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Vol IX No. 130.
ANOTHER COTTON MILL.
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GRIFFIN MOVING TO THE FRONT
nr MANUFACTURING,
The Success in Manufacturing Cot
ton Goods Renders Another
Mill Necessary.
The success of the two large cotton
mills in Griffin have been phenomenal.
They have been enabled to compete
with any mills in the country as to
style and quality of. goods, and the
result is, as stated to a Call reporter
yesterday, they find it impossible to
keep up with orders, after running on
full lime every day of the year.
To meet the increasing demand for
goods manufactured by these mills the
directors have decided to at once more
than double the capacity of the Kin
caid mill, or build another mill near
that plant.
The stockholders of these mills own
land enough surrounding the Kincaid
mill to erect several more mills, hence
the plan may be to build another mill
instead of enlarging present plant.
The proposed extension or building
of this mill will require an investment
of from $125,000 to $150,000, and the
work will all be done by the time an
other crop of cotton is gathered.
Many business men of Griffin fully
realize what this vast improvement in
the cotton mills means to the business
of our city, and they will bail with de
light the announcement that dirt will
be broken and active work begun on
the new mill in less than sixty days.
When it is remembered that the
recent expenditure of $150,000 in en
larging the plant of tbe Griffin mills
and the immediate investment of a
similar amount in increasing the out
put of tbe Kincaid mills is all home
capital and made by the stockholders
of tbe two mills, a proper conception
may be formed as to their successful
and profitable management.
Tbe goods turned cut by these mills
are not surpassed by any mills in the
land or equaled by but few. Hence
tbe necessity of increasing tbe output.
Located, as they are, in the heart of
tbe cotton growing belt, they can
dump the cotton bales from the presses
of tbe farmers almost within tbe doors
of tbe factories, thus saving freights,
drayage, wharfage, stealage, commis
sions, ect., which alone will furnish a
good margine for profits.
It is the aim of tbe directors of these
mills to build a new rpill every five
years. With this plan carried out for
twenty years, as it has been the past
ten years, and Griffin will be tbe Low
el of tho South and her fame as a
manufacturing city will be known and
recognized throughout tbe laud.
Planting Season
Will soon be here and from indica
tions our farmers are going to raise
another large cotton crop It is too
late to plant grain, except tbe spring
grain, but from our experience of some
years, we advocate the spring planting
of oats, Lucerne millet, clover, etc.,
etc. If it does not make fair crops, if
put in properly, the land is left in
good shape to harvest a good crop of
hay, and, according to our experience,
there is more money to be made on a
hay crop than there is on cotton. In
fact cotton has not paid expenses for
several years.
Let our farmers devote some of the
time heretofore expended in preparing
for a big cotton crop io hauling up
compost and thorough breaking of the
s >il and then plant as much grain as
possible, with just enough cotton to
pay your debts.
Merchants and Planters Bang.
Al a meeting of the directors of the
Merchants and Planters Bank held
yesterday, Capt. Seaton Grantlaud was
chosen president to fill the vacancy
made by the death of Col. J J). Boyd.
Hon. Robert F. Strickland was elect
ed vice-president, to succeed Capt.
Grantlaud.
This bank is one of Griffin’s solid
and substantial financial institutions.
The Modern Way.
Commands itself to tbe well-informed, to
do pleasantly and effectually what was
formerly done in the crudest manner and
disagreeably as well. To cleanse the
system and break up colds, headaches,
and fevers without unpleasant after effects,
use the delightfill liquid laxative remedy,
Syrup of Figs. Manufactured by Califor
nia Fig Syrup Company.
Forever.
JUSTICE PREVAILS.
The County Commissioners and City
Authorities Harmonize-
The county commissioners held a
very important meeting yesterday.
The resignation of Col. T. R. Mills
having been accepted by the governor,
left tbe board with but two members—
Capt. J. A. J. Tidwell, of Line Creek,
and D. L. Patrick, of Cabin,
Capt Tidwell was made chairman of
the board, and will spend Saturday of
each week in the city looking after tbe
interests of the county.
