The herald and advertiser. (Newnan, Ga.) 1887-1909, January 17, 1908, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text* rerduo I VOL. XLIII. NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1908. NO. 10. Dallas, Ga., Dec. 27, 1907. Mr. H. S. Bowden, Newnan, Ga.— Kind Sir: Will answer your card of 16th inst. My son, J. H. Camp, is now at Atmore, Ala., assisting in the depot and telegraph work and getting $50 per month. When last heard from he was making bond to take the agency work. Thanking you for your interest in his welfare, I remain. Very truly, R. F. D. No. 8. E. D. CAMP. Grover, N. C., Dec. 16. 1907. Mr. H. S. Bowden. Newnan, Ga.— Dear Sir: My son is now at Roberts- ■dale, Ala., where he is agent and oper ator. He is doing nicely, and likes his work very much. Yours very truly, M. J. ALLEN. Gastonia, N. C., Dec. 17, 1907. Mr. H. S. Bowden., Newnan, Ga.— Dear Sir: I will say that my son is at Igo, Tenn., and can hold down any of fice. The Southern railway shifts him from place to place as a relief hand. He can fill any office. He was getting $62.50 several months ago. Don’t know how much the railway company has raised him. Yours respectfully, PERRY DOVER. Kenly, N. C., Dec. 16, 1907. Mr. H. S. Bowden, Newnan, Ga,— Dear Sir: Your card to Mr. John G. High inquiring where I was and what I was doing has been handed to me for reply, and I take pleasure in giving you this information. Since leaving New man I have been telegraphing, and at present am working at Four Oaks, N. C. Have been at this place nine months now. Hope the school is doing well. Respectfully, C. B. BAILEY, Bremen, Ga., Dec. 27, 1907. Prof. H. S. Bowden, Newnan, Ga.— My Dear Sir: I have been thinking for several days of writing and expressing to you my grateful thanks for what you and your splendid school have done for my son, Ed. I am glad to be able to tell you that my son is at work for the Southern railway at Tallapoosa, Ga., under Mr. S. E. Bobo, and is giving •excellent satisfaction, So Mr. Bobo in forms me. I am now thoroughly con vinced that if any young man with the proper amount of backbone will at tend your school he can be prepared for satisfactory work within three ■months. With highest regards to you, I am, Yours truly, C. F. DODSON, Editor “Gateway.” Lineville, Ala., Dec. 14, 1907. Prof. H. S. Bowden, Newnan, Ga.—- Dear Sir: As I have studied telegraphy in your school, and knowing it to be a good school, I recommend it to our home boys. There are two that want to study telegraphy, and say they would like to see some of your circulars be fore entering school. Their names and addresses are W. R. Barnhill and M. D. Luker, Lineville, Ala. Please for ward these gentlemen some of your cir culars. Yours truly, CLAUDE BLANKS. Bremen, Ga., Nov. 28, 1907. Prof. H. S. Bowden, Newnan, Ga.— Dear Professor: I write you seeking information concerning the contest to be held at Cedartown on next Good Fri day. I have been asked by several if I intend entering at that time, but haven’t been able to give a definite an swer. Under the circumstances pros pects are very discouraging, although they may be brighter in the future. You would be utterly surprised if you could see the downfall of this school. Joe and I will probably be the only graduates at the close of this term. 1 am afraid we will be lacking in our or atorical work this year, on account of no one to help us. Joe and I send our heartiest thanks to you for what you have done for us in past years. We both realize what a condition we would have been in now had it not been for the help you rendered us in many dif ferent ways. I have had my medal en graved, and will keep it in token of my .appreciation of your valuable services. Hoping to hear from you some time, when you have time to answer my .let ter, I am, Your ex-student. J. D. WILLIAMSON. Machen, Ga., Dec. 20, 1907. Mr. H. S. Bowden, Newnan, Ga.— Dear Sir: My son is at Farmington, Ga., to-day with Mr. Marable (depot agent a that station,) for a few days. He will go thence to Eatonton as spe cial relief or check clerk with the agent there. Yours etc., O. H. NEWTON. “Proof of the Pudding is Molena, Ga., Nov. 17, 1907. Mr. H. S. Bowden, Newnan, Ga.— Dear Sir: I have been thinking I would write you for the last week, but have been so busy that I have not had time to write anyone. Well, after all, I got me a job, and am in one of the Witham banks. I don’t know what I would have done if I had not taken that banking course, as it certainly did help me lots in my work. My bookkeeping is no longer a theory, but is the real thing. Your former pupil, TOM WHATLEY. Empire, Ga., Dec. 12, 1907. Mr. H. S. Bowden, Newnan, Ga.— Dear Sir: I will write you a few words to let you hear how I am getting along. I am operator at this place now, am getting a good salary, and will get a raise the first of next year. Hope all the boys are getting along O. K. now. I will pay you your money soon. Papa has all his money tied up in cotton, and has it all on hand, but will sell some, I guess, by then. Yours truly, HYMAN CHESTER. P. S.