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VOL. 27
PURELY LOCAL AND PERSONAL
A Petitt is a' new subscriber.
G. H. Arrmvood visited Dalton
Tuesday.
L. W. Thompson was in Dalton
Tuesday.
S. II. Kelly took in the sights
in Dalton Monday.
W. E. Daniel will read The
News the coming year.
J. A. Baynes, of Bull Pen,
spent Wednesday in the city.
Tom Cantrell, of Oran, spent a
portion of Monday in the city.
Wade Shields is visiting rela¬
tives and friends in Knoxville.
B. W. Gladden has been in
the city several days this week.
Surveyor H. O. Hamilton, of
Dalton, was in the city yesterday.
M. L. Cox, of Ellijay, spent a
few days of this week in Spring
Place.
Paul and Miss Alma Hill heard
Sam Jones’ lecture in Dalton
Tuesday.
W. A. * Baggett, of Bull Pen,
was a pleasant visitor at our office
yesterday.
Mrs. J. E. Johnson and chil¬
dren visited her mother at Holly
Wednesday.
J. W. Langston, of Amzi, spent
a few hours in the city Wednes¬
day afternoon.
Cotton is- being ginned at a
very rapid rate, both gins run¬
ning oyer time.
’Squire J. Y. Baynes, of Bull
Pen, was in the city Monday on
official business.
Misses Nettie Gladden and
Mattie Anderson were shopping
in Dalton Tuesday.
A Mr. lngali died at Oran last
week from the effects of a car¬
buncle on his neck.
Mrs. J. H. Steed has returned
home after a week’s visit with
relatives in Dalton. ,
J. C. Heartsell came over from
Dalton Saturday night and spent
Sunday with homefolks.
Rev. Alvin Jones and daugh¬
ter, Miss Ora Belle, were shop¬
ping in Dalton Tuesday.
Several members of the family
of W. A. Henry have been chill¬
ing for several days past.
Mark Parsons, one of Cay lor &
Yates’ popular salesmen, spent
Sunday with his parents here.
John L. Cole and family took
in the temperance lecture, by
Sam Jones, in Dalton Tuesday.
Little Miss Francis Gudger has
returned from Atlanta, where
she spent a month visiting rela¬
tives.
Mrs. M. A. Dobbs leaves £ 0
morrow (Saturday) for Sparta,
Ga.,,where she will reside lor
while
OJaude Langston, of Arnzi,
8 tfto
Wednesday en mu the
road camps.
Mrs. Cleve Gregory has re¬
turned home after a short
jonrn in Texas, Mr. Gregory
will return soon.
W. J. White was in Spring
Place Monday. He has the con¬
tract for making and placing mile
boards on the public roads of the
county.
Miss Willie Miles, night
atorof the telephone
in Dalton, spent a portion of this
week in the*city, a guest of Rev,
and Mrs. Alvin Jones.
R. L. Brown, of Cog Hill,
Tenn., is in Spring Place this
week. He has sold his property
S&roSSurU 6 -
Messis. Ben Bates and Sam
Kelly, accompanied by Misses
Georgia Pendley and Ada
lee, represented Spring Place
the show in Dalton last Tuesday
night.
Col. W. O. Martin Floyd
rar and J. M. Sanders, of Dalton,
met with the Chatsworth Land
Company here Wednesday in an
important meeting of that com
pany.
Mrs. F. W. Cate and little
daughter, Maude, anci
Miss Willie Keister, after
ing several we^ks with relatives
in the city, leave today for their
home in Corinth, Miss. They
will be accompanied by Mrs. M.
A. Keister.
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SPRING PLACE, MURRAY COUNTY; GEORGIA, SEPTEMBER 29 , 1905 .
CHATS WORTH CHAT
Health of this community con¬
tinues very good.
Farmers are glad to see this
nice weather for gathering their
crops. »
Our new town is still booming.
We are informed that it will he
; laid off' at an early date.
Mark and Jim Will banks, of
Fort Mountain, passed through
our burg Saturday evening.
Torn Carney, visited Ed Dicker
son Sunday.
Miss Vick Moreland spent Sat-,;
unlay evening with Miss May s
Davis.
Malcolm Anderson and Perry
King were in our towij Sunday
afternoon.
Frank Adams, of Mt. Zion,was
here a short while last Saturday
morning.
Some people seem to be very
much afraid that Chatsworth will
he built.
John Carney and Ids sisters,
Misses May and Kiddie, attended
preaching at Spring Place Sun¬
day night.
Will Robinson and Miss Mattie
Cox, a popular young couple of
Spriilg Place, drove out to Chats¬
worth Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Roberts
and several others, whose names
we failed to learn, visited this
place Sunday.
Correspondents, wake up, and
let’s help Mr. Editor make The
Murray News a paper of “Mur¬
ray news. 75
JII AKITA.
