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VOLUME IX—NUMBER 84
City ot Athens, Or., .
} To 8. B. Wingfield, Ordinary,
For Certificate arid Efeal. in the
matter of hoepital bill, #1.00.
Received payment,
8. B; Wingfield, Ordinary.
0. K.
u: 8. West, City Attorney. ■ '
Approved:
‘ W/F. Dorsey, Mayor.
The following letter from Judge
Wingfield shows'that it was posted
in accordance with law,' and that
there ia no'technicality In thia re
gard, _ ...
Now let the people gather^at the
Let The People Decjefe Tl;- Wi
: At The City Hall Tomorrow
city hall tomorrow.night and hear
the whole matter, and find the hoe- The tax que
pital. theme that ia a
Athena, Ga., July 30, ’09. »»<1 the stale an
Dr. A. C. Holiday,-Athena, Ga. Oppressive ts
Dear Sir:—Upon investigation 1 more revolution
find that I was mistaken when I cause lienee mi
certified to Messrs. Camak and Crane Monarchs tax
that the local hoepital kill had not to the extreme }
been pouted at the court house, an pinches then tin
no place to carry them, and of course ized to use this letter before the
The infant daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. X. G. Adams died yesterday
afternoon at the home of its parents
on College avenue.
ATHENS, GEORGIA, JULY 80, 1909.
PRICE gl.OO A YEAR
a hospital, and that the time was
now, and a call was made for a
meeting of the citizens, and
the best citizens of Athens gathered
at the city hall, and after discuss
ing the question and being more
- impressed With the necessity of the
hospital, this meeting appointed a
Committee to appear before council
andaskthat body to ask the legis
lature U> change the charter so as to
allow us to vote'on bonds to build
this hospital.
“All right,” says council,
will do as you request, but, you
must do something else- After you
> build your hospital with the bond
money, then you. must provide a
way for its maintenance, and the
only way to do that is by taxation.
Show us where we can get the mon-
' ey to keep it going until it becomes
self-sustaining. ^ Not only this, hut
to further safeguard it, it must lie
carried by two-thirds of the regis
tered voters of the city.”
After the council had said this,
the committee of citizens, composed
of the largest tax-payers in Athens
had Judge Andrew Cobb, of the
citizens committee, to draw the
bill, wliieff was submitted to and
orsed. by them, and then hand
ed to the council, end was sent to
Tiie Unjust and Unequal
; Taxation Laws of The State
come to Athens and be treated -Or J required by law. The same was
operated upon, but that they have properly posted and you are author- the people and for the jieople, where
Is
itf’McMahan.
-Like the average citizen,, we had' 01
rather jump on the mayor andte
council than to eat blackberry pie,
but at the same time we arc always
willing to give the devil his due.
They were not guilty this time.
They didn’t slip that increase in the
tax clause in there so as to catch
the people napping. It was a com
mittee of citozens, large tax-payers
and men with business sense, who
knew that H would he folly to put
fifty thoufv d dollars in a hospital
building'and not have a cent to op
erate it with. . I
There was nothing underhanded j
about it upon the part of anybody.
The placed it at 1.50; it ia now
1 1-4. It might take 1.30 or might
not, but they want to he on the safe
side, and not be like the man in
the Bible who tried to build a house
and didn’t finish it, and folks
laughed at him, saying he started
and didn’t have money to finish it.
After all the people, must settle the
entire matter at the ballot box.
Athens loses that much—hundreds,
maybe thousands, of dollars—that
would be brought into our city from
this source, to say nothing of the
immense benefit it would be to some
of our people.
There seems to have been some
kind of a misunderstanding about
the posting of the bill at the court
house. This morning’B Banner con
tains affidavits from Ordinary Wing
field and Mr. Elmer Cranford, the
clerk, that they bad never seen the
notice posted at the court house
door. We called upon Col. H. S.
West, the city attorney, and asked
him relative to it. Mr. West in
formed us that he posted the notice
at the court house door the second
day after it appeared in the Banner,
and that Judge Wingfield had given
a certificate to that effect with the
seal upon it, and the certificate
should non be in the hands of the
representative.
To further show that it was true
we called upon Treasurer Wood,
and he showed .us the following must
her.' -This ■waeher'is' a
iurse: .
mass meeting Saturday night'at the
city hall, and to have the same pub
lished in the local papers.
Witness my hand and official sig
nature the day and year above writ
ten. S. B. Wingfield, Sr.,
Ordinary Clarke Co. Ga.
With the official seal.
