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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,