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VOL. 26 CLEVELAND’S FACE Appeared in the Heavens at Columbus Sunday Night. Columbus, Ga., May 30—A pe¬ culiar cloud was observed in Co¬ lumbus lust night. As a little group of men stood watching it the cloud gradually assumed the shape of a man’s head and breast., It was the picture of Grover Cleveland, with the nose, mouth, moustache, hair, neck and breast quite distinct. The moon’s rays fell on the cloud picture, making it bright and distinct. One interpreta tiou of this cloud sign by an en thusiastic admirer of the ex-pres-! ia«‘ «• <"»>■ - appeared in the southeast, the South and East would unite and nominate Cleveland for presi¬ dent. Real Estate Transfers. U. E. Earnest to Shippen Bros. Lumber Co., 100 acres in 26th district - - $ 60 I. W. Edwards to same, 160 acres in 25th district - - 80 S. M. Walker to same, 820 acres in 26th and 320 acres in 27th district - - 200 \ Z. T. Crawford to same, 160 ; acres in 26th district - - 50 Will Hold Meetings. Mr. Hull Kerr requests us to state that he will hold a meet ing at W. H. Kenner’s next Sun day at 3 p.m. Also, on the third Sunday in June, at 11 a.m. and 3 P.M . at Center Hill, near V. A. Stewart’s. Everybody invited to attend these meetings. Wants a Murray Farm. We are in receipt of a commu¬ nication from a gentleman who wishes to invest from $2,000 to $3,000 in a Murray county farm. If your farm is for sale, let us know it, and w r e will inform him of the fact._ When you want a buggy, wag¬ on, laprobe or whip call on the Dalton Buggy Co. * THE MURRAY z J W, Jj r SPRING PLACE, MURRAY COUNTY, GEORGIA, JUNE 3, 1904. V AT SPRING PLACE h Sr. . | S i SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1904 *■ CRAZED BY RHEUMATISM Chicago Man Attempted to Amputate His Leg, Chicago, June 1.—Crazed by rheumatic pains, Gustav Ilolds burg, 72 years old, endeavored to amputate his left leg to re¬ lieve himself of pain. As the old man sat on the floor in his home and began the op¬ eration his wife, who is helpless from paralysis, looked on from her chair within a few feet of him. Her screams attracted two po¬ licemen, who rushed into the house and took the knife from Roldsburg. He had severed an artery, and by the time lie ar surv ive. HASSLER MILL Success to the picnic. After all the good music and speeches comes dinner. Then the verdict will be “dum vevamus vivamis,” which means “plenty to eat, and and lots of pretty girls, now for¬ ever.” Bill Isenhower wants to know if one quart of Rose’s best wall cause a man to get up before day, feed old Snip, make fires, carry w^ater and make things hustle, and how many gallons of moun¬ tain dew it would take to rouse— “well, guess whop’ as the girls say. a U ^h^corn plowed, hoed and thinned; the cotton chopped and plowed, and the potatoes set out by Saturday night we would go gigging Satur¬ day night. Well, it was finished by 4 o’clock. After supper it was “let’s go.” “Where?” You promised to go fishing tonight. No gig—yes—Dave Winkler has made us.two. So I hauled on my old jeans breeches and went like a lamb. Any fish? One white sucker and one little hog sucker. Lots of fun wading over rocks and peering in deep pools for eels and frogs. But it w r as reminiscent to see someone slip off a rock and go head over heels—torch and all —into the dark blue water. On the way home I thought of Jerry and old Alec “fo’de wah.” How Program of Commencement at Lucy Hill Institute THURSDAY NIGHT, JUNE ,2 1904 Hymn, “Joy to the World.” Prayer* llev. N. A. Parsons. Recitations “When Mama Was a Girl”—Lillian Heartsell. “The Reason Why”—Aloe King. “Good Night”—Maurine Parsons. “No Time Like the Present”— Esther Crow. “Adam Never Was a Boy”—Murray King. “How the Sermon Sounded to the Baby”—Charlie Duncan. “A Little Light”—Ora Jones. “Limpy Tim”—Lela Kerr. “The Dead Doll”—Maud Crow. “Three Little Boys”—Smith Treadwell. “What Not to Do”—Laura Duncan. “The Baggage Coach Ahead”—Lucile King. “The Circus Boy”—Marguerite Heartsell. “I’m Glad I’m Not a Boy”—Ida Ethridge. “I’m Glad I’m Not a Girl”—Osmo Owens. Music Dialogue, “The Country Cousins,” Recitations “The Legions of Breggins”—Lucile Parsons. “The Felon Cell”—Mamie King. “The Face in the Floor”—Lizzie Raper. “The Inventor’s Wife”—Lizzie Stuart. “The Secret”—Etta Harris. “The Toll Gate of Life”—Julia Humphries. “The Immortality of Sentiment”—Nettie Peeples. “Guilty or Not Guilty?”