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VOL. 29
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS
WEDNESDAY
Mel and Disposed of Several
Cases, Some Fined, Some
Turned Loose and Some
Not Tried
NINE CASES OF DRUNKS
WERE ON THE DOCKET
Lively Sceaes «■ the Council Chamber,
hut from What We Can Learn,
Not as Lively as Those of
Last Monday.
The Spring Place city council
met Wednesday night to dispose
olf nine cases of “drunks” with
Mayor L. F. Peeples presiding.
Some of the parties appeared,
ready to stand trial.
In regard to our editorial we
will say that the council has, in
P^rt, acted on these cases^ but
nqt to the satisfaction of all par¬
titas, interested or otherwise.
Witnesses were lacking; no
witnesses being named when the
cases were made: the complaint
it seems was made to the council
from mere rumor, and rumor was
evidence enough in some cases
while sworn evidence “cut no
iee” in others; some paid fines
and seemed well satisfied with
the penalty, yet they say that
the whole nine were guilty and
should be made to pay fines, not
take a few and make them pay
it all; but such was the case.
From numerous rumors, and
rumor is all we know of the af¬
fair, the entire nine should have
had to pay heavy fines, and those
who were fiued say as much, yet
witnesses were produced against
some parties while other parties
Wire turned loose without wit¬
nesses, for or against, ouly a.plea
of not guilty.
One thing we know : there have
been three cases made to the city
ouncil that have been on
the docket ever since last winter
gad were never disposed of, yet
fhe§e parties,excepting one,have
been in Spring Place time after
time, but the city law seemed to
be in hiding while these parties
ware here.
This rowdyism will have to
have a stop put to it, but the
grand jury, we fear, will have to
handle these parties (not these
parties necessarily, but any who
violate the law) in order to give
justice to each and every man
iJike, The town council seems
to jump on a few of the less fa¬
vored ones.
The town is not able to pay(?)
a matshal, yet the fines which
could have been collected from
these cases, which have been
numerou Ithisyear, had the prop
pr treatment befell them to pay a
yearly salary to two marshals and
leave a neat little Sum in the
eity treasury. This state of af¬
fairs will never cease until the
town has a marshal with courage
enough to take one and all alike,
friend or foe, and have justice
meted out to them.
Gentlemen, put a stop to this,
even if it has to be taken to the
grand jury, but let personal feel¬
ing have no voice in the case, for
or against, and give every man
justice and fcfie town and county
wjll profit by it.
THE MURRAY NEWS
SPRING PLACE, MURRAY COUNTY, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER i, 1907.
PURELY LOCAL AND PERSONAL
We need more wood.
Job printing done at lowest
prices at this office.
Col. C. N. King visited Dal¬
ton last Saturday afternoon.
Clinton Kelly made a business
trip to Dalton last Saturday.
Some of our young people
visited Eton Sunday afternoon.
S. H. Kelly made a business
trip to Dalton first of the week.
R. C. Logan, of Williamsburg,
Ky., visited friends (?) in the
city recently.
Several of ourNjports attended
the Chatsworth-Eton ball game
last Saturday.
W. M. Harris, of Eton, was
mingling with friends in Spring
Place Tuesday.
E. D. Bond, of Fashion, was a
prominent figure on our streets
the first of the week.
Joe Matthews and Miss Chris¬
tine Bagwell attended the sing¬
ing at Oakland Sunday.
Oliver Dickson came down
from Etowah Saturday afternoon
and spent Sunday at home.
James D. Poteet, of Upper
Murray, made us an appreciated
call while in the city Tuesday,
Don’t fail to see the moving
pictures when in Dalton—only 5
cents. See then' ad. elsewhere.
The Spring Place lodge No.
141 met in regular seini-inQntlily
session here last Saturday night.
Will Robinson and wife, ye
scribe and wife spent Monday
with Dennis Groves and wife- at
Oak Grove.
Miss lua Henry entertained
last Thursday night at the home
of her uncle, Col. C. L. Henry,
with music.
The young people of Spring
Place highly enjoyed a singing
at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Vornberg Sunday night.
P. G. Hilliard and family
have moved from South Spring
Place to the residence recently
vacated by E. N. Whitmire and
family.
Mrs. R. A, Pierce and three
children, of Oohutta Springs,
spent a day or two of last week
in Spring Place, guests of
friends.
Chatsworth and Eton base ball
teams crossed bats on the
former’s grounds last Saturday
afternoon, the game resulting in
a victory for Eton by a score of
20 to 8.
Miss Billie Cole entertained a
number of her young frjends last
Saturday night at her birthday
party. Games were in order and
the evening was passed most
pleasantly.
Baker & Buchanan, furniture
dealers, of Dalton, have an ad.
on another page. Call on them
when m need of furniture and
get their prices. They will not
be undersold.
