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VALKER COUNTY
MESSENGER
Established 1H77
E. P. HALL. JR.
Publisher and Editor
Official Newspaper of the County
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THE A Ml. UK AN I’KESS AJS.ta \TION
Entered at the LaFayette, Ga.,
far transmission through
the maila aa second class matter.
Walker County Fair October 23-
24!
School bella soon be ringing. U
the school he best your commu
nity can afford?
A great deal is being written
about child labor; what the country
needs is more man labor.
The tremendous tobacco industry
in Georgia dosen't necessarily
mean that we are going up in
amoke.
Whereever education goes a
ehievement and progress follow. Go
to college young man and young
woman.
Ford's prediction of an easy vic
tory for Coolidge is a nugget of
“neglected truth" that will be for
gotten altogether in the November
election.
Labor Day will soon be observed
with elaborate programs, a duy too
seldom observed by too many peo
ple in this country, which may be
one of the causes of unrest and
crime.
If the farmer feels himself a
Awn trod den man let him read the
acceptance speeches of the various
candidates for the highest offices,
and lie will gel ,i slant at his im
portance in this country.
You notice that the politican who
loudly prates about the freedom,
virtue and greet ness of the wool
bat boys, has been a farmer but
for years lie has never seen the
sun rise, nor put his hands to the
plow.
Ford Predicts Easy Victory For
■Coolidge,; Says Business Conditions
Excellent- Headline. All of which
reminds us that the oil thieves in
the Republican a (ministration have
probably made g >od business for
Mr. Ford’s flivvers.
Keep Cool With Coolidge, does
not seem so out of place when it
is recalled that oil keeps the ma
chine from getting hot. Quite ap
propriate, we should say. Keep
honest and decent with Davis,
sounds much better to us.
THE CHURCH
Os all the good signs that the
communities of Walker county be
lieve in the future is the steady ac
tivity in church building.
No investment is so great in a
community as the church. No bank
or business house would think of
doing business in a town where
there are no Protestant Christian
churches. The program of building
larger, more modern and better
equipped churches speaks louder
than words for the stability of a
community. Where the church de
cays. its life inactive and shorn of
vitality and spirit, the people de
teriorate in morals, in honesty, in
clean and high living.
Every citizen should feel proud
of the splendid church buildings
and church activities, and church
life in the communities of this
coun*y, and no institution in our
midst has such a claim on our
service, our pocketbooks and our
tim.- as has the Christian church.
Give liberally to her, because be
hind her fortress is the stability of
business, society, education and all
andoaof n.ja.u.'id.
THAT HOY AND
THAT GIRL
That boy and that girl, who arc
they ?
They \ are the ones who a few
years from now will take our
places in the home, the church, the
school, the store, the counting
house, the bank, in state, in na
tion, on the farm —everywhere.
They will read what we have
written and criticiss it, appraise
it, adopt it or reject it. They will
study our programs and laugh at
them or enlarge them. They will
pass on all we have done or failed
to do, and probably give us credit
for doing the best we could, or will
wonder why we didn’t do better
and live greater lives.
Anyhow, they are almost now in
our step and when we step aside
they will take charge.
Whether they make progress,
live larger lives, render honest, ef
ficient and faithful service, de
pends on us. Had you ever thought
of that?
Realizing then that our children
will soon fill the gap of all life
we are now living, do you not
think we should give these comers
on a little of our serious consider
ation ?
In the light of these indisputable
fact, how are we checking up in
preparing the way for them. Ac
cording to our present plans, work
and living and acting, will the next
generation be equipped for the re
sponsibilities that are sure to fall
on their shoulders? Are we open
ing to them the door of opportunity
and high heritage?
Think on these things, and let
us throw ourselves into the fight
for better schools, a more vital
church life, a cleaner scheme of
politics, a sounder, more honest
business practice, a better respect
for law and a truer estimate of the
rightful place and value of society.
Let us put ourselves in our
thoughts and spirit in the place of
the boys and girls and see through
them the way just ahead
which is the way they must trod.
