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BARNESVILLE NEWS-GAZETTE • The Twentieth Century Country Weekly. Published Every Thursday by The News Publishing Company, BARXKSVIMJE, GA. ■ - - rraiaki-.r^z-.^sr. — BUBBCRIPTION f\ PER YEAR PAY ABLE IJ, ADVANCE. Entered Bt the Poet Offl co Bt Bttrn.-HVill.-, G*., a m'conrt el.es mull niHtter. JULY 31, 1902. THE FRUIT INDUSTRY. The fruit industry is quite an important one, for the state and for the various communities in which fruit is grown. The forty or fifty cars of Elberta peaches which will be shipped from Bartles ville cannot fail to add to the material prosperity of the people of every class throughout the community. The money spent on this industry certainly affects every person in some way, and j the bulk of the money is put in circulation when all other lines of business are usually very dull. Therefore fruit growing should receive the encouragement of ••very citizen. It is in its infancy in Georgia and it will become far! more important in the near future than it is now. INDUCEMENTS WILL BRING PATRONAGE. The business men and citizens of BarnHv.ille can do much for themselves and for the town by co-operating with each other to ward the general prosperity' of the community. The fall season will booh be here and the people of the territory surrounding Bartlesville will carry their cotton and pro duce and buy their goods and sup plies where they' can do the best. This it natural and commendable. Barncsville can offer the induce ments necessary to secure the pat rouage of the people surrounding us and it is particularly impor tant at this time that the citizens of tile little city actively work to gether with this end in view. ATLANTA’S RACE FOR MAYOR From all appearances Atlanta, our capitol city, is to have a live ly race for mayor, (’apt. E. P. Howell, Hon. Harvey Johnson and ex-Mayor J.( 1. Woodward have already announced for the posi tion’ It lias been understood that Hon. 11. H. Cabaniss would be a candidate, but it seems to be doubtful if he will enter into a scramble for the office. He has hundreds of friends throughout the state who wanted to see him elected this time. They’ think ho is entitled to the honor from his fellow citizens. But he is not likely, it is said, to be a candidate now. From the present list, Capt. Howell will be picked as the win ner. He is a strong man and will make Atlanta as good a mayor as any citizen of that city. Capt. Howell’s race will be watched with interest by' his friends all over Georgia, and tliev expect to see him elected by big odds. One of the Alabama editors who is now sight-seeing in the east, is said to have been relieved by pick pockets of over S4OO in cash the other day. The next thing in or der is for this editor to prove that he had it and show where he got it.—Enquirer-Snn,'Columbus. Under the law as passed at the last session of the Legislature, no guano or fertiiere of any kind can be taxed in this state when found in the hands of the landlord or tenant, if the lands have been returned by the owner for taxation on which such fertilizers are to be used WORLD WIDE MARKET FOR GEORGIA PEACHES Peach Growers Receiving Assistance From the Government —The Future More Promising. Notwithstanding the fine mar ket and the great popularity which the Georgia peach already enjoys, there are brighter prospects ahead. The peach growers around Barnes ville may have a greater bonanza than they have ever dreamed of. As is well known experiments are now being made to ship peaches across the ocean, and there is every reason to believe now that these experiments will he successful, which will open another great market for our peaches and give the business a great impetus. We reproduce the following article on the subject from The Washington Times which will no doubt be read with deep interest: 1 “To carry peaches from the orchards of Georgia to the market I places of Europe in ten days is one 1 of the important commercial aspi i rations of Uncle Sam. This famous provider of all that is best is un dertaking to introduce to the peo ple of the old country the most luscious product of his sunny fields and to set the dainty fruit before king and subject is using all the ingenuity at his command. Peaches must be served fresh and fine, and if the effort now on foot succeeds, as it almost surely will, the trade of this country will he greatly increased and Europe will ho eminently worth living in. This important trade development is taking place under the direction of experts apd the stimulus of powerful backing. “A series of experiments are being made by the pomologists of the United States with the view of placing perishable fruits on the markets of Europe in good case and in an alluring way. The first consignment is now reaching the other shore as attractive means in cold storage are being utilized and the utmost dispatch is enjoin ed on all who are in any way con nected with the enterprise. “Professor Harold Powell the peach expert of the division of pomology, has been in the peach growing section of Georgia for several weeks. He had already' become impressed with the idea ! that, peaches could be shipped to i England, and went down at the . beginning of the season to make an attempt to set the scheme going W hile no official reports have been given out, it. is under stood that the project is practi cally' sure of success. 