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fierakl ana Eflwrtiser.
NEWNAN, FRIDAY, JAN.
LAIUH'k! *.l
1900, but during the current year there
has been a decrease of about one-third
of one per cent. The resources of all
LONE OAK.
The holiday season, with its varied
enjoyments, is fast drawing to a close.
Official Organ of Coweta County.
Drown, Tiioh. H. Parrott,
BROWN & PARROTT,
EDITORS AND PUHMBIIBIIB.
reporting banks on June 30, 1908, ag- ( Among the pleasures that it brought,
gregated $19,683,410.393. It is estlma- ( none perhaps afforded more sincere I
ted that there arc 460,000 shareholders I hauoiness than did the reunion of kin-J
and 5,000.01)0 depositors in national dred and friends long separated by time
banks in America. On Sept. 20. 1908, ftnf | distance.
6,853 national banking associations Mr. and Mrs. Willis Latimer and son,
held gold and silver amounting to $680.- 0 f Fairhurn. were the guests last week
PROHIBITION CONTI NUNS TO
SPREAD.
A wave of prohibition has swept with
auch remarkable effect over the South,
and sentiment has so crystallized
against the saloon and its kindred evils,
that the dawn of the nAw year opens
upon a vast stretch of territory abso
lutely bereft of liquor, while the area
where anti-prohibitionists have trium
phed marks the battleground for im
pending fights for and against the sale
of intoxicants.
Significant of the magnitude this
problem has assumed is the fact that
in many States prohibition looms up ns
a political issue of chief concern to the
voters, obscuring other municipal and
State questions. Other States have
disposed of the issue, temporarily at
least, by the passage of statutory laws
whose efficacy musL yet be tested,
in still other States the will of the ma
jority expressed at local option elections
has restricted the sale of liquor to the
larger cities, where the liquor men are
generally fortified against attack from
the temperance folk.
Reports reflecting accurately the
political stage of the prohibition move
ment in the South shows that more
than half the South’s territory is “dry”
absolutely, and that in the remaining
urea listed as “wet’’ the sale of intoxi
cants is upon a restricted scale. If: is
evident that cities are the only remain
ing strongholds for the saloons, and it
is unlikely that this condition will be
modified, except through a radical
change in political thought, through
failure to enforce the laws against the
liquor traffic, failure to solve the prob
lem growing out of deficits in county,
municipal and State treasuries from a
loss of the whiskey tax, or inability to
cope with the illicit sale of whiskey,
and perhaps other obstacles which fol
low in the wake of prohibition.
Georgia now holds the center of the
stage, and for a year has been experi
meriting in what is strictly a “near pro
hibition” law, in that it forbids the
sale of liquors containing more than 4
per cent, of alcohol.
State-wide prohibition laws become
effective on Jan. 1 in North Carolina.
Alabama and Mississippi, in each of
which a majority of counties had here
tofore prohibited the sale of liquor.
Prohibition advocates in Louisiana
have suspended their fight to test the
new (Jay-Shattuck law for the regula
tion'of the liquor traffic, which also be
comes operative Jan 1. The anti-sa
loon people say they will be content if
this law is enforced rigidly.
Tennessee is the chief center of in
terest among the other States where
State-wide prohibition fights are in pro
gress. The prohibitionists assert that
a State-wide hill will pass the Legisla
ture, which they expect to organize and
control. With the hacking of the State
machinery, the local option forces are
equally confident that such a bill will
meet defeat.
Kentucky, the second largest distill
ing State in the Union, with 119 coun
ties, has but four in which the sale of
liquor is not prohibited.
Virginia presents a string of victories
for the anti-saloon element, as prohibi
tion now exists in 80 out of the State’s
100 counties.
In Texas, where more than half the
counties have accepted prohibition, the
voters will soon he called upon to vote
upon a Constitutional amendment for
prohibition.
In Arkansas, two-thirds of its ares,
or 75 counties, are "dry. ‘ and the ques
tion of State-wide prohibition will be
presented to the voters for decision.
Florida is partly “dry” through local
option, and, like some of the other
States, the sale of liquor principally is
confined to the cities.
