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Summerville, Ga., Jan. 21, 1909
The Onward March of Prohibition.
on 6 by one the states of the South
are adopting state wide prohibition.
State laws are already In effect in
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and
North Carolina by legislative enact
ment. Tennessee joined the Prohi
bition column this we<A a bill having
passed both branch" of the General
Assembly of that state in the Sen
ate by a vote of ” to 13, and the
nouae by av< of 02 to 36. The
Act as passed provides that State
wide prohibition shall become ef
fective Jul' 1. ' ,! *-
The prohibitionists are active also in
Florida, South Carolina, Arkansas ant
Texas, and claim that state laws will
be enacted by the Legislature of
those States during the present year.
This claim seems to be well founded,
judging irora statements that have
appeared from day to day In the load
lug newspapers of the country dur
ing Ute past few weeks.
In his message to the General As
st mbly of South Carolina this week
Gov. Ansel recommends that a local
option law be passed allowing those
counties In which dispensaries are
located to vote upon the question of
tlie retention or abolition of the dis
pensary, ami it Is believed that a
statute to this effect will be enacted.
In Florida the Prohibitionists claim
a clear majority In both branches of
the General Assembly and when that
body convenes they expect to put
through a bill providing for State
wide prohibition.
Similar movements are on foot in
Arkansas and Texas, but the Prohi
bitionists of those States are not so
confident as they are in South Caro
lina and Florida.
It is by no means unlikely, there
fore that the year 1910 will see state
wide prohibition In effect in every
State south of the Mason and Dixon
line, except possibly Texas, Virgin
la and Kentuckey.—Newnan Herald.
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The annual report of the interstate
commerce commission to congress
which lias been made public is a vig
orous document reiterating some for
mer demands for strengthening the
law and advancing some new ones.
The commission discusses the reduc
tion of railroad earnings during the
period of depression beginning Octo
ber, 1907, showing that in fact this
r duction was of vastly loss volume
of significant than the public has
commonly supposed and that while
the gross earnings for 1908 were
$161,000,000 less than for 1907, they
were still $98,000,000 in excess of ;
those of 1906 and $312,000,000 larger ,
than for those for 1905. The commits- ;
sion concludes that in this showing ,
there is small warrant for the de
mand that the rates be generally
increased.
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By official announcement the great
esi discovery fti the war against con
sumption since the finding of the tu
berculosis bacilus by Cox has Just
been made public. This Is the dis
covory bf Dr. R. C. Roseburgh, biol
ogist at Jefferson Medical College in
Philadelphia, that the tuberculosis'■
germ can be, readily found in the
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THE NEWS’ NEW TYPE SETTING MACHINE.
The News’ New Typesetting Machine
The N( s’ has recently added a
Merganthalor linotype to its plant.
This is one the most wonderful,
complicated and costly machines in
a printshop. One man operates the
machine by means of a keyWiard,
something similar to a typewriter,
and it melts metal and casts the type
An experienced operator can set
as much type on this machine as
three or four men can set by hand.
We hope to be able to give our
readers better service than ever be
fore. but until we become acquainted
with the machine and learn how to
control its moods and tenses you will
kindly bear with us and excuse all
mistakes made. The paper has had
a good many in it recently
which is due largely to the inexpe
rience of our operator.
We are duly appreciative of the
kindness the people of Summerville
and Chattooga county have bestowed l
on us. They have made it possi
ble for The News to constantly move
forward and, consequently, to better
servo them. We are constantly in
creasing our facilities, at times even
more than the income of the paper
will of itself warrant, and from year
Io year have better equipped our
plant for their service.
We thank those who have helped
and encouraged us with their kind
words and patronage, and hope we
shall continue to merit. their good
will.
