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VOL. 27
LOCAL AND PERSONAL.
John Ingle, of Holly, was in
the city Tuesday. #
I.ige Williams is able to be on
the streets again.
Thomas Price, of Doolittle,
was a visitor Wednesday.
George Moore and wife are
both suffering with chills.
George W. Willbanks, of Mt.
Zion, was here yesterday.
Wade Sheilds spent Sunday
with the sightseers in Chattanoo¬
ga, Ten n.
Will and Martin Roberts, of
Bull Pen, were in town on
iness Monday.
Mrs. Robert Fletcher has been
real sick and confined to her bed
since since VVednesdnv ncum.suaj.
Hustling Sam Kelley made
flying business trip to the Dalton
markets Wednesday.
John C. McKntire and Lorenzo
M. Douthitt were m town on
iness a few hours Monday.
We are pleased to note that
Miss Billie Cole is convalescing
from an attack of malaria.
Editor Stanley Foster was over
from Ellijay extending the glad
hand to his Spring Place
Sunday,
B. B. Hemphill, a prosperous
Ball Ground farmer, was in the
metropolis on business \Vcdnes
day forenoon.
•Frank Duncan, a hustling Hid
]y farmer, was tin upprei*luted
caller at our sanctum a
of the past week.
Starling Peeples and
have returned ‘spent to Chattanooga
having a fortnight at
Smme of Chip T. Owens. .
1 larve Hanna and
zi, are the proud parents of a fine
boy who was introduced at their
home Wednesday morning.
Mr. H. (J. Reuse last week pur.
chased the L. F. Feeples far in,
on the Treadwell bridge road;
the consideration being if l ,400.
' Captain Tom Peeples and wife
of Dalton, are receiving the
gratnlations of their friends over
the recent advent of a sou and
heir at their home.
Dr. John W. Green and family
are now comfortably quartered
out at Mountain View, their
elegant country home, two miles
north of Spring Place.
Since the adjournment of
there lias been a dearth of melons
in this old town, and the natives
ar< • hungering and athirst
more of the luscious fruit.
E. W. Markin has been
ed at home several weeks
sickness, unable to attend to his
position as construction foreman
on the new Ellen N. extension.
Robt. L. Brown has returned
to his home at Cog Hill, Tenn.
His wife and the children did
not go with him but will
here visiting Joe Brown
ilv for several days longer.
Clifford Moore and'Will Keith
came down from Chattanooga
and spent last week wjth home
folks. The boys hold good jobs
up there anu their friends down
here wish them well
Mm. A. o. Orcen ami
neice, Mrs, Emily Tucker,
of Vicksburg, Miss., arrived iu
the city yesterday and are visit
ing Mrs. Green’s sisters,
dames Annie Ramsey and Mag
•gie Stuart.
Alonzo Whitson has cut the
tobacco grown this season on the
lot in the rear of Robinson’s store.
It was the white burly
and there is about one-eighth of
an acre in the patch, from which
he cut near 350 pounds of good
tobacco. In consideration of the
fact that the seasons have been
not at all favorable for the grow¬
ing of tobacco, this yieW is an
unusually large one and
Whitson will, no doubt,
quite extensively next year.
•U J MURRAY NEWS & 1 it
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SPRING PLACE, MURRAY COUNTY, GEORGIA, AUGUST 25, 1905.
Clerk (Secrete Arrnwoocl spout
Wednesday in Dalton.
W. D. Heartsell and Jim Bag
ley went to Dalton Tuesday.
John W. Coffee was hero yes
terday, visiting George Moore. *
Bud Rapor, of Cedar
was in town on bin iness Monday, j
Popular Oscar McGhee spent
Wednesday among town friends. 1
George W. Cham bice and Sid J
Keister were in Dalton Tuesday,
Jim Davis, of Wells, was here
Sunday after medical attention
for his family. i
John Luffman and I
son are now
fast recovering from serious cases j
| of typhoid fever. :
Will Roberts was up from Hol
Y yesterday, and dropped in to
1 see us while here,
Merchants Lewis Thompson and ,
Bob Fletcher went to see their
Dalton friends Tuesday.
j Dave Butler and wife, of
were here on business a short
i while \\ ednesday forenoon.
| I.). E. Humphreys and daugh- j
, ter, Mrs. Mary Brown, were in ]
- Spring Place shopping Monday .;
Rev. Stokes conducted revival
services m the Baptist church
from Sunday till Wednesday
J evening.
