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J. C. HEARTSELL, Editor.
C, L. HENRY, Bui. Manager,
SPRING PLAGE, MURRAY COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 10 1902
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A BATCH OF
HOT WAFFLES,
Happenings of the Week Broiled Down
to a Delicious Taste.
D. E. Humphreys, of Den¬
nis, is in the city today.
Hon. Pleasant McGhee was
in the city on business yester
day.
John Gregory, of Hassler
Mil], was in town on business
Monday.
We are pained to chronicle
the illness of William Pend
ley, since Tuesday.
C. L. Henry has been real
sick for several clays but is
improving at present.
Dr. J. B. Hughes made a
professional visit to Sumach
and Cohutta Springs
day.
Mrs. Ruby Qeartsill, of
Dalton, spent yesterday with
her parents, Col. and Mrs. L.
F. Peeples.
Another mechanic has ar
rived to assist in getting the
flouring mill machinery more
rapidly in position.
The friends of Miss Mat Me
Entire will be pained to learn
that she is critically ill at her
home near Dennis.
Thomas Springfield and
Shelton were here yesterday,
They both report a splendid
ram Tuesday out Mount Zi
ou way.
Dr. E. 0 Stafford dropped
in upon us a few moments
Monday. He was on his way
to Dalton, on
business.
Miss Myra Peeples arrived
home yesterday from Marshall,
Texas, where she spent quite
a lengthy and pleasant visit
with her sister and other rel
atives.
Children’s day exercises
wiii be held down at Oakland,
two miles below town, next
Sunday. Quite an interest
mg program has been arrang
ed, a1 feature of which will be
an address by Col. II. A.
La " SS!0n '
Our good friend Marion
Kendrick advises us that a big
picnic will be held at Mt. Su¬
mach Saturday, July 12. Pub¬
lic speaking, flying jenny,
greased pole, racing and many
other amusing sports will be
the order of the day. All
invited.
Sam Heartsell, the five
year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.
W. D. Heartsell, was kicked
by a mule Saturday aftern oon
and received a very severe
wound over the right eye.
Drs. Anderson and Hughes
attended him and sewed up
the woumf and it is doing
splendidly at present.
Protracted meeting begins
at the Baptist church Sunday.
Ilyden Tyler spentTuesday
in town cracking yarns with
the boys.
James Springfield, Jr.,
made a business trip to Dalton
l yesterday.
i Dr. Jonn Steed is now snug-
1 ly quartered m his new office
on the public square
Harrison Waters and family
spent Sunday at the home of
Cornelius Turner, down in
! Doolittle
| John Loughridge, of Dunn,
delighted his Spring Place ad¬
mirers by a brief visit Tues¬
day afternoon.
John R. Lynch, a worthy
citizen residing one milesouth
of town, has''"been
j sick for some time.
Thomas Turner, of Adairs
viile, has been visiting the
family of Rev. William Adair
the last several days.
Oscar Muller, formerly a
citizen of this county but now
of Polk county, Tenn , was a
conspicuous figure on our
streets yesterday.
Thomas B. Davis, of Oran,
reports the first ripe water
melon of the season, lie ate
one Sunday, June 30, grown
in his patch this year.
Bill Fields, a prominent
.
Whitfield farmer, has been in !
j Murray the last few days where
he has many warm friends
and they are always proud to
have him visit them.
Teachers’ Institute is in
session here this week and all
the Murray pedagogues are
in attendance. They are a!
fine looking body of educators
Commissioner Gregory
has used excellent judgement
in selecting them.
The campaign lie is abroad
in the land and will wax and
grow fat and get bigger and
baser each diiy and week from
this minute till the polls close
on July 30 Look out for it
and dodge it if you can. For
the Lord’s sake do not start
one yourself.
lhe r Congressional . . con yen
tion of this district meets in
Romejn!,- 7 Hon Pleasant
McGhee and J. C. Heartsell
will represent this county as
delegates. Having no oppo
rtXT: rouSt. ly cor -
Actual Circulation 1200 Copies.
thb rotrars m SPEnre puce.
The glorious Fourth waa
celebrated in great style in
Spring Place. More than a
thousand visitors came to en¬
joy the sports and festivities
and a good time they had, too. .■
Everybody was in perfect
good humor and on their best
behavior, not a single unpleas¬
ant incident occurring to mar
the pleasure of the occasion.
In the opinion of all it was
the largest and most orderly
body of people ever before
assembled in Spring Place.
Of course the candidate was
here in all his glory and daz¬
zling beauty and each and
every voter got dead loads of
winsome smiles and cordial as
well as convivial handshakes,
Nothing in the way of a set
program was attempted, more
to social inter-mingling and
seeing the various contests,
The prizes were awarded as
follows:
Boy’s foot race, $i; Bates
Wood.
Bicycle race, $j; a tie and
divided by Homer Davis and
Fred Brown.
Whistler’s cot,*sl, $1;
Claude Green,
Terry. Men;'viboi race**!!;; , ra-s
Girl’s foot race, $2;' Sallie
Johnson. ,
Boy’s sack race, $1 ; Jim
Kerr and Clinton Kelley tied.
Men’s sack race, $1; Sam
Blassingame.
