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SEMI-WEEKLY.
SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA, JANUARY 15, I908.
ESTABLISHED I841
f- OLD OFFICERS
ARE RE-ELECTED.
At Annual Meeting of the
Stockholders of First
National Bank.
The regular annual meeting of
the Stockholders and directors of
the First National Rank of San-
dersville was held at the hank
Tuesday morning as provided by
law.
The officers report showed a
good large sum as profits above
the eight per cent dividend re
cently paid the stockholders and
was very gratifying to them.
Messrs. D. P. Hale, chairman,
L. B. Holt, W. .A. McCarty, M.
R. Tucker, F. F. Stacer, O. L.
Rogers, L. H. Holt and S. M.
Hitchcock were elected directors
for the ensuing year.
The directors re-elected the old
■officers of the bank, Mr. L. B.
Holt, President, Battle Sparks,
assistant cashier, S. M. Hitchcock
cashier and D. P. Hale, vice pres
ident.
LAST ATTRACTION
ON JANUARY 22nd.
Most Brilliant Lecturer
Conies to This City
for First Time.
Fell Off Train
And Was Killed
Savannah, Jan. 0 —Upon thd
arrival here early this morning of
tho Central of Georgia Railway
train from Atlanta, tho conduc
tor found a hat coat anti valise for
which there was no owner among
his passengers. He remembered
that a man had boarded the train,
on which were the Governor and
party bound for Macon at Macon,
and inquiry was started. Soon
the information reached the super
intendent’s office that the body
of the man had been found three
miles east of Gordon, at 2 o’clock
this morning, by the section fore
man. It was directed that it be
brought to Savannah, and will
arrive herj tomorrow. The body
is said to have been thak of a Dr.
Hutson, of Hot Springs, Ark.,
and is supposed that he had ‘ left
the ooacti to got a breach of fresh
air on tho platform and had fall-
The best Lyceum attraction of
thii season comes to the audito
rium on the night of January the
twenty-second, and tho people of
Sandersville and of the county
will then have an opportunity to
hear for the first time Lucian Ed
gar Follansbee, perhaps the most
brilliant and eloquent of all the
humorous lecturers on the Amer
ican platform.
Children and old people alike
enjoy hearing this famous speaker
and no one need fear but that this
platform star will have much to
say to amuse, entertain, instruct
and elevate them.
No speaker now beforo the
American public Inis attracted so
much attention and such favor
able comment from the press as
has Prof. Follansbee and he has
charmed thousands of Chautauqua
and Lyceum attendants during
the past several years.
BAPTISTS 10 RAISE
F
MAIL ORDER DEALERS
MAY BE INDICTED.
BANCROFT, AMERICA’S
GREAT HISTORIAN.
Following Paper Read by
Mrs. B. B. Lovett at
20th Century Club.
WASHINGTON COUNTV
TEACHERS ASSOCIATION
No Meeting Was Held Sat
urday, Due to Bad
Weather.
Judge Fite has Asked an
Investigation of the
Liquor Traffic.
At a confeience of the members of
the Baptist church which was held
Sunday morning at the conclusion of
the services, it was planned to raise
$-1,000 this year for all purposes. This
will include pastor’s Balary and all
objects wfiich are fostered by the
church. One thousand dollars will bo
devoted to the payment of the debt on
the pastorium. Last year the amount
raised by the congregation was $5,000,
two-thirds of which was devoted to the
payment of the debt on the church.
A resolution was also' adopted to
prevent the use of the pulpit by any
one traveling through this section in
the interest of various objects. Often
applications arc made by those repre
senting different interests to preach Of
lecture and then take up a collection
for whatever object they represent.
Hereafter when such applications are
made the question will first be put be
fore the congregation, aud if a majority
favor it the applicant may preach or
lecture. If a majority opposes it the
application will be denied.
Cartesville, Ga., Jan. 14.—In
his charge to the grand jury when
the Bartow county superior court
onvened this morning, Judge
Fite asked that a thorough inves
tigation be made and that the jury
return indictments against all
whisky houses soliciting orders
through the mails in the county.
The question involved in this is
a far reaching one and it is ex
pected that there will he impor
tant developments in the matter
which will cause a legal battle in
the courts.
Since tho inauguration of pro
hibition the first of January the
city and county here have been
flooded with mail from whisky
houses in Chattanooga and other
towns soliciting orders. Reports
come from other towns and sec
tions of the state that the same is
being done there.
