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THE GAINESVILLE NEWS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1903.
bE down TAYLOR'S PENCE.
Tay lor Proceeded to Close Uy
* r '"' Teet Running Across Oil Mill Prop
erty To Gainesville Cotton
Mill, and City Tore
It Down.
At the last meeting of the city coun-
■! permission was granted to the elec-
C1 ! c railroad company to run aDd oper-
% line over a new street recently
‘led between the oil mill and "
|lesv,lle Cotton Mill. Mr. B.
w lor, the proprietor of the oil mill,
-bjected to this, claiming that
nropertv was his own, and did not
Lr to'the city. Therefore he had
fence built across the street, obstruct.
j L all passage over this street.
On Monday the city council held
meeting- and declared the fence
nuisance, and instructed the chief
police to secure such force of hands
ffas necessary and tear down the fence,
charging the time up to Mr. Taylor.
Accordingly, Chief Parks tore down
the fence on Monday. He was also in
structed to make *a case against Mr.
Taylor for obstructing a public thor
oughfare, but he failed to find him at
his place of business.
It is understood that Mr. Taylor will
fight the case, and it may be that he
will take it into the higher courts to be
settled.
the
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Death at New Holland.
Mrs. Reuben Thomas, of New Hol
land, aged 33 years, died at that place
on last Sunday. Mrs. Thomas leaves
a husband and four children, the
youngest child being only 9 months of
ige. and a host of friends to mourn her
death. She was an estimable lady and
was held iu high esteem by her neigh
bors. Mrs. Thomas was a cousin
of Mrs. A. S. Erwin, of Gainesville.
The remains were interred at the fam
ily burial ground, near Mt. Airy, yes
terday.
Mrs. Dixon Buys Gordon Building.
Mrs. E. E. Dixon this week purchased
of Mrs, R. H. Gordon the Gordon
building on north side public square,
paying therefor the handsome sum of
$12,500.00. This building is an excel
lent one, is well located and always
has good tenants. This is the largest
real estate transaction that has oc
curred in some time.
Will Get Best Attractions.
Mr. J. H. Hunt has engaged Klaw &
Erlinger. the famous theatrical man
agers, to arrange his bookings for next
season, which assures him a higher
line of attractions for the future. In
fact, the theater will get the same at
tractions which Athens now gets, most
of which are among the best playing 1
in the South. Although these attrac
tions cost the opera house more, Mr.
Hunt believes that the theater-going
public will give an increased patronage
his house.
Mrs. J. E. Jackson returns the
j sst of the week from New York
aii d east, where she has been
0 P?hding sometime viewing the
latest styles of millinery.
THE
OPERATES
jjovbie Daily Trains
Frying Pullman Sleepers, Cafe Cars
a carte) and Chair Cars (seats free).
Electric Lighted Throughout
between
Bingham, Memphis and Kansas City
TVv
AND to all points in
was, Oklahoma and Indian Territories
AND THE
Far West and Northwest
r HS ONLY THROUGH SLEEPING CAR LINE
BETWEEN THE SOUTHEAST AND
Kansas city
ra P es ^pti ve literature, tickets ar-
unnS ec an . d trough reservations made
P u Application to
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• launders, Gen-l Aot. Pass. D*rr.
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Ci -Ark, Taav.Pass.Agt., Atlanta. Ga.
T. SAUNDERS
J ' n 1 *9«nt Passsnger Department
ATLANTA, GA.
Policeman JEt, T. Bagwell is spending
today in Atlanta.
Mr. M. K. Woodall was in town
Monday from Bellton.
Col. M. Swift was in the city
Saturday from Elberton.
Mr. J. W. W. Simmons spent last
Saturday in Atlanta on a business
trip.
Mrs. Ed. F. Little, after spending
several weeks in Florida, returned to
the city on Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Porter and chil
dren spent Sunday in Buford, as guests
of Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Quillian.
Dr. and Mrs. W. P. DeLaperriere of
Hoschton, spent Sunday and Monday
in the city as guests of Dr. and Mrs.
J. H. Daniel, on Green street.
Mr, H. R. Calloway, the shoe man of
Eyerett, Ridley, Ragan Co., spent yes
terday at the shoe factory, returning
to Atlanta on the afternoon train.
