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VOL. 28
FARMERS NEED CASH
President M. L. Johnson Has Is*
sued a Call
TO THE SOUTHERN FARMERS
Asking for Funds to Carry on
Work of the Association.
President M. L. Johnson, of
the Georgia division, Southern
Cotton Association, has issued
a statement, showing what has
been accomplished by the asso¬
ciation during its brief existence.
He demonstrates that the asso¬
ciation has saved the state of
Georgia alone not $15,000,000
but $72,620,000. In view of this
fact it behooves all Georgians,
says President Johnson, to re
spond to the call for subscriptions
to support the organization in its
work. Many responses to the
call have been received but a
considerable sum is still needed
and he urges that the people send
in their voluntary subscriptions
at once.
Following his recent call for
voluntary subscriptions for car¬
rying on the important work
of the Georgia division, South¬
ern Cotton Aassociation. Presi¬
dent M. L. Johnson gave out a
statement today demonstrating
the wonderful results which have
been attained in this state, as a
reason why Georgians who are
interested in the prosperity of
their state should promptly re¬
spond to this call. President
Johnson lias received a number
of responses from various sect¬
ions of the state, with checks
enclosed, but the result has by
no means been such as he felt
justified in expecting.
“It is my purpose,” President
Johnson said, “to publish a roll
of honor of those who have
responed to this call for volun¬
tary subscriptions, and I trust
that, while there is yet time, the
people of Georgia will see to it
that this roll is a long and inter
estiug one.
“One writer who enclosed his
check in response to the call said :
“Whether your association has
accomplished all yen claim for it
or not, it is nevertheless true
that we must organize, remain
organized and press the work, if
we are to accomplish anything.
SAVED GEORGIA $15,000,000.
“Let me present a few facts.
I claimed that we had saved
Georgia between $15,000,000 and
$20,000,000. Let’s see. In 1897
98 and 1898-99 the south produced
a total of 22,474,934 bales. The
average New York price for the
two crops was 6.11 cents. The
The crops of 1904-05 and 1905-06
total approximately $24,000,000
bales, about 1,500,000 bales more,
and for the'se we will average
practically 10 1-2 cents, mid¬
dling, New York.
“Thus the last two crops will
average more than 4 cents per
pound oyer the first two named.
Who did it? The people under
the banner and organization of
the Southern Cotton association.
It is true that Providence smiled
Oil Georgia in giving us abundant
returns from the field, but would
the crop ever have been market
such advantage , , , had , it not .
ed to
been for the work of the
ern Cotton association? In my
opinion, this would have been
...
“Supposing we have aaaea
only 4 cents a pound to the price
—$20 a bale—what is the result
in Georgia? Georgia’s estimated
cr f „„„ two veare " is 3 631 L
OOO bules. A simple V process.
multiplication shows that the
result has been a saving to tieor
gia of $72,620,000! Tilink of
THE MURRAY NEWS
SPRING PLACE, MURRAY COUNTY, GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 23, 1906.
CANDIDATES
FOR GOVERNOR
Speak in Spring Piace Three Days
in Succession—Large
Audiences.
The would-be governors of
Georgia, except three, have been
laying it into the voters of Mur¬
ray this we^k good and strong.
lion. Dick Russell made a
tlowery and eloquent speech dur¬
ing the noon hour Monday and
had a large crowd to hear him.
He spoke on the issues of the day
and was eloquent indeed. He
made a number of votes.
Clark Howell made himself
acquainted with the boys Tues¬
day in the morning and also in
the afternoon He made a host
of friends by coining among
them. His speech at noon was a
solid old democratic one. He
gave his record in public life
to his hearers and show¬
ed how in several different" in¬
stances how he had saved thous¬
ands of dollars for the state.
His speech was a plai n, straight
forward one devoid of all funny
jokes and tales.
He was frequently applauded,
especially so when he said he
would forfeit all rights of a cit¬
izen before doing one tiling that
would cast a shadow on the dem¬
ocratic party.
On Wednesday the Hon. Hoke
Smith held his hearers spell¬
bound for one hour and forty-live
minutes. He made the speech
of his life and was frequently
applauded. Mr. Smith is a line
orator and it does any body good
to hear him.
Each one of the three candi¬
dates had large and wdl behaved
audiences.
OFFICERS OF COURT
According to Supreme Court Get Back¬
pay From Couuties.
In the case of Barron, ordinary
of Coweta county, vs Terrell,
solicitor general Coweta circuit,
the supreme court on Monday of
this week handed down an opin¬
ion holding that the money aris
ingfrom the hire of misdemeanor
convicts, after paying the costs
in each case, shall be applied to
the insovent costs of the officers
of court and the balance, if any,
shall then be paid into the coun¬
ty treasury.
