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J. T. HOLLKMAN, rRK!*!in:Nr. \V. L. KKMP, VK'E-PKB8. AND TRKAS. J. \Y. ASDKKWS, SECRETARY. LOANS OF $1,000 TO $20,000 PLACED AT LOW RATES ON IMPROVED FARMS IN THIS COUNTY If you desire such a Loan, write us fully. THE SOUTHERN MORTGAGE CO. The lit. llev. (\ K. Nelson, of Atlanta, who will conduct the ser vice at St. Paul's Episcopal chnrch Sunday morning, will arrive in the I city Saturday afternoon and dur ing his stay here will be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Hedenlmrg. The Hishop will be pleased to talk with friends and well wishers of the church while in the city. Attorney Wanted to Act as Local Correspondent Atlanta, Georgia. i Prof. F. P. Johnson, of the Local News ol Newnan j Borden-Wheeler, Visit Boone’s summer clearance sale. Dr. Anderson, Dentist; gas ad ministered; Sal bide Bldg. tf Money saved by trading at Boone's. 'f. B. Banks, oi (irautville, was in the city Wednesday. Dollars do extra duty at Boone's summer clearance sale. Mrs. Ida J. Milner is visiting Mrs. W. E. Avery at Columbia, S. C. The family of H. S. Paris moved to Columbus this week. Mr. Paris has a position in a barber shop in that city. Miss Harry Lee Merck, of Gain esville, Ha., is visiting the home of her cousins, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Merck, on Jackson St. We carry all the latest maga zines and periodicals. Peniston <!v Lee. We sell everything as adver tised— Boone’s prices are always right. Captain and Mrs. (1. F. Balt- zell left (his week for a ten days visit with tlit* parents of the for mer at Marianna, Fla. A general meeting will be held at New Lebanon Baptist church at Sargent on Friday and Saturday. August 17th and lXth. Mrs. W. A. Millians.of Atlanta, visited Mrs. Bennett Sanders the past week. Latest shapes in untrimmed hats; choice 1.0c at Mrs. Lela Adams’ Monday. Miss Letha Stair has resumed her school at Corner Branch,in the Third district. P. T. MoCutehen left Monday morning for Hartwell, where he will be in attendance at the meet ing of the (Jeorgia Editors. Mr. and Mrs. J. '1'. Fain left the .city Monday morning for Hart well. to attend the Georgia Editors’ | Association meeting at that place. Buy your drugs from us. We cun also 1111 your needs in station ery, tobacco, cigars, line candies, paints, toilet goods and all other lines carried by a drug store. Peniston & Lee. Harry Fisher returned home Wednesday, after a visit of sever al days in Knoxville, Tenn. Miss Harriett Starr lias com pleted a course in stenography at Briscoe’s Business<'ollege,Atlanta. C. F. Holdberg, Senoia’s genial and popular mayor, was in the city on court business this week. Tax Beecher Summers is now engaged in making up his books for this year and is assisted by Misses Annie Will Bedwinc and Nettie Orr and Mr. Emmett I lens- lee. Hntrimmed hats, fashionable shapes, 2(H) to select from; choice 10c, at Mrs. Lela Adams’ Monday. Mrs. R. F. Milner is in South Carolina, where she has been visit ing relatives during the past ten days. Mrs. J. M. Milner, of Atlanta, and Miss Lena Cullars, of Opelika, Ala., are the guests of Miss Mary Milner. G. B. Barr and son, Herbert, re turned last Friday from a ten days visit to Mrs. Barr’s old home in Anafalia, Ala. Mr. G. (). Seroggin and Miss Antoinette Bussell were married at the home of. the bride in Turin, Tuesday afternoon at 5 o’clock, Hev.C. O’X. Martindale officiat ing. Hon. J. E. Stallings, of Texas, who is spending the summer in | this city, returned Monday from I GriHin, where he had been visiting | the family of John II. Mitchell for several days. | Bev. B. F. Hodnett, of Frank lin, and Bev. E. Ware, of Turin, were in Newnan last Saturday, en route to their respective homes from the District Gonlerence, which convened in Fairbtirn. If you can’t visit our store this week, come when you can; the sale will continue until all summer goods are closed. Miss Vivian Merck, of Bartow, Fla., who went to Gainesville,Ga., last week, has returned to New nan for a short stay before going- home. The Bible Circle of the First Baptist church will meet with Mrs. W. H.Gearreld next Tuesday afternoon at 4 o’clock. These meetings are very interesting and instructive. All are invited to at tend. Special Orders Special orders for fine’ Jew elry, Watches, Diamonds and Silverware will receive the most prompt and careful at tention if given to us. Any thing desired in these lines may be secured readily and quickly by placing an order here. I am in touch with the largest manufacturers and wholesale dealers in the United States, and am pre pared to purchase these goods