The most important business trans
acted by tbe board yesterday was the
harmonizing of the relations between
the city and county, in reference to
the operatiops of the county chain
gang, to conform to tbe recent recom
mendations of the grand jury.
The basis of agreement between tbe
county commissioners and the mayor
and council may be briefly stated as
follows: ♦
The city is to turn over to the com*
missioners all convicts convicted in the
criminal court of Griffin, free of
charge; to allow the county the free
use <Sf mules, wagons, carts aod tools,
as heretofore, and to collect a road tax
of $l5O from every citizen of Griffin
subject to such tax, and pay said
money into the county treasury for
road purposes.
The Commissioners, in lieu of tbe
above are to work the streets and side
walks of Griffio, with the convict force,
as they do the public roads of the
county.
This contract, or agreement, went
into force yesterday, and should, as it
doubtless will be, satisfactory to both
country and town.
By this arrangement tbe burden of
operating the convict force, as well as
the distribution of the fruits or benefits
of their labors, will be equally divided
between the city and country.
The Conjugating Dutchman-
While two Englishmen were con
versing in a coffee house in Paris, says
Success, one remarked that a certain
dwarf had arrived in the city, at which
a qnaint looking personage sitting
near them opened his mouth and said,
with a look of earnestness, “I arrive,
thou arrivest, he arrives; we arrive, ye
or you arrive, they arrive.”
One of the Englishmen in astonish
ment asked : “Did you speak to me,
sir?”
“I speak,thou speakest, he speaks;
we speak, ye or you speak, they
spoak,” was the sole reply.
“What, do you intend to insult me?”
“I insult, thou insultest, be insults;
we insult, ye or you insult, they in
sult," came from the lips of the stran
ger.
“I will have satisfaction,” shouted
the perplexed and irritated English
man. "If you have any spirit with
your rudeness, come with me”; to
which the impenetrable stranger re
plied :
“I come, thou comest, he comes; we
come, ye or you come, they come,”
and followed the others.
“Now, sir, you must fight me,” said
tbe first speaker.
“I fight, thou lightest, be fights; we
fight (here be made a thrust), ye or
fight, they fight,” arid here he disarm
ed bis adversary.
“Well, on my honor,” said the de
feated man, “you have the best of it
and I hope you are satisfied.”
“I am satisfied, thou art satisfied, he
is satisfied ; we are satisfied, ye or yon
are satisfied, they are satisfied.”
‘ I am glad everybody is satisfied,”
said the Englishman, “but pray leave
off quizzing me in this unmerciful
manner and tell me what is the mat
ter.”
For the first tkne tbe stranger spoke
rationally. "I am a Dutchman,” said
he, "and am learning your language.
By tbe request of my teacher I conju
gate every verb which I bear, and as I
do not like to have my actions inter
rupted I could not explain before.”
A hearty laugh followed and an in
vitation to dinner from tbe English
man. Before accepting the Dutchman
continued : “I dine, thou dinest, he
dines; we dine, ye or you dine, they
dine—we will all dine together.”
Everybody Says So.
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derful medical discovery of the age, pleas
ant and refreshing to the taste, act gently
and positively on kidneys, liver and bowels,
cleansing tbe entire system, dispel colds,
cure headache, fever, habitual constipation
and biliousness. Please buy and try a box
of C. C. C- to-day; 10, 36, &0 cents, Sold and
guaranteed to cure by all druggists.
MUFFIN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 5, 1898.
DANCING DOWN DINNERS.
Expedient by Which Gormandizing
la Greatly Facilitated.
One of the most painful facta io life
is the apparent impossibility of recon
ciling fashion and common aenee. One
maybe long on style and short on
comfort, or he may have comfort to
burn and give fashion the shake; but
there seems to be no all-around good
thing, bo one may be swell and com
fortable at tbe same time. You must
choose between them. There la no
good reason for this. It is an arbitrary
and unnecessary infliction, laid on a
■suffering world, and one is forced to
the conclusion that nothing short of
utter malignity could bare inspired
many of tbe fashions under which we
groan. Tbe:e is not even the excuse
for beauty, for which one might well
endure many pangs of discomfort.
