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THE NEWNAN HERALD
NEWNAN HER ALD Consolidated with Coweta Advertiser September. 19S6. 1
EtUblishei 1866. t Consolidated with Newnan News January. 1016. i
NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1915.
Vol. 50—No. 37
Farmers’
Supply Store
We wish 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 tht m. 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—alt 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
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. I
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, Red Top, Orauge 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.
best
.very
T. G. FARMER 8
'Phone 147.
Corner Madison and Jefferson Streets.
Keep a complete stock
Give you the best quality
Keep his stock neat and clean
Fill orders accurately
.Deliver goods promptly
IF NOT, TRY
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THE JUNE OF BRIDES.
June, O Jun°. i* white with brldea,
Snnwv-billow*. tt >wintr tide*
Of white, of white, of dainty feet —
Of faces msv fair and sweet,
Of face and flower und joy and rh“er—
The June, the June of brides, is here.
The world, th' world, is white wiih them —
The flounce »he frill, the diadem -
The veil. th*» bloom, the litrht of life —
The irirl. the maid, the wedded wife.
Across the world in June they smile—
The world is white with brid,« each mile.
Uo. Morn, and kiss with llns of dew
Th • bride that waits to welcome you:
How N «ht and with thv arms of rest
Clasp close unto your mother Imr breast
The litt'e child that was. who now
Wears bridal roses on her brow!
Brave men n*d young, be sweet ft>r thess
That are the flower of ecstucies.
Where all the world is white, so white.
With brides of June that walk the light.
And in the morning of h ve’s drerfm
See all the destined ages gleam!
Ex-Gov. Jos. WL Brown on Frank
Case.
Interview in Savannah Press.
Anyone who, with an open mind, will
read all the sworn testimony in the
trial of L. M. Frank must he forced to
concede that the negro, Jim Conley,
was not tie murderer of Mary Phagan,
but that the jury correctly named the
real criminal, and that all the courts
must be correct in upholding that ver
dict. The State of Georgia and her ad
ministration of justice have been per
sistently maligned by people in other
States who know practically nothing of
the real testimony in the trial of L. M.
Fr»nk. She and her laws have been
challenged by public sentiment aroused
upon manufactured so-tjalled evidence
which has ns standing in a legal forun
they have been clearly vindicated by
the highest court in the world, after
that court had looked "into the very
heart and substance of the matter.”
That great court, in its decision, un
mistakably declined to aMow itself to
be used as the asylum of technicalities
by protecting an ascertained murderer
against the demands of justice; and yet
partisans of Frank tell us that that
tco jrt H ci ed the case on legal t^chhi-
calities!
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That court upheld the law against the
criminal, yet there are those outside of
Georgia who refuse to read the real ev
idence, and who still seek to vindicate
the proven criminal against the law.
I have conversed about this case with
many citizens of Georgia within the
past few months. They are a unit in
their opinion that talk by people living
outside of Georgia is worthless as
against evidence sworn to before the
jury in Atlanta; that denunciation by
newspapers in other States cannot be
even considered against the judgment
of ail the courts.
I have no interest whatever in doing
Frank a hurt, but I have a profound in
terest in seeing justice administered in
Georgia. I know not of my personal
knowledge if Frank he the murderer of
Mary Pnagan, but I know that the
court which tried him and the courts
which reviewed that trial have adjudged
him gumy of lh<*t murder; hence, I
cannot doubt that he is the murderer;
and since attempts are even yet being
persistently made to convince the world
that Georgia, and not Frank, is the real
criminal, I fear not to defend the es
tablished truth. If other people have
the right to choose to stand on the side
of the proven murderer, it is my right,
my duty and my choice to stand on the
side of my State and the majesty of
her laws. If they assert that it is in
decorous to aigue against a man who iB
immured in jail, fighting for his life, I
ask : "Is it not more ind. corous for them
to hand together to save from deserved
punishment this man, who it ha3 been
proven atrociously slew a sweet young
Georgia girl when she dared defend her
life and her honor from his lecherous
grasp?”
A marvel it is to me that the public
men of Georgia have seen their State
persistently and viciously lampooned
by the partisans of Frank and have not
had the loyalty to defend her—a mar
vel that, with but few notable excep
tions, the editors of her daily and week
ly press have allowed this tirade of un
founded abuse pgainst Georgia and her
courts, and have kept thei’’ columns
sealed against thfe defense which it has
been their duty to make. But in the
decision of the Supreme Court of the
United States she has received her
crowning defense. Any other would
henceforth be belated and practically
superfluous.
compromise a principle, and the Gov
ernor, of all men, must so hold in mind.