BOOKKEEPING COURSE
$3,00 per month. Shorthand
Course $8.00 per month. Tele¬
graph Course unlimited scholar¬
ship $30.00. Write SOUTHERN
BUSINESS COLLEGE AND
SCHOOL OF TELEGRAPHY ’
Newnan, Ga.
Your attention is directed to
the half page ad of Cannon Bros.,
of Dalton, elsewhere in this is¬
sue. Their big cut-price sale i*
still going on and .is attracting
people by the thousands. Can
you afford to miss this opportun¬
ity to fill your needs?
CHATSWORTH
Mias Mae Davis, of Eton, and
Lawrence Shelton were in the
city Sunday afternoon to the de¬
light of their friends.
Misses Mamie and Addie
Pendley and Kenner Henry
were here one day last week.
R. N. Steed was down from
Eton last Saturday.
Mrs. R. M. Gudger and little
son, Pat, were over from Spring'
Place Tuesday afternoon.
Boyd Smith and Miss Stella
Leonard were in Chatsworth
Sunday.
Clem Adams returned to Ala¬
bama Wednesday, accompanied
by his cousin, Parks Adams.
Mrs. Max Keister and Miss
Marguerite Heartsell were Chats¬
worth visitors last Thursday af¬
ternoon.
We are sorry to note the ill¬
ness of Mrs. Sue Barnett at
Hotel DeSoto.
Mr. Marion Williams, of Dal¬
ton, spent Saturday night with
friends near the city.
Claud Patterson was calling
on Miss Clara Tyler Sunday af¬
ternoon.
Miss Georgia Bates visited
Chatsworth relatives one day
last week.
Will Carney was out smiling
on the ladies Sunday afternoon.
Jean Val Jean.
RAMHURST
I will venture to give some of
the happenings of our thriving
little town which is progressing
nicely.
Some may say that Ram hurst
will never amouut to anything
as a town, but just wait and see.
As the saying is, the still sow
drinks the slop. While Ram
hurst is quiet, she is steadily and
rapidly growing.
Smith and Co, have about
completed their warehouse.
F. O. Leonard, of Oak Grove,
was here Saturday.
Sheriff Mike Willbanks was in
our town Sunday.
T. M. Hemphill was* among
friends here Sunday.
Gordon Owens and sister were
calling on relatives at this place
Sunday.
J. A. Hemphill has moved to
Ramhurst.
M. D. Terry visited his brother
Sunday,
There must be some attraction
for Robert Chambers up toward
Dennis.
With bright hopes for The
News, I close.
Lonely Nightengale.
Trade with News advertisers.
“Uncle” Billie Fox was in
town Tuesday.
Dr. J. II. Yining, of Fashion,
was m (he cjty on business Tues¬
day.
Saturday a id Sunday are regu¬
lar preaching days at the Baptist
church,Rev. W. L. Taylor, paster.
Tom Chamlee, of Eton, spent
Sunday with homefolkn in the
city.
A number of Eton young
people were in the city Sunday
afternoon
Miss Georgia Vining was tried
and adjudged insane by a jury
Tuesday and was taken to the
state sanitarium at Milledgeville.
Your attention is called to the
numerous ads. of McWilliams
Bros,, of Dalton, in this issue.
You will find almost anything
you want in their stores. Try
them for real values.
Carter Dry Goods & Shoe Co.,
of Dalton, have an ad. elsewhere
in this issue, which will do you
j;ood to read. They announce
their winter opening for next
Monday, November 4th.
PEOPLE
are profiting by the
S9
Bargains
I am offering in
Furniture
Hardware
Harness
Farm Tools
■
Wagons
|
Why Not
YOU?
WILL S. GOX,
Chatsworth mm mm am mm mmtm mm mm 6a.
COFFINS
CASKETS
ROBES
BIRMINGHAM ENTERS
LIST OF DRY CITIES
AMZI
Mr. Treadwell’s baby has been
quite sick for some time.
I “Grandma” and Miss Kate
Langston, of this place, and Mies
Belle Camp, of Warren, Ark.,
spent last Wednesday at the
home of B, W. Gladden.
Miss Susie Morris made a bus¬
iness trip to Dalton Monday.
Miss Mattie Anderson visited
the Misses Ellis Saturday night
and Sunday.
John Holland, one of Murray’s
most hustling farmers,and little
brother, Mort, went to Dalton
Saturday and called on Amzi
friends on their return.
Miss Lula Gladden visited at
the home of Mrs. M. G. Hill Sat¬
urday night and Sunday.
Dr. Looper and wife graced
our streets Sunday en route to
Dalton.
We are sorry to note the acci¬
dent of Sam Cox last week.
