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The Summerville News Published Every Thursday. BY THE NEWS PUBLISHING CO. O. J. Espy, Edkoi and Manager. Tiikmh of ' hmcihi’Tlon: One Y- ar ............. 11.00 Six Months 50c Three Months •• • 26e Advertising Rates will be Made Known on Application. Entered at the Summerville Post Office as Second Class Mail Matter. Summerville, Ga., June 24, 1909 When the legislature makes effective the new constitutional amendment, which will give a pension to every old soldier hold ing property of less valuation than $1,500 and to the widows of veterans who were married prior to 1870 it will mean an increase in the pension rolls of the state of from nine to ten thousaml, ac cording to the estimate of Pen sion Commissioner Lindsey. As the annual report of the commis sioner shows 15,619 pensioner.'- for the year 1908, costing the state $927,775,.85, it will readily be seen that the new amendment when put into force will require an increase of about 75 per cent on this sum. An Arkansas editor has discov ered the nerviest man. lie says that this man subscribed for his paper on a credit, took it live years without paying lor it, then offered to sell the old papers back to the editor for cash when the latter’s file was destroyed by lue Cuthbert Liberal-Enter- The town along the W. & A. are making a strenuous effort to capture the automobile route from Atlanta to Chattanooga, with the idea of securing a great permanent highway between the two cities. Bartow, Gordon and Whitfield counties held big meet ings last week in the interest ot tile project, and at Dalton a great barbecue was given Satur day, at which enthusiastie speech es were made by President J. L. Lee, <d' the Farmers Guion of Georgia, and other prominent cit izens from various sections ot the state. These people have gone at it m earnest, and unless the advocates of the Cedartown Home Summerville route wake up. we are going to miss the opportuni ty of securing a permanent high wav of great value to our farm ing interests. Cedartown Stand a rd. The Baltimore Sun pays this beautiful tribute to the Confed erate soldier: “No material reward tempted the Coiilfi-derate to enlist. He was not a mercenary, for his pay was mostly in promise, and even his food supply was precarious and uncertain. He received no large money bounty, and often famished his own uniform, his own ariiu* and his own mount. Only devotion to his principles, love of his state and home and faith in his leaders could have enabled him to carry on the un equal struggle for four long years And tho often he had to go hun gry and his uniform was reduced to rags, the Confederate fought on with a courage that nothing could daunt and a daring that i snatched victory after victory • from the very jaws of deteat. • And when the end came at Appomattox the < oniederate! trampl'd back to his ruined home A and with bare hands, in the ashes, \ of defeat, began to build up the; \ structure of a new civilization, k 11 has made the rebuilding of j tl • South the wonder ot the the Scripture on auto ■ ! > '•nished by W. G. Al- x com Nahum, second , and fourth verse: “The , S -. race in the streets. _« U le one against all- - road wavs; they shall see U >rehi-s. they shall run like -ting"—tonyersj Free Pres* . i The Summerville Cotton Mills. I The doubling of the Summer ville Cotton Mill is now a cer tainty. Notice has been sent out to the present stockholders to . state the amount they will take of this new stie-k to be issued— only $190,00 will be offered at the present. A great many ol , the old stock holders will take . their fll prorata and no troub : le is expected in disposing of this stock. .It is a fine investment i and no doubt will always pay a nice dividend. It is a home in stitution. Our people benefit by • it and we should all feel an inter est in its success. Now let us all pull together and 1 secure this amount at once and go to work as early as possible on this SIOO,OOO addition. We are al) interested. Every man, wom an and child in the county will he directly interested. Don’t fee! that this is the other fellow’s bus iness and you are not concerned. Help all you can and do so at once. If we keep our town build ing we must not quit work. We have a fine start to have a first class town and it is easy to keep it going, if we all keep pushing Now help those who are do ing this work. They need your help and encouragement. If you can’t put down much subscribe all you can. The payments will he easy and you can meet them , without much trouble. This is like building a new mill and will add several hundred people to our town and will mean a large increase in our pay roll. This is what we need —a good, healthy pay roll coming in twice a month. The people in every profession feel its influence. Consider our town two years ago and look at it now. A great many new homes have been built and a great many more will follow. We have ad vantages no other place can of fer to people who want good wa ter, healthy location and one of the most beautiful towns in Georgia. We have burned the bridge behind us, so now all pull and work; the new mill must be built. Stockholders Meeting. The annua! meeting of the stockholders of the Chattooga Oil .Mill Co. was held yesterday The past year has been a very profitable one for the mill. The report of the officers showed a satisfactory dividend on th« capital stock. The stockholders decided to ssue $25,00(1 of bonds and liquidate the indebtedness on the plant. All the old officers and direct ors were re-elected as follows: miners—R. A. McWhorter, president; J. C. Hutchens, Vice President ; J. T. Jolly, Secreta ry and Treasurer; S. M. Wade, General Manager. Directors—W. L. Selman. •Joe Young, J. L. Hammond, J. 11. Thomas, W. 11. Penn, N. K. Bitting. T. P. Taylor, O. A. Sel man. S. M. Wade. A. L. Dalton. Summerville (Augusta. (>a.. is terribly wrought up because there is a Summerville. Ga., without the marks of parentlie sis. Sad but true, and the Sum- Jmerville. Ga., is a fine little town. Ocilla Star. It has been said that “good roads lead from good farms to good towns.” and it seems a direet way of stating the taet. Wherever there are good roads leading into a town that town is ! invariably an active and up to : date business community. When K-ver good roads run through a i farming region the farms are . found well kept, the houses bright and in good repair, and i the outbuildings show an air ot snug, comfort and prosperity. If You are Worth $50,000 Don’t Read This. This will not interest you if you are worth fifty thousand dollars, but , if you are a man of moderate means | ,md cannot afford to employ a phy sician when you have an attack oil ; diarrhoea, you will be pleased to | know that one or two doses of Cham , b< rlain s Colic. Cholera and Diar- , rhvea Remedy w ill cure it This I remedy has been in use for many I years and is thoroughly reliable. l .Price 25 cents For sale by Sum-j Drug Co Summerville. «a. THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS, THURSDAY, JUNE 34, 1909. Enrich Others at Our Cost, In a somewhat remarkable arti cle recently, the Constitution re produced the affirmative and > negative arguments respecting the cattle industry in Georgia. The article had an intimate bear , ing on cotton, the south’s com- I mereial sheet anchor. T. R. Sawtell, speaking front experience, was antagonistic to hope for the industry; W. H. White, Jr., speaking also front experience, was protagonist to the industry. One point upon which both of these prominent business men agr these prominent business men agree, and which needs to be driven forcefully home to the farmers of the south, is that— Once the people of Georgia and necessarially of the south are converted wholesale to the industry of cattle raising, that day will the south come into its true industrial independence then it will be absolute and su preme master of its own com mercial and industrial destiny, able to arbitrate terms with tin wurld. What may sound like a grand iloquent boast is supported I the sort of logic that is express ed in the homely proposition thn two and two make four. In fat years the farmers of th south bring into this section some thing approximating $700,000. 000 through the instrumentality of the cotton crop. That vast sum comes from ev» cry nook of the globe. It repre sents only a tithe of the ultimate value of the crop, a value which the south is destined to reap in full once we materialize the pol icy of attaching all the mills to the fields. Only a portion of that impres sive sum of $700,000,000 cotton re turn is profit. A conservative estimate would place the cost of producing that quantity of staple at $450,000,000, perhaps more. A large portion of the latter figure goes north and west for a simple sustenance for man and beast —ineat, corn, wheat and foibb-r. Not one penny should leave the south for this purpose. The practice is a violation of all the laws of economies-; it is a glar ing infraction of common sense; it is a woeful and an almost in comprehensible attack upon our own self-preservation. Georgia and every other south ern state is ideally adapted to the raising of cattle, hugs, stock, corn, wheat and fodder. Wo should produce here every ani mal, every grain needed for the subsistence of man and beast. We will not begin to material ize our possibilities until we do so Failing in this we are perpe trating the monumental folly of sacrificing our own interest for tlie development of other already rich sections, with the dividends we command from the world, with our all-commanding staple, The evil works - another way. . While it places a promissory not, against the price of the unfinish ed crop, it also lays the burden of financing the south upon that oiu crop; it deludes and coerces the farmers into over-planting, violating the laws of supply and demand and cutting away tho price cotton brings on the open j market. Until these leading facts ar. ‘ recognized the most pretentious I plan fur southern developin'nt will carry an element of ftitil: ity. Atlanta Constitution. Mr. J. H. Thrasher, of Hill 1 tv Tenn., representing the Blizz-.’J I’re-Uooler Co., of Cineinnat the American Germ Externui t- ' Co. of Chattanooga was in wt. Wednesday. Tutt’sPiHs will save the dyspaptk fn-m many dai sos misery, and enable him to eat whatever he wishes. Thee prevent SICk HEADACHE, cause the food to assimilate and n our ish the bodj . give keen appetite, D£>ELOP ELESH and solid muscle. Elegantly sugar Coated. Take No Substitute. HON. ALF TAYLOR Will Deliver Lecture at Trion Saturday, July 3. Hon. Alf Taylor will give his ( great lecture “The Passing of, the Sword” at Trion July 3rd. ! Mr, Taylor is as fine in his work as is his famous brother. Senator “Bob” Taylor. Judge Moses Wright will in troduce the speaker, and Hon. Wesley Shropshire will be Mas ter of Ceremonies. Mr. A. S. Hamilton, in a let ter to the News, states that on account of so much rain, and promise of more, the speaking will be held in the auditorium. Seating will be arranged for 1500 people, sheds will be arrang ed on the outside, and the school house will be open for those who do not