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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 ■ w ■ 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 Suits can’t be beat. I "WTH W A beautiful 5 piece | ft . 1H Vi wl/ Jf * mahogany suit, uphol- i Vi II Xo/H stered in best grade of ILzzdkJl car-plush, well made ana beautifully finish- t m » J ed, \ J If 11 I] WAk 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. ✓/ i o fft T-firr.-r , MMar i m—n--naariwaaMßMaKmaaaiMi rt* E. O. & C. E. NEWTON, Fire Insurance, Representing Scottish Union & National Ins. Co., of Edinburgh. 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. "" 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. .4