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THE MURRAY NEWS.
VOL. 26
THE NEWS FROM
MURRAY COUNTY
Correspondents Send Us
Newsy Notes.
ITEMS FROM VARIOUS PARTS
Anui, Oran, Enoch and Cohutta Springs
to the Front This Week With
Interesting Letters.
AMZI DOINGS.
The Misses Gladden are the
happy possessors of a handsome
new piano.
Mr. James Langston and Miss
VariH-U visited friends in Whit¬
field Sunday.
Trammell Wiggins and Mar¬
shal Carney are very ill with
pneumonia.
Paris, little son of Mr. and Mrs.
Dock Smith, died last
after an illness of a few days and
was buried at Pine Grove
day afternoon. We extend
pathy to the bereaved.
Miss Choice Perkins
ued her school at Harmony for a
few days last week on account
the had weather and sickness
the community.
Snowflake.
(This communication was intended for
•fuion last week, buidid not reach us until twen¬
ty-four hours .after the paper had been printed.)
The candy trade is
in Amzi.
A pound party at Hill
son’s last Saturday night; one
M. S. Robertson’s last night.
What, makes the hoys
all girls love candy?
Mr. and Mrs. Dixon visited Mr,
and Mrs. Henderson last Sunday.
H. S. Wade and Sam Dillard
swapped horses yesterday.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Claude
Langston a girl. She has
grandmothers, but neither
uncle nor aunt.
Mrs. William Thomas and Mrs.
Harrison Cordell and little son,
Jerry, visited in Amzi today.
Little Jennie Mae
has been confined to her bed on
account of sickness this week.
Rev. 0. P. Roney was in Amzi
selling hooks yesterday.
Rhine, Hacking & Co.,
bought J. W.
mill, and will move it up
Rural Vale.
Will Langston was up
his kinfolks last week. He
he had moved across the
and regretted his
to the postoffice, Be can’t
The News when the waters are up.
1 am, as ever,
Homespun.
ENOCH DOTS.
As I have not seen
from this place, I will give you
few dots.
Health of the community very
good at present.
Misses Jennie Willbanks and
Olivia Campbell spent one
last week at the home of Mr.
Thornton.
The wife and daughter of
Holland visited Mr. McHaii Sat¬
urday night.
Miss Ella Peeples, the hand¬
some daughter of I). F. Peeples,
visited at the home of Mrs. Flor¬
ence Holland Saturday night.
Mrs. Florence Holland is slow¬
SPRING PLACE, MURRAY COUNTY, GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 5, 1904.
ly recovering from a severe spell
of sickness.
Clem Adams, after a severe
spell of fever, has returned to
school at Pleasant Valley.
School at Mount Zion is pro¬
gressing nicely.
Miss Sallie Holland, a charming
belle of Mount Zion, spent Sun¬
day with Misses Carrie and Ella
Peeples.
Jeff Woods visited his sister,
Mrs. Ola Owens, last Sunday.
If this escapes the waste bas¬
ket, will come again.
Dolly and Folly.
If any seeker after knowledge
can’t find Enoch on the map, just
let me know and I’ll send in a
description of our town.
The boys have bagged consid¬
erable game during the snow.
Joe Evett heads the list with
twenty-four partridges, four rab¬
bits and one turkey in one day.
Tom Elrod and family visited
this community Sunday.
Dave Young and family recent¬
ly left us to make their future
home in South Georgia.
France Adams and George
Will banks are home again, after
seeing the sights at Rome and
Ducktown.
My friend Walter Smith, who
went from this county to McLen¬
nan county, Texas, was recently
married to a Miss Sullivan, also
a native Georgian.
Mrs. D. M. Peeples is conva¬
lescent, after a serious illness.
Clem Adams lias re-entered
school at Pleasant Valley, having
fully recovered from an attack of
pneumonia,
Dennis Walraveu has treated
himself to a nice new Iniggy. I
heard another young man say he
thought he’d go and do likewise.
Girls, remember this is leap year.
Denizen.
ORAN NEWS.
Health of the communty is
good at present.
The snow lias lasted well and
the boys have killed a good many
rabbits.
Ben Keith and wife visited in
Dalton the latter part of last
week.
