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The Herald and Advertiser NEWNAN. F It 1 1) A Y , JULY 17 I.AU'M HT Ol AllAN* V' • V I'OUKl II • ONI v. »UNTilV um« I'l.Al l'»N IKMiMOdA 1. DIHTHIl r. Official Oreati of Cowsla County. —1- 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^ ~we'M MM 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.