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HEARD, SAID, DONE. What is Going County. oil ai! Over the *- ill a Condensed Form foi NJ array's Prosperous People .Miss Zuia IIill was shopping with our vac: chants Wednesday. “Dod” a’orders of Gordon county visited in our city recently. Dr E O Stafford of Dennis passed through our civ,* \\ c-.dnvsday. \V W 'Nelson of Dooiittle bowdving with friends here. Wedues day. Genial II M Gudger, wife and Lt tie daughter spent, Sunday i.t ottr city. Affable Fain Black of Cram-eater, visited relatives lure die first of this week Mrs S Daly of Ringgold is here on a visit to her daughter Mrs V L Watts. Pleasant Navy W Payne was dilating among friends here Movday. .Clever T P Ramsey of pat 1 the News a very pleasant Tut ad a . The teach,irs Instituc meets here next Monday and continues during the week. Clever John Galt and family of Ardmore, I. T., are visiting in this community. Lon Daly and George Henyf,- yi ited in Dalton a. day or two the 5rut of this week. Prof John A Gilbert of Wells, was handshaking with friends it: - ui city Wt dnesuay. “Tavji” Bonds of Fashion was in our City trading with our merchants Wednesday. J L Russell of Gassier Mill was handshaking with numerous friends here Tuesday. Col V L Waits and S B Carter made a business trip to Dillon one day this week. Mass Mollie Glass is now at Crow Tex., for the suinnier instead ol , Fort Worih. Mi.-s Lila Payne of Fashion was m our city last Saturday on a pmg IsSCS Mattie ! lumphu and Giiiie I inc-liei vi-ited at Dennis the latn r part of last week. Miss Katie Edmondson Budie Wilson brightened our sa lic¬ i um sactwum last Monday. Mis Onto Starr ami family of R a ' ton are spending the week at the Lome of her father, J 1 Kelly. Mbs Julia Williams, a charming voting lady, of Marietta, is visiting t the home of C&pl W C T ilton. Ross Bates Lad the misfortune get about 400 bushels of wheat de¬ stroyed by lii e one day this week. Photographer III Smith of Rural Yale called in to see us one day this week and subscribed,for the News, Hon P McGhee, Jolin Galt and family and Mrs Hoietiee Lowry vis- vm ited at the home of Col C N King Tuesday. The Board of Education met here last Wednesday to make out their sacend quarterly report to tae State -School Commissioner. A tramp who spent the night with Er win Baggett Ia$l Monday quietly helped himself to a paii hew shoes and 05 ets in money be foie leaving Tuesday morning. We are seriously inclined to be •ieve that Col Watts is correct in believing that some people in the world would have to go to school about 12 months befor they could be admitted to the Asylum vroi s t day and continue or three months. Prof Fincher is old teacher and in addition to his an experience in teaching be has bad great deal of experience in actual a business which renders him doubly qualified to teach a good' scuool. Quite a number of our young men should take advantage of this funity and enter the school. ! FASHIONABLES FROM FASHION. 't he News of That On wine Little Town UatUeved for the Nkav> by Our Correspondent, Juno JS.— I suppose most every body knows it, is hot, dry and dusty ; and that everything is “about .to dry up on the staid”, so i’ll not mention t hat. John L Galt and family of Ard¬ more, I. T„ are out on their annual ! ■ vjsit lo , tui family of P McGhee and tiller relatives here. Walt nnil Ihx Harris, Misses Fan¬ nie and Nannie Mason and 'others of our lmtg “pent the day at Cohutta Springs yesterday, Mrs Nannie Moore j is v isiting her sister Mrs P M.•Gh<*o Wheat threshing time is here and the hum of the thresher is airn.ih heard here, Hon P McGhee went to Nashville last week to see the exposition. The McLain and Burning thresh jer Co. have their purchased a and new engine | to pull thresher aim Ro start out next week. They have a good outfit and first class work as i usual. Charlie Byrd has bought-a bicycle so we expect more schorching on our streets than Hie sun will do. Oar community , boast , of . an can i old lady sev-nty six years old who > s'HI enjoying good health, and whose 1 air still retains its golden l’ iue * ; Some of the little boys about here who ought to -A ay at home to feed the chickens and carry in stove wood are trying 'o go sparking. We do not believe in depriving the • ami girls of each others society so J ! long as they think-and act sensibly neither do we look with disapproba . uon iinou love ntaki.w and m-arimo I nial alliances after they have reached the proper age, and can realize how j the responsibiliti 0t$ f life will rest I i upon their shoulders-, but when Sc’f. • bovs and girls bothering their minds shout, sm-h affairs, when they ■ (>Ul?bt t( ,L e thinking about- something ,.Re, we begin to wonder what the ■ world is coming to anyhow. ] “Them's tnv sentiments, Si-oitT, , “LAND OF THE .jRV.” : In Western North Carolina, be t>m , n Blue Ridge on the East .