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The Newnan News Issued Every Friday. J. T. FAIN, Editor and Publisher SUBSCRIPTION RATE $100 PER YEAR OFFICIAL PAPER OF COWETA COUNTY. 'Phone No. 20. OFFICE UPSTAIRS IN THE WILCOXON BLOG If Col. Maun is put out of I nisi • iii this country, perhaps he can senire the joliof oflieial Imr rower lor the Sultan of Turkey. “Strife Abend” was an editorial caption in Wednesday’s I'onstitu tion. With six candidates for governor in the field, strife is ahead, in the rear.and to the right and left of ns. The < onstitution and tlie .loin nal each has a candidate for got ernor, but the \tlanta News has the most complete assortment ol in junctions, restraining orders and contempt eases evei accumulated by a < ieorgiu daily . lion. MewletteA. Hall informed the (irirtin News and Sun that i'oweta county is solid for l>r. Nuiiually lor got ernor. If a fact, this is interesting information. The News lias Itccn lalsu ing under the delusion that there was a sprinkling of Howell voters in Coweta. Have they deserted Clark and rallied to the support of hr. Nnnually? PRIZES AWARDED TO CORRESPONDENTS. consisting of a gold watch, ajset of Shakespeare's works and an un abridged dictionary. The contest aroused much interest among the corrus|Mjndente; and the record shows that 20 correspondents, rep resenting as many different towns and communities, entered the con test. After making careful examina tion of the records of the various correspondents, the committee on awaids decided that our Milltown correspondent was entitled to the first prize, that the second prize should go to the Whitesburg cor respondent and the third to our Welcome correspondent. The Milltown and Whitesburg correspondents eclipsed the records of all the others, tint several w l it em were almost able to tie for the third prize. Among this niimlicr were the Kook Spring. Handy, Turin, Palmetto and Moreland correspondents. The News appreciates the work of its correspondents during the nine months of the contest and thanks them for all efforts made in behalf ol the paper. We trust our writers will eclipse all previous records this year, and to this end invite all of them to take up the work for the year with renewed energy. The News • desires to make its correspondence depart incut the largest, brightest and best in the paper. The corres pondents can make it possible for this aim to Is- attained. We hope thc\ will do so. FLOWERS IN JAPAN. The prizes in the News' cor res pendents’ contest were awarded last Tuesday by a committee com posed of Prof. II. II. Hopple, At torncy W. M. Glass and ,1. T. t'ur pen ter, Ksq. \s correspondents and readers of the News already know, the contest extended over a period ol nine months, nr .‘tit wis'ks; the prizes Is'ing three in number and Newnan's cotton receipt* up to Keb. 1st amounted to lb,IIi7 bales, as compared with 11,125 bales on same date last year. The stock on hand this year was .‘(,111 bales; last year, 5,.'108 bales. The Janu ary receipts this year amounted to .11 I bales. The cheapest way to acquire a reputation for wisdom is to agree with everylsah. We know some men whose lives arc continual apoligies for living. It is difficult to reason with an empty stomach. EVERYTHING FOR THE FIRM. We sell almost, everything needed in the farmer’s home and on his farm. Our lug stock of general merchandise was carefully selected in the markets, and every article is priced right—for cash or on t ime. Whatever the farmer's needs may he, we are pro pa ml to supply them. Some of the things needed on the farm at this time of the year are nam ed below. It will ho to the advantage of any farmer to buy these things in our store. Etmi fbr Riixnr Will Sprnd His I.UI Coin Fur ■ llloMom. Americans anil Europeans may have a love for flowers, hut the people of Japan show in many ways that lieau- tiful blossoms till a much larger place in their hearts than in those of any other people. From the members of the royal family to the pootast Is-ggar in the streets the love seems to be iu- nate. In the palaces of Tokyo there are exquisite vases of every descrip tion. which are daily filled with rare blossoms. Hut the peasant in his palter hut Is quite as particular to fill his team boo vases with some blossom. Should one chance to stay at n hotel more than twenty-four hours he will find fresh flowers every duy to re plenish those which greeted him on his arrlvul. Even the half naked eooly will have a flower of some klud stuck behind his ear. At every corner and all along the stris-ts there are numer ous flower merchants, und It is seldom that a Japanese beggar will hesitate to part with hi* last coin