There is nothing artistic in a linen
collar so high and stiff it looks like an
understudy of a terracotta chimney
flue. But it is full of suffering and
style. No one since the days of Meph
istopbleee ever bad feet built after the
architecture of the pointed-toe shoes.
There is no beauty in them—nothing
but aches, and corns and fashion.
When nature made lovely woman it
wrote beauty in every soft curve of her
body, but fashion never rested until it
squeezed and compressed her into tbe
shape of an hour-glass. She Was too
comfortable in flowing draperies that
fell in loose grace, and she was girded
up in stays, and smothered in frills
and weighed down with ornaments in
tbe interest of the theory that style
and comfort could not be amalgamat
ed. Such being tbe case, it gives great
pleasure to notice that a new fashion
has been introduced which happily
combines the very latest wrinkle of
fashion with tbe most admirable coms
mon sense.
Recent dispatches from New York
bring tbe information that it is now
customory among tbe smart set to
have dancing between the courses of
elaborate dinners. The swell dancing
is varied with cake-walks, skirt danc
ing and other edifying aids to diges
tion. The possibilities this opens up
to people of epicurean taste are simply
limitless, and it is also beyond praise
as a kind of life-saving measure, as
every one at a long dinner must have
some time felt that the next course
would be the death of him. Then, too,
thia scopes heavily for us as showing
the advancement in refinement that
has been made since the days of tbe
banquets of Lucullus and other swell
dinner-givers of antiquity. When
their jaded appetites gave out, they
took a disgusting, if simple, means of
refreshing them, so as to be able to
take a fresh start all over again. Now,
wo will simply arise and execute a
short but violent dance, and be ready
to do justice to the further triumphs
of the chef. No more dishes served
with sauce piquant of sauce Hollan
daise, but with an accompaniment of
Virginia reel, or a cake-walk, or a
highland fiing, and good digestion will
wait on appetite. Another advantage
it offers is the suppression of the
after-dinner orator. Fellows like
Chauncey Depew will no longer have a
monopoly on a good thing because they
can talk, don’t you know. On the
contrary, young fellows whose brains
are in their heels will be the bright,
particular stars that people who give
fashionable dinners will seek out. On
the whole, this readjustment of the
etiquette of dinner giving has every
thing to commend it, and will stand
as a monument to tbe genius who de
vised it.—New Orleans Picayune.
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A. K. Hawkes received the gold medal
highest award from the great Exposition,
superior lens-grinding and excellency
.n the manufacture of spectacles and eye
glasses. This award was justly earned by
Mr.' Hawkes as the superiority of his
glasses over all others has made them
.amous all over the country. They are
now being sold in over eight thousand
cities and towns in ths U. 8. Prices are
never reduced, same to all.
J. N. Harris & Son have a full assort
ment of all the latest styles
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ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK.
WOMAN’S RIGHTS.
Her Rights in a Barroom the Same ai
“Other Men.”
Editor Call : Why must the preach
ers seem “crazy" because forsooth they
think ato an of tbe feminine gender
has as much right in a saloon as a man
of the masculine gender?
A woman is a citizen ; as such she
e entitled to all the protection that
the law affords to any citizen. She
has, or ought to have, every right that
a male man has. She has a right to
eat, and drink, and be merry—to buy
and sell, to own property, and, if tbe
truth be told, she ought to be allowed
to vote, and hence to join the army
and be enrolled among tbe military, to
do jury duty and work the roads.
Every American citizen has a right
to drink whiskey, or beer, or pop, or
coca-cola, or Dr. Pepper. A woman is
an American citizen, therefoie a wo
ias a right to run the gamut of pota
tions, from Scotch whiskey to Qam
>ric tea. I suppose no one would
question the abstract right of a woman
to drink anything that a man has tbe
right to driok. A mao has a right to
drink whiskey, champagne, military
punch, or boms made wins; why
hasn’t woman the same right?
