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CHATTANOOGA
When you come to Chattmooßa for
optionl m*rvir.n, don’t forget to look
for the “SIGN."
We Orltld Our (lleeses Here
The only Optical Honse inCliatta
nooßtt qualified for grinding tense s
from the rough.
EYES EXAMINED
and glasses gronnd and delivered on
the Halim day.
HARRIS S HOGSHEAD
The Manufacturing Opticians,
18 E. Eighth St., Phone 878
Ohattanooga, Tenn.
TOWN AND COUNTY
“Town Tslk" Floor, 50 pound
sack, $1.45 at G. E Wulraven’s
Paul and Earnest Bidez, of Rock
mart, were here for several days the
past week, the guests of their broth
er, It. V Bidez.
Will Center, who is assistant
postmaster at Scottsboro, Ala., was
called home Sunday by the critical
illness of his sister, Miss Annie
Ruth Cen*er.
Regular meeting La Fayette lodge,
No. 25, I. 0. 0. F., Friday night,
Nov. 4th. Work in initiatory de
gree.-C. W. Routt, N. G, G. H.
Crawford, Sec.
A K. Ilawkes’ optician has ar
rived. Will only remain Friday and
Saturday. Don't fail to see him if
you have failing eyesight.—War
then's Drug Store.
Rev. H. S. Smith will preach at
Linwood next Sunday night instead
of the second Sunday night as pre
viously announced. This will be
his last service at Linwood.
Mrs. Tom Lee, of Ch’ckamauga,
entertained Monday night for her
guest, Miss Horne, of Dalton, and
Miss Lillian Jewell, of Jewell, Ga.,
who is the guest of Mrs. A. S. Bowen
R. P. Bomar & Co. are at present
mauaging two stores, their old store
at Naomi and their new store in
West LaFayette which was purchased
from F, B. Trotter. The Naomi
store will be closed out the first of
the year.
There will soon he two handsome
residences out on rural route No. I
from LaFayette. J C. Martin is
remodelling his dwelling, making it
a two story structure and G. R.
Morgan is also having his residence
remodelled.
M A Park lias resigned his posi
tion as cashier for the Pigeon Moun
tain Iron Company and has accepted
a position as assistant bookkeeper
with the firm of Trigg, Dobbs, of
ChattunoogH. He began his duties
with bis new employers last week
For Sale 51 acre farm on Ring
gold road. 4 Piles from LaFayette;
85 acres m < nhivation, 5 m pasture
with spring and running water on
it, 175 apple trees and plenty of
Other fruit; on Rfd; 4 room house
and barn. - C. L Story. Rfd. I novx
The protract'd meeting at the
Baptist church, which has been in
progress for the past two weeks,
will continue for the balance of the
week, closing Sunday. To date
their have been about twenty acces
sions to the church and probably
forty or fifty conversions. During
the past week midday services have
been held by Mr. Bucbholz and Mr
Wright at the LaFayette Cotton
Mill and the Hosiery Mill.
Go to G E Walraven’s for T>wn
Talk Hour—every tack guaranteed.
CEDAR GROVE
Upper Oove Now Has Resi
dent Minister To Keep
Them Straight
Cedar Grove, Nov. 2 —Miss Luna
Evitt, one of Cedar Grove’s brightest
young laoi n s, is very sick at this
wri iug. Dr. Crowder, her attend
ing physician, has pronounced her
case appendicitis.
Bro Green's farewell sermon Sun
day at. Cedar Liove f«r this year
was able and effective. Bro. Green
nas had a very sucaessful year on
the work. We people of Cedar
Grove as a church, one and all, will
be glad should be be sent hack to
us next year.
The Sunday school under the
management of Bro. Durham seems
to be taking on new life. W r hile we
have no ground of complaint against
our past superintendant, Bro. Rogers,
we will just say that Bro. Rogers
got tired of bia office before the peo
pie got tired of him. Bro. Rogers
is a faithful church worker, but we
all dread the responsibility of a
Sunday school superintendent’s
place.
