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VOLUME
THE WHISKY QUESTION.
STANDING COMMITTEES
I M direst Each Other Over in
Dawson County.
Lome Gainesville and Ellijay
Uue officers had a queer eipe-
[nee over in Dawson county a
p days ago. A party of officers
i m Gainesville, headed by Lon
chardson, went to Dawson to
(ke a raid. At the same time
f eral officers from Pickens coun-
w ent to the same place for the
ne purpose. Both parties had
Of the Council for 1901 Named by
Mayor Mitchell.
Editor Cracker ; "It seems
that the whisky question is a very
hard one to settle in the county of
The prospect, it is said,
for another
committees of the council, as
named by Mayor R. D. Mitchell,
for the year 1901:
Committee on police-—Martin,
chairman; Landers and Parker.
Committee on finance—Puckett,
chairman; Martin and Parker.
Committee on streets—Puckett,
chairman; Parker and Hubbard.
Committee on health—Martin,
chairman; Parker and Landers.
Committee on buildings, . chim
neys and awnings — Hubbard,
chairman; Landers and Eber-
hardt. -
Committee on fire department—
Parker, chairman; Eberhardt and
Martin.
Committee on lights and water—
Hubbard, chairman; Puckett and
Eberhardt. ,
Committee on market—Landers,
chairman; Martin and Puckett.
election, another
struggle upon this question, which
should have long ago been buried
beyond the possibility of
rection.
There are too many c
warmly clothed and well fed to re-r
turn to the cursed reign of bar
rooms. While the open bar lived
many children in Gainesville and
Hall county, knew what it was jbo
be poorly clad and lightly fed.
The money that
resur-
( eople without Drugs, Medicines. Lotions, Decoctions, Plasters.
Salves, Appliances or the Knife. “But Row can it be done?’
provides
them food and clothes then went
into the bands of the bar owners
and supplied luxuries for the fam
ilies of those who dispensed the
fiery potations that rob man of
reason and integrity.
jfc is urged by some that the
blind tiger is doing more harm
than yae open bar. By reference
to the various court records this
will be found v untrue/ Ask the
wives and {children of those who
could not pass the open bar, and
they will testify to the truth of
the assertion that there is a great
abatement of the evil.
The licensing of a bar or dispen
sary m a town or county by the
people makes the people account
able, morally, for the crimes that
may be committed by men when
under the influence of the liquor
sold at these licensed places.
Where crimes are committed by
men under the influence of blind
tiger liquor, the guilt lies on
the individual immediately
nected with it.
It is to be hoped the time shall
never come when the people of
Hall county will be willing to take
on their heads the sacrificial blood
of the open bar.
No more do the good people of
Hall county and Gainesville wish
to hear the widow’s wail and or
phan’s cry because of the open
bar!- f; '
No more do the people desire to
hear the oaths and have knowledge
of the cruel treatment .accorded
defenseless women and children,
and, that sanctioned by their
votes!
No more do they want to be a
party to the crimes that would
blacken the name of their county
and town by heinous offenses com
mitted by infuriated human be
ings—caused by liquor obtained
at the open bar!
Let those who oppoee that dread
evil be up and doing. Don’t think
there isn’t necessity^, for exertion.
“Eternal vigilance is the price of
liberty.” Stand fast ip the liber
ty-and freedom from barrooms you
Let every one do all
N o less than 500 of the b§st people of this State testify to this fact,
Is it possible that YOU know more about it than they?. I have
treated ALL classes oi people—even Medical Doctors, and healed
fey were trying to blutt nim.
tabbing his gun he replied that
fey were the ones . to surrender
Id had better do some explaining
Ighty quick. This, the Pickens
peers made haste to do, and soon
pee was restored. The officers
bu related how they happened
be there and the Gainesville of-
prs gathered up their copper and
t. The meeting najrowlv avert-
I being a serious one and the offi-
jrs feel a bit creepy when they
ink of it. It is a rare thing for
fo sets of revenue officers to make
raid on the same still at the
me time.
ALL classes -of diseases, except Dentistry and Surgery.
Call on meat Hunt’s Bank, Rooms No. 3 and 4
write me, P. O. Box, 55, always enclosing stamp.
County Tax Hates.
■p • '--V, ~ \ r•
A Baldwin county man recent*
ly wrote to Comptroller General
Wright, says the Atlanta Consti
tution, asking him what county
m Georgia had the highest tax
rate. . .
in Baldwin, he
BADLY BURNED.
