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BANES COUNTY OBSERVER. VOL. OXE. THE BANKS OBSERVER. One Dollar Per Year. SO t'ent* For 6 Ulonth*). 45 Cento For 3 Months. na. PUBLISHED WEDNESDAY- Locals 8 Cents Per Line First Inser tion, Each Additional 6 Cents* Entered as Second Class Matter at the Homer, Ga., Poet Office. Jno. Barton. - Proprietor. County Officers* T. r. Hill ordinary, l. N. Turk clerk superior court, f m. Henderson sheriff, v a. waters tax collector, J. C. Allan tax rco#iver, a C Forbes treasurer, s. a Ayers, coroner, B c. Alexandei coun ty surveyor. Saperior Court 3rd Mondays in March and September. N. L Hutch ins judge. Ed. Brown-solicitor geuer al. Justices Courts* Homer, no. 265. —w. m. Ash notary public, court 2nd Wednesdays. Andeison, no 465.—W. h. Newton notary public, w. z. vanghlin justice peace, court 2nd Thursdays. Poplar Spring, no. 912 —j. f. Evans notary public, j. o smelley justice peace, court 2nd Friday. Golden Hill, no. 448.—ohas. sweet notary public, r a wyLn justice peace* court lot Saturday Columbia, no. 471.— g. w. smith notary public, court Ist Wedues lay Washington, no 284 —w. j. acree notary public, jus. caudell justice peace, court 3rd Sa-urday Wilmot, no. 1206.—0. w. wiley notar> public, l. J Ragsdale justice peace, court 3id Friday Berlin, no 1210 —d f. scales no tary public, court Ist Friday. Boshville, no. 208.— w. a. watson notary public, m. l. McDonald justice peace, court 4tb Sa'uiday. David’s no. 2074 --w. j. Burgess notary public, j. c. übanks justice peace, court Thursday before the first Sunday. Churches* Presbyterian Church, servioes 2nd Sunday in each mouth, lie*. G. H. ■J & r 11 otu i • Methodist Church,services Ist Sunday m each month, and Saturday before, Revs. J. D. Gunnels and Jno. I. Pen dergras, pastors. Baptist Church, 4 h Sunday in each month and Saturday before, Re*-. J. F. Goode pastor. Lodge* Homer Lodge, no. 82., I. 0. O. F., meets Ist Tuesday in each month, J. W. Sumpter, noble grand, T. F. Hill,, secretary. Phi Delta Lodge no. 148. F. A. M., meets Ist Friday night in eaoh month, w. a. watson worshipful muter, j. w. vumpter aenior warden, r. M. adwarde junior warden, T. t. trill aecretary, w. o. I. Garrison treasurer, v. and. Lockhart atrnior deacon, a. j. cash junior deacon, o o. smith senior stoart, w. o. rhreld held junior stnart, w. n Meeks tylor. HOMER, BANKS COUNTY, GA.. WEDNESDAY JULY 18, ISBS. J C Allan respectfnllv annonuces to the voters of Banks comity that he will again be a candidate for the office of Tax Receiver. H J. David respect ! ullv announces to the voters of Banks county mat he is a candidate for Tax Collector. J K Chambers respectfully an noonc s to the voters of B ink- county that he is a candidate for Tax-rpoeivcr. All support gratetnlly received LOCAL ITEMS^ Cotton is coming out fast. Mrs. W. T. Dunoan is very sick. Garden vegetables will soon be numbered with the past. Five negroes are now in jail, for misdemeanor. Judge Ilili has completed the woik ou the Line Bridge. Several visitors have passed on the ; r way to the falls. Sunday and Monday we e very much like Fall. Frmas aru abou f Uulo laying by, and visiting among friends are no vin order. Mrs J. E. Stephens is visiting At laoia this week. The corn crop looks well—rain is the only help needed to make a good yield. Mr. Milton Sanders is teaching at Union Grove school house, and has a fair sr-hool The senior editor baa Oet-n abseu l part of this and last w?ek. This will account for the dolness of the Observe* this we^k. P. M, Edwards has a fine young Horse and good milch Cow for sale.—l2-2w. Rev. Joe Hums, a student from the colored seminary of Tuskaloosa, Ala,, preached in the academy Sunday morning. The rain Tuesday afternoon wa much welcomadj^and^wa^ refresh* ing to the animal, and growing to the vegetable kingdom. The Academy is badly in need of repairs. Those interes od in the health aud educating of their children,should see to this before cold weather sets in. Those who subscribed for three months ou the credit lUt, will please oom* forward and settle. With this week their time expires. The ooauty jail needs anew roof and the parties that built the new jail ought to pay for it. The roof has beet) defective from the start. It has leaked so badly that the plastering is damag ed. . The whistle of the wheat thresh er is now heard iu different part* of the county. Mr. Thompson has