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Entered al the La Fayette, Os.
postothi e for transmission through
the minis as sotoud-class matter.
What is so rare as a cold day in
June or a hot day in May?
Who said we were not going
to have any summer weather!
The anti-McAdoo forces are up
against it for dark horses.
A1 Smith may find out that lit
tle 'o! New York is not large
after all.
Saturday is the longest day in
the year, and after that the Geor
gia legislature.
What could be more uninterest
ing and free from thrills than a
Republican convention ?
Better tuke the advice of your
awn neighbor and poison that cot
tan with calcium arsenate.
LaFullette’s Progressive party
ami the Democrats are calculated
to warm up the G. O. P. elephant.
July 4th promises to be extra
hot in Chattanooga—the Metho
dist unification conference will be
in session.
If you are u farmer and want to
feel a real thrill talk with a War
ren dairyman, who recently bought
a pure bred for his furm.
Little ole New York will be hot
ter next week than she ha 3 been in
many years when the Democrats
meet to nominate the President.
SUGGESTIONS
FOR THE SUMMER
The cull of the summer is not
•nly a.call to recreation, but is a
call to use the leisure hours in
discussing together the problems
and progressive things for your
community.
Sammey is a season that should
be utilized by the people in the
towns and especially in the rural
communities to great community
advantage. It is a good time to
plan for a consolidated school, one
of the best investments from any
standpoint that a community can
make. It is a good time to beauti
fy the community church grounds,
clean off the graveyards, paint the
school buildings, and renew faith
in each other and in the communi
ty in which you live.
Live stock associations, better
farming system, and the reading of
literature that inspires, that helps,
that comforts and that energizes
life, are good and timely sugges
tions.
At the social gatherings could be
worked out a reading club, a little
library association which would be
the means of getting some good
books, the best literature and
which would encourage and devel
op a thirst for knowing what is
the best that has been written and
said. Such a club would be the
means of inspiring many to do
larger things, think in larger
terms of service to the community,
and would make life on the farm
and in the rural sections delightful
and profitable.
These are only a few of almost
innumerable summer suggestions,
that if put into practice, and they
are practicable, would make for
better citizenship and better com
munity life.
Try it out this summer in your
community and watch results.
A SCHOOL PRODUCT
The winning of the girl’s essay j
contest at the state meet by a La
fayette high school girl is an
honor to the young lady, the
school, the community, county and |
Seventh District. We congratulate j
her and the school. All Walker j
County needs for her boys and
girls to take their places in the
front rank is the opportunity offer
ed in standard schools. Let the
light break in the communities and
consolidate and secure the best in
building and equipment that our
young folks may have a chance;
it’s bigger than stocks and bonds
and cattle and farms.
Prohibtion is an issue that sticks
in every platform and woe be to
that candidate who runs counter to
her, and may the sentiment yet
grow stronger!
With the boll weevils, the gar
den pests, the snakes and the June
bugs, candidates for state house
offices are popping up their heads.
What do candidates care for hot
weather anyway?
With the first advent of the boll
weevil this year, the crop estimat
ors are busy too. The cotton crop
estimate for this year has been
set at around 11,000,000 Laics.
Funny how these fellows can out
figure the weevil.
The last six months of 1023 the
United States increased in popula
tion almost two million, the great
est increase for a six-months pe
riod in our history. The reasons
given are low death rates and im
migration.
If McAdoo can’t be nominated
who can, is a question if he is not
nominated that will be determined
at the Convention in New Y’ork.
Anyway the Democrats and Re
publicans will not be in suspense so
very much longer.
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| TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO |
June 22, 1899.
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Below will be found items of news
published in the Walker County
Messenger twenty-five years ago,
which will be of interest to the
readers of the Messenger today.
LaFayette has had a welcome addi
tion in Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Rosser who
moved in Tuesday.
Rev. Simon Peter Richardson, one
of the great men of the M. E. Church
South, has gone to his reward.
Dr. LaFayette Kelly, of Dalton,
who has been since Thursday the ■
guest of his sister, Mrs. Clarissa
Johnston, left Tuesday.
Mr. Bogle Johnston, has ca
pacity enough to succeed in any call-1
ing, is taking lessons in telegraphy
from W. M. Scott.
Next Saturday the beautiful
grounds at the Big Spring will swarm
with the Sunday school picnickers
from Pond Springs.
At the examination for County
School Commissioner the best recordi
in spelling was made by Mrs. M. E. ;
Stunsbury, of Lisbon.