GREGORY
Well, the Yellow Jacket can
fly yet, hut 1 can not. say any¬
thing for Ur against Bumble Bee
or Buz//Saw. Bwzr>Saw thought
he had caught the Yellow Jacket,
hut he got caught. Anybody
that ever saw Buzz Saw would
know his writing. I knew him
as soon as 1 saw his name. The
name is all righn, hut 1 think if
it wos Saw Buzz it would suit
him better, and 1, af a reader
and belieqer of the Yellow Jack¬
et, do deny ever saying at any
time that 1 would letTrix alone.
1 am not the Jacket who crawls
behind the door to wait and see
what someone else says. 1 do as
I please and the others do as they
can.
Rev. Filzvvatiers, a Methodist
minister, conducted the services
at the Tabernacle Sunday, j.j H
can tell yoa something you d„
not know.
J. B. Hawkins and family
ma(Je s , iWpping trip to Whip
last Saturday.
Health of this place is good
jjr. Gilbert is flying high. As
he goes one way, one side of the
buggy is black and as he comes
back the other Bike is white. 1
think he has a negro driver, but.
bis buggy is black ahyway.
Yellow Jacket.
Card of Thanks.
I take this method of express
m o my Heartfelt thanks to my
frienaa for the kind assistance
rendered in the recent
and death of my wife. I will be
grateful to you always for
j, e ]p j u m y hours of need.
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A small meteoric stone^
the size of a bullet, fell
the glass skylight of' a grocery
store m Sparta,
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Miss Addie Frazipr has accept
ed a position in the Orphanage at
Decatur, Ga. Her many friends
regret very much to Use her,
the authorities of that institution
may congratulate themselves on
securing her services.
Mr. Charlie Estes, who former
]y resided in Johnson City,Tenn.,
from whom onr townsman, Alvin
.Jones, bought his property in
that city, hut now of Marietta,
has been the,guest of Mr. Jones
and family a portion of. this week,
PLEASANT VALLEY
Pleasant Valley, Sept. 25.—
Our school is progressing nicely
under the excellent supervision
of Profs. Waters and
Miss Claude Peeples, of
shall, Tex., has been visiting her
aunt, Mrs. J. Q. Steed, of
place.
.Miss Minnie Stephens spent
Sunday with the Misses Jackson.
Rev. Barton and Miss
Lou Walls, of Spring Place,
passed through our burg one day
last week.
Prof. J. (’. Waters attended
the Odd Fellows’ meeting at
Spring Place Saturday night.
Mr. MeCaijiy and Miss Nannie
Sue Gregory, of Cohutta Springs,
were in our burg Sunday after
noon.
Misses Vora Anderson and
Annie Steed have returned front
a pleasant visit to relat ives in
Chattanooga.
Miss Mollie Jackson was call¬
ing on Miss Nora Russell Sunday.
Johnny Gregory, >f H:\ssler
Mill, spent Sunday with his pa¬
rents hero.
Misses Jogie Waters and Min
nie Stephens spent Saturday with
Misses Annie Steed and Claude
Peeples.
Sam Shields and sister, Miss
Bessie, and Jim Hendrick, of
Whip, were calling on friends
here Sunday. ,
Misses Annie and Beulah Bates
were pleasant callers at the home
of their uncle, Dr. Jones, one
evening last week.
Misses Sailie and Lethia Lough
ridge were visiting in our burg
Sunday.
Prof. Stephens was out testing
that new wheel Sunday. I think
lie ran it almost to death. Pro¬
fessor, do not lie so cruel to your
“poor horse” next time.
Messrs. George and Cyrus Ter¬
ry and Toni Peeples, of Hassler
Mill, were over Sunday evening.
There must' be some, secret at¬
traction over here for the hoys.
Wild Bile,
MT. ZION
As I have not seen any dots
from this place lately 1 will write
a few. ,
Mrs. Mary McIIan is still very
feeble.
I Several Mt. Zion people at
j tended church, at Holly Creek
>G Sunday.
I Mrs. Cleve Gregory has re
turned from Texas. Her many
j friends welcome her Holland hack.
Mrs. Florence spent
i Sunday with 1). F. Peeples and
. wife.
| Mr. arid Mrs. John Dickerson
j spent . Sunday ,4 afternoon at the
j 1 honu> a f F ra peoples.
Miss Claude Peeples spent last
week with Miss Sallie Holland.
Tom Ramsey, wife and
Bertie Phipps are spending
week at Cohutta Sprjngs.
! Mrs. E. A. Leonard is on the
j sick list.
Miss Cora Adams is
: t he week with her grandmother,
Mrs. Leonard. .
A1 fore] McHan left Monday for
|t«w. His many friends regret
his leaving.
If this escapes the waste has
! ket V]] dro V ln a S ai ”
With best wishes to The News
its many readers,. I close.
