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PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF RELIGION , EDUCA TION, LI TER A 7 URE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
VOL. XIX.
Route 7.
What about the cold east wihd
and rain last week, it sefemed al
most like September was here.
Some of the farmers are almost
done laying by.
Mr J W Ramsey is very sick at
this writing, and a lot of others, we
hipe they will all soon be well
again.
Sunday school has started up at
Midway again, let everybody come
and take a part ; if the people will
all come out and help it will be
a good school, but if they do like
they have been doing one pullpne
way and one another its no use to
try to have a Sunday school, so
lets all pull together.
Mr and Mrs M L Holbrook visi
ted relatives near Ocee Saturday
night and Sunday.
Several from here attended the
all day sihging at Sharon Sunday,
and report a good time.
Miss Alice Boling was the guest
of Misses Beulah and Nannie Han
sard Sunday.
Miss Maude Knuckolis is visi
ting her uncle Mr M J Hooper this
week.
The singing given by Mr M J
Hooper was very much enjoyed by
all present.
Mr Andrew Edmondson, of
joute 3, died at his home Monday.
The bereaved family have our sym
pathy.
Miss Celia Boling is on the sick
list, hope she will soon recover.
A Reader.
Harris Grove.
As I didn’t get in last week, I’ll
try to let you hear from this part
again. We always mail our news
on Monday, last Monday being a
holiday for our clever Jim we did
not write.
Mrs Mary New, of Duluth, is
spending a few days with relatives
in this part.
The singing at Sharon Sunday
was well attended, we were pleased
to have so many good singers with
us.
Mr Esso Scales and sisters. Misses
Doolie and Dalla were visitors at
Mr J S Echols Saturday night.
Mrs W L Comer is still improv
ing.
Mr Rosco Echols spent Satur
day night with his cousins Messrs
Edgar and Fred Vaughan.
News is scarce.
Maude Muller.
Card of Sincere Thanks.
Near Buford, July 11, ’9.
Editor North Georgian :
Dear Sir : —Please allow us space
in your paper to extend our sincere
and heartfelt thanks to the many
kind friends and neighbors over in
Forsyth for their much kindness in
so many ways towards us while
hunting our dear son that was
drowned in the Chattahoochee
river last Saturday. July 3rd. May
God’s richest blessing rest upon
you is our[prayer.
W, R. Hunt, Wife and Children.
Cashiers of the Walker Banks
Holds Delightful Meeting.
Last Monday, July sth, the cash
iers of the Walker Banks, about
thirty in number, from all sections
of Georgia and Alabama, held their
first Convention at Lakeview, ten
miles east of Sparta, the summer
home of Hon. Jno. D. Walker, the
wall known Georgia Banker, who
is president of the Walker Banks.
A goodly n umber of the Cashiers
arrived in Sparta Sunday after
noon and the remainder early
Monday morning, upon invitation
of Col. Walker, and were met at
the trains in automobiles and car
riages and promptly conveyed to
Lakeview.
After their arrival and a cordial
handshaking, they convened at I2
o’clock for a business session, at
which various matters of interest
to all present were discussed. The
session continued for about three
hours, after which the feast wis
spread on the long table under th
beautiful trees by the lake. An old
fashioned barbecue and fish-fry,
with the choicest of viands and
savory stuffs, were partaken of,
after which the visiting bankers
were conveyed to the nearby sta
tions, where they boarded the
trains for their respective homes,
each according their host the ver
dict of being a prince among good
fellows.
