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$400,000 ROAD BOND
QUESTIOHAIRE
Below are questions and answers
explaining the essential features of
tho $400,000 road bond issue, elec*
lion on which will be held Saturday
July 2nd. The voters of the county
are urgently requested to read and
study this queslionaire.
Question. What is the amount
of the proposed bond issue !
Answer. Pour hundred thous
and ($400,000.00)
Q. When is the election!
A. Saturday July 2nd
Q. Where will the eiectioa be
held!
A- In every voting precinct in
the county.
Q. What is the money to be
used fort
A. For the purpose of build
ing a system of good roads in ev
ery militia district in Walker
County.
Q. How is the money to be us
ed t
A. (1) $100,000.00 to be used
in a general fund, full explanation
of which appears belew.
(2) $300,000.00 of the issue
is to be prorated to the Militia
districts on the basis of tax values
1921 digest with three exceptions.
Q. What are these exceptions!
A- LaFayette, Chickamauga
and Roseville Districts are only to
receive 50%, or one half of their
prorata share, based on tax values
of these three districts.
Q. Hew much would these
three districts, LaFayette, Ohick
amauga, and Rossville have if
they were to get their full shire,
based on their tax values!
A. $170,000.00.
Q. How much will they get!
A. One-half of $1»,000.Q0 or
$85,000.00.
Q. How is the other $85,000 to
be used!
A. It is to be used as an addi
tion to the $100,000.00, set aside
as a general fund, making a total
of $185,000.00, to oomplete roads
in those districts, where their
prorata part of the $300,00000
would not be sufficient to complete
same.
Q. How much will each dis
trict got!
Answer-
Following is how the Militia dis
tricts share in tho funds, based on
tax values:
West Armuchoe District. .$ 9,035.20
Cane Creek l)istric)t 7,109.65
Mountain District 6,372.07
East Arinuchee District—ll,s93.96
Wilson District 11,612.37
Chattanooga Valley I)ist ....16,552.25
Poavine District 16,172.58
Kensington District 16,481.79
Lisbon District 2,234.46
Cedar Grove District 11,211.15
Pond Springs District 11,557.78
Dry Valley District 22 000.00
Crawfish Springs District ..22,879.63
lAKayette District 40,147.89
Chestnut Flat District 7 109.65
Q. Who will supervise the
building of these roads!
A. A competent, experienced
highway engineer.
Q. How will the roads be
built!
A. By contract to the lowest
and best bidder.
Q. What will be the policy as
to the employment of labor!
A. All things being equal, the
people of Walker county will be
given preference in the matter of
employment in construction of the
road*.
Q. Where will the convicts be
used in the construction of these
roads!
A- Not on the main highways,
but eu the connecting roads in *hj
different districts.
Q. Can the bond money be us
ed for ether purposes than foi
building roads!
I A. Positively not
f Q. If the authorities should
attempt to use this money for oth
er purposes how can it be prevent
ed!
A. Any person can object, and
if his objeetion is not regarded
the courts will promptly give re
lief.
Q. When will construction be
gin!
I A. Am soon as bonds are earn
%
ed and validated, bids will be re
ceived and work started aa
promptly aa possible.
Q. In what districts will the
road construction begin first!
A. It is the purpose to begin
construction in every district in
the county as nearly the same date
as possible.
Q. What assurance have the
'people that this is true!
A- They have the signed
pledge of the Board of Commis
sioners, being a part of the min
utes of their meeting of June 7th,
which is open for inspection.
Q. Why should the people not
living on the main highways vote
for this bond issue!
A. Because a permanent road
through the district will increase
the value of every farm in that
-district; will bring everyone near
er the markets for all farm prod
bets, and will be the means of a
much more speedy construction
of all the roads connecting with
the main highways.
Q. What roads in Walker
County are now named as part of
the State Highway System t
i A. The road leading from La-
Fayette to the Chattooga county
line, from LaFayette to the Qor
» county line, from LaFayette
to the Dade county line,
i Q. When the bond issue carri
es, what is the State of Georgia
’hound to do by law, in regard to
the state highway roads mention
ed above!
A. If these roads are construct
ed as they will be, from the pro
ceeds of the bond issue, the State
will reimburse the county for the
total cost of these roads, and will
'also bear all of the expense of the
maintenance and repair of these
roads.
Q, Will the county receive any
further government funds with
out aiiond issue!
