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VOL. 26 ^ ^ 11~^\ 11A I A C* ij I 1 Of IvJL* \ y iv v HE LOST Atlanta Lady Marries a New Yorker WHO THEREBY LOSES $150,000 Another Case of "The World Well Lost for Love” New York, March 17.—Love laughed at wealth today when Georgb O. Schwartzburger an¬ nounced that he had been mar¬ ried to Miss Blanche W. Sloane, of Atlanta, since 15)02. He is 23 and his bride 22. The reason for the secret mar¬ riage was objection on the part of Schwartzburger, senior, who offered bis son $150,000 to remain single until be reached the age of 25, but counting the menoy well lost for love, they declared it might go begging so far as they were concerned. PEOPLE YOU KNOW From the Dalton Argus. Dr. John Steed, of Spring Place, was in Dalton Friday. Miss Myra Peeples was the guest of her sister, Mrs. B. L. Hearts ill, Friday. Mr. and Mrs. John B. Gregory passed through Dalton Thursday en route to Chattanooga. The numerous friends of Mrs. S. E. Fields and Miss Kate Ed¬ mondson will regret their remov¬ al to Atlanta. Frank*Summerour, the peach king of North Georgia, informs the Argus that the prospects for a fine peach crop in this section were never better. . . . The trees are loaded with large and healthy buds that are almost ready to bloom. Mr. Summer our owns and has under bis con¬ trol 500,000 peach trees. MILL CREEK. Everything is moving quietly in our burg at this writing. School is progressing nicely at this place. It will close in two weeks, Miss Nannie Mason visited the Misses Ellis Thursday night. Born to Tom Morris and wife, a baby girl. Miss Alma Hill is visiting her brother, Bob, at the railroad carnps. H. H. Gravely will get through picking cotton this week. Hur¬ rah, Mr. Gravely, You will soon have to start another crop. Misses Ora and Myrtle Ellis visited their sister, Mrs. M. W. Fraker, Wednesday, at Fashion. Brother Barton passed through our burg recently. Johnnie Vaughan has been real sick of pneumonia for the past two weeks but is now im¬ proving.. I am ■ glad to see Miss Mary Harvey on our streets again. Dr. John Gilbert "“passed through our burg this week en route to Gregory. £; Chester Hill has purchased himself a new horse. J, 0, Ellis was in Fashion on business this week. Mrs. Florence Lowry has had an attack of the grip for several days. ’Squire A. J. Mason was a prominent figure on our streets a day the first of the week. Guess what young man called on his girl Wednesday afternoon and got hung up on the fence. Girls, while out on your leap year calls, don’t forget to call on bachelor Jim Whiteeotton. N. Y. Z. A New Daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Hill Anderson, Amzi, are the proud parents of new daughter, born Sunday. / •>' sfc* THE MURRAY NEWS SPRING PLACE, MURRAY COUNTY, GEORGIA MARCH 18, 1904. NEW CANDIDATES WHO ASPIRE TO MURRAY COUNTY’S VARIOUS OFFICES Ask the Votes of the People in the Coming April Primary Several new candidates an¬ nounce in this issue for differ¬ ent county offices. The date set for the primary is just a month off now, and the various aspir¬ ants are diligently “shelling the woods” in their hunt for votes. The names of the fallowing gen¬ the tlemen appear formally for first time: W. A. Buchanan. A very clever gentleman ask¬ ing to be made Tax Collector is Justice W. A. Buchanan, of Bull Pen district, a native of this county, and a prominent farmer and lumberman. His compe¬ tence is unquestioned, and his many friends will no doubt rally loyally to his support. L. M. Douthit. Mr. Douthit is also a farmer, living in “Little Murray,” and has a host of friends who will work hard to put him in the Sheriff’s office. He is well qual¬ ified to serve the people well in an official capacity, and states that he has met with much en¬ couragement in his canvass. A. K. Ramsey. Believing that a farmer can best represent the agricultural interests of hisTounty, Mr. Ram¬ sey asks you to send him to the House- of Representatives. lie served you well there some twelve years ago, and On the record made then asks to be re¬ turned. As he can not see you all, he hopes you will consider his claims. M. H. Bramblett. Mr. Bramblett offers for an¬ other term as Tax Receiver. He has made a faithful and consci¬ entious