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VOL. XXII NO. 29.
LYERLY.
Mr. J. W. Wafford died at his home
at Lavender Tuesday after a pro
tracted illness and was buried here
Friday by the Masons. Mr. Wafford
was a resident of this place for sev
eral years and had many friends who
were grieved to learn of his death..
Rev. Mahan conducted the funeral
services. The bereaved ones have
the sympathy of the entire communi
ty.
Mrs. John Bryant and Mrs. A. E.
Doster are visitint relatives and
friends in Calhoun.
Misses Pearl Chatman and Ada
Anderson have returned to Trion
after a pleasant visit to the Misses
Edwards.
Miss Rose Anderson was the
guest of Mrs. Robert Anderson the
latter part of last week.
Mr. Ben Lee, who has been quite
ill for several weeks, was removed
to Erlanger hospital last Sunday.
Miss Laura Lee came up from Atlan
ta Sunday to visit her parents, re
turning that night. Miss Laura has
completed her business course and
now -holds a responsible position with
an insurance firm.
Mrs. Jeff Johnson spent the week
end with her dassghter, Mrs. Ben Lee.
Mr. Joe Hollis spent Sunday with
friends in Trion.
Mrs. J. M. Rose and little daughter,
Ida, have returned from a visit to
relatives in Chattanooga.
Mr. Walter McLaughlin from Rome
was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. O. F.
Doster last week.
Little Miss Eva May Jones has
been sick for the last few weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Bryant and little
daughter have returned from Sum
merville.
Messrs. A. J. Lee and J. W. Bry
ant spent Sunday in Chattanooga.
Master Luther O’Bryant was in
Gaylesville Sunday.
Miss Mattie Lou Moss spent Thurs
day in Summervile.
Mrs. Lee is spending sometime with
her granddaughter, Miss Kate Bolling
in Summerville.
Miss Lena Shearer and brother,
have returned from Gaylesville.
Mr. O. F. Doster from Chattoogaville
was in town Sunday.
,Mr. J. F. Stark remains quite sick.
Mr. Archie Hill has returned to
Caxe Springs where he will enter
Hearn Academy.
Mr. George Henderson has return
ed from a trip to Chattanooga and
other points.
Messrs. Rufus Brison and Lon Wor
sham were here Sunday.
Miss Mary Lee, who has charge of
the millinery department of Stark &
Son, is opening up her stock and will
soon have on exhibition one of the
nicest and most up-to-date lines of
millinery and dress goods on the mar
ket.
Quite a number came over from
Menlo Friday to attend the funeral
of Mr. J. W. Wafford.
Mrs. Howard Edwards is recovering
from a week’s illness.
Master Clarence Wafford was in
Lyerly Monday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Dover have re
turned from a visit to Calhoun.
Messrs. Walter Perry and Grady
Doster made a business (?) trip to
Holland Sunday.
Messrs. Joe Crumley and Alfred
Bryan attended the baptizing at Tri
on Sunday afternoon.
In Japan officials show that 98
boys and 93 girls of every 100 of
school age attend school.
The Summerville News.
SOUTH SUMMERVILLE.
D. G. Eilenburg of Douglasville
spent the latter part of last week
here attending court. He reports
progressive times in Douglas county
and says he is well satisfied with
his new home.
Mrs. Annie Mahan went to Ross
ville Wednesday to visit her sick
sister, Miss Ellie Blair, whose death
occurred that day. We deeply sympa
thize with the bereaved ones for it
is so hard to part with those just in
the springtime of life, but Miss El
lie expressed her willingness to go
and her perfect faith and trust in
Christ is so sweet to remember. We
should not grieve but prepare to join
her in our Father’s House of many
Mansions.
Mrs. Lois Martin was off duty a
few days last week staying with
her little daughter who happened to
a very painful accident while playing
with some other children at the
home of G. J. Cochran. She was
jumping on and off a small box when
she made a mistep and fell on her
right arm breaking the small bone
and bending the other. Glad to re
port her rapidly recovering.
We have school in our vicinity
for the benefit of the small ones
who are unable to walk the distance
to the town school. Prof. T. R. Brad
dy is teacher and reports an en
rollment of 21. This provides a
school for many who would other
wise be deprived and we should
help the good work along.
Mr. and Mrs. R. O. McLeod visit
ed the latter’s mother, Mrs. Powell,
in Raccoon Sunday.
