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THE NEWNAN HERALD
St;\VNAN HERALD .(Consolidated with Coweta Advertiser September
i ; tahlished ItooO. I Consolidated with Newnan News Junuury, 1 i> 15.
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NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1915.
Vol. 52—Mo. 7
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 sec 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—
“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.
Old-fashioned Cuba Molasses.
ANSWER E I> PRAYE R S .
1 prayed for riehea, and achieved Kuceeah:
All thut I touched turned into jtold. AlfiM*
My cares were Rroater. and my peace less,
When that wi?h onme to puss.
1 prayed for glory, and I heard my name
Sung by nwoet children and by hoary men;
But, ah! the hurta, the hurt* that come with/nmc!
I wub not happy then.
1 prayed for love, and hud my soul'a detdro;
Through quivering heart and body and through
brain
There awept the tlunu* of its devouring lire.
And there the scars remain.
I prayed for a contented mind. At length
Great light upon my darkened spirit bund;
Great peace fell on me also, and grent strength;
Oh! had that prayer been first.
Come to see us. You are
Hitch your mules and horses in
and store your bundles with us.
always welcome,
our wagon yard
1. G. FI
’Phone 147.
YOURS TO PLEASE,
Corner Madison and Jefferson Streets.
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You Eat
The Best?
Why punish your stomach by eating inferior
food when THE BEST is just as ECONOMICAL?
Every careful housewife knows that THE BEST
in foodstuffs costs no more than the poorer grades
of goods, for the very same reason that THE
BEST has VERY LITTLE or NO WASTE, and
therefore lasts longer than the inferior article that
is sold for a cent or so less.
My'stock of Groceries is new, clean, well-assorted, and
comprises the very best and purest goods that money will
buy. I give careful attention to all orders, my prices are
reasonable, and I deliver promptly. Try me with an order
and let me show you.
I am grateful for the generous patronage given me since
I opened for business on my own account, and a continu
ance of these favors will be much appreciated.
Jas. M. Wadsworth
West Side Court Square
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Insurance—All Branches
fapresenting
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. Glover Co.
History of Split Between Baptists
Savannah, Ga., Nov. ‘1.—As the Prim
itive Baptists open a three-day conven
tion in Savannah to-day. Geo. S. Car
gill, Esq., one of them, prepared the
following brief history of the church
for the Morning News as a matter of
news and information:
The oldest Baptist church in the
South is the First church of Charleston,
S. C., organized in 1082. From this
church, which contained among its mem
bers such illustrious names as Gen.
James Screven, of Revolutionary fame,
came many missionaries into Georgia,
among them Nicholas Bedgewood, who
was employed at Mr. Whitfield’s or
phanage near Savannah, where it Ib
said the first Baptist communion ser
vice in this State was held.
The first Baptist church in Georgia
was constituted in what is now Colum
bia county, and took the Indian name
Kiokee. Daniel Marshall, of Virginia,
and Edmund Bottafield, of Charleeton,
S. C., were among the early preachers.
Edmund Bottafield was a native of En
gland. He emigrated to Charleston,
and, becoming deeply concerned in the
matter of religion, was converted and
baptized.
The First Baptist church of Savannah
was constituted in the year 1800, and
its first pastor was Elder Henry Hoi
combe, who was afterwards pastor of
the First Baptist church of Philadel
phia. Another of the early preachers
was Hon. Joseph Clay, a Judge of the
United States District Court for this
district, who became converted while
on the bench, and, receiving a call to the
higher work of the ministry, resigned
the Judgeship.
The churches along the Savannah riv
er were the first to be established
Georgia, but as the tide of immigration
moved southward and westward live
and prosperous churches wore estab
lished throughout the State. Many
the early preachers came into Georgia
from Virginia and the Carolinas, but
the old Charleston church seems to
have furnished the greater number.
There were no missionary societies in
those days, and although the churcheB
and associations sometimes raised funds
for local missionary work, there were
no missionary boards such as exist to
day, and as to sending missionaries into
foreign lands, that was a thing unheard
of until some years after the Revolu
tionary War.