Decatur County
is for Williams.
The Bainbridge Post has the fol
lowing to say in connection with
l. D. C.
Tho Mary Ann Williams chap
ter of the United Daughters of
Confederacy will hold regular
meeting Thursday afternoon, Jan.
10th, at three o’clock. After the
business session we will study tho
Lie of General R. E. Lee, the
committee having so arranged the
prografn. The members of the
chapter are requested to bring in
cidents from the life of this be
loved leader of the Confederacy.
The meeting will be held at Mrs.
B. J. Tarbutton.
Mrs. D. C. Harris, Pres.,
Miss M. L. Bayne, Sec’y.
the recent announcement of Hon.
Jesse Mercer, of Fitzgerald, for
prison commissioner:
“Hon. Jesse Mercer of Fitzger
ald, has announced for prison
commissioner and is sending out
letters to his friends. Col. Mercer
is a good man and a man of hon
est convictions, but he has missed
his mark in tackling this position.
His interference in congressional
matters in his district has to an
extent injured his cause in the
second. Aside from this the peo
ple generally have concluded that
tho experience of Col Williams
of Columbus, with criminals, best
lits him for the place. Col. Wil
liams has had the finest chance of
any candidate yet mentionod to
study criminology and gain infor
mation that will stand him in
hand in dealing with the affairs
of this office. This and surround
ing counties are practically al
ready in the Williams column
owing to these facts and Col. Mer
cer is a little late in the field.’’
“Chap-O’
A business is known to the outside
world by its stationery. We print the
kind you won’t be ashamed of.
“Chap-0
11
Geo. Banoroft, an American historian,
statesman and diplomntist was born in
Worcester, Mass., Oot. ilrd, 1800, died
in Washington, D. 0., Jau. 17th, 1891.
He was the son of Rees Aaron Ban
oroft, a Unitarian clergyman, and La-
oretia Chandler Bancroft. He fitted
for college at Phillips Accademy, Exeter
N. H., entered Harvard at the age of
18 and graduated before he was 17. Ed
ward Hale, then Professor of Greek,
having proposed that some young grad
uate of promise he sent to Germany to
bo prepared to beoome one of the oorps
of instructors. Banoroft was chosen,
and in the snmmer of 1818 went to
Gothinger where two years later he re
ceived his degree of Ph. D. He re
mained in Germany four years, re
ceiving the very best instruction to be
had at that time. His chief attention
was given to history, which he studied
under Huren, the greatest historical
oritio of that day, aud one of the most
scientific of all historians. Retnruing
to Amerioa in 1832, he served for a
year as tutor in Greek at Harvard. In
1828, in conjunction with J. G. Cogs
well, he established the famous Round
Hill School at Northampton, Mass., a
preparatory school far in advance of its
time as to systems of study and class
books, however, it proved a failure 11-
utuioiully and Banoroft withdrew in
1830.
During the Round Iliil years liG bad
cut loose from the political traditions of
the Harvard circle. Iu a pnblio speeoh
in 1826, he had aroused his principals to
he for universal suffrage aud unoomprom
isiug democracy, aud at once became
foremost iu the couucils of the Demo
cratic party, though twice declining
nomination to the State Legislature.
Van Bureu appointed him collector of
the port of Boston, 1838-1841, and his
administration of tho otlioe won the
praise of his political opponents. In 1845
ho became secretary of the Navy, nnder
Polk. It was he who planned and es
tablished the Naval Acoademy at An
napolis, Md. He gave the first order to
take possession of California.
Daring 1846-9 he was minister-pleni
potentiary to Great Britain and then
successfully nrged upon the British
ministry the necessity of adopting more
liberal navigation laws, llis reputation
us a man of letters pat the manuscript
treasures of the great English families
at his disposal, and he combined his
pabiiu duties with ardent historical re
searches. Prom 1840 to 1867 be lived in
Now York City absorbed iu literary
work. Appointed minister to Prhssia
in 1867, he achieved a diplomatic
triumph in bringing about the adoption I
of treaties in which England and Ger
many finally recognized the right of J
expartiatiou and abandoned their doc
trine of “once a citizen always a citi
zen.”
His first publication was a volume of
poems, in 1823, all European . in them.
