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THE NEWNAN HERALD
NEWNAN HERALD ' Consolidated with Cnwetn Advertiser September, 1S86. >
Established 1866. < Consolidated with Newnan News January, 1915. \
NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1915.
Vol. 50—No. 51
FARMERS’
Supply Store
It was with many doubts and fears that we
all started in to make this crop. Both the mer
chant and farmer had to go strong on faith—faith
in each other. We have struggled up to this good
hour, and now see that we have been greatly
blessed. Hope, too, we can see better times ahead
for us all.
We have stocked our store with the things that
our customers need, and at the lowest prices cash
can command.
We are still headquarters for supplies for the
farm and home. We want to mention especially
the following articles you will need—
THERE’S A SHRINE THAT I KNOW.
Thoro’H u fihrlne 1 know that is holier far than
nuffht else the world holds for me.
On n sweet irraray plot by the cooling tdmde where
the birds carol happy and free:—
Full many a day tears have sprinkled the rose
that caresses ontwinlngly thero.
And a beautiful star all other stars love sends its
love-beams to make it more fair,
Tla the place where the heart lays its love on the
breast that once pulsed to the name that it
called,
And smiled when it list'd in words it loved best.
and loved where the heart was enthralled;
The sidet weep at eve their soft fullli.K dews on
the form that is slumbering there.
And the winds stop to si«h at her lonely bier for
a soul so pure and so fuir.
Like a llower that blossomed to sweeten the world
her life was the fairest to bloom;
Like a tint that has ravished the western sky it
faded away in the prloom;- »
Oh I memory dear, what pamrs dost thou hold for
the heart that can no longer feel
The warmth of the lips where the ruby stream
flowed enshrined on the turf where I kneel.
—IW. B. Barton.
“Star Brand” Shoes Are Better.
See us on shoes for the entire family.
Work Shirts, Undershirts, Work Pants, etc.
Also, bagging and ties. Special prices to ginners.
Georgia Seed Rye, Barley, Wheat and Oats.
Flour, Flour, Flour!
“Desoto” is the best Flour for the money that
you can buy.
GENERAL PRESENTMENTS
Of the Grand Jury Chosen and Sworn
for the September Term, 1915,
of Coweta Superior Court.
We, the grand jury, empanneled and
sworn to serve for the September term,
1915, beg to make the following pre
sentments:
COUNTY OFFICERS.
We have examined the books and rec
ords of the Ordinary and find them neat
ly and correctly kept. We also find the
pension roll accurately kept, and re
vised each year. We find all transac
tions pertaining to this office recorded
up to date.
We have examined the books and re
cords of the Clerk and find them very
creditably kept.
We find the books of the Sheriff nice
ly and properly kept.
In the County Commissioners’ office
we find a nice, neat and up-to-date sys
tem of bookkeeping. All bills are prop
erly posted, and, as far as we found,
accurate, and all records filed.
We also found that the books of the
County Commissioners and those of the
Treasurer balance.
treasurf.r’s report.
Old-fashioned Cuba Molasses.
Come to see us. You are always welcome.
Hitch your mules and horses in our wagon yard
and store your bundles with us.
YOURS TO PLEASE,
a
’Phone 14-7.
Corner Madison and Jefferson Streets.
You Want the Best,
Not the Cheapest,
f/V GROCERIES
Especially when buying furnishings for the
inner man. I cater to the best trade and I
want to sell you. My regular trade keeps
on growing. There are reasons—
BEST OF GOODS
RIGHT PRICES
PROMPT DELIVERY
Fresh fish every Friday and Saturday.
J. T. S W I N T
THE OLD RELIABLE GROCER
T. S. PARROTT
Insurance—All Branches
Representing
^ 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., Over H. C. GlouerCo.
1'UIII.IC HOAD FOND.
March l, 1915. Balance
Receipts ....
. ...$ 8.603 03
.... 8,014 50
Total
Disbursements.,
$10,617 63
.$16,617 53
GENERAL FUND.
