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THE NEWNAN HERALD
NEWNAN HERALD I Consolidated with Coweta Advertiser Seotemher IRRfi )
Established 1866. ) Consolidated with Newnan News January. 1915.' )
Holiday Greetings!
Now that the Old Year is draw
ing to a close we desire to thank
our friends for their good will and
patronage during the past twelve
months, and wish for one and all
a happy Christmas and a bright
and prosperous New Year. We
appreciate our friends, and shall
so shape our business policy as to
merit their continued confidence
and favor in the future.
T. G.
8
'Phone 147. Corner Madison and Jefferson Streets.
EVERYTHING
-FOR THE—
NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1916.
Vol. 52—No 12.
Figs,
Currants,
Dates,
Cocoanuts,
Raisins,
All kinds Candies,
Apples,
Assorted Nuts,
Oranges,
Grape Fruit,
Prunes.
Apricots.
I carry all the ingredients to go into the Christmas cake.
Fresh bread every day.
Will endeavor to keep fresh Fish, Oysters and Celery ey-
ery day during the holidays.
S w i nt’s
’Phone 54.
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Insurance—All Branches
Representing
r Fire Association, of Philadelphia
fidelity and -Casualty Co., of Neuu York
American Surety Co., of New York
Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co.,
of Newark, N. J.
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PARROTT
SHOP EARLY.
If you buy n Christmas present,
Buy It now!
If it be for prince or peasant.
Buy it now l
Buy it early in November;
Or at least before December;
You'll be Rind If you remember—
Buy it now I
While the counters stretch before you.
Buy it now!
While there are no crowds to bore you.
Buy it now!
Buy before the air is stufTy,
Buy before the girla are huffy.
Buy while things are fresh and fluffy.
Buy it now!
Tarry not until to-morrow.
Buy it now!
Even though you have to borrow.
Buy it now!
See that Hhop girls don't have reason
To abhor the Christmas season;
Put a conscience, if you please, on—
Buy it now!
14 1-2 Greenville st., Over 7. C. Glover Co.
Commissioner Jim Price Tells of
Georgia’s Resources and
Possibilities.
Norfolk, Va., Dec. 12.—Commiasion-
er of Agriculture J. D. Price, of Geor
gia, who is here attending the eighth
annual convention of the Southern Com
mercial Congress, delivered an address
before that body to-day upon “Agri
cultural Progress and Possibilities in
Georgia.”
Mr. Price had some distinguished
company on the program, including a
dozen or more Commissioners of Agri
culture from Southern, Eastern and
Western States, each of whom pre
sented interesting information dealing
with agricultural conditions in their
own section. The only other speaker
on the program from Georgia was Hon.
Harvie Jordan, president of the South
ern Cotton-Growers’ Association.
Commissioner Price dealt especially
with the progress made by the farmers
of Georgia along scientific agricultural
lines, and pointed out how they are
taking advantege of the important re
search work being done by the United
States Government.
Discussing the development of diver
sified agriculture, Commissioner Price
said:
“At the beginning of the European
war cotton had no value, and we were
at a Iosb to know just what would be
come of the average farmer. Diversi
fication has been talked for a century,
but the farmer who has been forced to
raise cotton as his money crop would
not believe for a moment that he could
make a living without raising all cotton
But when the boll weevil made its ap
pearance in Georgia it was a question
of mcesBity, a question that could no
longer be considered only as a reality
and I believe that the day will come
when all Georgians will see and believe
that the boll weevil is a blessing in dis
guise. At Ibis point it reminds me of
a speech I made before a Georgia au
dience in 1914, when cotton had no val
ue, as you know. In this speech I sta
ted that I was not a pessimist, nor
could 1 hi- one, as it was against my
nature, but that we had all been taught
to raise cotton—in fact, had been forced
to rais it-in cause when an average
farmer went to town to get credit, the
first qui-stion that was asked him was,
‘How many Hcres of cotton are you go
ing to plant?’ If he were to say from
15 to 20 acres to the horse, he was told
that unless he planted more cotton he
could not get as much credit as he de
sired, forcing him to go back and plant
more. I am delighted to Bay, however,
that this is no the case now. When
this Bame farmer goes to town to-day a
different question is asked him. The
banker and merchant wants to know
how many cows and hogs, how many
acres of grain of different kinds he ex
pects to plant, and he must make a
good showing ef this kind before credit
will be extended, as it used to be on
a cotton acreage.
