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VOL. 28
ONLY DEMOCRATS
TO BE ON
Judge Miller Says “23” for
Party Candidates.
The Ticket Which Mad Gone Out from
Secretary of State Included Names
el MS Candidates—New Ballot Will
Be Purely Democratic.
Macon, Ga., Hept. 17.—A let¬
ter from Judge A. L. Miller
chairman of the state democratic
executive committee, makes
some explanations to the county
chairmen of the county executive
committees for the coming elec¬
tion, which are of considerable
interest to those who would know
just how the official democratic
ballot will be made up. This
ticket was made up by a so' -
committee of five, of which Judge
Miller was chairman, in the At¬
lanta meeting bf last week.
Judge Miller’s letter of expla¬
nation is to the point and will
mean that the democratic ballot
will carry only the democratic
nominees and the provisions for
constitutional amendments that,
are to be voted uhon in the com¬
ing election. Other party candi¬
dates will have to arrange their
own tickets.
In sending the letter out Judge
Miller incloses a form of the bal¬
lot to be used by democrats and
writes as follows:
“I beg to inclose you herewith
the form of the democratic offi¬
cial ballot, which I have pre¬
pared as chairman of a subcom¬
mittee q£ five, from the general
state committee, This subcom
mittee is charged with the duty
of preparing for the democratic
voters the form of an official
democratic ballot, which alone
will be used by all democrats in
the approaching general election,
to be held on October 8, 1906.
“The state committee, of
course, doe8 not print the ballots
which will be used in that elec¬
tion. It has no funds for that
purpose. All it can do is to send
out the form of the official ballot
c mtaining the names of the dem¬
ocratic nominees as declared at
the recent convention at Macon,
and properly submitting the con¬
stitutional amendments. It fills
out the ballot down to where the
names of the state senators, rep¬
resentatives and county officers
come in, leaving appropriate
blanks for these nominees who
have been named by district and
county primaries. The ticket is
then completed by the chairman
of the county democratic execu¬
tive committee, He fills the
blanks by inserting the names of
the senators, representatives and
county officers, and has printed
at their expense a sufficient num¬
ber of ballots for his county. This
expense is trifling and should not
amount to as much as a dollar for
each local candidate.
This matter is sometimes look¬
ed after by the ordinaries, but
the law really charges those offi¬
cers with no more than sending
out the forms of consolidated and
precinct r. turns, tally sheets and
lists of voters, which are received
by them from the secretary of
state’s office. I suggest, howev
er* that to prevent confusion the
chairman of the county commit¬
tee and the ordinary of the coun¬
ty might act together in seeing
that the ballots for the county
are properly printed and dis¬
tributed.
Neither the secretary of state
nor the ordinaries have any pow¬
er whatever over the official dem¬
ocratic ballot, the form of this
ballot is determined by the state
democratic executive committee,
and contains the nominees of the
democratic party and no one else,
nor should any names be added
THE MURRAY NEWS
SPRING PLACE, MURRAY COUNTY, GEORGIA, SEPTEMBER 21, 1906.
PURELY LOCAL AND
O. P. Martin, of Dalton,
in the city yesterday.
The county school board was
in session here Monday.
Miss Eula Edmondson,of Holly,
is visiting relatives here.
Born to E. N. Whitmire and
wife in Liberty, S. C.—a girl.
Bob Fletcher and W. D. Heart
sell paid Dalton a visit yesterday.
D. D. Dunn and Bob Love, of
Marietta, are in the county this
week.
Dr. T. W. Oolvard and Mr.
Hix, of Hughes, were in the city
yesterday.
M. W. Shields Is spending sev¬
eral days visiting relatives in
Tennessee.
The rams this week have ruined
a few more carloads of hay for
our farmers.
F. E. Vonberg, of Chattanooga,
is visiting relatives and friends
here this week.
W. H. Swanson and family, of
MeCays, Tenn., are visiting rela¬
tives in the county.
The first bale of cotton for this
community was ginned this week
by the Pendley gin.
The county registrars are re¬
vising the voters’ list this week
for the coming election.
Lewis Thompson has a half¬
page ad. in The News this week.
Read it and profit thereby.
Revival services are being held
at the Methodist church this
week by Rev. G. B. Barton.
FOR SALE—Eugiue and saw¬
mill and fixtures, cheap. Cash
or on time. Apply to A. L. Keith.
George Keith and sister, Miss
Lena, of Pleasant Valley, at¬
tended church here last Sunday
night.
