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NEWNAN HERALD & ADVERTISER
VOL. x l v.
NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1910.
NO. 33
CLOVER DAY
Tuesday 9 May 17, Will
Be “Clover Day. 99
Next Tuesday Will Be “Clover Day”. As usual,
We Have Good Things to Offer all Who
Come to Our Store on This Day. Read
Carefully the Items Listed Below.
Only a Few of the Most Desira
ble Goods on Sale This Day.
Read, and be Sure to
Give Us a Call on
“Clover Day.’
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Shirt-waists for Women.
Lot i consists of a line of tailor-made waists, in all sizes.
They are made of good quality linene, embroidered front, em
broidered collars and cuffs. They are well worth $1.50.
Price “Clover Day, $1.
Lot 2 consists of a line of plain linen shirt-waists, tucked
fronts, no trimming, linen collars and, cuffs. They are worth
[/$2. Price “Clover Day” will be $1.25.
Hosiery for Children.
They are fast black and seamless, and come in all sizes.
There are two weights—heavy and light. They sell ordina
rily at 20c. a pair. “Clover Day” will be 12 1-2C.
Longcioth.
This-longcloth is full yard-wide, and comes 10 yards to
the piece. The ordinary price would be $1.50 per bolt.
“Clover Day” it is $ 1 per bolt.
White Stress Linen.
These linens are yard-.vide, and come in two weights.
One of these weights we have sold before on “Clover Day.”
The other is entirely new; a little lighter in weight and a little
better finish. Both all linen, and 25 c. a yard.
White French Lawn.
Here is the greatest value we have ever offered in white
lawn. Not when cotton was 5c. a pound could we offer
such a value. This lawn is 46 inches wide, very sheer in
quality, and sells ordinarily at 20c. a yard. “Clover Day”
price will be 12 1-2C.
The above goods are all new, and were bought at very
low prices for this occasion.
In addition to the above we offer the following, which
were on sale last “Clover Day”—
The balance of the embroideries and
laces left from our last sale. Prices
are about half of regular.
Balance of towels left from last sale.
Price is 10c. each, and value not less
than 15c.
Balance of silks left from last sale,
including our special yard-wide black
taffeta silk at 69c.
Our "Clover Day” all linen table
damask, two yards wide, at 56c.
Balance of a lot of 39-inch white
nainsooks at $1 a box; value $1.50.
Remnants of ribbons at half-price
or less.
Remnants of wash goods, cotton,
voiles, etc., at a fraction of forfner
prices.
A few black silk petticoats’ at
each.
A few shirt-waist fronts (hand-em-
. broidered) at $2 each.
You will always find it to your advantage to come to our store
on **Clover Day.” Remember the date: Tuesday, May 17.
P. F. CUTTI NO & .CO.
MAKE BELIEVE.
Lot’a dream. Ilka the child In Its playing;
Let's chnntro tho things *rauml us by saying
Thay’re things that wo wish them to bo;
And If thero is sndnesB or sorrow,
Lot’s droum ’till wo charm It away;
Lot’s learn from the children. and borrow
A saying from childhood— Lot’s playl”
Lot’s play that tho world’s full of boadty;
Let’s play thoro aro roses In bloom;
Lot’s play thoro Ib pleasure In duty
And light where wo thought thero was gloom;
Lot.’s play that this honrt with its sorrow
Is bidden be joyous and glad;
Lot’B play that wo’Il find on to-morrow
Tho joys that wo novur had.
Lot’s play wo have dono with repining;
Plas “
Let's play that our longings are still;
Let’s piny that tho sunlight is shining
To gild tho green slopes of tho hill;
LoI’b play thero are birds blithely flinging
Their songs of dolight to tho nlr;
Lot’s play that the world’a full of singing.
Lot’s play thero is lovu everywhere.
-LJ. VV. Foley.
and
Club Work Among Farmer Boys
Girls.
William E. Curlis in Chicago Record-Herald.
No recent development of educational
interest has a greater significance or
importance than tho corn-growing, cot
ton-growing, bread-making, sowing and
domestic art clubs that have been or
ganized among the boys and girlB in
different parts of the country within tho
last few years. Last fall I described
the 1 movement in Mississippi, when the
prize-winners of the corn clubs in that
State came to Washington to receive
from the Secretary of Agriculture the
honors they had won in the fields, but
in other States are similar movements
of equal importance and extent.
The Department of Agriculture has
information from 395 counties in twen
ty-eight different States in which sueh
clubs of children have been organized,
with a total membership of about 144,-
000. They originated in New York about
1898, under the auspices of the agri
cultural department of Cornell Univer
sity and as a development from its, na
ture study lessons. The work spread
over the entire State and has taken a
variety of formB, such as local contests
in corn, potato and fruit-growing, poul
try-raising, dairy and garden contests,
with special prizes to girls for the beBt
work in sewing and bread-making. The
exponent of this movement is the Ju
nior Naturalists' Monthly and the Cor
nell Rural School Leaflet, which reach
about 7,000 teachers in the State during
nine months of the year and publish
the proceedings of all the Cornell farm
boys’ and girls’ clubs, which have an
aggregate membership of about 75,000.
