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THURSDAY AFTERNOON'
The News-Herald.
*I.OO A YEAR, IX ADVANCE.
'Official Organ Gvinnett Cosntj.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
Lairttowille PiMisblig Co. .Proprietors,
-J. C. FLANIGAN, / .
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The Okuefeuokee swamp has
sold for $175,000
Female horseback riders of
Bos too have discarded the ancient
side-saddle and now ride astride.
Sam Jones is booked for one
hundred and thirty-seven speeches
in Georgia during the next cam
paign.
When Dewey married he got
into all kinds of trouble. Others
have been known to have similar
experiences.
There are 25,000 people who
claim that Gwinnett county is the
best county in the world. They
are right.
There have been 2,000,000 fruit
tieee planted in Georgia since la*t
October. North Georgia led with
more than a million.
Atlanta is to have a new ten
story hotel to cost $500,000 It
-will be located ou the corner of
Peachtree, Luckie and Broad
streets.
Perry-Rainey college at Auburn
will graduate a class of three this
year. They are Misses Cammie
Perry and Anna Moore and Mr.
Henry Harmon.
The finest editorial writer in
*tbe state is Editor Pendleton of
the Macon Telegraph. We tell
our readers this confidentially and
of course they need not report it.
People go to south Georgia just
to be in the “coming” section of
the state. We prefer to stay in
Owinnett where it is not ‘gwiLe”
to come but where it is already
tiere.
Rev. F. M. Hajgood, an aged
Baptist minister, died in Atlanta
last week. He was well known
throughout the state and las
preached in Gwinnett county a
number of times.
A western company of capital
ists has bought 51,000 acres of
land in Clinch county and haA
■option on 117,000 acres more.
This company will devote their
..attention to cane and cattle.
'Some crank has introduced a
H)ill in the legislature of Florida
to tax all the bachelors. Suppose
they should attempt to tax old
maids—but then we don’t believe
in heaping burdens upon people
who do the best they can.
’Tis some time until another
•election but let the people think
about these as prospective candi
dates: Judge Russell for con
gress, Hon. C. H. Brand forjudge
superior court, and Col. T. J.
for solicitor general.
Tennessee has passed a child
labor bill prohibiting the employ
ment of children under fourteen
_years of age in mills, mines, etc.
v'ieoigia will do that later on,
t-when all the other states have
passed such laws. The Georgia
legislature is always behind.
President McKinley and party
•-will leave Washington shortly for
-a, trip to the Pacific coast. They
wrill go by New Orleans, not touch
ing Atlanta, and after reaching
California will lap back to Buffalo,
Y„ before returning home, the
<otal distance to be traveled being
something like 10,500 miles.
“THE DETtt 15 BKIKCHES."
Monday night Rev. L. T. Reed
preached a sermon at the Baptist
church taking as his subject ‘"The
devil in breeches.” That is rather
Sam Jones like to be sure, and it
would have sounded better had he
called it “The devil in pants," or
“His Satanic Majesty in trousers,"
jr “Pluto in mal* attire*”
He announced that he would
later preach on th« subject of
“The devil in skirts.” Well, we
bad always supposed that satan
is of the masculine gender and
that he always wore pants, but it
appears that we are not up on the
question.
On Sunday night be preached
ou missions and altogether the
discourse was excellent, save a few
sentences that were rather grating
to a person of fine sensibilities.
His idea of missions is correct and
his comments on home lifo were
splendid. But we have heard quite
a good deal of criticism—very
severe it was, too—on the cause he
gave for young people going to
dances. He intimated that young
men go to dances not so much for
the dance itself but for the pur
pose of— Well, girls always at
tend and they, too. go not alto
gether for dancing but for the
pleasure of being— He went on
to state that dancing was not the
whole thing but the position of
those engaged in the dance— that
is, in dancing the man manages to
get his arm around his partner
which in more secluded amuse
ments is called— the writer has
forgotten just what the parson
called it for he never indulged in
doing 6uch either at parties or sit
ting ou a log at a summer’s pic-
I nic, and can hardly remember
1 words he never heard before.
