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’•TWELVE POSSUM THAT SET
DOWN TOGETHER LAST NIGHT
And They All Said It Was the Worst Company They
I < Ever Got Caught In.
I
“Good Enough fer Me.”
I 1
I Hi! Mister ’Possum —
* Turkey fine gpr see,
K But don’t you worry ’bout it;
■ You good enough fer me I
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■ I ain’t a-gwine ter ’base you;
B You ugly ez eon be;
I)e big folks—dey refuse you,
B But you good enough ferine !
1 HL
■ r I pass my plate, an’ thanky;
B I glad my time is free.
B Dat ’possum fat an’ fillin’,
H An’ he good enough ler me !
R —[Frank Stanton in Const’tution.
g Prosperity or no prosperity—and
■ what good fellow ever saw the di£-
V —have sat down together in
■. - ‘Georgia and the fat one has sure eat
up the lean one, and sarve him right
for being so lean.
b Os course, everybody can only
from his own personal expe-
B * rience and observation, but after see-
B ing turkeys on the street and eating
■ chitlins—not no old spelling book
I “chitterlings,” but the real things
■ served along with cracklin’ bread—
I at Dr. Carson’s on Wednesday night,
■ wild ducks at Eli Brewer’s at dinner
I Thursday and twelve (12) fine fat
■ possums with Cuba Ison-fat night,
I PRACTICAL DEMONSTRATION OF
j THE GOVERNMENT’S METHOD
I Os Road Building Will Be Given Today bj Road Su
perintendent Keller.
W. S. Keller, superintendent of
K road construction in the .Department
sr of Agriculture at Washingtonf arrived
J* in the city yesterday, coming here
|< FV the purpose of confering and ad
-9 vising with the county connnission
ers of Spalding county in reference to
k road building and construction.
| Mr. Keller is an expert in road
I vrork,and will give a demonstration of
I government’s method of the con-
■ « Suction of sand-clay roads today on
■ the hill near Haines Thurman's resi
dence on the extension of East Solo-
1 mon street.
E. H. Odom has kindly consented
to lend the rbad roller machine in
WHAT DAVE BISHOP
SAYS GOES WITH ALL
WHO KNOW HIM, AND HE IS WELL
" KNOWN.
** rfe Recommends Ison’s Dysentery
Remedy Infallible Cure.
| O. H. Ison, manufacturer of the cele
brated remedies bearing his name, has
adhered to the rule of publishing tes
timonials only from people residing
here, whom anybody could, reach; but
he feels that it is hardly violating this
ruie to print the following from D. N.
Bishop, so long a resident here, but
now located at 425 Hiawassee Avenue,
Athens, Ga., and who will be pleased
p? to answer all inquiries addressed to
a Griftin, Ga , Aug. 25, 1905.
Mr. O. H. 1 son:
F \ Dear Sir—After personally testing
■p your great Dysentery Remedy, 1 feel
b that I could not do humanity more
K ' good than to recommend this cure to
who are similarly affected. The
* work is thorough and permanent, and
■ I have no hesitancy in making a per-
■ sonal appeal to the public generally to
■ give this great remedy a trial when in
n need of a medicine for uysentery or
■ similar ailments. I have also bought
’I it for a number of hands under my
w supervision at the weave department
fe of the Griffin Cotton Mill. It has in
ery case given almost instant re
lief. D. N. Bishop,
Foreman of Weave Dept. Griffin Cot
ton Mill.
Like all the rest of Mr. Ison’s
other remedies, this one is sold un
der guarantee that if it does not
tar give satisfaction in every case, he will
■ jefund all money paid for it and five
■ percent, additional on the amount
L <Hh\lso manufacturer of Dysentery and
■ WRaxly Elux Remedies, in use here for
|| 40 years, and Dandruff, Falling Hair
■ or Tetter Remedy, in use for 2o years,
® Hexamy'-thlentet ramine.
$ The above is the name of a German
■ chemical, which is one of the many
1 valuable ingredients in Foley’s Kidney
Hexamethylenetetramine Is
by medical text books and
authorities as a uric aeid solvent and
■ antiseptic for the urine. Take Folay’s
K Kidhey Remedy as soon as you notice
Bi any irregularities, and avoid a serious
R malady. Thos. J. Brooks.
