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ROVAL RAKIHO PQWQCW CO., NEW YORK.
More About Barnesvilles’
HIGH TAXES AM) COSTLY ELEC
TItIC LIGHTS.
Editor Gazette: —My former ar
ticle, signed “Tax Payer,” you pub
lished, it seems, with some reluc
tance. prefacing its publication with
the following additional remark: “It
is needless to say that we do not
agree with many of the statements in
the article.”
Now, Mr. Editor, I think the pub
lic are not so much concerned
whether you agree or disagree with
the stasements in the article, as they
are interested in their truthfulness
and accuracy. I for one, and doubt
less there are other citizens of Barnes
ville who would like to know which
of the statements are not true, i
submit that it is not an answer to my
statements to say: “Upon the whole
Barnesville, its citizens and its offi
cials are all right.” I did not attack
Barnesville nor its citizens “upon the
v'hole.” 1 tried to call public atten
tion to public acts, which in my
judgement, are not legal, and that
are likely to injure Barnesville.
Don’t you think, Mr. Editor, that
you as a public journalist, should
look into these matters and let the
people know the truth and the whole
truth, for the good of the whole town.
I am not only a tax payer of Barnes
ville but one of its citizens, and I
think I can prove to the satisfaction
of any unprejudiced person that I am
a friend to the town and sound its
praises “in season and out of season,”
as I travel about over the state. I
have no enemies to punish and no
friends to serve in this matter. lam
gratified to find that my first article
is spoken of so favorably by the peo
ple of Barnesville, whether they like
the writer personally or not. The
truth is I have never written an arti
tle that met with more general appro
bation and elicited so many compli
nientory remarks.
I wish to know the truth in the
matter and so does every well-wisher
of the town. If city affairs are not
administered according to law, the
sooner it is known by the voting pub
lic, the better for the town and all
concerned.
I contend, and so do other tax
paying citizens of Barnesville, that
taxes are too high in town. I tell
you, and call public attention to the
fact, that high taxes will injure our
town by driving out good citizens and
keeping others from coming in.
High taxes will injure our school, the
pride of the town. So, Mr. Editor,
if you wish Barnesville “upon the
whole” well, join the writer and oth
ers in keeping the lax rate at a rea
sonable figure.
I contend that Barnesville s offi-
cials are not all right,’’ if they are
running the town in debt and run
ning up the tax rate too high. 1
have no fight to make on individuals,
but 1 do object most earnestly to the
high tax rate of our little town.
High taxes are to day doing more
injury to many cities and towns in
Georgia than any other one thing.
I feel confident that Bartlesville can
be run on a successful and enter
prising basis within a reasonable tax
rale. Let those who would reduce
it, be praised rather than con
demned.
Now, Mr. Editor, I wish again to
call attention to the excessive elec
tric light rates in Barnesville. Since
my last article 1 have made further
examination.
Facts are facts, Mr. Editor, wheth
er we agree with them or not, and
they are stubborn things to run up
against.
I was in Oglethorpe the other day
and made inquiry of the hotel at that
place as to the cost of the four elec
tric lights used in the hotel. 1 was
told by the proprietor that the 16
candle lights cost 50 cents each per
BABY’S
LOOKED LIKE RAW MEAT.
Our baby’s face ami neck was all raw meat,
and someth Ins awful to look at. The way
that child suffonnl, mother anil child nover
bad any rest day or nirht as it constantly
itched, ami the blood used to flow down her
cheeks. We had doctors and the dis|>ensary
with no result. By using Ci tu ira Rehol
tent, CcTtctTRA (ointment), and Ctmcuaa
Boai*, the child \r* entirely healed.
Mrs. OABXJOSa. 213 Nassau Ave., Brooklyn.
Horassa tokse- that a wins hath with CtmrosA
Boi , Slid * tins:* unouiUit* with CvTice*.*. will stßird
UHtsLt relief i n th mont uMrfw.HOff of itching:, bununtr.
