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fjerdiu and Advertiser. NEWNAN, FBI DAY, J U LY 2. LAKOlA 1 «.l YllAVTI 11* IN Fni ILJ’II roNUKK OO U NT It V CIIMTI.A IION HHIONA 1, IHHTRlr 1. 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 W 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 i t t * t t t t i t t t 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.