Greased pole, $3 ; Charley
Adams.
The scramble tor pennies
was the feature of the day and
more than half a hundred
anxious boys pushed and grab¬
bed, tumbled and rolled each
other in dirt and dust in their
eagerness to secure as many
as possible of the pennies as
they were thrown broadcast,
handful after handful, in their
midst. Long live the Fourth
and the glorious principles
which it commemorates.
Ida Greeson and the
bilby bave Jee n v,sit wg her
P^nts near the . city.
Rev. W. R. Lackey, a high
ly respected Bull Pen citizen,
was in the city on busiuess
yesterday.
’Squire Jim Kelley and fan,.
ily went out yesterday to the
creek and spent the day fish¬
ing. A party of young men
went along to manipulate the
seine and they met with ex¬
cellent success.
During an electric
Tuesday evening b the barn of
Joseph T 1 Yu Phipps • was struck , by
lightning and one of his hogs
killed, but no serious damage
rented. On the »me after
noon Jim Dickson and Claud
Green both recieved shocks
here in Spring Place. Much
LwSffl parfsTf tins countr^°by duringthepast %%
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HERE’S SOMETHING
WORTH READING.
Prepared Especially for the Jimplecute's
Appreciated Friends.
Mrs. Laura Fincher
shopping to Dalton yesterday,
Jolly Chip Oweus, of Co
hutta Springs, was here yes
Krday.
was Nclse^Baker, m Spring Place of the Eighth, busi-;
on
ness Monday- !
Jason L. Robinson is quite!
improved from a recent at
tack of indigestion. ;
Ivverett Bill Isenhower Sunday and Cageri
spent with
their families in Sprng Place,
spent Prof. last.week Sampler and McDaniel’s, family j
at :
near Calhoun, visiting rela
tiy es.
F. Vonberg has been spend¬
ing the past week visiting his
son and daughter, at Cbat
tanoooga.
Wash Swanson, of Doolittle,
was in town yesterday morn
;..g .”•:<! ant .with ..a
brand new mower.
Mrs. Maude Gudger and
children, of Fashion, visited
her mother at May Hill sever¬
al days of the past week.
Brigham Young Pulliam
came up from his Gordon
county farm to attend the big
celebration here on the
Fourth.
Luke Mitchell and Lee
Bowman and their families, J
of Gordon county, spent sev
eral days of last week at the
home of George Cox.
On account of the recent
death of their sister the Miller
boys have postponed their
picnic, which was to have oc
at Mitchell’s bridge
last Saturday.
.
On last Friday evening ^little Per
K - j his
ry ten( erec j
a party and luncheon
hontr of his birthday
than forty of the little
were present and they
given a royal time till
the night.
R. T. Bond died at his
home, near Fashion, Tuesday
morning after a lingering ill
ness of several months. He
was one of Murray’s oest citi*
zens and his loss will be keenly
fclt b > both ^nreb end
community. Our sympathy
goes * out to the bereaved c ' Grt<
Tax Receiver Miles Bram
blett is now busily digests® engaged
making up the tax of
this county for the current
>ear and expects to have them
completed by August the 1st
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c^y«Ts*r
ESTABLISHED IN 1879-*96.
ONE DOLLAR Per. Annum.
Amos L. Keith was in town
on business Monday afternoon.
Lewis Thompson received a
large shipment of new goods
this week.
Digs Williams and daugh
atives ter spent in Sunday visiting rel
Bull Pen.
Now is the time to subscribe
in order to get the news of all
the approaching elections.
Bart Coker recently return
ed from Central Texas, where
he has lived the last few months.
Candidate Billie Campbell,
of Doolittle, was here on bus.
iness a short time yesterday
forenoon.
Dr. Peak was up from At¬
lanta Tuesday seeing after
the insurance business m
Spring Place.
Rev. Hull Kerr preached
two the Methodist interesting sermons at
church Sunday,
morning and evcum’gV '
Way land Calloway, of Dal
ton, and Mrs. Emma D. Pat- ■
terson, of Atlanta, attended
Ordinary’s court here Monday.
ular Judge Obey held his reg¬
monthly session of Ordi¬
nary’s court Monday. The
usual amount of routine bus¬
iness was transacted.
We are requested to an
nounce that Children’s day
services will be held at Mount
Pisgah, near Ramsey, the
fourth Sabbath in this month.
Kate, a young daughter of
Judge Tim Ovbey, accident
ally cut her foot quite serious
ly Saturday morning. The
wound was dressed by Dr.
Steed and is doing nicely.
These prosaic precincts
were brightened by a bevy of
young lady teachers
I uesday afternoon, who came
look on as our ponderous
ground out logic
the news of noteworthy
all over creation.
rp ^ . ie County _ ^ Commissioners
° ugbt to buy a sufficient quan*
. rubber
hose to be used
in s P rayin & and sprinkling the
ff not f ets weather extremely and a thirsty good wa¬ this
tering three or four times if.
week would be of much iudr*- ad
vantage MaddSt to it iind S : nce "Lgh fo
was
aonat- the seed it is as tittle
as iffie authorities could do to
s^e that the sras&.is k^ntfr<»«h
Thu
attractive tiqss of our property.