Ai No. because the Highway
has determined Ho
’allot these funds only to those
counties which have provided for
their portion of the coat of con
struction by the issue of bonds.
Q. Why was this determined
by the Highway Commission!
A. Because they found that
those counties without funds de
rived from the sale of bonds spent
all their available funds on the
Government project to the materi
al detriment of all of the other
roads of the county.
Q. Hew will the state provide
for this!
A. From the funds derived
from the sale of automobile licens
es.
Q. Is it true that a bond issue
will actually lower the tax rate
for this year!
A. It most poaitively will.
Q. How much will it lower the
tax rate!
A. At least $5.00 on every
thousand dollars or fifty cents on
each hundred dollars.
Q. How is this possible!
A. The expense of the chain
gang, road working and bridge
building for this year will be tak
en care of out of the bond fund-
The tax rate levied in 1920 for
I
chaingang, roads and bridges was
$10.75 on the thousand. Our 1921
digest exceeds seven million dol
i lars, and a levy of $5.00 on the
thousand or fifty cents on the hun
dred will more than pay the in
terest and pay off the bonds as
they fall due, thereby lowering
the tax rate as stated above.
Q. Will the bond issue in
’ crease the tax rate iu future
years!
A. Absolutely no.
■ Q. Why not!
• A. Because after the roads are
built, the upkeep will be much
i lees than at present, and the mon
ey now being spent on the chain
gang, roads and bridges will more
than pay off the bonds and inter
-1 eat
. Q. How will the people know
' how much of the money is being
•pent!
' A. They have the pledge of
the entire Board of Commisaion
- era, that a monthly itemised state
WALKII COUHTT IfESSS KOES, JUHK H IWI.
ment of all the money spent in
each and every diarict will be
published; in addition the books
will always be open to the inspec
tion of any citizen.
Q. How will the money derived
from the sale of the bonds be han
dled Y
A- It will be handled through
the Bank of LaFayette, the Walk
er County Bank and the Bank of
Chickamauga, in proportion to
their capital and surplus, and will
be paid out from these banks in
the same proportion.
Q. What vote will it take to
carry the bond election Y
A. Two-thirds of those voting
must vote in favor of bonds, and
that two thirds must also be a
majority of the registered vote.
Q. Will the women be allowed
to vote in the bond election!
i A. They will if registered ac
cording to law.
Mrndames Garmany and Fariss
Joint Hostesses to K. K. K.
Mrs. W. W. Garmany and S. W.
Fariss, Jr., were joint hostesses to
the Kil Karr Klub on Tuesday after
noon, entertaining very delightfully
at Mrs. Germany's home on Culber
son Avenue.
The large reception room and the
porches where tables were placed
for rook were brightened
with many baskets and vases
which held Brown Eyed Susans and
miniature sun flowers. The dainty,
band painted score cards also car
ried out the yellow color scheme.
Mrs. R. V. Thurmßn cutting with
several others for the prize, was
presented a pretty organdy collar
set embroidered in yellow.
The hostesses assisted by Mrs. J,
H. Garmany and Miss Jennie Mae
{Garmany served a delicious sweet
course. There were quite a Dumber
of invited guests.
The Klub will hold its next meet
ing oo Tuesday afternoon at the.
home of Miss Jennie Mae Garmany.
Mrs. W. E. McKeown and Miss Ger
many will entertain jointly.
CARD OF THANKS
W« wish through the eoiumns of
this dear old paper, to thank each
and every one who was with us and
our dear old daddy in his last hours
on this earth, for the beautiful
floral offerings, the sweet music and
kindnes sshown to us in the sad
dest hour of our lives. May the Hea
venly father bless each one of you
is our prayer.
Mr. and Mrs. Bidez and children.
22,000 MEET DEATH YEARLY
FROM INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS
IN TH ESTATE OF GEORGIA
Atlanta, Ga., May 13.—1 n the State
of Georgia live 1701 of the 57,272
blind people of the United States,,
according to figures given out by th*J
Southern Headquarters of the Com
mittee for Lighthouses for the IBind
here today. Georgia ranks eleventh
among the 49 states listed according
to blind persons per 100,000 popula
tion and of the above number, 806
are white and 895 negroes; 797 of the
whites are native born and 9 foreign
born. The statistics show that
there are now 105 blind persons be
ing oared for in Georgia institutions.
The Committee for Lighthouses
for the Blind of which President
Warren G. Harding is honorary
chairman, was founded in New York
15 years ago by Miss Winnifred Holt.
