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Official Oreati
of Cowsla County.
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Jut. E. Brown.
Ellin M. Carpenter.
BROWN *
CARPENTER,
I IHTORH AND FUUUHIIKRa.
Notice to County Democratic Execu
tive Committee.
The members of the County Demo
cratic Executive Committee are re
quested to meet in the grand jury room
at the court-house on Wednesday, July
22, at 11:30 o’clock a. m. The meeting is
called for the purpose of adopting rules
for the primary election to be held on
Aug. IS), 1914, for the nomination of a
candidate for Congress and for the
nomination of two e:*ididates for the
Legislature. Jas. E ilrown, Chm’n.
; and some of it comes of suspicion or
misunderstanding.
“Opponents of the law say it is aimed
at farm land, but reports indicate that,
the bulk of increase made this year is
on city and town and personal property.
“One typical rural county reports an
increase of $1*25,000, and $210,000 of it
1 oatne from town property. $99,000 from
| personal property, and $517, M0 from
iand never before on the tax books.
“We will take take three typical
rural counties whose digests have been
received. They report increases of
>-10,000, $552,000 and $304,459. respec
tively; yet the average value of land in
each of them is leHS than in 1913
“Another county reports increases
I aggregating $1,600,000, made up of
| $500,000 in improved land, $300,000 in
city property, and $800,000 in person-
1 ally, the latter newly discovered.
asked Judge Hart to furnish me a
summary of the fifty-two digests re
ceived before 1 left Atlanta, In the
main they are small country counties,
n 1913 they reported decreases ag
gregating $501,472; this year they show
total gains aggregating $20,293,531. In
those fifty-two counties 199,171 acres of
land and thousands of dollars of per-
7/1 .r
GOV. SLATON DEFENDS
EQUALIZATION LAW.
(iov. Slaton is a staunch defender of
the tax equalization law enacted by the
Legislature in 1913, and, having urged
the passage of the measure, he is stand
ing firmly for its enforcement as the
only means of relieving the State from
the burden of debt whith has been pil
ing up during the past fifteen or twen
ty years. (liven a fair trial, he believes
the law will not only bring the relief
sought, hut will result in a material
reduction of the tax rate. Discussing
this measure in an address before the
Weekly I'resH Association, at Com
merce, on Wednesday last, Gov, Slaton
spoke ns follows:
“When I was elorted Governor there
was a deficit of approximately $1,500,-
000 in the State Treasury. Veterans of
the Confederacy were dying while await
ing their meager rewards. I’oorly paid
teacherR in our schools were hawking
their ehiirnB on the public squares and
selling them at from 10 to 25 per cent,
discount. Our system of higher educa
tion was marking time in the great, ad
vance of the age because of lack of
means. All institutions were turning
away or providing only the hare neces
sities for the insane, the deaf, the blind.
Thu tax rate was ut. the maximum, and
llie Legislature was appropriating
thousands of dollars which did not ex
ist.
“Something had to he done. Hankers
were looking askance at. State obliga
tions, and a $3,500,001) refunding bond
issue was near at hand.
“1 gave the subject much thought. I
found that the State’s fiscal system had
undergone scarce a change in over a
hundred years. It was established when
our population was less than a 1,000,000
and our annual expenditures onlj a few
hundred thousand when virtually all
our taxable property consisted of land
and slaves when our economic condi
tions wore ns different from thoBe of
the present as China’s are from those
of France.
“I found also that Governor after
Governor fur thirty or forty years, and
our great Comptroller-General repeat
edly during his nearly forty years of
unexcelled public service, had urged
that our seventeenth century taxing
system ho brought up ut. least to nine
teenth century conditions.
“I discovered furthermore that the
great burden of taxation wus falling on
the small property-owner.
“1 found thut millions of dollars of
wealth in the possession of rich, well-
to-do people was escaping taxation.
“The State had to have more money.