V
.how is any editor of even as big a
paperas the News and Sun to believe
or care that the election of Taft over
Bryan makes any difference?
Bud Manley and William Wells,
with Flora Belle and Buck, the son
of Flora Belle, caught ’em all on
Wednesday night between daylight
and dawn and between Williamson
and Zebulon, and they were served,
fine and fat as little pig/ at Dock
Ison’s last night, and strange to say
not one ol them got away from
Dock’s black cooks. Now, the last
thing in the world that Dock would
serve nearer than near beer would fit
1 a possum sapper, yet when all the
guests got there, though [►ossum has
never got oh to these new-fangled
ways, not a guest but what was
ready for possum—which shows how
near perfection Griffin has come as a
prohibition town.
It was a good old time, and every
one present is waiting for the results
of a trip to be made Monday night
by Bud Manley, William Wells, E.
11. Odom, Cuba Ison, Flora Belle and
Buck, son of Flora Belle, down to
wards the mountains in pursuit of
Opossums Giganteus Mountainus,
and we shall see upon their return
whether prosperity is really here to
stay.
his possession for the purpose ot aid
ing Mr. Keller in giving this demon
stration, and those interested are cor
dially invited to i>e present and ste
the exhibition.
Mr. Keller has recently lieen in
Athens, where he .gave a similar
demonstration ot road building in
Clarke county.
He comes here on the request of
R. H. Drake, chairman of the board
of county commissioners of Spalding
county, and his demonstration and
advice in regard to the government’s
way of constructing roads will no
doubt be of great value just at this
time.
TAFT CABINET IS
NOT SLATED
President-Elect Declares No One Has
Been Decided On.
Hot Springs, Va., Nov. 22.—[Spe
cial.] —A general discusison of affairs
with Senator Scott, of West Virginia,
and a visit from former Senator Gas
saway Davis, of the same State, who
four years ago was the Demo
cratic candidate for vice president,
Friday afternoon, were the only de
mands made on the time of the presi
dent-elect.
“I wish you would just say that
my cabinet is not made up or slated.
No one has been decided upon for
any place in it and no offers of any
cabinet positions have been made to
any one.”
This was the respouse of President-
Elect Taft Friday to the statement
from Minneapolis that Frank B.
Kellogg had been invited to become
attorney general in the Taft cabinet.
Senator Scott said that if the business
men of the countiy, large and small,
could realize the qualities, desires and
determination of President-elect Tatt,
there would lie no hesitation what
ever iu the upward trend ol business.
Period of Prosperity Predicted.
“We are going to have a period of
great advancement and prosjierity
under the administration ot Judge
Taft,” the senator said.
Thanksgiving Day here is going
to be the occasion of a general re
union of the Tatt family. Thanks- 1
givingjdinner is to be partaken of at 1
the home of M. E. Ingalls, whose ’
son is the husband ot a daughter of C.
P. Taft. The C. P. Taft family
-will be here, likewise Henry W.
Taft and family, and Horace Taft as *
well as Robert, Helen and Chas., the '
three children of the president-elect
and Mrs. Tatt.
Pleasant, sure, easy, safe little liver
Pills, are DeWitt s Little Early Risers.
Sold by Carlisle & Ward.
INTERESTING EXHIBITIONS OF I
SAND CLAY ROAD BUILDING
I
w m . - Xljk. m-*’-—'
j County Commissioners Much Pleased With Road
Work Done Here by Government Representative.
During the past two days, W. S.
Keller, superintendent of road con
struction from the department of
agriculture^at Washington, D.
has been making some very inter
esting experiments and exhibitions
on the road leading from Griffin past
the residences of 11. G. Thurman and
B. N. Barrow, in the direction of
Head’s, shop. The county commis
sioners have re-located ami graded
this road a distance of about three
miles since the first of last March,
and have succeeded in changing
grades exceeding 20 feet to the 100
feet t® grades that do
feet to the 100 feet; but in doing this
they have found it necessary to cut
through large hills and build enor
mous fills. These fills, being con
structed of fresh dirt, would, under
ordinary circumstances, lie cut up
under the weight of traffic passing
over them, and for this reason it is
desirable to find and place on them a
top dressing which will harden them
and resist the weight of traffic better
than the red clay of which they are
built.
