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The Summerville News
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O. J. Espy, Editoi and Manager
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Summer;il!e, Gi, Sip 23,190 9
Dan. .1. Sully, the man who corner
ed the cotton market in 1904, while
In Atlanta last Week estimated the
present cotton crop at 11.000,000 bales
and predicted that cotton would be
gelling for 15 to 10 cents within the
next few weeks.
An advertisement is to a merchant
very mud) what sowing seed is to a
farmer. It may take a little time for
the results to become apparent, but
they are sure to come. The wise farm
er is not niggardly with his seed,
nor the wise merchant with his ad
vertising.
Cotton continues In demand at
slowly advancing prices. Authori
ties agree that the yield will be less
while the demand Is greater than
last year. These facts make certain
that cotton will h -H for higher prices
than for several years, and the ad
vance comes at the time when the
growers tire selling.— Home and Farm
"That’s glory enough for us all,"
said Admiral Schley after the bat
tle of Santiago. "The pole is big
enough for two,” said Dr. Cook when
he was told that Peary had succeed
cd In reaching the top of the world.
There was a strong effort made to
take aawy Schley's credit after San
tiago. A similar effort to discredit
Cook seems to be under way.
Chattooga county property own
ers will pay no higher rate of taxes
this year than they did In 1908. At
their meeting Monday the county
commissioners fixed the rate for conn
ty purposes at $6.00 on the thousand.
In addition to the above the commis
sioners levied the usual road tax of
SI.OO on the thousand, making the
total county rate $7.00 on the thous
and, the same ns it was last year.
The state rate this year is $5.00,
making a total of $12.00 for both
state and county.
The following Is a very truthful ;
remark: '"The man who grows up
in his native town is regarded as a
boy by his elders until he is well ;
started down the declivity of life that
ends in a hole. The stranger who
comes into a place Is more often
pushed Io the front than the young
man who has grown up with the town
This is the reason why so many
young nii'ii become dissatisfied with
their home surroundings and long to
east their lot in other quarters."
The Religion of Our Nation.
Statistics just completed by the
Census Bureau of the U. S. Govern
ment show that Christianity is gain
Ing ground in America. 186 reli
gious denominations are represented
in this census, of which 48 are new
since the last census in 1890. The
whole number of members reported
by all religious bodies was 32,936,445;
of which 20,287.742 were returned by
the Protestants; 12.079,142 by the
Catholics, and 569,561 by 21 other
bodies. In almost all reports it is
shown that the women outnumber
the men in church attachment.
AN OLD ADACE
SAYS—
••A light purse is a heavy curse"
Sickness makes a light purse.
The LIVER is the seat of nine
tenths of all disease.
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go to the root of the whole ’'t
ter, thoroughly, quickly
and restore the action i. j
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GOOD ROAD SUGGESTION
One of the most practical sugges
tions yet offered for the creation of
sentiment for good roads is that put
forward as follows In the Metropoli
tan Magazine.
"The county fair offers a peculiarly
good opening for starting reform.
Here are gathered the brain and sin
ew of the community—intent, it is
true, on diversion and recreation
but equally alive to the material ben
efits to be derived from the numer
ous meetings where a free Inter
change of ideas is Insured. Secure
some good speakers; make it known
by circular or through the columns
of the county and town papers that
the good roads problem at the next
county fair is to be discussed by lo
cal talent and by men trained in the
actual field work of this important
business. There will be no difficul
ty in securing interested audiences
and it will be the exception if re
sults are not manifested either in the
change of feeling or in the organiza
tion of a reform movement.
Opening the Grunnison Tunnel.
Today, September 23, President
Taft is to stop off at the little town
of Montrose, Colorado, and press the
button that will release the waters
of the Gunnison river into the great
tunnel that will conduct them to
the arid valley of the Uncompahyre.
The situation that Jed to the con
struction of this tunnel was unusual.
A small river, the Uncompahgre,
flows down from the mountains,
through a broad and fertile valley,
and its waters were capable of irriga
ting but one-tenth of the arable land
In the valley. On the other side of
the mountain was the Gunnison riv
' er, a large and important stream,
flowing through the constricted gorge
known as the Black Canyon, and
down through a valley so narrow that
it could not absorb one-tenth of the
j water readily available for irrigation.
