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NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY. APRIL 28. 1905.
NO. 3
THE NEWS IS THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF COWETA COUNTY.
TO THE PUBLIC
A word to the people, in expla
nation ot the purposes of the Sam
uel Haver Monument Assosiation,
is perhaps desirable at this time.
This Association was organized,
not for the purpose of soliciting
subscriptions or donations to the
proposed fund, but in order to give
the friends of the deceased, and
each of them, an opportunity of
contributing, and thereby paying
a last, loving tribute to this gener
ous and big hearted man.
There are, no doubt, few people,
old or young, black or white, who
have not been generously dealt
with in some way, by Sam L.
Haver, and these are the people
who are in position to contribute
voluntarily to the fund.
For the information of the gen
eral public, I desire to state that
we are more than pleased with the
amount contributed so tar; and
that the movement is beyond
doubt a success; and any one who
has not had a chance to subscribe
can now do so by calling on me at
the court house or by handing
same to the cashier of either one
of banks here. Contributions are
highly appreciated, whether large
or small. VV. L. Stallings,
Secretary
cessful mercantile business at Ny-
son for several years, and in his
public dealings with his fellowman
was always considered honest and
upright.
The funeral service was con
ducted at his home Saturday after
noon at 2 o’clock, after which the
remains were brought to the cem
etery at this place for burial.
—Senoia Enterprise-Gazette.
A MUSICAL TREAT*
MEMORIAL DAY EXERCISES
DIED AT LA GRANGE MILLS
Rev. J. T. Daniel died at four
o'clock on last Friday morning at
his home at the La Grange Mills.
The cause of his death was pa
ralysis. He was buried on Satur
day afternoon, the remains being
interred in Hill View cemetery.
Mr. Daniel was a former resident
of Heard county, and during the
war was a gallant Confederate sol
dier. He leaves a wife and several
children.—La Grange Graphic.
ODD FELL0W8 CELEBRATED.
Prof. F. Samuel P. Snow gave a
very delightful piano and song
lecture-recital in the annex of the
First Baptist church, Monday
night. He was assisted by Miss
Nina Perdue, one of Newnan’s
most talented musicians. Miss
Perdue’s selections were from
Chopin, and were interpreted
with art and skill.
Prof. Snow rendered several very
beautiful selections from Schumann
and Godard His vocal selections
were very fine and his appreciative
audience was delighted and bene
fited. Prof. Snow is a most tal
ented musician and it is well worth
one’s time to hear him.
Newnan Odd Fellows had an
enjoyable meeting at their hall in
this city Thursday night, celebrat
ing the 86th anniversary ot the
order’s founding. Judge W. R.
Campbell, of LaGrange, delivered
an inspiring address, after which
refreshments—abundant and de
lectable—were served. During
the evening sixteen candidates
Memorial Day exercises, con
ducted in the Auditorium last
Wednesday afternoon, were wit
nessed by the largest crowd that
ever assembled there. The build
ing was filled to overflowing. Ex-
Confederate veterans and Daugh
ters of the Confederacy occupied
the stage, while the floor was
packed with about five hundred
school children and several hun
dred other persons. Music for the
occasion was furnished by a sec
tion of the Marine Band ot Cin
cinnati, which was secured from
Atlanta. The band rendered ex
cellent selections throughout the
day and furnished delightful en
tertainment
Col. George H. Carmical was
master of ceremonies during the
memorial exercises. First, Dr.
James Stacy was introduced to the
audience and offered an eloquent
invocation. Then Miss Clestelle
McLeroy recited “The Bivouac
of the Dead” in a most expressive
and artistic manner. Hon. H. A.
Hall then presented the orator of
the day, Hon. J. (*). Nolan of Mc
Donough, to the audience.
Mr. Nolan spoke for more tlfan
an hour, delivering one of the
most beautiful speeches ever heard
in Newnan. His tributes to the
Confederate dead, the veterans,the
women of the old South and the
Daughters of the Confederacy
were initiated. This lodge now j were masterpieces of splendid word
has a membership of 140, and is
making splendid progress in all
the work of the order.
HONOR ROLL
The following pupils of Farm
ers High School have made a gen
eral average of 90 per cent, or
more in their studies, including
deportment, for the month of
April:
First Grade: Alton Murphey,
95; Allie Boone, 92; Eloise Little,
99; Ralph Warren, 94; Willie Win
kies, 96; Alma Holman, 95.
Second Grade: Louise Allen,
95; Robert Burke, 96; Whit Hoi
man, 94; Edgar Pritchett, 95.
