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Palmetto
Ow.iik to inclement wi-atlier, Dr. 8ta-
cy was tumble to till liis pulpit li<-r- Inst
Sunday. Dr. SpntdliiK. ]nixtor of the
Baptist eliureh, prenolioil to a small au-
rlinnce, owm# to t lie bin I weather.
Mis" Conyers. of Newiinii, linn roHiini-
ed her ttmsin class hen-.
Mrs. .1 M. Whittier, of Atlnnta, visit
ed the family of her brother. Prof. Neal,
hint week.
The firm of Bullard nod Smith ban
been diBBolved, and ib hooeeeded by Bul-
lard and Son. I) 15 Ballard ib how the
junior member of tine enterprising firm.
Mrs Marry Hill left last week for an
extended visit to Florida.
Mr and Mrs. John Rivers, of Fair-
burn, visited Mm. Lina Duke last week.
Mrs Margaret Latimer, of Newnan,
is visiting her sisler, Miss Sophy Lati
mer.
Mrs Hen Roan is now connected with
the llrm of Mr <'buries Mosely.
Mrs. J. (J. White, of Atlnnta, nave a
most interesting leetnre at the resldenee
of Mrs ('barbs Mosely, oh Jim nary 11*.
Her diseonme on the "Laws of Hygiene”
and "lleiiltli Fomls' was a most eonipre-
beiiHive one Mrs. White was the guest
of the Palmetto Woman's ( dub.
Dr and Mm. T P. Milliard are occu
pying the home of Mrs I'bnma Jordan,
on Main street
Dr Will Astln is back at bis old stand
with diaries Mosely.
Mr, Frank Beeves, said to be the old
est man in the eiinnty, died at 11in borne
near New Hope church one day last
week, lie was one of the county's pin-
io er eiti/eiis. and leaves to bis children,
grandchildren and great-grandchildren
a heritage that can lint, be bought—mi j
honest name.
I)r. Johnson, the enterprising vice
president of the Palmetto cotton mill, is
having the lot recently purchased from
I). 15 Hullnrd, guided for tile new hotel.
Mrs 8. M. Dean, Mrs. I). 15. Hullnrd
and Miss Mary Johnson attended the
meeting of the I). A. K. ill Atlanta Inst
week
The capacity of the Palmetto cotton j
null is to Is- increased again, to meet the
doniunds of its growing business, fell,-
0 Hi will he expended for up-to-date ma-
eliinory, which will lie placed in o|sirti-
turn si sill.
Hob Tatum, the enterprising young
owner of "Fail-view Farm," bore off for
the sixth time the #10 pri/o offsrod by
the Honlhern Cultivator for the best
contribution pertaining to farming.
“Fairview" is one of the most attractive
farms mi the Atlanta and West Point '
railway Mr. Tatum's ninny contribu
tions to the Cultivator prove him to bi
as skillful Willi the pen as with the
plow.
throe years ago, have moved.back.
On last Sunday morning Mr. Tom
Robinson and Miss Amanda Strickland
were united in marriage. Rev. J. E. D.
Taylor performed the ceremony. We
join with u host of others in wishing for
them long and useful lives.
Mrs. Sarah Parks will move with her I
family to the country.
Elsie, little daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Joe Wellborn, lias been real sick for
several days.
Frank Robinson was here last Satur
day and Sunday.
Miss Mary MoOehee lias been on the
sick list a few duyH.
Marvin Philips, who moved to the
country last spring, has moved hack,
fully decid -d that Newnan is the best
place.
J. W. Caldwell, from Madras, a sec
tion boss on the West Point Railroad,
spent last Saturday night and Sunday
with the family id Mrs. T. O. McGohee.
Mrs Pat Damron has been sick for
several days, lint was better when last
heard from. Mrs Hamrick and Mrs.
Farmer are also better.
((wing to the rainy weather last Sun
day, our Sunday schools were not very
well attended. Bro. Gaines preached at
Lovejoy at eleven, hut had no service
Sunday night, on account of the heavy
rainfall.