F. C. Watkins and family are
attending the Sam Jones Taber¬
nacle meeting in Cartersville
this week.
Misses Zoe Leonard and Alber¬
ta Davis of Fort Mountain and
Eton, respectfully, are visiting
friends in the city.
From all indications the Lucy
Hill Institute will enjoy one of
the most prosperous school terms
it has experienced since it was
established. Almost every house
in the city has been rented and
the demand is still great. Fall
term begins October 1st.
Earnest the young son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. M. Bagley has been
in a serious condition this week.
He was kicked by a mule several
weeks ago, the wound healing up
and to all appearances was well,
but it inflamed again and he
narrowly escaped having blood
poison.
When two strong men coine to
blows, even if they are well
matched, is not a pleasing sight,
hut if the man who gets the
worst of it will use DeWitt’s
Witch Hazel Halve, he will look
better and feel better in short
order. Be sure you get DeWitt’s.
Good for everything a salve is
used for, including piles. Hold
by S. H. Kelly.
to it. This official ticket, pre¬
pared by the state and county
democratic authorities, should be
voted by all democrats just ex¬
actly as printed, except that in
voting on the three constitution¬
al amendments, the voter should
scratch either For or Against, as
he may wish to vote in favor of
or against the respectful amend¬
ments.
“I have written you so fully
because of the numerous inquiries
upon the subject which have
reached me from all portions of
the 6trte.
“Sincerely yours,
“A. L. Miller. Chairman.”
CHATSWORTH
Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Pendley
are the proud parents of a bo\r.
J. N. Moreland snent a few
days recently with relatives near
Ellijay.
Several of our people attended
the Association at Mt. Pisgah
Sunday.
J. V. Trotter and Miss Malinda
Shields, Perry King and Miss
Dora Heartsell and Misses Fan¬
nie Stuart and Mamie Kiug
passed through the city Sunday
afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Snyder and
two children, of Anniston, Ala.,
are visiting T. Carney and family,
Pat Loughndge and Marion
Goswick and Misses Ora and
Myrtle Ellis were in the city a
short time Sunday,
Leonard Dobbs was here las*
Sunday.
Misses Mamie Pendley and
Katie Keister spent an afternoon
of last week here.
Aubrey Verb. '
dk
BERMUDA
School closed at tliis place last
Friday with much regret.
Mrs. W.J. White and children
visited Bob Hill and wife at
Crandall Sunday.
Mrs. Emma Terry and children
spent a few days of last week
her sister, Miss Alma Hill.
Several from this place attend¬
ed the Association at Mt. Pisgah
Sunday and report a nice time.
Everybody remember the sing¬
ing at Bermuda Sunday evening,
beginning promptly at 2 o’clock, j
It will be conducted bv Prof, j
Weaver. Everybody is invited
to come and.hear him.
Misses Vora Anderson and
Annie Steed, two of Eton’s fair¬
est girls, were in our burg last
Friday afternoon.#/
Trixie.
Mrs. Arrowood Passes Away.
On last Sunday the Grim Reap¬
er visited the home of Mrs. Ar¬
rowood and took her from this
world of sorrow to a better land.
She had been in failing health
for several months and her death
was not unexpected by her rela¬
tives and friends.
One of Murray’s best women is
gone; Spring Place has lost a
Christian lady, and her children
a loving mother.
The News, with other friends,
extends condolence to the be¬
reaved relatives.
The remains were interred in
the Sumach cemetery Monday
afternoon,
FOR SALE my farm on Con
nasauga river. Apply to J. W.
Langston, Amzi, Ga.
NOTICE!
I will start out for the purpose of col¬
state and county taxes for the year
Tuesday, October 2nd, and will make
my rounds as follows:
Spring Place, October 2, 16; November I, 6.
Shuck Pen, it 4,17 * “ Is)
;
Tenth, a 5,18; 3.
Alaculsa, U 9.19; 44 7.
Doogan, 44 8 , 20 ; 44 8 .
McDonald, 44 9,22; 44 9.
Doolittle, 44 10, 23; 44 10.
Ball Ground 44 11,24; 44 14.
Eeghth, 44 12, 25; 44 rrj
Bull Pen, 44 13, 26; 44 CM
I will be at the above districts on the
mentioned from 10 a. m. to 2 p. m.
I will be at my office at Spring Place
from November 20 until the books close,
December 20.
