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Mining, the Maniifacturing industries and df Agricul- the
ture are basic i or tne na¬ na¬
tion. The progress and prosperity, yea
the very existence of each and all of
these, which hinge on adequate railroads transportation
—of the furnish the .[ I
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OFI'U’l.U, OI UAN OF GILMER COUNTY.
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Published Every Friday
FRIDAY, APR 1.1,1924
ItOtTts^been
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on April 2t?tn. Every County will
b§ paid on that date. The amount
to be paid is one million and three
bundled thousand dollais, which is
fifty thousand dollars more than
was paid to the State Pensioners
last year.
The early bird catches the worm,
but the early snake catches the club
especially if it happens to be in the
hands of Mr. Gaines Roberts. Mr.
Roberts relates that last Friday he
came on a bed of seven snakes, and
all by himself killed five of them j |
while the other two were getting
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A gift of $50,000 has been made
to the Greater Wesleyan fund by
Col. Bam Tate, of Tate, Ga,, a trus¬
tee of the College and well known
philanthropist, it was announced at
campaign headquarters in Macon.
This is the largest individual gift to
have been received in the present
million dollar endeavor to provide
the College with a new group of
buildings.
Tax Notice
I am on my last round receiv
ing tax returns for 1924 Meet
me and at give some in of my tax. appointments I will be j
your
in Ellijay on the 24, 25 , 26. 28, ■
29 and 30th days of April- The the j
law requires me to close on i
first day of May, so be on time
and tell your neighbor and save
trouble all round.
L- B Chastain, R. T R.
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SCHOOL NOTES
The students and teachers of
the Giln.er County High School
wete shocked o n Wednesday
morning when they learned that
Mrs Fowler’s mother, Mrs. War
lick, hsd died- The students in
Mrs Fowler’s room, the students
o| the high school department
at cl the members of the faculty,
ail sonfy beautiful wreathes for
the funeral.
The play which was to be given
ly’liighL y^ ’g April Apn ^lh 11, ^ has ias b
on account account of of Mrs. Mrs. Wat Wat lick’s lick’s
(hath Ath otic events for Fri-
1 tjfiemot n l ave also been post,
o n d iill sonn* afternoon next
week
A letter from Mr- George D.
Godard to Mr, Panter expresses
his regrets that he cannot preach
•h commencement sermon Ef
or*s are being made to secure
Pi of J. A Shaip, Piesidtntoi
V hi g Harris College, for this
put p’. se
Teachers are already planning
t° r commencement exercises and
thfry ask that parents be patient
them, if they cannot assign
parks to all the children. Teach
must select children suitable
‘o? v > it,us roles in the plays, and
-•«:ui.n find parts suitable for all
oniiuien Neither can they as¬
sign tiie role ot hero and hero¬
ine to mere than a very few. If
pan; will take these things in¬
to coLsideration they need not
think, ‘Teacher d jesn’t like John¬
nie or Mary, and left him or her
out of the faculty play.”
The has always appgci
ated Hie co operation of the par
and are endeavoring to do
their best for the children in the
school.
STOCKLAW ELECTION
Georgia, Gilmer County:
To whom it may concern:
Whereas a petition of a lawful
number of freeholders has been
filed with the undersigned, to
have an election held for fence or
Stock Law in Gilmer county ac
cording to the provisions of the
laws of Georgia, Code 1911.
This is therefore to give notice
of same according to law
This April 1st 1924 Ordinary
R. J. Goble,
“COLD IN THE HEAD’
Is an acute attack of Nasal Catarrh.
Those subject to frequent “colds” are
generally HALL’S in CATARRH a "run down” MEDICINE condition. is
to! a
Treatment consisting- of an Ointment,
be used locally, and a Tonic, which acts
Quickly through the Blood on the Mu
and cous Surfaces, building up the System,
Sold making you less liable to “colds.”
F> by druggists for Toledo, over 40 Tears,
J- Cheney ft Co., 0,
Game Trails of Gilmer
By G. G. Ward
Besides the game we mentioned
last week ire might include migra¬
tory ducks and geese. About the
found arj away down in the wilder¬
nesses and wilds of the Coosawat
tee river- It is a question how the
coming of more people and big
dams will affect them. But if prop¬
erly protected they would thrive ir,
other watered parts of the county,
and some species might remain there
the year round:
Occasionally a rail is met with,
but is soon easily killed. Blue he¬
rons, falsely called “shyte pokes,”
are seen. White specimens some¬
times are sighted afar. Then some
misguided boy or man runs for a
shot gun and this perfectly harm¬
less bird is stalked and then butch¬
ered. Why, if some people couldn’t
get an excuse to shoot harmless
birds they would claim the birds
had the terrible habit of pecking
out babies’ eyes.
