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NEWNAN, FRIDA Y, J IT N E 1 8.
" h o w rj y . ”
"Kind o' like to hour ’em say it!
'Howdy, howdy!'
Know who'll who ritfht there an’ then,
That’s the mortal truth, now, men-
Put my trust riflrht in him when
Man scz. Howdy.’
"Yea. sir, sounds like ol’ times cornin’
Howdy, howdy!
Hr** the heft, an’ makes you feel
Hike yore ro’Iy in the ileal,
An’ yore friend kin s • rt o’ 'spiel'
Sayin’, ’Howdy!’
"Folks all say it in Mi/./. >uree!
Wal. v/al. howdy!'
Hearty, honest, homely, irruff.
dentin, kindly, yard-wide stuff
Man that rot it’ Kood enufT
'or boy. howdy I’
"Yes. .*• ir, like to hear ’em my it!
‘Howdy, howdy!’
He* a cheery, earnest ring.
No put-on the A-l thing
(lives yore own good will U swinr.
'N' you say, ’Howdy!’ "
— [Charles W. Stevenson.
Oik Carrollton Correspondent
"Believe rue, I spoak as my understanding in
structs me. and as mine honesty puts it to utter
ance.’’ | Shnkespeure,
There is something about the no
madic life of the tent-dwellers that ap
peals to them ; yet they boast not of
the proud Semitic blood of the “Father
of the Faithful,” nor lay they claim to
the kindred sanguineus fluid that per-
rolated the veinsof Uod’s prophet whose
bones are entombed at Medina, whose
tribes, in the dawn of history, were
tent-dwellers all. Nay, nay, they are
juHt good, latter-day, semi-Celtic disci
ples of the patriarchs of both Arabia
and .Judea; and they yearn for camp
life as doth the puling lambkin for the
dugs of its dam. This sketch is intend
ed to portray the characteristics of
Carrollton’s ex-Mayor, Hon. H. VV.
Long and Bernard Hass, who have
pitched their tents in the sylvan depths
of Oak Lawn. Among their tents are
lowing kine, roosters, hens, fryers and
fluffy chicks, newly emancipated from
the egg; the willie-goat and his family
of kids and their mas. When entering
the streets of the camp one is reminded
of Abraham and family us they dwelt
upon the flowery banks of Jordan, ex
cept one does not find Sarah and the
girls, who are supposed to he up town
negotiating for the latest in basket
headgear. These good souls are charm
ing and delightful entertainers.
Mr. It. Hoy Power, who poses us
the handsome man at Camp's drug
store and who is the real article, called
on Newnan and Newnan friendesses
Sunday.
--Mr. Claude A. Upshaw, who flings
an editorial pen and scatters ideas, was
down from Bremen to see us Wednes
day, It is not generally known that
Claude is deputy editor of a local pa
per, and ho shore do warm the wax in
the ears of the home hard-heads.
Did you ever see a lie-angel? Soon
as they get wings their hair grows long,
and their forms become sylph like, and
they wear a face that would put Raph
ael's Madonna out of countenance. The
foregoing remarks are to remind you
that 1 don’t mean a lie-angel when I tell
you an angelic seraph, with golden hair,
from this place, visited relatives at
Moreland Sunday. She’d win a chromo
in any angel show.
Miss Mae Thomasson, of Atlanta,
visited freinds here Friday.
Solomon was a wise old guy, but at
a talkfest. he was not in the same class
with that old wind-jamming Greek,
Demosthenes. Did you ever hear of
Solomon using anything like this max
illary dislocating language; “llomoe-
proprophron,” which the Greek handed
his audience with charming noncha
lance. Yes, if he hadn’t been eating
fried Greek dictionaries he’d have call
ed that word “alliteration,” which
moans one and the same thing. The
following is a florid sample of Ins
“hoinoepi oprophron, ” made in an ad
dress to the Greek Senate: “My mink-
eyed Masters; Facts fearless and
faultless till the bill for your masterful
minds. Harken, hearers, how she rolls!