Still the Baptist cause grew and
prospered, and wielded a wide influ
ence throughout the country. But as
the churches increased and grew in
wealth and numbers there arose preach
ers more ambitious than the pastors
of colonial times, and many new move
ments were inaugurated to cause the
church to grow more and more. Theo
logical schools were established, mis
sionary and tract societies formed, and
plans were laid to join in the great mis
sionary movement started in England
to send the “gospel” into all the world.
So persistent were the demands of
these zealous missionary workers and
so bold their efforts to line up the
churches behind their visionary plans
for evangelizing the world that many of
the more conservative brethren saw a
tendency to depart from the simple or
der of the ancient church, and were not
willing to join the movement.
For a number of years it was an open
question among the Baptists, and mis
sionary agents were permitted to travel
among all the churches; but as the
movement spread the brethren contend
ing for the older order of things saw
the breach between them and their ar
dent missionary brethren widening, so
they concluded that the only way to
preserve the primitive order was to
sever all connection with the modern
missionary system and all who persist
ed in fostering it upon the churches.
This brought about the division between
what is now known as the Missionary
and the Primitive or Old School Bap
tists, and ever since that time each
side has maintained a separate organi
zation, each contending for its particu
lar views on the questions in contro
versy.
In some of the churches there was no
division—each church following its own
particular lead, some going one way
and some another. The old church in
Savannah, as well as the church in
Charleston, became affiliated with the
missionary party; and it was not until
the year 1895 that another church of
the Primitive order was established in
Savannah.
It Should Be Written.
Mnoon Nowb.
Thirty years ago there died the most
picturesque character, and in some re
spects the greatest man, Georgia has
ever produced. He was the leonine
Robert Toombs.
“No satisfactory life of Toombs has
ever been written; Rome day I may try
my hand at it,” says ThoB. E. Watson,
in an essay written eight or ten years
ago.
As Watson enjoyed a personal ac
quaintance with ToombB and is proba
bly better versed in Georgia political
history than any other citizen of this
State, he is the historian who could
best perpetuate Toombs in letters. Al
ready he has contributed much remin
iscence on this famous Georgian, but
that does not take the place of a study
of the life of the orator and statesman,
who by the sheer force of hiB individual
ity cauaed Georgia to secede from the
Union.
ToombB suggests Webster, and yet,
as a Northern editor said of him in
1876, he had "a brightness and versa
tility vastly surpassing that of the
ponderous New Englander. ” His pow
erful oratorical gifts, personal habits
and physical appearance also bring to
mind Mirabeau; but nowhere in histo
ry is his real counterpart to bo found
There was only one Toombs, and there
will never be another.
Toombs, Stephens and Hill constitu
ted the great political triumvirate of
Georgia, but the latter two were com
pletely overshadowed by him when he
was in his prime. It was Toombs who
fired the State with the idea of seces
sion. It was Toombs who should have
been President of the Confederacy, and
would have been but for an unfortunate
incident in Montgomery. It was Toombs
—for what Georgians particularly re
member him, and are indebted to him
— who dominated the Constitutional
Convention of 1877, and gave Georgia a
Constitution that is to-day nearly with
out change.
Until his death Toombs was powerful
and interesting. Even in his declining
years he was one of the greatest and
certainly one of the moat successful
lawyers of the State. Ah Ben Hill said
"His head was right and his heart was
true” until the very last, in matters of
law and government.
The proper place of Toombs in the
history of Georgia and in the record of
his day and time should bo established
in literature, for the delectation and in
struction of future Georgians, before it
is too late. The News hopes that Mr
Watson, with his wonderful capacity as
a historical writer and as an admirer of
Toombs, will yet “try his hand at it.”
•*18068 Robt. E. Lee Next to Na
poleon.
Richmond Times-Dlaputch.
Sitting in his dressing - room last
night Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson
related an incident which will doubt
less warm the hearts of Southern men
toward a soldier who is now serving En
gland "somewhere in France.”
The groat actor was speaking of the
South and its leudors, particularly dur
ing the War Between the States, and
he expressed the reverential admira
tion that he had always felt for Gen.
Robert E Lee, saying that he had read
much about Gen. Lee, and had learned
much more from metnbors of his fami
ly.
‘It will interest you. 1 think," he
said, "to know what Gen. Sir John
French thinks of Leo. Just before the
wur—the present war—wo wero lunch
ing together. Naturally, the conversa
tion drifted to fighting, and then to the
great fighters. Sir John ban decided
opinions about the famous generals of
history, and 1 was profoundly inter-
esated in hearing his views.
