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VOL. 28
PURELY LOCAL AND PERSONAL
Now, dear delin¬
quent, dont say
did not read this, for
we are putting it in
BOX CAR letters
that we need a little
“dough” to celebrate
on when Ohristmas
comes. Come on and
make us have a good
time.
W. A. Hdiry went to Ellijay
Wednesday.
The vault is being built in the
bank building this week.
L. W. Thompson made a husi
ness trip to Dalton Monday.
W. H. Roberts made a busi¬
ness trip to Dalton Tuesday.
K. N. Whitmire and wife will
live in the Bagwell residence.
Grandma” Arrowood lias
been quite sick for several days.
W. J. Johnson has moved his
stock of goods into his new store
building.
C. C. Cole and J. K. Johnson
spent Monday and Tuesday in
Chattanooga.
E. S. Stanford, of Fort Moun¬
tain, made us a pleasant call one
day this week.
Misses Dora and Maude Lowry
and Will Robinson were shopping
in Dalton yesterday.
Missel Jennie Terry and Verna
Leonard were appreciated callers
W <; d ii e s < 1 a y a f t e r n 0 0 n.
Rev. G. P>. Barton preached an
interesting sermon at the Meth¬
odist church Sunday night.
Willie Keith, of Chattanooga,
spent a portion of this week with
his parents in Pleasant Valley.
On account of high waters, J.
F. Montgomery’s sale was post¬
poned until Monday, Dec. 18th.
M. G. Everett and family
moved into ttie house formerly
occupied by Judge Gudger and
family.
Mrs. Florence Holland and
daughter, Miss Pyrene, were
pleasant callers at our office Wed
nesday.
Judge Gudger and family have
moved into their home
purchased, known as the Maddox
1 nrnnArfv P ty>
Carpenters W.D.IIeartseil and
it. A. Pierce are putting the fin
lshiftg touches on W. J. John
son’s new store house.
Perry Hilliard h„. returned
from St. Louis, wliere lie bought
. carload of horse.,. They will he
on the market , , next , week. ,
The Sunday schools have de
cided to have a Christmas tree.
It will he Christmas night on ac
count of Christmas Eve coming
on Sunday.
Do not forget, dear delinquent,
that there are only two more
weeks in which to pav your sub
scription. ... We must insist that .
by , the ., 1 , st. ,
you pay up
Hilliard <fc Thompson
twenty nice horses for sale, and
if you contemplate the purchase
of a horse you will do well to see
what they have before you buy.
The many friends of
Durham will be pained to learn
that he happened to a serious
cident Wednesday. He
standing near a circular saw
which was running, and a
of timber caught on it and
thrown with great force,
Imn in the face. His nose was
broken and his skull fractured.
While his injuries are serious it
i, t« b„l,ope,Hbey "ill „o‘
THE MURRAY NEWS
SPRING PLACE, MURRAY COUNTY, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 15, 1905.
FORT MOUNTAIN
Hello, jM■— 1 AY hat was the
matter that you failed to fill your
appointment Sunday?
Prof, and Mrs. W. 0. Lindsey
entertained a crowd of young
people Sunday night, nineteen in
number. Say, can’t we come
again Sunday night?
George Keith and Lee .Tones,
accompanied by Misses Cora
Gregory and Lucy Waters, at¬
tended Sunday school at Holly
Creek Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Emma Watts and daugh¬
ter, Miss Sailie, spent Monday
with Mrs. Julia Gordon.
Mrs. W. 0. Lindsey spent part.
ot last week with her sister-in
law, Mrs. R. M. Childers, near
Spring Place.
Deacon and Shorty were incur
town Saturday night, smiling on
some of the fair sex.
L. D. Leonard and daughter,
j Miss Zoe, were shopping in Dal¬
ton last Wednesday and Thurs¬
day.
Mrs. W. Z. Latch and daugh¬
ter, Miss Lela, spent Monday
with her grandmother.Mrs. Mary
F. Peeples.
We gladly welcome Henry Par¬
rott and wife to our town.
Boys, he very careful how you
roll rocks down the hill; you are
liable to hit some of the young
ladies.
Miss Fannie Carnes spent Wed¬
nesday night with Miss (Stella
Leonard.
Will Anderson, of Pleasant
Valley, was here Sunday after¬
noon. Come again.
Miss Flora Gordon spent Mon¬
day night with Miss Effie Lee
Brown.
Guess who sat up until twelve
o’clock Monday night writing a
letter.