—J. M. Lewis is at the next sta tion from me. He is clerk and likes it fine, he says. [We took this young man’s note for tuition last summer, and now he has a good position.] Covington, Ga., Nov. 25, 1907. Prof. H. S. Bowden, Newnan, Ga.— Dear Sir: I am traveling for the Ath ens Grocery Co., and having a good time. Write me at Covington. I will see you Christmas. Send Lee Hudson, Oxford, Ga., route No. 2, some litera ture, as he is thinking of entering some business college after Cristmas. I have a letter from O. J. Hayes stating that new scholars are coming in every day. I am glad so many boys “know a [good thing when they see it.” I am, Very truly, R. O. NORRIS. [Mr. Norris entered our school from Lutherville, Ga. Was in school only four months.] Vienna, Ga., Sept. 24, 1907. Mr. H. S. Bowden, Newnan, Ga.— Dear Sir: Will write you a short letter to let you know that I have been talk ing with a man who is contemplating taking a course in telegraphy. I told him that the Southern School of Teleg raphy was the place to go if he wanted to learn telegraphy. Well, Mr. Bow den, I got my job all right, but it doesn’t pay quite as much as $40 per month; but the man I am working with says that I will be holding down a j«b of my own in a week or so. The in structors of the Southern School of Te legraphy will accept my thanks for what you have done for me. You have placed me in the business world a telegraph operator, which is a fine busi ness for a man to follow if he wants to make a success of himself. Thanking you for the great benefit which I de rived at your school in the short time of a little over two months, I remain as ever, Yours, etc., J. D. HASLAN. Walland, Tenn., Doc. 15, 1907. Southern Business College and Tele graph School, Newnan, Ga.—Gentle men : Beg to advise that I have had two sons to graduate from your school. The first, E. A. Susong, has been with the Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City railroad since his graduation. He is giving entire satisfaction. I am advised that he is the best man they have in their employ. He is now located at Houston, Miss., and is getting $75 a month. The other son, L. S. Susong, is with the Southern railway, is giving satisfacion, and getting a good salary. I can, without hesitation, recommend your school to any young man who de sires a complete training. The reputa tion of your school is such that the bus iness world is looking for your students. I have another son, now in Maysville College. He will attend your school as soon as he is qualified. Wishing you abundant success, I am. Yours very truly, S. L. SUSONG. A. & W. P. Ry. and W. Ry. of Ala. ) Whitehall, Ala. [ Dear Professor: Well, I am here and at work. Had no trouble standing ex amination in Montgomery. All the road officials were very nice to me. Can say that I am well pleased with what the Southern School of Telegraphy has done for me. Just four months and one week from the day I left home I went to work at $40 per month as agent and operator. Please accept thanks for the kindness you have shown me. Very truly yours, ROBERT EDWARD SMITH. Maysville, Ga., May 21, 1907. Prof. H. S. Bowden, Newnan, Ga.— Dear Sir: lam still in the banking business, getting along as well as could be expected, and like it just fine. Thought you might like to know how I was making it. Wishing you great success in your new field, and again thanking you for past favors, I am. Very truly yours, ROY ALMON. [Mr. Almon was in school only four months, and accepted bookkeeper’s place in the Bank of Maysville.] [This young man was a cigarette smoker, and worked as a common la borer on the farm. He attended our school. Now he is one of the leading clerks with the J. K. Orr Shoe Co., Atlanta, Ga.] H. S. BOWDEN, B. B. S., President. NOT CROWING, JUST GROWING] NOT BOASTING, BUT KNOWING, NOT BLOWING, BUT SOWING. —Opportunities for Coweta Boys. MR. ROY A. ALMON, entered from Central Point, Ga. Over a hundred students, from Texas to Connecticut, are enrolled in THE SOUTH ERN TELEGRAPH SCHOOL AND BUSINESS COLLEGE, studying Teleg raphy, Bookkeeping and Shorthand. A splendid opportunity for Coweta coun ty boys to make the most of these advantages, while so near and convenient. A BUSINESS EDUCATION Business is a specialty, and a business education is something to sell. It has a value the same as any other commodity. Different grades have different values. The value lies in the training and the teachers who do the in structing. If you expect to follow a business career, you desire to be a success; therefore the selection of a school is attended with the gravest responsibiltiy. It may mean a mistake for a lifetime. EDUCATION. SH Learning is a commodity always in great demand It is a joy and beauty forever, something devoutly wished for. Men of education trained in schools of science and experience find no trouble in obtaining the easiest and best places in all vocations. The lawyer who is the most skillful in handling his case gets the most pay and enjoys the widest reputation. The doctor who prevents and cures all diseases the quick est, receives the distinction of being the most popular and beloved of all. The bookkeeper who is neat, accurate, truthful and honest, is the bookkeeper that everybody likes to deal with, and