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ANNOUNCEMENTS.
For Mayor.
At the solicitation at many citizens I
hereby respectfully announce mytelf, a
candidate for mayor, subject to the prfm
mary of October lltb, promising if elected
to faithfully perform the duties of the of
°r gars&Bß
Having faithfully served the City of
Griffin as Mayor for one term, I
as a candidate for reflection and respect
folly solicit the votes of the g tt^y IS
For Alderman-/
SLted I promise to do what in my honest
good of the greatest
number of tax payers, regardless of friend
nr foe Yours, etc.,
01 roo, C. HOMER WOLCOTT.
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I respectfully announce myself as a can
didate for Aiderman from the first ward
and solicit the support of my friends.
J. H. SMITH.;
At the solicitation of friends I respect*
fully announce myself a candidate for Al.
derman from the Fourth Ward, and so
licit the support of the citizens.
Having a pride in the welfare of our
city and her institutions I promise, if
elected, to act for the best interest of the
city and citizens and perform conscien
tiously every duty assigned me.
DAVID J. BAILEY.
Having served the city as Aiderman
from the 4th ward for the past two years,
and conscientiously discharged my duty,
J announce myself as a candidate for re?
election and respectfully solicit the votes
and support of the citizens.
M. D. MITCHELL.
To the Voters of Griffin: lam a can
didate lor Aiderman from Second Ward,
and respectfully ask your support.
. M. J. PATRICK.
An Ordinance.
Be it ordained by the Mayor and Coun
cil of the City of Griffin, That from and
after the passage oi this ordinance, the fol
owing rates will be charged for the use
water per year:
1. Dwellings:
One 1-inch opening for subscribers’
use only. $ 9.00
Each additional spigot, sprinkler,
bowl, closet o.r bath 3.00
Livery stables, bars, soda founts and
photograph galleries......-. 24.00
Each additional opening 6.00
2. Meters will be furnished at the city’s
expense, at the rate of SI.OO per year
rental of same, paid in advance. A mini
mum of SI.OO per month will be charged
for water while the meteris on the service.
The reading of the meters will be held
proof of use of water, but should meter
fail to register, the bill will be averaged
from twelve preceding months.
W Meter rates will be as follows:
7,000 to 25,000 gals, month. .15c 1,000
25,000 “ 50,000 “ “ 14c “
50,000 “ 100,000 “ “ 12c “
100,000 “ 500,000 “ “ 10c “
500,000 “ 1,000,000 “ “ 9c “
The minimum rate shall be SI.OO per
month, whether that amount of water has
been used or not.
4. Notice to cut off water must be given
to the Superintendent of the Water De
partment, otherwise water will be charged
for full time.
5. Water will not be turned on to any
premises unless provided with an approved
stop and waste cock properly located in
an accessible position.
6. The Water Department -shall have
the right to shut off water for necessary
repairs and work upon the system, and
they are not liable for any damages or re
bate by reason of the same.
7. Upon application to the Water De
partment, the city will tap mains and lay
pipes to the sidewalk for $2.50; the rest
of the piping must be done by a plumber
at the consumers’ expense.;
TAX ORDINANCE FOR 1898.
Be it ordained by the Mayor and Coun
cil of the city of Griffin and it is hereby
ordained by authority of the same, that
the sum of 25 cents be and the same is
hereby imposed on each and every one
hundred dollars ot real estate within the
corporate limits of the city of Griffin and
on each and every one hundred dollars
valuation of all stocks in trade, horses,
mules, and other animals, musical instru
ments, furniture, watches, jewelry, wag
ons, drays and all pleasure vehicles of
every description, money and solvent
debts, (except bonds of the city of Griffin)
and upon all classes of personal property,
including bank stock and capital used for
banking purposes, in the city of Griffin on
April Ist, 1898, and a like tax upon all
species of property of every description
held by any one as guardian, agent, ex
ecutor or administrator or in any other
fiduciary relation including that held by
non-residents, to defray the current ex
penses of the city government.
