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ESTATE OE
S. KI. WALKER
UNSETTLED
It Will Have to Go Through More Lit-
igation—The Will to Be Attacked.
By THE DIVORCED WIFE M.G.WAIKER
THE OUTCOME WILL BE WATCH-
ED WITH INTEREST HERE
AND IN CHATTANOOGA.
The divorced wife of the late Judge
S. M. Walker will institute a legal
contest of his will. Judge Walker was
born and reared in Dalton and had
many friends and schoolmates here
and abroad who read The Argus and
will be interested in the following
item from the Sunday issue of the
Chattanooga Times:
A contest at law has been instituted
over the estate of the late Judge Seth
M. Walker, his divorced wife, Mrs.
Mary G. Walker, having retained at
torneys for the purpose of if possible
having the will under which the estate
has been administered set aside.
It devolves from the petition of
Mrs. Walker in county court, that
the two older daughters, Misses John
nie and Adelaide, have conveyed their
interest in the estate to their mother.
The petition laws ground for an attack
upon the will. In fact, the petition
charges that the document under
which W. B. Davis, as executor, has
petitioned the residue of the estate,
was not in truth the last will and tes
tament of Judge Walker.
The petition asks that the case be
certified to the circuit court, where it
is proposed to prosecute the contest.
Following is the petition, Shepherd
Fleming and Shepherd being her at
torneys :
To the Honorable County Court of
Hamilton County:
Your petitioner, Mary J. Walker, of
Hamilton, county, Tennessee, respect
fully shows:
That at the —■ term of this honor
able court, a paper writing purporting
to be the holographic will of Seth M.
Walker, deceased, was admitted to
probate in common form at the in
stance of W. B. Davis, who was named
as executor in said will. Said Davis
immediately took out letters testa
■mentory and has since been acting as
•executor.
The legatees and devisees under said
will are the six children of said Seth
M. Walker, towit: Adelaide M„ John
ie, Seth, Charles, Francis and Edna
Walker, all citizens of Hamilton coun
ty, Tennessee, said Seth Walker.
Charles Walker Francis Walker and
"Edna Walker being minors. G. H.
Miller is guardian of Seth and Charles
Walker and J. W. Cliff is guardian of
"Francis and Edna Walker.
The said Adelaide Walker and
Johnie Walker, being of age, trans
ferred and conveyed their interest in
the property bequeathed and devised
to them to your petitioner.
Your petitioner charges that said
paper writing is not the will of said
Seth M. Walker, because said writing
was never intended to be the will of
said Seth M. Walker and was not
found after his death among his valu
able papers, nor deposited in the
hands of another for safe-keeping.
The premises considered, petitioner
prays that process issue to compel the
said W. B. Davis, executor, and the
said Seth Walker. Charles Walker.
Francis Walker and Edna Walker, to
gether with the guardians, G. 11. Mill
er and J. W. Clift, all of whom reside
in Hamilton county, Tennessee, to ap
pear at the next term of this court and
answer this petition: that petitioner
be permitted to contest said will, and
that the facts of the case, together
with original paper writing, be certi
fied in the circuit court of Hamilton
county. Tennessee, to the end that an
fig*- issue of division will not be then made.
JUDGE FITE
GETS GOOD
HARD SHOCK
WAS WITH A PARTY WHO ASK
ED TOO MANY QUESTIONS
DOWN IN SOUTH GEORGIA
LAST WEEK.
COULD GET MOST ANY DRINKABLES
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A Valdosta Man Told the Cherokee
Judge a Few Things Hot From Off
The Bat.
Wednesday says:
The Valdosta Daily Times of last
Judge Gus Fite, of Cartersville,
who presides over the courts of the
Cherokee circuit and who is probably
the most ardent prohibitionist in
Georgia, was given the shock of his
life yesterday afternoon by “Brack”
Connally, who happened to be in a
wind-jamming mood and who was not
aware at the time that he was talk
ing to a man who thinks that all of
the vitues radiate out from a man’s
views on the liquor question.
Judge Fite was one of eight citi
zens of Cartersville who were on their
way in autos around the state. They
came unheralded and were thought to
be some of the Augusta home-seekers
at first. Mr. Connally w T as sitting in
the garage of Cranford & Lane when
they came in. They began to make
enquiry about the road to Waycross
and Mr. Connally began to tell them
about it. One of the party finally
asked:
“Can you get a little near-beer
here?”
“Nope,” returned Mr. Connalley.
“We do not allow near-beer sold
here. You can get some of the gen
uine article, though,” he continued.
“Can we get anything else?” the
inquisitor asked.
“You can get anything you want
and as much as you want of it. 11
have been here ten years and I have
never seen the time you could not get
it,” he went on.
“I thought this was a prohibition
town,” spoke up Judge Fite.
“It is supposed to be. But real
prohibition towns are scare. I have
never seen one.”
“Why don’t they enforce the law?'
asked the judge, warming up.
“Because it is an unpopular law
and sentiment is against it,” said
“Brack.”
“All laws are unpopular,” return
ed the judge, “but we have to en
force them.”
“All laws are not unpopular,” re
turned the Valdostan. “The law
against murder, stealing, injuring your
neighbor, taking what rightfully be
longs to him are all popular laws and
we enforce them. When laws seek
to prescribe what a man shall eat,
drink or wear they are not poular and
you can’t enforce them. The more in
telligent people are the more they pro
test against such bigoted, narrow leg
islation.”
While this conversation was going
on the other members of the Carters
ville party were nearly bursting with
laughter. When Judge Fite walked off
one of them said to Mr. Connolley.