Handsome Chester. Hill and
sister, Miss Alma,Iwere in our
burg a short while Sunday after
teruoon.
Miss Mattie McHan / visited
Miss Nettie Gladden Sunday.
Miss Choice Perkins made a
business trip to Spring Place last
weeK.
Bob Jackson and family went
to Dalton Saturday.
W. A, Gladden, of Dalton, ac¬
companied bv Miss Williams, of
Mineral Wells, Texds, visited
bomefolks a short while Sunday
afternoon.
J. F. Carney, of Chatsworth,
was in our burg Sunday.
Rev. C. C. Maples has been
called to preach at Free Hope
next year. He will preach there
next 3td Sunday in the after¬
noon. Everybody come out and
hear him, it will do you good.
Misses Myrtle, Pearl and Her
line Ellis were at Sunday school
Sunday. Come again, girls, we
are glad to have you.
Harve Hanna, wife and son,
visited in Spring Place Sunday.
Walter Howard graced our
streets Saturday.
John Ellis went to Dalton Sat¬
urday.
An bt Te.
FAIRY
W. D. Petty has returned
home after spending several days
in Atlanta attending the Fair.
Willie King went to Spring
Place Saturday.
Mrs. C. O. Howell and Mrs.
Clara E Petty spent Sunday at
N. Petty’s.
J. C., Ben, and Blanch
McClary, Miller Tye and Miss
Fermon Jones, of Connessauga,
Tenn., were at Fairy Sunday and
Monday.
Hugh Parks passed through
our burg Saturday.
G. W. Vineyard went to Cisco
Saturday.
John Evans visted homefolks
at Orr, Ga., last week.
Blue Eyes.
Georgia is not vet broke; not
by $91,722,48 still in the state
treasury and taxes just begin¬
ning to come in. The quarterly
report as furnished by the .state
treasurer and the comptroller
general proves this fact. It has
been received by the governor
and approved.
There is a promise of a warm
municipal fight in Hawkinsville.
Mayor P. H. Lovejoy has an¬
nounced as a candidate for re
election, and Mr. J. P. McGriff
is also in the race. There will
be a white primary.
NO. 47
County of Jefferson Votes Prohi¬
bition January 1
LABOR DISTRICTS
SWELL MAJORITY
Officials Declare They Will Enforce the
Law To Demonstrate Its
Results.
Birmingham, Ala., Oct. 29,—
Prohibition won in Jefferson
county Monday by something
over 2,000 votes. Out of a total
of forty-eight voting places the
antis carried only eight, thiee
of which were in Birmingham.
The district included in Greater
Birmingham went dry by 900.
In two places, Chalkville and
Meek, the antis did not get a
vote.
The opposition has accepted
the result with good grace and
Brooks Lawrence left Tuesday
morning for Mobile, where a
prohibition campaign will be
started.
Jefferson has gone dry. One
of the greatest labor cities in
the South has decided to. try
prohibition, and upon the expe¬
riment will depend the success
of other interested communities.
The prohibition law will go
into effect January 1. As this
is only two months away it is
expected that the whisky men
will begin closing out their stock
af once.
Yesterday was the most
memorable day iy the history of
the city, and the mayor, sheriff
and all public officials are deter¬
mined to give it a fair trial.
Backed up by an aroused public
sentiment, they are going to do
all possible to eliminate whisky
from Jefferson county.
Women and children, the
greatest power behind the move¬
ment, began their work in the
cold wind in the early morning
yesterday, serving coffee and
tying ribbons on the voters as
they approached the polls. Many
of them congregated about the
polling places and talked to each
individual voter.
“Jefferson’s Going Dry!” was
the slogan of the prohibitionists,
and they did not relax their
efforts until the polling booths
had closed.
Birmingham proper went
“wet” by 302 maiority.
Said an official this morning:
“All the vice and criminal
history of the past has been at¬
tributed to liquor, and after a
carful study with two years con¬
fronting the experiment we will
be able to determine the truth
or fallacy of the statement that
Birmingham is the wickedest
place in the South.”
At 11 o’clock last night the
prohibition committee entered a
claim of a 2,100 majority. This
was based on the official returns
from all but twelve boxes and a
semi-official return from the re¬
maining dozen. The actual
tigures, minus the twelve boxes,
gave prohibition a majority of
1 , 688 .
When the news came that
Ensley, the suburb where the
steel mills and furnaces are
located, and probably the great¬
est industrial city in the South,
had gone dry the remainder of
the county was at once conceded
to prohibition.
The boys of the Alabama Re¬
form School at East Lake, head¬
ed by their well-trained band,
were perhaps the most interest
feature of the parade yesterday.
All the schools declared holiday.
The balloting began early and
continued briskly throughout the
day.