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WALKER COUNTY
MESSENGER
Established 1877
E. P. HALL. JR.
Publisher and Editor
Official Newspaper of the County
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
One Year SI.OO
Six Months .60
Three Months 40
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Entered at the LaFayette, Ga.,
post off ice for transmission through
the mail , as second class t **er.
No trouble keeping cool whether
you are with < .oolidge or not.
Each con olt lated school should
have a community fair every fall.
Well, we’ll see just what the
farmer gets fur his cotton, since
the crop is not excessively large.
As long as this country has par
ty government just so long is it
imperative that we have party
loyalty.
Co-operation is fine just so long
as it directly benefits me, is u
practice too much with us in
America.
Eight amendments to vote on on
Nov. 4th. My, that’s a lot of pro
posed constitutional changes for
one year's doing of the legislature!
Let other communities full in
line as Kossville has done, and
make our county fair a real review
of what Walker county grows and
manufactures.
If its results we want, and that
seems to bo the ambition of the
present day, then consolidation of
schools is tho wty to get results
educationally.
When you consider the visible
results of our Sheriff's record the
past year, Judge Wright's state
ment before I lie grand jury in
August, namely, that Walker had
the best sheriff in Georgia, sounds
true. ,
TIME WELL SPENT
County, state and inter-sectional
fair* are institutions that have
conn* ' i lay. Each year the scope
of the fairs t* broadened to take
in a larger variety of interests.
Fairs are veritable institutions of
-education and inspiration.
The farmers and people in the
towns should attend as many fairs
as possible. The contact with the
-spirit >f fairs, the investigations
tof rcc.ird productions, the sclent ; v
methods of developing our re
sources, all gi\v vision of better
tilings on the farms, in faetorie
■ schools, churches and homes.
v Drily hVe best products and best
exhibits of all kinds are shown at
the fair; therefore, one gets a look
in at his section and state and
county and community at its bos*.
The best of anything inspires, en-
Tiohles, energizes and creates v
.higher aspiration to excel.
Attend all the fairs you can, take
the entire family; it i- time well
spent and will help you solve your
farm and home problems better,
and create in you a deeper desire
to develop the resources right at
your hands. ,
IS IT NOTHING TO US?
The heaviest drain on the pock
et books of the tax payers of this
country is the expense of crime.
Think of it, ten billion dollars a
year for crime! It is a luxury that
we cannot stand long.
Crime costs more than running
the government, running our pub
lic schools and universities, oper
ating all the churches and more
than all we pay out in this country
for luxuries combined. The actual
cost is staggering to say nothing
of the results in tearing down our
civilization, the spilling of human
blood, the breaking down of res
pect for our laws and liberties of
a free government, the demoraliz
ing business, and the destroying of
confidence and the loss of self
respect.
Yet, only two per cent of this
country’s population are criminal.
The minority is costing the major
ity a tremendous price.
It can be stopped. It must be
stopped or America and her free
institutions and free government,
her democracy will tumble into de
cay.
The suppression of crime an 1
engendering respect for la.v
and constituted authority is large •
ly individual.* When individuals
respect the law and help to create
among their fellows a respect for
law, a sentiment is soon created
against lawlessness, and when sen
timent really takes hold of this
evil, crime will cease. When tho
firm hand of the law grips the
criminal and holds him tyid makes
his pathway hard, when money and
influence cannot buy a pardon and
mitigate a crime and the people
are determined to outlaw the
criminal class, this country will
come back to normal, peaceful con
ditions.
It is a bad indication in a great
country like ours when less than
fifty percent of the qualified voters
cast their ballots. The criminal al
ways vote, it is the law-abiding
good citizen who slacks at the bal
lot box.
When a majority of the people
of this country express themselves
and take over their government
through proper representatives, or
der will be restoed. The people will
right conditions when they become
aroused to the dangers threatening
this country, and it does seem that
the cost of crime is sufficient en
ough to arouse all good citizens.
Stealing in high places like this
country has witnessed the past
three and one half years encour
ages crime. These fellows should
be brought to the bar of justice,
and the party which condones their
crime should be overwhelmingly
defeated at the polls by all true
Americans of whatever creed, as a
rebuke and as an example.
Let majority rule supercede mi
nority rule in this country; let the
majority rise up and make known
to the two per cent criminal ele
ment that they must stop their
damnable work, let the strength,
justice and majesty of tho law be
i t held with firmness and determi
nation in this country and crime
will slink away.
It .s high time these things were
being done in America and in ev
ery county and community in A
merica.
Is it nothing to us that 2 per
cent rules 98 per cent in this coun
try?
Don’t think because the boll wee
vil did not infest your cotton this
year that he is only a myth. If he
can live four days in an air-tight
bottle, he will come back even af
ter four years of absence.
