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THE OLD-FASHIONED BONNET.
How dear to my heart is the old-fashioned bonnet,
The old-fashioned bonnet that Nell used to wear,
Without any plums or red cherries stuck on it
The bonnet that didn't require blondined hair.
The dish-pan effect may be stylish and stunning;
The waste-paper basket that's lately come in
May be quite the rage, recherche and cunning
Hut give me the hat Nell used to tie under her
chin.
At their regular monthly meeting
Wednesday the County Commissioners
fixed the tax-rate for 1909 at $7.30 on
the thousand—the same as last year.
Special taxes in the several school dis
tricts were also levied as follows:
Union - Bethlehem district, $3.50 on
the thousand: Raymond district. $5 on
the thousand: Gr.antville district, $1.50
on the thousand: White Oak district,
$4 on the thousand ; Welcome district,
$4 on the thousand ; Moreland - St.
Charles district, $4 on the thousand.
The State tax to be levied this year
will undoubtedly reach the Constitu
tional limit, which is $5 on the thou
sand, making State and county taxes
$12.30 on the thousand.
Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Woodroof enter
tained thirty of the young married set
at seven tables of bridge last even
ing in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Will
Woodroof. The home was beautifully
decorated with cut flowers and ferns.
The dining-room was unusually attrac
tive. The large table had a handsome
cover, and in the center was a vase
filled with roses, surrounded by a
wreath of ferns. Mrs. Earnest Powel
won the ladies’ prize, and Mr. Geo.
Ramey the gentlemen’s. After the
game a delicious salad course was
served. The out-of-town guests were
Mrs. A. J. Smith of Atlanta, Mrs.
Birdie Gorman of Chattanooga, Mrs.
Geo. Ramey of Atlanta, and Mrs. Park
Newton of Jackson.
A pleasant party of young people
went down to Hiliey’s mill Monday,
and have been spending the week at
that popular camping resort. Those in
the party are Misses Kate Edmondson,
Lucile Dennis and Stella Moore of At
lanta, Miss Kate Smith of West Point,
Miss Verna Dudley of Columbus, Miss
Annie Goddard of Griffin, Miss Obie
McKenzie of Montezuma, Miss Lucy
Harris of Carrollton, Miss Irvin Pope
of Macon, Mr. John Bachman of At
lanta, Mr. Tinsley Ragland of Monte
zuma, Messrs. C. B. Glover, B. H. Pin
son, A. H. Freeman, G. C. Orr, P. G.
Stanley. T. W. Powel, G. L. Wynn, and
W. V. Terhune of Newnan. The chap
erones are Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Turner
and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Camp.
Messrs. J. W. Kersey, J. II. Self and
J. C. Leach will represent Newnan
Council, No. 22, at the State Conven
tion of the Junior Order of United
American Mechanics, which meets in
Milledgeville next week. The conven
tion gives indications of being the best
ever held by the order in this State,
and it is thought that more than two
hundre I delegates will be in attend
ance. Great interest has been aroused
in the meeting because of the fact that
much important business is to come be
fore the convention. The new ritual
of the order, changing the initiation
so that it will have three degrees in
stead of one. is to be discussed. This
ritual has already been adopted by the
national convention, which met in De
troit in June, but the discussion of it
and its formal adoption by the State
Convention will lie in order.
At the meeting of the City Council
Monday night it was decided to peti
tion the County Commissioners to al
low the county convict gang to work
the main roads running north and south
and east and west through the city.
This action was taken in consideration
of the fact that the citizens ot Newnan
pay a large proportion of the public
road tax, and it was deemed, only
fair that a portion of the time of the
convict gang be devoted to improving
the city’s main thoroughfares. A nu
merously signed petition was also got
ten up, and when the County Commis
sioners met Wednesday Mayor Keith
and several members of the City Coun
cil appeared before the board and pre
sented the resolution of Council and the
citizens’ petition. It was agreed by
the Commissioners that the city might
have the use of the convicts for a pe
riod of five days, but no further con
cession would be granted by the board.