Of course little matters like this
may have escaped the memory of
Judge Wingfield, but at the same
time it shows that it is a mistake
about the hospital bill not being
properly posted.
Now, then, the people who favor
the hoepital are perfectly willing for
the increased tax part to be elimi
nated, as we understand that
guarantee will be made by those
who are competent to give a guar
antee, that the maintenance of the
hospital will not cost the city any
thing except for its paupers, and we
are sure that this should Batisfy all.
We are sorry of the dissension,
and hope it will redound to the good
of all, and above all, we need and
e a hospital, which will be
! climax to -the splendid
administration of our city.
We May go to the Tax Digest and
Publish the Amount of Personal
Property Given In.
we elect men from the people to
make laws and others to administer
them, there is a difference, a slight
difference. Money must be secured
to pay public officers, for public im
provements, for education, for pen
sions, and other necessaries to gov
ernment. The people must be taxed
for the support of these institutions
or we will go to pieces. Everybody
should pay tiieir just part of the
taxes. This is a divine law. Christ
said: “Render unto Caesar the
things that are Caesar’s, and unto
God the things that are God’s,”
and this meant to pay your taxes
We acknowledge that doubtless a
great deal of it goes to industrial
graft, which necesitates a continued
raise of the taxes. For instance,
Gov. Smith, in violation of the law,
gave Hooper Alexander, a member
of the legislature, a chance to make
#40,000 a year, which he was not
entitled to. While all this should
be regulated, yet at the same time,
we must pay our taxes or flounder,
and we cannot afford in do the lat-
Thid heing t rue; ihwvfe is-neces
sary to adopt some measures by
which the tax can be regularly dis-
ahout the way personal property has
been given in recently, ami it is
most astounding..
The tax digest is in the hands of
a public officer, and, of course, it is
the property of the public, and 1 ic
ing public property, then a newspa
per man has a right tu publish it,
and as we would like for all the
people to see what each other is giv
ing in as personal property, we are
-ntemplatiug going to the looks
and getting the names as they .p-l~ make , rf
pear alphabetically an«l publishing w j
from week to week until the entire
Off for Tybee
Next Wednesday afternoon, Au
gust 4th, at 4:35, city time, the
Central of Georgia Railway witi run
their last personally conduced ex
cursion to Tybee for thia season.
The fare is 85.00 round trip.
There will be ample sleeping ear
service and nothing will l»e lacking
plea.■'ant one. «
anticipate a few days
. , . . ... * re*t and recreation these hot days
hst has been gone through w.th >lhould |, yaU means avail themselyes
g.ving the names and personal prop-1 o{ thip opportunityi as lbe bathlngi
_. - _ # .. . , . . . you w ™ c . h . boating, tiding, etc., at this famous
tributed. . It is a well-known fact j way the straw is pointing. ihis resort are unexcelled
that there are various things which "ill make good reading and will 1* Engage y..ur sleeping !»erth and
escape that should not, and a way very enlightening, and will let us ‘prepare for a delightful trip. The'
should be prepared to get at them, all know who is worth anything and the (Vntral will take olea^-
who is pcetendiug; ‘ * 1
There Wanother way to get m<*
just taxes. Refuse to allow a child
to enter school unless the na
the fathe|f?mother or guardian ap
pears on The tax digest. This would
bring thousands of dollars into the
state that it doe- not get now. This
would work in harmony with com
pulsory education.
Take farm lands, for instance
Doubtless you know of instances
where a man owns thousands of
acres of land, with thousands of
dollars of improvements upon it.
You might shake $50 an acre at that
man for a whole year, anxious to
buy it at that, but he will laugh at
you, but when the tax is returned
he gives it in at $5 or $ti an acre.
Is that justice?
Just received a car load «»f Texaco
Roofing. We sell it under a guaran
tee, and save you the middle man’s
profit. Dozier Lumter Company.
Mrs. Ben Davison, of near Shady
Dale, is a visitor to Athens this
week. She is here to see her father,
Mr. Aiken, and to overlook the city.
Her son will enter the University in
the fall. Mrs. Davison tells us that
it may be that at some early day
they may move to Athens, which
we hope may prove true, us this ad
dition would !>e gladly welcomed by
our city.
Texaco Roofing. Dozier Lumber Co.
The Summer School closes one of
its most prosperous sessions today,
and another large number of people
will go out to advertise Athens.
ure in furnishing all information.
For sixty days we will give a
special prices on 'Texaco Roofing.
Dozier Lumber Company.