\\ e believe tho oiled road is the
one for the important highways of
Georgia, and we would like to see
the state belted with this kind of
road from county seat to county
seat. It is the practical and inex
pensive road to build, when you
think of the other kinds of hard
surfaced roads. ,
Walker County Messenger, October 3, 1924.
, Touch a man’s pocket book and
you touch him, is an old saying.
If this is true how will the tax
payers vote for Cal and the Re
publican party?
Visit the Chattanooga Fair this
week; it is an institution of in
spiration, of education and will
give you a larger vision for your
farm and home and community,
and don’t forget your own county
fair.
November 4th is only a month
off. The men and women who want
better government, less privilege
to classes, a fair distribution of
governmental benefits and a more
representative government should
not be slackers on election day, but
go out and cast their ballots. The
peril of this country and its free
government, they tell us is that it
is being run by the minority.
Whose fault is it when less than
fifty per cent of the qualified vot
ers voted in the National election
in 1920?
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| TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO |
October 5, 1899.
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Itelow 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.
Among the land buyers who have
been in Walker prospecting has been
T. L. Cannon, of Alabama.
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L. McWhorter when in town on
Sept. 27th ate a roasting ear that
was made from corn planted July 20.
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J. B. Hollis, recently of Rome, came
up Monday to be once more with the
Messenger boys.
Clever B. L. Chastain, Jr., of Cal
houn, accompanied by his wife and
son, is visiting relatives in and near
LaFayette this week.
A protracted meeting was begun
Sunday at the LaFayette Baptist
church. The pastor, Rev. C. E. Wright
has with him in this work, Rev. S. R.
C. Adams, of Newnan. He is a preach
er of marked ability ,
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A. Jackson has bought the J. D.
Taylor farm below town for S7OO and
has traded that to Willis Marsh, tak
ing his house and lot in at SSOO. Mr.
Taylor may locate in LaFayette.
Judge John Mattox and wife and
j daughter, Miss Joe, accompanied by
the judge’s brother and brother-inlaw,
j Messrs J. J. Mattox and U. S. McCar-
I ter, of Tennessee were in LaFayette
I Tuesday.
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M. P. Orr and family are now at
Trion.
The Board of Roads and Aevenub
met Tuesday ,all the members, being
present. Provision was made for the
working of the LaFayette end of the
Government road by using the road
funds of the two districts in hiring
hands. The board will meet again the
first Tuesday in December.
In tho protracted meeting at the
Mt. Carmel church the pastor had the
valuable assistance of Rev. H C Har
din. As he states there was some good
seed sown. The harvest will come .lat
er on for God says “My word shall
not return to me void but shall ac
complish that whereunto I have sent
it.” i
John Neal, a young-looking Confed- j
erate of 54 who is farming four miles i
west of Summerville spent a day >r j
two in town the guest of his friend,
T. P. Batten.
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ROAD NOTICE
Georgia, Walker County.
E. H. Wyatt et al having petition
ed for the establishment of a public
; road as hereinafter described arid the
commissioners appointed to mark ous
and report upon the advisability of the!
establishment of said road having re-1
■ ported that the establishment of said
' public road will be of public utility if
no good cause is shown to the contra- |
ry the public road as follows to-wit, j
commencing at government pike, run-;
ning west to Chickamauga and Lytle
road between the lands of Mrs. L. C.
Davis and E. H. Wyatt and C. Duna
way and between E. H. Wyatt and C.
Dunaway and Don Harris, a distance
of 3-8 of one mile, will be established
as a public road at a meeting of the
i Board of Commissioners of Roads
’ and Revenue of said county on the
j First Tuesday in October, 1924.
Board of Commissioners, Roads and
Revenue Walker County. Ga
_ CLAUDE CLEMENTS, Clerk.
GET YOUR FEED SUPPLIES—Of
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Co. Chattanooga. They make a spec
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tlathuui Constipation Cured
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to induce regular action. It Stimulates and
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per bottle. ~ • |
DEMOCRATIC NOMINEES
FOR COUNTY OFFICES
Below is a list of the Democratic
nominees for county offices elected in
the March primary to be voted on in
; the November election.
W. L. Stansell, Ordinary
Thos W. Bryan, Clerk Superior
j Court.
L. W. Harmon, Sheriff.
John H. Garmany, Tax Receiver
Claude Clements, Tax Collector
R. D. Love, School Superintendent.
Frank Nuckolls, Coroner.
Julius Rink, Surveyor.
