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THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS.
51 00 Per Year In Advance.
J. W. CAIN,
Editor and Proprietor.
Summerville, Ga., Feb- 24, 1897-
Entered at Summerville P. O. as sec
ond class matter.
Poston baked beans are no longer
a mystery.
Gen. Joe Shelby, of Missouri, is
dead.
Home has an epidemic of daily
papers.
Atlanta is the best advertised
city in the south.
Oh prosperity! What lying is
done if thy iiM.Jj!
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W. P. St. John, the only free sil
ver banker in the country, is dead.
It is said that Hanna will refuse
a cabinet position if tendered him.
There is a breath of violets in
the air, and a sound of spring
poems in the papers.
Our new waste basket is four feet
high. Bring along your spring
poetry!
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It has just been discovered that
Edwin L. Drake was the man who
first struck oil. Now who struck
Billy Patterson, please?
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The Valdosta Times believes that
“the oath of the average Georgia
tax payer appears to be as worth
less as the promise of the average
politician.”
Deputy Marshal Goodson made
a raid near Subligna last week, and
it is said, captured a man or two,
who in the stilly night had been
making mountain dew.
It is said that even the buzzards
( n tl.u far famed “Tower of Si
lence,” in Bombay, are dying with
the plague. Anything that can
kill a buzzard must be frightful.
Atlanta, Chattanooga, Summer
ville and other leading cities of the
south are making liberal use of
chert on their streets. It is a bet
tor paving material than good in
tentions.
A millionaro was hanged in
Missouri last week, and since it is
known that wealth is no longer a
protection to wrong doers the Geor
gia editors have been having fits
and nightmares regularly.
A western paper tells of a fellow
who every time he gets on a spree
insists on paying a year’s subscrip
tion to his town paper. He has al
ready paid to January Ist, 1947.
If that is a rule that applies gen
erally we have some subscribers on
our list who never touch a drop!
The store of John C. Foster, at
at Foster's mills, twelve miles be
low Rome, was burned last Friday
morning before day. The dwelling
house near by was saved by the most
heroic work. The store contained a
large stock of goods ami was only par
tially protected by insurance. It is
not known how the tire originated,
but it is thought to have caught fiom
matches in the store.
Judge Sweat has done a great
deal of sweating lately about Yan
cy Carter and says he proposes to
leave Carter to the tender mercies
of the state press. Carter may be
a very bad fellow and his friends
among the Georgia editors may be
few, but if Mr. Sweat thinks the
press of this state is going to stand
by him in his malodorous career
he’s badly, very badly mistaken.
A judge, above all men in the
world, should be sober and per
fectly upright. And if such men
cannot be found ii.» this state it is
high time to import some from
other states. —Calhoun Times.
The Times is right. Possibly
there was not sufficient proof to
impeach either Judge Reese or
judge Sweat, but the people of
Georgia.will not forget their rec
ord when they again offer as can
didatesfor a position on the judic
ial bench.
Election For Surveyor,
Chattooga court of Ordinary setting
for county purposes at Chambers Feb
ruary 22, 1897.
It is ordered by the court that an e
lection to fill the vacancy in the office
of County Surveyor of said county oc
casioned by the resignation of W. T.
Herndon, be held at the several elec
tion precincts in said county on the
19th day of March-1 •'<97, as required by
law in such case made and provided.
John mattox. Ordinary.
To the Patrons of Summerville
School.
The teachers desire to call attention
to the fact that more scats are very
much needed, and for the purpose of
raising money to buy them the girls
will give an ice cream festival at Hiles
Hall Friday night Febuary26.
The teachers hope that the public
is interested sufficiently in the work
to co-operate with them, and be pres
. ent with their encouragement and
dimes. The saloons will be closed.
The entertainment will bo 7:30 to
9:30 o'clock.
LOCAL SHORTSTOPS.
Miss Mamie Gamble spent Saturday
in town.
mis. W. D. Hix is visiting relatives
at Subligna.
Mrs. Johnson, wife of Scab Johnson
of Dry valley, is considered seriously
sick with congestion.
Miss Julia Echols, a charming and
estimable young lady of Perennial
springs, is the guest of Misses May
and Julia King this week.
