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THE NEWNAN NEWS.
VOL. VII.
NEWNAN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1907.
NO. 41
For ALL* he News of Coweta County That IS News, Read The Newnan News
BUSINESS CHANl
' IN NEWNAN.
Rev. J. E. Hannah and Family
in Newnan.
Many Changes in Business Cir
cles Have Been or Will be
Made. Incorporation
the Order of Day.
Hew ,1. E. Hannah and family
arrived from Thomaston last Wed
nesday. They are residing in a
portion of the home of Mrs. K. <1,
, Orr, near the Presbyterian church.
I The minister and his family re
ceived a cordial welcome to New-
g nan from the Presbyterians of the
Incorporation is the thing at
Newnan business concerns nowa-lcity.
days, and nJmost every week sees! Hev. Mr. Hannah will occupy
the anuouucmeut of a new corpo- the pulpit of the Presbyterian
ration that is being formed to do church next Sunday morning and
business here. ()f the corporations j evening, and thereafter every Snn-
that have commenced business du- day with this exception: His con-
ring the past months, the Mangel- gregation has agreed to allow him
Brannon <’o., the Bradley-Banks to continue as pastor of Turin I’ros-
t’o. and the Reese Drug Co. may byterian church until the next
Ik- mentioned. Those now pro- meeting of Atlanta Presbytery,
feeding with the details of incor- which occurs in April. He will
poration arc the Hutfaker Drug Co., preach at Turin on the second Sun-
the D. \V. Boone Co., the Kirby- day in each month until the mect-
Bohaunou Hardware Co., the Holt inn of Presbytery, after which
•N: Cates Co. and the F. H. Bed- time he will occupy his Newnan
pulpit every Sunday.
Mr. Hannah will be installed as
pastor of the church here on the
second Sunday In February. Rev,
T. E. Converse, D. D., editor of
the Southern Presbyterian of At
lanta, will preach the installation
sermon. Dr. ,1. B. Mack, of Col
lege Park, will deliver the charge
to the congregation and Rev. W.
E. Dozier, of Carrollton, will
Co., who arc doing business in the
Carpenter building in the store
formerly occupied by Stewart &
Parks. 11. E. Parks has retired
from business and B..I. Stewart
has opened a store next door to
Stephens N: Co. The grocery busi
ness and bakery of Stephens N: Co.
has been sold to Taylor ,X Mitcham.
wine Co.
’Pile applicants for charter for
the Hutfaker Drug Co. are W. H.
Hufi'akcr, William Hughes and C.
B. (Hover, although it is under
stood that other well known citi
zens of Newnan are among the
concern’s stockholders. The cor
poration has purchased (1. B.Brad
ley's drug store and will continue
in that line of business. The head
of the concern, Dr. Hutfaker, has j charge the pastor,
been engaged in business with Mr. nnMmmnMMM
Bradley for several years and is a
popular and capable business man.
His assistant in the store’s man
agement will be Will Hughes, at
present of Atlanta, who is a son of
Rev. F. (J. Hughes of this city.
Mr. Hughes is a fine business man
£ and will be heartily welcomed as a
permanent resident of Newnan.
The D. W. Boone Co. is being
incorporated to take over the big
Boone store and control that flour
ishing business. The incorpora
tors are D. W. Boone, M. B.
Mooney, B. II. Lovejoy, O. F.
Allen, J. A. Robertson, dr., <1. W.
Kersey, M. C. Bobison and F. W.
Stripling. D. W. Boone is count
ed-one of the most successful of
Newnan merchants and his asso
ciates in this company are all well
known young men who have had
ample experience in merchandising.
The future promises great success
for this company.
The Kirby-Bohannon Co. will
conduct a hardware store in the
Black building. The incorpora
tors are B. H. and J. T. Kirby and
W. R. Bohannon. B. H. Kirby
and W. B. Bohannon will have
the active management of the bus
iness, the other member of the
, company being Hon. J. T. Kirby,
Chairman of the Board of County
Commissioners. Ben Kirbv and
Hoy Bohannon form an excellent
team of business men and the con-
4 § cern begins business with very
tv favorable prospects.
