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VOL. 27
PURELY LOCAL AND PERSONAL
Sam Kelly spent Tuesday in
Dalton.
.'Ui-'mTTTlLTilLliv '" P *“ U '
Robert Fletcher made a busi¬
ness trip to Dalton yesterday.
Mrs. A. J. Keith was shopping
in the city one day this week.
Mrs. M. A. Keister has been
real sick several days this week.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Brown in Cog Hill, Tenn., a girl.
Charlie Durham, of the Ball
Ground, spent yesterday in the
city.
Mrs. W. J. Peeples, of Gassier
Mill, was in the city a few hours
Tuesday.
Editor B. L. Heartsell and fam¬
ily, of Dalton, spent Sunday with
relatives 111 the city.
County Treasurer W. A. Camp¬
bell and wife were shopping in
the city Wednesday.
Miss Virginia Edmondson, of
Holly, is spending the week with
her sister, Mrs. Gndger.
Col. Vandiver, of Dawsonville,
has been in the city this week
taking abstracts to land.
W. J. Johnson is prepared need to
sell you almost any thing you
in the family medicine line.
II. O. Rouse has been real sick
for several days, but we are in¬
formed that he is improving.
Col W. M. Jones and young
brother Charles Gordon, of Dal¬
ton, were in the city a few hours
yesterday.
Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Ramsey and
Mrs. Emily Love were the guests
of Mrs. E. M. Edmondson, at
Holly, Sunday.
Tax Collector Chapman was in
Spring Place yesterday. He says
lie will begin collecting tuxes
the first of October.
Miss Annie Parsons, who bas
her school last Friday.
Seth Harper brought in anotli-
1 r mammoth egg a few days
He S ays he has a,certain strain of
liens that lay these eggs.
We regret to note the
of 8. C, Williams, who is very ill
at his borne two miles north of
the city with typhoid fever.
D. D. Anderson, who holds a
home a few days this week.
For Sale. I have for sale a good
toD*buggy, and a nice range. Ap
p|y to Robert Fletcher for
Mbs. E. A. Glass.
T Oarney and .If* puwl
through .Spnng Wace Monaa, en
route home after having spent a
week with relatives in
Ala. *
Miss Malinda Shields lias
turned home after a pleasant
visit of several weeks to relatives
at Sevierville and Knoxville,
Tenn.
W. J. Johnson has a nice line
him when you need anything in
this line.
Prof. S. D-Jackson and lady,
of Decora, passed through Spring
Place yesterday en route lw>ue
after spending a few days with
relatives in Pleasant Valley.
Our correspondents have al¬
most gone back on us. Send in
your communications and quit
your foilin’.” We want to hear
from your neck of the woods.
A number of our people attend¬
ed the Children’s Day exercises
at Holly Creek Sunday. All who
attended express themselves as
well pleased with the program,
Wesley G. Everett and family,
who have been living in the
Eighth district, the past several
months, have returned to Spring
Place and are living in the Billy
Brown house.
A party composed of the fbl
lowing drove over from Dalton
Monday evening and^spe’O fe,v
Shields House : Mrs. A."A. Clark,
Brownville, Ky., Mr. and Mrs.
M. E. Judd, Mr. and Mrs. Julian
McCamy, Mr. and Mrs. W C.
GaSirn^'a^id K IL
of Dalton.
THE MURRAY NEWS.
SPRING PLACE, MURRAY COUNTY, GEORGIA, SEPTEMBER 22, 1905.
M. LUFFMAN
r* rAuOLO a cere AWAY a U/IV j
J
Oied at ms Homo T«o and One-Half
1 Miles North o, Sprie, hoc Us,
1 Tuesday. j |
On , last ... Tuesday . the , sad , . , . l
ligenee reached bpm.g Unco
that ,r. M. Huffman had passed
a "Y y \ i
He had , , been very , low tor about ,
two months with typhoid fever
in connection with a stomach
trouble, and his relatives and
friends realized that lie was in a
serions condition ami had, sev
era 1 days ago, given up all hope
ot his recovery.
No man in this part of the
county was better or more favor
hly known than Mr. but man, and
his friends here as well as else
where will hear of his death with
deepest regiets.
Thk News, with all the rest ot
his friends, extends condolence
to the bereaved family.
ilis remains were interred 111
Spring Place cemetery Wednes
day morning.
THE BALL GAME
Between Spring Place and Benton Last
Saturday Was a Walk-Over
for the Latter.
The Spring Place base ball
team was beaten by the Benton,
Tenn., team last Saturday by the
score of 155 to o.
[ They went with a badly crip
, p j ed <- eam andi j a fact, expected
'nothing but a good drubbing,
j This is the first game and dropped they
. thjg teanl this year,
"«»v*»■«*?'-'■»!»I"'-. 11
was failure to hit the ball and a
number of rank errors that lost
the Benton playing . fan . , ly
game,
| good ball throughout the game.
