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NEWNAN HERALD & ADVERTISER
50th YEAR
NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1914.
NO
In
Our New
Quarters
We are now established in our new quarters
on the corner of Jefferson and Madison
streets, and extend a cordial invitation to our
friends to drop in and see us.
We are beginning now to replenish our
stocks in preparation for the fall trade, and
shall be “ready with the goods” to supply ev
erything in our line that may be needed.
We advise our friends to keep cool and not
get demoralized on account of the war in Eu
rope. Ours is a great Government, and will
provide means to take care of the South’s
cotton crop. Be of good cheer. Everything
will turn out right in the end.
irri/VG The High
Cost of Living
«L Good groceries and honest weights solve
the high cost problem. You get what you
* pay for here, and you get the best of what
you order. My idea is to help you. C. I
have the best stock of groceries in town—
both in quality and variety. I have the best
organized store service in town, and, above
all, I have the disposition to please you.
<L Fresh fish, oysters and celery every
Friday and Saturday
J. T. SWINT
T. S. PARROTT
Insurance—All Branches
Representing
Fire Association, of Philadelphia
Fidelity and Casualty Co., of New Yorh
American Surety Co., of New Yorh
Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co.,
of Newark, N. J.
14 1-2 Greenuille st., Ouer H. C. Glouer Co.
GROWING OLD.
A little more tired at the close of day,
A little less anxious to have our way:
A little loss prone to scold and blame,
A little more cure for a brother’s nartio-
Ami so we are nearing the journey’s end,
Where time and eternity meet and blend.
A little less care for bonds and gold,
A little more zest for the days of old,
A broader view and a saner mind,
Ami a little more love fur all mankind;
And so wi! are faring down the way
That loHds to the gates of a better day.
A little more love for the friends of youth,
A little more zeal for established truth;
A little more charity in our views.
A little less thirst for the daily news;
Anil so we are folding our tents away
And passing in silence nt the close of day.
A little more leisure to sit and dream,
A little more real the things unseen;
A little nearer to t hose ahead,
With visions of those long loved and dead;
And so we are going where all must go.
To the place the living may never know.
A little more laughter, n few more tears.
And we shall have told our increasing years;
The book is closed and the prayers are said.
And we are part, of the countless dead;
Thrice happy, then, if some soul can say,
"I live because He hns passed my way.”
Has the Coweta Chamber of Commerce
Earned its Right to Live ?
[.Remarks of Hon. Garland M. Jones at "Geor
gia Products I)»v” dinner Wednesday evening,
18th inst., responding to the toast, "litis the Coun
ty Chamber of Commerce Earned its Right, to
Live?”]
To those familiar with the work done
by the Coweta Chamber of Commerce
during the past eight months, the an
swer to the question propounded by my
subject is self-evident. In order, how
ever, to intelligently answer this prop
osition for those who are not so famil
iar with what has been accomplished, it
is necessary to know—
1st. What a Chamber of Commerce
stands for, and endeavors;
2d. What particular work the Coweta
Chamber of Commerce set out to ac
complish this year; and
3d. What has been accomplished with
the meager amount of money at its dis
posal.
The ideal Chamber of Commerce is
the united, co-operative effort of all
the business interests of a community
to upbuild the commercial, industrial,
manufacturing and agricultural inter
ests of the community. Having only
the small sum of $500 at its disposal,
the Coweta Chamber of Commerce this
year determined to coniine its efforts to
the benefit and upbuilding of the agri
cultural interests of the county, invest
ing the sum subscribed in the services
of a county demonstrator, the other
half of whose salary was paid by the
U. S. Government.
The report of your county demonstra
tor for the year’s work is in the hands
of the president of this association, and
in order to determine intelligently
whether the Coweta Chamber of Com
merce has earned its right to live it is
necessary for me to briefly analyze that
report. The report shows that your
demonstrator has written since March
1 (when he went to work,) 1,000 letters
to the farmers of the county. It shows
that he has traveled in his buggy 3,200
miles, or over 400 miles per month, vis
iting farms in every section of the
county; that he has delivered to the
farmers over 2,000 bulletins and circu
lars in the interest of better farming,
issued by the U. S. Government, or the
State Agricultural Department. It
further shows that he has organized
sixty co-operative demonstration farms
in different sections of the county,
where the land is worked in accordance
with his instructions, the result of this
being an average of 1,750 lbs. of seed
cotton per acre, and 22 bushels of corn
per acre, notwithstanding this has been
a hard year on corn. It also shows that
he has organized a Boys’ Corn Club of
147 members—one of the largest in the
entire State. As a result of this effort
64 boys finished the year, making full
reports, and displayed their exhibits in
Newnan last week. The average pro
duction of corn per acre was shown to
be 42 bushels, at an average cost of 09
cents per bushel, the largest production
being 103J bushels per acre at a cost of
22 cents per bushel. The report further
shows that the county demonstrator or
ganized 25 boys into a Central of Geor
gia Three-crop Club, and that these boys
averaged 2,232 lbs. of seed cotton per
acre, 45 bushels of corn per acre, and
2,650 lbs. of hay per acre, the highest
yield for three acres showing a net
profit, above expenses, of $135. In ad
dition to these, several canning clubs
have been organized among the girls of
the county schools with telling and ben
eficial results.
