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FOR BOTH
One disease of thinness in
children i.s scrofula; in adults,
consumption. Both have poor
blood ; both nc-d more fat.
These diseases thrive on lean
ness. Fat is the best inenns of
overcoming them; cod liver oil
makes the Is’st and healthiest
fat and
The
Labor Question in the
South.
Wo find 'in an. Alabama news
paper, the _ Abbeville News, the
following paragraph:
PRES. JOHNSON
TO THE FARMERS
SCOTT'S
EMULSION
is the easiest and most effective
form of cod liver oil. Here’s a
natural order of things that
shows why Scott’s Fmulsion iH
of so much value in all cases of
scrofula and consumption. More
fat, more weight, more nourish
ment, that’s why.
St-lid for frrn sample.
SCOTT & B<TWNE, Chemists
409-415 Pearl IRe«, New York
60<.an4}l.00 II II II ■■ All 4>uf(4jta
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0FT«CE UP STAIRS IN THE WILCOXOR BLOB
To the ehaingang with the
vagrants.
Atlanta has elimlied down from
the water wagon again.
Vagrancy laws will help solve
the race problem—if they are en
forced.
Mr. William Travers Jerome, of
New York, appears to Ik* another
statesman of the gold brick brand.
LaGrange will have a "home
coming" celebration on Oct. loth,
and lion, Hoke Smith will deliver
the address of the day.
The Atlanta Journal is deter
mined to extend the Western it
Atlantic Kail road to the sea; and a
lot of folks are willing to help the
Journal do it.
Billie Hearst’s politics arc ns
highly colored as his newspa rers—
which is the strongest indictment
that can be preferred against Bill’s
brand of politics.
The Sultan of Turkey isn't dead
yet—in fact, he has recovered suf
ficiently to be able to sit up and
sign some more promissory notes.
Pity 'tis, ’tis true.
Vagrants and idlers should be
forced to work. If they refuse to
work for prevailing high wages,
compel them to work without
wages in the ehaingang.
Newnan should welcome all
kinds of new business and manu
facturing enterprises. We want
everything and everybody that
will help build up the town.
The present imml>er of farmers
in this section will In* reduced an
other year quite largely. We have
heard of several who say that they
shall undertake to farm no longer, I
because they can get no help to
either make or gather a crop, and
it is useless to undertake it by
themselves, and will goat some-j
thing else. Their lands they will
rent or let go uncultivated. There
i is very little encouragement to the
farmer, or the one who has not
| sufficient help of his own. It is
impossible to employ lalxir for the
farm.
The lalsir question is always, in '
farming communities, a question
of great interest, and it is especial- [
ly so in the South. There is this .
; year a cry Jfor more men from |
every wheat Held and corn Held in
the West. Now the cry comes i
from the cotton regions. There is
no question, we think, that before
1 the Southern States can secure the
j liest results|thcrc will have tobej
immigration, voluntary or induced j
by local Organization.
Moreover, there will have to lie'
a recognition of the fad that a I
small farm well tilled is lietter ‘
than a large farm half neglected.'
The Southern farmer needs to in
crease the product per Here, ]>er
man and ]>er mule. There are
regions in the South where large
plantations, conducted like some
great factory, will always hold
their own against the small farmer
and intensive farming; but these
great plantations will have to ar
range for a more reliable lalior ele-1
meat than they have yet lieen able
to command. Experiments have
lieen made with different classes of
labor, and just now the Italian
lalsirer is attracting a good deal of
attention and arousing opposition
in certain quarters. If the Italian j
farmer comes from the agricultural
districts of Italy there is every
reason to believe that he will make
a good American farmer. If he is
drawn from the towns of Italy or
of America where he has failed to
make a living there is little reason
to suppose that he can make a liv-.
ing on the farm.
The laws of the United States do
not permit the importation of con
tract labor. This would prevent
the importation of any large mint-
lier of foreigners for any specific
work.
But the South needs labor, and
the labor of the world needs the
land. The future of Southern
agriculture largely depends upon
the success of the Southern States
in attracting farm laborers, men
who want to buy small farms, men
who would rent or men who would
work for wages. One class will
seek one section and raise one crop.
Others will l»e drawn by other at
tractions to other sections. Again,
the Southern farmer must increase
his lalior saving implements. He
must use and teach his lalairers to
use the latest mechanical devices
for the cultivation, handling and
harvesting of crops. The greater
the scarcity of lalior, the greater
the necessity for labor-saving im
plements.—American Farmer.
Georgia Division Resident
Talks of Cotton
Sitnation.
Get busy or move on. This is
the word that should la* passed
along tio the idlers. If thqre art 1
any vagrants or idlers in Newnan
they should la* compelled to go to
work or get out.
