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NEWNAN, FRIDAY, J I: N E 4 .
j money or supplies to a laborer has no
recourse at law, if the laborer should
see fit at any time to desert him and
seek pastures new.
Official Organ of Coweta County.
Jar E. Brown. Thus. s. Parrott.
BROWN * PARROTT.
Editors and Puhusiierr.
COTTON ACRE ACE ASH CONDI
TION.
According to an estimate made by
I.atham, Alexander Co., of New
York, based on 3.900 replies received
from correspondents in the cotton-
growing belt up to May 25, the total
decrease in the cotton acreage this
year is 4.7 per cent., or 1,570,985 acres
less than last year. The reduction in
(Jeorgia is 147,300 acres, or 3 per cent,
as compared with last year. Comment
ing on the outlook for the coining crop
Latham, Alexander & Co. say;
“Thu normal tendency to increase
the cotton acreage from year to year
has been checked this season by the
determination to increase the acreage
in small grains, due to the high prices
prevailing for all kinds of provisions.
This is less apparent in Texas, where
the droughty conditions prevented ear
ly planting of grain.
“The reports to us complain general
ly of the low temperatures extending
well into May, retarding the growth of
the plant and causing irregular stands;
and the protracted wet weather has in
terfered with the cultivation, so that
grassy conditions prevail.
“In Texas the crop is late, owing to
the absence of moisture early in the
season and the late germination of the
seed; but beneficial rains finally cov
ered the cotton-producing section of
the State, causing marked improve
ment.
“'The continued excessive rainfall in
the central belt makes the present out
look gloomy for that section, and may
cause some abandonment of acreage.
“The spread of the boll weevil to
the lower Mississippi Valley has caused
apprehension and curtailment of cotton
acreage in that section.
“Dry, forcing weather is necessary
to promote the growth of the plant and
permit proper cultivation."
Discussing crop conditions as he has
observed them in going over the State,
Commissioner of Agriculture Hudson
describes the situation in Georgia as
follows:
“The unusually cool nights which
prevailed during May undoubtedly had
the effect of stunting the growth of
cotton, and this is a condition which
has prevailed not alone in the higher
altitudes, but throughout the entire
State. Recent rains, too, have caused
a heavy growth of grass, which has
materially interfered with farm work.
Altogether, there is no doubt in my
mind that the cotton crop will be short
this year, with better prices for the
farmer. This opinion is based not
alone on the weather ; there are other
grounds for it, chief of which is the
reduced acreage as a result ol the more
widespread planting of grain crops.
Georgia has some of the finest grain
crops thi> State has ever known. There
is no question that increased grain pro
duction has withdrawn somewhat from
the attention generally given to cot-
ion.”
Judge Adamson’s speech in Congress
a few days ago on the tariff question
might have been “one of the ablest de
livered during that historic debate,”
and “for keenness of analysis and
soundness of logic could not be sur
passed,” to the minds of those who in
dorse everything that the Judge may
door say; but his position when it
comes to voting lacks a great deal of
being in the interest of the masses,
who. by their votes, allow him to feed
at their expense.—LaUrange Graphic.
The foregoing ill-tempered (ling at
Congressman Adamson is as unjust as
it is undeserved. No member of the
Georgia delegation stands higher in
Congress, or has served the people
more faithfully. Indeed, it is stating
the simple truth to say that not within
the recollection of the present genera
tion has the Fourth district had an
abler or more popular Representative,
or one who accomplished more for the
district and the State. Moreover, if he
ever cast a vote in Congress that was
not “in the interest of the masses.”
we have seen no record of it. If The
Graphic has grounds for its insinuation
it should produce the record, and not
resort to inuendo to create an impres
sion which cannot be verified by
proof. F. S. Perhaps The Graphic
has a candidate whom it would like to
match against Judge Adamson in the
campaign next spring. If so, trot him
out and let us see what sire hat he
At the recent annual meeting of the
Alabama State Bankers’ Association,
held at Mobile, VV. 1’. G. Harding, a
lending banker of Birmingham, said he
could see no reason why the season for
marketing cotton might not be extend
ed over a period of nine to ten months,
instead of being congested into three
or four months. The banks, he ar
gued. can finance the holding of cotton
for slower and more profitable market
ing. The customary rush of cotton to
market, he said, is not so necessary
now as has been the case in former
years, because of better warehouse
facilities for holding the crop. He gave
credit to the Farmers’ Union for the
development of the warehouse plan. A
difference of 2c. a pound in the price
of cotton, he added, made a difference
of $12,000,000 a year in the money cir
culation of Alabama alone.
