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THE NEWS OF CONYERS
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and ROCKDALE
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the folks who knew Geneiai I unston in
bi youth beginning to remem er ai ;
s bad things he
the good or bright or ever
did- The fund of Funston anecdotes,
which a few weeks ago was woefully
=hort, is now swelling to enormous pro
portions. of Iola, Allen county,
The people innumerable
Kan., are now furnishing
incidents concerning the youthful
pranks of the soldier hero who has been
loing such remarkable fighting in the
Philippines. learned that Fred Funston
It has been
used to say that the finest swimming
lace on earth was in the shadow of the
hi" maples where Deer creek winds near
fo the Maple Grove schoolhouse.
That' is where Fred Funston who learned live
to swim. Other Kansas boys
in Carlyle
township, just I |
oonh of Iola, | where rnniton
m swimming •
there now f Learned to |
when the sun ? s'
is h i u i n g j Swim So Weil. 2 1
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warn! for q
spring weath¬
er. It is rated the last testing place of
a swimmer’s skill. It is deep and cur¬
rentless, and it has a swirling eddy at
the lower end of the “hole,” Fred Fun
ston could swim through this eddy on
his back, and be could dive half way
across the widest part of the hole.
“It just made me laugh,” said Ora
Dunlap, “when I read in the Iola Rec¬
ord ’bout how the fellers in Washington
was makin such a fuss ’bout Fred swim
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BK1GADIEU GENERAL FRED FUNSTON.
[From a photograph taken just before he went
to Manila.]
min that Philippine river. I’ll bet a
dollar he could ’a’ dove acrosfc it. J f
“He was made a brigadier general
for doing it. ”
“Well, I’ll be dad swum! A briga¬
dier general of the army?”
“Yes. ”
‘Well, these prairies of Carlyle town¬
ship are just freckled with brigadier
generals, then.”
Years ago the thrifty farmer folks of
Carlyle township were in the habit of
comparing Fred Funston to Ora Dun¬
lap. The two are of nearly the same
a !<e. They were reared as farmer boys
together. Fred Funston had more ad¬
vantages than Ora Dunlap, and when
Ora invested all the money he bad saved
working the hard on the farm and became
prosperous proprietor of the Iola
livery stable and Fred Funston “just
went roamin around” the comparison
was greatly to the aisdv«ntage of Fred
Funston. Some of them were not so
outspoken in their criticisms of the odd
and studious youth, and they are tak¬
ing great consolation now out of their
whilom conservatism.
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U Ung men of Iola noW reCal J
«o;1„ r P ”C°„f Te s r,. a
any of his boyish possessions for an old
“ 3 anybody in Ida, not even himself
Ihese same young men will nnbesi
tatingly * Fred
bear testimony that
Funston was
? never qnarrel
? This W ns I some 6»nght and nev
a ? °®e l er
of Fnoitos’t i • fair
| First tage in a fight,
Fights. • But he would
L ___ 1 fight. He was
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iry ’ aEd -^ongh b e woud now
then get licked he would fight again,
THE ROCKDAL JsL-rf BANNER.
fines of. the little town the town boys
called him “a country jake” and wait
ed for a cLance to give him a thrashing.
After some maneuvering they eanght
him away from his father and surronnd
ed him. He was smaller than any of his
assailants, bnt he didn’t cry for quar
ter. He dodged into the street and got
a stone and stood off the crowd until a
benevolent citizen came along and or
dered an armistice.
Fred Fnnston was the fisher bov cf
Carlyle township. He could catch more
catfigb in Dcer creek than any otijer
boy Jn tbe township. He nearly always
caught “channel cat, ” too. If you go
t 0 i 0 j a today and stop at the best hotel
in the town, you will find catfish on
the bill of fare every other day in the
week.
Catfish are almost as popular in Iola
and Carlyle township as they are in
Missouri. They were popular with Fred
Funston. He would go to a place on
the bank of Deer creek with one pocket
filled with fishhooks, another filled with
bait and a book under bis arm and stay
till sundown.
“He always came home with a large
string of fish,” says his mother smiling,
“He had more patience than the other
boys when he went fishing. ”
In those days watermelons had the
same attraction for boys in Carlyle
that they had for boys in oth
er townships and in other states where
nature has been kind to boys by mak
ing these luscious things grow.
