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1 POTTS AND PARKS j I » f ♦ Dress Goods, Silks, Velvets. The Infest stylos nn: found at t hin store in everything ]>*>r- tnining to Indies’ apparel ; but wo want your attention on our strong lino of dress goods, which in I ho largest ami most up-todalo within (his market, and all fresh and bright. j NEXT WEEK { \\' ( will show some special grades of all wool Henriettas in go ' ns, reds, castors and blacks at unusually low figures,and trimmings to match each shade, whether it or velvets. braids, silks Broadcloths. New lot just in—garnets, greens and grays—prices, 85c, *1 and 1*1,25 per yard. See our hlaci: cloth at 1*1.75 and $2.00 per yard. Silks, Silks. Ten shades of yard wide changeablo and solid shades of taf fetas al per yard, #1.00; twelve shades of striped taffetas, chiffon finish, one yard wide at #1 25 a yard. See the new Alice blue, Reseda and Myrtle greens und garnet just opened. Velvets and Velveteens. the greater part of its population being in the city of Athens. In the apportionment 55 coun ties ate given upwards of $10,000 ■ each. Home of the largest sums ! apportioned are as follows; Bibb | county, $87,960.12; Carroll, $20,- 900.88; Chatum, $40,985.90; Meri wether, $21,842.12; Richmond, $4.2.5.85.80; Washington, $28,- i 252.78. Coweta county gets $15,5.29.64 in the apportionment; and the I City of Newnan gets $2,807.20;' making the t<ilal sum, $18,290.84. j Hchool funds of counties adjoin ing Coweta are its follows: Camp- Iboll, $8,198.90; Fayette, $7,209.18; ! Meriwether, $21,842.12; Troup, $15,475.90; Heard, $8,111.82; Car- | roll, $20,906.28. Newnan is thirteenth among the cities of the State in the si/.e of its J school fund. The small cities in | the State that outrank Newnan in this respect, and their apportion- 1 tnent of the fund, are as follows: A me ricus, $4,670.22; Bain bridge, $2,881.40; (lainesville, $2,750.08; (Irifliu, $4,012.80; bad range, 3,- 982.50; M a r i e 11 a, S'lteiftalChristmas at the Big furniture Store Mrs. A. H. Nuniially was in Atlanta Monday and Tuesday. Mrs. H. L. Favor nnd Miss KateFaver were in Atlanta last Tuesday. Miss Dorothy Bnrpeo lias recovered from an illness lasting several days. Mrs. Fannie Brook, of Hogansville, sjieiit Monday with Mrs. Loui Close. Miss Emmie Young Conyers is at home from Palmetto to spend the holi days. The Big Furniture Store is tilled Mr. J. W. Wilooxon is able to be out again, after a severe illness lasting two as well as appropriate ami artistic. weeks. Cnpt. Habersham King tins returned from n business trip to various cities 111 Tennessee. Mr. P. T. MoCntohen is spending the week in Frankliu looking after bis news paper there. Hon. A. C. Ware, of Heard County, was mingling witli friends in Newnan last Saturday. Mr. G. R. Bradley was in Atlnntn Saturday night to see the play "The Shepherd King.” $2,080,80; | Mr. Allers Hertel lias been in Balti- with useful and appropriate Christ mas presents. A stock of furni ture ami house furnishings as com plete as ours affords a wide range of articles from which to select gifts for old and young and people of all other ages. Something suit-’ able for any member of the family, or any friend, may be obtained i here at a reasonable price; and any article purchased will have the added distinction of being useful, Come and see our stock and note how many acceptable Christmas gifts are to be found in this vast ar ray of merchandise. Thomasville, $8,032.42; Wayoross, $2,949.44. If the limits of Newnan were ex . tended to include a large number of people who ought to be in tin- city, and who for till practical purposes of life are really a part of the city, Ncwnan’s school fund would 1»- seventh’or eighth in size All tlm phpblnr shades of velvets at $1.00 a yard. Velveteen for suits or waists, 24 inches wide at 50c a yard, WE SELL Gold Medal black goods, Krippendorf-Dittman shoes, Amer ican Lady corsets, Ruttonek patterns. POTTS 6 PARKS Dry Goods, Dress Goods, Notions, Shoes The Newnan News Issued Every Friday. J. T. FAIN, Editor and Publisher SUBSCRIPTION RATE. $1.00 PER YEAR. OFFICIAL PAPER OF COWETA COUNTY. ’Phono No. 20. OFFICE UP STAIRS IN THE WILCOXON BLO B POLITICAL ARGUMENT(P> & (hr tUc list of twenty-live rep- v rcsentutivo citizens to provide ways and means for the great At on the committee the News dqcs not know. Neither does it know why five hundred other prominent citizens of Atlanta were not platted on a committee composed of only twenty-five citizens; and the Grif fin News und Sun and the Colum bus Knquiret-Snn are equally as w ise and well informed in regard to these matters us the News. 