Rev. Mr. Carr’s household goods
are at the depot, bo it will only be a
short time until we can say that we
have a good preacher dwelling in
our midst. Every community needs
a preacher to live with them. We
all welcome Bro. Carr.
T. M. Wallin, of Kensington, our
clever mail carrier, attended church
at Cedar Grove Sunday.
F. L. Bell spent Sunday with his
son, J. 8. Bell.
Our brother. J. M. Wallin, of
Bronco, visited us Saturday night.
Cleveland Mitchell, of the Box
Company, of Chattanooga, has
moved to and will farm with Capt.
Wood the coming year. Cleve says
there is a new panic on in Chatta
nooga; says he could not stand the
pressure any longer.
J. R. Hunter, who bought out his
father’s farm near Cedar Grove, has
begun to move. Hurrah, Riley, we
want you back. We always welcome
good neighbors.
A. T. W.
To those who have patronized the
LaFayette Bakery and Case in the
past we wish to extend thanks to
you for your patronage. We are
convinced that you appreciate a nice,
clean, wholesome loaf of homemade
bread. You can always find it here
Don’t worry about your cakes,
rolls and pies, but place your orders
with us and we will fill them. The
Fruit cake season is here and why
not order yours today?-LaFayette
Bakery & Case. Bank of LaFayette
block, C. N. Shropshire, Prop
Phone 7!).
NOTICE
Registration books for the City
of LaFayette are now open in the
Recorder’s office, at LaFayette Furni
ture Co.
nov. C. J HAMMOND, Recorder
The Yarnell Hardware Co., Chat
tarn, oga, has jm-t bought a Close
Out stock of WooJ beaters and they
are selling them at greatly reduced
prices; see thun at once.
Uncle Sam
Satisfied
We are filling our
c utract with tt e
U. S. Post Office
here at Dalton wi*h the same
kind of Dependable Goods that
we are sellmg our other cus
tomers.
No complaint.
Dr. Sbun P, Warrentells
DENTIST
BIBJ Market St. Phone Main 70
ChattaiKaiga, Tenn.
Office open at Chickamauga, Qa
Saturdays
Walker County Messenger, November 4, 1910
| A Mistaken Girl j
I She Found That She Was Not as }
? Wise as She Thought (
Br ESTELLE MARSH
) Copyright, me. by American Press c
) Association. r
I am In a quandary. I had supposed I
would marry Donald Chase, ami now
comes Oscar Richmond to mix me all
up Donalu Is steady, honorable, has
excellent judgment; Oscar Is hand
some. full of sentiment, fascinating. I
know I should remain true to Donald,
but Oscar carries me right off my feet
The question of money does not en
ter Into the matter. Donald la doing
rery well, earning a fair salary and
with a prospect of being a partner.
Oscar Is out of business Just now. I
don't exactly understand why. lie Is
very reticent. I like reticence In a
mau; It bespeaks self control. Oscar
can talk with me by the hour without
revealing uny of his affairs. Os course
If he proposes to me I shall expect that
he will tell me everything.
I have tried to get Donald to tell me
why he distrusts Oscar. He says he
doesn't himself know w'hy. It Is quite
likely that his distrust Is due to Jeal
ousy. Donald Is so honorable that he
would not like to believe himself capa
ble of doing a rival an Injustice. lie
is unconscious that he Is moved by
jealousy.
I wonder who Is this Girard Roberts
be has brought to see us. He has
known us but a few weeks, yet It seems
that we have all been friends for years.
It’s strange how some people have a
faculty of Insinuating themselves at
once Into one’s good graces. Already
I call this man by his first name, and,
though I have known Donald since I
was sixteen years old. I still call him
Mr. Chase.
1 have sounded Girard Roberts ns to
what he thinks of Oscar Richmond.
Ills reply was, "He’s a bang up good
fellow." That doesn’t help me. But
It’s the most 1 can expect from Girard,
who Is all on the surface. Those peo
ple one becomes familiar with on short
acquaintance seldom have uny depth
I asked Girard what he thought of
Donald and received the same reply.