Those of you who had the pleasure of
seeing the exhibits of the Corn Club
and Canning Clubs in the court-house
last week will agree with me that it
was not only a most creditable display,
but one which deserves the hearty co
operation of all business interests of
the county.
The report further shows that your
demonstrator has sown for the people
of the county 1,120 lbs. of alfalfa and
clover seed, on thirty farms, at an av
erage saving of $2 per acre to the far
mer, and thereby introducing in our
midst these diversified and valuable
crops. In addition to all this, he has
rendered valuable assistance to various
farmers of the county in the selection
of a better grade of cattle and hogs.
the selection of seed, and the growing
of wheat, hay and cover crops.
i heard one of our prominent citizens
unintentionally pay your demonstrator
a high compliment when he said i that
the Coweta Chamber of Commerce had
had a demonstrator here all! the year,
and that he had never seen him. No
wonder. Mr. Wiley was not around
town getting acquainted, but was out in
the country with the farmers, “on his
job.”
After giving this resume of J some of
the work accomplished in the short time
stated, under discouraging conditions
and in an exceedingly difficult year, is
it necessary for me to say more? At
first blush it sounded extreme when I
heard one of Newnan’s prr minent busi
ness men say a few days since that the
Coweta Chamber of Commerce, through
the county demonstrator, had been
worth $100,000 to tlte county this year;
but when you consider the far-reaching
effects of this progressive and enlight
ened development of our agricultural in
terests, in the light of the business pa
ralysis of this section as a result of the
European war and the steady advance
of the boll weevil, I am constrained to
believe that, instead of being an exag
geration, it is really an underestimate
of the present and ultimate benefit of
this great work. Therefore, I say to
you unhesitatingly that the Coweta
Chamber of Commerce has not only
earned its right to live, but deserves
the hearty and enthusiastic indorse
ment and support of every business
man, business organization, and espe
cially every farmer of Coweta county.
It has taught, and is teaching, diversi
fication, intensification and co-operation,
the three essentials to prosperity and
self-support so much needed in this
Southland of ours. This is an age of
co-operation in every line of industry.
Instead of being discouraged, every
thing should be done to encourage it.
In union alone there is strength, and
this applies as well to the business in
terests of a community as to the gov
ernment of States under which we live,
for united we stand with progress,
growth and development along every
line; but divided, we fall upon the rocks
of financial destruction and the chaos
of business depression.
All great progress and development
along any line has been accomplished
by these agencies, as typified by the
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, the
New OrleanB Board of Trade, the Dal
las Commercial Club, and other kindred
organizations which have taken “Mar-
thasvilles” and built from them the me
tropolises of the South. Let us, there
fore, continue to broaden, enlarge and
develop this great work, and, having
once placed our hand to the plow, let us
not in the hour of victory turn back.
What man has done, man can do. Surely,
we who sit around this festal board to
night will not let it be said that we are
less than men. Let us, with one accord,
lend our influence, co-operation and
support to this great work, and to our
able president, who, at great sacrifice,
has labored for the success of this or
ganization, the result of whose labors
will live for years in Coweta county,
and should entitle him to the everlast
ing thanks of his fellow-citizens for his
earnest, valuable and unselfish endeav
ors. Let us, by such co-operation, take
the good old county of Coweta out of
her place as fourteenth and place her
not tenth, nay, not fifth, but first, in
the list of the one hundred and fifty-two
counties of the great State of Georgia.
Better Than Cotton.
Every person who attended the fair
this fall must have been impressed with
the splendid live stock exhibits. There
has been a great improvement in both
the quality and quantity of stock raised
in this section during the past five years.
In this connection we wish to speak
of a pig raised by Miss Myrtle Bryant,
a little miss of twelve years, who lives
in the upper end of this county. Her
splendid accomplishment is hound to
make the boy members of the pig clubs
sit up and take notice.
The pig at nine months old weighed
493 pounds—seven pounds less than 600.
