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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 rr >n A.tvrrttsi'.s Representative ...... an press Assort vno> 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? O O | TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO | October 5, 1899. O O 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. — o — L. McWhorter when in town on Sept. 27th ate a roasting ear that was made from corn planted July 20. — O- 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 , — o — 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. ■—o 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. ————________ ______ 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 all kinds from Dan C. Wheeler and Co. Chattanooga. They make a spec ialty of Cotton Seed Meal and Hnlis. tlathuui Constipation Cured in 14 to 21 Days j "LAX-FOS WITH PEPSIN" is a specialiy prepared Sy rupTonic-Laxative for Habitual Constipation. It relieves promptly and should be taken regularly for 14 to 21 days to induce regular action. It Stimulates and Regulates. _Very Pleasant to Take..6oc 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 CONSTIPATION gees, and energy, pep and 1 vim return when taking J CHAMBERLAIN’S 1 TABLETS K~P stomach sweat —liver active— ( bowels refoiar—only 25c. 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CAROLINE ARNOLD Teacher of PIANO AND VOICE Summer Class Begins June 2 Studio at 27 Cove Street Phone No. 80 LaFayette, Ga. 0 O a. F. McClure W. A. MeClwr- MCLUHF & McCLUHE Atlornevs-at-Law Hamilton National Buuk Bui’ lias LhaUijuoogu, Teas in tuc coons of Georg is , Tennessee. . . -iip ' i ». . ■ ■ -■■ i» m woraiy W. I£. Henry Earl jftsclt&ss HENRI & JACKSON Attorney s-at-Law LaFayette, Ga. Practice la all the courts. Office It Jackson tiuiluing. i. E. Rosser ft. ft. gfc«« 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 OH. W. D. BALLENGFR Dentist . JACKSON BUILDING « LaFayette - - Georgia. * »a mm»m ■■ ■ ■■ ■ i <P^aggN Die aLLivu r. iVAnniAFH i.it Dentist -aF ayeita - - GaorfU Secoud Floor Bank of LaFayatta Building Dlt. J. ft. UNDEIt WOOD 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 ■ * m • " '■ *'«i«Mt. «# 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 DR. SHANNON P. WAHRFAFFI IA Deidtst. At Chlckamauga, Ga. On Saturday! City Office, Room 811. Hamlltag National Bank Building. Corner 7th and Market Sit Chattanooga, Tenn. 7-20 0 DEWEY W. HAMMOND, M. D. 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 RHYNE BROS. PHARMACY LaFayette. Ga [-Tiltfs PiUs-1 | Enable Dyspeptics to eat whatever | I they wish. Cause food to assimilate. I I Nourish the body, give appetite. I DEVELOP FLESH