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NEWNAN HERALD & ADVERTISER
VOL. X LIX.
NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1914.
NO. 36
/I Special Sale of Laces!
P. F. CUTTINO & CO. will hold a special sale of laces on Monday,
Tuesday/Wednesday and Thursday, June 8, 9, 10 and II
If FOR FOUR DAYS ONLY, in which they will offer their entire stock of laces at very great reductions
from regular prices. Included in this sale are the latest patterns in lace flouncings, all-overs and other fash
ionable laces—all new and seasonable goods. Coming as this sale does, in the height of the demand for
laces, an extraordinary opportunity is afforded for buying these goods at very low prices.
Prices /8re For the Four Days ONLY
7 H.P. Twio, Two TwoBty-Fivo
Model, $225.00. F.O.B. Factory
Any point within a 25 mile radius reached in an
hour’s time — and reached comfortably and at
small expense upon an Indian Motocycle.
MOTOCYCLES
FOR 1914
retain the famous Cradle Spring Frame and
Folding Footboards, the great comfort features
which made Indian Models the sensation of the
1913 season.
In addition, the new Indian line is improved at
38 points. 38 Betterments — refinements in de
sign, in working parts and in equipment—make
a truly remarkable group of motorcycle values.
All standard Indian Models are equipped with
electric head light, electric tail light, electric signal,
two sets storage batteries and Corbin-Brown rear
drive speedometer.
Longer wheel base, trussed handle bars, internally rein
forced frame loop and increased power are but a few of
the betterments described in detail in the new Indian
catalog. They are features that command the careful
consideration of every prospective motorcycle buyer.
Ask us fot illustrated catalog. It will help you to form a
correct idea of the improvements and equipment to which
the buyer of a 1914 motorcycle is ekititlcd.
R. L. ASKEW, Sole Agent
Jackson Street - - Newnan, Georgia
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RAILWAY GO.
CURRENT SCHEDULES.
ARRIVE FROM
11:10 A. M.
uiattanootfa 1:40 p. M.
lAtlartown 6:39 a. m.
ColumbuB ... 9:05 a m.
DEPART FOR
OrifBn 1:40 1*. m.
Griflln 6:39 a. m.
Chattanooga li :io a. m
Coilartowu 7:17 p. m.
Columbus 7 :40 A. M
|DR.KING’S NEW DISCOVER* New Life Pills
Will Surely Slop That Couch, i The h-t tn the world.
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ONE OP US TWO.
The day will dawn when one of ub shall hearken
In vain to hear a voice that has arrown dumb.
And morns will fade, noonB pale, and shadows
darken.
While Bad eyes watch for feet that never come.
One of us two must some time face existence
Alone with memories that but sharpen pain.
And these Bweet days shall Bhinn back in the dis
tance
Like dreams of summer dawns in nights of rain.
One of ub two, with tortured heart half-broken.
Shall read long-treasured letters through salt
tears—
Shall kiss with anguished lips each cherished to
ken
That Bpeaks of these love-crowned, delicious
years.
One of us two shnll find all light, all beauty.
All joy. on earth —a tale forever gone—
Shall know honcoforth that life means only duty;—
O God! O GodI—have pity on that onel
Millions Added to Georgia’s Tax
Values.
Atlanta, Gl., May 30.
The information coming to this office
from throughout the State is very grat
ifying. In several counties the boards
of equalizers and assessors have met
and completed their work of equaliza
tion, and did not have a single arbitra
tion. The result is—and this in some of
the smaller counties, too—valuations
increased from three-quarters of a mil
lion to a million and half dollars. I am
especially pleased with a letter I re
ceived this morning from a member of
the board of equalizers of Wilkes coun
ty. The returns there indicate an in
crease of valuations of approximately
a million dollars, and $250,000 of this
increase is the result of property now
put on the digest which heretofore had
never been given in for taxation. The
balance of the increase is the result of
equalization between the taxpayers.
The members of that board are Messrs.
K. A, Wilheit, D. S. Standard and J.
H. Griffin. These gentlemen report that
whilst the board anticipated great diffi
culty in their work of equalization, that
really it became a work of pleasure
when they realized that the taxpayers
generally were anxious for a fair valua
tion of property and a just equalization
amongst the taxpayers. The taxpayers
co-operated with the board, with the
result the work of equalization became
a pleasure, and of great arid substan
tial benefit to the State and county.
Another letter was received this morn
ing from Heard county. The board of
equalizers in that county consists of
Messrs. A. C. Ware, J. D. Bledsoe and
H. G. Moore. Heard county is in the
western portion of the State, untra
versed by railroads. It is a small coun
ty, but as a result of equalization there
the increase is approximately three
quarters of a million dollars. Not an
arbitration waB had, and everyone satis
fied.
Throughout the State the information
comes that the local boards of equali
zers are busily at work endeayoring to
see that all property is put on the di
gest, and that each man takes
his exact part of the public burden.
