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VOL. XXI NO. 46
FINANCES OF GEORGIA
Ct of Inti i est. ’g Aiocie by
' Stale Treasurer Pat its.
Atlanta, Ga.—Captain lb> it E.
” Park, state treasurer and b-nk exam
iner, recently contributed u:i ini erest
ing article to one of the leading final
eials journals of the l ui.c.l stale,
dealing. with the growth and pros
perit.y of Georgia in recent ye-trs
'■ The article details many int .'rusting
and pleasing facts relatin' to the de
oi the s..ite. as i i.iie.i.c
I *6y the continued growth of it: ■ haul-
L ing facilities wi ii:i her.borders.
K “Ocular de ::■<> r:; ion tints s e
K statistics both s’.ior, : ;i. >
t tion of the United States is exhibit
" ing more signifi prvgr< -s ill th"
k present, time than the s mill uicl no
i portion of the sou'll is more prosper ,
‘ ous th; ti Georgia, "s.i C . in Path
“The south has come at last to be (
recognized as a financial and indus
trial power. Tho growth in bankin? ,
in Georgia has continued apace dur-| ,
ing 1908, and has grown from !IS j
state banks in active op 'ration Jan ,
uary 1, 1908. to *490 slate banks on ,
January 1, 1909. This number will
L -b- increased as shown by application
fWI- charter in the office of the secre
tary of state.
“January 1, 1909, found the bond- (
ed debt, of Georgia to. be $7,031,000 j
mostly incurred by the extravagance. (
of the reconstruction and “carpet bag ,
xadministratiojj. tses, hisiory). Each .
—yea/ .SIOO,OOO of this debt is pain ,
ot|, and there are annual appropria
tipn for the amount of interest about ,
$300,000 per ifntium.
“The state owns a railroad 138
long, from Chattanooga, Tenn ,
| to Atlanta, Ga., which has valuable ,
terminal facilities in both cities, and ,
•which in 1908 was estimated to be (
f worth fully $14,000,000, nearly twice ;
the amount of the bonded debt. ,
“Banking in Georgia is in a pros
perous condition. The largest clas: (
of depositors are the farmers, who
look more and more to (heir banks tc
help instead of the merchants and s
cotton factors , hence the number of (
small banks in agricultural districts t
is increasing.
“The rapid increase in cotton man
ufaciuring has been especially re j
~'markable, and the income in the wa.>
of dividends has been most satisfac .
tory. Despite the so-called panic nev.
cotton mills are being erected and oh £
ones are being enlarged along our w > (
ter courses and in our cities, town: t
and villages at an unprecedented
, rate. ,
"In 18(11. before the civil war tie
entire taxable values of the state of
amounted to $<>71,000,009. O
this amount, more than $300,000,000 •
was invested in slaves, and of course
completely lost by the result, of the
war. In December 1908, the total £
taxable value of Georgia from all
sources amount to $706,962,353 which I
is the largest amount ever reached
in the history of the state. |.
“According to the method of the f
United States in making assessment
of taxable values the state of Georgia
Avould now be worth $1,400."00,000. j.
There is no case on record of a cough,
cold or la grippe d- veloping into pneu
monia after Foley’s Honey and Tat
has been taken, as it cures the most
oiotinate deep s> "ted coughs and 1
colds. Why take any thing else. Sold
by all I iruggist.
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The man who is faithful to his i
duty need have litle faer of wind c
idlers and spendthrifts may say abou t
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The Summerville News.
BONDS VALIDATED
In regular order as the law re
quires, a petition by the Solicitor Gen
era! came up Saturday before Judge
Wright to validate the bonds to be is
sued by the comity for the purpose
of building a courthouse.
The following order was passed by
Judge Wright validating the bonds:
State of Georgia vs. The County of
Chattooga. In Chattooga Superior
Court.
