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Barnesyille News-Gazette. VOLUME 35. PUBLIC BUILDERS AND PEACE=PROMOTERS TRIUMPH. BONDS! PROGRESS! PROSPERITY! Now Watch Barnesville Grow. i Gordon Institute to be Repaired and Repainted=-The Water Plant to be Enlarged, and an Other Large Spring to be Added to the System==The Electric Light Plant to be Practically Made New and the Present Capacity Doubled. For Bonds: Against Bonds I. I A ' ONE year ago, this week, Barnesville had a collapse—her two banks went to the wall, her largest cotton mill and one of her largest knitting mills closed their doors and shut down. It was a dark period and the future was gloomy. Worse than these failures themselves, how ever, was that through the developments then, some were encouraged to believe that they had power to crush the life out of Barnesville and her people. It has been a hard fight, but in every contest Barnesville has finally won out, and to-day her future is brighter than it ever was 4 before. Tuesday, the citizens of the determined and enterprising little city, the white citizens and colored citizens, of all classes and condi tions, the rich and the poor, the manufacturer, the merchant, the olerk, the carpenter, the wage-earner as well as the money lender, went to the polls and with one purpose voted for the peace, prosperity and continued growth of Barnesville. It was wonderfully remarkable in view of all the circumstances leading up to that hour. In spite of the bitterest opposition and its most intimidating methods, the vote for bonds was unanimous. It proves beyond question that when the interests of Barnesville demand it, when Gordon Institute is attacked, when the comfort and happiness of the homes are at stake, the people, irrespective of color or condition, know what to do and do it. The success of the bond issue is glorious, not because of the amount of the bonds, but because of the other issues involved and settled by such an emphatic expression from the people at the ballot box. And now WATCH BARNESVILLE GROW! Since one year ago, The First National Bank and The Citizens’ Bank, two of the best and strongest banks in Georgia, now having SIOO,OOO on deposit, have been established, the old Barnesville Savings Bank has been re-organized into the People’s Bank, the Barnesville Manufacturing Company and the Hanson-Crawley Company have been taken out of the courts and both will soon begin operation again; the other factories and mills are constantly enlarging and are crowded with orders from all over the coun try; the merchants and business men are busy and prosperous, Gordon Institute is full of pupils and doing its grand work for the state and country; all the churches have good pastors and strong preachers and are repairing and enlarging their houses of worship, and the people are united, working in harmony with each other, trying to better themselves and their condition. They are tired of kicking, wrangling and perse cution. They believe in the brotherhood of man, and are engaged in the building up of the material, moral and religious interests of the people. The vote Tuesday and the advertisements of the merchants and business men in this issue of the News-Gazette absolutely bears us out in / every one of the above statements. There is more rejoicing in Barnesville to-day than ever before. Let the people rejoice and be glad! THE TWENTIETH CENTURY COUNTRY WEEKLY. BARNESVILLE, GA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4,1902. NUMBER 45