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The Summerville News Published Every Thursday. ' BY < THE NEWS PUBLISHING CO. ( _ —— I O. J. Espy, Editor and Manager. ■ Tbrms of Subscription: One Year >I.(X) ( Six Months 500 t Three Months 25c ( Advertising Rates will be Made , Known on Application. ———— i Entered at the Summerville Post Office as Second Class Mail Matter. Summerville, Ga., Aug. 12, 1909 Forest Area of the South. The South, with twenty-seven per cent, of the total area of the United ' States, contains about forty-two per cent, << the total forest area of the country, says the Albany Herald. The forest area by states is as fol lows: Alabama, 20,000,000 acres; Ar kansas, 24,200,000; Florida, 20,000,000 Georgia, 23,300,000; Kentucky, 10,000, 000; Louisiana, 16,500,000; Maryland, 2,200,000; Mississippi, 17,500,000; North Carolina, 19,600,000; South Car olina, 12,000,000; Tennessee, 15,000,- 00; Texas, 30,000,000; Virginia, 14,000 000; and West Virginia 9,100,000. The South, It will be seen, has still much of Hie virgin forest of the coun 'try. Tlds forest must be used, oi course, in order to meet the steadily expanding wants of tills section. It must be used in such a manner, how ever that the very most may be made from its annual cut, while at the same time this cut is being replaced by new growth. In this way its timber will remain a source of perpetual wealt h. The importance of forest, conserva tion to Southern interests is clearly understood by the people of the South Tlie future of the South is more near ly bound up In the plan of forest pre servation to watersheds, power streams and wood working Industries, limn is anything now before tlie peo ple of this part of the country. Not only is the protection of tlie water sheds, which will some day furnish tlie power to run all manufacturing establishments in the entire South, an important matter to the South, but the industries depending upon tlie for est products will also be benefitted by the protection thrown about the remaining timbered area. The Georgia legislature has adopt ed a resolution requesting Luther Burbank, the plant wizard, to take up the cotton plant of the South and make it a subject of experiment. The cotton plant, it would seem, offers Mr. Burbank a fine opportunity for the accomplishment of something that would be vastly beneficial to the South. Luther Burbank has accom plished wonders in the plant kingdom and if he cun make an improvement upon the cotton plant of the South ho will have proven himself a great ben efactor. The hope is that he may be able to produce a longer and finer fi ber than that now generally grown in the South. The Birmingham News says: "At all events things are shaping them selves for the the most favorable bus iness conditions, and the tide turned ed some time ago in the right direc tion. The fall holds out rosy promis es in nearly all lines of business. There Is every Indication that the coming year will bo the best in the history of the country.” S. G. McLendon, suspended chair man of the railroad commission lost his fight for vindication and reinstate ment in the house of representatives Thursday by the emphatic vote of 129 to 40. the house by that vote having adopted the resolution of Mr. Hardeman sustaining the action of Governor Smith in removing the chairman. * » - A HAPPY HOME Is one where health abounds. With impure blood there can not be good health. W ith a disordered LIV ER there cannot be good blood. TutfsPills revivify thetorpld UVER and restore it* natural action. A healthy LIVER means purr Mood. Pure blood means health. Health means happiness. Take do Substitute. AU Druggists. Internal Tax Shows Decrease. Atlanta, Ga. —A preliminary re port has been made to the secretary of the treasury by the commissioner of internal revenues, which shows that the revenue collections for Geor gia have decreased over $300,000 dur- ’ Ing the past three years. Last year 8 the decrease was $140,071.16. Prohi- ■ bition is the reason for this falling a off, for it. is principally of taxes on I spiritous liquors and tobacco that v the internal revenue collections con- 1, sist. g The preliminary report of the com- Q missioner deals with the fiscal year which ended with June. A copy of the report has been sent here to H. A. Rucker, internal revenue collector. The complete report will be made in t December. i I It is shown in this preliminary re- p port that the revenue collections from a all sources for the past fiscal year e total $246,212,719.22. This amount r shows a decrease of $5,453,230.82 ov er the collections for 1908. The total revenue collections for ■ Georgia for the past fiscal year were ” $279,218.43; for 1908 they were $419,-! 