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Grand Jury Presentments
Hall Superior Court, July Term
1914.
We, the grand jury, for the July
term, 1914, of Hall Superior Court, sub
mit the following presentments:
Our various committees having the
county matters in hand haye discharg
ed their respective duties, each com
mittee submitting to this body their
respective report, which become a part
of these presentments, and are hereby
submitted.
The committee appointed to inspect
the court house and jail make the fol
lowing report:
We have carefully looked around and
through the interior of both the court
house and jail. We find that lately
both have had some needed repairs
and are in good condition so that we
do not not notice any other repairs are
needed now. The jail is kept in as
neat and sanitary condition as we think
is necessary, and we notice that
the County Commissioners have lately
made some repairs and improvements
that will improve and better the form
er sanitary conditions of the jail. It
would be an improvement if the ground
East of the court house be set with
shade trees.
J. C. McConnell, Chairman.
L. C. Greer,
J. D. Adams,
P. G. Reed,
H. A. Wayne,
Committee.
The committee on the Paupers Home
submit the following report:
We find eighteen inmates, three men
and fourteen women and one baby. We
talked quite freely with the women and
men, who expressed themselves as be
ing well pleased with their treatment,
having plenty to eat and wear, also
plenty of bed clothing for winter, in
fact we noticed in most every room,
especially where the women stayed, a
number of clean quilts neatly packed
up. The floors, walls, beds and chairs
in trie women’s room were very clean
and sanitary looking.
We were pleased to see there is one
centainly located cuok-room and dining
room, which were together with the
stove and cook vessels, in good sanita
ry condition.
We recommend that screen doors
and windows be bought and put in each
door and window of the dining room
and cook room.
The roofs of two of the building
need patching; also the porch roof of
and floor of one other.
The county home church which is al
so used by that district for school pur
poses needs recovering and the school
trustees of that district said they
would cover it if the county would
furnish the shingles.
Mr. Fuller informed us that there
was made on the county farm this year
152 bushels of wheat, and 176 bushels
ofjoats were threshed; also ten 2-horse
loans of oats in the sheaf which would
thresh out about 176 bushels more.
About half of the oats had been used
by the convict camp. He also said he
had on hand plenty of corn and fodder
of last year’s crop to feed the mules,
cows and hogs until this year’s crop
matures.
We find two cows, two mules and
seven hogs. The cows, we are inform
ed, give about three gallons of milk.
We believe these inmates ought to
have more milk and butter.
There are 35 acres in corn of the
spring planting which is about the
average of corn this year, and eight
acres planted since wheat was cut
which is looking well. Twelve acres in
peas and syrup cane and one and one
half acres in potatoes.
The terraces and ditches need re
building.
The number receiving aid from the
county outside of the home are 24
whites and 13 colored. Total 37.
Geo. P. Estee, Chairman.
W. W. Holland
W. W. Howington
H. W. Gaines
J. J. Hyne
J. T. Waters
J. L. Vickers
Committee.
The finance committee makes the
following report:
We attach report of Treasurer and
the County Commissioners as a part of
our report, and we find:
Bal. on hand Jan. 1, 1914 (22.568.C0
Rec'd from all sources.. 24.407.71
Total $46,975.71
Paid out by County Treas
urer. as shown by various
items, as per statement.. $28,895.98
Balance June 30, 1914 $18,079.73
Tax Collector
The Auditor's report cor
responds with the tax di
gest of 1913. and shows
that the collector was due
the County (51,350.09, and
has accounted for same
as follows:
Insolvent fi-fas $428.40
Defaulters Relieved... .. 20.74
Errors in Digest . 45.14
$498.28
Commissions $893.20
Paid Treasurer 48.500.00
$49,887.48 '
Balance due (1,462.611
$51,350.09‘
$761 of the above balance has since !
been collected and turned in. A !
copy of the auditor's report being!
on tile in the office of the Commis- ,
sinners, we deem it unnecessary to
include statement of State Tax.
We find that he has collected
$555 Special Taxes, which has been
turned over to the State Treasurer, j
We find that thirteen colored pau
pers out of the home are receiving
aid from the county, at a cost of $36 I
per month; that twenty-four white
paupers out of the home are receiving
aid from the county at a cost of
(69 per month, making a total of
$lO5 per month. A list of which can
be found on tile in the office of the
County Commissioners.
We recommend that E. P. Kings
bery be paid sl4 for taking down and
typewriting testimony in the cases of
the State v. Haywood, and coroner’s
inquest at Gillsville
We examined the Tax Digest and
found it neat, and we believe, correct,
showing an increase of $877,830.00.
