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NEWNAN HERALD
NEWNAN, FRIDAY, JI' N E 4.
L 1 N K 8
TO VUh. T , NEWNAN.
You B!iV mr why I do not writ* 1 ;
I know your heart »* kind.
Rut South* rn mow*, however bright.
Scant p*coKfiiliOM find.
My tun of life i* ainkirur l»<w.
The vale damp and chill.
itu> through the falling shadow* jflaw
1 ho row* on the hill;
And n»err.’ry hear* the youthful aonif
When Ilf.* w« joy and love
When mom ring hope w»h fred; nnd strong
And faith led upward o’er the throng
To brighter thing* above.
You aak me why I do not write
A matchless ode to peace.
To chartn the madden'd passion's flight
And bid the wrangling ccaae.
Fain would my xoul extend n palm
Above the ragir.g itrlfe
Anti MK»th« the storm. ur.til in calm
The Hon r»-*t 1* dde the lamb,
In pencefuI, tranquil life;
Rut well I know i» may not l*e
They hear not God: they won't heed rne.
Newnan. Ga., May lGth. [ E. J. Sti.piiRNH.
Communicated.
Andersonville Prison.
Prison life is no picnic. There is noth
ing r "sy about it. You must obey or
ders and rules of prison commanders,
nnd take what is measured out to you.
If you are so unfortunate as to fall into
the hands of a tyrant you are of all
men the most miserable. If a man is
in debt and wants to pay up, and has
nothin,' to pay with, and is proud in
spirit, he is about in as hud fix as a
man in prison. He has to feed himself
and family, furnish his own bed and
kick out his own sheets. About the
only difference in him and the man
that is in prison is that he can go home
at night, while the man in prison has
his rations furnished, a bed to lie on,
and ho can kick out the othor fellow’s
sheets.
Andersonville was no exception to
this rule. How could it be, with many
prisoners to care for, a Government to
treat with that seemed not to care for
that portion of its soldiers that had
fallen into the hands of an enemy
whoso resources were limited, whoBe
country was being devastated and
stripped of its sustenance; and yet we
were charged with cruelty to the in
mates of this prison! In sumo instances
harsh measures are resorted to from
necessity to maintain order in families,
llow much more should such measures
be expected when thousands of men
are gathered together for safekeeping.
But neither were officers or soldiers
cruel or unreasonable towards the
prisoners. They had the same rations
the guards did. There was a nice
branch running through the prison
grounds, and a tine spring which fur
nished an abundance of drinking water
for all. Now, this spring, 1 am told,
has been called "Providence spring.”
Some fellow wanted to get up a sensa
tion, and wrote to a newspaper or mag-
y.ine that the prisoners were famishing
fur water, and they assembled the good
men together to pray for relief. As
the story goes, while they were pray
ing nod agonizing with the I.ord for re
lief a bold spring of sweet, pure water
gushed from earth in answer to their
prayers, and saved them from dying
with thirst, etc. 1 never heard of this
mighty miracle until some time after
the war. Be be yank or reb, I am not
saying there were not many good men
in the prison—Christian men, born of
the Spirit—but it would be hard to con
vince me that the Lord commissioned
any of them as He did Moses of old.
A number of prisoners were out on
parole about the camp; in fact, as
many as could be used—some carrying
wood, some helping to bury the dead,
and others performing various tasks.
One prisoner had a tuilor shop in our
regiment, nnd he could make the best
beer you ever tasted. One played on
the fife. There was a band headed by
a ”reb” named Williams, from Pike
county. It was composed of some of
our men and some prisoners. When
this hand lined up and the leader gave
the signal there was some mighty good
singing, let it be comic, sentimental or
sacred. So, you see, out of all our hard
ships, privations and sorrows we had
some moments of relaxation and enjoy
ment.
Prisoners could buy from peddlers,
Whenever You Need a General Tonic
Take Grove’s
The Old Standard Grove’s Tasteless
chill Touie is equally valuable as a
General Tonic because it contains the
well known tonic properties of QUININE
and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives
out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and
Builds up the Whole System. SO cents.
sutlers or citizens, but the guards were
not allowed to trade with them. But
trading was done between soldiers and
prisoners occasionally, and sometimes
they were caught, when the culprit
would he given extra duty to perform,
or be required to mark time. The pris
oners were not punished for trading.