Mr. Hartman Grigg has resigned his
position with the Southern Express
Co., to go with his brother, Dr. R. D.
Grigg, in the real estate and renting
and patent medicine business.
General and Mrs. Longstreet are
at Mr. Randolph Longstreet’s to spend
a week or two. The General has been
slightly indisposed, but has improved
greatly since coming to Gainesville
from Washington last week.
Mr. John A. Pierce last Monday pur
chased of Mrs. Jasper Dorsey her va
cant lot on West Spring street, adjoin
ing his plumbing establishment, for
$1075. The lot is 60 x 83 feet. Mr.
Pierce will improve the lot later on.
Mr. John T. Waters, chairman of
the board of county commissioners
went to Flowery Branch Monday, and
in company with Commissioner W, D.
Hawkins, went to Roberts’ district to
see about some roads needing attention
there.
Mr. B. F. Simmons has resigned his
position with the Cable Co., to accept
the position of division agent of the
Mutual Life Insurance Co., of Athens,
and will work Hall county. He pro
poses to secure 1,000 members of this
division in a short time.
Messrs W. B. Smith, J. S. Al
len, C. H. Bell, G. D. Lay, F.
M. Tumlin and D. G. Bickers
went to Murrayville last Saturday
□ ight to initiate eleven applicants
iuto the mysteries of masonry at
the lodge there.
Mrs. E. S. Stewman Dead.
Mrs. E. S. Stewman died at the
home of Mrs. Durham on Maple
street at 5 o’clock Friday after
noon, age 25. The funeral ser
vices were held by Rev. J. A.
Wynne, and the remains were
interred at Alta Vista cometery
Saturday afternoon.
Miss Alice Roosevelt Sails for Porto
Rico.
New York, March 14. — Miss
Alice Roosevelt sailed on the
steamer Commo at noon today for
Porto Rico, where she will be the
guest of Miss Elizabeth Hunt,
daughter of Governor Hunt. Miss
Roosevelt was accompanied only
by her maid.
Southern Mutual Life Insurance Association of Georgia.
Home Office, Athens. Atlanta Office, 503 English-American,
Hon. J. L. Webb y President; John A. Darwin, Secretary-Treasurer and General Manager.
B. F. SIMMONS, DIVISION AGENT, GAINESVILLE, GA.
The Montgomery Advertiser
thinks that the Deleware legisla
ture made good its pledge to elect
“Addicks or nobody” when it
elected Allee. The Advertiser says
he fills both requirements. He so
thoroughly represents his boss
that there would be little impro
priety in calling him Addicks, and
on the other hand, he is such an
absolute nobody, that he fits that
horn of the dilemma. It was an
ingenious method of keeping a
pledge.
In 1896 Lewis Jolly of New Bruns]
wick, N. J-, vowed he would never
again shave until William Jennings
Bryan had been elected President of
the United State. Mr. Jolly died a
few days ago, haying kept his vow.
The vow, however, said nothing about
trimming his whiskers with scissors,
so when the hirsute adornments got
long enough to be annoying, Mr. Jolly
clipped them neatly'and was thus able
to wear a Vandyke beard.
The life insurance question is no
longer whether a man should insure,
but simply the best company in which
to insure.
Life insurance business has in our
day attained vast proportions, and
many people who formerly gave but
little heed to the subject are now deep
ly interested.
Unfortunately with the march of
time the life insurance business has
become very complicated and expen
sive, and the average person either has
not the money to pay the annual prem
iums, or has not the ability or time to
study out the plans of the average poli
cy offered by an insurance agent.
WHY CANNOT A NUMBER OF PEOPLE BAND
TOGETHER IN A COMMUNITY?
%
This is a natural question. Why
cannot a number of people in a com
munity band together, and at the
death of a member, each member pay a
certain sum to the beneficiary? The
economy of such a plan would be very
great; the money would be kept in the
community and insurance would be re
duced to a minimum. This question
which has occurred to many a man has
been completely answered by the Mu
tual Life Insurance Association of Geor
gia. This organization, chartered by
the laws of the state of Georgia, has
been organizing Life Insurance divis
ions in this state for the last sixteen
months, following out the plans under
successful operation in the state of
Pennsylvania and several of the south
ern states.
