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COTTON
Thursday
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VOLUME XL—NO. 41.
CONTRIBUTORS TO
WALKER CO. FAIR
ATTRACTIVE LIST OF PREMIUMS
AND CASH PRIZES OFFERED
BY BUSINESS MEN OF LA
FAYETTE AND CHAT
TANOOGA
v
Elsewhere in this issue appears
the premium list of the Walker
County. Fair. The list is practically
complete, hut probably new pre
miums will be oddcd each week un
til Oct. 20. Watch tlie list each
week.
Business men of LaFayette and
Chattanooga have been liberal in
their contributions, and as a result
a nice list of premiums and cash
prizes are offered the people of the
■county.
Following is a list of contributors
up to Thursday at noon:
LaFayette Contributors:
Following is the list of local con
tributors to the fair up to date:
Jas. P. Shattuck, Norman Shat
luck, T. M. Coffey, Q. M. Clemons, I).
W. Stiles, A. F. Sims, C. N. Shrop
shire. 1). W. Herndon, D. F Pope, Dr.
j. M. Underwood, J. L. Russell, La-
Fayette Furniture Co., Holleman I
Enloe, Walraven Bros., J. H. Shearer,
W. A. Abney & Sons, W. L. Stansell,
■O. K. Barber Shop, Culberson, Shaw
A: Shaw, H. Winer, E. H. Tilford, J.
P. Hall, Bank of LaFayette, Walker
<Uo. Hosiery Mills, LaFayette Cotton
Mill, Palace Theatre, W. H. Steele,
Union Cotton Mill, J. W. Massey, C.
W. Shields, Johu D. Pope, J. F.
Wardlaw, W. T. Harrison, Linn &J
Whatley, C. C. Gilbert, J. W. Hol
land, T. J. Nash, A. M. Street Hdw. i
■Co., W. P. Jackson, LaFayette Ten]
■Cent Store, Lowe and Martin, W. A.!
Loach, ts. H. Kirby, Warthen’s Drug
Store, Farmers’ Hardware & Supply
•Co., Hegwood Bros.
Chattanooga Contributors:
Loomis & Hart, Chattanooga Furn
■ iture Co., Acme Furniture Co, Car
ter Bros. Mattress Co., Sterchi Bros.,
Davenport Bros., Ham. Trust and
Savings Bank, . Trigg-Dobbs Co,
Mason-Winger, James Supply Co,
Trotter Bros, Knox, Thomas Spears
Co, Archer Paper Co, Goodman
Hide A Leather Co, T. Brooke, W.
M. Fincks Co, W. F. Fischer & Co.
Knox Furniture Co, R. L. Cox Hat
Co, D. B. Loveman Co, Hogers-
Bailey Co, Abbolts Stone, Chatta
nooga Feed Co, and Murray-Rich
ardson-Dibrell Shoe Co, Nashville,
T'enn.
Doubtless more names will be ad
ded next week.
FED. TRADE COMMISSION
RESPONSIBLE FOR HIGH
PRICE 01 COTTON
Atlanta.—That the present high
price which the farmers are getting
for their cotton seed is due in large
measure to the investigations con
ducted tty tiie Federal Trade Com
missit n is the belief expressed by
W. J Harris, the well-known Geor
gian who was appointed a member
of the commission by President Wil
son and who has distinguished him
self as one of the most active and
efficient members of that body. Com
missioner Harris, who was in At
lanta this week on his way back to
Washington, after spending his va
cation in Georgia, called attention
to the fact that cotton seed -were
selling for S3O per ton in the early
season, and that now they are sell
ing from sls to SSO per ton. It was
charged that the cotton seed manu
facturers had combined to hold
down the price, and the Federal
Trade Commission very promptly
investigated. Shortly after the com
mission looked into the matter, the
price of cotton seed took a rise.
I WOUNDED PROSPERITY
AFTER EUROPEAN WAR
SAYS HOKE SMITH
Atlanta.—The south’s cotton after
the close of the European war will
he in greater demand than ever be
fore sinre fthe cotton famine follow
ing I he Civil War, aecording to Uni
ted States Senator Hoke Smith, who
predicts that this section of the
country is bound to enjoy a con
tinuance of prosperity when hostili
ties have reased. Everything the
south raises will be in demand, as
the senator points out, while noth
ing the south needs will necessarily
he scarce, and this condition will
naturally and inevitably produce
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Jlalkrr (Eomtftj Mtßßtxx^tt
| JEWELRY FIRM
i CHANGES LOCATION
BURNEY A CO., MOVE TO BUILD
ING WEST OF WALKER CO.
