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imimißiiß Established 1877 Official Newspapei of the Cnuatj E. P. HALL. J&. Subscription Sates Om Year #IOO Six Months #0 ffhree Months #0 f Foreign AdverUnil.g Hepmeentntlv* ' PRESS A33QCIM ION | 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. O O | TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO | June 22, 1899. O O i 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. —4l— 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 | O O 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. W. A. SEAGLE. VICE--PRE3. AND AS3T. GEN. 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GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC given regular!, for two or three weeks will enrich the bicod. im prove the digejdou, and ?ct as a General Strength cuing Ten-1; :be whete system. Nauoo willth". throw off or dispel the wuims, Child will • in perfect health. v Pleasant to take.*6oc per Lwttlc. WRIGLEYS *After every meal / Hall’s Catarrh Medicine £?£*,” rid your system of Catarrh or Deafness caused by Catarrh. Said by AiniSi fat atar 40 yean j. 1. CHENEY &. CO.. Toledo, Obit* | PROFESSIONAL CARDS > + —# O o I MRS. CAROLINE ARNOLD | ) Teacher of PIANO AND VOICE | Summer Class Begins June 2 ; i Studio at 27 Cove Street j I Phone No. 80 LaFayette, Ga. O tt. F. McClure VV. A. McCJais MnCLURF & McCLURE Attornevs-at-Law Hamilton Natioiis.l Banx Building L Chattanooga, Ten* *ractico iu tne t.ourts of GeorgiauM Tennessee. W. M. Henry Earl Jack Met 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. OH. AJLLt.\ r. n.an it LA FELLS Dentist \ -aFayeiH - - Georgia V Second Floor Bank of LaFay ette Building 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 ■ ’ " 1 - II 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 7-20-M 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