Doss Sfrawn was here Sunday
to the delight?of his many friends.
! Miss Merlien Stanford spent
j Thursday night with Mrs. L. D.
j Leonard,
Jim Stanford was in town one
day last week.
D. E. Humphreys and family,
| of Dennis, spent Thursday with
^ -laughter, Mrs. Mary Brown.
Miss Doeia Gordon spent part
of last week with her sister, Mrs.
I John Elrod.
Mrlies, J. 0. Willbanks and J.
D. Holland visited relatives at
j Mt. Zion Monday.
Misses Jennie and Nannie Ited
" pent Saturday night at the.........
of their uncle, Will Carnes.
, antic! ■
<>nr young people are
I pating a trap to Fort. IW 11 ,
. i« tt so-called place dear
'
y a jj ey / Saturday afternoon.
, , , , ,
^ ^
fT J »’,T '"I'aiiksand T " n" littlesons, w ,
'
'"* *“> to U * lton
one day last week,
1 ,
! Sam Gordon made a business
trip to p> a {ton one day last
Ilo w did you like the show, Sam?
M p> ( , ordo „ 8pent
n ; g j lfc v . itli liis motDer, Mrs. .Julia
J j Gordon.
p,ee Peeples and Edgar Smith
; we r 6 fi er o one day last week.
Guess what young man gave „
, his , girl . , a , hat . pin. .
G. AND B.
j Come to see US be
j
j ff )]*0 you llUV thclt
present lor your
o-y^egtheurt. "We licit VC
what you want
ailQ „ T -.,] dl 0 p d n rvri P riLc cn that
su { t y J G ur pocket i
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Fincher & Nidlols.
CARTERS
As Christmas is so near 1 sup
pose I had better begin the
with a wedding.
Mell Spradlin arrived here
nrday with lus charming bride.
They are boarding at J. S. No
land’s and were serenaded Sat
unlay night by a band of lively
friemls.
Dave and Miss Ollie Moore
went to Dalton last Thursday.
Miss Dallas Moore, of Whitfield
county, if visiting relatives and
friends here.
Felton Loughridge and wife
have gone to their father’s at
Pleasant- Valley, after spending
Hie summer in our vicinity. They
will he greatly missed by their
many friends.
Misses Dallas Moore and F.thel
Noland visited their cousins,
Misses Annie and Ollie Messer.
Sunday.
Polk Halcomb and family vis¬
ited at Mr. Blackwell’s Saturday
and Sunday.
Frank Blackwell entered school
at Sumach last Monday.
Sam Putman has a paying po¬
sition on the new railroad.
Gordon Greene has returned
from Atlanta to the delight of
his many friends.
Meil Spradlin and wife spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Beck
ham.
Miss Eva Noland spent Sunday
night with Miss Ollie Moore.
C. 0, Gilbert and B. E. Messer
called on their best girls Sunday
evening.
George Noland, of Dalton, vis
ited at the home of his cousin, R.
P. Messer, Saturday night.
l)r. Thornton, of Colima,
been here lately doing some very
liN„ dental work. >
LittloOla Noland vmKd low
little cousins, Tenme and Jennie
Lee Messer, one day last week.
Guess what young man pound¬
ed the floor with a stick of wood
the other night at the serenade.
W. I.. Henderson hasn’t called
on his best girl lately, i guess
it has got too cold for him to
wear his derby. Better buy you
a hat, Will. Icicle.
See US for Holiday
.
R'OOClS.
Fincher & Nichols.
Daughters of Confederacy.
An interesting meeting of the
Daughters of the Confederacy
J™ held at the home of Miss
Alma 11)I , Dee. «, J K>.
The chapter went through with
their regular routine of business.
Miss Mattie Anderson’s name
was entered 011 our roll.
The secretary read the “Origin
t , ic Confederacy. 0b i ert ”' ,nta We tlien had °!
recitation, by Mr.. W. J. Job,,.
son and Miss Alma Hill, which
were enjoyed by all present.
Then to the delight of the
chapter dainty and delicious re.
freshments were served, after
which we adjourned to meet at
the home of Mrs. W. J. White,
2 nd Saturday in January,
BMP Every mein her invited to
be present. 1
Photographs!
Just in time for Christmas
Photos! ♦ W. H. Wilson lias
moved his gallery a few doors
north—between Loveman Sons
and Dalton Millinery Co.’s store,
and is better prepared to do flue
work than ever before. Come at
once for Christmas photos,
Messrs. Carpenter and Nanney,
of North Carolina, are in the
county this week looking for a
suitable location for a planing
mill. They will erect one in
Pleasant Valley and, probably,
another in the southern part of
the county.