We Bpoke of your war and of its
leaders. 1 had known some of the Fed
eral gonerala in later years —notably
Gen. Sherman—and, as 1 have said, I
knew quite well several members of
Gen. Lee’s family, and I knew Mrs.
Jefferson Davis and Miss Winnie, sc
that while he knew the man as a pro
fessional soldier, I knew them in i
more intimate way.
“Finally I said, ‘Sir John, just where
do you place Lee among the generals of
history?’
“He did not hesitate—and I remem
ber particularly how ho shot his chin
forward and hit the words out: 'Where
do I place Lee? 1 place him next to Na
poleon, sir!’ ”
Prices For “Puffs.”
The editor of nn Eastern paper has
grown peevish. He haa been pestered
so much by people desiring free “puffs''
that he facetiously refers to himself as
the "Peerless Prince of Puff Purvey
ors.” He thinks he has done enough
for social queens, ministers who are
looking for free advertising, people
who have legislative fads they wish to
push, and organizations which want free
publicity. So ho has evolved the fol
lowing scale of prices for puffs:
For telling the public that a man is a
successful citizen when everybody
knows thnt he is us lazy ua a hired
man, $2.70
Referring to a deceased citizen as one
who iH mourned by the entire com
munity, when he will only he missed by
the poker circle, $10.12.
Referring to one as a boro and a man
of courage and one who will Htand by
hia honest convictions, wliun everybody
knowB that he is a moral coward and
would sell out for IK) cents, $6.21.
Referring to some gallivantin' fe
male ns an estimuhle lady whom it is a
pleasure to meet and know, when every
man in town would sooner see Satan
coming, $8.10.
Calling an ordinary pulpit orator an
eminent divine, 60 cents.
Sending a doughty sinner to heaven.
$5.
Referring to a deceased merchant
who never advertised in his home paper
as a progressive citizon, $-1.99.
Lambasting the daylights out of de
mon rum at the request of the local
prohibition committee, $6 77.
Ditto for the prohibitionists at the
roiuest of the local "wet” committee.
$6.77.
Chamberlain's Tablets.
This is a medicine intended especially
for stomach troubles, biliousness and
constipation. It is meeting with much
success and rapidly gaining in favor
and popularity.
Our Military.
New York Commercial.
The War Department haB taken stock
of the resources of American factories
now engaged in making war materials
and it appears that the productive ca
pacity of the country in that direction
has been increased a thousand per cent
within a year. Within two mon'hs the
largest army we would possibly need
could be armed and equipped with
evf ry thing necessary except the heavier
classes of artillery, and the facilities
for turning out big guns are ample for
our r< quirements; but big guns cannot
be built in a day. The whole country
is taking an interest in the training
camp at Plattsburg. N. Y., where civil
ians are being trained in the duties of
army ofli :ers. Educated and prac.ical
men can learn fast, and this is no idle
holiday.
We can turn out arms, ammunition
and other equipment us fast as we can
recruit and train volunteers. Our sup
ply system was formerly our weakest
point, b it that has been made adequate
at the expense of European belliger
ents, and wo can step in and requisition
everything should an emergency de
velop, Officers we also lack, but the
Plattsburg experiment proves that the
right class of men is available. B/ or
ganizing in time of peace we can cer
tainly protect our shores frona invasion,
and nobody contemplates the possibility
of raising a large army for foreign ser
vice of an aggressive character. It will
not cost much to make arrangements
with steel mills and machine Bhops
whereby they will always be ready to
turn out war materials at short notice.
To know what to do is the chief
thing.
Made Over Again.
Mrs. Jennie Miner, Davidson, Ind.
writes: “I can truthfully say Foley’s
Cathartic Tablets are the best I ever
used. They are so mild in action. I feel
like I have been made over again.
Good health haa no greater enemy than
constipation. Foley’s Cathartic Tablets
keep the stomach sweet, liver active,
bowels regular, and banishes bilious
ness, sick headache, sour stomach.
Stout persons welcome the light, free
feeling they give. J. F. Lee Drug Co.
Beware of Choap Substitutes.