BANK-GROWING BUSI
NESS DEMANDS
MORE ROOM
H. P. Burney & Co, LaEayette’s
long established and reliable Jewel
ry llrm, moved Ibis week to the
building just west of the Walker
County Bank. As Mr. Burney says,
tliis is like moving, back borne, as
the linn occupied this building for
several years.
Mr. Burney states that the move
was made to secure more room.
While the location in the Cooper
Building was more convenient for
their customers, being on the square,
the firm was cramped for room and
they found it impossible to enlarge
their stock as they desired.
The firm has very ambitious
plans for their store ami expect to
make it a Jewelry store that will be
a credit to the town and county. A
large line of watches and clocks will
be carried. They now carry a full
line, i.f Silverware and cut glass and
their slock of rings, bracelets, fobs,
chains, toilet articles, etc, and well
assorted and varied. ‘
Mr. Burney will give special at
tention to the repair department and
guarantees satisfactory work at
prices that are extremelyreasonable.
He asks all his old friends and for
mer cstoimers to pay him a visit
at his ne>. location.
iw. p. umm to wto
MISS MIRGIREI BETTS
The following announcement will
be read with much interest by Mr.
Germany’s friends in the town and
county, who extend to him and his
bride-to-be, many happy felicita
tions' 1
Mr. and Mrs. FreiF K. Betts, of
Marlborough, N..Y, formerly of this
city, announce the/engagement of
their daughter. Mafgaret Elizabeth,
Ito William Periyf Garmany. Mr.
IGarinany was fortierly of LaFay
! ette, Georgia, aml aor the last six
years lias made his home in Marl
i borough, X. Y. The wedding will
I take place in (he near future.—
! Kings ton, N. Y. Journal.
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GREEN BUSII 11. 1- *
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Gee this seems almost like winter
[time this morning, had a light frost
Saturday night, but didn't do any
damage to I In* farmers scarcely.
Mi s' Lou Coulter, was the guest
of Misses Julia Lawrence Sunday.
W. H|. Chapman and son, J. C,
made a business trip to Chattanooga
Monday.
Mr. .Myrtis White and JayneCoul
ter were the pleasant guests of
Misses Blanche and Grace Chapman
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Mulkey and
children spent Sunday with Mr. and !
Mrs. R. M. Hewett.
W. J. Shahnn and Shelly White]
were visiting relatives at Villanow
Sunday.
j Misses Gebie Lawrence and Julia!
ißell Chapman was the pleasant'
guest" of Miss Lois Chapman Sat
urday night and Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Neal and chil
dren, were visiting Mr. and Mrs.
Shahnn near Villanow Sunday.
Rev. A. E. Silvey filled his ap
pointment al Pleasant Hill Sunday,
preaching a splendid sermon.
Miss Mary White was the guest of
the Misses White’s at Subligna Sun
day.
| Lee White was -visiting friends
neur Subligna Sunday.
SNIPE.
prosperity. The senator leaves this
week on a speaking tour for Presi
dent Wilson under the direction of
the Democratic national campaign
committee. He will make some
speeches in the east arid will then
tour several states in the middle
west. He will pay his own traveling
expenses, amounting to something
like SI,OOO, as a eonlribution to the
( Democratic campaign fund.
LAFAYETTE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER G, 191 G.
AGED CITIZEN
CLAIMED BY DEATH
John Mitchell, aged 75 years, one
of the oldest ami m<rft prominent
citizens in ChattanWufa valley, died
at his home near Celle,hat, (7a., Sat
urday morning, after an illness of
several weeks.stHe is survived by
Ids wife, six dpaghters, Mrs. M. E.
Stone, of_ Rossville; Misses Hattie
Dora LeeT Ada and Elbe Mitchell, of
Cenchat, and Miss Ethel Mitchell, of
Chattanooga; two sons, T, M. Mit
chell, of Harrisburg, Ga., and Clar
ence Mitchell, of Cenchat; three
brothers, A. Mitchell and H. B. Mit
chell,of this city, and Jesse Mitchell,
,of High, Ga., and two sisters, Mrs.