Should we, by ruiaing the tax rate, mid
to the burdens of thorn* who had been
doing their share, or compel those who,
by negligence or intention, had been
evading their part of the burden?
“1 adopted the course which had been
recommended by most of my predeces
sors, by numerous legislative commit
tees and commissions, by our Comp
troller-General, and virtually everyone
else who had investigated the subject.
“Hut I inet with muny difficulties
Questions of finance and taxation are
proBHic and most people are loath to
study them. Many opposed reform, not
because they were against tax reform
per so, hut because they were afraid it
was not the right kind. Many opposed
it because they were afraid the people
wouldn't understand it.
”1 tell vou in all candor, that during
the first few weeks of the legislative
session it looked as if nothing could he
done. The majority seemed against us.
Devoted personal friends came to me
and said: 'Jack, let it alone. Leave the
problem to another Governor, Old man,
if you persist it will he political suicide.
Remember the fiasco of the early nine
ties. Don’t, or your own political fu
ture is gone. The country people won’t
stand for it.’
“The advice was sincere and kindly,
hut had I accepted it 1 would have been
a coward and false to my oath.
“1 did not accept it, hut it looked for
a time that 1 had just ns well.
• I $ $ « * •
“With love for your State and pride
in her good name, you thundered into
the ears of the people lessons which
saved the State from the menace of
dishonor.
"Therefore, i want to thank you for
the great service you did —not for me,
but for Georgia.
“The work did not end with the pas
sage of the bill. Hut your part in that
work presaged a future course of pa
triotism which enabled us to surmount
imtn dinte difficulties. In the midst of
extreme financial depression 1 borrowed
approximately $500,000 here in Georgia
at 3 per cent., when a sister State wus
paying 7 per cent, in New York.
“llie great test came when the prac
tical operation of the law began this
spring. Necessarily its first application
was crude and somewhat imperfect.
No doubt there have been isolated cases
of injustice. Any one of you could have
found ample sophistry upon which to
attack the law.
“I know that tin* tax law has met
with oppo-iti in from powerful sources.
“Seine of the opposition is sincere
sonal property were brought to light
and subjected to taxation for the first
time in their existence.
“Opponents of the law say that it
enables cities to escape their just share
of taxation. 1 notice that a Macon
paper snys Bibb's increase will he ap
proximately $5,000,000. I anticipate
that Fulton’s will he three times as
much. The two together will show in
creases greater than those of the fifty-
two counties which have reported.
“They declare that the law does not
reach corporations. I know of one
which the law caused to raise its re
turns $500,000. There are others of
like kind.
“1 could give you innumerable in
stances of inveterate tax dodgers who
were brought to taw. One who gave
in his property at $800 was raised to
$58,000. When he complained his local
hoard suggested that he arbitrate. ‘If
you are satisfied, I am,’ he said, and
dropped the incident.
“Hut they suy the additional money
raised will he wasted. Harris county
has cut itH local tax rate almost in half,
and its local rate this year with the
State rate added will he less than the
local rate alone was last year.
“So far as the State is cancerned, I
promise you that none of the extra
money will he wasted this year, hut I
assure you that expenditures in 1914
will he lesR than they were in 1913. 1
do not think the deficit, which is the
accumulation of many years, should he
paid in one year. Therefore, if the
total increase is as great as we confi
dently expect, I assure you that the
State tax rate will he reduced this
year.
“Instead of encouraging extrava
gance, the law will make for economy.
Hereafter appropriations will not tie
sought, on the theory that only a part
of the people will pay them.
“The tax rate of the counties should
nnd will go down. That of the State in
1911 should not he more than 4 mills,
and in 1915 it should not he more than
3 mills. Hereafter expenditures will
be reflected on the rales imposed, and
those who waste the public funds will
not lie able to hide behind accumulating
deficits.”
THE LEGISLATURE.