Third Grade: Lizzie May Sew
ell, 95! J° e Boone. 93; Willie
Ward, 95; Lillian Murphey, 90;
Ruth Pritchett, 96; Carrie Prit
chett, 90, Altha Sewell, 94.
Fourth Grade: Lucile Warren,
95; Stacy Allen, 93; Mattie Sue
Bridges, 95; Margie Sue Allen, 96
Ruby Burke, 95.
Fifth Grade: Hattie Bridges, 97
Myrtie Boone, 95; Myrtie Sewell
92; Leonard Sewell, 96.
Sixth Grade: Lelia Bridges, 99;
Berta Warren, 98.
Seventh Grade: Annie Morris,
99; Maude Warren, 99; Paul War
ren, 98; James Austin, 98.
F\ Roy Almon, Prin.
FARMER8, TAKE NOTICE!
A meeting of Coweta Branch of
Southern Cotton Growers Asso
ciation will be held in the court
house at ten o’clock, a. m., on the
first Tuesday in May. President
Brannon has some important state
ments to make to the people, and
some interesting reports will be
heard. Farmers and business men
of Coweta county, don’t fail to at
tend this meeting!
Moreland
W. M. ARNALL DEAD.
Jim Pierce is in Tennessee this
week.
E. C. Cureton went to Newnan
Sunday.
Mrs. Maggie Polk went to Grant-
viile Monday.
J. T. Morris, of Newnan, was in
our midst Sunday evening.
R. F. Brannon entertains a
young man at his home this week.
Hugh Camp and E. B. Cotton
went to Luthersville one night
last week.
H. W. Camp and Edgar Fuller
made a flying trip to Meriwether
county yesterday,
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Haynes spent
a few days with relatives in Meri
wether county this week.
We are glad to see our Wednes
day night prayer meeting in a
prosperous condition. Would be
glad to see a still larger attend
ance,
James W. Haynie seems to he
well pleased with his new cotton
chopper. He says it will do the
work O. K, which means a saving
of many dollars to the farmers if
it oroves a success.
painting. The sentiments ot the
speaker were frequently and hear
tily applauded, thus showing that
he spoke to an appreciative audi
ence.
At the conclusion of Mr.Nolan’s
address, Miss Frances King
in a touching and striking
ner, the words of "The Conquered'
Banner,” P'ather Abram J. Ryan’s
pathetic apostrophe to the Confed
erate flag. Crosses of Honor were
then delivered to a number of
veterans by the Daughters, Rev.
W. J. Cotter pronounced the bene
diction and the audience adjourn
ed to the cemetery to decorate the
graves of Confederate dead.
An imposing procession, headed
by Col. George H. Carmical and
a number of veterans on horses,
accompanied by the band and a
long line of carriages, marched to
the cemetery, P'ive hundred school
children, bearing garlands of flow
ers and evergreens, also marched
to the city of the dead to lay their
tributes of affection and fond
remembrance on the tombs where
in repose the dust of Coweta’s
fallen heroes.
connection between this deplor
able question and the solemn duty
and pleasure the people of the
South have assumed of gathering
once a year and with word and
flowers, honoring our fallen heroes.
He advocated that which leads
to the overthrow of law and order
without bringing one thing that is
good in return.
Lynching does not. deter the
perpetration of this crime any
more than the execution of the
criminal under the forms of law.
He dies and what is the difference
to him. The love of life and the
fear of death in either case oper
ate upon his mind. So nothing
can be gained by lynching; but we
lose much. We wrong ourselves
when in anger and revenge we
take life, and we strike a blow at
our judiciary and civil liberty. In
other words, we sow the wind and
reap the whirlwind.
The man who commits this
crime forfeits his right to live and
he should be speedily tried and
executed. But neither God nor
man has clothed me or any one
else with the authority or right to
kill him contrary to the forms of
law.
Six hundred of our girls and
boys were taught that it was a
sacred duty to torture and burn
any man guilty of this crime. I
write to enter a solemn protest to
this part of Mr. Nolan's oration,
and I trust and believe, I voice, at
the same time, the sentiments of
many, yes, very many of our law
abiding people.
Save this defect, this oration in
taught and diction was of the
highest order. It is a source of
lament that any criticism should
sang [have to be made upon such an el-
man-] tort, and this protest with many
regrets, is entered from a sense
of duty. Alvan D. F’reeman.
MEETING OF VETERANS.
