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“TELL THE TRUTH.” •4
J. C. HEARTSELL, Editor.
A BATCH OF
HOT WAFFLES.
Happenings of the Week Broiled Down
to a Delicious Taste.
Col. Ben Bates, of Dennis,
spent Sunday here.
Sheriff Bill Groves made a
business trip to the Eighth
Tuesday.
Lester Jones has about re¬
covered from a painful attack
of pneumonia.
Lawyer Luke Henry and
wife spent last Friday in Dal¬
ton’s bustling marts *
Genial John Nichols, one of
Dalton’s most popular drug¬
gists, spent Tuesday in Spring
Place.
Charlie Williams is prepar¬
ing to erect a substantial store
building near the D. & A. de¬
pot site.
Several letters reached us
too late for mention in this
issue. Look out for them
next week
The young people have or
ganized an Epworth League
here. We hope that it
prove a decided success.
An interesting communica
tion concerning the cultivation
of Bermuda grass appears
elsewhere in this issue. Be
certain to read it.
Recent high waters have
done considerable damage to
bottom lands along the creeks
and rivers. Freshly plowed
uplands were also badly gut¬
tered.
Thomas Hemphill, one of
Ball Ground’s thriftiest and
cleverest farmers, was here
today, enroute to Dalton with
a load of produce from his
Sugar Creek farm.
We have been requested to
announce that the Fifth
day meeting of the Baptist
association will be held at
Hipp’s Chapel, beginning
Friday, March 27, 1003. All
invited..
Dr. Free Harris was over
from Dalton several times the
past week, assisting Drs.
Brown & Steed in the treat¬
ment of Hon. Green Tread¬
well, whose condition is
materially improved at the
present.
Buff, I? nn paid Montgomery, of
visit during us an appreciated
Spring Place. a He recent informs trip to
us
that ke has twenty-one acres
in a nursery on his Coosawat
tee farm and that he
to sell 1,000,000 trees
season. John is a mighty
industrious citizen and we re
joice with him in the success
of his enterprise.
Guy your garden seed of
Fincher & Nichols, Dalton,
and get the best.
SPRING PLACE, MURRAY COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY’, MARCH 12 1903
, .
Blair and Wib Adams, of
Doolittle, are in Dalton today.
Mitch Leonard is a promi¬
nent figure on our streets this
afternoon.
Lawrence McClesky, wife
and baby spent Tuesday
shopping in Dalton.
Jerome Smith and lady have
moved into the house with
Mrs. Martha Henry.
Dr. Price Bates spent yes¬
terday in Spring Place, to the
delight of his numerous
friends.
We are pleased to state that
Ed Moreland has about recov¬
ered from a severe attack of
pneumonia.
Anderson Vonberg, of
Chattanooga, spent several
days recently visiting his par
ents at this place.
Buford, the young son of
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Henry, has
quite ill the past three
weeks but is some better now
Alex, the young son of Mr.
and Mrs. Ervin Baggett, has
been very ill with pneumonia
for a week but is considerably
improved at present
Dr. Sam Brown is having
the material delivered on the
premises preparatory to the
erection of a neat cottage on
Ellijay street, just west of Dr.
Anderson’s.
Dr. Dee Parsons took his
departure recently for South
McAlister, I. T., where he has
accepted a lucrative position
till the beginning of the next
collegiate year at Chattanooga.
The friends of Mrs. W. W.
Anderson will regret exceed
ingly to learn that her health
is still very poor. She has
been confined to her rot.m
with an obstinate case of
asthma for several weeks.
Dr. James Glass died of tu¬
berculosis at his home in
Poolville, Texas, a short time
ago and was buried at Fort
Worth. Jim had hundreds of
friends in this county who will
be deeply pained to learn of
his death.
Col. Tracy Green has just
returned from an extensive
tour of Florida and is now
stationed at Cohutta Springs,
his trip he made it a
point to visit all points of in
terest in the “Land of Flow*
ers” and his thrilling experi
ences are well worth going
miles to hear. While away 7
his headquarters were at hotel
Ponce de Leon, St. Augustine.
Everyday next week will
be bargain day at my store,
Hull Kerr.
Actual Circulation 1200 Copies.
Notice to Teachers.
Applicants for teachers’ li¬
censes next June will please
observe the following.
the Along with the history of
United States, Georgia
history tinguished and biographies of dis¬
Americans will be
included in the subject matter
for the next examination of
applicants for license to teach.
Applicants who desire to
secure a third grade license
should study:
1 . The Common School
Branches, including Physiolo¬
gy and Hygiene.
2 . Manual of Methods for
Georgia Teachers.
3 Page’s Theory and Prac¬
tice-—any edition.
To secure a second grade
license study the above and
also Roark’s Methods in Edu¬
cation.
To secure a first grade li¬
cense, study the above lists
and bear especially in mind
that the questions will be so
graded that two or three ques
tions cn each subject will be
more difficult than .the others.
state Applicants licenses for would Jpermanent do well
to review the following books
or subjects in addition to the
above lists:
1. Include Civics with His
•°ry.
2 . Spencer’s Essays on Ed¬
ucation.
3 . History and Philosophy
of Education.