Verben a,
i ' Cotton.
If it does not . . two
ram in or
(three more weeks M urray wi 1
! haVP harve sted the nicest crop of
cotton in many years. About one
half of the crrfp is now open and
there has Tieen no rain on it
{ The )and aroun<1 Spring
1 lace is bad to stain cotton, , bin ,
what has been picked around
here is as white as can be.
FORT MOUNTAIN
As i did not see any news front
our nourishing little tmvn last
week, l will fall back to writing
again. v
Wonder what attracted Dr.
Cooper and Mr. Me Kell to this
place Sunday afterday.
John .Holland and sister, Alias
and Bob Peeples and sis
ter, Miss Ella, were here Sunday.
Misses Dora ami Fannie Wood
arid Maggie Bradley and Bates
Wood spent Sunday in the city.
Marion Williams, of Spring
Place, passed through our burg
one day last week.
The baptizing at the Keith
ford Friday afternoon was largely
attended.
Protracted services were bold
last week at Holly Creek by
Revs. Austin and McNabb.
Miss Ethel Elrod, of Spring
Place, has been spending some
time with her brother, John El
rod, of this place.
Alfred Median was here Sun
day. He lias many friends here
who will hate to see him leave
for Texas.
Miss pyrene . Holland spent
Saturday night and Sunday with
Miss Id SB e Lee Brown.
j Will Smith and Henry Lindsey
were down from Pleasant Valley
| the latter part of last week.
Dick Brown is visiteng his
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. D. E.
Humphreys, at Dennis.
j E. 8. Stanford and daughter,
Miss Ilerlien, attended church
here Sunday.
Miss fDelma Woods spent a
portion of the week in the city.
Willie Peeples passed through
our burg Sunday,
Misses Lena and
Keith were here one day lass
week.
Mr. and Mrs, I). E. Humphreys
spent Saturday with Mrs. Mary
F. Peeples.
Handsome Will Gregory was
on our streets a day of last week.
Mrs. W. C. Lindsey has been
very sick.
Ruelea.
To Gar Correspondents. *
If you correspondents don’t
send us some news from your
part of the county and quit your
foolishness, we are going to cut a
stick about torn feet, long ( ail< I
we are not going to be particular
about trimming the knots off,
eit her) and maul your face. IImv
do you expect us to give you I me
News, full of*county news, with
out your support? We can’t,
I who went to Dalton, church or
; anywhere else, when we probably
j were not in twenty miles of them.
: Now, seriously, we want you to
send us a nice, newsy letter each
week, and we want one from
every postoffice in this county.
j Help us get the news and we
will make I nr: News a newsy
newspaper.
OAKLAND
! Robert Wilson and Sam Rlas
j singaipe made a business trip to
j Dalton Saturday.
Misses Venie and Delia Tow ti¬
send spent Saturday^ night with
; the Misses Roberts.
: These cool nights remind us of
winter.
Sain Blass ingame, wife and
three charming daughteis en
I joyed tlie day at Holly Creek
Sunday. „ ,
Jim Edwards and Presley Wil
i son paid Sam Blassingame a visit
| Sunday night.
Misses A-va and Addie Blassin
. e visite d at p (! . ( l Miles’ last
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Just Received a nice line of eof
fi»>», caskets and burial robes,
prices. ai \ d can . I would < lu P\ ic f* like e for all my
fiends to call on me when in
need of such goods.
C. 0. Colij.
Large Order for Lumber.
Pendley A Co. have an order
for 85,000 feet of dressed lumber
from the Sanders Manufacturing
Co., of Dalton, which will he util¬
ized in the manufacture of pea
hollers.
Medical College Scholarships. j
The Atlanta School of Medi¬ i
cine oilers through Senator U. N
King an excellent opportunity to
some worthy young man wishing
to become a doctor. With Col.
King’s endorsement, as senator,
they propose to make the tuition
for the entire coming session
only $25.00.
Brick Works Almost Complete.
The W. M. Pendley. Brick Co.
will be making brick in about a
week if nothing happens to stay
their progress. This is one of the
largest brick plants in North
Georgia, and with the excellent
clay they have will be able to
make as line brick as can be
bought anywhere.
Scholarships in Georgia Tech.
Representative A. K. Ramsey
requests 11 s to state that Murray
county is entitled to fifteen free
scholarships in the Technological
School in Atlanta. Any young
man now desiring a practical ed¬
ucation at a small expense will
lo well to confer with Mr. Ram
sey. Tliere is. no better school
in the South, and Murray should
send the entire fifteen represent
a tives.
Surveying at Chatsworth.
The owners of the coming town
of Chatsworth began surveying
yesterday and will continue from
day to day until this work is
; completed. They propose to have
j wide streets, the kind any city
j 1 s j iou j ( -j | iav <> ( a public park, and,
in fact, lay the foundation for a
city, for it will be one some day.