Let me tell how some trades were made
and the goods delivered by the guards
and prisoners: A prisoner would come
up to the dead-line and say to the man
on post, “Say, Johnnie, can’t you find
some soup beans?” (They called all
kinds of peas soup beans.) “I might,”
the guard would answer, "what have
you got—ring, knife, brush, comb, or
what? See you next time.” Then the
guard, if he could get anything, would
put it in a little sack, get a long string,
tie a weight to one end and throw it
over the dead line. He with one end
and the prisoner with the other would
agree on the terms: then put the sack
on the string and let it slide down. The
prisoner would fasten what he had
traded to the string and pull it up. Not
one time in a hundred would either
party fail to stand by his promise.
Grantville, May .’list. J. H. M.
It is Springtime.
Harold Roll Wright.
It is springtime— blossoming time—
mating time. The world is a riot of
color and perfume and song.
Every twig that a few weeks before
had been a bare, unsightly stick is now
a miracle of dainty beauty. From the
creek the orchard appears against the
soft blue sky, a wondrous, numu-
lus cloud of fleecy whiteness Hushed
with a gloss of delicate pink. The
meadows and pastures are studded with
stars of gold and pearl, of ruby and
amethyst and ailver. The fairy hands
that had thrown over the wood a filmy
veil of dainty color has now dressed
each tree and bush in robes of royal
fabrics, woven from many tints of shim
mering, shining green.
Through the amber light above new-
turned furrows; amid the jewel glint of
water in the sun; in the diamond
sparkle of the morning, the bees and
all their winged kin lloat and dart,
Hash and dance and whirl, from Hower
to flower and field to field, from blos
som to blossom and tree to tree, bear
ing their pollen messages of love and
life, while sweet-voiced birds, in the
brightest plumage, burden the per
fumed air with the passionate melody
of their mating time.
AH nature seems bursting with eager
desire to evidence a Creator’s power.
Every tint and color, every breath of
perfume, every note of music, every
darting tlight or whirling dance, is a
call to life—a challenge to love—an in
vitation to mate a declaration of God.
The world throbs and exults with the
passion of the Giver of Life.
Grandmother at 29.
Millbrook, Ala., May 28. — With a
birth in the family last week, Mrs. Jo
sephine Davis Hill, a former Macon,
Ga., woman, now residing with her
husband, S. M. Hill, at this place, be
came a grandmother at the age of 29
years.
Here is a bit of her history—
Married at 12.
Became a mother at 13.
Was a widow at 16.
Remarried at 20.
Became a grandmother at 29 years
and a day.
Mrs. Bill was horn March 4, 1SS6, in
Macon, and in 1898 married Oliver An
drew. She became a mother one year
later.
She became a widow in 1902 at the
age of 16 and removed to Alabama,
where, in 1906, she married S. M. Hill,
her present husband.
DAVIS’ CARRIAGE PAINTS
are colors ground in tough, elastic
Coach Varnish and one coat will make
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drv with a strong, high gloss-clinching
Enamel finish. Made for wear and
tear.
ASK YOUR DEALER.
Kitchener’s Call.
Maron Telfrraph.
The call for 300,000 recruits issued by
Lord Kitchener, it seems to us on this I
side of the pond, should have been :
made long ago. Perhaps had it been,
Antwerp had not fallen.
The delay recalls the fatal error of ;
Jefferson Davis. When Mr. Toombs
was Secretary of the Confederate
States, in a cabinet meeting, he urged
that every available man in the Con-
/edcracy be called out at once.
President Davis replied: "Why, Mr.
Toombs, we have not arms for those in i
the field now.”
But answered Mr. Toombs: “Sir, we
will capture them in the first battle.
Nothing can withstand the enthusiasm
of our soldiers. Take advantage of this
enthusiasm. The first battle will be
fought near Washington. Ha%e 50,000
or more fresh troops to take the place
of those fatigued by battle, and we will
rush on and capture Washington and
command peace.” Events proved the
sagacity of Mr. Toombs.
After the battle of Bull Run, when
President Davis met Stonewall Jackson,
Jackson said: “Give me 5,<kifl fresh
troops and I’ll have Washington by
suit'd to-morrow. ”
But Mr. Toombs’ advice had not been
followed and there were no fresh
troops.
England should have called out every
available man at the start, adopting
Mr. Toombs’ idea. Had she done so
Antwerp had been saved, and all this
submarine and torpedo business been
averted. England knew Germany had
been "preparing” for twenty years.