According to a ruling by Attorney-
Gen. Hart all special elections held
prior to July 1. 1909, must be held
under the old registration, notwith
standing the new registration law
passed by tlie last General Assembly
became effective Jan. 1, 1909. The
new registration law requires that
all voters participating in any elec
tion must have registered at. least 6
months before the election; but in
view of the fact that the new law did
not become effective until the first
of the present year, it is manifestly
impossible for a voter to participate
in any election held before July 1
unless he be allowed to quality under
tlie old registration law.
According to figures given out by
State Treasurer Park tlie sum of
$15,000, less tlie fee of 10 per cent
allowed tax collectors was collected
by the state of Georgia for locker
clubs for the year 1908.
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COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, MEET.
The regular January meeting of
the board of commissioners of roads
and revenues was held Monday.
Col. J. T. Jolly, who was recently
elected a member of the board to
succeed Mil T. J. Simmons, was
elected chairman.
The board had a very busy session
and besides the usual routine busi
ness, several other matters came up
I for consideration.
An order was passed requesting th'
people in each mglitia district to holt'
mass Dietings next Saturday, Jan
tiary 23rd. for the purpose of select
■ ing members of an auxiliary commit
| tee to advise with and assist the
| Board in selling the court house
' bonds, and to look after the pro
' ceeds of th sale of the bonds.
This committee will meet with the
I Board next Tuesday to receive bids
I for the court house bonds.
For health and happiness Dewitt’s
Little Early Risers —small, gentle,
easy, pleasant little pills, tlie l«est
made. Sold by Summerville Drug Co.
WANTED To buy tild peas.
Will pay cash. Summervitft
Drug Co., successors to The .Ar
rington Drug Co. |
POLITICS TO BE LIVELY
Many Prospective Candidates for Gor
don Lee’s Seat in Congress
Tlie people of the Seventh Con
gressional district are finding them
soles in the same fix as the clever
. I farmer who had to wind up his de
! ceased brother’s estate. “I declare
to gracious,” said he, “it makes me
so much trouble that I sometimes
wish Brother Bill hadn’t died!”
By the same token the people of
the Seventh are exceedingly sorry
that Hon. Gordon Lee, who has
trade the district such a useful and
well beloved Representative, ever
declared his intention of retiring
fron Congress when the term ex
pires to which he has just been elect
ed.
It looks now as if every county
would have a candidate.
And some of them are likely to
i have two or more.
It is going to be mighty interest
ing, of course, and means the live
liest sort of a scramble from start
to finish.
Few counties in the district have
as great a wealth of Congressional
timbers as old Polk, and it is now
almost certain that she will present
a candidate —probably the winner.
Hen. W. C. Bunn, a leading Ce
dartown attorney who for many
years was the chairman of the Con
gressional Executive Committee, is
being told by his many friends
throughout the district that this is
the psychological time for him to
make the race, and he has the mat
ter under consideration.
Hon. G. R. Hutchens, a prominent
attorney who ran such a strong race
for congress a few years ago and
who has since added largely to his
list of warm friends throughout, the
district, is thinking seriously of en
tering the race again. And if he
does he will go in to win.
Judge F. A. Irwin is another piece
of clean congressional timber from
Polk; but while he would be pleas
ed to serve the people there, he
does not. feel like giving up his city
court Judgeship to make the race.
And he is one of those sterling ju
rists who has very pronounced views
aga'nst a judge retaining his place
on the bench while running for a
political office.
Judge G. James and Dr. Wm.
Bradford have both been prominent
ly mentioned by the press of the dis
trict in connection with Congression
al honors, and while either of them
would represent the district most
ably, neither has any thought of en
tering the race at this time.
Our four neighboring counties
have one or more candidates active
ly in the field.
Hon. Mose Wright, the popular
Judge of the Rome Circuit, has stat
ed that he would probably resign
the judgeship to run for Congress
He is another jurist who has too
high a conception of the relations
o ft he judiciary to the people to al
low him to remain on the bench
while actively a candidate for anoth
e- office.
Hon. Frank Copeland, also of
Feme, is said to be again among the
number who have the Congressional
bee buzzing pretty close to their
bonnets.