J. T. Owens, who is living on the
\V. 11. Penn farm, is reported to be
critically ill with lung trouble, and
that there is little hope of an improve
ment in his condition.
'Mrs. G. m. Montgomery, nee Starling,
returned last week from Texas. She
is in very bad health and will remain
in this county with her mother, Mrs.
Starling, for some time, hoping that
the change will be beneficial, and that
she will be restored to her former good
health.
In the election for justice of the
peace in Dirtseller district which oc
curred last January, T. C. Rambo and
G. 11. Miller tied on 26 votes each. A
new election has been ordered to take
place Saturday March G, and the only
candidate so far is John T. Lewis.
Mr. Rambo has been appointed Notary
Public and it is sa id that Mr. Miller
will not be a candidate again.
We call the attention of the readers
of the News to the advertisement of
J. N. Rush & Co., to be found in this
issue. This popular firm carry a very
large stock of almost everything in the
line of hardware, farm and garden
tools, etc., etc., and ask the trade to
call and see their stock before buying.
They keep a very large line of desira
ble goods and guarantee prices on cv
rything they sell.
Mr. David Boyles, of Lookout
mountain, died last Sunday morning,
of giippo an J pneumonia. Mr. Boyles
had come down in the valley on a visit
to his daughter, Mrs. C. M. Junkins,
when he was seized with sickness and
soon died. The body was removed to
the mountain home Monday where it
was interred - . Mr. Boyles was a good
citizen and a good Christian man, and
he will be greatly missed in the com
munity in which he lived.
Dr. T. S. Brown, who has been con
sidering the advisability of removing
his dental office to Rome, and had al
most decided to do so, is reconsidering
the matter and it is now quite probable
that he will remain in Summerville .
lie will, however, go to New’ York or
Philadelphia, soon to take a post grad
uate course, for the purpose of keep
ing fully abreast with all that is new’
and desirable in his profession, and to
further perfect himself in certain lines
of his professional work.
There is more Catarrh in this
section of the country than all
other diseases put together and un
til the last few years was supposed
to be incurable. For a great many
years doctors pronounced it a lo
cal disease, and prescribed local
remedies, and by constantly fail
ing to cure with local treatment,
pronounced it incurable. Science
has proven catarrh to be a consti
tutional disease, and therefore re
quires constitutional treatment, i
Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured
by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo.,
Ohio, is the only constitutional,
cure on the market. It is taken
internally in doses from 10 drops
to a teaspoonful. It acts directly
on the blood and mucous surfaces
of the system. They offer one
hundred dollars for any case it
fails to cure. Send for circulars
and testimonials. Address,
F. J. Cheney A Co., Toledo, 0,
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Hall’s Family Pills are the best 1
Can’t
This ia the complaint of MV -
thousands at this season, fc*
They have no appetite; food
does not relish. They need the toning up of
the stomach and digestive organs, which
a course of Hood’s Sarsaparilla will give
them. It also purifies and enriches the
blood, cures that distress after eating and
Internal misery only a dyspeptic can
know, creates an appetite, overcomes that
tired feeling and builds up and sustains
the whole physical system. It so prompt
ly and efficiently relieves dyspeptic symp
toms and cures nervous headaches, that it
seems to have almost “ a magic touch.”
Hood’s
Sarsaparilla
Is the best— in fact the One True Blood Purifier.
r*-n are tlie best after-dinner
lIOOuS HillS pills, aid digestion. 25c.
RACCOON MILLS.
Services were held at the Presbyter
i ian church Sunday and SunWy uight
■ by Rev. Mr. Bailey.
Mr. Tl. C. Gilbert and Misses Ida
and Lizzie, attended the quarterly
meeting at Lygrly Sunday.
Miss Alma Alexander and brother,
Robert, spent Saturday and Sunday at
this place.
Miss Rosa Wyatt and little brother,
visited S. R. Wyatt’s family Sunday.
Mr. Bob Wyatt has charge of the
i school in Miss Agnew’s absence. He
is assisted by Miss Mattie Wyatt.
Mr. Bud Garrett and son, Walter,
have been quite sick for several days
past.