Mr. Davis blundered; so did Lord
Kitchener.
Hanging Too Good For this Brute.
Bainbridge, May 21.—J. F. Moose. j
white, and the father of six children, ]
was convicted in the Superior Court
this afternoon of improper conduct to- ,
ward a 14-year-o!d daughter. He was
sentenced to hang on July 2. The
crime was perpetrated on April 25 on
the Moose farm near Donaldsonville. ]
The principal witnesses were the girl |
and an elder sister. According to a
statement of the elder daughter,
Moose had from time to time known
her criminally since she was 11 years j
old. The evidence was the mast re
volting ever heard in ,this section, and
Moose is the first white man sentenced
to hang here in over twenty years.
’Moose has lived here three years.
Originally he came from Lumpkin
county, near Danlonega.
Not for Men Only.
Foley’s Cathartic Tablets are not as
insistently demanded by women as by
men, because this particular cathartic
is not so well known among women.
Women suffer as much as men do from
indigestion and constipation, and they :
also require this scientific remedy to |
keep the stomach sweet, the liver ac-
tive and the bowels regular. Foley’s
Cathartic Tablets are wholesome and j
thoroughly cleansing; do not gripe or
cause nausea. Stout people say this is
the one cathartic that takes away that |
over-full and clogged-up feeling. J. F. |
Lee Drug Co.
Just as the mother and her small son
left the neighbor's house, where they
bad been calling, the hostess funded
the little fellow a banana.
"What do you say, dear?” admon
ished his mother.
"I’ll be back again later,” said the
boy.
Keep the Tongue.
Rural New Yorker,
Keep it from unkindnes3. Words are
sometimes wounds — not very deep
wounds always, and yet they irritate.
Speech is unkind sometimes when there
is no unkindness in the heart; so much
the worse that unintentionally pain is
caused.
Keep it from falsehood. It is so
easy to give a false coloring, to make a
statement that it may convey a mean
ing different from the truth, while yet
there is an appearance of truth, that
we need to be on our guard. There
are very many who would shrink from
telling a lie who yet suffer themselves
to give such inaccurate or greatly one
sided statements that they really come
Dyspepsia Tablets
Will Relieve Your Indigestion
John R. Cates Drug Co.
Petition for Order to Sell for Re-in-
vestment.
GEORGIA—Polk County:
After four weeks' notice by publication, pursu
ant to Section 3005 of the Code of the State of
Georgia of 1910, a petition, of which a true and
correct copy is subjoined and follows and made a
part of this notice, will bo presented to the Hon
orable A. L. Bartlett, Judge of the Superior
Court of the Tallapoosa Circuit, at the court-
houao in the city of Dallas, in the county of
Paulding, said State, on the 15th day of June.
1915, ut 10 o'clock a. m. This May 14, 1915.
R. H. GILBERT.
Guardian for Mrs. Florine Dickey.
GEORGIA—Polk County:
under the condemnation of those whose
“lying lips are an abomination to the
Lord.”
Keep it from slander. The good re
putation of others should be dear to us.
Sin sho ild not suffer to go unrebuked,
but it should be in accordance with the
Scriptural method: “Go and tell him
of his fault betwixt thee an*l him
alone.” And it should be borne in
mind that, what is too often considered
as mere harmless gossip runs danger
ously near, if it does not pass, the con
fines of slander. A reputation is too
sacred to be be made a plaything, even
if the intent be not malicious.
We have read somewhere that the
cost of stopping a railroad train had
been closely figured out, and that it
was much greater than the expense of
rjnning a train several miles. We do
not know which is harder to stop, a
train or a habit, but we are inclined to
To the Honorable A. L. Bartlett. Judge of the
Superior Court of said county: The petition of R.
H. Gilbert respectfully shows
1. That he is the duly and legally appointed and
constituted guardian of Mrs. Florine Dickey, hav
ing been appointed such guardian by the Court of
Ordinary of said Polk county.
2. That the said Mrs. Florine Dickey is 18 years
of age, and is a married woman.
3. That the said Mrs. Florine Dickey owns an
undivided one-seventh interest in and to the fol
lowing property, to-wit: Sixteen shares of the
capital stock of Farmers A: Merchants Bank of
Senoia. Georgia, of the par or face value of fifty
dollars e ach, and evidenced by certificate No. 20
for two shares, No. 130 for two shares, and No.