The boys spent all day Friday
on the road to road to Benton in
a two-horse wagon, and being
|somewhat jolted up on the 40
| mile ride did not feel very much
I jji-p playing the following day.
Tl„n»y» Save nothing t„ ».v
about it, except the nice way m
iwiiich they were treated while
| They were never treated
'
anywhere, and longi . .
are g
| for the time to come when they
I '^ also *» want e "J ”, the Benton “f"' boy.
The,
j to come to Spring Place tor one
g alne this season, which they
! have promised to do, that they
may have a chance to return the
| favors shown them.
Work Being Done on Streets.
I | T 1 , ie ' .; f ,r f ., ( ll , rs are ‘ nrenariim 1 ‘ A'
‘ j
j for t.;e ^ uuiiing > a< " <a 11 ’
Lay , j be ,, n nee ded for
I ^Imemled years and they ' are to be
i the good work
j on
j , dre1 havi „g “ done. That part
ot the 10 ” , 1 ' Snriiur J
-
Bl.ee vvrll, if properl,
pave our atreeta, and our coon
oilmen should never let up till
they get them to looking like
somebody lived here. Let the
| good work go on.
Jast Received a nice line of cof
fins, caskets and burial robes,
and can duplicate anybody s
prices. I would like lor all
friends to call on me when m
| need 0 f suc |, goods, Cock.
CL C.
The postal authorities suggest
that before 'sending a letter
I through the mails you put your
i name and,address on the upper
; left hand corner of the envelope.
J( f „„r lettar«
.
{.dressed it may be returned to the
writer. We ha*e then tensils
with which to print your name
and address a J jd w ° u 1)! ^ e
A .
tdU^onrethmg substantial. neat "as well
'as
CHATSWORTH CHAT
We have heard some say that
Ohatsworth would never ge,t- on I ,
of The swamp, but if they could
Dour its whistles lilowing the,
*»» «- !*»• Her
rah for Ohatsworth !
\\.q n .|. on t |ie mnv g rade is pro
gressj 112 rapidly, ami we expect
^ H|e whist]e of the loco .
S(M)n<
, ^ Moreland made a liusi
ness trip to Dalton yesterday.
, )r> B {h]gh(is 1Uftde a Uusi .
m , ss trip )n ohatsworth Tuesday
! , ]OJ . n j n „.
N> King [Uld fami]y
were ^ in our , burg Sunday .. , atter
Grover Tilloy , of Ten'.
nessee. John and Tom Oarney
a(ul Migges Mattie Allde rsbn,
Netfe|e Gladden aml J e ffie Var
m>11( fhree of Amzi>8 mostc harm
^ young la(iie8i passed througli
herfl Su|u]ay ,. venillg on their re
turn from Oohutta Springs.
^ ()f our tfomnlunity atten(1 .
p(] ohildre.Ps Day at Holly Creek
Sunday. All report a nice time.
>h . apd Mrg T . Oarney have
returned home sfter a week’s
visit to relatives in Anniston,
Ala.
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Johnson,
Jim McGhee ,, ... and . family ,. .. ,
many others ot. ,. Spring v . ,,, Place ■
il«Ull,at«wo.-th on their return
from 11.Jly Creek Sunday.
As , news is . scarce 1 . svill ... close 1
for this time.
Juanita.
GREGORY
1 have not seen anything about
(lie Yellow Jacket for a while.
Health of our section is good at
present.
It. H. Shelton is out again, af¬
ter a week’s illness.
Rev. Gann was at the Shed
Sunday but lie did not preach.
The new preacher preached. The
meeting was postponed until the
first Sunday’in October.
Cotton is being ginned right
along at this place.
Ykulow Jacket.
Gregory, Sept. IS.—Since
Yellow Jacket got caught and
the Bumble Bee went into
ter quarters, 1 guess Buzz Saw
will have to tell you the news
Trix has taken an oath to “never
write again,” and he hasn’t time,
anyhow.
The main thing I want to tell
you is about Willie Shields’ wag
on. 11 e bought a wagon at the
sale Saturday and he ami Trix
are hauling logs to build a nest,
they say, but not for a bumble
, '’«e or Yellow Jacket either, „
that kind of insects are too easy
about their kissing.
Willi.. Orrgnry ........
, Lm<• the ot aoi Sumbu.
r “.5ko„ U. f>. forgot R tell you
M,ss ^ 1 ’ 0 ° l
J s out * hjl ° one
last week * Guess that ; »s why the
1 professor is wearing such a long
,
T |,e hig meeting ot the
j j nacle began Saturday night.
j As this is my first attempt at
j writing to a paper 1 guess 1 had
I better close. If this escapes t he
1 waste basket I will write again,
Success to Inn N kws.