The interest in good road building
the country over is now so great that
the federal government maintains a
large corpse of expert road engineers
who are assigned to advise with the
authorities ot those counties making
an effort toward the construction of
graded roads. Mr. Keller, who was
assigned to this county fora few days,
is recognized as one of the highest
authorities on “sand clay top dress
ing,” and this is the character of
work which he has been doing during
the past week in this county. This
character of road is not expected to
equal macadam, but since it costs
only about 1200 per mile instead of
$3,000, as does macadam, the sand
clay road is available to many coun
ties where Macadam, by reason of its
cast, would be out of the question.
These roads are not built in a month,
nor in a season, but require constant
care through two hard winters, after
which time it is expected that the
traffic will have so mixed the sand
with the native soil that the result
will be a hard top, which can then be
kept in first-class condition at a cost
$1,218 IN PRODUCE
WILL “GO DOWN”
To Credit of Methodist Brethren of
North Georgia Conference,
Gainesville, Ga., Nov. 20. —No
one set of citizens, laymen or com
mitteemen will be a more potent fac
tor in the entertainment of the North
Georgia Conference, now in session in
Gainesville, than Mr. Turkey Gob
bler, “Ole Miss” Hen and AJaster
Yaller ljeg. Local produce men have
heard that the last three named are
soon to hold a convention in order to
draft a message to be sent to the
Wielder of the Big Stick informing j
him that they have at last come into)
their ovn in that they have been I
dubbed by tae Gainesville house wife
very “desirable citizens.”
For the feeding of some or
four hundred Methodist preachers
applicants, undergraduates, laymen
and committee-men is a matter ol no
small moment; especially when the
“feast” is to run through a period of
six or seven days. And especially
again, when every good sister is try
ing to give her “delegate” just- a
little better than her sister house wife
is doing.
How it Figures in Dollars.
Which leads to the statement by a
local produce dealer to-day that two
hundred turkeys have been purchased
tor the conference and gives an out
sider some idea of what is in store for
the visiting preachers who constitute
this great body of men. As .the'
' average price of a turkey now is aliout j
$2, between S4OO and $450 will lie ex- :
' pended for the great national b*rd
alone during the meeting.
The produce dealer above quoted
also estimates that not less than sixty |
* cases of eggs will also be consumed'
during the conference. Eggs on the !
local market are worth 26 cents per
dozen, and one case contains thirty
dozen, or 360 single eggs, according * 1
to the local dealer’s calculations, 1 j
21,600 eggs will be consumed by the
not exceeding $5.00 ;»er mile per year. '
Through the courtesy of E. 11. i
Odom, the use ol a ten-ton roller was 1 (
obtained, and part of the work has j
been rolled with this machine, both I
on an incline and on a level. An-1
other part of the work will be topjrfed
with sand clay but not rolled, and it i
is the purpose of the county commis
sioners to watch and work these
various sections of the graded road <
in the manner recommended by the ,
good roads bureau and at the same
time to watch and work other parts
of the newly constructed road on
which no top dressing has been
placed, in order that they may decide
intelligently, after a fair trial,
whether or not the clay found in this
section of Georgia is sufficiently im
proved by the application of the sand
clay dressing to warrant the addi
tional expense incurred by putting it
on.
The road construction of the pres
ent year consists almost entirely of
the work done from the Intersection
of Hill and Solomon streets to the ,
cross roads near the residence of A.
E. Futral, a distance of about five
miles, and will cost, Including
bridges and culverts, about SIO,IXIO.
Ot this cost, the Griffin district, by
reason of its greater amount of taxa- 1
ble property, will pay $7,100, the
railway, telephone and telegraph
companies will pay $1,600 and the
taxpayers ol the county outside of
Griffin will pay $1,300. The comma
tation tax of $2 per capita, levied on
able-bodied boys and men from six
teen to fifty years of age ouside of
Griftin, is consumed in repair work
and does not go toward the building
ot permanent roads.
The county commissioners expect
during the year 1009 to re-locate and
grade the road from Griffin to Rover
and from Griffin to Zetella, and, if
they find It possible to obtain a suffi
cient number of convicts, also to
grade the road from Griffin to Double
Cabins past the resiliences of Eugene
Pnillip-, J. G. Mathews and T. G.
Manley.
Tne commissioners are greatly
pleased with the work done by Mr.
