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Paints and Painting. TJ so Economy j ‘ AND PROTECT YOUR HOUSE BY t: PAINTING, * And it will not Tot d6wh on you, and tbe best paint is sold by JOHN L, ARNOLD, No. 205 Broad Street, ATHENS, GEORGIA. He keeps always on hand a large stock of the best paints in the city. Also contracts for House and Sign Painting. 11-5-91 Dry Goods . Merchants will do Well to Call ON MICHAEL BROS. ATHENS, GEORGIA. wholesale DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, SHOES. Largest Store in Northeast Georgia. ANNOUNCES! ENTS. At the solicitation of my friends I hereby announce myself a candidate for re-election for Coroner of Banks county. Respectfully, O lIC Smith- I hereby .announce myself a candi date for the office of Tax Receiver of Bank comity. J. H. BROOKS. I respectfully announce myself a can didate for the office of Sheriff of Banks county. J. E. Stephens- Thanking you my friends and fellow citizens of Banks county for the liberal support you have given me in the past, and assuring you that if I am' elected m the coming election I will be as faithful in the discharge of my dulies in tbe office as I have been in the past, I therefore announce myself a Candi da o for re-election to the office of Sheriff of Banks county,’ subject to the action of the democratic party. Respectfully, VV. A. Scoggins. I hereby announce myself a, candi date for the office of County Treasurer of Banks -county. HENRY F. MILLER. I hereby announce myself ? candi date for Sheriff' of Banks countv. F. M. HENDERSON. i hereby announce myself a candi -daie for the office of County Treasurer, aud if elected I promise to discharge uiy duty faithfully. J. R. EUBANKS. I hereby announce myself a candidate for the office of County Treasurer, and jf elected I promise 10 make an efficient officer. Respectfully, W. A. Boling. At the solicitation of many friends I hereby announce mvself as a candidate fur re-election for Clerk SnperiorCourl of Banks county. Respectfully, L. N. TURK. Thanking my many friends fur the liberal support you tiave given me in the past, 1 announce myself a candidate for re-election to the-office of County Treasurer. Respectfully, GROVES C. FORBES. I respectfully announce myself a candidate for the office of Tax Receiver of Banks county, subject to the actiou of the democratic party J. M. SEGERS. 1 respetfullv announce myself as a candidate for the office of County Treasurer of Banks County, subject to the actiou of the Democrtie party. \V. H. MEEKS. TocaldotsT Thomas E. Anderson is our author ized agent at Hollingsworth. He will receive and receipt for all money due the Gazette. The public well needs attention. Rev. S. I> Evans’ wife has a baby. W. A. Martin was in town Mon day. Go to W. W. Brooks for ready made clothing. Hugh Means attended preaching at Mt. Pleasant Sunday. The chimney to the printing office is going right up. Mr T C Chandler is one of the best citizens in Banks. Mr. J. J. Weld gave this office a pleasant call yesterday. Miss Fannie Cochran spent Thurs day night in Homer. Our candidates are all running now at a high rate of speed. Sam Mason had a cornshucking Friday night. J. G. Ray, a worthy citizen of Banks was in Homer Friday. J. M. Garrison was in to see us Monday. See his “ad” in this issue. Several good citizens were in Homer Monday attending ordinary’s court. When you want nice furniture, go straight to W.W. Jordan in Harmony Grove. If you wish to live in a quiet little country town buy a lot and build in Homer. Grady, one of the best horses in Northeast Georgia, for sale at this office. Buy the celebrated Gainesville Shoes, for sale by W. W. Brooks, Homer, Ga. Hon. D. F. Scales and J. F. Evans were in Homer Friday. P. F. M. Furr is a nice gentleman and one of the best business men in Banks county. We were glad to see Colonel A. P. Wofford and his wife in the congrega tion Sunday at Homer. Bro. Segers and Bro. Luke Turk forked over their announcement money the other day. We spent an hour or two very pleasantly in the Age office with Bro. Alexander Tuesday. Money saved is money made. You can always save money by buying goods from W. W. Brook’s. Col. P. M. Edwards left monday for Atlanta to attend the opening of the Georgia legislature. Buy furniture from no one else as long as W. W. Jordan advertises in your county paper. The longer wc live in Banks the better we love her citizens. [Amen, with all my heart.—Senior print.