The Legislature is getting down to
work in earnest, and some of the
measures now up for discussion are so
meritorious it is to he hoped they will
he enacted into law.
One of the measures referred to is a
bill providing for biennial sessions of
tho General Assembly. Another pro
vision of the bill stipulates that mem
bers shall receive a straight salary of
$400, with no limitation as to the length
of the legislative sessions. The bill has
already passed the Senate, and is now
in the House.
Another hill provides that the terms
of all State House and county officers
shall be four years instead of two, with
the further provision that the Governor
shall be ineligible for a second term.
This is one of the best hills proposed at
the present session, and should be
passed.
Still another hill that should become
a law proposes to consolidate our State,
county and Congressional elections,
making the first Tuesday in November
general election day for all officers.
Two new counties have been created
-Candler county, in the southeastern
portion of the State, with Wetter as
the county-site, and Harrow county,
with Winder as the county-site. A hill
to create Hacon county, in the southern
part of the State, with Alma as the
county-site, has passed the House, and
its chances in the Senate seem very
good.
Adverse reports on two hills to repeal
the tax equalization law are not en
couraging to its opponents, nnd it seems
practically assured now that the law
will stand.
Our editorial friends. Col. J. Roy
McGinty, of the LaGrange Graphic, and
Col. Trox Bankston, of the West Point
News, are candidates for the Legisla
ture in Troup county. Hope they will
he elected.
Commissioner Price Has the Docu
ments.
Atlanta, Ga., July 11.—Commissioner
of Agriculture J. D. Price has proven
conclusively that he did not “steal” the
nomination for Commissioner at the
Macon convention in 1912 and walk
away with it, as some of his enemies
are seeking to make it appear.
Commissioner Price has not only up
set this fallacy, but he has the docu
ments, “signed, sealed and delivered.”
as it were, to back up his assertions.
One of the charges related to Rtbun
county, which had no delegates present
at the convention, and whose vote was
cast by Hon H. II. Dean, of Gaines
ville, for Commissioner Price. Mr.
l’rice now carries in his inside pocket
the original proxy given to Mr. Dean
by the Rabun county delegation, show
ing that he had every right to cast that
vote. Tho county v as carried by Bla
lock, and when Blalock withdrew the
vote went to Price.
A similar charge has been made as to
Chattooga, which actually went for
Price by 83 plurality. The vote was
cast by Elmo Uallew of the Floyd coun
ty delegation. Chattooga had no dele
gates present. Hut Jim Price is now
carrying also in his inside pocket a
hunch of affidavits showing that the
Floyd delegation had full authority to
cast the vote for him.
But even if his opponent had received
these two counties, (to which he was
not entitled,) it would have given him
only 181 votes, whereas it required 185,
or a majority, to nominate. Even in
that event a second ballot would have
been necessary, and it was on the sec
ond ballot that Price was nominated,
receiving 214 votes.
Thus the charges of “juggling” the
convention fall flat. Jim Price was
nominated because, when Blalock with
draw, Price had the most votes. That’s
the only reasonable explanation of it.
Hon. S. G. McLendon Announces for
Governor.
Atlanta, Ga., July 15.—S. Guyton
McLendon, former State Railroad Com
missioner, last night announced himself
as a candidate for Governor, subject to
the coming primary. Mr. McLendon’s
announcement followed the urgent ap
peals of a number of his friends, par
ticularly members of the Travelers’
Protective Association, who will to-day
pay to the State Democratic Executive
Committee Mr. McLendon’s entrance
fee of $250.
To-day the following communication,
accompanied by a check and a state
ment of his candidacy from Mr. Mc
Lendon, will be presented to the secre
tary of the committee;
"To the Treasurer State Democratic
Committee: Believing that Georgia
has special need of his ability and his
services as Governor at this lime, and
in the near future, some of the friends
of Hon. S. G. McLendon hand you the
entrance fee of $250, and request you
to enter his name for Governor in the
approaching primary. It is proper for
us to say that Mr. McLendon does not
know the names of the contributors to
this fund, nor anything about this
movement. Mr. McLendon is a native
Georgian, having been horn in Thomas
county, December, 1854. He is a grad
uate of the University of Georgia, and
a lawyer of recognized ability and large
experience in railway affairs. A large
number of traveling men are contribu
tors to the above fund and will work
for his election.
