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THE NEWS. Established 1871
Health
“ For 25 years I have never
” missed taking Ayer’s Sarsaparilla
every spring. It cleanses my
Jr blood, makes me feel strong, and
Ht does me good in every way.” —
■ John P. Hodnette, Brooklyn, N.Y.
F Pure and rich blood
carries new life to every
part of the body. You
are invigorated, refreshed.
| You feel anxious to be
active. You become strong,
steady,courageous. That’s
what Ayer’s Sarsaparilla
* will do for you.
JI.OO ■ hottie. All druggists.
~r u minw*n
Ask your doctor what he thinks of Ayer’s
Sarsaparilla. He knows all about this grand
old family medicine. Follow his advice and R
we will be satisfied. r,
J. C. Ayer Co., Lowell. Mass. r
MOiiENA MB N TIOH.
Molena. Ga., <Maroh 17.—An
other week is gone and no plowing
done. Farmers are getting blue on ac
count of the continued rains. It is now
corn planting time and nobody ready to
plant.
Working the public roads is the order
of the day, during the wet spell, which
is a bad job in the loose mud. Molena
district always has the best worked
roads of any in the comity. Sign boards
are put up at every cross and fork of
, the road, according to law, but it is
’ greatly neglected in some districts.
A detective was in Molena several
days last week, trying to work up the
case of the burglary of the depot and
the setting ot lire to the school house.
The old H. G. Jordan store, near
where the depot was. is being used for
a telegraph and ticket office, and two
boxcars are being used to deliver
, freight until a new depot is built. The
' railroad authorities were here last week,
and we understand that the new depot
will be built a little north of the old one.
The council has put on a night watch
man. T. R. Wijiis, the •marshall, li as I
the job. It is hoped that if any further
i attempt is made to burn up the town,
the guilty parties will be caught.
Our clever post master has moved
back into the old store, where it has al
ways been since Molena was a town,
until the last two years, which was
about mid way of the business portion
of the town.
We ate glad to see S. C Richardson,
who has been confined to his room for
several weeks, in his store again.
A candy pulling was given the young
folks at Earnest Reeves’ Friday night.
Everyone got plenty of candy, and then
played tucker until a late hour
Stout Bransford, of Odessadale,
visited home folks here Friday. He left
with Rev. W. E. Head on the seven
‘ o’clock train, who filled his regular ap
pointment at Mt. Olive Saturday and
Sunday. The congregation was small
on Sunday on account of rain,
Holines Jordan has the contract to
carry the mail for the new rural route.
Clever Whit Capel will be the deliverer.
We iu this neck of the woods are eager
ly looking forward to the time for it to
•start.
Rev. Mr. Brown will preach at Union
Academy every second Sunday.
The widow of the late John Leak,
who died a few years ago at the ad
vanced age of 104, we are sorry to learn
is quite sick. We hope the near neigh
bors will <! o their whole duty for her,
as she has no children, brothers nor
sisters to lend their aid in her afflictions.
Listen out for the May wedding
bells.
Mr. George Smith, of Zebulon, was
married to Miss Long, of Crest, Sunday
last, We did not get Miss Long’s first
name.
We greatly missad Brother Snow
” flakes’ letter last week, which seldom
fails to appear.
The general meeting of the First dis
trict of the Central Association will be
held with Mt. Olive cnurch, beginning
on Friday before the fifth Sunday in
August. A full program will be given
c later on.
We have just received news that
Uncle William Rogers, of Woolsey, is
better and the doctor has dismissed
him.
B. M. Stonica. of Molena, and R. M.
Anthony, of Sasser, Terrell county, be
come members of the G. S. VV, with
this issue.
CARMEL COMMENTS
Carmel, Ga., March 18.—Tom
Britton, of Greeneville, was buried at
Mt. Zion last Monday The fuuneral
services w ere conducted by Dr. S. B.
Cousins. Mr. Britton was a single
man and had good health until the last
year or two, when he was taken with
consumption. We extend our sympathy
< to the bereaved relatives.
Miss Ida Spence, our most accom
plished postmistress, is on the sick list
this week.