This holding will necessitate
the paying back by the several
counties of the state to the offi¬
cers of court considerable sums
of money, which have been paid
the counties out of money arising
from the hire of convicts.
immense amount of money
brought into the state through
the work, in part at least, of the
Southern Cotton association!
TIME TO PROVE E A IT II.
“I understand we have friends
who say they would like to help
us financially, but they think ID
cents is enough. The crop of
1904-05 did not average that
price and does not, therefore,
furnish an excuse. That crop
and the last one together aver¬
aged so little over 10 cents, that
I am sure this cannot be given
as an excuse. The fourteen crops
the large
^ average( only 7 3.4 cents:
fc j ie j agt twenty crops have hardly aver*
a ged only 8.02 cents,
equal to the cost of production,
and in many cases below it.
“Now' in view of these facts, 1
p j ea( j f or a change of conclusions,
We have shown the results;
give us your ai l. We are work
ing in behalf of the producers bf
the south’s wealth, a mission in
which we are entitled to the aid
assistance of every citizen of
calling!* r' eor! rj a .whatever his business
Who will be the next
volunteer?'’
MRS. T. C. JONES
^ ied a * Her ^° me in s P rin * p* ace Mon *
day—A Good Woman Gone.
On last Monday at one o’clock
Mrs. T. G. Jones died. She had
been in a feeble condition for
several months but no one had
an idea she was in such a serious
condition.
A good Christian woman has
gone to her reward. Her neigh¬
bors who have associated closely
for years with her know that she
is in a better world. She bad
said that she was “only waiting”
for her time and wanted to go
whenever the master called.
She leaves a number of cliild
dren and a host of friends to
mourn her departure.
Interment of the remains took
place in the Spring Place ceme¬
tery Tuesday evening.
Negro to Hang.
Will Jones, charged with mur¬
dering "another negro at Con¬
tractor Spradling’s camp several
weeks ago, was found guilty iff"
murder in the first degree.
He was sentenced to be banged
on the 30th of next month.
BERMUDA.
Mr. Russell Bonds was a pleas¬
ant caller at the home of J. C.
Ellis Sunday evening.
Mrs. Sal lie White visited rela¬
tives near Ringgold the latter
part of the week.
Paul Hill will leave for the
Territory Tuesday. We wish him
much success in his new home.
Bob and Gyrus Terry passed
through our burg recently.
Mrs. Maud Gauger and Altai.
Pendley, of Spring Place, visited
Mrs. Hill last Thursday.
Air. W. I). Gregory was an ap¬
preciated caller at the school
last week.
Grover Teiry and George Keith
graced our streets Sunday after¬
noon.
Bob Hill, of Crandall, is visit¬
ing relatives here this week.
Misses Minnie Mitchell and
Pearl Ellis called 011 Miss Belle
White Monday.
Paul and Chester Hill made a
business trip to Dalton Saturday.
Jim Parrot, of Fort Mountain,
passed through our vicinity the
latter”part of the week.
Charlie Gray is visiting his
mother here this week.
Miss Ora Ellis called on ARss
Alina Hill Monday evening.
Mrs. Nora Keister was calling
in our com inanity last Thursday.
Dixie.
OAKLAND
Mr. Isaac Stuart was in our
burg Thursday morning.
Air. W. II. Roberts made a
business trip to Dalton Friday.
Alisses Malinda and Mattie Jones
visited Alisses Beulah and Annie
Townsend Thursday night.
Mrs. Henry Stuart visited her
parents Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Rob¬
erts one day last week.
Mr. and Airs. Hemphill visited
their parents at this place Sun
day night.
Grover Burks, of Holly, passed
through our burg Saturday even
ing.
Walter Jones and Jim Roberts
spent Saturday night and Sunday
with Mr. and Mrs. Young near
Holly.
Mr. Isaac Stuart and wife,
dined at the home of Air. and
Mrs. Alont Roberts Sunday.
Miss Emma Roberts visited
her sister Airs. Henry Stuart, one
night ]ast wee k.
Luther Stuart visited Alont
Roberts Sunday evening.
Arthur Roberts and Walter
{ filled t}ie ir regular ap
P'mtment . , , Sunday c , , evewng.
iiAKDTlMKa.
GARTERSVILLE MAN
Burned to Death in His Home While At
tempting to Save Household Goods.
Mr. S. P. Saterlield, chief of
police burned of Gartersville last year,
was to death Wednesday
night at hishome. His dwelling
house was a large one and was
discovered on fire late at night.