officer, performing his duties promptly and impartially. He lias earned the commenda¬ tion of the people during his in¬ cumbency, and no county can boast of a more efficient receiv¬ er than he has made. Rev. W. R. Lackey. Mr. Lackey’s ambition is to be your Treasurer. A Bapt ist min¬ ister of long standing and an old Confederate soldier, be has serv¬ ed both his church and the Southland with zeal and fidelity. He asks your support for this of¬ fice, and would no doubt fill it acceptably. Joe B. Anderson. Mr. Anderson thinks your Treasurer should be a young man, and consistently with that opinion, offers himself as a can¬ didate for the position. Intel¬ lectually equipped and morally qualified for the responsibilities of such an important office, he asks you to consider his merits. OAKLAND. Grandma MeHan is right sick. Jeff Welch is sick with fever. Miss Theo Townsend spent part of last week with Miss Fannie Stuart, who was very sick, but I am glad to know that she is now improving. Roberts and wife took Will dinner with the family of John Townsend Sunday. Misses Emma and Eva Roberts spent Saturday night with Theo and Beulah Townsend. Fain Wilson and Sam Blasin game have returned from Canton. Tom Moreland passed through here Sunday afternoon on his way to see his best girl. All of the boys around here who went sparking Sunday had to stay all night on account of the rain. th!““Sh S S4: 11 Kv| i 4h 0 iiicited to come out. The woods are swarming with candidates around here. Some in buggies, some horseback and some a-foot, and as soon as you ^'.....-**»■*• Score Was Nine to Two. The opening ball game of the season was played Saturday at Dunn, when Spring Place and Pleasant Valley crossed bats. Score, 51 to 2 in favor of Sirring Place. Batteries—For Spring Place, Groves, Keister, W. Ovbey; for Pleasant Valley, Jenkins,Lough ridge, Jackson, Adams. Mrs. Thirza Hooker. Mrs. Thirza Hooker, wife of Jacob Hooker, died Saturday at her home, about four miles be¬ low town. She was buried Sun¬ day in Pine Grove cemetery, Rev. N. A. Parsons officiating. Marriage Licenses. John B. Gregory and Bessie S. Apollos. William O. Palmer and Otho E. Smith. Jud Brindle and Pearl Haw¬ kins. Not in the Primary. In conversation with The News man Saturday, Lewis Terry stat¬ ed that while it is his intention to announce later for the office of sheriff, it not his intention to go into the primary. APRIL FIFTH Republicans of Murray Are Called to Meet in Spring Place. We, the executive committee of the Republican party of Mur¬ ray county, hereby call mem¬ bers of said committee bo meet on April 5 at the court house in Spring Place, to transact such business as may come before them properly. M. W. Shields, Chmn. J. B. Hughes, E. W. Markin. To the central committee above the following have been added from their respective dis¬ tricts : 824— G. W. Chambliss, Wm. Moreland, J. E. Everett, Lee Grice. 825— John Elrod, Frank Pritch¬ ett. 8—Walter Pritchett, A. T. W eaver, Bull Pen—W. M. Morgan, R. Weaver. Shuck Pen—Robt. Gudger, J. F. Smith. 1013—Charles Ross, James Loughridge. 10—Giles Dunn, Robert Coch¬ ran. Doogan—Marion Oloer, John W etzel. Doolittle—Doak Leonard, W. H. Waters. Alaculsa—Robert Clayton, Da¬ ly White. HASSLER MILL. We are planting beans, cab¬ bage, potatoes and all kinds of garden seeds; cutting fish poles and digging bait, hunting rabbits and squirrels, and sticking chunks in fences to keep out the pigs. Eli Stanford is setting out a large peach orchard. If he is lucky you can get a snip of good old peach and honey next fall. Somebody killed three large gobblers last week. Peaches are safe so far. Creed Bates was down this week firing an engine. He says that Edge has thrown away his shot gun and gone to work. Creed can take three dry rails and run an engine all day, by turning it into a gasoline gener¬ ator. Some of the neighbors have taken exceptions to the state¬ ment that we have not a poor have some "> *«•—*;. that don’t like We to work, some that are not blessed riches, some that had rather iie in bed until 8 o’clock than to get up and hustle for wealt h ; but are all fat; their children all fat and most of their wives are very fat. John B. Gregory and wife have been visiting here this week. J. L. Russell made a visit to Dalton. Mr. Farrar was out from Dal¬ ton buying lumber this week. Misses Nina Allen and Agnes Terry were in the burg one day this week. Dan Earnest caught two rab¬ bits Saturday. He thinks that will excuse him of a month’s work. Jap Isenhower has a dog that can count. When he trees, if there is more than one, he looks up the tree and pats his foot for each one and won’t leave till they are all killed. 