. Buzz Saw.
chatsworfh Promoter Here.
; Mr. Frierson, the real estate
i man and town promoter, is
j spring Place this making his pre
nmmai} . nrenaratums preparations lor for Y’ the e
opening of Ohatsworth, which
, f ake place as soon as the
^ ^ ^ ^ place .
The company have left the lay
j n g 0 jf ,,f the streets and every
thing of t | ds killd in j, is hands,
and he proposes to make Chats
worth a city of which Murray
county will he proud.
^EN ACQUITTED
OF MURDER
Messrs. Carter and Edmondson, Who
Were Held in Calhoun for the Mur¬
der of Tom Silvers Were Acquitted
last Wednesday.
Messrs. Carter ami Edmondson,
bosses • for Harper & Co., con
tractors on the L. A N. extension
in the nort hern portion of Gordon
county, were acquitted in Cal¬
houn Wednesday for the murder
of Tom Silvers, who was killed
one night last week at their
camps.
There were only a few witnesses
who testified in the case, and
they being negroes could not be
relied upon as to what they swore.
There are several different tales
as to how the killing occurred,
one being that some men who
had been selling whisky in the
camps had been overtaken in
their violation of the law by Mr.
Carter and, thinking he would
prosecute them, went to the camp
on the night Silvers was killed
with the expressed purpose ot
killing him, and Silvers, stepping
the road, . mistook . .
] out into they
,, emptying . . then •
, him or t arter, .
. '" ur >“ ll ‘
t.k»* HI«l.
Another tale goes that fell ....
vers had been selling whisky
to the negroes at the camp and,
after having been told repeatedly
jo quit it, returned and was shot
by someone at the camp.
But any way the tale goes the
men who aid the killing havi
gone free, hut they should be
punished to the extent of the law
when they are found,
Selling whisky to a set of bar
barious negroes is very had in¬
deed, for when a half-civilized
negro is drunk the community in
which he resides is in danger of a
grave outrage of some descrip¬
tion. And, again, it is very bad
for a man to take another’s life,
even if he is violating the law by
selling moonshine whisky.
Punish the men who sell the
j whisky, and. also the men who
did the killing, unless it was in
j self-defense,
OKLAHOMA
Lexington, Okla., Sept. 18.
As I have seen nothing from this
part of Oklahoma lately, will try
to give a few dots as to condi¬
tions as t hey are at present.
The good Lord has blessed us
with plenty of rain this year,
therefore we have good crops of
, tll klllds .
Wheat made from twelve to
- forty bushels to the acre, ami
........ «o n, et ,
bushels. Corn will make from
thirty-five to sixty bushels
| {Graas acre. Cotton fine, stock good, is but fat. too and rank, la
is
, )0r is high.
j Some of you people.,who think
are 0 ,.too the frontier shoold
come out and see our white
'churches j and schoolhonses, and 1
think you would decide that we
! are almost civilized.
This is a fine country, and 1 can
i do more with less work than any
piace I have ever seen.
I believe in diversification of
crops. I have sold $100.50 worth
of hogs this year and have some
left.
! like this part of t he country
I better than any I have beeii in,
1 from the fact that there are
■ negroes here.
f like to get Thk NkwaS, for it is
j us fc like a letter from home. 1
„ s Wk at t |,n K „„,l „1,1 home in
August-, and saw some children,
relatives and friends, but I like
this country the best.
I think this part of the West
is the best I have seen. Every
thing is plentiful here—plenty to
WILL BRING
MANY TO FAIR
All Day Singing Will Be One of the
Features of the State Fair in Oc¬
tober.
Thousands of visitors will be
attracted to Atlanta during Die
progress of the State Fair, from
all sections of Georgia, South
Carolina and Alabama, by the
all-day singing that is to be ar¬
ranged by the fair management.
Secretary Weldon and His corps
of assistants have been busy for
the last week or ten days answer¬
ing letters of inquiry about the
singing contest, and these com¬
munications come, in most in¬
stances, from people who have
never before visited Atlanta, but
who will be attracted by the siu
gular program.
Ninety counties have already
entered singing schools in the
old-time music jubilee, and oth¬
ers are daily coming in. It, is be¬
lieved that more than 120 coun¬
ties will be represented, and that
in the neighborhood of 10,000
voices will be heard. Three Al¬
abama counties have entered,
uul one school from South Caro¬
lina lias signified its intention of
entering the contest.
llie State hail has ofleied suit
able prizes to the schools that
send the largest number of sing
ers to the all-day singing. The
distance traveled in order to
reach Atlanta will betaken into
consideration in awarding the
prizes, so that the remotely lo¬
cated schools will have just as
f a j r c } ianC e as those close to At-
1 | an ) a
_
p,. 0 f, A . J. Showalter, of Dal
ton, Ga., author of fifty-two song
hooks, has been engaged to
the all-day singers, and he
diets a festival the like of which
has never before been held in
the South.