“If it were only known,” says an
Alabama editor, “how it pains us to
write the obituary of a subscriber who
passes ‘over the river’ owing us sev
eral dollars, we do not believe a single
one of them would die until he settled
up. This newspaper business is a
mighty solemn thing.”
A bill has been introduced in Con
gress to increase the pay of rural mail
carriers. It provides that after July
1. 1911, carriers on routes more than
24 miles in length shall be paid at the
rate of $37.50 per mile per annum for
the first 24 miles, and $18.57 per annum
for each additional mile.
The Georgia Division of the Far
mers’ Union will meet in annual ses
sion at Macon on July 22, 23 and 24.
In an opinion handed down a few
days ago the Court of Appeals held that
a farm laborer who jumps his contract
while working out a debt due his land
lord or employei cannot be prosecuted
for cheating and swindling. In the
case under review the defendant signed
a contract to work for plaintiff, after
persuading the plaintiff fliis employer)
to pay a debt for him. He worked sev
eral months, and then “jumped” his
contract, still owing the original debt,
and an additional sum beside- for sup
plies advanced. The laborer was prose
cuted and convicted in the lower court
for cheating and swindling, whereupon
defendant carried the ease to the Court
of Appeals, with the result stated
above. The Court of Appeals held that
the judgment of the lower court was
repugnant to the Constitution of the
State and of the United States, and to
the Federal law against peonage as
well. In view of the foregoing decis
ion it would seem that the landlord
who may be so indiscreet as to advance
Tart Call Down for a Griffin News
paper.
A few days since Mrs. S. T. Allyn,
an aged woman of this city, was tried
on a writ of lunacy and found to be a
fit subject for the asylum. The evi
dence brought out at the trial showed
that the unfortunate woman had been
demented for nearly a year; that she
was subject to convulsions, and requir
ed t lie constant care and attention of
her husband, the old couple being in
straitened circumstances and unable to
employ a nurse; that strict watchful
ness was necessary to prevent the wo
man from doing injury to herself, etc.
It was upon this statement of facts,
corroborated in the main by the testi
mony of her physician, that Mrs. Allyn
was committed to the institution for
the insane. Sunday morning Mrs. Al
lyn was sent to Milledgeville, being
accompanied by Mr. Marcus Thurman
and a colored female attendant. Be
fore leaving Newnan her physician,
Dr. G. W. Peddy. administered a seda
tive to ward off a threatened convul
sion. and she remained under the ef
fects of this potion for several hours.
She was in a stupor when Griffin was
reached, and while waiting at that
point for the southbound train on the
Central road her condition was observed
by a reporter for the Griffin News and
Sun, who gave ouc the following sensa
tional report in Tuesday’s issue of that
paper
“People who had occasion to visit the
railway station in Griffin Sunday morn
ing witnessed one of the saddest scenes
that has ever been noted here the car
rying of a dying woman to the State
asylum at Milledgeville. A poor, de
mented lady. Mrs. Allyn by name, who
was very ill. perfectly helpless and not
capable of harming a single soul, was
brought down on the 8:20 train from
Newnan in this condition, placed on the
9:20 Central train and carried to Mil
ledgeville. She was lying on a cot and
was apparently unconscious, not notic
ing the noise of several trains or those
who looked upon her prostrate form.
She was placed on trucks and in the
hot sun, while those in charge waited
for the train here. Many people saw
this woman, and expressed pity and in
dignation that the authorities in any
countv in Georgia should permit such
inhumane treatment of its people. She
was a very aged lady, whose head was
white with the frosts of many winters,
and whose cheek was pale with ill
ness. She was placed on the train at
Newnan, and it is presumed that she
was sent from Coweta county. Col.
Lloyd Cleveland, a prominent citizen
of Griffin, said to a News and Sun re
porter that such a sight made his blood
boil with indignation, and that to send
a woman in that condition to the asy
lum was a disgrace to the State of
Georgia.’’