I Mayor Frank Peeples and wife
j have been visiting their daugh- I
j ter, Mrs. B. L. Heart'd 11 in, Dal¬
ton, this week. i
j The recent grand jury returned j
t[iirty-t!irc(**l/iils ol iuckictinoHi/j
one for murder an ! d the remain
I der for minor offences.
Col. W. H. Tibbs, of Dalton,
is spending a few weeks visiting
% family of Capt. Bill Kenner, j
1 four miles west of the city. |
' Mountain, Was in Spring Place
Sufiday, ,, en route , , to her i school , i in •
the lower part 5 of the county. f
Prof. Will I.owrey is . confined ,
to his room with chills and lever, |
and his substitute, Bob Du.i.i, is |
delivering the mails on route 2. j
Chip Owens lias purchased an j
interest in Hie 1 hipps gin and it
will be operated under t he man
ugement of i hipps A < Ovens the
. approaching season.
\ Hi* numerous Spring Place ;
friends-will be pained to know
that James C. Barkesdale i •r. in j
real feeble, health at his horn in ,
Chattanooga, Tennessee. j
W. I). Petty,a ivspected cit -
izon of Cleveland, Tent)., brought
a load of wheat to the Murray
Flour Mill Tuesday and j
paid Tur. Xi:v.> a pleasant visit,
Mrs. vlciiii Cate and baby |
Maude,- accompanied b.v he r sis
ter Miss \\ illio Keister, are neie
from Corinth, Miss., visiting!
their aunt, Mrs. M. A. Keister
Our genial citizen Marion II.
Williams has been keeping open
house out at Hopedale Hie past
week, and quite u number of his
Dalton and Atlanta friends are
enjoying his lavish hospitality,
A. B. Shields returned Friday :
lus home Sevierville Tenn., I ,
to at
alter quite a pleasant visit to the
family of bis uncle, Jie\.#M. \V .
Shields, at this place. Miss Ma
amt her brother Eugene
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M^uamc.' Sam B. (,’artef and
Minnie Massey and the children
took passage Monday for their
at Pittsburg, Ga., having
spent- a week in this section vis
iting relatives and old friends.
Sam did not return with them,
but will be hew- for another week,
>
Old SpaaisiiCom. . , _ .
A Rare
Monday Treasurer Billie Camp- j
bell showed us. an old Spanish
coin about the size of a United |
States half dollar, made during
the reign of Kt»g **1,
dated 1 .Si>. J he coin \\d- found
in an oni wash on mi . < ampoci s
tbe opinion that more of them
may be. buried near the same ,
place. i
Miss Annie Parsons is teaching
near Wells, in lower Murray.
Merchant Jase Robinson spent
a portion of tins week in the
Chattanooga wholesale markets,
Rev. W. L. Taylor and Taylor
Stafford have bpeiT in the momi
rains.this week, prospecting for
gold and other precious metals.
Mrs. 0. H. Davis and •children
are expecting to move to Deea
tur, .Via. tomorrow, where they
"'ill join Mr. Davis and be pei
mancntly located hereafter,
Well Known (Jordon County Man Dies.
Judge James M. Harlan died
at bis home near Calhoun last
Thursday. He represented this
senatorial district in the general
assembly at one time and was
and favorably , , , known
tlu . oug!lout t]lis section af North
Georgia.
Was an Oversight.
During the hurry incident to
making ready on our last press
day \Ve neglected to make mcn
tion of the death of Mr. Harvey
Ellis, which occurred on Satur
day,* August .12: the interment
being m Spring Place cemetery
on the following afternoon. lie
was one. of this county’s most
highly respectable citizens and
we join hundreds of friends in
offering condolence to the strick
idatives.
