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BTTGGTES, Just a word to Are you g°mg m to buy BUGGY? thoughtful men We / wwm a l ! Then be sure to are here to sell you f i t » /\ tilii'hilt see Buggies and at the Pi V ■ me. I can Furnish 1 ~4— - *fg "TO p—1 i-MSM ■ID ! ' S‘ Yvfife ; the best same lime save you -~v / Y5 /H you on the ■ra 1.1 ,44 money. / En. u market very cheap t L mm 1 C ICra A 4 v;> ••Hi l l’ ‘ k\ V -V X A local news items, J\i ssrs. W. E. Met alia ami ,T. Gi'or;e, of Decatur, v.« re in (-" r,1i y t,rh Tinii day. Julia, Mi s AhnaG iPU. oi is on a vis a to relative X in tic city. Hi; n)1 ny friends w i il regret to know th : j >,. vi T It. Sion art is confined at h I. conn by serious illness. Irs. G ier Dunn has la eu very sick , id " , r homo the past w ■-*. -i l'h -d, -tion -passed quietly in this j- r Letcher will go to spend some ;f Turin next wecl Mid leave for days - here ho ex ) * ’ C f to further equip hxmself for tea anur- of Mr. We are-glad to have Die name Vv umu Whitaker, of Sanfianeisco, on our r.bst ription list. . l'OUS friends were greatly TZ ■<- Mr. Cl ms. A. Argo on Thtusday. Chits, I)-- inline >! ut his t _ tm n hs and ill 1 i>i truij \Vc V T lje o be out in town again. steady h- nay cxperienct a i 1) l - nont. A, Gail- y who has lield :i ; p- i, itlOll U1 ! he' ( Imriestoa Exposition i\ ulids since early i !he year arrived * his morning to the delight of his ‘11(1 ’ Jim is .--splendid young il'a Hs educating himself on expo sili 1 lie cxjiects to secure employ meal iu i h great tit. Loui-s fair next yo r. James McDonald, clever Jim. j, rh.irsday ;o vote for his friends i—- t* v, Ui be in Mauisou several weeks e ■t. Tho tlefca ,1 candidates arc as clever and wort In o anybody. May they be BUCCO; Mu! at something else for tw r o years. friends in Rockdale lii r my are in’s:J tub an? of the uouHuated victory of Hon. N. O. * ’' r. v, ie \v:v lor repre¬ sent ativ in Newton county Thai. day. U, n l. 1 Middleln ool^, of Coving ton, is the nominee of the 27th district for State Senator. Rockdale accepts him. Dr. T l)}| nio Mart ih-it lu>r Wednes day for Oklahoma where he will seek a location and practice his profession. AW wish him success. Mr Will McDauiell has arrived home from Xiercei to • pci.d i anition. ,,, R »d Com* tor u.00, at Sfietd & Hu' 8 - Candidates’ Thanks. Mr. A N Plunket wishes to ex pi¬ grateful thanks to all th \\ !' > supported him in ert he primary v lection, While he > as disappo it- d iii the result, y- t he feels dc i gratitude fr, J. A. Duke i , „ v ti*fu) for tin . 'V . V •1 1 his !' thanks £. n un and i vex - — i i.tiffh this medium . \V 11 M Austin is ^ > i 1 s friends althou 7Q defeat ii, * 11 o takes t l-.othod 5 0 thankieg one and vho-suDnort ed aim. \V G Olotfeh. G also * rv ill to the : m. 9 GEORGIA- Ilocudale County. To whom jf mav concern:—.]. King Stewart has in due form applied forlet fere of guardianship of the person and property or ?. r?. Kitty T. Stewart of said county, who has been adjudged i ion compos mentis, and I w ill pass up¬ on the same on the first Monday in July, 1902 Given under iny hand and official nature, this June dud. 1902. A. Xvl. Helms, Old. School Woak Exhibit. By request of the School Boerd Prof. Letcher lias placed on exhibition at the Gailey Drug store, some of the work done by the pupils of the various grades of tlii' public school the past term. This request was made after the Board had examined the work. It is excellent in deed aud the public is requested to ■ all at the Drug store and see it. It will give a splendid idea of the work being done : ijl the school and of tho general vancement the pupils are making. Wallace-Carter. The marriage of Miss .Hattie Wallace aud Mr. John J. Carter at the church in tlri- city ia-t Sunday evening wassurprise to ilieir many friends throughout, the city. The ceremony ,.,l„nn.,l , - .be , oi m » xov friends by liev. B. J. W. Graham. nM ,l,o ondr :. Mto il'oughter . , , of e Jlr. and , '; 1 •-* • t ■ N allace. By ber many ad mi mole traits of character she has won many true friends who admire her for her I cue worth. The groom is a young man of genuine worth and character aud has bright prospects before him. Ho holds a position as telegraph oper¬ ator with the Georgia railroad. The Weekly-Banner heartily joins their host of friends iu wishing for them a long, happy and prosperous life. Nogro Shot. Robt. Upshaw shot Ed Miller last Sunday night at Ellis McCol¬ lum’s home a few miles below tovai The ball penetrated Mii ler’s abdomen and he has since lwi . u a ci . iticalcondition . Up . shaw escaped and is still at large. It seems that Upshaw was jealous of Miller,s attentions to a certain dusky damsel and decided to put o ut hie light--lie all but succeed ed AH negroes Salary Raised. Chi account- of the volume of bus mess done through i ii the , _ |< here, the salary going with office has been raised an hundred oilars. At the present rate of increase, provided it keeps up. the IV,.' > will command a $1,200 sal arv jefore } end of the year. This growth is complimentary both to the postmistress and the town and r gratifies us to give it PUBLIC ROADS. Cost of Bad Highways and Effects ol Good Ones. The public highways have a very im portant bearing on the judgment form* oJ by strainers in regard to the thrift and enterprise of any county. One who is looking about for a good local¬ ity is which to settle will be apt, all tlJnr- else being equal, to decide on a county in- which good roads give him r-sj access to a market at all Reasons of tin- year. It has bo; n estimated by those who hav>‘ given the matter careful atten tion, that in a section of country hav¬ ing first-class mads the transportation o; his -produce to' market will cost the tanner just a bout one-fourth the ex ponse involved in the me traffic over our ordinary G< m-gb: roads. Professor S. W vfct'allie, assistant state Geologist, in his excellent treat case on • • rp he Roads and Road-Building Matotiais of Georgia,’ says: “It h a weM : > o.