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The Summerville News Published Every Thursday. BY THE NEWS PUBLISHING CO. O. J. Espy, Editor and Manager Tfihms of Subscription: One Year SI.OO Six Month* 50c Three Months 25c Advertising Rates will be Made Known on Application. Entered at the Summerville Poet Office aa Second Claea Mail Matter. Summerville, Ga., May 27, 1909. The Good Roads Movement. One of the most important I roblems that confront the farm ee, and merchants of our county today is that of good roads, and especially does this apply to the farmer. 1 desire to call the at tention of our Chattooga county farmers to the int erest manifested by farmers of other counties in the advancement of good roads. We are directly in line between Atlanta and Chattanooga, and it we will interest our business men of all vocations, and enter the $.'•00(1.0(1 contest projected by the Atlanta Constitution we will sure )y come in for our part of the ] rize. There is no county in Georgia with more natural resources for building good roads, and for a very small outlay we can work our convicts on same. I would suggest that we take steps to immediately commence work on our roads, and to this end will ask that each farmer and other business man who is inter ested in good roads to write the Summerville News expressing himself as favoring this great movement. 1 believe it would be profitable to call a mi eting to be held at lerville at an early date to discuss ways and means. This is a subject that should in terest all. The opportunity is i nw offered to our county to get in line with the enterprising conn ties of our great state, and I lor one would much regret Chattooga not being among the foremost. Let’s get together anil have good roads all over this the host county in th' best state in the union. N. K. BITTING. NOTICE We want, every school in the county to be represented at our Teachers’ Institute in .lune. See Mrs. J. L. Pollock’s no tice elsewhere in The News ask ing all the School Improvement Clubs to send reports to her that they may be consolidated. I earnestly urge all the teachers and ladies to see that, a full re port is sent in from their schools and please do this at once. Send them to Mrs. J. L. Pollqck, Ly erly, Ga. ■ s. E. JONES, c. 8. C. Notice of Local Legislation GEORGIA —Chattooga county. Notice is hereby given that at the next session oi the General Assembly of Georgia there will bo introduced a bill, the title oi which is as follows: "Au Act to create and incorporate the of Summerville in lieu ot the town of Summerville in ('hat tooga County and for other pur post's. ’ ’ This May 26, 1909. All kinds of cleaning and press ing promptly done.— Mrs. J. S. M eGiniris. JUST ONE WORD that wori U Txitt’s, It r»fer» to Dr. Tutt’S Ltvar Plll» and MEANS HEALTH. Are you constipated? 1 roubled with Indlgeatiaa? Skk heaJavbe? \ trtigo? BUIout? InsooHila? ANY of these s\ mptoma and maay otbars iadkate inaction of the LIVER. You Need Tutt’sPills Take No Substitute. RHINEHEART—MARTIN A lovely home wedding was that of Miss Frances Gertrude Rhine heart and Mr. Thomas Bruner Martin which occurred in Sum merville Thursday afternoon, at the home of the bride’s mother. Mrs. Minnie Kush Rliineheart on Congress street. Rev. B. F. Hunt, pastor of the Baptist church, performed the ceremony which united the lives of the happy pair. The bride is one of Chattooga s fairest and sweetest daughters and she was unusually lovely in a handsome traveling suit of ol ive green, with hat and gloves to match. Mr. Martin was formerly of Jonesboro, Tenn., but has been a resident of Chattanooga for about ten years, where he occu pies the position of city ticket agent for the Queen & ( rescent Railway Co. Mr. and Mrs. Martin left im mediately after their marriage for a trip east. They will visit Cincinnati, Washington, D. C., New York City, Buffalo, N. Y., Montreal and Toronto, Canada. After the first of June they will be at home in Chattanooga,, 233 Vine street. Mr. Bryan Erwin Dead Mr. Bryan Erwin died at the home of Mr. N. K. Bitting on Congress street last Thursday night at 8 o’clock, after an ill ness of two weeks with perito nitis. Death never comes without leaving in its wake a burden ot sadness. Sometimes when an aged man is called from his earth ly labors, we console ourselves with the thought that he could not, according to natural events, live much longer, and that his long life had given him an op portunity to fulfill his mission in life. But when the angel of death comes to a young man just entering upon the serious things of life, just as the faculties reach their full development, with what consolation can we comfort our selves. There is none outside of a perfect, faith and humble sub mission to the Divine Will. Such was the death of Mr. Erwin. Mr. Erwin was born at Fair mount, in Gordon county, in 1884 and was twenty-five years old at the time of his death. He came to Summerville