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The Cause of Many Sudden Deaths. There is a disease prevailing eonntry most dangerous la-cause so ~ fcjhg ’H X OW: ' s' - tack the vital organs, causing catarrh of the bladder, brick-dust or sediment in the urine, head ache, back ache, lame back, dizziness, sleeplessness, nervous ness, or the kidneys themselves break down and waste away cell by cell. Bladder troubles almost always result from a derangement of the kidneys and better health in that organ is obtained quickest by a proper treatment of the kid neys. Swamp-Root corn ets inability to hold urine and scalding pain in passing it, ami overcomes that unpleasant necessity of being compelled to go often through the day, and to get up many times during the night. The mild and immediate effect of Swamp-Root, the great kidney remedy is soon realized. It stands the highest lie cause of its remarkable health restoring properties. A trial will convince anyone. Swamp-Root is pleasant to take and is sold by all druggists in fifty-ceiit and one-doflar size Ixittl< --. You may have a sample bottle ami a book that tells all aliout it, both sent free by mail. Address, Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y. When writing mention reading this gen erous offer in this paper. Don't make any mistake, but remember the name, Swamp-Root, ai.d don’t Id a dealer sell you something in place of Swamp-Root — if you do you will be disappointed. YOUNG MEN LEARN TELEGRAPHY! TELEGRAPH OPERATORS ARE IN GREAT DEMAND!! Boys, this Is your opportunity to learn a first-class trade that pays a good salary every month in the year. There will lie a greater demand for Telegraph Operators this fall and winter than there has been for many years past. The prominent railroads of the south and other parts of the Unit ed States are writing us to qualify i s many young men of good character for their service as we possibly can. Wo trust that the reliable ambitious of the South will rally to his opportunity ■Kg tions. Graduates begin on Xupunft per month; easy and pleas •4'*)U| U« P ,rk; permanent employment. u promotion. Our tuition is reasonable; board at low rates; Newnan is extremely healthful; fine climate; excellent drinking water. Write at once for our new Illustrated catalog. A letter or postal will bring it. IT IS FREE. SOUTHERN SCHOOL OF TELEGRAPHY, Boi 272, Newnan, Georgia. Till- value of transportation issued to railway postal ticks at 2 cents a mile would lie $12,500,000, according to the lust report of tile postmaster general, which states that these men traveled 029,778,443 miles last year. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. Hie Kind You Have Always Bought Why Suffer? If you suffer pain from any cause. Dr. Miles Anti- Pain Pills will relieve it —and leave no bad after effects. That's the impor tant thing. Neither do tliev create a habit. More often the attacks become less frequent, or disappear altogether. Dr. Miles Anti-Pain Pills have no other effect except to re lieve pain and quiet nerv ous irritation. -We are nrv« without Dr. Mlles’ Anti -I* In IW My hu.Mmnd and non <t 16 were always subject to Ji?, k hvnrtaeM >wnn using th< I*lll*. and they ’ ne broken them Up enfroly Tbuit think they haw had to use them for six months. 1 rpHnnmenvl them to every one. A fe* weeks am' 1 heard an old lady friend waa I went to her. She was down with LftQrippe. and nearh rrwitv with awful backache. 1 save her one <U the VnU-Didn Pills *n<l left another for her to pike in * «hort time. They helped her right a»nv. and Mie mvj* she will never be without them nxnin. Last winter my husband was taken with piuerisv on both shie<. and I know hr wo.iM have died if It hadn’t been for the IhHs In lr«s. than half an hour he was •a vat ins, and went to bed and slept/* MRS. G. H XV ERB Austinburg. Ohio. Your druggist mHs Dr. Miles* Anti- Pain Pills and we authorise him to return the price of hrst package (only) If It fatls to benett you. Miles Medical Co.. Elkhart, Ind SUMMERVTCTBf NEW CHARTER An Act To Create And Incorporate The City of Summerville in Lieu of the Town of Summerville, And for Other Purposes. tive. Many sudden deaths are caused by it—heart dis ease, pneumonia, heart failure or at xiplexy are often the result of kid ney kidney allow < dtdpMk c the kidney-poison ed blood will at SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, and if is enacted by the authority of the same, that the city of Summerville is created and incorporated in lieu of , the town of Summerville in Chattoo ga County. The territorial limits of I the city of Summerville shall be ■ identical with the present territorial limits of the town of Summerville, i except as is otherwise in ■ this Act. All lands, t<mcments, easements, Streets, alleys, ft redita