“Atlanta, Ga., July 14, 1914.”
Mr. McLendon’s announcement, which
will be sent to the committee, is as fol
lows:
“Atlanta, Ga., July 14. —A. II. Ulm,
Secretary State Democratic Executive
Committee, Atlanta, Ga.—Dear Sir:
To-night 1 am informed that friends of
mine this afternoon offered to pay the
fee of $250 to enter my name as a can
didate for Governor, and that the en
trance fee could only be accepted with
my consent. This movement is as un
expected as it is flattering. I never
turn aside a clean hand extended to me
in friendship, and, being asked to do so,
consent to the entering of my name.
“S. G. McLendon,”
There is more Catarrh in thin section of the
country than all other diseases put together, and
until the last few years waa supposed to be incur
able. For a great many yeara doctors pronounced
it a local disease and prescribed local remedies,
and by constantly failing to cure with local treat
ment. pronounced it incurable. Science has pro
ven Caturrh to be n constitutional disease, and
therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall’s
Oat-arrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney &
Co., Toh»do, Ohio, ia the only constitutional cure
on the market. It is tnken internally. It acts di
redly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the
system. They oiler one hundred dollars for any
case it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testi
monials. Address F. J. CHENEY & CO..
Sold by druggists. 75c. Toledo, Ohio.
Take Hall’s Fumily Pills for constipation.
Blue Back” Speller Will Be Re
quired in Georgia Schools.
Atlanta, Ga., July 10.—A resolution
requiring the use of Webster’s “blue
back” speller in the common schools of
the State was adopted in the Senate hv
a vote of 28 to 1. Its adoption followed
a discussion in which reminiscences
among the older Senators were vividly
spoken. The authors of the resolution
were Senators McGregor and Allen.
The “blue back” speller was in general
use years ago, hut has been superceded
of late years by more pretentious vol
umes.
Occasionally a girl accepts the hand
of an aged suitor because of what there
is in it.
Only One “BRO.MO QUININE"
To cot the genuine, cult (or full name, I.AXA-
TIVli llK.IMO gViN1NK I.ook for aignauite ol
K W. GROVE Cure, n Cold in One Day. Slop,
cough and headache, and tvoik, ou cold. 15c.
New Advertisements.
Automobile For Sale!
A 7-seated second-hanc
Speedwell automobile f
sale. Call
o r
A. W. Arnold
RAYMOND, GEORGIA.
M ucnJL IatMH 'frumpy jxA, UouJi^
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Mhaswi Aoowl
To fill a prescription right a drug store must
first have the right kind of preparations.
Ours are pure and tested. Then knowledge
and care must be used. Strychnine and
Quinine LOOK alike, but don’t act alike.
Our registered pharmacists know how to fill
prescriptions and we VERIFY everyone be
fore sending it out..
This is why we DESERVE your drug busi
ness.
J. F. Lee Drug Co
TWO
’PHONES OO
CAR-LOAD
I will receive about Aug. 1
a car-load of good brood
mares, all guaranteed to be
sound and well broken.
These will be for sale, or will
exchange for other stock.
Will also buy good, young
mules, paying best market
prices for them.
Sale of School Property for Re-in
vestment.
GEORGIA—Coweta County:
To Whom it May Concern: Notice is hereby given
that on the 23d day of July, 1914. at 10 o’clock n.
m., at the court-house in the city of Newnan, Ga.,
we will make application to Honorable R. W.