The young people enjoyed a good
singing in the home of Andrew Wil
liams Saturday night.
W. B. and E. H. Ellington are in
Atlanta this week enjoying ball games
between the two winners of the pen
nants, Chattanooga and Atlanta.
Earl Creamer, a worthy young man
of near Lafayette, is here to spend
the winter with his sister, Mrs. J. A.
League, and attend the Summerville
school.
L. R. McConkey, Paul Scoggin and
Frank Reese were visiting at Peren
nial Sunday.
Mrs. Mollie McLeod went to Chat
tanooga first of the week to have her
eyes treated by an expert oculist.
The cotton mill has ceased running
for this week for the purpose of
cleaning out the furnace and flues.
Clyde Harlow, Charley and Miss
Sallie Tucker were visiting in Dry
Valley Sunday.
Mr. W. L. Farrow made a business
trip to Rome Wednesday.
Night on Bald Mountain.
On a lonely night Alex Benton of
Fort Edward, N. Y., climbed Bald
Mountain to the home of a neighbor,
tortured by Asthma, bent on curing
him with Dr. King’s New Dis
covery that had cured himself of
asthma. This wonderful medicine
soon relieved and quickly cured his
neighbor. Later it cured his son’s
wife of a severe lung trouble. Millions
believe its the greatest Throat and
Lung cure on Earth. Coughs, Colds,
Croup, Hemorrhages and Sore Lungs
are surely cured by it. Best for
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Drug; Co.
Weber, Studebaker and Columbus
Wagons. We are over stocked on
wagons. Come to see us. We will
save you. money on a wagon.
TAYLOR & ESPY.
THE BANK
OF MENLO
has every protection and safeguard
that any bank in the United States
has. The affairs of the bank are in
the hands of R. A. McWhorter, A. J.
Lawrence, W. S. McClellan, C. D.
Harper and R. L. Knox.
Bank your money with the bank
that gives you absolute protection—
insuring your deposits and assuring
you courteous treatment at ail
times whether a small or large cus
tomer.
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1909
TRION
The sudden death of Glenn Camp
which occurred Monday afternoon was
caused by a fall he received several
years ago while working at Toccoa.
Ga., in the mills there. He was
pushing waste through a hole from tht
spinning room to the opening room
when he'dlost his balance and fell
landing on his head, which has given
him trouble ever since. Glenn is the
third son of Mr. and Mrs. Merrill
Camp and was ten years old. Funer
al services will be held here .
Miss Grace Rice still continues very
ill.
Mrs. P. F. Duggan and children ar
■ rived Sunday from Waco and are now
housekeeping in the cottage recent
ily vacated by Mrs. Latham.
Mr. and Mrs. Holbert Howe and lit
tle daughter, Olga, leave about the
6th of October for Mentone to make ■
their home. Mr. Howe has resign
ed his position with the Trion Mfg.
Co., in the grocery department of
their store.
Supervisor E. C. Hester and con- ■
i struction crew of the Postal Tele
graph Co., who have been camping
here for the past month, left Tuesday
J for Cane Creek for a short stay.
Mrs. Annie Shamblin returned Sun- 1
day from a two weeks visit to rela
tives in Lindale.
Mr. J. H. Worsham is convalescing
after a spell of malarial fever.
Miss Minnie May Merritt has re
turned home after an extended visit
to her brother in Atlanta.
M iss Lucile Hawkins arrived Thurs
day from Nashville where she has
been buying the fall millinery for
Trion store.
Mrs. J. R. Day and children and Mr
and Mrs. Jesse Ray and son Paul,
returned Monday from a pleasant vis
it in Dalton.
Rev. W. M, Griffitt filled his regu
' lar appointment at Sardis Saturday
and Sunday.
Rev. A. F. Mahan has been carry
ing on a protracted meeting at the
Baptist church for the past two
weeks and a great deal of interest
' has been manifest with a number of
j conversions and several new
Ito the church roll. The meeting will '
continue this week.
Mr. and Mrs. John Clarkson of La
! fayette spent Tuesday with Mr. and
j Mrs. J. H. Thomas.
Mr. Reece Johnson of Rome ar
rived Wednesday to take charge of |
the meat market.
Mr. and Mrs. Howell of Rome are
visiting Mr. and Mrs. Artie Williams.