The two valleys are separated by
mountains, 2,000 feet above the level
of either streams. The only way to
get the wasted waters of the Gunni
son to the arid valley of the Uncom
pahgre was to tunnel through the
. mountains.
This groat feat has been accom
plished by the persistent pluck and
energy of American engineers.
The tunnel is six miles long, 10 1-2
feet wide and 12 1-2 high, well tim
bered and lined with concrete, so con
structed as to withstand the wear
and tear of ages. Through this
smooth cement waterway will rush
a body of water nine feet deep, with
a volume of 1,300 cubic feet every
second.
After passing through the 6 mile
tunnel, 12 miles of main canal con
duct it to the bed of the Uncompah-
I gre river, and smaller canals, branch
png in both directions, subdivided in
to ditches, with an aggregate length
jof hundreds of miles, provides for the
; Irrigation of 150,000 acres of remark
ably fertile land.
The cost of the tunnel is about
$4,000,000 and is the first of our
governments irrigation projects of
magnitude to be completed and ready
for operation. *
MODERN ADVERTISING
The merchant or other business
man whose dealings are directly with
the people, and who misleads him
i self into the belief that it is not nec
essary for him to advertise in order
to secure the patronage of those
whose patronage is essential to his
material prosperity, ignores a condi
tion which is perfectely plain to the
class of business men who are most
conspicuously successful, observes the
Albany Herald.
There was a time when to adver
tise was not essential to the success
of the merchant. The buying public
had formed the habit of finding the
things it wanted through personal
search, mid didn’t care for advertis
ing as that practical art has now
been developed, for the very suffi
j dent reason that it had net er learn
ed what a wonderfully convenient
I tiling advertising is.
Now the public knows advertising
; thoroughly and understands it. The
■ man or woman who wants to buy
something no longer goes out after
iit with a search warrant. Instead,
he or she goes to the columns of the
; newspaper, finds w hat is wanted, and
ithen goes, or sends, or 'phones, or
writes, to get it.
The advertisment long ago took
; the place of the haphazard hunt of
the shopper. Men and women still
i "shop," but they stop in the places
I to which they have been attracted by
I the modern advertisement.
The biggest business men are the
biggest advertisers and it is because
they have been the biggest advertis
ers that they ahe the biggest busi
: uess met).
Savannah. Ga., is planning an in
ternational exposition to be held in
1915 to celebrate the completion of
the Panama Canal.
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1909.
COURT NOTES
The second week of Superior
Court convened Tuesday morning
with Judge N. A. Morris, of the Blue
Ridge circuit, presiding.
The first case taken up was that
of the State vs. Lewis Jones, who
was put on trial for the murder of
Cicero Murphy, the killing having oc
curred in February, 1907, at a negro
frolic, near Lyerly. The jury brought
in a verdict of guilty of manslaught
er and Jones was sentenced to 20
years in the pentitentiary. The de
fendant was represented by Judge
J. M. Bellah and Col. F. W. Cope
land, and Solicitor Bale was assisted
in the prosecution by Col. W. H. En
nis, of Rome.
The noted damage suit of R. E.
. Hoks against G. L. Groover to re
cover SIO,OOO damages for aliena
; tion of the affections of the form-
■ wife, which was on trial when,
the News went to press last week, re
sulted in a verdict in favor of the
defendant. Col. Barry Wright closed
i the argument for the plaintiff Wednes
day night, and the case went to the
jury early Thursday morning. After
being out about six hours the jury
brought in a verdict in favor of
Groover.
Following is a list of the other
I cases disposed of up to Wednesday
afternoon:
R. E. Tucker vs. The Inter-Valle
Fruit Co. —complaint. Non-suited.
T. R. Knox vs. John Batty, Mary
I Batty claimant. Appeal from Justice
Court. Verdict for defendant.
W. M. Cook vs. Reynolds Bros. —
complaint. Verdict in favor of
plaintiff.
F. S. Rush vs. Joe T. Bryant—
complaint on note. Verdict for de
fendant.
Singer Sewing Machine Co. vs. M.
:F. Elsberry.—suit on contract. Ver
; diet for plaintiff.
