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“TELL THE TRUTH.” 4
J. C. HEARTSELL, Editor.
A BATCH OF
HOT
Happening* of the Week Broiled Down
to a Delicious Taste.
Prof. Bob Vining has moved
his family back to Fort Moun
tain.
Dr. E. O. Stafford paid
an appreciated call Monday
afternoon.
Jace L. Robinson made a
business trip to the stirring
city of Dalton yesterday.
Vest Worley and Jim Er
win. of Pennis, were in the
from city Tuesday, en route home
Dalton.
Hon. M. L. Johnson of Bar
tow county, spent Tuesday in
Spring Place, and while here
paid The Jimp an appreciated
visit.
Handsome John Burks, of
Bull Pen, was in the city
Tuesday regaling his friends
with choice anecdotes fresh
from the manufacturer.
It will be most gratifying to
Col.Tom forces 7 many Mui
ray friends to learn that he is
murh improved now and his
family has hopes of his early
recovery.
Mrs. Nannie Dill has been
seriously ill ©f pneumonia at
the home of her brother, in
Dawnville, but is doing nicely
at present under the careful
treatment of Dr. Walt Ander¬
son.
Noel and Oliver Steed,
Fred Brown. Carter Edmond¬
son and Willie Keith returned
to Dahlonega Sunday, having
spent the holidays with their
parents in this countv. These
young men are all doing splen¬
didly in their studies and we
are all proud of them.
Yesterday evening 6 o’clock
Marcus Loughrige and Miss
Annie Harris were joined in
marriage at the home of the
bride’s fathei, Nels W. Har¬
ris, near Cohutta Springs,
Rev, N. A, Parsons officiating
1,18 usuat ”P reSSIVt Style ;
Our congratulations attend
the happy couple,
A mad dog passing through
the neighborhood a short time
ngo caused much damage to
several Rock Creek farmers,
Quite a number of other dogs
were bitten besides two cows
belonging to Mrs, C. D. Dur
ham, three head of cattle at
Walter Hemphill’s, a colt and
nt hoga Ed Anderson’s, a cow
at Will Darnel’s and one at
John Gilbert’s, all of which
’—d rabies and have
Clever -
since died -
Lee Lx Question is
to to place p n a wa on the
public Srlnimlunauftryof scnooisoi t. ,
country? 7 the
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SPRING PLACE, MURRAY COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1903
Judge Tim Ovbey and son
Will spent Sunday night in
'alton
Jovial Dock McEntire, of
Dennis, ornamented our
streets Tuesday.
Dr. Thomas Hall, of Holly,
was mingling with his city
friends a few hours Monday.
Miss Myra Peeple has re¬
turned from a most enjoyable
visit of several weeks to Chat
relatives.
William Pierson and his sis
ter were up from Adairsville
and spent several days recent
ly visiting the family of Will
IT, Black, out at Oran.
Handsome Lee Treadwell,
of the W. & A railroad, came
up from Atlanta Monday and
delighted his Spring Place
admirers by a brief visit.
George McGhee leaves to
day- for Lis home in north west
Texas, after a most delightful
visit of a fortnight to his fath
;er, other relatives and a host
of old friends at this place.
Om merchants are busily
engaged taking stock at pres¬
ent and squaring up last year’s
business. As soon as this is
completed they will offer their
customers some startling bar¬
gains through these columns.
The sympathy of this entire
community goes out to Prof.
Charles Shriner and wife on
the death of their little boy,
which occurred die morning
of the 7th., of diphtheria. As
we go to press another of
their children is at death’s
door with the same disease.
Mat Morriss and a party of
other hunters killed a large
tw«* pronged buck out
the mountains during the
id ays. A short time be "“to ore
that Jap Isenhower killed an¬
other in the mountains near
hjj hom(; . Those in )ositio „
to know sar that deer are un
„ SM „ ple „ tifu , this season .
0 „ Wednesday evening of
last week Mrs. Mary Moss
died at the home of Win,
PendJey after a brief attack of
paralysis. She had been in
declining health the past sev
eral months and her system
was in no condition to \yith
stand this additional malady,
The deceased was the mother
of our esteemed citizen
George W. ChaiTtlee and Mrs.
William Pendley, besides an
son and daughter living
Bartow county Her
mains were interred in the
cemetery at this place last
-rv;,w the funeral services
> ■ N -
\ Parsons. A <*ood vv o man
! M gone from among us : we
[deeply mourn our loss,
Actual Circulation 1200 Copies.
a newjrecime.
Last induction Thursday witnessed
the into office of the
newly elected and those so
fortunate as Jto succeed them¬
selves.
Those constituting the lat¬
ter class are W. G. Groves,
sheriff; N. A. Parsofts, tax
collector, and M. H. Bramblett,
tax receiver.
Mr. Grtvesgoes in on his
second term and it state i|i by no
means necessary to
he will serve the people the
ensuing two years to their en
tire satisfaction, as be has
heretotore. He is a «apable,
obliging, painstaking and fear
less officer and we venture the
prediction that our citizens
will have no grounds to com
plain of his official
Newt Parsons, our urbane
tax gatherer, is also serving his
second term . He is justly in
full nossessio c of the confidence
of the people and no official in
Georgia is more worthy or ac¬
commodating than he.
