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THE CLEVELAND COURIER
VOL. XV, No. 15 .]
National Highway
For North
Bell Asks For $250,000 To Construct
National Highway Through
Habersham, Towns, Union,
Gilmer, Pickens, Murray, Whitfield
and Catoosa Counties.
The following bills have been
introduced by the congressman
from the Ninth District, Mr. llell,
and have been referred to com¬
mittees. The bill asking for the
construction of a national fiighway
from Oconee county, S.C., through
ten North Georgia counties, would
be immensely beneficial in open¬
ing up to the world the hidden
wealth of that mountain region, to
say nothing of the scenic grandeur
the road would penetrate. Every
citizen of NorthGeorgia cannot but
hope , that Mr.Bell will be , successful c ,
in getting his bill Tavorably before
the house, and that body give it
favorable consideration, and open
up a highway through a part of the
government forest reserve.
A BILL
To construct a national highway
in Georgia.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives o! the
United States of America in Con¬
gress assembled, that the Secretary
of War be uuthrozied and he is
hereby directed to construct a high¬
way front Oconee County, South
Carolina, in the Government for¬
est reserve bouhd&fy? 'rifeattgh the
counties of Rabun, Habersham,
Towns, Union, Fannin, Gilmer,
Pickens, Murray, Whitfield, and
Catoosa, to the Chicknmauga Na¬
tion Park, and that $250,000 is
hereby appropriated fen- this pur
pose out ot the (undot the 1 nited
States Treasury not otherwise *p.
propriated,
Ai,l! L
, Co p construct ( suitable building
a
for the use of the United States
court at Gainesville, Georgia, and
for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Con
gress assembled, that the Secretary
of the Treasury be authorized, and
he is hereby directed, to cause to
erected a suitable building for the
use of the United States court at
Gainesville, Georgia, and that
$100,000 be appropriated for this
purpose out of the funds in the
United States Treasury not other¬
wise appropriated.
Blue Ridge Dots.
I am requested by Notray Public
of Blue Ridge district, J. C.
ton, tliat there will be held Fubru
ary 2 1 st an election for Justice of
the Peace in Blue Ridge District.
Rev. J. L. Dillard filled his ap
pointment at Mt. Pleasant Sunday,
He preached a very interesting ser
mon.
Mrs. Maatha Merritt and son,
Chas., were visiting some sacred
spots in Mt. Pleasant cemetery
Sunday, which called our memory
to the advise her father gave us
many years ago.
Mr. G. E. Allen made a business
trip to Union county Monday.
I. for one. believe that our re
demption is in jbe present tense,
full and free. If we will
from sleep and arise from the dead.
Christ will give us life and light.
Devoted to the Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Interests of White County
CLEVELAND, GEORGIA, JANUARY 30 , 1914 .
PERMANENT REGISTRATION
LAW NOW IN FORGE
You Must Register Dy April If you Wish
To Vote This Year.
-
! A P erm:ine!lt registration law
' vns enacled h v t,ie last £ eneral as ‘
-
jsembly. It provides that when a
' voter once registers he is perma¬
nent Iv registered,and hence will
not be required ever to be regis¬
tered again,as long as he remains
a qualified voter. To register leg-'
ally,all taxes must be paid.
Every two years the board of
comity registrars are to examine
the list of voters and have the right
to strike from the list any voters
who have not paid their taxes or
who have become otherwise dis¬
qualified.
Voters must register six months
before . the general electm . Oc
m
tober. This . will , require, therefore,
that to vote in any election this
year,voters must register by April
6. There are only three months to
register, and the people of this
count\ should interest themselves
in the matter and see that they get
their names on the registration
books in time. 'There is no time to
lose.
The state primary this year will
be a most important one,and every¬
body will want to vote. All the
state officers from governor down,
including a congressman in this
district, as well as a United States
senator,w UL.be elected, lion. Tbos.
M. Bell’s term will expire as con¬
gressman, as will also the term of
Senator Hoke Smith, and so there
will be these offices to be filled,as
well as the regular state offices,
including gmerimr, supreme court
justices, and all the rest, not to
j menl ion the numerous county offi;
cegf thc filling of which will fur
j tiisfi plenty of amusement itself.
Spring College News.
—_
Dr. and* Mrs. Norton and Mr.
and Mrs. S. W. Ash spent Sunday
with Mr. J. B. Reece and family.