The case of the State vs. Bob
Lightsy, charged with murder, was call
ed Wednesday morning. Lightsy shot
and killed Alf Landrum at Taliafer
ro in February, 1907, and this is
j the third time he has been tried on
I this charge. In the first trial he
■ was convicted of voluntary manslaugL
| er, and sentenced to two years in
the penitentiary. His lawyers appeal
ed the case and he jvas granted a
new trial. In the second trial the
! jury failed to agree on a verdict and
a mistrial was declared.
Dr. Abernathy, the great English
physician, said, “Watch your kidneys.
When they are affeted, life is in dan
ger.’’ Foley’s Kidney Remedy makes
| healthy kidneys, corrects urinary ir
regularities, and tones up the whole
system. Sold by all druggists.
Messrs. J. V. Wheeler and H. V.
Johnson have filed a petition with
j the county board of education ask
j Ing that the lines of the Summer
| vllle school district be changed so
ias to bring them into this district,
j Tlie board held a meeting one day
last week for the purpose of consid
ering the petition but deferred tak
ing any action in the matter until
their regular meeting in October
According to a recent decision of At
torney-General Hart, when the lines
of a school district are chang
ed it becomes necessary to hold
another election on local taxa
tion. Some of the members of the
board thought it might interfere with
the collection of the tax this year
if an election was called at this
time, so they decided to wait until
they could get an opinion from Mr.
Hart on this question, before pass
ing on the petition.
1 have this day by mutual consent
withdrawn from the firm of the Sum
merville Drug Co., having sold my in
t< rest, to Mr. J. A. Beavers. The
i business will be carried on in every
j respect as in the past.
T. I’. TAYLOR.
Sept. 4. 1909.
The dreams of the great things we
art? going to do in the by and by
not unoften keep us from actually
doing the little things now that would
be a blessing to ourselves and oth
' ers.
Next Saturday. September 25th.
is the day set apart for all who will
to give the value of that day’s work .
for the orphans’ of Georgia The
■'Sunbeams” have enlisted tor > ork
Saturday, their contribution Sunday
morning will go to the Orphan's and
the collections from each Sunday
school in our town Sunday morning
would aid materially the good work
Theft are three thousands ttes of
Orphan's Homes in Georgia to be
cared for, and we all ought to give
liberally and cheerfully of our n cans
for their benefit.
Take care of your st ;uach. Let
Kodol digest all the food you eat, for
that is what Kodol does. Ev< ,-y ta
blespoonful of Kodol digests 2 V-.
pounds of food. Try it today . It rs
guaranteed to relieve you or*your
money back. Sold by all druggists
RANDOM REMARKS
(By the Man From Town)
In my communication in last issue
of the News you made me say “dead
ness” when it should have been
“decadence would set in.”
Chattooga county’s new court house
is a marvel of architectures! beauty,
and. should be the pride of every pa
triotic citizen of the county.
I was present at the convening of
Chattooga Superior Court last week.
The ceremonies incidental to the
presentation and acceptance of the
court house were short but impres
sive. Judge J. M. Bellah acted in the
capacity of Master of Ceremonies. A
very impressive prayer was made by
Rev. J. O. Brand. Col. J. T. Jolly in
his usual happy vain made the pre
sentation speech as Chairman of the
Board of Commissioners. Hon. Wes
ley Shropshire responded in a ring
ing speech in behalf of the people.
It was when Judge Moses Wright re
sponded so eloquently in behalf of the
court officials. He dwelt so feelingly
upon the memories of the old court
house, the enthusiastic audience then
realized that in one respect it was
1 like the marriage at Cana of
Galilee, the best was served at the
last.
It seems that this is a day of high
tariff and high taxes. It behooves
us as a people to economize in both
public and private expenditures, The
tax receiver and tax collector’s offices
could be merged into one. The tax
collector could easily attend to both
for the same amount of money that!
he receives for being tax
collector. The office of county treas
urer should be abolished and let one
of the Summerville banks be the treas
urer, either one could give a strong
bond and no doubt would willingly
attend to the business for the use of
the county’s money. Those two items
alone would be the saving to the coun
ty near two thousand dollars annually
If every county in the state should
adopt this method it would save the
people of the state about three hun
dred thousand dollars annually. Then
let us have biennial sessions of the
: legislature and we will save anywhere
, from fifty to seventy-five thousand
1 dollars every other year to the state
;by this one change.
