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BY TH^IS CONSOLIDA¬ TION, GILMER WILL HAVE THE LEADING ADVERTISING MEDIUM OF THIS SECTION. Ellijay Timas Establshed 1333, CLIPPINGS Joe Woody probably is the Champion wild cat hunter and killer of Cherokee. Last week be was fortunate chough to kill two large spotted and bob tailed Wild cats on the TelliCo and Snowbird divide, at one shot*— Murphy Scout O o 0 Henry Ford ought to Carry a peace party in one of his jitheys to the office of the oil companies Und find out what is the matter with the price of gasoline,—De= Kalb New Era o o o The miners at Dncktowtt are on a strike for an increase of 25 per cent in wages, and as a result most of the furnaces have had to shut down on account of not having ore to smelt,-— Blue Ridge Summit Th a famous Hall family* of Gilmer county, near White Path, Thursday announced its purpose of moving in a body to Atlanta next week to take part in the Old Fiddlers’ Convention, which opens Wednesday night, January 26th, at the Auditorium, There are a dozen of them,brothers and sisters, and they play fiddles, banjos and jew’s-harps. besides being gifted singers. The home o f the Halls, though remote from any town, is the favorite resort of Gilmer county music lovers and the fame of the posters has gone abroad. Fiddlin’ John Carson, Gid Tanner, Ross Bag ,, ley, Shorty Harper and all the old favorites have ehtered the contest. Forty or more new fiddlers also have signed the entry blanks. —Atlanta Georgian 000 R. M, Chastain, for years a member of the couuty school board of Fannin county, died Monday at his home in Union tolinty ahd Was buried at Mor gartton the following day. —Blue Ridge Summit Mrs F.iizft D. Lathrop. aged lo 3 ypars, died in Binghamton, j N. Y., January 18 . In in inter¬ view given out oft her last birth¬ day, Mrs Lathrop said that her chief article of diet was pickles and said ther use kept her well. = Kx. After eating the cucumber diet for almost a century we’ll bet the above lady Was some pickle Some Of our friends want Us to tun for the legislature and some are anxious for us to stand for the state senate. But as congres¬ sional timber is so durn scarce, nowadays, it comes Very close to being our duty to run for cong¬ ress. The country is going to the devil mighty fast, and its time for all sensible men’to come to its aid.—Greensboro Herald Journal . Go to it Brother Williams, fat We are sure you can save the country if any one can 000 Miss Emma Moore, of Oil Pa. , the fattest woman in United States, tipping the at 749^ pounds, is ill with monia in the Blackstone at Pawtucket, R, I. She visiting E. A. Hazzard, of Dar lington when stricken about week ago. It reqnired men to take her to the TIMES-COURIER ‘We Posh Fof Pr<3sp£rity—Give Us d Pull*' Vol. i, No. 4. When she arrived there was no room with a door big enough to permit her to enter. There chanced to be a room with fold¬ ing Aiors on the second floor of the hospital. This was fitted with a bed and hospital necessi¬ ties for her use- Miss Moore is recovering rapidly, —Gainesville Eagle 1 largest thing | Ti sis is thd we fever heard of not on wheels Four persons were killed neaf Madison, Tenn,, last week by a cyclone. —Dahlonega Nugget Lightnihg struck the wedding ring on the finger of Mrs. Masori) of Castlegate,Eng ,taking a piede out of the ring but leaving' the finger uninjured,—Dawson Coun¬ ty Advertiser Next! 000 It is reported that the potash in the United States will sdon be exhausted on account of the for¬ eign wars. This will be deeply regretted by the Georgia moon¬ shiner who Use it in the manu¬ facture of liquor in order to make it turn out more gallons,—Dah* lonega Nukget 000 We think the legislature made somewhat of a botch of it with the uniform school book bill. Gobb county can’t get anybody to keep the books for sale for there is too little in it for the or¬ dinary mer.gji.ant to bother with keeping them. Of course our merchants will order them for purchasers but they will not keep a supply of them in stock at 10 per cent profit.—Marietta News. Miss Pauline Foote, an orphan and clerk in an Atlanta store, was told Monday morning that hef and her brother and grandmother, Mrs W. I. Foote, of Newihan, would receive $100,000 each from i 1 the estate of the late Colonel James Smith, o f Oglethorpe county- — Dahlonega Nugget Uncle Sam is after the Na¬ tional Banks with a hot poker, All on account of usury The law allows these banks to charge only eight per cent on any loan. You didn’t know that, did you? But it has been found that 66 of the 144 National Banks in Geor¬ gia charge usurious rates. The Comptroller of the Currency cites an instance i n Georgia where a National bank, dealing with a woman, charged interest at the rate of 120 per cent on loan for a period of 30 days; gave a h orse as security for the loan, and it is aeported that in year , tune . she.pa.d , ... .merest a s to this bank more than the value of the horse. On one occasion she borrowed $20 for 48 days and paid in interest $12.50 or 253 per cent.