“We have more foodstuffs and more
fine ho s and cattle in Georgia now
than ever before. There is more land
being planted in leguminous crops, such
as alfalfa and different kinds of clover,
than was ever known in the history of
our State. We are securing and intro
ducing the very best breeds of cattle
and hogs. We have every safeguard
thrown around as protection by inocu
lating against hog cholera, and in co
operation with the U. S. Government
in the eradication of the cattle tick,
also testing for tuberculosis, which
places us in a position where our peo
ple are becoming more and more en
thusiastic over the raising of home
supplies of every sort. We are begin
ning to b. lieve that the question of di
versification iB of a permanent nature,
and will he of a permanent benefit
rather than a temporary one.”
Colorado uses more than 2,000,000
electrical horsepower every day to run
its different industries.
Gough Medicine for Children.
Mr8. Hugh C ink, Scott. u ville, N. Y.,
sayt>: “Ahou' five years ago when we
were 11viin in Garbutt, N. Y., I fine-
tored two of rny children suffering
from cold ui'h Chamberlain’s Cough
Remedy end found it just as represent
ed in every way. It promptly checked
iheir coo.-f-ing and cured I heir colds
S uicker than anything I ever used.”
otbinabl everywhere.
The Price of Paper.
Atlanta Constitution.
The extraordinary advance in the
price of paper, especially of news pa
per, has so seriously affected every
periodical Bnd publication in the country,
from the country weekly to the metro
politan daily, that all of them have
been compelled to take steps to meet it
and protect themselves.
With an advance of more than 100
per cent, in the price of white paper
alone, there is not a newspaper in the
country, and scarcely any other period
ical, however wealthy, which could
continue in business upon the old basis
and get through the impending crisis.
From one end of the country to the
other the weekly papers are advancing
their subscription price from $1 to $1.50,
and in some instances even to $2 a year.
Many daily papers all over the United
States are doubling their subscription
price and increasing their advertising
rates—not with any idea of making ad
ditional profit, for they will not, but
simply to protect themselves againBt
actual loss.
The paper situation presents per
haps the most seriouB crisis that haB
ever confronted the newspapers of the
United States, and everywhere they are
planning to meet it as best they can.
In the aggregate it means millions of
dollars more to be paid every year for
one item alone that enters into the pub
lication of a newspaper—the white
paper upon which it is printed.
The newspapers have but two things
to ^ell—the paper itBelf upon a sub
scription basis, and their advertising
space. If materials which enter into
their publication advance 100 percet. nor
more in cost, there is but one way to
meet it, and that is by a proportionate
increase in subscription and advertising
rates. It is the same with a merchant
who must pay 50 per cent, more for a
piece of goods he offers at retail; he
must get proportionately more for it or
soon go out of business.
It is a condition which no one de
plores more than the newspapers them
selves, but one in which they must
make provision for their own protec
tion.
Nervous Women.
When nervousness is caused by con
stipation, as is often the case, you will
get quick relief by taking Chamber
lain’s Tablets. These tablets also im
prove the digestion. Obtainable every
where.
Cheer Up For Christmas!
Louis B. Cupron.
Be cheerful. Christmas, true to its
custom, is again with us. Another
year haB ranged itself with those that
have gone before, as happens annually.
Cheer up! The laws of nature are
still in working order.
Christmas is generally considered an
occasion for cheer. “Merry Christ
mas” is the slogan of the day, usually
with the appendage "Happy New
Year.” It is also the time you receive
a large number of things you don’t
want, in exchange for the same num
ber that you would rather have kept.
It is also the time father carries the
box of cigars mother gave him out to
the woodshed, removes the bands,
places them on cigars of his own and
gives what they originally contained to
the ash man.
Be careful, just the same. Think of
the excellent chance you had to pass
on the white elephants kind friends
presented you with the year before.
You probably think you had to buy a
lot of presents. Well, the more you
gave away the more you received.
Cheer up! You don’t live in that
Western town of 400 inhabitants who
are all related and where every family
has to play Santa Claus with a mov
ing van to remember all the others.
There are any number of things to
be cheerful about. If you are rich, be
cheerful! Think of all the things you
can buy. If you are poor, remember
all the things you can’t and won’t have
to bother selecting. If you have a
good appetite, you are lucky to be
healthy; if you haven’t, remember all
vou are saving in batcher and grocery
bills. You can be cheerful about every
thing if you only look at it right.
