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BARNESVILLE NEWSGAZETTE He Twentieth Ceutury Country Weekly. Published Every Thursday by The News Publishing Company, BAHNKSVILLE. ga. SUBSCRIPTION $1 PER YEAR PAY ABLE IN ADVANCE. ■ntfn-A nt th‘ Post Offlon nt Barnesvllln, O* , as second class mall matter. DECEMBER 11, 1902. IT SPEAKS WELL. The showing for Barnesville which the merchants and business men are making through Iheir advertisments from time to time in the Xkws-Gazkttk is certain to result in great good, not only to the advertisers, but to the entire city and community. This hust ling spirit for business denotes enterprise and is the best possible evidence of prosperity. Dead men and dead business institutions do not advertise. Every issue of the Nbwb-Gazkttk, as it goes on its weekly mission of hope and good cheer throughout Middle Georgia, bids for the patronage of the peo ple and it contains inducements which are offered by nearly every merchant in this city. This paper is often spoken of as the livest and most enterprising country weekly in Georgia and it has this reputation because it en joys such a liberal patronage from the finest and most enterprising merchants in the state. Look through its pages, examine the fine advertisments on every page, come to Barnesville and mingle with her busy and hopeful people, and you will not only save money but you will be made cheerful and happy. All who desire to celebrate the Chaistmas holidays should do so in a proper manner and we feel assured that there will l>e no drunkenness and disorderliness during the next week in this city. The legislature adjourned last Saturday after an interesting ses sion. A number of important and unimportant bills were passed during this session and several were carried over until next term. Marconi continues to make suc cessful experiments in wireless telegraphy. He is without doubt a wonderful man and his marvel ous discovery will some day work a great change in the alliairs of men, Christmas will be here in just one week, and then the small boy with his tin horn will be in his glory. The legislature should have passed a bill prohibiting the tvinlrimr nf anih imnltUHcnts of r i ' ' torture. . A good deal is being said about Hon. Thomas E. Watson again going into politics. Our advice to him is to stick to litera ture. He can gain a firmer hold on the people through his books and work greater reforms than by going back into politics. The singular suit in Chicago is for the possession of a lizard which the complainant values at S2OO. This lizard had been in the man's stomach for ten years, but was coughed up last week. The lizard crawled off and was captured by another man who refused to sur render it, hence the suit. We would call it a good riddance. If'you feel ill and need a pill Why not purchase the best? DeWitta Early Risers Are little surprisers, Take one—they do the rest. W. H. Howell, Houston,Tex., writes: 1 have used Little Early Riser Tills in my family for constipation, sick head ache, etc. To their use lam indebted for the health of my family. Forsaleby Jso. 11. Bl.ukbi rn, L. Holmes, Rarnesville, Ga. Milner, Ga. Car Ixuul ot Mules. Mr. Robert Mitchell has re ceived another carload of fine Kentucky mules which have been placed on sale, and are attracting much attention. They are very fine specimenes of mules, and the people will do well to call and look at them. ABOUT GIVING PRES€NTS- Christmas has come to be a [time when every body feels called j upon to give every body else a present. It is a custom which brightens this old world and cheers many a weary traveler on his way. To feel that you are kindly re membered has a tendency to ! strengthen you in your weakness and to fill you with new zeal for the battles of life. The custom should lie and will be perpetuated through all time. However, it is an easy matter to carry it to an extreme, and this should be guard ed against. We can do wrong in our efforts to do good. Our cir cumstances should be kept well in mind, and we should not give a $lO present when one worth $1 is all that our means will justify. We should not to make a false im pression by our lavish gifts and at the same time be unjust to our creditors, in all our givings we should be governed by common sense, as to the selection of ap propriate articles and as to their cost. Let the rich give lavishly if they choose and while the poor, and there are many of us, should observe the custom during the coming holiday season, let us do so modestly. A reporter for an exchange pub lished in one of the largest Amer ican cities quoted a money lender the other day as follows: “The universal custom of giv ing Christmas presents, often in discriminately, is a severe tax on a great many people, and, strange as it may seem, it drives a lot of them to the pawn shops. I don’t mean by that that people pawn the presents they al though some of them do, after Christmas —but that’s another story. lam speaking now of the period just before Christmas, ’when every one is buying presents, and using every effort to get the mon ey with which to do it. It is by no means an unusual thing for a man to pawn his very clothes in order that he may spend the mon ey in presents for other people. Lots of fellows will hook their watches in order to buy some trin ket for a girl.” Let us remember these things, act upon them and we will be the better for it. - Christmas Tree For the Public. A Christmas entertainment for the public, will lie given at the Auditorium of Gordon Institute, Wednesday night next week, which is Christmas eve. Everybody is cordially invited to attend and participate in the