The Danielsville Monitor, January 31, 1895 Submitted by Jeanne Arguelles 11 February 2004 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ******************************************************************* The Danielsville Monitor, January 31, 1895 Local Happenings Items of Interest to "Free State" people Picked up by Monitor Reporters Dr. G. C. Daniel and wife are in Jefferson this week. Mr. A. M. Scarborough of Comer was in town Monday. J. W. Anthony of Oglethorpe county was up Monday last. Jas. M. White one of Madison’s staunch farmers was in town Tuesday. The Danielsville High School is on a boom. There are now about one hundred enrolled. We learn that R. L. Ware has bought out the business of Frank Rouse at Comer, and in future will conduct the business of the Georgia bar. A young man in Athens has gone crazy from excessive smoking. This should be a warning to some young men who are inveterate cigarette smokers, and cause them to stop. Born to Mr. & Mrs. C. C. Crook on last Sunday night, a 10 lb. Boy. Since his arrival Mr. Crook does not wear any hat. Col. David W. Meadow was in Athens the first of the week. J. T. Baker of the popular firm Baker & Co of Comer was in town Tuesday. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Notice I hereby consent for my wife, Mary Ann Cooper, to become a public or free dealer, as provided by law. This Jan 12th 1894. Willis Cooper. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ft. Lamar A column of interesting news From the Old Fort Miss Flora Hutcherson spent last week among relatives and friends at Bold Springs. Mr. W. F. Wilder has been suffering excruciating pain with a sore hand for the last two weeks. Mr. Willis Stephens happened the misfortune of losing a good milch cow several days ago. Miss Annie Brown, Estelle Wilder and Otie Patman visited Ila last Sunday. Mr. J. M. Hutcherson went to Danielsville last Saturday on business. Miss Addie Freeman attended church at Mt. Hermon last Sunday, accompanied by Mr. W. S. Wilder. Mr. Callis Brown is very much troubled about a dream he had a few nights ago. It was a strange dream indeed, and would doubtless make the most of us feel uneasy. We learn that Mr. W. A. Tabor is talking of moving to Athens. We regret very much for such a good citizen to leave our community. He will be greatly missed by all, and most especially by the church. While we regret to lose such a food christian gentleman as Mr. Tabor, we wish him much prosperity and hope that all his undertakings may be crowned with success. A certain young man in Ft. Lamar is color-blind. There is only one color that he can distinguish and that is BROWN. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Local Happenings Items of Interest to "Free State" people Picked up by Monitor Reporters Col. J. E. Gordon was in Royston to-day. Col. R. H. Kinnebrew was in the Classic city to-day. J. W. White is visiting relatives in Clarke county this week. Frank Rouse and R. L. Ware of Comer were up to-day. John Henry Strange, col., was jailed here last week charged with wife beating. J. M. and W. B. Gunnells, two staunch citizens of Pittman, and good friends of the Monitor, were in town last week. J. R. Gunnells, a man to whom hard times is a fake, was in our town last week. Such men as our friend Gunnells will always smile when you mention low cotton prices. B. D. Bone of Union was in town to-day. Barney is a good farmer and makes his farm self-sustaining and his cotton crop is a surplus. Hard times is nothing to him. Mr. W. C. Berryman of Harrison district was in town to-day. Mr. Berryman is one of Madison’s enterprising men, who lives at home and boards at the same place. E. T. Gunnells of near Neese, one of the county’s best farmers, was in town today and paid our sanctum a visit. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Madison Springs Bud Crow was in Athens last week. Charles Dean visited relatives and friends in Hart county last Sunday. Charlie Bond visited his best girl at Hartwell a few days ago. Mr. Jim Evans has returned home from Atlanta, where he has served his time out. Jim is a whole soul fellow and attends to his own business. J. J. Meadow was in Athens this week on business. Ask Miss Tavie Crow why she didn’t enjoy herself at the dance last Tuesday night. Mr. Luther Branyan tied his mule to the fence last Sunday night and the mule took a notion he would ride, and he got up on the saddle and went home and left Luther to walk. Col. J. F. L. Bond and wife visited the old folks at home last week. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Five Forks Half column of news From the Forks Mr. John Estes, of Cartersville, is visiting his mother, Mrs. Bettie Estes. Major Bullock was in town last week, as jovial as ever. Mrs. Dr. Hampton was quite sick a few days last week, but is much better now. Prof. Landers’ school numbers 50 scholars daily. W. C. Murry has a fine school near Mr. W. P. Martius. Prof. Murry is a good teacher. Miss Leona Williams, of near Winterville, was visiting in our town last week. Mrs. J. F. Colbert was in town shopping last week. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Muster Roll Of Madison Greys calls forth a Feeling letter from Rev. Dr. Cleveland Atlanta, Ga. Jan 28th ’95 Mr. Editor – Dear Sir: Your paper of Jan 24th came in my mail this morning. The rain is beating on the windows and as I look out upon the dreariness of the day, I begin to muse and while musing the fire burns for I [paper torn] I seemed to call the toll of 140 men, sons, brothers, husbands, fathers and sweethearts of so many who saw them leave home; grandfathers of so many who have never seen them yet. Out of the number, two thirds did not answer the call. Some are reported as lost and unaccounted for. Several died at home on furlough. A number returned as survivors and have since died. Some died in hospitals and some upon the field. How many hopes went out when these men died! How many widowed hearts are made! The tears come to my eyes as I read the names, many of them so familiar to me as names of men I knew and loved in old Madison – blood kin of the men I did not know. How can any true man go back on the dead heroes, their widows and their children. I don’t see Lee Bird’s name in the list. He belonged, I suppose, to another company. I paid my first tax as a citizen to him. I preached his funeral soon after I went to the county. Noble fellow and a good christian citizen. And John McCurdy’s name is not there. He too, no doubt, was in another company. Like Lee Bird, he also lost a leg, and both went limping to their graves. Brave John McCurdy! If anyone says yes, he had his faults, I say yes, but he had his virtues. I got near to his heart. I have heard him pray. I have seen many a time the large tears roll out of his large eyes, as they are now rolling out of mine, and if he has not gone where the rude alarms of war will never reach him, of whom then around you can you hope? And very recently my dear friend Ed Sanders has gone to meet the boys on the other side under the shade of the trees, never more to endure the summer’s heat and winter’s cold, the fatigues of the march, the loneliness of the picket, or the dangers of the battlefield. Noble men, these, whose names are mentioned and the many more who could be. Oh! if I could have felt when a resident of the county, as I have felt since I have been here and connected with the Fulton County Association, and as its Chaplain for four years, how much nearer could I have got to some men who yet live and to some who are gone. There is a feeling which one Confederate soldier has for another Confederate soldier which is peculiar. Nothing has ever been like or ever will be like it, I know. If I was a citizen of your county to-day, I would want to find every true Confederate soldier and talk with him about the past, the present and the future. If any of them read this, let me earnestly beg them to ask God to give them the moral courage to seek Jesus, enlist under His flag as the Great Captain of the soul’s salvation, to listen to-day to his loving orders – Attention! About face! Forward March – So that when life’s warfare ends it may at last be the "good fight of faith" and the reward of the conquerors crown of Life. May the God of the living and the dead richly bless these brave men who yet live, and the widows and children of those who have fought their last battle. T. P. Cleveland --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Boggs James Griffith has a flourishing school at Moons Grove Academy. Miss Susie Sorrells of Boggs we understand has a flourishing school at Jones Academy. Joe Jackson, col. Was brought before Justice Boggs last Monday charged with appropriating to his own use the chickens of Allen Collins, col., but the proof failed to connect him with the disappearance of Allen’s chickens, so he was discharged. J. R. Bullock, of Comer, spent the night with his parents near here not long since. Rev. J. R. King has been called to Moons Grove church, and has accepted the call for the present year. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Notice S. C. O’Kelly, adm of Elizabeth Weems vs Julia A. Power and all the heirs at law of Elizabeth Weems To J. H. White of Bowie, Texas, and all the heirs at law of Elizabeth Weems: You are hereby commanded to be and appear at the next term of the Superior Court… to determine who are the heirs at law of Elizabeth Weems, deceased... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Who can beat it Messrs W. A. and E. E. Stone killed a hog the other day which netted them 401 lbs of good, all around, solid meat. Mr. Stone failed to inform us what the hog weighed gross, but we suppose it was in the neighborhood of 500. It is useless to figure out the profit on the hog, as everybody knows that it is worth more on the market than the heaviest bale of cotton in the county. It is absolutely impossible to lose money farming at the Messrs Stone farm. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Carlton Column A batch of interesting news From our Railroad City Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Mathews were visiting friends in Elberton last week. If any of the young ladies would like an industrious, intelligent beau, they would do well to set their caps for either Arthur Long or Willie Watson. Mr. Chandler Stevens accompanied by his sisters Miss Cynie, and Miss Bessie Green, of Wilkes county, attended preaching here last Sabbath. Misses Mattie and Lizzie Eberhardt visited the family of Dr. Pope Deadwyler of Elberton last week. At this writing Dr. O. L. Deadwyler is very sick, but we hope to see him entirely recovered soon. Also, Mr. L. P. Goolsby and Mrs. Ed Arnold are on the sick list, but we are glad to know that they are rapidly improving. Our town had an election for Mayor last week which resulted in the election of Mr. M. F. Arnold. The town could not have made a better selection as Mr. Arnold will be sure to contend for the right and will be just in all his dealings wit the people and will do all in his power for the [paper torn] of town. Mr. A. P. Stevens is looking very pleasant now and was at his desk at Sabbath school last Sabbath as secretary, but did not give the school a lecture, as some expected. Ask Messrs Jack Edwards and Presh Mattox if it would not be more pleasant to have a gentle horse, especially when visiting their best girls at night.