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The Summerville News Published Every Thursday. BY THE NEWS PUBLISHING CO. O. J. Espy, Editoi and Manager Tf.kmh of Subscription: One Year SI.OO Six Months • &><■ Three Monthii 25c Advertising Rates will be Made Known on Application. Entered at the Summerville Peat < fflee aa Second Cla»a Mail Matter. 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. Tutt’sPiß go to the root of the whole ’'t ter, thoroughly, quickly and restore the action i. j LIN ER to normal condi. Give tone to the ‘ solid flesh to t? Take Mo Stthsr* ■LT’I ’ PARKER’S 4 &r 4 b** 1 ’’ -’V» th* hair. KyY* - » . » growth. K/ • • - • ■ ’ y • • Yomwhxl <VIor. ■3 V * * hair twauof. B&a.- (4 Png-e 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 Bring Your Cotton : to j CHATTOOGA OIL MILL I SummervlUe, Ga. I 'I- - ——— K - Best ginning equipment in the | tn s- ; Satisfaction guaranteed < I £ Highest market price payed fur cotton and f I cotton seed. We pay I rion prices for cotton- | i Your patronage will be appreciated. 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.