Mrs. Jesse Thompson, of the Second
district, brought to The Herald and
Advertiser office Saturday a peculiar
vegetable freak in the shape of a
bunch of squashes. There were twen
ty-eight squashes in the bunch, ranging
in size from two pounds to one ounce,
and all perfectly formed. Mr. Ed
Buchanan looked in on the squash fam
ily, went home, and returned shortly
afterwards with a bunch of roasting-
ears which he thought was entitled to
entry as something out of the ordinary
in the agricultural line. There were
five ears in the group, growing one
above the other, but different from
the squash exhibit, Ed said, because the
corn did not belong in the freak class.
The specimen was from a large patch,
every stalk in which had from three to
five ears. It is known as the Marlboro
variety of corn, and has been grown
extensively for several years by Mr.
F. M. Lee and other progressive far-
mres of the county.
The following business was disposed
of at the regular monthly term of the
Ordinary’s Court on Monday last, to-
wit:
Report of the appraisers to divide in
kind the land, stocks, etc., belonging
to estate of V. C. Thompson, deceased,
made the judgment of the court.
Twelve months’ support set apart to
the minor children of John M. Brown
out of the estate of said deceased.
T. F. Rasvls, administrator on the
estate of Mary Sewell, deceased, grant
ed letters of dismission.
T. F. Rawls, guardian of Myrtice
Lee O’Neal, granted letters of dismis
sion.
Creecy Leigh, administratrix on the
estate of Alonzo Leigh, deceased,
granted letters of dismission.
Mrs. Lilia H. Bridges, guardian of
Verna M. Bridges Ingram, granted let
ters of dismission.
The Herald and Advertiser notes with
deep regret the death of another of our
old residents, Mrs. E. J. Rish, which
occurred yesterday afternoon at the
home of her son, Mr. G. R. Bradley.
She had been in declining health for
several months, hut her condition dur
ing this period was not such as to cause
special alarm, as she was able to be
up most of the time. About two
weeks ago, however, she had a sudden
attack and grew much worse. All
efforts of the attending physicians to
relieve her sufferings proved unavail
ing, and shortly after noon yesterday
sne breathed her last. Deceased was
a most estimable woman, and her death
is much lamented by everyone. She
was 73 years of age. and leaves three
children to mourn their loss—-Messrs. 1.
P. Bradley and G. R. Bradley, of this
city, and Mr. J. T. Bradley, of Car
rollton. She is survived also by two
sisters and three brothers—Mrs. W. E.
Dixon of Carroll county, Mrs. John
Dunbar and Mr. W. S. Askew of New
nan, Mr. J. E. Askew of the Fourth
district, and Mr. J. F. Askew of Ho-
gansville. The funeral took place this
afternoon at 4 o’clock, from the First
Baptist church, services being conduct
ed by her pastor, Rev. J. F. Single-
ton. The remains were interred in
Oak Hill cemetery.
Church Notice.
The annual protracted meeting will
begin at White Oak (Smyrna) Associate
Reformed Presbyterian church on Wed
nesday morning, Aug. 11. at 11 o’clock.
These services will continue through
Sunday, Aug. 15. Two services will
be held each day—11 o’clock a. m. and
7 :3(i p. m. The preaching will be done
by Dr. F. Y. Pressly, of Due West. S.
president of Erskine Theological
Seminary. We urge all members, and
invite all strangers, to be present at
these services. J. P. Pressly.
A new farmers’ telephone line hav
ing six subscribers has just been con
nected with the Grantville exchange of
the Southern Bell Telephone Co. The
line extends to Lone Oak. and furnishes
service to the following well-known
people: J. M. Sewell, residence; H. L.