Section 2nd.—That the sum of 65 cents
be and the same is hereby imposed upon
each and every one hundred dollars valu
ation of real estate and personal property
of every description as stated in section
First of this ordinance, within the corpo
rate limits of the city of Griffin for the
payment of the public debt of the city and
for the maintainance of a system of electric
lights and water works.
Section 3.—That the sum of 20 cents
be and the same is hereby imposed upon
each and every one hundred dollars valu
ation of real estate and personal property
of all descriptions, as stated in section
First of this ordinance, within the corpo
rate limits of the city of Griffin, for thd*
maintainance of a system of public schools
The funds raised under this section not to
be appropriated for any other purpose
whatever.
Section 4.—That persons failing to make
returns of taxable property as herein pro
vided in section First, Second and Third
of this ordinance shall be double taxed as
provided by the laws ot the state and the
clerk and treasurer shall issue executions
accordingly.
Section 5.—-That all ordinances or parts
of ordinances militating against this ordi
nance be and the same are hereby repeal
ed.
DR. E. L. HA.3STES,
dentist.
Office upstairs in building adjoining, on
the north, M Williams A Bon.
YOUR LOCAL PAPER.
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HAVE YOU ANY IDEA OF WHAT IT HAg
DONE FOR YOU!
Ab*, m to WhMt Yon Ml*ht De I*
Retorn, Hare You Ever Given That
a PualU Tkonaktr—An EAltor'a
Intereatlna Review of tke Subject.
The paper has done 50 things for you
and is only anxious to do 50 more.
It told your friends when your par
ents were married.
It announced to the world when yon
were born.
It recorded the great events of your
childhood, when you were lost as a
wandering baby, when you had £he
measles and scarlet fever, when you fell
into the washtub and nearly drowned,
when you fell from the cherry tree and
broke your collar bone, when you first
started to school and when you earned
your first prize.
Later on it told how you had com
pleted the studies of the district school
and how eloquently you recited your
"graduating oration.
It told of your entering high school or
academy. It told of your contests in
baseball and tennis. It told of your’de
parture for college or your first venture
in business.
It told of your various visits back to
the old home neighborhood, and it al
ways wished you well in your greatest
undertakings.
It hinted modestly about the first
time you went a courting and gave
timely warning to “her folks” that the
neighbors knew that matters were grow
ing interesting over their way.
It announced the time of your expect
ed wedding, and it published the notice
of the marriage license and gave you a
bice puff concerning the wedding cere
mony. ~ -
It told of your extended honeymoon
tour and of your settling down to house
keeping.
When you were sick, the home paper
week by week informed your more dis
tant neighbors of your lapses and im
provements.
It told about your lost cow and led
to her recovery. It told how your horse
had been stolen and led to the arrest of
the thief.
When you were getting dull and tired
through the monotony of your labor,
the paper urged that the people get up
a celebration, and you were named as
one of a suitable committee on arrange
ments. And when it was all over, it
gave you just praise for the success of
the undertaking.
In numerous ways the paper has
helped to put your name before the peo
ple. And you would never have had
your lucrative office or your honorable
recognition from the community but for
the kind aid of the local printers
If you are a member of a Bunday
school or society of any sort, that same
paper publishes your announcements
and the various proceedings of your
meetings.
It tells the people much which you
would like to have known, but which
modesty or necessity prevents you from
telling.
If you and all your folks have been
prosperous and fortunate in your affairs,
the paper has boosted you all the way.
If you have had misfortune, the paper
asked for sympathy in your behalf.
Thus the paper has rejoiced when you
rejoiced and wept when you wept. If
you are a good and enterprising citizen,
the paper will always be your friend
and will back you in your enterprises
and will help to find your business
friends. "
It tells you where to buy and where
to sell. It tells of rogues to be avoided.
It tells you of current prices and pre
vents you from being cheated and swin
dled in 100 ways.