This was followed by books for the use
of his students. His first article iu the
North America Review appeared in
Oct, 1823. In Jau. 1831 he took up The
Bank of the U. S. Then came the be
ginning of his great history of the U. S ,
tiie work which gave nim bis greatest
fame. The firBt volume appeared in
1834, the seoond in 1837 and so on to the
tenth in 1874. The earlier volumes
were received with enthusiasm in this
country, pirated in England, translated
into Danish, Italian, German aud
French, both with and without the au
thor’s permission. The work is still the
most popular and widely read of the
larger American histories. His facilities
and materials for writing it were better
aud more exteusivo than any other wri
ter on oar Anglo-American history has
enjoyed. His private collection of man
uscripts and documents, originals and
copies, was by far the finest of bis day
in private hands and superior to most
institutional collections. His merirs as
a historiam are positive aud incontest
able.
Iu 1870 ho issued a century edition in
six volumes, upon which he spent a year
in revision. Again in 1883-85 he pub
lished, what he termed “The Authors
last revision,” in six volumes. Iu this
he made considerable changes in ar
rangement and the subdivisions, all
tending to a better ordering of the nara
tivo. These final changes have, in the
judgement of good scholars, better fit
ted the work for permanent favor. It
will remain necessary to the student
until another historian, with equally or
better facilities, shall re-write the story
iu a way to gain wider sympathy and
present tendencies and methods in his
torical study aud writing, give little
evideuoe that snob another will soon
arise.
Saturday was Teacher’s Association
day, for the first time in several years
no meeting was held, the steady down
pour of rain, combined with the almost
impassible condition of the roads ren
dered it impossible for many of the
teachers to reach Sandersville.
School Commissioner WadeH. Wood,
president John Gibson, Prof. Asbury,
Mr. Twiggs Jaokson, Misses Lottie Dil
lard, Sueie Smith, Elizabeth Clark, El
la Mitohelt, Mrs. Nunn were all who
Were at the academy. As proof positive
that our toaohors never shirk dnty, four
of these were on the program and camp
with well prepared talks or papers.
Misses Clark, Smith, Mitohell and Mr.
jAokson with the others who were on
the program were reqnested to serve at
the February meeting which takes plaoe
on the first Saturday; besides thete&oh-
ers previously named are Misses Ivey,
Dunevant, McDowell, Lizzie Smith,
Pinkie Walker and Alma Carrere.
Tho toaohers appreciate and desire the
attendanoe of the patrons and friends of
the schools at the meetings of the asso
ciation. We be speak for them the pres
ence of all parents who are interested in
the welfare of their children, and the
uplifting of the oounty. The teacher,
like the preaoher, is the most important
faotor in a community,
OVERCOATS!
FOR MEN $2.00 EACH
We have seven of these coats and
would cost wholesale to-day $3.00 each
in market and are worth $5.00 to any
one needing a coat of this kind. We
carried them over last winter and we
will not carry them over again.
$1.00 and $1.50 a Pair for Pants for Men.
This is for all sorts and kinds in
our store and they are worth from
$1.25 to $3.00 a pair. We have too
many to carry over and put on the
above price to cut our stock down
quick.
35c Heavy Twilled All Wool Red Flannel
For 174c a Yard.
Card of Thanks.
Oconee, Ga. Jan. 13, 1908.
Editor Herald :—We desire to
thunk our friends for their kind
ness in our daughter’s last illness,
also Judge and Mrs. P. R. Talia
ferro and the Y. P. S. C. E. and
some unknown party for the nice
llowers sent to go on her grave.
We feel deeply grateful to each
and all. Respectfully,
M. Snell and Family.
Store for Rent.
Now occupied by McCarty Shoo
Company. Can give possession
March 1st. Apply at Hermann’s
City Drug Store. 1-4 4t
We have 3 pieces of this and we put
the above price on to close them out
at once.
We have lots of other bargains in our store that space
forbids us telling you about. Call and see us.
This Special Sale will run only two weeks if the goods
last that long. Bear in mind it begins the 17th and ends
on the night of the 30th.
NEW 5 & 104
RACKET STORE
Special Offerings
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White Goods
12 l-2c
32in. Creole Linens
Special English Longcloth
per piece ....
60 in. Linen Damask, Mill Ends,
A A Long Cloth, Per Piece,
Louise, 36 in. Bleaching .
B. S. 36 in. Bleaching
Fruit of Loom 36in. Bleaching 12 l=2c
Odd Lot Mercerized Waisting 15c
Large Cotton Towel 10c, 3 for 25
All Mercerized Shirt Waists 98c
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