And I will here udd that the state
ment is made in the public press that the
reading of the more than one thousand
pages of evidence given in the trial will
require much of the time of the Prison
Commission and the Governor. Per
mit me to say that this should require
none of their time, inasmuch as the Su
preme Courts of Georgia and of the Uni
ted States have read all of that evi
dence, and adjudged it to justify the
sentence passed upon Frank. Unless,
therefore, affidavits by reputable par
ties bring to the executive office new
developments contravening vital points
of that evidence, the Governor will
usurp the function of the courts in re
trying this case on that evidence. On
that evidence it is undeniably res aetju-
dicata.
I notice in a dispatch from Indianap
olis that a nation-wide movement will
be inaugurated to secure 1,000,01)1)
names to petitions asking that the
death sentence of L. M. Frank, under
conviction of murdering Mary Phagan,
be commuted to life imprisonment.
These identically-worded petiti -ns are
to be sent to a party in Chicago, who
will forward them to the Governor of
Georgia.
This brings to the front the questions:
"Is Georgia to be ruled by her own
laws, administered by her own officers
in her own borders, or is she to be
ruled by an irresponsible rabble in oth
er States? Can the Governor of Geor
gia be coerced or unduly influenced
against his oath to the people of Geor
gia by that irresponsible rabble in oth
er States? Will he justify theclamorof
that irresponsible rabble in other States
against the enforcement of the law of
his own State, or will he obey the Con
stitution by enforcing those laws? Is
not the sending of those petitions an in
sult to the State of Georgia?"
I, for one, am mistaken in my meas
ure of the Governor of Georgia if he
forgets, evades or ignores his duty in
this repeatedly adjudged case.
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Newnan. Georgia.
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And now that the forecast is that this
case will be carried to the executive of
fice of Georgia, and that the concentra
ted pressure of petitions, hearings,
newspaper editorials and other human
arts will be used to attempt to induce
the occupant of that high office to de
clare that the courts have not adminis
tered justice to this defendant, I see
no reason to believe that the Governor
will be governed by aught save his oath
of office. His duty is to Georgia and her
laws, and the people expect him to he big
enough, brave enough and true enough
to discharge that duty unflinchingly.
The June Bride.
Louiflville Col rier-Journal.
What is less rare than a bride in
June?
Then, if ever, come perfect wedding
days!
The bride’s month is one of roses —
and nature is garbed as carefully and
as richly in Kentucky as a Tasmanian
February. The intuitive knowledge of
brides that they will look best in em
blematic white against a background
of June opulence of color is, perhaps,
the -eason for the popularity of the
month as the time of weddings.
In June the "song of the wind in the
rippling wheat” is beard, and “the lilt
of the brook under rock and vine." The
honey bees which were tipsy upon the
nectar of locust blossoms in May are
divinely drunk on the red clover, buz
zing a merry bacchanale to the glory
of peace and plenty. The mocking
bird has become a busy hausfrau,
teaching a nestful of downy babes
table manners and the difference be
tween ferocious and edible insects, and
the rudiments of the art of music which
is as far as the end of the rainbow be
yond the great composers and the so-
called song-birds of opera. The muz
zles of the gray squirrels are dyed with
mulberry juice as if dipped in wine; the
young rabbits are growing fat upon a
banquet that outdoes a thousandfold
the feast of the loaves and fishes.
June—the month when nature’s re
newal and the earth’s bounty are most
in evidence—is an appropriate month
for marriages. Let those who are
American brides this June be properly
thankful that theirs is a country in
which there is harmony between hu
mankind and nature, and where peace
far sturdier than Europe has ever known,
even in the absence of any definite
prophecy or prospect of war, guards the
homes of the nation.
The June brides of Europe this year
will be war brides, the din of battle in
their ears, the fear of death in their
hearts -mothers-to-be of orphans.
Mrs. Evans was making a call on
Mrs. Francis, and they were enjoying a
chat about some of their neighbors.
“MrB. Greene," said the hostess, “is
a woman who suffers much for her be
lief."
“Indeed,” replied the caller wonder-
ingly, "and what is her belief?"