We think that this, and a good bal
ance in the Treasury, and the fact
that the county is out of debt, goes
to show that the county is in fine con
dition financially.
Owing to the fact that there is now
an auditor at work on the various
books of the county officers, who is to
report at the January Term, we have
left off a lot of committee work that
is generally done by the grand jury.
J. T. WATERS.
Chairman."
J. W. HUNT.
F. E. BOWEN.
A. T. JAY.
H. W. T. GAINES.
N. P. and J. P.’s
We, the comittee appointed to ex
amine the J. P. and N. P. dockets,
find the most of them properly kept,
with the exception of a few minor er
rors. We do not think that all of the
N. P. and J. P. dockets were turned
in at this term of the court, and we
recommend that all the dockets be
turned in at least once a year.
J. D. HAWKINS
J. L. ROBINSON.
W. G. COOPER..
J. J. HYDE.
G. F. BAGWELL.
Chairman.
Roads and Convict Camp.
In accord with our usual custom,
our entire body, accompanied by Mr.
John A. Smith, County Supervisor, in
spected the road from the city limits
byway of Clarke’s Bridge, towards
Clermont, and from there byway of
New Bridge road to city limits; thence
out Thompson Bridge road to Corinth
church; from there across to the Iron
Bridge road; thence along the Boling
Bridge road, eight miles from the city,
from which point the party returned
to town.
The roads gone over were found to j
be in good condtion, except in places
where work is incomplete, and where
rights of way have not been obtained.
All the work under construction as
observed on this inspection appears to
be under good control, and moving
uniformly.
We commend the policy of the
Comissioners in the manner of grad
ing to minimum grades wherever pos
sible, and in the generous use of top
soil which we readily note, makes a
uniform and complete surface.
The convict camp now’ situated on
the New’ Bridge road near Dewberry
church No. 2 is conveniently located
to the w ork and has every appearance
of being well kept and arranged for
the service intended.
Your grand jury fully appreciates
the many courtesies extended on this
tour of inspection by the Commission
ers, the warden and his assistants, all
of whom are commended for their
close application to the work under 1
their direction.
Report of George Lathem, Count
Treasurer, from January 1, 1914, to
June 30, 1914.
Receipts:
By Balance on hand $22,568.00
By Taxes 22,681.21 V
By City Court 1,187.14;
By Incidentals 6.52
By Roads and Bridges. a 513.66
By J ail Fees 11.20,
By Public Roads 7.90
(46,975.71
Disbursements:
To County Farm (481.77
To Superior Court 2.198.31
To City Court... 2,292.50
To Paupers'Home 477.35
To Jail 1,323.95 I
To Incidentals 2,527.86
To Public Buildings 913.01
To Officers' Salaries 1.083.80
To Roads and Bridges 5,746.86
To Paupers out of Home.. 733.97
To Officers’Commission.. 2,( 62.68
To Public Roads 93 53.92
June 30, by Bal on Hand $18,679.73
Respectfully submitted.
CEO. LATHEM.
Treas. Hall County, Ga.
T<> the honorable Grand Jury of the
Hall Superior Court. July term:
Gentlemen: We hand you here
with report of expenditures of the
public funds of the county by months
and for what purpose, for the past
six months from January Ist to June
30th. 1914:
Respectfully submitted.
B. H. WHELCHEL.
Commissioners Roads ami Revenues.
County Farm:
January $26.15
February 58.70
March 43.45
April 63.99
May 177.73
June 106.25
Superior Court:
February (2,068.70
March 60.76
April 58.70
June 10.15
City Court:
January $848" 45
February 175.54
March 188.34
April 159.84
May 163.34
June 761.99
Paupers' Home:
January $148.42
February 49.35
March 83.99
April 57.93
May 56.41
June 51.25
Jail:
January - (294.30
February 204.01
March 202.14
April 153.17
May 202.03
June 243.55
Incidentals:
January $795.07
February.-- 418.59
March 244.59
April 548.51
May 372.52
June 261.25
Public Buildings:
January -- 413.3)
February 10.90
March 139.58
May 39.34
June 297.47
Officers Salaries:
January - $185.00
February 185.00
March 175.00
April 175.00
May . 175.00
June 175.00
Roads and Bridges:
January $646.27
February 1,904.72
March 485.94
April 852.22
May 1,179,75
June 785.02
Paupers out of Home:
January - $106.50
February 142.00
March-1... 118.00
April 110.25
May 128.50
, June 109.00
Officers’ Commissions:
January (1,320.23
April 742.45
Public Roads (this includes Convict
Force): »
January $2,141.16
February 1,768.55
March 1,530.95
April 1.504.18
May 1,227.89
June 1,457.28
Totals:
January 1. $6,924.85
February 6,986.06
March 3,272.74
April 4,426.24
May --- 3,722.51
June 4.258.21
Total expenditure6months 29,590.61
Recommendations,
We recommend that the jurors and
bailiffs be paid the sum of Two Dol
lars per day for the next Spring and
Fall terms of this court.
