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A CELEBRITY.
With jaunty air hi* atopp^d ! vn
The rear end of a train;
Th»» crowd burnt forth in lou I huz
The band Htruck up a t t rain.
Committees rushed to moot him tl
Then rnado a brave parade
Unto a H\vell hotel, where platen
For many jrucntM wore laid.
The papers hustled extras out
Excitement filled the air;
His name on everybody's tongue,
Was Hpokon every where.
All day and far into the nlffht
The eolobration r n
Tin seldom that you ever see
More honors paid a man.
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New Jersey is the home of “the
long-haired men and the short-haired
women,’’ besides carrying as a kind of
side line a trust incubator the place
where most of those disreputable dev
ils get their nefarious charters. Aside
from these pestiferous specimens they
have installed what might prove a
pretty good matrimonial scheme: i. e.
marriage on the installment plan. We
hear from South Orange, of that State,
that Mr. and Mrs. William IJ. (Mover
are to lie remarried Monday night. By
agreement they enlisted in a ten-year
matrimonial contract. The union has
proven so happily satisfactory that
they both agree to make another ten-
year enlistment, and after having
passed under the yoke they agree to
serve each other faithfully to the end
of the term. Such a scheme in Georgia
might save the courts from severing
marital ties. If you think you’d like
to try it have your Representative to
introduce a bill to this end.
Joe Aycock, (from whom I had a
line a day or two since,) is chasing
that elusive ignis fatuus, pleasure,
in Florida, where he' goes hoping to
have a shattered voice welded, besides
adding a few pounds of adipose to
his diaphanous corporeal development.
May he return with a siren’s voice.
The young lady who lost a pluin
gold ring in a bean crate, while pack
ing these delicious elongated legumes
in a town somewhere to the south of
us, a few days ago, will doubtless be
pleased to know it was found by one of
Carrollton’s most attractive unmarried
counter-hoppers, Mr. W. D. Webster.
The gallant young man says if the loser
of the ring is unmarried, of an age be
tween 1(1 and 45, and owns a moderate
set of good looks, she can have both the
ring and)himself by claiming them. He
says any woman who’ll pack beans can
cook them, for that’s the kind of “a
rag, a bone and a Imnk of hair’’ he
wants to raise his children and wrestle
with his pets. Georgia and Florida pa
pers please copy, for by so doing you are
likely to match a couple of aflinities
that the decrees of Omnipotence cut
out for each other when the roaring
Chattahoochee was only a spring
branch.
1 have abstained from messing with
the (Jeorgia railroad embroglio, for the
reason 1 would not like for Genera
Manager Scott of that road to know
what a stink-pot I think him. 1 have
always held that “blood is thicker than
water.” Abas avee le chaufour d’
Africaine!
Carrollton has been remarkably
free from burglaries or even petty
thefts, until recently a few small negro
boys played the role of the bad, bold
burglar. These idle, skulking pilferers
entered the store-house of Messrs. A.
J. Baskin & Co . and from time to
time stole hats, clothing and shoes.
Officer Joe Walker, of the police force,
has done some line work in recovering
the stolen property. To date he has re
covered something like $100 worth.
— It’s the expected that now and
then happens. Young folks will get
tied with the legal thongs of matri
mony. We were not expecting Billy
Fitts to bring home a blushing bride in
May, but it would have been no espec
ial surprise for him to have brought
her in June, possessing himself of a
jaunty June bride. But it’s all right,
Billy, to have an helpmate. The happy
event took place in Griffin, in the office
of a Justice of the Peace. That limb
of the law performed the ceremony
that made Mr. Win. Fitts and Miss Lois
Drewry husband and wife.
—Thrift is one thing and economy
another. Thrift puts a dollar in the
stocking economy tishes the bits of
coal out of the ash-barrel. A thrifty
neighbor, who had upwards of a million
of llies to dine and sleep with him
daily, bought a dime’s worth of “tan
gle-foot” Hy-paper, laying these sec
tions of N'essus’ shirt where the festive
intruders did most congregate. In the
course of the day the dies, not taking
the precaution to grease their heels,
went wading about in the veneered
gum, giving it a rich embossed appear
ance. The lirst day he took a bushel of
them in his nets, and garnered them
into quart crates with his little muck
rake. He sold them to an Italian colo
ny for huckleberries at ten cents the
quart. This financier will one day be
president of — . You cun guess the
institution.