Statement.
The authorities of Newnan are
after the crap shooters and blind
tigers of this city. That’s right.
Every good citizen of Newnan will
staud by our Mayor and policemen
in every effort they make to rid the
city of these criminal negroes. The
policemen should make a vigilant
and vigorous campaign against
these characters and the Mayor
should give them the limit of the
law every time they appear iu his
court.
To the many friends of the la
mented S. L. Faver who so will
ingly subscribed to a fund to be
expended in erecting a suitable
monument in memory of this uni-
versally beloved citiztn, I wish to
state that a sufficient sum was col
lected with which to purchase and
erect a modest, but substantial
President M. L. Johnson, of the
Georgia Division, Southern Cot
ton Association, has just issued a
statement in which he urges the j
cotton planters ot Georgia and the
South to stand by the recent action
of the association in fixing the
minimum price at to cents.
President Johnson says:
“The Southern Cotton Associ
ation has spoken and the old orig
inal standard price of io cents has
been indorsed and reaffirmed. It
was with this price that the bank
ers, merchants and farmers won
their notable victory for the South
in 1905, and they can do it again.
“This price should and will meet
the approval and receive the ap
proval of every business interest.
No cotton should be sold for less
and this should be added to only
as the exigencies of the occasion
demand.
“The farmer should realize that
he cannot get a fixed price by sell
ing below it; they must stand solid
to the agreement just like a stone
wall. You will recall that I have
always contended that what
ever the price fixed, whether to or
12 cents, we could win only by
each individual standing loyal and
doing his full duty. There are
some men so loyal to the associ
ation that they are still holding
their cotton. That is the metal
which wins; but those who sold
for the best price cannot expect
them to do this year in and year
out while others continue to sell.
Let merchants, bankers and farm
ers go to speaking out as they
did in 1905, The fight which has
forced our cotton down below to
cents and seeks to hold it there
must be met in a common cause:
it is vital to every Southern inter
est.
“It will be recalled again that I
insisted that the time to advance
the price was when the mill sup
plies were short, and that is now.
There are few mills not willing to
pay 10 cents. There is no doubt
by intelligent management of the
farm is the only keynote to future
success. The fertility of our soils
can soon be exhausted under any
one crop system, no matter what
that crop may be. It has been
tested so many times that further
1 erieimentation is useless. When
the natural, virgin fertility of the
sail has been exhausted by
scratching the surface under an
intensive system of poor culture.it
at once becomes necessary to ap
ply artificial manures to supply
necessary food for plant existence.
No land has ever been rendered
more fertile through the applica
tion of artificial manures. The
growing plants on such lands can
be and are stimulated and bene
fited by such applications, but the
soil is not rendered more fertile.
Deep plowing, harrowing and thor
ough lilth.with constant and never
ceasing rotation of crops, is what
benefits the land, fills the farmer’s
cribs and smokehouses and in
creases the farmer’s bank account.
The man who sticks to cotton and
to the supply merchant to “run”
him, will die in hard luck and leave
little or no valuable heritage to
posterity.
There is no time better than the
present to begin the overthrow of
primitive methods and the intro
duction of modern ideas and sub
stantial improvements. The time
is drawing near for the fall sowing
of wheat and oats and the break
ing of land. In those sections
where wheat can be profitably
grown, it should be sown in at
least a sufficient area for winter
cutting for the stock and enough
to furnish flour next year for the
family. Oats can be grown every
where in the South, and if drilled
in furrows instead of sown broad
cast, there need be no fear of
winter killing.
Heavy yields of wheat and oats
can only be harvested from fertile
soils that have been thoroughly
prepared to receive the crop and
intelligently fertilized. All land
that is to be planted in crops next
spring should be well plowed with
disc or turn-plows this fall and
winter. This will place the land in
first-class mechanical condition
and insure good yields from all
crops that are planted and which
are liberally fertilized and proper-
POTTS AND PARKS
WE SEIL LADIES’ GOODS.
We are the only exclusive dealers in Newnan,
in dress goods, silks, trimmings, notions, lad
ies and children’s shoes. Our special atten
tion to this line enables us to procure the best
materials at the lowest prices.
FALL DRESS GOODS.
Broad cloths in black, white and colors, priced $1.50, $li25
and $1.00 ]>er yard.
Wool Batistes
These are very popular and were bought at low figures;
shown in black, white and many shades.
Grey Suitings.
London smoke, hair-line checks and shadow plaids, Chester
field and mohairs.
Scotch Plaids
For ladies’ waists and children’s dresses.
SILKS.
Plaids, plain and fancy waist silks, novelty and plain yard
wide dress silks.
Yard-wide black peau de soie silks at $1.25 and $1 per yard.