Mr. Ebon Palmer add MissAber
nathy were married Sunday. We
j vv '^* ^ ie Vippy couple a bright and
j prosperous life,
Mr. and Mrs. S. N. Black visit
j eel relatives on Tesnatee Sunday,
Misses Delia Craven and Lola
Foystcr dined with the formet’s
sister Sunday.
Miss Etta Foystcr spent Sunday
with Miss Hattie Black.
Miss Bonnie Palmer spent Thurs
day night with MissArra Waldrip.
The Sunday school at Zion is not
as large as it ought to be. We be
lieve there are others who ought to
out and help make the Sun¬
day school a good one.
Miss ... ranine „ Ravan .. spent . ,, Satur- ,
( [ a y night and Sunday with her
cousins, Misses Mattie and Fannie
Reece.
Miss Mollie Craven, of this sec¬
tion. attended preaching at Cleve¬
land Sund.
A man’s working day is S hours.
His body organs must work per¬
fectly 24 hoNfs to keep him fit for
8 hours work. Weak, sore, itactive
kidneys can not do it. They must
be sound and healthily active all
the time. Foley Kidney Pills will
make them so. You cannot take
them into your system without
good results following.
Norton & Ash
R. F. D. CARRIERS SERVE
FIVE MILLION FAMILIES.
Rural Routes Cover 1,003,284 Miles.
Reports from practically every
one of the 42,000 rural mail carriers
just received by Jonathan Bourne,
chairman of the joint congressional
committee on federal aid in the
construction of post roads, show
that the carriers cover 1,003,284
miles of highway.This does not in¬
clude any portion covered more
than once. This report shows that
61.000 miles of road is paved of
constructed stone,flag or shell,
128,604 miles of gravel,more than
500.000 miles improved earth and
more than 275,000 unimproved
eartb.it is also shown that 469,000
miles of road was bad part of the
year and 80,000 all the year.Nearly
30,000 carriers use onehorse vehic
ees,7,ooo two-horse vehicles, 400
automobiles, 350 motorcycles, 1 to
horseback,and five bicycles.
Apprximuteiy 5,000, 00O families
are served.
Union Grove News.
We are having nice weather and
the farmers here are putting their
fields in nice condition for spring
planting.
The American Lumber Co., arc
sawing some nice lumber at the
rate of about seven thousand feet
per day. • Mr. M. O. (.fjmiiway is
in charge and is rushing business
to the front.
Mr. E. L. Shuler visited Helen
Saturday. Mr. Bud Pruitt was
found at his [tost, busy as usual
and attentive to business. Mr.
Pruitt has some cows that are good
milkers, giving three or four gallons
of milk per day, and has more
than lie needs.
Mr, W. II. Bell and wife, ac¬
companied by Miss Flossie Palmer,
visited our humble home for a
short while Saturday night.
The Sunday school at Union
Grove is progressing nicely under
able management.
Mr.Sam Thurmond contemplates
setting out ten acres in fruit trees.
'The orchard will be joining that of
Mt. Yonah Orchard Co., and is
within one and one-half miles of
Yonah station.
Mr. M. O. Callaway paid your
correspondent a visit Sunday.
Mr. Callaway informs 11s that it
will take at least twelve months to
finish cutting the lumber on the
company’s property with twenty
five or thirty tnen employed.
Miss Flossie Palmer has a
flourishing school at Union Grove.
She is a fine teacher and all like
her well.
We have elected Mr. Sum Thur¬
mond a trustee of Union Grove
school for another year.
Mr. Marvin Chambers goes
somewhere south on Sundays.
Intelligent people realize that
common colds should be treated
promply. If their is sneezing and
chilliness with hoarseness, tickling
throat and coughing, begin prompt¬
ly the use of Foley’s Honey and
Tar Compound. It is effective,
pleasant to take, checks a cold, and
stops the cough which causes loss of
sleep and lowers the vital resist¬
ance.
Norton & Ash
Georgia Chamber ol Commerce
Plan Great Development.
Millions of outside money and
thousands of settlers for the state of
Georgia—all for price of a postage
stamp per capita.
That is the proposition which is
put Forth by the Georgia Chamber
of Commerce in starting its whirl
wind campaign for the $50,000 a
year which has been set as the
figure necessary for the proper con¬
duct of the work of the organiza¬
tion. $50,000 is a good deal of
money to raise in the brief space of
fourteen days, but the officials of
the state chamber are confident that
under the unique financial cam¬
paign which they have planned
that they have the requisite sum in
hand within the limit set.
