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THE NEWNAN HERALD
NEWNAN HERALD l Consolidated with Coweta Advertiser September, 1886. I
Established 1866. I Consolidated with Newnan News January, 1915. 1
NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1916.
Vol. 51—No 44.
FARMERS’
Supply Store
BUY
At this store, which specializes in Flour,
* Feed and Grain.
BUY
Your Shoes here. We sell the best-wearing and
most comfortable shoe made. “Star Brand” shoes
are always better.
BUY
Your Staple Dry Goods and Groceries, and all
Plantation Supplies here. Prices are down to bed
rock.
Everybody should raise their forage and hay. Now
is the time to sow sorghum seed and plant peas.
We have the Orange and Red Top Cane Seed;
Unknown and Speckled Peas.
Save time and labor by using the Hyde Cultivator.
WE SELL THEM.
Lastly
Come to see us. You are always welcome. Hitch
your teams in our wagon yard and store your bun
dles with us.
YOURS TO PLEASE
16. FARMER 8 SONS COMPANY
'Phone 147. Corner Madison and Jefferson Streets.
Free Air Pump I
Agent for Pennsylvania and Quaker tires—two of
the best makes on the market.
Have just installed an electric steam vulcanizer, for
vulcanizing tubes. Absolutely guaranteed not to in
jure tube.
I CARRY A FULL LINE
Of automobile, bicycle and motorcycle supplies.
Will appreciate your custom, and give you the very
best of service.
R. L. ASKEW
T. S. PARROTT
Insurance—All Branches
Representing
r 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.
74 1-2 Greenville st., Over V. C. GlouerCo.
BUY AT HOME
When you want to help your town.
Buy ot home!
When you want ehoe*. hat or gown,
Buy at home!
Ne'er mind what 'tie you need.
Canned {roods, collars, chicken feed;
Frame this phrase up for your creed;
Buy at home!
Other folks may buy by mail.
You buy at home!
Help the home store to a sale.
Buy at home!
Every dollar sent away
Moans a dollar less to pay
What is owed right here to-day;
Buy at home!
Are you for your town or not?
Buy at home!
Cheaper elsewhere? Tommyrot!
Buy nt home!
Home store qualities are true.
Home store merchants work for you.
This much then you ought to do:
Buy nt home! \
Georgia Crops Seriously Damaged
To the People of Georgia: So many
inquiries have reached this office from
all parts of the State regarding the ef
fect of the excessive rains on our crops
that, in the interest of the farmers
and the public generally, I wish to
make known the facts as they come to
us from different sections.
Information comes from sections—
particularly Quitman and adjoining
counties—asserting that a large portion
of the cotton crop in that territory is
damaged more than 50 per cent. This
is attributed both to the boll weevil,
which has attacked the cotton, and to
the excessive rains, which have washed
over it in many places and covered it
up. Even where the cotton is standing
the fruit is falling off in great quanti
ties.
Similar reports come from other sec
tions of South Georgia, but in some in
stances cotton does not appear to have
been damaged so much. But all of the
corn on creek, river and branch bot
toms is practically a total loss.
Information from North Georgia,
particularly from around Rome, is that
almost all bottom land corn has been
washed away, and the farmers are
earnestly seeking information as to
what is best to plant for a quick crop
on the most valuable lands they have.
Buford and surrounding territory re
port that corn on the Chattahoochee
river and all creek bottoms has been
completely covered by water. Previous
to the floods this corn was good, the
letter states, but says there has not
been ‘‘such a clean sweep in many
years—not since the U. S. Government
issued rations in this section some 25
years ago.” In that section it is stated
90 per cent, of the bottom land corn is
gone, and many farmers will be forced
to buy corn for bread. Buford also re
ports cotton very spotted. Early plant
ing secured a good stand and looked
well, but where planted late the cotton
is spotted on account of the spring
drought. The writer states it is a bad
year on gray lands, and that all crops
are grassy. It has rained so long that
the grass has spread from the middles
to the row, and it is going to be diffi
cult to eradicate it.