1’at Survey Completed. The two surveying parties of the Louisville & Nashville rail¬ road, which have been laying off a route from Wetmore to Oar tersville, have completed their work, and passed through Spring Place yesterday en route north. Will Speak First Tuesday. Col. H. A. Langston requests us to announce that on the first Tuesday in April he will address the people here on live issues. FOR CONGRESS Primary to Nominate Also to Be Held on April 20. The Seventh congressional ex¬ ecutive committee met in Rome Satur4ay, and set April 20 as the date for the congressional pri nv-ry. ___________ DOOGAN. As I haven’t seen anything from our community in some time I will try to write a l“ew r dots. Health very good at this date. A. L. Campbell made a busi¬ ness trip to Dalton one day this week. Col. Luke Henry, of Spring Place, was in this section last w'eek handshaking with the boys and asking them to come out to the primary and help him and others. W. M. West made a business trip to Spring Place one day last, week. Miss Roxie Arthur is spending the week with Leola White. Rev. B. A. Armour is getting a nice chance of logs for Phillips Sawmill Co,, which is expected to arrive in a few days. Kin Thompson was in this sec¬ tion one day last w'eek looking after his timber that Tasker Lumber Go. is cutting on Ids land. Thomas Douthit, of Blue Ridge, has returned home after spending some time in this com¬ munity looking after bis business. J. B. Thompson carried another fine load of pork to Ducktown one day last week. Miss Onnie Baxter, who has been visiting friends and rela¬ tives at Ocoee, Tenn., lias re¬ turned home to the delight of her many friends. Mart O’Neill, of Ocoee, Tenn •, was in this section recently on business. Newt Kendrick and wife, of Cisco, spent last Saturday night with his brother Francis. Col. O. P. Kerr, of North Car¬ olina, spent last Saturday night with the Rev. B. A. Armour. Chris Shields, of Fairy, passed through this burg last Sunday. With success to Tjie News I close for this time. M. C. Real Estate Transfers. Wm. Pendley to M. G. Ev¬ erett, lot in town - $30 Martha Henry to J. P. Hen¬ ry, 7 acres 9th district - THREE HUNDRED KILLED BY JAPS DEMOCRATS MEET AND ARRANGE TOR MURRAY COUNTY PRIMARY. The Committeemen in Each District to Hold This Election. The Murray County Democrat¬ ic Executive Committee met at the court house in Spring Place on March 12, 15)04, in response to a call from Chairman Peeples, to consider means and plans of holding the county primary on April -20, 15)04, as well as to transact such other business as might come before the commit¬ tee. The following resolutions were adopted: 1 That the committeemen in each district hold the election, or see that the same is held prop¬ erly and the returns made. 2 That the committee have 5,000 uniform tickets printed and that they be properly divided and sent to each district. 3 That each candidate be as¬ sessed $5 to pay for holding the election and printing the tickets; the same to be paid to the chair¬ man of the county executive committee not later than April 10, 1904. 4 That negroes be allowed to vote in the county primary. 6 That any one desiring to vote in said primary election may do so, and support the nominees only so.fur as he participates in the primary, and his vote will be counted only so far as he votes. L. F. Peeples. Chum. R. I\ Campbell, Sec. Pro Tern. [ Unless their pro rata share of the expenses is forthcoming from the state committee, an assess¬ ment will be levied upon the state house candidates by the county committee, it seeing no justice in making the county candidates stand all the cost..] PLEASANT VALLEY. John Gregory and bride were the guests of his sister, Mrs. Major Terry, Tuesday night. Miss Jennie Red, of Fort Moun¬ tain, entered school here Monday. Hon. Green Treadwell passed through our burg