Hro. I.aytnn will till his appointment
lit the t'impel next Sunday, preaching
at 11 a. hi. and 7 p. in.
The members of the Mill (llmpcl
church have decided to do some repair
ing on their house of worship, and will
appreciate any contributions from the
other churcho in helping the work
along
Commutation Road Tar.
Explosion at Palmetto Cot*
ton Mill.
Whitosburp;.
Miss Kittle Mn.v Holton, of Nownnn,
is visiting tin) family of ,1. T. Jones and
other relatives near here.
Miss iliiuii Allium, who was hero with
her Hunt, Mrs. Fields, returned home to
Koopvillu last Saturday.
Prof. F. Roy Alinon was up to see the
home folks last Saturday and Sunday '
lie is much pleased with the school at j
Haralson and speaks in highest terms of ;
the |M>ople there.
Prof. V. D. Whatley wont to Carroll
ton lust Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Kilgore spent last
week in Newnan.
Miss Litsio Stevens, who is teaching
at Sargent, has been very sick, and her
sister, Miss Myrtle, is tilling her taxa
tion.
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Brewster, of New- i
nan, visited J. M. Stevens nnd family
lust Sunday.
. Mr. nnd Mrs. R. P. Parks Hiieiit Inst j
Sunday lit Lowell, visiting the latter's
parents.
O. A. Duncan has ginned 1,125 hales
of cotton this season. This crop never j
fails ns, if pro|>orly cultivated at the
right time.
Why should the South not celebrate j
Lincoln's hirluiay, as it does Washing- :
ton’s? This action would stretch a blue
ribbon of love across the dark chiistu of
hatred that has divided North and South
so long. Lincoln ever held out the olive j
branch of love and sympathy. 1 am a
Southern Demoorat, hut recognise in
Abraham Lincoln there existed n man of
noble and lovable and worthy clinraoter.
At the entertainment given nt the res
idence of Prof. V. 1). Whatley hist Fri
day evening, the genial Professor was nt
Ins best. The evening was one of rare
phxisnrc for the guests.
John Kilgore has returned from Wat
son, Ala.
Dana Brniitly, of Carrollton, spent
Sunday nt his home bore.
John Holloway, of Clem, visited here
lust week.
I’lilmcLL), January ‘21.—()m* of
tlic large boilers in the Palmetto
cotton mills exploded at 4:30
o'clock this morning, almost in
staidly killing Hugh Sexton, the
negro fireman, and seriously scald
ing ami otherwise injuring II. T.
Harris, \\ bite, tho night watchman.
Sexton was in the boiler loom
liring up and getting ready for (lie
day’s work. The (lies wore going,
and steam was up ready to start
the engine when the explosion oc
curred.
The cause of the explosion is
somewhat of a mystery. It is
thought by some that after firing
up Sexton may have turned cold
wider into the boilers, though this
is not dollnitely known.
The entire power plant of the
mill, consisting of lour large boil
ers and the engine, was totally de
stroyed, entailing a loss of some
i?I(1,000, besides the delay in the
work. As a result, the mills will
have to shut down for the present,
and many hands will be thrown
out of work.
Notice.
I hereby notify all persons in
debted to J. F. Reynolds, bank
rupt, of Newnan, Ga., to call at my
office over Newnan Ranking Co.
and settle at once. It is necessary
that the business of said J. F.
Reynolds be closed up at once.
J. Littleton Jones,
tf Attorney for Trustee.
For the information of the pub
lic ami road supervisors, \V. L.
Stallings, Clerk of the County Com
missioners, has prepared the fol
lowing information in reference to
the collection of the commutation
road tax, and the rules and tin-
law governing the same.
The commutation road tax for
the year 190(1 has been fixed at
#3.50, or in lieu thereof, six days
work on the public roads. If this
tax is paid on or Is'fore March loth,
next, a deduction of fifty cents will
lie made. One object of this de
duction of fifty cents is to induce
the tax payer to voluntarily pay
the supervisor, and thereby save
the County the expense of sending
supervisors to collect the tax.
