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THF NEWNAN NEWS.
Ot<V>n*ry , » 0 Woe
VOL. VII.
NEWNAN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1906.
NO. 17
Hoke Smith will Speak at Mineral Spring, Saturday, 2:30 p. m. Everybody Come!
THIS IS THE WEEK OF
THE GAY CHAUTAUQUA.
Newnan and Her Visitors are Enjoying a Season
Bright Intercourse with Brilliant Minds, Com
bining Entertainment and Instruction.
of
Newuan's third Chautauqua i- I nitial States; his lecture living
making excellent progress this entitled “An Englishman’s Iiuprcs-
week, despite the fact that the As
sociation has been combating for
two weeks the hardest streak of ill
luck that ever embarrassed a
Chautauqua management and ob
structed the production of a Chau
tauqua program. These com plica-
sions of brother Jonathan ami 11 is
Ureal Country." Wednesday
morning Mr. Spurgeon lectured
again—discussing some of the fol
lies and superstitions which have
alllictcd the human family in a 1
ages. 11 is lectures wide instruc
tions began to arise last week, and live and improving in Hie highest
necessitated several changes in the degree.
week’s program as already ar- Tuesday night, de pi tile in-
ranged and published. For a element weather, an an Hence of
while the difficulties appeared to fair si/e assembled tb hear and see
be insurmountable, but the man- Dr. Edwin Burton McDowell's
agement proved equal to the task, illustrated lecture on ••Panama in
bridged over the difficulties, and is Picture and Prose." Beautiful
giving the people a first class pictures of actual- scenes on the
Chautauqua program this week. Isthmus were displayed, accom-
The troubles of the Chautauqua panieil by graphic descriptions of
management began when notifies- Panaman places iy n d people. This
tion was received that Dr. .Morgan entertainment and Dr. McDowell's
HON. HOKE SMITH SPEAKS
IN NEWNAN TOMORROW.
j Popular Candidate for Governor will Receive Rous
ing Reception at the Hands of the People
of This City and Coweta County.
All necessary preparations are W right, who will introduce Mr.
being perfected for the big lloke smith to the crowd. It is expeet-
! Smith rally and speaking which is ed that the people's candidate will
i to occur in Newnan on Saturday, prove equal to the occasion and
August llh. The details of theaf will deliver one of the greatest
fair are in charge of a committee speeches of the campaign,
j composed of prominent citizens People are coming to Newnan
w ho will spare no ell'ort to make from every direction and from
the occasion the greatest political Coweta and all adjoining counties
gathering in the history of New next Saturday, and it is believed
nan. The personnel of the com- the crowd x\ i 11 be a record breaker
mittoe is as follows: in size and enthusiasm. The news
lion. A. 1!. Burdetl, chairman; I comes from every town and dis
Messrs. Franc Campbell. D. S.jtriet in Coweta county that the
Cuttino, C. I!. (Hover, F. M. Bry
second entertainment,
Thursday evening, were
best features of the entire
week.
Thursday evening Dr. McDowell
carried his audience on a trip
“Through Arizona Canyon and
\ osemite to the (Haiders of Alas
ka." with a superb collection of M Heo()s wi „ lecture"Saturday and a half and most of his speech hulf of the people who will gather join the procession, get a seat on
—- 1 --*— .... •- 1 ■ ...... i M... i i ........... umi gear lloke.
Wood and the Otterbein Quartette
could not fulfill their contracts
with the Association. This notifi
cation came just a few days before
the beginning of Chautauqua; and
then came the news that Dr. K. T.
Duncan could not be present to
preach on Sunday. Coming at the
last hour, these difficulties seemed moving pictures and colored Ian-
insurmountable; but the Chautau- tern slides, j
qua managers bestirred themselves. Mrs. \\ jlm Molt Wakelield, of
made liberal use of telegraph and New York, formerly of Newnan,
telephone wires, and secured at-j was the star attraction on Wednes-
tractions to replace those which day evening’s program. Her songs
had failed them. anil 'recitations were received with
The Chautauqua opened Sunday prolonged applause and made a de
morning, “on time,” and while cideqiy pleasing impression upon
the eminent Methodist divine of .the ''audience. Other features of
Birmingham was not present to j this tovening’s entertainment were| assembly'as a" whole has made” a
deliver the opening sermon, his musi<* by the Marine Band, songs dlstillot j y ]>k . Hsinf r ha.m-sslo..
upon the people of
. their guests.