Are you satisfied that your pres
ent conduct i 3 making the future
safe to the boys and girls and to
the world?
A PLACE OF VISION
To show to greatest advantage
the products of the farms and
factories and home, is the aim of
the county fair this fall. To a more
marked degree than heretofore, the
fair management is determined to
make the fair a powerful incentive
in the life of the people of this
county.
To do this the fair must have the
co-operatio nos the farmers and as
surances from every section are
gratifying.
The more scientific methods a
dopted by numerous farmers in
this county has been traceable in
a large measure to the fairs. Here
the people get a close-up view of
what the scientific methods are do
ing for agriculture, and with the
farmer seeing is believing.
Join force v. i n your county fair,
its an agency of vision.
Do you know a fellow in your
community who has accumulated
a considerable amount of more/,
enjoys all the benefits and protec
tion of the churches and other in
stitutions that make a community
a good ’ iro in which to live and
do business, aJio when called upon
to help make the church larger and
better eq iip- od to serve the needs
of the community, doles out a mis
erly pittance? \Yc do. Wouldn’t it
be good reading to publish their
names and the amount they give,
especially when everybody knows
about how much they are worth?
Let the parents who allow their
boys and girls under 16 to drive a
car give their excuse to the grand
jury.
The Co-operative Marketing As
sociation is the best thing for the
farmer to join for his financial in
tecasu.
Walker County Messenger.,August 2—,L92L
j TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO j
August 21. 1899.
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Below will bo 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.
There are seven, in jail; four color
ed and three whites.
Judge Payne and Harper Hamilton,
were the visiting attorneys.
Ch« 3. Foster of the W. and A. R»
R. came in Huesday to visit homer
folks.
Rev. J. M. Coley is on duty at.
Bethel this week, conducting a pro
tracted meeting.
Mr. A. V. Sharpe, of Demopolis,
Ala., is the guest of his sister, Mr&.N,
C. Napier.
The Grand Jury organized by mak
ing P. D. Fortune, foreman; J. M. Mc-
Farland, Clerk and C. P. Higgins,
Bailiff.
The reception committee of the
Walker County Sunday School Con
vention, which will meet at a time to
be fixed at Rock Springs, consists of |
Misses Julia Carlock, Jimmie- Glenn,
Messrs Lee Bird, Zack Jones and S.
L. Williams.
Tuesday the Board of Bo.ads and
Revenue elected J. A. Graham sup
erintendent of the county farm at $25
per month, and fixed the county tax
at $4.64 on the thousand. The road
tax levy they fixed at $1 per thousand-.
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The first army worms appeared
1 this season on a river below Trion |
factory. In the last few days they have
have been invading a part of the Wa
terville District. They were on thirty
or forty acres of the John Martin
place and the crab grass seemed to
be as completely destroyed as if it
had been burnt. They are attacking
the corn. The turkeys appreciate their
coming.
Saturday night at the regular com
munication of Western Lodge, when
E. A. Jackson was raised to the Sub
lime Degree of Master Mason, a large
number of visiting brethren were
present. Among them were Congress
man Maddox, Solicitor General pro
tern, Harper Hamilton and Gordon
Tatum, stenographer of the Rome Cir
cuit. These were pressed into service
and gave short addresses that were
very much enjoyed. Past Master, J.
P. Shattuck was also among the ap
preciated speakers.
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| WHAT YOU OWE YOUR
I CHILDREN
By Dr. Frank Crane
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All you owe your children is to
equip them properly for life. You owe
, t'hem that they be born with sound
and undiseased bodies; that they be
trained in habits that keep one heal
thy. A ou owe them such an education
as shall put at their service the ac
i cumulated knowledge of the world.
You owe them your loyal love and
friendship. That is all.
\ou do not owe them any money.
You are under no obligation to lay up
a fortune for them. It is much better
to use your money yourself than to
burden them with it.
All our desire to endow our children
springs from the superstition, deeply
rooted in the world, that to be releas
ed from the necessity of labor is a
source of happiness. The contrary is
true.
