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•/ X ■ z■ ■ ■ J A < X/* ft zpt/kA. a. Mo) ■ TI7 ‘ ■ >iit> fyw 1' * i"!I.L11 t" THB NEWS Established 1871, A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR ! . . ... | In making New Year resolutions don’t forget to resolve to invest a few dollars in -r GRIFFIN REAL ESTATE.®- : J, 7a t ■' .. r I 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. / Clean Up Sale MONDAYand TUESDAY. "■■ ’■?*• • A ’ .- * v* . -*-* ' I 1 w, - „ 1 x Holiday Goods • •••• Ladies* and Children’s Cloaks, Furs and Feather Boas, Dress Goods and Silks. j I .. > Prices are made to Clean Up our entire winter Stock. Strickiand-Crouch Co. . J ▲ 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. * : But as we see the man before we hear him and the paper before wejread the fetter, it v behooves the give care to his dress * and _the correspondent thought to'’bis sta- tionery forjthe priceless first impression it creates. y. * \the mills printing company " ■ ~ ILOOSB LEAF LEDGERS. AND DEVICES FHINTEHSIAHO STATIONERS GRIFFIN, GEORGIA ■ > — ■■■• .-...L.. ■ , 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. «• 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 HA,', 11.J.111 —BB3B. U ■ ■■-I MW I J Newton Banking Company Griffin, Georgia. ** omens. 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 - . - • 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 land. O VMtU'KvHA Io nivW lAHT* 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- _ ____ , * « • > .3- - *■ THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK FOR 1908 IS SATISFACTORY Georgia and Alabama Enter the New Year With Gratifying Assurance* of Increased Prosperity. —. ■ 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. 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D ZZ7\ HTAXDAJtP OIL COMPANT - —*' TUB SUN, Established 1877. g ■ - well" are being bored for oil with the prospect of adding another valuable industry to Alabama’s long list” 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