Bartow wouldn't feel natural if
she didn’t have a candidate for
Cor.; ress. and this time is bobbing
up serenely with two of them.
Hon. Mark Johnson, a prominent
off’i ial of the Southern Cotton Asso
ciation, is "feeling around’ for the
place; and Judge A. W. Fite, who
was so overwhelmningly beaten by
His. Gordon Lee a couple of years
ago, says he will be in the race and
—just as he did before —will hang
j right on to that judgeship while
' making lu
Hon. A. L. Bartlett, of Paulding,
formerly judge of the circuit, has
expressed intention of getting
into the scramble. Hon. W. E.
Spinks, a prominent and popular at
torney of Dallas, is also being urg
ed for the place.
Hon. J. M. Mcßride, of Tallapoosa,
one of the ablest men in the district
is said to have his eye on that seat
in the halls of congress.
So mucch for our next door neigh
bor and the more distant counties
are right along with the rest of the
procession.
In Cobb county, Hon. J. Z. Foster,
a prominent member of the recent
legislature, is said to be impressed
with the idea that he would make
a good congressman. Judge Geo. F.
Gober who has just retired from
the bench, is oeing urged to run
Hon. N. A. Morris, who has just as
sumed the duties of the judgeship is
said to be thinking of resigning them
'in order to make the congressional
rice- and Col. Herbert Clay, the
talented son of Senator A. S. Clay,
is known o have aspirations in that
direction.
Hon. Wesley Shropshire, one of
Chattooga county’s leading citizens,
is reported to be actively “in it.”
Hon. Sam P. Maddox, of Dalton,
for many years the popular solici
tor general of the Cherokee circuit,
and who was recently defeated for
reelected through the treachery
of men for whom he had always
feught, has definitely announced his
candidacy, and will make a hustling
race.
Hon. J. E. Rosser, of Lafayette, is
sx’.d to believe that the multiplicity
of candidates in this end of the dis
trict will give him a good chance to
win.
Ard there are several others with
more or less of a hankering for a
sect in congress. The fact that the
sal.iy has just been increased to
$7,500 adds to the attractiveness of
the office, aside from the honor and
toe opportunities for usefulness at
taching to the place.
There will certainly be no lack of
interest and life in the race. May
the best man win— and, of course,
he will hail from Polk. —Cedartown
Standard.
Came Near Choking to Death.
A little boy, the son of Chris. D.
Peterson, a well known resident of
the village of Jacksonville, lowa, had
a sudden and violent-attack of croup.
Much thick stringy phlegm came up
after giving Chamberlain’s Cough
Remedy. Mr. Peterson says: “I think
he would have choked to death had
we not given this remedy.” For sale
by Summerville Drug Co.
Mr. C. 0. McConnell of Teloga
spent Tuesday in town.
Hon. S. E. Jones of Dirttown
was here Tuesday.
Many little lives have been saved by
Foley’s Honey and Tar, for coughs,
colds, croup and whooping cough. It
is the only safe remedy for infants
and children as it contains no opiates
or other narcotic drugs, and children
like Foley’s Honey and Tar. Careful
mothers keep a bottle in the house.
Refuse substitutes. Sold by all Drug
gist.
Among the visitors here Tues
day were, Mr. H. G. Baker of
Dirttown, Mr. W. B. Anderson
of Coldwater and Mr. E. H.
Ewing of Atlanta.
A Horrible Hold-Up.
“About ten years ago my
brother was “held up” in his
work, health and happiness by
what was believed to be hopeless
consumption,” writes R. R. Lips
comb, of Washington, N. C. “He
took all kinds of remedies and
treatment from several doctors,
but found no help till he used Dr.
King’s New Discovery and was
wholly cured by six bottles. He
is a well man to-day.” It’s quick
to relieve and the surest cure for
weak or sore lungs, Hemor
rhages, Coughs and Colds, Bron
chitis, La Grippe, Asthma and
all Bronchial affections. 50c and
SI.OO. Trial bottle free. Guarn
teed by Arrington Drug Co.