Freeman, Judge of the Superior Courts of tho
Coweta Circuit, for an order authorizing us to sell
certain school property in the l r nion-Bethlehein
School District and to re-invest the proceeds, said
property being three acres of land situate, lying
and being in the original second Inow third) land
district of said Coweta county. Ga.. and being a
part of land lot No. 114 and described os follows:
Beg in at the center of the road where a certain
sewer pipe crosses said road and where a settle
ment road intersects said public road, and run
thence east with the center of sai l public road
120.4‘J yards, thence north 12U.49 yards, thence
west 120.49 yards, and thence south 120.49 yards—
said three acres being in the shape of a square.
On said tract of land is n school-house in which
is conducted a school known as Fnion School.
This July 14. 1914. A. D. HARRIS.
1.. L. BROOK.
W. C. GLAZIER.
Truster* of Union-Betbkhi.ai School District cf
Coweta county. Ga.
W. A. POTTS
Newnan, Georgia
Legal Notices.
Letters of Dismission.
GEORGIA—Coweta County:
Mrs. Berta C. Farmer, guardian of Harriet Far
mer and Frances Farmer Trapnell, having applied
to tho Court of Ordinary of said county for letters
of dismission from her said trust, all persons con
cerned are required to show cause in said Court by
the first Monday in August next, if any they can
why said application should not be granted. This
July 7. 1014. l*rs. fee. $3.
L. A. PERDUE. Ordinary.
Letters of Dismission.
GEORGIA—Coweta Couwty:
Mrs. Moltie A Farmer, administratrix on the es-
tateof Millard C. Farmer, deceased, having applied
to the Court of Ordinary of said county for letters
of dismission from her said trust, all persons con-
cerned are required to show cause in said Court
by the first Monday in August next, if any they
can, why said application should not be granted.
This July 7. 1914. Prs. fee. $3.
L. A. PERDUE. Ordinary.
Letters of Dismission.
GEORGIA—Coweta County:
Thomas Leigh, guardian of Lillian B. Harde-
greo, having applied to the Court of Ordinary of
said county for letters of dismission from his said
trust, all persons concerned are required to show
cause in said Court by the first Monday in Au
gust next, if any they can. why said application
should not be granted. This July 7. 1914. Tre. fee,
$3. L. A. PERDUE. Ordinary.
Application for Twelve Months’ Support.
GEORGIA—Coweta County:
The return of the appraisers setting apart twelve
months’ support to tne family of J. C. Adams,
deceased, having been filed in my office, all per
sons concerned are cited to show cause by the
first Monday in August, 1911. why said application
for twelve months' support should not be granted.
This July 7, 1914. Prs. fee.
L. A. PERDUE. Ordinary.
Letters of Administration.
GEORGIA—Coweta County :
Mrs. Nannie E. Cnrmical having applied to the
Court of Ordmnry of said countv for letters of ad
ministration on the estate of E. H. Carmical. de-
A Well Stocked
GROCERY STORE
Is the place where you will save the most
money.
It pays to be economical in buying groceries as
well as anything else. You may not save a fortune
here on every article, but a few cents every now
and then counts in the long run.
Besides the best brands and grades of staple gro
ceries, I always have an assortment of delica
cies, fruits, nuts and country produce.
The quality of the ingredients of fruit cake is
important. I have all the essentials, and they are
the very best.
Remember, every article in this store goes
out with a guarantee.
SWINT
kk TIIE MULLET IvlNG”
coa-sod, all persona concerned are required to show
cause in said Court by the first Monday in August
next, if any they can, why said application should
not be granted. This July 7. 191-1. Prs. fee. $3.
L. A. PERDUE. Ordinary’.
Application for Leave to Sell.
GEORGIA—Coweta County:
T. F. Shackleford, administrator on the estate of
Mrs. E. S. Shackleford, deceased, having applied
to the Court of Ordinary of said county for leave
to sell the landH of said deceased, all persona con
cerned are required to show cause in said Court by
the first Monday in August next, if any they can,
why said application should not be granted. This
July 7. 1914. Prs. fee. S3.