-nd the Alk'glianies on the West, In the heautifnf valley of the French Broad, two thousand feet above tin Sea, lies Ashville, beautiful, pietnr-. and world-famed as one of the most plea*;Uit resorts in America. it is a land of bright skies and in comparable climate, whose praises pave been sung bv poets, and whose i beauties of stream, valley and moun j tain have fimii-dsed subject and in— 1 j spiration for painters brush, 1 This is truly the “Land of the I Skv,” and there is, perhaps, no more j beautiful n-Ltion on the continent to j attract pleasure tourists or health, ] seekers. i j ’ Convenient schedules and very \ i ow fates to Asheville via Southern Railway', 8-81. j FOil SALE. . Several thousand good brick at per thousand; also forty head of nice hogs of all sizes. Prices to. suit the times. Mbs. S. J. Jackson. , Spring Place Ga. SPECIAL NOTICE. I will open a school at Pleasant j Yalley Academy op Monday July,; 5th, 1897, ar.d will teach as thorough . an( q complete a business course as can be secured in any business col lege for less than one-third the cost ! of attending a business college in a city, Will teach Book Keeping, Pen mansbip, Calculations, etc. The school wifi continue until the ^ w .o,- «.u course. For further particulars call on or address me at Dnnu, Ga. Y'ours truly', S. T. I incher. • FOUND.—A lady’s cloak between j Spring Place and Dalton. Any one j giving full description of same can i ] secure it by paying this advertising THE NEWS IN AND AROUND ORAN. wiiat, The People are Doinsir. And Other Interesting Dots Our Cor resporuk'iit (lives Them. July 1.—ITavvi sting is done in this community. Plows and LoeThave done damage to weeds and grass for the past two weeks. Lester Steed is with the thresher |.again -this \veek. lion, to Mr a ltd Mrs John Woods a boy. ('has. Turner, the Xlavs’ “devil” has moved to the McMahan place. Little Sybil Davis has been quite sick for the past three weeks. rieartsyll and John Steed will start their brick kiln t»-dny. Leo,'infant daughter of Spencer Davis, vs right .sick. ^Sunday school, at this place has gone dead. J-t R’Stecd makes frequent visits u , Pleasant Valley. What’s the at traction, Noel?. Miss L'odie Ellis visited the Mis ses Black Sunday Farmers would appreciate a ,gbi>d rain at present. Our literary vsehoA will open the second Monday in July. Rev Newton ^ A Parsons will . A 11 his vegulcr appointment at Ilariiaons Chapel next Sunday. John \Villbanks of flossier Mill, passed through our community last Saturday en route for Spring I Prof Shriner and wife visited at Mount Zion last week.— “Lax v n) ?, THE NEWS FROM UOUOHIUOGE. ''hat is Happening in ami Around Dial June JO. The North Georgia i/.en stated recently that the farmers Murray harvested wheat all day Sunday. Now, (lie Citizen is eraily correct but not always so. The wheat, did ripen all at once, nearly, but, far as we can learn, it, was all bat-vested without using J 11 /'! 1 - ran ms binder until 1 1 o clock on Saturday night, and probably it the sound of that binder the Citizen man heard ns it ro echoed from the Ooh-atta mountain to , i,s j, ' ‘ ’ „„ l Lat would , , be almo an mpossiiii , but mv . , W hat a long ear so>2iy muviipypcr men ; On ,, ,, Monday , morning . soon alter ... Ross|Bales commenced threshing, his wheat slacks caught fire from the engine the spark arrester having been left off- and before the fire could oe extinguished his whole crop of three or four hundred bushels was destroyed. One hundred and forty seven peo- TRUNKS r TRUNKS • TRUNKS Furniture House—The Carpet Store The Under-1 taking Establishment, Dalton, Ga. I Has added a beautiful line of ! Trunks in Latest Novelties— Black Antique, Oak Finish, Plain ; Enamel Zinc and .Canvass bought direct from factory very cheap, 2500 Yards Matting 10c. Yard be¬ i and up, Had you not better buy ' fore the tariff bill passes. It will be much higher. : See rny New Carpets at Low i Prices. New Stock