1 f the present undertaking succeeds anew field of infinite possibilities will have been opened. Professor Powell is at Spring Valley, Cm., near which place are located the great orchards of J. H. Hale A Bro. A roailroad runs through the orchards, and several cars of selecting peaches have been loaded and hurried to New York by wav of Macon, Danville and Washington. At New York the cars were run to the docks and the fruit, in the ordinary crates, load ed on a large and fast vessel. The cargo is due in Liverpool early this week, and is to be distributed in various parts of England and France as fast as possible by' ex perienced fruit-handlers. It is ex pected that the entire time of transit will lie damaged in hand ling. Full reports of the first cargo will be made public by the department. SIMILAR TKST. IN WKBT VIRGINIA. s[r. P. H. Could, second assist ant pomologist is in \\ est \ ir ginia, to conduct an experiment along the lines being followed with the Georgia peaches. I'he Georgia experiment is regarded as more important, however, because the element of distance will in that case have its full exercise. Refrigerator cars are used and the fruit is iced in the same way as the cars for New York and Boston. One difficulty in trans porting perishable fruit in -large quanities has over been the ten dency of the cold air to settle at the bottom of the car, while the hot air rises to the top. Great loss has been occasioned in this way when long distances had to be covered. Experiments arc being made in connection with this enterprise with devices to keep up tie* circulation of air by internal means. It is stated on excellent author ity that peaches can be grown in half of the states in the Union; that is, grown point. California alone is said to be capable of pro ducing enoungh peaches to supply the United States. “The old notion that the peach is a tropical I tree and must have a warm climate |is not well founded, ’’ says I'rofes THE BARNESVILLE NEWS-GAZETTE, THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1902 sor Edwin F. Smith of the division jof pomology. “It is a tree of mid dle latitude and does not like ex j treme latitudes, either hot or cold.” fIROW IN MANY SOILS. “The same authority says that i the peach grows well on a dozen | varieties of soil and in many widely scattered parts of the ! country —in loans and light pine sands, on the clay hills of Michi gan. in the clay or in the sand of South Carolina and Georgia, in California, Kansas and Florida. Peaches grow anywhere except in the northern part of New England and in a small section of the middle Northwest. The opening of a European market is therefore of the greatest importance and may cause developments in various parte of the country similar to those which have* result in the building up of a great industry in Georgia. “Within a radius of eight miles of Fort Valley, Ga., there are I,OOO,CXX) trees nearly all planted within the last few years. The Hale orchard, the largest in the world, is a result of five years work by a native of Connecticutt. In the Ridge section of South Carolina, there are many orchards and the fruit-growing industry is of vast proportions. Disease affects the orchards at times, but the growers and the government experts are rapidly lessening the danger from that source. Spring frost is the worst foe of the peach grower and millions are lost every few years by freezes. “A few years ago in the section where peach growing is now the main industry the care of the orchards, such as they were de volved generally on an old crippled negro, who got the job on the theory that he must be a good man for fruit culture because lie was not good for anything else. Now college graduates and spe cially trained men attend to the trees and “bud,” prune and graft. It is a science. AX AMERICAN FRUIT NOW. “Some say the peach is a native of China and others say it came with that other boon, the horse, from Araby the Blessed. How ever, it is an American fruit now, for the people of the country have developed it from a small, hard, hall affair to a fair, round, exquis ite product of the orchard, a per fect fruit, which is loved by' glut ton and epicure, by tradesman and artists. America is sending it, back now, after a few hundred years of culture, more fair than the pomegranates of the Holy 7 band, or any other pride of the Singing King. “The poach is indigenous to | large areas in Europe, but grows j no where to anything like the per fection attained in this country. In Paris during the great fair, the sight of American peahes drove the people almost wild, and they sold at $ 1 each, and are selling at this rate to this day. They are put up in fancy boxes and dis played in the finest places only. They are shipped in very small quantities. The peaches of France are largely grown under glass covers. The United States govern ment made exhihit of apples in large quantities at the Paris fait, but did not do much with peaches. A fine chance to promote trade was lost because it had not enter- HANDICAPPED . Tlic niiin v. i.o started ,u i„n . race iii chains and fetters would be visibly hand icapped. No one would expect him to succeed. The man who runs the race of life when his digestive and nu- (fly . tritive organs are U p J diseased is equally y® W handicapped. In /l l/" 'fvyT—\ the one case his ! 