They will move the depot site a
few hundred Let further south,
from the fact that as it now
stands, it is too much on the
north side of the town site. The
first sale of lots will perhaps be
made some time in November.
j School -— * .....................:— Picnic,
Sunday
| j The Sunday school the picnic Me.thodist that
j wag p] a p ne d by
people, and in wliich almost the
pntlre town participated, at Co
| hutta Springs last Saturday was
j a g rea t, success. The day was
fair, the roads good and nothing
happened to mar the enjoyment
of t | I0 (lay . The children, espe
j c , a ]]y, had a good time and they
j wili r( ,member the pf the* day for years
, conie ag one most: en
j : joyable ones of their lives.
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! BRIEF ITEMS 0L STATE NEWS.
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J Chief Sanitary Inspeeter John
j q. -Dietz, 6t Macon, has tendered
his resignation to Mayor Smith.
W. C. Carter will begin at once
the erection of a building
Americus for the new American
Steam Laundry.
ff’. J. Goodwin, a machinist of
the Southern Railway at Rome,
while drinking heavily tried to
i commit suicide.
It is reported that the Atlantic
Compress Company has purchased
a site in Coruele on which to
I erect an ice plant.
A man supposed to be James
i Bailey and a tramp, was run over
and instantly killed by a freight
train at Andersonville.
Little Nellie Smith the 12
V ear-oId daughter ” of Rev ' and
•
K ; 0 Gamesville, . is .
nmv a ful1 l!edged author '
Arthur L. Dasher, lieutenant
colonel on the staff of Gen. lift¬
| in the sovereign * grand * lodge &
„ ,, atiuidedxlie
0 an
nual meeting . of the lodge at
Philadelphia.
NO. 42
A car on the Central railroad
loaded with tools jumped the
track near Lindele and turned
over down an embankment.
The Bain bridge Telephone sys¬
tem has changed hands and is
being entirely remodeled by J.
W. Callahan, the new owner,
Ten suits for damages, amounts
ranging from $1,000 to $2,000,
have been tiled against the street
railway company in Gainesville.
Rural route number thirty or¬
dered established November 15,
at Commerce, Jackson county,
serving 400 people and J15 houses.
The Georgia'Southern & Flori¬
da railway has let a contract for
a new depot at Adel to be built
of brick. Work will begin this
week.
R. E. Fitzgerald, of Omaha,
Ga., 40 years of age, died in Co¬
lumbus from an overdose of mor¬
phine, of which he was a habitual
user.
The railroad commission at its
meeting will take up the ques¬
tion of the removal of depots at
Smyrna and Emerson an the W.
& A. road.
An afternoon in the city court
of Douglas was consumed in the
trial of James Rellerford,charged
by David Adams with assault
and battery.
The cotton crop is near three
fourths gathered around Colquitt.
The best farmers say they will
not make much more than one
half of a crop.
James Salter, a prosperous
farmer living near Americas,
was found dead in his bed. He
was in his usual good health
when retiring.
A record-breaking automobile
run was made from Atlanta to
Covington by Clarence Terrell, of
Atlanta, to get a witness to the
superior court.
The Citizens'’ Bank was organ¬
ized at Adel with $25,000 capital.
The bank will have a branch
bank at Barney. This makes two
banks for Adel.
Sant Morton cut Coon Oliver at
Colquitt, Both are negroes. OR
iver was cut in several places.
There wore fourteen stitches
taken on Oliver.
Upon refusal of demand for an
eight-hour day with nine hours
pay union book and job printers
walked out of seven establish
merits in Atlanta.
A stdek company has been or¬
ganized in Lexington to establish
a steam laundry, and G- H.
Smith, R. F. D. No. 1, Arnolds
ville is interested. \
Capfc. Guy C. M. Godfrey, as¬
sistant surgeon with the 17th in¬
fantry at Fort McPherson, com¬
mitted suicied by shooting him¬
self with a revolver.
Secretary of State Phil Cook
granted a charter to the Dooly
J Savings Bank, located at Vienna,
, Dooly county. The institution
! is capitalized at $25,000.
John W. Callahan has become
I half owner of the Bonair Hotel
property, comprising the hotel
proper and almost a block of bus¬
iness houses in Bainbridge.
The city council of Eatonton
passed a number of y stringent
laws in regard to Sunday open¬
ings of all places of business and
the earlier closing at nights.
James Turner, a negro, was ar¬
raigned in Columbus on three
charges, one for burglary, one for
larceny from the house and »
third for assault and battery.
At a meeting of the Georgia
Saw Mill Association to be held
in Savannah, October 3. a revis¬
ion of.the lumber price lists will
be arranged and the prices of all
grades of lumber handled by the
members of the association will
he raised.