161 for twelve shares, all in the name of Mrs.
Georgia Peek. Also, lot of land No. 195. in the
First land district of said Coweta county. Georgiu,
containing two hundred two and one-half acres,
more or less, and all of lot of land No. ISO, in said
First land district of Coweta county. Georgia, ex-
copt fifty acres out of the northwest corner of
said lot, and which said two tracts adjoin and
form one body, which is bounded on the north by
Mrs. H. L. Coats and J. B. Hunter, on the east by
Bowers and Morgan, on the south by M. S. Morgan
and Leo Hand, and on the west by Mrs. Willie
Lawshe. Also, two town lots in the city of Senoia,
in snid county of Coweta and State of Georgia,
known as lots Nos. 3 and 4. in section 9, and on
each of which said lots is a dwelling, and one of
said houses and lota being the one where Mrs. G.
A. Peek resided at the time of her death, and
fronts south on Main street and runs back to depot
of A.. B. & A. Railroad Co., and known former
ly as the North place;—the other of said houses
and lota fronts east on street crossing said Main
street, and running to the Methodist church.
think the latter. We have never tried
stopping the train. If trains are as
hard to stop as some habits, few would
ever be started. No one would dare
ride on them. Never start a habit you
think you may want to stop. It saves
a great deal of trouble not to start it.
An old Irishman, long desirous of of
ficial dignity, was finally appointed mar
shal in a parade on Memorial Day. Vet
erans, bandmen and school children
were lined along the streets of the
town patiently waiting the signal to
start.
Suddenly Mike, on a prancing char
ger, dashed up the street. After in
specting the dignified procession he
gave his horse a quick clip. Then,
standing up in his saddle, he yelled,
with a voice filled with pride and au
thority
“Ready now! Every one of yez kape
sthep with the ho-se!”
At the close of his talk before a Sun
day-school the bishop invited questions.
A tiny hoy, with a white, eager face,
at once held up his hand.
"Please, sir," said he; “why was
Adam never a baby?”
The bishop coughed in doubt as to
what answer to give, but a little girl,
the eldest of several brothers and sis
ters, came promptly to his aid.
“Please, sir,” she added, smartly,
"there was nobody to nuss him.”
Wall paper originated in China in the
fourth century.
Low l’ai;es to Athens Account Uni-
, versity Summer School.
The Central of Georgia railway will
sell round trip tickets to Athens on
June 26, 27, 28; also, July 3, 5, 11, 12,
13 and 19, final limit the fifteenth day
following, but not including date of
sale. Extension of final limit to Sept.
30 may be secured by depositing ticket
with Jos. Richardson, special agent,
184 College avenue, Athens, not lster
than fifteen days after date of sale, and
upon the payment of a small fee.
For full information ask any ticket
agent.
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RAILWAY,
"The Right Way.”
4. Your petitionor shows that the gross income
from the said interest of his said ward in all of
said above described property does not exceed one
hundred dollars per annum. That the expense of
keeping said property, in the way of repairs and
keeping up the same, amounts, so far as said in
terest of your petitioner's said ward is concerned,
to at least ten dollars per annum, nnd the taxes
on the said interest of your petitioner’s said ward
amounts to between seven and eight dollars per
annum, so that the net income and profit from the
snid interest is annually a little over eighty dol
lars.
5. Your petitioner shows that he desires to sell
for re-investment, at private sale, the said inter
est of his snid ward in the said property hereinbe
fore described in paragraph 3 of this petition, for
the reason that your petitioner and his c aid ward
reside in the snid county of Polk, and about 90
miles distant from said property, and it is incon
venient and expensive for your petitioner to look
after the interest of his said ward in said proper
ty: and, besides, the said interest of your peti
tioner’s said ward in said property being only an
undivided one-seventh thereof, it is not desirable
to own the same with so many tenants in common,
and he is unable for these reasons to handle same
in a satisfactory manner; and. besides, a large
part of said property being farm lands, the income
thereon is greatly reduced on account of the pre
vailing low price of cotton.
6. Your petitioner desires to invest the proceeds
of the sale of his said ward’s interest in said prop
erty in a certain tract of land in the town or village
of Aragon, in said county of Polk, and adjacent to
the right-of-way of the Southern Railway Co., and
more fully described as follows: Beginning at a
point on Waddell street, at the intersection of
land lot lines Nos. 410 and 111, in the Twenty-first
district and third section of Polk county. Georgia,
and running south along said line 333 yards,
thence west 206 yards to Southern Raiiway Co.,
thence north 245 yards to the John Arnold place,
thence east 9S yards, thence north 9* yards to
Waddell street, thence east 122 yards to starting
point, and containing twelve acres, more or less,
and which is well improved, having a dwelling-
house. a store-house and other buildings thereon.