The incorporators of the Holt
and ('ates Co. are J. B. Holt, ,1. B.
< ates and P. (1. Stanley. For sev
eral years Messrs. Holt and Cates
have been numbered with this
city's most enterprising and suc-
cessful business men. Mr. Stan
ley has been an employe of the
- ore for some time, having conn-
li *re from West Point, and he has
made many
pc a capable business man.
The F. H. Bedwine Co., with
principal office in Newnan, will
conduct a general store at Roscoe.
The incorporators are J. C. Hood,
H. C. Glover and W. H. Tanner,
cl Coweta county, end F. Id. Bed
vine, of Campl»ell county. All
are well known and successful
p -iness men and farmers.
In addition to the numerous in
corporations mentioned, several
v other business changes are
No Race Suicide Here.
One of the most remarkable fam
ilies in Coweta county, is that of
,1. W. Hutchinson, a member of
the board of Commissioners for
Coweta county, living in the Har
alson District.
Mr. Hutchinson was married
just ‘JO years ago, to Miss Gray, a
daughter of “Unde” Hosea Gray,
whom everyone in the county knew.
Before Mr. Hutchinson and his
wife hail been married nineteen
years they were the parents of
twelve children. There were neith
er twins nor triplets born to them,
and the first born was a girl, now
a beautiful young lady. The next
was a boy and then a girl, alterna
ting. a girl and a boy, until the
twelfth one. a Imy, which was born
some time last year.
All are at home with their pa
rents; hale, healthy, active and in
dustrious. It is a striking coinci
dence to note t hat Mr. ,1 ackThomp
son, who livus u neighbor to Mr.
Hutchinson, has twelve children
line in
Winner of the Piano is Pleased.
Editor News:—
I wish to thank yon for the
beautiful piano awarded me in the
News' contest. It is a line instru
ment in every respect, and a much
better piano than 1 expected to re
ceive. 1 am delighted with the
piano and wish you to know that
I appreciate its beauty and excel
lent quality.
Bern Mi Donai.d,
Sharpsburg. Gn., B. E. D. No. J.
Meetings of Stockholders
Banks.
of
Train to Luthersville.
It is announced that the Central
Railroad will begin the operation
of a train between this city and
Luthersville next Monday . The
train will leave Luthersville in the
morning, arri\ ing here probably
at nine o’clock, and it will return
to Luthersville in the afternoon,
leaving here at about four o'clock.
This train will be operated on
the new Newnan and Greenville
line between Luthersville and Bay
also, and just over the line in mond and from that station into
Meriwether county lives Mr. Ben j Newnan ovorlhomain line. Belied
Kcmpson, who is also the father of j ule for the train has not been an-
twelve children. non need, but it will approximate
L'hese three families live on ad j the time mentioned above,
joining plantations and are in sight
of each other. Within sight of
these three mentioned, is the fami-
W. C. T. IL Meeting.
J. G. PUCKETT
K1LLED0NA.&W.P.
The annual meeting of stock-,
holders of the Newnan Banking
Company was held last Monday.
A semi annual dividend of fourj
per cent, was declared and a nice j
sum passed to the surplus .fund. I
Ml the officers and directors were|
re-elected, as follows: B. T.
Thompson, President; M. F. Cole, on the Atlanta & West, Point Rail
Vice President; T. M. Goodrum, way, was killed at Moreland last
Cashier; Directors,P. B. Murphey, Saturday night by falling under a
,1. A. Hunter, 11. C. A mall, P. F. moving freight train. He was in-
Cuttino, B D. Cole, Sr.. T. E. At- j staidly killed, his body being cut
kinson, M. F. Cole, B. T. Thump- to pieces by the revolving wheels.
Young Flagman Fell Under
Freight Train at More
land Last Saturday
Night.
tl.G. Puckett, a young (laginan
son.
Last week the annual meetings
of stockholders of the three nation
al hunks occurred.