Finally, when you die, the paper will
publish your obituary and will cover
over your faults and will recite the
story of your good deeds.
All these things the local editor will
cause his paper to do, but no one else
in the world will do them or can do
them for you even for love or money.
The outside paper is a stranger to your
little world and is not at all interested
in its improvement Yet your local pa
per does all this free of cost to you, if
you are willing to receive it that way.
However, for your sake, we hope you
are too generous to accept so many un
requited favors and that yon are-willing
to reciprocate the same.
Help the editor. Be his friend, and he
will prove his friendship to you.
Subscribe for his paper and pay for
it regularly in advance and get your
neighbors to do the same.
Send him the news or occasionally a
watermelon or a peck of peaches.
Invite him to your picnics anti fam
ily dinners, so that he can eat a square
meal occasionally.
Don’t call the ticket you give him to
the church concert a deadhead. He
can’t buy tickets from everybody to
everything, but he will say kind words
of your performances and thus lead oth
ers to buy your tickets.
If you have anything to buy or sell,
let the paper assist you to find custom
ers. Advertising that really pays the
printer benefits both advertisers and
readers.
\ If you have any job printing to do,
don’t take it to an outside office, but
give your newspaper therfirst chance.
Give the editor a pointer occasionally
or write him sensible short articles and
don’t get mad if he fails to see every
thing your way. When he does say a
good thing, tell him so.
In short, remember the golden rule
and don’t forget the editor of your local
paper.—Richmond (Ind.) Enterprise.
A Severe Tfeamp.
He—l was reading somewhere the
other day that no woman should ever
marry a genius.
She —Oh, well, don’t let that worry
you. Even if the girls were disposed to
heed such advice the bars would still ba
down for you.—Chicago Newa t k
SLICK PETE’S WATCH DEAL.
Boagfct Them at as.is lad, and Ml 1
Them to Swindlers For SIO Aptooe.
An old time detective the other day .
was discussing with some sleuths new <
in the profession the methods of up to 1
date swindlers. After deprecating the 1
originality of the modern crook he told <
of what he considered the sharpest gam*
he ever saw worked.
“I suppose you fellows know,” he :
■aid, ” that during Centennial year Phil*
adelphia was a. hot bed of bunkoateerers :
and sharpers of every description. Well, 1
I was detailed to keep an eye on these
gentry, and in time I became acquainted
with most of the ‘big ones, ’ who were
generally exceedingly bright men. One
in particular, who was known as ‘Slick
Pete, ’ I took a great liking to, for he
had an inexhaustible fund of humor and
was a good hearted chap. Toward the
end of the Centennial exhibition one
day I dropped into a down town auction
room where janne fake jewelry was be
ing sold. A lot of watches were offered,
and I saw that they had been made evi
dently for bunko steering purposes, for
the works were good, and the cases were
made to look like solid gold. They were
finally knocked down for $2.15 apiece,
and I saw that the buyer was ‘Slick
Pete. ’ Jewelry was out of his Hue, but
I knew he had some scheme in view.
Two months passed before I again saw
Pete, and then I asked him what he had
done with the watches. He began to
laugh and said, ‘Oh, skinned some
swindler with them!* Then followed
the explanation. He had hired a room
and inserted an advertisement in vari
ous papers something like this: ‘Found
—A solid gold watch; Elgin works;
loser pay costs. Apply, etc.’ Nearly
every crook in town answered the ad.
and claimed the watch. Pete, who
made up as an old man, seemed a mark,
and the ‘fly’ crook, in the hurry to de
part, made but a cursory examination.
‘The costs, ’ $lO, were invariably handed
over, and in two days Pete had disposed
of his stock.”—Philadelphia Record.
THE CAMPFIRE.
Wartime Reminiscences of a Veteran ol
the Civil War.