The attractive bank building is
nearing completion. The cashier, Mr.
J. E. Patton, expects to be ready for;
business by the first of the month.
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is represented in the
Phillipines by Louis Gerber, who is
serving as a member of the engineer
corps. Like the balance of Uncle
Sam’s boys there, he is not having a
picnic.
Duke Myers, who will graduate at
the State University as a member of
the century class, comes home Thurs- 1
day. He does Walker credit by the rec
ord for scholarship he has made.
The Masonic festival at Wood Sta
tion Lodge on next Saturday, June
24. promises to be largely attended.
The exercises will be entertaining
and all who attend will meet with ,
genuine hospitality.
Saturday evening at the regular'
communication of Western Lodge No.
91, Entered Apprentices. E. A. Jack
son and D. N. Keown were passed to;
the degree of Fellowcraft and W. E.
A. Myers, a Fellowcraft, was raised
to the sublime degre of Master Ma- j
son.
Miss Mary Hollis, a popular Sum
merville young lady, spent Sunday in
I-a Fayette. the guest of Miss Maude
Shaw.
Walker County Messenger, June 20, 1924.
VIGOROUS FIGHT
ON TUBERCULOSIS
IS PLANNED
!
By J. H. Hammond, C. H. C.
The most certain way to avoid in
fection, and usually the most desir
able plan both for the sick and the
well, is to provide some means by
which the tuberculosis may live apart.
There are many young people in the
country, and occasionally older ones,
whose family ties and obligations to
dependent ones are not such as to ren
der their separation painful or preju
dicial to their financial interest, who
at home, are continually emitting
consumptive germs among their kin
dred and their neighbors, resulting in
new infections, more cases, thus pro
pagating the disease preciscely as it
has been done in all the past dark
years of ignorance and apathy. This
class of cases should be removed to a
sanitorium, both because their chance
for cure if too advanced for cure to
result, for attaining a longer life, will
thereby be increased, and especially
that these foci of infection may be
thus removed from the communities.
Herein lies an opportunity for every
one, by encouraging such removals,
to render fine service to humanity
and the country. When the new build
ings have been completed, Georgia
will have, at Alto, a superior institu
tion for the accommodation and treat
men of his kind of patients.
But there is another class of sub
jects that can not so comfortably be
separated distantly from their fami
lies; a mother, it may be, with small
children or a young child not to be
taken from its home. For this class
of cases equally good service can be
rendered by providing a place near
home. For an enterprise of this kind,
a home institution, no part of the
country can offer finer advantages
than north Georgia, Walker County.
Portions of our territory' are elevated
as much as is desirable, affording an
abundance of wholesome water, an in
vigorating atmosphere of rare purity;
unlimited pasturage where cattle
thrive throughout the year with but
little feed thus providing an abun
dance of milk, the best food in tu
berculosis, at the least possible cost.
Here the soil, as every one knows,
produces the finest vegetables and
would afford employment to such as
are able to exercise; inspiring scen
ery would do much toward relieving
despondency and adding a degree of
pleasure to the threatened life.
A location could be chosen which,
when a good road has been construct
ed, would be accessible within an hour
to any part of the county. Here, while
still within easy reach of their kin
dred, get suffciently removed to take
away the danger from home and the
home community possessing all the
advantages known to medicine, un
doubtedly many recoveries, not other
wise likely .would take place, and all
would have good reason to hope for
longer life. To secure justcjuch facili
ties, many have spent fortunes, while
others, not possessing the means to
travel afar, have been compelled to
submit to hard fate, when really the
finest means of recovery were right
at their door. A little expense, a little
more enterprise and these advantages
will bear fruit.
RAILROAD SERVICE SOLD
RELATIVELY LOWER THAN
BEFORE WAR SAYS DOWNS
That railway service is now j>eir.g
sold at rates relatively lower than
before the war is the statement of L.
A. Downs, President of the Central of
Georgia Ralway, who gives some in
teresting comparisons as to rates and
tests.
Mr. Downs shows that coal, materi
als and supplies, taxes, labor, locomo
tives, cars, and in fact everything
that the railroads must spend money
for in order to produce transporta
tion has increased from 92 to 118 per
cent in cost, in the last ten years
while rate increases have been but 41
per cent for freight and 44 per cent
for passenger fares during the same
period. The President declares that
only increased efficiency and the in- j
stailation of cost-reducing facilities
have made it possible for the railroads
to serve the public at the rates which
they are receiving. He says have
borrowed many millions of dollars to
improve their properties and have
done this because of their faith in the
fairness of the American people.