Monday after¬ noon. “Grandmas” Cox and Cole were to see their new grandson who arrived (Saturday morning at the home of Lee Cox and wife. Prof. Cicero Lindsey lias re¬ entered school. Clarence McOamy and Miss Alma Gregory, of Sumach, visit¬ ed friends at this place Sunday. Miss Nettie Moore, of Spring Place, was a guest of Miss Lillie Latch Sunday. Rev. Stokes filled his regular appointment Saturday and Sun¬ day and preached three interest¬ ing sermons. County School Commissioner Daily Gregory visited our school Monday. Miss Bertie Dunn and brother visited homefolks Sunday. Messrs Seth Harris and Howell were in our burg Sunday after¬ noon smiling on a couple of young ladies. Misses Alma Gregory, Zoe Leonard and Bessie Bates dined with Miss Annie Steed Sunday. Ask Tom Peeples and Grover Terry if the shine was off their hoots when they got home Sun¬ day night. Say, boys, did your horses beat you home? Betsy, GREGORY. As some of the correspondents have described their “towns” I will mention a few of the attrac¬ tions at Gregory. It is situated on the bank of Oonnasauga river and contains one big store, a post office, grist mill, sawmill, cotton gin, blacksmith shop, several fine dwellings and barns, and last in age, bi t first to behold and al¬ ways remembered, a host beautiful girls. ’Squire D. C. Dunn called an NO. 12 In Attack on Port Arthur March 12. THIS REPORT IS AUTHENTIC During Bombardment Japanese Were in a Position of Safety London, March 3(5—A corre¬ spondent of the Daily Telegraph at Yin Kow says that the Japan¬ ese again attacked Port Arthur March 12. During the bombard¬ ment the Japanese were in a po¬ sition of safety from the guns of the fortress. The Russian cas¬ ualties amounted to 300 killed or wounded. The correspondent adds that this is authentic. extra session of justice court last Tuesday. Dr. John F. Gilbert was taking dots at justice court Tuesday. Merchant and Assistant Post¬ master R. H. Shelton spent several days in Chattanooga last week buying a large stock of spring goods. W. J. Gregory and wife attend¬ ed church at Sumach Sunday. J. B. Gregory and larnily, of Dennis, visited" relatives here last week. Miss Annie Cooper, of Whit¬ field county, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Mark Oaylor. Misses Bettie Dunn and Ida Shields visited Mrs. M. N. Greg¬ ory last Thursday. Success to The News. Tktx. PERSONAL MENTION Prof. Schoeller went over to Dalton Friday. J. M. Hanna, of Sumach, w as a recent welcome visitor, R. Pryor Campbell was among the prominent visitors to town Saturday. Mrs. Sid Keister is much im¬ proved, and there is now hope of saving her eye. Mrs. M. L. Foster and daugh¬ ter, Miss Katie, visited at the parsonage Saturday. Max Keister, the editor’s ca¬ pable assistant, was on the sick list Monday and Tuesday. Hon. Pleas. McGhee attended the meeting of the congressional conjmittee in Rome Saturday. Rev. Alvin Jones was called Wednesday to the bedside of his mother, near Johnson City, Tenn. Rev. N. Parsons left Tuesday for Indian Territory, being join¬ ed in Dalton by Lum Gilbert,who is also making a western trip. Col. Ben Bates is efficiently presiding over the Institute intermediate grade at Lucy Hill this week, in the absence of Prof. Sampler. Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Pendley are now cosily domiciled in the Everett cottage, the Misses Ev¬ erett being now with their brother. A congregation of goodly pro¬ portions heard with much pleas¬ ure and profit the lecture of Mr. Hull Kerr at the Methodist church Sunday morning. Indignant Over Mail Schedule. The new mail schedule goes into effect Monday, mail from Dalton reaching here at 12 noon, returning at 3 p.m. The people of this community are very in¬ dignant over the change, and feel that their wishes and con¬ venience have been utterly ig¬ nored by the department. Will Not Make the Race. Mr. J. D. Love authorizes us to say that while he appreciates the solicitations of his friends, and is deeply grateful for their promised support, he the has decid¬ ed not to make race for county treasurer. A Little Bird Tells It. A little bird has whispered to The News that on Easter Sunday will be celebrated the marriage of a popular young couple here— and little birds generally know.