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THE NEWNAN HERALD
NEWNAN HERALD
Established 1866.
Consolidated with Coweta Advertiser September, 1886. (
Consolidated with Newnan News January, 1916. 1
NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY,.DECEMBER 29, 1916.
Vol. 52—No 13.
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.
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NEWNAN. GEORGIA
THE EMPTY STOCKING.
Oh. Little Boy Blue, with your wonderful eyeu
That are filled with tears and a pained surprise;
Your child-like faith is shattered and torn.
For that little old stocking hangs empty and worn.
Empty, just as you hung it there
On Christmas Evo when you knelt in prayer:
And that prayer came up from your heart; because
You learned to believe in Santa Claus.
And standing there with your toar-dimmed eyes.
Perplexing questions to you nrise;
Why should the children across the way
Have their stockings filled this Christmas Day?
Was this lisping prayer you said in vain?
Can your broken faith be healed again?
Can it be because you know want and care
| That Santa's forgotten your stocking there?
Oh, dear little boy, if t only knew
Just what to say to comfort you,
Just what to do in case the aches
That grip your heart till it almost breaks!
I can only hope that in coming years
No friendless child will awake in tears
Because by the fireside cold and bare
An empty stocking in hanging there.
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.,
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A New Year Message.
William S. Jerome. t
Perhaps no better motto for the new
year can be found than that which
Longfellow prefixed to his popular
work, “Hyperion.” He says he found
a tablet in the churchyard of St. G
gen, in the Tyrol, bearing this singular
inscription:
“Look not mournfully into the past,
It comes not back again. Wisely im
prove the present. It iB thine. Go
forth to meet the shadowy future with
out fear, and with a manly heart.”
Here we have a motto and message
for the three divisions of time which
mark the New Year.
The Past.—It is natural to look
“mournfully into the paBt.” The look
backward recalls so many mistakes and
failures that the result is always de
pressing. What we have accomplished
seems small in proportion to what was
desired and attempted. ThU perspec
tive of time enables us to judge more
accurately our life than we could at the
time. It is not a bad idea at the New
Year to “take account of stock,” re
view the past, and seek to learn its
lessons.
Yet there may be too much inspec
tion and retrospection. We should not
neglect the past or fail to learn from it,
and there is a profound philosophy in
the Apostle’s injunction to “forget the
things that are behind.” Whether they
are evil or good, the advice is wise. If
the review of an evil past leads us to
discouragement and depression, the
thought of a good past may lead to
self-satisfaction and content, and thus
prove an obstacle to further progress,
We can make no real advancement if
we “drag at each remorse a lengthen
ing chain,” even if that chain be of
roses, and the remembrance of happy
days and good deeds.
Cultivate, therefore, a good “forget
tery.” Do not let the failures and
mistakes of the days gone by prove
stumbling blocks in the future pathway
Do not let past good deeds prevent yet
nobler efforts and grander achieve
ments. Whatever the past, it has
gone forever. Neither prayer nor
tears can bring it back. Let it go,
therefore; unload its memories, that
we may better run the race that is still
set before us.
The Future.—The “shadowy future,”
our motto calls it. The word is well
chosen, for a veil lies over the days to
come, which is not lifted till we reach
them. We naturally shrink from the
unknown, and not knowing what may
be on the morrow, we therefore fear
the morrow. But fear is not the same
as wise forethought. Because we do
not know what the morrow will bring
forth we are not to boast ourselves of
to-morrow or recklessly waste the days
granted us. But fear of the future
weakens us for life’s struggles, and is
unworthy of one who believes that—
"God's in His heaven; all's right with the world."
The true attitude toward the future
is that of encouragement and faith.
The fearless, “manly heart” does not
mean rashness or bravado, or insensi
bility to life’s seriousness and meaning.
It means the triumph of faith over fear,
of courage over cowardice. It ex
presses exactly the right spirit in
which to face the unknown. "Trust
no future, howe’er pleasant;” fear no
future, no matter how dark and mys
terious. For the future is made up of
such days as we have already had.
The Present.— This is thine. There
fore, it is to be wisely improved. It is
literally and really all we have—the
present moment—"the inch before the
saw.” Yesterday, like last year, is
gone forever. To-morrow may never
come.
How urgent the call of the New
Year, to spend no time in vain regrets
or future forebodings, but to give our
selves diligently to the work of the
day! At this season we often say, "A
new year has dawned.” But, really,
only one more day has come. We have
1916, but 1917 is not yet here, and when
it, too, is gone it will be too late to do
anything in it. * The recurrence of New
Year’s day does not really alter the or
dinary conditions of life. We $re prone
to think that, with the new date and
new year, things will be in some way
different—duty will be easier and less
distasteful. One who has wasted the
past year is very apt to think that, by
some magical influence, the new year
will bring new and more favorable con
ditions. But to think so is to deceive
ourselves. Whatever new experiences
may come to us, wo know very well
that the ordinary laws of morals or
mathematics will not be changed by the
change of date. In 1917," as in the
past, two and two will make four; the
laws of gravity will operate irrevocably
and certainly; and “whatsoever a man
soweth, that shall he also reap.” Now
is the time, therefore, says Norman
Hapgood, “to pitch in and achieve-now,
now! Remember, my friends, the
present is the future from which you
hoped so much.” Unless we “wisely
improve the present” we shall find our
selves, at the end of the year, regret
ting our past, just as to-day we are
mourning over mistakes and resolving
to do better in the days to come.
So the modern journalist puts into
homelier phrase the teachings of Long
fellow’s famous motto:
COMING!