■JT’
If a project to nrtprove your town
comes up, don’t hoot—investigate.
Danger Signal.
If the fire bell should ring would you
run and stop it or go and help to put
out the fire? It is much the same way
with a cough. A cough is a danger
signal as much as a fire bell. You
should no more try to suppress it than
to stop a fire bell when it is ringing,
but should cure the disease that
causes the coughing. This can
nearly always be done by taking
Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. Many
have used it with the most beneficial
results. It is especially valuable for
the persistent cough that so often fol
lows a bad had cold or an attack of the
grip. Mrs. Thomas Beeching, Andrews,
Ind., wrrtes: “During the winter my
husband takes cold easily and coughs
and- coughs. ■ Chamberlain’s Cough
Remedy is the best medicine for break
ing up these attacks and you cannot
get him to take any other.” Obtain
able everywhere.
What New England Missed.
General bb are to-day both the relig
ious and secular observance of the
Christmas festival, tt is barely half a
century since Christmas was tabooed
in large sections of the United States
as well as in other countries where the
old Puritan element predominated.
Even as late as the ’fill’s all through
Nuw England Christmas as a holiday
wus ousted by New Year’s, except in
Catholic or Episcopal families.
The old hatreds growing out of the
warB of the Reformation, both on the
continent and in Great Britain, for cen
turies practically abrogated this annual
festival wherever the Puritan element
or its posterity was the dominating fac
tor in the community. The following
from Edward Eggleston’s “Transit of
Civilization,” will give something of an
idea of the eclipBo which darkened the
joyous holiday history of the United
States:
“In KV70 the Massachusetts Legisla
ture ordained that the mere abstaining
from labor on December 25 should be a
penal offense. The observance of
Christmas was held objectionable not
only because it ‘afforded opportunity
for the playing of games and profani
ty,’ but because Christmas observed
was iniquitous on its own account, for
all honoring of days, times or Beasons
other than the Sabbath seemed to the
fine-spun Puritan mind a masked idola
try. The strict Puritan Sabbath, first
rigidly enforced in England and Scot
land, was early transplanted in New
England, where its observance was,
under similar penalties, made as strict
ly compulsory as was the non-obser
vance of Christmas.”
One of the old as well as the modern
features of the Christmas service was
its magnificent music. But during the
Puritan eclipse not only Christmas mu
sic, but practically all church music
worthy the name, disappeared.
As the religious prejudices and ha
treds, born in persecutions, Boftened
with time, the Christmas festival grew
in favor even throughout the hostile
communities of both Great Britain and
America.
Good For Constipation.
Chamberlain’s Tablets are excellent
for constipation. They are pleasant to
take and mild and gentle in effect.
Obtainable everywhere.
Will Give the Boll Weevil a Run
For His Money.
Moultrio Observer.
The farmers of Colquitt county are
going to plant some cotton next year—
a good deal of it — and they are plan
ning to give the weevil a run for his
money.
Every farmer has a plan of his own
whereby he expects to beat the weevil
to it. Some of them think they will
get by if they plant real early, plant
on beds with hurry-up guano placed in
the bed with the seed. Others are
doting on getting Btarted early and
keeping at it until the cotton is rushed
to early maturity. Now and then you
find a fellow who is going to turn his
resources and help over to the county
demonstrator, and by the rule of
Government instruction make cotton.
Some have figured it out that they can
pick the weevil off the cotton before
the deadly work is done, and some will
organize a force to pick up the squares
and burn them, etc., etc. One farmer
expressed it: “I am just obliged to
make cotton when it is 20 cents a
pound,” and we suppose he is right.
Anyhow, every fellow has an excuse
for planting cotton, and most of them
have plans in their head that they ex
pect to work out and make cotton,
weevil or no weevil.
An Expensive Institution.
Savannah News.
Christmas is a very costly institution.
It makes deep holes in millions of well-
filled pockets. Father’s hand reaches
into his pocket more often in the few
weeks before Christmas than during
any other period of equal extent in the
whole year. And lots of money goes
for presents that, in the hands of hap
py children, last a very short time.