Little Harmon Caldwell, of this
place, is on the sick list also. We wish
for him a speedy recovery.
A certain man of Carmel went out
hunting ihe other day and had to buy
some birds to bring’home with him.
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LIBERTY HILL LACONICS.
Liberty Hill, Ga., March 17.—
The continued rain of the last two
wf eks has kept the farmers fram doing
any work on their farms.
Mayor Vons has corn up with the
ALL THE NEWS FROM BROOKS STATION.
A Negro Blown Out of a Boiler.
Brooks Station. Ga., March 18.—
It is now reported that work will
Degin in about two weeks on the
new depot here and the old one
moved several feet east from where
it now stands and be used as part of
the new one. i
Rev. R. E L. Timmons, of In
man, filled his regular appointment
here Saturday and Sunday.
Quite a number from here are at
tending court at Fayetteville this
week.
Mrs. Julie Wilson, of Brooks Sta
tion, has her name added on the
subscription list of the News and
Sun with this issue.
Quite a number from here attend
ed the burial of Mrs. S A. Putnam
at Fairview Monday. The funeral
services were conducted by Rev. G.
W. Wood, of Sunny Side.
We will omit most all of our vis
itors this week on account of a
lazy man’s club society, which has
been organized here and will be
found elsewhere in this issue.
Farm work is ou the standstill on
account of the continued wet weath
er.
R H. Scott, one of Brooks Sta
tion’s most prosperous and up-to
date farmers, hands ns fifty cents
to pav for a year’s subscription to
the News and Sun in advance.
Hilton O. Lvnch, of Brooks Sta
tion, who has been working in Grif
fin for the last two months, left
there last week for Ozark, Ala., <
where the News and Sun reporter
hears he has a position with the
General Fire Extinguishing Compa
ny, of Providence, R. I, and where
he will make his future home. Hit
nnmo is added to the subscription
list of the News and Bun with this
issue. '
The many friend* of Miss Faftjftte
Matthews, who has been sick fo»'
several days, will be glad to learn
that she is some better at this writ
ing.
Mack Williams, colored, an em
ploye of A. Steinheimer, happened
to a very bad accident last Saturday
evening. He had been firing the
engine at the saw mill and about 3
o’clock they quit off and everyone
had left but Mack, ne remained
there to do some work on the engine
and had crawled under the boiler to
remove the blow-off valve when it
bursted and blew him out several
feet. He remained there alone for
some time with two-thirds of the
skin scalded off of him and is not
expected to live.
fourth blade on it, and we feel sure
that Molena Memion can’t beat it.
So far as yet no plowing has been
done on account of rain.
Grain in this section continues to im
prove.
The fruit of this section seems to be
damaged very little, if any, as the early
trees are in full bloom.
J. B. Morten had the misfortune to
lose a fine Jersey milch cow last Mon
dey.
The hauling of corn and fertilizers is
getting some of the public roads in a
very bad condition.
Walter Taylor,one of our hustling
farmers, while hauling, had the mis
fortune to get a fine young mule’s leg
broken by falling through a bridge.
Cary Barrow and Walter Beckham
were the first boys to go fishing. ’They
report good luck.
The people of this section are getting
very anxious to plant their gardens, as
well as corn.
Santford King has just completed a
very large barn for J. A. Sauley.
Tom King had the misfortune to get
poisoned very badly by thnnderwood
while working in some bottoms ou his
farm.
POMONA PARAGRAPHS.
Pomona, Ga., March 18.—The farm
ers are still wearing long faces over the
continued wet weather.
Zed Patterson has begun sawing at
this place, and he keeps S. M. Maynard
quite busy hauling stocks and lumber.
M. F. Gibson and little daughter,
Miss Annie Jane, has returned from a
visit to friends in Cowetta.
Mrs. John Manley went upto Hamp
ton last Sunday to see her mother, who
has been quite sick.
A letter from S O. and W. 1). Gay,
who left for Grapeland, Tex., a few
weeks ago, gives a glowing account of
the Lone Star State.
What’s In a Name?
Everything is in the name when
it comes to Witch Hazel Salve. E.
