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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