—Hon. H. W. Long is fast becoming
a globe-trotter. He is learning how
right along. Awhile ago he could get
no further than central Alabama. Week
before last he reached Mobite, and at
present is taking his meals, coffee au
fait, at thd St. Charles in New Orleans.
Few churches have a more devout
and appreciative membership than the
Presbyterian church of this city. All
have done their part in the erection of
a beautiful church, but no one has dem
onstrated his love for both the church
edifice and the brethren in a greater
degree than has Hon. L. C. Mande-
ville. Some years ago he donated to
the church fifteen shares of Mandeviile
Cotton Mill stock, the interest of which
is to be applied to the minister’s sala
ry in the years to come. This was the
inception of a generous love which has
culminated in his design to build the
church an elegant, pressed-brick two-
j story manse, in a fashionable quarter
j of the city. The plans are drawn and
j the building material is being placed
upon the site. It will he ready for oc
cupancy by the lst'of October. This
gift is a great boon to the church, and
will endear its donor to the little fiock.
Mr. and Mrs. Silas Coalson enter
tained a few friends at a spend-the-day
party Sunday. Among others were
Misses Ethel Carroll, Pearl Campbell
and,Mr. R. J. Galbreath.
Carrollton sends Messrs. G. C.
C«ok and L. S. Sims, a couple of her
adolescent bankers, to Savannah to at
tend the State Bankers’ Association.
Mrs. C. B. Lassetter. accompanied
by her children, were guests of Ban
ning friends Sunday.
Miss Pauline Harris returned home
Tuesday, after a pleasant week’s visit
to Whitesburg.
-Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Mandeviile
have returned from New York, where
they spent a week or ten days.
— Bob Jones, of Whitesburg, says if
you want to angle for a young fellow
bait the hook with a Carrollton girl
snd you’ll land him every time.
Bob was here Tuesday evening. The
indications are that he’s nearly a goner.
-Messrs. R H. Fletcher. Calvin
Webb, W. W. Jenkins and Robt. H.
Fitts have returned from Thomasville,
where they have been in attendance on
the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows.
Prof. Melson gave a delightful bar
becue at the A. & M. grounds on Satur
day. 28th inst. The invited guests were
Hon. L. U. Mandeviile, Hon. C. H.
Stewart, Hon. Roy Mandeviile, Judge
Harris and the writer. Other guests
were invited, but for one reason and
another they failed to manifest their
appearance in the flesh. While there it
was my privilege as well as pleasure
to be shown the farm. The wheat and
oats crops were as fine as I ever saw.
The wheat will make 20 or 25 bushels
per acre and oats from 40 to 50 bushels
per acre. Half the wheat crop was fer
tilized with 230 bushels of cotton seed
per acre, and the remainder with Man
deviile Mills high-grade guano, at a
cost per acre equal to the cost of 30
bushels of cotton seed. It is very ob
vious that the grain fertilized with gu
ano will produce a third more than a
like amount manured with cotton seed.
Some interesting experiments are being
made with various lots of corn. One
lot is being cultivated by Carroll’s fa
mous farmer, Mr. G. W. Burson, an
other by the Mandeviile Mills, a third
by the U. S. Government, and a fourth
by Prof. ti. G. Daniel. The weather
has been very unfavorable, but Prof.
Daniel has demonstrated his ability to
cope with adverse weather conditions
If seasons are anything like propitious
from 50 to 75 bushels of corn per acre
may be made. 1 was shown some line
specimens of cabinet-work done by the
A. & M. pupils. The girls also made
splendid showing in different branch
of handiwork. If the farmers of the
Fourth Congressional district could see
the splendid work that the school
doing they’d send their children there
to be educated, and would give the
school an endowment fund such as it
deserves. The people should make
themselves acquainted with the school
and its grand purposes. Once these are
known the school will take the high
rank it deserves as an institution of
learning.
—Judge W. C. Hodnett, of Franklin,
was the guest of Carrollton friends
Wednesday.
Miss Florence Harris left Tuesday
for Piedmont.
Mrs. Robt. Kennebrew, whom it
will lie remembered recently emigrated
into the State of Alabama and matri
mony, returned Monday to visit the
family of her father, Mr. J. H. Harris.
- Mrs. J. B. Camp entertained the
Presbyterian Ladies’ Aid Society Tues
day afternoon.
— Dr. and Mrs. B. F. Boykin, accom
panied by Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Brad
ley, were in attendance on commence
ment exercises at Bowdon.
Mrs. Alonzo Alexander entertained
the Willing Workers Tuesday afternoon
in a most pleasing manner. At the
conclusion of the business meeting a
delightful spread of strawberries with
whipped cream and cake was served.
