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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 Hay Fever, Grip and Whooping Cough. 50c and SI.OO. ' Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by Summerville 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. The Road to Success has many obstructions, but none so desperate as poor health. Success to day demands health, but Electric Bit i ters is the greatest health builder the world has ever known. It com pels perfect action of stomach, liver, kidneys, bowels, purifies and enriches the blood, and tones and Invigorates the whole system. Vigorous body and keen brain follow their use. You can’t afford to alight Electric Bit ters if weak, run-down or sickly. On ly 5Qc. Guaranteed by Summerville Drug Co,