L. A. PERDUE. Ordinary.
Letters of Guardianship.
GEORGIA—Coweta County:
J. A. Grantham having applied to the Court of
Ordinary of said county for guardianship of the
persons and properly of Pauline Banks. Diamond
Banks. Cliff Banks, Ethel Banks, minors, all per
sons concerned are required to show cause in said
Court by the first Monday in August next, if any
they can. why said application should not be
granted. This July 7. 1914. Prs fee. $3.
L. A. PERDUE. Ordinary.’ I
Letters of Guardianship.
GEORGIA—Coweta County:
Lurena Moten having applied to the Court of
Ordinary of said county for guardianship of the
persons and property of Milton Moten. Hattie
May Moten. Francis Moten. Carrie Lou Moten.
Jane Thomas Moten and Evelyn Moten. minors,
all persons concerned are required to show cause
in said Court by the first Monday in August next,
if any they can. why said application should not
be granted. This July 9, 1914. Prs. fee, $3.
E. A. PERDUE. Ordinary.
Libel for Divorce.
Emma Garrison Short / Libel for Divorce. In Cow-
„ va *„* , eta Superior Court. Sep-
Emmett Short. 1 tember term. 1914.
To the defendant, Emmett Short: You are here
by required, in person or by attorney, to be and
appear at the next term of the Superior C urt, to
be held in and for said Coweta county ori the nrst
Monday in September. 1914. then and thero to
answer the plaintiff in an action for a total di
vorce: as, in default thereof, the Court will pro
ceed thereon as to justice shall appertain.
Witness the Hon. R. W. Freeman, Judge of said
Court, this the 9th day of July, 1914.
L TURNER. Clerk.
Administrator’s Sale.
GEORGIA—Coweta County:
By virtue of an order of the Court of Ordinary
of said county, granted at the July term. 191 i.
will be sold at public outcry, on the first Tuesday
in August. 1914. at the court-house in said county,
between the usual hours of sale, to the high' -'
bidder, for cash, the following real estate, to-wit.
A certain vacant lot in the city of Newnan. G ‘
described as follows: Fronting north on Sinu
street fifty-two (52) feet and extending south on •
hundred (100) feet, and being 52 by 100 feet, ami
bounded as follows: On the north by Sixth stre*'.
on the east by Hard Moore place, on the south I v
Frank Wilkinson, and on the west by estate ut
Jennie Lou Pitman. This .July 7, 1914. Prs. u<
$-1.98. E. D. PITMAN.
Administrator Jennie Lou Pitmar.
Sheriff’s Sale for August.
(re-advertised.)
GEORGIA—Coweta County:
Will be sold before the Court-house door in New
nan, Coweta county. Ga., on the first Tuesday >"
August next, between the legal hours of **V
to the highest and best bidder, the following in
scribed property, to-wit:
A certain tract of land, being a two-sixth*
divided interest in the within described proper"'
situate on the west side of Church street, in t, •
town of Grar.tville, said State and count:- 1 -
bounded as follows: On the north by '
Bullock and Geo. West, on tho ea*t by Chun n
street, on the south by Dee Williams ui '
Amanda Williams, and on the west by V 1
Lambert, being the tract sold to Jerry Bui
by Mrs. Itura R. Leigh, executor of J. ‘
ley, with the exception of one acre sold <•:
Willie Bullock. Levied on as tho property “t J’ --
sie Bullock and Jerry Bullock to satisfy u n
issued from the Jastice Court of the 11-'9th -'
trict. G. M.. in favor of W. A. Bohannon Co. '
the said Jessie Bullock and Jerry Bullock. •
fondants in fi. fa. notified in terms of the 1» -
This June 12,1914. Prs. fee, $6.30. . _
J. D. BREWSTER. Sbenif.