James Parrott, of Lindale, vis¬
ited home folks Saturday and
Sunday.
John Black was the guest of
Jim Cantrell Sunday night,
Henry Parrott and wife visited
Vince Willbanks Sunday,
Jim Howard is now at work for
the Dalton & Alaculsa Lumber
Company.
Miss Capes Webb was the guest
of Miss Myrtle Mitchell Sunday
afternoon.
Messrs, John O’Neill and Char¬
lie Ross, of Pleasant Valley,
passed through Oran en route to
Carters Quarter Monday after¬
noon ,
As news is scarce I will close.
W. R. B.
| COHUTTA SPRINGS.
-
Fred Aly is rapidly improving
from his recent illness.
A three-inch snow fell here last
I Thursday night and school sus¬
pended until Monday. I
Creed Bates made his first visit
to Alaculsa last Saturday and
brought Miss Lena Anderson out
A FINE SHOWING
The Bartow Paper Speaks in Tenns of
Highest Praise.
The following article, clipped
from the Oartersville News and
Courant, shows that not alone in
Murray and Whitfield is the ex¬
cellent, work of Solicitor Sam P.
Maddox greatly appreciated, but
that down in Bartow also they
are ready to give due credit for
faithful performance of duty:
The real work of the January
term of superior court just closed
occupied about nine days time.
What a remarkable showing this
is. Bartow is one of the large
counties of the state, and that
her heavier judicial business for
half a year should be dispatched
in so small a space of time as this
is a fact calculated to appeal to
the reason of the people; but it is
a fact no less surprising than
satisfactory, for in those days of
In ivy public burdens and high
taxes whatever helps to lighten
the load meets popular apprecia¬
tion. The expenses of the court
in this county have been curtail¬
ed about 60 per cent.
This fine showing is not the re¬
sult of any helter-skelter sched¬
ule or skimming over for a
fictit ious show, but is a genuine
clearing away of the business by
pains-taking methods, by dili¬
gence and intelligent efforts.
The dockets are in finer shape
than ever before, wit h lots of the
cumbrous old matter gone.
While nothing lias been slighted,
the court’s business has been
pushed with facility, mid with
firm but courteous In mining
of the usual trilling objects
delay.
For all this Judge A, W. Fite
and Solicitor Sam P. Maddox de¬
serve great credit, and merit the
appreciation of the people, for
men directing courts in Georgia
have striven with more zeal,
shown more ability than they,
and the results are agreeably vis¬
ible in the condition of the
business of the courts of the
Cherokee circuit.
to see us,taking her hack Sunday
evening, Three hundred and
sixty pounds will surely test
Creed’s new buggy crossing Doo
gan mountains.
Miss Jennie Terry visited home
folks at Ilassler Mall Saturday,
returning Sunday evening.
Miss Nannie Sue Gregory, who
is in school at Pleasant Valley,
visited her cousin, Miss Cora
Gregory at Ilassler Mill, last Sat¬
urday.
T. R. Green, of the D. & A.
Lumber Company, visited in our
burg last Saturday.
O. W. Miller, of Hiawassee
College, Tenn., was a prominent
visitor in our midst last week.
Frank Summerour, jr,, of
Dalton, visited relatives here
last week.
Miss Mary Johnson, who has
been dangerously ill with ty¬
phoid fever, is now rapidly re¬
covering under the care of DL
Jones, of Dunn,
Dr. Painter, of Sumach, was in
our community last week.
Rev, J. S. Rawles, accompa¬
nied by his wife, filled his ap¬
pointment at Summerour’s last
Sunday.
Frank Brindle, of Fidelle, is
logging the sawmill for J.
elements.
S. L. Trimmier is selling tur
nips,
Baxter.
REPUDIATED BONDS
OF THESOUTH
COMMISSIONERS
Pass an Order Relating to Small Bridges
of the County.
The County Board of Roads
and Revenues met Tuesday in
regular monthly session.
There were present John H.
Harris, Chairman; 0. 0. Keith
and T. N. Hemphill.
The board passed an order pro¬
hibiting the building of bridges
over the small streams crossing
the public roads of the county
any larger than is necessary to
convey the water thereunder.
