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THE MONROE Ordinary ADVERTISER
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VOL. LI1.
THE LOCAL AND
PERSONAL MELANGE
The Coming and Going of the People to
and from the City.
REFLECTIONS OF SOCIETY’S DOINGS
Happenings of Local and Personal In¬
terest to Our Readers Told in
Paragraphs.
Mr. E. D. Rndisill was in Ma¬
con on business Tuesday.
MisB Katherine Hollis was a re¬
cent visitor to Miss Grace Porch
in Barnesville.
Mr. William Webb and Miss
Ruth Little spent Sunday in Ma¬
con with relatives.
Mr. H. H. James of Fitzgerald
was the guest of Mr. M. Little
said family Sunday.
Prof, and Mrs. A. 0. Thaxton
spent Suuday ia Jackson with
Mr. Thaxton’s parents.
Mrs. Effie Wallace left Fridiy
for Milledgeville, where she will
be the gu< s. of her brother, Dr
iSwiut.
Mesdames A. O. Sanders, C, M.
Harrison and E. D. Rudieiil will
entertain Friday afternoon com¬
plimentary to Mrs. Charles E.
iSanders.
Mr. John H. Mott of near John
stonville was in town Tuesday.
He reports that everything looks
bright for the electric railway up
his way.
Misses Vivian and Ethel Thur¬
mond, two of Forsyth’s most pop¬
ular and cultured young ladies,
returned home last Tuesday after
a pleasant visit to Atlanta.
Miss Florence Cater and Miss
Hattie Bloodworth, who have been
the guests of Miss Wilhelmiua
Drummond in Atlanta for sever¬
al weeks, are expected home Fri¬
day.
Mr. T. M. Mitchell, who has
had charge of the local express
office here for several months,
will leave in a few days for At¬
lanta to accept a position in the
office in that city. Mr. B. T.
.Hulbert, who was here last sum¬
mer, relieves Mr. Mitchell.
The Advertiser and Macon Daily
News, both one year, for $5.00.
New Stable-New Turnouts
WILL OPEN FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1ST,
At Bennett’s Lumber Yard Stand, Next to the Banks Stephens Institute.
FIRSTCLASS NEW
HORSES TURNOUTS
Boarding Sale and
Horses Feed g
Accommo=
A Specialty daiions.
We Will Endeavor to Please You.
C. n. Gray, Manager
ESTABLISHED 1855.
Quite an interesting program
rendered by the senior class of
Bessie Tift college last Saturday
it being the occasion of
anniversary of Washington’s
birthday. The stage was appro¬
priately decorated with flags and
hunting. The entertainment was
under the direction of Msis Den¬
mark.
CARD OF THANKS.
We hereby return to our many
friends and the public our sincere
thanks for their kindness to us
during the late illness and death
or our beloved husband and fath¬
er. May God’s blessings rest with
and upon them.
Mrs. C. McGinty and Children.
About Our People
Mr. T. R. Talmadee of Forsyth
was in the city a fevr days since
looking after business interests.
—Barnesville Gazette.
Mr. and Mrs J. B. Sharp and
Mrs. J. B. Holland of Forsyth
arrived here Wednesday to spend
about ten days with their sister,
Mrs. A. A. Davis.—Thomaston
Times.
Miss Alice Newton, one of the
most fascinating and charming of
the season’s visitors here, the
guest of the Misses Hawkins, re¬
turns to Forsyth today.—Ameri
cus Times-Recorder.
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Miss Wilhelmiua Drummond,
gave the first of a series of small
parties yesterday at her home on
Houston street, the affair yester¬
day being a domino luncheon in
honor of her guests, Miss Cater
and Miss Bloodworth of Forsyth.
On Wednesday Miss Drummond
will entertain at bridge in honor
of her two guests and Miss Mc
Cune of Pennsylvania, the guest
of Mrs. Virgil Shepard.
Mrs. English Vaughn. Jr., en¬
tertained at luncheon Friday at
home in Inman Park in honor of
Miss Drummond and her visitors,
the luncheon preceeded by a game
of bridge.—Atlanta Journal.
Mrs. J.F. Lancaster of Forsyth,
who has been ill at the Piedmont
sanitarium for several weeks, is
convalescent, and is now with her
sister, Mrs. Tinsley, 396 South
Pryor street.—Atlanta Journal.