Keller and state that they have gain
ed a great deal of information
through his visit. <
conference, valued at $468.
Now, .Master Valier Ix'g, also
comes in. This same dealer figures
that at least 1,000 of these will be
eaten, and as they are worth 30 cents
each, S3OO in chicken will “go down”
to the credit of conference. All of
which obsf-rvatffins are brought
about by the fact that Gainesville is a
“produce” town, its annual sales of
produce amounting to half a million
dollars.
IS PEOPLE KILLED
IN BIG EXPLOSION
Gas Main Explodes in Brooklyn,
Shaking an Entire Block.
i New York, Nov. 20.— [Special.] —
With a roar that shook and that
caused every building within a mile
radius to tremble as if shaken by an
earthquake, a gas main in Gold
street, Brooklyn, exploded to-day for
an entire square.
Street paving, cement sidewalks
and a mass of timbering used in the
construction of a thirteen-foot sewer
were hurled high into the air, then
the debris dropped back, pinning
down a majority of twenty-one work
men who were ixmeath the street
level. It is believed that fifteen ot
these are dead. The exact numlier
will not be known until the tons of
debris can lie removed.
The shock of the explosion burst a
water main and poured a rushing
torrent into theliottom of the trench.
Mind YourEusinrss!
if you don’t nolxaly will. It is your
business to keep out of all the tro’uole
you can and will keep out of liver and
bowel trouble if you take Dr. King’s
New Life Pills. They keep bilious
ness, malaria and jaundice ont of your
system. 25c. by all druggists.
If You are Over Fifty Yean Bead This.
Most people past iniddle-age suffer
from kidney and bladder disorders
which Foley's Kidney Remedy would
cure. Stop the drain on the vitality
and restore needed strength and vigor,
(’ommence taking Foley’s Kidney
Remedy to-day. Thos. J. Brooks.
Your
Furniture
Money
Will do more for you
just now than it has J S
ever been able to do w!Hy
under ordinary coiidi- B C
tions. We are reduo
ing our stock rapidly.
This means that others I
are taking advantage ifjy lyi
of the many notable
offerings now to be
found in our stock. ulljwfll jMf I Bn
Why not you— W
Today ? \. W
Let us show you our \\'
handsome assortment \\
of Bed Boom Suits, in Il
both oak and mahoga- » \\ UJL I
ny. They are all big Vk h (\
bargains. -XX "TTa
Our line of Parlor J
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stered in best grade of ILzzdkJl
car-plush, well made
ana beautifully finish- t m » J
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Special ai $45.00 *
Just received a nice new line of
Dining Tables.
The prices range from $6.50 to $35.00 on these tables.
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Fire Insurance,
Representing
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Royal Exchange'As|urance, of London.
Telephones: 97, 222 and 34.
Now is the Time to Buj You a
BEING DRESSED ™ THANKSGIVING
ff Everything here to make it,
and the rest of the days, a
perfect success. 1
Slade’s Shirts, perfectly tailored,
50c to $1.5(1.
Slade’s Suits, the best made, $lO
to $27.50.
Slade’s Neckwear, 25 to 75c.
Slade’s Raincoats, to shelter yoa
from the elements, $6.50 to $lB 56.
Stetson’s Shoes for men.
B. SLADE 6k COMPANY.
Studebaker or White
Hickory Wagon
We have one hundred In stock. z\ny size or style you want,. Any kind o
W :gon, Buggy or H jrrey, Harness, Extra Collars, Extra Pieces of Hamess.
W have several nice :harnessi and baddie horses. Just opened the prettiest
11 <e of Buggy Robes ever shown in Griffin. Give us a call. Yours to please,
Brown-Blake Live Stock Co
121-123-125 West Taylor Street.
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Jl < The Thanksgiving Turkey
A—r is now lhe w ‘ ntre ot interest, but that
Zi n°t detract your interest from
Thanksgiving Clothes.
A / I ’ ' ou have calls to make and a
f Ti JWikij 1 dinner to attend, so it will be your
I biult if ynur wardrobe is not what it
r /nX : I should be, especially in view of thead-
L/ / 7 . -ffIPW i vantages .gained by having your gar-
a 4 tiA menta made by
- VENSLOVE,
<The Satisfactory Tailor.
'jE Also Uniform Maker.
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