4 5 . Include Psychology.
American . English and
Literature . with
Reading and Grammar.
6. Include Elementary Phys¬
ics and Physical Geography
with Common School Geog
raphy. W. D. Guegoky.
Buy your garden seed of
Fincher & Nichols, Dalton,
and get the best.
Hogs For Sale. 10 head
of thrifty hogs to sell cheap.
Apply to Murray County
Milling Co., Spring Place.
Best Southern grown field
and garden seed for sale by
Fincher & Nichols, Dalton,
Georgia.
Ticket No. 224 gets the el¬
egant gold watch at Kerr’s.
Look through yours and see
if you have the luoky number
and call for the watch.
Hull Kerr.
Drs. Brown & Steed desire
to direct your attention to the
fact that they have just re¬
ceived a complete line of fresh
Drugs and Family Remedies,
among the latter being Swamp
Root, Cheney’s Expectorant,
Castoria, Castor Oil, Turpen¬
tine and numerons other
articles needed every day in
the family. Prices as low as
good goods can be sold.
Best Southern grown field
and garden seed for sale by
Fincher & Nichols, Dalton,
Georgia. *'
HERE’S SOMETHING
WORTH READING.
Prepared Especially for the Jimplecute’s
Appreciated Friends.
Robert Fletcher is slightly
improved from a painful ill¬
ness.
’Squire Carters, Patterson Messer,
of spent Sunday night
in the city.
Pansy Heartsell is conva¬
lescing from a dangerous
illness of pneumonia.
Affable Hyden Tyler, of
Dunn, spent last Friday
among his Spring Place ad¬
mirers.
’Squire Jack Baynes is in
town today, suffering from a
most painful inflammation of
the eyes.
Zeke Kenner has aban¬
doned the idea of moving to
Lindale, and will remain in
Spring Place.
Thomas N. Peeples is mov¬
ing his effects from near
Dennis to Dalton, where he
expects to reside in the future.
John C. McEntire and Newt
Stroud, of Sumach, were
shaking hahds with their
Spring Place admirers Tues¬
day afternoon.
Many peach trees are now
in full bloom and quite a nice
crop may reasonably be ex¬
pected should the weather
continue favorable.
William Pendley showed us
a parcel of roots the other day
from an Elberta peach tree
set out eleven months ago
that measured more than ten
feet in length.
Pleasant Valley base ball
team crossed bats with the
Spring Place boys last Satur¬
day. At the close of the game
the score stood Spring Place,
30; Pleasant Valley, 7.
All farm work in this section
has been seriously retarded by
continued rains. Just as soon
as the weather clears up
farmers will go to work in
earnest and big changes will
soon follow.
James Arrovvood is negoti¬
ating a deal to dispose of his
interest in the shop business of
Ai-rowood & Dunn, at this
place. If the trade is made
he expects to move to Cohut
ta Springs and engage in the
manufacture of wagons.
The home of Thomas Ram¬
sey and all its contents were
totally destroyed by fire at
Ducktown, Tennessee, a short
time Besides _ ,, his house- „
ago.
hold effects Mr. Ramsey lost
$400 in paper money. This
is a great loss to Tom and he
has hundreds of friends here
who deeply sympathize with
him
ESTABLISHED IN 1879.
ONE DOLLAR Per. Annual
George Kelley and family
spent yesterday in Dalton.
Elmer Brown delighted his
town admirers by a short visit
Tuesday.
Rev. Meedy W. Shields is
visiting relatives in Knoxville,
Tennessee.
Eli Stanford, of Hassler’s,
was an appreciated visitor at
our sanctum last Saturday.
We are pleased to chronicle
that Harris Ethridge is much
improved from a short illness.
Miss Machen Galt returned
yesterday from a delightful
visit to relatives at Canton and
Ac worth,
Frank Duncan, a popular
Prune citizen, was mingling
with his Spring Place admir¬
ers Tuesday.
Miss Tonnye Cole, of Roy
ston, is here visiting the
families of Dozier T. Brown
and Perry Hilliard.
John H. O’Neill has our
thanks for a copy of Wren’s
Lightning Calculator. It is a
most useful little book and is
full of good rules.
Captain W. J. White has
been elected to fill the place
of Commander of John B.
Gordon camp of veterans,
made vacant by the death of
Major Wilson.
“Citizen” has a letter in an¬
other column of this issue of
much interest to teachers as
well as to the patrons of our
schools. His suggestions are
by no means without much
logic. Read the letter.
This morning at one o’clock
Miss Jennie Noles died at her
home one mile west of Spring
Place. She had been in de¬
clining health for twelve
months and her death was not
unexpected, Her remains
will be buried here at ten
o’clock a. m., tomorrow.
Wanted: An experienced
milliner and saleslady to take
charge of store. Also young
lady to learn the business.
Hull Kerf.
MONEY TO LEND.
One hundred thousand dol-,
to place on improved farming
lands, one to five years. This
money is private funds, and
belongs to no grasping corpo¬
ration. Payments to suit
borrower,
Cannon Building, J. B. Dalton, Terry, Ga.
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Best Southern grown field
and garden seed for sale by
Fincher & Nichols, Dalton,
Georgia.