An Austrian army awfully arrayed,
badly by battery beseiged Belgrade.
Cossacks’ commanders cannonading
come, dealing destruction, devastating
doom. Kvery endeavor engineers es
sayed for fame, for fortune, lighting
furious fray I have halted. Now, my
Mink-eyed Masters.”
—The dedication of Carrollton's new
Masonic temple will take place on the
24th inst.
The Carroll County Masonic Con
vention will hold its annual meeting on
June 24.
At the residence of Mr. and Mrs.
Win. Herrin, Mr. . G. Buckalew and
Mrs. Pearl Richards were happily mar
ried on Sunday afternoon. Rev. W. W.
Loop officiating. We fling our mocca
sins and a shower of rice after them.
Col. L. D. Mel he-son and family
have moved to Knoxville, Tent)
Mr. Jesse Thomasson visited Pied
mont, Ala.. Monday and Tuesday.
— Bud Camp is a scriptorian. He has
bought a new soda fount, and has rele
gated the old one. which was not had.
For this seeming extravagance he said :
“The bihle teaches, ‘Put not new wine
into old bottles;’ now, inasmuch as we
have neither old nor new wine to put
into our founts, hut a lot. of good, new
Candler juice and the like, 1 propose to |
put them into a new fount, and the
Book hears me out. as does also Ber
nard Chambers an 1 Little Tommie]
Powers.” Come all of ye who thirstj
after a Candler stimulant and get a j
drink, “cool, delicious and refreshing. ” j
—Mr. C. L. Faulkner, the efficient
superintendent of the cotton mills, and
Mrs. Mamie McDonald were married!
Wednesday evening at the residence of
Rev. W. E. Dozier. Both of these ex- j
cellent young people are held in high
esteem.
—Misses Mary Long and Marian
West returned to Cordova, Aia., Mon
day with Mrs. B. M. Long, who has
been visiting her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Geo. H. West.
After spending a week in Newnan
Miss Sadie Merrell returned home
Monday.
—Mr. Lloyd Griffin goes all diked up
in soldier clothes these days. Looks
for all the world like the god of war.
A committee of friends waited on him
to ascertain why this was thus. He
did not appear angry when questioned
about his highfalutin’ ways, hut said
with the air of a stern parent: ”1 had
a male heir to come to camp Wednes
day, and I’m celebrating by going on
dress parade.”
The Sunbeams (First Baptist
church) mingled with the moonbeams
Wednesday evening, as they picnicked
in the neighboring forest.
—Hon. J. M. Burns, Carrollton’s ex
cellent mayor, visited Newnan Tues
day.
— Prof. J. H. Melson, of the A. & M.
School, has set the pace raising big
crops, and the neighboring farmers are
sweenying themselves to outstrip his
agricultural efforts. Bro. Geo. W. Bur-
son, that excellent Primitive Baptist
divine whose spiritual ministrations
have kept the erring heads and heels
of many wayward souls in the “straight
and narrow way,” has performed some
prodigies himself on his model farm,
which is called the “Granary of the
Free State.” He makes something like
a bale and a half of cotton per acre, 40
to 60 bushels of corn, 20 to 30 bushels
of wheat, and from 75 to 100 bushels
of oats—and Lord, Lord ! the ’tater.s !
He produces an aspermous watermelon
—which name he says finds its etymol
ogy in the Greek word, seedless. This
art has been known to the Manchus for
centuries, hut I know of no American
who is able to shake the seed out of a
watermelon bloom except Bro. Burson.
His friends, who know his many quali
fications, are urging him to make the
race for Commissioner of Agriculture
in the Free State. He's the best far
mer in these diggins.
—Miss Ethel Walthall, who bears tfie
palm for being an elocutionist of rare
ability, had her pupils give a recital at
the public school Friday evening. The
performance was a decided success, and
was enjoyed by a large audience.