'Phis is not a matter of grave im darj-ollton last Saturday, nfter spending in the State, .instead of thirteenth. Home time horn with relntivos. This is a fact onr citizens may " ..... store away for future reference, in case they are again called upon to vote on the question qf extending the city’s limits'. COTTON 6R0WER8 ARE ON TOP. The cotton growers of the South are masters, at last, of the problem more tin- pnst week, where lie was call ed by business matters. Miss Etta Oonkle lias returned to At lanta, after spending severnl months here engaged in business. Mrs. Barrow and little Kntherine Her tel were in Atlauta several days, recent ly, with MiBs Groce Barrow, •• Miss Mary Lon Holmes returned to DEPOT 8T. E. O. REESE, NEWNAN, 6A. Newnan Marble Works, J. E. ZACHARY, Proprietor. All Manufacturer and Dealer in ‘ Kinds Marble and Granite „ * Georgia Marble a Specialty. All work guaranteed to be First Class in every particular. Parties needing any thing.in our line are requested to call, examine work, and get prices. Hugh W. Orr and family have re turned to Washington City, after a pleasant stay with relatives and friends in Nowunn. Philip Orr and Miss Benetta Orr, who came' homo to attend the Orr-Wyim wedding, bnvo returned to Uox College and Mercer University. Miss Mary Lo\nsu Smith, daughter of Mr., and Mrs. $. O.- Smith, will arrive from Now York next Sunday and will of marketing, tlmir product, be with her parents in this city junta nee, however; und the News calls attention to it merely ms an masters of the problem of cotton While nil are not banded together in the’Southern Cotton Associa tion, enough farmers and business men to effectually control the cot ton situation are identified with this great organization. At last, it is evident to all that Southern farmers Can practically nx the price of cpttou, regardless of tlje efforts of bear speculators and estimators. .. ■ * Business men in other lines years ago saw that this thing could lu- accomplished by organization and concerted efforts of Southern farmers. The farmers were slow to see through the problem; but now they realize that control of the situation is in their hands and that, in a large measure, they are E. E. Davis and family lmvo removed from this city to Roopville, Carroll county. Mr. Davis was a good citizen and Newuau is sorry to loso him. Dr. T. S. Bailey and Mr, W. H. llutt- aker went up to Atlauta.Saturday to see the performance of “The Shepherd King.” They roinaincii in that city uutil Monday. .. Miss W.iUie Luoilo Dobbins, a young lady of Atlanta, who resided in Newinui several years ago, will be married on OFFICE AND WORKS NEAR R. R. JUNCT’N. NEWNAN, GA. DR.T. B. DAVI8, licHidcnuu 'Phone 6-three calls.’ DR. W. A. TURNER, * Residence 'Phono DAVIS & TURNER SANATORIUM; Corner College and Hancock Sts., NEWNAN, - - - GEORGIA. illustration of the luminous and enlightening discussions of politics and politicians which are freqnent- lanta exposition in 1910, ('lark j jy indulged in by certain newspa- IIowell’s name appears fourth,' while Hoke Smith's dues not ap pear at all. That is the way they stand in Atlanta, where they are liest known.—Griflin News iS: Sun. pern. APPORTIONMENT OF SCHOOL FUND. production and marketing. In its issue of Jan. 11, 1905, the News, editorially, endorsed the organization of the Coweta County Cotton Growers’ Association, and prophesied the result of a determ ined and concerted effort to hold cotton and reduce the acreage. This was before the New Orleans High, central and quiet location. All surgical and medical cases taken, except' contagious diseases. Trained nurse constantly in attendance. Rates $5.00 per day: Private office in building. ’Phone 5 two calls. Davis & Turner Sanatorium. The alKive paragraph is a fair i With the exception of the new sample of the rot many Georgia; counties and those old counties convention was held and the newspaiH-rs dish up for their from which portions were taken to Southern Cotton Growers Associa- readers—under the delusion, pos- j form the new ones, the apportion- tion organized. The original cot- sibly, that they are indulging in I meut of the common school fund j ton growers’ association in this di8Cussiou of political issues or the | for 1900 has Ihhmi completed by j county was an independent or- quuliflotttionK and litness ol can didates for oflice. The News confesses it was sur prised to liud this paragraph in State School Commissioner W. 11.! ganization; and. after the New Merritt. j Orleans convention it become a The reason no apportionment' county branch of the Southern lias yet been made to the new, Association. the Columbus Enquirer Sun and • counties and to the old counties; credited to the Grillin News and Sun. It is not to the credit of these daily papers that they allow such arrant nonsense to appear in their columns, even in small con signments. The News knows not whether Clark Howell or Hoke Smith is the more popular citizen of Atlanta, it has never eared enough about the matter to attempt to solve this weighty problem. However, the News does know (as every other newspaper and intelligent citizen of the State knows) that Clark Howell was named on that com mittee of twenty-live simply l>e- cause he is editor of the Constitu tion. J. It. Gray, editor of the Journal, and John Temple