The results ot prohibition generally
are gleaned 'rom reports indicating a
groat deerax o in the record of arrests
for druniVnnese, an increase in the
bank deposits of laborers, fewer cases
of wife abandonment, and a decrease
in criminality generally. The difficulty
in enforcing the prohibition laws, how
ever, is conceded to be one of the chief
obstacles to its absolute success in
many States, and this pliasp of the
question, together with a falling off in
revenues, is to some extent baffling to
the authorities.
185,555, and legal tender notes to the
amount of $188,238,615. During the
current year there were in operation,
besides these 6,853 banking associa
tions, 14,522 banks other than national,
besides 1,453 savings banks, reporting
to the Comptroller. During the past
twelve months 326 hanks, with an au
thorized capital of $22,823,000, were
chartered.
“Republican newspapers are devot
ing much space to a discussion of the
Soild South in terms anything but com
plimentary for its solidity, ” says the
Philadelphia Record. "There is to
these stone-throwers an assumed or
real unconsciouness of the fact that
they are dwelling in glass houses. The
South is solid, and is likely to remain
for reasons of self-interest that are
yet sufficient to the Southerners. Why
should they be any more condemned or
ridiculed for voting uniformly one way
than Pennsylvania and the unprogres
sive .part of New England for uniform
ly voting the other? It is the limit of
hypocrisy to make flesh of one and fish
of the other. Now Hampshire, Ver
mont and Pennsylvania are sodden in
Republicanism of the most corrupt type.
Here the public service corporation
frankly and fully rules. Shall the peo
ple who permit and indorse thi3 sort of
thing, hugging the sordid claims of
self-interest, be excused and the South
be condemned for standing for some
thing that to them appears to be a good
deal higher and more necessary? There
is more hope, progress and public spir
it perhaps everywhere in the South
than there is in that part of New Eng
land Jthat seemingly can always be
counted upon to give big Republican
majorities, no matter what the men or
issues may he.”
The school statistics of the State
show that the white and negro school
children are nearly equally divided.
There are 687,275 school children, and
of these 380.042- are white, and 307,232
are negroes. Of the 6,020 schools, 4,-
027 are for white children, and the re
maining schools are for negroes. Sev
en hundred and sixty-three graded
schools are for whites, and 17b graded
schools are for negroes. The school
fund available for the past year was
$2,376,661.98, and the disbursements for
the year were $2,195,335.08. Total
number teachers Employed in the State,
7,757. Total number teachers exam
ined. 8,581. Value of public school-
houses, white, $4,003,699; negro, $303,-
210. Estimated value of equipment,
white, $240,393; negro, $21,825.
of Dr. and Mrs. J. T. Latimer.
Mr. Geo. E. Herring, who, in his
connection with the L. & N. R. R., has
his office in Cleveland. O.. came down
to spend Christmas Day with his pa
rents and sisters in Lone Oak.
Mr. Will Cooper, who. since leaving
his home in Hogansville a few years
since, ha9 spent some time in the Phil-
lippines and in Japan, was with Lone
Oak relatives on Sunday last.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Walthall and chil
dren, and Mr. and Mrs. Mark Houston,
all of Moreland, visited their grand
mother, Mrs. Lucy Lee, and other rela
tives here last Sunday.
Miss Mae Prickett, who is teaching
at Hickory Grove, Troup county, is
spending the holidays in Lone Oak.
Mr. W. C. Latimer, of Greenville,
and Mr. Frank Latimer, of Hogans
ville, spent Sunday with their parents,
Dr. and Mrs. J. T. Latimer.
Mr. and Mrs. Adam Porch, from near
Greenville, visited relatives her^Sun-
day and attended services at Prospect.
Mr. Ivy Fling, of Hickory Grove,
visited Lone Oak relatives last Sunday.
Miss Carrie Clements is at her home
in Stinson for the holidays. She has
as her guests Misses Marie Sewell and
Minnie White, of this place.
Mr. Emmett Culpepper, of Atlanta,
spent Sunday with his mother and
other relatives, at the home of his sis
ter, Mrs. M. M Sewell.
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Culpepper spent
Saturday night and Sunday with the
family of Mr. S. F. Culpepper, in
Greenville.
Mr. Edwin Latimer is visiting his
cousin, Mr. Ivy Fling, in Troup county.