-Seventy years ago Carrollton was
just a wide place in the highway. Poor
l.o, the red man, had just been forced
westward ho! and left Carrollton to
grow up under new auspices. Well,
here vve are, in the year of grace 1909,
the outgrowingest town in the South.
We learn from Washington that ours
has risen from a third to a second-class
postoffice. Under the administration of
Claude Smith, our wideawake postmas
ter, we expect to have free delivery
within the next twelve months, and a
new postoffice building—if they give
us what we deserve.
Wouldn't a four-story, pressed
brick hotel look good on the triangle
wnere formerly stood the old South
land Hotel? Would, eh? Then it is en-
j tirely within the bounds of possibility
j that an elegant hotel, with modern
| equipment and service, will be built in
the near future. In an interview on
the subject Mr. L. C. Mandeville said
he had had the building of an up-to-
date hotel under advisement for some
time. Nothing would conduce more to
the credit and upbuilding of the town.
We seem to have all the elegant church
edifices necessary, and all bank build
ings needed, hut, above all others, we
need now such a hotel building as has
been described.
—After an absence of twenty-seven
years Mr. W. S. Campbell will visit his
old home at Springfield, Mo., this
week. A generation has grown up
since he was there, and he’ll be a
stranger in his native town. The girls
will crane their shapely necks and say,
I “What handsome young fellow is that?”
j He is unmarried, and has opened the
portals of his heart to the siren voice
of Love.
Misses Eunice and Maggie Dozier
have r.•turned home the one from her
| studies at Milledgevilie, and the other
from a visit to Macon.
Mrs. H. .!. Arnold and children, of
Rome, are the guests of Mrs. J. C.
Bass.
Miss Mary Lou New accompanied
her brother, Mr. B. F. New, and his
wife to Whitesburg Saturday.
—Rev. and Mrs. W. W. Hoop enter
tained Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Copeland,
of Bremen, Sunday.
—Col. Sidney Holderness, accompa
nied by his aunt, Mrs. Body, visited
Greenville Sunday.
—The members of the First Baptist
church were greatly edified Sunday
with a couple of sermons preached by
Rev. Lamar Sim , of Milledgevilie.
The reverend gentleman is wonderfully
gifted as a pulpit orator.
—The reverberations of Judge Ad
am.-"). ’s splendid tariff speech is still
echoing throughout the South the land |
that need.s sure enough tariff reform, j
If the epidermis of the average Repub- I
!i;-an Congressman was not so infernal
ly thick, and h * had a heart suscepti-
tde to generous impulses, or was even
amenable to the honest policy of “live
and iet live,” there'd be some hoDe of
the majority doing something for the
masses. The Republicans are in the
saddle, though, they have the whin
havd of us, and that they’ll use it with
the brutal, mercenary force that char
acterizes the acts of that party, no one
can doubt.
—We now have a Bark Improvement
Club, and a fine nucleus for a park.
The park, except on a few especial oc
casions, has been the nightly haunt of
drunken negroe-s, who make it undesir
able for white people to visit it after
night. It is the purpose of the club to
do what its name implies—beautify
and improve it, and have the law to
throw such restrictions about the prem
ises as will preclude the possibility of
having it defiled as heretofore. Suc
cess to the efforts of the club.
— Dr. J. D. Hamrick, W. M. of the
Carrollton Masonic lodge, is always on
the alert for anything that is likely to
militate to the injury^of the order. A
day or two ag-> a man who, from re
ports, has been “doing” the fraternity
at numerous points in the State, pur
porting to be a Mason, applied to him
for assistance, giving him a hard luck
story. On being asked by the worthy
Doctor for some esoteric evidences of
his connection with the order, the,.tla j
grant fraud kerflummixed. Didn't
even know whether it wa3 a Rockv
Mountain ram or a goat they “rid”
when the fixings was put to the candi
date. Seeing that he was detected, the
disreputable rascal flew the coop.
—The Paphian Boy who dallies with
a victim has at last brought Dr. H. F.