at reasonable figures. Bear these facts in mind and let me serve you when you have special orders to place. Frank J. Flannery Watchmaker and Jeweler. At St. Paul’s Episcopal church next Sunday morning at 1 I o’clock the Bt. Bev. G. K. Nelson, Bishop of the Diocese of Georgia, will ad minister the sacraments of Holy ('ommunion and Baptism. A cor dial invitation is given to all to at tend this service. At the Presbyterian church next Sabbath at 11 a. m., Bev. ('. O'N. Martindale will preach on, “In | the Quiet of God’s Presence,” and at S]i. m. on, “The Problem of Life—as Jesus Views It.” Citizens and strangers, especially young people, are cordially invited. The protracted meeting at More land Methodist chinch begins next Sunday, 22d. Dr. J. W. (juilliau, of Newnan, is to assist in the ser vices. Services each day at 10 a. m. and 7:30 p. ui. Everybody in vited. Frank Quiliian, Pastor. . We hayc purchased ali the dry goods from Askew Brothers’ stock, consisting of table linens, JO J-4 sheetings, ribbons, laces and em broideries, white goods, muslins, percales, brown linens, etc. They were bought much under value and are priced the same way for quick selling. The above deal was made too Jat.e to get in our adver tisement last week. D. W. Boone. During the severe wind and rain storm Tuesday noon half of the cornice was blown off the top of the Sal hide building, occupied by Orr A Powell, carrying some 500 brick from the turret wall and crashing into the pavement be low. The stone slabs where the immense weight struck were crush ed into many pieces. Fortunately there was no passing at the time and no damage was done. Mr. B. II. Tompkins, one of the most extensive and successful farmers of Heard county, was in the city Wednesday, and gives an account of a terrilic cloud burst which happened in his section of the county on Saturday evening last. On < 'entralhatchce creek live mill dams were washed away, and thousands of acres of corn wen 1 overflown and much of it practically ruined. Mr. Tompkins himself had live hundred and seventeen acres, measured, of corn on the bottoms land of this creek, and all was washed down and dc- stroved. “Quick Meal” JV** QUICK MEAL QUICK MIAL QUICK MtWL QUICK MEAL WCK MEAL OUICK MEAL JHC Quick meal OIJICK MEA» Quick mv? y** QUICK MlAk OWCK meal OUI8K MIAL QUICK meal QUICK MAL QUICK MIAL QUICK Ml “Quick Meal” Ranges are better made, FOR SALE—Good second-hand buggy. Apply to John D. Favor at D. T. Mangel A Go.’s. bake quicker and use less fuel than Rock Spring. S. (). Houston spent .Monday lust in Atlanta. Mr. and Mrs. John Parrott and chil dren, of Flat (trod;, visio-d relatives hero last Saturday and Sunday. Virgil Brown and wife spout Sunday with the latter’s parents m ar Puhnetto. M. D. Thurmond and wife visitod the family of M. W. Swanson.at Fin! Creek, one dny Inst week. Freddie Davis, ncoompuniod by Misses Lizzie Parrott and Mary Bello Brown, attended services til (tokos Chapel last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. ,1. O. Lewis and son spent several days last week with rela tives at Oak Grove. Pierce Brown, of Palmetto, was the guest of the family of Ins uncle, S. A. Brown, Inst Sunday. M. I). Thurmond made a business trip to Newnan last Monday. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Jackson and son, Thurmond, wore the guests of relatives in Palmetto Inst Monday, Mr. and Mrs F. M. Parrott and daughter, Miss Anna, spent Friday last with relatives in Fayette county. Mrs. J. W. Haines and children are spending a couple of weeks with rela tives at Corinth. J. C. Lewis and wife visited friends near Newnan Monday. A, F. Parrott spent several days in Atlanta Inst, week. J. W. Lewis and wife attended ser vices at Ebenezer lust Sunday. S. S. Cochran is in Newnan this week serving ns juror. Will Hammett and Glenn Vineyard, of Long Street, attended the singing nt Hock Spring last Sunday evening. J. R. Sims, of Palmetto, spent Mon day here looking after his farming in terests. Fverybody has a special invitation to attend the singing here next Sunday af ternoon. any range made. We have the best line of Ranges ever before carried in Newnan. Let us show you before you buy. Newnan Hardware Company Grantville. Our Repair Department Is just aching to get a chance to be of service to you. It, is so thorough ly equipped that there is no repair job that it is afraid to tackle. We repair tlie highest grades of watches that are made, with a per fect knowledge of the care they should receive. We rejuvenate tired clocks so that they run again as good us new We repair rings and brooches and eye glussesi and such things, and