MT. ZION
Health of the community is
with the exception of Ru$s
j McHan who is very low with ty
phoid fever,
Jelf Holland and Mark Will
banks, two of Fort Mountain’s
hustling farmers, were in our
neighborhood a short while Tties
day afternoon.
On account of the windy weath¬
er and high waters there wore
not very many people out to hear
Rev. Barton’s interesting sermon
last Sunday.
Misses Ellen and Emma Rob¬
erts spent a few hours with Miss
Lola Meilan Monday afternoon.
Mrs. Mary Blassingaine spent
Monday with her sister, Mrs.
Florence Holland.
Alford Meilan has returned
home from Pickens county to at¬
tend the bedside of his brother.
Mines. John Will banks and
Jeff Holland spent Monday with
Mrs. Mary McHan.
Miss Margret ltiordon is still
teaching a splendid music class
in our neighborhood. She will be
greatly missed after Christmas.
Misses Vick Moreland and May
Davis, two of Ciiatsworth’s most
charming young ladies, attended
| church at Mt. Zion Sunday.
Self-Reliance.
1
j Big shipment of
dress gloves, work
gloves, wool
gloves and in fact
all RilldS frOR! 15C
to 2.00 per pair at
R()bertSOn’S.
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! OAK GROVE
t ( inl ,
can give the news of this place,
so here comes Grandma.
Health is very good.
Mr. and Mrs. C. 0. Turner
spent Saturday night with their
daughter, Mrs. Groves.
Misses Willie May Owens, of
Blind 1 iger Blufl, amt Olivia
Campbell spent Saturday night
with Miss Maggie Bradley.
His many friends were glad to
know that Luke Pulliam was able
to call at the big gate again Sun
^yyfternoo,. after a severe spell
of sickness.
Miss Dora Wood spent la co rf
in erf '
" ekI ccunt J r -
Miss Minnie Campbell spent
Saturday night with Miss Fannie
Wood.
There are surely some attTac¬
turns in our burg, especially on
Sunday, judging from the num
her of young men who called over
<tt the Ust hill,
The young people enjoyed a
musical entertainment Saturday
night at the home of Wyatt Wood.
Houston Owens, of the Bluff,
spent Saturday night with Mr.
tonkins’ hoys,
Guess what girls took a ride in
a two-horse wagon Sunday morn
i rig just to get to walk hack,
Misses Victoria Berry, of Bull,
and Mabel Love, accompanied by
Jeff Love, went over to Dalton
Tuesday.
11G fiiends were all smiles
when they iieard that Frank
Adams would he at the musieale
Saturday night.
Grandma Sxaplm.
Silk handker=
chiefs, Silk cifld
NVOOl | fTlllTTId*S -/.g lO .
vr O LI
Wcillt clt W. A.
Robertson’s.
HALF-ACRE BENI)
Health is good in our burg.
Everybody seems to be going
visiting Sunday or to see their
best girls. 1 see where yon are
right, boys; Christmas will soon
be here.
Tom Groves and Frank Duncan
rode through our burg Sunday.
Tom Moreland and wife and
Miss Bertie Roberts passed
through our burg Sunday.
John Burks and son, Grover,
came through our bend Sunday.
Lace Henson, wife and babies
visited Fincher Parker Sunday.
Merrill Wood and Sol Henson
rode through our burg Sunday.
Jim Ilemphill rode through
our burg Sunday.
George Anderson and Lee Grif¬
fith passed through our burg Sun¬
days going to see their gest girls,
I guess. That’s right boys,there
sure are some pretty girls in that
direction.
Mr. Overby, Mrs. Morris and
Mrs. Mary Taylor all killed hogs
t he first of the week.
Miss Jane, we didn’t intend to
olf'eiul anybody; just come on
and mail all the letters on our
side you want to. We don’t care
for results; news is what the ed¬
itor wants, and when it conies to
our door we can’t, keep mum, hut
l we are not telling what is done
in the suburbs of Blind Tiger.
If we did we would tell a great
deal more than we have. Your
love for “One of the Smart Set”
shall not be made hitter because
her shoes don’t lit her, for she
wears No. IPs. Come over and
see how nice they fit her.