—Gainesville Eagle Twenty-five car loads of butter from Chicago, is to be shipped from New York to the Russians. — Dahlonega Nugget WOSKEfl IN TllE HAY Flfel.D. Arthftr Jones, Allen, Kan,-, writes -C I heve been troubled with blad¬ der aftu kidney tronbl. g for a good many years. If it were not for Fo¬ ley Kidney Pills I would revof he able to work I11 she hay field.” Men and women past middle age find these pills a splendid remedy for weak, overworked or diseased kidneys., gold everywhere. ELLIJAY, GA. ( FRIDAY JaR 28th 1910. The following communication from Harry Hodgson, of Athens, whose business has to do with cotton and cotton seed products will be of interest to Gilmar’s planters in buying fertilizers! .. * “There is much less fertilizer available this year than there was last year and last year there was only half a normal supply. This is caused by the sulphuric acid being drawn out of the south by the munition plants. ,ulphurie acid, of course we not make acid phosphate. British fleet has absolutly pre vented the' German ships bring¬ ing us potash. In my judgment, Corn with the dearth in fertilizer that exists. All intelligent farm¬ know that both of these crops heavily for success upon fertilizers, and farmers should be to use all the fertilizers can get. ‘ ‘A good crop is essential to the success of t h e whole south, and some newspapers have been very short-sighted i n the in their advice to farmers on fertilizer question. Of course, farmers should save every pound home-made manure- The fer¬ people would greatly re¬ if the south was to a greater a cattle raising country. more fertile our fields are, the use of home-made and the turning under of s*v»pp r the merdeffi¬ are our fertilizers and the is the money returned to farmer who buys them. Harry Hodgson, ” Catarrh Cannot Be Cured local applications, as they cannot the seat of the disease. Catarrh a blood or constitutional disease, and order to cure it you must take inter l remedies. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is internally, and acts directly upon blood and mucous surface. Hall’s Cure is not a quack medicine. was prescribed by one of the best in this country for years and regular prescription. It is composed the best tonics known, combined the best blood purifiers, acting on the mucous surfabes. The Combi nation of the two ingre¬ is What produces such wonderful in curing catarrh. Send for free. J CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, Sold by druggists, 75c. Take Hail’s Family Pills for consti¬ Advt. G B: Hurlbutt, Th. M. Pastor Temporary quarters, meeting house of the Methodist Episcopal Chureb# oppogiteEUijay Institute . Services eyery Sunday Sunday Schooi 9:30 A. M. Morning Worship 11:00 A. M. Evening Worship 6:30 P. M. Prayermeeting Wednesday 6 30 P. M. Everybody cordially invited .EVERYBODY SEES A CHANGE IN FATHER, "My father has suffered from chronic stomach trouble for over 20 years and has paid out thous¬ ands of dollars on medicines and doctors, *said G. W. Slayton, a well-known Cobb county farmer, who lives near Smyrna, a short distance out of Atlanta. ‘‘We tried nearly everything trying to cure him, and he went t tew^VwouThdp S looked like nothing would reach his trouble. Then he tried dieting, and lived on liquid food until he almost tarved—but even ‘0 do an, eood, ,nd he just kept going from bad tb worse. ! “I don’t guess there ever was a % as stubborn as his, and if re ever was a confirmed dys tic he was one of them, and I ess he would have been one yst if it hadn’t been for this Tanlac, .