Such is the information coming to
the department from nearly all sec
tions of Georgia. It is true the damage
varies, but where, before the rains,
crops all over the State were promis-
ing, there has now been such injury
that the department is impelled to state
that there is at least 35 per cent, dam
age to cotton, and from 15 to 20 per
cent, damage to corn, because so much
of the com is a total loss.
The Federal Government should issue
another crop report as soon sb possible
The recent rains have not been confined
to Georgia, but covered the entire cot
ton belt east of the Mississippi and up
through North Carolina, which, in our
opinion, means a good price for cotton
this fall. There is always some “sweet
with the bitter. ” If we would make
our home supplies and raise a short
crop of cotton, as we should every
year, there is no question that we would
get more money for it.
The boll weevil has been found in a
number of Southwest Georgia counties.
It is said wet weather is the very life
of this insect. Outside of the rain dam
age we must figure on the boll weevil
too as a contributor to a short crop in
this State.
While it is getting pretty late to*sow
peas on any kind of land, wouldn't it be
a good idea for Georgia farmers, as
soon as possible, to put all of this good
bottom land in Early Amber cane or
early white California peas? Then you
can mow it for hay with the grass that
comes up with it along in the latter
part of September. We had better
think of these things.
The department is much distressed
over the reports which are coming from
all parts of the State, for early pros
pects for a good crop were certainly
bright. We do not seem, however, to
have yet reached the end of the wet
spell.
Reports reaching the department as
to crop prospects indicate that Georgia
will yield about 10 per cent, less cotton
than in 1915, when the crop was a short
one. Based upon these reports and
present conditions, this department es
timates the Georgia crop will not go
over 1,600,000 bales, and, if anything,
will he less.
Georgia still haB many an acre of fine
corn, notwithstanding the heavy loss to
thia crop in the bottom lands. The up
land corn is in good shape, and of that
which is left there will be a good yield.
This department is anxious to get in
touch with those in every county who
are willing to mail us weekly reports
on crop conditions and the cattle indus
try. We will be glad to have any who
are willing to do this write us at once,
and a supply of blanks will be sent
them. We want the true condition in
every county, as we desire to give the
Georgia public accurate information re
garding crop conditions and prospects.
J. D. Price,
Commissioner of Agriculture.
Two Golden Days.
Robert}; J. Burdette,
There are two days of the week upon
which and about which I never worry
—two care-free days kept sacredly free
from, fear and apprehension. One of
thesA is Yesterday. Yesterday, with
all its cares and frets, with all its pains
and aches, all its faults, its mistakes
and blunders, has passed beyond the
reach of my recall. I cannot undo an
act that I wrought. I cannot unsay a
word that I said on Yesterday. All
that it holds of life, of regret and sor
row, is in the hand of the Mighty Love
that can bring sweet waters out of the
bitterest desert—the love that can
make the wrong things right, that can
turn weeping into laughter, that can
give beauty for ashes, the garment
of praise for the spirit of heaviness,
joy of the morning for the woe of
night.
Save for the beautiful memories that
linger, sweet and tender, like the per
fume of roses in the heart of the day
that is gone, I have nothing to do with
Yesterday.
And the other day I do not worry
about is To-morrow.
There is a “Mother Day”—Why
Not An Afternoon For Dad ?