} If you will mention this paper when you go to trade with our advertisers they will make it to your advantage. . Bro. J. J. Anderson forked over his dollar for the Gazette Saturday. Brother A. likes the paper right along. ■ We know a woman who does all the house work and then does as much work in the field as her hus band. Revs. Walker Lewis, .1. R. McClus ky and T. R. Kendal will be trans fered to the North Georgia confer ence this winter. Fred McClusky, of Athens, and Hon. 11. H. Perry, of Gainesville, will join the North Georgia confer ence tnis winter. Be sure you don’t believe any ru mors until the proof comes. A fellow shows his weakness by believing a report without proof. Rev. J. D. Gunnels and J. M. Sogers, of New Salem, were in Homer Monday. We are always glad to see these gentlemen among us. Our friends are rallying to the sup port of the Gazette right along. We love any man on earth who loves the Banks County Gazette. A precious woman who will do all the domestic work about the house, and then go into the field and work, is worth her weight in gold. Bro’s. J. M. Herbert and M. C Hulsey hunted us up to pay their subscription to the Gazette. A man like that will do. Geo. Muse put an advertisement in this paper and sold S6O worth of goods to citizens of Banks county in less than one week. The Gazette is doing one hundred per cent better than we expected it would when we began. Two or three new stockholders arp coming in. Turkeys are being shipped from Banks to Wilkes county, far the Methodist conference which meets there the 3rd of December. Wo called on Baxter Smith with his broken arm Saturday. Baxter is a good looking hoy, but his sisters are a long ways better looking than he is. The Elberton Star is right. The legislature should make the fine on carrying pistols so high that a person could not escape the chain-gang who carry one. We would call especial attention to the advertisement of John L. Arnold, Athens, Ga. The public will find it to tbeir interest' to go to see him when in the clasic city. The name of Mr. O. H. C. Smith will be found in the announcement column, for coroner. Mr. Smith is the present incumbent and has made an efficient officer. Thos. E. Anderson, of Hollings worth, was in our community Satur day and Sunday. Tom is as jolly a fellow as there is in Banks, and he is a good friend to the Gazette. There is a good prospect for the Homer circuit to make the best show ing it has made since it has been a circuit Let every body rally that has not done so. Mr. J. J. Anderson left the nicest lot of potatoes in this office Monday we’ve seen this season. Mr. Ander son is one of the most prosperous farmers in this county. The Atlanta Constitution, the Gainesville Eagle and the Crawford Herald have been kind in their no tices of us of late. Long may these good papers live to bless the people and the country. If the Banks County Publishing Company is properly managed the county will be so thoroughly adver tised, and the interest of the county so built up, that our population will be doubled in the next decade. On November the first, When Sol began to shine, And give fourth his light, The leaves of the mulbery Began to fall and ceased not When Sol reached maridian Light. It is our deliberate opinion, care fully formed, that those candidates will be egregiously beaten who fail to announce in the county paper, and we make this statement as a friend to the candidates without personal inter est. t When this issue of the Gazette reaches its readers the editor will be in the gate city mixing and mingling with the newly elected legislature of Georgia. If we can get it started off right it may do well. A good be ginning is half the battle. Brother and Sistet A. J. McWhor ter’s visit to us last week was a bene diction to us. They did not only bring nice butter, pound cakes, ect., but they expressed their sympathy and interest in us in such a way that wc can never forget. Mr. J. K. Thompson started a gin in Homer in the early fail and he has been running day and night. Mr. Thompson is a gentleman whose hon esty is unquestioned. People are therefore perfectly willing to have, him gin their cotton. J. J. Anderson again comes to the front with another good yield of lint cotton. From 1,104 pounds of seed cotton, Jeff Welborn, Peterkin and Truitt’s Premium—mixed varieties, he had a bale put up weighing 472 pounds: 85 pounds over thirding itself after deducting the to!o. NOTICE. In coming to Homer from Rags dale’s mill, by the grocery place where Brewer was killed, yesterday, I lost my pocket-book containing $lO. The person finding it will please re turn it to J. L. Patterson, Nails Creek Ga. Mr. Thomas D. Weld, formerly of this county but now of Atlanta, came in to see us yesterday and gave us two dollars and directed us to send the paper to two of his relatives. Mr. Weld is a snbsriber himself. He says the Gazette is a first class paper. We understand that some of our subscribers at Nails Creek are not getting the Gazette regularly. We write every subscriber’s name with the utmost care, and are sure that the paper is started from this office to those who are complaining. Let any one missing the paper report to us and we will look into the matter. We asked a leading farmer the other day if he didnit have the best cotton crop he had made in twenty years. He answered that he had the best crop he lias ever made. It is said by a number that a better cotton cvop never grew in Banks than we have this year. NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that a char ter will be asked for at the next ses sion of the Georgia legislature incor porating the Northeast Homer rail road, from the most accessable point on the Northeastern railroad to Homer, penetrating the counties of Jackson and Banks. Citizens of Banks county should stand firmly by those who patronize the county paper. We should trade with those who trade with us. Before starting to any given town look over the paper and trade with those mer chants whose advertisements you find in the paper, and when you start to the polls he sure to vote for the fel low who advertises in your paper. Notice. There will be a bill introduced in the next legislature entitled a bill to prohibit the sale, manufacture and delivery of any spirituous or malt liquors witliin three miles of Mount Bethel Methodist church in Banks county, Georgia. 