A BAD FALL.
con
HAD A BAD FIGHT
IMohntzl, the fourteen-months-
Id son of Mr. and Mrs. George H.
pller, was badly burned last Sat-
fday afternoon. While playing
lar the fire his dress ignited, and,
Ifore the flames could be put out,
Is clothes were burned from the
Ight side of his body, inflicting
|ry painful injuries. Mrs^ Ful-
j r grabbed the child in her arms
M put out the flames as quickly
r possible. Medical attention was
Pen the little fellow at once and
p baB been getting on as well as
Nd be expected.
We Are Growing’. • .
[The present population of the
Q ded States has been very con-
jderably enlarged as a result of
Q6 annexation, cession and pur-
^ a6e of islands,
ftimates are fui
jsusus office;
| D ^ e d States
°rto Rico
bdippme Islands
Gober Reese’ Skull Fractured by a
v Rock in the Hands of Clyde
While descending the steps at
the First Baptist church last Sun
day after the morning service, Rev.
A. Van Hoose fell to the brick
walk, a distance of several feet.
He is quite feeble, and was unable
to balance himself as he descended
v - - *. •• • i
the steps. Fortunately he was not
seriously hurt by the fall, and h»
was quickly lifted to his feet,
placed in a carriage and sen*
home. “Father Van Hoose,”
he is familiarly known, is abou*
eighty years old and for forty odo
years was in the active ministry
He is well known «throughout
Georgia and has many friends win
hope that he may be spared for
many years of usefulness yet. -
The tax rate,
said, was $11 per $1,000, which,
he thought* pretty high. Hedid
qot state tor what reason he de
sired the information.
As a matter of fact, Baldwin
almost reaches the limit of high
tax charge. There is one* county
however, whose rate is still high
er. McIn tosh connty ch arges her
citizens $11.30 per $1,000. Bald
win comes second, therefore* and
Butts is third with a rate of $L0
per $1,000. Effingham county
Emmett.
nature. Dr. W. A< Palmour was
called in and rendered medical aid.
It is possible that Reese will re
cover. Emmett was arrested and
placed in the county jail, pending
the outcome ot Reese’s condition.
If death results he will have to
answer to the charge of murder.
Both boys are white and are in
their teens.
next with a rate of $2.30 and
Muscogee is $2.50, Dade’s $3.00
and Fulton’s $3.70.
Needed His Help.
A North Georgia editor on go
ing away, left his paper in charg
of a minister. During the minis
ter’s stay in the sanctum the fol
lowing letter came from a moun
tain subscriber: “You know ver\
well that I paid my subscription
to your paper the last time I was
in your blasted town. If I get
any letters from you like the la?
down to you
BAPTIST
76,295,220
953,248
7,000,000
8,461
4,105
Rev. W. M. Harris, who was pas
tor of the First Baptist church of
Galveston* Texas, at the time of
the storm last September, but who
is now at work under the auspices
of the home mission board of the
Southern Baptist convention, so
liciting funds for the Baptist suf
ferers of Galveston, preached at
the First Baptist church last Sun
day. His sermon was a strong
one and at the close of the service
a collection amounting to about
$85 was giv*u by the congregation.
Rev. Mr. Harris was an eye-witne88
to the storm and lie gives a minute
description of it. The Baptists
of Galveston lost $75,000 by the
storm.
mam .....
u tuiia and adjacent
islands
ROWLAND-STRICKLAND
now have,
possible to bury thi6 question, this
time, in a grave so deep that its
resurrection will never more be at
tempted. 10-3-15.
marriage or Jben Howland ana
Miss Cissy Strickland, which oc
curred last week. ’Squire Dyche
states than an unusual feature of
*
this marriage was that the groom
did not know the bride’s given
name when they were married.
That didn’t make any difference
with Ben, however, as he wanted
a wife and got a good one. The
c remonv was performed at the
home of the groom’s brother, Riley
Rowland.
fecial County Bailiff W. E.
^th arrested a negro at New
°lland Monday by the name of
Williams, who was wanted at
arie tla on the charge of murder.
| 8 f aid that Williams killed his
So,11 e lime ago and has since
^ at large. Bailiff Smith car-
Williams to Marietta Monday
^ turned him over to the officers
iere. - .
one, I will come
office and maul the devil out t»
you.” The minister answered:
“I have buen trying to maul tha>
thiDg out of the editor for fifteei
years past, and if you will cod»*
down and do it for me, I hav'
twenty more members of my cor -
^regation that I will get you to
work on.—Exchange.
For Infants and Children,
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