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NEWNAN, FBI
DAY, J U LY 2.
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Official Organ of
Coweta County.
JAH. K. IlKOWN,
Thoh. H. Pakkott,
BROWN *
PARROTT
Editor# and
PUBLIHIIKIIH.
work on new railroad to
RED IN IN TUI Til Y DA YS.
Hon. 1. N. Orr, president of the
Western of Georgia railway, went to
New York on Tuesday last for the pur
pose of submitting to I. I<. McCord &
Co., the contracting firm which had
made proposals for building the road,
the new contract drawn up by the
board of directors last week, liy the
terms of this contract McCord & Co.
agree (1) to accept a cash subscription
of $50,000, (2) to begin a final survey
of the proposed route within ten days
from date of signing contract, (3) to
begin actual work of construction
within thirty days, (4) to complete the
road within fifteen months, (•*>) the $5(1,
000 subscribed by Coweta and Heard
counties to remain on deposit with the
Windsor Trust Co. of New York, and
(li) the certificate of deposit for the
{50,000 to be held by B. T. Thompson
in trust for the stockholders pending
the fulfillment of all conditions stipu
lated in the contract.
This morning Col. W. C. Wright,
general counsel for the road, received
the following telegram from President
Orr-
"New York
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complet
bagging on the free list. The Senate,
however, refused to remove the exist
ing duty on cotton ties, and also reject
ed an amendment offered by Senator
Bacon proposing a duty of 4 cents a
pound on Egyptian cotton. Senator
Bacon contended, in his argument, that
a duty of 1 cents a pound on the 210,-
000 tiaies of Egyptian cotton imported
annually into the United States would
in ten years yield a revenue of $40,-
000,000, and give needed protection to
the growers of long-staple cotton along
the South Atlantic seaboard.
Verily, the tariff measure that is be
ing fashioned by our Republican friends
in Congress is a wondrous fabrication !
The inauguration of Hon. .los. M.
Brown on Saturday last as Governor of
Georgia was a very simple ceremony -
such a ceremony ;■ he desired and had j the rate to his shipping jpoint,
insisted upon. While the inauguration I
was witnessed by a large number of |
What the “Port Rate” Means.
Ma(V,n Telegraph.
The “post rate,” —that is, the rate
from Savannah and Brunswick to At
lanta is 24 cents on special iron ar-
j tides.
| The Gregg Hardware Co., of Atlanta,
I petitioned the Railroad Commission to j
reduce this rate from Savannah and
Brunswick to 13 cents —not to Macon or j
i elsewhere, but to Atlanta,
j The rate on these special articles from j
Savannah and Brunswick to Macon is
I til cents. It was not asked by the Gregg |
Hardware Co. that the rate to Macon
j fie also reduced no, bless your soul, j
j rio. They wanted 13 cents for Atlantal
and 21 for Macon, although Macon is j
j 100 miles nearer to the sea. They did!
! not propose to reduce it to Albany, or i
j Americus, or Thomasville, or Valdosta,
I or anywhere else. It was simply a little !
1 favor sought for the hardware trade in
i Atlanta. Any citizen of any community
in Georgia cap find at his freight depot
and he j
will also find that the Gregg petition j
did not ask for a reduction of that rate, j
But a concern in Atlanta which manu
the Governor’s friends from different | facturcs these same iron articles crossed
sections of the State, there was no dis
play of any character. Mr. Brown read
a brief address ami took the oath of
the Gregg petition and asked the Com
mission not to reduce the rate, as that
act would enable Pittsburg to more
successfully compete with them in At-
iffice, and that was all. He then pro-I lanta. This fact is cited to show that
•Inly 1.
Wright, Newnan, Ga. Have
I everything closed. Will
leave for home to-morrow.
”1. N. Orr.”
All preliminaries have now been set
tled, and nothing can delay the work of
construction except the time that may
be required to secure the right-of-way.
By the terms of the contract with Mc
Cord & Co. the subscribers guarantee
the right-of-way from Franklin to Ab
erdeen, on the A., B. & A. road. Par
ties owning land along the proposed
route will greatly facilitate matters,
therefore, by notifying Col. W. C.
Wright of their willingness to donate
rights-of-way through] their lands, as
the contractors will not begin work ua-
til the right-of-way for the entire dis-
tan 'e lias been secured. Prompt ac
tion in this matter is of the greatest
importance. -
cecded to the executive office
tered upon his duties as Governor. The
inaugural address was a message of
peace and good will to the people of
Georgia, an appeal to reason and con
servatism, and a sincere expression of
purpose to be guided and controlled in
all his official acts by the Constitution
of the State, and by his own convic
tions of right and duty. A briefer or
simpler ceremonial was never witnessed
in Georgia at the inauguration of a Gov
ernor, and with his old-fashioned notions
of justice and honesty it is a safe prom
ise that Gov. Brown will give to the
State a splendid administration. We
wish him well.