March 1. 1915. Bulancu
Receipts
Total
Disbursements ....
Balance
$34,684 17
. 3,930 8(1
$38,614 97
$20,961 02
17.663 95
Total $38,014 97
A detailed statement of the Treas
urer’s report is hereto attached—
PUBLIC ROAD FUND.
RECEIPTS.
March 1. Balance.
March 6. From R .1 Fry, T. C
April 7. From W N Walthall
April 7. From E I) Johnson
April 7. From EH Witcher
April 7. From John Kidd
April 7. From .1 E Boone
April 7. From W .1 Tarloton.........
April 7. From A B West
April 7. From J F. Bailey....
April 7. From G M Strong.
April 7. From O B Brooks
April 7. From W J Wood
April 7. From J W Hutchinson
April 7. From J E Bailey
April 7. From L G Watkins
April 8. From W J Wood...........
April 10. From B J Fry. T C
April 12. From E C Adcock
April 22. From T G Farmer, jr.. Clerk
April 24. From T G Farmer, jr.. Clerk .
April 30. From T G Farmer, jr., Clerk
April 30. From C A Gentry
May 1. From T G Farmer, jr.. Clerk. • •
May 5. From E H Witcher
May 5. From John Kidd.
May 11. From B J Fry, T. C
July 1. From T G Farmer, jr.. Clerk
Aupr. 4. From John Kidd
Aug. 4. From A B West
Aug. 4. From O B Brooks
Auk. 4. From E R Witcher.
Auk. 4. From J E Bailey
Auk. 4. From L G Watkins
Aupr. 4. From J W Hutchinson.. .
Auk. 4. From W J Tarleton .....
Auk. 4. From W N Walthall
Auk. 4. From J E Boone.
Auk. 7. From E D Johnson ....
Auk. 12. From E C Adcock ....
Total
80 75
36 00
4« 00
184 (K)
36 00
46 (M)
28 00
8 00
56 00
144 00
56 00
104 00
112 00
$16,617 53
DISBURSEMENTS.
March 1. Canceled vouchers • • • $ 263 65
April 1. Cahceled vouchers . 6,870 86
May 1. Canceled vouchers. •• • 2.771 64
June 1. Canceled vouchers 3,333 64
July 1. Canceled vouchers. 1.793 14
Auk. 1. Canceled vouchers - 1,572 98
Sept. 1. Balance 11 83
Total $16,617 53
Vouchers taken up i nd held by First Nn
tional Bank, Newnan, up to Sept. 1...
GENERAL FUND.
RECEIPTS.
March 1. Balance
March 6. From B J Fry, T. C • ■
March 17. From T G Farmer, jr.. Clerk
April 10. From B J Fry. T. C
April 12. From J D Hunter- • •
April 16. From T G Farmer, jr., Clerk. .
April 22. From T G Fanner, jr.. Clerk.
May 11. From B J Fry, T. C . . .. ....
May 14. From T G Farmer, jr.. Clerk....
June 5. From Georgia Railway & Power
Co ...••• •
June 8. From T G Farmer, jr., Clerk
July 12. From T G Farmer, jr.. Clerk .
July 14. From T G Farmer, jr.. Clerk.
$6,444 80
$34,684 17
1,777 60
47 55
651 75
2 92
12 50
25
970 19
126 64
300 00
12 50
16 50
12 50
Total $38,614 97
DISBURSEMENTS.
Canceled vouchers, fund No. 1 . $ 7.982 67
Canceled vouchers, fund No. 2. . • 3,299 48
Canceled vouchers, fund No. 3 ... 4.280 25
Canceled vouchers, fund No. 4.. 2,039 75
Canceled vouchers, fund No. 6 2,772 82
Canceled vouchers, fund No. 7 586 05
Sept. 1. Balance ..... 17.663 95
Total $38,614 97
We find the County Surveyor keepB a
nice, clean record of all surveys, and
open to inspection.