“He’s a bang up good fellow too.” I
was served right for relying upon the
opinion of such a lightweight person.
Girard Roberts seems to have plenty
of money as well as a taste for Jewel
ry. The other day Aunt Alida was
showing him a diamond she wished to
turn into funds. He told her to go
among the jewelers, ask them to fix
a price on It and he w'ould give her
$lO more than the highest bid. She
did so and got a bid of $270 for the
stone. Girard told her It wns cheap
at S3OO und he would give her that for
1L She accepted the offer. Oscar and
I were present when the sale was
made, and Girard laughingly told us
thut he would rely on us us witnesses
In case aunty backed out. He didn’t
have the money with him. but said be
would bring It the next afternoon at 0
o’clock.
When he called aunty was out. Os
car and I were in the library. Girard
.'ailed to mo to say to aunty when she
came in that she would find the money
for the diamond under a vase on the
mantel In the parlor. I promised to
do so. Oscar asked me to go to walk
with him. 1 consented; went upstairs
to get my hat, and we walked to the
park. When I returned I had forgot
ten all about telling aunty that the
mouey for her diamond was on the
parlor mantel. Indeed, 1 uever thought
of it till just before going to bed; then
1 told her. She went downstairs to
get It. It was gone.
Everybody Is dissatisfied with me
and I am dissatisfied with myself for
being so thoughtless as to have left
S3OO so long in an exposed position.
It has upset the whole household. The
servants who consider themselves un
der suspicion are going about looking
very gpun. Aunty is furious with me.
1 expected Girard would show his feel
ings toward me very decidedly. What
a lovely fellow he Is, after all! He
told me not to give myself any con
eern about the matter; that doubtless
the money would run up, but If it did
not there was no one to blame but
hluiself since he should not have left
so much money in such a place. He
explained that he did not leave It with
me because I was "flirting.” ns he
called it. with Oscar and be didn’t like
to intrude u|H>n us.
I asked him who he suspected, and
he said thut, since the front door stood
unlatched and any one might have
come In while we were at dinner or
during the evening when we were all
upstairs, doubtless some person enter
ed. iHisslbly for an ordinary purpose,
aud. seeing the money, appropriated It
und sklpiied
I hare hud a stroke—an awful visita
tion! Donald Chase turns out to be the
thief who look the tills left on the
mantel to |>ay for aunty’s Jewel. This
morning w hen be wns at business a
constable called at his room with a
search warrant and found the bills In
his bureau drawer. To think that Don
aid. whom we have all known so loop
and considered the very soul of honor
should have done such a thing!
How eould he have taken the monet
without our knowlop It? What Girard
Holier* loti! me i« th- only thing that
6;, Oil ..use Doubtless Donald called.
came right In. was waiting for some of
ns. when be noticed the bills. He nrast
have taken them and gone out without
making himself known.
I am broken hearted by this discovery
that Donald Chase Is a common thief.
Singular. Isn’t tL that a girl doesn’t
know she loves a man till he turns out
to be a thief? That’s the way with us
women; we are always actlsg by con
traries. Not long ago 1 was uncertain
about Oscor and thought Donald a
splendid man. But I was fascinated
with Oscar, and Donald seemed devoid
of romance. Now that Donald Is In
trouble, through his own fault, l am
giving him my heart.
Girard Roberts has Just come In. He
says that Donald has given bail for hlg
appearance when his trial comes off
and is now free. Girard says that, not
withstanding appearances are against
Donald, be doesn’t believe him guilty.
“Then,” I said, "1 don’t believe him
guilty either.” But the next minute 1
reproved myself for being Influenced
by this easy going man. Did he not
gay when 1 asked him his opinion of
Donald before this matter occurred.