We are inclined to think, how
ever, that the preacher is mistaken.
THE GWINNETT COTTON MILLS.
The failure of a number of sub
scribers to the capital stock of our
cotton mills to pay their subscrip
tions has seriously embarrassed
the company in conducting itß
business Something over SIO,OOO
is still due on these subscriptions.
If the compuny had this money in
baud it could meet all of its press
ing obligations and run the mills
to their full capacity, but unless
this is paid in or the directors suc
ceed in procuring funds from
other sources without delay there
is no escape from a temporary
shut down.
The mill is splendidly equipped
and its products are largely sought
after in the eastern markets, and
bring the highest cash prices.
It has been demonstrated during
the short time it has been in oper
ation that it will earn 12 per cent,
on a capital stock of sloo,ooo,even
in the present depressed condition
of the market, if ruu to the full
capacity.
Its capital stock is a splendid
investment and the directors are
now endeavoring to sell a sufficien
cy of treasury stock to furnish am
ple working capital, and we learn
there is a strong probability of
this being done.
One of the serious problems of
the day is prohibition. Much has
been said quite recently about the
union of the church and state.
Very little, however, has been
said about the union of the state
and whisky. Would it not be well
to stop all this caveling and get
down to work ou the right line ?
If the state is ever rescued from
the unholy hands of the liquor
men it will have to be done by the
churches. The state confesses by
its submission that it cannot free
itself. —Rev. A. C. Ward, Atlanta.
Skin troubles, cuts,burns,scalds
and chafing quickly heal by the
use of DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve.
It is imitated. Be sure you get
DeWitt’s. Bagwell Drug Co.
THE NEWS-HERALD.
LOVE FOR OLD SOLDIERS.
A daily exchange gives the total
amount of money paid out to
confederate veterans of the state
for pensions during the last twen
ty-one years. The amount is
$6,458,857. It is said that this is
more than has been paid by auy
other southern state and possibly
more than bv all the southern
states together. And the amount
increases each year. Beginning
with $57,000 iu 1880, the amount
has gone up by the hundred thous
ands until now it reaches for this
year $805,000.
This demonstrates the fact that
everybody loves an old soldier —a
mau who offered his life on his
country’s altar and sacrificed his
all to the good of his fellowman.
The pomp and splendor and glory
of war make the pursuit of arms
inviting and attractive and Geor
gia in recognition of the valor of
her soldiers is doing nobly in
shielding them from want in their
d-'dinii.gs daj s.
RASCAL#* AT MANILA,
The country had hardly recov
ered from the shock caused by the
wholesale robbery of the United
States mail service by the officials
iu Cuba when they learned of the
high handed criminality in the
commissary departmental Manila.
Government officials have taken
advantage of their positions to
enrich themselves at the nation’s
expense and it seems nothing cud
be done to stop it. If these ras
cals were punished a little more
severely ther« might be less of it
We imagine Aguinaldo looks on
the official honesty of the nation’s
representatives with unbounded
admiration. There’s money in
holding such an office and possibly
that accounts for his taking the
oath of allegiance so soon. He
wants an office.
COUNTY OFFICERS SHORT,
A big sensation has been sprung
in Cobb county The former
clerk, ordinary, sheiiff, etc., have
been found short to the amom.t of
some SIO,OOO. The grand jury of
that county last year recommend
ed the appointment of a commit
tee to investigate the county ac
counts for the last ten years, with
the above result.
We believe that such a commit
tee ought to examine the books of
ever}* county officer in the state
every year. And then there would
be no temptation to dishonable
disposition of the couuty funds.
During 1900 more than $84,-
000,000 were given bv charitable
people in the United States to
educational institutions. Of this
amount only a little more than
$1,000,000 was given to southern
institutions.