to purchase a blossom. Parents choose flower numes for their daughters, and a Jap anese lady always adorns her person with the flowers which ure appropriate to the season. No visitor to the laud of the cherry blossom festival lias failed to describe tills most linportunt oceuslon. The opening of the suuaou is the blooming of this flower, and It is a national holi day. Thousands of people, dressed iu their best, wander about ail day under the arch of overhanging rose red trees, refreshing themselves with tea or rice wine at the tea houses or buying sou venirs of the* occasion lit the ninny little shops eroded for the day. Each owner of a cherry orchard has his own private festival and sends out Invita tions ornamented with cherry blos soms to tils especial friends. All sorts of games are played, and in the even ing thousands of lanterns are hung on the trees. The royul court Invites the nobility and the diplomatic corps to a garden party. It Is also the sea son for family picnics, which are looked forward to throughout the year by the bumbler classes. Only too soon is the cherry blossom festival at an end. The Japanese cherries are not In tended to he eaten, but their value is simply In the blossom. It Is the most luxuriant bloom of all nnd of such Im portance that before the bursting of tlie blossoms the fact Is advertised in all the local papers. The cherry tree sometimes grows us tall ns an oak, and during the time of bloom It is so iHilen with flowers that not u vestige of leaf Is visible. The flowers have also a singular and delicate perfume. Japanese women have a pretty cus tom of making their dresses corre spond to tlie flowees which ure In sea son. At tlie cherry blossom festival she wears a kimono embroidered with the flower so much In evidence then. When tin* azalea comes, this garment Is re placed with one covered with effective spruys of the varicolored azaleas, and this In turn gives way before the win- tarla and chrysanthemum. In the arrangement of their flowers the |M*opU> of Japan show great artistic tuste. Each separate bud Is allowed Its chance to he udmired. A single flower held by u crystal vase makes a feast for the eyes which Is not forth- ; coming when dozens of the blossoms are crowded together and their Indi vidual charm entirely lost. SOME OF THE THINGS WE HAVE Look over tlie 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 car load). 75 New Buggies—Barnesville, Tyson & Jones, and McFarlin. Chattanooga Chilled Plows. Oliver Chilled Plows and the celebrated Mallory Plows. We have a full line of all plow goods needed on farms. 1500 gallons Syrup at from 10 to 60 cents. Genuine Cuban Molasses from the Island. 6000 lbs. of Select Tobaccos from 2oc to $1.60 per pound. Granulated Sugar in barrels and bags. Gold Coin Flour (this is the one the people brag on so). Reception Flour, for cakes and Tine cooking. Rouble Fine Salt in car loads. No. 1 Timothy Hay (three cars). We especially call attention to the old Seed Tick Cof fee, and our Schotten’s Jute Bag Roasted Coffee. BRADLEY 3c BANKS P. S.—We want to sell just 1500 tons of Armour’s Fertilizers. We know this goods will bring you fine results. GUANOS Wo handle* tin* celebrated products of tin* Coweta Fertilizer Company, and the lanuuiH “Ox Brand Guanos.’’ Farmers know the worth of those goods. We sell them right. H A V. We buy No. 1 timothy hay in car-load lots; so mouse quantities, and always at low figures. it in im- 1U ST PROOF OATS. le t us furnish you home grown and Texas rust proof seed oats. W, haw Loth kinds, and they are the 1 >e-t quality <>t seed oats. SEED POTATOES. We have a big lot of eastern grown Irish potatoes tor plant ing. Triumph, Early Rose, Goodrich and Peerless are the varieties we soil. All farmers want to plant some of these. NEW ORLEANS SYRUP We have just m-eived a new shipment of tine New Orleans Syrups, in barrels and half barrels. Price range from 20c to 40c per gallon in barrel or half barrel quantities. STEWART & PARKS Art of UcttUc OS Cor*. "I have beeu trying to dlacover what your system la In helping women off the ear," auid the man on the back platform to tbe conductor. "I thought I at first that you uanisted only elderly women. Then, wheu I saw you help I three or four young womeu I thought perhaps It wns their good looks that appealed to your gallantry. Hut you knocked that theory In the heud wheu you assisted that sour faced, homely creature. What Is your system, any way?" "It's very simple,” replied the con ductor. "I help only those women who seem to need assistance. The others I don't bother with. 1 know the minute u woman rises In the ear whether she is the sort who will need my help