The greatest, surest condition for
happiness is to be so situated that we
have to conquer difficulties and make
our own way in the world. There is
no contentment to be compared with
that which arises from securing the
desired goods of life by our own ef
forts. The purest human joy is respon
sibility intelligently assumed.
T°, deprive our offspring of this
privilege is to do him the greatest
wrong. To leave him enough money
so that he does not have to work is
to do him the deepest injustice.
I No one except a defective person,
who cannot work should be placed a
! hove want.
The laboring classes have attacked
classes on the ground
chat the laborer is wronged, treated
unjustly in the distribution of proper
ty. But it is the endowed class that is
I wr °nged. They are robbed, by our
economic system, of the first necessity
of healthy personality, to wit, gain
ing wages by effort.
Edmund Demolins definss happiness
a * the stat * of satisfacton engender
ed by success in surmounting the ma
terial and moral difficultes of life.”
u ,Im* is but 8 statement of
j ”°J y " nt: To him that overcometh
will I give power; and I will give him
the morning star.”
Giving an inheritance of money to
one a child is a lazy way of avoiding
the hard work of giving him charac
| * or an d life equipment.
The trouble with us is that our idea !
0! happiness is false, cheap and nas-'
«e think happiness means idle- 1
ness, exclusiveness, privilege over our I
fellows, luxury, indulgence and being
waited upon.
It is an idea inherited from centu- i
nes of rcften monarchic and aristo
cratic delusion.
Accumulated riches is the salvation
ot the state, it is the ruin of the in
dividual. T.te collective works of man
need capital. All the individual man
r.eeus is opportunity and justice.
Every baby has a right to a fair
start with every other baby. Every
youth has a right to a thorough edu
cation. No baby, no youth has a right
to be weighted down with endowed
money.
,°\ ANNOIJNCEMENTS 7 ?
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DEMOCRATIC NOMINEES
FOfECaUNTY O f FRJES
Below is a list of the Denocratic |
nominees for county offices et-ete-f in -
the March primary t.» be voud. :aoir;|
the November 'footion.
W. L. StanseH. Ordinary
Thos W. Bryajiv Clerk Superior i
Court.
L. W. Haraoa, Sheriff.
John H. Germany. Tax Re.«*er
Claude Clements, Tax Collwtajr
R. D. Lov*v, Schoal Superiutiejndent.-.
Frank Nuekoils. Coroner.
Julius Rink*.Surveyor.
Board of. U&onty CommiaMiiwera
G. R. Morgan Keith!
Jl C. Tucker J. ffc Kilgore
€L'BL Thurman
For Congress
To. The Voters of the Seventh Con
gressional'! District:
I am CMn&date for Repeeaentative
from the 7th. Congressicaai District:
of Georgia* in the 69th Congress, sufc*
ject to tha-primary electing to be heWti
on Sept-. UA 1924.
If you Relieve my reourd.es a Reg*
resentatiV-o and my long,experience ijr
congressional affairs better fit me to,
serve she district and state, I shall
greatly- appreciate you. endorsement
! and support.
If se-elected I pledge nay undivided:
atteutuou and best e'fprts to the* inr-j
terests. of the people I represent*.
GORDC/4. LEE.
For Solicitor-General
Tt The Voters of Walker. County-:.
I wish to announce that I aa>, a. oaon
aidate for Solicitc-n-General of' the
Rome Judicial Cineuit, subject to the
Democratic primary of September 10,
1924. If elected, Mr. M,. Neil Andrews i
of Walker County, will. servta as my'
assistant. I have had the honor and j
pleasure of serving, the people of:
Floyd, Chattooga and. Walker counties
as Assistant Solicitor-General, and!
hope to have your vote and influence
in promoting me to the office of So
licitor General.
JASL. 5. KELLY.
I hereby announce myself as a can
didate for Solicitor General of the
Rome Judicial Circuit, subject to the
action of the Democratic primary. If
elected S, W. F&iiss, of LaFayette
will be my assistant. Your vote and
influence will be appreciated.
JAMES MADDOX.