Jd acaly lntuitiie l umon of tb #kio and wulp, with
WU of hair, and oot to uw thaw, U to fail in your duty.
80l throughout .he world. IVrrftß Duro Cuut.
Cjm , rt.il., uw to Cars Baby Uwaon.lkM.,
j month, with privilege of burning
I same all night. The same number
lof lights in my home, burned all
night, would cost me at least $1.50
each per month.
I was in Valdosta and Waycross
i the other day and learned that resi
i dences paid only 40 cents each for
' lights with privilege of burning all
night, the hotels not paying over 30
cents each per month with privilege
of an all night light. 1 was in the
little town of Eastman yesterday and
learned from an employe of the elec
tric plant, that the hotel at that place
was [raying only 25 cents each per
month, with privilege of an all night
light. 1 find also, Mr. Editor, that
business houses in the towns visited
pay more for electric lights than res
idences, for the reason that business
houses generally let their lights burn
all night aud residences turn off the
lights at bed time. I wonder if this
difference is made in Barnesville.
I also find that many ci'ies and towns
allow parties to pay so inticn a light
or use a metre just as suits the citi- j
zens. It seems this would be a good j
plan in Barnesville.
My investigation leads me to this j
conclusion: The people of Barnes
ville are paying, at the very least,
three times too much for electricity.
As 1 understand it, when Barnesville
divides by 2, it should divide by 5. I
A private plant in Valdosta divides
the metre reading by 5 where Barnes
ville divides by 2. I submit that
Barnesville ought to be able to sup
ply electricity to its own citizens, as
cheap as it is supplied by private par
ties in Valdosta to their customers.
The Barnesville [riant belongs to the
town and should be run without the
profit made by private corporations.
Let me give a few instances out of i
the state: The city furnishes elec- j
trie lights to the people of Graceville,
Minn., at a cost of of 24 1-2 cents
per lamp per month for the first year
and 18 cents for subsequent years.
A rate of 15 cents per light obtains
for those using more than 12 lights.
Note the diflerence, in Barnesville,
one light costs I*so cents and in
Graceville 15 cents, ten times as
much.
In Logansport, Ind., for 189S, the
city made 18 per cent, on its elec
tric light plant investment, but fur
nished light to consumers at 71-2
cents per lamp per month or 90 cents
per year. Think ot it fellow citizens
ol Barnesville! I am paying, and
you are paying, for electricity more
per month than the citizens are pay
ing per annum in Logansport, Jnd.,
for same article.
High taxes and costly electricity
are heavy burdens for any citizen in
any town or city.
Let me call public attention to
this consideration: So soon as the
people of Barnesville realize that
electricity is costing too much, cost
ing from 3 to 5 times what it ought
to cost and more than it costs in oth
|er towns and cities, the people will
1 cease to use it, and then the revenue
will cease from this source, and the
electric plant will be a burden much
more than it is now to the town.
Let us all take warning in time.
A. A. M.
The Whistle Blew.
During the storm last Saturday
night, by some freak of the wind, the
whistle on the engine at the shops of
Messrs. J. G. Smith & Sons, was
thrown open and for several hours it
blew without cessation, alarming
many people. Quite a number of cit
izens got up and went down to the
shops to see what the trouble was. A
great many people thought that it
was a signal of distress of some kind.
To Meet Saturday.
The department of child study and
physical culture of the Woman’s Club
will meet at the apartment of Mrs. J
T. Blalock at Mrs. S. K. Cook’s Sat
urday afternoon promptly at 3 o'clock,
Mr. Mose Lyon and siste*r. Miss
Ktta, and Miss Etta Akin, of Yates
vtlle, visited the family of Mr. M. D.
Spruce Sunday. They are well known
young people in this community.
Strayed.
Two shoats, one black anil white
spotted and one red Jersey. Will
weigh forty five pounds. If you know
anything of them tell Louis Collier.