Wo find the County School Commis
sioner’s office nicely and neatly kept;
ail bills and records kept, and posted
up to date.
We find the books of the Tax Collec
tor and Tax Receiver neatly and prop
erly kept. The tax-payers’ returns of
property for taxation for each district
is bound in new, neat and separate vol
ume8, and properly indexed, alphabeti
cally.
tax equalizers.
The work of the Tax Equalizers is
made upon the returns. If raised or
lowered, the amount is indicated in red
ink on these returns, and added or de
ducted from the tax-payers’ returns, ns
the case may be. We believe the equal
izers have endeavored to do thoir duty
as best they could. We believe the
equalization law is right, but think the
amount of increase in taxation .should
reduce the tax-rate considerably.
CORPORATIONS.
We find from the Tax Collector’s
books the schedule of license occupa
tion tax on corporations. Many corpo
rations fail to return their capital stock,
as the law requires, and would suggest
that all be required to comply with the
law in order to aid the Tax Collector to
determine the amount of tax that is
correct.
We recommend that the County Com
missioners insist on the Tax Collector
carrying out the suggestions and rec
ommendations of Auditor Torbett, as
embodied in his report to the Commis
sioners.
J. P. DOCKETS.
We find that in the 1358th district,
G. M., a criminal case was settled by
the consent of parties.
In the 992d district, G. M., we find
several criminal caseB recorded on the
docket and settlement made by the de
fendant paying the costs.
In the 746th district, G. M., wo find
one case, in June term, no record of
the disposition on the docket. There
were no dates on the J. 1*.’s dockets to
show when the cases were docketed or
when they were disposed of, but show
ing that the cases were settled by de
fendant paying the costs.
In the 1711th district, G. M., the
criminal docket of the ex-officio J. P.
shows the name of arresting officer in
two cases, together with the name of
the J. P. No dates, no names of ac
cused, or disposition of the cases and
bill of costs on the docket.
A majority of all the records were
lacking in dates and full record of the
cases. We recommend that all tho J
P.’s and ex-officio J. l’.’s make a full
record of all the cases, both civil and
criminal, and when execution iB levied
or settled in any way, that the record
show the same on the dockets, and
dates both when docketed and settled.
COUNTY CHAINC.ANG.
We find the camp well kept and ev
erything in good sanitary condition. We
find the men and stock well cared for,
We find in both camps: Two superin
tendents: 6 guards; 1 yard man; 1 engi
neer; 100 prisoners, (3 sick;) 55 head of
stock, in good condition; 12 portable
cars, 7 wagons, 4 wheelerB, 20 carts, 48
grade plows, 52 shovel billies, 52 picks,
10 axeB. We found them demonstrat
ing with a now grader. The cost of
feeding the men is 15 cents per day
cost of feeding the stock 54 cents per
day. We find that it costs 67 1-2 cents
per day to work a convict.
We also found 3 hogs and 2 blood
hounds.
COUNTY FARM.
We find that there are 23 inmates, as
follows: 12 white, (11 females and 1
male;) 11 colored, (6 females and 5
males.) We find the inmates are well
cared for in every way.
Upon investigation we find the farm
is rented for 11 bales of cotton, with
the exception of about 25 acres
Twenty acreB are planted in corn, with
a yield of approximately 16 bushels per
acre promised. One acre in sweet po
tatoes, one aere in sorghum cane for
making syrup, and one acre in peas
We found 3 milk cows, 1 calf and 3
yearlings; 5 head of hogs, 1 mule
one 2-horse wagon, 1 buggy, about
40 bushels of corn in the crib, und 3,000
bundles of fodder under shelter.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
We find that the court-house is nicely
kept and in perfect repair, with the ex
ception of the roof, which has a few
leaks. We recommend that these be
repaired.
We find the jail clean, sanitary in ev
ery respect, and in perfect repair. We
recommend that the jail property be
enclosed with a good, substantial fence
and that a small house be built suffi
ciently large in which to store coal.
RECOMMENDATIONS.