FORSYTH. MONROE COUNTY. GEORGIA, MARCH 1. 1907.
sender departments are in a posi
tion to do much to bring about
this mutual good understanding
and this harmonious co-operation
for the upbuilding of the territory
traversed by the lines of the com¬
pany. Your careful attention to
the wants of the people and your
considerate treatment of everyone
having business with the road
will serve as a constant object
lesson of its interests in the indi¬
viduals and communities along
its lines. My personal experience
convinces me that the people as a
rule are fair-minded and when
fully informed can be relied upon
to deal justly with the transpor
trtio.-i interests.”
LETTER
FROM WASHINGTON
Mixed Blood Rosponsibe for Genius of
Many Great Men.
NEGRO JUSTIFIES MIXED MARRIAGIS.
President Finley Looking After Interests
of the People as Well as of the
Southern Railwey.
Washington, Feb. 27—Southern
men in Washington regret that
W. E. B DnBois, the negro pro¬
fessor of Atlanta, saw fit in his
recent address in New York to use
language calculated to justify
mixed marriages and to encourage
those of his race who advocate
social equality. According to
Du Bois, a mixture of negro blood
with white has been responsible
for the genius of many of the
great men of history. He instanc¬
ed such well-known mixed bloods
as Alexander Dumas, Toussaiut
1’Ouverture, Ira Aldridge and
Fred Douglass and then claimed
mixed blood for three men who
are not generally -credited with
having negro blood—Robert
Browning, Alexander Hamilton
and Lew Wallace.
—o—•
President W. W. Finley’s plain
talk to the representatives of the
freight and passenger departments
of the Southern Railway at At¬
lanta on February 13, is of inter¬
est to the general publio as well
as to the men to whom it was de¬
livered. There is a widely preva¬
lent opinion that railroad officials
seldom consider the interests of
the people along their lines. It
is significant, therefore, to find
Mr. Finley telling his subordin¬
ates that they have duties to the
public as well as to the railway
and that “he serves the railway
best who serves tha public best,.”
This was the keynote of Mr.
Finley’s address in which he
dwelt upon the identity of inter¬
ests of the railway and the pub¬
lic. He looks forward to the
building up of the Southern Rail¬
way through the building up of
the communities along its lines,
and, alter speaking in detail of
the peculiar duties of the men of
the freight and passenger depart¬
ments to the public, he said:
“As representatives of the
Southern Railway Company you
should bear in mind at all times
the basic fact that the interests
of the railway and of those served
by it are identical and that they
are inseparably interwoven. The
railway can prosper only as a re¬
sult of the prosperity of the com¬
munities by which the demand for
transportation is increased, and
the prosperity of the South can
continue and can he brought to
the highest possible level only
through adequate and efficient
transportation facilities. At the
present time, when every effort is
being made to supply additional
facilities and more efficient ser¬
vices, nothing is more important
than-that the truth of this propo¬
sition, should he realized by men
in all lines of business. When
once this identity of interests is
thoroughly understood the rail¬
road.? of the South and the people
will be brought together in more
harmonious co-operation for the
development of the natural re
soures of the South and for the
expaftsion of all lines of industry.
The men in the freight and pas-
ELECTRIC RAILWAY
PRACTICALLY SURE
Officials in Forsyth This Week Leave
That Impreiisjoii WithjCitizens.
NO NEW SURVEKY WILL BE MADE
Securing This Line Due to the Untiring
Work of Mr. R. B. Stephens and
Other Enterprising Citizens.
The proposed electric line for
Forsyth now seems practically as¬
sured, from the best information
obtainable by the Advertiser.
Several officials of the road have
been in the city during the past,
week conferring with prominent
citizens and have left the impres¬
sion that no survey would he
made via Barnesville and that the
line would he brought through
Forsyth as first, proposed.
Another point in Mr. Finley’s
address that deserves special men¬
tion is his instance that the laws
must he strictly observed. He
said:
“Of even more importance than
a careful observance of duties
prescribed by the company is obe¬
dience to law. Many of the rela¬
tions between the railways and
the public are now regulated by
“Federal and State statutes, and
every official and employee of the
Southern Railway Company must
understand that its business af¬
fairs are to he conducted at all
times in strict accordance with
the laws of the land. No trans¬
action or practice that is forbid¬
den by the laws can he permitted,
and as I am sure you all under¬
stand, there must he no resort to
evasion of any kind.”
