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Official Newspaper
of Coweta County.
VOL. VI.
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Official Newspaper
of Coweta Coooly.
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NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 19. 1905.
NO. 6
Read the Advertisements in The News and Trade with its Advertisers.
COTTON ASSOCIATION COMMIT
TEES ADDRE88 TO THE PEOPLE
At'a meeting of the Cotton
Growers Association, on the first
Tuesday, the importance of thor
ough organization of the cotton
association of Coweta county was
A6E0 CITIZEN PA88E8 AWAY.
With sad hearts we chronicle the
death of Mr. John McMichael, who
passed away Sunday morning,
May 7th. He had been in feeble
health for some time. The cause
of his death was due to a stroke of
extensively discussed; strongly ad- 1 paralysis. The deceased was born
vocating the permanency of the ' n Jasper County Sept. 25, 1818.
"Uncle John" as he was familiarly
known, lived about five miles from
Newnan at the time ot his death.
Eighty-seven times he had seen
the "weary winter’s sun return”.
The funeral ceremonies were
conducted by Rev. R. F. Hodnett,
of Turin. After a beautiful and
impressive talk by the pastor the
remains were laid to rest in Pitts
cemetery. The deceased was a
member of the Baptist church; was
a true Christian, neighbor and
friend. He was ever willing to
lend a helping hand in any good
cause, whatever and whenever it
might be.
The deceased was twice married.
He leaves a wife and eleven chil
dren. They have the deep sympa
thy of their friends in this sad be
reavement.
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organization in order to further
the wishes of the association. The
undersigned were requestod to act
as an executive committee and to
complete thorough organization in
each district of the county. There
fore, we earnestly request that the
citizens of each district see that a
complete organization is perfected
and maintained. It is,to our minds,
one of the greatest movements
ever inaugurated for the good of
the country; and it held intact, the
prosperity ot the people will be
clearly observed.
All will admit that this move
ment has already for the cotton
belt saved thousands of dollars in
checking the fall of the price of
cotton. If nothing more is accom
plished, no one can regret the
> movement. That is only an insight
as to what can and will bo done in
the future, with thorough organi
zation. As to what will be advis
ed by this association as to the best
plans for the future, in order to
have concert of action, we do not
suggest, but we feel, at the proper
time, when the call is made for the
assembling of the various organi
zations, there will be a prompt re
newal of this great movement: a
coming together again of the peo
ple of the cotton growing states;
and the necessary plans will be
perfected for our protection and
best interests; not to work a hard-
■ ship on any class of our citizens,
' but to build up our entire citizen
ship in every avocation of life
throughout the cotton belt. And
in building up the farming inter
est, all other varied industries will
prosper alike.
Therefore, we urge every man
• to enroll his name as a member in
this association; and when there is
a call made for a meeting through
out the cotton belt, and in each
and every county, let the people of
Coweta County stand organized
and be ready to respond to the
call with their presence, advice
and influence; advocating what
ever may be adopted, for the best
interests of the people of our sec
tion.
Do not say"It is impracticable.”
"Too many to manage," "Cannot
be done." Nothing can be done
r without effort. Then join the as
sociation and do what you can to
help the cause for which its organi
Ration was founded. Do not be
discouraged because favorable re
sults are not accomplished as
quickly as we expected. Stand
firm and we feel sure that great
good will follow;not only by main
taining a fair price for cotton, but
by diversified crops.
We will not attempt to enumer
ate the varied ways this movement
l^will build up our section. It has
only to be perpetuated in order
to enrich our section.
We must stand organized and be
ready by concert of action to over
come all obstacles that may now
or hereafter exist, that will tend to
cripple or deter the agricultural in
terests of our section.
J H Wynn,
W A Brannon.
J C Sewell,
M C Farmer,
Dr. L M McGee.
J T Carpenter,
1 N Orr,
Committee.
May 10. 1905.
TROUP 8UPERI0R COURT
Nearly all ot last week was de
voted to the trial of criminal cases,
although towards the close of the
week some civil cases were heard.
Judge Freeman presided all of the
week, and impressed all with his
fairness, his legal knowledge and
his unfailing courtesy. On Wed
nesday Solicitor General Render
Terrell was called to Atlanta by a
message announcing the serious
condition of his brother, Dr. E. B.
Terrell, and during the rest of the
I have a pecan tree, two miles
east of Newnan. which bears from
10 to 20 bushels each year.
