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Y 'v ■ The Pelhaiin Jour ,,gmIte’V T t - '• \ -V;. . v ' " VOL. 6. NO. 32. 1 armers Bank of Pelham, - Pelham, Ga* Condensed Statement of Condition at the close of business May 16, 1908. LIABILITIES RESOURCES Capital Stock............................$100,000.00 Loans............... $239,742.96 Surplus and Profits................. 49,407.48 Stocks and Bonds.................... 3,000.00 Deposits................................... 100,783.36 Furniture and Fixtures........ 1,732.95 Bills Payable. ......................... 55,000.00 Cash and in Banks ............. 60,664.93 $305,140.84 $305,140.84 FARMERS BA.INK OF PELHAM OFFICERS DIRECTORS J L. HAND, President J. L. HAND, J. M. HURST, J. V. EVERETT, Vice President. ,T. W. EVERETT, H. L. MCDONALD, B. U, Ot RRV, Cashier W. S. HILL, E. M. SMITH, THUS. A. BARROW, Asst.Cashier D. I.. TURNER. BROWN--GRIGGS--PARK* Joe Brown Has Landslide, Jim Griggs Sweeps the District and Frank Park Wins by a Handsome Majority* It was a spectacular finish. The land slide of two years ago slid the other way and there is no consolation for the Smith supporters but the promised bread and prosperity. Mr. Smith is munching his loaf today but it is wry bread. He has been de¬ feated by the man he denounced from every stump in the state two years ago and by the vote of the people who wildly applauded his words of censure. Tom Watson has additional proof that he holds the balance V°JL in Georgia and perba once practicing the art of walking the Tom Watson chalk line. Two years from now look for a democratic consolidation of po¬ litical energy calculated to break the power of the ‘‘sage of Mc¬ Duffie.” Browns majority, it now ap¬ pears, will be as great as was Hoke Smiths two years ago and the in¬ dications are he has carried nearly as many counties as did Smith in that campaign. In 1906 Hoke Smith carried 123 counties. The final count cannot be given for several days but these figures are conceded by the Smith forces to be not far wrong. Mr. Smith will he supplanted by the man he dismissed from office and this has been determin¬ ed by the people within less than a year from the time he so dram¬ atically gave Mr. Brown his “walking papers.” The large counties, including Fulton, Chatham and Bibb went for Brown. Jim Griggs carried several counties by big majorities that will overcome the 13 counties car¬ ried. by Roddenbery by a majority of four or five thousand. After months of the most earnest cam¬ paigning Judge Roddenbery goes down in defeat realizing how ■close of the to second the hearts district of the is “Sunny people j ^* 111 ' i Judge Roddenbery’s last speeches in Pelham won for him many votes but he was “up against” one of Georgia’s best congressmen, and one who re¬ tains great personal popularity among his constituents. Much interest was manifested in the judicial race. Judge Frank Park of Worth County polled a majority in the circuit that is - . ......— - y " * ^ " '' —- PELHAM, GEORGIA, FR T 5)AY, JUNE 5, 1908. Church Ann^uncement. At the Mefchoai6t liurch Sun clay morning ni^mji'; the );>••'! lor will dis cusR.“Church "Ship, Its de¬ mands, ResponsrLilitibS and Op¬ portunities. In 1b 1'. e -afternoon there will be a spe-m. service for mothers, wives an sweethearts, led by Mrs. White At night Rev. "L i. Ratcliffe will speak on “iiidivi. nal Respon¬ sibility.” The prove; :ted services begin at this 0 ?h Sunday, June 14, with Rev. f ns. R. Jen¬ kins to assist. Don’t forget to eofue Hand Trad ing Company to .Iniy your boys clothing. " M J* ..... - ■ - ----------" - tr w .r ------------- the bulletins -we re* r|ad until long after midnight to thegrowd that thronged the street, The bulle¬ tins were taken by'. Cl A. Bowen and read from a second story win¬ dow to the crowd IhJow. The euthnsiam ini Pelham was but a part‘of mo&Uintense inte¬ rest manifested iStJPiy town and city in the state. Plyery inch of ground was fought’over tlx* gov¬ ernorship and the result was in doubt until late at night. Everybody is ; I; the contest is over and and dis quiet the may n< Je ""i -will thing with- of past, in a few days "down to their peaceful pi I?the eam i in his .... able been fought out in any state. estimated at 500. He carried his home county by a majority- of 1100 vyhich gave him a tremen¬ dous advantage. He carried the fallowing counties: Worth, Grady, Turner. Judge Spence carried Mitchell, Decatur, Baker, Calhoun, and Dougherty but his majorities were not large enough to over¬ come the Worth county vote. The contest at Pelham was ex¬ ceedingly close. When 800 votes had been counted out Smith was QDly four ahead and Griggs and fonNKO —«»* -frjgjL-" __ ."»