stand ready to assist you at short notice in any emergency that may require the use of our repair depart ment. Mr. Thomas D. Johnson, an expert watch maker, is now in our repair department, and prompt and efficient attention will be given to all orders. H. S. BANTA Miss Sarah Bohannon was the charm ing hostess Tuesday evening at a party given ill honor of her pretty guest, Miss Lida Brown, of Newnan. During the evening pink and white ices with cuke were served by Misses Bessie Bohannon ami Ella Dean; delicious punch was also solved. Misses Lyda Brown, Newnan; Rosalie and Dcssri Eubanks, Atlanta; Aurelia Mobley, Corinth ; Mary Frances Hanks, Tommie White, Estelle Zellers, Lucile Banks, Martha Andrews; Messrs. W. A. Bolmnnou, William and Edwin Banks, Boozer Payne, Dolmnr Owens, Will Post, Robert Bohannon, Carl Sew ell, E. B. Cotton, Slaughter Lambert, Robert nnd Paul Bugg, Lewis Dean were the invited guests. Mrs. Frank Perryman, of Atlanta, is the guest of Mesdames J. D. Moreland and w. G. Saddler. Mrs. T. ,T. White, of West Point .spent a few days last week with Mrs. C. B. Cotton. Misses Bertha and Janie Nall have re turned from a visit to Lone Oak and Lu therville. Miss Aurelia Mohle.v, of Hogansville, is the guest of Mi's. S. E. Leigh. Ross Barton, of Alabama, an ived Sat unlay. Miss Demi Wisdom, of LuGrangc, sp an a few days last week with Miss Gertie Post. Misses Rosalie and Hesse Eubanks, of Atlanta, are at the home oi tln-ir aunt, Mrs. T. M. Z,illars. .Miss Lida Brown, of Newnan, is visit ing Miss Sarah Bohannon. Dr. G. W, Glower and family leave this afternoon for Birmingham, Ala. Mesdames Glen Arnold ami W. G. Sadler, Lowndes Sadler and Charlie Ar nold were in Newnan Friday. Raymond and Ocil White are spend ing the week in Atlanta with Ray T. White and wife. .Miss Edna White relumed home Mon day from a visit to friends at Athens and Ingleside. Col. W. G. Post ami son, Glenn, of Newnan, were in Grantville Saturday. Mrs. Wilson Partridge and children of Mountville, who have been guests of Mrs. A. H. S. Bugg, returned home M onduy. Miss Mary Andrews is visiting Miss Stella Hogg in Senoia Misses Lila Cato and Sarah Beavers an home from a visit to relatives in Griffin. Mrs. N. ('. Banks and Donald Banks are in Newnan today. Messrs. Joe Bohannon. Jim Barren and Tom Fuller are at Tybee. John T. White is attending court in Newnan this week. Ira Hester and wife, of Slmi jisburg, WE WOULD LIKE To have your drug business. We make every effort to please our custom ers and supply the demands of trade. PENISTON <S LEE Druggists SufferG^^^A Q «*??2236>*5)Q^i! were at Judge T. M. Lester's Sunday. Miss Pei'lina Nall, of Slmrpshiirg, is visiting for a few days in (Jnmtvillo, Miss Annie Lou Parks is in Newnan. Mr. Brightwell, of Miixi-vh, was in Grantville Tuw-dny. Little Kulie Reese, of Newnan, fell from a bicycle here a few days ago and fractured his jaw I one. | L. P. Bryant was in Newnan Satur- ' day. An invitation wiih extended through Rev. A. H. S. Bugg from the church at I .one Oak to Grantville to attend ser- vice at Lone Oak Saturday and Sunday. Saturday Dr. J. VV. Lee, of Atlanta, and Dr. Young J. Alien, of China, will eon- ■ duct the services, while on Sunday they will be in charge of Dr. Young J. Allen, i Both of these noted divines were reared a! Lone Oak, Dr Lee's mother being still a resident there, i T. M. Zeliars has let out a contract to build a lock warehouse ehx: 0 > feet. J. R. Cotton has also contracted to have a livery stable -lOxJgO feet, built of rock, where his old one now stands. to I’.oi'dcn Wheeler Springs to at tend the annual meeting of lin stock holders of that famous resort. They report the affairs of the com pauy in splendid shape, a good crowd at the springs and the man agement under Mr. Geo. E. Driver as line as could lie. Messrs. R. I). dole, Jr., VV. J. .Vlurphey, VV. C. McBride, I. I*. Bradley, Frank Wilkinson of New- i ua.il, and CoJ. F. S. Loftin of [ Franklin, went over Monday last Rev. J. J. Farmer has removed from Starke, Florida, to I’alatka, where he lias accepted the pastor ate of the First Baptist Church. Mr. Farmer is taking high rank in his denomination in Florida and is rapidly Becoming one of the lead ing Baptist ministers of that State. As a result of the intense heat Monday afternoon, Henry Perry, colored, an old fireman on the A. & VV. I*, railroad, was overcome and fell to the ground as lie alight ed from his engine as 'Train No. 40 to Atlanta arrived. After a few minutes delay to give the stricken man medical attention and procure a substitute, he was placed in the baggage car and carried to Atlan- 1 ta. wamm