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sSI 1 ^Sfy J Jill CVS “TELL THE TRUTH.” 4 J. C. HEARTSELL, Editor. SPRING PLACE, MURRAY COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1903. A BATCH OF HOT WAFFLES. Happenings of the Week Broiled Down to a Delicious Taste. Sheriff Groves went Tennessee on official business this week. Miss Mary Freeman, Dalton, is here, a guest of Miss Katie Keister. Mrs. Florence Holland spent this forenoon shopping among our merchants. Mrs, Sarah Lance died in Dalton last Frida) and was buried at this place Saturday, Miss Ellen Roberts spent a day here this week shopping and visiting Miss Nancy Everett. Surveyor Bob Love is in from his mountain retreat looking after business affairs in Spring Place. Misses Mattie Humphreys and Effie Lee Brown, of Ramsey, are here visiting the family of Sam Fincher. Rev. Wilhoit, synodical missionary for the Cumber land Presbyterian Church, will occupy the pulpit in the Pres byterian church here Sunday, ' July 5 th. Hull Kerr has exchanged his stock of goods and other property here to J. W. ertson of Bull Pen, for a farm in that district and each has assumed control of his new belongings. A bright boy or girl in each of the various sections of this county could employ a moments week quite profitably ery letter containing by writing us a a concise sume of the neighborhood from happenings. Let us hear you. mm JJie 8 EDICT I ON SALE! m ....... FOR THE NEXT SIXTY DAYS we will Sell for almost your own figures a Mammoth Stock of SUMMER MILLINERY, It will soon be time for our Buyer to go East again to buy for the Autumn and Winter Season, and we close out our. . . Summer Millinery and Ladies’ Furnishings at a remarkable low Fgure, in order to make room for our Immense Stock of Fall Millinery and Ladies Furnishings. Our entire stock of Dress Goods, Black and Colored Petticoats, Muslin Underwear, Night Robes, in fact Everything goes at a Nominal Low Figure. See us at once for Bargains Money Saved is Money Made. Everything at Money Saving Prices..... » COMPANY. Blair Adams, of Doolittle, was here on business yester afternoon. Prof. Henri Schoeller, of Dalton has been in this vicin¬ ity the last few days. j John W. Coffee, of Dunn, i was shaking hands with friends here Tuesday evening Vest Worley and daughter, of Dennis, spent a day the past week shopping in Dalton. Walker Moreland is suffer ing from a very painful car buncle on the bottom of one i of his feet. Miss Annie Peeples, of Chattanooga, visited relati ves out in Doolittle several days of the past week. Brawner Smith and wife, of Dalton, spent Sunday at this place visiting at the homes . „ Will T .„ and . Joe _ Ovbey. ^ , Or Commissioner Daily ory held the regular annual teachers’ examination here last Saturday and a large num her of applicants for licenses; were on hand. Why not get up a picnic and barbecue here for the Confederate veterans in the near future? It has been the intention to do this a long time we see no use for further delay. Get together and start matter Work at the gold mines is being pushed forward at a rapid rate now, and a force of j men is kept busy day and! night driving a tunnel which' about sixty-feet deep at this time and when completed will about 120 feet long. Actual Circulation 1200 Copies. Marion Elrod was here Tuesday on business. Hon. P, McGhee graced our streets a few hours Tues¬ day afternoon. Elbert, John T. Kuhn and son, were in our busy marts a short time Tuesday. Capt. Tom Peeples, of Dal¬ ton, delighted his town friends by a brief visit Tuesday. Hon. John Black, of Dal¬ ton, was here the other day delivering oil to our merchants. ling ’Squire Ross Tyson, a hust¬ Doolittle merchant, made a business trip to Dalton today. James Arrowood and family, of Cohutta Springs, are here at the bedside of his mother who continues quite ill. Drummer George Barks¬ dale, of Dalton, spent last Saturday among our mer¬ chants selling them groceries. The glorious Fourth will not find any ripe melons in Murray this time but there will be plenty of them here a little later on. Mark Parsons has accepted a position as salesman for our new merchant, S. W. Blass¬ ingam, and invites his friends to come around, . . . IO P „ s ,nc growing nice y now and with favorable proper time farmers will soon p e ~; a “laying-bv ' ” ^ 1 arsons and ~ H-Hart ill Oar on \\ go to Ielsv, 'le nexl 1 uesday, to at of ^ ( ; n the ^ Methodist district Church. Conference Notice. My Undertaking department has been moved to the Keister Drug Store, on ^ ie Public squaie, and Robert Fletcher will be in charge during my absence, John L. Cole. HERE’S SOMETHING WORTH READING Prepared Especially for the Jimplecute’s Appreciated Friends. The court house roof is much in need of a new coat of good paint. Mesdames A. L. Keith and A. J. Mason were shopping in the city Tuesday. C. L. Henry and wife spent Tuesday Sumach with relatives at and Beaverdale. Horace Moore has been confined to his room with malarial fever since Friday. Quite a lot of our people calculate going to Dalton to celebrate the glorious Fourth, Saturday. T. E. Everett, of Ocoee, Tennessee, is visiting the fam¬ ily of P r A. Gates, two miles south of town. Drummers Frank Baker and Bob Gray, of Dalton, spent last Saturday among our thriving tradesmen. ’Squire Jim Kelly’s friends will be pleased to hear of his much improved health. He is able to be up and about now for the first time in several weeks. The Murray Teachers’ In¬ stitute will meet at Pleasant Valley next Monday, with Prof. A. L. Brewer as expert instructor. An interesting program has been announced for each day. We have been requested to announce that there will be a Confederate veterans picnic at Tyson’s spring, in Doolittle district, on the 4th Saturday in this month. Everybody invited to come with well filled baskets and enjoy the f ea st. ESTABLISHED IN 1879. ONE DOLLAR Per. Annum Dr. John Steed went up to see his father in Oatoosa coun¬ ty yesterday. Will Roberts and his mother were here patronizing our merchants yesterday. George Kerr has accepted a clerkship in the store with merchant J. W. Roberstson, Ilomer Davis, of Dunn, delighted his Spring Place ad¬ mirers by a pop call yesterday. Our good friend Eli Stan¬ ford is here today giving the glad hand to his numerous town friends. Sam Blassingame has been suffering from a slight indis¬ position since Sunday but is better at present. Snook & Robinson are doing a thriving real estate business now and have a num¬ ber of good deals on foot. The council should see to it tha., considerable work be done on the sidewalke during the summer and fall. Let us have more and better foot¬ ways for pedestrians. Be sure and read the an¬ nouncement of merchant Robertson in this issue. He means business and says he is going to slash prices on shoes, dry goods, notions and cloth¬ ing of every kind. Dr. Sam Brown will leave this week for Dalton where he expects to find a wider field for the practice of his profession. He is one of our most progressive citizens and Spring Place regrets very much to give him up.