“The first we heard of this medicine was when my father saw an advertisement in the pa¬ pers from parties h e knew in Tennessee, who were friends of his, and he knew what they sa. ; d about it was the truth—so he got it right away and began taking it. *‘tVell, sir, it acted just like ] magic— and everybody notices the j change in father now—why, he is'just rgijusi like a different man, and sit£ down to the table and eats like a farm hand- Only yesterday he ate pork and turnips for his, dinner, and ate so much we were actually afraid he was overdoing the thing, but he laughed and said nothing hurt him now, and that he was hungry and expected to eat and make up for lost time. “Now, when a medicine will do things like that, I think people ought to know, about it, and I want to say right now that I would not give one bottle of Tan¬ lac for all the other medicines and health resorts in the country put together.” — Tanlac is sold exclusively in EUijay by E. W. Watkins & Son - COLDS NEED ATTENTION internal throat and Chest troubles produce inflammation, irritation, swell¬ ing or soreness and unless cheeked at once, are likely to lead to serious trou¬ ble; Caught in timd Dr. Beil’s Pine Tar Honey loosens the phlegm and de¬ stroys the gefms which have settled iri the throat or nose.- It Is soothing and healing. P ! ne is antiseptic; honey is soothing—both together possess excell¬ ent medicinal qualities for fighting cold germs. Insist on Dr.- Beil’s Pine Tar Honey. 25e. all druggists. Advt. 60 ✓EARS' * EXPERIENCE Trade Marks Designs Copyrights Ac* ipy an mnnieiv Patent* gent free. Oldest acency for securing patents, receive ents kgfwithout taken through churge? Muna A Co. meial not in the Scientific American. A handsomely Illustrated weekly. Laftsfeit cir¬ culation of any ecionUBc Journal. '1 erms. a year: four months, $L Sold by all newsdealers. MUHN & Co. 36,Broadway - New York Branch Office. 615 » BUWaaMngton. D. O.y . Children C try FOR FLETCHER’S CASTORIA Children Cry FOR FLETCHER’S CASTORIA CHICHESTER S PILLS Df.-rf/fGlSD BRAND e of £2*.. oc* LADIES I Aak your VrvKghi for CHI-CHES-TER S DIAMOND 11RAND RAND PILDS PILLS in in Red Red and and Gold Ribbon. metallic Take boxes, sealed with Blud Dragglst and no for othee. Buy oF you r V uragsist and ask ask Icy CIII-CUES-TEK IHI-LULB-ilk 8 8 DIAMOND BIl AND PILLS, for t wen tv-fivC years regarded as Best, Safest, Always Reliable. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS & EVERYWHERE ?£?£ Hr. King's Hew discovery Si'-LS THE COUGH. 6UKES THE LUNGS Consolidated Jah. 1st 1916. Draw ... S A Check m W t A fchcefe afcfcbunt Is a tremen 1 1 ' cbftveftiehcb—bhe dbus that sa veS bdth time and rildney. tt enables you td Itlake payments of debts in just the amdiints ydii wish right dowft to the ddd cents,and It is a Perfect Receipt it! itself. when you pay a bill with a check. Open an account tdi— day; No Waiting to get bills changed or going to a bank to dratf out the money: The Bank of Ellijay FOUR PER CENT PAID ON TiME DEPOSITS SAM TATE, president. R. L. McCLAIN, vice president. E, T. HUDSON, cashier. SOMETHING FOR NOTHING To get started with yoii wd make ydu the following offef: Send us 11.50 fof 1,000 ?rost Proof Cabbage plants; grown in the open air and will stand freezing, grdwii from the Oelebra ted Seed of Bolgina & Son and Thorborh & Co ; , and I trill Send you 1,000 Cabbage Plants additional Free, and you Cart repeat the order as many times as you like- I will give you spedat prices on Potato Seed and Potato Plants later. We Want the accounts of-«**s£ibt!yAr«, Iftr^e and siurlL "We tan sup^lymil ATLANTIC COAST PLANT CO. Youngs Island, S- G. 9 Great Serials The year 1916 will be crowded with the very best reading in TheYSisCompnion Great Serials 9 250 Short Stories CUT THIS OUT Rare Articles, Nature ahd Science, Exceptional Page, Editorial Girls’ Page, Family Chil¬ and send it (or the name of this paper) Boys’ Page, Page, with $2.00 for The COMPANION dren’s Page. All ages liberally for 1916, and we will send provided for. * CDUC All the issues of THE COM- Twice as much as any magazine' PANION for the remaining gives in Fifty-two times weeks of 1915. a year. CDCr THE COMPANION HOME a year—not twelve. r IU5D CALENDAR for 1916. Send to-day to The Youth’s Com¬ TI4FM 1 The 52 Weekly Issues of panion, Boston, Mass., for THE COMPANION fsr ID'S. THREE CURRENT ISSUES FREE. - SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED AT THIS OFFICE EARLY CABBAGE PLANTS, We have flow onhand ready for shipment a very pretty lot of cabbage plants. We have made Sphfcia 1 effert in grtwirg tkete plants gr.d knew they w give the very best of results. Our plants are' grown in the open air. The same plants we ship you thg plants off of the same set bed, We used to set out our own crop from. Our prices are—In lots from 1 to 5 th cusard }].S5 per tbcutsrd. 5 t« housand $1.00 per thousand, we 1 wifi makfeyon Special rates on larger orders. Give us a trial, and we wifi satisfy you. THE ONLY PLANT CO, Meggett, S. C, WE GUARANTEE DOING THE BEST OF WORK IN OUR JOB DEPARTMENT; CALL AND SEE US: Courier Established 1875.