Over on the other side of the town¬
ship Garrett Brewster lived on a farm
that waa particularly adapted to rais¬
ing large, sweet melons. Oftentimes
Mr. Brewster would go out to see how
bis melons were getting along and dis¬
cover that all of the big piles that were
ready to pull were gong. with
“When Fred comes back here
his big sword and everything and the
band is pluyin,” said Ora Dunlap, “I’ll
feel just like gein up to him an sayin,
‘See here, Fred, bow'd you like to go
over tonighi; and see if Brewster’s mel
ons ain’t aWtit ready to pull?’ I’ll bet
he thought of them big, yeller meated
melons with the black seeds when he
there lickin the Filipinos. ”
was over
After graduating from the Iola High
school Funston taught school for a term
and then decided that he needed a bet¬
ter education. .So he went to the state
university at Lawrence, and there he
had his first serious love affair.
One of the “coeds” at the university
was a Spanish girl of rare beauty and
of a family of
great .wealth. ?
Her name is His First
not recalled | |
by the people Sweetheart Was
of Iola, but it
does not mat¬ A Spanish Girl
ter. She drift I »
a iz
ed across the
path of Fred Funston’s life, and she
dropped out of his horizon, but she al¬
tered the course of his way for all time.
When the vacation period came in the
university,, she went to Iola, which was
something of a summer resort before
the air became laden with the smoke of
zinc smelters, and the devotion Fred
Funston paid to the Spanish beauty at
school he continued to lay at her feet
when she came to the summer resort.
She could speak English only imper¬
fectly, and he began the study of Span¬
ish that he might
the better con¬
verse with her,
and being able to
thus commune he l
would be the bet¬
ter able to dis¬
tance the scores -Jmm
of suitors in her
train. He studied
Spanish with bis
usual diligence, bM/ ME
but when the
time came that i' .vbspw ,4
he could bring it W m gain
on his toDgnethe Ip** I m
Castilian queen
had concluded L
her course ¥ Pi
study United in States the ilfcilP
and had gone, m
leaving him only
the memory of
her charms.
It will prob¬
ably interest ad¬
mirers of the j
Kansas hero to ■ I
know that he is
one of a good 6
sized family. He
bas five brothers
and one sister.
All of the other
stuck to the
farm. They are FUN8 ™^ r ^ t K
farm is^mmposed north of 242 of acres Iola of and prairie 1.4
land four miles
miles west of the village of;
f red UE Nov. 9, 1865.
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der are- Jarne d,uj*- Aldo
F ii a Fnaafoo
boys and o-.e gii Fnnston is married
Pogue v. a rwic children. He lives on a
and bas two farm of bis
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j * j | gt Burton and Fun- Aldo
on
j FnnBton B or«. i Funston man
; | i ? age the home
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father. Edwara
CONYERS, GA., FRIDAY, JUNE 23., 1899.
II-year-ora rreetciea raced, miscnievous
eyed pupil of the Maple Grove school,
who goes fishing and swimming in the
same spot in Deer creek where his fa¬
mous brother Fred learned the overhand j
stroke that enabled him to swim the
Rio Grande river and win a brigadier’s
| star.
Miss Ella Fnnston is a gracefnl and j
I accomplished giil of 19, who graduated
Jast year from the State university and
who divides her time between helping
*> er mother in the management of the
house and covering the interior walls of
it with exquisite paintings, !
Lieutenant H. R. Gahan.
TO PREVENT WHEAT SMUT.
Mr. C. H. Jordan, of Monticello,
Gives the Remedy.
In writing to the Telegraph Mr.
Jordan says; It will do the Ma¬
con Telegraph’s heart good to
know how its suggestions about
wheat were adapted A large area
will be planted in wheat next
year. The bad seasons in the
fall of 1898 prevented a large area
being planted. Still there will be
25,000 bushels thrashed out this
year. Mr. Jordan, authority op
wheat, says green cotton seed ie
the best manure. He gave me the
remedy for smut in wheat. There
are two kinds, loose snmt and
sticking smut. Either kind can
be killed by immersing in hot wa¬
ter. Have two barrels. In one
let the water register 110 degrees
Fahrenheit. Rut ft bushel of
wheat in a basket or por us sack
and dip it in water until it is sit¬
uated . This is done to get the
wheat thourghly warm. Then take
this basket of wheat and dip it in¬
to the other bar.tel of hot water,
registering 188 Fahrenheit, and
remain one minute. Draw it up
and then dip it again, going throu¬
gh this operation several times.