The First National declared a
semi-annual dividend of 7 per
cent, and added largely lo the sur
plus fund. The stock holders Not
ed to increase the capital stock
from #r»(),00« to #57,000. N. F
It was at first reported that
Puckett was knocked under the
train by a couple of white boys
stealing a ride. The investigation
of the coroner’s jury did not con
firm this rumor. Coroner Broad-
water went down to Moreland at
an early hour Sunday morning and
empanelled a jury consisting of P.
A. Carmieal, .1. P. Cureton,
Powel was elected a member of j Henry Keith, A. H. Bobcrtsi I.
the Board of Directors and the of- a. Reynolds and E. ,1. Haynes,
fleers and remaining directors were i Thu investigation showed that
all re-elected, as follows: C. <-.! Puckett’s death resulted from an
Parrott. President; R. W. Free- accident. He found two white
man. Vice President; N. E. Powel. hoys, who gave their names as
ly of our late worthy County Treas
urer, (leo. W. Gable, deceased,
which is composed often children
and the widowed mother. All the
children are at home with the
mother. Thus in the four families
are Hi children all living within a
mile of each other.
What community in Georgia, or
in the south, can equal this record? pray much that the Lord
Does not this practically solve the stand by us. and be for us *
Next Monday the W..C. T. 1.
will meet in the Library Assembly
room. A good attendance is de
sired. It is hoped that every
member that possibly can will at
tend and let’s renew our energies
and do more against the rum traf
fic this year than we've done any
year since we organized. And
will
Wis-
Milltown.
Mrs, M, J. Damron' is baok in Naw-
imu iiKiiin witli her daughter, Mrs. I).
M. Wood, after ail absence of several
weeks, which she spent ut Whitehall
and Crawford.
George Simpkins came up from
Grantville and spent last Sunday with
the family of J. li. Farmer.
After spending several weeks in the
country with the home folks for the re
cuperation of his health, Robert Bishop
has returned to Newnan.
The young people of our community
were given a pound supper at Mrs. T.
M. Samples’ last Saturday night.
John and Clove Bryant visited the
family of their father-in-law, Frank
Sticher, at Banning, last Sunday.
Frank Hannon had the misfortune to
get two of his lingers cut off in the shop
one day last week.
Jack Hull, from Carrollton, spent last
Sunday with Newnan friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Allen spent last
Sunday at Sargent with the latter’s
mother, Mrs. .T. J. Hendrix, who lias
been very sick.
Elsie, little daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Toni Thomas, has been ill for several
days.
Gordon Hanson came down from Car
rollton last Sunday and went to work in
the cotton mill Monday.
Mrs. S. F. Allmun and Mrs: Woodruff
were called to the bedside of Mrs. Hen
ry Howard, who is very ill at her home
in Griffin.
Clnnd Bowington got two of his fing
ers cut off iii the mill lost Friday.
Miss Fannie Flbreuce, from East
Point, spent last week with relatives.
Miss Pearl Henry is expected home
soon from an extended visit to relatives
and friends at Litliia Springs.
Bobbie, little daughter of Mis. I. C.
friends and proved to McGehee, is confined to tier room with
throat trouble.
Joe and Oliver Carroll and their
wives visited relatives at Sargaut last |
Sunday.
Fred Hogan lias been down from East ■
Point with relatives the past two weeks. :
servant and the nice problem!
think so.
We | doin’’so thill we may light boldly
j for the right, knowing that “All
mm things work together for onr good,
Arthur Carter and Jake Pruitt, from we put on I ti u>l in Him.
Chipley, spent ia.it Saturday night and
Sunday with the family of Mrs. I. C.
Met rebec.
Mrs. Gertrude Gibbs came up from I
Opelika several days ago and has gone I
to work in the cotton mill.
John Ycarta, who moved to Roanoke :
several mouths ago, moved hack last I
week.
Misses Mary end Jessie Hudson, from
McWhorter mills, are visiting the fam
ily of their unde, Znck Hudson.
^trn. Zack Hudson gave the little folks i
of our community a pound supper last J
Saturday night
The young people of our neighbor
hood met at Mr. William Bryant’s last
Sunday afternoon and had a singing.
Mrs. Charlie Newsom, who was so
very sick at our last writing, is a little
better. '
Znck Smith came down from Carroll
ton last Monday and has gone, to work
in the cotton mill.