Hattie Shaver, of Lookout moun
tain, and Mrs. Sarah Dickey, of
Cleveland.
Funeral services were held from
the old Lookout church Sunday
morning at 10 o’clock, conducted by
Rev. Barlow McFarland, pastor of
the deceased. A tremendous crowd
of county people attended the fun
eral service of this beloved and aged
citizen. Interment followed in the
old Lookout cemetery.
17TH DIVISION 1.0. 0. F.
IN SESSION NT ROSSVILLE
The 17th. Division I. O. O. F., is
holding its semi-annual division
meeting today at Rossville. A large
number of delegates from the Walk
er lodges are in attendance and a
splendid meeting is being held.
LaFayette lodge No. 2 swill ask for
the convention for its next semi
annual meeting.
MRS. 0. W. BLEDSOE HOS
TESS TO U. I). C. CHAPTER
Mrs. Bledsoe was hostess at the
September meeting of the U. I). C.,
being the last meeting of (lie con
vention year. The business session
was an important one, as reports
were made for the State Convention,
which convenes in Dublin early in
October.
The literary program consisted of
selections from Ryder Randayy and
were much enjoyed. “The Summer
Brooks Controversy,” was the sub
ject for discussion in history. This
feature is always led by the be
loved and gifted Historian, Mrs. J.
M. Jackson.
As chairman of the Memorial
Fund for Miss Matilda Johnson, Mrs.
E. A. Jackson reported much inter
est being shewn and all who had
been asked were only 100 glad to
have the privilege of making a con
tribution. The committee hopes
soon to have completed this tribute
of love lo one who was among the
great women of Hie southland.
Mrs. Bledsoe was assisted iu serv
ing a delicious salad course, by little
Misses Laura Francis Steele, and
Kara Myers. The October meeting
will lie at the home of Mrs. Enloe.
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ROAD NOTICE
Georgia, Walker County.
Whereas, the reviewers appointed
to mark out and report upon the
discontinuance of the public V'oad
in the 1532nd District, G. M., towit:
Beginning at the southwest corner
of the fi. W. Wheeler properly and
running in n westerly direction
through the property of Hunter
Brothers and intersecting with the
Govormnent Dike near Coulter Bros.,
being the west end of the Grand
Central Road, have reported that
the said road he discontinued in as
much as it is of no public utility
and convenience; it is therefore or
derod that citation be published in
the Walker County Messenger, and
at the Court House door as required
by law, notifying all persons that an
order wiij he passed at the next
regular meeting of the Board of
Commissioners discontinuing same
if no good cause be shown to (he
contrary. This October .'ird, 1010.
JOHN C. YOtJNG.
j. d. McConnell.
.1. M. HANSOM.
A. J. WHEELER.
S. P. HALL.
Board of Commissioners of Roads
and Revenue, Walker County, Ga.
NOTICE
Wo will dean seeed wheat from
Oet. 10th to 20th. No custom work
can be done during this time. This
will be the last chance.
2t LAFAYETTE ROLLER MILLS.
ALLIES GAINING
RAPIDLY ON ENEMY
l
At every point this week the Al
lied force made noticeable gains on
the Germans. French troops broke
lines of German 'troops on the
Somme point, the British have ex
pelled the Germans fSbm Western
stronghold and are capturing towns
of great strategic value, while the
Russians drive witli tremendous
force and great success against the
Teutons in all eastern fronts.
COTTON MARKET
THURSDAY 17G
Local cotton dealers opened the
cotton market at LaFayette Thurs
day morning at 17 cents. Cotton
Seed is being bought at 70 cents per
bushci.
Alii ii i iiiiia*
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--+ V ROSSVILLE 4-
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The Seventh Division I. O. O. F.
assembled here, in their semi-an
nual meeting Oct. 4th. and sth. The
meeting was called to order by Div
ision Deputy Grand Master C. H.
Jones. Features of Die session was
a parade in which local Odd Fellows,
pupils of both local public schools
and the town officials participated.
Tiie public exorcises were held at
the M. E. Church South.
Miss Mary Fricks was the wel
come guest of Mr. and Mrs. F. J.
Fricks Sunday.
Mrs. James Weaver of Rock
Springs, was the guest, of Misses
Georgia Higgins on Chickumauga
avenue Tuesday.
Hon. W. C. Hullender, of Ringgold,
visited Dr. and Mrs. Sam Aisqbrook
Sunday.