Years ago an eagle occasionally
passed by, and great fish hawks
could be seen perched high above
the river. But I see them no more,
l suppose I never shall again, just
a i we shall look in vain for the wild
t rkey.
hong years ago our hills and val¬
leys often swarmed with wild pig¬
eons, now totally extinct. One has
not been seen here in seventeen
years. A pair'would be worth five
.housand dollars. That shows that
blessings brighten as they take their
flight, but they keep on flying.
When we come to discuss pre¬
serving wild birds and animals the
first thing to do is to name the un¬
desirable ones. Of course we don’t
care to see our woods full of wolves,
coyotes and, possibly, panthers.
We’d like to see all English sparrows
fed to the cats- Catamounts and
bob cats are not needed I Suppose.
But all such life should be preserv¬
ed somewhere if for no other reason
than for the education in nature of
thtj^eopj le. ’
with with high his prices, threatens the
prompt and final wiping out of our
fur-bearing animals. You needn’t
talk to a boy now about turning
some of the possum* loose. No sir,
he wants to skin them all and sell
their hides.
Fur animals could be raised with
profit here on farms. I believe the
very valuable silver fox would
thrive on a "ranch” since the red
and grey fox both live wild here.
This is a natural home for the fox,
which has beat all other animals
here in surviving traps, guns and
hounds. The despised skunk con¬
tributes heavily to his master’s poek
etbook when kept" on a farm. 1
know of a man who cleared one
hundred thousand dollars in six
years by keeping a i&ur.k farm.
But I’d like to see the musk rat,
skunk, mink, coon and opossum
preserved in a wild stat-:, with a re¬
stocking of otter and beSyer. These
creatures are going to become in¬
creasingly valuable as time passes.
The bear has been basely slander¬
ed. He is not had at all.’ The
grizzly we do not want. But I’d
like to know the brown bear and
black beer were once more sham¬
bling our ranges. The bear is the
finest of game, and would thrive
here if given a decent chance. He
could be raised on protected private
areas, too.
The rabk-t and ground hog should
remain v ith us; the deer is especi¬
ally to be desired. Massachusetts
lias nearly five hundred people to
the square mile. Gilmer county
has 20. Massachusetts has plenty
of wild deer. Gilmer county has
none. Maine with 25 people to the
square mile has bear.
All our small summer visiting
birds such as buntings, orioles, finch¬
es. tanngers and the like should he
welcomed as old friends and always!
protected.
It is an outrage to kill catbirds,
cardinals, robins, yellow hammers,
Whippoorwills. , • -i, tunes, larKS larl-a and and
woodcocks. All species of pecker
wood arc .'iU most *11 e'tvj vaiuaj^^hvouk tt&MSpscT&
e CO
16-Year-Old Girl
Wife Exonerated
Cleveland, Tenn., Apr 8.—Ar¬
rested at the grave of her c'ni'd
in Gilmer county, Georgia, March
wife, of Wesley Davis, was ex
onerated here today bv a repon
of a chemical analysis of the vis
Cera of the child urtiich reveaie'
no trace r f poison
Mrs. Davis was arrested on
complaint of John Hickey, a rela¬
tive of her husband, who charged
that she had given it poison, foi
lowing the finding of a quantity
of fruit on ike table over wtued
a green powder had been scat¬
tered. Mrs. Davis explained that
she had taken some powders and
left the medicine loose an a pa¬
per and that the child had pulled
the paper from the table while
eating
Girl Kill Self Over
Family Disgrace
Dahlonega. Ga., April 5.— While
Ben and Roscoe Perry nervously
paced in their cell at the jail here,
the body of their sister, Annie Per¬
ry, 17, was interred at the local
cemetery, following her suicide
Thursday. The girl is said to have
killed herself because the brothers
had disgraced the family.
The boys are held in jail on
charges of attacking a young girl
here some days ago. They fled to
Oklahoma, were apprehended and
have been brought back to face the
charges.