P. i.
Go to Fincher &
V t Nichols’ for Holiday
goods,
OAKLAND
1 The many friends of Russ Me
] Han are sorry to learn of his re¬
cent illness.
Miss Emma Roberts dined with
the Misses Townsend Sunday.
Mines. YV. G. Blassingaine and
0, H. Bramblett called on Mrs.
S. W. Blassingame Sunday.
Frank, Francis and Mittie Blas¬
singame spent Saturday night
with Perry and Bessie Owens.
Walter Davis and Miss Beulah
Townsend were out driving Sun¬
day afternoon.
Arthur Roberts atd Luther Stu¬
art visited at the home of J. R.
Townsend Sunday evening.
Jim Williams and lady spent
Saturday night at the home of
Lewis McHan.
Oscar Stuart called 011 Miss
Emma Roberts Sunday.
Misses Mattie Jones and Ava
Blassingaine spent last Saturday
night at Lewis McHan’s.
Willie Roberts and family, of
Holly, spent Sunday at the home
of J. R. Townsend.
Despite the cold weather there
were a few at Oakland Sunday.
There will he preaching here next
Sunday afternoon at S3 o’clock.
Everybody invited to attend.
Mrs. .YVib Adams visited her
daughter, Mrs. Cliff Ogletree,
J. R. Townsend visited Lewis
Meilan Sunday.
Ed Bishop called on W. H.
Roberts Sunday.
W. H. Roberts rnd son Eddie,
made a shopping expedition to
Spring Place Saturday, also S.
W. Blassingame and son,Sammie.
George Noland, of Dalton,pass
through our burg Sunday.
Robert and Fain Wilson called
on Sam Blassingame Sunday
night.
^ Roberts spent Sunday
night at Lewis McHan’s,
Miss Ella May Long is visiting
her grandmother,Mrs. Pickering,
near the Chapel. Tulip.
FIFTEEN CENT
COTTON
Is What the Cotton Growers Are
Molding Back For, And There Are
Millions of Bales Awaitfiiq This
Price.
The Cotton Growers of the
South, through and with the as¬
sistance of their organization,The
Southern Cotton Association, are
slowly but surely winning the
greatest commercial battle ever
known to the world. They are
being applauded by millions of
people who are watching the
great light that is being success¬
fully waged by them to throw off
the yoke of thieving and specu¬
lative manipulation that has held
them so long, and has been the
means of enabling the spinners to
grow enormously wealthy at the
expense of the poor farmer.
Those who stood loyal to the
Association and accepted its ad¬
vice, as given last January, to fix
a price of 10 c per pound on their
cotton—demand it and get it—
did so, notwithstanding there
were thousands who decried their
efforts by saying: “Impossible,
foolish, etc.” The amount of
cotton held by the loyal ones was
sufficient to bring the price to 10 c
before the present crop was ready
for market.
On September 7th, the Associ¬
ation advised the farmers to ask
Uc for their cotton as conditions
fully warranted that price. Many
fixed that price and sold for it.
Now, on December 1st, the
fact that the crop is very short
has been established beyond the
shadow of a doubt, and only a
small remnant of that left un¬
sold, also, that the markets are
bare of dry goods with future
prices enormously advanced, cot¬
ton mills loaded down with con¬
tracts and orders for goods several
months ahead, and only with
about one-half enough cotton in
sight to fill them. Will they pay
15c for cotton? Why, of course,
they will if you ask it! If you
do not they will take it at 5c as
they have done in the past.
Decide for yourselves — let
them have it at its actual value,
15c, or let them take it at their
price, 5c—it is yours—do as you
please, but remember that if you
sell for less than its value, 15c,
you are not only injuring your¬
self, but every other owner of
cotton is being denied his price
while you are giving yours away,
which prevents its advance as
long as they can get it at less
than its value.
Hundreds of thousands of bales
are being pledged to the South¬
ern Gotten Association for 15c,
enough to force the price to its
value very soon, unless buyers
can continue to get yours that is
not pledged at their price,in this
event, the price cannot reach its
value until yours has been taken
out of the way and at their price
—then the loyal ones will again
reap the benefits of their Associ
tion’s hard work in their behalf.
Richard Cheatham, Sec.,
Southern Cotton association.
Red Cross shoes
for ladies that are
made of select
stock solid leather
and as flexible as
any turned shoe,
and noiseless, at
W. A. Robertson’s
The city council is doing some
much needed work on the streets
this week. They have quite a
lot of money to spend on the
streets, and the old town will
. hine when they get through.