Miles H. Bramblett, our
ficient tax receiver, is known
by almost every man, woman
and child in the county
they he nearly everv ngh-V»n ,ine agree
that Vi the. m
the right place and are satis
fied that he shall lemain
just as long as he wants to. It
is would a foregone & concision that it
a phvsicl i m
bilily to find a mao filling in
county as capable of the
office as lie is, for he is
oughly conversant with the
real estate holdings of every
tax payer in the county fre
quentlv being more
with these matters than the
owner himself. Besides bis
superior qualifications Mr in many
other respects
is one ot the neatest penmen
in ihe country and his books
never show a blot or an eras
ure.
•‘Billie” Johnson retires
* rom t * le °ffice of clerk supen
° r court a f |( -‘ r a faithful and
most satisfactory service of
eight years. He desires to
thank the voters for thenum
erous kindnesses shown him
during his term of office and
he hopes some day to be able
to repay each one in a manner
commensurate with his fidelity.
George H. Arrowood, who
succeeds Mr. Johnson as clerk,
is a young man lull of vigor
and a commendible determin
ation to serve his constitu nts
1° tile very best of his ability,
and it goes without denying
that his career as an
yv.il! be one of unusual gratifi
cation 4 ;p the public, for he is
thoroughly competent in every
particular for the duties in
cumhent upon an, official in his
Former Treasurer Orange
Parrott, retires of h.s own ac
cord, a splendid record and the
M"e.i„ gS of one upon
whom no censure can rest.
His first election resulted
from a set prejudice of
HERE’S SOMETHING I
WORTH READING.
Prepared Espacially for the Jimp'.ecute’*
Appreciated Friends.
Mrs. Barbara Shields has
been quite sick for several
days.
Surveyor Henry Hamilton
was over from Dalton on bus
iness Monday,
I will se u the George Mul
linax farm for cash. Write to
T. H. Tabok, Ellijay, Ga.
Dr B. Hall, Bob Gudger
and Merrill Wood were auto
ip a ^ , e ^ , , ^ em , P* , e House rT
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Drown and family
moved into the Bagwell
residence and are now “at
heme” to their friends.
H A. Gallman and brother,
of the Eighth, spent a short
here Monday, on busi*
ness with the Ordinary,
The county commissioners
held their regular monthly
meeting Tuesday and much
routine business was trans
,
1 Colquitt Cole and Robert
Warns IT came ..p from r the ,
S “ te
nd spent the hoi,days with
the,r . p “ rents 111 th,s county,
Ed Childers and wife have
our sincere sympathy in their
sorrow over the loss of their
baby whose death occurred
yesterday, of cerebro-spinal
meningitis,
Doss Keith expects to re
turn to Ardmore, I T., early
next week. His old friends
here have greatly enjojed his
visit among them and hope he
will make them more fre
quent.
Elsewhere in this issue we
publish an interesting commu
fron Col. W. L.
Stanton, of Atlanta, touching
upon his war experiences in
this section during the sixties,
it will no doubt be read with
interest by our patrons, many
of whom are familiar with the
circumstances related,
people against monopoly in
local poli les a,nd he has been
man enough to retire upon the
completion of his second term.
i his is fair and in strict con
formity with democratic usage,
Benjamin Gregory succeeds
to the office of treasurer. He
has served the people in this
capacity before and no censure
ever attached to him for the
manner in which ne performed
his duties. Mr. Gregory is
one of our very best citizens,
in or out of office, and his
personal integrity is sufficient
guarantee that the people’s
money will be carefully guard¬
ed and disbursed in every
particular as of will justice. best serve
the interests
ESTABLISHED IN 1879.
ONE DOLLAR Per. Annum.
Lee Jones has moved to the
Fore farm, one mile south of
the city.
Rev. Billie Brown, of Til¬
ton, of Dr. spent Sunday at the home
Sam Brown.
Jam«s Arro wood and family,
spent several days lately visit¬
ing relatives up in the Tenth.
Affable Bud Hall and Dave
Causbey, of the Eighth, were
prominent figures on our bus¬
tling streets yesterday..
Miss Moyer, the new teach¬
er, arrived the past week and
has assumed control of her
department in the school here.
Her many friends will be
pained to learn that Mrs. John
Harris has been suffering front
tonsillitis and confined to her
room for several days.
Miss Machen Galt returned
yesterday tive in from a visit to rela¬
CarteraviUe. She was
accompanied by Miss Jim Ver¬
non. who will spend some time
with friends in this vicinity.
In a statement to the
Constitution, Pension Com¬
missioner J. W. Lindsey says
that the checks for Murray
county pensioners will be
mailed from his office on Feb¬
ruary 26th. There are about
79 beneficiaries of the pension
fund in this county.
It is to be hoped that the
present council will give the
sidewalks. people of Spring Place better
They are forced to
pay taxes and it is not right
that pedestrians should have
to wade in mud knee deep in
order to get about town. Let
us have one administration of
enterprise and progressiveness.
*
Miss Mary Freeman, who
has been employed as a teach¬
er in the school here, returned
to her home in Dalton Mon¬
day. She is a most estimable
young woman as well as a
thoroughly competent and
painstaking teacher and a ma¬
jority of the patrons of the
school regretted very much
that she was forced to give up
her work here.
Capt. Bill White and Ches¬
ter Hill are now traveling
with an Optigraph Moving
Picture Machine which is the
most complefe thing of the
sort ever seen in this section.
It shows many pictures of his¬
toric interest and the moving
scenes are simply wonderful
and intensely interesting, es¬
pecially the * 'cavalry charge”,
“bucking broncho” and “cake
walk". Their entertainment
is worth many times the price
of admission.