We cannot do too much for Mother;
but what's the matter with Dad? All
the world loves and honors Mother. Is
there no flower for Dad? He has trod
den the same path. Hand in hand,
from the sweetly solemn hour at the
altar when the holy vows were pledged,
Dad and Mother have come together
down the pike, through sunshine and
shadow—sharing ulike the sweet, and
mingling tears alike for the hitter. In
the long hours of the long days Dad has
given hiB all to the fierce struggle for
Mother and home. In the long, silent
watches of the night his tired brain has
been busy with his burdens. Weary
and heaven laden, he has borne his
burden in silence. The acheB, the
pains, the ills, the cares and sorrows
of Mother have been shared with friend
and foe. Not so with Dad. Within a
heavy heart he locks the secret of his
load of debt and care and struggle and
and pain and trouble. He would not
increase the burden of Mother. He
is too proud to confess it to friend |or
foe. Unaided and unafraid he should
ers his load and carries it alone to the
end, and after the end he is forgotten.
The burden has been grievous and
oftentimes heavy. The way has been
long and rough and hard and dark
and dreary. When birthdays— those
sweet anniversaries, those delight
ful little Bide stations along the way
—are reached Mother is ever re
membered with tributes of love and
affection. When Easter comes all
the flowers are for Mother. When
Santa Claus appears the choicest is for
Mother. In Dad’s old stocking may be
found a corn cob pipe, or something
equally fragrant and valuable.
Unfulfilled Prophecy of An In
fidel.
Voltaire once said: “In a hundred
years from now the bible will be an un
known book.” How has thia prophecy
been fulfilled? After a hundred yeara
Voltaire’s house in Geneva was the
branch office of the British Bible Socie
ty. In Voltaire's time not one bible so
ciety existed in the world; to-day we
have seventy-three. In 1908 the Amer
ican Bible Society alone distributed 2,-
826,831 bihles. All bible societies to
gether published 11,378,954 copies. If
we add the products of all the bible so
cieties we have the enormous sum of
500,000,000 bibles published in the nine
teenth century.
In Voltaire’s time the bible waslpub-
liahed in thirty-eight languages. Now
it iB printed in four hundred and
thirty-six languages. The above fig
ures Bhould make Prof. Eliot, of Har
vard, think, after making the assertion
that “the new religion will do away with
the bible. ” As sure as Voltaire was
mistaken, so Prof. Eliot’s prediction
will come to naught.
In a late report of the British and
Foreign Bible Society it is shown that
this society alone, in 1900, distributed
6,620,024 bibles and New Testaments,
or parts thereof.
Says They Are Wonderful.
Hot weather is doubly dangerous
when digestion is bad. Constipation,
sick headache, biliousness, or other
conditions caused by clogged bowels
yield quickly 'to Foley Cathartic Tab
lets. Mrs. Elizabeth Slauson, So. Nor
walk, Conn., writes: “I can honestly
say they are wonderful.” J. F. Lee
Drug Co.
A gosling never attempts to teach a
goose, yet there are children who im
agine they are wiser than their
rents.
Gave the Baby Rest.
Children just cannot keep covered at
night and that is one way they take
cold. Foley’s Honey and Tar is a reli-
To-morrow with I able family cough medicine that con
„ ... , ... .. tains no opiates or harmful ingredients,
all its possible adversities, its bur- Mn) Wm * Leonard( Po ttsville, Pa..
dens, its perils, its large promises and | writes: “My baby had a very bad cough.
pa-
poor performances, its failures and
mistakes, is as far beyond the reach of
my mastery as its dead sister—Yester
day. Its sun will rise in roseate splen
dor, or beyond a mask of weeping
clouds. But it will rise. Until then
the same love and patience that held
Yeeferday and holds To-morrow shine
with tender promise into the heart of
To-day. I have no possession in that
unborn day of grace. All else is in the
infinite keeping of that Infinite Love
that holds for me the treasure of Yes
terday, the love that is higher than the
stars, wider than the sky, deeper than
the seas.
There is left for myself, then, but
one day of the week—To-day. Any
man can fight the battles of To-day.
Any woman can carry the burdens of
just one day. ,
Youth.
Youth is not a time of life; it is a
state of mind. It is not a matter of
ripe cheeks, red lips and supple knees;
it is a temper of the will, a quality of
the imagination, a vigor of the emo
tions. It is the freshness of the deep
spring of life.