Graves, editor of the News, are both mem bers of the committee. In other words, the editors of all the At lanta dailies were wisely given places on the committee. "Why Hoke Smith was not placed Thus early the News saw that from which they were formed, is j this movement, if persistently, that no definite and final agree- consistently and unanimously fol- ments have yet been reached : lowed up by the Southern farmers, among the counties so effected, as would enable them to so plan the to the school population in the new 1 size of the crop and so market counties and the old ones. The their product as to obtain reason- school fund apportionment is made able prices for it, and relieve the wholly on a basis of school popula- cotton growers from their helpless tion taken from the last school bondage in the grasp of specula- eensus. As no school census has tors, been taken since the formation of In a large measure, the things the new counties, it will lie neces- predicted by the News have come sary for the new counties and the to pass. The Cotton Growers’ old ones affected, which are about Association is a success; and the twenty in number, to get together cotton growers are on top. and agree upon a proper division The News is gratified to know of this school population, to stand that the Coweta Branch of this until the next census can betaken, splendid organization of cotton Fulton county and Atlanta arc farmers is to be directed next year the largest beneficiaries of the by the same . conservative; zealous, school fund; the city and county broad-minded men who were its being entitled to $85,322.50. first set of officers. Messrs. Brau- Clarke county will receive the non. McGee and Carpenter have Dec. 21st. to Mr." Charles C. Willis of that oity. Mr. A. W. Arnall lias recovered from his recent severe illness, He 1ms remov ed with his family from Sargent to this city and is residing in the bogie recently purchased. New subscribers arc ooining to the News right along during these busy holidays; and tlio most satisfactory feature of the matter is that they all pay cash in advance. Mr. K. W. Mattox, of Toooai, Florida, has completed a private telephone line from that place to Jacksouville, a dis tance of 60 miles, and can now converse with his Newnan friends from his own home. J. H. Widner has moved his stock of groceries from Groeneville Street to the Goodrum building on Bay Street and now ocoupies the room formerly used by the Newnan bakery, whioh has sus pended business. J. W. Taylor, who was associated with A. H. Hugliie in conducting the bakery, is now with C. P, Stephens & Co. Mrs. F. P. Johnston and sou, Philip, were called to Rockmart last Sunday by the death of Edward W. Johnston, Mrs. Johnston’s nephew. The young man died Saturday afternoon,of tuberculosis, at the age of 26 years. He was a sou of Rev. R. R. Johnston, a retired Method ist minister, a brother of Prof. F. P. Johnston of this city. At the First Baptist church next Sun day morning Dr. Nunually will ask the solemn question, “Suppose the Lord Should Call for You?” At night his address will be largely for young people and the pertinent iuquiry of the hour will be, “Is the \"oung Man Safe?” The public cordially invited, and a warm welcome awaits the strauger. Merck & Dent. i A Regular Smash-up points a straight finger to this place, for the very good reason that here un wheeled, generally bat tered up vehicles can get back to business at small cost. One word and that is the end of it: We do carriage repairing and charge you only just what’s right. smallest sum of any county in the State—only $1,347.38." Clarke IS been optUusiastic and efficient in all the retails of their work, and one of the State’s smallest counties; j have made personal sacrifices of . v- •- •• a.' -■ Jh&A****..- • BUGGY BUILDERS' Legal Blanks 1 A stock of all kinds of Legal Blanks will be found at the NEWS OFFICE. The stock in cludes Notes, Mortgages, Deeds, Bonds and all blanks used by business men, as well as those used only by justices, constables and attorneys. All.of these blanks are regular in form, and the’paper and printing are exceptionally good. Inlfact, Ino blanks printed in the State look business interests and demands to serve this great cause. Coweta farmers should appreciate the ef forts of these unselfish citizens; j ami, to a man, should rally to better or will give the users better satifaction. their assistance and co-operate; Prices are the same as other printers with them in every possible way in helping to make the Coweta Division one of the most alert, strongest and most effective county divisions in the entire South. Citizens of Coweta, let us be faithful in the discharge of our whole duty to the Southern Cotton Association, in order that South ern farmers may remain on top! charge for blanks. THE NEWS solicits business in this line; itad guarantees that users of these blanks will be entirely pleased with them. . jw v««£«h'Vv f • •■•irrt'ar r'--.r ..re*»*• •-