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The Newnan News
Issued Every Friday.
J. T. FAIN, Editor and Publisher
SUBSCRIPTION RATE. $1.00 PER YEAR.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF COWETA COUNTY.
’Phono No. 20.
OFFICE UP STAIRS IN THE WILCOXON BLDG
Now tlio icc man will have his
inning.
The glad season when the base
ball rooter rooteth is again upon
us.
The Carroll county grand jury
has recommended a >*250,000 bond
issue for the improvement of the
public highways of that county.
In Crisp county the Howell men
are trying to effect a combine with
the Kstill forces in order to pre
vent Hoke Smith from carrying
that county. The Cordele Ram
bler says the Howell men of Crisp
county will vote for Kstill, but
that Hoke Smith will defeat the
combination hv a safe majority.
The Carrollton Free Press is
authority for the statement that
Hoke Smith will receive eighty
per cent, of the votes polled for
governor in Carroll county. As
the Free Press is not supporting
Smith, this is an unbiased opinion
and may be regarded as a frank
summary of the situation in Car-
roll.
Here and there over the State a
newspaper is found insisting that
there arc no issues involved in the
present campaign,and making that
contention a pretext for assuming
a neutral position in politics. Such
a newspaper will generally be
found occupying the position of a
cipher and a coward in its com
munity. There ait* issues in this
campaign; and it is the duty of
« very honest newspaper to seek to
understand the issues and throw
the weight of its influence on the
right side. Hut whcthci light 01
wrong, honest men admire the
honest, fearless, agiessive newspa
per; and they despise the moral
coward in journalism as heartily as
they condemn the course of 1110
professional trickster ol newspa
perdom.
RURAL R0UTE8 IN DANGER.
The Huchanan meeting scored a
marked success. The oratorical
contest was above the average of
contests of that character; and the
trend of the whole occasion was
onward and upward in the march
of educational progress.
The News’ editor had the honor
of serving with Prof.J. S. Stewart,
of the University of Georgia, and
Rev. W. H. Dillard, of Carrollton,
as a member of the committee se
lected to award two gold medals
and two handsome prizes to con
testants representing seven high
schools, situated in Cedartown,
Huchanan, Dallas, Douglasville,
Tallapoosa, Hremen and Villa
Rica. Coweta county people will
be pleased to learn that the hoys'
medal was won by the representa
tive of Hamilton College, at Hre-
man, a school presided over by
Prof, H. S. Howden, formerly of
Turin, this county. The boys’
prize was awarded to Ccdartown’s
representative, the girls’ medal to
Tallapoosa's representative, and
the girls' prize to Huchatian's rep
resentative.
The editor of the News was
much impressed with the spirit,
labors and progress of the Educa
tional Association and with the
educational enthusiasm in evidence-
in that section of the State. Re
sults of the Association’s efforts
are already apparent, and greater
enthusiasm and greater results are
certain to follow in the future.
The News would be pleased to
see an organization of secondary
schools in this section of Georgia,
composed of schools in Coweta,
Heard, Troup, Meriwether, Spald
ing, Fayette and Campbell conn
ties. If properly organized and
rightly conducted, an association
of this character would lend won
derful impet us to educational prog
ress in Coweta and adjoining conn
ties. The News trusts that edu
cational leaders of this section will
consider this matter and hopes
that an association will he organiz
ed at some future date. This pa
per pledges its hearty support and
co-operation to the success of any
movement of this kind in Coweta
and neighboring counties,
The Scourge of the Ages.
Elsewhere in this weeks News
is reprinted an editorial utterance
ol the Atlanta Constitution, under
the caption, "The Rural Free De
livery Crisis." The people of
Coweta county are urged to read
this editorial, and articles of simi
lar character, and study their
meaning and importance. The
editorial mentioned contains some-
statements from our own Congress
man, Hon. W. C. Adamson. Con
gressman Adamson has written a
letter to Mrs. W. Y. Atkinson,
embodying the same facts and
thoughts contained in his utter
ances quoted in the Constitution.
Congressman Adamson’s letter
leads to the conclusion that the
existence of some of Coweta’s
rural routes may be endangered at
an early date. Our citizens should
arouse and do all in their power to
aid every carrier in the county to
make a record that will demon
strate to the postofhee department
that all of our routes are needed
and that the patronage accorded
them justifies the expenditure nec
essary in maintaining them.
FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF
8CH00LS.