Culpepper, residence; A. C. Culpepper,
residence; C. E. Culpepper, residence;
J. A. Sewell, residence; B. E. Wise,
store. The subscribers on the line are
now in constant telephonic communica
tion with each other, and through the
Southern Bell excnange with telephone
users in Grantville. The construction
of this line and its connection with the
telephone exchange there is another
step in the progress of telephone de
velopment which is being made by the
residents in the rural sections. Under
the plan of the Southern Bell Co. far
mers and other rural dwellers are en
abled to secure telephone service on
an economical basis. As a result, far
mers in all sections of the State are
installing telephones in their homes.
To Revolutionize Places of Food Man
ufacture.
Atlanta, Ga., July 24.—State Chemist
R. E. Stallings and Pure Food Inspector
P. A. Methvin have drafted a measure
which has been introduced in the House
by Representative Peacock, of Pulaski
county, which, if enacted into law, will
revolutionize the places where food is
manufactured, prepared and sold, the
object of this bill being to surround its
manufacture, preparation and sale with
absolutely sanitary conditions; to pro
hibit the employment in such places of
persons afflicted with contagious dis
eases, and to prohibit flies from going
into these places by the use of screens
or other devices.
This bill, if enacted into a law, will
empower the Commissioner of Agricul
ture and pure food inspector with the
enforcement of its provisions, and will
surround the sale and manufacture of
food with every possible sanitary pre
caution.
This is another arm of the pure food
law of Georgia, which has done so much
to revolutionize conditions in food and
feedstuffs in this State.
Under the operation of the pure food
law, Georgia now ranks first in the
matter of feedstuff's sold in this State,
and of these cotton seed meal is leading
the list.
The pure drug inspector, too, is see
ing to it that cotton seed oil, which has
come to be so popular in its medicinal
form, is kept up to the required standard
and is not adulterated by being mixed
with oils.
If the pending measure becomes a
law, Georgia will be safeguarded in her
foods and feeds, both for man and
beasts.
—According to the foremost boll
weevil expert in the country this un
conquered and seemingly unconquera
ble pest will reach the western confines
of Alabama two years hence. It will
cross Mississippi, whose cotton fields it
has just reached, by 1911, and should
by 1913 or 1914 be in Georgia. The cat
erpillar was conquered years ago. and
the other pests have all gone before
the inventive genius and the persistent
warfare of man. Blant diseases have
likewise been eradicated or rendered
innocuous, but the boll weevil is still
master in every field where his advance
guard has been pushed in seasons past.
In the end a means of utterly de
stroying the pest which costs the South
millions annually may be found, but it
is not yet even hinted at in the results
of experiments still being prosecuted.
’Twas a Glorious Victory.
There’s rejoicing in Fedora, Tenn.
A man’s life has b'jen saved, and now
Dr. King’s New Discovery is the talk
of the town for curing C. V. Pepper of
deadly lung hemorraghes. “1 could
not work or get about,” he writes,
‘‘and the doctors did me no good, but
after using Dr. King’s New Discovery
three weeks I feel like a new man, and
can do good work again.” For weak,
sore or diseased lungs, coughs and
colds, hemorraghes, hay fever, la
grippe, asthma, or any bronchial affec
tion it stands unrivaled. Price 50c.
and $1. Trial bottle free. Sold and
guaranteed by all druggists.
Card of Thanks.
We wish to thank all those who so
generously rendered us aid during the
affliction of our dear wife and mother.
Every act of kindness and every word
of sympathy hag made our sorrow easi
er to bear. May the choicest blessings
of God rest upon you all.
John Dukes,
W. P. Dukes,
R. L. Dukes,
S. G. Dukes,
Mrs. T. A. Sewell.
Among other high rollers we have the
elevated trains.
Consistency is Mud Sometimes.
Telegraph.