merits, rights, powers and liAmsts in property, real, personal belonging to the town of at the date of the passage Act shall belong to the city of SuiWirvilh on and after the passage of tins Act. All legal debts, obligations, notes, bills, accounts and liabilities of what ever nature, owing by the town of Summerville at the date of the pas sage of tlds Act, shall be owing by the city of Summerville on and after fids Act. Tills Act shall not. be con strued as destroying and ending the powers hitherto conferred upon the town of Summerville by tin- General Assembly of Georgia, but. is enacted in the nature of an amendment to the present charter of Summerville and as continuing the existence of said town but changing it to a city, re serving and saving to it, in its new corporate form, all the powers, rights privileges, duties and liabilities of said town through its charter tin- amend merits thereto and tile Acts legally done thereunder (not inconsistent with what is herein enacted,) but extend ing and adding the provisions of this Act to the rights, privileges, powers, duties, liabilities, and limitations ere 1 ated by said charter of the town of Summerville, the amendments thereto and the Acts done thereunder. The ordinances of the town of Summer ville shall be ordinances of the city of Summerville and enforeible as such until repealed or changed by the city i council of Summerville. SECTION 11. The territo rial limits of the city of Summerville shall be divided into font wards. That, part of said city lying west of Commerce street and the Trion road and north of Washington street, shall constitute and comprise | Ward number One. That part of said territory lying east of said Commerce Street, and Trion road and north of Washington street and tin- Home road shall constitute and comprise Ward number Two. That part of said ter rit.ory lying south of Washington stree and tiie Home road and oast of Com merce street and the Alabama road j shall constitute, and comprise Ward number Three. And that part of said territory lying west of Commerce street and the Alabama road and south of Washington street shall com prise Ward number Four. SECTION HI. In case the city j council shall desire to extend the ter ritorial limits of the city of Sum j mervllle, said council shall have a sut Vey made of the territory which it is desired to annex and the lines sur rounding the same plainly and dis tlnctly defined and marked out. Said council shall then cause a special election to be held at the Court House in said city, under the provis ions of tills Act for holding special elections in sail! city. Notice of said election shall be published ten days preceding such election by posting such notice at the door ol tile 'County Court House and at two or more conspicuous places in the terri tory it is proposed to annex. All poi sons residing in the city of Summer ville and in territory which it is pro posed to annex and who are quali fied to vote for members of the Gen eral Assembly, may vote iti said elec tion. Those favoring the annexation shall have printed or written on their > tickets. "For Annexation.” Those op posing such annexation shall have written or printed on their tickets. Against Annexation.” If a majority of said votes shall be ■For Annexation,” said city council shall publish the result of said elec tion by- posting the same at the door of the’ County Court House and two or more conspicuous places in such annexed territory and after such .nublieatiun said annexed territory I shall be and comprise a part ot the ■territorial limit of said city, and said city council Shall proceed to annex said territory to the various W aids as now constituted under this charter or lav out and define and number other additional Wards as they may deem best, and all the pn. '.sums ot this charter shall apply to such annex <xl territory from the date of the com plotion of such publication If the result of said election '*> ■Against Annexation." there shall be no other ('.lection to determine tht annexation of said territory until al ter the expiration of six months. SECTION IV. The municipal au thorities of said city shall consistof .. Mivor and four Councilmen. who. together, shall be known as the ci X council. Said Couneilmen shall be elected in the manner as hereinafter provided but no two couneilmen shall ho elected from any one W ard bit there shall be one <oun- oilman elected from ea< h " arm who is a resident of said Ward. Anv citizen of said town of ajay Ward thereof may be elected Maj Three Couneilmen or the Mayor and two Couneilmen shall constitute a qt < rum of the city council The comu. rent vote of three councilmen or th( Mavor and two couneilmen snail o< dor. resolution, ord inane. . or other trf Helal action of the city council. Tht Mavor may vote on any