Newnan herald & advertiser. (Newnan, Ga.) 1909-1915, July 16, 1909, Image 8

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fieraM a«1 jlcftmiscr. NEWNAN, FRIDAY, JULY 1 (>. DADDY’S SENTINEL. When daddy wont away to fight Anri kinm*d ua all gwxlby**, ||i» hold mo In his arms so tight And told mo not to rry “My gallant llttlo aontinel,” Hi; whisperer], “you must lie, And you must guard dear mother well, For daddy'h o’er the sea.” And ho I lake my sword and gun And drill and march each day Until the fighting all in done And sentinels can play; And when dear motor’s faro looks aad 1 toll her not to fenr Though daildy’s gone I know she'a glad Her little sentry's herd Anil when I k To God m,g. IMcaan keep our soldier safe, and • For those hr* left behind.” I somehow think he hoar a and kno' While far acres 'he foam. Dear daddy lights bin country’s fo< IliH boy’H “on guard” at homo. wound bomba, “rid” fantaatics, and reveled in a collation of cheese, crack- era and aardinea. A lorn? towards the shank of the afternoon the approaching shades warned them it was time to pre pare for their hogira to the tall and un topped timber. Being thus admonished, been ground to razor-sharpness, and if the opportunity presents we ll chop the 'greasers’ up like gourds—provided we can catch them, for they tell us the rascals are good sprinters, “March 5, 1S47.—We are off for the seat of war. The army is near Cerro Gordo, and, as we understand, Gen. Scott is preparing to carry it by storm they took in the saloons seriatim, and since being routed at Buena Vista, poured one jorum after another into ! Gen. Santa Anna has organized a pow erful army, which mans the fortifica tions at Cerro Gol^o. We’ll arrive A 3 ! I am in receipt of the second an nual announcement of the A. iV- M. School an elegant brochure from the press of R. Lee Sharpe, of this place. The faculty for the coming year are .7. II. Melson, principal; It. I). Edie, mathematics and chemistry; Mrs. It. L. Itozar, English and history; Miss L. K. Miller, domestic science. To be supplied, mechanical training; agron omist. The pamphlet is replete with illustrations, to-wit: The hoys’ dormi tory a splendid two-story brick struc ture, provided with sanitary plumbing and electric lights; a suite ol' furniture made by the A. & M. boys; a cotton picking scene hoys gathering the “fleecy staple;” a class taking lessons in cooking—(this is the place, young man to gut a good Caucasian cook, who will also rear your children and darn '•our hosiery;) a class taking sewing lessons; n seductive picture showing how you rest after picking cotton for a couple of hours; a pair of Berkshire pigs; the graduating class of ’09; a fine picture of Hon. L. C. Mandeville, who has been a liberal and unselfish friend of the institute. A copy of the .prospectus may he had by writing I’rof. J. H. Melson, principal. —Misses Marie and Lucy Perdue and Chnrlie McLain spent Saturday and Sunday with friends in Bremen. Misses Bartie, Lenora and Lois Pluming have returned to Newnan, af ter a week’s visit to their uncles, Messrs. J. H. and G. W. Fleming. -After a visit of several weeks to friends here Miss Edna Burns, of Guth rie, Okla., has returned home. Our popular Representative, Judge W. F. Brown, who is sitting up with the Georgia law-makers, took advantage of the 4th of July recess and spent Sat urday and Sunday at home. For a good, nil round solon we put the Judge against the field. Col. H. P Kelly, the able editor of the Free Press, accompanied by Mrs. Kelly and little Jack, spent the past week with the family of Mrs. Kelly's father, in Marietta. —The remains of Cupt. J. S. Tumlin were interred here Wednesday. Capt. Tumlin was a captain in the Confeder ale army, and his funeral was largely attended by his old comrades. —I have the same reverence for truth that a Chinaman lias for his an cestors;—he apotheosizes the one, and l worship at the shrine of the other. I am going to give you a bunch of facts which may cause you to think 1 am a hit careless of the company my facts keep, but don’t doubt them for a min ute, for they are woven into the warp and woof of local history. In the 70’s a Socrates taught the youth of Carroll ton the rudimentary R It R's and a smattering of Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and the taller mathematics. He had a fine school, both in numbers and per-1 finds ad of the semi-tropics sonnet. The good man had the tact of shooting them full of knowledge. Con gressmen. Judges and lawyers emerged from the academic shades as plentifully as young hornets frisk from their coni cal snuggery. Among the pupils were three sons of a “sager.” These young men lived in a sou'westerly course from Carrollton. One distinguished himself at the bar, subsequently on the bench, and ultimately was a legisla tor and