Among the guests was M. W,
Webb, Cashier of the Farmers and
Merchants Bank of Cumming, who
reports the occasion one of the
most enjoyable he ever attended,
besides being very instructive, and
will be lone remembered by all
present,
If you have paines in the back, weak
back, or any other indication of a weak
ened or disordered condition of the kid
neys or bladder, yon should get DeWitt’s
Kidney and Bladder Pills right away
when you experience the least sign of
kidney or bladder complaints, but be
sure that you get DeWitt’s Kidney and
Bladder Pills. We know what they will
do for you, and if you will send your
name to E. C, DeWitt & Cos., Chicago,
you will receive a free trial box of these
kidney and bladder pills. They are
sold here by J. H. Hockenliull,
The Travelers Protective Asso
ciation, which held their annual
convention at Asheville in June
last, unanimously passed the fol
lowing resolution :
Whereas, The Southern Rail
way has used every effort to make
the National Travelers Protective
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Association Convention a success
and done everything in their power
to make the journey to Asheville
pleasant; be it
C Resolved ; That the thanks of
this convention be extended to this
company and its officials for the
very satisfactory manner in which
they have managed the transpor
tation ot the large number-of dele
gates and visitors and also for their
courtesy in ordering thirty or more
of their passenger agents here to
gether with their chief to look af
ter our comfort.
GUMMING, GA. JULY 16 1909
Patronize Home Merchants.
The surest way to stop th prog
ress of your town, or kill it, is for
its citizens to make excuse for liv
ing in it, and id" trade at other
places.
Your merchants are your neigh
bors ; they pay a large portion of
your taxes ; they are your friends ;
they help to keep up your schools
and your churches. They have a
right to expect you to trade with
them.
If you trade elsewhere, every
dollar you send away is a leak in
your town’s finances, and if your
neighbors should follow your ex
ample your town would be bank
rupt, your merchants go out busi
ness, your property depreciate in
value, empty houses would be num
erous and you yourself would soon
desire to get away.
If you have been in the Habit of
sending away for your goods, we
invite you to read over the follow
ing, and then decide to whom you
owe your patronage ;
Who sympathized with you
when your littl* girl was sick?
Was it Sears & Roebuck, or was it
your home merchant?
Who carried you last winter
when you were out of a job and
had no money? Was it Rich St
Brothers, or was it your home mer
chants?
When you want to raise money
for the church or some needy per
son in town, do you write to
Chamberlain & Johnson, or do you
go to your home merchants?
How much do Montgomery,
Ward & Cos. give towards lighting
your streets or paying your minis
ter’s salary ?
When you were sick did John
Wanamaker send you any little
delicacy, or'was it the neighborly
wife of your home merchant?
When your child died, did you
get a word of sympathy from
Charles Broadway House?
Think of these things before
sending your money away to the
mail order houses, —Toccoa Rec
ord,
Sees Mother Grow Young,
“It would be hard to overstate the
wonderful change in my mother since
she began to use Electric Bitters,”
writes Mrs. W. L. Gilpatrick of Danforth,
Me, “Although past 70 she seems real
ly to be growing young again. She suf
fered untold misery from dyspepsia for
20 years. At last she could neither eat
drink nor sleep. Doctors gave her up
and all remedies failed till Electric Bit
ters worked such wonders for her
health.” They invigorate all vital or
gans, cure Liver and Kidney troubles,
induce sleep, impart strength alnd ap
petite, Only .10c at John Hockenhull's
When economy becomes the
chief end and aim of existence a
sort of domestic god, before which
all must bow down, the happiness
of the home is likely to be sacri
ficed, Every expenditure that
would give pleasure is held in a
beyance until such a time as the
family feel lhaa they “can afford
it,” and as a rule, this time never
comes, and the pleasure is relin
quished.
Importance of Good Roads.
The importance of good roads to
the people of the south and indeed
to the people of the whole country
is convincingly set forth in an able
and exhaustive article by Logan
Waller Page, director of the Unit
ed States t.ffice of good roads, in
the department of agriculture, pub
lished in the Tuly number of
the World’s Woric.
Many of the facts and figures are
more or less familiar to those who
have followed this discussion, but
Mr. Page takes a broader range
than usual in the discussion of the
general question, and shows the
importance of good roads, by facts
and figures, in relations which have
not heretofore been dwelt upon in
detail.