•- “7 • - votes the candidates crawled apart but it was close to the fin¬ ish. There were 485 votes polled in the Pelham precinct. It was possibly the most in¬ tense political battle ever waged in the state. No pains were spared to stir the voters to the highest enthusiasm. In Atlanta the night before election an immense torchlight procession was formed by the adherents of Brown and marched the streets of the city amid the wildest enthusiasm. In each of the large cities of the state the supporters of the rival candidates for governor held im¬ mense rallies and organized for the fight. A shower of telegrams from different headquarters were sent during the day to every town in the state and bore messages cal¬ culated to stir the enthusiasm and encourage the workers at the polls. Almost before the polls were opened in Pelham a Brown telegram announced, that the friends of “Little Joe” were at the polls all over the state and that Fulton would go for Brown by 4000 majority. Constant communication was kept up over the district by those interested in the congressional fight and by those in the circuit ittterested in the fighfc for the jndgeshjp . Telegrams and tele phone messages every few minu tes bore news of the battle in other quarters Many workers were at the polls in Pelham and intense interest was manifested in the fight for the judgeship and the congression¬ al race as well as for the gover¬ norship. A special Western Union wire was placed in the office of the ed¬ itor of the Journal and from there PELHAM INURANCE AGENCY. ~~ : * —" * ' -'>■ ?■" ; -V INSURANCE AGAINST Fire WL LrigHtning Tornados. We represent only the best and strongest companies and solicit your business. Resourses of companies represented over $ 150 ,000.000 Offices at Pelham State Bank C. G. Lott, Sec. & Treas. ff. C. Twitty Jr., Manager, Our First Melon. Mr. S. T. Williams one of the progressive farmers living east of Pelham-, brought to this office the first ripe melon we have seen this season. It weighed about twenty pounds and came from a field of 35 acres from which Mr. Williams expects to load a car for shipment early next week. Loading Melons. Mr. E. M. Kennington, Jr. en¬ joys the distinction of loading the first car of melons for ship¬ ment from this point this season. He isjoading, a car of the Rattle¬ snake variety. Mr. Kennington says that he got a couple of ripe melons from his patch May 80th. The melons were planted in Feb¬ ruary. This is unusually early for shipments and the melons will bring a fancy price. Operation for Piles will not be ne ! f * ? ns * Co. ^TTTTTTTI I I TTTTITTTTTTYTTTY TTTTTTTT X XTXXZXZ XXXXXXXXX^ DON’T PUT IT OFF I There is nothing that will give you more satisfaction than to buy your drugs from us. Come in and get ac¬ quainted. Bring us your prescriptions. We understand the art of compounding. jj mLL&KING 0 H H h The Old Reliable Druggists. m H H Jifxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxzzxxxxzxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxii ' ' N1NILLTS Mil ALWAYS FRESH. s CONSOLIDATED CLOTHING & DRUG COMPANY. i TKs Leading Druggists. Phone 32 . $1.00 PUR YEAR. The Local Vote. Although there are 080 regis¬ tered white voters in this pre¬ cinct there were only 485 votes polled in the election yesterday. It was thought that on account the great interest in the elec¬ tion there would be polled at least votes but this expec¬ tation was not realized. Much interest was manifested about the polls but at all times the crowd was orderly and the election passed off without unpleasant in¬ The local vote in the Pelham district for the contested offices was as follows: M. Brown received 204 Hoke Smith ” 225 R. E. Park 286 W. J. Speer Cl Fuller Callaway 327 R.H Jenkins 45 W. D. Brauun XSgC- 114 Geb. Hillyec R..-JT R. mt Wiley Williams ” 256 S. A. Roddenbery ” 209 J. M. Griggs ” • 216 W. N. Spence ” 180 Frank Park ” 247 The election was held by Z. H. Jones, T. O. Battle, D, M. Rogers, A. J. Porter, W. M. Bunch, W. C. Twitty, Jr. Pelham Telephone Co., Sends Out No More Collectors, And Raises Rates, We have been put to a great d( a’ of expense in rebuilding our exchange and putting into it much more expensive apparatus, and vve find that our expenses are aggregating more to. keep our ex¬ change in good order than our in¬ come amounts to, therefore we are compelled to raise our rates to $1.75 for residence phones and $2.75 for business phones. How¬ ever as we will not send out any more collectors, which has been quite an expense to us, we will al¬ low a discount of 25 cents on each phone, payable at our office on or before the 10th of each month in advance; under no cir¬ cumstances will we allow any discounts after the 10th. We have been requested by several of our subscribers to mail out their statements, as they were troubled with our collectors at times when it was worth more to them in their business. When you have tolls we will mail you a statement of same, but will not mail statements for phone rents as you know what they are. This is the last week that our collector will be around, so please pay him, or call at our office and pay our cashier by the 10th. Yours very truly, W. N. Drake, G. M.