ADJOURNED TERM OF COURT.
The adjourned term of Monroe
superior court will convene here
next Monday morning.
The most important case to
come before the court will be the
trail of the former commissioners
of the county, Messrs. L.,0. Hol¬
lis, J. O. Holmes and W. A.
Thrash, who were jointly indict) d
by the recent grand jury for the
misappropriation of something
like three thousand dollars of the
county’s money.
It will probably be a long drawn
oat case, as several hundred {sub¬
poenas have been issued to parties
in the county who will be called
to the witness stand. The case
will he prosecuted by Solicitor 0.
H. B. Bloodworth assisted by
Col. Allen of Thomaston, while
the defense has employed some
able legal talent to represent
them.
BRILLIANT RECEPTION AT COLLEGE.
A most magnificent and bril¬
liant social affair vvas the recep¬
tion at Bessie Tift College Monday
evening, tendered the senior class
by tne junior class. The dining
room, halls and parlors presented
a scene of surpassing beauty in
their decorations of flowers, palms
and ferns, the class colors, yellow'
and green, being carried out with
bewitching effect.
In the dining room punch was
served in cozy corners by daintily
dressed young girls. Cake and
were served at tallies which were
tastefully decorated with smilax
and jonquils.
Beautiful hand painted souvenir
cards were given each guest. The
junior and senior classes of Mercer
were present, besides a numberof
guests from other cities
The receiving committee was
composed of the faculty of the
college.
Stuart’s Gin and Buchu a quick
cure for Bright’s disease, liver and
stomach troubles. All Druggists
$1.00 1-24-lyr
BANK OFFERS MONEY FOR PENSIONERS.
Oidinary T. E. Fletcher has
paid to the pensioners of Monroe
county $8,745, but lacked 8640 of
having sufficient money with which
to pay all the pensioners. There
are eleven pensioners who have
been added to the roll this year
and the last legislature made n<>
provision for the payment of these
new pensioners and they will have
to wait for their money until the
legislature meets in June to make
an appropriation for them unless
some means can he devised f< r
procuring the needed amouut.
This condition prevails in each
county in the state where there
are new pensioners.
The Bank of Forsyth has very
generously come to the rescue of
the state and offers to loan the
state the amount needed without
interest until it can he returned.
The hank has written Hon. John
W. Lindsey, commissioner of pen¬
sions, tendering the money to the
state and thus enable the situa¬
tion to he relieved and give the
Monroe county pensioners, eleven
in number, their money. But it
is not known yet whether or not
the state will accept the loan.
It is the general understanding
that actual work will he begun on
the construction of the road in
April.
Here we wish to commend those
enterprising citizens of the town
and county who have granted
rights-of-way to the company for
their line, anp especially does Mr.
R. B. Stephens deserve the praise
and thanks of the citizens here
for the untiring efforts lie has
made to secure the electric rail¬
way for Forsyth. No man in the
county has put forth a greater
effort and done more work to se¬
cure this line than lias Mr. Steph¬
ens.
The Advertiser believes this
railway will he a great blessing to
Forsyth and Monroe county and
hopes to see trolley cars running
through our town from Macon to
Atlanta at the earliest possible
day.
Stuart’s Gin and Buchu a quick
cure for Bright’s Disease, Liver
and Stomach Troubles. Ml drug¬
gists $1.00. 1-24-lyr
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JURORS APRIL TERM CITY COURT.
The following gentlemen were
drawn to serve at the April term,
1907, of the City Court of Forsyth :
S. I). Jackson, R. W. Jenkins,
D. ri. Driskell, E. B. Freeman,
L. M. Harp, J. J. Coleman, J. J.
Mapp, M. C. Scott, R. B. Bow
doin, J. VV. Webb, W. A. Spicer,
T. B. Jackson, T. C. Coleman,
W. C. Jones (Culloden), M. A.
Gatliff, T. P. Neal, C. C. Ball, W,
W. Jackson, H. A. Stokes, A. A.
Bowdoin, W. S. Fuller, E. R.
Johnson, W R. Darden, W. B.
Willis.
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