HI6H
It was the good fortune of the
editor of the News to be in attend
ance at the second annual meeting
and oratorical contest of the First
Association of Secondary Schools
of Georgia, at Huchanan, April
13th. This Association is com
posed of high schools in Folk,
Paulding, Haralson, Douglas and
Carroll counties; and its object is
the development of secondary
schools and the advancement of
educational mteiests in that sec
tion of the State.
"Two Waifs of King Alcohol,"
is a reproduction of one of the re
markable specimens of Dore’s
genius depicting the indirect «• viIs
of the traffic. These rags and pal
lid faces tell the story of thous
ands of the hopeless victims of
strong drink; but the picture tells
only a part of that story. Were it
1 complete, it would depict health in
j ruins, hope destroyed, affections
crushed, prayers silenced, homes
desolated. The background would
have to be the Vanishing vision of
j a happy past; the foreground the
horrible certainity of unending
I woe—prison houses with doors
opening but one way. The canvas
would be peopled with men whose
I shattered forms are tenanted by
tortured souls; with little children,
on whose lips the smiles seldom
1 play; with women,in whose cheeks
| furrows have been ploughed by
■ tears wrung from breaking hearts.
It we could paint that scene we
l could see what God continually
sees in thousands of homes in our
beloved land.
King Alcohol is the enemy of
the home and of the nation. The
overthrow of negro slavery from
j among English speaking people
i was a wonderful achievement in
history, but a ten-fold greater
curse than negro slavery is the
curse of the bottle, It enslaves
the brain, it tortures the consci
ence, it robs the child, it breaks
the mother’s heart, it has power to
cast body and soul into the pit, it
fills our prisons and institutions
for the destitute, It does not end
with the drunkard’s death; the
beast stretches forth his skeleton
finger from the grave and palsies
the brain of his descendants and
sends them jabbering idiots to the
insane asylum.
It is obvious from these words
that alcohol is no modern devil.
I Solomon draws a picture of the
twentieth century drunkard, his
household and the friends he af-
, diets. One of the worst dangers
to be dreaded in eastern travel is
the bite of the adder. This ser
pent is liable to spring from a stone
pile at any time and sink its fangs
into the flesh; often producing
death. Such a viper, in the ex-
petience of Solomon, was alcoholic
drink. "At last it biteth like a
serpent and stingeth like an ad
der." It has not changed its char
acter. Champagne at night means
real pain in the morning. Strong
drink, then as now, unbridled the
tongue, inflamed the passions and
stirred up contentions. Now, as
then, reason is dethroned and the
drunkard "babbles” unintelligent,
vile and foolish talk. The drink
ing debauch often ends in a brawl
in which ‘•wounds" are inflicted for
which there is no real occasion,
bloodshot eyes (redness of eyes)
and a bronzed nose still advertise
the concealed habits of those who
"tarry long at the wine” or “go to
seek mixed (drugged) wine."
Alcohol stupefies the senses and
destroys the mental vision so that
the drunken man responds not to
warnings or blows; when he does
come to himself, the sense of
decency is lost, lor he returns to
his unclean habit again; "as the
dog to his vomit," He is like a
man insensible to danger on a
storm tossed vessel; reason is de
throned. The drink habit has lost
none of its diabolical character.
The whole scene here depicted is a
picture now only too often realized.
Disfigured faces, defiled clothing,
wrecked hopes and lost manhood
are in every land the product and
proofs of the unchristly liquor
traffic.
"Wine is a mocker,” so said
Solomon, and so say we. It still
victimizes and dupes its slaves. It
awakens expectations which it
does not fulfill; it steals our crown
breaks up our self-control and
sends us to a premature grave.
The drunkard sens visions; he
thinks himself strong and increas
ed in goods when his family is
starving; he thinks that he can
stop al any time, when in fact iiis
habit is breeding a disease which
is destroying his physical consti
tution and his will power. What
at first would have been easy, be
comes difficult, and what was dif
ficult, becomes impossible. That
the di ink habit is the shortest road
to the poor-house we cannot doubt,
with so many illustrations about
us. One man drinks a farm, an
other a business, compelling the
whir and children to struggle with
the throes of poverty.
Elsewhere Solomon yokes the
drunkard with the glutton; and
very properly. Over-eating and
over-drinking go together, and the
results are in some respects the
same—“rags.” "The drunkard
and the glutten shall come to
poverty; and drowsiness shall
cloth a man with rags." A
“drowsiness,” an unfitness and
aversion to work follow excess in
eating and drinking which destroy
the habit of industry and invite
poverty.
What, too, is individual becomes
national. In the end the nation
participates in the vices and vir
tues, the blessings and woes of the
individual. A drinking people are
in the end an incapable people.