every business man tries to find. The stenographer, exact, correct, rapid and obliging, is always rushed, and more work than time. The person that knows and can do things right, is the person that is educated best. YOUR SON OR DAUGHTER. You are, to a large extent, responsible for the future success and welfare of your children, you for the mental equipment that will enable them to win success when they enter business. Look to their fu ture interest and give them a good business education. WHAT DO YOU LACK? Is it health? - -- -- -- -- Consult a doctor. Is it friends? - -- -- -- - Be worthy of them, Is it fame? - -- -- -- -- - Do something. Is it wealth? ------ Earn much; spend little. Is it education? - -- -- -- - Use your brains. Is it success? - - - - - - - - It is in your power. HERE IS THE SECRET. The ability to do what the world wants done. Simple, isn’t it? But that is the difference between your friends. One succeeds because he does what is de manded; the other fails because he can’t. Business men are seeking competent employees; those who are educated and understand good business methods; those who can write shorthand rapidly and keep books ac curately. Are you prepared to meet this demand? If not here is your opportunity. Linton. Ga., Dec. 27, 1907. Mr. H. S. Bowden, Newnan, Ga.— Dear Sir: My son, S. B. Round, ia at work for the G. S. & F. R. R. at Bax ter, Fla., getting somewhere about $70 or $75 per month. J. R. POUND. Birmingham, Ala., July23, 1907. Mr. H. S. Bowden, President—Dear Sir: One of my friends is thinking of taking a course in telegruphy this fall. He naked me to give him your address so he could write for literature. Please send literature at once to J. F. Fer- gerson, Fearn’s Springs, Miss. I am getting along very well with telegra phy. Am holding a $50 job down here, and have been since June 19. Give my best regards to all the boys. Please send catalogue to my friend at once. Yours truly, JOHN R. SULLIVAN. [This boy spent only four months in school. The fact that he wants his friend to come is sufficient evidence that he is satisfied with our school. $50 per month is no bad salary for a farmer boy.] Louisville & Nashville Railroad Co. ) Summerdale, Ala., April 29, 1907. i Dear Professor: I have been think ing of dropping you a few lines for some time. I have been at work every lay since you placed me on the L. & N. I am agent and operator at this place, and making $65 per month now. Am getting along fine, and the railroad of ficials sure (lid treat me well when I first commenced. I am doing more Western Union telegraphing now than anything else. All the boys that you sent over are still here with the excep tion of one or two. AH'that are here are making from $60 to $70 per month. All of them have agencies. Wicker is on the Mobile, Jackson & Kansas City railway, working now. He has an agency over there, and is making good wages. There is no trouble to get a position if you know telegraphy. One year ago I was making $80 per month at common labor; now I am making $65 per month and don’t work half of my time. Wishing you success, I remain, Yours very truly, N. G. WHISNANT. Norfolk & Western Railway Co. ) Church Roads, Va. f President Southern School of Teleg raphy, Newnan, Ga.—Dear Professor: I will write you a few lines to-night to let you know how I am getting on. This is my first day’s work, and so far I am getting on O. K. I like the men over here fine. They have been very nice to me. I stood the examination perfectly. Never got one black mark. This road pays its operators $50 month, and you stand in line f<y pr>- motion all the time. I am glad you got me over here. If any of the boys want to work for a good road send them over here. We have no extra operators at all, and are needing them bad. I am always ready to help your school in any way I can, as it has given me a good start. With best wishes, I remain. Your friend, JOHN HOWARD PAYNE. Central of Georgia Railway Co. ) Cedartown, Ga. ) Dear Professor: I will write you i few words to-night and let you know that I am well pleased with my office and like Cedartown fine. I can hear Holmes at work on the wireH some times. Someone told me that he was holding down the Raccoon office by himself. I don’t think I will ever re gret coming up here. I will be proud to hear from you any time. Yours truly, S. L. POOL. Southern Railway Company. | Bel I ton. Ga. f Dear Sir: I nm now at Bellton, Ga., with the Southern railway, Charlotte division, and like it fine. This office pays $50 a month, and it is rumored that I will get a raise in February. Operators are in demand, and there is no trouble in securing a position. How is Prof. .Johnson?