about two years ago and accepted a posi tion as assistant cashier in the Bank of Commerce, which posi tion he held at the time of his death. It is safe to say that no young man of Summerville was more generally beloved. Possessed as lie. was of unusually good busi ness judgment, he soon become thoroughly efficient in his work. 11 is genial and amiable disposi tion drew to him a large circle of friends who mourn his un timely decease. His remains, accompanied by his two brothers and Mr. N. K. Bitting, were carried to Fair mount, Ga.. Friday and he was buried Saturday in the family burying ground at that place. Messrs. J. S. ('leghorn and J. 1, .lolly accompanied the body as far as Rome. He is survived by his father, three brothers and four sisters. NOTICE Customers for Mung Beans (also called “Hay Peas” or "Blue Peas”) will find them on sale at the store of Cleghorn, Hen rv & Co. at prices which save vou the postage. I will continue ’to fill orders at $1.25 per peek or $4.50 per bushel, delivered in Summerville until the few bush els 1 have left are sold. Write me amount you want. W. L. GAMBLE. Summerville, Ga. ( an supply a lot of sweet po tato slips.—Clyde and Jules Wheeler. FOR SALE— Cow with young calf.—W. L. Gamble. Summer ville, Ga.. Rural 5. Messrs. A. D. Cheney and Jno. D Mikle. of Rome, are spending a few days here this week in |the interest of the State Mutual I Life Insurance Co. Friendships that are based on i loans are apt to be shakj • THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS, THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1909. ANARCHY The best recruiting seargeant the devil has ever had is whis key. Law and order can not walk arm in arm with whiskey, nor breathe the same air. Obedience to the law can not be secured by simple force, it can only be had through the habits of reverence and the honor that its intelligent subjects yield to it. It can only restrain men whose minds are able to foresee or ex pect bad consequences from its violation. A drunken man, losing reason, loses reverence or the power to foresee consequences, crime or disaster lie logically before him if he escapes either or both, it is solely by miraculous chance. Let your drunken man become a drunken crowd of men say on the streets of a town, you have there always the smouldering fires of riot and anarchy, that any chance breath shall kindle to disastrous flame. Wherever whiskey flows, we have this menace always present and often active. Good citizens io a man cry out against it, rat ing the authorities for not taking suppressive measures. Even bad citizens say no good of it. And the people have gone far enough to write into their Code a law making the sale of whiskey a crime. Blind tigers spring up still supplying a flow sufficient to nourish danger, wherever men come together. The men who sell whiskey are men of some standing too. Those who do the largest business are of necessity in every ease, men of large lo cal influence, with friends in every class of men. Men of char aeter sufficiently strong to or ganize a contraband whiskey trade of any serious dimensions are always men having some traits that command the friend ship of others, even to some of the most moral. We are all prone to love what we call ‘‘a good feller.” though we ardently despise some of the things he does. We do want to burn up his evil works, but we do not want to singe a hair on his head if we can help it. But— can we always separate the man and his works. Drunkenness goes on in menac ing degree in spite of the inter dicted trade, and good citizens having made their law, now pitch every ease of drunkenness in the face of the authorities, as much as to say, ‘‘lf you were any good on earth, you’d stop this—its so easy to put the law to them. The officers seine, the under waters and Iwiul up a catch into the light. ‘'Why, he’s a good fellow, who reported him? Why. that fellow, he’s the scum of the earth. It’ll never do to convict a man on the oath of such fel lows as that.” Thus cry the good citizens. They just will not believe it. Ah, but who are they waiting for to come along with the evidence? No doubt they are waiting until the pastor of the Baptist, Methodist or Pres byterian church or some other cit izens of spotless character and unimpeachable veracity shall come to the witness stand and go into the definite details ot an unlawful sale ot whiskey. That is good as far as practicable, for we ought to seek the best wit nesses in every case. But how long are you going to have to wait for your pastors et als to get on the stand and tell how on such a night or so they went out with flie bullies and either bought the stuff or saw the oth er fellow do it? Just think how long. Now can you resolve that you can afford to wait that long al ter reflecting how long that will be? Gabriel will find you still waiting and ‘‘cussing’ tho authorities for not breaking up the business. But if you