Our Sunday schools were well attend
ed last Sunday. Owing to the death of
Supt. Gaines’ wife’s mother, he was npf
with his school at the Chapel last Sun
day and was missed very much. The
entire school is in sympathy with Mrs
Gaines, who is one of our beloved and
devoted teachers.
Brother ,J. P Shaw preached at the
Chapel last Sunday night to a large con
gregation and again Monday night at
Oscar Mattox’s.
Next Sunday is Bro. W. S. Gaines’
regulur meeting day at Lovejoy Memo
rial.
Mrs. Sam Thomson was brought in
from the country and hurieil here Inst
Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Thomson was
formerly a resident of Newnan.
Mrs. .!. II.
Si mm bus,
( or. Sec’y.
City Court Next Monday.
(-ashier; .1. II. I’nwe
< ’ashier; 1 >i rectors. < 1
B. \\ . Freeman, .1. A
i'. Pease, (Jordon Lei
tino.
The Coweta National declared
James Smith and Wade O’Calhlg
A ssislant
( . Parrott. him, stealing it ride on his train
Hunter, A and when the train stopped at
Moreland lie ealled the marshal
and assisted in placing the boys
under arrest. The train started
I*. F. Cut
semi annual dividend of three peri to poll out and in trying to swing
The regular session of < 'ity < 'onrt
convenes next Monday morning.
A busy session is anticipated.
Good Samaritans to Meet.
cent, and placed a large sum to
t he credit of its surplus fund. The
follow ing named officers and direr
tors were all re elected: Mike I’ow
ed, President; W. <’. McBride,
Vice President; Fred MeSwain,
Cashier; Directors, T. J. Jones, J.
A. Hunter, II. A. Hall, M. G.
Keith, 11. ('. < Slover, \V. <'. Me
Bride, J. M. McBride, Mike I’ow
ell
At the first meeting of stock
holders since it opened for busi
ness. all the officers and directors
of The Manufacturers' National
were re-elected: President, II, II
North: Vice I’resident, B. D. Cole,
Jr.; < 'ashler, X. L. North; Direc
tors, B. D. Cole, Jr., J. B. McCol
lum, W. B. Orr, I*. L. Sutherland,
B. O. Jones, II. C. Glover, T. G.
Farmer, II. II. North. J.T. Dis
miikes.
At the request of a number of
companions of Newnan Chapter,
Boyal Arch Masons, a meeting of
Good Samaritans is hereby called
for the fifth Tuesday night in Jan
uary. All members are requested
to find out and bring to the meet
ing eligibles for membership. The
wives, widows, unmarried daugh
ters and sisters of Boyal Arch Ma
sons can join.
Following are appointed com
mittec on refreshments and pro
gram: L. A. Perdue, C. I). Crane,
Mrs. Fouse, Mrs. Lovejoy, Mrs.
Barney and Miss Helen Long.
I*. T. McCutehen, High Priest.
Mrs. J.
A. Jones Painfully
Wounded.
In Mayor’s Court.
“Personal”—Adams sells things
good to eat. Phone I.
Mrs. J. A. Parks, of Atlanta,
was in Newnan last Tuesday.
For Sale”—Things good to eat.
Will Bishop left last Monday to visit I Apply to Adams, the city grocer,
his parents at Roanoke.
Miss Nannie Niekleson brought her Mark J. McCord, ol Atlanta,
two little brothers and little sister down' was in Newnan last Wednesday.
from Carroll county last week, and they
have gone to keeping tiouse in new town
‘ Wanted” —■ All good people to
Luke Estes, from Sargent, was here trade with Adams, the city grocer
last Sunday.
noted
Lonnie Norris came down from Clem
spent last Sunday with Newnan friends. 1
“B u s i n ess Opportunities”—
Trade with the grocer who carries
\ in Newnan. Tne Black Bros. ( Cola, little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. : fresh arul mak <* prompt dfe-
jV’’ has retired from business, having Robert Dnnbar, has been sick the past; livery. For further information,
I sold the stock to ( . P. Stephens & week. j phone 1.