J. W. Stripling,merchant,
Newnan, Ga.
100 trees like the above would
bring at least $4,000 each year at
only $4 per bushel. If they were
the improved nut, they would
bring $7,000 each year on only 8
acres.
I have t2 pecan trees bearing
regularly. I have kept an account
ot only one tree ot very fine nuts,
which bore last year 150 lbs. for
which I received $39. L. F. Blalock,
Capitalist, Fayetteville, Ga.
We are paying $25 and $35 an
nually for the crops from single
trees and have heard of these fig
ures being doubled.
Smith Bros. Nurserymen,
Concord, Ga.
It was the writer's pleasure some
days ago to see a pecan tree in a
farmer’s yard which he said was
nine years old. He estimated that
it would yield 21-2 bushels that
season. He further said, "The
only regret l have is that I have
not several hundred like it."—The
Peach Grower.
$100 invested in 100 trees like
above would pay from $800 to
improved pecan—-such as the ^3> 000 eac ^ V ear <
Stuart, Columbian, Van Deman— J* Wright, Cairo, Ga., gives a
are universal favorites. Every picture of a pecan tree in his yard,
where the demand is much greater *4 years old, 42 feet high, from
than the supply; although they which was gathered one season 801
command several times the price ! pounds of nuts, ,
of the wild nut. They bear earlier 1 * ^ ave a P ecan tree 34 inches in I
and being larger, the yield is much diameter, from which I gather
l art , cr each year from 300 to 500 pounds!
„.. . , . , . of nuts and sell them for 20 and I Notice
The improved nut has not come 1 , , ,, xt 1 there will
1 25 cents a pound. J. H. Morgan, 1 incr ‘* wm
The Pecan Industry.
BY PROF. A. 8. JONES.
The pecan is a fine species of
the hickory tree and will grow
anywhere the hickory will; but
produces well only in the Southern
States.
We have cultivated and improv
ed the strawberry, the appie, the
peach and many other fruits, until
they are far superior to the original
wild parents; but pecan culture
had been much neglected, until
about 20 years ago. Previous to
that time we seem to have been
satisfied with the wild nut, gathfer-
ed without selection from the for
ests out West; such as are now
found in the stores, These nuts
are not very attractive to the aver
age buyer of nuts, and are not to
be compared to the improved va
rieties; no more than a wild straw
berry is to be compared with the
cultivated berry.
By study and skill, remarkable
improvement, likewise, has been
made in the size and quality of the
pecan. The wild is good, but too
small. Many of them have bitter
partitions. The improved nut has
been made two or three times lar
ger, the bitter taste extracted, and
the kernel made delicious. The
land or money be kept at interest
at eight per cent, the interest col
lected each year and put at inter
est, it will double itself in nine
years. Then in nine years it will
be $20, in 18 years $40, in 27 years
80, in 36 years $160. Therefore,
land worth $10 an acre in woods
thirty six years ago, should bring
$160 now to bring interest at eight
per cent. But in the majority of
cases it will only bring $15 or *20.
If it had been planted then in pe
can trees, it would now be worth
from $500 to $1,000 per acre. For
if an acre of ground bring ten
bushels of nuts at $4 per bushel, it
is $40 an acre. Now $40 is eight
per cent, interest on $500; and any
property that is permanent and
pays $40 should be worth $500.
But if the acre now be in improved
budded trees and produce only
four bushels to the tree—one hun
dred bushels—and bring the small
price for improved nuts of $6.25 a
bushel, a little over thirteen cents
a pound, not half price, it would
bring *625 per acre. But $625 is
oight per cent, interest on $7,800;
so it sivms that the land would be
worth $7,800 per acre, which is
true; but is so incredible, that I
only estimated an acre of land in
improved pecan trees to be worth
from $500 to $1000 per acre. So
you see how much pecan trees will
inhance land.
| To be continued. |
f Among Local Advertisers!
NOTICE OF INTENTION TO APPLY
FOR LOCAL LEGISLATION.
yet into general use, on account of
the scarcity of them and the high
price. Some are being shipped
week Hon. H. A. Hall, of New cver y year to the large,high-priced
nan, acted as Solicitor, and dis
charged these duties most ably,
LaGringe Graphic.
DEATH OF PROF. 8. P. 8N0W
Prof. Samuel P. Snow, who con
ducted the music in the First Bap
tist Church protracted meetings,
in this city recently, died at the
Grady Hospital in Atlanta last
week. The interment occurred in
Jacksonville, Ala.