Their wealth declines, their indus
tries pass over to more sober
rivals, their qualities of brain and
muscle gradually disappear. Ruin
comes because self-indulgence has
sapped away the life and dissipat
ed the energy which makes men
strong* The nation prospers in
proportion as its citizens are
abstemious.
A great writer anxious to defend
the Hible for not devoting more
space to the subject of temperance,
has said that probably drunken
ness was not so common then and
that Jesus may never have seen a
drunken man. Hut if space
given to this subject is limited, the
lhble speaks with no uncertain
sound. The Hible vigorously con
demns drunkenness. Look at a
few sentences and see what the
Bible says about the drink itself:
"Wine is a mocker, strong drink is
raging; and whosoever is deceived
thereby is not wise.” Prov. 20:1.
"At the last it biteth like a ser
pent and stingeth like an adder.”
Prov. 23:32. What it says about
drinking: “And be notdrunk with
wine, wherein is excess, but be
filled with spirit.” Eph. 5:18. "He
not among wine bibbers; among
riotous eaters of flesh.” Prov.
23:20. “Look not thou upon the
wine when it is red, when it giveth
his color in the cup, when it mov-
eth itselt aright.” Prov. 23:31.
About the drinker: "Woe unto
them that rise up early in the
morning, that they may follow
strong drink; that continue until
night, till wine inflame them.”
Isa 5:11. "Woe uivto them that
are mighty to drink wine, and men
of strength to mingle strong
drink.” Isa 5:22. "Who hath woe?
who hath sorrow? who hath con
tentions? who hath babbling? who i
hath wounds without cause? who
hath redness of eyes? They that
tarry long at the wine; they that
go to seek mixed wine.” Prov.
23:29 30.
"Envyings, murders, drunken
ness, revellings and such like: of
the which I tell you before as I
have also told you in time past,
that they which do such things
shall not inherit the kingdom of j
God.” Gal. 5:21.
That which brings an everlast
ing curse upon men and shuts for j
them the gate of heaven, the;
Christian will not touch; nor can !
profits from it find place in his!
pocket. "Ye that love the Lore 1 ,
hate evil.”—The Rams Horn.
Crip Quickly Knocked Out.
"Some weeks iiKo during the severe
winter weather both my wife and my
self contracted severe colds which speed-1
ily developed into the worst kind of la j
Krippe with all its miserable symn-
toms," says Mr. J. 8. Eglest-on of Maple |
Landing, Iowa. "Knees and joints ach- >
illK, muscles sore, head sto|fped up, eyes '
and nose running, with alternate apella
of chills and fever. We bcRan usIiik 1
Chamberlain's Gough Remedy, aiding
the same with a double dose ol Chain-
berlaln’s Stomach and Liver Tablets,
and by ils liberal use soon completely |
knocked out the (trip " Sold by Dr. 1
Paul Pcniston, Newnan. Ga.
—STATIC M ENT—
of the
CONDITION OF
1 Sank of Grantville
Lorn tod at Grantville, (4a.,
at tin* (’lose of Rusim'ss April 0, li)0(».
KKSOL’HCKS.
Loans and discounts
Demand loans ....
Overdrafts
Banking House
Furniture and Fixtures
Due from Banks and Bankers in the
State
Due from Banks and Bankers in
other States
Gurreney
Gold
Silver, Nickels and Pennies
Interest Paid
Total .... $
LIABILITIES.
Capital Stock paid in t
Surplus Fund
Undivided Profits, 1«*hh Current Ex
penses and Taxes Paid
Individual deposits subject to check
Cashier’s Checks
Bills Payable, Including Time Oerfci-
ticatcs representing borrowed
money
POTTS AND PARKS
WE SELL
Oxfords and Shoes
25c to 50c per pair
off at this sale : : :
One Thousand Pairs
Ladies’ Oxfords and Slippers go on sale SAT
URDAY, APRIL 14th.
$3.00
$2.50
We please the young and old
in style, quality and price.
$2.00
$3.50
Krippendorf, Dittmann, Colonial and High Art
Shoes are sold only by
POTTS 6 PARKS \
Phone|109 Bay Street Newnan, Ga. q
mu
1,047
i.OOO 00
l.'HNHlO
’,844 To
3,780 47
Total
$ HU,652 17
With the Exchanges
State ok (Ikokoia—County of Coweta:
Before me came F. T. M each am, Cashier of
Bank of Grantville, who, being duly sworn,
says that the above and foregoing statement is !
a true condition of said Bank, as shown by the
books of file in said Bank.
K. T. MBACHAM, Cashier. I
Sworn to unit xubscribud before m«, thi* 1
tilth day of April. l#0fl.