—Myrtle Davis. Music Dialogue, “The Contrasted Families.” Tableau, “The Bashful Lovers.” Drill, “The Quarrel Among the Flowers.” Tableau, “The Seasons.” Negro Farce, “Slim Jim and the Hoodoo.” “The Pink Rose Drill.” “The Nigger Night School.” Tableau, “One Sweetly Solemn Thought.” we floated dow'n the river in a canoe and w r aded shoals long after midnight and what a “blessing” someone got next morning. I had not thought of that good old darky for years, and if I was a spiritual ist I would believe his ghost was WEST TENNESSEE GIANT Six Hundred Pounds His Weight in Or¬ dinary Condition. Huntingdon, Tenn., June 1.— A great deal has been written and published concerning Miles Darden, who formerly resided in Henderson county. He was an unusually large man, which caused many conflicting stories to be published in regard to his weight and size, Darden was a native of North Carolina, but moved to Tennes¬ see in 1835, and about 1837 locat¬ ed in Henderson county. He was of Irish descent and of good family. He was a Mason of high standing. Darden was 6 feet 7 inches tall, and weighed (500 pounds. He was twice married and reared a family of four boys and six girls. None of the boys weigh over 200 pounds and their height will not exceed six feet. WHITFIELD NEWS Dalton Argus. Sam Carter was over from th# plantation last Monday. The baseball park was sold Tuesday. It w r as bid in by Julian McCamy for about thirty dollars. At the June session of the leg¬ islature a bill will be introduced to cjiange the charter of Dalton to lay off the city in wards. Gen. B. M. Thomas was award¬ ed a fine gold medal by the pupils of the Dalton public schools last Friday afternoon at the close of the term. The tent meeting which is he ing conducted in East Dalton by Dr. Charles D. Tillman, Rev. M. D. Smith and others is meeting with splendid success. North Georgia Citizen. Mrs. S. E, Field and Miss Kate Edmondson left for Fort Dodge, Iowa, last week. They will turn via St. Louis. Mr. Marion Williams, of Spring Place, was in the city one day hovering along the banks of ( Holly creek, watching over and j protecting “old Missus’ hoy,” as the last words he would hear at starting were “don’t let that hoy get ‘drowuided.’ ” Pat. ^ NO. 23 FOR THE SENATE 0. N. Starr a Candidate to Fill the Unexpired Term. We are in receipt of the fol¬ letter from Hon. Oliver C. H, Davis, Spring Place, Ga. •My 1)kak Sir: I wish you state in the next issue of paper that I am a candi¬ to fill the unexpired term the senate from this district opposition. The time is so short the people here decided not to go to the ex¬ of having two elections, but to let the whole matter be settled on the 11th of June by vote of the three counties com¬ posing the district. Very truly yours, O. N. Starr. NEGRO BISHOPS May Serve the Northern M. E. Church, Decides Conference. The general conference of the Northern Methodist church has voted to permit negro bishops to be elected by that body. This will unquestionably put a stop to all negotiations looking to a federation between the Southern and Northern churches. OLD WOMAN KILLS BEAR To Protect her Pig, Which Was Attacked By Bruin. Raleigh, N. C., May 31—Mrs. Mary Sinclair, of Brunswick county, 76 years of age, heard one of her pigs squealing, took a heavily charged shotgun, went to the spot and found the largest 5 ear g }j e } ia< j ever seell> T} ie plucky woman walked to ten feet of the bear, and, taking careful aim, killed it. She had not fired a gun m fifty years. last w r eek, the guest of his sister, Mrs. J. M. Sanders. Mrs. 0. B. Willingham, of Ma rietta, will spend the summer in Dalton and at Hopedale.