Furniture just in 1 If you want a 1st class Piano or Organ get a genuine cago Cottage Organ or Kingsbury Piana. |*J«> Jwt Sunday At the springs ; ! and they didn’t, call it a picnic either j I Hope when crops are laid by they | will have them on Saturday. C T Owens is recovering rapidly ] He says he will be down this way 11 a ^ (JVV ‘Kv 8 - Frank Sumt-nerour and family of i Dalton will move to the, springs in i a a short while. i Blackberries are ripe, apples are coming in, mid peaches will soon be ready for vise, and jams, jellies and preserves must be made up. On this account, Samantha says you must ; excuse her for a while. However, her place for the present, will be supplied by—JosiA 11 . Vt.HVSANT VALUEV ITEMS. The News of that Thriving Village as Our Ooi respondent Uives It. June JO Health seems to be very j ^ , , hou „ h there is some sickness i around and the doctors are kept quite | busy, Crops are.beginning to need rain, at. least that is the view the farmers , take. School at Pleasant Valley'..closed j June IS. The attendance was quite large, especially at night. The i'ae «>y and friends of the school in' - ! general wish to express tbetr high j appreciation of the remarkably good ] O ,. (jor £ maintained by the audience j durfn ^ ^ ^ erm ^ Never has j it beetf th « privilege of any one to j witness better behavior and better i attention than was seen here. When the exercises closed, at night, the same orderly conduct prevailed. It] seems due those who were present arid also duo the county that this statement be made. People who j know this county only through news j paper reports, may be surprised that s!w h good conduct could be possible ! in Murray count}', yet it they will (,ake, the pains to become better ac i q,minted with the county and its j people, they will no doubt decide that, Murray county is not the worst jpi a ,. t , ; n Hie world— j Trustees and Faculty of Pleasant Valley Academy, ! HAPPENINGS. (i us Pierce made a business trip to jjalton yesterday, i I \V glad state that Mrs L C arts to M .Jones is slightly J improved at this “ . time. William N Owen of t)ran has been some what indisposed for the past j few days. I'ruf Giles Dunri, who bus been attending school in Calhoun has ro twi'iied to his home at Cohutta Springs, Misses Katie and Jennie May Ed¬ mondson Amy Lou Humbert spent the first part of this week down on Holly Creek fishing. J. V A. CARTER ♦ A Card • From HARRIS ’BROS. Fashion, Ga., We have embarked in the Mercantile business at this place, we have a GOOD stock of General Merchandise consisting of Staple.Dry Goods,, Groceries,, liardware Shoes. We buy m the best market; pay spot cashffor every¬ thing- wt buy, getting all Discounts off. We have no house rent to pay—board at home free of charge. Of..cp)}yse<(W« can sell cheap. We expect, by fair dealing, unceasing effort, and careful buying and .selling, to build up ,a good .busies# here. fwssr*? Our present prices on ,a few articles are given below/ JO lbs. Standard Gran. Sugar for $1„ Steel wire nails, per lb. 2 l-2o. 7 !ba. Good Green Coffee for 4$l 0,0. Standard Trace Chain .25 S lbs. Arlmckle’s Coffee for $1.00. ..Horse Shoes, each, .0,5. Candy per pound .05. yOne foot Plow Stock, .8,0. Good Tobaccso .05. Womens S. G. Button Shoes „tg) A. II. Soda per pound .05. Metis’ Congress Shoes, And many other articles at cost, Best 2" i,u. Cotton Checks .05 Bleach Domestic 5c Stand ini Print ,05 l ard Wide Sheeting 5o Women’s and Children’s Hose .05 Dress Ginghams 5.c Mens’ Half Hose. ,£c At the above prices >ve expect them to be settled fqr at time pf purchase. we pay the market price foreproduce. If vou need anything- in our line Co me and get our prices before going elsewhere. HARRIS BROS wffiwwmi i y Are You WEDED TO ANY particular Store? Or do you seek the place where the best goods can be found? We don’t know much about selling groceries, still but learning. we have made a study of clothing for years, and we are That’s why this store has gained the reputation of like being the best clothing house in the city. Men of taste to buy here; Don’t cost any more for that extra touch of style an d quality here than for the cheap grade garments in many establishments We are dosing out our /Summer Clothes and Dry Goods at actual cost. Smooth Cheviot suits for $2.50 to $6.50, worth % more, BALTIMORE CUOTHING CO. The Square Clothiers, Hatters, Furmshers, TRUNKS TRUNKS TRUNKS