Americus Times-Recorder: “As Gov
Smith views it, when a Stat
finds that the Governor’s theories are
aot correct, based on wrong premises
and calculated, if carried out, to do inju
ry to the State, there is only one thing
for the official to do—resign and let
the Governor appoint a successor who
has no scruples about carrying out the
executive will, regardless of its proprie
ty or its effects. That is the McLendon
case reduced to its last analysis, and
put as succinctly as possible.”
“If we remember aright Guyt Mc
Lendon was a lobbyist anti jack leg
lawyer thirty years ago.” remarks the
Brunswick News; whereupon the
Rome Tribune-Herald pertinently re
joins: “Strange, then, that Hon.
Hoke Smith should have selected for
the important office of Railroad Com
missioner a man who had been a lobby
ist and jackleg lawyer for thirty
years.” Which, of course, leaves noth
ing further to be said. 1
. This fact is cited to show
and en-1 there are conflicting interests even in j
Atlanta on this particular score, and!
also to show that it is, after all, the in- j
terests of a few people at stake as
opposed to the interests of some other |
people—even in Atlanta. It is a mat- j
ter of no interest whatever outside of
Atlanta except so far as it would give
hardware dealers in Atlanta an advan
tage over hardware dealers in Macon
and elsewhere in Georgia.
For some reason or other the late
Governor took a stand for the Atlanta
hardware dealers. A majority of the
Railroad Commission took a stand
against giving the Atlanta dealers any
such advantage over the other dealers
in the State. The two Atlanta mem
bers of the Commission voted to give to
the Atlanta dealers this advantage.
The two Commissioners living outside
of Atlanta voted not to give the Atlanta
dealers this advantage. The tie vote
llicer i P u *- '*• U P t0 the chairman, whose home
was in Thomasville. He also voted
against giving this advantage to the
Atlanta dealers over the other dealers
outside of Atlanta.
And for this act the late Governor,
in a burst of violent feeling, suspended
the chairman, charging that he had
violated the Macon platform demand
for a reduced “port rate,” but the
other two offenders on the Commission
escaped even censure.
POTTS&JPARKS
Newnan’s Leading Dress Goods House.
CORSETS
“American Lady” Corsets fit and satisfy. Fifteen new models now instock, de
signed to suit the latest vogue in dress, and a shape for every figure.
INlQl’ITlES OF THE ALDRICH
BILL.
FVgiVv .months ago it was admitted
By Repubi'idki: newspapers and Repub
lican speaker!# that the Dingley tarilf
rates Wire too high, ’ says a Washing
ton lettev, “that under them the cost
of living had become an intolerable
burden for Mil persons who work for
their In end. The Republican plat
form declared for tarilf ‘revision,’ and
‘revision,’ it was conveyed to the
minds of the public, meant reduction.
Mr. Tuft. in his public speeches repeat
edly asserted that the Dingley rates
on many articles of general consump
tion were too high, and he specifically
pledged the Republican party to a re
duction of those rates.
“But what a spectacle is now pre
sented by the Republican party at its
work of tarilf ’revision!’ Careful anal
ysis shows that in the l’ayne-Aldrich
measure 7e per pent, of the Dingley
rates stand unchanged, while 15 per
cent, of the remainder are increased.
Some of these increases are frank and
open j some are not easily' detected, but
they are there. For example, the aver
age tariff tax on cotton goods, figured in
ad valorem duties, stands at 41.SI per
cent, in the Dingley full and at 17.14
per cent, in the Aldrich bill. On silks
the average increase is S percent. On
woolens the average tax proposed is
58.19 per cent. This is almost 3 per
cent, higher tlmu the proposed average
duties on ‘luxuries.’ The tlax and jute
schedules, embracing all linens, lino
leum, burlap and other ordinary neces
sities, are similarly increased. The
agricultural schedules are increased
2.26 per cent. The ’sundries’ schedule
is so contrived that its total shows a
decrease of .32 per cent., but the table
shows that the tax on many important
items in the list is raised. Thus is the
cost of living increased. Thus is the
tarilf revised upward in the interest
iyf the trusts, instead of downward in
4bc interest of the consumers. Thus
>ri the pledges of the Republican par
ty flouted when the time comes to
make good.”