26:1.59; for 1907 they were $623,440,-, 98. It is interesting to compare the rev t enue receipts of Georgia with those ’ of Illinois, where the collections by ' the government are the largest made < in any state. The receipts in Illinois for the past year were $46,122,844.97; which is an amount exactly $45,843, 636.54 in excess of the receipts for Georgia. According to the foremost boll! weevil expert in the country this un conquered and seemingly unconquera ble pest, will reach the western con fines of Alabama two years hence. It will cross Mississippi whose cotton | fields it has just reached, by 1911,. and should by 1913 or 1914 be in I Georgia. The catterpillar was con- j quered years ago, and the other pests have all gone before the inventive gen ! lus and the persist ent warfare of mat Plant diseases have likewise been j !eradicated or rendered innocuous, but the boll weevil is still master in ev ery field where his advance guard has been pushed in seasons past. In the end a means of utterly destroy ing the post which costs the South millions annually may be found, but it is not yet even hinted at in the ; results of experiments still being pros ecuted. UNION RALLY POSTPONED UNTIL JULY 17TH. The Union rally that was called to ! meet at Lyerly on the 17th has been : postponed until the 17th. Brother .1. L. Lee, state President, could not get here on the 14th, but will be with us on the 17th, and the county meet ing will bo called to meet then at Lyerly. The change was unavoidable All are asked to come to the rally and bring baskets well filled. D. V. LANGSTON. Os all the things for which a young person should strive, a good character stands easily at. the head oi the list. It may be hard to get on ! without wealth and education, but I with out a good character no perma nent and enduring success can be at tained. FLOATING STORES. Merchandise Steamers of the Muskoka Lake Country tn Ontario. Among Hie interesting features of life in the Muskoka lake country, In Ontario, are the Heating steres. A good sized steam vessel fitted out with every Imaginable Item of merchandise that might be required makes a tour of an assigned chain of lakes once each week. Ou a certain hour of a certain day the bout Is cx|>ected at 1 the different resorts and summer homes, and enough merchandise must be bought at each to tide over until the next trip of the floating store. Upon stepping on board the store boats, says a writer In Popular Me cbiinlca. the purchaser lipprom lies a ; counter with s. ales and cs-di drawer. < as in any other kind of store. Behind I the counter are shelves, on which arc i displayed sm li articles as may tempt the eye. Behind these shelves is the entrance to tlie atorerooin and hold, in! which more merchandise is stored. Each article has its place, and the storekeeper an find It in a moment. 1 Sometimes isolated farms on the I lakes are not worth stopping at every l trip, so a flag is flown when stores are , desired. Tlie store vessel drops an ' chor when the signal flag is flown, and some member of the family rows 1 out and makes the purchases. 1 I A checking account is important to ' any business—it is a convenience to any man —it will be a great help to you. it records your business tran sactions acvuautely-keeps your money ’ matters straight—affords you a con- 1 venience that is at all times safe, sim 1 pie and sure. You w ill find the Bank 1 of Lyerly safe, accurate and acconi- : modatiug. Try t-hem with your ’ checkins account, 1 THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1909. Truth and Quality appeal to the Well-Informed in every walk of life and are essential to permanent success and creditable standing. Accor ingly, it is not claimed that Syrup of Figs and Elixir of .Senna is the only remedy of known value, but one of many reasons why it is the best of personal and family , laxatives is the fact that it cleanses, sweetens and relieves the internal organs on which it acts without any debilitating after effects and without having to increase the quantity from time to time. It acts pleasantly and naturally and truly as a laxative, and its component parts are known to and approved by physicians, as it is free from all objection- \ able substances. To get its beneficial effects always purchase the genuine— manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co., only, and for sale by all leading drug gists. A Birthday Party. , On Monday, August 9th, between the hours of 4 and 6 p. m. Miss Ger trude Baxter, the pretty little daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Baxter, celebrated her 4th birthday at the beautiful home of her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Branner, on Washington Ave. Being an ideal sum mer day the cool, shady lawn had been! I prepared with swings, seats, etc., for j ! the entertainment of her little guests ' and resembled a scene from "Fairy I Land” as the tiny tots in their dain- j !ty frocks skipped and played