“He’s a good fellow too?" What’s the
use of considering the views of one
who talks like that? I told Girard to
tell Donald to come and see me. but he
said he did not think Donald would un
til his Innocence has been proved. 1
really believe there has been some mis
take, but It Is very hard to feel sure
about It. It all happened so naturally
—Donald’s coming in Just when the
money was where he would see It—at
least, who else could have come in?—
and the bills being found In bis bureau
drawer. Oh. dear! I must stop think
ing of the horrid thing ot I shall go
crazy.
One thing more I will say: After all.
there Is something Just too lovely for
anything in Girard Roberts saying that
be doesn’t believe Donald guilty. If
any one should take anything of mine
and It were found in his bureau draw
er 1 couldu’t be so generous as to at
tribute the theft to an error.
Donald has been to see me. He did
not act or talk like a guilty man.
What’s more, he didn’t seem to realize
his awful position. I supposed that
he was more sensitive. Though charg
ed with stealing money that was in
tended for aunty, with whom he has
been on friendly terms for years, to
say nothing of his devotion to me, he
seemed very unconcerned. When 1
learned he was downstairs I nerved
myself for a very painful interview.
For fear I should say the wrong thing
1 thought over what I should say.
When 1 entered the room I dreaded to
look at him. Indeed. I kept my eyes
on the floor.
"Donald." I said, “you know how in
terested we all are that you should
clear yourself of this horrible charge.
We will all do anything in the world
to help you—Aunty. I. Oscar”—
I looked up. and what was my sur
prise to see an amused look on Don
ald's face. Indeed, he was smiling.
Then he advanced, took my band and
gave It a gentle pressure.
"Don't he troubled, little girl." he
said. “There are always wheels with
in wheels. There Is also such a thing
as being too smart. 1 have some
thing to say to you. nad I not I
would not have come to see you rest
ing under the imputation of being a
thief. Listen. From the first I sus
pected something wrong In your friend
Oscar Richmond. From what 1 beard
I believed him to be a thief. 1 intro
duced Into this household Girard Rob
erts. a detective”—
“A detective!”
“That's what he Is. He laid a trap
for Richmond and caught not Rich
mond. but me. He bought your auut's
diamond for the purpose of laying this
trap. He put the bills to pay for it on
the mantel as a decoy for Richmond
They were all marked, thut he might
prove them his property. Richmond
took them, but, being a smart rogue
and suspecting that we were on'liis
track, sent a man with them to my
room. This mau represented himself as
an old chum of mine, aud my landlady
permitted him to go to the room to
wait for me. Once there, he put the
money In my bureau druwer aud went
away. The next day Richmond ar
ranged that n constable should go to
my room to search for something be
claimed he had lost. You know the re
sult."
"But.” I said. “Oscar Richmoud did
uothing criminal. You were trying to
catch him. and he turned the tables on
you.”
“Wait a bit. Richmond was an ac
countant for a firm in San Francisco,
from whom be skipped with $20,000.
Roberts was employed by them to
track him. My employing Roberts was
a coincidence. Richmond’s real name
Is MacEuery. He was arrested this
morning aud is now awaiting extradi
tion papers to take him to San Frau
cisco for trial.”
And now I am alone in my room, try
lug to get settled down to the fact that
I am myself. Oscar Richmond is not
Oscar Richmond at all. but somebody
else and a criminal. Donald Chase Is
not going to the penitentiary, but Is to
be my husband Instead. Girard Rob
erts, who came to us with his appar
ently light character and trivial words
—a skin deep mau whom nobody either
loves or dislikes—turns ont to be one ot
those cunning detectives one reads
about In stories. Rut now I know .that
be is a real detective he seems very
different to me. Just as soon it was
all out. Instead of calling roe Alice he
called me Miss Avery. I was so mad I
could have choked him. Besides. I
thought he was quite a gentleman. He
is very plain. Indeed. Donald says be
served a term as a policeman.
Well, well: I shall never again think
I can teli the difference between a
rogue and an honest man or between a
gentleman aud a thief hunter.