question. Th. Couneilmen may elect from their number a Mayor pro tempore who shall have the same auihonty in all mutters a'* is given to the whvm x the Mavor for any reason cannot act or will not act or declines to do so vote of thr conn.il of malprae- iducu or of an Act Mnouming ’o » THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1909 felony under the laws of this State or involving moral turpitude. Thwof ficer, upon being «so accused, shalbbe | given a fair trial before the other members of the council and, if con victed, may obtain certioari i according to the rules of laws of Xiiis I state- but ponding the hearing of such certiorari such officer shall be eus ■ pended from his office. SECTION VI. The Mayor and such Couneilmen of said city shall be elec ted on the first Saturday in Jan -1 uary of each year for the term of one year and until their successors are elected and qualified. The present of< fieers of the town of Summerville shall serve as officers of the city of Summerville till the next election. If an election is not held at the I prescribed time a special election | may be- called by the city council or I according to the provisions of sec jtion 692 of the Code of (Georgia, Vol | time I. Vacancies existing in the I city council may be filled at. any time by a special election to be call ed for the purpose by a majority of the remaining members of the city council,, of which election ten days public notice shall be given. In case there is only one candidate for Mayor and for each councilman ship, the election may be held for all at one place which shall be the. County Court House, and all elect -1 ors of (Said city may cast, their votes for all such candidates. In case there are more than one candidate 1 for Mayor, all the electors of said city may vote for one of such can -1 didate.s. In case there are more than one candidate in any Ward tor councilman for such Ward, it shall be the duty of the city council to ’ cause an election to be held in such ' place as they may designate and in such manner as to allow the elect s ors of the various Wards to vote 1 only for candidates for such Ward. Where any question shall be submitt ed to the electors of said town, one election only shall be held, the same to be at the County Court House. 1 SECTION VII. All general and special elections in said city shall ' be held between the hours of nine 1 o'clock in the afternoon by three ' o'clock in the morning and three 1 managers whom the city council are authorized to designate if they sc ’ fit to do so. Any citizen of said I town eligible to be a manager in 1 elections for members of the Genet al Assembly shall be eligible to ac as manager in such elections. SECTION VIII. On Monday fol ' lowing the regular election 1 or and couneilmen or as soon there 1 after as practicable, the city council elect mav qualify by taking an oath 1 to faithfully discharge the duties of 1 the office of mayor and couneilmen to which they have been respect ively elected and when they have ' don<‘- so. the council then in office shall turn over the affairs of the 1 city government to them. A failure to qualify for fifteen days after the I election shall operate to vacate the J office of any member elect of the I city council. A certificate from a 1 majority of the election managers shall be priraa facie evidence of who is elected mayor and council ! men at any election, and unless no tice of a contest be served in writ ing upon the person or persons cer tified by the managers to be elect eU personally, or if Id? L>e absent from tiie city by leaving at his most notorious place of abode, before his qualification in manner aforesaid, the certificate of the election mana gers shall be conclusive. Only citi zens of the city of Summerville shall b< eligible to be elected mayor or couneilmen. SECTION IX. The following per sons, and no others except as is otherwise provided herein, shall be qualified to vote in general and special elections in said city: All persons eligible to vote for members i of the General Assembly, according to the law of the State of Georgia. ! who shall have resided in said city for six months .preceding such elect ions and who shall have paid all tax -1 cs required of them by the city of 1 Summerville and in general elections for mayor and couneilmen who shall ! have registered as hereinafter pro vided. Tiie city council may provide ' a system of registration for any spe- ; ! ctal elec'ion if they see fit to do so; otherwise registration will not lie . required of voters at special elec tions except as may be otherwise provided in this Act. SECTION X. Registration of vol 1 ers for the general election for May or and couneilmen shall be had in thy ! following manner: Annually by tiny . first of October the Clerk of the city