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Tlue place where all good men should sto The Stag Hotel Room O lean and Up-to-Date European Baths in Connection Every Modern Convenience STANLEY A BOGENSHOTT, PROP’R 834 MARKET ST. PHONE 2598. CHATTANOOGA CHATTANOOGA MARBLE W’KS A. W. HASSELL Prop. Li f ) h a t I .£“ d Granite Monuments ASeis 11 - 1149-51 MARKET sT We have monuments in stock from $8 to $3,000 Call on or write us. m m iiw better ST For The Same Money? Cali on us for repair work, bridles, collars, oils, whips, or anything in the harness line. Second hand harness bought and sold, work guaranteed, prices light. ■'* ANDERSON HARNESS CO. 1 £Qlr*t% Tain st. Chattanooga. W. L, Douglas $3.00 SHOES $3.50 Shoes at all prices, for every member of the family. Men, Boys, Women, Misses and Children W. L. Douglas makes and sells more.men’s $2.50, $3.00 and $3.50 shoes than any other manufacturer in world, because they hold their shape, fit betxer, wear longer, and are of greater value than any other shoes in the world today. W. L. Douglas $4 and $5 Gilt Edge Shoes Cannot Be Equalled at Any Price. caution, W. L. Douglas’ name and price is stamped on bottom. Take no substitute. Sold by the best shoe dealers everywhere. Illustrated catalog free to any address —W. L. Douglas, Brook ton, Mas. Sole 14 est 9th St. I UUllj Chattanooga, Tenn. When the Honeymoon is over And you’ve settled down at home Where forever you’ll be happy Never more you’ll want to roam. Don’t you think it will be nicer In that little “Feathered Nest,” If its furnished to a finish With the goods that are the best?. Well, a secret we would whisper If you hear don't treat it light Come to See us when you marry And Your future will be blight. THE MONTGOMERY ME, FURNITURE CO, Telephone Main 4379 W< ’’ \ 257 Montgomery Ave, Chattanooga Tens Chattanooga’s Reliable Firms WHO APPRECIATE YOUR TRADE. GEORGIA’SMOLE LAW New Way of Reforming Criminals Shows Progress of Penology. PRISONERS TO BE PARDONED Those Evincing a Desire to Reform Will Be Released and Offered Every In ducement To Do So. Atlanta, Ga. —Hereafter the inmate of the Georgia penitentiary,who shows a disposition to reform, will be offered every inducement and encouragement to do so. Believing that better results in the reformation of criminals will be se cured by releasing a good prisoner, while holding over him the unexpired term of his sentence, the legislature, at the recent extra session, adopted the parole bill offered by Mr. Persons of Monroe. A bill, which was the basis of the present Georgia law, was introduced at the extra session called to consider the convict question. It was unani mously adopted. As soon as the pris on commission can malre the necessa ry arrangements it will be put into effeti. The law opens the door of hope to convicted criminals. It provides that after serving the minimum sentence fixed by law they may be sent out among free men. After a year’s pro mation and observance of the terms of their parole, they will be granted full pardons and restored to citizen ship. It places upon the prison commis sion the duty of inquiring very care fully into the record of any prisoner before the commission of the crime or which convicted, and his record in prison. If the whole board should be come convinced that a man might again become a useful and productive member of society, they may grant him a conditional pardon. The prisoner must show that he will be given employment at honest labor, and will have a good home, or, if un able to work, that he will not become an object of public charity. During the term of his parole he must not leave the state, but must make regular reports to the commission. If a man breaks the terms of his parole, he will be returned to prison, and forced to serve the remainder of the term for which he was originally sentenced. An order by the commis sion for the arrest of a paroled pris oner becomes a legal warrant, and must be enforced by any police officer. Providing the prisoner justifies the belief of the commission, he will, at the end of twelve months, receive a full pardon from the governor. The law does not apply to persons convicted of treason, arson, rape or as sault with intent to rape. It was the intention of its author to have it ap ply to those convicted of other crimes w r hich led to life sentences. In such cases ten years was specified as the minimum term of service. There are now in the Georgia peni tentiary 745 life-term men. There are 238 prisoners