C. DeWitt <& Co., of Chicago, dis
covered, some years ago, how to
make a salve from Witch Hazel
that is a specific for piles. For
blind, bleeding, itching and pro
truding piles, eczema, cuts, burns,
bruises and all skin diseases, De-
Witt’s Salve has no equal. This
has given rise to numerous worth
less counterfeits. Ask for De-
Witt’s—thegenuine. Brooks Drug
Store.
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 20. 1903.
A Lazy Man’s Club Organized.
Brooks Station, Ga , March 18 —
Rain continues to fall but the people
of Brooks Station never become des
pondent.
The latest thing of interest here
is the organization of a lazy man’s
Quite a number of those who
once tilled the soil met the other
day and organized what they call
the “Lizy Man’s Club, ” and elected
the following officers :
President—Caps R. H. Woods.
Vice-President—Judge W. W.
Mitcham.
Secretary—A. Steinheimer.
Treasurer—J. M. Putnam
The full intention of the organi
zation is not Known to the outside
world, but it is understood that they
pledge themselves not to aid in any
tning that requires muscle. It is
also understood that no man can
join the club who has not on band
50 pounds of flour, 8 pounds of meat,
one gallon of syrup, 2 pockages of
coffee and 2 pounds tobacco, borne
think that amount insufficient, but
the vice-president assures them that
with that amount they will be able
to reach blackberries, then he says
they will be on a safe footing, no
work done nor none to do.
It isjur.derstood that the hour for
meeting at the depot is at 8 o’clock
a. m., in order to see the early train
from Carrollton, remain in session
until the 10 :30 train bound for Chat
tanooga passes and adjourn until
i p. tn. ; then remain in session
until the down train from Chatta
nooga pastes and adj inrn at 4 p. m.
and. go home and get a good night’s
rest.
The vice-president and secretary
have proposed to furnished cigars
bo the one that will bring the
*ofta*l white pine.
It is quite amusing to hear some
of them bell of incidents of long ago.
Some have been cowboys in the far
west and others fishers and hunters
by irade. One man says be has
killed enough wild buffalo in this
country, when it was fre-h, that if
he had the hides now he could cover
Brooks Station completely up
One says that he once fished for a
living and that he had a sein made
of chain, that cotton rope was not
sufficient, and that he kept a pair of
large Norman horses on the bank to
pull the sein out.
Others trapped for a living. One
man says that he has trapped birds
enough in one day from which he
got feathers enough to make a
feather bed, but the most interest
ing story of them al] Is to hear the
vice-president tell of his life in the
school room. He claims that he has
taught school longer than any man
in Georgia. He was teaching school
in South Carolina when the Indian
war broke out in 1812, and at once
gave up his school and was made
colonel of a regiment, which he
commanded with credit to himself,
leading his regiment through many
bloody battle?, killing everything as
they went, and says that he has
enough Indian scalps at home now
in his trunk to make a bed quilt.
A Member
BARNESVILLE BANK
CASES SETTLED.
An Agreement Reached Between the Prosecuting
Attorneys and the Depositors.
Each and every case against Pres
ident J. J. Rogers and Cashier G.
E. Huguley, of the New South Sav
ings Bank, which failed in Barnes
ville in December, 1901, has been
rol pressed, the order being signed
by Hon. E. J Reagan, judge of the
Flint circuit. It will be remember -
ed that following the bunk failure,
indictments were found against
Rogers and Huguley, on several
charges connected with their man
agement of the bank. They em
ployed counsel and were preparing
for a hard tight over the cases. At
the October term of Pike superior
court the attorneys representing the
depositors of the bank made a
proposition that if the defendants
would pay into the court the sum of
16,000, which was an amount about
equal to the indebtedness of the da
fendants to the bank, the prosecn-
Literary Society Growing in
Numbers
Btooks Station, Ga , March 18,—
Brooks Station Literary Society
held Its regular meeting Thursday
nig’rt at the beautiful home of Mr.
aud Mrs. R. H. Henderson. The
parlor was nicely decorated and
everything was arranged to make
the occasion pleasant.