coucil or some other per son whom the city council may apt point shall open one or more regis r tration books, in which any person desiring to be registered as a voter ! may sign his name, thereby subscrib , tng an oath, printed or written above. . which oath shall be so framed as to I case the subscriber to swear to the I fact of his possessing the qualifica tion of a voter, as set forth in sec tion S of this Act. The signature '[may be made by mark, providing the I officer in charge of said books I read said oath to the person signing Ibv mark and attest the signature. The clerk of the council and other I persons authorized by the city coun cil to have charge of said books are hereby enqmwered to administer said loath. Said clerk of the council and -| other persons authorixed by the city £ 1 s.iid fath. *S. 1 registration l»o as ( shall be closed by six o'clock p. m.. furnish to the mayor a complete list books. At auy time on or before the said town may make written objec tion specifying that any one or more persons named or. said list are not legal voters. Whereupon the Mayor shall cause to he given to the per 1 son so challenged sr lea&i two days written notice, personally, or by leav ing at his most notorious place of J afcode, if he be absent from the city. ■ pf the fact of the challenge and of ] :-4he time and the place a hearing , will be had. The mayor shall hear • the question and if it appears that ; such person is not legally qualified , to vote shall erase his name from the ; list. He shall then cause to be fur nished to the managers of election . a list of those registered and not ’ thus removed from the list, and the .oanagersf,shall allow those persons whose nsfmes are on the list furnish ed them by the mayor and no oth ers to vote at said election. The city council may provide that the duties required of the mayor in this sec tion be discharged by a board of three registrars, to be appointed by them. SECTION XI. Managers of elec tions shall take the following oath at the beginning of each election: ‘‘We swear that we shall honestly and lawfully manage this day’s election and make a true return thereof, and that we will not allow any one to vot< whose name is not on the list of registered voters furnished us for this election, if a list fe furnished us.” SECTION XII. The city council may create and abolish at their dis cretion such offices as they may deem necessary and elect officers to fill them, and may prescribe the duties of such officers under such regula tions as they may ordain. The city council may elect a clerk, recorder, marshal, and city attorney and shall prescribe their duties and compensa tion and such other regulations as they deem necessary. SECTION XIII. The city council each year before the election for may or shall fix a salary of the next mayor and in event they fail to do so, the mayor shall receive the same salary as : was paid the year before. The city I council may prescribe by ordinance a bill of cost and fees to be charged ; by officers of said city and may pro vide for the disposition of such cost and fees. SECTION XIV. Power is hereby conferred upon the mayor, the mayor pro tempore, recorder, city attorney, and clerk of the council respectively, : to administer any oath or affidavit in relation to any matter connected with . the affairs of the city government of ; Summerville. SECTION XV. The police court of ' the city of Summerville may be held at any place in said city or at any time except Sunday. It may be held by the mayor, mayor pro tempore, by a recorder, (if such office be created by the city council), under such reg lations as the city council may adopt. The officers presiding in said police court shall have authority to punish persons convicted therein of violating I the ordinances of said city by fine, not exceeding one hundred dollars, by imprisonment in the jail of Chattoo ga county or such other place as the city council may provide for prison for a term not exceeding thirty days, either or both, and to coerce the payment of fines imposed by im prisonment. Labor in the chaingang or on the streets not exceeding sixty days, may be allowed as alternative to fine or imprisonment. Sentence may be culminative. Contempt in said court may be pifhished in like manner. The city council may suppress cruelty to animals, gaming, the running of blind tigers, lewd and disorderly houses, public indecency, lewdness,' ob scenity, profanity and all like things, notwithstanding the acts may also be involved in State offences. SECTION XVI. Any person con ! victed in the police court may obtain i certiorori directly from the decision ■ of the officer presiding in said court under the rules as certiorari is ob tained from the decision of county judges in criminal cases, or he may waive his