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Mira™ f ci’ Such Proof as This Should * Convince Any LaFayette Citizen The public endorsement <jf a local citizen is the best proof that can be produced. Nonebetter, none stronger can be had. When a man comes forward and testifies to bis fellow-citizens, addresses his friends and neighbors, you may be sure he is thoroughly con vinced or he would not do so. Tell ing one’s experience when it is jfor the public good is an act of Rrindness that should be appeci- Bated. The following staement giv len by a resident of LaFayette I adds one more to the many cases lof Home Endorsement which I are being published about Doan’s Kidney Pills. Read it. E. Foster, LaFayette, Ga., says: “I have found Doan’s Kidney Pills to be a very good kidney medicine. This preparation has been used in my famil yfor back ache and other symptoms of kid ney trouble and it has brought great relief.” For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buf falo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name—Doan’s— and take no other. SOUTH LAFAYETTE All are at peace in our neck of .the woods. No one lias married, neither is anyone sick that 1 know of. The roads are getting fine and the young set sure does enjoy the joy-rides. Anyway, a party of our good South LaFayette young people made a pleasure trip in J. H. B. Rea’s motor car Sunday to Chickamauga and Chickamauga park and report a fine time. I am always glad when our young peo ple have a pleasant good time, for it will be a green spot in their memory when grey hairs adorn their temples. , Visiting with ns Sunday, Mrs. J. N. Alexander of near Trion. Well, some have planted some corn and all are hustling during the past week. 1 think the boys will get there yet and say, I be lieve we are going to have a good fruit crop. Anyhow T hope so. The wheat is showing up some these warm days. How I would like to go to Ma con next month. But the same old excuse comes up—“Aiut got time to go.” Macon is a splendid place to go; 1 speak that I do know, for I have tried it often. I take this time to say to my Hxnmxmmnxximni mmmmmmmmg | CABLE PIANO CO. 1 3 LAFAYETTE, QA. O. E. SOSEBEE, Mgr. B W A number of Pianos kept on display at our S □ store in the Ca dwell Building. ' B Let us quote )on prices before yoa buy, 3 fcj j(( Organs on th . ,-oad. g 5 /jM j j They must be sold and H W j the pi ices will move them. $65 to B M s‘.s. Cash or easy terms. B I...:;: J friends that offered me their as-' sistance in my candidacy for the office of Ordinary, that the time is so short I cannot make the can vass of the county and can’t enter the race. While lam and always feel grateful for the proffered support. And if ever I can help any of them I will feel under ob ligations to do so. It it not my cat and I don’t have to skin it. 1 will just follow the even tenor of my way and pull the bell cord over my mule. I want to urge upon all mem bers of Western lodge, No. 91, to be on hand at the next communi cation (or Joe Hall will corner you) for we are looking for a good time. Say, Brother, it will be on Saturday night and if it is not cloudy the moon will be shining. You are needed in the work. Let us have an old-fashoned Masonic revival. Please feel that you want a part of this service. It will do you good. J. M. COLEY. COOPER HEI6HTS Kensington, R 2, April 17.—D. W. Lawrence of Cane Creek spent Saturday with relatives at Coop er Heights. Mrs. A. F. Shaw is visiting her sister, Mrs. G. W. Shaw. Mrs. J. M. Leath and little daughter, Willie Belle, and ye scribe spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Pryor of Ascalon. Mrs. Pryor is not so well as she has been. Ben Leath was slightly indis posed last week. Miss Gertrude Lawrence of Cane Creek was the pleasant guest of her grandmother, Mrs. Ander son, near Valley Head, Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. Angie Abraham and hus band are aiming to move to Sale Creek, Tenn., sometime this week. While we were all gone from home last Sunday, J. A. Moore, of Flintstone and Alexander Mahan and his young bride paid us a call. We greatly regret having been away. Come again and maybe you will find us at home. We were all sorry to learn of the death of Mrs. Renie Massey. We extend to the bereaved family our heartfelt sympathy. Well, Mother Nature has again robed our forests in her beautiful green and the songbirds are heard everywhere. The farmers have made good use of the pretty days, preparing their ground and planting their crops. All have an even start. Mr. Matheny of Cassandra was working his first planted corn Monday morning. HELEN LEATH. 10 pounds Sugar, the best, $1 at S. T. Carson’s, Chickamauga and LaFayette. WALKER COUNTY MESSENGER, APRIL 19, 1912. NEWSY NOTES FROM THE STATE CAPITAL Atlanta, (la.