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VOL. ONE.
THE BANKS OBSERVER.
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Homer, Ga., Post Office.
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A. C MOSS.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
IIOMER, GEORGIA.
made nc promptly remitted
~ ~P. M. EDWARDS,
Attorney at Law,
llOMt'U GEOttOIV
sjy W't? . r- !i *• O'-urrs
of the We' C
Attorney AT LAW,
JhFFP’KSO”, ' ’ 00l i:U.
G. Vt BROWN,
dVwWwV/vVA qX
MayHviUe, Gcorg-io.
do a general practice.
Collecting a specialty.
James M. Merritt,
Attorney and Counselor at Law,
MaVSvili*', Gc>rgi:i,
St-A
Dr. A. H. Stapler.
HOMER, GEORGIA.
Special attention given to Surgery.
Obstetrics and Chronic disease* of long
standing
V. D. LOCKHART.
PhysiciaN,
tlomer, Georgia.
J. W. Sumptor,
GENERAL BL.ACKSMITHING.
lloiuer, Georgia.
and Waggons made
to order. Repairing a Specialty.
“I)rs7HARDMAN & SHARE,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
DRUGGISTS.
Harmony, Grove, Ga.
Churches'
Presbyterian Church, services 2nd
Sunday in each month, Her. G-. H.
Oartledge, pastor.
Methodist Church, services Ist Sunday
in e&ch mouth, and Saturday before,
Revs. J. L>. Gunnels and Jno. I. Pen
lergrae, pastors.
Baptist Church, 4 h Sunday in each
month and Saturday before, Rer. J. F.
Goode pastor.
Lodges-
Ecmer Lodgo, mo. 82., I. O. O. F.,
maets Ist Tuesday in eaoh month, J.
Sumpter, coble grand, T. F. Hill,,
cretary.
Phi Lodge no. 148, F. A. M. t
rs let Friday night in eaoh menth,
/• wataon worshipful master, j. w.
v 7? 3r senior warden, p. M. ad wards
warden, T. v. Hill secretary, w.
prison treasurer, v. e. Lockhart
aacon.A. J. cash junior deacon,
v. rh senior etnart, w. o. Throld
r stQjrt, w. n. tyler.
BANKS COUNTY OBSERVER.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
J. C. Allan respectfully annonncos
to the voters of Franks county that he
will again be a candidate for the office
of Tax Receiver.
H. J. David respectfully announces
to the voters of Banks county that he
is a candidate for Tax Collector.
J. K. Chambers respectfully an
nonnces to the voters of Banks county
that he is a candidate for Tax-receiver.
All support gratetullv received
Through the solicitation of many
friends, I annonuce myself a candidate
for Ordinary, and if elected will dis
charge the duties of said officer to the
best of my ability. A. C Mosa.
R. P. Terrell respretfully announces
to the voteis of Banka c. unty that be
is a candidate for Tax Receiver.
Jere E Ritoh annunneea to the vot
era of Banks county, that be is a eandv
date for the office of Ordinary nf said
county at the ensuing election and re
sprctfudy solicits thdr support.
R J Dyar announces to the voters
cf Biliks county that he is a candidate
for Circuit Clerk, and will be ihanklul
tor tbeir support.
Ordinary's Court.
First Mondays iu each month. T. f.
nill, ordinary.
Superior Court.
Third Mondays iD March and Sep
tember. m. l. imtchinn judge.
NOTICE!
September stl, 1888.
.After this month ito notice* ot any
kind will be inserted ia this paper
without the rnblicHtion fees in advance
Dr. Y. D Lockhart has on hand a
full line of Ivsenberg’s Spectacles
and Eye-Glasses.
Eves carefully examined and glasses
guaranteed to give satisfaction. 20tt
LOCAL ITEMSL
g" 1 J IIJ- ■MUHJLUIIL.UIJ! L JBI J!!HigJ
Mrs. J. J. Turk is gradually im
proving.
Homer is as dull for this season
of the year as she can possibly get.
So far this week has been quite
pleasant.
Preaching at the Baptist church
last Sunday by rev. Mr Goode.
Fall is rapidly approaching and
the leaves are fast falling.
Mr J W. Sampler leave* on a
business trip for Cincinnati to-day.
At last the beef market has found
its way to Homsr,
The roads will soon be in excel
lent condition for hauling,
The sweet potato crop made a
good yield this eeason.
Trade is said to be flourishing in
Maysville and Harmony Grove.
Persimmons, locusts and may
pops are now in season.
Turk & Dyar’s gin is the only in
dustry of any note in Homer.
A nice drove of horses went
through here yesterday evening,
’Possum hunting is no small
item around here. The boys have
been catching some fine ones.
The several day* rain of last
week made things disagreeble dur
ing its continuance.