under ! the grand old oaks. Little Gertrude, the delightful and I ! honored hostess, assisted by her ■ ! two younger sisters, Thelma and Fran ! j ces, received her little friends In a I ! graceful, happy manner of one far j | beyond her years. After enjoying some little games, ! pleasantly conducted by “Cousin" ■ Mattle Williams of Atlanta, delicious! • cakes and ices were served to the ! little folks, seated at small tables, ! decorated with vases of lovely roses. | Many pretty and useful little gifts were received by the sweet little hos- , Uss, making it “‘really and truly” a : birthday party. The invited guests were Misses Su- j ! sie Scott Bitting, Naomi Bolling, Eva | Hell Henley, Dixie Hinton, Kather ine Hinton, Elizabeth Jackson and Sarah Neal; Masters Kelly Hitting, W. E. Hinton, Hill Hinton, Robert Henry, James Jackson, Jr., Tom and Kirby Jones, Tom Hill Selman, and Jno. I). Taylor, Jr. A group of happy mothers and ; grandmothers seated near were Mes dames Bitting, Bolling, Clemmons, W. B. Hinton, Jackson, Neal, Tay lor. Baxter, and Branner. Wishing little Gertrude "Many re turns of the day” each happy hearted little guest bade her fond “goodbye” . and reluctantly departed for home. | Thus ended a pleasant party and one long to be remembered by Gertrude i and her little friends. Intense Colicky Pains Relieved. “For some years I suffered from intense colicky pains which would come on at times and from which I , could find no relief,” says I. S. Ma- j son, of Beaver Dam, Ky. "Chamber- l lain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea | Remedy was recommended to me by ! a friend. After taking a few doses ! of the remedy I was entirely relieved. That was four years ago and there i has been no return of the symptoms ; since that time.” This remedy is for sale by Summerville Drug Co., Sum merville, Ga. NOTICE. There will be an all day picnic at Farmersville school house Friday. ! August 13. Everybody is invited to attend and bring well filled baskets. Lemonade and ice cream will be served. Lemonade free. School opened at the Housch school house last Monday morning. August 9th. Let everybody start their chil dren at once and let's make this the best school we have ever had at this place.—Sallie Farr, Teacher. 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 best 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 Halls Family Pills for consti- , patioa. ; SOUTH SUMMERVILLE. J. W. Greenwood moved his family last week to Canton, where he has ac cepted a lucrative position in the mill. We shall miss this good family but wish them success in their new home. John Scoggins sustained a very se rious accident while working in the mill here last Thursday by be ing struck in the temple with a piece of a loom and was unconscious for several hours. Glad to report him much Improved now and he is ex pected to recover. Mrs. P. C. Cash is quite ill this week with typhoid fever. Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Clark spent the latter part of last week with rel- ! atives near Holland. Mr. Walter Weesner of Dirttown spent Sunday night with friends here. Mrs. Imogene Dalton Ennis and little daughter, Eleanor, of Milledge ville came up Tuesday for an ex tended visit to relatives here. The little child of Ed Peppers was real sick last week but is convales cing now. Mesdames A. L. Leming and Dora Pollard spent yesterday very pleas antly with friends at Raccoon. G. P. Mahan, wife and little son, ! Farrow, visited the former’s mother near Raccoon Sunday. Rude Mullinax and family of Trion I were the guests of relatives here ! Sunday. Miss Kittie May Bynum has just ! returned from a pleasant visit to An j niston, Alabama City and other ! points of interest in Alabama. Andrey Williams and family and i Mrs. J. M. Williams and children at ! tended the singing at Welcome Hill ! last Sunday. The ice cream supper given at the home of J. H. Harlow Saturday night 1 ! was enjoyed by a large number of ! young people. Wilbur Johnson visited relatives at : ! Raccoon Sunday and Monday. Mrs. Lizzie Adams and family will ! leave soon for Rome where they ! will reside in the future. Their many friends here regret to see them leave j but wish them good luck in their new home. Miss Glennie Leming is spending j several days with friends and rela ! lives at. Raccoon and Pine Grove. Misses Maggie and Annie Brooks of Raccoon were here Tuesday. Misses Berta Goodrum and Battie j Tarvin of Rome are the admired I guests of Misses Susie and Sallie I Harlow this week. Mr. Josiah Edmondson has given up iiis position in the mill and left last \> ednesday for a visit to Lafayette and Chattanooga. He will probably locate in one of those cities. O. A. Hankins has the fever. ODE TO DRY VALLEY. (By the Man From Town.) The great Creator hath given space to thee Upon this hemisphere, While