Nightfall of ChristmaB day sees many
toyB in mangled heaps that bright and
shining and new greeted the little folks
as they hopped out of hed Christmas
morning. And millions and millions of
things are bought that never would be,
if it were not for Christmas. Hut does
all this mean that Christmas is not
worth the money it costs—that it
would be better if the world did not
observe the anniversary .of Christ’s
birth in the way it does? Nobody in
the whole wide Christian part of the
world will say that Christmus does not
pay for itself, that it is not worth al 1
it costs, and that it is not a bargain at
any price. Where can be found a
father and mother who feel that they
have been cheated by Christmas, after
they hear the gurgling laughter of
their children, in ecstasy among their
new toys, even if there had to be
skimping and saving of pennies to buy
the little presents?
’ No Higher Price for This.
While food and clothing have ad
vanced in cost, it is well for the sick
that the prices of such reliable family
remedies aB Foley’s Kidney Pills cost
little and relieve backache, pains in
sideB and loins, sore muscles, stiff
joints, rheumatic pains and bladder
trouble. J. F. Lee Drug Co.
An old farmer couldn’t really believe
that people who were miles apart were
able to converse over a telephone wire.
One day his wife went to visit a dis
tant friend who had a telephone, in her
house. During the afternoon the far
mer sought shelter from a thunder
storm in the house of a neighbor who
also possessed a telephone, and who
persuaded the farmer to call up hie
wife as a little surprise.
Following instructions, the farmer
put the receiver to his ear and, after
the usual preliminaries, shouted:
“Halloa, Jane!”
Just then a flash of lightning struck
the wire, and he fell to the floor under
the force of thp shock.
Rising to his feet, and shaking his
head wisely, he said:
“It’s wonderful. That was Jane all
right.”
Bank Official Recommends Them.
T J Norrell, vice-president of the
Bank of Cottonwood, Tex., writes: “I
have received relief and recommend
Foley’s Kidney Pills to any one who
has kidney trouble.” Kidney trouble
manifests itself in many ways—in wor
ry, by aches, paips, soreness, Btiffness,
and rheumatism. J. F. Lee Drug Co.
A great deal of discussion and some
doubt as to the workings of the new
compulsory attendance law in Georgia
has arisen among the County School
Superintendents of the State. It is
navural that any new law will cause
some inconvenience in the beginning of
its imposal. It is furthermore natural
that time will be required to perfect its
machinery. It is hoped that all Coun
ty Superintendents will join in the
spirit of this law and help cenlribute to
the needs of Georgia for longer school
terms and better schooling for the
country children of the State. We
have come to the time when we wish
our Georgia country boys and country
girls to have equal advantages with
other boys and girls. The compulsory
school law has been so arranged as to
work few hardships, and yet to do a
grest deal of good for the State. Let
us all work together for the schools of
all the State's children. — University
Times, Athens.
Stopped Ohildren'a Group Gough.
"Three weeks ago two of our children
began choking aqd coughing, and I saw
they were having an attack of croup,”
writes Billie Mayberry, Eckert, Ga. "I
got a bottle of Foley's Honey and Tar,
and gave them a dose before bedtime.
Next morning their cough and all signs
of croup was gone.” J. F. Lee Drug
Co.
Old Ebenezer Waterskin was in great
form at the temperance meeting as he
held forth on the glories of teetotal-
ism.
“Listen, my friends!” he cried. “If
you desire a long and happy life then
shun drink as you would the smallpox!”
At this a well-bitten old fellow at the
back of the hall sprang up.
“Don’t believe him, boys! Look at
me! I’m 65 to-day, sound in wind and
limb, hearty and happy, and I’ve been a
hard drinker all my life!”
"Ah,” cried the lecturer, “bat if
you’d been a teetotaller you'd be 99
by now!”
“Will you let me off this afternoon,
sir?” asked a clerk in a dry goods
store; “my wife wants me to beat
some carpets. ”
"Couldn’t possibly do it,” said the
boss.
The clerk turned joyfully to his
work, saying; “Thank you, sir. Thank
you a thousand times.”
A STITCH IN TIME,
Newnan People Should Not Neglect
Their Kidneys.
No kidney ailment Is unimportant.
Don’t overlook the slightest backache
or urinary irregularity. Nature may
bo 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 60 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 seven boxes of Doan’B
Kidney’s Pills and they cured me of
ail Bigns of kidney trouble. I have had
no return of the complaint since.”
Price 60fc. at all dealers. Don’t sim
ply ask for a kidney remedy - get Doan’s
Kidney Pills the same that cured Mr.
Lewis Foster-MSlburn Co., Props.,
Buffalo. N, Y.