“Why,” continued the hostess, “she
believes she can wear a No. 3 shoe on a
No. 6 foot.”
Bilious Attacks.
When you have a bilious attack your
liver fails to perform its functions.
You become constipated. The food you
eat ferments in your stomach instead
of digesting. This inflar-.es the stomach
and causes nausea, vomiting and a ter
rible headache. Take Chamberlain's
Tablets. They will tone up your liver,
clean out your stomach, anu you will
| soon be as, well as ever. They only cost
The State of Georgia cannot abate or [ a quarter. Obtainable everywhere.
Repoit of Civic League, 1914-1915.
In making my report of the work
done hy the Newnan Civic League I
shall begin with the financial part of it,
this being the least part of our w irk
this year. In fact, in the beginning of
our work after the summer vacation
we considered the question of making
money or not making it, nnd it was de
cided that it would make us decidedly
unpopular to stress the money side of
our work this year; so, for that reason,
little effort was made to replenish our
treasuries; but from the sale of a car
load of wu-le paper, the proceeds of
our chrysanthemum show, dues, and a
gift or two, we have gotten together
$350. As we hud a balance in each of
the different treasuries, we have been
able to spend about $100, and still have
a balance to our credit.
Our club is more like a city federa
tion than one club. The chairman of
each section of the work is virtually a
president, and she manages her work
with her committee just as though that
committee was the club itself, and it is
only as we give monthly or quarterly
reports that one section knows what
the other has done. In this way each
committee has a specific work. Thus,
the work of the parks committee this
year has been to keep the two parks
mowed, free from papers und trash,
and to cultivate the shrubs and trees.
One park, which is near the union sta
tion, was presented last year with a pa
vilion by the Newnan Club of Atlanta.
This was dedicated in June. The At
lanta club came down for the occasion
and were entertained hy our club for
the day.
The settlement work has pride in its
library, over a hundred books having
been added to those already on hand at
the beginning of the fiscal year. Some
of these were bought with funds raised
by this committee; others have been
given by friends of the work. We
have a class of 18 girls doing hand em
broidery and 15 learning plain sewing.
Window boxes have been given to this
school, and a number of records have
been bought for the grafonola.
We have a splendid literary section,
composed of 18 members. We meet
every alternate Tuesday morning, and
have this year studied Southern litera
ture.
The Chrysanthemum Club, under the
auspices of the league, was a grand suc
cess. Mr. Wachendorf, of Atlanta,
who judged the flowers, said that he
had never seen finer ones anywhere. It
was an occasion long to be remembered.
Friends came from all of the surround
ing towns, which added much to the so
cial feature of the show.
Clean-up week was duly observed hy
our town, under the direction of the
sanitary section. So much has been
said about when to clean up, how to
clean up, and why clean up, that it is
an old song. The chairman of this sec
tion had her work thoroughly organ
ized. The work in the main part of the
town was very much as it has been;
but this year the mill settlement was
more thoroughly cleaned than usual,
and then the committee asked that the
city wagons go into the two negro
quarters the week af.er regular clean
up week. The request was granted,
and then letters wete written to the
colored preachers asking that they urge
their congregations to respond to our
request. It was susprising to see the
good results, and our sanitary chief
said that the negroes had made a most
thorough job of it, and lime was scat
tered everywhere.
Our committee for the schools bought
quite a number of outdoor athletic
games, added a few conveniences, and
bought records and needles for the
graphophone.
The executive board held several im
portant meetings during last summer,
while the club was taking a summer
rest. The most important was to peti
tion the City Council to pass a chicken
ordinance, which was done. Later we
had this, along with a few other ordi
nances, printed on dodgers and sent to
the home of every resident in town.
Our Junior League work, under the
direction of the vice-president, has been
better organized than heretofore. This
year we made our first attempt to have
monthly programmes in the schools.
The teachers responded beautifully as a
rule, and with their co operation the
exercises were made more attractive
each month, until we thought best to
give way for the final examinations
and the closing exercises of the schools.
The membership of the Junior League
numbers 575.
The work we planned to do at the
cemetery would have cost quite a lot of
money, so, owing to the tinancial de
pression, we gave it up for the present,
but hope to take it up again later.
I’ve tried to give briefly the most im
portant of our efforts, and in closing
my report wish to thank my officers for
so faithfully holding up my hands; my
board for its ready response to my per
sistent calling; and each member for
her help, even though it was just a
kind word in the seclusion of her home.