Mrs. D. C. R. Myers left Monday
for Alabama City to visit her sister,
Mrs. Ab Herndon.
Mr. J. H. Funderburk returned
I from St. Louis Friday.
Mr. R. J. Fincher of Welcome Hill
<is working in Mr. L. B. Maffett’s
* place in the Trion store. Mr. Maf
fett has been ill for some time.
Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Wyatt and
children went down to Raccoon Sun
day to attend church.
The infant child of Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Hairis died Monday night after
a short illness of three days.
Miss Margaret Green and B. P.
Green spent Friday with Miss Hattie
Bale Jones in Summerville.
Miss Jennie Carwile returned Fri
day from a two weeks visit to her
j sister, Mrs. J. F. Tomplin, on Look
i out Mountain.
I Mr. M. L. Green and Miss Jessie i
I Green spent Wednesday in Chatta
! nocga.
C. T. Chitwood left Tuesday for
Knoxville to make his home.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. McGinnis and
Mrs. Howard McGinnis of Summer
ville spent Sunday with Mrs. G. T.
Myers.
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Gore and chil
dren spent Saturday and Sunday
with Mr. G. B. Myers, who continues
about the same in health.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray of Summerville
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Jes
se Ray.
The storm which was predicted
to be coming this way from the Gulf
of Mexico, has brought rain. For
two (lays the winds have been high
with lots of dust and comparatively
little rain. This is what is called
the Equinoxial gale, caused when the
sun is in the plane of the earth's
equator. This occurs twice a year—
once on March 20, which is call
ed the Vernal equinox, and again on
Sept. 22, which is called the Autum
nal equinox. At these dates the
length of the day and night are the
same since the parallel rays of light
from the sun fall upon the earth per
pendicular to the axis of the earth.
- The sun then appears to be on the
equator and the equinox is popular
; spoken of as the dates on which the
' “sun crosses the equator.”
LMIiC
MENLO
Our school keeps on growing. We
have now something near two hun
dred on the roll and are expecting
several more this w’eek. There will
be several houses built soon by peo
ple coming here for the benefit of
the school.
John Henry left this morning for
Atlanta where he has accepted a po
sition in a bank at that place.
George Varner of Oklahoma was
visiting in this section last week.
C. H. Polk was in Chattanooga last
week on busines.
Rev. A. F. Mahan preached here
Saturday but did not preach on Sun
day as he had to be at Trion.
Rev. B. F. Guille filled his appoint
ment at Alpine Sunday and here on
Sunday night.
Bill Story visited relatives here
Saturday and Sunday.
H. M. Springfield and family mov
ed to Gadsden last Saturday.
Grandma Crow of Jamestown, Ala.,
died last Tuesday night and was bur
ied Wednesday at that place.
Miss Ada Wyatt has accepted a
position in the postoffice as clerk.
Cotton is coming in pretty freely
There has been about twenty bales
I up to date.
Work has commenced on a now
I residence for Dr. M. N. Wood.
Henry Day of Lafayette will open
up a restaurant here this week.
M. F. BALLARD.
TELOGA
Rev. B. F. Joiner preached at Mac
edonia Sunday at eleven. I suppose
Mr. Joiner will preach for the peo
ple at Macedonia every third Sunday
at eleven from this date.
We are still very dry over in this
part of the county, having had no
rain in quite awhile.
Cotton is opening pretty fast now.
People are trying to get their crops
gathered before the abd wewather set
in.
Samuel Sitton has been making
some very fine syrup for his neigh
bors for the past few days.
Mr J. H. Quails and family and
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Cooper of Chel-
■ sea were visiting relatives here Sun
day.
Miss Cora Massy of Trion has been
spending several days with her moth
|er at this place.
The singing at Mr. and Mrs. R.
jL. Rich’s Sunday night was much
enjoyed by a good big crowd.
Mrs. Joe Hood, who has been vis-
■ iting her married children in Gads
den for some two months, returned
home last Friday.
Mrs. John Ford is in very feeble
health at this writing.
Mr. A. C. Rich and daughter, Mrs.
I Sam Sitton, Miss Mollie and Gor
don Hammonds and Miss Myrtle Sit
ton attended singing at Chelsea Sun
day afternoon.
Joseph Scales of South Georgia
spent several days last week with
his mother here.