The success of the law depends, as I
stated the morning I first saw the
equalization tax act, upon the claBS of
men appointed on the local boards, and
I urged the appointment of men of the
very higheBt character. I don’t believe
the State ever had a body of more pa
triotic men in its service than the body
constituting the local boards of equali
zers and assessors. They have met a
delicate situation with intelligence, with
patience, with courage, and with a pa
triotism unsurpassed.
It is too soon yet for me to predict
the probable increase of taxable values,
the result of the work of equalization
and discovering heretofore unreturned
property, but I am indulging confident
ly the hope that the State this year
will discharge its current indebtedness
of over a million dollars, and the Gov
ernor and Comptroller-General be able
to cut the present high tax rate.
I also received this morning a letter
from the hoard of tax equalizers of an
other county, asking whether a citizen
of that county who owned $200,000
worth of railroad bonds should have re
turned them for taxation. This very
letter indicated that the owner of the
bonds himself did not know they were
taxable, and never heretofore returned
them for taxation.
A letter received on yesterday from
the board in another county informs me
that there had been a return by a tax
payer of 4,000 acres of land for taxa
tion, and upon investigation the hoard
found that the taxpayer really owned
9,000 acres of land. The owner had
overlooked and failed to return this
large area for taxation.
A money-lender in this county re
turned $800 as all the money, notes and
accounts owned by him. He was sum
moned before the board of local asses
sors. was sworn and examined, and as
a result was assessed by the hoard as
the owner of $58,000 worth of money,
notes and securities. When told by the
local board that if dissatisfied with this
assessment he could arbitrate, he re
plied, "that if the board was satisfied
he was."
This inqtjlry comes from the board of
local assessors in a Middle Georgia
county: "In our county is a minister who
owns a farm which he returns at $20
per acre. His neighbors return their
land at $6 per acre. The land is of equal
value. Can we lower the minister’s
land?” I replied, by all means lower the
minister’s land. .The very object of the
tax equalization law is to place like
values on an actual equality. I call atten
tion to these matters as illustrative of
the work of the local assessors. I am
pleased with the situation and am ex
pecting from the operation of the law
great results. The opposition to the
law has greatly disappeared, and when
the people understand its object and its
possibilities they will zealously cham
pion the law. The citizen generally is
willing to bear his part of the burden of
government, hut he insists that his
neighbor should hear his burden also.
When the work of local equalization
between individuals has been completed
it is my duty to equalize between coun
ties. This is done by raising or lower
ing counties. In other words, the ob
ject of the law iH to see thut each man
fears his part of the common burden,
according to the ability of the man to
curry it, and every county to take itH
part, he it much or little, according to
its ability. If this iH done, us the tux
equalization law contemplates, the
State will pay her debt this year, re
duce the high tax rate prevailing, and
become a conspicuous example to the
world of prosperity, thrift and honesty.
Georgia's financial condition of rigrit
ought to he, and in fuct will he, hh a re
suit of this law, the very best of any
State in the Union. John C. Hart,
State Tax Commissioner.
As Tige, the dog who belonged to the
Spink household, wuh finally detached
from the trousers leg of the new ice
man by Mr. Spink's vigorous efforts, the
victim of the onslaught began to ex
press his mind with unlimited freedom.
"That iH a fine pup of a dog to have
running around loose! I—’’ But Mr.
Spink broke in before he had time fur
ther to give vent to his feelings.
"He’s only playful, that’s all,” in
sisted the master of the dog, at the
same time pressing something into the
iceman’s hand.
The man glaaced at the wad of green,
and then oh he enclosed it safely in an
inner pocket his expression softened
remarkably.
"I guess I can take a little fun as
well as the next feller," he said dryly.
"But till you explained it I had a no
tion that the dog waB in earnest when
he bit that piece out o' my pants.”
The Mean Thing!
It was a cold, dark night, but Sandy
and William were happy, because there
sat between them the most charming
young lady in the district. It was a
spirited horse they had hired, and the
trap bowled merrily along o’er moor
and fell.
Sandy, noticing that the side of the
muff next to him waB vacant, softly
Blippcd his hand in.
William held the reins, and bb he
dimly perceived, in spite of the dark
ness, that his side of the lady’s muff
was unoccupied, he slipped his own dis
engaged hand into it, and—well, two
hands were very soon tenderly pressing
each other. And ao the happy moments
flew, and the drive homo came almost
to an end.
"When you gentlemen have done
with my muff," Haid the young lady,
presently, "I trust you will not fear to
tell me, as iny own hands are becoming
quite numb with the cold.”
Then dark suspicion fell upon her
two admirers, fur things are not al
ways what they seem. And William
and Sandy are now sworn enemies.
The British and Foreign Bible Socie
ty was founded in 1804 for tho transla
tion and world-wide distribution nf the
Holy Scripture. The opening of 1914
found tho society engaged in a new
translation on revisions of Holy Scrip
ture in over one hundred languages.
Industry is a potent power in pro
gress, civil and religious.
Absolutely Pure
KQALUM.N0 LIME PHOSPHATE
