The Newnan news. (Newnan, Ga.) 1906-1915, October 26, 1906, Image 1
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THE NEWNAN NEWS.
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VOL. VII.
NEWNAN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1906.
NO. 29
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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
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