We recommend that jurors and bail
iffs be paid $2 per day for the ensuing
year.
We recommend that the County Com
missioners, so far as practicable, keep
repair gangs (two or more) upon the
main market roads, in order that they
may be kept in better condition for
the traveling public,
We recommend that these present
ments be published in The Newnan
Herald and the Senoia Entorprise-Ga
zette, and that each be paid the sum of
$10 for same.
THANKS.
In conclusion, we wish to extend our
thanks to His Honor, R. W. Freeman
for his able, exhaustive and fearless
charge to this body, and say that we
indorse the spirit it breathed, tho high
duties and standards of citizenship
which it set forth, and the supreme im
portance of respecting and enforcing
the law.
We also extend our thanks to Solici
tor-General J. R. Terrell for the effi
cient and painstaking manner in which
he has performed his duties, and for
the advice given and courtesies ex
tended us.
We indulge tho hope that our county
may enjoy the services of these two
able and upright officials for years to
come. William A. Brannon, Foreman,
Luther E. Arnall,
Wylcy E. Lindsey,
Glenn 0. Bailey,
Enoch M. Camp,
William J. Tarleton,
Bird P. Cook,
John N. Austin, sr.,
Benj. T. Bomar,
Walter L. Welch,
Jas. C. Harris,
John I). Johnson, sr.,
Sidney D. Culpepper,
Obediah M. Cavender,
Oscar S. Mann,
John C. Hunter,
Franklin T. Mcachum,
William O. Herndon,
John W. Hutchinson,
Carl C. McKnight,
ThoB. H. Carmichael,
Lewis O. Hutchinson,
Ben H. Kirby.
It is ordered by the court that the
foregoing general presentments be
spread upon the minutes of this court,
and be published nH recommended.
This Sept. 10, 1915.
R. W. Freemnn, J. S. C. C. C,
J. R. Terrell, Solicitor-General.
Filed in office this Sept. 10, 1915.
fi. Turner, Clerk S. C.
An Example of Thrittlessness.
Savannah Ncwh.
During the past: year the cattle tick
cost this country $90,000,000. It could
be eradicated for a small faction of
that amount. It is remarkable that
there is 3till even one cattle tick in the
whole United States, when to get rid
of the pest iB such a good investment.
Every farmer presumably wants to
make money, would be willing to spend
a few dollars if fie know ho could make
a profit on the investment, and yet
farmers continue to let ticks feed on
their cattle, which is, in effect, throw
ing money away.
Supporting the post is but another
form of thriftlessness. The increased
value of the hide of a cow because of
the eradicating of the tickH that hud
been living on her would alone more
than pay for killing them, und then her
milk would bo better and in greater
quantity, and her weight would in
crease. There is hardly any farm in
vestment thut pays as much as getting
rid of ticks.
There might he some excuse for put
ting up with its ravugeB if it couldn’t
be eradicated without enormous ex
pense and great difficulty, but it can
be driven out ho easily and at such small
cost that it is hard to understand why
it still is found in such great numbers.
If there iB a cattle tick in the whole
country at the end of another year it
will be because some American far
mers can’t see a good investment when
it is right before their eyes.
A colored purson, calling upon one of
his flock, found tho object of his visit
out in the buck yard working among
the hen coops. He noticed with sur
prise thut there was no chickens.
“Why, Brudder Brown,” he asked,
“whar’s all yo’ chickens?’’
“Huh,” grunted Brother Brown,
without looking up, “some fool pusson
lef’ do do’ open an’ dey all went
home.”
Many Complaints Heard.
This summer seems to have produced
an unusual amount of sickness. Many
complain of headaches, lame backs,
rheumatism, biliousness and of being
“always tired.” Aches, pains and ills
caused by tho kidneyH failing to do their
work and throw the poisonous waHte
from the system yield quickly to Fo
ley’s Kidney Fills. They help elimina
tion, give sound sleep and make you
feel well and strong. They are tonic in
action. J. F. Lee Drug Co.