'yV S j strength is over- . iJ j weighted, in the '-VT/ j.f J other it is under- Vr mined. Success r demands above all else a sound I I stomach. I S I Doctor Pierce’s I Golden Medical \' 1 Discovery cures j \ I diseases of the /VI stomach and other \ b V organs of diges- / \ 1 tion and nutrition. 1! / \i ,} When this is done I w LjL' food is perfectly vj) BCf digested and as- /V similated and the bodv receives strength in the only wav in which strength can tie given—bv the nutrition derived from digested and as similated food. "The praise l would like to give your ‘ Golden Medical Discovery ’ 1 cannot ntter in words or describe with pen ” writes James R. Ambrose. Kn . ol ttoj'a Mifflin Street. Huntingdon, Pa. "1 w.i- taken with what our physicians here said was indigestion. I doctored with the best around here and found no relief. I wrote to you and von sent me a >iuestiot blank to fill out, and 1 did so. and you then advised rae to use Dr Pierce s Golden" Medical Discovery. 1 took three Ironies and t felt so,good that I stopped, being cured. L have no symptoms ot gastric trouble or indigestion now," Accept ho substitute for " Golden Med ical Discovery.” There is nothing "just as good." Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser, sent free on receipt of stamps to cover expense of mailing on tv, Twenty-one one-cent stamp* for the book in paper covers, or 31 stamps for the cloth-bound volume. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. Collier Co’s. Weekly News. One Half Price on Straw Hats. It’s Easy! to find comfort, even in this sort of weather. If you’ll avail yourself of the opportunity you can find it right here at Collier’s. There’s a way of preparing for this thing or that —just as easy to prepare for hot weather as for cold. We’ve made the preparation for you —this lot of modern ...Shirts at $100... some of last week’s receipts, or thin underwear, straw hats, low shoes, or what not, we’ve got it. This lot of madras shirts are a bit cooler that weights we had—more* open then these are the new pat terns. No better shirts sold than these at Collier’s at SI.OO. A light scotch homespun suit would add lots to these summery days—not but $lO. Straw hats at }/ 2 price boy’s and men’s. J. C. Collier Cos. Haberdashers. ed into the minds of the men, that peaches could be shipped in bulk across the ocean and sold at living prices. “She’s a peach,” is a superla tive in the language of the United States. It is applied to the fair charmers of the ballroom and the beach, to every beautiful work of art and industry'. No higher praise is possible from the gilded gentlemen or from the gamin than to say any fine thing is a “peach” and now Uncle Sam’s book farmers are going to conquer the commerce of Europe with the’ popular orignal of perfection. The Barnesville Meeting Closed. With a large congregation the services at the Barnesville C. M. church closed last Wednesday night. The meeting had been in progress ten days and the interest was still growing. Six members were received there a short time before this meeting. Eight were received while this series was in progress, and applications are al ready' in hands of the pastor for several others who will be received at next appointment. Those re ceived during the meeting are Frank Shearouse, C.W. Graddick, Sallie Graddick. Carobelle Shear ouse, Susie Belle Holmes, Lucy Wilson, Pearlie Y-iniug and Joe Adams. Much good was done toward en couraging, perfecting and estab lishing Christians, both of our communion and others. A large per cent of the members and some of other churches were ready’ to aid in any' kind of work. The sisters met in special prayer service nearly every afternoon and accomplished great good that way. Some of the members had fast ed part of one day before the meet ing started. One Baptist brother who had never fasted before, fast ed all day for the meeting. He testified to a great blessing from ■it to his own soul. Several fasted some while the meeting was in i progress. The Barnesville C. M. church has much to praise God for. and seems destined to wield a saving influence in that enterprising town. —The Watchman, Milner. Ga. COLLIER CO’S. WEEKLY NEWS Collier’s Summer Dress Goods.. One-Half Price.~-; Commencing Saturday.. we offer till sold, all wash dress goods that have been 6,7, and Bc, all at once, price 4 cents. All!wash dress goods, that have been i All wash dress goods that have been 22, 25 and 35 cents, choice now at 13 cents. • r* - Nine thousand bundles of rem nants at less than half price. All summer goods must be clean ed out, and it will be money in your purse to visit this store. Cut prices are for cash. % J. C. Collier Cos. f pi'; ■q’nPFC: West side Main st —Dry Goods, Furniture. I\\ U bIUKLs ■ East side Main street —Clothing, Shoes. A. Linus’ J MIDSUMMER | CLEARANCE SALE! Every piece of goocte in our house in summer fabrics must be closed out. We must have the room for our fall stock, Prices not considered’ to close out all Odds and Ends- In'Wash goods, Dress goods, Drop Stitch Hosiery, Fans,Belts, Para sols and man}' other goods too numerous to mention. Slippers! A few more pairs of Odds and Ends in Slippers left. All this season’s goods to be closed out at a very low price. Millinery! We are closing out all summer Millinery at about half price. We never carry over Millinery. You can find in our stock the latest novelties at very low prices. A. L. MILLS. £y\\f Give Green Trading Stamps With All Cash Purchases.