think you can’t wait for a witness against whon no man can be found to raise some word of im peachment. then you will have to take what you can get. Mho are thev. who know convicting facts about the blind tiger busi? ness? Blind tiger patrons know these facts and nobody else does or can. If nothing else, the taet that he drinks, that he is a confess ed patron of an outlawed trade, and a betrayer of trust, will ap peal powerfully to the minds ot good citizens condemning the oath of the prosecuting witness. Do we forget that we can get no other sort of witnesses and that if we refuse them any cre dence we abandon the whole foundation of our society to the menace, more to the very active disintegration of anarchy. There is not a bigger, grayer old ghost of a fiction and humbug walking through our tribunals of justice, than the metlwxl of at tacking the oath of one witness to a specific fact, by the oath of another as to the general reputa . tion of the first for truth and ve racity. One time in a thousand it may promote justice, the oth , er times it defeats it. Any man on earth can be at , tacked that way. The biggest liar on earth could not remain living if he never told the truth, t and as his knowledge is mostly , of evil things, the truth when he , tells it, as he must tell it some f time, will be an ugly truth. > An innocent man ought not ■; to be convicted, but a witness ought not be convicted of lying ; except by direct disproof of his t evidence. And those who can not i love the law, must be taught to - fear it. r CIVICUS. i • I SOUTH SUMMERVILLE 1 A very sad accident occurred ’ here last Saturday evening. A 1 mule driven to a buggy by Will ' Alexander and "Jep” Bailey be -5 came frightened and ran at a 1 very high rate, altho’the drivers 1 kept it in the road until the bri dle bits broke and they lost all 5 control. Then Mr. Alexander •' jumped from the buggy and es ’ eaped with slight injuries, while 3 Mr. Bailey, in some way, was thrown out, causing concussion ’ of the brain. Dr. Jones was has 1 tily summoned and he, with many * others, did all in their power to e save Mr. Bailey, but his condi- tion was past human aid and he * expired in a short while in the home of W. L. Farrow, where * he was carried from the scene I of the accident. He was in the e prime of manhood and leaves a D wife and three little girls, the II oldest one just five years old, to 11 mourn their loss. The remains were carried to Tilton for inter- 11 went Monday. We deeply sym pathize with his relatives and friends but he has only paid the debt we all owe and must pay at s some time, we know not how soon 11 nor in what way. It seems hard e to have to part with loved ones 1 but we should be submissive for tis God’s way. He knoweth best 0 and doeth all things well. Words of commendation are due Messrs. Sturdivant and Jolly for their " prompt action in the care of Mr. Bailey after his death. Very lib ’ eral themselves and with the e aid of others, they purchased a ’ nice burial outfit for him, he be ing in very moderate circum stances, and in a few hours as -1 G r death he was prepared for bu e rial and kind hands carried him ’ to his home on the Sturdivant 1 Fruit Farm a few miles from r town. Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Parham , attended services at Perennial [ 1 o 1 Sunday. Miss Beatrice Curry spent Fri -1 day with the Misses Brooks in n r. ‘ Raccoon. 1 Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Bynum are r rejoicing over the arrival of a v little girl into their home last week. L. R. McConkey spent the lat ° ter part of last week in Dry V al ii i t By- - oil mill resumed operations Monday to work up the raw mate rial on hand. Tom Cochran of Dry Valley made our vicinity a short call ■ Thursday. . Mesdames Thompson and Ma- I han of Trion made our city a 0 brief visit Friday. Freeman Clark and Will . House, two prominent young gents of Holland, were visiting j| DON’T WAIT] IIF YOU ONLY KNEW HOW I I would build you up, increase your B weight, strengthen your weak B throat and lungs and put you in B condition for next winter, you B would begin taking it now. Take it in a little cold milk or water g 50c. and SI.OO. All Druggists B here last week. Miss Kate Bolling spent Satur day night and Sunday with Miss Trezevant Lee in Lyerly. Jolin Vaughn and family of near Holland were the guests of his sister, Mrs. R. W. Clark, Sat urday and Sunday. Frank Kirby, of Lafayette, was visiting his aunt, Mrs. R. D. Jones, Sunday. Mrs. Poole, who is spending the summer here with her father, Mr. T. N. Scoggins, visited in Trion the first of the week. Mrs. J. W. Bailey of Lafayette spent Sunday here with her sis ter, Mrs. Jim Pollard. Mrs. S. E. Strange and Miss Madalene went up to Trion Tues day to attend the closing exer cises of the Trion Public school. W. T. Rakestraw and Porter Griggs of near Dallas are guests of the former’s unde, W. L. I 1 ar row, this week. MONTVALE