The campaign will be started
will be started with a rush Mon¬
day, with a full crops of field
workers in every section of the
state and it is confidently predicted
that the $50,000 in pledges will be
secured within the two weeks, so
that it may be announced at the
semi-annual meeting of the cham¬
ber to be heln in Macon on Jan.
29-30 that the financial arrange¬
ments have been completed.
The plan adopted means that for
the price of a postage stamp per
capita the Georgia Chamber of
Commerce will be inaugurated on
a firm financial basis so that it \ViH
be able to conduct absolutely tui
tftunpercd; so lav as finanfces^fcfe
concerned, the magnificent con¬
structive work for the state that is
the object of the organization.
Systematic Advertising Campaign
Not only will the boosting of
Georgia Products Day and the
fight for the proper preparation for
the coming of the boll weevil, al¬
ready put under way, be immedia¬
tely given added impetus, but there
will at once be started a systematic
advertising campaign to bring to
Georgia desirable citizens—citizens
with money, livestock and agricul¬
tural implements—rand to induce
the investment in the state of some
of the many millions of northern
and eastern capital which are now
being poured into the west and
northwest for development pur¬
poses.
While the state chamber al¬
ready has in band the conduct of a
great part of the program planned
for it, the necessity of putting the
organization on a firm financial
basis has so far divided the atten¬
tion of the officials of the chamber
with the financial campaign at an
end following the Macon meeting,
the organization will immediately
concentrate on the constructive
work outlined.
Statistical Data
During the past few weeks hun¬
dreds of letters have been
received at the headquarters of the
state chamber in Atlanta, calling
attention to the handicap under
which those desiring to secure out¬
side capital for the development of
Georgia industries and Georgia
lands, have been laboring on ac¬
count of the lack of any reliable
data in printed form on the finan¬
cial, industrial and agricultural re¬
sources of the state as a whole. The
head of a Georgia industry seekitig
the aid of outside capital in the
development of his business, has up
to this time had nothing concrete
which he could use to back up his
own statements.
Following the receipt of these
[PRICE *1.00 A YEAR
CITIZENS ON LINE OF T, F.
WANT BETTER SERVll.
<n
£
Want Tlie -Belle To Run To ©lard
instead of Toccoa. o*
o
Citizens along the o
line of Sthe
Tallulah Falls Railway recently
had a hearing before the State
Railroad Commission in Atlanta,
in which they asked for better train
facilities. At present they have
only- one train daily in each direc¬
tion,and they asked for two. Some
of the interested ones asked for a
change in the Belle,and that it run
between Atlanta and Dillard,
instead of between Atlanta and
Toccoa as it now does. Doubtless
those gentlemen thought that if
White county had double daily
passenger train service they should
have it,too.
Loudsville Lines.
Mr. \Y. R. Howard was elected
last Sunday’ assistant teacher for
the first class on Sunday school.
Mr. \\ . J. Oakes, Jr., was up
this way Saturday’.
Mr. C. C.' McDonald, of Gaines¬
ville, was in this section last week.
Mr. T. C. Miller, of Hall county,
was np this way last week.
Mr. J. A. Ledford, of Gaines¬
ville, is visiting here at the present
Messrs J. Ii. and W. Lj§jsPHsdue, i
are at home from ’ Helen, having
finished their work there.
Mr. John Craig, of Santee, was
down this way last week.
We are glad to slate that Miss
ilettie Howard is better at this
writing.
Mr. T. W. Cantrell came home
on a visit from Robertstown Sun¬
day,
Mr. George Bishop has moved to
the Aunt Sarah Allen house.
Mrs. Mollie Winkler has moved
to the farm of Mrs. Ledford.
Mr. F. M. Glover attended meet¬
ing at Mt. Pleasant Sunday.
The people are so well pleased
with their preacher at Loudsville
this year that we often hear them
speak a kind word for him.
Mr. Roland McDonald bought a
pound of butter and a dish pan last
week. All that he needs now is a
cook. n
Mr. and Mrs. John Underwood
spent Sunday afternoon here with
relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Glover spent
Sunday with relatives on Mossy
Creek.
Mr. and Mrs. T. K. Adams spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
Thurmond.
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Hood visit¬
ed relatives on Dukes Creek Sun¬
day.
Miss O. K. Bell has been on the
sick list for some few days.
Quite a number of our people are
engaged in cutting cross ties.
letters the state chamber announces
that one of the first things under¬
taken upon the placing of the or¬
ganization upon a firm financial
basis, will be the issuing of a com¬
plete line of pamphlets and folders
showing in attractive detail the ad¬
vantages of Georgia as a place for
settlement and investment.