“Do you know that man?”
“No, I do not,” said Connalley.
“That’s Judge Gus Fite—he’s the
biggest erank on prohibition you ever
saw —that is why we are laughing.”
“I hope I didn’t offend him. but I
was telling the truth.” said Mr. Con
nolley.
Mr. Fite met a number of Val
dostans and was apparently pleased
with the cordial manner of the people
here.
FARM FOR SALE —One mile south
of Varnells; two good houses and a
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purchaser. For further information
see J. L. Bender, Dalton, Ga., or write
E. C. Miller, Fitzgerald, Ga.
THE DALTON AkGUS, DALTON, ‘AVdSIHIHI VTOgOgf) 31 ’ 191 L
BRIDE TOOK
THE MONEY
OF GROOM
AN AGED WISCONSIN MAN IS
FLEECED OF HIS PILE BY A
SMOOTH ARTIST OF FEMALE
PERSUASION.
Chicago, Aug. 26 —No wedding bells
will ring for William Dennis, 85
years old, a retired farmer from
Mount Hope. Wis., who came to Chi
cago to be married to a young wo
man he met at a county fair at Bos
cobel, Wis., two weeks ago.
Today Dennis reported that his pro
spective bride had disappeared with
$3,000 which he had given her for
safekeeping. Farmer Dennis avers
that romance is dead in Chicago.
A MONUMENT BY CONGRESS
Erected to the Memory of Confede
rate Soldiers in Vicksburg.
Charleston, S. C., Aug. 23—Gener
al C. Irving E. Walker, of Charles
ton, upon whom the supreme comtnand
of the United Confederate Veterans
devolved, by seniority, upon the death
of General George W. Gordon, of
Memphis, does not see the harm in
the proposition for congress to ap
propriate $50,000 for a monument
at Vicksburg Park to the Confede
rate navy.
Walker, who is attending the state
reunion here, when interviewed, said
that in his opinion the proposed ac
tion would have no partisian signifi
cance and involve no surrender of
Southern pride, nor any exhibition of
Northern magnanimity. Walker de
clared that if the monument is reared
it should be to the Confederate sol
diers engaged.
THE HON. JOE HILL HALL
SHOULD QUIT, SAYS LONG
President of Macon Commercial Body
is Angry at Action of Bibb’s Rep
resentative.
Macon, Ga., Aug. 25—Nothing of
a political nature has created such a
sensation politically in many vea.
as the statement given out by Me. A.
J. Long, president of the local ch un
ber of commerce and a member of the
county commissioners, to the effect
that he thought Hon. Joe Hill Hall,
representative from Bibb county,
should resign.
Mr. Long was wrathy because Mr.
Hall used his influence and was en
tirely responsible for the killing of
the $25,000 bond issue and the $lO,-
appropriation for the Georgia state
fair.
It is said that Mr. Hall threatened
to resign during the closing days of
the legislature, and made statements
to that effect to Minter Wimberly and
Walter Before, his associates from
this county.
In his statement yesterday Mr. Long
said it would be a good thing for
the county if Mr. Hall would resign,
as he did it more harm than good.
Mr. Hall is at present on a visit to
Kentucky.
There is more catarrh in this sec
tion of the country than all other
diseases put together, and until the
last few years was supposed to be in
curable. For a great many years doc
tors pronounced it a local disease and
prescribed local remedies, and by con
stantly failing to cure by local reme
dies, pronounced it incurable. Science
has proven catarrh to be a constitu
tional disease and therefore required
constitutional treatment. Hall’s cat
arrh Cure, manufactured by F. J.
Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0., is the only
constitutional cure on the market. It
is taken internally in doses from 10
drops to a teaspoonful. It acts di
rectly on the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system. They offer one
hundred dollars for any <*ase it fails
to cure. Send for circulars and testi
monials. Address F. J. Cheney & Co.,
Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by druggists, 75c.
Take Hall's Family Pills for consti-
CHARGED
WITH MURDER
OF DAUGHTER
A FLORIDA MAN IS HELD WITH
A VERY UGLY SUSPICION
OVER HIS HEAD FOR DEATH
OF HIS DAUGHTER.
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Miami, Fla., Aug. 26—William Pur
cell, father of the 15-year-old Hattie
Purcell, whose body, showing evi
dences of being murdered, was found
in the Miami river April 21, is held in
jail here in connection wth the death.
He is the third man to be arrested
in the case this week. P. C. Cox was
rrested on suspicion of knowing some
thing about how the body happened to
be in the water and today was held to
the criminal court without bond.
Fred Lawrence, a Jacksonville ne
gro, was taken into custody after he
stated that he took Cox and a large
package to the river bank two days
before the body was found. Further
investigations will be made.
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Kidney trouble preys upon the mind,
discourages and lessens ambition; beauty,
B vigor and cheerful
ness soon disappear
when the kidneys are
out of order or dis
eased.
Kidney trouble has
become so prevalent
that it is not uncom
mon for a child to be
born afflicted with
weak kidneys. If the
child urinates too often, if the urine scalds
the flesh, or if, when the child reac.iesan
age when it should be able to control the
passage, it is yet afflicted with bed-wet
ting, depend upon it, the cause of the diffi
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step should be towards the treatment of
these important organs. This unpleasant
trouble is due to a diseased condition of
the kidneys and bladder and not to a
habit as most people suppose.
Women as well as men are made miser
able with kidney and bladder trouble,
and both need the same great remedy.
The mild and the immediate effect of
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