- I must close and go to work. Sincerely yours, R. C. TWITTY. Whigham, Ga., Jan. 10, 1908. Dear Prof. Bowden: I am glad to know that Mr. Byron Harrison, of this place, is taking a course with you, and hope that he will make you a valuable student. I am getting along as well as could be expected. Would not quit the banking business tor anything else that I know of now. I understand the busi ness well, and would have been cashier of this bank now if I had only been old enough. When the old cashier resigned they wanted to make me cashier. The president was real anxious for me to have the place. Well, I have had an offer to go up to Ocilla, Ga., and work in the First National Bank, of that place. The position will be open for me about the first of June. I guess I will accept it, for I think that it will They depend upon be a good promotion for me. Hoping --- J 1 that you are getting along real well with your school, I am, Your friend, O. C. SPENCE. Midville, Ga., Oct. 24, 1907. Dear Prof. Bowden: I am still at Midville, keeping books for the bank here, and like my work fine. I was of fered a position as bookkeeper for the Woodbury Banking Co. last week, and may go up there soon, if Mr. Benton sees fit to move me. I am still talking for your school. Please send Mr. Burl Drew one of your catalogues. He is thinking of taking a course in telegra phy. Mr. Wilson D. Drew is cashier here. He says he remembers you in school. With best wishes, I am, Very truly, C. A. SHELL. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. [ Bidwell, Pa. i Dear Professosr: I am now at Bid- well, and getting $52.50 per month. Mr. Kuhns is also with this road. He is getting along fine too, and is a good operator. 1 am very glad you placed me with this road. You could not have found a better place for me. Yours, M. E. ROWAN. Illinois Central Railroad Co. ) Rialto, Tenn. ) Dear Sir: 1 am employed as operator for the 1. C. R. R. at a nice little sala ry of $50 a month, which I think is very good for a six-months-old telegra pher. It is only a few days over six months since I joined your School of Telegraphy. Give Prof. Johnson and all the boys my best regards. Wishing you success I remain Yours truly, H. A. SHELTON. Southern Ruilway Company. | Baird, Miss. ) Denr Old Friends: If you have a few good men who are not afraid of the Mis sissippi delta that would like a position with the Southern railway I will take pleasure in helping them secure a good position. I now have the agency here, express and railway. With my salary and commissions I make $140 per month. Am well pleased, and enjoying good health. Would be glad to hear from you and any of the boys and girls. Hope to pay you all a visit this sum mer. Yours truly, (old student,) JAS. L. HAYS. Personal. Bremen, Ga., April 5, 1907. Dear Sir: Prof. H. S. Bo'"den was elected principal of Hamilton College for a term of five years. He has served three years, and we want him longer, but he will not accept another term. He has placed our school in the front rank. Through his training this school’s representatives have won over the schools of Cedartown, Rome, Talla poosa and Carrollton in oratorical con tests. He is a practical educator. Can control boys, and influence them to do good work in school. He is a worker. Yours truly, W. H. WILLIAMSON. [Dr. W. H. Williamson is president of the board of trustees of Hamilton College, president of the Bank of Bre men, and ex-superintendent of the Chattanooga division of the Central of Georgia railway.] MR. O. C. SPENCE, now of WhiKham, Ga. En- from Carroll county, takD*" four-montba’ cour*© in Busin©** I apartment. Private Letter, (Not Intended for Publication.) Office of M. S. Garner, Gen’l Mdse., I Buford, Ga., June 2, 1904. ) Mr. Z. B. Hamilton, Bremen, Ga.— Dear Sir and Friend: Your favor of this date just received making inquiry uh to Prof. H. S. Bowden. In reply I can truthfully say I don’t think it is possible for you to make a better se lection to take charge of your college, lie is eminently qualified. He is a most thorough scholar, a good discipli narian, an energetic worker in the school-room, and adopts all the modern methods known to the science of teach ing to advance his pupils. I had two boys in his department during the ses sion that has just closed here, studying Latin, Greek, French, Trigonometry, Geometry, Bookkeeping and Shorthand, and it is simply wonderful the progress they marie. Indeed, if you employ him and I could get board cheap enough for my boys, I should like very much to put them under him for another year or two. He is one of the best men to build up a school I ever saw. He worked up our school here in one short session till our house would not hold them. We had to turn away n number that we could not accommodate with room; and, if you remember, we have got a good-sized brick house, 80 by 40, divided into four rooms. As a man I regard him as a high-toned Christian gentleman ;—as a thorough teacher and a builder up of schools I doubt if he has an equal in the State, and if you people employ him and will stand to him and give him local co-operation, you will soon have one of the heat schools in Northwest Georgia. I don’t think, honestly, you could possibly do a better thing for your college than to put him iri charge, and I would he the last man in the world to recommend tle wrong man to my friends, if I knew it. Very truly your friend, M. S. GARNER. MR. ALVA SHELL,- o' Sonoii, Ca. He ia now bookie ie^er in the Woodbury Bunk, utter course in our Bubineja Department.

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The herald and advertiser. (Newnan, Ga.) 1887-1909, January 17, 1908, Image 1