We recommend the publication of
these presentments in the Herald, the
Eagle and the News, and that they
be paid the sum of Ten Dollars each
lor the publication of the same.
We recommend to the County Com
misioners that they insist that the
contract with the County Comission
ers of Gwinnett County made in 1910
be carried out and that the Gwinnett
County Commissioners, in accord with
the terms of the contract, be required
to work the Monroe road leading from
I. F. Duncan’s place to Flowery
Br; in h, and that this work be done
under the supervision and direction
of ir County Commissioners.
We 'nave elected the following No
tary Public and Ex-Oificio Justices of
the Peace: J. M. Pittman. Quillians
District and W. N. Edwards, Fork
District
We urge our citizens to create pub
lic sentiment in the observance and
enforcement or the law’s, and that we
give our aid without fear or favor to
the officers in the discharge of their
duty, to the end that we may have
less crime, violatons of the law's and
less use for Grand Juries.
This body possibly has had to do
about the average amount of work in
the investigations in the violations of
the law as compared to other Grand
Juries, yet we are impressed with the
1 J that a large portion of the wit
<<-s and parties in the various bills
s-n" 1 t > and passed upon by us.
a.- 1 young l ien, and with this obser
vation. we would sound a note of
warning, that to us as citizens belong
that responsibility and duty to create
,'n l maintain influences in the home
a • 1 in civic life which teach man’s
■ luty to man in the proper regard for
law and the enforcement of the penal
ties of the law’.
We recommend that the Clerk of
the Grand Jury be paid $.50 per day
extra for his work as Clerk.
We wish to extend our thanks to
His Honor. Judge J. B. Jones, Solici
tor General Robt. McMillan, and B. F.
Strickland, our Bailiff, for courtesies
extended during the present service.
Respectfully submitted,
W. G. MEADOR.
Foreman.
C. R. ALLEN, Clerk.
W. W. HOLLAND.
F. E. BOWEN.
H. A. WAYNE.
L. B. GRIER.
G. F. BAGWELL.
J. T. WATERS.
J. D. HAWKINS.
P. G. REED.
J. W. HUNT.
J. L. ROBINSON.
W. A. REED.
j. c. McConnell.
W. A. HOWINGTON.
J. J. HYDE.
J. D. ADAMS.
J. L. VICKERS.
W. G. COOPER.
S. M. DAVIS.
A. T. JAY.
H. W. T. GAINES.
GEO. P. ESTES.
Hall Superior Court, July Term.
1914.
Ordered that the within General
Presentments be spread upon the min
utes of the court and published as
recommended.
This August 1, 1914.
Approved and ordered entered on
the minutes.
J. B. JONES, Judge.
This August 1, 1914.
'kies Old Sores, Other Remedies Won’t Cure.
: e worst cases, no matter of hew Jorg standing,
e cured by the wonderful, old reliable Dr.
rter’s Antiseytic Healirg Oil. It relieves
n and He;'- fj.oo
Annual Mountain Excursion
Saturday, Aug. 15th,
TO WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA
From Atlanta, Georgia
Asheville A A A A Lake Toxaway
Waynesville 1" IJ 1111 Hendersonville
Hot Springs .ill 1111 Tate Spring
Brevard U v lUU Tryon
Tickets Good Two Weeks
Correspondingly Low Fares to Other Resorts
Three Trains freni Atlanta
Via
Southern Railway
Premier Carrier of the South.
Leave Atlanta 7.00 a. m. 11.00 a. m. 8.45 p- m.
Arrive Hendersonville 8.30 a. m. 8.07 p. m. 5.50 a. m.
Arrive Asheville 6’30 p. m. 0.15 p. m. 7.00 a. m.
Arrive Brevard 7.41 p. m. 7.11 a m. 7.11 a. m.
Arr:ve Lake ?"ei-iaway 8.45 p. m. 8.10 a. m. 8.10 a. m.
Arrive Het Springs 8.15 p. ie. 11.00 a. m. 7.30 a. m.
Parlor and sleeping car accommodations on all trains.
Through coaches on morning and night trains.
AnJJopportunity to visit the beautiful ’‘Land
of the Sky” at small cost.
For further information, sleeping car accommodations, call on
Southern Railway agent, or address
J. C. BEAM, A. G. A A., R. L. BAYLOR, D. P. A.,
Atlanta, Georgia.