a hydrostatician ; another be came famous in local politics, and the keeper of the county's records and seals, later rising to the sublime height of a probate functionary ; and the third —bless his altruistic soul 1—became a hewer of stovewood and a drawer of “the old oaken bucket” for a farmer’s wife, for whom he purchased Easter headgear and called her and a baker's dozen of children his’n. At the tail-end ! of the year '70 or, to make a propitious occasion agree with facts, it v as | Christmas eve these youngsters came to town to settle their tuition fees with the “professor.” Having made glad Hie heart of their mentor, they proceed ed to three several bars—places where spirits were confined, wrapt in glass cerements—and began to make glad the cockles of their young hearts. They were soon filled with hilarity and mirth, superinduced by the “conversa tion fluid." They shot firecrackers, roinan candles,, busted big rope- their feed-troughs. The one who was to he the future “keeper of the coun ty’s records and seals” had the bar- keep to wrap up for him a pint of “the same,” which he affectionately stowed away in his gun-pocket. The mules were mounted. They were cold and frisky, and the boys were "full,” be sides carrying a large side line of fun and frolic. The mules darted homeward for their keep. The gilpins, to acceler ate their speed, clapped spurs to their flanks, and here they went—hats in hand, hair a-streaming, lick-it-a-split, yelling like rabbit-hunters. Bad cess to the stone and the mule’s legs! lie stumbled and did the wheelbarrow act. The poor “keeper of records and seals” was thrown unon his head, and the sand and gravel loosened two-thirds of his scalp-lock, which was hanging over his eyes in disheveled profusion as he stood on his all-fours, and a tiny stream was leaking from a noint where the pantaloons bifurcate. The furious racers, looking back and seeing the em bryo “keeper of records and seals” unhorsed, returned in haste. They found him on three-fourths of his fours, and with one hand pressed to the pit of his stomach. On being asked if he was hurt he replied in doleful accents: Yes, I’m badly hurt; my bladder’s busted. Don’t you see how it leaks!” They dismounted and began to look for crevice in his abdomen. Stooping over him, a hand was laid on his arse- ind lo! the whiskey bottle was busted to smithereens. They helped him to his feet. Running his fingers through his hair he pulled out a hand ful and flung it upon the ground. With ittle shaving here and there, his head would have compared favorably with an egg. While the foregoing is the gospel truth, "the keeper of re cords and seals” denies it. —Mrs. C. A. Upshaw, a former resi dent of this city, died Thursday at her home in Bremen. The remains were interred here Monday. —Mrs. Chas. K. Henderson, of New- nan, was the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Mandeville, the past week. — Mr. W. S. Campbell has returned from a month’s visit to relatives in Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Tumlin, of De catur, attended the obsequies of the former’s father, Capt. Jas. S. Tumlin, last week. — Even the famous canal city, Augus ta, finds it to her interest to draw on the brawn and brain of our Carrollton youth. The last of our boys to make his home in Augusta is Joe Holmes, jr., who goes there to help manipulate the output of the local "lightning facto ry.” —Prof. Higginbotham, the famous sa-fa-la, do-ra-me songster, gives this advice to all who desire to hear the real “do-ra-me” on the 14th inst: “You may neglect for a day or two the trail leading to the pearly gates, to kiss and embrace your darling girl, to draw your midsummer dividend, to eat the rosy heart of the big watermillion ; hut for the love of the Lord don’t fail to come to the normal singing.” Old war- hler, we’ll be there with our auditory portals flung wide open. —Mr. W. A. Thornton, the best copy writer in Georgia, spent a few days in Atlanta recently, giving the business colleges a specimen of his beautiful Spencerian script. —The following recitals are found in a continuation of the Long diary: “Oct. 27.--We landed to-day. Vera Cruz is a fine city especially so when one remembers it was built by a civili zation smartly tinctured with barbar ism. The climate is ideal. Here one fruits. Orange and lemon groves, loaded to the breaking-point with their golden fruit mark the yards of private homes; but the dark-eyed senorita that one hears so much about is made conspicuous by her absence. I presume they fled at the approach of Scott’s conquering le gions. One meets a sullen lot of ‘grea sers' at every turn. Were they not overawed by yankee bayonets 1 trow they’d be sticking their stilettos in our backs. 