This cause coming on regularly, as
provided in the order to show cause
herein and defendant having made
answer to said petition, as required
by law, and it appearing to the sat
isfaction of the Court that notice of
of this hearing has been duly pub
lished by the Clerk of this Court, as
required by the order to show cause
herein, and after hearing and consid
ering the proofs of the respective
parties, in support of the allegations
of their respective pleadings, and it
appearing to the court that allega
tions of the respective pleadings are
true;
It is now adjudged, that the elec
tion for bonds set forth in the peti
tion herein, was duly called, and held
as therein alleged; that due notice
thereof was given as required by law,
and that such election was held in
all things in conformity with law;
that the result of said election was
in favor of the issuance of said bonds
by an affirmative vote of more than
two thirds of the qualified voters of
said County, ascertained and deter
mined according to law, and that all
subsequent proceedings in respect
'hereto have been duly had as re
quired by law;
It is further ordered and adjudged
that said defendant, the County of
Chattooga be, and hereby is, author
ized to issue the bonds as stated in
the petition herein filed for the val
idation thereof, in the amount of
fifty five thousand dollars, principal
and interest payable as alleged in the
foregoing petition, provision having
been made by said county for the
levy and collection of taxes with
which to pay the principal and inter
est of said bonds as the same shall
become due and by law required, as
appears from their answer.
And it is further ordered and ad
judged, that said bonds be, and they
are hereby, in all things validated
and confirmed.
Let the defendant pay the costs
of this proceeding, including the cost
of the Solicitor General which is fix
ed at the sum of $25.
At Chambers, this 16th day of Jan.
ruary, 1909.
Moses Wright, J. S. C. R. C.
UNION FARMERS
WILL WEAR COTTON.
Atlanta, Ga., —Plans for the feder
oration of the cotton warehouses in
i.c state of Georgia were formulated
Monday at a meeting of represen
tatives of the county farmers’ union
held*at the state capital and a com
mittee was appointed to arrange the
details of the federation.
The committe is composed of the
following members of the union: W.
'.V. Webb, W. C. Wood, F. D. Wim
berly, M. L.' Johnson. Charles New
comer, It. M. Spink, and D. E. Jones
An interesting feature of the meet
ing was the adoption of a resolution
providing that farmers should wear
a uniform suit of cotton clothing
while at work on their farms. It is
believed that such action on the part
of the farmers will tend to boost the
price of the product by increasing th<
demand. A committee was appointed
to work out .the details of the prop-
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY GEORGIA, THURSDAY JANUARY 21, 1909
TRION
News Notes of Interest From
n
» The Mill City.
;, , _
5 Arthur Broom has accepted a posi
tion in Lindale.
' Mrs. Cora Dennis spent Thursday
in Chattanooga.
! Hardon Herndon of Rome visit
r ed relatives here Saturday and Sun
day.
5 Messrs. Jim and San Wooten spent
- Saturday and Sunday in Lyerly.
Miss Cora Cantrell and Mr. Wy-
1 ley Hammonds were married Jan. 14
Dr. W. P. Henry of Baumont, Ga.,
1 spent th a week end with J. H. Thom
' as, buy; ig a drove of cattle.
’ Mr. and Mrs. George Stewart of La
’ ■ fayete visited relatives here Saturday
'' and Sunday.
“ Fr-.nk McWilliams went over to his
’. home at Greenbush Friday and left
I for Atlanta Sunday evening to enter
' a business college.
’ R. E. McWilliams accompanied him
but wiil return Tuesday.
A. A. Strock and Con Greeson went
up to Lafayette Sunday.
Mesdaines W. F. and W. L. Pul
' len spent Sunday in Summervile.
• Miss Pearl Giles and Mr. Wal
ter Greeson were married Sunday by
Rev. T. J. Ratliff.
’ Gilbert and Isaac Ragland spent
Sunday in Chattoogaville.
Rev. H. M. Strozier went up to
Wesley Chapel Saturday to perform
the marriage ceremony of Miss Myr
tle Lowry to Mr. W. F. Srite of Blue
Pond, Ala.
Miss Pearl Headden left Sunday
for Lindale.
Messrs. Hardy and Paul Scoggins
of Summerville were visiting rel
tives here Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Rex Wyatt and chil
dren spent Sunday in Raccoon.
Miss Ann Ayers and Mr. Matt Al-
T. J. Ratliff.
exana were married Jan. 17 by Rev.
George Whitson returned Sunday
from Atlanta.
Miss Elen Coker spent Sunday witl
homefolks here.
Otis Nix of Madison is here on
a visit to home folks.
Miss Hattie Bale Jones spent Sat
urday and Sunday with Misses Green
Mr. A. S. Routh is spending a few
days in Atlanta.
Mrs. Annie Culberson and Misses
Bell and Helen Steele spent Sun
day with Mrs. G. T. Myers.
