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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.