‘‘Men build fires in various places to
cook their coffee by or to make them
selves warm or for company’s sake,”
said a civil war veteran, "and any fire
is likely to Jje more or less a gathering
point, but I suppose that the fire to
which the name of campfire properly
belongs,,the campfire of song and story,
is the cook’s fire at the end of the com
pany street, built on the ground, under
a pole supported at the ends by crotched
sticks driven in the earth and from
which the camp kettles are suspended.
This was the gathering point of the
company.
‘‘Men did not always stand about the
campfire. It depended upon circum
stances and on the weather. They met
here, of course, at mealtimes, and there
were times when men would stand
around the fire and smoke and talk, and
then it might be that the men would
keep their tents, playing cards or smok
ing there, or mending their clothes, or
polishing up their accouterments, so
that there were times when the fire was
quite deserted or when perhaps there
might be seen there a solitary figure, a
man who had come to light his pipe.
‘‘But, though it might be deserted,
the fire still burned. Sometimes on cold
and windy nights the wind would
blow it about and scatter it, and some
times, when it was no longer attended,
the rain would put it out black, but
there was usually a living fire there by
day and a bed of embers by night, and
here was ths soldier’s hearthstone.”—
New York Sun.
Parrots Are Never Original.
I have read of a father who would
not let his children tell their dreams
because there is in such narrative too
great temptation to wander from the
truth. Parrot stories are too often like
dream stories—one-half true, and they
are sometimes; plainly to any who
knows the true talking power of these
birds—made up entirely or greatly ex
aggerated. While the parrot has a cer
tain unmistakable sense of humor, and
is correspondingly wise, none of the
various species is or ever was capable
of the original wise and witty talk fa
miliar to us in newspaper anecdotes.
In fact, the parrot is never original
in speech. It is altogether imitative,
and a bird that has never heard spoken
words has surely never uttered a sylla
ble.
But, judging from parrots’ clever use
of what they learn to say, it is almost
certain that they come to know in a
measure the meaning of the phrases
they learn.—Charlotte Boner in St
Nicholas. .
Th« Rambo* Onn.
The natives in the Bucherganj dis
trict of Bengal have been deprived of
their guns, and since then they have re
sorted to the native bamboo in the hunt
for defensive weapons.
They hollow out the bamboo, load it
with an gunoe or two of native powder
and a handful ot iron slugs and touch it
off with a fuse in the immediate neigh
borhood of the offending person.
Another way, as the cookery books
say, is to employ the bamboo as a fork
with a cobra pinned to the far end. An
application of the cobra to the sleeping
body of an enemy Is all that is neces
sary.—London Tit-Bits.
CutoaMrs.
Little Boy—Please, I want the doc
for to come and see mother.
Doctor’s Seryant Doctor’s out.
Where do you come from?
Little Boy—What 1 Don’t you know
me? Why, we deal with you—we had
a baby from here last week.—Landon
Fun.
Hindoos Vve Little Soo». :
The oply soap which tire Hindoos of
the orthodox type employ is made en
tirely of vegetable products. But soap
is little used in India, being almost an
unknown luxury With the native*.
Captain Kidd la Sto»y aad Xa Foot.
Among all the pirates who have fig
ured in history, legend or song there is
one whoso name stands pre-eminent in
America as the typical hero of the
dreaded black flag. The name of this
man will instantly come to the mind of
almost every reader, for when we speak
of pirates we usually think of Captain
Kidd.
In fact, however, Captain Kidd was
not a typical pirate, for in many ways
he Was different from the ordinary ma
rino freebooter, especially when we con
sider him in relation to our own coun
try. All other pirates who made them
selves notorious on our coast were
known as robbers, pillagers and ruth
less destroyers of life and property, but
Captain Kidd’s fame was of another
kind. We do not think of him as f
pirate who came to carry away the
property of American citizens, for near
ly all the stories about him relate to his
arrival at different points on our shores
for the sole purpose of hiding the rich
treasures which he had collected in oth
er parts of the world.