Joseph McCainy arrived home Sun
day and will spend several days re
cuperating from a three weeks spell
of sickness.
A great investment, absolutely safe,
brings returns that nothing else can;
giving surplus earning power, securin
comfirt and health in your declining
years. That’s what Hollister’s Rocky
Mountain Tea does. 35 cents, Tea or
Tablets. —Summerville Drug Co.
There are always a good many peo
ple to keep the balance of the commu
nity busy wondering how they live so
well. ,
A store should earn your patronage
before it receives it. It can’t do
this unless its advertising is ag
gressive, adequate, continous —for
, store-ads, give you store-news, and
keep you in touch with store-events.
They keep you informed of what the
store is doing for you; what it is
able to offer you, of bargain or of
service or of novelty.
The south, with 27 per cent of the
total area of the United States, con
tains about 42 per cent of the total
forest area of the country.
A NAROW ESCAPE.
Edgar N. Bayliss, a merchant of
Robinsonvllle, Del., wrote: ‘“About
two years ago I was thin and sick,
and coughed all the time and if I
i did not have consumption, It was
near to it. I commenced using Fo
ley’s Honey and Tar, and it stopped
my cough and I am now entirely well
• and ha- e gained twenty-eight pounds,
■ all due to the good results from tak
ing Fcley’s Honey and Tar. Sold by
al] druggist*.
GORE
Rev. B. F. Hunt closed a success
ful meeting at Pleasant Grove Sundaj
There were ten additions to the
church, two by letter and eight by
experience. He was assisted by Rev.
W. C. Cordle.
Mrs. M. P. Dill returned Friday
from a three week’s visit to relatives
at Rome and Dalton.
i Mrs. E. M. Marks spent last week
■ with relatives at Adairsville.
Misses Nina and Daisy Scogin of
I Armuchee were visiting relatives and
I friends here last week.
Roy, Wright and sister, Miss Pearl,
|of Rome were mingling with friends
* here last week.
Miss Vivian Alexander of Harris-
, burg is the guest, of Mrs. W. D. Hix.
Mr. and Mrs. Lester McWilliams
lof Greenbush spent Saturday and
Sunday with relatives here.
Miss Lois Westmoreland of Wood
stock has been visiting friends in
this valley for two weeks.
Misses Zula and Elzie Ballenger
left today for Rome where they will
enter Shorter College.
Tom Johnson left Monday for Ath
ens to enter the State University.
Miss Sallie Jackson of Rome spent
last week with her sister, Mrs. R. H.
Baker.
Miss Fannie Bagwell of Haywood
valley spent last week with relatives
here.
Mr. J. Gaines of Albertville, Ala.,
is visiting his uncle, C. P. Gaines.
Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Wheeler of
Summerville attended services at
Pleasant Grove Sunday.
PATSY.
DIRTTOWN
Rev. B. F. Hunt closed a successful
meeting at Pleasant Grove Sunday
with ten additions to the church —8
by experience and 2 by letter. Those
joining by experience were Misses
Elzie Ballenger, Ida Gaskin, Miss Mc-
Collum, Mrs. Elenor Baker, Messrs.
Judson McCollum, Rube Gaskin, Enoc
High and Brodis Cordle. Mr. and
Mrs. Akin Patrick joined by letter.
Chas. Lively was over from Sum
merville Sunday.
Mr. J. F. Williams and family of
Alabama are visiting relatives here.
J. W. Morris spent Friday in Texas
Valley.
Joe Jackson and sister, Miss Nell,
of Haywood, attended services here
Sunday.
Claud Williams spent the week
end with Willie Thomas at Trion.
Miss Sallie Jackson of Rome spent
last week with her sister, Mrs. Rus
sell Baker, at. this place.
Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Hawkins of
Armuchee passed through here last
week en route to Trion.
Dirttown and High Point will cross
bats at Holland next Saturday.
The farmers of this section are >
very busy pulling fodder and picking
cotton.
RESPITE IS GIVEN
TO JOHN HARPER
Convicted Murderer Will Not Be
Hanged Next Friday.
Atlanta, Ga. —John Harper, the con
victed murderer of Sheriff Ben Keith
of Murray county, will not be hang
ed next Friday, September 24, In
accordance with the last sentence of
the court.