A Matter of \li*\ importance.
1 he tint umii season is last iip~
prouching*, the season when not
only the farmer hut the merchant
must reap the greater portion of
h, » annual harvest. With the
bimicr the reward depends alto
S- et!lor U P«» tl,e niaillu ‘ r of sow "
'-'«'Pb>yed Not so with the mer
chant. His preparations must
he NVlse!y nuuk , '’ lus , • P urchas , Y' 8
skilfully conducted with the ne
ce88 j ti68 of h is customers ever in
inin<!i fts weU ag their abiHty to
, )uy> Nur ig thLs all . When ],is
vvares ah , in the shelves it is
(hen that the real questioivof the
harvest confronts the thoughtful
tradesman. But one rule rug
g e( jjy adhered to—honest prices,
square dealing, uniform courtesy,
unremitting hustle and judicious
ADVERTISING—never too
much but always enough. The
Mi iihav News offers merchants
rare opportunities iu this contiec
t ion and your recognition of the I
worth of its columns as a medium ■
of publicity would be substan- j
tially appreciated by thousands j
of the best, most contented, far-1
mef» m all North Georgia,
George Snmv and Henry Green
two young ’men were arrested j
and held in custody in Miliedge
villc on the suspicion that thoy ;
had something to do with the .
(Jea th of Henry Ross. *
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For Sale:—Good, heavy pair <>f!
mules, harness. also Also new No, ^wagon pliae- and ]
canopy top
ton. F. F, Fakhab,
Dalton, ,. ,, Ga. ,,
j
j og ^ strayed or Stolen. j
Bay mare mule, gray headed, ;
,
sll ',„a er . Lit my lmu S <-Aap-mt | 1
reward for same. |
Jonx " Bum,
(>ran Ga '
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Day Sieging. •
Some people predict that there .
will be fifty thousand people at I
State Fair’s Ail Day Singing ;
in Atlanta next October. Prof, i
J. Showalter, one of the best! !
knowu Angers in the country,will
1>e (l irector, assisted by a com
o{ one ffoin eV ery county.
He and the other singers are en
rhusiastic and they expect to
(-; 1C ^ r( , a test all day singing,
j„ the history of the world. j
The singing will be open
every state. The Fair will mi-j
tertain all singers. ’
BRIEF lTLMS OF STATE NtWS.
The Polk county live stock fair
is to be held some time near Oc
tohar first.
Citizens of Hazleburst cele¬
brated the creation of Jeff Davis
county with cannon, etc.
Norton Green is dead at Ids
home in upper Girard after a
long illness from Typhoid fever.
The farmers are having a lot
of trouble gett ing cot ton pickers,
though the crop is opening rap
idly
The Polk county commissioners
gave the contract at their last
meeting for the repairing of the
courthouse.
Sam Jackson, of Colquitt had
his foot caught under an engine
of the G. F. and A. train and
ba|ly mashed.
Tin' cool weather has caused
people around Macon to begin
to tajjt about a nine million bale
crop of cotton.
■Tf'ccoa was all ablaze with
fireworks in celebration of t he
establishment of the new county
of Stephens.,
News has reached ('timer of the
arrest 111 Cleburne, Texas, of
Charles 11. Power, who left that
place last winter for parts un¬
known.
It is talked iu Dahloncga that
that Golden City may have an | j
automobile to Gainesville ... line from Iiahlouega ... ,, |
soon.
George Waring lies been want
ad ‘at Americus for several bur¬
glaries which it is alleged lie
committed several months ago.
hf' >SS. &***» U. Kilmklwpimeil
her home in Griffin and breaking
one of her arms iu two places.
’Carrol County Medical associ-'
atiou .met in regular senii-nionth- ;
ly session in the headquarters of *
the organizetion at .Carrollton. I
W. L. Baker, of Gainesville J
ium exhibited a curiosity in the
sliape of a Peerless potato weigh¬
ing 2 B4 pounds raised by him in j
his garden. |
W. H. Fricks, a young man [
employed at the McNeel Marble
works at Gainesville, was pain¬
fully hurt, having tyi ear torn
completely off.
