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THB NEWS Established 1871,
A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR !
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In making New Year resolutions don’t forget to resolve to invest a few dollars in
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Panics Come, and Panics Go, but Griffin Dirt Goes UP Forever.
. ..Y 011 c .®®’t-lose what you invest in Griffin and Spalding County real estate if you invest it right. The way to invest right is to invest with an agent who is reliable, responsible and
familiar with values. Even modesty does not prevent us from saying that our agency meets these requirements.
g List Your Property With Us and Know That You Have Been Treated Ridht.
JOSEPH JD. BOYD, JMazia.gei’,
BOYD’S REAL ESTATE AGENCY.
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Holiday Goods • ••••
Ladies* and Children’s
Cloaks,
Furs and Feather Boas,
Dress Goods and Silks.
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Prices are made to Clean
Up our entire winter Stock.
Strickiand-Crouch Co.
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▲ FTER we have heard a man talk, it does
• not make so much difference what kind
J- • of clothes he wears.
After we have read make
so much difference whatfkind of paper it is
written on.
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and the paper before wejread the fetter, it
v behooves the give care to his dress
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tionery forjthe priceless first impression it
creates. y.
* \the mills printing company
" ■ ~ ILOOSB LEAF LEDGERS. AND DEVICES
FHINTEHSIAHO STATIONERS
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA
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GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, THUUSDAX MORNING, JANUARY 2. t»08.
COTTON CONDITIONS SAID TO
BE MOST PECULIAR IN YEARS
Quantities Have Been Sold and a Tenth of the Crop
Held With Another Vast Quantity Still In Fields.
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To pick or not to pick, is the ques
tion worrying the farmers in and
, around Georgia these days, especially
those in the southern section of the
State. There is enough cotton stilt
on the bushes to furnish the cheap
woolen goods manufactories with
wool for a year, but “the weather is
still moist” and the farmers having
already gotten rich off the first two
pickings are careless about the re
maing few hundred thousand bales.
The picking season is over, accord
ing to custom, but the cotton is still
on the bushes out in the fields being
harassed and smeared in the dirt by
the wind and rain.
Receipts from the farmers received
by those to whom they have lent
money have been more than grati
fying, the farmers, most of them,
have made all the money they want,
the warehouse people have had an
unquestionable harvest, and the mills
have so much stuff on hand that
they have quit buying; yet a great
portion of the crop is stifl unharvest
ed. It would have been brought in
long ago if the weather had permit
ted, but the successive showers have
kept the remainder of the crop wet,
and picking has been impossible.
Eleven cents for good cotton is still
being offered, but most of the good
cotton has been harvested and sold.
Only the eight-cent class is still out
in the fields and the buyers for it are
scarce.
A farmer familiar witfethe condi
tions in the southern parrof the State
says that the crop this year has been
enormous, most of it has been of a
good quality and that which remains
is of such poor quality, and there is
so little demand for ir-stid the weath
er is so bad, that the chances are that
for the first time in history almost
the third picking will not be gone
through with in most cases, andjhe
residue of the season will be left in
the fields.
It is a well known fact that much
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Newton Banking Company
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WILL HILL NEWTON, President.
J. J. MANGHAM, Vice President.
R. L. WILLIAMS, 2nd Vice President.
E. O. NEWTON, Cashier.
C. F. THORNTON, Assistant Cmhier
DIRECTORS.
Chas. Whkkler, J . J. Flynt, J. C. Owkm,
R. L. Williams, - E. O. Nbwtom, J. J. Mamoham,
WAI Hux Ncwtom.
We pay 4% Interest on Cert iticates of Deposit.
Open until « p. m., Saturdays.
Your Patronage Solicited. ,
I H aVE THE PRETTIEST LINE OF
SURRIES
Ever shown fa Grtffln. A fall »e of Runabouts and Top Buggies. A good
stock of Harness at all kinds. Beautiful line at Lap Robes, Bugay Whim. A
full line of Wagons, Hones and Mules on hand. Give me a call; we will do
bminess S. B. BROWN. I
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• of the crop harvested is still stored in
the farmers cotton houses, an enor
’ mous quantity when taken as a
i whole. The average Is said to be
1 about one bale put of every ten.
» This cotton when added to what
i would have been the result of a third
i picking would have brought the
; numoer of bales for the season up to
> a point possibly large than that of
>■ last year.
ANTIDOTE FOR MENINGITIS.
Through Researches of Dr. Flexnor
Reward Is Found.
N>w York. Jan. I.—Cerebro spinal
[ meningitis, the dread, disease which
in 19C5 took unchecked more than
11,000 lives In three'months in this
city, has apparently been conquered
by Dr. Simon Flexner, head of the
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re
search.
Dr. Flexner, after nearly three yean
of research and hundred* of experi
ments, has discovered an antl-toxin
serum with which to combat the mer
ciless “spotted fever." Recently he
has treated more than 60 persons with
it. In no case was there a failure.
Tach patient lived and recovered ab
solutely.
Dr. Flexner 1s 44 years old, a na
tive of Louisville, a graduate of the
University of Louisville, and took a
post-graduate course at Johns Hopkins
and the universities of Slrasaburg and
, Berlin. He was professor of Pathology
, kt the University of Pennsylvania un
til 1904, when he was appointed head
of the Rockefeller Institute. He is
authority and writer upon snake ve
-1 nom. bubonic plague and various bac
teriological subjects.
Williams’ Kidney Pills
Have you neglected your kidneys?
Have you overworked your nervous
Stem and caused trouble with your
neys and bladder? Have you pains
In loins, side, back, groins and blad
der? Have you a flabby appearance
of the face, especially under the eyes?
Too frequent a desire to pass urine? If
so, WUQams’ Kidney Pilis rill curs
you—at Head Drug Co. Price 50c.