Little Miss Bryant took great pains to
feed the pig in accordance with instruc
tions furnished by the Government Pig
Club agent in Georgia, who has charge
of the demonstration work. He stated
to the editor of The Citizen that this 9-
months-old pig is far ahead of any re
cord. It goes to show what can be done
in the way of hog-raising in Whitfield
county. —North Georgia Citizen.
Despondency Due to Indigestion.
It iB not at all surprising that persons
who have indigestion become discour
aged and despondent. Here are a few
words of hope and cheer for them by
Mrs. Blanche Bowers, Indiana, Pa.
“For years my digestion was so poor
that I could only eat the lighest food. I
tried everything that I heard of to get
relief, but not until about a year ago,
when I saw Chamberlain’s Tablets ad
vertised and got a bottle of them, did I
find the right treatment. I soon began
to improve, and since taking a few bot
tles of them my digestion is fine.” For
sale by all dealers.
“A Severe Test.”
Chriatlnn Index.
Under the above caption, The Chris
tian Herald tolls a remarkable story,
and it is one worth telling out far and
wide, that men may know how the
power of God acts on other men and
leads them to do high and noble things,
quietly and unostentatiously. Hero is
the story:
A noble act, done quietly and with
out ostentation, is recorded of the late
Rev. William B. Palmore, long a lend
ing light of the M. E. Church, South.
Among his father’s papers there was
found an old deed to nearly 6,000 acres
of land in West Virginia. I)r. Palmore
visited the tract and saw that it was
occupied by hundreds of squatter fami
lies, who had built their cottages in the
valleys and on the mountain slopes. I-Ie
saw them in their homes, surrounded
by their wives and children. He went
away as quietly as he came and
thought deeply. His lawyers assured
him his title was incontestable, and the
land was now worth millions. He
prayed over it and thought much of
what would happen to those humble,
thrifty folk if he claimed his rights. It
was a sharp struggle and a severe
temptation; but he had a vision of a
great opportunity which helped to bring
a clear conviction as to his duty. He
had not known of the existence of the
property until a few weeks before his
death, and one of his last acts—and a
very magnanimous und noble one—was
the execution of a complete waiver of
his claims and the granting of a free
hold title to every one of the squatter
householders! It would be difficult to
find a parallel anywhere to this splen
didly generous gift by a Christian pas
tor to the poor homesteaders, whose
names he hardly knew.
But such deeds as this are not all hap
pening far oil' from us. We trust we
are not violating any secrecy when wo
tell another story to go along with this.
Some years ago Bro. E. G. Willingham,
of this city, went to Aripeka, Fla., anil
purchased some property upon which
to build a winter home. There were a
number of families dwelling there on
lots which they had bought, from a man
who had sold them on time, promising
to give titles in full when the last pay
ments were made. When the time
came for some to get their titles, it
was foqnd that none could be given.
The ground upon which their homes
were built had been mortgaged by the
man who started the project. It was
impossible for him to give a title, and
he disappeared. The whole town had
to be sold at auction to satisfy a mort
gage deed. Bro. Willingham bought it
in and became owner of every home in
Aripeka. What a chance to make mon
ey! But a better chance to do a noble
deed. After the arrangements were
all made, he told the people to have no
concern, to be anxious for nothing about
their homes; that for those who had
paid, titles would be made out, and
those who had yet to pay, would re
ceive their titles when the time was up.
Think of a man owning a town, even
though it be a small one, and making
no money out of the possession when
there was so good an opportunity. But
he made something so much better!
Newspaper Blunders.
Newberry (S. C.) Obuorvor.
One of the things that make the edi
tor grow old and gray before his time
is the errors — “typographical” and
otherwise—that get into his paper. He
finds it out after tho paper is printed.
Kind friends by the dozens remind him
of it, and keep on reminding him, until
he wishcB he never saw a paper. He
goes to the printer and blows him up,
and the printer produces the “copy”
with a sardonic grin and proves it on
the editor.
The Observer makes a good many
blunders in one way and another. Most
of them don’t amount to anything, but
some arc very annoying. For instance,
it once described a bride's veil in a
wedding write up as “flimsy;” but that
was tho fault of tho society editor, who
did not write “filmy” plain enough.
Another time it described a bride’s
dress or gown us a “lively” blue, when
itshould have been “lovely.” And soon;
we could extend these instances at con
siderable length, but enough is Baid to
indicate the troubles of “ye editor.”
The fact is, considering the rush and
hurry of a country office, where the ed
itor does 40 other things a day besides
“editing” a paper, it is a wonder he
ever gets anything right.
So—
"To hlH faultH be a littla blind.
And to hi« virtuvary kind.”
And—
"Don’t view him with u critic’s oyo,
But puHH hi* iinperfoctionH by.”