-f) Mil t :.ba■ in the winter tu r v pring months, the majority of our common dirt roads become well nigh impassable for heavy traffic. Dur * n S season of rhe year, the teams, which might be profitably engaged in l! auhng the farm products to mar ket - rema » l idle - at a considerable ex P^e to their owners in the matter ol attention, reed, etc. Oo5t of Ead Rcods . “Professor , „ „ J. , A. , „ Holmes, State Ge ologis , Q( North ^ ln (liscllssing thia item of expense chargeable to bad roa{ j s< places the loss due to this cause in 56 middle and western counties of that state at $1,600,000 per annum, an amount sufficient to build more than 75 miles of first-class macadamized road. “Now. if the above figures are cor¬ rect, and they are undoubtedly plausi* ble, it would be no exaggeration to say that the farmers of Georgia annu¬ ally sustain a loss of more than $2,000, 000 from this cause alone. In other words, this large sum of money woul’d be an annual net gaiu to the farmers of the state, if the roads were so im¬ proved, that teams could be used at alJ seasons of the year. Effect of Good Roads. If time aud space allowed, we should be glad to quote more from Prof. Mc Callie; but we will do this at another time and show how good roads dimin¬ ish the wear and tear on vehicles, harness and horses, and how they in¬ crease the value of real estate. On the moderate estimate that good roads will increase the value of lands con tiguous to them by $2 per acre, Prof. McCallie ihinks that this apparently insignificant amofint would aggregate more than $10,000,000, a sum equal to about one-half of the present assessed valuation of all the farming s lands of the gtate _ Some Good Roads in Georgia. While urging our people to progress on this line, we are glad that w'e are r.ot couipelled to go beyond our own State for examples of good roads. Sev era! hundred miles of first-class ma cadamized roads have been built in se' ■ i . ■ iti s under the system pro ' tews for the improvement and namt mace of public highways. The Maach« *»er and Peachtree roads near Atlauiq in Fulton county, are thuoroughfaicB eauil to tho Jest ideal 15 Minutes sufficient to give you most delicious tea biscuit using Royal Baking Powder as di¬ rected. A pure, true leavener. More ihan 76 miles of splendid ma cadamized roads in Floyd county give to the citizens easy access to the thriv¬ ing city of Rome. The Washington Pike and the Savannah Valley roads, of Richmond county, make travel and transportation easy to Augusta. Roads of similar merit radiate from Macon in Bibb county, from Savannah in Chatham county, and from Brunswick near “the marshes of Glynn.” 0 A. UEP'T. OF AGRICULTURE, • Governor Terrell. Hon. Joe Terrell w T ns nominated for Governor in the state primary yesterday over Estill and Guerry, th* two other candidates. Mr. Terrell xviii go to the convention with 20 or more votes to spare. The surprise in this section came with the announcement that Mr. Estill had carried more counties than Guerry. Bockdale went into the Guerry column but no people in Georgia are . prouder of Mr. Terrell’s nomination than the 850 who cast their votes for him in this county. RESIGNED. Our people will learn with re¬ gret, that Misses Worrill and Hut¬ cheson, two of the valued teach¬ ers n the public school here, have handed in their resignation to the School Board. They are both splendid teachers and will be miss¬ ed. Miss Hutcheson has returned to her home in Morgan county and Miss Worrill ha3 gone to visit friends in Atlanta Negro Drowned. Buddy Scott, eoL, while giving an exhibition of his expertness at swimming went down the third f 11110 111 Y' river, at Milstead’s f ac t irv last Saturday. Several ’ -gto-. - were close at hand j is. I I-. hem wonld venture to • nd ‘-e was drowned. SCHOOL BOARD. The City School Board met last Monday night i his was nr im¬ portant meeting foi several rca sons. It marked the close of the Spring term of School and theclos mg up of all matters connected with the same. It was very grat ifying to the Board to note from the Treasurer’s report that it \va J out of debt, This is the first tone in several years that the Boam has been able to report out of debt. | Prof. Letcher, the valued prin¬ cipal of the schools, made an ex¬ haustive report that was greatly appreciated by the Board and lib erally complimented. After disposing of all reports and general routine work the Board went into the election of teachers. unanimously Prof. Letcher was aid re -elected £uperintendaut principal. re-elected Mrs. Anderson was assistant principal. Lee were Mrs. Martin aud Miss re-elected teachers. Owing to the lateness of tM k' ,ur the Board adjourned without -ur ther elections. It is but justice to sav in ill tins connection that the conduct past term has been veil tory and the Board, working- ^■ 1ell, » touch with all the public institution feel that the Schools of Conyers are equal to any in the state. meeting of the Pi The next night JUD« will be held Monday , 9th, “WHITE STAR- •Whit* famous ‘ You can buy the rt's* Star’flour st Thompson S«e*s