This tax is dm-and payable wheth
er demanded before or after the
15th day of March.
When tax is demanded and not
paid, the person from whom de
manded may be summoned to work
on (lie road, and if he fails to work,
is a defaulter; whether before Di
aller the 15th day of March.
This lax must lie paid to super
visor or overseer, and in no ev ent
to the County Commissioners, or
their clerk. If paid to overseer, it
will lie turned over by him to the
supervisor and by the supervisor
paid into the County Treasury.
As yet, no overseers have been
elected. The superv isors make a
monthly report of all taxes collect
ed and this report is filed in the
County Commissioners’ office, and
is open to public inspection. Nu
pervisors are not authorized to
take any fractional purl of this tax;
that is, a hand cannot work part
and pay part.
While supervisors will spend a
short time in collecting (ax prior
to March 15th, the (ax after March
15th will lie #3.50, whether de
mand had been made for it or not.
Road tax shall in no event be
credited on bills against the Coun
ty. 'flu' road tax must be paid in
to the County Treasury, and Conn
ty vouchers given for accounts
against the county, alter same
have been audited by commission
ers.
Road defaulters cannot under
the law be lined less than one dol
lar per day, nor more than five
dollars per day for time in default. I —
The extreme punishment of de- pointing others the way to safety,
laid tors is ninety days in the chain- It was after the close of the war
gang. (Wee Alternative Road Law.)
Hands must be summoned the
day previous to time fixed for
working, either orally or in writ
ing.
SOME OF THE THINGS WE HAVE
Look over the list of goods named below. We buy
them in large quantities, and can do you good.
55 select mules and horses.
Mitchel Wagons (solid car load).
Tennessee Wagons (solid ear load).
75 New Buggies—Barnesvills, Tyson & .Jones, and McFarlin,
Chattanooga Chilled Plows.
Oliver Cltilled Plows and the celebrated Mallory Plows.
We have a full line of all j^lowgoods needed on farms.
1500 gallons Syrup at from 10 to 00 cents.
Geiniino Cuban Molasses from the Island.
51000 llis. of Select Tobaccos from 25c to $1.50 per pound.
Granulated Sugar in barrels and hags.
Gold Coin Flour (this is the one the people brag on so).
Reception Flour, for calces and fine cooking.
Double Fine Salt in car loads.
No. 1 Timothy Hay (three cars).
We especially call attention to the old Seed Tick Cof
fee, and our Scbotten’s Jute Bag Boasted Coffee.
BRADLEY & BANKS
P. IS.—We want to sell just 1500 tons of Armour’s
Fertilizers. We know this goods will bring you hue
results.
(Continued from jingo 1.)
Local School Election.
In the election held at Moreland,
(la., in the Moreland school dis
trict, on the 13th day of January,
190(i, to ascertain the wishes of the
voters of said school district, on
the question of local taxation for
public school to supplement the
fund received from the State of
Georgia, the vote was as follows:
For Local Taxation, 71; against
Local Taxation, 8.
The result has been declared by
the Ordinary as favoring local
taxation.
The following well known and
popular citizens were elected Trus
tees at the same time: J. A. Pow-
ledge, J. lx. Polk, E. M. Gamp.
that General Lee manifested most
clearly the strength and depth of
those elements of his goodness,
which, away from the public eye
had been li is stay aad strength all
The road tux must first be de- along,
mantled, and if hand fails to pay, As president of Washington
he then shall be summoned to College, where not the least of his
work on the road, and if he fails service to his country was render-
to work, (without a legal excuse) j ed, he displayed a solicitude for
he is then a defaulter. the spiritual welfare of the young
Persons subject to road tax must men of the college,that could have
pay the same to supervisor in the arisen only from a soul itself
district where he resides; this tax chastened, but trusting. At one
being charged to said supervisor, time, talking with a minister of|
It is the desire of the com- God about the religious welfare of
missioners to accommodate the pub- the student body, he was moved
lie as far as possible in the oollee- to tears; finally, with intense emo
tion of this tax, and the calling tion he said: “Oh, doctor, if I
out of hands; yet in many places could only know that all the young
the roads are almost impassable men in college were good Chris-
aml it is absolutely necessary that tians, I should have nothing more
they be repaired. to desire.” At another time,when
—————- he heard of a great religious re
Special Notice. vival going on among the students
of the Virginia Military Institute,
At the Presbyterian ( lunch sa j ( ] ; “That is the best news I
next Sabbath at 11 a. m. and 7 p.