Excellent room on first floor for two
boarders. Apply,
Mrs. J. M. Murphey.
Pe Witt’s Witch Hazel Salv*
Caras Piles Scalds. Burns.
Ilaysrood— Lesuer.
A pretty little romance grew out of
the Kendrick Haygood marriage
Tuesday. Among the attendants were
Miss Florrie Haygood, a sister of the
groom, and Mr. Alex Lesuer, of near
Milner. The party was on its way
to Talbct county. Miss Haygood
and Mr. Lesuer decided that, since
everybody was in such a good humor
and possessed with matrimonal enthu
siasm, they would add a little romance
to the occasion and that they them
selves would join hands and hearts
and lives, and therefore instead of
one marriage there were two. They
proceeded to Thomaston where they
secured license and were joined in
marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Lesuer came
to Barnesville Tuesday afternoon,
with the other bridal party and are
now receiving the warmest congratu
lations of all their happy but surprised
friends. Both are well known and
esteemed throiighout this community,
and as they have known each other
for a long time it is probable that
their minds had been made up to
such a consummation long before
Tuesday. May theirs be a happy
union.
Kendrick—Haygood.
Tuesday in Talbott county, Miss
Minnie May Kendrick was married to
Mr. Floyd Haygood. The announce
ment of this marriage was made in
The Gazette some weeks ago. It
was a quiet home wedding, only a
few friends and relatives being pres
ent as witnesses. The happy young
couple came to Barnesville from
Thomaston Tuesday afternoon and
went to their home near Gogginsville.
Both of these young people are well
and favorably known throughout this
section and The Gazette joins the
host of other friends in extending
heartiest congratulations.
Danger
Signals!
Do you take cold with
every change in the
weather? Does your throat
feel raw ? And do sharp
pahi3 dart through your
chest ?
Don’t you know these are
danger signals which point
to pneumonia, bronchitis, or
consumption itself?
If you are ailing and have
lost flesh lately, they are
certainly danger signals. The
question for you to decide is,
“Have 1 the vitality to throw
off these diseases?’’
Don’t wait to try SCOTT’S
EMULSION “as a last re
sort.’’ There is no remedy
equal to It for fortifying the
system. Prevention is easy.
Scott’s
Emulsion
prevents consumption and
hosts of other diseases which
attack the weak and those
with poor blood.
SCOTT’S EMULSION is
the one standard remedy for
inflaifled throats and lungs,
for colds, bronchitis and con
sumption. It is a food medi
cine of remarkable power. A
food, because it nourishes the
body; and a medicine, be
cause it corrects diseased
conditions.
50c. and f i.oo, druggists.
SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New York
April the Fir
We will leave Barnesville and will
I o ft'er a month ot opportunities. Every
pair of shoes in our store will be sold
lat cost. Asa grand inducement, to all
who buy a pair of shoes from us in
the next thirty days, worth one dollar
|or more, we will give a package of
Arbuckle’s cottee free. Yours in
bargains, Hearn's Shoe Store.
Mrs. C. W. Brown Dead.
As The Gazette was going to
press, news was received ot the death
at Blakely, Ga., of Mrs. C. W. Brown. J
Particulars are not known. The bu-;
rial will take place in Barnesville,,
probably today (Thursday). Surely
in her death a good woman has fallen 1
asleep and gone to her heavenly re
ward.
Miss Lula Merrill, of Atlanta, is in
the city and will have charge of the
millinery department at Maddux &
Son. She is said to be a fine i\iilliner.
Crip lets go when jroa take Miles' Nervines
PETITION FOR GttfIRTER.
GEORGIA.)