Prof. Snow was 55 years of age;
and was one of the most widely
known church organists and musi
cians in the South.
During his stay here, Prof. Snow
appeared to be enjoying excellent
health, and his sudden demise was
a great shock to his Newnan
friends and acquaintances.
MAY FE8TIVAL
Saturday afternoon, May 20th,
from 3 to 6 o’clock, the ladies of
the Presbyterian church will give
a May festival, complimentary to
tke children of the church and
Sunday School. The Queen of
May will be crowned, after which
refreshments will be served.
The entire Presbyterian congre
gation is cordially invited to be
present.
AT THE LIBRARY.
Additional attractions in the
Library Reading Room;
Scientific American Building
Monthly; Carpentry and Building;
Scientific American; International
Studio; Everybody’s Magazine;
Munsey’s.
Mrs. D. B. Woodroof, Librarian,
hotels and selling at 35, 50 and
60 cents per pound. The finer
seed varieties are selling at $1 and
$2 per pound. They will grow
anywhere the common nut will
grow, but yield more.
There are many trees of the
common nut in nearly every coun-
Vienna, Ga.
There is a pecan tree near here,
which produces 25 bushels a year.
The Bacon Pecan Co.,
DeWitt, Ga.
ico trees like the last would
produce from $5,000 to $10,000
each year.
The common nut is worth at
wholesale from $3 to $6 per bushel
and the improved nut from $7
ty; and most of them, though ! to $50. These prices are likely to
No, Cordelia, all baseball
ers are not base men.
play-
CARD OF THANK8.
We wish to offer our sincere
thanks to those whoso kindly lent
us assistance during our bereave
ment in the death of our beloved
husband and father. May God’s
blessings rest upon each and every
one of you.
Mrs. John McMichael and Children
small,are of finer flavor than those
grown in the forests out West.
The climate and culture have im
proved them. The yield of this
common nut is enormous and the
improved nut would be larger still;
just as an Elberta peach tree will
bear much more than a peach tree
of smaller kind.
The statements made by the
owners of trees bearing only the
common nut would be considered
gross over-statements, if we did
not know the character of the men
who gave them, and the honorable
positions they occupy.
We give a few testimonials from
which you may calculate the
amount of nuts a grove of such
trees would yield.
I have a pecan tree in my yard
which bears regularly from two to
five bushels a year.
B. T. Thompson,
Pres’t Newnan Banking Co.
This tree should average 3 bush
els each year, and at four dollars
per bushel, would bring $12. 100
such trees would bring $1200 per
year and only require six acres of
ground.
There is a pecan tree on the
Hon. W. B. Berry’s home place in
Newnan, which bears on an aver
age of four l ushels each year, of |
valuable nuts. W. B. Pringle, :
Sec. Newnan Water & Light Com.]
100 trees like the above would :
bring on six acres, $1,600 each;
year, at oniy $4 per bushel.
I have a pecan tree which bore
last year about 10 bushels of good
nuts. W. A. Herring,
Newnan, Ga.
100 trees like above would pro
duce at least $2,000 each year,
counting only 5 bushels to the tree.
be maintained, because sanator-
iums and physicians are now large
ly recommending nut foods, and
besides we are importing $3,000,-
000 worth ot nuts each year, with
an annual increase of $500,000.
The improved pecan will be more
extensively eaten than the com
mon nut. We could not realize
much profit on the common peach,
but when we turned our attention
to improving them and brought the
Elberta and Carman, there has
been a steady demand at remuner
ative prices from large orchards of
500 or 1000 acres. The peach is
perishable and it requires large ice
plants and packing stations; be
sides it requires expert packers,
called from afar. But the pecan
is not perishable; it is not neces
sary to raise ihem bv the car load
—four acres will pay a handsome
income and one hundred will pay
more. Give a drummer a hand
ful, as a sample, and he can sell
quantities for you at ten per cent,
commission. There '» good money
in peaches, but four times as much
in pecans. But you say if your
land had to be sold, it would bring i
no more in pecans. That is a mis
take. I give some testimonials on
this line.
I have 100 pecan trees 13 years
old. I would not take $100 for
each one ot them.
R. S. Middleton, P. M.,
Vienna, Ga.