Miss Eva Smith visited relatives in
LaGrange last Sunday.
Mr. Landrum, of Fayette county,
with his daughters, Miss Mary Lizzie
Landrum and Mrs. Minnie Thurman
were the guests of Mrs. Charles Cul
pepper and Mrs. W. P. Lee last week.
The horn of the hunter was heard
o’er the hills” last Monday morning,
when several of our sportsman left for
the mountains of Talbot county in
juest of the elusive fox.
May the New Year, 1909, prove one
of peace, plenty and prosperity for the
editors, employees and readers of The
Herald and Advertiser!
Dec. 30th.
As the result of six months’ work on
the part of the Ohio Anti-Saloon
League, fifty-five of Ohio’s eighty-
eight counties are “dry.” Only seven
are wholly "wet.” Not much progress
was made by the prohibitionists until
the Rose county option law was enact
ed. Elections will be held in the re
maining “wet” counties within the
next few months. It is predicted that
Ohio will he practically dry within a
year. As regards population, half of
the State is “dry” and two-thirds
area. Some 1,730 saloons have been
put out of business.
Judge Roasts a Jury.
Albany, Ga., Dec. 22.—Because a
jury acquitted Deputy Sheriff Kadney
and E. Adams, at Newton, Baker coun
ty, on the charge of attempting to
lynch an inoffensive negro man, and of
unmercifully beating his wife and
daughter. Judge W. N. Spence, before
whom the case was tried, expressed
his opinion of the twelve men as fol
lows :
“Your verdict is a disgrace to the
county and to civilization. A man was
convicted in this court for shooting at
a preacher on the streets on Sunday
morning, and was fined $250. I do not
hesitate to say that you jurors
worse citizens than that defendant.
Most o? the jurors are well-to-do far
mers and among the best known
in Baker county.
-The surgeon of a large Western
railroad. Dr. Ft- W. CJowin., claims that
railroad accidents arc- Caused, not by
overwork, as is generally claimed and
believed, but by dissipation of some
form, and mental worry. He says that
gambling, jealousy, drink, smoking to
excess, domestic trouble, social ambi
tions, are the principal contributory
causes to the occurrence of fatal blun
ders.
Catarrh Cannot Be Cured
with LOCAL API’PLICATIONS, as
they cannot reach the seat of the
disease. Catarrh is a blood or consti
tutional disease, and in order to cure it
you must take internal remedies. Hall’s
Catarrh Cure is net a quack medicine.
It was prescribed by one of the best
physicians in this country for years
and is a regular prescription. It is
composed of the best tonics known,
combined with the best blood purifiers,
acting directly on the mucous surfaces.
The perfect combination of the two in
gredients is what produces such won
derful results in curing catarrh. Send
for testimonials free.
F. J. Cheney & Co.. Toledo, O.
Sold by druggists, 75c.
Take Hall’s Family Pills for consti
pation.
A soft answer may not always turn
away wrath, but it saves a lot of time.
New Advertisements.
PETITION FOR CHARTER.
G EORGIA —Coweta County:
To the Superior Court of said count v: The* peti-
Marked for Death.
“Three years hro 1 was marked for
death. A graveyard couffh was tear
ing my lungs to pieces. Doctors failed
to help me, and hope had fled, when
my husband got Or. Kind’s New Dis
covery.*' says Mrs. A. C. Williams, of
Bac. Ky. “The first dose helped me
and improvement kept on until l had
Rained 58 2frunus weight and my
health was fjlly> restored. 1 ' This
medicine holds the World’s healing re
cord for coughs and colds and lung and
throat diseases. It prevents pneu
monia. Sold,under guarantee at nil
druggists. 50c. and $1.00. Trial
bottle free.
t:on of N. O. Hunks. Glenn Arnold, ftfrs. Itura R.
Leigh ami W. A. Post, all of said State and coun
ty. respectfully shows—
1. They desire for themselves, their associates,
successors and nssigns, to bo constituted a body
corporate under the name of
GRANTVILLE REAL ESTATE COMPANY,
men * and by that name to acquire, hold and enjoy all
the rights, powers and privileges incident to such
body corporate, or conferred upon it by the stat
utes of said State.