—Georgia has de veloped a real “prison reformer’’ at last in the person of young Philip Weltner. A week ago that enterprising and fearless young juvenile court officer who is also assistant solicitor general of Ful ton county, took the name of John Marvel and spent two days on the Campbell county chain gang, dressed in stripes, working on the road as a common convict. He slept with a convicted murder er, and ate the prison fare. After the investigation he announced that a convict’s life in Georgia was no better than slavery. But he has’nt stopped there. He has proven that he isn’t the kind of a reformer who will find a fault and then offer no way of improv ing it. He is busily engaged now in formulating a report on his investigations, and that report will be given consideration by a local grand jury at an early date. Fulton county’s representa tives in the legislature will be asked to bring the report to the attention of the general assembly with a view to the amendment ot the present convict laws. Mr. Welter doesn’t charge cruelty or viciousness. There is nothing sensational in his allegations and he blames nobody. He simply ex presses the belief that as a means of bettering criminals, teaching them to live honestly, the Georgia penal system is an utter failure, and that the present criminal law is good only to “punish.” As an example of the outrage ous lies that unknown correspon dents occasionally send north about th econditions and happen ings in Georgia, the following story, which is appearing in many large daily newspapers in the north and west this week, has worked its way back to Atlanta where it has been denied as idi otically false: “Atlanta’s ‘Jack the Ripper claimed his nineteenth victim,’ says the story, “when he lured Mary Kates, a comely 18-year-old Mulatto girl into an alley, cut hei throat and then mutilated hei body about the breast and below the waist. The mutilation was evidently done with a surgical instrument, and the slayer had some anatomical knowledge. “In no ease has the murderer killed a ‘black woman' and in nearly every case he has cut off am. carried away a portion of tht body.” The whole story, declares the chief of Atlanta police, is abomin able and untrue. Mary Kates was not a “comely 18-year-old mulat to girl,” but was simply some bod’s negro cook, who was knocked in the head and had her throat cut by a man who had nothing to do with “Jackthe Rip per” cases. There was nothing whatever unusual about the mur der. There was absolutely no mutilation of the body. The de tails in the story published in the north and west about cutting of the breast with surgical instru ments were simply copied out ol a medical Eneyclopoedia account of the reul “Jack the Ripper” who terrorized historic laiudon. Business men are keenly watch ing investments made bysouthern capital this sping. Reports from Georgia and surrounding states indicate that this section is at last beginning to put into prac tice the principal of investing money at. home. Southern cor porations and southern indus tries are now being conducted and operated on southern capital where ten years ago the capital was handled through the east. No southern organization has applied its resources to southern development in recent years more assiduously than the Ktate iMutual Life Insurance company of Georgia, which was the legal reserve company inthest^B and consequently has ben watch ed with steady public interest. Inasmuch as the State Mutual is essentially a southern company getting its money from people it insures in the south, its officers and directors have established the policy of making not only the safest and most careful invest ments, but of confining their in vestments to the south. The Inst years record of this company is looked upon by men of national prominence in the in surance field as nothing short of marvelous. While the growth has always beeusteady and con sistent with conservative business methods, it has still been very rap id, and the figures last year sur passed allprevious years. The as sets amounting now to nearly four million dollars are thirteen times as great as they were seven years ago when the company went on a legal reserve basis. During a like period the legal reserve has been increased twenty-fold. The president of the company is C. R. Porter, of Rome, Ga., who is well known in business circles all over the state. CEDARGROVE Cedar Grove, April 17—We are having some beautiful spring weather now, and we are sure the farmers are glad to see it, for many of them are very much be hindwiththeir plowingand plant ing. Miss Mae Hale, who lias been teaching a school at High, her ichool being out now, has re turned to her home for the sum mer. Sam Rogers and Chas. Shan kle, who have been spending the winter in California, are now vis iting friends and relatives in the Cove. Many young people from the Cove attended the teachers’ insti .ute at LaFayette. All report a /erv enjoyable time, Miss Par rish’s lectures being especially nteresting. Miss Emma Evatt, who has been teaching at Cedar Grove, dosed her school last week and ,vill go to Rising Fawn on a visit o her cousin, Frank Evatt, who s now visiting her. The school at Antioch is holding wonderfully well. The school will continue for six more weeks and will close with an interesting lay program. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Hunter of the Upper Cove were visiting at the home of the latter’s parents last Sunday. Miss Pearl Camp spent the week at the institute and went from there Friday evening to St. Elmo, where she spent the week end with Miss Jessie Bee Coulter. O. P. and 11. C. Andrews and J. I). Strickland drove !)7 head of beef cattle to Ringgold and ship ped them from'there t o Atlanta. O. P. Andrews, who has held his sotton all the winter, hauled it to LaFayette last Monday. Mrs. R. R. Rogers spent the week-end with .1, F. Smith's fami iy- The box supper held at the Antioch school house on last Sat urday night was a great success. The popularity contest held in connection with it was an even greater success. Frank Watson, of St. Elmo, spent the week-end with friends and relatives in the Cove. Miss Emma Evatt entertained a number of young people on last Saturday night at her home near Cedar Grove. VIOLET. NOTICE This notice is given to all resi dent tax payers, as well as agents and trustees, that the lawrequires that they get their names on the tax digest before the book is closed or pay a double tax as a penalty. In the future this law will be enforced. My pasture in the Cove will be opened May Ist. Stock at SI.OO foead qer month. No jumpers “VO. M. Thurman.2(i-2tx SEIISSIBf' i v iiJ. POND SPRING Chickamauga, R 2, April 17. Wc have had a few pretty days for the past, week. Farmers are. getting busy. Miss Ruth Goodson spent last week with her sister, Mrs. Chas. Ireland. Mrs. Lawrence Brotherton is better at this writing. Mrs. C. R. Johnson is not any better at this writing. Mr. and Mrs. George Brother ton were visiting her mother, Mrs. Abercrombie, Sunday. Our school is progressing nice ly under the careful management of Miss Ethel Tyner. Miss Amanda Bridges was vis iting Miss Lena Parrish Sunday. Several from here attended Sunday school at Oak Grove Sun day. S. T. Osburn is very feeble at this writing. Miss Bessie Price of Chatta nooga was visiting Miss Blanche Boss Sunday. Arch Osburn has the mumps. Miss Ethel Blaylock visited her aunt, Mrs. J. A. Sartin, last week. SCHOOL GIRLS. CATLETT Rock Spring, R 1, April 17. Well as I did not report last week 1 will write up the news this week. Glad to report that Bro. Cordell is improving. Sorry to say that little Ruth Stubbs is very poorly; not irnprov ing any. Bro. Stephens filled his appoin ments here Saturday and Sunday. W. A. Stephenson and wife were called to Rossville Saturday and Sunday to see. their daughter, little Eva, who is very sick. Andrew Cooper, son of A. L. Cooper, was driving one of his father’s young mules to the bug gy last Sunday week and the mule got scared at something and ran away, throwing Andrew out and dightly hurting him. The mule Lore loose from the buggy and was not found until the next day, with the harness torn up slight ly- Farmers have put in one straight week; some have planted some corn. E. G .W. Moon and wife are spending this week in Chatta nooga visiting their son, W. F. Moon. Wc had a big rain Monday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Stephenson brought their daughter home Sun day evening right sick. Frank Brown and family were visiting his uncle, G. W. Brown, Sunday. Bill McKin was over Sunday to see homefolks. G. M. Brown and family were the guests of G. W. Brown Sun day. SAM. ~ HIGH POINT High Point, April 17 —We en joyed several very interesting talks made Sunday by S. T. Hearn, Mr. Hendrick and Mr. Shope. Sunday school is pro gressing nicely; large crowd at tended. Bro. Ezell did not fill his regu lar appointment here Sunday. Bro. Tom Smith will preach at the Baptist church next Friday night. Let everybody come, for he is a very interesting man and if we would only take his advice we are sure he will not tell us anything wrong to do. Bill Hollingsworth and family of Durham were visiting here re cently. We sympathize in the bereave ment of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Oliver and Mr. and Mrs. George Oliver in the deaths of their infants. Mrs. J. M. Parrish is reported no better, we are sorry to say. Mrs. Ben Autrey is very ill at her home. Ben Patterson has a nice case of mumps. BLUE EYES. Card of Thanks I want to thank the good peo ple of Catlett and the surrounding country for helping to replace that which I lost in the recent fire that burned my dwelling house and everything we had to cat and wear except the clothes we had on and three feather beds and three pieces of furniture. The good peo ple have built me another house that will do me till I can do bet ter and I have gone to work on my farm again. 1 give my best re spect to all. 1 also want to thank the good people of Waterville for the wag on load of things and the money they sent me and can say that I am glad that I lived among those people for six years. W, T. HARRIS. We want to thank Mrs. Hugh Sims for the good sewing machine she sent us in the place of the one we lost in the recent fire. BELLE and EUNICE HARRIS. For Sale Largo stock of dry goods, clothing and shoes. W ill invoice about if 10.- 000.00. Store located in one of the best blocks on Market stieet in Chattanooga, and has a splendid city and country trade. Owner will invoice stock, and take a good farm reasonably close in as part payment. An exceptional opportunity to se cuie a good paying business, ad dress. ROTH WELL & LOCKWOOD. Insurance, real estate and Rentals Rossyille, Ga HAVE YOU TRIED _. pUf «msjtwom TOE •“HCEII This Hose For I Men I These hose sell, 1 Re-sell, Excell I Guaranteed to wear longer I than any other tqually line in 1 qu lity. i They Fit Snug Around § The Ankle I Lisle, in black, tan, gray, nr I purple, per pair I Silk, in tan, black and £ /V I navy, per pair »DU I Ladies I Hosiery I We have a large line of I Indies’ Ilosiery, too, at 1 25c 50c $l.OOl per pair. 1 White, black and tan. See I them before you buy. I Walraven I Bros. I Gents' Furnishings 1 and Shoes I Lafayette, Georgia f