Newnan herald & advertiser. (Newnan, Ga.) 1909-1915, March 26, 1909, Image 1
NEWNAN HERALD & ADVERTISER
VOL. XLIV.
NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1909.
4-
NO. 20.
Buy the
Garment
That Wears.
Construction is as important as
style or fabric. You get the best in
our “CURLEE” Pants. Each gar
ment has the correct style, high
quality, perfect fit and big value that
have made the “Curlee” a “repeater”
wherever shown
We also carry a full line ol the cele
brated “Clansman,” “Americas” and
“Jefferson” brands of oxfords.
^ Remember, we are always prepared
to supply your wants in heavy gro
ceries, either for cash or on time.
T. Q. FARMER
& SONS CO.
Who’s
{ Got the
H O ARNALLMDSE.ro.
We have just completed our new buggy emporium,
where we keep at all times two of the best-known buggies
made—the “White Star” and the Jackson G. Smith Bartles
ville Buggy—both made in Georgia.
We assure the buying public that the “White Star”
and the Jackson G. Smith buggies are an individual and
superior class, whose merits arc winning success in every
locality where buggies are sold. These buggies are—-
High Grade in Quality
High Grade in Style •
- High Grade in Finish
- Moderate in Price
Dr. Bestul has an orange and grape
fruit grove about two years old. and a
considerable part of 40 acres cleared
and set out to vegetables and tobacco.
Others who have groves started and
in a good stage of development are W.
E. Webb, .lohn Morley. R. G. Parsons,
Geo. Gunn, S. Might, T. R. Harmon,
Wm. Thompson, C. J. Ross,; F. W.
Denny, G. 0. Webber and Geo. Abbott.
Others have groves in different stages
of development also.
Two graduates of the Agricultural
College of Jamaica, R. Edie and C.
Nicholas, have paid a great deal of at
tention to vegetables, and are working
15 acres on shares. They have reaped
handsome profits from Bermuda onions,
Irish potatoes, cabbages, egg plants,
tomatoes, beans and tobacco. Neaily
ever - y day for the past couple of months
they have shipped vegetables to Santi
ago.
Many new clearings were made the
past winter. Alister McKay, of Chat
ham, Ont., has started the work of de
veloping 55 acres, and John Ross has
cleared 10 acres of his 10-acre tract.
H. Bab, who has just moved here from
Toronto, has cleared half of his 20
acres. Clias. A. Floyd, of Holland,
Mich , who, with his wife, visited here
a couple of weeks ago, has made a 10-
acre clearing on his land on the south
side of the railroad, and has cleared live
acres of his 20-acre tract on the north.
C. Nickerson has cleared 10 of his 40
acres. Van Regenmorter Bros, have
cleared five acres of their 30-acre tract.
Clearings have also been made by Tom
J. Powers, Mrs. Edward Bertsch, C.
Blom, sr., John Wendel, C. E. Elisor,
Alex Mustard, Melville Ionson, W.
Cameron Ionson, John Stewart, 1). W.
Miller and J. E. Roberts.
W. H. Norman, of Detroit, has
moved here to look after the develop
ment of 200 acres owned by the Detroit
Development Co., of which Philip
Breitmeyer, Mavor of Detroit, is presi
dent. Twenty-seven acres have already
been cleared, and soon will be set out
to fruit and vegetables, and the clear
ing and planting of the remainder will
be pushed as rapidly as possible
The Bartle Beaver Club lias cleared
its five-acre tract in the town-site, and
is arranging for the construction of
some small cottages. It is the idea of
the organization to put up a club-house
after some cottages have been built.
Plans for the club-house have been
drawn. The Beaver Club will develop
1,000 acres; 500 acres will be put into
sugar cane and the rest into vegetables
and tropical fruits. It is the idea of
the club to make of this 1,000 acres an
object lesson showing what can be ac
complished with good land in Cuba in
the dividend-paying line.
There are now three nurseries in
Bartle—one run by Roberts & Brand,
another by Ionson & Young, and a third
by Thos. R. Towns. Mr. Bryant, of
Florida, was here a short time ago,
and is expected back in a few days to
start another nursery.
We are looking forward with lively
anticipations to the arrival of D. W.
Miller, of the Swartzchild & Sulzberger
Co., of Chicago, who. with some other
people interested in the enterprise, is
OPTIMISM.
The west winds blow, and singing, low,
l hear tho glad streams run;
The windows of my soul I throw
Wide open to the sun.