The girl’s body was found in a
woods with a gunshot wound near
h er h eart. A coroner’s inquest re
£HKd a verdict of suicide on ac
covul’of grief. The sister’s devo¬
tion to her brothers and futile ef¬
forts in their behalf are thought to
have caused her to seek rest for her
breaking heart.
Ewks. Any bxJ 1 * 4 ^ £ serves
harms should be spared. *
We have always enjoyed the ad
vantage of having the wild birds and
animals with us. Therefore we
don’t yet know the evils that may
follow their eritire destruction. Let
us keep them instead of butchering]
them like a gang of savages.
Starter and Demountable
Rime 195 extra
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Good Road Film
To Be Shown Free
The 8tury of what improved
highways meaiis t<> any community
no mutter how large or small, is
graphically ton] in the motion pic
iuv*.*, *‘Th« H, ad to Happiness”
to he presented Thursday evenii t
April IT, at Me Dow Theatre.
Arrangements s for the showiug <
of ibis remarkable pie'ure . here
were made by Ale Han Motor Co .
and u' 1 who are interes'f d in ih*
promotion of better roads are urged
to attend.
The picture was produced by the
Ford Motion Picture Laboratory
co-opera t mg «it!> government offi
ciuls ushiugton, . D, C. and has
at U
the end'irsemeut of the Bureau of
Public X..ad, U S Department of
Commerce, the Highway Kduca
tional Board and the National Auto
mobile Chamber ut Commerce.
lit his desire to further the de¬
(
velopment of roads iu the United
states, Prudent Calvin Coolicge
consented to U-rke part in the pic
. it;e. . Hh appeal's in ui.o scene
which was taken on the lawn of
tite hit* House at Wiishijtgvn,
In 9peakitig ot good roads the film
qt otes Pr.-sidentCo ilidge as suyiug;
‘No e\p, lidiuire of public money
contributes so much to national
wealth as for building good roacfs ”
Appearing also in this scene are
tin members of tus Highway Edu¬
cational Board of which Roy D
Chapin,ell known good roadsad
vocate, is chairman,
T. H. MacDopaid, chief of the
Bureau of Public Roads, U. S De
partmeiit of Agriculture, also ap¬
pears in the picture and there are
several scenes in the Bureau of
Public Ruuds at the National Capi¬
tal and the Bureau’s experimental
ground at Arlington.
lire story centers about young
Bob Prestou, farm boy who trudges
uvr;r muddy roads to school and
who endures thb hardships attend
ant to transporting farm
co market over all but impassable
jJftBLBrminSI to de
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community to the advantages of
better roads At school he learns
of a national essay contest on good
roads, enters it and captures tpe
first prize, a four-year course at
college. From the hands of Presi
dent Coolidge himself, Bob,
Washington, receives his certificate
SeedS t
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South. 100 pages, full of actual photo
graphic pictures, handsome cover
Cages in full colors, accurate descrip.
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South,” are as always, the best seeds
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seeds, plants and bulbs that do well
In South are all fully described with
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cau possibly sell good seeds, plants
An our 1924 Corners
get 5 seed packets of beautiful
flowers absolutely free. The big new
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^ H. G. HASTINGS CO., SEEDSMEN,
ATLANTA, GA.
W. C. CHASTAIN
Physician & Surgeon
Office in Cobb Drug Store
Residence at Powell Hotel
Calls Answered Promptly
of scholarship which entitles him
to Uis college course. He takes up
finishes school, enters
work in ihe Bureau of Public Roads
u.d fiiiiallv, when the county com
missiou-rs in his old home com
munity realize the need of bettor
roads, he accepts their offer and
becomes county engineer.
The old country doctor is also
an important character in “The
Hoad to Happiness”. He knew
better than anyone else in the com*
munty what good roads meant, for
many a time to reach a patient
quickly was a matter of saving a
human life, and with roads as they
were there was always the hazard
of undue delay So the old doctor
appears as one of the chief boost”
8 ^ et,ter roa d 8 -
^ ie Hi’«^ ure ' 8 fil^d Ypth inter-
1 he'd *\ nes ’ b ” aul,fu % P ho good «>“
ca p a.'id offe rs not jmly
national ^alue distinct
appeal frdin the fact that it tells a
true-to-liff story, wi h sceues laid
around a little town in Virginia
and with the simple people of this
community portraying the princi
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