Keopectfully submitted,
Mrs. G. W. St. John,
President Newnan Civic League.
Heavy Losses to Insurance Inves
tors in Georgia.
Atlanta, Ga. p May 31.— A se-ioua
local situation has been brought to
light in connection with the compilation
of tigu-es showing astonishing losses
which stockholders, investors and poli
cyholders have sustained in connection
with life insurance companies organiz
ed in this State.
The rec ird of the Cosmopolitan Life
Insurance Company, Atlanta, shows
a loss to investors in capital stock of
$666,700.
The American Life and Annuity
Company of Atlanta, loss by issuance
of income certificates, $145,550.
Rome Insurance Company. Rome,
loss to stockholders, (estimated,) $600,-
000.
National Assurance Company, At
lanta, loss to certificate heldera, (es
timated,) $425,000.
State Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany, Rome, loss to income certificate
holders, $1,500,000.
Great Southern Accident and Fi-
dslity Company. Atlanta, loss to stock
holders about $225,000.
Equitable Casualty Company, At
lanta, $250,000.
Atlantic States Life Insurance
Company, Augusta, (estima’ed,) $65,-
000.
Empire Life Insurance Company,
Atlanta, (estimated,) $1,500,000.
Cherokee Life Insurance Company,
Rome, loss to income certificate-holders
on exchange for stock, $1,300,000.
Georgia Life Company, Macon, loss
about $600,000
Nobody has been asked to account for
these startling losses, and the public
generally is beginning to wonder where
the blame should he placed. The ques
tion has naturally arisen as to what hae
happened to the interests of the policy
holders, how much they have lost, who
has safeguarded their interests and
looked after their welfare.
The question has come up, too, of
how much rightful reserve may have
been diverted to pay court costs and
legnl fees in cases that could have been
prevented. It is said, too, that many
policyholders who have sought to ex
ercise the loan privilege under their
contracts have met with flit refusal.
There are two sections in the Code of
Georgia which bear on life insurance
activities. The Act of 11)12, page 125,
says: “Any directors, officers, agents
or employees of any company who wil
fully and knowingly subscribes, makes
or concurs in making any annual or
other statement required by law con
taining any material statement which
is false, shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor. It shall be the duty of
the insurance commissioner to report
all such misrepresentations and false
statements to the solicitor-general of
the circuit in which they occur.”
In the Acts of 1913, section 2, it says
in substance that no one connected
with an insurance company shall re
ceive premiums after the concern is in
solvent. It provides that no official
shall iaBue a policy or benefit certificate,
or aid in reinstating an unhealthy per
son, with intent to defraud.
John H. Reynolds, president of the
First National Bank, is one of the men
who has had the pleasure of living to
see vindicated a principle which he ad
vocated years ago, and he is naturally
happy about it. Back in 1895, at the
session of the Georgia Bankers' Asso
ciation, he urged that no intoxicants be
served at the annual banquets—and was
laughed at for his attitude. After a
lapse of twenty years sentiment has
changed, and this year—in Savannah,
of all placeB—the association went on
record as favoring "dry” banquets in
the future. The world has learned that
booze does not harmonize with business
and is not necessary to good fellowship.
— Rome Tribune-Herald.
The greatest distance at which an ob
ject at sea-level, or on the surface of a
plain, can be seen by a person whose
eyes are at a height of five feet from
the same level is 2J miles.
A NEWNAN INTERVIEW.
Mr. Jennings Tells His Experience.
The following brief account of an in
terview with a Newnan man over four
years ago, and its secquel, will be read
with keen interest by every citizen;
H. W. Jennings, machinist, 78 Mur
ray Btreet, Newnan, says; "Forseveral
years I had been subject to attacks of
kidney complaint. They came on me
after any exposure or wh in I got cold.
At such times my kidneys were irregu
lar in action and my hack pained and
ached and made it hard for tne to do
any work. Since learning of Doan’s
Kidney Pills, I never suffer an attack
hut what they relieve every symptom
of the complaint." (Statement given
Feb. 20, 1911.)
Over four years later Mr. Jennings
said; “I have had no occasion to use
Doan’s Kidney Pills for some time.
They cured me of a very severe case of
kidney complaint.”
Price 50c., at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy—get
Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that
Mr. Jennings had. Foster-Miltmrn Co.,
Props., Buffalo, N. Y.