Records of the Central of Georgia
show that coal which cost $1 in 1913,
cost $2.15 in 1923; that for every dol
lar of taxes 10 years ago the railroad
is paying $1.92 now; and that the in
crease in labor requires $2.05 now
for every dollar 10 years ago.
AUBREY PHILLIPS
Aubrey Phillips was born August
31, 1908 died May 9, 1923. He was 14
years, 8 months and 8 days old.
Bro. Aubrey was the son of Bro and
Sister H. J. Phillips, with 5 brothers
and 4 sisters surviving him. He pro
fessed a faith in Christ some three or
four years before he died and united
with Macedonia Baptist church where
| he lived a consecretad Christian until
, his untimely death. He was regular in
attendance to church, Sunday schoo!
I and B \ P U. always taknig an active
, part. He was never known to shirk
when called upon. To us his going was
all too soon. We cannot understand
j why God saw fit to take him when he
was just reaching young manhood,
! but it is not for us to question for a
moment the wisdom of Him who giv
eth and take away life. We can only
bow in humble submission to His Di
vine will.
Therefore, we the Macedonia Bap
tist church extend our heartfelt sym
pathies to the bereaved faim'v inthe
loss of a devoted Christian son and
brother;
We request that a copy of this me
morial be presented to the family and
one spread upon the church book.
Roy Morgan, Arch Reed. Jr., Com.
SOME FACTS
, About The Biggest Single
Business In The World
THE L. S. POST OFFICE |
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Nearly 44,000 postmen, members of
the greatest single business, daily de
liver mail to millions of homes and
business houses in American cities.
The farmer is not neglected by the
Postal Service. Today 44,552 rural
routes supply mail to 6,504,592 fami
lies, or 29,921,133 individuals
Out West the Postal Service has es
tablished a veritable automobile rail
road to the fruitful Unitah (Utah)
Valley to which no private rail line
has penetrated.
Who Does The Work and Where
Is It Done?
On February 25, 1924, the Post Of
fice Department had more than 351,-
000 in its employ. Besides the 43,677
letter carriers, there are 62,400 clerks.
44,417 rural carriers, 51,393 postmas
ters and 31,316 railway postal clerks.
The 51,393 postmasters run as many
offices. There is one post office for ev
ery 58 square miles of territory.
The 351,000 full and part time pos
tal employees are paid approximately
$4441,622,517 annually for their ser
vices.
A'most every conceivable type of
transportation is used to move the
mails—railroads, steamboats, auto
mobiles .airplanes, motor boats, wa
gons, horses, pneumatic tubes, belt
conveyors, motorcycles, bicycles, the
sled of the Artie, and even the “dog
car.”
The dog car is an Alaskan inven
tion. An abandoned railroad runs out
of Nome to a mining camp. The en
terprising Artie Circle mailman just
hitches his dog team to a hand car
and scoots up the mountain side with
the post.
Last year the air mail planes, flew
2,000,000 miles, carrying 65,295,920
letters.
Although the interstellar service
has not yet been established by the
Post Office Department, it is a fact
that the routes covered by the rail
way mail cars last year reached the
planetary proportions of 219,171,224
miles. This transportation cost $85,-
194,233. The Postal Service now uses
5,096 postal cars.
Automobiles are running a race for
numerical supremacy with the rail
way postal cars. There are now 4,930
in operation carrying the mails.
TO SWEET POTATO
PLANT GROWERS
Atlanta, Ga. June 15, 1924,
Sweet Potato Plant Growers,
Gentlemen:
If you expect to grow sweet pota
toes for sale next year now is the
time to begin preparations. The State
Board of Entomology with your co
operation hopes to eradicate Stem
rot and reduce Black-rot and other
sweet potato diseases to a minimum
in Georgia next year. In order to ac
complish this it will be necessary for j
you to observe the following precau- j
tions:
1. Grow your own seed potatoes
for vine cuttings. Plant the vines on
soil where sweet potatoes have not
grown during the past four years.
2. Have your field inspected for
stem-rot and other diseases before
digging time,
3. Before digging these seed pota
toes, disinfect tools and wagon with
bi-chloride of mercury solution.
4. Bank the potatoes in a new j
place where potatoes have never been
banked before. If you have a curing
house, disinfect all crates used. Clean
out and spray the floor and walls of
the house thoroughly.