Several "Lighthouses” as they are
called—places of instruction for
blind persons to enable them to be
come self-supporting and to pro
vide broader and more remunera
tive fields of labor—were establish
ed at that time under Miss Holt’s di
rection. They proved so successful
that now lighthouses are function
ing in Italy and France. Plans are
now under way for extending the
United States so that blind people
everywhere will be assisted. Spon
sored and supported by some of the
greatest national lights in finance,
industry and politics, the Committee
is about to launch an American ap
peal for *2,000.000 with which to
broaden and extend the scope of its
work at home. Contributions may
be addressed to Lewis L. Clarke,
Treasurer, Committee for Light
houses for the Blind, tit East Fif
ty-ninth Street, New York City.
Among other interesting data con
i taineed in the Committee's state
ment regarding the blind is the fact
that of 29,242 cases investigated in
thsi country, 1,900 of that number
were born without sight of these
► 709 were the offspring of parents
who wedded first cousins. Os the
total blind population in Ameerica,
7976 are earning their own living;
6,783 are white ad 1193 negroes The
; above figures include all sightless
persons actually making their own
i way independent of others, whose
vocations vary from that of agricul
turalist to store clerk and clergy
man. . „ -
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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For Sheriff
To the voters of Walker County—
I hereby announce my candidacy
for the office of sheriff, subject to
the rules of the election July 2nd.
If elected I promise a faithful and
active discharge of duties of the of
fice. I am strictly for law and order
and will do all within my power to
enforce the law. On account of the
pressing duties of the office at this
time, and also on account of the
shortness of the time, will be unable
to see the voters in every section of
the county. I assure you my appre
ciation of your suffrage however.
Respectfully,
L. W. HARMON
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.. “PLEASE REMIT."
Just a little statement
Os a little account
Not much to fret about
Considering amount
BUT
Little drops of water
Little grains of sand
Make the mighty Ocean
And this wondrous land.
AND
Many, many customers
Owing little accounts
Cause us lots of worry
A total vast amounts.
NOW
How about our working men
With little mouths to fill
Must they be thrown out of work
Cause you wont pay your bill;
00
We put it to you squarely
Te pay may be a trial
But conscience will repay you
And in your heart you'll smile.
PLEASE
Do as you'd be done by
*hie golden rule will fit
Rather unusual way we have
Os saying, “Please Remit."
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TYPHOID FEVER
The Georgia Slate Board of Health
predicts an unusually large number
of. cases of typhoid fever this year.
This is the result of at least 2 con
ditions, namely a mild winter and
an early spring.
» A mild winter facilitates the hi
bernation of a great number of flies
than would otherwise be the case.
It is generally conceded that flies
constitute a most important factor
in the transmission of typhoid from
the dejecta of the active case of
sickness or the carrier. It is also
a well known fact that almost
throughout the state, except in the
sewered areas of our towns and cit
ies human filth is not disposed of
in a manner which affords protec
tion to its citizens. An evidence of
this fact is the great number of
surface toilets one sees all along
the public highways and even in the
surburban districts of our cities.
Each one who observes this can
readily understand why it'is so easy
for an epidemic of typhoid fever to
occur in practically any commu
nity of Georgia, jwhen there ex
ists an abundance of flies to trans
port this dangerous germ laden filth
to the food and drink of people.
A large number of flies surviving
larger early crop of young flies, and
this would mean that each succeed
ing family or generation of this dan
gerous and filthy pest, in the end
instead of having very poor and
scarce transportation facilities for
the work of the fly and germ com
pany they are amply supplied with
much and efficient help.
An early spring means an early
crop of new flies and when this
happens to be an unusually big
family the number of flies at any
one time during the summer might
be twice as great as that of the
same date last year. This in turn
might mean that we would have
twice as many cases of any filth
born diseases, such as dysentery,
typhoid, etc.
Last year there developed 5490
cases of typhoid fever in this state
which cost us more than $1,000,008
in money and 549 human lives.
Such losses as these oan easily
and cheaply be avoided in two ways
apparatus at each home, school and
church thereby preventing pollu
tion and secondly by administering
anti typhoid vaccine to every indi
vidual in the state who by reason of
age (12 to 40) is susceptible to the
disease. The vaccine is offered free
by the state Board of Health and yet
no doubt someone who reads this
article will this summer have ty
phoid and sustain great economic
joss ts he or she escapes with life
jlself.