I hyrsday morning that eloquent
Miss, (sippian, Hon. Luther Man-
ship,! aptly termed the Bob Taylor
of hiii State, delighted a large as
sembly with his splendid lecture
entitled, “Song and Story.” Mr.
: Mansl'iip pleased every hearer and in tin
was UbanimiTusly voted one of the ‘h'hght by Newnan people, as an
finest Chautaqua lecturers ever illustration o! tin
ant, J.T. Kirby, .1. L. Brown, .).
B. Barney, .1. J. Keith, M. ('.
Farmer, L. A. Perdue.
people are preparing to turn out
enmusse and come to the lloke
Smith rally in Newnan. Old and
young, large and small, male and
The committee has named 2:110 female are coming; and the old
o’clock in the afternoon as the town will be packed and jammed
time for the speaking to begin, with enthusiastic IlokeSmith men,
The speaking will occur at Miner- women and children,
presented Hoke Smith will Speak in Newnan Saturday, i al Spring, in this city, and not at F.very voter in this and adjoin-
two ol* the August 4th, 3t 2:30 o’clock* Pearl spring Park, two miles south ing counties, who ran possibly do
of the city, as some people have so, ought to hear lloke Smith’s
in
been erroneously informed. If Newnan speech—espeeially those
weather conditions prove favor- who have not already heard him
| able it is not probable that any . discuss the issues in this campaign.
and it is certain the people w ill onstrution from time to time ..., ...
want to hear him a second tune, lavor ol the people’s candidate . . !, .. ... „. , .
an additional session has lieen udd- somewhat nettled the speaker. , ..... . u , ,
.. • • , building in thee tv wi ho d one- Come to Newnan next Saturday,
ed to the original program and Mr. Hall spoke list one hour " * * .
morning at 10:J(>o’clock. At this
time there will be rendered the
usual musical program by the
bund, the Trio and Mr. Kronfeldt.
Despite the difficulties that have
beset the third Chautauqua As
sembly during the past two weeks,
the inclement weather, disappoint
ments of various kinds, etc., il has
been a week of pleasure and the
was devoted to a tirade against hcre Saturday to hear lloke
Hoke Smith. That his remarks j«»‘«th’s speech, and so prepara
were not well received w-as clearly tiol,s ttru nmW bav,! t,u ‘!
shown bv frequent interruptions, yaking oeeur in the open air at j
Carroll’eounty is undoubtedly in Mineral Spring. Several | United Stales Marine Band to
the Hoke Smith column and ‘the cluiirM will be provided for j furnish music during the day.
people's Candidate w ill be given a a,lb il H‘“d people, and comfortably, This band, has been playing da
large majority at the coming prl
the hand wagon
Smith.
Tlie committee on arrangements
for the Smith rally lias secured the
Band
Let Well Enough Alone.’
“substitute” delivered one of the by the Southern Women’s Trio,
strongest and most eloquent ser- .Mr. Jronfeldt and Mr. Davis,
mons ever heard in the city. When
it was learned that Dr. Duncan
could not come to Newnan, the
Chautauqua management secured
Dr. <i. A. Nunnally to preach the
morning sermon and Dr. J. W.
Quillian to deliver the evening dis-
linpresston
Newnan and
If everybody should sing the
song of the (ieorgia politicians,
“Let well enough alone,” there
would never be any progress in
any undertaking. There would
City mail delivery was i.iaugu-! have b,M *" a "> ir,,n l ,loWM
\ii 1 ’list 1st ma<b * f'° take Mie place ol the
City Mail Delivery.
course.
1 Highly
Rain, which has
in evidence durini
been
the
week, fell in torrents Sunday night heard Hi Newnan.
and prevented the assembling of a
congregation to hear Dr. Quillian.
This fact was deeply regretted by
everybody.
The subject of Dr. Nunnally’s
discourse was “The Fatherhood of
One'of the most popular attrac
tions Of (h,. Assembly is the South
ern \\ pmen's Trio of Atlanta,com
posed of Mrs. Mamie Folsom
rated in Newnan on
This innovation was received with i woode " 1,0 . Klw,t,,i,! car lin, ‘ H
place of the horse ears, no
growth and sewi,, K machines, no telegraph and
telephone lines, no steamboats or
steam ears. Let well enough alone
•ullooted at * s ab when the ingenuity of
man makes everything perfect,
seats w ill be arranged for the re
mainder of the crowd.