Governor Brown yesterday granted
Harper a respite until Friday, Octo
ber 8, as the result of alleged newly
discovered evidence in Harper’s favor
and the prison commission has set
the case for a final hearing on Octo
ber 4.
Attorney Sam Hewitt, who repre
sents Harper, it is stated, will be
prepared to place before the prison
commission and the governor an
affidavit from a man who states he
i was with Sheriff Keith at the time
j of the killing, but who, for some rea
| son, could not be secured as a wit
i ness at the time of the trial. It is
| said the witness will set forth in his
j affidavit that Sheriff Keith sprang
on Harper suddenly from some bushes
■by the roadside without announcing
that he was an officer of the law and
without declaring Harper under ar-
! rest, and presented his weapon, that
Harper turned to to run, whereupon
I Keith fired, and that Hyper then
turned and fired killing Keith.
This is the nature of the evidence
upon which it is hoped to save Har
; per from the gallows.
In view of Attorney Hewitt’s pres
entation of this matter, Governor
Brown decided to grant Harper a res
pite. (
Homer Rhinehcart came down from
Lafayette an<T spent Sunday at home.
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR
STATE NEWS ITEMS
Rome, Ga., Sept. 18. —Rome will be
the national headquarters of a new
order, known as the Order of True
Americans, which has as its object
the settlement of the race problem,
by the deportation of the negroes.
Rev. J. R. Lamb, the founder of
the True American, and national
president, was here yesterday mak
ing arrangements for the publication
of a weekly paper to set forth the
principles of the order. The objects
of the order are to secure territory
for the American negroes outside of
the United States, to purchase at an
honest price all lands in America
owned by negroes, to repeal the 15th
amendment to the constitution, and
to disfranchise every negro voter in
America, to remove every negro to
the territory secured for this purpose
and to establish the race in govern
ment of its own, as a free and inde
pendent nation.
Cartersville, Ga., September 21.
Declaring that she was driven by
the lash of conscience to tell the
truth, after having perjured herself
on the witness stand, where her testi
mony secured the conviction of Jack
Worthington, a Bartow county farm
er, to twenty years in the peniten
tiary, on the charge of criminal as
sault, Rosa Elrod, the alleged vic
tim,has made a sensational affidavit,
in which she says her story of the
assault was a pure fabrication. The
girl, accompanied by her father, ap
peared before a notary and the attor
neys for Worthington, and denied her
whole story. Both father and daugh
ter declared that the false testimony
at the trial was caused by threats
of death to the gril, made by enemies
of Worthington, who had discovered
his relations with the Elrod girl and
wanted him lynched or jailed. Worth
ington’s attorneys will use the affi
davits in a motion for a new trial,
now pending in the appellate court.
In order to carry out the provisions
of the recent law passed by Congress
imposing a special excise tax upon
all corporations whose net earnings
exceed $5,000, Revenue Collector
Rucker, of Atlanta, has .instructed
his deputies throughout the state to
take a census of the corporation do
ing business in their respective dis
tricts. The deputies are also instruct
ed to go back over the records and
secure a list of all corporations ever
chartered and then compare the list
with the records in the Ordinary’s
office in each county and ascertain
which corporations are now exist
ent. The revised list, showing the
name and capitalization of every live
corporation, is then placed in the
hands of the Revenue Collector. The
different corporations are classified
as follows: First, financial and
commercial; second, public service
corporations; third, industrial and
manufacturing companies, fourth mer
cantile firms; fifth, all other corpor
ations and associations not included
in the above classifications. The tax
is levied only upon net incomes in.
excess of $5,000, and the tax is fix
ed at one per cent. Returns must be
made to the Collector of Internal Rev
enue on or before March 1, 1910, and
shall cover the entire calendar year
ending Dec. 31, 1909. Blanks are fur
nished by the Collector of Revenue
upon which returns shall be made by
the corporations.
EXCUSE.
Mr. McGuire was being examined
for jury duty in a murder trial.
"Mr. McGuire,” asked the judge,
“have you formed or express an
opinion as to the guilt or innocent
of the prisoner at the bar?”
“Oi have not.”
“Have you any conscientious scru
ples against capital punishment?"
Said Mr. McGuire with decision:
"Not in this case, yer honor.” —Ev-
erybody’s Magazine.
Why are the abbreviations for Doc
tor and Debtor alike? Because so
many people are Dr. to the Dr. —Tal-
laposa Journal.
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