in for twenty years, 138 for fifteen years, 301 for ten years and 295 for five years. While there are 17G men in the Georgia penitentiary over 50 years of age, the men who have spent the long est time in prison are not the old men. A great number of men who were sent up in their eighteenth or twentieth year have served twenty or thirty years in the pen. The men of &0, 7Q and 80 years of age have, in most instances, served much shorter sentences. Convinced that the men who have served a life time of twenty or thirty years for crimes committed in the years of their youth deserve an op portunity to make anew start in life, MAIL CARRIER ABSCONDED. Government Seizes Big Plantation to Satisfy Claim. Washington, Ga—The plantation of H. L. Aycock, a prominent farmer of this county, 9tas been levied on by a United States deputy marshal to sat isfy a claim which the government has against Aycock as a result of a bond forfeiture of $1,500. Four years ago Aycock in connection with his neighbor, W. G. Barrett, went on the bond of A. H. Evans, a rural free delivery mail carrier from Washington to the little village of Peerman. Evans carried the mail on this route for some time, and then sub-let the contract to a Mr. Beckwith. Beck with became involved in some trouble and ‘skipped the country.” Now the government authorities have come back on Aycock for the amount of the original bond under which Evans worked, as the bondsman of Beckwith is now dead. REPUBLICANS NAME ELECTORS. Robert J. Lowry of Atlanta Heads the List. Atlanta, Ga. —The republican state Campaign committee, Hon. Waiter Johnson, chairman, presiding, met and named presidential electors of the repubiican party for Georgia. The electors are as follows: At large, Rob ert J. Lowry of Atlanta and W. J. Massee of Macon; first district, Hen ry Blun, Sr., Savannah; second dis trict, J. L. Phillips, Thomasville ; third district, L. S. Osbornq, Fitzger ald; fourth district, Henry O. Lovvorn, Carrollton; fifth district, Fulton Col ville, Atlanta; sixth district, Roswell H. Drake, Griffin; seventh district, John J. Duane, Dalton; eighth district, A. Jj. Brooks, Athens; ninth district, J. R. Allen, Talking Rock; tenth dis trict, Joe Smith, Augusta; eleventh district, C. P. Goodyear, Brunswick. THROUGHOUT THE STATE. Andrew Thomason, a farmer, 50 years of age, of Newton district, sev en miles south of Alpharetta, hanged himself to the rafters in a cotton gin. Mr. Thomason is survived by a wife and seven childien. Mr. Thomason had always been regarded as an in dustrious farmer of good habits, but lately he had been ill and except for this no reason is known for the act. The iegist2aiion books, which have 'dosed for the fall eietcion, show that .there are 3,565 \oters registered in Oglethorpe county. Of that number all are white but two hundred and fif ty. The indications are that there will be a big vote polled in that coun ty at the state election on November 6. The registration is about the same as last year. Rewards have been offered by Gov ernor Smith for the capture and con viction of Corn and John Miller, who are charged with having murdered W. E. Keaton on August 25. It is claim ed the Miller brothers entered the field where Keaton was at work and deliberately shot him down. There is $125 offered in each case. Other re wards have been offered for the cap ture and conviction of Ben Whitehead and Arlington Lewis, who are wanted for murder in Lee county. It is announced that Chatham coun ty will be ready to take its full quota of felony convicts next spring, when the time comes to apportion them to the different counties throughout the state. When Governor Smith inquir ed some weeks ago how many con victs of this kind Chatham could work he was told that fifty would be taken. If the county is to get one hundred, however, that many will be employ ed. The 4-year-old son of Mr. William Wilkins, while playing in a pile of cotton on the farm of Mr. A. J. Nully, near Pine Log, was smothered to death. It appears that he had dug a deep hole in the cotton and had fallen into it head first. He had been dead some time when found. A meeting of the Farmers’ union of Spalding county was held at the court house in Griffin at which strong res olutions were passed condemning the action of the night riders in Law renceville, Ga., and other places. J. T. Biles is president of the Spalding union, T. P. Nichols is vice president ; and R. H. E. Ellis secretary and treas urer, and they all signed the resolu tions