Mrs. Jones, the wife of J. A.
Jones, w ho resides on C. J. < (wen's
farm near Sharpsburg, was pain
1 fully wounded in both feet by the
] accidental discharge of a gun, the
j accident occurring on Tuesday of
j last week. The gun was lying in
a rack on the wall and when Mr.
j Jones attempted to take it down 1
j he dropped the gun. it was dis-i
I charged and the load of shot en
tered the feet of Mrs. Jones, who
was standing near.
Dr. T. S. Bailey wa- called to
attend Mrs. Jones and he found it
necessary to remove parts of bones
and some flesh from her feet. Mrs.
Jones’ injury is very painful and
may prove exceedingly trouble
some before the wounds heal.
Some lively sessions ol the
Mayor’s Court have been held du
ring the past week and a nice bunch
of fines assessed against offenders.
Last Saturday Mayor Burdett
gave Tom Dickson, colored, a
*50 line for blind tigering, and
Tom is now doing 30 days’ time
on the streets.
At Monday’s session of the court
Charlie Newell, who cut Elbert
Freeman, was fined #15; tor other
offenses Clyde Wadley was given
#5, Jim Scott, 23; Sam Billingsly #3.
All the above named offenders are
negroes. Clarence Haynes, white,
was fined #5 and is working on the
streets.
At Wednesday’s matinee Mayor
Pro Tern. Glover secured his first
experience as a presiding judge in
police court. He came off with
onto 1 he moving train, Puckett
lost his footing aim fell under the
ears.
Noting Puckett was born and
reared near Moreland. He bore
a 11 excellent reputation and was
steadily working bis way up as a
railroad employe, lie had just
been promoted to be a conductor
and was making his last run as a
flagman. His tragic death is great
ly deplored by everybody .
The boys, Smith and O’CtUlag
Inin, who were the indirect cause
of Puckett’s death, li\e in Allan
til and belong In good families, if
is said. They are young fellows
17 or 1H years ol age. After be
ing arrested they were jailed here
and on Tuesday were brought to
trial before Judge A. I). Freeman.
On pleas id' guilty of stealing a
ride on a train, they were lined #5
and costs eaeli, making the esea
pade cost each of t hem about #:(().
They communicated with their re
latives in Atlanta, who immediate
ly furnished money to pay their
lines and they were released.
Faueett-Huf faker.
A marriage of much interest to
the people of Newnan was that of
Miss Macalinc Faueett,of Rounoke,
Ala., and Dr. William Henry Iiuf
faker, of this city, which took
place in JJie presence of a large
number of friends and relatives at
the First Baptist Church in Roa
noke, Tuesday afternoon at half
past two o’clock.
The bride was handsomely
gowned in a traveling suit of blue
with hat to match, carrying a large
boquet of bride’s roses.
Dr. and Mrs. Iliiffakcr left im
mediately after the ceremony fur
flying colors, alter having assessed \ ( . W nan where they are at home to
a number of fines. J. H. Hardi- their friends at the Virginia House,
gree, Jim Brock and Clarence Mrs. I! uflUker is the daughter of
Haynes, all white men, were ar- yir. Jesse Faueett, of Roanoke,
raigned for shooting and fighting she is very accomplished and of
at the formers store out on tdianning personality.
| Temple Avenue. Hardigree was In-. Hutfaker in one of the lead-
jfined $20 and Brock and Haynes i„g druggists of the city and has
were given $5 each. Brock and made many warm friends since
Haynes are both working on ttie coming to Newnan.
A c ean
press agent.
commence meds no
streets.
Several negroes were before Mr.
Glover, charged with shooting,
fighting, boozing, etc. Their 1 a<es
were disposed of in the following
order: Charlie Collier, #5; L. M.
Taylor, #5; Allen Moss, *5, S. K.
Norwood, *5; Lon Sm.th, *1;
Henry Gibson, #1.
Messrs. Mack Mauley, William
Atkinson and Frank Hughes ac
eompanied Dr. Hutfaker to Roa
noke. Mr. Hughes acted as “i>e,st
man.”
A new broom
clean.
does not sweep