There is still several cases of mumps
here.
Several have planted their gardens
here. I hope they will not lose their
seed; according to the past few years
it is right early to begin.
'I will close as news is scarce this
week. Birdie.
There was preaching at the Presby
terian church last Sunday and Sunday
uight.
Miss Jodie Yarbor is quite sick.
Mr. Bud Garrett has been quite sick
for several days, we are sorry to say.
Miss Jessie Bice, of Trion, accom
panied by Miss Dora Wilson, spent
Sunday with her mother.
Miss Carrie Agnew leaves in a few’
days for New Orleans to visit her sis
tei, Mrs. Fields.
Charlie Mitchell and Misses Ella and
Charlsie Broom spent Sunday with
friends at Broomtown, Ala. -
Miss Minnie Bice visited friends at
Lyerly last Sunday.
Miss Fannie Knox is visiting her
sister, Mrs. Wyatt at this place.
No weddings to report, but I think
there will be soon if \V. N. keeps com
ing here.
Bob Wyatt will have charge of the
school at this place during Miss Ag
new’s absence. He will be assisted
by miss Mattie Wyatt.
Success to the News. X.
A Remarkable Occurrence.
Green R. Dukes of Haywood valley,
died February 10, of dropsy of the
heart, aged 72 years. He was one of
the best citizens of the county and was
highly esteemed by those who knew
him. He formerly lived near Rome.
Now for the remarkable part of the
story. Mr. Dukes had been married
twice, and seventeen children w’ere
born unto him as the result of the two
unions. Every one of these children
are now’ living, and during Mr. Duke’s
last sickness every one of them visited
him, and one day, just before his
death, fifteen of them were present at
one time.
That a family of seventeen children
should be reared to manhood and w r o
manhood without a single death occur
ring among them, is a very remarkable
fact of itself but that all of them should
be living near enough the paternal
roof tree to visit their father during
his last hours is quite as remarkable
and is an occurrence that very rarely
happens.
CHICKAMAUGA, GA.
The most enjoyable dance of the
season was given at the beautiful coun
try home of Miss Jessie Hunt, al Chid -
amauga, Ga., Wednesday evening Feb
uary 17, 1897, complimentary to Miss ’
Addie Lyuatn and her guest, Miss Kale
Henslee, of Summerville.
Those present were Misses Ella
Brannan. Pearl Beaird, Emmie, M illie,
Katie and Annie Lynatn. Maud Jones,
Sophie Sims, Jessie Hunt, Addie Ly
nam and Kate Henslee.
The gentlemen were Messrs Craven,
Quinn. Dorsey, Hartley. Dr. Haygood,
Baker. Dr. Elder. Heggie, Bond, Lee,
Blalock. Earl and Charles Henderson
and Bagwell.
Miss Hunt, assisted by Miss Sims,
were ideal hostesses, and the evening
was most delightfully spent.
Visitor.
UNCLE JAMES FOWLER,
He Discourses on Troubles That
Come His Way.
Now you have went and gone
and done it, sho nus! Dere des
ain’t no tollin’ what er widower
will do! If Mars John Cain hadn’t
been er widower he never would
have copied dat piece from de Val
dosta Times bout men washin
dishes. Hero we mens was livin’
in peace and harmony wid our
wives. We come in at night, after
de hard toil of the day is over, eat
our supper, light our pipes, pull off
our shoes and sit by de big fire and
toast our feet and ruminate on de
corruption of de politix and ju
diciary of de state, when dis bum
shell is frowed under our ole raw
hide bottom chairs and lifs us up
to de ceiling quicker dan scat!
Least ways, it did at my house.
I come in from my work Thurs
day night and eat my supper, and
pull off my shoes and get my pipe
like I always does and fore I git it
lit, Hester she call out: “You Jim!
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come yere, you ole rascal and wash
dese dishes!”
“What I gwine to wash dishes
fer,” says I.
“ Cos de Bible . says its man’s
bisness to wash dishes,” says she.
“Read it to me, read it to me,”
says I.
An she got dat Summerville
News and read what dat Valdosta
Times had to say.