We should adapt ourselves to new
I conditions. We should prepare our-
I seives to meet high tariff and high
taxes and right here I Will suggest
the greatest change of all. Every
farmer in the cotton raising states
of the south should contract his debts
to be paid about the first of June
the following year instead of Novem
ber 1, the present year. Then the
farmers would have about eight
months to market their cotton in
stead of about two months. By this
change the farmers of Georgia would
save from three to fifteen million
dollars annually and the farmers of
the entire south would save anywhere
from twenty-five to seventy-five mil
lion dollars annually, all of which
now goes into the pockets of the ■
I speculators. This would be best for
| both farmers and merchants. The
! farmers could then pay all of their j
debts instead of having the merchant
■ to tide them over for a portion of it.
The merchant that will not sell on |
those terms, let him sell for the
cash or keep his goods. This plan I
is the salvation for the farmers of
the south. The Farmers’ Union with '
I the warehouse system is no doubt,
a great institution if carried out as
devised but if the plan 1 have sug-
■ gested should be adopted every farm-
■ er’s home could be a warehouse.
The Man From Town.
■ Earth has few tragedies more pa
: thetic than that of a man so filled
with the lust of wealth that he grad
ually loses all that is beautiful and
I ennobling in life and degenerates to
a mere money-making machine.
i
When you want any article of mer
-1 chandise buy it of a reputable home
dealer, that the profit may remain to
j enrich the community. Send your
money abroad only for what you can
not purchase at home. Home talent
home labor, home industry, home
capital and home pleasures are
things to be fostered, encouraged and
patronized.
CITATION
Georgia, Chattooga county. ,
To all whom it may concern:
Mrs. Laura Hous, h having in prop
er form applied to me for permanent
letters of administration on the es v
late of H. A. J. Housch, late of saiu r ,
county. This is to cite all and sin -\
gular, the creditors and next of kin
of 11. A. J. Housch, to be and appear
at my office within the time allow
ed by law and show cause, if any
they can, why permanent administra
tion should not be granted to Mrs.
Laura Housch on H. A. J. Housch’s
estate.
Witness my hand and official sig
nature, this 6th day of September.
1909.
J. P. JOHNSON. Ordinary. !
MAN IN ISOLATION.
He Is of Little Conseqtx-'" and Is a
Barrier to Progress.
It is not uu easy thing tor a man to
separate himself from the thought and
activity and purpose ot the community
in which be lives and to pursue au
isolated, disconnected mid selfish part.
He can't do it. indeed, auu it be tries
it be will only reduce hi'ii -if to a
cipher or stumbling block. Ibe com
munity will get ou somehow, for it
must, but if it has many members
of this kind it will be dull, heavy and
unprogressive.
Man in isolation is of little conse
quence, next to nothing. His associa
tion with others, the inspiration he re
ceives from others, draw out his own
powers. "The state,” to this day. as
Plato conceived it, remains "a product
of mind.” Out of the action and inter
action of currents of mind, affected
and even directed by variant views or
opinions, comes the whole progress of
man. of society, of the human race.
We want what Burke described as
“that action and counteraction which
in the natural and political world, from
the reciprocal struggle of discordant
powers, draw out the harmony of the
universe.”
The most isolated man cannot sepa
rate himself from the situation he lives
in. If such isolation were general or
could be general it would be the nega
tion of civilization.—Portland Orego
nian.
Wanted Them Labeled.
There was a certain master of fox
hounds in one of the English shires
who was greatly angered by the awk
wardness of one of the gentlemen who
invariably rode over the hounds. At
' one of the meets the M. F. 11. rode up
to the awkward hunter and in the mhst
chilling tones said. "Mr. So-and-so.
there are two dogs in the pack today.
Snap and Tatters, which 1 am espe
cially fond of. and 1 would esteem It
a favor if you would avoid killing
or maiming them with your horse’s
hoofs.” “Certainly, my dear fellow,"
replied Mr. So-and-so; “but. as I do not
know them, will you be kind enough to
put tags on them for me?”