No longer forward or behind
I look in hope or fonr:
But, grateful, take the good I find,
The beat of now and here.
I break tho pilgrim staff—I lay
Aside the toiling oar;
The angle sought so far away
I welcome at my door.
The airs of spring may never play
Among my ripening corn,
Nor freshness of the flowers of May
Blow through the autumn morn.
Yet shall the blue-eyed gentian look
Through fringed litis t ' heaven;
And tho pale aster in the brook
Shall see its image given.
The woods shall wear their robes of praise,
The South winds softly sigh;
The sweet, calm days, in golden haze,
Melt down the amber sky.
And so the shadows fall apart.
And so the West winds play;
And all the windows of my heart
I open to the day.
“QUEEN OF THE ANTILLES.”
Lewis Powell Writes Interesting Letter
Describing Conditions in Cuba.
Bartle, Cuba, March 8, 1909.
Editors Herald and, Advertiser:
Thinking that your readers might be
interested in conditions in Bartle, Cuba,
I will write briefly concerning the
things that are going on down here.
This article will be necessarily limited,
as time will not permit a recital of all
that is happening in this part of this
beautiful island.
We who are living in Cuba feel no
uneasiness regarding political condi
tions. Under the articles of the Platt
amendment protection is guaranteed to
life and property by the United States,
and this means that no matter which
Government rules, absolute security
will prevail. So far, the Cubans have
shown themselves capable of governing
themselves; but whether they are or
not, we who are .on the ground and in
terested in the development of the
country, do not worry. It seems that
most of the worrying is done by those
who are not on the island, and who do
not understand the conditions.
It is simply delightful here. During
the day it means the enjoyment of the
best climate on earth, and in the even
ing it means cool nights and sound
sleeping, yet it is never cool enough to
cause a person to wish for a fire. If
Cuba had no more than her wonderful
climate to recommend it, the island
would still have a great asset; but it
has more, for nowhere will land pro
duce better results. For instance, in
Bartle it has been proven beyond a
doubt that it will pay well for a man
to engage in poultry-raising and truck
farming. Several people here engaged
in these enterprises are receiving ex
cellent returns for their labor and
trouble. They find a market in Santi
ago for all their products that are not
used in Bartle. This means that a man
may easily support himself raising
poultry or vegetables while waiting for
his orange or grape fruit grove or his
pineapple tract to develop. But the
cultivation of citrus fruits is the great
object for which men strive in Cuba,
for fruit-growing pays far beyond the
dreams of most men. Indeed, it has
been proven that the man who owns a
few acres in citrus fruits is independ
ently rich, for from no other business j on his way here to complete plans for
are the returns so great. | the installation of a canning factory.
Although Bartle is but little over This canning factory will mean a great
three years old, much has been done in (deal for Bartle, for it will create a
the development of the orange and j home market for our surplus fruits and
grape fruit industry. The Bartle Fruit | vegetables.
Co., organized for the purpose of de- We are also anxiously awaiting the
veloping 1,000 acres in oranges and coming of a sugar-mill next fall. The
grape fruit, has a hundred-acre grove contract which the Cuban Realty Co.
started. i has with the Bartle Sugar Co. calls for
W. Cameron Ion3on, who came here 1 the completion of the mill by next .Jan-
from Canada in the early days of the | uary.
colony, has an excellent grove, and also 1 The great object of the people here
a good nursery in connection therewith, is the development of orange and grape
Sidney Young is his partner in the nur- j fruit groves, for from these groves
sery business. Mr. Young has also a come the best and biggest returns,
young grove planted. So has his fath- When one walks through groves that
er. Geo. Young, and it is doing well. ! net their owners from $500 to $1,000
Geo. L. Wynn and myself are de-Jan acre; when one sees families living
veloping 33 acres, and the trees are prosperously on a 10-acre tract; when
one reali; e i that these groves are abso
lutely'immune from frost or other un
favorable climatic conditions—then one
cannot be blamed if one forgets every
thing else and bends his energies to the
hastening of the day when the groves
will yield the rich returns that others
who started are now enjoying. A short
visit to this busy community would
convince the most skeptical that Bar-
IT IS AX UNBEATABLE COMBINATION.
A complete line of Buggy Harness, from $10 to $25.
Come let us show you our buggies.
H. C. ARNALL MDSE. CO.
looking fine. In all, we have 74 acres,
and expect before long to have a com
fortable little house on the place,
where I keep bachelor’s hall with Mr.