I have a pecan grove of 50 acres
; on the Chattahoochee river, eleven
years old, and bearing nicely now,
I formed a stock company last
year, and sold a half interest in the
grove for $25,000. E. B. Reed,
West Point, Ga.
Talents in lands or money
should not be buried. If $10 in
i hereby given that
be introduced at the
next session of the General Asscm
bly of Georgia, a bill entitled:
AN ACT to amend the charter
ol the city of Newnan, Georgia,
Coweta County, so as to provide
that a Board of Health shall be
created; to prescribe their term of
office; define their powers, duties
and liabilities, and for other pur
poses.
BA8EBALL LEAGUE MAY BE ORGAN
IZED.
Joe Stephens, Manager of the
Newnan baseball team, will go to
West Point today to attend a
meeting of team managers from
several towns in this part of the
State. The advisability of organ
izing a league will be dismissed.
This mutter has been under con
sideration tor some time, and
seems to meet popular upprovul.
If the league is organized it will
be composed of teams in Newnan,
Hogansville, La Grunge, West
Point, Opelika, Columbus, und
probably some other nearby towns.
Newnan buseballists seem to
fuvor a leugue ; and if it is organ
ized, Newnan will do everything
possible to help make it u success,
Newnan people want to see some
warm bull this summer; und a
leugue ought to help some in the
matter of injecting some ginger
into the busebull situation in this
part of the State.
II, S. Banta is a steady advertis
ing patron of the News. His ads.
are changed every week; and, be
cause they are always new and
readable, are worth your attention.
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No better advertising than that
of Holt & Cates is printed in any
weekly paper in Georgia. They
have a new ad. in the News every
week, and each ad. tells an inter
esting story about the business of
this enterprising drug company.
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C. P. Stephens and Co. are seek
ing to enlarge their already flour
ishing grocery trade, and are plac
ing some live ads. in the News.
They arc live grocers, and live
people will read their ads. in the
News each week.
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The ads. of J. W. Stripling &
Son are a feature of this paper’s
store news. This store is now in
the midst of a great clearance sale.
A new advertisement in this
week’s News is worthy the consid
eration of every reader.
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Orr & Powell, who arc steady
patrons of the News’ advertising
columns, have enlarged their space
and are giving our readers some
live store news. Their ads. are al
ways unique; and always toll an
interesting story about reliable
merchandise.
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The largest advertising contract
ever made by a grocery store in
Newnan has just been closed with
Nunnally it Barrett by the News.
The first of their half page adver
tisements appears in this week’s
News. Nunnally & Barrett suc
ceed V. E. Manget, Jr., in the
grocery business. They are hust
lers and arc making an excellent
start in business. Watch for their
ads. in this paper. There’ll be
something worth the public’s at
tention in each ad.
TWO BARN8 BURNED
Last Saturday morning, Albert
Potts, who lives two miles south
of the city, lost his barn by fire.
It contained 600 bushels of corn
and other feed stuff. Loss was al
most covered by insurance. Origin
of fire unknown.
A barn belonging to T. B. San
ders, five miles north of town, was
burned Wednesday night. Origin
of fire and amount of loss have
not been learned by the News.
MR. RAYMOND J. LEE TO WED MI88
MAY RU88ELL.
Mr. and Mrs. James Harrison
Russell, of this city, have announc
ed the engagement of their daugh
ter, May, to Mr. Raymond J. Lee,
of Atlanta; the wedding to occur
in Juhe. The ceremony will occur
at the bride's residence and the
marriage will be a quiet home af
fair.
This announcement is one of
great interest to the friends of this
young couple. Miss Russell is a
bright, vivacious and popular
young woman. She is distin
guished by the possession of
splendid qualities of heart and
mind, and enjoys the admiration
and esteem of a large circle of
friends.
Mr. Lee is a young man whom
Newnan is pleased to acknowledge
a native of this city. During a
residence of but a few years in At
lanta he has risen to a ^prominent
position in the business world, and
now occupies a most responsible
position in the great store of
Chamberlin-Johnson-Dubose Co.
He is a gentlemen of splended
character, business sagocity and
unquestionable integii y.
GENERAL MEETING.
The general meeting for the
Third District of the Western
Baptist Association will convene
with Elim church on Friday before
the first Sunday in August.
Dr. C. A. Smith, Veterinarian,
treats all diseases of domestic
animals. Calls answered day or
night. Office at Gearreld’s livery
stable. tf
Read the News and be in
swim, first, last and all
time.
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