To The Halcyon Theater
Thursday, Jan. 11
CASTOR IA
For Infants and Children
In Use For Over 30 Years
Always bears
the
Signature of
Yesterday Is dead; forget It;
To-morrow isn’t here; don’t worry;
To-day is here; use it.
V
THOSE SUDDEN TWINGES
Bring Suffering to Many a Newnan
i Reader.
Fain is nature’s signnl of distress.
A warning not to be ignored.
Those sharp twinges in the back—
Those sudden, stab like pains when
stooping are frequent signs of lydney
trouble.
To remove kidney pnins, you mu.it
assist the kidueys, '
Use a tested and proven kidney rem
edy.
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Read Newnan testimony.
Mrs. N. P. Scroggin, 25 Second ave
nue, Newnan, says: "I was taken sud
denly with an intense pain in the small
of my hack. The least move caused a
sharp pain to shoot through my body,
and I finally got so bad that I had to
stay in bed, I called in a doctor, but
he didn’t give much relief. Doan’s
Kidney Pills, procured of J. F., Lee
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toms of kidney complaint.”
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Mrs. Scroggin had. Foster - Milburn
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the way prices flave
vK
“Isn’t it awful
gone up?”
“It surely is. JuBt think, my hus
band will have to work three weeks
to get money enough to pay for this
simple little gown I have on.”
Have a place for everything, and ev
erything in its place; best of all, don’t
have too many things.
“Goodnight Corns !
Wo Use^Gets-lt!”’
3 Drops in 2 Seconds. That’s All.
“GETS-IT” Does the Rest.
Never Fails.
'•Really, I never could geo how
Borne few people uho the moHt dlffl-
cult and painful way they can find to
get rid of cornu. They’ll wrap their
toes up with bandages Into a package
that /Ills their shoes full of reet and
makes corns so painful they’ve got
to walk sideways and wrinkle up
their faces. Or they use waives that
eat right Into the too and make it
raw and sore, or they’ll use plasters
that make the corns bulge, or pick
and gouge at their corns and make
the toes bleed. Funny, Isn’t it? '*GET.S-
IT" It the simple, modern wonder for
corns. Just nut 3 drops on. It dries
Instantly. No pain, fuss or trouble.
The corn, calTns or wart loosen* and
COmesoff. Millions use nothing else."
"fJETtf-TT" Is Hold and recommend
ed by druggists everywhere, 25d a
bottle, or sent on receipt of price, by
B. Lawrence & Co.. Chicago, III,
Sold in Newnan and recommended as
the world’s best corn remedy by John
R. Cates Dru# Co.; J. F. Lee Drug Co.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
GEORGIA-Cowkta County:
Notice is hereby given to all creditors of the es
tate of B. W. Williams, late of said county, de
ceased. to render in an account of their demands
to the undersigned withiratte time prescribed by
law, properly made out; and all persons indebted
to nald estate are hereby r* o new Led u> make imme
diate payment. This Dec. 15. 1916. Pro. fee, $3.75.
t J. W. F. WILLIAMS, Administrator.
Haralson, (J*-
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Gb\ ic American Hilm Cbmpanu, One..
. present? ^
Munson
//v SEVEN acts
And the New England poet adds his
word of encouragement and cheer—
Life is a leaf of paper white,
Wherton each one of us may write
Hia word or two—and then cornea night.
AUTHOR DIRECTOR ART DIRECTOR
Clifford Howard Rea Berger Edward Langely
DANCE ENSEMBLES CAMERA EXPERT
Geneva DriKoll Robt. V. Phelan
THE CAST
PURITY ------- Audrey Munion
Thornton Darcy, Poet ..... Nigcll de Bruillicr
Claude Lamarque, Artist ..... Alfred Hollingsworth
Luston Black, a voluptuary .... William A. Carroll
Judith Lure ........ Eugene Fotde
Publisher - - - - - - Clarence Burton
Model Nets Drinkwitz
j Mythological
\ Characters
| Grecian Dancers
Doors Open at 10 A. M.
ADMISSION:
Special Orchestra
Adul ts __ 25c
Children 10c
FOR all the good will,
confidence and patron
age of 1916 — MANY
THANKS. May you
have not only a pros
perous and successful
New Year, but also a
happy one.
/. M. WADSWORTH, The Grocer.
STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION
OF THE
Bank of Grantville
Located at Grantville, Ga., at the close of business Dec. 12, 1916.
RESOURCES.*
Time loans $52,002 40
Overdrafts, secured 1,732 14
Banking-house 3,000 00
Furnituro and fixtures 1,000 00
Other real estate 502 37
Due from banks and bankers in this State 19,809 76
Dip; from bank* und bankers In other
Stutee 21,932 77
Currency. $4.480 00/
Gold 25 00 > 5.657 49
Silver, nickels and pennies.. . 1,152 49 )
Total $105,636 93
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock paid in $ 25,000 00
Surplus fund . .. 15.000 00
Undivided profits, less current expenses,
interest and taxes paid 2,079 00
Individual deposits subject to check.... 63,434 13
Cashier’s checks 123 80
Total $106,636 98
STATE OF GEORGIA County ok Cowkta: Before me came J. A. Latimer, Cashier of Bank
of Grantville, who, being duly sworn, says that the above and foregoing statement is a true con
dition of saki bank, as shown by the books of tile in said bank. J. A. LATIMER, Cashier.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 22d day of December, 1916.
D. T. Latimer. Notary Public Cowetaxounty, Ga.