LOST—from my truck last Friday
between Naomi and LaFayette.
or LaFayette and Noble, card
board box containing brown ov
erall suit carburetter for Ford
and three or four tubes. Notify
J. 8. Hunt Green Bush, Ga Re
ward. . **
WANTS j
CLERKS, (men, women) over 17, for
Postal Mail Service. $l2O. Exper
ience unnecessary. For free par
ticulars of examinations, write
R. Terry, (former Civil Service
Examiner) 1351 Continental Bldg
Washington, D. C. 6-24-2tx.
FOR SALE —Eight room house and
two vacant lots on Cove street.
House on corner of Cove St., and j
Cherokee Ave. A beautiful home
and nice building lots. Price
reasonable.—Mrs. S. J. Shaw,
LaFayette, Ga.
THERE’S A DIFFERENCE—In Ice.
The Atlantic Plate Ice is the best
there’s none superior. It is the
ice that gives the best satisfac
tion. Phone Baker Ice Co. and let
Them fill your orders.
ATLANTIC PLATE ICE—The best,
last longest and just as cheap.—
Baker Ice Co., LaFayette, Ga.
SWEET POTATO PLANTS—Porta
Rica, Nancy Hall and Early Red
and white, also late cabbage and
tomato plants.—A. P. Warren
fells,LaFayette Ga. Rfd. 1.
FOR SALE—One Dodge Bros., tour
ing car in good condition. Will
sell cheap for cash. —F. H. Kir
■, by, LaFayette, Ga.
WANTED—Salesmen for 6,000 mile
guaranteed tires. Salary SIOO.OO
weekly with extra commissions.
COWAN TIRE & RUBBER CO.
Box 784, Chicago, Illinois.
NOTICE
All fertilizer accounts not settled
for either by note or cash by July
Ist, become due and payable July
Ist.—L. D. Little, LaFayette, Ga.
FOR SALE—S. C. White Leghorn
hens, 1 and 2 years old.—Mrs.
H. V. Henry, LaFayette Ga-
FOR SALE—Late Irish Potato seed.
$l5O per bushel.—C. C.
Near Smith Cross Roads. 7-1-2tx
BTRAYED—One small black mule,
five years old, about 13 hands
high, with no shoes on. When
last seen had halter on.—T. H.
Fowler, Alton Park, Tenn. R.t
FOR SALE—Fresh milk cow.—Will
sell cheap for cash.—J. F. Johns
ton, LaFayete Ga. R. 6. 2tx.
Phone 147 2t
FOR SALE—A lot of good home
made syrup in buckets at one
dollar per gallon. Four miles'
east of LaFayette at Smith’s
Cross roads.—A. J. Sims. 7-l-2tx.
GET HOUR FEED SUPPLIES of all
kinds from Dan C. Wheeler &
Co, Chattanooga. They make a
specialty of Cotton Seed Meal
NOTICE
Georgia, Walker County.
All persons holding claims against
the estate of Mrs. E. A. Moore, de
ceased, are hereby notified to file
same with the undersigned or same
will be barred.
This Bth day of June 1921.
WALTER B. SHAW.
7-15-6 t Executor.
Recommends Chamberlain’s Tablets
"Chamberlain's Tablets have been
used by my husband and myself off
and on for the past five years. When
my husband goes away from home
he always takes a bottle along with
him. Whenever I have tHat heavy
‘feeling after eating, or feel dull and
played out, I take one or two of
Camberlain’s Tablets and ttygy fix
me up fine," writes Mrs. Newton
Vreeland, Minoa, N. Y. Take these
tablets when troubled with consti
pation or indigestion and they will
do you good.
Tm Qntnm That Oms Not Affsct Mm Nm 6
Bectnte of iu tonic nod Uxmtlve effect. LAXA
TIVE BROMO Os IN INK i> better than erdlnnrr
Quinine end doee not ceuee oerrontneie nor
HniriSK In heed. Remember .ne full un. t-ud
mb 1c- the o ( enefure Cm ■ - 6ROVS, v, a
FOR SALE OR TRADE—A 490 Chev
rolet, 1920 model.—Hawkins Ga
rage, LaFayette, Ga.
ECZEMAg)
if HUNT'S OUARANTRBD
■KIN DtMAII «KJf«DfM
(Hnat'e Bnhr en nd Beeol.fnll in tit P
the treatment as Itch, Reeemn. / It
Kfa«wenh,TeMoeoratheetuh- |jf / /1
Inc Min tbmc« Tr» thle 1 »»* « *
treatment al nor rieh.