m. Rev. G. \V. Painter, a mission
ary of the Southern General As
sembly at Hangchow, China, will
have heard since I have been in
Lexington.”
llis last public appearance was
at a meeting of his church over
Mllltown.
W. K. und John Smith, from Wel
come, visited in our community last
Saturday, returning homo Monday af
ternoon.
Mrs. John Christian has just gotten
uji from a severe attack of grippe.
K. B. Loveru Inis moved into a house
near the kindergarten rooms.
Mrs. Charlie Christian was sick sev
eral days the past week.
Melvin Mattox, from the fourth dis
trict, was here last Monday, the guest of
Mrs. Taylor Pye's family.
Mr. aud Mrs. Joe Wellborn, who
moved from here to Alabama two or
Death of Wm. Gentry.
“Uncle Hill Gentry,” one of the
oldest citizens of Coweta county,
died at the home of his son, near
Sargent, Jan. ISth, and was buried
at Mt. Carmel Jan. '20th.
lie was in his tHith year, and
during his life served in two wars.
Indian and Civil.
He was married in 1831) to Miss
Sarah Ann Robinson. He leaves
six children, lour daughters and
two sons.
speak especially on lines ot inter- xv hich he presided. His last pub-
est at this time to Southern busi- ] a( q xvas the gift of more than
ness men. Something both de- tifty dollars to carry on the work
lighttnl and uplitting may be ex- 0 f Christianity. His last rational
pected liy those who attend—rain ,qy 01 q was to part his lips, at the
or shine. head of bis table, in an effort to
l he offering in the morning will retu ,. n thanks to Almighty God
lie tor the benefit ol the ITesby- j- 01 . evening meal, when the
terian hospital in Atlanta, a most s ^ ro j- e fell that finally liberated
worthy cause. 1 he public is very f^e white spirit of this pure man,
cordially and urgently invited to am j sent it back in peace to the
all of these services.
The new corps of teachers and
and sent
God from whence it came.
Thus, my friends, 1 have tried
Money to loan on real estate at
cent. Apply to L. M. Farmer.
per
officers ot the Sunday school will ^j-ietly give some of the condi-
be installed into office during the tions that environed and some of
Sunday School session, and they ^ e i eme uts that composed the
are expected to lx* present: also , ,, , , „ .
all members of the Sunday Sohcol. character ot Robt. L. Lee—one of
' the greatest men ot recent centur-
Atteiul Boone's clean sweep and i* es ‘ ^^ ^ 1 n.i.ian.
unloading sale. Newnan, Ga., Jan. IS, 190b. j
EVERYTHING FOR THE FARM.
We sell almost everything needed in the farmer’s home and
on his farm. Our big stock of general merchandise was
carefully selected in the markets, and every article is priced
right—for cash or on time. Whatever the farmer’s needs
may lie, we are prepared to supply them. Some of the
things needed on the fartn at this time of the year are nam
ed below. It will bo to the advantage of any farmer to buy
these things in our store.
GUANOS
We handle the celebrated products of the Coweta Fertilizer
Company, and the famous “Ox Brand Guanos.” Farmers
know the worth of these goods. We sell them right.
HAY.
We buy No. 1 timothy hay in car-load lots; sell it
mense quantities, and always at low figures.
RUST PROOF OATS.
Let ue furnish you home grown und Texas rust proof seed
outs. We have both kinds, and they are the best quality of
seed oats. J
SEED POTATOES.
We have a big lot of eastern grown Irish potatoes for plant-
mg. Triumph, Early Rose, Goodrich aud Peeriese are the
variet.es we sell. All farmer, want to plant some of these'
STEWART & PARKS