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yfiagazine
HAS GOT THIS MONTH
Two screaming stories bv E’lis
Parker Butler and Lindsay Denison,
each racing to see which will bump
your tunny bone hardest.
One tragedy that will grip your
heart.
And articles bv Russell, Paine and
Dickson that cut deep into things.
LOOK OUT FOB EVERYBODY’S THIS
MONTH. THE CAT IS BACK
Ho Know English.
Book learning, strictly speaking—that
is, learning solely from books—leads
one into many a hole. In “The Balkan
Trail” Frederick Moore tells the story
of an Italian official of the Ottoman
bank who had taught himself English
and was enraptured at the chance to
practice it on English people.
It was with much pride that he ad
dressed us at supper, but we did not
recognize the language he spoke and
expressed Ui French our unfortunate
ignorance of foreign tongues.
“That is your own tongue,’-’ said the
Italian, but even of this statement we
understood not a word.
He drew a pencil from his pocket
and on the back of a letter wrote:
“I am speaking English.”
We were astounded.
“Perhaps I do not pronounce cor
rectly,” he wrote next. “I have learned
the noble language from books.”
The hilarious Englishman in our
party gave the unhappy Italian his
first real lesson at once. He took the
pencil and wrote:
“Always pronounce English as It is
not spelt. Spell as it is not pro
nounced.”
The Bite of a Rattler.
The Cherokee Indians’ cure for the
bite of a rattlesnake is at once so com
mon sense and scientific as to merit a
widespread acceptance. Its common
sense lies In the fact that the victim
has or ought to have the necessary
implement always at hand, there need
not be an instant's delay, and that it is
the scientific plan goes without saying
because it carries away the poison at
once. The Indian at once, when bit
ten, drawing his knife, pinched up the
part bitten and cut it out, then, seek
ing the nearest stream, not often very
far away, plunged the leg in the run
ning water and kept it there until all
bleeding had ceased and, as my in
formant, an old man, told me, seldom
suffered any ill effects.
Usually, as we know, no physician
can be readied or reliable remedy had
until the case is too far gone for any
effort to avail, but with a knife and, if
not a running stream, water enough to
keep the wound well washed and the
blood flowing I believe there would
be fewer deaths following rattlesnake
bites.—Forest and Stream.
How to Settle Bills.
There is a young Harlem matron
whose mental equilibrium is upset the
first of each month by the prospect of
letting her husband see the size of the
bills that come in for food, drink and
for her own personal adornment. Her
four-year-old daughter offered her a
valuable suggestion the other day as
to the simplest means of settling bills.
The small child, seeing her mother
examining with a clouded brow a bit
of paper, inquired:
“Is it a nice letter, mamma?”
“No; it’s a nasty big bill, dearie.”
The child’s bright eyes closed as If
she were searching her innermost soul
for some word of comfort. Suddenly
she flashed a glad look at her mother,
and her voice had all the brilliancy of
one voicing an Inspiration:
“Mamma, jes’ tear it up. Then you
don’t have to pay it.”—New York Press.
The Retort Aqueous.
Even in the midst of horror there is
occasionally a rift of humor. It is
said that at the time of the Johnstown
flood a grocer to whom one of the citi
zens owed for an overlong time a good
sized bill for provisions while floating
along on the top of the waters in a
raft made of two window blinds and a
skylight caught sight of his delinquent
debtor whirling around in one of the
pools of the eddying current clinging
to a large hogshead.
“Ah, there you are!” cried the grocer,
businesslike to the last. “Been look
ing for you for several days. When
are you going to pay that bill?”
“Can’t say just now, Sands, old
man,” returned the unhappy debtor.
“I’m having all I can do to keep my
head above water these times.”—Har
per’s Weekly.
An Anecdote of Renan.