1 got a fine view to-day of 'Old Fuss and Feathers,’ as Gen. Scott is called. He is a fine, soldierly-look ing old man, some sixty-one years old, (5 feet 4 inches tall, and dressed gaudily as was ever Marshal Murat. He came to inspect us, accompanied by his staff—a fine-looking lot of young fellows. 1 was wonderfully impressed by the majestic and soldierly bearing of Capt. Robt. E. Lee, of the Engi neers, who appeared to be a prime fa vorite with Gen. Scott. Capt. Lee without doubt the finest-looking man in the army, with the military presence of Mars himself. It is understood that Gen. Scott depends largely upon him to make his dispositions in all engage ments. His skill as an engineer is well recognized thr ughout the army. The army has not failed in a single in stance to drive the enemy from all po sitions—a fact largely due to the ever- watchful eye and masterly skill of Capt. Lee. By the way. Lee is a Vir ginian. and may one day cause the ‘Old Dominion’ to hail him as the first soldier of the century. “Nov. 5.—We’ve been drilling daily since our arrival, and the inen are be coming inured to a soldier's life. It is well, since we are likely to chase the saddle - colored mob (the Mexican army) pretty soon. Our sabers have there to-morrow. am“hat a warm re ception will be given us by the Mexi can batteries no one doubts. We are not looking for them to shoot us with boiled eggs. “March 20.—The affair at Cerro Gordo is one which we are likely to remem ber. The town is situated on a series of hills, flanked by what one would sup pose a mountainous region, inaccessi ble to military operations. The engi neers have recently made a military road en zigzag among these fastnesses; and while the infantry attacked the enemy from this unexpected quarter the cavalry, some 3,000 strong, stormed the earthworks from the front or more open ground. The ‘greasers’ served their guns well. At each dis charge they cut lanes through our fu riously assaulting lines. There I be held a sight quite uncommon in war. As the gail&nt Mexican gunners served their pieces, ostensibly oblivious of the furious onslaught of our volleying and thundering squadrons, our men rode upon them and sabered them at their guns. When their infantry—cowardly rascals beheld the deadly blows being dealt their gunners they fled pellmeii for the inner fortifications, hotly pur sued by our squadron, who hewed them down in their wild flight. They were so hotly pursued by the cavalry and the simultaneous assaults made by the in fantry in their rear, that Santa Anna saw the day had gone against him. His force was routed, and retired with great loss. Luckily, my company, which was in the thick of the fray, lost no men in killed, and only four wound ed, these being Lieut. Curtis, (flesh wound in the thigh,) Capt. Wofford, (a slight abrasion on the point of the shoulder,) Jot Holcombe, (a saber- stioke across the head, slightly split ting the scalp,) Nat Abercrombie, (a bayonet thrust through the calf of the leg.) Our wounded are doing well— none of them went to the hospital. Much to my surprise, our horses seemed to feel a frantic enjoyment as they plunged and surged against the ene my’s lines. One would naturally sup pose the belching artillery and the clamor of battle would frighten them, but. on the contrary, it seemed to en thuse the brutes. Here again Capt. Lee, of the Engineers, showed his skill in forming our lines. “Aug. 17. Atfer the affair at Cerro Gordo our columns moved to the lovely valley of Mexico. It seems to be the purpose of Gen. Scott to reduce both Contreras and Cherubusco. The infan try has been quiet for some time. Our cavalry are scouring the country in quest of guerrillas, who have become quite troublesome. A small wagon train, convoyed by a detachment of twenty-five or thirty cavalry, was pounced upon by these bandits, most of the cavalry killed and the train cap tured. These predatory scoundrels are led by the notorious Capt. Gomez Bam- billo. Gen. Scott has set a price upon his head, and every cavalryman is anx ious to bring his scalp into camp. The foxy rascal must quit this district or we’ll get him. Myself ard Ike Weir were iired upon to-day by a squad hid den in the chapparal, but escaped in jury. —Newnan has an elongated hydrant, on to which is attached a 2J-inch pipe arm, with a gate-valve, and proper height for a water cart to drive under. The arm reaches out from the stem three and a half or four feet. The cart is driven under the arm and the driver turns the valve without moving from his seat. This is the best device I have seen for filling water carts. I have rummaged my brain for a like contriv ance, but the fellow who invented the Newnan cart-filling crane “got the an swer, ” and leaves me to applaud his genius. One of these cranes, put at each side of our public square, would greatly facilitate the street-sprinkling problem. They can be installed for $150 each. How He Got Rid of Nut Grass. Southern Cultivator. I have seen from time to time in quiry as to how to destroy nut grass. I will tell you just what I have seen, and made an investigation for my own ben efit. I bought a piece of land covered with nut grass. I did not know it at the time, but soon found out. Now I began to look around to see how to rid this land of nut grass. An old citizen said to me that I had a good thing if I would manage it right, and the right way was to go into the hog business; so 1 bsgan to go from nut grass field to nut grass field to see for myself if hogs really would root and eat nut grass, and I found that a hog would go right down after this nut grass. 