For Representative
To The Voters of Walker County:
I announce myself a candidate for
the legislature of Georgia, with the
explanation that it is my first appli
cation for public office. I shall endea
vor to aid in progressive legislation,
if elected, and look well to best inter- j
ests of State and county. I shall hope j
in event you send me there, to repay
you with the best service I can ren-.
der as a public servant with the best
work I can do.
I have no fight to make on anyone.
I shall not be able to see many of you
in the short time allowed me, but
shall hope to see all of you.
I shall thank you and each of you
for your aid and influence. I am run
ning subject to the prmary on Sept.
10, 1924.
Most respectfully,
J. R. ROSSER.
Below is my formal announcement - .
To The Voters of Walker County:
I hereby announce myself a candi
date for re-election to the office of
Representative of Walker County to
the General Assembly of Georgia sub
ject to the rules of the Democratic,
white primary to be held on Sept. 10,
1924. If re-elected I shall continue to
serve the people of Walker county
and the State of Georgia faithfully
and conscientiously.
Respectfully,
FREEMAN C. McCLURE.
My formal announcement follows:
I am a candidate to suecees myself
as Representative, subject to the
Democratic Primary of Sept. 10th. In !
full confidence I expect to be nomi
nated and elected. If elected, I’ll give
you faithful service, be all the time on
the job and be ready to render an ac
count to you of my stewardship. My
record is before you and on it and on
; the platform I am giving out, I am
; courting an endorsement term in the
House. With multiplied thanks for the
former support and with a desire to
render you larger and more mature
j service, I am,
Most sincerely,
DAVID F. POPE.
! To The Voters of Walker County:
I am a candidate so-r the Legislature
subject to the Democratic Primary of
Sept. 10th. I believe that the state
affairs should be run in a more eco- j
nomical way, and that the burden of I
taxes could be lightened. If elected, I i
, will make one promise, and that is to
! represent Walker county the best way
that I possibly can. It will be impos
sible for me to see all the people but
I will appreciate your support
Respectfully,
T. A. JACKSON.
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Teacher of.
PLANO AND VOICE
Summer Class Begins. Lima 2
Studio at 27 Cove Street
Phone No. 80 LaßayeUa* Ga.
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R. F. McClure W. A. MoCI«a
M«€LUhF & McCLUME
Attoruevs-ul-Law
Hamilton National. Bank Sui’ ling
Chattanooga, Form
ftr*atls» n tne courts- o t Georiliui
Ihums.
W>B Henry Earl Tsrlrawi
HENRY &. JACKSON
AttorneygratrLaw
LaFayette, Ua.
Rweiiea (a all the courts. Office in
Jackson. Bmlding.
A E. Rosser W. B. Skua
ROSSKB & SHAW
ft Ucaneyw-at-Law
Ofllc^a
Walker County Bank Building
LaFayette, Georgia
Hamilton National Bank Builiiif
Chattanooga. i'euu.
NUBAkW SIIATTUCK
Adtoraey-at-Law
Office ia Bank of LaFayotia sugg,
LaFayette, Ga.
Practise in all Courts, State and
Federal
SW. W. D. BALLENGFJI
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LaFayette - - Georgia.
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Dlt. J. M. UNDERWOOD
LaFayette, Ga.
Residence with. J. L. Rowland a*
North Mam Street.
Office ui Jackson Building
Residence. Phone 2 shorts on 151
Office Phone 51.
JULIUS SUNK
Attorney-At-Law
Office in Cooper Building.
LaFayette, Ga
J. A. SHIELDS, M. D.
Physician and Surgeon
LaFayette, Ga
Office Over Rhyne Brea. Pharmacy
Office Hum's:
8:00-9:00 a. m... 1:00-2.00 p. m.
Telephones—ltes. 151, Office M
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Dentist.
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Physician and Surgeon
Office Over Loach’s Pharmacy
LaFayette, Georgia.
Telephones:
Day Nos. 159 and 49
Night and Sunday No. 84.
S. W. FARISS
Attorney-At-Law •
Office Over
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