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VOL. 28
PURELY LOCAL AND PERSONAL
Harvesting wheat is the order
of the day now.
Read the ad of Harlan, Neal
& Co., in this issue.
Miss Clarice Jones has been
sick for several days.
Fayette Smith, of Wells, was
in the city yesterday.
Miss Susie Morris was in the
city yesterday morning.
John Carney, of Chatsworlh,
spent Monday in Dalton.
E. S. Kenner has been on the
sick list for several days.
Alfred Evans, of Rock Creek,
was in the city yesterday.
The mumps have captured
several of the younger set.
John A. Berry, of Audubon,
was in the city yesterday.
Miss Ora Belle Jones visited
friends in Dalton this week.
W. A. Buchanan is improving
after a severe siege of fever.
A number of our citizens went
up to Cohutta Springs Sunday.
Hon. C. N. King and daughter
Miss Mamie, spent Monday in
Dalton.
Misses Lizzie and Flora Rouse
were shopping in Dalton Wed
“ day
W. A. Latch and wife, of Fort
Mountain, spent Wednesday in
the city.
J. O. Heartsell has been con¬
fined to his bed this week with
the chilis.
Clerk G. H. Arrowood spent a
couple of days this week in up¬
per Murray.
L. M. Douthitt will announce
as a candidate for sheriff in next
week’s News.
Read the advestisement of the
Carter Dry Goods A Shoe Co. in
another column.
Mrs. U. N. Jones and daughter,
of Holly Creek, were shopping in
the city Tuesday.
Mrs. Kate King has been
spemiing a few days with friends
at Fort Mountain.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Cox are
smiling over the arrival of a fine
girl at their home.
Mrs. Nannie Harris, of Sumach,
spent several days last week with
friends in the city.
I*. G. Hilliard left yesterday
for Hartwell, on account of the
death of his father.
The picture men, the sewing
machine and fruit tree men are
abroad in the laud.
Miss Katie Keister returned
Tuesday after a week’s stay with
relatives in Dalton.
Wade Shields came in from
Chatsworth liomefolks. and spent Sunday
night with
Rev. J. A. Seymour preached
two interesting sermons at the
Baptist church Sunday.
Dr. B. E. Hall returned home
to Atlanta Saturday after a
month’s stay in Spring Place.
Mrs. Fannie Johnson and grand¬
daughter, Dimple, are visiting
relatives at Rock Springs, Ga.
A hail storm did considerable
damage to crops one mile north
of Spring Place Sunday evening.
Sheriff W. C. Groves removed
Jim Franklin and Joe Swanger
to Atlanta for safe keeping last
week.
Mrs. J. H. Steed and son, John
Jr., are spending a few days with !
the family of W. H. Steed, at ;
Ringgold.
Rev. Alvin Jones went over
Dalton Sunday and preached two
sermons to large and appreciative
audiences.
Misses Lillie Williams and
Sallie Parrott were pleasant call
ers at The News office yesterday
afternoon.
In this issue of The News you
will see the announcement of T.
O. Pierce for sheriff. Mr. Pierce
Mked'If Z
ed, he will make the county a
good sheriff.
THE MURRAY NEWS
SPRING PLACE, MURRAY COUNTY, GEORGIA, JUNE 8, 1906.
Miss Johnnie Pierce returned
Saturday to her home at Cohutta
Springs, accompanied by Miss
Pansy Heartsell.
Dr. John Green and wife, of
Atlanta, have been spending a
few days at their summer home
two miles north of Spring Place.
“ Gran d a” A wood is spend¬
111 rro
ing a few weeks with her son,
James Arrowood, and family at
the Waterhouse mill in upper
Murray.
Grover and Miss Jennie Terry,
of Hassler Mill, spent Sunday
evening in Spring Place. Their
friends are always glad to see
these young people.
J. T. MeEntire came up from
Rock Creek yesterday and pur¬
chased a new binder from the
International Harvester Co’s,
local agent C. T. Owens.
Editor T. S. Slope, of the
North Georgia Citizen, was in
the city Monday en route home
from Oohutta Springs where he
was one of a party of Daitonians
who spent Sunday at that popu¬
lar resort.
The young sports of the town
are taking a course in manual
training once a week now. The
council has given them permis
s j 0 n to use the old safe on the
public square in any manner
D.ey see lit. For the present, they
are moving it a few feet each
meeting night, and at the rate
they are making they will get it
into the middle of the street by
July fourth,
BERMUDA
Lightning struck s^ve-al trees
in our burg Sunday.