“Read it to me from de Bible,”
says I. And she git down de ole
Bible and hunt, and arter while,
she say:
“Jim how come dis place all rub
out here. Dat some er yore doins
You been a knowin’ it yo’ duty to
wash dese dishes, and here you is
went and took from dis Bible to
keep from doin’ yo duty, and you
know dat dis very book say: Who
dat adds to or took from dis book
gwine to git in troub’e, and sho
nus, you is.”
And wid dat she ketch me by
my off ear and carry me in de
kitchen, and dar was de dinner
dishes, and de supper dishes, and
den she say:
“James, you are a member of de
Baptist church and as such mem
ber it comes you to fulfill all de
scripters!” And I went to wash
in’ cause I know better dan to ’sist
cos Hester she better man dan I
is!
I’ll bet er plug er terbacker dat
dat Valdosta Times is run by er
woman or a widower, and John
Cain is wantin to marry again, and
like all widowers he makes lak he
wash dishes or do anything else,
and I spect be would, poor fellow.
I don’t know what we poor mens
gwine to do next. De new woman
is sho steppin’ to de front. Thank
de Lord der is one thing da can’t
make us do, and dat is to be de
mother of der babies. We may have
to nurse them, rock them and raise
them, but we will still bo the dad
dy of w’hat few’ der will be, if der
is any. James Fowler.
miss Mary Wilson spent Saturday
and Sunday with Miss Kate Alexander
in Broomtown.
La Grippe
If you have had the Grippe,
you know its aches and pains,
the fever, the chills, the cough,
the depression—you know
them all. The Grippe exhausts
the nervous system quickly,
lowers the vitality. Two
things should be done at once:
—the body must be strength
ened, and force must be given
to the nervous system. Cod
liver Oil will do the first; Hy
pophosphites the second. These
are permanently and pleasant*/ -
combined in Scott's Emulsion.
It lifts the despondency and
heals the mtlamed membranes
of the throat and lungs.
Fut you need not nave LA
GRIPPE.
You can put your system in
a condition unfavorable to it.
You can have rich, red blood;
resistive strength; steady brain
and nerves. Scott's Emulsion
prevents as well as cures.
And whether you send or go
for Scott's Emulsion, be sure
you get the genuine.
SCOTT & BOWKE.
AN OLD LADY
PARALYZED
Cured in a Alanner that will Inter
est any Person who is
Nervous.
Another Case, a Court Stenographer in Cleveland,
Run Down from Overwork, Helped
by the Same Means.
From the World, Cleveland, Ohio.
“Mrs. Adeline Bentel, of Hudson, Ohio,
arrived here yesterday on a visit to her
daughter, Mrs. O. W. Chapman. She in
tends to remain for some weeks.”
When the above little item of news was
published a few days ago, it caused no little
surprise as well as some incredulity among
the people of Marietta, Ohio, where Mrs.
Bentel lives when she is at home. Not but
what the lady in question has a perfect right
to travel and to go to see her children when
ever she may happen to feel so inclined. But
her neighbors, who for several years have
known her-as a bed-ridden cripple, were at
a loss to understand how she had managed
to do it. She was generally supposed to be
so entirely helpless that motion of any kind
on her part was simply impossible. Some
of the inhabitants of Hudson, led by a nat
ural desire to learn the facts of the matter,
actually went so far as to call at the lady’s
home to investigate the subject for them
selves.
Mr. Henry Bentel, her son, when asked
about the matter was not at first inclined to
give anybody any satisfaction beyond the
mere statement that his mother was not at
home. Finally, however, after considerable
urging he consented to talk.
“You know,” said he, “that my mother,
like many sick people, is sensitive on the
subject of her bodily ailments. She always
disliked to talk about them and always in
sisted that she would be well in a little
while. For all of that, her left side was pa
ralyzed for several years and our family phy
sician assured us that the trouble would
presently extend itself to other parts of the
body. Nothing could be done for her
and we had all about made up our minds
that she would not live very much longer.
“ Finally her eye lighted on an advertise
ment of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. Forth
with she insisted on having a box of them.