It was ordered that the list of
paupers remain the same as at
the previous meeting, with the
additions of Mrs. Angling and
Callie Angling, who are allowed
$1 per month each, and “Toot”
Timms, who is to receive $3 per
month.
Court of Ordinary.
Murray County Court of Ordi¬
nary was in session Monday.
Mrs. Ann Langston, relict of 0.
0. Langston, was allowed twelve
months’ support from the estate
of the deceased.
Dr. James B. Hughes was ap¬
pointed permanent guardian of
Esther and Maude Grow, minor
grandchildren of Mrs. Pleasant
Haggard, deceased.
EPWORTH LEAGUE
Meeting to Organize Called for Sunday
Night.
A meeting to organize an Ep
worth League will he held in the
Methodist church in this city
Sunday night at 7 o’clock, and
our citizens generally, young and
old, are cordially invited to he
present*and join in this move¬
ment.
While the League is a society
of the Methodist church, it is in
no sense sectarian, and men and
women of all denominations will
receive a cordial welcome to its
ranks, and their work and sup¬
port he met with high apprecia¬
tion.
Come out, everybody. You
may feel assured that your pres¬
ence will be greeted with pleas¬
ure.
At Baptist Church.
Mr. Clifton Fletcher’s sermon
at the Baptist church Sunday
morning was heard with marked
attention by a congregation of
large proportions. The writer
listened to it with much pleasure
and profit, and as a result does
not hesitate to predict for Mr.
Fletcher a successful career in
the ministry.
Not Bad For a Gloomy Day.
While the crowd here last
Tuesday was much smaller than
is customarily found here on first
Tuesday, The News succeeded in
adding thirty-five new names to
its subscription list, which is not
had for a gloomy day.
Are Remowing Next Door.
Foster, Son & Harlan, the en¬
terprising merchants of Dalton,
are moving into their old stand
in the Oglesby building immedi
ately adjoining their present
quarters. These gentlemen will
liave somc S 00<1 uews to tel1 y° u
shortly through the columns of
this paper.
NO. 6
May Be Sued on to Re¬
cover.
COURT DECISIONS REACH FAR
Issued By “Carpet Bag” Governments of
the South and Afterward
Repudiated.
Washington, February 4.—
Many southern senators and rep¬
resentatives today filed requisi¬
tions with the clerk of the
supreme court for printed copies
of the full decision of that court
in the case of South Dakota
against North Carolina, announc¬
ed yesterday, which may have a
far-reaching effect upon the obli¬
gations of different southern
states made by reconstruction
governments and since repudiat
ed.
In advance of a careful study
of the full decision of the court,
these gentlemen, and lawyers
generally, decline to express an
opinion as to what hearing this
decision may have upon other
states, but it is generally under¬
stood that so far as North Carolina
is concerned, that decision opens
up a possible liability of some¬
thing more than a million dollars.
Visions are entertained of the
possibility of the supreme court
granting judgment against
Georgia and all the other south¬
ern states against which stand
these dishonored obligations,
through their passing into the
hands of states or foreign govern¬
ments which may acquire them
either as gifts or by purchase,
and that the total liability thus
entailed will run high up into the
millions.
FOR CONGRESS
Hon. Gordon Lee, of Cbickamauga, Has
Made Formal Annoucement.
Cn the last page of this issue
will be found the announcement
of Hon. Gordon Lee, of Ohicka
mauga, who desires to serve the
people.of the Seventh district as
their representative in congress.
While our personal acquaint¬
ance with Mr. Lee has been lim¬
ited to a brief period of time, yet
he has impressed us as a man of
no mediocre ability. The record
he has made in the Georgia sen¬
ate is one of which he may feel
justly proud, and might lead to
the opinion that in a broader
field of legislative action the in¬
terests of his constituents would
be carefully conserved.
Rea! Estate Transfers’
We have the following trans¬
fers of Murray dirt to report this
week:
Commissioners of Murray
County to S. C. Wil¬
liams, lot in Spring
Place - $ 260
W. R. Coffey et al. to J.
W. Coffey, 280 acres in
9th district 900
James P. Edmondson to
J. L. Edmondson, land
in 8th district 1000
Marriage Licenses.
White—J. A. Berry and Effie
Berrown.
Colored—Henry C. Ilassler and
Ann Roe,