Mr. William Gore left for Atlan
ta Monday after spending some time
with Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Gore.
Mr. Copeland of Athens is here vis
visiting friends.
Misses Ella Anderson and Dennie
Marlow visited Mr. Will Anderson
at Holland recently.
Henry Clark and son, Roy, spent
Saturday here. Roy will return to
Rome Saturday where he will under
go a six weeks treatment under Dr.
Cox.
Miss Mattie Tinney returned to Al
abama City Thursday.
Mr. L. B. iMaffett returned from
visiting relatives in Alabama City
Saturday.
Mr .and Mrs. T. J. Sisk of Pathos,
Texas, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. J.
E Sisk.
Mr. G. W. Sisk of Dogwood Val
ley is also visiting Mr. and Mrs. Sisk.
Dr. L. A. Mallicoat. came near hav
ing pneumonia and for this reason
Mr. Routh and daughter, Miss Mary,
and Master Dougherty Mallicoat did
not leave for Mississippi. Dr. Mai
licoat is some better at present.
Mrs . Fred Huron gave a party
to the young people of Trion Jan. 18
and among those present were Misses
Mary Routh, Addie Brannan, Mollie
Hawkins. Georgia and Maggie Green,
Cannie Adams. Maude and Mattle
Funderburk; Messrs. P. L. Martin,
Gordon Fulmer, Rude Myers, Odus
Nix, Clyde Hay, Con Greeson, Willis
King, Mesdames Helen Harper, and
Adelbert Carpenter.
They were entertained by music
and games and after the refresh
ments were served.
“DOT,” the Miner’s daughter,
which was played Saturday evening
at the Auditorium by local talent
from Lafayette, was enjoyed by many
of the people here. The old darkey
I and his “grandmamy” were typical
! darkies of the rarest type.
It you will take Foley’s Orino Laxa
tive until the bowels become regular
I you will not have to take purgatives
constantly, as Foley’s Orino Laxative
positively cures chronic constipation
and sluggish liver. Pleasant to take.
Sold by All Druggists,
MENLO
i The weather has been extremely
warm for the last few days. It puts
me in the mind of the good old sum
mer time. It was some cooler yester-
- mer time. It was some cooler to
day, Monday, and looks as if we
>’ might have a little more winter. We
need cold weather for the land and
- its good for the crops for the land
- to freeze. There is a large lot of
oats being sowed in this section.
t Rev. B. F. Guille filled his ap
pointment at Alpine Sunday and here
• Sunday night.
I If you are a farmer and are farm
, ing for the money there is in it, bet-
- ter get off the one crop basis and di
versify your products. So long as
you raise eight cent cotton and buy
’ dollar corn, twenty-five dollar hay
and fifteen cent meat you will make
s no money from your farming opera
tions. When your poultry will keep
■ up your table and you raise your
own corn, hay, potatoes and meat.
1 Now, if you are making farming your
life work, better start right in this
good year, 1909. Jim Fowler's boy
or any other Fowlers’ boy looks to
the farmer for a living.
Mr. Mack Neal died last Tuesday
and was buried Wednesday In the
Alpine cemetery. Mr. Neal had been
sick for quite a while.
T. H. Holbrooks has been on the
sick list for a few days.
1 P. L. Welch visited home folks at
Rising Fawn last week.
Mrs. H. M. Springfield returned
home last Friday after spending sev
eral weeks with relatives in Ala
bama.
Rev. Mr. Mahan filled his appoint
ments to preach here Saturday and
Sunday.
M. F. Ballard.
PENNVILLE
The health of our burg is in gen
eral very good.
Mr. Henry Housch has been very
sick but is some better at present we
are glad to say.
Miss Fannie Agnew of Summerville
spent Saturday and Sunday with the
family of Dr. Rudicil.
Quite a crowd of our young peo
ple enjoyed a pound supper given at
the home of Mr. Walter Hendrix Sat
urday night.
Miss Lydia Curry spent Sunday in
Summerville.
Milton Housch and sister. Miss
Lizzie, spent Sunday in Trion.
Mr. Walter Greeson and Miss Pearl
Giles of Trion were married Sunday
We wish for them much happiness
and joy.
Mr. Archie Housch and family of
this place spent Sunday with the fam
ily of Mr. A. S. Alexander.
Tlie school at this place is progres
singly nicely under the management
of Miss Lydia Curry.