Pike County. j
To the Superior Court of said County:
The petition of W 111. 8. Whitaker, W.
p. Holmes, .1. A. Perdue, .F. D. Woodall
anK. W. Whitaker shows that they
have entered into an association under
the name and style of “The Community
Mills;” that the object of said associa
tion is to found an Industrial Communi
ty, whose principal occupation shall be
that of manufacturing, in or near the
town of Barnesville, said County and
State: to ereet and opera tea cottonfac
tory and knitting mills, and other indus
tries that may be essential or incidental
to the maintenance of said Community:
with power to purchase and hold prop
erty, real and personal, to acquire, cul- 1
tivate and use farms, gardens, orchards .
and pastures, to own, improve and sell
lots and tracts of land, and to engage in
any other business necessary to supply j
the wants or to promote the moral, in- j
tellectual and social condition of said !
Community; to sue and be sued, to have !
and u.-e a comiiru seal, aud to exercise !
all powers usually conferred upon eoi po
sitions of similar character, not incon
sistent with the laws of Georgia aud of
the United .States.
That said Community Mills is to have
its principal place of business in said
County of Pike ar.d its factories and In
dustrial enterprises are to be operated
and run for the chief purpose of convert
ing cotton and other libres into yarns,
cloth and knit goods, and selling all its
various products, not for private gain,
but for the profit of said Industrial Com
munity, by maintaining higher wages
for all laborers iu similar industries,
and secu.ing a reasonable reduction in
the hours of a day’s work, in the most
practicable manner and feasible extent.
That, to this e and, said association may
establish branch industries in any neigh
borhood or County of said State of Geor
gia, and use its funds aud kindly assist
ance to found and maintain similar In
dustrial Communities wherever desired.
Petitioners show that the capital stock
of said association is one hundred thou
sand dolb.rs, consisting of ten thousand
dollars >1 Primary Stock, and niuety
thousand dollars of Subordinate Stock,
and that ten thousand dollars of said
stock has been paid in. That said Pii
mary Stock shall not be trarioferrable
except by inheritance or upon the fail
ure of other 1 oldeis of the same to buy
at par such as may be offered for sale,
and then upon refusal of said Communi
ty Mills to redeem the same at its par
value; that the holders of said Primary
Stock shall never receive more
than three percent annual dividend on
the same, but they shall have exclusive
control of all the affairs and business of
said Community Mills.
That no dividend shall ever be de
clared on the Subordinate Stock, and it
shall not be voted in any council or
meeting of stock holders. The same,
being taken and held as evidence of hon
orary contributions to the founding of
said Industrial Community, shall not be
transferrable by contract or otherwise.
The surplus profits of said association
shall be devoted to the purposes afore
said. to tlie extension of similar Com
munities, and to such other humanitari
an endeavor as may be deemed advisa
ble in the unfolding tight of progress.
Petitioners pray the passing of an or
der by said Honorable Court, granting
this their application, and that they and
their successors be incorporated
for a n d during a term of twenty
years, with the privilege of renewal at
the expiration of said term, for the pur
poses hereinbefore set forth. And your
petitioners will ever pray.
Wm. S. Wiiitakeis,
Attorney for Petitioners.
OUANO BUYiNO-
The time has come again for the
much advised farmer to buy his sup
ply of guano, and notwithstandirg the
scarcity of money, guano is higher
than it was last year. And yet the
people are buying it, being told at
the same time that there is no com
petition in its sale as it is all under
the management of a Trust. When
will the tiller of the soil learn the im
portant lesson that it is ruinous to
always buy at the other man’s price?
Yet they will do it, taking all the risk
regardless of consequences. It is
strange that a class ot people will
continue a course that has been their
ruin, hoping to get out by the same
process that has enslaved them. We
frequently hear reasonably intelligent
men assert they ate compelled to
raise cotton, though it costs more to
make it than it will bring when sold.
I Suppose, for the sake of argument,
that a man owes his merchant two
j hundred dollars, and it takes ten
; bales of cotton at four and one half
j cents per pound to pay the debt, and
it costs him twenty-five dollars to
; make each bale ot said cotton. Now
! how much debt has he paid? He has
not only not paid any at all, but on
the contrary has gotten in debt fifty
j dollars more. Put 12 per cent on
; this amount and he is fifty-six dollars
worse in debt than when he started.
