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DRAWN BY GORDON NYE. X • ’ . ,
Hoke Smith, in Summerbille Speech, Pleads for Schools
Summerville, Ga., Sept. 14. — The
presence at Summerville today of
Governor Hoke Smith attracted sev
eral thousand people from Chatlvoga,
Gordon, Walker and Floyd counties
to the most successful and interest
ing educational raillies in the history
of northwest Georgia. The gover
nor’s speech was the principal fea
ture of the program, but the spelling
bee, the songs, recitations and decla
mations by the pupils of the Summer
ville High School were not without
attraction, nor did they fail to re
ceive well merited applause from an
admiring and sympathetic public.
The speech of Mrs. Walter B. Hill,
wife of the lamented and beloved
chapfiellor of the State Vniversi
wa«T also hear dwith deep inter
Atlanta, Ga., Thursday, September 19, 1907.
and keen appreciation by the crowd.
Mrs. Hill spoke under the auspices
of the Ladies’ School Improvement
Club, with which she is identified,
and her timely plea for better condi
tions in the schools went home to
her hearers.
Big Picnic Dinner.
The exercises were interrupt c l at
the conclusion of Governor Smith’s
speech by a picnic dinner, which was
thoroughly enjoyed by the great
crowd. Practically evern one* had
brought a basket of good things to
eat, and these were spread under the
shade of trees about the schoolhouse.
The governor reached Summerville
this morning at eight o’clock from
Rome, where he spent last night. He
was met at the station by a commit-
tee consisting of Rev. J. G. Hunt, N.
K. Biting, T. P. Taylor, Mayor C. D.
Rivers, W. L. Gamble, J. L. Pollock,
L. M. Ballenger, J. H. Thomas, C. D.
Harper, G. M. Christian, R. Y. Wyatt,
R. E. Echols, F. W. Copeland, San
ders Walker, W. B. Whittenb irg and
others.
Though it was still early, many
farmers from the* outlying districts
had already reached here, and the
governor was given a cordial recep
tion as he made his way to the Gil
bert hotel, where he stopped as the
guest of his friend, Mr. Gilbert,' the
proprietor. He later spent some
time holding an informal reception
at the hotel, receiving many callers.
In his canvass for office the gover
nor swept Chattooga and adjoining
Price five Cents.
counties and the informal reception
was much like an experience meet
ing. His supporters congratulated
upon his election assured him of their
continued co-operation and compli
mented him upon the success with
which the reforms he advocated have
already met in the state. He was be
sieged with inquiries as to his future
political career. They wanted to
know if he would be a candidate for
the senate. To all such inquiries he
gave the same non-committal answer:
J‘l am busy now serving the people
as governor, and have no time to
think of my future plans,” he would
say in substance. “I have my hands
full, and am trying to make good
my promises.”
(Continued on page Twelve.)