I opposed the idea pretty strenuously but
gave in for the sake of peace. Well, one
night I brought them home to her. She be
gan taking them at once. The effect was
perfectly wonderful. The stiffness began to
leave her left side almost immediately. In
a few days she was able to sit up. Os course
when I saw the result I took care she should
have all the Pink Pills she wanted. The
cure was not particularly rapid after the
initial stages. She remained a practical in
valid for a considerable time, but she is now
entirely well with the exception of a slight
lameness in her left leg. I fully expect that
that, too, will disappear by and by.”
Mrs. Bentel confirmed in all its essential
features the facts given by her son. “The
whole family believes as I do,’’said she, “that
the pills were instrumental in saving my life.
I came away from home without any of them
and was at first afraid that I might find my
self laid up again, but I do not really seem
to have any further use for them. lam not
strong yet but am rapidly improving. Even
the lameness in my leg is disappearing and
I will soon be as well as ever I was.”
From the World, Cleveland, Ohio.
Officials and employees at the Old Court
House were considerably surprised yester
day at receiving a call from Mrs. 11. L. Stan
ton, whose attractive face and sunny smile
bad not brightened their rather dismal quar
to’s for many a long, long day. The lady’s
pre '■nee in the office naturally created quite
a sensation among her former co-laborers
who had never expected to see her again un
til called upon to follow her remains to their
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last resting place. During the half hour of
her stay she held a regular levee, shaking
hands with and receiving the congratulations
of everybody from the janitor to the judge.
Mrs. Stanton is well known to the whole
legal fraternity of Cleveland. During the
two and a half years that she occupied the
position of court stenographer her cheerful
disposition, the unquestionable skill with
which her work was done, the general pub
lic knowledge of the circumstances of her
life, made her a favorite with every person
with whom she was brought into contact.
When her ehair first became vacant and it
was learned that the condition of her health
had rendered a rest necessary, expressions of
concern were heard on all sides, but it was
then expected that within a few weeks she
would be back at her place as well as ever.
Gradually it became known that her con
dition was much more serious than was at
first supposed. The weeks lengthened into
months until at last it came to be understood
that the place that once knew her would
know her no more, that in fact the severe
labor she had so willingly undergone for the
sake of those who were dear to her had re
sulted in completely shattering a once vig
orous constitution and driving her to the very
verge of the grave.
For the past few months her friends had
heard little of her, so one may judge of the
magnitude of the surprise when she floated
in upon them resplendent in the glories of
perfect health and strength. Many enquir
ies were made as to what had worked t lie as
tonishing change. She was easily induced
tn gratify the curiousity of those around her.
“You know,”sai’ Mrs. Stanton, “when
I left here I was a complete physical wreck.
The long hours of sedentary occupation
were too much for me and my nervous sys
tem was completely shattered. My digestion
too, was ruined and altogether, I was in such
a condition that I was scarcely able to keep
out of bed. It was at this juncture that my
eye was attracted by an advertisement—”
She intended to say something further but
the party around her laughed so heartily
that she stopped suddenly.
“ A re you going to recommend some patent
medicine?” asked the office boy.
“No, I’m not,” she retorted, “I’m going
home.”
Mrs. Stanton, evidently somewhat piqued
at the occurrence, started for the door, but
her friends fearing that she might not really
be quite as strong as she looked, called a car
riage for her end sent her to her home at 958
Woodland Avenue.
“Well,” said Mrs. Stanton afterwards,
“ they needn’t have laughed; I only thought
it my duty to let their wives and sisters and
sweethearts know that I was cured by Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. I
took two boxes and now I am all right. I
think they are a boon to suffering woman
hood. ”
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills contain, in a con
densed form, all the elements necessary to
give new life and richness to the blood and
restore shattered nerves. They are also a
specific for troubles peculiar to females, such
as suppressions, irregularities and all forms
of weakness. They build up the blood, and
restore the glow of health to pale and sallow
i cheeks. In men they effect a radical cure
in all cases arising from mental worry, over
work or excesses of whatever nature. Pink
Pills are sold in boxes (never in loose bnlki
at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50, and
; may be had of all druggists, or direct by
i mail from Dr. Williams’Medicine Company,
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