Keep this practice up for twenty-five
years and where, oh, where is he ?
This is not an extravagant calculation
las it is the experience of hundreds
and thousands of men who have held
on to the all cotton plan. If the far
mers would wait one month longer
to buy guano, you would see numbers
of agents traveling through this coun
try ottering his twenty and twenty
one dollar guano at sixteen dollars !
per ton and glad to sell at that. But
the most wonderful feature of the
business, with some of them, is, that
that they don’t have any cash price j
at all.
But the cotton planting is not the
only ruinous practice kept up by our
people. You will see numbers of men
taking their mules to livery men and
give them forty or fifty dollars differ
ence and often get a worse mule than
they had before and give mortgages
and criminate themselves. It is pos
sible that our people will never learn
what is best. ‘ A Farmer.
Bank of Molena.
The Bank of Molena has been or
ganized at Molena, Ga., and its vaults
will open some time this week for
business. Molena is a thriving little
village and needed a bank. Messrs.
H. P. Powell and Robert Holmes,
officers of the Barnesville Savings
Bank, knew of this and it is largely
through their efforts that the new
bank is organized. Mr. YV. S. With
am is president and VV. L. of
Buford, is cashier, with the following
gentlemen of Molena as the board of
directors: Messrs. H. G. Jordan, J.
M. Brooks, J. P. Carreker, YV. H.
Brooks and Zack Lawrence. The
bank will have all the money neces
sary to supply the wants of the entire
community. It will be a successful
institution.
A business man is not the most pat’ent
creature in tlie world. He cannot wait
to hear any long drawn-out story of the
cause of his ailment. He doesn’t care,
two straws about a fine spun theory of
how lie should ireat himself. He may
be predisposed to scrofula, or consump
tion. “That,” he will tell you “has
nothing to do with the case.” He wants
to be well, if he ran bo cured, write out
a prescription and send in your bill, bo
here’s the first part of the proposition.
Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery
is a microbe hunter and killer. Many
persons of scrofulous blood, encourage
the breaking out of unsightly sores, to
prevent the disease going to the lungs.
There is no need of this state of dread
anil discomfort. Purify the blood. It
can be done. “Golden Medical Discov
ery” will cure 08 per cent, of all con
sumptive cases, also of all other lingering
bronchial, throat and lung disease.
The Northwestern Mutual
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
Has just closed themost successful year in its history. It has no
Foreign Business whatever, and confines itself to the healthier portions of
the United States.
Notwithstanding This
The company wrote in IS9B over $75,000,000 of New Business. This is
by far ahead of any other company that confines its business to our own
country.
It now has Assetts $115,446,643.15
And a Clean Surplus of 25,367,602.52
The net results of the year’s work are as follows:
Increase in Assetts $12,071,107
Increase in Income 2,287,245
Incresse in Insurance Written 15,104,435
Increase in Insurance in Force 44,631,368
The Northwestern is a “Purely Mutual’’ Company
Each policy holder being a number with equal voice in its management and
equal inteiest in its property. It is the object of the management to conserve the
interests of the existing membership rather than at too great expense to extend
to those outside the company the benefits enjoyed by its present members.
QUALITY rather than QUANTITY is and always has been the primary
consideration of the Northwestern, and its members have for years received its
benegts at a low rate, a rate lower than that of any other company.
The result has been brought about by conservative methods, by a low ex
pense rate, by careful selection of risks—in a word, by applying f o the manage
ment of the qusiness of the company those principels and practices which have
proved successful in other lines of business. Cali on us for the “Best Insurance.”
ENEAS S. MURPHEY,
Special Agt. Middle Ga., Department.
Barnesville, Ga.
Testimonials.
Griffn, Ga., Jan. 28, 1898.