right to apply- for certiorari and may, within four days from ren dition of the decision in the police court, enter an appeal to the city ; council without payment of cost, who shall hear the case anew, and their decision shall be final. There shall be no certiorari from the decision of the council. The mayor or the mayor pro tempore, presiding in the police court, shall not be disqualified to act with the city council hearing the appeal. SECTION XVII. The following sec tions of the first volume from the Code of Georgia of 1895 shall be of force and effect as law in relation to the city of Summerville and are in cluded in this charter in like manner as if set out in detail herein, except ,in so far as they may be insonsist ' ent with what is herein otherwise en acted. to wit: Sections 692, 696, 697. 698/ 699. 701. 704. 705, 707, 708, 709. 712. 713. 714. 715. 716. 717. 718. 720.; 723. 724. 732. 733. 734, 735. 740..'741, 742, 744. 755. 4 Section xvih. The city of sum s rtierville shall have power to tax, li , cense and regulate hotels, boarding houses, livery stables, means of public transportation, billiard sa loons, tenpin alleys, shows and exhi bitions. drays, markets, and dealers, in fish and oysters. They may im pose special taxes upon any or all occupations and business, public or private, carried on in said town, and upon franchises and incomes. They may tax by special tax and regulate th' business of insurance companies, express companies, railroad com ni-.rios. telegtaph companies, tele phone companies, or the agents of any of them, but this enu re ration siiajl not be constructed as excluding any other occupation or business from the taxing power of said city. They may put an ad val orem lax. not exceeding the consti tutional rate, on all property in said city. The taxing power of said city shall be as general, full and complete as that of the State itself. SECTION XIX. Th,- city council shall have the right to jyant fran tho erection of telephone lines, elec tric light lines, gas lights, car lines, water works and for other public util ities and all such franchises hereto fore granted by the town of Summer ' ille and now being *'xercised. are confined and made binding hereafter on the city of Summerville provided, however, that no such fran hise shall hereafter be granted exept after the publua has been made winch notice shall •■ < > iThe Berry ROME, GEORGIA. ;; MARTHA BERRY, FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR, o • • " 1 • «* •• ( . ;; A Christian industrial school for country ! I :; Boys of limited means and opportunities !! ;; but unlimited determination and persever- !! ■■ ance. Board and tuition $30.00 a term. C !! Bth Fall session begins August 31. Can- <! !! didates for addmission should apply now. ' I Catalog and application blanks sent on re- !! quest. Address, ;; :: Robt. H. Adams, A. m., Principal. :: ••• . i Chattanooga Marble Works A. W. HASSELL, Prop. ‘'Granite Monuments 1, m'X"™ 1149-51 MARKET STREET We have flonuments in stock from SB. to $3,000 CALL ON OR WRITE US. ill I 1 ■■-■rur -i— h-g f . ■ 1— 1 j give the names of the applicants for such franchise and set forth clearly the rights which they desire to ex ercise which notice shall be posted at the County Court House door atl least ten days prior to the granting of such franchise and shall also be published once a week for two weeks in the paper in which the Sheriff’s advertisements of said County are published. Any franchise not made use of within twelve months from granting thereof shall be forfeited. The city council of Summerville ' may prohibit all persons, firms and corporations to whom they do not grant a franchise from using said streets for the erection of poles, wires or encroachments of any na ! ture. They may regulate the man ner in which awnings may be erected in the said town and may, by ordi nance, prescribe a method by which they shall be kept in repair at the expense of the owner or person erect ing them. They may require the re moval of awnings at their discretion. SECTION XX. The city council i may organize a fire department and may make all needful regulations re lating thereto. They may establish fire department and may regulate the manner in which houses or oth jer structures may be built or alter ed in any portion of the city. They may maintain a system of water works, electric lights or other lighting plant, sewerage and other utilities of like nature, and may pre scribe and enforce all needful regu lations in respect to them. The city council shall have authority to own, control and regulate cemeteries in said city and to make all needful regulations respecting the same. The city of Summerville, through its city i council or through officers provided tor by them, may carry on any busi ness not contrary to