5. Next spring have your potatoes
inspected before bedding. Cull them
close, throwing out all that show rot,
cuts or bruises.
6. Dip the potatoes 10 minutes in
bi-chloride of mercury solution, 1 oz
to 8 gallons water, before bedding.
Bed them on new soil where potatoes
have never been grown.
If these precautions are taken your
potatoes will not rot in storage; you
will have eleun, sound seed next
spring, and can grow healthy plants
free from all diseases.
Next year no Certificate Tags will
be issued unless at least three inspec
tions are made, viz, Field Inspection,
Storage Inspection and Plant Bed In
spection. These inspections will be
made free of charge if this office is
notified in advance.
Co-operate with us in stamping out
the Sweet Potato diseases. If your
neighbor is selling or giving away un
inspected plants please notify us.
Help us make Georgia sweet potatoes
anl plants clean and free from dis-.
ease.
JEFF CHAFFIN, Chief Inspector.
IN MEMORY
Madeleen King, aged 2 years and 2
months died on April 17th 1923 and
Christine King, aged 2 years, 2 mos.
and three days died on the 20th. They
were born Feb. 17 1921 in West La-
Fayette. the children of Mr. and Mrs.
Mont King. It seemed so hard to have
these two bright little girls who had
started out on life’s high way togeth
er, taken away from the same home
but God knows best for in His bless
ed book He has said. “Suffer little
children to come unto Me. and forbid j
them not, for of such is the Kingdom
of Heaven.” So God called them home!
and we extend to their parents nnd!
loved ones the sympathy of this com
munity in their loss and ask God’s
richest blessings to rest on them and
help them bear their loss f.>r well
we know,
’Tis hard to break the tender chords
When love has bound the heart;
’Tis hard, so hard to speak the word
“We must forever part.”
Dear loved one 3, we have laid thee.
In the peaceful grave’s embrace;
But your memories will be cherished
Till we see your Heavenlv faces.
A FRIEND.
F. A SEAGLE. PRES. AMD GEN. MGR. L. V. DUNCAN.^SECRETARY.
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| Summer Class Begins June 2 ;
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I Phone No. 80 LaFayette, Ga.
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MnCLURF & McCLURE
Attornevs-at-Law
Hamilton Natioiis.l Banx Building L
Chattanooga, Ten*
*ractico iu tne t.ourts of GeorgiauM
Tennessee.
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HENRY a JACKSON
Attorney s-ut-Law
LaFayette, Ga.
P tic tied in ah :he courts. Office If
JaoJuon Building.
J. E. Itosser W. B. gfcn
ROSSER A SHAW %
f/Uorneys-at-Law
Offices
Walker County Bank Building
LaFayette, Georgia
Hamilton National Bank Building
Chr.ttanooiiu, ' enn.
NOP.MAN SKATTUCK
Attorney-at-Law
Office in Bank of LaFayette Bldffi
LaFayette, Ga.
Practice in all Courts, State and
Federal
OH. W. D. BALLENGFR
Dentist
JACKSON BUILDING
LaFayette - - Georgia.
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DH. J. U. UNDERWOOD
LaFayette, Ga.
Residence with J. L. Rowland og
North .Uaiu Street.
Office in Jackson liuuuing
Residence Phone 2 shorts on 133
Office Phone 51.
JULIUS RINK
Attorney-At-Law
Office iu Cooper Building
LaFayette, Ga
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J. A. SHIELDS, M. D.
Physician and Surgeoa
LaFayette, Ga
Office Over Rhyne Broa Pharmacy
Office Hours;
8:00-9:0(1 a. m... 1:00-2.00 p. as.
Telephones—lies. 131, Office M
DR. SHANNON P. WARRENFELLf
Dentist.
At Chickaniouya, Ga. On Saturday!
City Office, Room 811. Hamlltef
National Bank Building. ,
Corner 7th and Market Sts. J
Chattanooga. Tenn. j
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DEWEY W. HAMMOND. M. D.
Physician and Surgeon
Office Over Loach's Pharmacy
LaFayette, Georgia
Telephones:
Dsy Nos. 159 and 49
Night and Sunday No. 84.
S. W. FARISS
Attorney-At-Law
Office Over
RHYNE BROS. PHARMACY
LaFayette, Ga
NOTICE
A Bill will be introduced at the
next session of the General Assembly
of Georgia, changing the corporal®
limits of the City of LaFayette byk
eliminating all property South of the\
Trion road and East of Chattooga '
creek from said City Limits. 6-20 4t