Coweta Camp, No. 1161, Con-
vederate Veterans, held a meeting
in the court house Wednesday
morning, Commander John B.
Goodwyn presiding. There was a
large attendance of veterans and
an enthusiastic meeting.
Rcv.W. A. Barks, of Whitesburg,
opened the Camp with prayer.
Speeches were made by Rev. W.
A. Parks, Commander Goodwyn
and Messrs. W. S. Askew, J. S.
Moore and J. D. Arnold. Dele
gates to the Louisville reunion
were elected, as follows: Messrs.
W. B. Orr, W. A. Parks and H.
W. Camp. Delegates were accord
ed permission to select their own
alternates.
Milltown.
JUDGE A. D. FREEMAN 8 CRITICISM
OF MEMORIAL DAY 8PEECH.
Dresden
It is sad indeed, to chronicle the
death of Mr. W. M. Arnall, which
occurred at his home at Nyson
last Friday evening about 3 o’clock.
He was the second son of Judge
J. M. Arnall, and; like the others
of this noble family, was loved by
all who knew him.
He was about 34 years of age, r
and leaves a devoted and loving
wife and three small children.
Mr. Arnall had conducted a suc-
DEATH OF MRS. MARY BEVIS.
Newnan, Ga., April 27, 19>5.
Mr. Editor:—
Please give me space in your ex
cellent paper for the purpose of
making an observation or two up
on the oration of Mr. J. Q Nolan
on yesterday, our late memorial
occasion.
The speech in some respects was
a most remarkable one. It was
strong and poetic in thought and
clothed in the. most beautiful and
ornate language. In fact it was
the finest word painting to which
I have ever listened, save when
Rev.Mr. Hicks preached here dur
ing the Methodist Conference in
1873-
His tribute to the soldiers of the
Confederacy and the women of
of
J. W.Dickson is in feeble health.
Mrs. Kate Davis has been indis
posed for several days.
Miss Minnie Orr,of Enon Grove,
is visiting the Misses Ball this
week.
Wheat and oats are looking fine.
Gardens have improved since the
frost and are looking much better.
Col, W. S, Hubbard and Will
Arnold, of Newnan, made a busi
ness trip to our community one
day last week.
Services were well attended at
Providence last Saturday and Sun
day. Able and instructive sermons
were preached both days.
The house of Mrs. Donie Luck-
ie caught fire last Friday, but the
flames were extinguished before
any serious damage resulted.
Mrs. C. A. Hubbard, accompan
ied by her little son, Sanford, is
staying with her mother, Mrs. J
M. Davis, who is very sick and not
expected to live.
B. H. Tompkins and Carl
Cavender passed with two large
droves of cattle last Friday. Mr.
Tompkins had the finest bull we
have ever seen, which demon
strates that cattle raising would be
profitable to our farmers.
A good stand of corn, where it 1
was planted early, and
Mont Smith has moved back in
to our midst,
George Sorrels went ,to White
Hall last Saturday to see his fath
er.
The infant boy of Mr. and Mrs.
John Thomson is quite ill with
pneumonia.
Bon Moore has moved back from
Banning and located in one of our
new houses.
Mr. and Mrs. Charley Turner
visited relatives and friends in La
Grange last Sunday.
John Goins and family arc back
with us again, after trying other
parts tor two or three years.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Mobley have
gone to keeping house and arc oc
cupying one of the new buildings.
Sunday was our regular meet
ing day and our pastor preached
two good sermons and had full
houses.
Erie Allen went down to West
Point last Sunday morning. We
are not supposed to tell what he
went tor.
Little Vera, daughter of Mrs.
Tom Ozmore, is very much im
proved, after a severe attack of
pneumonia.
Will Burks has moved his family
from Hogansville and are occupy
ing the rooms recently vacated by
Melvin Matton.
Our Sunday school is increasing
as the weather gets better. Our
little folks are setting us older
ones a good example.
Mrs. Sarah Black came down
from Palmetto and spent last Sat
urday and Sunday with her daugh
ter, Mrs. J. H. Horton.
Will Cobb and wife, who have
been living for some time on Jack-
son St., have moved into the house
recently vacated by John Allen.
We had a holiness preacher by
the name ot Lon Lewis in, our
midst last week, and he preached
for us Saturday night and Sunday
afternoon to splendid audiences.
nent citizen of La Grange, and ex
representative from his county;
spent Saturday and Sunday with
the family of his son, E. W. Ham
mett.