Old-time hymns and songs will
be rendered by the great chorus,
after which there will be a com¬
petition between the “Shape
Note” and the “Round Note”
singers. It seems there are two
distinct kinds of singers in the
country districts, those who sing
round notes and those who ren¬
der the shape notes. The latter
are said to be in the minority,
but anxious for a contest, lion.
Joe James, of Donglasville, will
lead the “shape noters.”
OAKLAND
There will be prayer meeting
at Oakland Saturday night.
Fodder pulling and cotton piek
mg take the day now, and we
„„ t U-e,, ........ ....... to
; got the news.
S. W. Blassmgame made a bun
iness trip to Dalton one day
week.
,, v. m tt •
j lh L ] ‘ U ' V ,Y, U *
ltnproMiig, . am mpe o si c i lpl i .
out soon.
calls his attention to the Eighth
so often here of late.
Miss Nancy Everett visited the
Misses Roberts Saturday night,
S. W. Blassiiigame and wife
visited 1). A. Young and family
Sun(lay .
Leonard Weaver started to
j Holly Greek and got lost, and
! found himself in a woman’s bean
I patch last Sunday, so he got a
j mess of beans and went home.
A Farmkr Bov.
We are ready for that job any
time. Bring it on.
eat, plenty of money and plenty
of work and wages high.
Corn gathering and cotton pick
J ing is on our hands. Come over
ami help us.
M. A, Halcomb.
NO. 41
BRIEF ITEMS OF STATE NEWS.
W. R. Holloman, tireman on a
freight between Rome and Sel¬
ma, was killed by a train four
miles from Rome.
J. W. Jones is in jail at Gaines¬
ville, charged with violating the
state law relating to the enticing
away of employes.
The police are searching for
Morris Livingston, 6 years old, of
Atlanta, who wandered from
home and can not be found,
J. 0. Tinsley and his brother,
prominent white men of Blythe,
were arrested and brought to
Augusta on a charge of murder.
The Augusta A Florida railroad
will build into Augusta is the
announcement that is tilling the
merchants of that city with joy.
It is understood that Hon. J.
M. McBride, of Tallapoosa, has
withdrawn from the race for the
judgeship of the Tallapoosa cir¬
cuit.
0. W. Smith A Sons’ mammoth
warehouse in Oedartown is near¬
ing completion and will be ready
to store a large amount of this
year’s crop.
The Stephens Bounty Medical
Society has been organized at
Toccoa by Dr. W. B. Hardaman,
councillor for the Ninth congres¬
sional district.
W, A. Easley, of Sebree, Ky.,
j ja8 |j eeil organizing the People’s
1 1Jank of Gordon, composed of the
j (., nvn and adjacent country with
a .$25,000 capital.
Old Uncle Isaac Norwood and
Aunt Betty, his wife, two aged
negroes, over ninety years old,
died within a few days of each
other at, Oulloden.
A whole car load of ants passed
through Augusta en route to New
'Orleans. They are intended to
hght the boll ...... Louisiana
weevnm
1 aml Texas territory,
j j Sheritf R. M. Lipford, of Frank
lin, has returned from Randolph
1 1 county, Ala., with Will Mont
.gomery, who is wanted for bur¬
glary and whisky selling.
The work of installing the ma¬
chinery in the new Perkins Ho¬
siery Mills at Columbus lias
started. Operations are expected
to start in about six weeks.
Mrs. H. C. Bradley, of Augus¬
ta, reported to the police of that
city that she had been robbed of
a watch and chain on the train
en route from Birmingham home.
Hawkinsville has thrown her
gates open to the world. Acting
under the advice of the city
board of health the city council
abolished all quarantine regula¬
tions.
C. E. Williams, principal of the
colored schools of Gainesville, of
o( mWWi
mail carrier m the city free de
H geryicei the ^
tjon<
G. E. Billiughurst, formerly
connected with the LaGrange
j df »po r te r , has retired from news
work and organized the
B. l.nghurst Printing company m
M uan^t.
Commissioner Hudson, of the
agricultural department, who has
returned from a visit to Atneri
cus » says c °tton crop in
that section will be very small
season,
John Wilkes, a half brother of
Sam Hose, whose burning at the
stake caused such a sensation
near Newnau in 1899, was shot
and killed by another negro at a
mullet supper near Marshallvilie.
Longiey Defeats McCutchea.
In the race for City Judge of
Dalton, A. J. Longiey defeated
C. I). McCutchen by a majority
of 1.74 votes Wednesday.
The race was a warm one
throughout, and Judge Longiey
may congratulate himself on>
' winning the of his- life.
race