Nickerson.
J. M. McGarry, formerly of Utica,
N. Y., has been doing considerable
work on his 5-acre grove, and has ar
ranged to develop 20 acres more.
J. II. Smith has a fine young grove,
and is planning to clear and develop on tie is certainly on the move, with a biiz
a larger scale. M. When a man attends a dance, a
W. White has a grove in excellent, masquerade, a concert, a social, and
shape, and says he will be able to sup- in lulges in a moonlight ri I; and a pic-
ply ail Bartle with oranges and grape ; nic all within ten davs, it certainly
fruit next winter. i is going some. But* some of the lads
F. Moule and Robt. Moule have paid not onl - v tilke in al1 these affairs, but
a great deal of attention to the raising find time to crowd in a few Spanish
of tobacco this year. They have se- lessons. About twenty of us are learn
cured the services of experts from the ,n % Spanish.
Agricultural College of Jamaica and Bartle is not only on the move, but
expect an income of $3,000 from six j has already progressed far enough to
acres. They have also an orange and be a very desirable place in which to
grape fruit grove started, and are de- live. It has many of the comforts and
voting considerable attention to vege- luxuries of life, and all the necessaries,
tables. j It has a church and school-house, a
S. C. Heston has 20 acres set out to j saw-mill, a planing-mill, a shingle-mill,
oranges and grape fruit, and has 40 stores, (general and retail,) a hotel,
acres cleared. 1 a resident physician, a barber shop, a
shoemaker’s shop, two bakeries, and a
rural guard station.
So far as transportation is concerned,
Bartle is well taken care of. It is on
the main line of the Cuba railroad, and
freight can be loaded on the cars on the
sidetrack at Bartle and shipped direct
to the docks at Antilla, Nipe Bay, and
trucked to the steamers without going
to the trouble of transferring by light
er, as is done in Havana and other
harbors of the island. Good transpor
tation is one of the most important
requisites to success in Cuba, and Bar-
tie certainly has an excellent service.
Besides these requisites, it has good
water, good land, and good social con
ditions. These are some of the rea
sons why it is going ahead so rapidly
that we are now safe in saying that it
will ultimately be the center of En
glish-speaking influence on the eastern
end of the island. I cannot see how
any other English-speaking colony can
get ahead of us, for, though young, we
have an excellent start, and lack none
of the requisites of success.
L. O. Powell.
Price of the Preaching Lay in the
“Piping.”
The colored parson had just conclud
ed a powerful sermon on ‘‘Salvation
Am Free,” and was announcing that a
collection would be taken for the bene
fit of the parson and his family. Up
jumped an acutely brunette brother in
the back of the church.
‘‘Look a-yer, parson,” he interrupt
ed, "yo’s ain’t no sooner done tellin’
us dat salvation am free den yo’ go
axin’ us fo’ money. If salvation am
free, what’s de use in payin’ fer it?
Dat’s what I wants ter know. An’ I’s
gwine to tell yo' p’intedly dat I ain’t
gonner gib yo’ nothin’ ’twell I finds
out. Now—”
"Patience, brudder, patience,” said
the parson. “I’ll lucidate: S’posin’
yo’ is thirsty, an’ comes to a river.
Yo’ kin kneel down an’ drink yo’ fill,
couldn’t yo’? An’ hit wouldn’t cost
yo’ nothin’, would it?”
"Ob cou’se not. Dat’s jest ’zackiy
what I—”
‘‘Dat water would be free,” contin
ued the parson. ‘‘But s’posin’ yo’ was
to hab dat water piped to yo’ bouse?
Yo’d hab to pay, wouldn’t yo’?”
“Yas, suh, but—”
‘‘Wal, brudder, so it is wid salva
tion. De salvation am free, but it am
de habin’ it piped to yo’ dat you got
ter pay fer. Pass de hat;, deacon ; pass
de hat.”
“Hon.”
Nashville Banner.