J. CHAPMAN, T. C.
MT. ZION
As I failed to appear last wAek
I will try and send the news.
The rains that have just fallen
are making the farmers look blue.
They are fearful thev will lose
their fodder and hay they have
down.
Sim Hassler, a delegate from
Rocky Face,spent Saturday night
with John Holland.
Our up-to-date editor and wife
attended the Association at Mt.
Pisgah Sunday.
, Miss JBiddie Carney, one of
Ohatsworth’s fairest belles,spent
a short while with Miss Sallie
Holland Sunday afternoon.
Col. L. F. Peeples was in our
community Friday and Saturday.
Leonard Dobbs, brakesman on
the L. & N., spent a few days
the latter part of last week with
his grandmother, Mrs. A. O.
Leonard.
Mrs. Joe Holland and dauglf
ter, Miss Mabel, spent Saturday
and Snnday with relatives in our
burg.
Hardy I^iipps and wdfe spent
Monday afternoon with Mrs. Tom
McClure, who is still sick.
Miss Nettie Coley is on the
sick list.
Tom Carney. Harry Wright
and Webbie Coffey were in our
neighbornood Sunday afternoon.
Royal.
Harrison Greeson Dead.
On last Wednesday morning
the sad intelligence reached
Spring Place that Harrison Gree-
8011 died.
lle WftS take » with something
colie, which rapidly grew
until death came to end
sufferings.
He was a young man with a
bright future, and his demise is
greatly deplored.
His remains were interred in
the Spring Place cemetery Wed¬
nesday afternoon, Rev. Alvin
Jonjes conducting the funeral ex¬
ercises.
The sympathy of everyone goes
out to the bereaved family.
The Breath of Life.
It’s a significant fact that the
strongest animal of its size, the
gorilla, also has the largest lungs.
Powerful lungs mean powerful
How to keep the
breathing organs right should be
man’s chiefest study. I,ike thou¬
sands of others, Mrs, Ora A. Ste¬
of Port Williams, ()., has
learned how to do this. She
writes: “Three bottles of Dr.
King’s New Discovery stopped
cough of two years and cured
of what my friends thought
O, it’s grand for
and lung troubles.” Ghar
by O. 0. Cole, grocer.
Price 50c and $1.00. Trial bottle
RAN MOWER OVER
HIS LITTLf SON
Child’s Legs Were Doth Broken
As a Result of the
Accident.
Handersville, Ga., Sept. 10.—
Yesterday while George N. Ivey
was running his mower, cutting
grass near his housed his little
boy hid himself from his father
directly in the track of the mow¬
er, and both of the little fellow’s
legs were almost severed from
his body, the bones being broken
and only the muscles holding
them together.
He was brought into Handers¬
ville, about four miles, and his
wounds dressed. It is thought
the doctors will be able to save
his limbs.
Petition lor Charter.
GEORGIA, Murray County.
To the Superior Court of said
County:
The petition of W. W. Wood¬
ruff', Jr., James G. Sterchi, Joe
P. Davis, Ed Gothard and Ham
G. Shields, of the State of Tenn¬
essee, and W. Deane Ham, of
Murray county, Georgia, respect¬
fully show's:
1. That they desire, for them¬
selves, their associates, successors
and assigns, to become incorpor¬
ated under the name and style of
the Alyce Mineral Company.
2. The term for which peti¬
tioners ask to be incorporated is
twenty years, with the privilege
of renewal at the end of that time.
6. The capital stock of tile cor¬
poration is Four Hundred Thou¬
sand Dollars ($400,009), divided
into shares of one thousand dol¬
lars each.
4. The whole of said capital
stock of $400,000 has been fully
paid up by deeding to said corpo¬
ration the mineral interests in
lots of land numbers 297, 279,280
and 281, all in the Twenty-sixth
district and Second section of
Murray county, Georgia, each lot
containing one hundred and sixty
acres, more pr less.
& The object of the proposed
corporation is stockholders. pecuniary profit Pe¬
and gain to its
titioners propose to carry on a
business of buying and selling
real estate, all minerals, talc,
soapstone, mineral lands, mining,
leasing, sub leasing and financing
lessees and sub lessees and tq do
any and all things pertaining to
mining, as provided by the laws
of Georgia.
6. The principal office of raid
proposed corporation will be in
the town of Spring Place, Ga.,
said county. ~
Wherefore petitioners pray under to
be made a body corporate
the name and style aforesaid,en¬
titled to the rights, privileges
and immunities and subject to
the liabilities fixed by law.