affair. There will he a tree for displaying the presents, and it will doubtless be quite a uleasaut event, While it will not be strictly a Sunday school entertainment, the parents of the children in all the Sunday schools are cordialy invited to participate. The schools will not furnish pres ents, but anything sent in by any individuals will be put outlie tree and given out. The hour for the distribution of presents has been fixed at 8 o ’clock. "Have bv some surgeon Shylock on thy charge to stop his wounds lest lie do bleed to death.” People can bleed to death. The loss of blood weakens the body. It must follow that gain of blood gives the body strength. The strengthening effect of l)r. Pierce's Golden Medi cal Discovery is in large part due to its action on the blood-making glands and the increased supply ot pure, rich blood it produces. It is only when the blood is impoverish ed and impure that diseases find a soil in which to root. The “Dis covery” purifies the blood and makes it antagonistic to diseases. When the body is emaciated, the lungs are weak, and there is obsti nate lingering cough. “Golden Medical Discovery” puts the body ou a fighting footing against dis ease, and so increases the vitality l that- disease is thrown oil', and physical health perfectly and per manently restored. It has cured thousands who were hopeless and helpless, and who had tried all other means of cure without avail. Twenty-one one-cent stamps to cover expenses of mailing only will obtain a copy of Dr. Pierce’s Com mon Sense Medical Adviser, 1008 pages, in paper cover. Sendthirty i one stamps if cloth binding is pre pared. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, X. Y. 1 * THEBARNESVILLENEWS-GAZETTE, THURSDAY, DIJCEMBER 18,1902. THE COUNCIL’S PROCEEDINGS. I _ _____ Council Chamber, ) Barnesville, Ga., Dec. 15, 1902 s ■ Regular meeting,of Council call ed to order by the Mayor : present Aldermen Cochran, Jordan, Ben nett and Murphey, absent Prout and Collier. The Ordinance Com mittee, as per previous notice through its Chairman, made mo tion that the license on Tele graph and Express Companies do ing business in the city as defined in the Annual License Ordinance be reduced to $15.00 for each, and same was unanimously passed by Council. Also, this Committee recommended, as per previous notice, that the license of Theat rical Troupes be abolished, and that the annual license on each Opera House should be fixed at $15.00 per annum. Upon motion, this recommendation was adopt ed. The Electric Light and Water Committee reported that Engin eer W. E. Culver had been sus pended on J-Ith, inst., because of neglect of duty, and that his resignation had been handed them on 15th inst., for delivery to Council. The resignation was read, and same, upon motion, was accepted. This Committee also reported that the pump purchased by it sometime ago for installat ion at the Station would be ship ped within the next ten days, and would probably reach here about Jan. Ist., next. The report of the Dispensary Commission for the last quarter was read, and same referred to finance Committee. The Quarter ly Report of the Clerk and Treas urer was read, and same approved and ordered filed. L. L. H. Blackwell, Principal of Union Colored School, appeared before Council and requested that the Trustee of said school be changed so that he could secure certain financial aid which had been promised him by Northern parties. The niatter, upon mo tion, was referred to the Petition Committee, and the petitioner was requested to confer with said Committee in order that they might make a report on what was desired at next meeting of Coun cil. Alderman Murphey introduced the following ordinance, which was unanimously adopted: An ordinance to regulate the sale of fresh meats within the corporate limits of Barnesville, Ga., and for other pur poses. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Council of the city of Bar nesviile, Ga., and it is hereby ordained by authority of the same that any per son or persons hereafter selling fresh meats from vehicles or peddling same within the corporate limits of the city of Barnesville, other than those par ties holding a license from the city authorizing them to sell same, shall dispose of such meats within the square formed by the east side of Main street, Zebulon street; the west side of Main street and Market street. Section 2. Be it further ordained that any person or persons desiring to soli fresh meats, as above stated, other than those holding a license from the city empowering such sales, shall, be fore offering such meats for sale, ap pear before the City Clerk, and satisfy him of his or their right to make such sales within the limits of the city, with out the payment of a specific license to the city,Mid it shall be the duty of the Clerk, upon satisfactory evidence to that effect to issue such person or per sons a written permit, authorizing the sale of fresh meats by the person or persons making such application. Section 3. Be it father ordained that it shall be lawful for the person or stomachs on Stilts. The tnan who puts on stilts does not in crease his actual stature by the breadth of a hair. He feels taller while he’s ou the stilts, and when he’s off them he feels shorter than he ever felt. Stimulants are Wflf the stilts of the stom ach. They make a man feel better for the j , time being, but he / \ feels a great deal worse Jm. iu I fll for them afterward. (\m Sii* The need of the man ijj! jiggj! fflwhose stomach is / / "weak” is not stimu- MmWm ft ation kiut strength. ’kk'iuflSraalr k)r. Tierce’s Golden Medical I liscovery : lW '• perfectly answers that