HOMER, BANKS COUNTY', GA., WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 31, 1888.
Mr. I J . A. Waters is still confin
ed to his room. Ilis health is 4 not
improving much.
That committee appointed last
Sunday week to puf up the stove,
as yet has failed to do so.
Farmers are si ill busy picking
cotton. The market is going at 0
and ID cents, so reported.
Mr. J. K Baker of Oglethorpe
county, is here delivering Hitch
cock's Analysis of the Bible to a
number of subscribers
Mrs J. R Jones of Ben Cleve
land, S C., visited her parents
Judge Moss and wife, relatives and
friends here last. week.
News is remarkably dull and
scarce. Everbody i.s busy—rconse
quentlv nothing of an exciting na
ture going on.
Next Tuesday is eleiction-day;
general indications are things will
bo pretty lively throughout the
country.
The writer acknowledges an in
vitation to attend the Bushville
Literary Club next Saturday night.
If possible will be on hand.
Some seems to think this au
tumn is Indian summer For the
past month it has felt more like
Indian winter
Notice; —Alliance Lecture at
Homer on Thursday, Nov Ist, at
1 o’clock p. m , by Rev. W G.
Pirkle, O F. A.
Mr. G. C. Forbes speaks of get
ting him a fine photograph outfit.
To say he is a fine artist, the pub
lic has only to examine his work
Quite a number of Banks citi
zens expects to attend the North
East Georgia Fair at Athens next
week. The fair is making grand
preparations for big exhibits from
all the counties in this section.
From the way the fair 6ex flew
around Sunday, it was evident
something was up—one of Grove
Level’s popular young men was in
town—Mr M. L Chandler, acom
panied by his sister, Miss Blanche
Messrs. L. D. and W. S. Cona
way have been here the past few
days delivering the Family Bible
to a number of subscriber*. These
young gentlemen are from Oconee
and Wilkes counties.
Rev. J. D. Gunnells, county
school commissioner, gave this of
fice a call yesterday. He cays
there will be no school fund in the
treasury before December. Teach
ers can govern themselves thereby.
Correspondents, wake up, drop
in a few locals occasionally from
your neighborhood. It is interest
in& to your neighbors to see some
thing from their section—if no
more than to Ist the outside world
know they are ‘‘living at home and
boarding at the same place,”
The Observer has added several
new subscribers to its list this
week. The people ot Banks are
beginning to learn how to appre
ciate home enterprise—besides,
the small sum of 50 cenls per an
num for a weekly visitor kke the
Observer, is not felt- The publish
er expects to secure 1,000 subscri
bers in Banks btween now and
next Spring, and to be prepared
for the emergency, is making pre
parations for a power-press.
An Important Crisis is upon Us.
A leading republican recently
said, “The tariff question will soon
be settled lor a generation to
come'’—meaning that if the men
who are for tarifi reform are defeat
od in the present campaign, that
the high tariff tax is to remain for
another generation. If this should
be douesurfdom and slavery is the
inevitable doom of the sout/hern
people. This high protective tar
ill'tax has already drawn from the
pockets of the peopled and placed
in the United States Treasury ov
er half the money in the country,
and put over forty million dollars'
worth of the lands of Georgia un
der mortgage for money—crippled
all our business for lack of circula
tion and is swiftly reducing the
laboring class to abject poverty. In
view of all this it is stranger than
fiction to see southern men and
even farmers voting for Mr Pick
ett, who has openly declared his
opposition to tariff reform, Mills
Bill and things to the most vitff
interest to the people, against Ooi
Gaudier, who by his record and
present declaration shows himself
to be in favor of tariff reform and
every measure which would be to
the interest of the people ***
A Word From Rev Mr. Pirkle.
GLo;gi >, For-jtli C 'n
W’ be andemig ‘*<l c ziii*- >
-aid S at* and oun y, ?o h* •'? eer
iifv. tbs npou insuecti uof (■<? t*
cords of the superior court *f * aid conn
ty, we find tha the na ns* O' U r \V I
ham J Pirkle has at every revision of
be gn*nd jury box and list ia va and
county been pinned upon the name
that at various terras of tbe snpetir
Quart be hae been se -cted as fo>era > n
of tbe graud jury. Thai at th*Fet>ru
ary term 1887. Mr Pirke, ia conn**
; iou Me*ts. B. H Brown, 0. W.
Webb, W. 11. Davidson and Tk* J
Pilgrim were selco ed by the grand ju
ry at said term to Oonfer with the
coanty oomnaissioaere to formulate a
plan for taking care of the pauper# of
tbe county at the expiration of the
present oontraot.
Tbis is tbe most important financial
interest of the county. One involving
tbe heaviest item in eonmy expenses.