Prize-winning exhibits in village and
county contests are taken to the State
fairs each year, and in 1909 there
were about 450 exhibits of corn which
had won prizes in local contests and
other displays of great significance.
Nebraska is second in tho number of
clubs and membership, having about
25,000, the first being organized in 1905
by the State Superintendent of Public
Instruction in co-operation with tho ag-
ricultuaal college of the State Universi
ty at Lincoln. There have been prizes
offered and won in nearly all the coun
ties in the eastern part of the State,
and a grand “corn banquet” last fall
was attended by between 2,000 and 3,-
000 boys and girls from the farms of
Nebraska.
Similar work has been done in Ohio
under the direction of the State Uni
versity and in Illinois under the initia
tive of county superintendents of
schools, the most extensive and suc
cessful being in Winnebago county,
In several places in Pennsylvania and
in Virginia there have been notable con
tests, and in one Virginia county more
than a thousand boys under 18 years of
age are now learning under expert
teachers how to increase the value of
their time and labor and make their
land more productive. The average
corn crop of Virginia for years has been
about twenty-two bushels to the acre.
The prize-winner last year raised 122
bushels to tho acre, and his nearest
competitors raised 119, 115 and 106
bushels, respectively. This indicates
what might be done with the impover
ished soil of tho Old Dominion if it were
properly cultivated, and "when you cal
culate the results of multiplying corn
crops four and five fold annually you can
appreciate tho importance of the move
ment.
These clubs are limited to boys and
girls under 18, and usually under 10,
and are conducted in connection with
the public schools under the auspices of
the State Superintendent of Public In
struction, the State Board of Agricul
ture, the State Agricultural College, or
societies like the Corn Growers’ Asso
ciation of Delaware. Their value is
recognized by the United States De
partment of Agriculture to such a de
gree that a special division of the Bu
reau of Experiment Stations has re
cently been created for the purpose of
encouraging and directing the move
ment. It Is under the supervision of
0. J. Crosby, who furnishes advice and
suggestions and sends out printed bul
letins Bhowing how boys’ and girls’ ag
ricultural clubs should bo organized,
how prize contests in growing corn, cot
ton, potatoes arid poultry arid other
crops should be conducted, and how the
girls should carry on their contests in
broad-making, gardening, raising birds
and poultry. These bulletins may be
obtained free of charge upon applica
tion to any member of Congress or to
the Secretary of Agriculture, Washing
ton, D. C.
The value of these clubs nnd contests
is not only found in awakening and
stimulating an interest in the cultiva
tion of the soil and in furnishing in
struction ns to how to got the greatest
profit out of the toil and soil, but they
teach mo childron the value of organ
ized effort, of co-operation and compro
mise, and develop the social instinct by
bringing tho neighbors moro closSly to
gether, which is a matter of tho great
est importance in rural districts where
tho isolated lives of tho farmers have
been perhaps the greatest hindrance to
happiness and development. They
teach tho childron the value of labor
and economy, the benefit of careful and
methodical work. They are brought to
read good literature and to rocognize
tho value of science in farming; their
Views are broadened by contact with
each other; they are taught to see tho
importance of planting the best kinds
of seeds and using the most improved
implements, and their physical devel
opment is going on at the same time
that they solve the problems involved
in the improvement of plants, fruits,
animals and different farm and house
hold affairs.
Some notable local organizations have
been developed in different sections of
the country, one of the most interest
ing being that directed by Will B. Ot-
well, editor of Otwell's Farmer Boy,
an agricultural paper for children ex
clusively, published at Carlinville, Ill.
Mr. Otwell is a native of Carlinville.
He grew up on a farm in the neighbor
hood, went to the country schools and
graduated at Blackburn College at that
place about twenty years ago. He is a
practical farmer, with high ideals, an
unusual amount of common sense and
the faculty of making hird work and
farm life fascinating. After he gradua
ted from college he settled down on a
farm, raising corn and nursery stock;
but his restless mind realized that there
was too much monotony and too little
activity among the young generation
growing up about him, and as president
of the Farmers’ Institute of Macoupin
county, of which Carlinville is the coun
ty seat, he devised a plan of awakening
an interest among the farmers’ boys
by offering prizes for the best corn pro
duced in tho county under uniform con
ditions.