Whether she has such right or no,
she exercises it if she wills to. She
has a right to get drunk, if a man has.
Would you repress, restrain, muzzle
a person because of an accident of
birth, for which she is no degree re
sponsible?
What’s a saloon for? Why, a place
to buy a drink at. It’s a store where
goods are sold, it is under the protec
tion of the law, it is therefore a lawful
place—the business isa lawful business
Thy woman is free, white and twenty
one, has money up her sleeve, has a
right to do business on her own ac
count, to buy, sell, and barter. Still
you would close the doors of a lawful
place of business against her.
Her father, her husband, her broth
er, her beau, has a right to do business
or to trade in them, why has not she?
The preachers are right. A woman
has as much right in a barroom as a
man has. If a barroom is a good place
a woman has a right to enter it. If it
be not a good place, the man has no
right to enter it. In a word, a good
man ought not to want to enter any
place that a good woman can not en
ter. This is not a question of proprie
ty, or taste, or moral expediency—its
a question of abstract right or of
Woman’s Rights
Educate Your Bowel. With Cascareta.
— Ca " d y Cathartic, cure constipation forever.
10c. 25c. If C. C. C. fail, druggists refund money.
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GETTING THE GRIP
is easier than getting rid of it unless you
use our Grippe Pills. Your grip on good
health Is best preserved by keeping the
body in good condition, and your vitality
strong, by the use of Grippe Pills, which
prevents sudden chills, and enables you to
resist disease. Try it. and you will
weather the winter without illness from
colds.
N. B. DREWRY A SON,
28 Hill Street.
Dissolution Sale
TIIOS. J. WHITE HAVING BOUGHT MR. C. F. WOLCOTTS INTEREST
IN THE BUSINESS OF WHITE & WOLCOTT,
Offers at Absolute Cost!
All Winter SuiKforJfon or Boysf
All Overcoats for Men and Boys,
All Winter Underwear. k
THESE GOODS MUST BE CONVERTED INTO CASH AT ONCE. NONE
OF A3OVE ARTICLES WILL BE CHARGED TO AMY ONE AT THESE
PRICES. AMY ONE HAVING ACCOUNT ON MY BOOKS CAN MVE
THESE ARTICLES CHARGED, BUT AT REGULAR MARKED PRICES.
THOS. J. WHITE,
SUCCESSOR TO
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SCHEUERMAN STORE.
We will continue to sen everything In the
WILLIAMS STOCK at the marked cost until
Feb. 15th.
Call and price our goods before making a
purchase.
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21 Hill Street—at Scbenerman Store.
R. F. Strickland S Co.
New goods of every kind bought right and
sold right. Others get our prices and
try to meet them; they don’t
always do it.
THOSE NEW EMBROIDERIES
OF OURS ARE MUCH ADMIRED BY EVERYBODY. THE PATTERNS ARE
ALL OF NEW DESIGNS AND THE PRICE IS THE ONLY THING CHEAP
ABOUT THEM.;
10-4 UNBLEACHED SHEETING 12jc.
10-4 BLEACHED BHEETINQ 15c. | |
4 4 CABOTTB BLEACHINGS, OR. ALL THE BEST BRANDS AT THE
LOWEST PRICES.
SATIN STRIPED TICKINGS MADE TO SELL FOR 15c. WE BOUGHT
THE WHOLE LOT-OUR PRICE 10c.
MENS UNLAUNDERED SHIRTS THREE FOR SI.OO.
MENS NEGLIGEE SHIRTS, NEW STYLES, 50c. EACH,
NEW FLOWING END FOUR-IN-HAND TIES 50c.
LADIES HERMSDORF HOSE 12|c., 15c., 20c. AND 25c.
MENS SOCKS, FAST BLACK OR TANS, Bc. TO 25c.
SHOES, SHOES!
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ALL SAMPLE SHOES AND BALANCE OF WINTER STOCKS WILL BE
CLOSED OUT AT REDUCED PRICES.
R. F. STRICKLAND & CO.
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