Hon. A. B. Burdetl will net as
master of ceremonies for the occa
sion and will present Hon. W. C.
second annual engagement with
(In- New nun Chautauqua this week.
It is one of the IInest bands in the
South, and the music furnished
Saturday will prove a treat to all
who conic.
Carrollton
Bonds
idated.
Not Val- Johnson in tearing up the tracks
of the Cleveland St reet Car Coin-
pnYy and moving them to one side
order to make room for a new
The Times is
prosperity of the city and because
of tin* great convenience of having
mail delivered and
every door.
Three routes cover the city, and
Wynnfe and Misses Martha Smith j ,nail boxt ’ s im ‘ lusted at ounven-
and Zura Cauthon. These ladies j ie,lt I )oillts for tlu ' collection of
.Goil,” and he treated his subject sing vc,*y sweetly, and their cllbrts mab mattei. Joseph K. layloi is
carrier on Route No. I and covers
iu a deeply interesting manner have w on generous applause at
from the beginning to the conclu- each abpearance on the program,
sion of his sermon. The large an- Ralph Bingham, the inimitable
dience assembled in the Auditor- platform entertainer, is with the
inmwasan appreciative gathering Chautauqua for the week and is
and the speaker’s message made a acting as platform manager. This
•strong and favorable impression (Friday) evening he will appear
upon all hearers, i as tlife chief attraction on the pro
Monday evening the Auditorium gram and will deliver one of his carrier is Aivan N. \\ ood.
•was filled with a large and re- sidesplitting humorous lectures.
which is impossible. There is
room for improvement in political
conditions as well as in the in
dustries. and the man who comes
before the people with a platform
An interesting and important
legal matter was decided by Judge d-ceijt fare line.
B. \V. Freeman, in this city, Mon- afraid Mayor Johnson is going to
day, when his Honor refused to scare capital into a duck lit, eapi-
vaiidate the bonds recently voted tal being notoriously timid and
for public improvements by the ready to take to its heels whenever
city of Carrollton. anybody says “boo.”
Carrollton voted bonds to the Gapilul is a good thing to have
amount of #40,0(10, the to in the house, but it is not the cu
be expended in completing the tireehee.se. An honest and fear-
city’s Hewer system, for macadam- less mayor is worth quite a lot
izing the streets and in the ercc- himself. In these days when “tim-
tion of a city hull. Three-fourths id capital” is so ready to bribe the
of the votes cast, in the special servants of the people, and so
election were in favor of bonds,but olten siieeesstiil, it is refreshing to
the business section of Newnan.
John I!. Cox is the postman on
Route No. 2, his route lying in
“Newtown” ail’d the western and
northwestern sections of the city.
Route No. 3 includes Greenville
Street and Fast Newnan and the
earnestness is the man who will
receive a majority of the votes,—
Sandersville Progress.
Death of Mrs. W. J. Driskill.
lice in the classified service; and
sponsiveaudience,gathered to hear The band, Mrs. Wakefield and Mr.
the musical program which was the K vdnfeldt will assist Mr. Bingham
first entertainment provided for in,entertaining what will probably
the assembly. The numbers on be the largest audience of the week,
the program were rendered by the This morning at 10:30 o’clock,
baud, the Southern Women’s Trio, following the usual musical pro-
Miss Clestelle McLeroy and Mes- 1 gza m< ‘-Bob” Seeds, the famous
srs. A. L. Kronfeldt and W. H. farrier-lecturer, will expose the
Davis. The entertainment was a j mistakes of life, his great hiimor-
jhuceess iu every particular. The ou£ lecture being entitled, “The
gentlemen and ladies presenting it Mistakes of Life Exposed.”
ere generously applauded anil Thursday afternoon at 3 o’clock
lequeutly encored. a delightful special program was
Tuesday morning the Chautau- rendered at the auditorium for the
'qua was blessed with more of the children. A large crowd of cliil-
good luck which has been so much qren and many grown people were
in evidence. A belated train made present. A splendid entertain- Smith Crowd Hears Joe Hall
it impossible for Rev. William n«ent was given by the Baud, thej Speak.