so journeying that we, Might have a dwelling place here. Thou art nestled among the hills, With a covering of azure blue skies It is thy beauty our hearts with joy are filled, A beautiful gift from on high. i Os her tho sweetest memory brings, When I think of her cold gushing springs, I And of her fair maidens with their ! cherry ripe lips, And of her cold lipid water they sip. You might search hemispheres, And over the world roam, You will find that there Is no place like a Dry Valley home. Constant accuracy penetrates ev ery detail of your business when you pay by check. A checking account gives you a complete and reliable bus iness record. For every bill you pay by check you have a statement of the date, amount and to whom paid. Each check is a receipt. The Bank of Lyerly gives constant and vigilant attention to every account, and gives you FREE INSURANCE for every ; cent deposited. Men should be able to earn more than enough to make a living. To work for and obtain an amount only sufficient to live upon is not conduc ive to high thought or culture. In those places and countries where wa ges are but little more than a pit tance, to the securing of which men have to spend nearly all their time and strength, the wonder is not that there is so much immortality, dead ness of thought and coarseness of life, but that there is so little. Merritt & Bullock will dispose of the balance of their car load of Turn bull wagons very reasonable, as Mer ritt desires to go North to take charge of his new Hardware prop erty. Come soon if you want a bar gain in a first class wagon. AYER’S 6-2A3R V2GOR tops i”t i-s-.ss | Aver’s Hair Vigor h composed of sulphur, glycerin, quinin, sodram feXiX alchol, water, and perfume. Not a J injurious ingredient in ih! lift Ask your Y Follow his advice. A l air lood. a hair tonic, a ha.r dres-mg. Promptly checks falling hair. Completely destroys all dandruff. , AYER’S MASR VIGOR the I II i.. Jl-II.J :"TT EXCURSION RATES Via Central of Georgia Railway. To Atlanta and return, account Ma , sonic Convention, to be held August 10-12, 1909. Fares apply from points m Georgia. To Huntsville, Ala., and return, ac count National Convention, Primitive Baptist church (Colored) to be held i Augaist 18-24, 1909. To Valdosta, Ga., and return, ac- I count Grand Lodge, Supreme Circle of Benevolence of United States, to be held September 28, October 4, l 1909. ! For further information in regard to total rates, dates of sale, limit, etc., apply to nearest ticket agent. AFTER THE BATTLE. An irveident That Seemed to Explain Joshua’s Miracle. There was an incident in our life at Brandy, connected with Gettysburg, which is worth relating. Batchelder, whose map of the battlefield of Gettys bury is authority and whom we had fallen in with while we were there, asked to join our mess at Brandy when he came to the army to verify the po sitions of the various commands. One night we had just sat down to dinner when he entered our big hospital tent, quite tired. "Well,” he announced after taking ! his place at the table, “I have been down in the Second corps today, and I ' believe I have discovered how Joshua made the sun stand still. I first went to - regiment and liad the officers mark on the map the hour of their position at a certain point. Then I went to regiment in the same bri- ; gade. They declared positively it was ! one or two hours earlier or later than that given by the other. So it went ! on, no two regiments or brigadds agreeing, and if I hinted that some of I them must certainly be mistaken they ! would set me down by saying with ' severe dignity, ‘We were there, Batch elder, and we ought to know, I guess,’ and I made up my mind that It would take a day of at least twenty hours instead of thirteen at Gettysburg to satisfy their accounts. So when Josh ua’s captains got around him after the fight and they began to talk it over the only way under the heavens that he could ever harmonize their state ments was to make the sun stand still and give them ail a Chance.” Any one who has ever tried to estab lish the exact position or hour when anything took place in an engagement will confirm Batchelder’s experience I and possibly, if not too orthodox, ac ! cept his explanation of Joshua’s feat, j —Morris Sehaff in Atlantic. A MONSTER SKULL. One That Was Said to Be Bigger Than a Bushel Basket. I One of the most remarkable finds of ; gigantic human remains of which we ! have any record was that said to have been made at Palermo. Sicily, in the : year 1516, when an entire skeleton of unheard of proportions was unearthed : by' some marble quarry men. These mammoth remains measured exactly ! thirty-four feet from head to foot and ! nine feet seven inches from point to ! point of the shoulders. A stone ax buried with this old time giant may still be seen at Palermo in ! section “Z” of