In nliKlitlng or Is perfectly capable of tak ing care of herself. If a woman march es to the door the minute she signals for the car to stop and then grabs the door Jainli so she won’t bo thrown nt the sudden jar stopping. I know she will get off with her face to the front and needs no help. But if she rises Just as tin* ear is about to stop and lurches and bumps along to tin* door, I know she needs a helping hand, whether she he young or old. pretty or homely, for if left to herself she will g*'t off back ward.” -New York Press. A ii Av l» It** v in«*nt. Judge Thatcher ol' Mississippi was an obstinate bachelor and rather prided himself upon having resisted the charms of lovely woman when on all sides his friends had fallen victims to the insidious arrows of fate, lie was a solemn looking man, but with plenty of dry humor in his nature, lie had a pleasant home, over which tits relatives sometimes presided. I'pon one occa sion a lady called on some charitable errand, nnd. the servants being out for the moment, the judge answered the bell. The caller, who was a stranger, asked for the ••madam." In a grave nnd deliberate voice the judge replied, "There is no madam.” The stranger instantly detected a sor row and spoke with sympathy iu look and voice: "Alns, I see! Pardon me— a bereavement.” This was too much for the bachelor pride of the judge, who felt that he could not be worsted of his years of victorious solitude, so with triumphant reniemberance he shouted with Joy and animation, "No, madam, not a be reavement, an achievement, thank heaven—au achievement!” Haralson. Hev. W. A. Davis, of Senoia, filled his monthly appointment at the Baptist church last Saturday and Hutiduy. A good congregation wns present Sunday and listened to a fine sermon by the gifted jmstor. Haralson High School continues to en roll now pupils every week. The music class in connection witli the school is growing in both interest and numbers. Mrs. A. H. Rnwles is the excellent in structor in music. Owing to the continued rains no farm work of consequence has beeu done iu this community. Notwithstanding the continued bad weather and awful roads, trade in our town is good and all our merchants seetn to be doing a rushing business. The Haralson Oin Co. ginned 21 bales of cotton in January and we understand they have more vet to gin. We nre sorry to note there is little change if any in condition of Miss Min- I nie Reaves. Mrs. E. C. Swygert, who has been sick for some time, is slowly improving. Mr. CurtiR Nixon was a visitor iu Haralson Sunday. Miss Ann Foster, whojs tenoliing a flourishing sbool at Bethel, spent Satur day nnd Sunday with the home folks nt Haralson. Mr. Walter Grovenstein, one of our prominent merchants, went up to New nan Monday on business. Mr. Lnt Gray, a successful farmer of the community, is in Atlanta this week on business. Miss Clyde .Union, of Whitesburg, is visiting her brother and sister and other relatives in Haralson this week. Mr. J. A. Hutchinson went up to Se noia one day last week. Next Saturday and Sunday will be i the regulnr meeting days of the Luth eran church her*’. Rev. I). A. Sox, of ' Carrollton, the beloved pastor, is expect ed to be present on both days. Tlie LutherauRSunday School on last ! Sunday morning re-elected Mr. E. C. Swygert as Supt. for another year. Elsewhere in this issue will Ik* ; found a notice of the lectures to be delivered by Mrs. Gallic II. Howe, in the interest of the W. C. T. IT. at the Methodist church Feb. Kth and 7th. Since the pub lication of the pages containing the j notice, the program has been j changed, and Mrs. Howe will be heard at the church on 'Tuesday! evening only instead ot Tuesday , and Wednesday, as stated in the | article. I A Sale of Fine Clothing Barnett, St. John it- Co., leading clothiers and furnishers, will during this month put on sa’e all winter goods at a great sacrifice. The goods we offer yon are high grade clothing and furnishing goods, to be sold regard less of their real value. We have too many winter goods on hand, and we in tend to sell them, as we need the room for our spring stock. We chal lenge competition on the prices we offer you. This is no time to hesitate, but act at once and call to see what bargains we have in store for you. Remember we are offering you high class goods at cut prices. No “odds anil ends”, no shoddy’ goods, but good, substantial goods, our winter goods marked down to throughout our store. You are cordially invited to call and see the great bargains we are offering you. All are zero ism's* TNI assess s>) N MICHAELS-STERN' (FINE CLOTHING'' \aicHsus, ctssn a c«. ’ SCCHISTSM. M. T. ' Barnett, St. John & J | Company