care for the speaking. Mr. Hamilton says further that all teams will be hitched in the grove around the Methodist church and that there will be no place for automobiles, as the highways should be turned over to the teams on that day. The speaking will begin at 10:30 a. in. Dinner at 12:30. At 2:30 in the afternoon there | will be a ball game between Trion and Chattanooga. The Trion brass baud will furnish music for the occasion, and there will be a merry-go-round and various oth er entertainments. Mr. Hamilton extends a cor dial invitation to the people of the county to attend the celebra tion. Menlct Baptist Church Notes Rev. A. F. Mahan filled his ap pointment to preach here Satur day, the 19 at 1:30 p. in., using as a text Romans 1:14-15. After preaching, the Womans .V Ysionary Union met with 8 numbers present. The program, consisted of songs by I nion, Scripture reading and prayer by vice president and readings by Mrs. Al ay Baker and Mrs Char ley Baker. Dues were paid to the amount of $3.15 and $4.50 on paster’s salary. Sunday at 9:30 a. m. Sunday school met with a good attend, anee. Class No. 2 reported 17 present and won attendance ban ner. At 11 a. in. Bro. Mahal) ■ preached on excellent sermon on the Lord’s Supper. He empha sized that portion of scripture which says “Keep the Ordinan. ees as 1 Delivered Them to You.’ At 3:30 p. m. the B. Y. I’. U. 1 met and rendered a short pro gram of recitations by Eugene 1 Wood and a paper by, Aliss Es- 1 fie Leath. Bro. Alahan favoreel the Union by giving one of his heart to 1 heart talks which was enjoyed by all present ' At 7 :45 we listened to a very instructive sermon from the sub ject. Christ <in Substitute. REPORTER. “Pay weddings”-are not un- ; coiiouor, in some of the rural dis- , ti is ol' Germany. All the guest j pay a fixed sum for the enter t.iniiiient, and the receipts are used to I’un.is’..' a home for the. 1 bridal couple. X. counting those slaughtered <>n Hie farm, or by the local 'buiHier, and they number mil ls I-. this country slaughters packs about 35.000.000 hogs year, representing a total \ : ie of about $440,000,000. This s -quivalent per capita eonsump : o.i of 116 pounds. Governor Smith has secured •ptions on 70-aere tract ot and adjoining the right-of-way »f the AV estern and Atlantic rail road near Chattanooga. It has j been the belief of Governor Smith | [that the state of Georgia, should • purchase this land for use as i yards and terminals for the state' road, as he believes the necessi- • Ity for sueh land will constantly! I increase. During the year 1908. the' sham and electric railroads of, United States purchased moru si: 112.0<'O.tm) cross ties, cost-; ■:.g the point <;! purchase, over! ->;.!>(kMi.iNM’i. an average of fifty H. D. MALLICOAT 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 Iblackberries wanted I ..The.. INTER-VALLE CANING CO. | Will Pay 12 cents Gallon for I Blackberries All berries must be delivered at Caning factory not later than 4 o.clock on same day picked. Ber ries wanted only on Tues= days, Thursdays and Saturdays. INTER-VALLE CANING CO. LYERLY There was a man here from Al- • abama a few days ago who re marked that some one had put his hand in Hie guinea nest, lie said when you put your hand in a guinea’s nest she would quit the nest. I don’t think they have quit the nest yet, but there are some parties that have got some of the eggs and they will be turned over to John W. Bale before court and let Judge Alose Wright set. on them and hatch out some convicts for selling whiskey and violating the pro hibition law generally. XXX Men like tools, are useless when they lose their temper. 11. 11. Bass, Manager, wants a good hustling man to write insur ance in this county for the Jef ferson Standard Life Insurance Co., Address 312 English-Ameri can Bldg., Atlanta, Ga. Georgia Schcoi A of Technology ATLANTA, GA. MJ I II ' i ' r, -; ‘MJ I! A TECHNICAL INSTITUTE of the highest AII g d 1 rank, whose graduates occupy prominent . I Sf ' j I and lucrative positions in engineering and J / commercial life. Located in the most pro- I gressive city of the South, with the :c-u. L v I V-j ing opportunities offered its graduates rn the Ln / g South's present remarkable developinenL fl 14 I i Advanced courses in Mechanical, Electrical, f ! ’/if [ Textile and Civil Engineering. Engineering I • I / Chemistry, Chemistry aid Architecture. i’ £ i I Extensive and new equipment of Shop, Mill, I j /i'll ! Laboratories, etc. New Library and n.w jlf ! j Chemical Laboratory. Cost reasonable. K ! I f f , Each county in Georpia entitled to 15freest holarships. H / f J / Students received any time durixig tae session. f i / If/ For illustrated catalog* address /’ / If/ K. G. MATHESON, A. LL. D., Pres, f / LU < ATLANTA. GEORGIA ’ : N g e ' c '-j,. . . J A I Her Proposal “You’ve been courting me now for a number of years. George,” remarked a girl to a young man, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer, “andj I want to make a little leap year proposal.” “I—l am not in a position to marry just yet,” stammered the youth; but” “Who said anything about marriage?” interrupted the girl I“I was going to propose that you stop coming here and give somebody else a chance.” Merritt & Bullick still have a part of their ear load of Turn bull wagons unsold. Please call and pick out the size you want before they are all sold. These wagons were built to their spe cial order and are suitable for extra heavy loads. Sample wag on ready for your inspection. KnHnl For Indigestion Relieves sour stomacK 1 palpitation of the heart. Digests what you eax.