The new prohibition bill by Mr. Whop
per Alexander is a political attempt to
coerce a violation of the pledges made
in the Democratic platform of 1908,
now of force, and yet the perpetrators
of this immoral scheme have attempted
to disgrace Mr. McLendon, because, in
a judicial capacity, he is alleged to
have violated a pledge made in a plat
form that has been superseded.
When pressed on this point Mr. Alex
ander takes refuge in his own con
science; but he permits no such escape
for the hounded occupant of the invalid’s
chair. In a card to the Atlanta Journal
Mr. Alexander says that Gov. Brown’s
promise not to permit the prohibition
law to be amended “is not binding on
me.” Blit Brown’s promise became a
platform promise. Is the Democratic
platform promise not binding on Mr.
Alexander? If it is not, then away
with the monstrous hypocrisy about the
binding effect of a dead platform on
McLendon, acting as a judge under
oath!
Dr. John E. White, pastor of the
Second Baptist church ot Atlanta, says
that the prohibitionists are in honor
bound to stand by the written pledges
made by their committee and Gov.
Brown fast year in regard to this mat
ter, and it was in answer to this that
Alexander took refuge behind his “own
conscience. ”
But by the rule of that deadly “re-
fawm” which has cursed our State for
three or four years nobody must have
consciences except the leaders of that
particular political cult, and everybody
must follow their sweet wills, no mat
ter how devious, immoral or zigzag the
course.
Newnan Man Gets Into Trouble in
Columbus.
Columbus Enquirer-Sun, 4th inst.
"Levi Bell, the young white man who
was arrested last Sunday on the charge
ot disorderly conduct, it being alleged
that he attempted to enter a residence
near the Union depot, and who was ar
raigned before Recorder Wynn Monday
morning, was yesterday sent to his old
home near Newnan. It appeared that
Beli is demented to a certain extent,
and judge Wynn continued the case
for a day in order that he might make
a thorough investigation into the man’s
mental condition. The result was that
he was sent to his home yesterday. He
was accompanied to the depot by City
Detective Ben Moore, who placed him
in charge of the conductor of the train.
Washington’s Plague Spots
Lie in the low, marshy bottoms of
the Potomac, the breeding ground of
malaria germs. These germs cause
chills, fever and ague, biliousness,
jaundice, lassitude, weakness and gen
eral debility, and bring suffering or
death to thousands yearly. But Elec
tric Bitters never fail to destroy them
and cure malaria troubles. “They are
the best all-round tonic and cure for
malaria 1 ever used.” writes R. M.
James, of Louellen. S. C. They cure
stomach, liver, kidney and blood
trouble and will prevent typhoid. Try
them, 50c. Guaranteed by all drug
gists.
Baptist Assembly at Blue Ridge.
Blue Ridge, Ga.. Aug. 3. —From all
sections of Georgia delegates began ar
riving in Blue Ridge to-day to attend
the three-days’ convention of the State
Baptist Young People’s Union. This
convention of young people is prelimi
nary to the meeting of the Baptist
State Assembly, which will meet at
this place. Ample provision has been
made for the entertainment of the
guests, and a local reception committee
is looking after and caring for the del
egates, as they arrive.
Helped Frame Constitution of Confed
eracy.
New Orleans, July 2(i.—Col. J. A.
Chalron. who was buried here yester
day, served as artillery officer in Beau
regard’s division. Confederate Army,
Civil War. He was chairman of the
committee which drew up the Constitu
tion of the Confederate States of
America. The casket in which the body
was borne to the grave was draped
with the same Confederate battle flag
that was entwined about the biers of
Jefferson Davis and Gen. Beauregard.
Excursion to Tybee Aug. 17, via
Central of Georgia Railway.
Rate from Lutherville $4.50 round
trip. Tickets on saie for train leaving
Lutherville at 5:55 p. m., Aug. 17,
1909, arriving Tvbee 9:45 following
morning. Tickets will be good to re
turn on or before Aug. 22, 1909.