It: is stated on good authority j
that prominent Ohio capitalists I |
are looking to Columbus as the j
probable location of a large crack-j
er factory.
Tbe Macon Fair association j
gave an order for three hundred
thousand tickets, being consid
erahly in excess of the mini tier j
ordered last year.
As a result of the visit of Sec- j
retary and State Organizer R. F.
Duckworth, of the Farmers’ made! Fn-1
ion , many additions were
t« this organization. ;
ilirougn atelcRhom rnshac
from Gov. lerrell Mrs. W. i.
Atkinson , . mtonneu ... ol „ her; .
was
appointment to the office of post
master at rnnvnan.
W. W. Pope, who lias been :
' some A time, JT died \ < i> ‘
suddenly, and libs body w us sent
Moultiie fdi interment.
A bill of complaint was filed i
in the office of the clerk of the ;
('nited Statescourt by Columbus '
attorneys for the Royal T'nion i
Mutual Insurance company. !
The Columbus Show Casecom- !
. ^ , lts . flrst order , , iroin
1,y re f lv
Englan d ; /his company recent- j
,y f tabl,she , f' a hew Y f' k
ai,f ^ 11S 1)1 ‘ ( ‘ 1CSU lcu !lo ‘“ 1 ’j
Having had no depot in
since the 12th of June when j
the G. F. and A. railway com-j
depot was burned, the
people will soon be pleased with j j
the appearance of a new depot,
IIT.’S BODY WAS LXAMINH)
At the post-mortem exumina
tion of John Lee, whom it is
charged his wife and Jim Hicks
murdered last spring, Drs. J. II.
Steed and.1. B. Hughes severed
the head of the dead man from
the trunk at the base of The neck
ami a very minute examination
of tile neck and head was made
by careful dissection of each ver¬
tebra of the neck and the remov¬
al of all flesh and skin from the
skull.
The physicians * conducting the
examination are pledged to se¬
crecy as to their conclusion in the
matter, but we learn that other
medical men were present and
they advise that .Lee’s neck was
not broken, as contended by the
defense, neither was there any
fracture or other evidence of vi¬
olence about the skull nor cotton
in the ears or nose, as claimed
by the prosecution.
Reeently Hon. J. 0. Knight,
Polk’s popular representative,
introduced a bill in the legislat¬
ure authorizing the payment of
pensions quarterly instead of
annually.
Articles of incorporation have
been died in the office of Clerk
Arnold Broyles for the Southern
States Electric company and the
principal office will be located
in Fulton county.
Councilman Jot Allen, of
Gainesville, was presented with
a walking stick cut by Mr. Allens
L s lt!ier j u March, lSt>5, Wafers ami pre
sen tod to Rev A. E. on
the occasion of Mr. Waters’ mar¬
riage.
The faihive of Fitzgerald gets
iiua a new county has not in the
fba-fit <‘i.ust*d .JMSW oa tagE B aBi n-g-;
u.Ummm hi git, tin- utllkf, »-*,,,>»
iness houses, and residences are
going up 111 all jiarts of the city.
Racing in Atlanta,
Atlanta will have a twelve
days’ running meeting at the
Georgia State fair, October 9-21.
f W. Russwurm will be presid¬
'"8 .) n dge, fc. \\ . Goihaidy,
starter and Frank Weldon, sec¬
retary and general manager,
Mr. Gei'hardy, who is on the
Canadian Circuit, writes that
there will be plenty of horses.
OAKLAND LEAFLETS
Sunday 'School is progressing
nicely at Oakland.
J. M. Townsend is very ill at
John Holland passed through
burg one day last week.
Dennis Groves and his eharm
jug wife were Spring Place visit
to Oakland Sabbath school,
Mis*- Rida McHun visited Miss
Bertie Roberts Saturday night.
Wesley Gray was in oar town
morning,
Tom Morelaml and wife were
here Iasi Sutidaj.
Miss Lizzie Stuart was a guest
Miss Emma Roberts Sunday,
Isaac Stuart was here a short
wliUe Tuesday morniirg.
Rose Bun.