O. N. King,
Petitioners’ Attorney,
GEORGIA, Murray County.
1, G. H. Arrowood, clerk of the
Superior Court, do hereby certify
that the above and foregoing is a
true copy of the application filed
in my office. Sept. 20th, 1906,
G. H. Arrowood,
Cleik S. C.
Singing Fish.
Sinbad, the sailor, hauling in a
toadfish, says the Minneapolis
Journal, scratched it gently on
the stomach. Immediately the
little creature began to purr, at
the same time swelling up like a
football under the process of in¬
flation.
Bigger and bigger grew the
toadfish, till finally it was almost
round, and prickles stood out all
over it. And so loud did it purr
that the anglers had to raise
their voices to be heard.
“A toadfish is all right,” said
the sailor, “but did you ever see
a singin’ fish?”
“What’s that? I can’t hear
ye.”
“I’m talkin’ about singin’ fish.
Ye find ’em in them strange wa¬
ters off Ceylon. The natives don’t
like ’em to be caught. They
prize ’em and guard ’em the
same as we do song birds.
“This here singin’ fish makes
a sound like tiny, far-off bells,or
a wineglass when ye rub its
NO./ 4 t
BLACKS MENACE
NEGRO’S SLAYER
White Man kills Negro and Riot
Almost Results. .'
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Grocer Smith Forced to Shoot Blqck
Morton in Self?Defense—Negroes
Gather and Threaten to Mob
Smith. 1,
.Macon, Ga., Sept. J.7.—Joseph
0. Smith, a; retail grocery mer¬
chant who k.e?PS a store near
Pleasant Hill in Vineville, fired
three times on Black Morton, a
negro driver for ArrhotlF & Co.,
at his store this morning, killing
him instantly, after the negro
had prepared to advance on him
with a knife. -Immediately af¬
terwards a mob of several hun
dred angry negroes gathered and
it took the presence of Sheriff
George Robertson and several
deputies with Jailer Hublmrd,
working as a squad of armed
officers, to keep down what prom¬
ised to he nothing less than a riof.
The killing occurred in a negro
section and in a moment after
Morton was killed they began
congregating and rriakingthfeats.
Smith boarded a car arid came
down town to surrender, When,
lie reached the sheriff’s olfiQe, the
matter was related, the man was
taken in charge aiidthe slrerill'
went immediately to the see^L
It took some time tb get’ The
true cause.of file killing,'as high
excitement had run among the
negroes. Morton lav face down¬
ward, a knife at one fide, and
many unruly negroes Standing
around, For sometime the situ¬
ation looked dangerous, buftiieie
was no further trouble* a/ld the
affair has apparently been for
gotten.
Mortoo went to the,store with
some beef which he said Smith
had ordered la§t week and want¬
ed to deliver iti Smith denied
having made the order and*curs
ing followed. Each called the
other bad names until they began
fighting. When Morton drew his
knife, Smith drew a 32-.caliber
revolver and began firing. .Every
shot fired took effect, jand Morton
keeled over dead. A coroner’s
jury has rendered a verdict justi¬
fying Smith on the grou|id§.of
self-defense. ' %
Farm for Sale.
I wish to sell my farm, south¬
east of court house, and adjoin¬
ing the corporation of Spring
Place. Terms made on applica¬
tion. — I). T. Brown,' Spring
Place, Ga. , ‘ •'
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Association at Mt. Pisgah.
The Baptist Association held
with Mt. Pisgah church, at Itam
hurst, last Friday, Saturday and
Sunday, was a complete success.
The crowd on the last day was
estimated at from one thousand
to twelve hundred people.
The good people of that com¬
munity khow how to make people
at home. They gave hungry
something good to eat and
had a splendid time.
rim with a wet finger. It’s a
pleasant sound, pleasant, clear,
sweet.” ; s
Sinbad, the sailor, threw the
toadfish overboard. The air had
gone out of it by now. It had
collapsed like a punctured tire.
“Pardon,” he said impressive¬
ly, “ye may think ye’ve seen
strange things in yer time; but
lemme tell ye this:
» “Ye won’t know what strange¬
ness is till ye wake up in the
small hours off Ceylon, and in
the moonlight one o’ them there
singiV fish puts its head out o’
the water near yer ship, and the
soft, pale night is filled with low,
sweet, delicate music, like far-off
silver bells.”