The Newnan news. (Newnan, Ga.) 1906-1915, October 26, 1906, Image 1

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. M PAGES THE NEWNAN NEWS. 10 PAGES VOL. VII. NEWNAN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1906. NO. 29 The N Quinary'! V/ r v i Off/c vjreat Piano Contest is Becoming Strenuous. Have You Voted Yet? AMONG THE ADVERTISERS Notes from Newnan’s Business Circies. What Live Mer chants are Doing and Saying. tising printed in the News is that of G. E. Adams, the grocer. He has a splendid stock, and pushes his business in the most approved manner. The half-page ads. that appear each week on the News’ first page tell the business story of “The store with a reputation.” Banta’s occupies the front rank as a jewel ry store, and the stock is the kind that it pays to advertise. G. It. Bradley’s down-to-date drug store is a credit to the busi ness interests of Newnan, and the store’s advertising is a feature of the News’ business announcement columns. W. M. Askew, successor to As kew Bros., advertises ladies’ shoes in this week’s paper. He carries an exceptionally fine stock of shoes for ladifes and a complete line of gentleman’s furnishing goods. It is not often that a store in a town of Palmetto’s size advertises in a newspaper published in a town several miles distant, but IT. T. Daniel, the hustling general merchant of Palmetto, is breaking the record. He is running a half page ad. in the News, and tells the public some interesting facts about liis immense stock of goods. Mr. Daniel is one of the livest mer chants and most successful busi ness men in this section of Geor gia; and he is affording business men in Newnan, Palmetto and elsewhere a splendid example by his down-to-date methods in seek ing trade. Holt & Gates give the public something to think about in every ad. they have printed. Their ad vertising is as interesting as much of the news matter of the average paper. Don’t miss their ads. in the News. The new warehouse of the Far mers’ Warehouse Co. is a New nan business enterprise that is worth advertising. Look up this advertisement in this week’s News and see just what this warehouse purposes to do for the cotton grower. dealer, is a live business man and a successful advertiser. The pub licity he is giving his store is sell ing the goods and proving the wis dom of telling the people about it when you’ve got something to sell them. The weather is getting something like what the coal man longs to see, and the Cates Goal Go. is put ting the people on notice that they are among the leading coal dealers of the city. Of course their adver tising is printed in the News. PIANO CONTEST. The vote in the News’ piano contest was as follows, when the paper went to press this week: Votes Miss Besfie Kirby, Newtmn 1,(100 “ Jewel Fnver “ r 1,800 “ Kate Snead “ 700 " Ruth McDonald,Oth Diet., '2,!J0O “ Maybelle Sewell, Grantville._..100 M. L. Duke, the genial manager of the Newnan Singer Store, knows ! the value of advertising; and any person desiring to purchase a good j sewing machine at a low price will j save money by visiting the Singer j Store. Some of the most readable adver- The Newnan Ice and Goal Go’s, ad. in this week’s paper touches upon the just uow important sub ject of coal. Bead the ad. and you’ll know. J. N. Marbury, the furniture Delivery of The News. In a notice to subscribers which has appeared several times in this paper the News had no intention of saying anything derogatory to the efficiency of any person in the Newnan postoffiee or any other postoffice where this newspa per is handled. The statement was’made in plain language in reference to postmasters, clerks and carriers, and there is no rea son why any person should mis understand it. The News is not responsible for the things people imagine they read between the lines in its statements. There is never any hidden meaning in this paper’s statements. A. &W.P. RAILROAD’S SLICK SCHEME Plans to Increase Distance Be- teen Atlanta and Points on Line and Raise Freight Charges. President and General Manager G. A. Wickersham of the Atlanta and West Point Railroad is a most wonderful man. He has engaged in a number of startling perform ances in the past, but they pale into insignificance beside’,the amaz ing feat lie has recently ( we sup pose) accomplished. This is noth ing less than the removal of At lanta four miles to the eastward on the face of the earth and the map of Georgia. Just when Mr. Wickersham accomplished this amazing