We further take pleasure in
bearing testimony to Mr. Pirkle#
character ae a high toned upright
truthful man and ooe who poseess in
au eminent degree, the eonli leaoe of
hie fellow citizens.
Henry L. Patterson, Baauel B Pat
terson, clerk enperior court. Fereyh
county, Oft.. I. S Clemeat. P. M , W.
s. Davenport, Merohant, R. P. Leeter,
attorney at law, oeo. E. Sims, N. p
and ex-of J. P.. R. A. Eakes, ex sena
tor, Thot. L. Sinai, Leroy Edmond
eon, J ernes F. Daffey, J. K. Pruett, J.
P. xeese. W. H. Edmondeon, J. a.
Pruett, Merchant.
I have known Rev. W. J. Pirkleev
er eiice the war intimately and had
lot* of dealing financially and other*
wise, and I know him to be as reliable
man as there is in thin county.
E. G. McAfse. senator
P. B.—ln addition to the above tho
reooide show that W. J. Pirkle was
Hoat as a delogata to the agricultural
convantioa of tho mate -.rhea it ib*v a r .
Canton, or, in August 1887. Hew
also vice-prnttidont of the agricultural
society of Forsyth coua’jr fie was
elected a delegate to the culled session
of the Stats Alliance of o-o r gia which
met in Atlanta on tho 27th of Jure
last, and was also appointed hd a dele
gate in convention with Hon H P.
Bell of Gumming, to the gubernatorial
convention in Angnt lam, bviug
been foreman of the grand jurv eru'y
time he has been a member for uior.i
than ten ye.rs.
The Ober v er reproduce! the ab.Ve
from the Gwinnett Herald to intredaco
Rev. \V. J Pirkle to the people of
Banks oounty, especially tbs Farmers
Alliance.
Legal Notice*.
Georgia. Banks Cos :\V ie r eas ap
praisers appointed by mi lor the pur
ple of appraising and eetliug apart
our of the estate of John S. ’dean*
la’e ot said county, dec-n-od the 12
months sapport aud hem-ieh !l farm
mrs to wtiicb by law M >rv I'j Means
widow of said deceased and nor eighr.
minor children are eat.tlid. have undo
their report to me an oa repo-t is
now of hie iu my off .a Tome are
therefore to cite and ad iv>nnh all Con
ferred to show canqe at my off ceoil the
lit M n-lay in D oeni er Hex , why
said Mipport and houa ho'd furuiiuru
as sppi mad ani sot appare, enould not
bo gran' vd to said wid > v and children.
G y o i under mv haul aud official
sign fine. OoL 21. 18SS
T. V. Hid. ordinary.
Dibuq , la.. 29, iua. —irlormttin
lira I '.!*, station foreman on the Boiling
ton road, siar'.ed for this city yesterday
afternoon on a band car, having with
him bis wi o, throe children and a
friend. Wneu roan ling a sharp
ctt.ve, they we<o run dnvn by a spe
cial tucking a quick ran between St.
Piul aud (fh'Otgo. The bsml car
was thrown Irom tha track, and Mrs.
Bsade au t bar two sons, aged seven
ami 'hirteen, were instantly killed.
Bsad j and the other man escaped.
Wtieu the train struct the oar, Mrs.
Baade throw her babr down a bank
twoiuy tear high and saved it# life.
Washington, 29, in>t —Many gov
ernment clerks are leaving the oitv for
the purpose of voting at homo in the
cmuxig election Pa i exodus is con
fined to the dmnooratioemployees.
Wasbing'on, 29, int—Surgen Llul
lon at Camp Perry, Fa., and Sargeon
(Juiqahardt at Live O ik, Fla., have
telegraphed to Snrgeon-Gen. Hamilton
that they have nudoubted evidence of
yellow fever in Baldwin, Fla.
Boston, 29, iust.— Twenty-one wo
men in convention, yesterday nomi
nated Mis* Allice D. Stockton of
Wheaton, as a candidt'o of the Eqaal
Rights Part for governor of Maeaachu
setts. The candidate ia ouly 26 yean
of age. The questiea will be is she
old enough.
Mon f gomery, Ala., 29, inst.—On
Saturday last, near Prattebnrg, in the
back woods, fifty tnilei sooth of Meat,
gotnery, William Terry, colored, was
cat to death by Jeho Strond, a con
tractor, who is getting ont oroßs- f iei
for tbe Northwest and Florida rail
road. Torry wanted his wsges Satur
day morning, and Strond, who is a
white man, told him ho woatd have to
wait nniil that evening. A quarrel
eusued. and tbe negro called Strond a
d——rd s b, wherenpon Stroud
drew a knife and stabbed Torry three
times in tbe region of the heart, kill
ing him almost instantly.
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