Maybe if you were reduced to the
direful necessity of editing a newapa-
er in a country town you would make
unders, too.
Ei
Important.
Bear in mind that Chamberlain’s Tab
lets not only move the bowels but im
prove the appetite and strengthen the
digestion. For sale by all dealers.
Curtailment and the Price of
Cotton.
Rome Tribuno-Herald.
Not only will a material curtailment
of cotton acreage next year be dis
tinctly beneficial to the cotton planter,
but just as soon as it becomes known
that the acreage is to he largely re
duced the price of cotton will advunce.
In fact, the apparently earliest senti
ment among intelligent cotton planters
for curtailment, and an increasing im
pression that this policy will actually
be pursued, has had a tendency to in
crease the price of cotton. Reports are
to the effect that Georgia farmers have
already agreed to reduce the acreage
in this State to 42 per cent. The
reduction should perhaps bo still great
er. Yet if cotton buyers can bo con
vinced of the sincerity of this agree
ment, the price should at once advance
materially. Just how the buyers are
to be convinced that the acreage is to
bo reduced is not altogether apparent
They will have to take the declara
tions of tho farmers at their face value
for there is no other way to convince
They should, however, take in connec
tion with this tho great necessity for
reduction in acreage, and the disaster
that would occur should the promise
not be carried out. Early next year it
will bo seen how far the curtailment of
acreage will be carried out, and if the
promises of the farmors are fulfilled
there is no doubt of an advance in price.
The law of supply and demand will be
a real factor in the cotton market,
just as it is in business of every kind.
Tho world needs only so much of a pro
duct. When the available supply is a
good deal larger than the world needs,
as was tho case as regards this year's
cotton crop, the price goes down, and
vice versa. So far as tho Tribune-
Herald can figure out, the farmers are
sincere in their intention to do so. It
is not necessary to give them any fur
ther advice on the subject. They have
been fully informed as to every detail
and every contingency. It is for the
farmers to act in the manner that is
best suited to their interests.
ilomarkablo Cure of Croup.
“Last winter when my little boy had
croup I got him a bottle of Chamber
lain's Gough Remedy. I honestly be
lieve it saved his life.” writes Mrs. J.
B. Cook, Indiana, Pa. “It cut the
nhlegm und relieved his coughing spells.
1 am most grateful for what this reme
dy has done for him.” For sale by all
dealers.
The Supply of Babes.
Tld-liita.
It has been computed that about 36,-
000,000 babies are born into the world
each year. The rate of production is
therefore about 70 per minute, or more
than one for every beat of the clock.
With the one-a-second calculation
every reader is familiar, but it is not
everyone who stops to calculate what
this meuns when it comes to a year’s
supply. It will, therefore, probably
startle a good many persons to find, on
the authority of a well-known statisti
cian, that, could tho infants of a year
be ranged in a line, tho cradles would
extend around tho globe.
Tho same writer looks at tho matter
in a moro picturesque light. He im
agines the babies being carried past a
given point in their mothers’ arms,
one by one, and the procession being
kept up night and duy until the last
hour in the twelfth month has passed
by. A sufficiently liberal rate is al
lowed, but oven in going past at the
rate of 20 a minute, 1,200 an hour, dur
ing the entire year, the reviewer at his
post would have seen only the sixth
part of the infantile host.
In other words, the babe that had to
be carried when the tramp began would
be able to walk when but a mere frac
tion of its comrades had reached the
reviewer’s post, and when the year’s
supply of babies was drawing to a close
there would be a rear-guard, not of in
fants, but of romping 6-year-old boys
and girlH.
CAN YOU DOUBT IT?
When the Proof Can Bo so Easily
Investigated.
When so many grateful citizens of
Newnan testify to benefits, derived
from Doan’s Kidney Pills can you
doubt the evidence? The proof is not
far away—it is almost at your door.
Head what a resident of Newnun says
about Doan’s Kidney Pills. Can you
demand more convincing testimony?
Mrs. A. M. Askew. 76 E, Washing
ton street, Newnan, Ga., says: "The
cure Doan’s Kidney Pills made in my
daughter’s case has been permanent.
Bince then I have taken Doan’s Kidney
Pills myself and have been cured of
annoying symptoms of kidney com
plaint. The trouble was brought on
by an attack of la grippe which weaken
ed my kidneys. The kidney secretions
were unnatural and caused me no end
of distress. I felt weak and run down
and was indeed in bad shape when I got
Doan’s Kidney Pills from the Lee
Drug Co. It did not take them long
to remove the trouble.”
Price 50c, at all dealers. Don’t sim
ply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan’s
Kidney Pills—the same that Mrs.
Askew had. Foster-Milburn Co., Props.,
Buffalo, N. Y.