Hardman May Foo! Some Politicians 1
Atlanta. Ga.. Aug. I.—Dr. L. G.
Hardman, of Commerce, is likely to
fool some of the politicians, accord r
ing to •several Georgia editors who
have been w atching him in his cam- ’
paign for the governship. One south t
Georgia man who was a caller at the!
Kimball this week, expressed him .
self thusly:
“You folks who are used to a lot !
of noise do not fully realize how i
strong a race Dr. Hardman is mak- i
ing. And a lot ol you do not know 1
just how excellent a man he is. Dr.
Hardman is far and above all other :
I
candidates in the matter of service ;
to the greatest number of people in
the state, and while his name has
not been heralded in newspaper
lines during his service in the legis
lature, he has accomplished a great
deal of good for Georgia. It was his ‘
forethought and wisdom which gave ;
us the state board of health and to I
his efforts are due improvements in
agriculture and drainage."
Mrs. F. L. Brownlee of Westmin
ster, S. C., is vising at the home of |
Mr. A. W. Parham.
Letters Uncal'ed For
Remaining on hand in the Gaines
ville post-office for the week ended
August 3. 1914:
ladies:
Miss Annie Anderson, Rachel I
Chamblee, Mrs. Minnie Dunaway,
Mrs. Jennie Dawsie. Mrs. N. Free
man, Mrs. A. A. Grant. Miss Min- :
nie Green, Miss Jessie Hines, Mrs.
Malinda Hall, Miss Ella Logan. ;
Miss Ettie McMurray, Mrs. Ida,
Henry Mooney, Miss Rosa Reese. ;
Mrs. Thusea Strickland. Mrs. Liz- j
| zie Sutton, Miss Lehan Simpson,
. Miss Julia Waters.
GENTLEMEN:
| F. B. Adkins, Redfuell Allen, '
I Prof. W. S. Boynton, J. C. Barnes, !
jW. G. Donehoo, M. Goldberg. W.
IG. Haynes, (). Hanilson, P. W.
Kennedy, Jim Moore. C. Rollin,
Rev. W. J. Robinson. C. G. Reese. 1
George Sosebee, T. B. Slade, W. R. •
Singleton, J. O. Thompson.
Persons calling for same should
say advertised, and give date. One |
cent due on each letter.
Mrs. H. W. J. Ham, P. M.
Hardman Makes Three Speeches.
Madison, Ga.. July 3 —Dr. L. G.
Hardman -poke here thi-morning to
a good audience. Hi- speech was well
received, eliciting hearty applause
at times. He also spoke at Rutledge
and Bostwick, thiscounty, this after
noon and night.
The race in Morgan as it now stands
is very close.
Mr. Ernest Grigg and son of Rich
mond. Va.. who have been guests of
the former's brother. Mr. H. H.
Grigg of this city, returned home
Sunday.
Deafness Cannot be Cured
by locai applications, as th< y cannot reach
I the diseased port! n ■ ■ the ear. There is
t only oneway to cure drain:--, and that is
by constitutional remedies. neatness is
i caused by an inflamed condition of the mu
| cous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When
i this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling
(•sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is
I entirely closed, Deafness is the result, and
; unless the inflammation can be taken ort
( and this tube restored to its normal condi
: tion, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine
; cases out of tenare caused by Catarrh, wiiich
' is nothing but an inflamed condition of the
mucous surfaces.
; We will give One Hundred Dollars for
any case of I’eafness icau-<-d by catarrh)
; that cannot becured by Hall's Catarrh Cure,
. Send for circulars, free.
F. .1. CH ENY A < 'O., Toledo, <).
i Sold by druggists, 75c.
, Take Hall's Family Pill- for constipaion"
For Sale Cheap
: 130 acre farm, 3 miles East of
.Gainesville. Address H. L. Gaines,
i 42 E. Summit St. Gainesville. Ga.
Land for Sale.
i A tract of 85 acres, in Tadmore
District. 7 r 2 miles from Gainesville;
; good 4-room dwelling, good tenant
i house; good out-buildings; about 60
acres in cultivation, balance in
woodland and old fields, plenty run
ning water; good pasture; on road
, leading to Commerce. For particu
lars, write or see T. F. Collins,
Gillsville. Ga., Route One.
Lost
Rimless Glasses, gold frame.
Wednesday morning. Return to
Mountain View Hotel and get re
ward.
Found Auto Number.
Sheriff E. A. Spencer found an
auto number this week —18292, Ga.,
1914. Owner can get same by apply
ing to him and paying for advertise
ment.