2. The object of the corporation is to be pecu
niary grain and profit to its stockholders, and the
business to be carried on by it is dealing in real
estate; buying, owning, leasing ami renting real
estate of whatever kind and character; improving
and developing the same, and selling, leasing and
renting all kinds of real estate at public or private
sale, or both, for cash or on credit, or both, and
make all due acquittances for the same; to act as
agent for others in the handling, buying, selling,
leasing and ^renting real estate; to lend and borrow
THE
money and secure the same, ami generally to deal
in all kinds of real property for themselves and as
agents for others, and to own such personal prop-
rty as may bo necessary for the conduct of its
bus
COIN AND CURRENCY IN
UNITED STA TES.
The annual renort of Lawrence O. I
Murray, Comptroller of the Currency,
brings out the encouraging fact that
during the four-.vear period ended June
30, 1908, there was an increase in indi
vidual deposits in various banks of $2,-
749,000,000, or about 2 s per cent. Re
turns from 21,346 banks for July and
approximate dates in 1908 show that
the individual deposits aggregated $12.-
784,500,000, of which banks other than
national held 65 per cent. Bank re-
- The shifting of the Gulf stream in
close proximity to the land is the ex
planation of our long summer, accord
ing to the opinion of an old sea captain, i
It was this that caused the continued
warm weather and murky atmosphere
experienced in New York up to the end
of last November, he says. He says
3. The capital stock shall be TEN THOUSAND
DOLLARS, divided into shares of One Hundred
Dollars per share, and all of which has actually
been paid; but petitioners desire the right to in
crease said capital stock to any amount not ex-
ceediug Fifty Thousand Dollars by a direct vote of
two-thirds of the stock, at a special meeting called
for that purpose.
4. The chief othce and place of business shall be
in the town of Grantviile, said county; but they
desire the right to establish branch offices at oth
er places within or without suid State. The busi
ness shall be managed by a bonnl of directors
chosen from among its stockholders, and said
board shall elect from its members a president,
and a secretary and treasurer, and may make rules
and by-laws.
5. WHEREFORE, said petitioners pray an order
tint wli.'ii tli ■ Cnlf otrp'im I’niiHnups of court declaring this application granted,
U1IU w nen UK t un Stie.im con.inues | anii thcm8elve! , incorporated as aforesaid for and
, .ii„..,i'porated as aforea
to shift close to the const, the prevail- J during the term of twenty years, with the privi
ing winds blow over it, carrying
heat at:d moisture landward.
the
This is Worth Reading.
Leo F. Zelinski. of 68 Gibson St..
Buffalo. N. Y., says: “1 cured the
most annoying sore I ever had, with
Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. 1 applied
this salve once a day ’ for two days,
when every trace of the sore was
gone.” Heal# all sures. Sold under
lege ol* renewal.
This Dec. 31, 190$.
W. A. TOST.
Attorney for Petitioners.
Filed in office this Dec. 31, 190$.
L. TURNER. Clerk S. C. C. C.
sources have more than doubled since i guarantee at all druggists. 23c.
GEORGIA—Coweta County;
I. Lynch Turner, Clerk of the Superior Court of
said county, do hereby certify that the abqve and
foregoing is a true and exact copy of the tkiginal
petition for charter of the Gkantmli.e ReWl Es
tate Company, of file and record in this ol'lct.
Witnees my hand and the seal of said Court this
31st day of December, 1908. L. TURNER!
Clerk S. C. C- C.
Per Gent
Reduction Sale
In order to reduce our stock quickly we have decided to offer 25 per cent, re
duction on our entire line of women’s and misses’ Coat-Suits, Jackets and Skirts,
men’s and boys’ Clothing, Overcoats and odd Pants. This means a great sav
ing to people who have yet to make purchases in this line. Come in and let us
show you.
H. C. GLOVER COMPANY
THANKS!
and
Happy New Year
We wish to thank our many friends
and customers for the generous patron
age given us during the pa^t twelve
months, and if fair treatment, honest
goods and reasonable prices count tor
anything we hope to merit your good
will and support in even larger degree
during the coming year.
May everybody have a prosperous
and happy New Year.
D. W. BOONE COMP A