In these dayH of keen competition it
is important that the public should see
that they gel Chamberlain’s Cough
Remedy and not take substitutes sold
for the sake of extra profit. Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy has stood the
test and been approved for more thun
forty years. Obtainable everywhere.
A Pew in the Old Church.
The groat artist. Turner, kept on his
easel a handful of precious stones of
beautiful colors. For a half hour each
morning he would ait silently and gaze
at those glorious tints. He said he did
this to keep his color-sense acute. If
the artist’s eye. needed this inlluenco to
keep its color-sense toned up, surely
the human soul needs the tonic in
fluence of spiritual worship. What is
the cloud that Iooiub over every man’s
path every day? Not sorrow, not
poverty, not sickness, not business re
verses. The cloud that looms over
evory path is temptation. Some time
ago a man who had not been in a church
for fnany years, secured a pow in his
old church, and is now one of its reg
ular attendants. Some one asked him
his reaaon. He said, “I have a grow
ing family of sons and daughters. I
have been watching my boys with some
anxiety. I am alarmed at what I read
in the daily papers about the ways of
the world, the ease with which men
under temptation go down like reedB in
the wind, the frequency with which
husbands and wives break up their
homeB. I am convinced there is only
one place to bring up a family of chil
dren, and that is in the church?" Who
will question that father’s judgment?
He does not want his sons to grow up
without moral anchorage; he does not
want his daughters to marry IhoBe who
will play fast and loose with honor;
and he knows that the church with its
worship is the place where ideals are
burnished up, where the dust is cleansed
from the soul’s wings, where false
standards are corrected.
Cured Boy of Croup.
Nothing frightens a mother more than
the loud,- hoarse cough of croup. The
labored breathing, atrangling, choking
and gasping for breath call for instant
acllon. Mrs. T Neureuer, Eau Claire,
Wis., says: “Foley’s Honey and Tar
cured my boy of a Herioua attack of
croup after other remedies had failed
I recommend it to every one, as we
know from our own experience that it
is a wonderful remedy for coughs, colds,
croup and whooping coagh.” It clears
air passages, soothes and heals. J. F.
Lee Drug Co.
Lake Erie produces more fish to the
square mile than any other body in the
world.
The meanest man in the world is the
fellow who introduces two strangers
and then walks off, loaving thorn to get
away from each other the best they
can.
GOOD NEWS.
Many Newnan Readers Have Heard
it and Profited Thereby.
“Good news travels fast,” and bud
back sufferers in New-un are glad to
learn where relief mnv lie fou-d.
Many a lame, weak and aching back is
hail no more, thanks to Doan’s Kidney
pil'H. Our citizens are telling the good
news of their experience with this
tested remedy. Here is an example
worth reading:
Mrs. J. M. Crowe, trained nurse, 20
Salhide street, Newnan, hiivh; 1 huve
seen Doan’s Kidney Pills used with
sueh good results that I always recom
mend them to anyone I hear complain
Ing of kidney trouble and they always
prove beneficial. I co'aider them a
medicine of merit mid don’t hesitate to
recummend them to anyone troubled by
any symptoms of kidnuv complaint,
such as bsckachu, headache, dizziness
or irregular passages of the kidney
secretions.”
Price F>0c., at all dealers. Dont sim
ply ask for a kidney remedy—get
Doan’s Kidney I’illH -the same that
Mrs. Crowe recommends. Foster-
Milburn Co , Props., Buffalo, N. Y.
Dyspepsia]
Tablets
will relieve your indigestion. Many
people in tbis town have used them
and we have yet to hoar of a case where
they have failed. We know the for
mula. Bold only by us—25c a box.
John R. Cates Drug Co.
FEA THER BEDS
For a limited time we will sell one
Feather Bed weighing 36 pounds and one
pair of pillows weighing 6 pounds all for
$10 cash with order, f. o. b. Covington,
Ga. NEW feathers only. * Best A. C. A
ticking. If beds are not as advertised we
refund your money. In business over 4
years our best advertisement. Order to
day. Reference Bank of Newton County
Send your orders to the oldest bed com
pany in Georgia.
DIXIE FEATHER BED CO.
Covington, Ga.
For Shoe and Har
ness Repairing
and
NEW HARNESS
frfj tO
A. J. BILLINGS
6 SPRING ST.
Only high-class materials used
in my work.