After going through with routine
of opening exercises, and complet
ing business, carried out the pro
gram as arranged by the committee
on entertainment:
Song—By Society.
Miss Lois Jones read a very inter
esting story.
Miss I/lly Bridges recited “The
Old inn Chair.”
Song—Home Sweet Home.
Miss Daisy Posev recited a tem
perance selection in a very impress
ive manner.
Music—Miss Ti mmie Lee Hender
son, Nanon Waltz
Music—Mfss Hamrick, Salut a
Pesth.
Recitation—Master Linwood Ga
ble. “Seeing things at night.”
Music, a trio—Misses Mabel, Tom
mie Lee and Sallie Henderson.
Dialogue—Misses Kate Henderson
and Beatrice Martin, “Mrs. Tattle
ton, or the Morning Call.”
To say that the society was de
lighted by the morning call is but
putting it mild.
Songs—Society.
Mbs Dallie Gable and Mrs. Noah
Wilson entertained the society with
some delightful music.
After spending awhile socially
and in amusing pastime adjourned
The largest attendance of any
since organization
Good order and everybody de
lighted.
Next session will be held at the
home of J. M Putman.
Committee on program for n»x r
meeting—Miss Estelle Byles, M.ss
Elizabeth Belcher and Charlie Lon
gino.
EDDY GROVE EDITIONS.
Eddy Grove, Ga.. March 18 —The
rain still continues, and the farmers are
still hauling out guano like they
thought their cotton would briug ten
cents next fall. You had better plant
corn and raise hogs, and kill your own
meat, for wheat is looking nice now
and oats are very green.
We are sorry to hear of so many
deaths, and we sympathize with the
bereaved ones in their sorrow and
trouble.
The singing at Y. B. Reid’s was
quite a success and enjoyed by all pres
ent.
Give It a Trial.
► Just receive I a tresh lot of “Clif
ton” flour, made of nat’ve Ken
tucky wheat, guaranteed to be the
best flour in the market. Proof of
the flour is in the bread, cake and
pastry. Give “Clifton” a trial and
you will need no urgum *nt to con
vince you of its superiority. W. H
Brewer, Coppodge & Edwards, P.
Flynt and E. S. McDowell.
tion would be dropped and the cases
dismissed.
Some months later Judge Reagan
came to Barnesville for the purpose
of disposing of the matter. At that
that time the prosecuting attorneys
demanded 10 per cent of ths
SG,OOO as fees. This the judge
promptly refused to allow, and the
settlement fell through. An agree
ment was recently reached, how
ever, between the prosecuting at
torneys and the depositors about
the fee and the full amount paid by
the defendants goes into the re
ceiver’s hand for the benefit of the
depositors and creditors, except
|240 court costs.-
Judge Reagan has just signed the
order authorizing the clerk of Pike
superior court to enter the order
upon the records of the court, and
thus ends what promised to be a
hard fought legal battle. The cases
against the officers of the Barnes
ville Savings Bank, which failed at
the same time, will be called at the
April term of the court.
SJKNOIA SKNTKMCKa.
Senoia, Ga., March 18.—Mr. and
Mrs. J. A. Sasser and baby Josephine
left last Thursday evening on the 3:30
train, going east, for Orlanda, Fla.,
where they go to get the benefit of sea
breezes. Mr. Sasser will return m ten
days, but Mrs. Sasser will remain a
mouth or six weeks.
Mrs. C. A. Green will leave in a few
days for Savannah and Montezuma,
where she goes to visit her sitters, Mrs.
Maxwell at .Montezuma and Mrs
Bloodworth at Savannah. She expects
to be gone till late spring.
It is with sorrow that we note the
accidental shooting of Roswell Bran
denburg, of Haralson, by his brother,
Walter, one day last week. The boys
were out bunting, and by some unex
plainable mystery Walter’s gun went
off, shooting Roswell in the arm and
side. Drs. Culpc pper and Hogg, of this
place, were sent for and att< n led the
wounded boy. Almost the entire
muscle and two inches of the bone weie
blown out. It was reported last Satur
day that the physicians bad serious
doubts as to a permanent cure without
amputation.