He shows that, according to the
figures of the interstate commerce
commission, the railroids of the
country haul approximately two
hundred and sixty-five million tons
of agricultural, forest and miscel
laneous a year, and he
mikes the conservative estimate
that two hundred million tons, or
less than eighty per cent, of these
products are hauled over the coun-
try roads. This does not take into
account the millions of tons of
mineral products which are hauled
by wagon, or the products hauled
back and forth between farms and
mills.
The ave age haul is known to be
nine and four tenths miles, and
average cost twenty three cents per
ton mile, [as against twenty five
cents ten years ago;] so that the
cost of this transportation over
country roads to railroads amounts
to four hundred and thirty two
midion four hundred thousand
dollars, to which must be added
the products hauled to canals.
wharves and docks for shipment
by water.
Half a million dollars is a con
servative estimate of the ’ural
freight bill.
The average cost of hauling on
the improved highways of England,
France and Germany is about ten
cents per ton mil£, but even if we
could reduce our present rate by
one half, or even to eleven and a
half cents per ton mile, we would
effect an annual saving of two
hundred and fifty dollars a year.
To this should be added a waste
of at least forty millions of dollars
a year because of antiquated and
wasteful systems of road adminis-
tration, and we have am aggregate
of not less than two hundred and
ninety million dollars which might
be saved to the farmers of the
country every year.
If we estimate the wear and tear
of vehicles and the useless number
of horses and mules, the sum will
go several million dollars more.
Seventy years ago the, charge
for hauling on the old Cumberland
pike was seventeen cents per ton
mile, and this admitted of a profit
and yet today it is costing the av
erage farmer six cents per ton mile
.more than that.
There are four hundred and
twenty five million acres of un—
cultivated land in this country,.
The possibility of bringing this
land under cultivation by means of
good roads, and by an inteneive
system of farming to get thfeWst
returns from it, is indicated t/jr the*
fact that the average revenue- pesr
acre from wheat is only seven dol
lars and three cents, of corn only
eight dollars and seventy-two
cents, while the average revenue
per acre from small fruits, in ISOCb,
was eighty dollars and eighty
cents, and of vegetables forty two
dollars per acre.
Good roads enable the school
children in the rural districts to
attend school more regularly than
in less fortunate communities, and
this is a matter which comes home
to the people of Georgia. It is
found that in five states with prac
tically thirty five per cent of im
proved roads, seventy seven out of
every one i.uudred pupils enrolled
attended the public schools regu-%
larly. But in live states —of which
Georgia is one—having only one
and a half per cent of -
roads, only fifty nine out of every
one hundred pupils enrolled At
tended school regularly
the Atlanta Journal.
Ducktown.
Rev H T Ingram filled his reg
ular appointment at New Harmooy
Saturday and Sunday.
Mr Williams and wife of At
lanta, are visiting Mr and Mrs
Elzie Aarons and family this week.-
Miss Ada Henderson wag the
guest of Misses Lelia and Julia
Brady Sunday.
Miss Nettie Edwards who has
been very ill with typhoid and
brain fever, is able to be out agaia.
to the delight of her many friends.
Mr H Evins visited his mother
Monday, wno is quite ill.
Mr T Hawkins and Miss Bessie-
Wyatt was the guests of Mise
Ninnie Lummus Sunday,
Mrs J L Brady who has beea
very ill for sometime, we are glad,
to say is able to be out again.
Mr Burten Bruce and family,
vbited Mr and Mrs J II Lummus.
Sunday last.
Mr and Mrs Veil Gaza way and
family visited at Mr John Roper &
Saturday night and Sunday.
Several of the young people* of
this place attended the odd fellows
picnic at Creighton Saturday, and .
report a red nice time..
If this escapes the waste basket.
I’ll come again.
Ope/.
A Night Rider’s Raid.
The worst night riders are caimnel,
croton oil or aioes pills. They raid your
bed to rob you of rest. Not so with Dr.-
King's New Life Bills, They never dis
tress or inconvenience, but alway s cleanse
the system, curing Colds, Head-ache,
Constipation, Malaria. 25c. at John Hock
enhull’s. ,
Kings may rule, nations, yet wo
man’* deft hand may prepare the
dish that rules the king.
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