Thia could not fail to make Captain
Kidd a most interesting personage, and
the result has been that he has been
lifted into the region of legendary ro
mance. There are two Captain Kidds—
the Kidd of song and story, and the
other the Kidd of fact—Frank R.
Stockton in St Nicholas.
In March, 1796, the sheriffs of the
territory which is now Tennessee took
a census of their own, and as there were
60,000 citizens of proper age the terri
tory declared itself a state, proceeded to
choose a governor, a congressman and
a legislature, which selected two United
States senators. Congress, then in ses
sion in Philadelphia, had received no
'information regarding the action in the
territory until congressman and sena
tors walked in uninvited and announced
that a state had been born, had elected
its officers, made its laws and was run
ning on scheduled time.
Congress was disconcerted and noti
fied the applicants that the sheriff’s
census was irregular and they must
wait at least for an invitation before
they proceeded to sit at the federal ta
ble. Upon second thought congress de
cided to be courteous, and on June 1
admitted Tennessee,nearly three months
after she had become a state by her own
action. This state, whose coming into
the Union was a little previous, was
the third state in the Union to provide
a president for the Union and the first
outside the original 18, and with one
exception the only state south of the
Ohio and the James ever to furnish a
president, and she has provided three,
more than any other state except New
York, Virginia and Ohio. Boston
Transcript.
Smart Boy This.
‘‘Father, ” asked Tommy, the other
day, “why is it that the boy is said to
be the father of the man?”
Mr. Tompkins had never given this
subject any thought, and was hardly
prepared to answer offhand.
“Why—why,” he said stumblingly,
“it’s so because it is, I suppose.”
"Well, pop, since I’m your father,
I’m going to give you a ticket to the
circus and half a crown besides. I al
ways said that if I was a father I
wouldn’t be so stingy as the rest of
them are. Go in, pop, and have a good
time while you’re young. I never had
any chance myself I”
Mr. Tompkins gazed in blank aston
ishment at Tommy. Slowly the signifi
cance of the hint dawned upon hinu-
Producing a half sovereign, he said :
"Take it, Thomas. When you really
do become a father, I hope it won’t be
your misfortune to have a son who is
smarter than yourself.” London
Graphic.
Son and Weather.
On the Ist of July the earth receives
6 per cent less heat from the sun than
it does during a corresponding period
in the month of January. But winter
does not occur then in the northern
hemisphere, because the sun runs high
in the sky and its rays fall upon the
earth more nearly vertically than six
months later, and, too, the day is much
longer than the night, so that while
the sun sends us a little less heat in to
tal amount we get a much larger pro
portion of what it does give us than we
do in January, when the total heat for
the whole earth is greater.—New York
Times. i
Tun Frojn the French.
A boulevardier is at once surprised
and enchanted to meet an old time com
panion whose suicide had been reported.
“It’s true,” said the latter. “I did
want to kill myself, simply from dis
taste of life. And then came along the
doctors and discovered that I had a
grave disorder. Since then, you under
stand, I take care of myself I”—Figaro.
Sorely He Wouldn’t.
“If I were only a man,” she said,
"we could”—
“Possibly we could,” he said, “but
the chances are we wouldn’t If you
were a man, I wouldn’t be here. I’d be
saying nice things to somebody who
wasn’t a man.”
Sometimes it is worth while to think
of such facts as these. —Chicago Post
The Tongue.
The tongue is divided into three re
gions of taste, each of which has its
own special function. The tip of the
tongue is chiefly sensible to pungent and
add tastes, the middle portion to
sweets or bitters, while the back is con
fined entirely to the flavors of roast
meats, butter, oils and rich and fatty
substances.
Bargain In Baal Estate.
Agent—l think I can sell this place
for you, but I can’t get the $5,000 you
ask. You’ll have to take $4,998.
Owner—That’s queer. Why should
the extra $2 stand in the way?
•’ ’Agent—My customer is a woman.—
Chicago News.
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