I-Io worked up this idea until he bad
1,800 youngsters striving for the hon
ors, and induced manufacturers of ag
ricultural implements to offer valuable
prizes. This movement having attract
ed considerable attention he was ap
pointed a commissioner to tho St. Louis
exposition, for which he secured exhib
its of corn from 8,000 farmers’ boys in
Illinois. This experience taught him
what might bo done if tho movement
was properly managed, and Bhortly af
ter the close of the exposition he start
ed a paper called Otwell's Farmer Boy,
which has already attained a circula
tion of 40,000 copies, haB been self-
supporting from the Btart, and is devo
ted exclusively to promoting corn con
tests, bread-making contests, and to
interesting young people upon the farms
of Illinois and neighboring States in
self-improvement and self-advance
ment.
William H. Anderson, State Superin
tendent of the Anti-Saloon League,
whose home is in Carlinville, and who
has known Mr, Otwell from childhood,
told me many interesting things Jabout
him tho other day. “His work iB unique
and has become a passion with him,”
said Mr. Anderson. “He has gone into
it from the same motive that led other
men into tho ministry and into the for
eign field as missionaries—to make bet
ter men of the coming generation a;
well as better farmers—and he has a
practical business Bense to guide him,
so that his sentiment does not lead him
into impracticable lines. He has dem
onstrated his capacity as a business
man in building up a great nursery bus
iness, which he is now selling out, so
he can give his whole time to his work
among the boys in his newspaper and
in other directions.”
Halley’s Comet Will Do No Harm.
Astronomical history will be made
within.a few days when the much-
talked of Halley’s comet passes be
tween tho earth and the sun, and at the
same time swishe3 this planet with its
nebulous tail.
This important event is scheduled .to
take place on May 18, and astronomers
throughout the world are making ex
tensive preparations to secure good
photographs and gathor all the informa
tion possible on this heavenly wanderer,
as it is not scheduled to reappear until
75 years hence. On the date of its last
appearance, in 1833, tho art of photo
graphing heavenly bodies was unknown,
nnd future generations had to bo con
tent with sketches made by astrono
mers, who observed tho phenomena.
The opportunity to photograph this
month, however, will bo unusual, as it
will be only 12,000,000 miles from the
earth on May 18. It will cross the sun’s
disk during tho forenoon, nnd will bo
visible in tho west shortly after sunset
for sovorul days later, finally passing
out of sight on its long journey away
from the sun.
What will happen when wo pass
through the tail of the comet? Accord
ing to the information furnished by the
leading astronomers, there is nothing to
be feared. At this time tho tail will be
about fifteen million miles long. The
tail is said to be made of thin, harmless
gases, much lighter 'than the air we
breathe, and it is very probablo that it
will not be noticeable. As the contact
will take place in the forenoon, it will
certainly not be noticeable on this side
of tho earth, where it will be broad
daylight, and as the other side of the
earth will bo screened from a direct en
counter, It will probably not be seen
there.
As the comet's tail extends millions
miles beyond tho earth, however, It is
extremely likely that the inhabitants of
the Antipodes may see some evidence
of it in the night sky.
Were the earth and the head of the
comet to come in contact, however, it
would bo more serious, but there is no
likelihood of this, as the earth will have
safely passed that point, in its orbit, by
the time the comet reaches it.
' \t * ,
ALL TIRED OUT.
Hundrods More In Newnan in the
Same Plight.
Tired all tho time;
Weary and worn out night and day;
Back aches; side aches,
All on account of the kidneys.
Must help them in their work.
A Newnan citizen shows you how:
One kidney remedy never fuils.
Newnan people rely upon it.
That remedy is Doan's Kidney Pills.
Newnan testimony proves it always
reliable,
A. G. W. Foster, living near North
Jackson streot, Newnan, Ga., says: “I
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me; in fact, I can say that they have
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tense pain through my loins that I
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restless anu unable to sleep and would
arise in the morning tired and worn
out. My general health was being
gradually undermined and I was at a
loss to know what to do. The kidney
secretions were very scanty and quite
frequent in action. When I procured
Doan’s Kidney Pills at Lee Bros’, drug
store, I hardly thought that they would
help me, as I had used so many reme
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changed my opinion of them, however,
as I had taken them only a short time
when every symptom of my trouble
was banished. I am now in the best of
health, considering my age, and only
wish I could let every sufferer from
kidney trouble know of the great value
of Doan’s Kidney Pills.”,
For sale by all dealers. Price 60
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the United
St&t6H ’
Remember the name—Doan’s—and
take no other.
Robbie ran into the sewing-room and
cried;
“Oh, mamma! There’s a man in the
nursery kissing Fraulein.”
Mamma dropped her Bewing and
rushed for the Btairway.
“April fool!” said Robbie gleefully.
“It’s only papa!”
Oommandor Julius A. Pratt Post No,
143, Dept. III., G. A. R.
Mr. Isi-ae Cook, Commander of above
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Mrs. Naggs (reading) —“In some
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Naggs—“Well, I suppose the people
there admire a brave man. ”
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AN OLD ADAGE
SAYS —a
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Sickness makes a light purse.
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