Farmers out in this neck of the
wooejs are going from “early morn
to dewy eve” planting the cotton
crop, and it looks as if there would
be very little room for reduction
of the acreage.
The News came to us last week
enlarged and otherwise very much
improved. The people of the
county can not fail to see and ap
preciate these efforts to give them
an up-to-date weekly.
The Sunday school address to
be delivered at the Baptist church
here by Col. L. M. Farmer on the
afternoon of the 14th, prox., has
been changed to the forenoon of
the same date at 10 o'clock. This
action was made necessary by the
fact that this was the regular
preaching day and it was thought
best to have both services at the
same time.
Notwithstanding the disagree
able day, both our Sunday schools
were largely attended last Sunday.
These schools, under the skillful
management of Capt. J. H. Wynn
at Ebenezer, and W, E. E. Mar
tin at Cokes are a power for great
good in the community, and we
earnestly urge all to come out and
give us the benefit of your pres
ence and influence.
Kedron
Mrs. Mary Bevis, a well known
lady of the F’ourth District, died
at her home near Handy Thursdayj that period and the daughters
morning, The burial occurred the Confederacy was timely and of
Friciay morning at Elim. She j the very highest order,
was the wife of James Bevis, and; But it was a great mistake when
ig survived by her husband and he advocated lynch law. It was a
,ee children. Mrs
about 70 years of age.
Bevis was
Read the News and be in
source of unfeigned regret that he
should have availed himself ot this
occasion to express his views swim, first, last and all
Read The News ar.d keep posted' upon this matter. There was no time.
Miss Rosa Hammett spent last
Sunday in Newnan, the guest of
Miss Bertha Hubbard.
Mrs. Amanda Edmonson, of At
lanta, after an extended visit to
her brother,Judge Henry N. Ham
mett, has returned to her home.
Miss Mim Chandler will leave
larger j j n a few days for a stay of some
acreage is being planted than ever ' we eks with her sister, Mrs. La
before. More corn means more j Fayette Stephens, at Tallapoosa,
hogs, fatter stock and better tiroes j Q a>
for the farmer.In walking through j^ rg Jas. A. Aycock and little i aspirants equally as capable?
the fields we observe that land has ’ 1 '"
been washed less than before at
this time of the year. And with | parentS( Major and Mrs. W. W.
proper preparation and fertiliza- 1 q’homas.
tion, the farms are in good condi-, ^ Vineyard, who has been seri
ously sick with appendicitis, is
much improved, and his many
friends hope for him a
recovery.
Hon. J. D. Hammett, a
Handv
Easter gowns made on the ground,
F’urls anil frills galore;
The Handy girls, in smiles and
curls
Are the sweetest girls we know.
Mrs. John Bevis is very ill with
pneumonia.
The Sunday School at Elim
grows in interest and activity.
The News in its new dress is
pretty; and we congratulate the
Editor on its improvement.
Miss t)ra Montgomery, of More
land, who has been teaching a
school in this vicinity, has gone
home for vacation.
The complications of the weath
er and the miscarriage of our first
plans leaves us almost stranded,
but we have a long season, so we
can and must come again.
One Glass, of Newnan—thougli
not the one that forms and reflects
our idle and vainglorious images—
but the lucid mirror of common
law and statutory enactment—was
on last week’s unlucky day,
seeking redress for a client in our
district court of justice. Machine
dealer Mangum also chanced to
happen on the scene. Mangum is
the salt of th« earth—nor has the
salt lost its savor.
Judge A D. Freeman threw a
firey brand into the political furn
ace—consequently the sparks are
flying and the pot is “bilen”. Clark
Howell, the candidate for governor
of Sam Jones and Sam Small, is
flooding this county with his cam
paign stuff. Are the people of
this county going to support him?
We think not—-we hope not. He
is the same Howell that moved
heaven and earth through his pa
per to defeat our lamented friend
and fellow countyman, W. Y. At
kinson, for Governor and did suc
ceed in defeating him for the
United States Senate. Are we
going to swallow all that and make
him Governor over a half dozen
We
i daughter, Nellie, of Carrollton, j P eo P' e Gt this district play the
■ are on a visit to Mrs. Aycock’s game of poht.es for what it is worth
tion for another crop.
the
the i
and some times we are as anxious
to see our enemv run as our friend
—just to get to beat him. Now
we are going to measure it back to
Flditor Howell in his own Shalf
bushel. Now let him run "and
speedy i when Handy unlimbers he will
^ -M find himself in the minority col-
| umn ani numbered with the boys
promi- who “a so ran”.