Mrs. M<
Dim., a
A ibis ci
left
ta.mwgri t.
n, of Chattan
i-ter of Mr. J. B. (
y. died yesterday-
n the afternoon f**r <
attend the funeral.
In the city you pay at an assessed
valve. If you are just across the
line from your neighbor in thecoun
try you pay twenty times as much
Is that right ? If tax, amounting to
an average of 81 an acre on the
land in Georgia was collected you
would see something happen in the
way of helping the treasury. But
they seem to think that nothing but
a business tax and high valuations
on city real estate must bear the
burdens, which, in our opinion, is
not right. If the man with his
thousands of acres of land was forced
to pay one-third its valuation it
would indeed help things wonder
fully.
There is another thing on this
tax question which we touched upon
last week, and that is personal
property. People value their oath
very highly upon some things, but
as sure as you live they wink at it
jghert it comes to _ . We., have
been hearing quite* - a great MeaT Texaco Roofiftg. Don^r Lumber C’e. DoTie^l^mber Co.
The little five mon
of Mr. and Mrs. A
died yesterday. The
ie -yin pa thy of ai
•ath.
Little Louise Bray, the daught
ter of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Bray,
this city, after a lingering ilines
died yesterday.
Mr. Ameriru* -S. Webb, of Cor
merce, shot himself in the head ye
terday, and died soon after.
M
Since writing tbe above it seems
that Meeera. James \V. Camak and
J. R. Crane, who have been very
active in eeouring a petition against
the increase, have found out that
the bill was not poeted at tbe court
house, in accordance with law, and
they think that settles the matter.
. It may tor the preeent, but you may
^reet assured that the people of Ath
ens are going to have a hoepital and
that at no distant day.
It K takes a raise ot the tax to
support it,' why let it be raised, but
we must have a hoepital and the
fight tor it will be on in earnest,
now., We ate opposed to the pro
miscuous raising of tax, but we are
alto opposed to seeing the city die
with the dry rot because there if not
sufficient money to oany it on. .
It may be that some retrench
ments can be made in the city, but
- we doubt it. This is an age of pro-
greeslveneea, and the town that sits
down and refuses to do anything for
fear of raising the tax a little,-must
get left In the push, and we do not
want to see Athens with her boasted
progrenivenees get in the rut of the
smaller towns. Atlanta doesn’t col-
Announce for the Week Important Clearance Sale ot Merchandise in all Departments
Hundreds of thrifty buyers recognize the importance of the hurry out prices we mark on these Clearance Lots.
Coat Suits
Misses and women’s Spring Tailored Suits at a price to effect a
complete clearance.
Our Motto:
Never carry garments ouer from season to season.
All Coat suits which formerly sold for
20.00 v Choice Price
25.00\ e
30.001 v
32.50
35.00/
Millinery
Sacrificed
/
Another one of those Sensational Trimmed Hat Sales
AU Hats are this season’s product, stylish and up-to-date in
every particular*
Trimmed Hats that formerly sold at 8.00, 10.00, 12.50 and
and 15.00. Choice price
$4.98
They cannot possibly remain long with us at this figure. We
urge an early purchase*
One lot of Ready-to-Wear Hats which sold for 1.00, 1.50
and 2.00 at
68 Cents
Clearance Price on all
Lingerie Dresses
All bran new goods, this season’s product, fresh,
up to date and made of fine stylish material.
Made up Dresses for less than cost ol the bare
material.
We Mention One Lot
A $7.50 Dress in White, Pink, Light Blue for
$3.98
’er of $10.00 an<
$5.90
Sensational offer of $10.00 and $12.50 Wish
Suits at
This underprice offering is sure to receive a
tremendous response. -
All Linen Coat Suits and Dresses
Thrown on Sale at Similar Reduction
CLEARANCE SALE OF DUTCH COLLARS
25c Linen Dutch CoUars. All sizes for 10c.
(This Week Only)
Silk Dresses
Silk Dresses that we are willing to sell at a great loss, as we
must start the season with a
Complete New 5tock
Every Silk dress that formerly sold for
20.00\ Choice Price
25.00 \ *
30.00 I 4>
32.50
35.0Q
Clearance of Wash Goods
/
and Domestics
8 and 10c Muslins, Lawns, Batistes _
14c Muslins, Lawns, Batiste __
20c Muslins, Lawns, Batiste
25c Muslins, Lawns, Batiste
Embroidered Swies, 50c Silk Muslins, French Organdies
Choice of our entire line of Plain and Fancy Dress Linen which
sold at 48c and 50c per yard, at 32c
9c
15c
3l)c
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