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1 HE PELH Journal.
VOL. 7, NO. 30
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4TH
Is Credit Day at this Bank.
This means that each depositor in our SAVINGS
DEPARTMENT will present his or her pass book at
the bank on that day to have the 4 per cent. Com¬
pound Interest that we pay entered thereon. It is
getting quite popular to have a Savings Account and
the list is steadilv growing. Get the habit.
FARMERS BANK OF PELHAM
Mr. Roy Webster Elected
First Assistant.
Mr. Roy Webster of Gaffney,
S. C , has been elected first as
sistant in Pelham High School
for the ensuing year. Mr. Web
ster takes the place of Prof,
Robert Arnold who was elected
but later resigned.
Mr. Webster is a graduate of
Wofford College, having taken
both the A. B. and A. M. degree
He also took a special course at
the state university at Co umbiu.
During his college course he
took a number of medals and
honors and is highly recommend¬
ed as a young man of exceptional
ability and fine character.
Charter Granted to The
Moultrie & Western
Road.
ATLANTA, Ga. July 28.—Sec
retary of State Philip Cook grant
ed a charter to the Moultrie &
Western railroad today. The
capital stock is fixed at $100,000.
The incorporators are J. L. Hand,
• W, S. Hill aud D. Vere&f L. Turner cFf* §1
Pelham; W. CT
Smith, C. W. Pidcock, A. Huber,
and B, H. Groover of Moultrie,
and T P. Hinman of Atlanta.
The road will be forty miles long
and will extend from Moultrie to
Pelham or Camilla.—Moultrie
Observer.
House Passed The Dam
Bill.
Washington, Aug. 8—The house
today passed the bill granting a
franchise for a dam across the
Savannah river, between Edge
field county in South Carolina
and Columbia county in Georgia.
Good Meetings.
Rev. J. C. Mays was at home
a few hours yesterday from Mt.
Olive church where he is now en¬
gaged in a revival meeting. Rev.
Mays reports that he has been
very successful in the meetings
he has held so far this summer.
He has held revival meetings
at Dellwood, Pine Level, Harts
field, Liberty 7 Hill and Mt. Olive
churches and reports 92 additions
to these five churches.
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FAN TAZ
“lie who drinks this drink they say, lives but to drink
and vote another day. 1 ’ Everybody is thinking it, FAN
TAZ, everybody is drinking it, FAN-TAZ. It‘s delightful
and cooling. The third la jj in the FAN-TAZ voting contest
for the ladies beautiful chatelane watch is getting more ex¬
citing. One vote with every drink.
Back your choice- Ilere‘s the way they are lined up
July 27.
Marie McDonald 144. Mell Pickron 135.
Ilene Mize 125. Wilma Twitty 124.
at the store of
HILL & KING.
The Old Reliable Druggists.
” 6 1909.
G. W. McCormick & Co.
This popular firm have rented
the store formerly occupied by
the Consolidated Clothing &
Drug Co., next door to their old
store and have moved their line
of dry goods, shoes etc. into it
They have secured the services
of an experienced dry goods sales¬
woman and will use this stor<
for the above named line only.
They will use their old stoiv
for groceries, and will carry a
much larger stock in both de¬
partments.
General Tax Act Adopted
By House.
After several days hard work the
house of representatives Monday
afternoon finished the general tax
act and the measure was then
adopted as amended by the vote
of 101 to 18. Upon motion of
Mr. Hall of Bibb, the tax act was
immediately transmitted to the
senate for consideration.
Before the measure was adopt¬
ed Mr Reid, of Cainpbelle, chair¬
man of the ways and means eom
fnittec,
favoring the bill generally, but
pointing out its defects. Mr.
Iteiddeplored the fact that the.
house had not seen fit to tax au
tomobfles, corporations a n d
others who can pay, while it
clam d for and secured a dog
tax rate of $1 per dog.
He declared that the tax should
have been increased on those who
are able to pay because the state
i3 facing a deficit of $850,000 and
needs all the money it can get.
Our New Ads.
We wish to call the attention
of our readers this week to the
new ads. in the Journal, all of
which may mean a saving to
you in the purchase of the various
things which they are advertising
to sell to the trading public.
The new ads. are as follows:
C. L. Collins
Hand Trading Co.
.J. T. Lane & Co.
J. M. Culpepper & Co.
G. \V. McCormick & Co.
A. B. Spence.
Powell vs. Pel tii| Immuiu
f act u ring | any.
The case of L. H against
Pelham Mauufact Ciu pan v
occupied the atten of City
Court of Camilla for .iU‘ days
this week. Judgt§#| was ren
dered in his favor fa k -'00( 00.
Powell had his injured in
a cording machine aWL a Cotton
mill in the fall of idtjpj The case
has been once to th-CCourt of
Appeals and was senj. |^ck for a
new trial. In t! former trial the
plaintiff recovered ' ip rdicjt for
$7,500.00 but the Cotut of -Ap¬
peals reversed this |8i%ment of
the lower court.
Powell claims the .. n\**.h’.ae on
which he was hurt, wa defective
and the company was negligent
in putting him to work as a green
hand on this defective(HwsJMne
Many witnesses were 'fitroduced
to prove the machine vw at good
condition, was of appr«->fre< mod
ern pattern and that l uwufl'avas
fully cautioned. All ib$st‘-points
were rigous'y contested 7 by the
plaintiff.