Renan while traveling alighted at
Naples. One morning a servant of the
hotel came to him and said that as she
had heard the preacher at the cathe
dral make use of his name many times
she would be thankful if he would
choose for her a number in the lottery
about to be drawn. “If you are a
saint,” said she, “the number is sure
to be a good one; if you are a devil, it
will be still better.” Renan smiled and
chose a number, but he never knew If
the servant was lucky.
Tangible Asset.
“I believe I'll promote a transporta
tion company.”
“Laud or water?”
“The latter, I think. For the former
I’d need rails and right of way, but in
a water proposition I’ll have an ocean
to start w th.”—Exchange.
For Future Referencs.
“That lawyer is very tricky,” said
Mr. Cumrox. “I wouldn’t think of
meeting him socially.”
"Neither would I," answered Mr.
Dustin Stax, “but you might give me
his office address.”—Washington Star.
A Correction.
“Your hair wants cutting badly, sir,”
said a barber insinuatingly to a cus
tomer.
“No. it doesn’t,” replied the man in
the chair. "It wants cutting nicely.
You cut it badly last time.”
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Almost Personal.
Celestine And has Mr. Pryor's ’
church such a small congregation?;
Hilda--Yes. indeed Every time he j
nays “dearly beloved" you feel as if
you bad received a proposal —Bohe
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CATARRH IN HEAD.
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MR. WM. A. PRESSER.
MR. WILLIAM A. PRESSER, 1722
Third Ave., Moline, 111., writes:
“I have been suffering from catarrh
in the head for the past two months
and tried innumerable so-called reme
dies without avail. Noone knows how
I have suffered, not only from the dis
ease itself, but from mortification when
in company of friends or strangers.
“I have used two bottles of your med
icine for a short time only, and it
effected a complete medical cure, and
what is better yet, the disease has not
returned.
“I can most emphatically recommend
Peruna to all sufferers from this dis
ease.”
Read This Experience.
Mr. A. Thompson, Box 65, R. R. 1.,
Martel, Ohio, writes: “When I began
your treatment my eyes were inflamed,
nose was stopped up half of the time,
and was sore and scabby. I could not
rest at night on account of continual
hawking and spitting.
“I had tried several remedies and was
about to give up, but thought I would
try Peruna.
“After I had taken abont one-third of
a bottle I noticed a difference. I am
now completely cured, after suffering
with catarrh for eighteen years.
“I think if those who are afflicted
with catarrh would try Peruna they
would never regret it.”
Man-a*lin an Ideal Laxative.
THE PERUNA ALMANAC.
The druggists have already been
supplied with the Peruna almanac
for 1909. In addition to the regular
astronomical matter usually furnish
ed in almanacs, the articles on as
trology are very attractive to most
people The mental characteristics
of each sign are given with faithful
accuracy. A list of lucky and un
lucky days wil be furnished to those
who have our almanacs, . free of
charge. Address The Peruna Co-
Columbus, Ohio.
CATARRH CANNOT BE CURED.
With local applications, as they can
not reach the seat of the disease.
Catarrh is a blood or constitution
al disease, and in order to cure It
you must take internal remedies.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internal
ly, and acts directly on the blood and
mucous surfaces. Hall’s Catarrh Cure
is not a quack medicine. It is com
posed of the besst tonics known, com
bined with the best blood purifiers,
acting directly on the mucous sur
faces. The perfect combination of
the two ingredients is what produces
such wonderful results In curing Ca
tarrh. Send for testimonials.
F J CHENEY CO. Props. Toledo, O.
Sold by druggist, price 75c.
Take Hall’s Family Pills for consti
pation.
DISMISSION NOTICE
GEORGIA, Chattooga County.
Susan Barber, administrator upon
the estate of JohnJ. Barber, late of
said county deceased having filed her
petition for discharge , this is to
cite all persons concerned to show
cause against the granting of said
discharge at the regular term of
the court of Ordinary for said county
to be held on the first Monday in
February, 1909.
J. P. Johnston, Ordinary.
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