We are getting ready for a box
supper on Saturday night, Jan. 30,
for the purpose of raising money to
seat our school house which is bad
ly needed.
Everybody is cordially invited to
come —the girls with well filled bas
kets, and the boys with well filled
purses.
X
HOW TO GET TRADE
There was a time when merchants
found it profitable to do b'tsiness
without advertising but that, time has
passed. The merchant who gets his
share of trade these days must hustl<
and advertise or lose out to his more
progressive competitor who does.
It not only pays the merchant to
advertise but It pays the buyer to
patronize the merchant who adver
tises, for the merchant, who is lib
eral enough to spend a little money
with his local paper to tell about his
merchandise and to invite the custom
ei to his store can be counted on
to do the right thing by him when he
comes and to sell him goods on as
liberal terms as it is possible to
do so.—Ex.
Brave Fire Ladies
often receive severe burns, put
ting out fires, then use Bucklen’s
Arnica Salve and forgot them. It
soon drives out pain. For Burns,
Scalds, Wounds. Cuts and
Bruises its earth’s greatest heal
er. Quickly cures Skin Erup
tions, Old Sores, Boils, Ulcers,
Felons; best Pile cure made. Re
lief is instant. 25c at Summer
ville Drug Co.
LYERLY
( Rev. J. C. Harris filled his appoint
-3 meats here Sunday and Sunday night
Mrs. B. F. Shamblin and Miss Le
, na Shamblin spent Thursday in
Rome.
s Miss Edna Marlin of Raccoon spent
; Saturday night and Sunday here.
I A. Gordon Wheeler spent Thurs-
I day in Rome.
, Miss Nell Thurman of Summerville
spent Sunday here with the Misses
Porter.
, Joe Crumley spent Sunday in Rome
A. C. Powell attended the O. R. T.
meeting in Lafayette Sunday.
Mrs. John T. Bryant visited in
Calhoun last week.
Mrs. N. B. Shamblin happened to
quite a painful accident Saturday
night by falling and breaking her hip
Mrs. J. M. Rose and Miss Minnie
Rose spent Thursday in Summerville.
Mrs. Will Stark has been quite
sick the past week.
Several from here attended court
in Rome Saturday.
J. L. Pollock spent Tuesday in
Summerville.
Mrs. F. S. Lee spent last week witl
relatives in Rome.
W. T. Fowler of Trion visited here
first of the week.
The many friends of Mrs. H. E.
,’ernigan, formerly of this place, will
be pained to hear of her deatli which
occurred at her home in Union Point
Ga., tlie 31st of December.
HARRISBURG.
Bad weather and bad colds seem to
have been tlie order of the day. but
we are glad io see the beautiful sun
rays come out once more and shine
forth with all their beauty and splen
dor. it makes uh think of the merry
springtime and caußea us to (sli for
lots of pretty bright days like these.
Bal alas! when we realize that litis
is only midwinter we realize the fact,
that there will probably be a lot
of bad weather yet.
Misses Annie Myrtle and Ethel Al
len of Summerville were visiting Hie
family of C. C. McConnell Saturday
and Sunday.
Enos Marlin entered school at Sum
merville last Monday.
Rev. J. A. Sprayberry filled his
regular appointments at Trinity Sat
urday and Sunday .
Buoy McConnell and wife were vis
itlng tlie family of Mr. and Mrs. C.
C. MoConnell Sunday.
A. M. Martin lias accepted a posi
tion in Chattanooga.
Miss Leola Thurman and Pauline
McConnell were visiting Misses An
na and Lula Martin Tuesday.
W. B. Martin was visiting at Sum
merville Sunday.
Messrs. Ed Tucker and C. R. Tuck
er and family have moved back on
the Bennefield place. We welcome
them back into our community.
Alllquis.
DIRTTOWN
Very little, farm work is being
done here on account of so much
ram.
I 1 verybody seems to have moved
and are now ready to begin work on
th . farm as soon as the weather will
permit.
More oats were sown this last fall
than in a number of years and II
soemF that more cotton will be plant
ell this year than was last.
The school at Bethel is in a flour
ishing condition- near 40 pupils arc
in aiendance. The Bethel literary an
debating society is a pleasant, and
helpful feature ajid is conducted with
the school.
Tills society was organized Jan.
