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fierald and Jldwrtiser. 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!” ## 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.” VULCANITE ROOFING Is fire-retarding, (taking the same insurance rate as metal or slate) the most powerful acids will not attack it, and the fiercest ravages of freezing weather will not crack it or make it brittle. It is cheap enough for the most ordinary, temporary sort of structures, and is durable enough for the finest perma nent Duildings. Every roll is guaranteed under the reputation it has made for 60 years as the beat Roofing in the world. If your dealer hasn’t it, write us direct. Don’t begin any building or repair work until you write for and read care fully our booklet, “The Right Roofing end the Reasons Why” K. i). COLh .MFG. CO.. Xewnan. (J; H. 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. * CA fresh supply of Orange and Amber Sorg hum Seed just received. WOODROOF SI PPLY CO. AT THE OLD ERADLEY-BANKS COMPANY CORNER. Succeed when everything else fcils. In nervous prostration and female weaknesses they are the supreme remedy, as thousands have testified. FOR KIDNEY, LIVER AND STOMACH TROUBLE it is the best medicine ever sold over a druggist's counter. We have one of the most complete stocks of porch furniture hereabouts—and the most comforta ble and durable kind. A few suggestions: Fiber Kush, \ udor Porch Screens—green, red and natural color. Reasonable prices; quality guaranteed. Scroggin Furniture Co.