Black taffeta silks, yard wide, at $1.25, $1.00, 90 cents and
80 cents per yard.
SATIN.
Eight shades yard wide satins for only $1.00 per yard.
TRIMMINGS.
One hundred styles of braids and appliques, many rich ef
fects in embroidered all-overs and Baby-Irish laces.
WE SELL
American Lady corsets, Ladies’ Shoes, medi-
(t um and grades children’s and infants’ shoes,
* Butterick Patterns.
POTTS a PARKS
Phone]109
Bay Street
Newnan, Ga.
that our -merchants anil bankers cultivated. The solution of the
will aid those who do not wish to
sell below 10 cents.
"The association has had but one
defeat; it has had many victories
Let’s add another now and get 10
cents. To do this we must all move
as one man. I would be glad to
have a word from every Georgian
who is with us in the fight. Re
member that we cannot let up on
this fight. It must be constant,
continuous every year. Let us
press to success a work that is so
vital and important to every
Southern interest."
Diversified Agriculture.
monument. The monument has
I been paid for in full, and now
' adorns the family lot in Oak Hill
Cemetery. I desire to express my
thanks to all who in any way con
tributed to this most laudable un
dertaking. This Sept. 29, 1906.
VV. L. Stallings,
, Sec. Sam Faver Monument Ass'n.
A tew careless directors of
financed institutions lodged in jail
might help some.
A lot of prodigal sons think
more oi the fatted calf than they
do of the home coming.
If heaven were a reward instead
of a gift, mighty tew of us would
stand a show.
A full corncriband a full smoke
house are the finest and safest
financial institutions to back the
cotton growers in the South in
their fight for freedom and inde
pendence from the dominating and
depressing influences of low priced
cotton. No man ever heard of a
sheriff or a bailiff going to a farm
er’s home who had a full corncrib
to levy a mortgage or collect a
debt. If every grower would make
up his mind, definitely to plant and
cultivate enough corn each year tb
fill a good sized corn crib, and then
do it, there would be no more low
priced. There would be no cotton
forced on \he market, ev?ry man
would sell when he got ready, and
none would be ready to go to
labor problem and future success
tul farming lies in planting fewer
acres, better fertilization and pro
ducing heavier yields per acre.
These are economic matters
which must receive more general
attention from the farmers here
after. What we particularly de
sire to impress upon the cotton
growers is the imperative need of
filling their corn cribs and smoke
houses at home. Be independent
of those classes which are banded
together for the single purpdse of
depressing the price of the pro
ducts of your labor and learn to
become an important factor in the
markets of the world when you go
there with supplies from your
farms for sale. Diversification will
cure all our present ills on the
farm.—Cotton Journal.
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So long as a man lives in a town
he should stand up for it and give
loyal support to its best interests
—moral, social,religious, industrial
and material. Whenever he finds
himself out of sympathy with the
best people and the material in
terests of the town he should first
hold a sober conference with him-
selt. If, after examining himself
thoroughly and conscientiously, he
finds that he is dissatisfied with
his fellow citizens and is liable to
become a grilmbler and a stumb
ling block in the community, he
should then make up his mind to
BOYDEN’S
Newark Shoes
The Boyden Shoes
that we’ve had such a
demand for, have
come at last; and it
goes without saying
that these shoes have
the first place, when
it comes to style, snap,
finish, and wearing
qualities.
The West Point, a
smart shoe for young
men.
RALSTON
HEALTH SHOES
market with his staple till .
prices showed a satisfactory mar-! holdhis P eace and be content to
In a $4 shoe The
Ralston Health Shoe
is undoubtedly the
best fitter, thie b^st
shoe making and the
best wearing quali
ties on the market
today.
The Tokio In a Button m-
gin of profit. The cotton growers ; 0CCU Py a back ® eat ’ or “ ov « t0 an '
of the South are not compelled to j other town.-Albany Herald,
raise cheap cotton for living; they
can raise their bread and meat
much cheaper and much more sat
isfactorily than they ean afford to
buy supplies at very high prices
and pay for them with very cheap
cotton.
The solution of the whole prob
lem lies in diversified agriculture.
intensive system of culture,backed
How often you hear it said of
some professional man: “He is a
mighty smart man, but he drinks
so hard.” The latter part of the
quotation gives the lie to the first.
Whenever we see a man driving
a horse that is checked brutally
high we always wish we could put
We are making a spec
ialty in fine shoes and
men’s furnishings, and
it’s our intention to car
ry in stock just what
the people want in high
class merchandise, and
it is our aim to make
satisfied customers.
Rotation of crops unde? a highly the man in the shafts and officiate
as driver for an hour or two.
W. M. ASKEW,
Successor to Askew Bros.
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