An interesting Iegalftilt was
had at the opening of *
when the defendants
lege to the array of 6, rrr on
the ground it was not jfc.M iiffrta,
the entire county. I1 >
the jury box the t
Pelham district had.fc^T
because they have to f
jury in City Court:
The other side t
point that the
not have a trial
! ' no demapd h»d h *
Judge Scaife disqualified on ac
count ™ToMw’ir'ied of the case Moie"''him having been
and
on account of his having previ¬
ously expressed an. opinion
as to the final outcome
Judge A. S. Johnston of the
City Court of Newton presid¬
ed and passed upon the case with¬
out the intervention of a jury.
Powell is represented by Pope
& Bennett, Cox & Peacock and
M. C. Bennett. The attorneys
for Pelham Manufacturing Co.
are B. J. Conyers, J. J. Hill and
Davis & Merry.
Road Tax Census.
Mr. G. A. McElvey has just
finished taking the road tax cen
sus for the Pelham district and
finds it a little off from last year.
This census is taken twice a
year. Last fall there were 500
persons subject to road tax in the
district whereas the figures for this
time show 486. The falling oil
is said to be due to the removal
of a sawmill or two from 4 .
district, a number of hands hav¬
ing moved away with the mill.
Mr. McElvey also reports that
the cotton crop in the district is
not good, there having been a
decided drop in the prospect in
the past week or two.
A Savannah Man For
McLendon Job.
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 2.—Judge
A. E. Moore, of Savannah, will
be the next member of the state
Railroad Commission if the leg¬
islature should sustaiu the order
of former Governor Hoke Smith
in suspending Commissioner Mc¬
Lendon and if Mr. McLendon
should net be abl6 to substanti¬
ate his claim to the office in
courts.
he time to find out whether your insurance is good or not
is before you have a fire and not after. The COM¬
PANIES we represent PAY their LOSSES. Insure
with us and YOUR interest will be taken care of.
Tornadoes are coming nearer—better take out
STORM insurance before it is too LATE.
Pelham Insurance Agency.
Office over Farmers Bank.
Pelham’s First Bale.
The first bale of this season’s
cotton was ginned and marketed
here Friday, July 80th.
The cotton was grown on the
farm of Messers. A. L. Brim and
\V B. Frazier near Cotton and
was sold to Hand Trading Co.
The bale weighed 875 pounds
and brought fifteen cents per
pound.
The second bale was brought
in Tuesday by Matt Banks, a
colored farmer living two miles
north of Pelham and sold for
12^ cents.
71.9 Is Estimate of U. S.
Crop Report.
Washington, Aug., 2 —T h <
crop reporting board of the bu¬
reau of statistics of the depart
ment of Agriculture reports the
average condition of the cotton
crop, on July 25, as compiled
from the figures sent in by its
agents throughout the cotton
'belt, as 71.9 per cent of normal
as compared with 74.6 on June
J5, 1909; 7« 7 81 per cent *36 on July - 21.
on. •"'< • - •’
per cent on July 25, 1906, and
80.6, the average for ten years.
New Lincoln Pennies
Issued By The Mint.
Philadelphia, August 2.—The
Philadelphia mint issued today
the new “Lincoln” pennies,
which the treasury department
has caused to be designed and
struck off in honor of the one
huudreth anniversary of the late
president's birth.
The head of Lincoln, which ap¬
pears on the coin, was designed
from a photograph in the posses¬
sion of Charles Eliot Norton.
The face is relaxed and smiling,
the artist having sought to re
produce particularly Lincoln’s
expression when talking to chil¬
dren.
The artist, Victor D. Brenner,
is 27 years old, and is a Russian
who came to this country as a
boy and sold matches in the
street and studied art at Cooper
Union.
Just Received
ALL THE LATEST POPULAR
Sheet Music,
VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL
10c A Copy.
Consolidated Clothing & Drug Co.
THE LEADING DRUGGISTS
PHONE 32.
$1.00 PER YEAR
C. L. Collins Enters Cot¬
ton Seed Market.
Mr. 0. L. Collins who is
with Everett Mercantile
C o m p a n y as book-keeper,
has this week announced that he
will lie in the market for the buy¬
ing of cottonseed. He will also
have cotton seed meal and hulls
for sale.
Mr. Collins will have a seed
hose just below the Hand Trading
Co’s, ginnery and proposes to pay
the highest market price for seed
this season.
This will no doubt have a stim¬
ulating effect and probably lie
the means of bringing more cot¬
ton seed to this market.
R aul the ad. of Mr. Collins on
another page of this paper.
Twin Ears of Corn.
Mr. N. G. Godwin handed in to
this office Monday morning a
twin ear of corn, with two well
developed ears in one shuck.
This corn was grown in a two
’acre patch in the corporate limits
of the. bHH.tuwu town turn and the uuw muu land has luib not nofc
h*>>n planted in anything IV.r
about seven years? 7 Mr. Godwin
says that the yield per acre will
be in the neigborhood of twenty
bushels.
From reports all over the
county the corn crop is unusually
good this year, and the farmers
will have to use very little of
the shipped corn as they have
been doing heretofore.
Near Beer Bill Passed.
With an amendment tacked on
allowing housewives to manufac¬
ture wines for domestic purposes,
the house of representatives Fri¬
day morning passed the Alexan¬
der substitute for section 7, of the
general tax act, which raises the
tax on manufacturers of near
beer from $500 to $1,000 per an¬
num and upon retailers * from
$200 to $500. The vote was 86
to 78.
The amendment allowing the
manufacture of light wines was
offered by Mr. Boyd, of Spauld¬
ing, and was adopted by the vote
of 71 to 56.