Hogue Terry gracejl our streets
Asa Petitfc and family spent
Sunday at W. J. White’S.
George Anderson was here one
day last week.
Mrs. W. J. White and daugh¬
ter went to Spring Place Satur¬
day afternoon.
R. L. Bales amt r *dlired
with Mrs. Hill Sunday.
Several in our town had green
beans for dinner Sunday.
Hello, Eton! We were glad to
see you appear in the columns of
The News. Come again. j
You all just wait and see that
when the D. & A. is completed
Bermuda will be one of the boom¬
ing towns of Murray,
Hello, John ! You made a very
short trip to Ardmore.
Moses Fraker, wife and little
son. Temple, and Mrs. J. B.
Hughes visited at the home of J.
0. Ellis Sunday.
Marvin Bond passed through
our burg Tuesday morning.
Martin Roberts and wife passed
t hrough our burg Sunday en route
to see her mother, who is quite
ill, but we hope for her speedy
recovery.
Misses Pearl and Ilerline Ellis
attended church at Spring Place
Sunday.
Hello, John Holland! What
time was it when you got home
Sunday morning?
Miss Ora Morris spent Sunday
night with Miss Ilerline Ellis.
Sam Cox was making goo-goo
eyes at one of Bermuda’s fair sex
Sunday.
Sam Banes and wife visited at
Rev. Lee Grice’s Sunday.
Earl Ellis has purchased him¬
self a new buggy. Look out,
girls, you can probably catch you
a fellow now. P. & B. & II.
Church Struck by Lightning,
The Methodist church 6pire
was struck by a bolt of lightning
last Sunday evening during the
e , ectnc . ‘ , 0 rtn and was very badly
torn up.
A lot of weatherboarding and
ceiling was torn off and a great
hole made in the floor,
That the elements do not like
to be partial is demonstrated from
the fact that about a year ago the
Baptist church was damaged ex
acfc j y tke same way.
Child Dead,
The three months old child of
Mr. and Mrs. Lucius Bryden, of
Ohati«, ™ burW1 here
last Sunday. \\ e extend sympa
ty to the bereaved ones.
STARr SHIPPING
GEORGIA PEACH
Crop is Estimated in Neighbor*
hood of 5,700 Cars
European Agents Believe Peach Export
Question Will be Solved This Year—
Success Will Mean Much to
Georgia Interests.
The first car of peaches for t he
present season was expected to
be shipped Wednesday, and the
event promises to be an impor¬
tant one, in that it bids fair to
be the beginning of the greatest
season in the history of Georgia.
Conservative railroad officials
have been giving their attention
to the peach crop, and its present
indications and their report, is a
most gratifying one to the grow¬
ers of Georgia. Not only does
the crop promise to be the larg¬
est in history, but the fruit for
the most part is largo and hard,
two very important factors to
the shippers. Besides this, the
indications are also favorable for
good prices and altogether “hal¬
lelujah times in Georgia are
just ahead.
According to the estimates of
one official who has been making
this industry a careful study,
there are now 5,700 cars of
peaches in sight in Georgia. Of
tiiis number, he estimates that
there are GOO cars on the Central
of Georgia north of Atlanta;
1,500 on the Western & Atlantic,
north of Atlanta; 000 'on the
Chattonooga Southern, north of
Atlanta; 200 on the Louisville A
Nashville, north of Atlanta, and
800 on the Southern railway,
north of Atlanta, and 2,000 cars
dVi all the roads south of Atlanta,
thus making a total of 5,700 cars.
Even if the conditions prove
very unfavorable he believes that
the crop will net over 5,000 cars,
and this will be a new record for
Georgia, as up to this time the
1904 season with 4,600 cars
held the record. Last yeai Hie
crop fell far short, amounting 1°
some 2,700 cars.
The central and northern sec
tion of the state seems to have
tlie best of it this year, so lai as
the present out 00 k is concerned.
In the tort V alley district and
the southern part of the state
there is much anxiety felt as to
the chances ot a loss to the crop
from brown rot, particularly if
there comes a wet season about
pick.ngti.ne.