the St. Isorent museum. It is made of a bluish looking, fine grained bowlder and appears to be about two feet eight inches long by one foot broad and nine inches through in the thickest place. A musty, rusty look ing tag attached to the relic informs the visitor that it weighs fifty-two pounds, but the general verdict is that it could not weigh over thirty or thir ty-five pounds. The skeleton was burned by a mob in the year 1662 during the prevalence of the black death at Palermo, the ignorant, superstitious people believ ing that it was connected in some mys terious way with the death dealing dis temper. The skull of this giant, ac cording to Abbe Ferregus, “was large ly excessive of the baskets sayd to hold the bushel, being fitted above and belowe withe teeth to the number of sixty-foure. the each of which would have weighed two ounces.” Cavalier Svroy claimed to have found i a skull on Tenerife that had sixty teeth.—Westminster Gazette. Animal Mimicry. Observers of nature are frequently | struck with the singular resemblances ! of insects to leaves, dried sticks, etc.. ■ and these likenesses are supposed to i have grown out of the necessity of protection against or concealment ; from enemies. An interesting example • of this kind of resemblance was ■ brought to the attention of the En- | tomological society in London by a ! naturalist, who exhibited a spider found inhabiting some rocks near Cannes, on which were also fastened i the cases of a species of moth. When ! at rest the spider exhibited almost precisely the same form and color as *he moth cases surrounding it. 1 PETITION FOR CHARTER. GEORGIA —Chattooga county. The petition of S. T. Polk, F. G. Polk and C. H. Polk of the county of Chattooga and state of Georgia, re spectfully shows: First. That they desire for them selves, their associates and succes sors, to be incorporated and made a body politic, under the name and style of Menlo Fruit Package Com pany, for a period of twenty years with privilege of renewal at the ex piration of said term. Second. The principal office of said company shall be in the city of Menlo, state and county aforesad, but petitioners desire the right to estab lish such branch offices either in this state or elsew-here, as may be desired. Third. The object of said Corpora tion is pecuniary gain to its stock holders. Fourth. The business to be carried on by said Corporation is the manu facture of lumber and the manufact ure of fruit packages, baskets and such other like articles; the con tracting and building of houses and the buying and selling of general building materials. Fifth. The capital stock of said corporation shall be $15,000.00, with the privilege of increasing same to $50,000.00; said stock to be divided into shares of SIOO.OO each. All of said stock has been fully paid in. Petitioners further desire the right to issue both common and preferr ed stock in such proportion as the stockholders may determine. Sixth. Petitioners desire the right to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded, to have and use a common seal, to make all necessary by-laws and regulatons, and to do all other things that may be necsesary for the successful carrying on of said busl ness, including the right to buy, hold and sell real estate and personal property and execute notes and bonds and to secure same by a mortgage, se curity deed or otherwise according to law. Seventh. They desire for said cor poration the power and authority to apply for and accept amendments to its charter by a vote of a majority of its stock. Wherefore, petitioners pray to be incorporated under the name and style aforesaid, with all the powers, privileges and immunities herein set forth and as are now or may hereaf ter be allowed a corporation of sim ilar charter, under the Laws of Geor gia. This August 3, 1909. TAYLOR & JOLLY, Attorneys for Petitioners. GEORGIA —Chattooga county. I, J. N. Rush, Clerk of the Supe rior Court, hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a true and cor rect copy of the application for char ter of the Menlo Fruit Package Com pany, as the same appears on file in this office. Witness my hand and seal, this the 3rd day of August, 1909. J. N. RUSH, Clerk Superior Court. Application for Administration GEORGIA —Chattooga county. To all whom it may concern: Mrs. Dora Henry having in proper form, applied to me for permanent admin istration on the estate of W. F. Hen ry, Jr., to be and appear at my of fice within the time allowed by law and show cause if any they can why permanent administration should not be granted to Mrs. Dora Henry on W. F. Henry, Jr., estate. Witness my hand and official sig nature, this 2nd day of August, 1909. J. P. Johnston, Ordinary. P ARKER’S *** <\; HAIR BALSAM ' 'TL'anres and beautifies the hair. 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