M() y NT Z ION ZEPHYRS
Mrs. Lewis Jk'Han is on the j
5 ,-, k i 1(lt
Miss Sallie Holland Lias been
- with
very ill fever,
Bob Peoples and charming - is
Miss Missouri, of Ducktown,
are visiting friends and
relatives in Murray.
Mdsames Dock Mclian, Mary j
Klassinganie visited Mrs F. G.j
Holland Monday.
Jim Williams and wife visited
in this,community Sunday.
Rev. McNabb and wife called
Mrs. E.*A. Leonard Friday
night.
Misses Missouri Peeples, Py
Holland, accompanied by
Bob Peeples, visited friends at
Mountain last Friday.
I close as news is scarce—ey
is sick and can’t get out.
Sweet Viocet and Pixk.
NO. 37
WELLS WARBLES
Miss Hattie Cavender, a beau¬
tiful and accomplished young
lady of Dalton, has been visiting
her cousin, Miss Mai via Mont¬
gomery, for the past week.
Miss Janie Smith and brother
visited their brother apd family*
in Bartow comity, Saturday and
Sunday •
Mrs. John Montgomery and
daughter Miss Mai via. visited
Mrs. Lou Bailey near Ball Ground
Sunday.
•Prof. Tom Cowart closed his
■ringing school at MassadoniaFri¬
day. He had good attendance.
Miss Annie Parsons visited
hoinefolks Saturday and Sunday.
Miss victoria Berry returned
home after a two weeks’ stay
with her sister, Mrs. Love.
Luke Baxter has been on the
sick list.
■ Misses Malvia** Montgomery
and Hattie (lavender accompan¬
ied by Lawton Owens, spent one
day of last week viewing the
new rail road at Carter’s Quar¬
ter, and reporta nice time. Ask
them it it rained that day.
Noah Ridgeway, of Milton
county, is here on business.
Mrs. McTeir, of Buff, visited
her daughter, Mrs. H. B. Mont¬
gomery, last week.
Several from near this place
attended preaching at Mt. Pis
gah Sunday.
Mrs. Smith and daughter visited
her daughter, Mrs. Tom Cowart,
recently. J
The little daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. dairies Couch died Sunday
night of fever. Mr. Couch is al¬
so con lined to nlsbetTwifliiover.
H. B. Montgomery and wife
and baby visited relatives near
1 ’oters.hurg Sunday.
Ai.kx.
GREGORY MELANGE
Hello, Yellow Jacket! Have
you heard the latest? Trix has
a new wagon and lie is so taken
off that lie can’t help you write :
be says that he found that “Bill”
and the new buggy were not suf¬
ficient to accommodate all the
girls, so lie purchased a new
wagon and is now raiding the
country for a match for “Bill”.
Look out girls, the revivals are
not over and you may see him
driving up any evening.
Jonas Dunn and wife visited
tlieir daughter, Mrs. Tom Bandy
during the past week.
Miss Josie Waters lias returned
to Alaeulsy, to resume her duties
in the schoolroom, after a week’s
visit, to relatives and friends
here and at Sumach. .
Mr. Perry Dunn, an old and
respected citizen of this place,
died last Friday morning after a
lingering illness. His remains
were interred in the McOroskcy
cemetery the following morning,
in the presence of a large crowd
of relatives and friends. 1
Prof. Will Gregory, of llassler
Mill, was smiling on relatives (?)
at this place Sunday.
8. H, Heartley is still in a very
critical condition.
Frof. Giles Dunn madett flying
trip to Cohutta Springs Friday
afternoon. That’s right, Giles,
you have but‘one life to live.
Miss Maud Gregory lias return¬
ed home from a visit to relatives
in Dalton.
Miss Sudie Walls, of Oohutta
Springs, was visiting friends at
Gregory during the past week.
A successful revival has been
in progress at Liberty for the
past week.
Rev. Gunn failed to fill bis ap
pointment at McCroskey’s Sun-'
day, be being engaged in the
the revival at Liberty,
Quite a number of our young
people attended church at Con
nesauga Sunday,
Bumbjjr* Bee.