KKCIT KINK FOR siumN«
But reports from the
and northern peach districts are
to the effect that the fruit is in
the best possible condition tor
picking and shipping, a condition
winch means thousands of dollars
to the shippers I Ins ,s not all
mere accident, for the growers
have recently been grafting and
pruning to just this end ot seeur
ing a hard peach that will
well and stand the ravages of
travel,
The railroads also insist that
the facilities in every section for;
handling this big crop are better
than ever before, and this means
thousands of dollars to the grow
ers. It is also reported that the
crop bids fair to ripen gradually,
and not send the bulk of the
entire crop into the shipments of
a very few days or two or three
weeks, which is the most ltnpor
tant This peach growing indus- j
trv now ranks second to cotton,! !
and for that reason a big yield
means much to the people of a!
state at large, and brings 111
,f reat revenue at this time of
year which was entirely unknown
a few years ago. i
The industry is also growing
rapidly, and one of the recent;
estimates places three million
new trees added to the twelve
State News
Postmasters appointed: Fair
cloth, Mitchell county, E. B.
Bullard, vice Ellen Gillenwaters,
removed; Pittsburg, Walker
county, Joseph M. Addington,
vice C. E. Good, resigned.
Westy Weed, a young railroad
man, jumped from the Central
railroad bridge at Rome into the
Etowah river and came near
being drowned. He was not in¬
jured, and it is not known why
he took the leap.
Mr. Pleas Martin, who lives one
and a half miles west of Hamp¬
ton, was hauling wheat and his
mules became frightened and
ran, throwing him off the wagon.
The loaded wagon passed over
his body causing his death.
Mr. Ward Albertson, cashier
of the Bank of Rock Hill, S. C.,
has resigned his position and
will in a short time come to his
old home in Waycross, where he
will be cashier of the Exchange
Bank, a newly organized institu¬
tion.
The handsome barn of A. and
R. Reid, located about three
miles east, of Columbus, was de¬
stroyed by lire. The loss is esti¬
mated at $‘1,000, partly covered
by insurance. None of the horses
and mules in the barn were
killed by the fire, but two were
badly burned.
million trees of last year. These
estimates were also made by a
railroad official.
Winn EXPORT OKOKH1A PEACHES.
The matter of experimenting
with the shipping of peaches from
Georgia to European ports by
means'of cold storage and new
indentions will be continued this
year. There are very many who
believe that this stubborn ques¬
tion is now on the point of prac¬
tical solution. Once the question
is solved, those in a position to
know state that it will open a
fi<>]d for Georgia growers,
, ul( j |, | K . r early varieties will
make if possible for her to sup
pjy the European trade far ahead
() j> a ]j competitors, and add htiu
dreds of thousands of dollars to
her present revenue train this
It was reported yesterday that
no less personage that Sir Uiom
as Lipton is interesting himself
j n these experiments, and is
using or will use Georgia peaches
f or the purpose. His a fe < nts
insist that by means of new
methods thejtrans-‘Atla.i.fcio of tl».« fruit will Huns- be
accomplished tins year, and not
only will King Edward and other
member., of the royal family be
olfered Klbertas on 1 he palace
tables, but some of the big fruit
of both; London and Fans
wl ]l oiler Georgia peaches for
sale.
watek&ihi,ON outkook EaCEieext
Melons, cantaloupes, Perries
and vegetables are moving rap
idly. Baxley is shipping a large
amount of cantaloupes this year,
and Hazlelmrsf promises to ship
three or four times the amount
shipped last yar. As for the
watermelon season, reports “ re !
excellent, and the growing de
maud for Georgia watermelons
all over the country insures a
strong market, no matter what
the supply. shipments of
Large express
peaches were reported from Mar
shallyille yesterday. The fruit
was shipped to New York and;
cities, and also to Chic-•
ago and Kansas City. fruit The in the de-j
maud for Georgia
wes t and middle west has been
advancing very rapidly the past
two or three years, and promises
to make new markets in those
same sections.
M. C. HORTON, President. C. N. KING, Vice-President.
E. N. WHITMIRE, Cashier.
COHUTTA BANKING COMPANY
Patronize the COHUTTA BANKING CO.—
one of the very best equipped banks in the state—
for the following reasons:
1. It has the best Victor Manganise Screw
Door Safe, 4 inches thick, that is made vyith 3 Yale
time locks to open it, and is absolutely burglar proof.
2. It has a lire proof vault that is a perfect
protection and is closed by two double steel doors
which fasten with 12 1 inch bolts.
3. It carries a large policy of burglar Insurance
for depositors’ protection.