Board of County Commissioners
; G. R. Morgan L. P. Keith
i J. C. Tucker J. H. Kilgore
C M. Thurman
For Congress
Gordon Lee
For Solicitor General, Rome Circuit
Jas. F. Kelley
ANNOUNCEMENT
To the Voters of Walker County:
I offer myself a candidate for the
office of Tax Collector of this county
and do so by the advice of hundreds
of good men who have told me they
desired it. I have been told by hun
dreds of the county’s best people that
since the Primary in March was con- ■
! ducted in away very unfair, by one
j man perhaps, registering hundreds on
I the day of the election and permitting
them to vote and sending word to
other precincts directing the same ac
tion there (though not obeyed outside)
| permitting one or more to vote under
I twenty-one years old, that they did
not feel bound. This has come to me
| from a reliable source, and since my \
i friends have signified that such ac
i tion being unfair and undemocratic j
people do not feel bound to foster a !
wrong, I have been asked to continue
my race for Tax Collector. It has
always heretofore been the rule, if
: not the law to close the registration j
books a specified time before the pri- ■
mary,.to make up a list and abide by;
it—that all may alike be governed, j
■ but to register them on the morning!
I of the election when no one has time
nor opportunity to challenge any
vote or voter is manifestly unfair and
- unjust and is not in keeping with the
| principles bequeathed to us by our ;
, founders and forefathers of this Gov
ernment. I need not discuss these fea
i tures at length since most every fair
voter knows the things that prevailed
in the primary in March. Had it been!
conducted in fairness, I would not |
. have continued my race, but no one
[ man has a right to register hundreds'
■ on the election day and then permit
the vote to follow in the face of all
law and previous rule. It is unfair and
unjust. If I am right upon principle
; then I am only asking that justice be
done.
To Every Voter In Walker County:
I am offering myself as a candidate
for the office of Tax Collector of
Walker County and ask the vote of
_ ] every man and woman in the county.
I If you favor me with the vote of elec
. tion I shall do my best to attend the
duties of the office with fair and im
partial conduct. Most of you know me
and know what my fitness is and if
I qualified I feel sure that you will
.; favor me with your vote. None will
> ; appreciate your votes more than I
will.
W. L. BOWEN.
; NOTICE OF BOND ELECTION.FOR
LAKE VIEW SCHOOL DISTRICT
To The Voters of Said School District
Take Notice:
• I Georgia, Catoosa, Walker fisunty.
A petition having been filed with
: j the undersigned Trustees as required
iby law, asking that an election be
called and held in said school district
and submitted to the legally qualified
voters of Lake View School District,
a bond issue for the purpose of build
ing and equipping school house. It is
hereby ordered that an election will
! be held at the Lake View Schoolhouse
in sa ; d school district, on Thursday,
; October 30th, 1924, and submitted to .
! the legally qualified voters of said
j school district, SIB,OOO. Eighteen
; thousand 6 per cent bonds for build- I
j ing and equipping school house, said '
i bonds if voted shall mature in a- ,
! mounts and on dates as follows:
J July Ist, 1926—5500. «
July Ist, 1927—5500
I July Ist., 1928—?500 .
July Ist, 1929—51000 <
July Ist., 1930 SIOOO
July Ist, 1931—51000
July Ist, 1932—51000
July Ist, 1933—51000
July Ist, 1934—51000
July Ist, 1935—51000
July Ist, 1936—51000
j July Ist., 1937—51000 <
July Ist, 1938—51000
July Ist., 1939—11000 <
July Ist, 1940—51500 '
July Ist., 1941—51000
| July Ist., 1942—51500
j July Ist., 1943—51500
Those voting for bonds shall have
I ritten or printed on their ballots the
I " rds for bonds for school house,
those voting against bonds, shall have i
written or printed on their ballots the
words against bonds for school house.
Said election is called to be held as
election for members of General As
sembly and shall be governed as other
elections are held and governed. This
24th day of September 1924.
C. G. FOX
HORACE A. DOXHAM
W. T. WILSON.
Trustees for Lake View School' J
10-24 4t District. ! J
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HENRI & JACKSON
Attorney s-at-Law
LaFayette, Ga.
Practice la all the courts. Office It
Jackson tiuiluing.
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ROSSER & SHAW
Utorneys-at-Law
Offices
Walker County Bank Building
LaFayette, Georgia
Hamilton National Bank Biiildiat
Clieltanooga. ''enc.
NORMAN SHATTUCK
Attornay-at-Law
jffice in Bank of LaFayette Bigg
LaFayette, Ga.
Practice in all Courts, State and
Federal
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L«F ayelte, Ga.
Residence with J. L. Rowland or
Nortb Main Street,
Office ui Jackson Building
Residence Phone 2 shorts on 153
Office Phone 51.
JULIUS HL\K
Attorney-At-Law
Office in Cooper Building,
LaFayette, Ga
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J. A. SHIELDS, M. D.
Physician and Surgeon
LaF'ayette, Ga.
Office Over Rhyne Bros. Pharmacy
Office Hours:
8:00-9:00 a. m... 1:00-2.00 p. pi
Telephones—Rea 151, Office M
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City Office, Room 811. Hamlltag
National Bank Building.
Corner 7th and Market Sit
Chattanooga, Tenn.
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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.
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Attorney-At-Law
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