the laws of this state. SECTION XXI. The city council ' shall have the authority to establish maintain and enforce quarantine reg ulations and pass all needful ordi nances respecting thereto. Their ju-< risdiction for this purpose shall ex tend as far as the limits known as 1 the Summerville school district. f SECTION XXII. Any process, sum- ' 1 mons, notice, execution or other like paper required to be served by the i charter or ordinances of said city may be served and executed, and ' arrests may be made by the marshal ' or any police officer of said city o r ' by any constable, sheriff or deputy ’ sheriff of said county. SECTION XXIII. Recitals in deeds under a sale for municipal taxes or i assessments in said city shall be i evidence of the facts so recited in 1 any Court of this State and shall be i taken as prima facie true. ■ SECTION XXIV. The city council ’ may adopt a code or ordinance and > may amend and repeal the same or anv part of the same. SECTION XXV. The mayor and ( council shall have the power and au- , thority to contract debts and issue ‘ bonds of said city under and in ac- - < ordance with the limitation provid- < < d by the general laws of the state. . applicable to municipalities. and with the funds arising from the sale of such bonds may refund existing debts, establish and maintain a sys- i tern of water-works and sewerage. . a system of electric or gas lights. 1 erect public buildings, school build ings. or any other improvements, con veniences or necessities for the use 1 of the citizens of said city or for - other lawful purpose for the ( public good. SECTION XXVI. It shall be the dutv of the citv count il at their first j meeting after they enter on the dts-i charge of their duties, to appoint either from their own number or from the free’ holders of said city a board of three who shall be known as the board of tax assessors of said city, whose duty it shall be to make up an accurate list of ail tax payers of said city with a digest of all the property of every description be longing to such tax payer subject to municipal taxation and make a re turn thereof to the recorder, clerk of the council or such other officer as the council may designate, said board of tax assessors shall require said tax payers to make a sworn re turn to them of all their taxable property with the tax payers valua tion thereof, and it shall then be the duty of said board to go over such re turn carefully and add thereto such other propery as may come to their knowledge that may be owned or controlled by such tax payer and not included in such return; and it shall be the duty to raise or lower the valuation placed on said property by said tax payers so as to make a fair and equitable return of such property at a fair valuation. Said board or majority thereof may perform the duties herein specified and may in the exercise thereof summon witness es, administer oaths, compel the pro duction of papers, and any person re fusing to comply with their mandates in the performance of their duties as herein contemplated, shall be held in contempt of the city council. In case any tax payer shall be dis satisfied with any assessment made by said board of assessors he shall have the right to appeal to the city council and their finding shall be fi nal. The city council shall fill vacancies on said board at any time any such vacancy may occur. The members of said board of assessors shall be paid for such services such an amount as the city council may fix. SECTION XXVII. The enumera tion of powers contained in this Act shall not be considered as restrict ive, but the city of Summerville and its municipal authorities may exer cise all powers, rights and jurisdic tions as they might if such enumer ation were not made, and the city! council may pass all ’->«s and ordi nances, rules and regulations, they may deem nceuiul and proper for the general welfare of said city and where under this charter rights are conferr ed or powers granted but the man ner of exercising them is not fully prescribed they may prescribe the method of exercising them or they may prescribe additional regulations and modes of procedure not repugnant to the intents and purposes of this Act nor the law’s of the State. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. The best remedy we know «>f in all cases of Kidney and Bladder trouble and the one we always can recom mend, is DeWitt’s Kidney and Blad der Pills. They are antiseptic and at once assist the kidneys to per form their important work. But when you ask for these pills be pos itive that you get DeWitt’s Kidney and Bladder Pills. There are imita tions placed upon sale to deceive you Get De Witt’s. Insist upon them, and if your dealer cannot supply you —refuse anything else in place of them. Sold by all druggists.