This will kill the smut which is a
germ on the wheat grain, When
through the heating process,
spread the wheat o:.e-half an inch
thickness, on clean floor, but on
the floor the wheat was taken from
as the old germ may be on the
floor, unless said has been treated
with boiling water.
The wheat can be thus treated
during summer or any leisure time
for after being dried it will keep
indefinitely. One-third more
should planted to the aere of the
wheat treated, as some of it may
be killed by the hot water. This
treatment is a sure cure for smut
in wheat.
For the sticking smut one pound
of bluestone melted and poured
into a barrel of water and the wheat
therein soaked will kill the smut
germ.
The wheat convention in Macon
will be well attended from Jasper
county.
A THOUSAND TONGUES.
Could not express the rapture of Annie
E. Sprinirer, of 1125 Howard st., Phila¬
delphia, Pa., when she found that Dr.
King’s New Discovery for Consumption
had completely cured her of a hacking
cough that for many years had made
life a burden. All other remedies and
doctors could give her no help, but she
says of this Royal Cure—“it soon re¬
moved the pain in my chest and I can
now sleep soundly, something I can
scarcely remember doing before. I ieel
like sounding its praises throughout the
Universe.” So will everyone who tries
Dr. King’s New Discovery for any trou¬
ble of the Throat, Chest or Lungs. Price
! 50c and $1.00.
Trial Bottles free at the GaiUy Drug
Store. Every bottle guaranteed.
It is said that some unknown
disease is decimating the ranks of
mules in Sumter (*mnty, quite a
j number having died on farms near
Americus quite recently. One far
| m er is reported to have lost five of
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head. One solution advanced u
the feeding of too much green -tub
j fl p] a ce of corn. A1 all events
many fine mules have died
ly, entailing great loss upon
owne rs at this season
If you want to buy an organ or
a piano below Atlanta cost, you
| can get it by seeing J. N Hale.
L-ciST WEEK
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The first of this C n was C tenth year in business in Conyers,
't has been our custo s years x June to hold an Annual Bargain •
We inaugurated this sale as usual again this month, and the bargains we are
offering this year in Spring and Cummer goods will surprise our customers .
This Sale will last only one weak mo e, so we advise everyone to call and
take advantage of the very low prices which are still going on.
One More 'Week uur Ter" .,_Annua18ale
TMM LAHT Will
i \m SUMMERS
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Biggest Bargains Offered.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF ROCKDALE
COUNTY. HAS LARGEST CIRCU
LATION IN THE COUNTY.
a**®. . ’WffinHBH
Hundreds Have !
Taken Advantage
Of tin*: great Opportunity, a i 1 why not you, Ret manlier,
it Lasts only one more week, !
Every Department i
In the House ; s Subject to th s Groat Redaction .
Colored Dress Goods, Ready-made Skirts,
Black Dress Goods, White Piques,
Colored Dress Goods, Dimities. Lawns,
Black Dress Silks, Underwear,
White Goods, and Hosiery.
Wash Goods, Lace Curtains,
j Table Linen, Towels and Napkins,
Crash Skirtings, Get i ts ! Furn ishings,
R!:i kets, Spreads, Irsh Point Scarfs.
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I STRAIGHT DISCOUNT OP
TEN PER CENG
Will be given on all sorts of Domestics, Goods being
sold at and below New York cost.
Use a Little Forethought.
.Scrape up a little cash, come in and iet us save you money
Reduced Prices! Reduced Prices!
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BUTTERICX PATTERNS
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OLD PRICES: NEW PRICES:
50, 40, 35 Cents 25 Cents.
30, 25 Cents - 20 Cents.
20 Cents I 5 Cents.
New Issues range from 5 Cents to 25 Cents,
and the Product includes the More Simple and
also the Most Elaborate Styles.
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Now is the Time to Make New Spring and
Summer Dresses!
We have the
Dress Goods, Trimmings and Patterns.
Presto, and there you are, Most Sweet in
the Dearest, Prettiest Gown I
No. 25
Prices Reduced to a. surprising Figmze