very
few people really know how to cul
tivate cotton, any way, and it is
hard to get hands to plow it right
That is why that cotton has such
long shanks, too much dirt was put
to it when siding it after chopping.
If you want cotton to branch low
you must work very little dirt to it
at first and cultivate it level.
"I like to bar off my cotton,” he
continued, "chop it out and then
work the soil back very gradually.
Especially at first only very little
dirt should be put to the young cot
ton; then it will branch low and set
fruit quickly and closely. But if
you dirt it up to the bud it will run
up in spite of all you can do. The
first siding instead of leaving the
plants on a round ridge should
leave them in a slight hollow or de
pression. This is the way most of
our crop was worked and you can
see the results for yourself."
The results were very plain, in
deed, and we have learned some
thing about the cultivation of cot
ton.—F. J. Merrium, in Southern
Ruralist.
Put this in your scrap book,
brother farmer, and keep it for ref
erence. And had you ever thought
how nice it is to keep such things
on file under proper headings so as
to make it convenient to refer to
them? For instance, everything
you find concerning cotton that in
terests you, put it under "Cotton.”
Likewise corn, oats, etc. Clip such
things as you want to preserve and
paste them in an old book.
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ANNOUNCEMENT!
Mr. O. E. Hagan will co-operate with me
this season in handling Bowdon Real Estate.
We offer you reliable service and reasonable
terms.
PUT IT UP TO US
LEE TRIMBLE, Bowdon, Ga.
BE H BOMDON BOOSTER
fine forage in Heard County
It is encouraging to learn of the
fine hay crops being harvested in
the county. At the present prices
many farmers will harvest sufficient
hay to supply their needs next year,
and some will sell more than enough
to equal their cotton crop at present
prices of that staple. It proves the
repeated contention of the News
and Banner that diversity of crops
is the salvation of the farming
classes. We know farmers who
never come to town without a load
of wood or other produce to ex
change for such merchandise as
they may need. These are the
farmers who need little at the stores,
and what they make on their farms
is practically all profit.—Franklin
News and Banner.
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Supply unlimited to good men, on
good farms, in Carroll and Haralson
counties, on the best terms ever
offered.
6 mo R. D. JACKSON
Carrollton. Ga.
All-Day Singing
Mr. A. R. Hendon will close his
school at Mt. Pleasant the fifth Sun
day in this month with an all-day
singing. All good singers are cor
dially invited to come and take
part. Don’t forget to bring a well-
filled basket.
WISHED SHE
COULD DIE
And Be Free From Her Troubles,
but Finds Better Way.
v,v.u,„ u .a, .v...,,— many 3 time,”
says Mrs. Jessie Sharp, of this place,
“l wished I would die and be relieved
of my (suffering, from womanly troubles.
I Could not get up, without pulling at
something to help me, and stayed in Ded
most of the time. I could not do my
housework.
The least amount of work fired me
out. My head would swim, and I would
tremble for an hour or more. Finally, I
took Cardui, the woman’s tonic, and I
am not bothered with pains any more,
and 1 don’t have to go to bed. In fact,
1 am sound and well of all my troubles.”
Cardui goes to all the weak spots and
helps to make them strong. It acts with
nature—not against her. It is for the
tired, nervous, irritable women, who feel
as if everything were wrong, and need
something to quiet their nerves and
strengthen the worn-out system.
If you are a woman, suffering from any
of the numerous symptoms of womanly
trouble, take Cardui. It will help you.
At all druggists.
Writt to: Chattanooga Medicine Co., Ladies’
Advisory Dept., Chattanooga. Tenn., for Social
Instructions on your case and 64-page book, “Home
Treatment lor Women,” in plain wrapper. N.C. 122
Mt. Zion deminarii
Mt. Zicn, 5a.
A Christain Vocational School
Mt. Zion Seminary, re-organized and
re-adjusted, stands for applied Chris
tain culture.
Aim
“Good Men and Women Who are
Good for Something.”
bourses
College Preparatory, Agriculture, Busi-
nes, Domestic Science and Music.
deholarwipti
A limited number of free scholarships
is available.
SPECIAL FOR TEACHERS
Present day education demands that the school
—even the one teacher school-shall take into ac
count the problems of the farm and home. With
this in view, and, recognizing that most short
term schools do not open before December, a spe-
cio course in the teaching of agriculture and do-
mel tic science has been arranged for teachers for
thesfirst term, including the months of September,
Oct ober and November. Is it not true that speci
ally trained teachers command better positions and
higher salaries than others? Why not arrange to
take advantage of this opportunity?
Write for illustrated catalogue to
JAMES L. ROBB, A. B., Principal
For Sale
Fifty acres of land, 30 acres im
proved, 20 in woods, one mile above
Mandeville, on Bremen road. For
information write or see
S. C. MARTIN,
Box 40. Mandeville, Ga., Rt. 1.
2mos-july29
Land for Sale Cheap
100 acres good land on the Car
rollton and Newnan road in Fifth
district: 35 acres in cultivation, two
good dwelling and out building and
well watered. Apply to JL
W. T. or J. P. MORAN,
lmaug7 Carrollton, Route 3.