W*lrmven-Cent«r Drug Co
CHICKENS—Bring your chickens to
my car at LaFayette Saturday
June 25th. I am loading another
poultry car and will pay you
the highest market price for
same.—Otto Morgan.
OUR US'S” WILL PLEASE—Organ
die dresses, satin skirts, all col
ors, hats, hosiery, underwear,
house dresses, etc.—LaFayette
Model Store.
OVER SIX BILLIONS DEPORTED
IN SAVINGS BANKS OF U. &
Atlanta, Ga.—America's national
savings bank deposits now stand at
approximately $6,500,000,000, to es
timates which have been received
by Atlanta bankers. Exact reports
on the entry will be calculated by
the Comptroller of the Currency
within the coming month. Before
the war, savings accounts in the na
tion’s 30,000 banks totalled only $3,- ;
000,000,000, it is shown by reports
analyzed here.
Figures gleaned from Atlanta sav
ings bank-; shew that despite the
high cost of living, excessive rentals
and continuance of war prices du
ring the last yeear, the people of At
lanta placed approximately $25,000,-
000 on deposit in the twelve-months
period. This was approximately
$6,000,000, more than was saved in
1919 and was deposited by 121,000
persons, representing more than
half the population of the city. Big
gains are looked for on these figures
during the present year, as an in
crease in deposits has been shown
every month so far.
The figures on the national savings
bank deposits are very gratifying,
according to business men and
bankers here. “They are significant
as showing that even at the terrific
rate at which the American people
are encouraged to spend by the
cheapness and abundance of money
under the abnormal conditions pro
duced by the war, they did not.
while on their spending spree, dissi
pate the nest egg, but on the contra
ry, more than doubled the size of it,
"said John K. Ottley, president of
the Fourth National Bank of Atlan
ta, which has more savings deposit
ors than perhaps any national bank
in the South. >
A large part of the six and one
half billion American savers now
have in the banks are doubtless
“fifty cents dollars", as pointed out
by Mr. Ottley. Rather, they were
•fifty cent dollars" when laid away.
They are worth considerably more
now and will continue to increase
in purchasings power. The interest,
accruising is the smaller percentage
of gain.
RESOLUTIONS.
La Fayette, Ga, March 25,1921.
Western Lodge No. 91, Free and Ac
cepted Masons.
To Worshipful Master, Wardens and
Brothers;
It was the will of the Supreme
Grand Architect of the Universe ©»
March the 10th, 1921 to translate the
soul of esteemed brother, D. A. Bor
dres, from this imperfect world to
that all perfect Grand and Glorioua
Celestial Lodge above.
Like our original Grand Master, he
Was ready and willing to submit to
rules laid down upon the Masonio
trestle board of life. When the call
came for service above in the Su
preme Grand Lodge where no con
tention ever arises Brother Borders
was ready to have the Grand Master
place upon his life and eharacier
the great square by which all men
are tried;
And to receive the welcome words
“Well done good and faithful ser
vant enter thou Into the joy of thy
Lord."
“And when God sends his angel to
us with the scroll of death let us
look upon it as an act of mercy to
prevent many sins and calamities of
longer life and lay our heads jsoftly
down like one who wraps the dra
pery of his couch about him and lies i,
down to pleasant dreams.
For many years Brother Borders
had been a sufferer from an incur
able malady. He bore his suffering
patiently and never murmured or
complained of his condition.
He loved his church and next
came the Masonic Fraternity of
which he was proud of his member
ship. We will miss him when the
craft assemble for work and his
place in this Lodge will be forever
vacant.
As his spirit was wafted upon the
breeze back to God, the giver of all
things, we bow our heads in grief
and say “Let thy will be done."
We commend his spirit to him who
gave it and faithfully cherish his
memory within our hearts.
Ist. Be it resolved, that in the
death of Bro. Borders, Western
Lodge has sustained an irrepara
ble loss;
2nd. Be it resolved, that the Lodge
room be suitably draped in mourn- ..
ing;
3rd. Be it resolved that a copy of
these resolutions be spread upon
a separate page of the minute book
to perpetuate his memory and a
copy furnished his wife and loved
ones.
tth. Be it resolved that this me- 1
moriam be furnished the Walker .
County Messenger for publication.
Fraternally Submitted,
H. S. LOVERN •
D. W. HERNDON,
K. A. WHATLEY.
Memorial Com. •
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