adopted. At a meeting of the citizens of Bue na Vista $50,000 was raised to build a railroad from that city to Manks, the additional capital, SIOO,OOO, to be out of town, capitalists. Mauks is a Wiving little town on the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic railroad about fifteen miles from Tal botton and about thirty-five miles from Montezuma. Thesfooad will be about seventeen or long. A surveying corps ordered to begin work at once — A list of the presidential representing the national prohibition 41 /party in the state of Georgia has been tiled with the state department by W. S. Witham, state chairman. They are: At large, W. S. Witham, Atlanta, and L. N. Stanfill, Hahira; first district, Joseph N. Gary, Swainsboro; second district, Dr. L. B. Bouchelle, Thomas ville; third district, Judson Cheves, Montezuma; fourth district, Leon Smith, LaGrange; fifth district,Dr. J. L. D. Hillyer, Decatur; sixth district, W* W Milam, Stockbridge; seventh district, G. W. Fleetwood, Rome; eighth district, O. L. Teasley, Bow man; tenth district, W. J. Wren, Wrens; eleventh district. Herbert Murphrey, Waynesboro. It is reported that Governor Smith is looking for farm lands in various parts of the state for the purpose of securing sites for new stockades and prison tarms authorized under the con vict bill which has just passed. The governor has begun his investigation at this time in order that the convicts may be put to work making crops immediately after they are released by private lessees at the termination of the present leases on March 31, 1909 They will then be able to make a crop next year. Of course the build ings and quarters for the men must be erected in the meantime. Andrew Guyton, who for the past twenty-two years has been in the pen itentiary of Georgia serving a life sentence for murder committed in De j catur county, has bean pardoned by Governor Smith. The prison commission lias receiv ed notice that M. C. Clelehan, a con vict employe at the Ashley-Price Lum ber company in Coffee county, delioer atelv put his hand upon a circular saw' and cut off four fingers. He had been employed at the rather light work of firing a boiler, and had left his post and gone 10 the saw to delib erately cripple himself in order to get out of work. Ginners in Gwinnett county met at Lawrenceville. Only two gins in the county reported that they had receiv ed notices not to gin the new crop of cotton: All the other gins are run ning. Sugar Hill Farmers’ union pass ed Tesolutions denouncing the threats to burn and calling ail the Unions to join them The citizens of Decatur, at an elec tion authorized two bond issues of $150,000 each, one to improve the wa ter works system, the other to im prove the public schools. The water bonds carried by a vote of 134 to 6. The schools bonds cairied by. a vote of 129 to 10. There are seven hundred and seven names on the revised jury list in Og ! lethorpe. This is the largest list ever jin an Oglethorpe county jury box. RIVERSIDE CAFE OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. THE FINEST IN THE SOUTH WE SERVE T? ] FOR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. Popular Prices and Polite Attention. Next to Stag Hotel 832 MARKET ST., CHATTANOOGA Telephone No. 274. STEWART BROS &1 Clothiers, Hatters, Furnishers EVERYTHING THAT WEN WEAR EXCEPT SHOES The genial John B. Hughes, a Dade County boy, to wait on you. Cali; and see your friends. 821 MARKET ST, CHATTAHOQGt TEHH BURKE & COMPANY TAILORS 825 MARKET STREET, CHATTANOOGA, TEM ’ # “Theman with the shears” Who daily appears ln advertisin our work Is the man who knows What’s best in Clothes— If you doubt it call on BURKE. Office Phone 149S Residence Phone I34 y H. B. HEYWOOD | Dentist | -)i SUNDAY ENGAGEMENTS MADE IN ADVANCE 7111-2 MARKET STREET PtrULIC NOTICE We wish to notify the readers of this paper that there ars a number of unscrupulous spectacle peddlers traveling pn Georgia nnd Tennessee claiming to be agents of our firm. Such claims are FALSE and we denounce these parties as FAKIRS and IMPOSTERS and will prosecute any offend* or of the above If we can secure evidence against him. Broken Lenses Duplicated on Short Notice HARRIS & JOHNSON Mf g . L 0 p t i’c ia n s 13 E Eighth st. Chattanooga, Tenn. PHONE, MAIN 676 ; Stacy Adams & Co’s Jf CELEBRATED LINE OF SHOES BEST ON EARTH . Yfj V flu LE * THER ’ all sTUE ? /Jgf Jtk PRICES $5.50 $6 00 and nKrjm e. t. Wright & Co’s GREAT LINE OF MENS $4.00 54.50 & SS.OOSHOL 803 MARKET ST.