The stockholders of the Formers and
Merchants Bank held their annual
meeting in the bank office the Sth inst.
The bank declared a dividend i f 10 per
per cent, under the manageim nt of its
efficient officers. President W. 8.
Witham tendered his resignation. M.
H. Ccucb, who for 12 years was the
honored vice president, serving with
out remuneration, was unanimously
elected president, with the venerable
financier, Dr. F. M. Brantley, vice
president. J. A. Sasser, the efficient
cashier, was elected to succeed himself.
Ex President Witham was chosen
financial agent. The board of directors
elected were M. H Couch, .1. a. Sas
ser, J. M. McCrary, G. P. Hodnett. J.
F. Arnall and W. T. Glower.
Sorry to report Dr. F. M. Brantley
and Mrs. W. O. Davis seriously ill with
grip.
Another accidental shooting reported
from Fayette county. Looney Sprat
lin was last Wednesday shot by another
boy, name not reported to this scribe,
Mr. Spratliu’s shoulder and collar bone
being shattered. Boys can’t be too
careful how they handle firearms.
These frequent accidents should stou;
better leave guns in the rack* and bird
hunt with rocks.
Real Estate and Renting Agent W.
L. Taylor went to Newnan last Friday.
He is “figuring” with a big Northern
syndicate with a view of locating a big
manufacturing plant at Senoia. Watch
for hie ad. in the near future for some
valuable land and town lots to sell in
and around Senoia. If you will pay
for the lot he will furnish the money at
6 per cent, long time to build "your
house. Now is the time to get a cheap
home.
Judge L. McCullough bagged another
“culled gintilman 1 ’ last Sunday even
ing and landed him iu the callaboose
here. He was wanted by Capt. Jim
McKnight for misrepresenting his
financial standing in order to buy goods
on tim\ Judge McCullough is becom
ing noted as a successful detective in
his m Rarer nge.
KeV. W. T. Arnall is on the U. S.
jury iu Atlanta and is therefore a guest
of Judge Newman. He is likely to
stay till June. He visits his family
every Saturday nignt, returning to At
lanta Monday morning.
Miss Louise, the charming daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. S. O. Smith, is at
home from Agnes Scott for a few days.
C.ipt Linch has the finest strawberry
patch we have seen. He gave them a
topdressing of nitrate of soda, and it
made them “hump.”
W. L. Taylor has English peas seven
inches high. He aho has Irish potatoes
up, and both aro “humping.” Cotton
seed hulls and acid phosphate is what
he fertilized with.
Dick W ardshas a fine stand of coi n.
He planted one square in his garden.
Cotton seed hulls and guano is what he
fertilized with.
Pastor W. A. Davis visited his flock
at Antioch last Saturday and Sunday,
where on Saturday two deacons were
ordained.
Pastor Harris had a good house at the
Methodist church last Sunday at 11
a. m. and again at 7 p m.
Unless work on the road leading from
Senoia to Brooks Station via Moody’s
bridge on Line Creek is speedily ditch
ed and polled it will become impassable
and Senoia will be the sufferer The
farmers over in ihe fork of Line Creek
and Whitewater are complaining and
u*ge that the supervisor of the road see
to it that that “keg creek loblolly” be
repaired.
What is the matter with our gifted
“Haralson Happenings?” Please let
us hear from you occasionally.
BUUMMKY BREVITIES.
Brushey, Ga., March 17.—Mrs.
J. G. Colwell entertained her neighbors
with an old fashioned quilting. These
all day entertainments are werth going
to, and especially good to be there at
dinner.
:Mr. and Mrs. Huddleston visited
Mrs. Cauthen, who is quite sick at
Milner, Sunday.
Mrs. J. Morris has been visiting
friends at Riverdale and Griffin for a
few day.
Miss Bell, of Augusta, is expected to
visit Miss Hildred Bell the latter part
of this week.
The M. and P. Club will be enter
tained by Misses Bell Saturday evening.
“Clifton” in lowel Sacks.
All 48 lb Backs in which “Clifton”
flour is packed, are made of the
regular towel goods The flour in
these sucks costs you no more than
that in the ordinary cloth sack.