4- It carries a large policy of fidelity Insurance
for the protection of depositors.
5. It has the best facilities for handling business
for the public.
6. It can lend you money when you need it
and receive and care for your deposits.
7. It is a home enterprise and will do every¬
thing it can to build up the country.
COHUTTA BANKING CO.,
Spring Place, Ga.
MURDERER SAVED
FROM GALLOWS
Barry Wright Back from Spring Place
Where He Conducted Hard
Trial.
Barry Wright, a well known
Rome attorney, returned yester¬
day from Spring Place, Murray
county, where he defended Jim
Franklin and Joe Swanger, charg¬
ed with the murder of A. K.
Ramsey, a member of the legis¬
lature from Murray county.
Assisting Mr. Wight in
fense were G. G. Glenn, of
ton,and W. K. Mann ,of Hinggold.
Mr. Wngnb says that they had , 1 a
strenuous time saving Franklin
from tlie gallows.
The tragedy occurred April 22,
while Mr. Ramsey was standing
jn frout of llis residence. Frank
aml Swanger were firing at
random when Mr.Ramsey stepped
oufc q{ ^ , K)Uge ftnd to]d them tu
}t< lt then that Franklin
^ hiistol aud shot Ramsey
'
U)e trial no rea8on was eS -
taUighed for tl)e tragedy and
^ the jurv refcurned a
verJict ()f guilty in the first de
ith a recommendation to
, „ LLieed ,
''^nklmwas for life
jn the ^ tentiary and
gw f t() twelve months,
j, Madd()X for the
gtafce wag astds ted by Judge R. T.
U( and Howell Erwin, of At
lanta , an d C. N. King, of
j»j 1,“' ace
Wright says the
were greatly excite d over the
fajr ^ numermi8 attein pts were
made to lync h Franklin In
t() avo j d auy f urt her trouble of
^ >>ank]in wa8 taken
ttiroug h the mountains yesterday
morning to the jail in Dalton.
liome i Ieru i d , Saturday, June 2.
^ The man who reported the
above to the Herald is entitled
to the blue ribbon beyond Die:
shadow attempts of at any lynching,” doubt. ^Several through
the mountains to Dalton,” no
reason was established for the
tragedy.” Such rot! It is bad
enough for the truth to be told
about such matters, let alone
such as the above,
farmers^m good notes tilUaU
rates reasonable.
Cohutta Banking Co.
NO. 26
gL.JM.JU-L
WOMAN PERISHED
AS HOME BURNS.
Stonewall, Ga., June 5.—The
residence of Benjamin Mister
feldt was burned this afternoon
about 3:80 o’clock. The opinion
of the family is said to be that
the wife of Mr. Misterfeldt set
tire to the bed clothing, for she
was alone and when assistance
reached the house they had to
break the windows and doors
down to get in. It is believed
chat Mrs. Misterfeldt also per
ished in the flames, for she hasn’t
be f n f ° U " d '
Mrs. | Misterfeldt . ., , has . been
in
very had health for some time,
her mind being unbalanced. She
very often talked of killing her¬
self, it is alleged.
EVERETT—SPRINGFIELD.
On Wednesday of last week
Mr. Richard Springfield and Miss
Nancy Everett were united in
marriage.
Mr. Springfield is the popular
young candidate for treasurer
and has nothing but friends,
while Mrs. Springfield has been
a number of years assistant
postmistress at this place, and
has friends by the hundred.
We wish them all the success
due a happy, popular and hand¬
couple.
SMITH-SCR0GS.
O 11 last Saturday night at. 8
o’clock at the bride’s residence,
Spring Place, Mr. Joseph Scrogs
and Mrs. Louisa Smith were
united in matrimony.
Mr. Scrogs is a North Carolina
man and comes well recommend
ed, while Mrs. Scrogs has many
friends who will be glad to hear
of her marriage.
Teachers’ Examinations.
An examination of applicants
for license to teach will be held
Gie j jU cy Hill building in
Spring Place on FridayandSat
urd ay, June 29 and 30, 190G, be
gj n ,)jng at 8 o’clock a.m.
WAD. Gregory, C. S. O.
-
Mr. James Gould met a tragic
death at Statesboro. He was.
hauling in oats for S. E. Olill^
when the mules became fright-.
ened and ran away in the field.
Mr. Gould was thrown out and
D> e wheels passed over his chest*.
crushing him.