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VOL. ONE. THE BANKS OBSERVER. ** ><BBr . 1 ! 111 j l 1 Jit" ll tJWMWwyawaWWWWMBMeiIMW oa. PUBLISHED WEDNESDAY -50 Cts. Per Year. SnEiwcription in Advance. Looals 8 Gents Per Line First Inser tion. ErtoH Additional 5 Gents. Entered as Second Class Matter at the Homer, Ga., Post Office. -7 no. Barton. - Proprietor. 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. NO. 27