O. P. CLOWEU,
N. P. & Ex. Officio J. P. 1
Mrs. Lucius Arnold, from near
Newnan, visited Mrs. R. M. Ware,
Monday.—Hogan.svilie News.
Miss Sallie Archer, of Newnan,
was the guest of Miss Pearl Zach
ary Monday night.—Carroll Free
Press.
Miss Onie Hrannon.of Moreland,
will be the guest this week of her
sister, Mrs. Benjamin Smith Bar
ker.—Atlanta Sunday Journal.
Miss Nelia l.nu Walton, of Now
nan, is theguest ot Mbs Katherine I
Wooten until after the Easter;
holidays,—Atlanta Sunday J. ur-
nal.
Superintendent Hugh Hill de
clined to leave West Point to ac-1
cept a similar position with the
LaGrange electric light plant.—
West Point News.
sociation. The object ot the As
sociation is to further the interests
of its members; to secure equali
zation and reductions of freight
rates, etc., etc.
STATEMENT
of the
CONDITION OF THE
Miss Hattie Ellis, of Newnan,
has been visiting her sister, Mrs.
j J- S. Pierring, at Lone Oak. She
Moreland Banking* is awdcome g uestin our midst
0 for everybody loves Miss Hattie.—
Company Lone Oak letter in Hogansviile
News.
Ijocnted at Moreland, Ga.,
at the Close of Business, April fi, ltlCKi.
RESOURCES
; I,mins und discounts .$ 1H
! I-em and Loans rt
Overdrafts S
Due front Banks and Bunkers in the
State 4
Dne from Banks and Rankers in oth
er States ... 8
Currency 1
Silver, nickels and pennies
Interest paid
ISO 00
Total * 40 054 02
LIABILITIES
Capital stock paid in t 26 O00 00
Undivided profits, less current ex
penses and taxes paid....
Individual deposits subject to check
Bills payable. Including time certifi
cates representing borrowed money
1 Ofd 43
8 852 50
5 150 00
Total t 40 054 02
; Statb or Okoboia—County of Coweta:
Before me came H. Abner Camp, Cashier of
The Morelsnd Banking Company, who being
duly sworn, says that the above and foregoing
statement is a true condition of said Bank, as
shown by the books of file in said Bank.
H. Abxbr Camp, Cashier.
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 14th
day of April, 190*.
R. F. Braxroh,
S P. Coweta County.
Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Addy will
leave next week via Savannah for
a pleasure trip to New York,
Philadelphia and Washington.
While in Philadelphia they will be
the guests of Rev Hugh Morris.
—Atlanta Sunday Journal.
Graves’ Atlanta daily paper will
carry no liquor advertisements.
The West Point News will not
carry them any longer. The New
nan News does not carry them.
We have never carried them and
are still living and in good health.
Money cannot buy space for liquor
advertisements in our columns —
Hazlehurst News.
J. E. Zachary, Esq., proprietor
of the Newnan Marble Works, at
tended a meeting of retail marble
dealers of Georgia, in Atlanta last
Saturday, and assisted in organiz
ing the Retail Marble Dealers’ As
(Communicated).
To the Voters of Coweta Co.
I ask you to vote for me for Tax
Collector for the following reasons:
First. I am a poor man and need
the office.
Second, I am afflicted and can
not work as I once did, but even
in this condition I will pay every
honest debt.
i hird. Two years ago I was
within three votes of being nomi
nated, I was approached by a
number of my friends and advised
to contest the election. I told
them I would not do it; and took
my defeat in a manly way. Ask
any member of that Executive
Committee what my conduct was.
Fourth. After the death of H.
R. Davies, W. S. Hubbard, the
present collector who is asking for
re-election, came to me and told
tne he only wanted the unexpired
term and that he would not be in
this race. He also told a number
of my friends the same thing and
some of them, believing what he
said, voted for him. His promise
not to be in this race was volun
tary on his part, and was regard
less of my support. I have in my
possession affidavits of W. H.
Bridges, W. B. Morris, 8. S. Brid
ges, J. M. Gable, R. E. Richards
and A. T. Crawford, showing that
he made this promise. I will be
glad to show them to you.
In the face of these facts will
the good people of this county fail
to elect me? I cannot believe it.
J. H. Hyde.
(Communicated).
Card from C. H. Newton.
Editor News:—Please say to the
voters of the county that on ac
count of the serious sickness of my
father I will not get around to see
them, but hope that they will con
sider my name for the office of Tax
Eeceiver. C. H. Newton.