Youth means a temperamental pre
dominance of courage over timidity, of
the appetite for adventure over the
love of ease. This often exists in
man of fifty more than in a boy of twen
ty.
Nobody grows old by merely living a
number of years. People grow old
only by deserting their ideals.
Years wrinkle the skin; but to give
up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and
despair—these are the long, long years
that bow the heart and turn the green
ing spirit back to dust.
Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in
every human being's heart that lure of
wonder, the sweet amazement at the
stars and at star-like things and
thoughts, the undaunted challenge of
events, the unfailing, childlike appe
tite for what’s next, and the joy of
the game of living. You are as young
as your faith, as old as your doubt; as
young as your self-confidence, as old as
your fear; as young as your hope, as
old as your despair.
In the central place of your heart is
an evergreen tree; its name is Love.
So long as it flourishes you are young.
When it dies you are old. In the cen
tral place of your heart is a wireless
station. So long as it receives mes
sages of beauty, hope, cheer, grandeur,
courage and power from God and from
your fellowmen, so long are you young.
For Bummer Troubles.
Hay fever afflicts thousands and asth
ma sufferers endure torture. Foley's
Honey and Tar gives relief. It allays
inflammation, clears air passagee, eases
rasping cough, soothes and heals. This
wholesome family remedy contains no
inflates—a bottle lasts a long time. J.
F. Lee Drug Co.
The Quinine That Does Not Affect The Head
Becaune of its tonic awl laxative effect, LAXA-
TIVK BROMO QUIN INIi is better than ordinary
Quinine and does not cause nervousness nor
ringing in head. K'-tnemher the full name and
look for the sigxuiiure of H. W. GKOVE. .'5c.
The first dose gave her
Lee Drug Co.
relief.” J. F.
Zeke had gone to town with the mule
and a light wagon, The mule balked
just in front of a doctor’s office, and
Zeke Bpent half an hour and all his in
genuity trying to make him start.
Then the doctor came out with a small
bottle in his hand.
“I’ll make him go, Zeke,” the doctor
said. Zeke smiled broadly.
“Less see um, sah.’’ ,
The doctor poured from the bottle
some vicious acid upon the mule’s tail.
Presently all they could see was the
mule going over the hill in a cloud of
dust. Zeke’s look of admiration shaded
into concern.
“You got any mo’ ob dat truck in dat
bottle?” he asked.
“Yes,” answered the doctor.
“Well, sah, I reckon you’d better
spill er taste on me. I’se gotter cotch
dat mule!”
A STITCH IN TIME.
Newnan People Should Not Neglect
Their Kidneys.
No kidney uilment Is unimportant.
Don’t overlook the slightest backache
or urinary irregularity. Nature may
be warning you of approaching dropsy,
gravel or Bright’s disease. Kidney
disease is seldom fatal if treated in
time, but neglect may prove fatal.
Don’t neglect a lame or aching back
another day. Don’t ignore dizzy spells,
irregular or discolored urine, head
aches, weariness or depression. If you
feel you need kidney help begin using
the reliable, time-tried remedy, Doan’s
Kidney Pills. For 50 years Doan’s
have been found effective. Indorsed by
Newnan people.
W. P. Lewis, proprietor Virginia Ho
tel, Washington street, Newnan, Ga.,
says: “My kidneys were out of order
and I suffered from a lame and aching
back. I felt tired and dull, especially in
the morning. The kidney secretions
passed irregularly, sometimes being too
frequent and then again scanty and pain
ful. I used six or Beven boxes of Doan’s
Kidney’s Pills and they cured me of
all signs of kidney trouble. I have had
no return of the complaint since.”
Price 60c. at all dealers. Don’t sim
ply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan’s
Kidney Pills—the same that cured Mr.
Lewis. Foster-Milburn Co., Props.,
| Buffalo. N, Y.