The only eomfc vAie South gets out
of the Aldrich tai^mill is an occasion-
si sop in the shiv" of increased or
stationary duties on sugar, iron and
cotton products, with a proposal for
free cotton bagging. As the sugar I
and iron industries are controlled by
the trusts, it may be said that the only
actual benefit accruing to a strictly
Southern industry, therefore, is that
<rhieh will result from putting cotton
Albany Herald: “It is predicted by
many of his supporters that ex-Gov.
Hoke Smith will he elected Chief Ex
ecutive of this State again in 1910.
There will first, have to be a considerable
clearing of the atmosphere "?i the sub
ject of port rates, concerning which the
people of t he State have recently learned:
much, and in regard to which there are
some considerable differences oi opinion
between the city of Atlanta and' ’.he rest
of the State. ”
Columbus Enquirer-Sun: “Following
the Jeffersonian simplicity of his in-
aguration, Gov. Joe Brown has installed
an old-l'ashioned country gourd at the
water cooler in the Governor’s reception-
room at the capitol. Georgia is getting
hack to old-time common sense in the
administration of the affairs of the State..
Here’s to the Governor and his go«rd,
and may it not pass away in a day as
did Jonah’s.”
Th
more Catarrh
.intry than till other dis«
til the* last few years w;
'. For u groat. many ye
local disease ami pro*
i this section of filie
isos put together, and
» supposed to he it Hrur-
rs doctors pronounced:
•rilnal local rcmeiftet
hl<
»t
and by constantly failing to cure with local treat
ment. pronounced it incurable. Science has proven
catarrh to be a constit utional disease and there
fore requires constitutional treatment. Hall’s Ca
tarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney it Co..
Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the
market. It is taken internally in doses front, 10
drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the
blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They
otTer one hundred dollars for any.case it fails- to
cure Send for circulars and testimonials. Ad
dress F. .1 CHENEY & Co.. Toledo. (V.
Sold by Druggists, 76c
Take Hall’s Family Fills to
nstipatii
The whole country has been horrified
beyond measure by the revelations fol
lowing the brutal murder of a young
white girl, a mission worker in New
York City, by a “converted” Chinaman.
Perhaps we are lacking in the true
Christian spirit, but we never have been
i i sympathy with that sort of missionary
zeal which sends young women into the
slums of our large cities to teach and
convert the Chinese or others of alien
race. In this connection Misi Helen
F. Clark, of New York, who hat> herself
spent seventeen years in Chinese mission
work, says: “There are more •women
missionaries degraded by Chinese re jv
than there are Chinese converted. V<j‘
seventeen years I have urged the i‘?)
of white women endeavoring to Christ
ianize Chinese men. All about me I
have seen ruined: and wrecked homes—
case after case that parallels that of
Elsie Seigel, with the exception of the
tragic ending. lit would seem, in tla-
light of what has happened, that it
is not worth while trying to Christianize
the wily Chinanen. At any rate, it ij
imperatively demanded that future mis
sionary effort among the Chinese, if
made at all, shouWIbe- m the hands of
men.
Dry State Capitals
Nashville Tennesseean.*
Thirteen State capitals will be dry
after Julv 1. The last of these to join
tiie prohibition ranks was Charleston,
VV Va. r whose City Council-decided on
June 7, by a vote of 2tt to It, to rout
liquor, and thereby sounded the death-
knelS of fifty saloons. A short time
before that Lincoln, ffeb., decided by
popular vote to oust licqpor. Concord,
N. H'..and Montpelier;. Vt., are dry.
The other dry capitate are the seats of
government in the States having State
wide prohibition, namely Augusta,
Me.. Topeka, Kan.; Bismark, N. D.;
Atlanta. Ga.; Jackson. Miss.; Nashville,
Tenn : Raleigh, N. C.; Montgomery,
Ala., Oklahoma City, (Okla.
It ier gratifying to know that thirteen
Legislatures will in a measure be free
from the contaminating influences of
the local liquor powers xnd the snares
that its and its allied forces lay for the
unwary legislator when he leaves home
and goes to the State capital.
What’s the matter with putting up
an umbrella for a rain? day?
A woman judges the- value of a letter
by the length of the postscript.
R. K. HKKK1NU
G. EDWIN PARKS
HERRING & PARKS
INSURANCE, REAL ESTATE. STOCKS AND BONDS.
We have this week the following:
FOR SALE
One desirable home or l. reewv:iio.a*tii'wet to trade for farm.
One nice house and lot on Greenville street; lot 100x370; close in
Four desirable homes on Greenville street.
A small farm about 60 acres edge of Newnan. 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 have a nice home on Second avenue; easy terms.
FOR RENT
Several nice rooms on Greenville street.