Harris, of Atlanta, to the hymeneal al
tar. He was married on the 9th inst. to
Mrs. Ada Austin, of Milledgevilie. Dr.
Harris is the eldest son of Judge S. W.
Harris, of this city.
—I was in Newnan last Sunday. It’s
just like a good old Methodist “walk
around” to meet the old boys and girls,
shake their delicate digits, and fill up
with ecsrtacy. I am fearful, unless St.
Peter or some other pioneer saint
blazes the way to glory. ITT mistake
the path and go to Newnan when I
take wings and a nimbus. I’M' he sat
isfied with either port.
—Newnan lias some fine dirigible
smoke wagons, but she has nothing to
compare with Col. A. R. Burdett’s span
of Kentucky bays, which, attached to-
his rubber-tired buggy, are veritable
distance annihilators.
—The electric street car emancipated'
the mule; and in lik-e manner the auto
mobile will, in a large measure, rele
gate the carriage horse. Most of the
families around town who are able to
own a carriage and span, have an auto.
Seeing the trend of public inclination
for the horseless coach, Hon. I,. C.
Mandeville has begun the erection of a
garage of spacious dimensions, in
which he will keep new machines for
sale, and also keep duplicate parts for
repair work. Carrollton promises to be
a fine auto market. There are perhaps
five hundred men in the- county who
are able to own them, and no doubt
many of these will avail themselves of
this opportunity.
Mr. Billy Parker is negotiating for
a goat, broken to harness. The team is
intended for his youngest son, who
alarmed the camp Wednesday morning
with his arrival.
—It’s not because of the infrequency
of his visits that we chronicle the ad
vent of Boh Clower, the artistic grip
swinger who represents a Newnan
wholesale house but because the be
nignant light of his countenance falling
upon us brightens our views, and
makes it appear that life is not all a
hollow mockery.
Eugene Sue found time to write of
“The Wandering Jew.” bnt a corres
pondent at Whitesburg signs himself
“The Wondering Jew.”
— Mrs. Chas. M. Tanner is spending
the week in Birmingham.
—Mrs. L. P. Mandeville entertained
the Young Matrons’ Club Wednesday
afternoon.
—Mr. S. L. Clay, of Cedartown, was
in the city Sunday.
Senator Charles A. Culberson is un
doubtedly one of the most silent Tex
ans that the State ever produced. A
fellow-Texan, in speaking of the Sena
tor's career, admitted that this, how
ever, was nothing against him. “He’s
just conservative,” he added, ‘‘like- his
old daddy. During the war Culberson,
sr., was colonel of a regiment. He was
a practical old gentleman, and took his
command into the canebreak in North
ern Louisiana, and somehow kept it
there. Nobody seemed to be able to
dislodge him. He stayed there, too,
until the war was over, and the regi
ment that went out at the beginning of
hostilities 900 strong. Col. Culberson
brought home 1,600 strong. ‘Think I
was going to take my boys out where
they would get butchered?’ said he to
his townsmen. ‘Four of them wan
dered away to New Orleans and actual
ly got shot!”
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Summer Excursion Rate3 to Tybe-e.
Central of Georgia Railway will sell
ten-day tickets Newnan to Tybee and
return,, every Saturday, May 27 to
August 21, 1909, inclusive, at rate of
$10.
Summer excurs : on tickets will also
he on sale to principal resorts in the
United States and Canada.
For further information call on G. T.
Stocks, ticket agent, or address J. C.
Haile, general passenger agent. Savan
nah, Ga.
“Is it true that many of these Mor
mons have half a dozen wives each?”
asked a visitor to Salt Lake City of a
policeman who was stationed near the
Temple.
“Sure,” said the policeman.
“Well, will you kindly tell me why
on earth a man wants to marry half a
dozen wives?”
“I dunr.o,” said the policeman, “un
less he thinks that mebbe he can get a
good one out of the bunch.”
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Every roll is guaranteed under the
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Don’t begin any building or repair
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