11-12 The people are hereby notified that stock law prevails in Ilomer district, j Colonel Ab Wofford tells us that they are getting on finely with a $1,500 school house at Hollingsworth. The Hollingsworth High school will be a tower of strength to that section for generations to come. We con gratulate our Hollingsworth friends on their move, and on the success they are having. Rev. J. J. Pendergrass will preach at Mt. Pleasant next Sunday. Store House for Rent. I will rent my store house and lot in Homer Ga. very cheap to a good tenant. Possession given Ist January 1891. Apply to W. B. Mason, Homer, Ga. Thursday morning, business inter est and a natural inclination led us off down the Carnesville road. We reached Bro. George Wiley’s bv high noon and came to a full stop. Mr. Wiley has one of the best farms in the county, and in addition to that he is running two stores, one at his home, and one a mile or two up the road at Cheap. Ho has his head and hands full of business and yet he is as youthful in appearance as a boy. lie aud bis new wife seem to be per fectly happy in their new home. After partaking of a sumptuous din ner we set our faces homeward. NOTICE. All who are indebted to me will save cost and trouble by settling their notes and accounts at once. All who do not settle at once will find their notes and accounts in the hands of an attorney for collection. Respectfully, W. B. Mason. The Gainesville fair will take place on the 11, 12, 13, and 14, of Novem ber. Col. P. M. Edwards invited us to a nice ride into the country Friday after noon. We visited, among other j 1 laces, the farm of Mr. Tom Ray. We found him busy hauling up corn He is a thrifty farmer, and has one of the best farmes in his neighborhood. He had the misfartune to loose S4O. in cash the other day, either in liar mony Grove or along the road or at home. The rate of mortality reported for Banks county was so surprisingly low that the census department sent back all the reports for revision. The several enumerators for the county had to get certificates from the doc tors to show that the number of deaths reported was a fair average. Verily this is the healthiest climate in the United States. NOTICE. Having decided to change business relations we are offering for sale our entire saw mill outfit. Any person desiring to purchase a good second hand machine will find it to their interest to consult us before purchas ing elsewhere. Clear titles and easy terms guaranteed. J. M. Garrison & Bro. It is thought that the public enter tainment, which will come off here on the evening of the Bth of November, will eclipse any thing in the past. An amateur troup has been organized and will tackle Shakespeare, and play Othello. Betsy Hamilton will be dramatized and acted on the stage. A negro minstrel show will end the exercises. All are cordially invited, and specially the literary clubs of the country. Real estate is going like hot cakes in Athens. Lots are being sold every day by private and public sales. It will not be many years befor Athens becomes one of the largest cities in the south. With her university, her two female colleges und her grand public school system, besides being one of the healthiest spots on the continent. Athens ought to take a stand amongst the foremost cities in the country. Legal Advertisements. GEORGIA: Banks County.-0 H C Smith has applied for exemption on personalty an j setting apart and valua tion of homestead.and I will pass upon the same at twelve o’clock m on the 25th of November 1890 at mv office. Nov 4th 1890 T F IIILL, 11 12 Ordinary We invite the citizens of Banks and surrounding counties whenever in need of anything in our line to call upon us. II mil MU, WETS, ASTJ Of all Kinds. Wc Carry A. #50,000 Stock to Select From. Wholesale and Retail PRICES ARE RIGHT AND GOODS OF THE VERY BEST. I MYERS & CO., 11, 13 & 15 college avenue, Athens, Ga. J\a VP\ 1 Y V& old\o able i HamlinX 1 Bl),oo(N^'}._ Baby Cab-VA ACHKKS, S22\rX entlld Walnut ;h, Octave coup- VY. Organ t for S49AtP _ n. Pianos from \ vA$235 to S9OO. We deliver the vj.\ O rg ,n at your bouse flee of/c~ arge. No money •A\after 10 days’ trial. Don’ 1/ ** \ forget the place. Y. M / a? A. new building/'’" ,A Athens,Georgia/^ Hope Kale Manager^ A /c° 'C\ /> for CALL ON Clayton Street and College Avenue, Athens, Georgia. THEY SELL ONLY THEY SELL ONLY THE THEY BUY FROM THE M A N U F ,A O T ir R ERS. Fliey Warrant EVERY PAIR. THEY HAVE ONLY ONE PRICE. 9-10 DEALERS IN Dry Goods, Fancy Goods CLOTHING and MILLINERY, Hats, Caps Roots and Shoes. Gents’ Underware Ladies’ Wraps ALSO A FULL LINE OF HARDWARE, TINWARE Farm Implements, Etc. Call anti Sec Us When in Town, WE CAN SAVE YOU MONEY. C. w. HOOD -Sc SON, Harmony Grove, Geo.