1 went to one field three different times in June, July and August, and really counted the sprigs of nut grass and did not find but seven sprigs left alive. These hogs were doing better work than any two-horse plow could do, so I am perfectly satisfied that the hog is the best way to get rid of nut grass. I sold this farm to a man who said lie would raise hogs and did not care a straw for the grass. I have seen hogs root holes so deep and wide after this nut that you could bury a good-sized cow in the places. If you think this of any benefit to your readers you may condense and publish. J. T. Douglas, Ga. HIGH CLASS HIGH CLASS IGH CLASS BUGGIES and HARNESS WAGONS and HARNESS HORSES and MULES Boys, Em going to sell them Prices and terms cut no figure Come to see me; I’m always at home JACK POWELL JACK POWELL Led Squad That Captured John Wilkes Booth. Dillon, Mon., July 6.—Judge Ever- ton J. Conger, who led the detail of soldiers that captured J. Wilkes Booth after the assassination of President Lincoln, was probably fatally injured yesterday by being run over by an au tomobile. Judge Conger had started across the race-track at the fair ground and when about half way across the automobile struck him, passing over qis shoulder and head. A branch train of a Kansas railroad carried an old woman passenger the other day, who was very fidgety and nervous, and was continually pestering the conductor with questions. “Which door do I go out?” she asked of the conductor, as the train pulled into the station where she wanted to get off. “Goeither way, madam,” replied the ticket-puncher. “Both ends of the car stop.” No person becomes fitted to be an angel by continually “harping” here below. A FACT ABOUT THE “BLUES” What is known as the “Blues” Is seldom occasioned by actual exist* ing external conditions, but in the great majority of cases by a dis ordered LIVER. THIS IS A FACT which may be demonstra ted by trying a course of Tutt’sPills They coirtroland regulate the LIVER. They bringhopeandbouyancy to the mind. They bring health and elastic ity to the body. TAKE NO SUBSTITUTE. 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. C.A fresh supply of Orange and Amber Sorg hum Seed just received. WOODROOF SUPPLY CO. AT THE OLD BRADLEY-BANKS COMPANY CORNER. When Rubbers Become Necessary, And your shoes pinch, Allen’s Foot- Ease, a powder to be shaken into the shoes, is just the thing to use. Try it for breaking in New Shoes. Sold ev erywhere, 25c. Sample FREE. Ad dress, Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. Don’t accept any substitute. Notice to Debtors and Creditors. GEORGIA—Coweta County: Notice is herebv criven to all creditors of the es tate of John M. Brown, late of said county, de ceased. to render in an account of their demands to me within the time prescribed by law, properly made out; and ail persons indebted to said de ceased are hereby requested to make immediate payment to the undersigned. This July 1, 1909. Prs. fee. $3.75. J. B. BROWN, Administrator of J. M. Brown, deceased. Sargent. Ga., R. F. D. No. 1. Libel for Divorce. GEORGIA—Coweta County : W. M. Whitmire ~ vs I. Libel for Divorce in Coweta Claudie Whitmire. I Superior Court. To Claudie Whitmire, defendant: You are here by required, in person or by attorney, to bo and appear at the next term of the Superior Court, to be held in and for said county, on the first Monday in September, 1909. then and there to answer the plaintiff in an action for total divorce, as, in default of such appearance, Raid Court will proceed thereon as to justice may appertain. Witness the Honorable R. W. Freeman. Judge of said Court, this the 5th day of April, 1909. L. TURNER, Clerk. Banner Goods In our stock of furniture and house furnishings you not only find one of the most complete of assortments but you also find a stock of truly “banner goods.” No matter what it might be—if a house of our line o: business should carry it—you will find it here, moderately priced and of the very finest quality. Cut prices on every - thing in the store for July and August. Scroggin Furniture Company