undertaking is not known. Nobody “seed him do it” and he has not informed any person as to the exact time when the job was done; but lie appeared before the Georgia Railroad Gommissiou last Wednesday, accompanied by At torney Albert Howell, and calmly announced that Newnan is 4.1 in stead of 851 miles from Atlanta,and that all points on the line of this road are 4 miles farther from At lanta than any person has hitherto supposed. So it is evident that Mr.Wicker sham, or somebody acting under his direction, has moved Atlanta to the eastward and stretched the Atlanta A West Point Railroad four miles. As a result of which strange proceeding, the legs of shippels using this line are to be pulled. The facts in reference to this peculiar case were set forth in Wednesday’s Atlanta Journal and are reproduced, in part, in this paper for the edification of News readers. The Journal says: “An insidious attempt on part of the Atlanta and West Point Railroad to extort from its patrons —merchants, manufacturers and consumers alike—an increased rev enue on all freights of from ten to fifteen per cent, met with vigorous opposition before the Georgia Rail road Gommission Wednesday morn ing. For three hours the board engaged in hearing the petition of President and General Manager G. A. Wickersham fora revision of the mileage table of the West Point, whereby distances to every point along the line from Atlanta will be increased by at least five miles and the freight rates excessively ad vanced. “Still smarting from the loss of | revenue entailed by the changing of the classification of the road j from class 1$ to A, whereby the rates were lowered approximately 10 per cent, the West Point con cocted a clever, thorough insidious move, to regain this revenue. The patrons of the road were on the alert, however, and it is their hope that their vehement protest before the Commission has checked the scheme. “Although the road owns its trackage rights to Nelson street, in the very heart of Atlanta, it claims that the use of a belt line, or spur track, from Oakland City to Inman park, has increased its main mileage py four miles, and it asks of the Com mission a revision of its mileage table, so that it may collect class and commodity rates for every ounce of goods handled over this spur track, in excess of the regular class and commodity rates allowed for the established mileage of th^ line. “At present, the West Point’s freight terminals are located in the Georgia Railroad depot, at Central avenue. To reach these terminals, the road uses a belt line and this belt is four miles in length. The present terminals are, in fact, one half-mile nearer to all points along the line of the road than was the original freight depot of the road, upon which the original mileage scale was made. “In spite of this fact, the road claims that distances to all points have been increased by four miles, and as all rates are made on the multiples of five, it asks the right to revise its table of distances, so that West Point, for instance, will be located DO.20 miles from Atlan ta, insteud of 85 miles, the real distance.” The revised mileage table would change distances to stations in Coweta county as follows: Coweta. 84.87 Madras 87.25 Newnan 42.00 Moreland 40.27 St. Charles 50.00 Grantvillo 55.08 “The application for the revi sion of the table of distances was filed by President Wickersham several days ago; and, though freight rates are not mentioned,the patrons of the road, always on the alert, quickly saw through the (Continued on P.IW * ) S. B A N T A ’ S ♦ / The Store With A Reputation i The course of time is best measured by a Waltham Watch. It is this time P. M. in London. SOLID Gold and FILLED Watches Our ^tock is a magnificent display of an immense variety of patterns in all sizes of watch cases. Every case made by manufacturers whose name is a guarantee of quality and workmanship. We sell standard movements at close prices. Come and examine this splendid array of watch cases and movements. Gorham’s Sterling Silver and “Rogers Bros. 1847” Silver This score’s ^tock has never been equaled in Newnan. If you wish to make silver pur chases, come and see the goods. "Silver I‘late That Wears. 1 * For SO V ears, Genume •1847 Rogers Bros! Spoons, Forks, etc., , have been in ubc and given entire satisfaction, ifhe prefix 1847 on I any spoon or fork, wherever bought, guar- AtltP.Pft ilfl llic/ll nntiliftr H. S. BANTA’S, The Store with a REPUTATION A. . wc—r ~ ^ —. j i