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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 ✓ 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. NO r ?S*