—Horace Greeley gave the young
Amercians of his day a dissertation on
“What I Know About Farming.” Car-
roll has a young man who operates a
farm scientifically at Lum, Ga., about
fourteen miles from Carrollton. The
aforesaid bucolic disciple resides here,
and leaves for his farm about 9 a. m.
He employs no help on the farm. He
boasts of being teamster, plow-hand,
hoe-chopper, and milkmaid. He would
have you understand that to farm on
scientific principles the land must be
thoroughly prepared. If you have a
good seed bed the crop is assured with
out more work, except to put a couple
of tons of Peruvian guano per acre.
The preparation consists of using a
traction engine and a subsoil plow,
coulter and shank six feet long. The
land i.s broken six feet deep without
turning the soil, and the breaking
leaves the soil soft as an ash bank.
This preparation enables it to hold all
the water that falls without running
the soil together. It holds the mois
ture in suspension, and acts like a res
ervoir in supplying the plants with
moisture in dry weather, thus rendering
them immune to drouth. It must be
understood that no horse nor hog nor
anything that wears hoofs must be a',
lowed to venture on the land when
once broken as above described, for the
soil is so soft they’ll mire up. If the
land is intended for cotton it is checked
with a hoe sixteen feet each way. The
plant comes up and grows off like a
mushroom. By the middle of July the
cotton stalks are twenty feet high and
the limbs interlocked. The bolls grow
to the size of an ordinary orange, and
the stalks have from 4,000 to 5,000 bolls
to the plant. It is no uncommon yield
to make fifteen bales per acre. He
gives the crop no plowing nor hoeing,
though weeds and grass grow amazing
ly. He has a patent grass eradicator
that is applied in liquid form to the
end of each row. It spreads down the
rows like oil on the surface of water,
destroying all vegetation except cot
ton, oorn and other cultivated crops.
The action of the eradicator on cotton
or corn is wonderfully helpful to the
plants. If the land is to be planted in
corn it is sown like cotton seed, in rows
four feet wide. These are opened with
a garden plow and covered with the
same. The corn comes up with joints
a-popping, and grows like a canebrake.
If planted early the corn may be gath
ered by the middle of August, dry as
last year’s crop. He gathered on an
average last year 400 bushels per acre,
and left something like 40 bushels of
nubbins. The young scientist returns
home at 3 p. m., driving a $600 rig.
And the man does not live who ever
saw him with a plowstock, singletree or
other rnule jewelry protruding from
the depths of his buggy. Now, my
dear farmer boy, you can understand
how this prodigy can leave here at 9 a.
m., drive 14 miles and return by 3 p. m.
and make such prodigious crops. He
tells you it’s scientific application, and
that’s just why he has so much leisure,
so much truck and a bushel of money.
If you’d like to know the young man
Reese Adamson will give you his name.
He will also explain to you that the
cotton is gathered by monkeys who are
imported for this class of work. Men,
women and children find it rather un
comfortable climbing the cotton stalks
and hanging about on the limbs pick
ing “the fleecy.” A monkey, when
properly trained, can hand down 600
pounds a day from the cotton trees.
Those who would make a departure
from the old slip-shodden methods of
the past would do well to make a pil
grimage to Lum. Ga., see the mod
el farm, and get a pointer from that
past-master at farming—its owner.
—After a brief sojourn Judge Adam
son returned to Washington Wednesday
to see his ungodly old man that old
mountain howitzer, the twelve-pounder,
smooth-bore Napoleon even old Uncle
Joey Cannon, the out-cussingest man
on four continents. From a Democratic
viewpoint I think Uncle Joe makes a
fine autocrat even a better tzar than
Hon. Thos. B. Reed, now ornamenting
the necropolis at Portland, Me.
—Those nimble, persistent pension
ers on our waste and patience, the
house fly, should be made to walk the
plank. The following formula will
give him a paralyzed diaphragm and a
fixing for slow traveling: A drachm of
bi-chromate of potash dissolved in two
ounces of sweetened water. It is cheap
and effective, and entirely innocuous to
mankind.
—Mrs. C. H. Stewart has been quite
ill for the past week, though her condi
tion is somewhat improved at this
writing.
—Senator F. S. Wilson, a financial
magnate from the up country, was
with relatives here Sunday. The Sen
ator is an Elk almost ab ovo. He
stands for the best in the order, and i
a fine average on the whole shooting
match.