A complete answer to the foregoing
is contained in a statement which Judge
L. A. Perdue, Ordinary of Coweta
county, has furnished The Herald and
Advertiser, and which is printed be
low
“While it is sad under any circum
stances to send people to the asylum, it
is possibly more so in the case of an
aged and afflicted woman: yet the law
makes provision for them, just as it
does for younger people. Mrs. Allyn
has been demented for nearly a year,
and recently grew much worse - -so
much so that it was necessary to have
her watched and guarded all the while.
Every effort was made to have her rea-
| son restored, but she steadily grew
1 worse, and it became necessary to have
j her sent to the asylum, her husband
j swearing out the papers in the case.
Dr. G. W. Peddy, of Newnan. her fam
ily physician for nearly twenty years,
was the physician on the jury that
tried Mrs. Allyn, and it was by his con-
~ent and advice that she was sent
away, he well knowing her condition,
mentally and physically. The jury,
regularly empanneled, was composed
of as good and upright citizens as we
have in Coweta county, and they, after
hearing the evidence, found a verdict
which committed Mrs. Allyn to the
asylum as being of unsound mind. Mrs.
Allyn was carried to the asylum by
Mr. Marcus Thurman, an upright, so
ber, honorable citizen of Coweta, and
we took the precaution to send along
with him an old negro woman to wait
on Mrs. Allyn and see that she was
properly cared for. Therefore, the
statement that Mrs. Allvn was not
cared for, or wa3 neglected, we believe
to bo absolutely false. This maudlin
sentimentality, even though indorsed
by such an authority as Hon. Llovd
Cleveland, is the veriest bosh. The
hu band of Mrs. Allyn. the judge who
swore the jury, the jury that tried the
case, and the honorable, venerable
physician who attended her and who
was a juror on the case, are all well
satisfied, as is our worthy Sheriff, in
whose charge Mrs. Allyn was placed
after her trial, and who had her con
veyed to the asylum. The officials, and
all concerned, feel no compunctions of
conscience for dereliction of duty in
this matter, the criticisms of the Grif
fin newspaper to the contrary notwith
standing. ”
Card From Prof. Astin.
To Whom it May Concern : The re
port that I am going to move away
form Newnan is not true. Last fall I
was offered an organ at Cleveland, ().,
and two weeks ago I had a similar offer
from Brooklyn, N. Y. J showed the
offers to some people, who perhaps
spoke of them to others, and it may be
that in this way the report got out. I
will teach here next year, but will take
only twenty scholars. I could get six
ty just as easy as twenty. My class
will be formed in the next ten days,
and 1 will take those only who have tal
ent and will practice. Respectfully,
Chas. Astin.
Newnan. Ga. t June 3d.
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Newnan’s Leading Dress Goods House.
New Advertisements.
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By local applications, as they cannot reach thedis-
eased portions of the ear. There ia only one way
to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional
remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed con
dition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube.
When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling
sound or imperfect hearing, anti when it is entire
ly closed. Deafness is the result, and unless the
inflammation can be taken out and this tube re
stored to it.-, normal condition, hearing: will be de
stroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused
by Catarrh, which is nothing hut an inllamed con
dition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case
of Deafness (caused by catarrh' that cannot be
cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars,
free. F. J. CHENEY & Co.. Toledo, O.
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Take Hall’s Family Pills for constipation.
Notice of First Meeting of Creditors.
In the District Court of the United States for the
Northern District of Georgia.
No. 2460.
In the matter of T. A. Manning. Bankrupt:
To the creditors of the above-named person, of
Newnan, in the county of Coweta and district
aforesaid, a bankrupt:
Notice is hereby given that on the Mist day of
May. A. D., 1909, the said person was duly ad
judicated bankrupt, and that the first meeting
of creditors will be held at my oflice in Newnan.
Ga., on the 12th day of June, A. D.. 1900. at 9
o’clock in the forenoon, at which time ail the
creditors may attend, prove their claims, appoint
a trustee, examine the bankrupt, and transact
such other business jus rnuy properly come before
iaid meeting. R. O. JONES,
Keferee in Bankruptcy.
Newnan. Ga., June 2, 1909.
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Letters of Dismission.
GEORGIA—Coweta County:
Mrs. Lucy Pinson North, guardian of Ellen Pin
son. having applied to the Court of Ordinary of
said county for letters of dismission from her
said trust, all persons concerned are required to
show cause in said Court by the first Monday
in June next, if any they can, why said ap
plication should not be granted. This May 3. 1909.
Prs. fee. $3. L. A. PERDUE. Ordinary.
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