THE PLAN
is the simplest and most natural. The
state is divided into a number of divis
ions, each division being made up of
one or more counties. These divisions
are each officered by the best men in
counties where the divisions are orga
nized, and the money with which to pay
the death claims is kept in trust by an
accredited and bonded officer in each
of the divisions, so that in the event of
a death the money is right at home
with which to pay the claim and each
community has the advantage in the
first place of knowing exactly the state
of the division in the wav of member
ship, but he also realizes that the small
amount paid out by him goes to pay
the widow and orphan of a neighbor or
friend.
The plan originated m Philadelphia
twenty-two years ago and has been op
erated in Pennsylvania, Virginia and
North Carolina with success. The an
cient order of Foresters established in
1835 is alive with a membership of 168,-
000 and an average death rate of 12.1
per 1,000 members. The objections to
the mutual or fraternal order of insur
ance have long since been exploded
and this class of insurance is now re
garded as not only the cheapest but al
so as the safest and most reliable. The
only institutions in any country, inde
pendent of the state, that have at
tained the age of one hundred years
are fraternal or mutual, or mutual or
ders.
THE RESULTS.
In sixteen months, without noise or
advertising, the Mutual Life Insurance
Association of Georgia has issued more
than eight thousand policies among the
best people in the state, and is repre
sented in forty-four counties, and ap
plications are coming in from all over
the state to organize more divisions.
INSURANCE AT COST.
That the Mutual Life Insurance As
sociation of Georgia furnishes insur
ance at actual cost is further evidenced
by the fact that a distinction—a slight
one—is made between the county and
city divisions. In the latter the actual
expenses are necessarily higher and
for that reason in city divisions an ex
tra dollar is charged in each class for
initiation fee in order to pay. the med
ical examiner and other necessary ex
penses, and for a similar reason a uni
form charge of $1.50 annual dues is
levied on each member. In every in
stance thirty days of grace is given
each member to pay the mortuary as
sessment or the annual dues.
The By-Laws give full particulars of
the working of each division, and the
Mutual Life Insurance Association of
Georgia points with much satisfaction
to successful record of benevolence,
giving protection at home, at a nominal
cost to our widows and orphans.
ENTIRE COST IN THE ASSOCIATION.
Initiation fee, first annual dues
one advance assessment:
and
At ages from 16 to 30 A $3.00
At ages from 30 to 40 B $4.00
At ages from 40 to 50 C $5.00
At ages from 50 to SO D $6.00
These amounts are paid only one
time. One year, from the date of poli
cy and annually thereafter, the annual
dues are:
Class A 75
Class B 1.00
Class C. 1.25
Class D ... .1.50
When a death occurs in a division
each member of that division is assess
ed $1.15. As long as there is no death
in a division, no assessment is made
and beyond the annual dues which re
main the same as at age of entry, no
monthly assessments are made as is
the case with so many assessment com
panies. In the Mutual of Georgia, the
principal laid down is: No death in a
division, no assessment because none
is needed, and each division is respon
sible only for the deaths in that divis
ion.
In city divisions one dollar extra is
charged for initiation fees, and the an
nual dues are fixed at $1.50 for all
classes.
OFFICERS HALL COUNY DIVISION—H B. Smithy President, Gainesville, Ga.; W. H. Craig,
Secretary and Treasurer, Gainesvilley Ga. Directors, P. N. Parker, T. H. Robertson, J. E. Redwine, Jr ,
Gainesville, Ga.; C. R. Faulkner, Bellton, Ga.
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INTO
New Quarters
I have moved into the store formerly
occupied by J. B. Mathis & Co., next
door to Palmour Hardware Co., where I
will be glad to have my friends and cus
tomers call.
I have more room, better light and
more inviting quarters to show you
through my mammoth stock of dry
goods, shoes, clothing, hats, gent’s fur
nishings, etc.
I am still catering to the best trade
in this section, and will be glad to sell
you. Don’t forget my superior stock of
Groceries, Feed Stuffs, etc.
Yours Truly,
JOHN H. TURNER.