The well-fenced farm and the well-
sensed farmer usually go together.
Why Shouldn’t We Be Cheerful?
Albany Iforukl.
There is a wonderful difference be
tween conditions in the South now and
conditions as they existed a year ago.
Then our farmers and business men of
all classes stood face to face with a
state of affairs for which they were
wholly unprepared. The outbreak of
war in Europe paralyzed the cotton
market just as the movement of what
the South had anticipated would prove
a highly profitable crop was about to
begin, and, with cotton a drug on the
mnrket, there was precipitated a reign
of depression and uncertainty which
will not soon be forgotten. The South
owed a good deal of money which she
had expected to pay out of the pro
ceeds of the cotton crop, and the sud
denness with which Europe’s war was
precipitated allowed no opportunity for
retrenchment or extraordinary prepara
tion for a sudden emergency. How the
South has worked her way out of
these difficulties is u matter of too re
cent history to call for review.
But to-day tho South finds her old
confidence restored, and though her
problems born of the war on the other
sido of the world have not all dis
appeared, they no longer cast the
shadow of gloom over the things we do
and plans for what we propose to do.
We have reasonable hope that good
prices will be paid by the world fer our
cotton as we offer it for sale, but even
should we be disappointed in this, our
condition is far better than it was a
yenr ago. For our section is not
Wholly dependent, as before, on what
has been practically our sole money crop.
Farmers and business men aro general
ly optimistic, and the fall season opens
under auspices that seem full of the
promise of good things.
Tho hard lesBon of last autumn and
winter is hearing early fruit.
To tho Public.
“I feel that 1 owe the manufacturers
of Chamherlnin’a Colic, Cholera and Di-
nrrhoea Remedy a word of gratitude.”
writes Mrs. T. N. Witherall, Gowanda,
N. Y. “When I began taking this
medicine 1 wus in gront pain and feel
ing terribly sick, due to nn attack of
Hummer complaint. After taking a
dose of it I had not. long t.o wait for re
lief. as it benefited me almost immedi
ately.” Obtainable everywhere.
Under present Southern conditions
the price we are to receive for our
feeds marketed through beef cattle is
almost entirely dependent on the sire
of tho cattle fed. We have neither the
capital, cheap interest rates, nor the
knowledge to justify tho purchase of
high-graee females, and therefore, un
til every beef animal in the South has
a pure-bred beef bull for a sire, we
should put our investments in this busi
ness info pure-bred bulls. To purchase
25 good grade cows will cost from $1,200
to $1,500; while a good bull, that will
have as much or greater influence on
tho calves produced, may be purchased
for from $200 to $300. It is, therefore,
apparent that with limited capital and
great need for improvement in the
quality of our beef cattle, through
which to Reiter market our feeds, good
business sense demands that we invest
in pure-hred bulls first.—The Progres
sive Farmer.
WORDS FROM HOME.
Statements That May Be Investi
gated. Testimony of Newnan
Citizens.
When a Newnan citizen comes to
tho front, telling his friends and neigh
bors of his experience, you can rely on
his sincerity. The statements of peo
ple residing in far away places do not
command your confidence. Home en
dorsement is tho kind thut hacks Doan’s
Kidney Pills. Such testimony is con
vincing. Investigation proves it true.
Below 1“ astatementof a Newnan resi
dent. No stronger proof of merit can
be had,
T. C. Cook, 17 Carmichael St., New
nan, says: “A spell of Grippe weak
ened my kidneys und l suffered from
a constant ache in the small of my
back. When 1 moved or tried to get
up, I felt as if my back was breaking
in two. I could not bend, I was so
sore and lame. My sight became
blurred and objects floated before my
ey< s. Doan’s Kidney Pills, procured
at John R. Cates Drug Co., cured me
of all signs of kidney trouble.”
Price 50, at all dealers. Don’t sim
ply ask for a kidney remedy — get
Doan’s Kfilney Pills— the same that
Mr. Cook had. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Props., Buffalo, N, Y.