The Oklahoma Legislature proposes
to put a ban upon the complimentary
title, “Honorable,” which, contracted
into “Hon., ” is so generally prefixed in
print to names of men who hold or have
held Federal or State office. Of course
it is not to be expected that any legis
lation of the kind proposed would pre
vent any man or a newspaper from dub
bing a public man “Honorable.” The
title is as common as that of “Colonel, ”
which is so commonly applied without
regard to the question whether the man
so designated ever served in the army
or ever had a commission. Having no
titles of nobility in this country, our
people are prone to bestow complimen
tary honors ad libitum. The term
"honorable” is commonly attached to
the names of Congressmen and legis
lators, but there is no rule which re
quires the bestowment of this titular
distinction. It is a term of respect,
which may be regarded as appropriate
in general, although in no sense neces
sary. We have heard it insisted that
so far as members of the Legislature
are concerned, “Hon. ” applies only to
State Senators, but we know of no au
thoritative rule requiring this discrimi
nation. After all, honorary and com
plimentary titles have become so nu
merous and common in our country
that plain, old-fashioned Mister has al
most become a title of distinction.
A captious traveler in northern Ar
kansas stopped by a fence to criticize a
sere cornfield which met his disapprov
al.
"Mighty small corn you have there’”
he shouted to the man who was super
intending the growth from a shady
corner.
“Yep.” said the Arkansan. “Planted
the small kind.”
“Looks mighty yellow to me for this
time of year.”
“Yep, Planted the yellow kind.”
“Well,” said the traveler, severely,
“I can’t understand your method of
farming. You won’t get but half a
crop there. ”
“Nope,” said the Arkansan, cheer
fully. “You are shore a good guesser,
stranger. Half a crop exactly. I
planted on shares.”
A little girl was preparing to say her
orayers. Her grandmother said she
should ask God to make the weather
warmer, so that grandma’s rheumatism
would get better. And so the prayer
was ended with this sentence;
“Dear God, please make it hot for
grandma.”
The Judge and Little Matchseller.
Now York Prefm.
"Truth is stranger than fiction," we
are told, and though the majority are
apt to poohpooh anything in a story as
“farfetched,” yet the proverb is not
far out, as the following romantic lit
tle story shows, which was related not
long since in one of the Berlin papers.
An elderly, distinguished looking
gentleman, formerly a Prussian district
Judge, was sipping his glass of beer at
a fashionable hotel bar in Berlin one
night when a young and strikingly
handsome, but poorly clad girl of about
fifteen entered and begged the gentle
man to buy some mutches.
The former Judge was immediately
attracted by “something” in the girl’s
features, and entered into a long con
versation with her.
The child in reply to closer questions
said she had never known her parents,
but her “auntie,” who was waiting
outside, would be able to tell the gen
tleman all about them.
The Judge summoned the aunt and
placed her under a severe cross exam
ination, during which it transpired that
the “aunt” was in reality nothing
more than the foster mother of the
child, whose own mother died in a poor-
house twelve years before.
The Judge, who had become greatly
agitated, now produced a small, age-
dimmed photograph and eagerly de
manded of the “aunt” whether she rec
ognized it.
"It is Bertha’s mother!” cried the
woman, without hesitation.
"Then,” remarked the Judge, ‘‘I am
that poor girl’s father. I have been
searching for her the last eight years.”
It appears that the Judge had a love
all’air with a girl much below his sta
tion about sixteen years ago. His pa
rents refused to consent to the marri
age and had him removed to a distant
provincial town. Eight years ago he
inherited a large fortune, retired from
the service and devoted the whole of
his time to searching for his lost child,
with the above result.
He Was a “Rebel.”
Senator Foraker and Senator Over
man were discussing Civil War experi
ences, and Senator Foraker told how,
while he was marching through the
South, he took occasion to question a
number of stragglers whom he met as
to their political status. Invariably, he
said, the investigated native declared
for the Union. They were all “Union
men. ”
But then he crossed the North Caro
lina border, and he had not been in the
territory of that State very long when
he met, in the Cape Fear section, a
tall, lank Highland Scot.
“Well,” queried the future defender
of the Brownsville shooters-up, “how
about you? Union man, 1 suppose?”
“No-o-o, suh!” vyas the emphatic
reply.
"Oh; then you must be a secession
ist.”
“Not a bit of it, suh !”
"Huh! What are you, then?”
“I, suh,” responded the stranger,
stretching himself proudly to his full
height, ‘‘am jest a damned rebel, suh,
from my toes up.”
Senator Foraker said he passed on,
without molesting the man, for he
didn’t think such an out-and-outer would
stay a prisoner long, even if he were
captured.
“Since Charlie proposed to me.” said
the young girl, “I have been so su
premely happy. I don’t feel like 1 live
in flu 11 old England, but in—”
“Lapland,” suggested her brother,
who was doing his geography lesson.
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Your Friends and Neighbors in New-
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