“Warthens” The Reliable Drag Store
It is to your advantage to trade here. We don’t mean
to make the claim that we sell better goods than anyone else,
but we do offer you the best grades produced. And we have a
complete stock too, of everything any drug store sells. Medi
cines, Sundries, Boda Water, Candies. If we don’t happen to
have exactly what you want we'll get it for you at soon as pos
sible, and at no extra cost to you. Trade here for the satisfac
tion others get.
“A nice cold phosphate for mine!" A nice cold snappy
phosphate drink on a hot day! Can you beat it for a thirst
chaser? We make them, fruity and delicious, cold and bub
bling. Then there are other soda drinks, too. Visit our New
Sanitary Soda Fountain. Come once and you will come again.
WARTHEN’S DRUG STORE
Get your Feed Supplies of all
kinds from Dan C. Wheeler & Co.
Chattanooga. They make a specialty
of Cotton Seed Meal and Hulls.
J. B. AustiD, of Mission Ridge,
and Mrs. Florence Clark, of West
LaFayette, were married Sunday,
‘Squire R. G. Phillips officiating, the
ceremony being performed at the
squire’s residence. Mr. Austin and
his bride left Sundav afternoon for
their home at Mission Ridge.
The condition of Miss Annie Ruth
Center, who for the past two weeks
has been ill with typhoid fever, has
been very precarious for the past
week and for severai days the first
of the week her recovery was des
paired of. Thursday morning she
was reported slightly improved.
Sunday will be Rev. H S. Smith's
last regular appointment at the
Methodist church. It is hoped there
will be a large attendance of the
Puts Your Kidneys Right
Kidnpy weakness is the danger signal for Rheumatism and Bright’ s
Disease—the advance guard of a persistent malady.
You certainly cannot afford to trifle with the slightest kidney ail
ment —systematic treatment stiould begin with the first
symptoms of stress in the region of the kidneys.
The pain may be slight at first —may give you the imoression that
it requires no special attention —wiU no doubt leave in a
day or so, but—
Do not overlook the'factthat the pain, however slight, is the
forerunner of further trouble.
The bladder, liver, kidneys and ui inary tract should be thorough
ly cleansed of impurities and restored to a stale of normal
activity.
Nyal’s Stone Root Compound will do this and more than that it
will cleanse the b ood of Uric Acid —ihe chief causative factor
in Rheumatism.
Now that vou know the bfst temedy do not neglect any kidney
trouble—do not allow the disease to become chronic.
If afttr a fair trial, Nyal's Stone Root Compound fails to benefit
yin , your money will be refunded —cheerfully.
Fifty Ci nts and One Dollar.
We expect to be here in bnsiness a good many years. The only
way we can do it is by treating everybody right. That’s our policy.
HENDERSON-ALEXANDER DRUG COMPANY,
BfOSSVILLE : : GEORGIA
Phone Main 990
READY FOR BUSINESS
Wc are now ready to figure with
you for your plumbing and electrical
work. The contractors state that the
electric light and waterworks plants
will be in operation about the Ist of
November. You should place your or
ders for plumbing and electrical work
now so that you can have the privilege
of these utilities from the start.
Call and inspect our line at our shop
in the Cooper Building. All material we
handle is guaranteed to he first-class and
our work will be the best.
LaFayette Plumbing Co.
W. P. COPELAND, Manager
members as there are some matters
of importance to be brought before
the church. There will be preach
ing at 11 o’clock, but the services
will be called in at night on account
of the meeting at the Biptist church
Frank Lohner, of Rock Spring,
after an illness of several weeks
from typhoid fever, died Sunday
afternoon at his residence. Funera'
services were held Monday afternoon
the interment beiDg at Rock Spring
cemetery. His wife, daughter of
Mr and Mrs. J. W. McClure, sur
vives him.
The Walker County Company is
the name of a new corporation for
which petition for charter is now
appearing in the Messenger. The
incorporators are members of the
Chattanooga Automobile Club, and
the corporation will act as a holding
company for the Kensington Hotel
property recently purchased by
Chattanooga Auto Club for a club
house.