8, 191)9, with the following officers:
Selman Story, President; Julius Rush
Vice President; Miss Mary Gaines,
Secretary.
The first subject was discussed Fri
day afternoon, the siiliject being "Re
solved, Which is of more benefit to
mankind the horse or the sheep?”
Jones Jones and Julius Rusli, affirm
ative; Mary Gaines and Agnes Jones,
Negative.
The subject was won l>y the affirm
ative side.
The subject for discussion next
Friday is “Resolved, Which is
more useful to man, corn or cotton?”
Miss Eddie Mahan has returned
from an extended visit to relatives at
Trion and reports a delightful time.
Mr. W. T. Cobb made a businest
trip to Trion last week.
Mr. Jay Fowler, salesman for the
E. E. Forbes Piano Co., of Rome,
was here last week
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR
THE NEW VOTING LAW
Disfranchisement Act is Now in
Force in Georgia.
i
On the first day of the present
( year the new constitutional amend
ment prescribing the qualifications
for voters in Georgia, known as the
disfranchisement law, came into es
, led, and with it arise responsibilities
, which are of the utmost importance.
in order that the qualifications de
clared to bo necessary may bo kept
clearly in mind we reproduce the five
sub-divisions bearing upon this sub
, Ject, together with the paragraph de
fining the duties of registrars.
( Section I. All persons who have
honorably served in the land or naval
forces of the United States in the
Revolutionary war, or in the war of
1812, or in the war with Mexico, or
iu any war with the Indians or in
the wr.r between (be slates, or in the
war with Sp.,>n, or who honorably
scried in land or naval forces
ol the x i»,federates Alates t oTofths
slate of Georgia in the war between
the state, or
Sec. 2. All persons lawfully de
scended from those embraced in the
classes enumerated in the sub-divis
ion next above, or
Sec 3. All persons who nr., of
good character, and understand the
duties and obligations of citizenship
vnder a republican form of govern
ment, or
See. 1 Ail persons who can cor
teclly read in the English language
any paragraph of the constitution of
the United States, or of this state
and correctly write tlie same in the
English language when read to theci
by any one of the registrars, an<» all
persons who solely because of physi
cal disability are unable to comply
with the above requlrenietils, but
who can understand and give a rea
sonable interpretation of any par
agraph of tlie constitution of the
United States, or of this state, that,
may be read Io them by any one of
the registrars, or
Sec. 5. Any person who Is the
owner in good faith in his own right
of al least forty acres of land sit
uated in this state, upon which he
resides, or Is the owner In good faith
iu Ids own right of property, situated
in this state and assessed for taxtlon
lion at Hie value of five hundred dol
lars.
Paragraph 5. The right, to register
under sub-divisions one and two of
paragrapli four shall continue only
until January Ist, 1915. But the
registrars shall prepare a roster of
all persons who register under sub
divisions one and two of paragrapli
four and shall return tlie same to the
clerk's office of the superior court
of their counties, and the clerks of
the superior courts shall send copies
of Hie same to tlie secretary of slate,
and it shall be Hie duty of these offi
cers to record and permanently pre
serve these rosters Any person who
lias been once registered under eithei
of the sub-divisions one or two of
paragraph four shall thereafter be
permitted to vote provided he meets
Hie requirements of paragraphs two
and three of this section.
It will be seen from the foregoing
and it is perhaps well remembered,
that the during the seven years begin
ning with the first of this year, a per
manent registration list, will be made
up, consisting of the old soldiers and
millers tfho have served honqrglJly
any of the various wars in which this
country has been engaged, and of the
descendants of such soldiers and sail
ors. When this class of voters has
once been properly placed on the reg
istration list they will remain there
as long as they live, provided, of
course that they pay their taxes and
are not convicted of an infamous
crime.
It. is therefore, of the utmost, im
portance that due diligence should be
exercised from the very first day of
the new law not to allow anyone to
register, particularly under these par
agraphs, who is not entitled to the
privileges.
The registration books are of.
course, open at all times, except
within the prescribed period imme
diately before an election, and It,
therefore, devolves upon the tax col
lectors of the state to exercise un
usual diligence in accepting the reg
istration of voters.
You may succeed when others do
not believe in you, but never when
you do not. believe in yourself.
Out of the darkest cloud peeps the
brightest sun. Oftentimes trouble
is only a necessary step to happinesß