Ask for “Clifton” in the towel
rack.
THE SUS, Established lilt
THE OUT RELIABLE
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POWDER
Absolutely Pure
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SILVEY SNOW FLAKES.
Silvey, Ga.. Maroh 18 —Very
little farm work has been done.
Corn planting time is here and no
land prepared.
Vegetation is «nringing forth, and
soon the forest will be robed iu her
gown of green, unless the fog
that has been so common for
some time should turn to a cold
blizzard, as some are expecting, and
especially those who have some fat
hogs they want to kill.
The last sowed oats are up and look
ing very promising and may make a
good crop, if they escape the <old and
the season hits th'-m.
Col. Hancock worked 25 hands on
about 100 feet of road at the Siittor
bridge. The Sprigging bxotheb
furnished their two wagons and team
and hands and helped him to haul reck
Mr. Mann furnished three wagom
They put fifty-three loads of rock in
The road had become impassable.
Remember the time for dove and
quail shooting is passed. Rub up your
guns and lay them away.
People that have stock that have
strayed off and are running at large
should look after them and get them
up. for it is time to take them up.
Mrs. P. B O’Neal, of Concord, ha*
returned home, after spending a few
days with herpaieuts and relative*.
Mrs. J. D. O’Neal, of this place, has
returned home, after eponding some
time with her daughter, Mrs, Hilbert
Willis, of Barnesville.
Mr*. M. F. Fuller, who was called to
the bedside of her sister, Miss Melisia
Calhoun, of Carmel, who was suffering
with pneumonia, has returned home
and reports her sister improving.
Dick Walker, the traveling sawmill
man, is back on R C. Strozier’s place
sawing materi. 1 for Mr. Strozier’*
warehouse, which he is enlarging in
Greeneville.
M. F. Fuller has been nursing a spell
of lagrippe, but is better.
BETHANY NEWL
Bethany, Ga., March 18. — Well,
as I have not appeared in some time, I
will appear to let the readers and cor
respondents of the G. 8. W. know that
I am their friend yet.
Rev. D. A. Briuole filled his regular
appointment here Sunday and Saturday
before. There were but few at church
Sunday on account of the rain.
Mr. and Mrs W. H. Reynolds, of
Riverview, visited the latter’s *parent*,
Mr, and Mrs. E. T. Hutcheison, Satur
day and Bunday.
Miss Mary Belle Horton is spending
some time at Nixon with her uncle, W.
J. Horton.
PT. Horton and lovely daughter,
Miss Eva, made a business trip to Grif
fin Saturday.
This community was made sad
Thursday by tn« d-ath of Mrs. W. J.
Brook, of Griffin, which occurred
Wednesday night. She was laid to reef
iu tte family square at Hollouvill
cemetery Fridav.
Wheat and oats are looking fine sino
the cold snap.
Tommie Hutcherson, of Griffin, spen
Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
B. T. Hutcherson.
There has been but little farming
done around here. If it continues to
rain, the farmers will have to just lay
off their ground and put the grain in.
Everybody seems to have a bad cold
around
Ernie Hutcherson is working at th*
carpenter trade with his brother-in
law, W H. Reynolds, at Riverview.
May he have great success.
This scribe had the pleasure o f paying
the editor a visit Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Brooks.of Griffin,
spent one day and night last week
with the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
P. T. Horton.
""rest rambles,
• •
Rest, Ga., Much 18.— The
rain continues, and the farmers have
done but little toward fanning as yet.
R. T. Travis, who was reported sick:
last week, is no better.
Rev. T. A. Brown, of Fayetteville,
will preach al Mt. Springs next Sun
day afternoon at three o’clock.
Prof. I.other Elli-ou .vasealled home
Thursday to attend the funeral of hi
uncle, riioina- L<>yd. who died suddenl’"
Wednesday. Y' ur humble scribe pre
sided over tim scli< ol during the ab
sence of Hie le ic|k r,
Fayette county -.uperior court is nov
in session, it w ill no d >ubt lie a big
court, there being -ome iiuportant Case:
on the docket.
The party at R. B. Johnston’s Satur
day night was a success in every way