need. It cures the dis |Hk9 eases of the digestive -V. 4 l£| and nutritive system -\’5S Kf which make the storn 1|; ‘* ach "weak.” It en lya ■ aides the digestion and tSE W assimilation of food, so If? W that the receives ff \ the nutrition on which / \ depends its strength. "I took two bottles ot Dr. Pierce's Golden Med ical Discovery for stomach trouble.” writes Clarence Carnes. Esq., Tayloratown Loudoun Cos., Va. "It did '' me so much good that I <r 1 didn't take any more. I Jr' can eat most anything now. 1 am so well pleased with it I hardly know how to thank you for your kind information. I tried a whole lot ot things before 1 wrote to you. A gentleman told me ol your medicine, and how it cured his wife. "Thought I would try a bottle of it. Am now clad that I did. for 1 do not know what I should have done had it not been for Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery - The sole motive for substitution is to permit the dealer to make the little more profit paid by the sale of less meritorious medicines. He gains; You lose. There fore accept no substitute for "Golden Medical Discovery.” The sluggish liver is made active by the use of Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets, Collier s* You’d think we had turned over our whole nlace to Santa Claus buyers—such an array of Christmas novelties. Lots and lots of dollies from dolldom, tea sets, swinging hammocks, clothes wringers, etc; in fact, everything to please the children. If the child needs be amused—we have the amusers; but, if they need shoes (why buy one day pleasures) we’ve the “Blue Steel.” Every Man Needs a Muffler sometime—Christmas time. There’s noth ing more appreciated by a man than a MUFFLER, or a tie. 50c to $1.50. A Useful Present is a Permanent Pleasure. There’s no use giving a book, when he needs underwear. We have all kinds from 25c per garment to $3.00 per suit. Never mind what wind is outside—inside our overcoats and mufflers it’s all right. All kinds of men means all kinds of over coats and mufflers —and that describes our stock. Mufflers from 75c to $1.50. Overcoats from $7.00 to $12.50. J. C. COLLIER CO. persons receiving a permit tUe City Clerk for tli'e sale of fresh meats with in the city, as provided in preceding Section to sell such meats only within the limits previously defined, and be tween the hours of 9 o’clock a. in. to 3 o’clock p. m., and in vuantities not less than 25 lbs., or one-quarter of an ani mal to any one customer. Section 4. Be it further ordained that any violation of this ordinance shall subject the offender or offenders to aline of not less than $5.00 or ten days on the streets of the city, either or both at the discretion of the Mayor, for each offense. Section 5. Be it futher ordained that all ordinances or parts of ordinan ces in conflict herewith be, and the same are hereby repealed. Alderman Murphey stated that he did not yet have ready the ordinances of which he had given notice providing for the issuing and sale of the Public Improve ment Bonds recently voted for, and providing for the levy and collection of sufficient taxes to pay off the principal and interest of ’said bonds —but would have same ready by next Monday night if the Council would hold an ad journed meeting at that time: and thereupon on motion, it was resolved that when the Council adjourned it adjourned until Mon day night, Dec. 22nd., to consider said ordinances. Upon motion, .the city Attor ney was empowered to acknowled ge’service for the city on the pe tition filed by the Solicitor Gen eral of Flint Circuit to validate the Public Improvement Bonds authorized to be issued by the election recently held. Upon motion, it was decided to waive the collection of street Tax from the ten members of the G. L. Summers 11. fc. L. Cos., for the current year. Nothing further, minutes read and approved, and Council ad journed till next Monday night, Dec. 22nd. \V. B. Smith, Mayor. J. A. Bi.alock, Clerk & Treas. M. E. Church Bazaar. Lets everybody, old and young, visit the bazaar at the Blue’s Arm ory Friday ami Saturday. The prices of all articles offered for sale will be reasonable. Dinners and suppers served h ridav and Sat urday. Come and enjoy yourselves. Open 10 a. m. to 10 p. m. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. AU druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E W. Grove’s signature te on each box. Sic. Furs and Cloaks^fe in the most varied assortment. Furs are always good, but this season they are better than ever before—so is our stock. What’s better for the lady a Christmas remembrance than a Set of Furs, or a Fine Monte Carlo Jacket ? No more expensive than some of the suitable gifts—with a great deal more value. There is nothing so attractive as a well-fitted jacket or a fine fur. Furs, 90c to $5.00 Cloaks, $3.00 to $12.50. A. L. MILLS. A. L. MILLS. j A Letter from Santa Claus.. To the Children in and Around Barnesville.^^>- DEAR CHILDREN:— I arrived in Barnesville last night. lam mak ing my headquarters at A. L. MILLS’ store —in one of his large show windows. I came direct from New York to Mills’ store. I have got a present for every little girl and boy. All you will have to do is to write me a letter what you want, and I will be sure and leave it at A. L. MILLS’ store for you. I have with me almost a ear load of Dolls, Doll Carriages, Tool Boxes, Glove Cases, Collar and Cuff Boxes, Horns, Albums, Tea Sets, Toy Fumiturd, Picture Frames, Vases and many other things too numerous to mention. Come quick and avoid the rush. Yours for a merry Christmas, \ SANTA CLAUS. Headquarters at A. L. Mills’ store. A Useful Present is a Permanent Pleasure