Spurgeon to arrive in time to lee- Trio, Mrs. Wakefield, Mr. Kron- —
ture during the morning session, feldt,Mr. Bingham and Mr. Lucius j Carrollton, Ga., July 31.—Hon.
so his lecture was postponed until Perry Hills. Joe Hill Hall, of Macon, spoke
2:30 o’clock in the afternoon. At' The Chautauqua as at first plan- j here Saturday in court house to an
|that hour the distinguished Eng- neil made no provision for an en- audience of two hundred persons,
^ishman spoke on the relations ex- j tertalnment on Saturday; but, as 1 Of this numljer two-thirds or more
sting between his country and the < Mr. Seeds will be on the ground were Smith supporters. The dern-
i Mrs. W. J. Driskill. wife of the
,1,,. superintendent of the Coweta For-
The establishment of city
livery places the Newnan postof- tiliz.er Company, passed away
ships in the office will be made HevtMal " u " ,ths - Th « l "'"' n ‘ l ,,( "
through the civil service bureau, j in ,ilbwrto "’ tl “' llom(i of
Another innovation following in j ^ I>> * ***th«r. 1 he ie-
thewake of city delivery is two i mains were carrUid to thal l )iace
cents postage on local letters. All | Sum^y, accompanied by the lie-
letters mailed to addresses in the ,t “ avod hu8ban,l > his father-in-
law, Mr. W. CJ. Dennard, and
Messrs. E. It. Barrett and II. M.
Fisher.
Before her marriage Mrs. Dris-
city must now bear two cent
stamps. No one cent stamps on
sealed envelopes are recognized in
cities that have free delivery. This
is an iron-clad rule of the postoffice k 111 was Miss Fa,,,,ie of
Wilkes county. She was about 48
which gives them assurance of his j certain citizens of Carrollton who find a man like Tom Johnson, who
oppose the issuing of bonds eon- is faithful to his trust,
tested the validation of the bond The course of Mayor Johnson in
issue and won their ease before' ignoring the order of the court and
Judge Freeman. Judge Freeman going ahead with his work was
refused to validate the bonds be- characteristic, lie expected to bn
cause of an error in the time of sent to jail for contempt, but he
publishing advertisement of the reasoned that he owed a duty to
bond election and because the ad the public. Of all the men in
vcrlisemcnt failed to state what Cleveland he was the only one who
part of the #40,0(Jo was to be ex- 1 could fight that particular battle
little
poses for which the bond issue is that he should be compelled to
desired. * serve a term in jail if by doing so
A number of Carrollton lawyers the public welfare could be furth-
were employed in this ease, a ina- «*red.
jority of them representing tin* 'I he New York Times ought to
mayor and council of Carrollton quit worrying over the timidity of
and the friends of the bond issue, capital and do a little glorifying
last
Sunday evening at t o’clock, alter
hereafterall appointments to clerk- a painful illness which had lasted I pended for each of the several pur- for the city and it mattered
department.
years of age, and was a member of
the First Baptist church of New-
nan. She was an estimable lady
and her death is deeply deplored
by a large host of friends.
S. R. Bridges, Mr. Nutting and
Miss Nelle Forbes came down from
Atlanta last Wednesday afternoon
to lie present at the evening ses
sion of Chautauqua.
The fight on bonds was led by
Generals. W. Harris, attorney for
the citizens opposing the bond is
sue. Other Carrollton attorneys
interested in the ease are W. F.
Brown, VV. D. Hamrick and At
torney Merrill. Solicitor General I
J. R. Terrell, of Greenville, wasi
also called to Newnan by the hear- ;
ing of this ease.
over the fact that some American
cities have honest and courageous
mayors like Tom Johnson. Ring
off on capital and give the man a
chance!—Atlanta News.
Roscoe Voters for Hoke Smith.
Mayor
Tom Johnson,
Cleveland.
of
The New York Times is worried
over the course of Mayor Tom
A recent poll of votens in the
Roscoe neighborhood, this county,
resulted in 1H votes for Hoke
Smith, 1 for Dick Russell and 1
non-committal. That section of
Coweta is solid for Smith, and the
same thing can be said of almost
every other section of this county.'
