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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
Candler Argues Its Existence
Necessary to Benefit Pros
perous Town of Wetter.
By JAMES B. NEVIN.
The proposed County nf Candler
is to petition the incoming: Legisla
ture for creation along new lines,
and with an argument not only novel,
but perhaps winning.
Candler County is to ask for ex-
fwtence as a powerful argument in
favor of good roads.
It will seek to prove its right to
eweatton as an absolute good roads
necessity—that, of course, along with
other reasons likely to appeal to in
telligent legislative consideration.
It is a fact that there are several
ifftrts of Georgia in which are to fee
found highly prosperous towns, from
a business point of view, that yet
are hampered mightily by reason of
their remoteness from their County
seats and the consequent improba
bility of very active good roads work
in their vicinities.
In some of these places, It, .8
claimed, road taxes In remote neigh
borhoods are applied exclusively to
good roads work near the county
seat, and that brings about not only
much dissatisfaction, but positiv
discontent.
Met ter, a prosperous and hustling
town of South (Georgia, is an exam
ple of this, and it is about Mettc
that the proposed new county of
Candler is to be framed.
Tf Candler County is created, it is
contended that, with Met ter as the
County seat, good roads construction
will radiate from Metter throughout
the neighboring territory, and that
there will not be a farm in the n-*w
county not soon connected with th<
County seat by ample and sufficient
roads.
There is great enthusiasm among
the people about Metter in favor of
the new county, and very little oppo
sition from the people of the coun
ties from which it is to be taken.
Candler generally is regarded as a
good new county proposition, too. and
it should surprise no one, therefor- 1 ,
to see the new Legislature put the
seal of Its approval upon It.
Tt would be located in one of the
richest and most promising sections
of the entire Htate.
WEDNESDAY
MAY
OUR CLUB PIANO
Regular Price ...... S375.00
CLUB PRICE $267.50
\ TERMS: $5.00 CASH, $1.25 PER WEEK
CONDITIONS: No Interest, one year's trial and exchange privilege,
Joe rebate on payments made before due, free.life insurance fea-
ture, ten-year guarantee.
. A. All of which accompany in writing the sale of every Club
IMauo.
T HE membership books in the gigantic Weatherholt
Player Piano Club of 400 opened this morning.
Now is the time to enroll. So widespread is the interest^^^
which has been aroused in my sensational offer that I do ^
not believe it will be long before every one of the 400 member
ships has been taken. This is the first time in the musical historj
Disquieting news comes from ihe
bedside of Representative-elect Sam
uel E. Berry, of Whitfield.
He recently was stricken with an
acute valvular heart trouble, and has
been In critical condition since, with
the chances of recovery hardly even.
For a time, he seemed to get better,
but of late has not improved.
Mr. Berry has i©presented Whit
field several times in the Legislature,
and Is looked upon as a particularly
valuable member.
GUARANTEE FOR TEN
YEARS
The Younfc Men’s Democratic Flub
of Savannah proposes tuning a hand
in the election of a representative to
succeed Mr. Stovall, resigned.
There are certain measures which
this organization desires passed, and
it is probable that the club will either
put out a candidate of Its own or
undertake to pledge some other can
didate to support its hills. Indica
tions are that there may be several
aspirants for the place.
The club wants a white primary
law to govern city elections. Notice
of the fact that such a bill will be
introduced at th* coming session has
been advertised In the newspapers
"■‘I i* i -stevl on Hi*- bulletin board
at the Court House.
The need of such a law was im
pressed upon the leaders of the club
at the January city election, when
hundreds of negroes were bought. It
was charged that both faction s
cooped up the colored voters* in halls,
and held them overnight, voting
them In batches of four or five, prac
tically under guard.
Under a white primary election law
thiP would be eliminated, it is claimed,
as in the campaign for County and
State officers. The contest would be
settled In the preliminary skirmish,
in which the negro voter would have
no part.
Saving of
$161.50
One year’s trial
(exchange privilege)
A ten year guarantee
with each piano
A Free Life
Insurance Feature
A well meaning member-elect of
the Legislature soon to assemble in
Georgia has announced his intention
of introducing early in the session a
taesolutlon providing for night ses
sions.
His rdotlve is worthy enough, as
he say a it ts to prevent congestion
at th# end of the session—and con
gestion always is there, right on the
Job! *
Notwithstanding the eminent re
spectability of his intent, though, the
impression generally will be that hi
ts destined to disappointment. The
Legislature has had that proposition
submitted to it by people who ear
nestly desired to get the work hur
ried along, nut it never got anywhere.
The Legislature simply will not sit
more than two or three hours a <iwv
in its earlier proceedings, and fhe
incoming Legislature is not likely :o
he very different from its predeces
sors.
The better way to conserve legis
lative time, perhaps, is to find some
method whereby local legislation may
be disposed of more readily than now.
Terms of payment $2.50 per week
(monthly payments may be arranged)
A 25c rebate on all weekly payments
made before due
For Out-of-Town Customers
Fill Out Coupon and Mail
WEATHERHOLT PIANO CO.,
Atlanta, Go.
Gentlemen: Enclosed please find $10.00
membership fee (first cash payment), for which
ship to my address your Club Player-Piano at
once, including bench, scarf, 12 rolls of music
and free delivery, with the understanding I
can pay balance in $10.00 monthly payments.
No
interest
A two-year conservatory course
(regular price $80)
A free music
exchange library
A selected bench to match
player and 12 rolls of music
All accompany in writing the sale
of every Club Player-Piano
"Whitfield County stands far above
the average in the manner in which
it handles Its convicts,’' said Chair
man Davidson, of the Prison Com
mission, who returned from a tour
of inspection «*f that Countv Tues
day.
In discussing the work as a whole,
Mr. Davidson said some of the coun
ties are wasting their efforts atjd
money under the mistaken idea that
‘The best warden is the one who can
Jtv secured for the least salary. ’
The majority of counties, the chair
man added, ate working their con
victs at a profit.
Addre
A bill will be Introduced in the
Legislature seeking to abolish the
CUy Court of Floyd County
It will be provided in the hill,
though, that the court shall not he
abolished until the expiration of the
ierm of the present judge, John C.
Reece.
A further effort* will be made, so
It has been stated, to make Floyd
County a separate judicial cir< u ;
within itself, and provide for four
sittings of tlie court each year, in
stead of two. as is the law now.
The movement generally Is favor
ed in Floyd, and will not be opposed
In Walker and Chattooga, the oiln
two counties composing the Rum.*
ftJJiS/ilIt MtcuU.
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72 North Broad Street, Weatherholt Building, Atlanta, Ga