This is to testify that the Griffin
club has bought their fertilizers for
two years through D. J. Proctor from
the Southern Phosphate Works, of
Macon, Ga. We buy our fertilizers
on their guarantee only, and take
pleasure in recommending to our
friends the goods manufactured by
the Southern Phosphate Works. Our
club buys from 250 to 300 tons every
year. John F. Ogletree,
W. C. Manley,
L. T. Jester.
G. Mauldin,
E. L. Rogers.
Lamont, Ga., Jan. 25, 1898.
This is to certify that the Redbone
club of Monroe county has bought
their fertilizers for the last four years
through Mr. D. J. Proctor who now
represents the Southern Phosphate
Works, of Macon, Ga. We buy our
fertilizers on their guaranteed analy
sis. The goods bought through Mr.
Proctor have always given satisfaction
and we take pleasure in recommend
iug Mr. Proctor as well as his fertili
zers to our friends, and will take
pleasure in writing to any farmers in
Georgia who may want to know any
thing about fertilizers made by the
Southern Phosphate Works of Macon.
G. W. Langford, Barnesville, Ga.
J. G. McGough, Home, Ga.
H. N. Sappington, Lamont, Ga.
E. F. Maddox, Horne, Ga.
N. J. Owen, Lamont, Ga.
Committee.
Mr. J. L. Hunt will handle the Southern Phosphate
goods at Barnesville, Ga., this season and will be glad to see
his friends and price them before they buy.
A TEXfI/ WONDER. •
o
hall's great discovery.
One small bottle of Hall's Great
Discovery cures all Kidney and
Bladder troubles, removes gravel,
cures Diabetis, Seminal Emissions,
weak and lame backs. Rheumatism
and all irregularities of the kidneys
and bladder in both men and women.
Regulates bladder troubles in children.
If not sold by your druggist will be
sent by mail on receipt of sl. One
small bottle is two month’s treatment
and will cure any case above men
tioned. E. W. Hall.
Sole manufacturer.
P. O. Box 218, Waco, Texas.
Sold by W. A. YY’right, Barnesville.
Cuthbert, Ga, April 2, 1898.
This is to certify that 1 was affected
with gravel and that I took 60 drops of
Hall’s" Great Discovery and it completely
cured me. It is worth 81.000 per bottle
to any one needing it.
J. T. Stevens.
A Fine Instrument.
Dr. G. Pope Huguley has just re
ceived a large, fine galvanic battery,
which he has purchased for the pur
pose of using in his practice. It is
of the very latest and most improved
make and is an instrument of great
value in his practice, being larger
than ordinary batteries of the kind.
I)r. Huguley has been quite success
ful as a physician and takes advantage
of every opportunity to equip himself
thoroughly in all branches for the
practice of his profession.
If tlie scalp does not give out oil to
keep the hair from becoming dry and
harsh, use Hall’s Hair Renewer to ren
der the hair healthy, soft aud pliable.
Goggans, Ga., Jan. 25, 1898.
This is to certify that the Goggans
club have bought their fertilizers
through D. J. Proctor who represents
the Southern Phosphate Works, of
Macon, Ga., for two years. We take
pleasure in recommending Mr. Proc
tor and the fertilizers manufactured
by the Southern Phosphate Works.
IJ. E. Bankston,
J. G.,Bush,
B. F. Perdue,
Committee.
We had the pleasure a few days
ago of visiting Macon with Mr. D. J.
Proctor, of Forsyth, agent of the
Southern Phosphate Works.
We have often heard of this splen
did factory and the quality of fertili
zers manufactured by them, but after
s we were shown through the factory
by Mr. Frank, their chemist and gen
eral manager, we were convinced that
the half had never been told. Their
ammoniated goods and acid phos
phates are all manufactured in their
own factory.
If the farmers would visit the fac
tory and see the goods manufactured
i they would no longer doubt the puri
ty of their fertilizers.
We are using their goods this yesr
and have been for several years past,
and take pleasure in recommending
their goods to the farmers wanting
first -class fertilizers.
E. R. Roberts,
Stephen D.Jackson,
Lee J. Sutton.