Here is the way the papers will
write up weddings ten years hence,
says an exchange. “The bride look
ed very well in a traveling dress, but
all eyes were centered upon the
groom. He wore a dark suit that
fitted his form perfectly and in his
dainty gloved hands he carried a
small rose. His curly hair was beau
tifully done, and a delicate odor of
hair oil of the best quality floated
down the aisle as he passed. The
young people will miss him now that
he is married. He is loved by all
for his many accomplishments, his
tender grace and his winning ways.
The bride commands a good salary
as bookkeeper and the groom will
miss none of the luxuries to which
he has been acustomed. A crowd
of pretty men saw him off at the de
pot.
"The Beast and the Jungle,’’
Judge Lindsey’s autobiogra
phy is one of the biggest
things ever published by any
i magazine.
It starts tn the October
EVERYBODY’S
No believer in clean govern
ment and right living can afford
to miss it.
And don’t let O. Henry’s
story get by you. It s one of
seven crackerjacks in the
OCTOBER EVERYBODY’S
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Peruna Tablets Tested*
[ What are the Peruna Tablets good
j for? Has anybody used them enough
■ to know what they will do? Read the
following letter and see. If you have
any doubt as to the genuineness of the
letter, write to Mrs. Lohr, enclose a
stamp for reply, and see whether her
testimonial is genuine or not:
Ravenna, Mich,, June 16, 1908.
The Peruna Drug Co.
In regard to the Peruna Tablets, I
have used about ten boxes in all.
While I was in Chicago my oldest
daughter was bothered with a cough
all the time. She has had it for four
years. Sometimes it would go away,
and in the winter time it was so bad
that the doctors and professors said
that she had consumption,-and the only
way to give her any relief was to per
form an operation.
I spend so much money for different
medicines, and for doctors also. Noth
ing seemed to help her.
So.l saw the Peruna Tablets adver
tised in the paper, and I got a box
and tried them. She could get some
sleep by taking thc-m. She would b? up
ill night and cotigh. Soin all she took
six boxes, and never was bothered any
more.
I will leave this for any one to in
quire at our old residence, where we
lived in Chicago. All our neighbors
would say that she could not live with
such a cough. You don’t know how
thankful I am. She is eighteen years
old.
My oldest son also was bothered with
his stomach, throwing up. and his
bowels so loose all the time. He was
| all run down for four months. I also
1 dootored with him. One would say thia
and tlie other something else. 1 started
I in to give him the Tablets, and now he
:is all right and healthy looking. He
took ’ uffwtes. That is all he wants
‘ to take whenever anything ails him.
So I praise your Tablets just as high
as I have your Peruna. That is all
tlie medicine that ever comes in my
house. Whenever I travel I take some
with me. I have had three of my chil
dren sick with scarlet fever two months
ago, and that is all I used, was tlie Pe
runa and the Tablets. I did not lose
any of them.
If there is any more information you
want, why just let me know and 1 will
he glad to <!< so. Yours truly,
Mns. L. Luiiß, Ravenna, Mich.
Road Notice.
; Georgia, Chattooga county.
All persons interested are hereby
notified that if no good cause is
■ shown to the contrary, an order will
be granted by thei Board of County
, Commissioners of Roads and Revenues
of said county, at the regular Septem-
I ber term, 1909, establishing a change
in public road as marked out by the
Superintendent of roads for Summer
' ville district, at the
crossing of thte Central R. Ry., on the
Summerville and Trion road Paving
i
i the present road near a bain on
the land of W. J. Bryant and running
parallel with the present road through
W. J. Bryant’s field intersecting a
.: street in the town of Summerville.
The object of this change is to
get the road further from the railroad
and to get it on land more suited for
the road.
Given under hand and seal this 16th
day of August, 1909.
J. T. Jolly, Chm.
E. N. Martin, Clerk.
CITATION
Georgia, Chattooga county.
Laura Housch having made applica
tion for twelve months’ support out
of the estate of H. A. J. Housch, and
appraisers duly appointed to set
apart the same having filed their
return, all persons concerned
hereby required to show cause be
fore the Court of Ordinary of said
county on the first Monday in Octo
ber, 1909.
This 6th day of September, 1909.
J. P. JOHNSTON, Ordinary.