Sleepers and coaches will be opera
ted through to Savannah. For excur
sion tickets and informaton in regard
to sleeping car reservations, etc., ap
ply to E. C. Norris, agent, Lutherville.
Last excursion of the season to Ty
bee.
“Why do you sob so?” asked the
young bridegroom anxiously. “Are you
sorry you eloped with me, dearest?’’’
“No; it’s not that,” she returned.
“But you remember you advised me to
telegraph father that we were really in
need of food.”
“Yes, I remember. And he has fail
ed to send the money?”
She bowed her fair head.
“Worse than that. He has sent four
big packages of music with a note say
ing that as ‘music was the food of
love,’ he trusts we can manage to pull
through until —until you get work,”
she wailed bitterly.
Most anybody can edit a newspaper
and make it interesting for awhile.
Some people can keep up the interest
fora month or two without fagging, but
it takes a natural born pencil-shover
and a hard worker to grind out an in
teresting batch of local and editorial
items week after week for a term
of years. There is no profession
that is more exhausting or less remu
nerative for the work than the edito
rial or journalistic profession, but how
few believe this.
The reason a stout woman doesn't ex
pect to keep on getting fatter is she
keeps right on.
There’s nothing that can influence a
man to take a present home to his wife
so strongly as a guilty conscience.
A man likes you to think he’s smart
because the candidate he voted for got
elected.
OTTS & PARKS
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Newnan’s Leading: Dress Goods House.
We pul on sail' (his work many now figured Lawns at do, and lOe. yard—
qualities worth l()c. lo 20c, Ask to see them.
WHIT hi LAWNS.—Come now for best values in white Lawns, of medium or
very sheer weights. C,Persian Lawns,-12 to 4(> inches wide, 15c. to
25r. yard. C. Beautiful 40-ineh Lawns at l()c. and 12\<*. yard.
EMBHOIDEHlES.—Special prices on odd pieces of embroidered bands and
edges. Come and see the quality. Embroidered headings and veinings.
LACES, LAC'ES.—Four thousand yards Yal. Laces just received white or
cream. Priced 5c. to 16c. the yard. C.Linen and Herman Torchon 1
Laces, any width and many patterns—per yard, 5c. C.Point de Paris
and Platt Val. Laces for thin drop-skirts.
RIBBONS, RIBBONS. Sash or Hair Ribbons, and narrow Ribbons for head
ings. All shades in Nos. 1, 14, 2 and ti.
WE SELL—“American Lady” Corsets, Krippendorf-Dittmann Shoes, “Cold
Medal” Black (foods, Butterick Patterns.
POTT S & PARKS
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Great reductions in prices on all stock through July and August. We must make room for fall stock,
which is now rriving 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 din ng-room
furniture to he seen. We can save you 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
Day ’Phone
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When You Are
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You will find our fountain a
haven of restand refreshment.
Drop in and sit under the buz
zing fans, and sip some of our
delicious Soda, or enjoy a cup
of our pure cream Ice Cream.
It is never hot under the fans
at our fountain, and our drinks
never fail to tickle the palate
and refresh the body. Only
the purest syrups used, so our
drinks are not injurious.
REESE DRUG COMPANY
Prescription Druggists,
lo Greenville Street
NEWNAN, OA.
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you like Mayonaise
Dressing, but dread the effort
of mixing it, get one of these Christy Mixers
and enjoy your work.
Johnson Hardware Co.
*Phone 81. Newnan, Ga.
Court Calendar.
COWKTA CIRCUIT.
R. W. Freeman, .Judge; J. Render Terrell, So
Heitor-General.
Meriwether—Third Mondays in February an
August.
Carroll—First Mondays in April and October
Troup—First Mandays in May and November.
CITY COURT OF NEWNAN.
tilings, Solic-
Quarterly term meets third Mondays in Janu
ary, April, July ami October.
r. R. COMMISSIONER'S COURT.
W, If. W. Dent, Newnan, Ga., Commissioner