On Tuesday the Walton News
and Messenger says “subscribe for
this paper which has the largest
circulation of any gazette in the
county.” Whereupon the Walton
Tribune replies, “the liar is an
abomination.’’ Little boys should
not fuss so.
Recent investigations of the
frauds in the commissary depart
ment at Manila reveal the fact
that wine, womeu and poker played
a prominent part in some of the
officers’ downfall. This is a to
boggan slide that will carry them
to the bottom at a rapid rate.
The boys who look after the
people’s interest at the state house
in Atlanta do not seem to agree.
The teachers want their money;
the attorney general says use the
money ou hand; the governor says
“ditto,” but Mr. Park says “no.”
That’s the same money they want
ed to build a depot with and Mr.
Park says if the bill* had passed
he would have refused to turn the
money over. Park is from Macon
and Macon is the home of Joe
Hall.
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DOUBLE TRAGEDY.
The whole country was shocked
ou hearing of the double tragedy
at the quiet little town of Sum
merville in the northern part of
the state last week.
Because she refused to marry
him, J-. J. Arrington blew Miss
Minuie Cleghorn’s brain 9 out with
a pistol and then turned the weap
on on himself, thus putting an end
to the existence of both young
lives.
The affair is made all the more
deplorable on account of the prom
inence of the parties. Arrington
was a young druggist of
Summerville, while Miss Cleghorn
was a beautiful young lady and
the daughter of one of the most
wealthy men iu the state.
Local interest attaches to the
«
affair, because a number of years
ago the mot! er of the young lady
in this tragedy attended school
here. Miss Cleghorn’s mother was
a Miss Jones, and while a young
lady received part of her education
here. Several ladies residing in
the town were school mates of for
mer Miss Jones’ and they learn
with sadness of the untimely end
of this lady’s daughter.
New Church Organized.
On April the 12th the following
named brethren met at Gloster,
Ga., for the purpose of organizing
a Baptist church. After divine
services by Rev. W. L. Singleton,
the house was called to order and
elected J. E. Kennerly moderator
and R. N. Holt clerk. Then called
the presbytery to2ether and re
ceived W, L. Singelton from Pleas
aut Hill, J. E, Kennerly, J. W.
Ivey, W. T. Nash from Yellow
River, R. N. Holt and J. M. Me-
Neal from Luxomni. Next called
for letters from the members who
compose this organization and re
ceived Brethren Franklin Hughes,
William Jackson, J. M. Wages, J.
W. Wages, W. E. Hughes, Henry
Hughes, and Sisters Elizabeth
Jackson, Dicy Wages, Minerva
Hughes, M. A. Hughes.
Moved and carried to adopt the
Articles of Faith of the Lawrence
ville Association.
Read and adopted the church
covenant.
Read and adopted decorum for
government of said church presby
tery then extended the right hand
of church fellowship to the breth
ren and sisters composing the
church.
J. E. Kennerly, Mod.
R. N. Holt, Clerk.
In Memory of Mrs. Woodward.
Mrs. Nora Woodwajd, wife of Wick
liff Woodward, and daughter of B. W.
and Mary A. Davis, was born June 26,
1871, and died February 26, 1901, after
a lingering illness of several months.
She professed religion and joined the
Methodist church in early life, and
lived a consistent member until her
death. She was patient through all
her suffering, and in the end gave
abundant evidence of her acceptance
with God. She was loved by her
church and highly esteemed in the
community. She will be greatly miss
ed. She leaves a husband and six chil
dren and a large connection to mourn
their loss. We extend our deepest sym
pathy to the bereaved. Sister Wood
ward is but a memory in this world.
The example of this upright and pious
life should be a legacy to husband aod
children. A Friend.
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Roller Mills.
Our fifty-barrel
Roller Mills are
now in success
ful operation. A
trial is all we ask.
Yellow River Milling Co.,
Yellow River, Georgia.
APRIL 18, 1901