Miss Clarkie Hicks lias resigned
her position with D. B. Loveman Go.
Miss Mildred Willhanks and Agnes
Robertson spent last week with
Prof, and Mrs. F’. F,. Gunn, on Look
out mountain.
The fifteen room house of James
Martin on Lake avenue, near Rich
mond Hosiery Mills is about com
plete. Mr. Martin will use tliis
building for a hoarding house.
Charles Blaylsrkyflerk in the local
post cilice, is aAiyfiding the Chatta
nooga College of Law.
Mrs. M. A. Lawrence has moved
to her farm near Trion, Ga.
E. M. Simonton was in Kossville
recently. /
Born to Dr. ihyi Mrs. V. A. Ava
kian, a tine son.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Bowman, of
Dayton, T'enn., visited relatives here
recently.
The Baptist Voting Peoples Union
of the Baptist church at this place,
received into their union Sunday
evening thirteen new members. We
welcome these n>w members and
we hope they wili be a great help lo
our union, and that we, can work
together “That we may he workmen
I hat needeth not to be ashamed
rightly dividing the word of truth.”
Miss Elizabeth Hoyt, who has j
worked among the Indians gave a
splendid lecture Sunday evening al j
the church. Her subject
was “Our Indian Friends of the
Hiawatha North Country.”
Rev. C. It. Jones preached his last
sermon Sunday evening for thiseon
ferenee year, lie will attend con
ference at Hhi' 1 Field, West Va.
DKAT II HATE INVESTIGATED
BY LIFE INSURANCE CO.
Atlanta.— Suppose it were official
ly announced by the Ruler of thej
Universe (hat the people of the Uni
ted Stales would return on Jan. 1,
to the death rale which prevailed in
1880 7 Do you know to what extent
this would increase our annual
deaths? It would increase them by
approximately 400,000 lives annual
ly, and at the low economic valua
tion of $2,500 per life this hiss would
amount to the stupendous sum of
$1,000,000,000 per year.
These and other striking facts
concerning the public health and
modern methods of conserving and
promoting the public health are de
veloped by E. E. Rittenhouse, presi
dent of the Life Extension Institute
t
AUTOS MUST BE
MUFFLED ON SQUARE
OIU>IV\.NCE PASSED BY CITY
FATHERS MONDAY NIGHT
SEEKING TO ELIMINATE
DISTRACTING
NOISES
The following ordinance affecting
automobile owners in the City of
LaFayette was passed l»y the City
Fathers at their regular monthly
meeting at the Council room Monday
night:
“Be it ordained by tiie Mayor and
Council of the City of LaFayette,
Ga., and it is hereby ordained by au
thority of the same, that on and af
ter the passage of tliis-ordinance, it
shall he unlawful for any person to
run automobiles, trucks or motor
cycle-, on (lie public streets or
square in the City of LaFayette.
without ffrst muffling such automo
bile, motor cycle or truck.
“It shall be unlawful for any per
son to run automobiles, trucks,
bicycles or motor cycles on the
streets of the City of LaFayette af
ter dark without lights showing in
front and rear o!’ such machines.
“It shall be unlawful lor any per
son or persons to leave their en
gines running while cars are stand
ing. nr tor the purpose of repairing
cars on the public' square or streets
in the City of LaFayette, Ga.
“Any person <>•• persons violating
this ordinance shall he punished as
prescribed in Sec. 22 of the City
Ordinance.”
7TH CONVENTION
NOMINATES LEE
AMIDST GREAT APPLAUSE—CON
VENTION ENDORSES PRESI
DENT WILSON—REPRESEN
TATIVES FROM EVERY
COUNTY IN DISTRICT
ATTEND
Hon. Gordon Lee was formally
nominated for Congress again at the
Seven)h District Convention at Dal
ton last Thursday, is the presence
of a tremendous', curiwd of district
delegates an.l Iqijcon people. Mr.
Lee, in a happy manner received the
nomination, reviewing his work in
Congress from his first year up to
the present. His speech of accep
lance brought prolonged eheersfrom
the vpst audience.
The convention endorsed Presi
dent Wilson in a ringing resolution.
After the business of the conven
tion *i barbecue dinner was served.
of New York and one of the fore
most publicists in health matters in
the United States.