Mrs. B. F. Dunaway has been quite sick for several days. There will be an all-day sing ing at Ebenezer the second Sun? day in next month. Mr. Woot ten of Trion is expected to be present at that time. Everybody come out and bring well filled baskets. A Pleasant Occasion. A very enjoyable occasion was that on which the people of Beth el Presbyterian Sunday school joined with their neighboring churches and friends in a picnic at the delightful meeting place about Bethel church on last Sat urday. Besides having the Pleas ant Grove Baptist, Bethel Meth odist and Silver Hill Sunday schools represented by large num bers, a part of the Summerville school came over to enjoy the festivities and the day was ono of much fun to young and old. After the kind of dinner that usually helps make a picnic was in the usual way disposed of and people began to feel the desire for even a better dessert, dainty ices and strawberries were serv ed under the shade of the great, oaks. The young boys and men were not slow to part with their money for ice-cream tickets, and during the aftrenoon eight dol lars was collected to be used in refurnishing Bethel school house, which! is to be erected this sum mer. The people of the community wish to thank those who contrib uted to the cause, and also those who served—especially Walter Weesner and Bob Cobb, who so faitUfully assisted the ladies. The statement to relatives here has been received, that Mrs. C. A. Lund, who is visiting relatives in Utah, has. successfully under gone an operation, and hopes to soon be able to rejoin her family here. Lost Sunday between Lyerly and Raccoon creek, child’s slip per. Please return to News’ of fice. Discharge from Guardianship GEORGlA—Chattooga county. F. S. Lee, guardian of Fannie T. Lee, has applied to me for a discharge from his guardianship of Fannie T. Lee. This is there fore to notify all persons concern ed to file their objections if any they have on or before the first Monday in June next, else he will be discharged from his guar dianship as applied for. This May 3rd, 1909. J. P. JOHNSTON, Ordinary. H. D. M ALLICO AT Dealer in Fresh and Cured Meats Breakfast Bacon, Canvassed Hams, Skinned Hams Nice Fresh Steaks, Roasts, Stews, Pork Chops Sausage, Etc. Soft Drink, Tobaccos, Cigars AN AKRON_ MAN. |||F if Jbk mr. William f. steese. Mr. William F. Steese, 701 Coburn BL, Akron, Ohio, writes: “I have been troubled for several years with catarrh of the stomach. Have used different patent medicines to no effect whatever, and have doc tored considerable with family doctor, “Sometimes his treatment would re lieve me for a few weeks, but would eventually have to go back to him, and that had kept up for several years. “I was advised to use Peruna, and have taken three bottles. Never felt bo good in my life. Am going to con tinue using it. Wouldn’t be with out it in the house. I will gladly rec- • ommend it to any one afflicted with catarrh of stomach, or stomach trouble of any kind.” The above is an oft-repeated story. Troubled for years with chronic ca tarrh. Tried different remedies and doctors to no avail. Peruna was ad vised by friends. Instant relief expe- Great gratitude to Peruna expressed. This, in brief, is a story that is repeated to us a great many times every year. No one could be in touch with our vast correspondence for one month without being impressed with the sin cerity and truthfulness of these kind of testimonials. Peruna promptly produces an appe tite, corrects digestion and relieves stomach difficulties that have resisted other treatment. Man-a-lin an Ideal Laxative. Twelve Months Support GEORGlA—Chattooga county. Tennie Mclntosh having made application for twelve months suj port out of the estate of Thomas- Mclntosh and appraisers duly ap pointed to set apart the same, having filed their return, all per sons concerned are hereby re quired to show cause before the court of ordinary of said county on the first Monday in June, 1909, why said application should not be granted. This 3rd day of May, 1909. J. P. JOHNSTON, Ordinary. Application for Administration. GEORGlA—Chattooga county. To all whom it may concern: D. V. Langston having in proper form applied to me for permanent letters of administration .on the es tate of W. J. Langston, late of said county, this is to cite all and singular, the creditors and next of kin of W. J. Langston, to be and appear at my office within the time allowed by law and show cause, if any they can, why permanent administration should not be granted to D. V. Langston on W. J. Langston’s estate. Witness my hand and of ficial signature, this 3rd day of Mav, 1909. J. P. JOHNSTON, Ordinary. NOTICE On May 29th, at 1 o’clock, at Subligna the contract for build ing a Masonic and I. O. 0. F. hall will be given to the lowest responsible bidder. Plans and specifications can be seen at Bank of Commerce and Subligna. C. P . HAMILTON, JESSE SCOGGINS, Building Committee.