threshed something over 000 bush |els in this section, Persons coming in this office w ill please keep away from the copy hooks. This part of the office is strictly private. Th# next thirty days will, decide the average crop—so says a Har mony Grove merchant. Attend the meeting of the grange to-morrow. It will be in teresting and instructive to com mercial interests as well as agri cultural. Every one should attend, The Observer is not responsible foropimons of correspondents. It would much prefer good local news, rather than long political homo types. In this issue appears the an nouncement of Mr, J, K. Chambers for tax-receiver, Mr. Chambers is a young man, raised and living in Banks all his life. If elected he will make a faithful officer. Messrs. P. A. O’Connor and Robt, Stephens of Atlanta, came up Saturday evening, Mr. O’Con nor returned Monday with his fam ily. Mr. Stephens will spend a few days with his mother, relatives and friends. The stock-law districts seem to be making trouble in Clarke. Some body has penned the cow of the editor of the Graphic, and he ad vertises her thus:—“Strayed! The bob-tailed, crop-eared, no horn, Jersy colored cow. * *” Homer’s two Sunday-schools will help each other in the celebration exercises. Mr. Ira Hill is elect ed flag bearer; delegates from Bap tist school, Messrs. Hill, Dyar and Miss Mason; from Union School, Miss Emma Martin, Judge Moss, Messrs. L. N. Turk and TANARUS, J. Ash. The merchants of Harmony Grove are in good spirits over the present outlook for a good crop, The firms of Hood & Son, Quillian <fc Cos., Gunnels <fc Power, Hard man & Cos., Hardman & Sharp, W. W. Jordan, carry heavy stocks in their diffent line of goods, and are having a fair trade for this sea son oi the year. The prisoners confined in jail made an attempt to escape Fiiday. One of them, a barl v negro named Henry Har rie, secreted hituaelf in the corridor an der some bed clothing, prepared to ran when the door was opened, bot the watchful eye of Sheriff Henderson presented hie escape. Col Jae. Hatnp Grant of Haber sham, was in town Tuesday. He says the political pot is boiling with anusn al warmth in hie county, aeory West, Sauk Sw’ft Pavia, and VVm. Erwin, are all waurirji to r>| re ent'be County, and each ennddate if* precedi ng hu claims to lie dear f ocplt- *-uh much caruemueaS. Mr Grantnaidh* would uot bet ten cents on either can didate, for it is extiemely uncertain •vho will he he lucky msr. Mrs. John Mat-key, liviug in the upper portion of Banks, died Fri day morning. Mrs. Mackey was an old and respected citizen of the county—a Christian lady, and leav es many relatives and frieuds to mourn her loss. While in Harmony Grove, Fri day, the writer called at the under taking and Furniture house of W. W. Jordan, and found that gentle man fitting up a very fine casket for Mrs. M’s. remains. Hence this item. It is understood that the County Board of Education has ordered that children, whose parents are too poor to buy books, may use any books they have in the public schools of the county for this year. This is a wrong step. Who is too poor? Who is to decide the ques tion? This virtually amounts to no system. The board, it is thought, made a contract with the publish ers o'* Appletons’ school books, in which they agreed to furnish the poor of the county with a certain nil tuber of books free. If the leg islature don’t do something with this vexed question of school books what is to become of the people? The following figures may be of interest. They will give a geo graphical view of the summer heat in other countries: Bengal and the African desert 150 Fahrenheit, Senegal and Candaloupe 130°, Per sia 125°, Calcutta and Central America 120°, Afghanistan and Arabian 110, Cape of Good Hope and Utah 105, Greece 104, Arabia 103, Montreal 103, New York 102, Spain, India, China and Jamaica 100, Sierra Leone 94, Franco and Denmark, St. Petersburg, Shang hai, Burman Empire, Buenos, Aryes, Sandwich Islands 90, Great Britain, Siam and Peru 85, Portu gal, Pekin and Natal 80, Siberia 77, Australia and Scotland 75, It aly, Venezuela and Madeira 73, Prussia and New Zealand7o, Swit zerland and Hungary 66, Bavaria, Sweden, Tasmania and Moscow 65, Patagonia and the Falkland Isles 55, Iceland 45, Nova Zembla 34. The lowest heat is confined to the European continent. Don’t read another line in this column. It will sprain your eyes. NO. 12.