Williams’ Mfg. Co., Props., Cleve
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First In South to Put State Prohibi
tion Into Effect.
Atlanta, Jan. I.—With the advent
of the new year the law preventing
the manufacture and sale of intoxi
cating liquor, passed by the last ses
sion of the legislature, became effec
tive, making Georgia the first of the
southern states to be placed in the
prohibition column. The law is very
drastic in its prohibition and prevents
the keeping or giving away of liquors
In publie places and imposes a tax
of |SOO on clubs whose members are
allowed to keep drinks of an intoxi
cating nature in their individual lock
ers.
Notwithstanding the passage of this
law there is some agitation to have
1t declared unconstitutional. This ac
tion may be brought in the United
States courts next month.
It is estimated that Atlanta alone
in license taxed 135,612 and that the
property value of saloons and brew
eries here which went out of bus
iness on January 1 is from *l,ooo,Ovu
to *1,500,000. For the rest of the
state the property values involved are
about *5,000,000. It la estimated that
10,000 persona will lose their employ
ment when January 1 rang its bell
on the sale of intoxicating liquors.
That the prohibition law will be en
forced there Is no question. This is
not the country of "speakeasies,’’
and when the police have their Jaws
they enforce them to the limit. Gov
ernor Smith and the city court offi
ciate have been frank in their state
ments that they Intend to enforce the
laws.
Many of the more prominent clubs
have declared that they will go one
better than the law and prohibit the
keeping of liquor within their doors.
Governor Hoke Smith made this
statement:
"Tliere is nothing in the effort to
attack tire prohibition law on account
of the provision of the constitution
appropriating special Hquor taxes to
school purposes. The constitution au
thorizes but doe® not require a special
liquor tax.
“The properties which quit the liq
uor business are not lost. The brew
eries are prepared to manufacture Ice
and soft drinks. With these they
can pay a fair profit bn ttelr Invest
ments.
"There is plenty of work in Geor
gia for those who go out of the liquor
business, and plenty of work for all
of tte time for those who have wasted
half of their time through the use of
Hquro.”
WOMAN MAKES HER ESCAPE.
Mystery Connected With Inmate's Ab
sence from Asylum.
Athens. Ga., Jan. I.—There Is
some mystery connected with the die
appearance from the T. W. C. A.,
rooms of Miss Bate Parkman. She
escaped from the asylum at Milledge
ville a day or two ago, and her ab
sence bad not been noted until en
quiry from Athene called their atten
tion to the matter.
On Thurrday afternoon She called
at the T. W. C. A., c’aimlng that
she had recently arrived at- the age
of 18, and was in search of a board
ing house, having left the orphans’
home, and had come to Athens in
search of work.
She -was given lodging for the night
and next day her actions aroused sus
picion, and the orphans’ home was
telegraphed, and it wan learned that I
no such pprsoo had been there. Then
the asylum was called for and ft was
learned that an Inmate of
that institution.
In the bad left in
search of a boarding Wiise and up to
( Saturday afternoon the police had been
enable to gfe any trice of her..
She is tall, emaciated and aseiaae
eboiy’in appearance. Her voice was
pleasant and her manner very lady-
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THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK
FOR 1908 IS SATISFACTORY
Georgia and Alabama Enter the New Year With
Gratifying Assurance* of Increased Prosperity.
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The Georgia and Alabama Indus
trial Index, published at Columbus,
Ga., says:
“With industrial conditions moet
satisfactory and with much Import
ant construction in definite prospect,
Georgia and Alabama enter upon the
new year with gratifying assurances
of continued and increased prosperity.
“Three Important rail way systems
are in process of construction, and
work will begin in a short time upon
another which will promote the de
velopment of a large section that Is
rich in resources. Alabama iron
operators will begin the new year
with confidence of an increasing de
mand and great activity. Lumber
interests are expecting better prices
and more extensive building opera
tions as the year opens up, snd in
every line of industry the outlook is
considered highly encouraging.
“In Alabama a. land company
which was incorporated recently has
increased its capital stock to 8600,000
and will develop towns along the line
of the electric railway which is to be
constructed between Gadsden, Ala.,
and Tuscaleo<.a, Ate., via Birming
ham. This development of towns is
part of an extensive plan by which It
is propose* to invest about 810,000,-
000. in Alabama during the next sev
eral months. Another land develop
ment of importance is the location of
a colony of Germans In an Alabama
section. At two places in that Stets
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PICTURE UMKO TO CURE INSANE.
Unique and Impressive Experiment In
Ohio Institution.
MassiUon, Ohio, Jan. 1.-Tbe phy
sicians at the state hospital for the
Insane tried the experiment of ex
hibiting to the patients a big paint
ing of Christ tUamined by electric .
lights. It is behoved that by thus con
centrating the attention of the Insane
upon thio picture a beneficial thera
peutic effect will be produced and may
result in their recovery.
The experiment was made at the
religious services. A Mg picture en
titled “Ohrist Knocking at the Door,"
a copy of Hofmann’s masterpiece,
painted by H. Birkenstock, of Mount
Vernon, N. Y., was placed In the
chapel with a battery of electric lights
ready to be concentrated upon It.
After some religious curie of. an im»
press!vo character the lights were sud
denly turned on to the painting. The
insane were evidently Impressed.
They stared at the picture long.
The lights were then turned out
and after more music the process was
repeated. Many of the patients, rec
ognizing the subject of the pointing,
raised their hands In stipplicatlon
toward It and some fell on their knees
and wept.
The physicians at the hospital were
well satisfied with the experiment.
They believe that in Che casus of some
of the patients the effect has been
most beneficial.
The picture was donated to the hoe
pits! by dtfoebs of Akron