In co-operation with Mr. Ritten
house, a numlx r of leading life in
surance companies, among them the
Southern States Life of Atlanta, use
strongly advocating more liberal ap
propriations to municqml and state
hoards of health.
REFUND .MONEY ON COTTON
NOT COMING YET
Atlanta. -The many effots which
have been made to secure from the
United Stales government a refund
of the $05,000,000 cotton lax collec
ted shortly after tiie Civil War have
all been based upon the mistaken
idea that the United States supreme
court held tiie cotton tax to be un
constitutional.
The facts which have just been
cleared up, are these:
In Ia Mr. Farrington of Mem
phis sought to enjoin the collection
of internal revenue in that district,
whose name was Saunders, from
collecting the cotton tax, on tiie
ground that the law creating the tax
was unconstitutional. The court hold
that the law was constitutional and,
the case of Farrington versus Saun
ders was taken to the United States
supreme court on December 6, 18fi7.
On February 20, 1871, the supreme
court decided the case. The vote of l
the eight judges was evenly divided,
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SAT I WHY AMI SUNDAY OCT. 7-8
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TIONS
I'li** Walker County Sunday
School Convention will hold its re
gular annual meeting at Wesley
Chapel church Saturday and Sunday
Oct. 7th and Bth.
An attractive program has been
arranged and the secretary has re
ceived reports from several schools
stating that representatives will be
sent to the convention.
Mrs. J. M. S .Myers is chairman of
the entertainment committee and all
delegates who contemplating spend
ing the two days at the convention
will please send in their names to
Mrs. Myers at I.a Fayette, Hfd. i.
EXTRA SESSION MAY IIE CALLED
TO EXTEND W. A A. TO THE SEA
Atlanta.—An extra session of the
legislature for the purpose of pass
ing a constitutional amendment
providing for an issuance of bonds
to finance the extension of the Wes
tern & Atlantic railroad to the sea
is becoming more and more prob
able, with the development of senti
ment in favor of an extension and
with the progress that is being made
in the plans of the various parties
who are proposing to build the ex
tension.
L'h'i latest of these proposals, re
cently submitted to the Western A
Atlantic leasing commission by
Hooper Alexander, acting as- at
torney for William Hurd Hiliyer of
Atlanta and others, has attracted
widespread attention. Mr. Hiliyer
and his associates propose:
To build an etxonsion of the West
ern A Atlantic railroad from At
lanta to Savannah, and to provide
adequate terminal facilities fronting
deep water in Savannah; to deliver
Ibis extension to the state of Georgia
free from all encumbrances; to ac
cept as payment for the extension
state of Georgia bonds hearing four
per cent interest and running for
fifty years; to lease from the state
existing Western & Atlantic rail
road, from Chattanooga to Atlanta,
at a real ill substantially higher than
the rental which the state now re
ceives; to lease the extension for a
period of fortyseeven years at a ren
tal sufficient to pay the interest and
the sinking fund on the bonds.
The effect of this proposal <is that
the state can acquire m extension
which will pay for itself without
costing the stale a dollar.
In order, however, to accept Ibis
or any other proposal for extending
the road, an extra session of the
legislature must he called in the
near future lo pass a constitutional
amendment which can be submitted
to the people iii the general election
in December, the purpose of Ibis
bond issue being to provide for an
issuance of bonds. After this general
election there will he no more until
1918- and that would he entirely too
long for the stale lo wait before de
ciding on the future disposition of
the road, as the lease expires in De
cember 1019.
Last Thursday A. It. J'or-tine
.'juicily slippel out of lown ini
munieyo'l to Chattanooga. We i
he i ol ii ned he •.-.as his own chauf
feur »! a heaut'f'il eight cyli.eDr,
'even passenger, sorty horse piivvei,
latest *> odel Cvd: ir The car i«
equipped with iiy modern cm.-
i ienec known lo eulos and is one
of the most atl*a<five in this '-c
lion.
four and four, and.tne effect of this
tie was lo uphold flic constitutional
ity ol the tax. At that time, when
the vote of he' judges was evenly
divided and no opinion was written,
the case was not included in the su
preme court reports. For this reas
on the case does not appear in the
reports and is not mentioned in the
index digests of the reports.
Georgians and southerners whf
have interested themselves in secur
ing n refund of the tax, on the idea
that it had been declared uncon -
stitutinnal, will doubtless regret tc
learn that all further efforts alone
this line will bo in vain.