Hon. H. W. Long is in New Or
leans engaging floats lor the Carroll
ton Mardi Gras If we have luck the
Crescent City display will be knocked
endwise into nothingness.
—Since it lies within the purview of
a newspaper correspondent to run
annex to a Sunday-school, I’ll catechise
you a bit if you don’t object. How
many of you know the difference be
tween "Sabbath” and “Sunday - .”’
"Some do,” you reply, “and some
don’t most don’t.” Here’s the differ
ence (the explanation is intended for
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those who “don’t;” those who “do”
can put cotton in their ears and shut
their eyes when they come to this elu
cidation): “Sabbath,” in the Jewish
calendar, is the seventh day of the
week the holy day. Now, according
to Christian reckoning, the seventh
day is Saturday. Observe this differ
ence : “Sunday” is the first day of the
week, the Christian Sabbath — the
Lord’s day. The name, “Sunday,” or
“day of the sun,” belongs to the first
day of the week on astrological
grounds, and has long been so used,
from far beyond the Christian era, and
far ouside of Christian countries. It’s
plain. Stick a pin here!
—Do you think “Colclough” should
be pronounced “Cokely?” Regardless
of opinions that’s what they say the
Elks, and other good people, salute Ed
Colclough. who was in town Sunday.
Three colored brethren, high church
men all, happening to meet at a cross
road oite day, fell into a discussion.
Deacon Jackson stated that in his opin
ion the country was going to the dogs,
therefore he allowed he was a pessi
mist. Elder Hightower combatted this
view, seeing that the panic was about
over and the price of cotton was on the
rise. He declared himself a firm opti
mist. When Deacon Poweil was called
for his opinion, he scratched his
head reflectively for a moment and
said:
’Well, brudderin’, hit ’pears to me
dat ’simmons am ’bout ripe now : dare-
fo’ I ’speets I is a ’possumist!”
The hare may be timid, but he dies
game.
P. Woodroof.
President.
D. P. Woodroof.
Vice-President.
P. L. Woodroof.
Sec’y and Treas.
WOODROOF SUPPLY CO.
Comes before the people of Newnan and surrounding country with
an entirely new and select stock of goods, consisting of Groceries,
Dry Goods, Boots, Shoes, and all kinds of Farmers’ Hardware.
Everything in stock is first-class, has been bought for cash, and
discounts taken on all bills. We are therefore prepared to give
the best goods at the lowest prices, and this, coupled with cour
teous treatment and prompt delivery, we feel sure will bring to us
our share of custom. We would thank all our friends to call and
give us a chance. C.A fresh supply of Orange and Amber Sorg
hum Seed just received.
WOODROOF KT'PPJ.Y CO.
AT THE OLD BRADLEY-BANKS COMPANY CORNER.
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REAL ESTATE AND RENT
ING AGENT.
R. F. HERRING
G. EDWIN PARKS
HERRING & PARKS
INSURANCE, REAL ESTATE, STOCKSAND BONDS.
• do general insurance business, with a uood line of old insurance companies,
can sell you Fire. Tornado. Life. Health and Accident, Boiler,
Liability and Automobile Insurance.
FOR SALE.
20,000 Pumpkin and “Nancy Hall” yam potato
slips. $1.50 per thousand. Slips ready now, and up
to July 1.
The Bowden home, on Second avenue. House
contains 5 rooms. Price $1,500—$300 cash; balance,
terms to suit.
5-room house on lar^e lot. Jelferson street. Price
cheat* for a «iuick sale.
FOR RENT.
15 Jackson street. House contains 13 room?.
Suitable for two families.
J. H. McICOY
’Phone 260.
We have this week the following:
FOR SALE
Three nice homes on Greenville street.
One house and lot on Greenville street—lot, about four acres.
Two nice building lots on Greenville street.
One house and lot, also brick stoiv, on Greenville street, at a bargain.
Two nice homes on Temple avenue, at a bargain.
One nice home on LaGrange street.
One nice home on corner of Fourth and Second avenues.
One nice home on Second avenue.
One nice home on First avenue, at a bargain.
We also have a house and lot on Second avenue—good house: lot
100x100 feet. Will sell for $50 down and balance in $10 monthly pay
ments.
FOR RENT
Three nice furnished rooms on Jackson street.
Several nice rooms on Greenville street.
Four nice unfurnished rooms on Spring street.
One nice home on LaGrange street, eight rooms, close in.
Ol'R MOTTO: "PROMPTNESS."
’PHONE 278.
OFFICE OVER FIRST NATIONAL BANK.