Mr. Satterfield and his friends
were making every effort possi¬
ble to save his household goods
from the (lames, and Mr. Satter¬
field ran into a room for this pur
purpose, but failed to return and
was burned up. It is supposed
that h« was overcome by the
flames and thus lost his life.
Mr. Satterfield was ail Odd
bellow and .Junior and had a large
circle of friends in Gartersville
and Bartow county who regret
very He leaves mffch to wife hear and of his six death. child¬
a
ren who have the deepest sympa¬
thy of that entire community.
Mr. Satterfield was a half
brother of Mrs. Frank Watkins of
this place.
CENTER HILL.
Health of our community is
not very good.
The candy breaking at Mrs.
Teasiey’s Saturday night was
enjoyed by all.
Mrs. Emma Gray and Miss
Minnie Gray visited Mrs. Jones
Wednesday.
Mr. G. W. Hampton and Miss
Lula Bridges went over to Dalton
on a shopping expedition Satur¬
day. and Fannie Stu¬
Misses Lizzie
art visited home folks Saturday
and Sunday.
Alisses Lois, Kate and Essie
Wright are very sick, also our
teacher, Miss Zoe Leonard has
been very sick this week.
Grover Burks graced our
streets Saturday. McIIan
Alfred and Russel
passed through our burg Sunday.
Amii and Peach Blossom.
SPECIAL t NOTICE!
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We are now located at the same store we oc=
cupied before our other store was burned, next
to Gregory & Gregory, Hamilton street, and are
better prepared than ever to serve the trade.
This season, we shall make a special effort to
carry a fine line of MILLINERY and shall sell
same at SPECIALLY LOW PRICES. ■
When you come to Dalton look us up for No=
tions, Crockery, Fancy Goods, Glassware and
MILLINERY.
DALTON NOVELTY (0.
OUR PRICES ARE THE LOWEST IN GEORGIA!
PURELY LOCAL AND
John Morrison, of Dennis
spent a portion of this week in
the city.
Mrs. G. N. King has returned
from a delightful visit to rela¬
tives South Carolina.
Miss Ava Cowan, of
Valley, paid The News office a
call Saturday of last week.
Misses Jim Cole, Mary Groves
and Minnie Stephens were ap¬
preciated callers last Saturday.
Splendid line of Men’s Shirts
a bargain at .‘10c each.
Dai ton Novelty Go.
When needing the services of
a detective write D. 5 Enoch,
Ga.
Dunn Bros., formerly of Cog
Hill, Tenn., have gone into the
livery business at Chatsworth.
Full line of dinner sets in chi¬
na. Laces and embroideries at
rock bottom prices.
Dalton Novelty Co.
Do you want to make a pfesent
to your wife, sweetheart or your¬
self? The place to find some¬
thing novel, pretty, nice and
cheap is from the Dalton Novelty
Co.
On account of an unusual
aeiount of work in court this
week and in order to get the
entire proceedings in atone time
we will give them in next week’s
paper.
J. A. Coffey, Spring Place, W.
A. Terry, Atlanta, Forest Bearn
er, Alda, 0. C. Dun Gegory, J.
I). Heartley, Shoat, Tex., W. II.
Black, Atlanta, Tex., are new
names on our ever-growing sub¬
scription list.
NO. ii
Quite a lot of our subscribers
came to our relief this week
and we thank you one and all.
There are several hundred in
arreas and we know you have just
overlooked the matter. Please
settle up at once.
We have twenty dozen Men’s
Hats, worth from $1.50 to $2.50,
each, which we will sell you at
09cents! Merchants, it willpty
you to look us up.
Dalton Novelty Co.
State School Commissioner, W.
B. Merritt, made an interesting
speech to a large crowd m the
court house Monday. He came
to Spring Place with the inten¬
tion of delivering a longer ad¬
dress but on arriving found that
all the time the court could spare
had been granted to Hon. Dick
Russell.
Among the Daltonians here
this week were Col. W. C. Mar¬
tin, R. J. McOamy, Julian Mc
Oamy, Frank McCutchon, Geo.
II. Glenn, J. M. Rudolph, Law
ton Nally, W. W. Sapp, Andy
Langley, Lee McWilliams, Jack
McKmght, H. A. Russell B. L.
Heartsell, F. T. Reynold Geo. L.
Lewis, Mr. Fox, (ohn Neal, Dr.
J. W. Hightower, John Thomas
and others.
Hotel for Chatsworth.
At a meeting of the Ohats
worth Land company, they decid¬
ed' to erect a hotel containing*
about Twenty rooms. They will
also build a bridge across Holly
creek, and have already given an
order for the lumber.
If you want The News now is
the time to subscribe.