Four nice unfurnished rooms on Spring street.
One nice home on LaGrange street, eight rooms, close in.
Now is the time to buy a farm. Land in Coweta county is advancing every day. We have
some desirable farms, in lots ranging from 50 to 1,000 acres. Easy terms.
Buy tornado insurance and be protected. We can write you for the sum of 25c. per $100.
For gin insurance see us;—we can save you money.
OI R MOTTO: “PROMPTNESS.”
PHONE 278.
OFFICE OVER FIRST NATIONAL BANK.
WHY WE LEAD IN THE SALE OF CORSETS
We realize that a corset is a most important factor effecting a lady’s appearance. We buy for all
heights and figures. We try and sell the models for such figures as they were designed to fit as best we
can, judging by experience and directions given by the manufacturers.
CONSIDER YOUR FIGURE
And buy corsets in length to correspond. We have short, medium, long and extra long designs. Some
extra long hips, with high or low bust.
Good appearance, comfort, pleasure and health are yours if you wear “American Lady” Corsets.
‘‘We Lead in the Sale of Corsets’’
POTTS
NEWNAN,
& PARKS
- - - GEORGIA
Great reductions in prices on all stock through July and August. We must make room for fall stock,
which is now arriving daily. We will make it to your interest to buy now. Our porch goods, chairs, set
tees, porch rugs, and fibre rush furniture, to close out cheap. Large stock of the handsomest dfh:ng-room
furniture to be seen. We can save you v money on rugs, art-squares, etc. Don’t buy before seeing us.
The lucky number for fifth prize drawing on Saturday, June 19, was 2729. Bring in the ticket.
We are going to offer some interesting inducements to buyers.
We frame pictures in the best possible manner, and guarantee every job to please.
Thanking you for past favors and soliciting a continuance of same, we are
Yours very truly,
Marbury s
Furniture
Store
19 Greenville street
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New Advertisements.
Letters cf Dismission.
GIEORG1A—Coweta County:
JL E. Smith, administrator of Mrs. Percie E.
Ssaith. deceased, baling applied to the Court
oS Ordinary of said xuunty for letters of dismis
sion from his said trust, ail persons concerned are
required to show cause in said Court by the first
Jtfbnelay in July neoiX if any they can. why said
application should r.«t be granted. This June 7.
JMfck Prs. fee. $3. L. A. PERDUE. Ordinary.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
SKOKG1A—Cowitj.v County:
Notice is herebv -riven to all creditors of the es
tate of John M. Brown, late of said county, de
ceased, to render c,an account of their demands
to me within the time prescribed by law, properly
made out; and v\ii. persons indebted to said de
ceased are hereby requested to make immediate
payment to the xnderaigned. This. July 1, 1909.
Prs. fee, $3.75. J. B. BROWN.
Administrator of J. M. Brovrt, deceased.
Sargent. Ga., R. F. D. No. 1.
Bond Sale-July 15,1909
School Improvement 5 Per Cent. Bonds of
the City of Newnan, Georgia.
These bonds will be in denominations of $1,000
each, dated July 1. 1909. interest payable in Janu
ary and July of each year, and mature as follows:
$2,000 in 1912. and $2,000 biennially thereafter un
til the issue is paid, making the last bond due in
1916.
These bonds are not. redeemable before maturi
ty.
The bonded indebtedness of the City of New
nan is $121,000, including this issue.
The taxable values in 1908 were i3.030,000;—esti
mated real value. $8,000,000.
The city owns all of its public utilities, and a
conservative estimate of the value of the city’s
property is $165,000.
Population, (estimated) 6,000,
Interest payable at City Treasurer’s office, or at
Fourth National Bank, New York.
Certified check for $200 must accompany all
bids. E. D. FOUSE, Clerk.
II
Work! Play! Rest!
Base Balls, Bats, Gloves, Masks and Mits
Tennis Shoes, Rackets and Balls
Marbles, Croquet Sets
Seines, Fish Baskets
Air Rifles, Target Rifles
Lawn Swings, Hammocks.
Oil Stoves to make theeooking easy.
Johnson Hardware Company
Telephone SI. Newnan, Ga.
If you are indebted to The Herald and
Advertiser for subscription settle up.
Letters of Administration.
GEORGIA—Coweta County :
Theopa B. Banka having applied to the Court of
Ordinary of said county for letters of administra
tion on the estate of N. O. Banks, deceased, all
persons concerned are required to show cause in
said Court by the first Monday in July next, if
any they can, why said application should not be
This June 7, 1909. Prs. fee, $3.
L. A. PERDUE, Ordinary.
All kinds of job work done
with neatness and dispatch
at this office.