7. Your petitioner desires to invest in said last
described property so as to provide a home for his
said ward.
S. Your petitioner further shows that he has
published, once a week for four weeks in the Co-
dartown Standard, a newspaper published in the
city of Cedartown, in said Polk county, in which
the county advertisements are usually published
and also once a week for four weeks in The New
nan Herald, a newspaper published in the city of
Newnan. in Coweta county, in which the county
a ivertisemems are published, a notice of his in
tention to apply for an order to sell and reinvest
as herein prayed for; and that your petitioner
has caused a copy of said petition to be served, 1
personally, upon his said ward and El T.
Peek, the maternal grandfather of said ward,
and Mrs. Bessie Harris, an aunt of said ward,
have each acknowledged service of said peti
tion and waived a copy thereof, all more than *
ten days prior to the making and hearing of
this application. That said grandfather and aunt |
are two of the next of kin of said ward.
Wherefore. Your petitioner prays that an or
der bo granted him to soil the said interest of his
s*id ward, described in paragraph 3 of this peti
tion, nt private sale, for re-investment of the pro
ceeds in the said property described in paragraph
6 of this petition. WILLIAM JANES.
Petitioner's Attorney.
GEORGIA-Polk County:
In person appeared before the undersigned au
thority R. H. Gilbert, who on oath says that the
above and foregoing application and the state
ments and allegations therein are true.
R. H. GILBERT.
Subscribed to and sworn to before me this 14th
day of May. 1915. C. C. Bunn. Jr..
N. P. Polk county. Ga.
See our new automatic oil cook stove. You will want it when you see
it. No wicks to keep clean. Burners close up to oven will heat hotter,
cook quicker. See demonstration of cooking going on in our window now.
When passing ask to see the new stove.
JOHNSON HARDWARE CO.
TELEPHONE 81, NEWNAN, GA.
Farmers’
Supply Store
We jvish to thank our customers and friends for
their loyal support and kindnesses shown us since
we moved into our new store. We are now better
prepared than ever to serve them. We have clean,
commodious quarters and a new, clean stock of
goods throughout. Plenty room to take care of our
friends’ packages. Also, ample hitching grounds
for stock, as well as for parking vehicles.
Our line of shoes consists of the best work shoes
made, as well as fine shoes and oxfords—all new
stock. We buy direct from the manufacturer, get
ting the best that can be bought for the money.
We carry also a full line of staple dry goods.
“Headlight” overalls we claim to be the best
made, and we sell them.
Work pants for men and boys.
Everything to eat for man and beast.
DeSoto flour, the very best for the price. Every
sack guaranteed. Buy it and try it.
Cuba Molasses.
We buy in large lots the following articles, and
can sell them at wholesale prices—
Flour, Starch, Snuff, Soap, Soda, Tobacco,
Tomatoes, (canned,) Lard, Matches, Coffee.
Help out your feed bill by sowing peas and sor
ghum. We have peas and sorghum, seed for sale.
Sorghum seed, Bed Top, Orange and Amber.
Scovil hoes, handle hoes, grain cradles, barbed
wire, hog wire, poultry wire.
Come to our store, rest here, store your bundles,
and drink ice water with us. We will enjoy having
you do this.
T. G,
'Phone 147.
&
Corner Madison and Jefferson Streets.
PARROTT
Insurance—All Branches
Fire Association, of Philadelphia
Fidelity and Casualty Co., of New York
American Surety Co., of New York
Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co.,
of Newark, N. J.
14 1-2 Greenuille st., Ouer H. C. GlouerCo.
CENTRAL OF
GEORGIA RAILWAY
CO.
CURRENT SCHEDULES.
ARRIVE FROM
DEPARTFOR
Griffin 10:57 a. m.
Chattanooga 1:4b p. m.
Cedartown 6 ;4i a. m.
Columbus 9:40a m.
7:17 P. M. Griffin
Chattanooga
Cedartewu..
6 :86 P. M. Columbus...
6:45 a. M.
11:0'J A. M.
7:20 p. M.
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