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The Sandersville Herald.
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SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA, JANUARY 25, 1908.
ESTABLISHED 1841
filNNERS’ REPORT
BEARS OUT FACTS.
Cotton Crop Shows That
Ginners Knew What
Was Coming.
President J. A. Taylor of the
National Ginners’ Association has
given out the following letter:
“Reports by telegraph from our
larger correspondents in each state
indicate that the heavy ginning
during December has censed and
indicates a crop not much, if any,
over our estimate of 10,(502,000
hales. Our figures are a little too
low on South Carolina, Georgia,
and possibly Louisiana and too
high on Texas and North Caroli
na. and about right on the other
states. Nearly 70 per cent of our
correspondents have finished and
closed down for the season, except
in the Mississippi Delta, where
there is yet some cotton to pick.
“The last late crop wo had was
the 19011-4 crop. We ginned from
Dec. 18 to Jan. 10, 959,0(H) hales
and compared to the size of the
crop we will hardly gin that much
this .year. After the Kith, wo
ginned 844,000 halos. Notwith
standing the heavy ginning during
the last period, the market has
advanced about eighty points,
and there is a larger demand for
spot cotton than ever before. 1
advise all who have cotton, espec
ially the good grades, to hold tight
as there is every indication of a
good advance, if the planters do
not put too much on the market
at one time. The demand for good
grades is especially heavy.
“1 have just learned from good
authority that the big bull leader,
D. J. Sully, is in the market for
better prioos. He is backed by a
large syndicate of Wall street
people and there is no telling how
high the market will go, but if
the planters will hold tight to
their cotton they will got 15 cents
a pound easily und may get much
more. Cotton goods are 25 per
cent higher than in 1908-4, when
the market went to 17.00, and if
prices on cotton advance cotton
goods can advance considerably
without cutting down the con
sumption under the supply. The
world is short at least 4,500.000
bales and the best authorities
think the consumption will be
larger in Europe tlran last year
The consumption in this country
will probably be a little less, Gut
taken as a whole it will be as
large the world over as last year,
unless cotton goes to extremely
high prices.
“I want to call your attention
to the boll weevil. So far the
weather has been very favorable
for them to come through the
winter in as good shape as they
did last year. If you will get the
census report for Dec. 18, by
counties, you will see that in Tex
as, Louisiana and Oklahoma,where
the real shortage exists is in the
weevil districts. Red River Par
ish, Louisiana, ginned 5,000 bales
compared to 17,000 last year;
Caddo Parish, 14,000 compared to
41,000 last year; De Soto Parish,
5,500 compared to 15.000 last
year; while parishes in the east
ern part of the state where the
boll weevil has done little damage
made nearly as much ns last year.
I u Texas the only part not infested
by the weevils is northwest of
Fort Worth. The ginning in
Hardeman, Wilbarger, Wichita
and other counties not infested
by the weevils is larger even than
last year. The weevil has spread
more the past season than ever
>efore and has now crossed the
Mississippi river and in two years
will cover t he entire southern part
)f the state. This means it will
bn almost impossible to raise a
bumper crop next season.
“Financial conditions have im
proved much faster than the most
optimistic people thought and in
dications are that in sixty or nine
ty days every tiling will lie normal
again.
“According to a report from
Mr. Hester, secretary of the New
Orieans Cotton Exchange, the
average weight of the bales is over
1 pounds lighter than last year.
This means 850,000 bales of 500
pounds grosR weight; so that if
the amount ginned up to the end
of tho season is 10,750.000 bales,
it would he really equal to 10,750,-
000 bales of last year’s weights.”
ERRORS, INDISCRETIONS
OF PRISON COMMISSION
And the Pardoning Board.
Williams is Expected
to aid in Remedying.
JUDGE J. F. BRANNEN
WILL PRESIDE.
In City Court Next Week
In the Disqualified
Cases.
Judge.!. F. Brannen, Judge of
the City Court of Statesboro will
preside for Judge Jordan in the
City Court of Sandorsville in cases
in which he is disqualified next
week.
Judge Jordan will hold the court
trying nil tho cases coming up in
the court until Wednesday, by
which time most of the cases will
be disposed of.
Judge Brannen will arrive Wed
nesday. He is well known by
members of the bar hero and pre
sides over one of tho most im
portant City Courts in tho State
and is regarded as an able Judge
and a good lawyer by his brethren
throughout the circuit.
Infant’s
Illness
Ends in
Heath.
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Sandersville, Ga.
The infant child of Mr. and
Mrs. W. R. Beach died at their
home on North Harris street
Thursday night after an illness
extending from its birth.
The child was only a few months
old and had never been very
strong and parents and friends
feared that its life would not be
long. The best and tenderest care
was given the little one by the fa
ther and mother and friends, but
in spite of human help and love
and devoted care, death came
Thursday night and relieved its
sufferings.
Card of Thanks.
To Our Friends:
We thank each of our friends
with all our hearts for help and
kindness and unselfish attention
during the recent illness of our
little child. In the midst of sor
row and suffering like this, it is
comforting and cheering to know
that we have such dear neighbors
and friends.
Gratefully yours,
Mu, and Mus. W. R. Beach.
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(Atlanta Correspondence of Grif
fin News and Sun.)
Atlanta, January 18. (Special)
The investigations of the work
ings of the state prison commis
sion being made by tho Georgia
sonate committee on penitentia
ries, headed by Senator Brock,
which have already resulted in tho
discharge of State Warden Jake
C. Moore, who has been with the
commission since the beginning,
for receiving money from convict
lessees, may or may not result in
anything further or inculpate
those higher up, as it has many
who are lower down. But it has
served a good purpose in showing
just at this right time the neces
sity of not, only putting new blood
into this commission, which has
succeeded in electing its own
members each time, but putting
in some man of another character
—one who knows criminals and
the lessees of convicts from actual
contnrt and view of their work
ings rather from camp reports and
mere office knowledge. Also, one
whose efficiency and probity have
already been thoroughly tested.
There are a number of candi
dates to succeed Tom Eason, the
member whose term expires this
year; but while they are all good
men, there is only one who comes
up to the requirements mentioned,
and that is Captain Wiley Wil
liams, chief of police of Colum
bus, who gave Tom Eason the race
of his life six years ago. For this
reason, and because ho is best
known over the state, the state
house officials here, while not car
ing to be quoted since they will
be candidates themselves, aro
quietly talking that Wiley Wil
liams is a pretty sure winner in
this raco, and will welcome his
advent in a corner of the capitol
that, has been the cause of a great
deal more suppressed scandal than
has come to the public knowledge.
It is not only in the manage
ment of criminals that the Georgia
prison commission has been criti
cised, but in the fact that it has
so magnified tho other and sub
ordinate branch of its work that
it is more often called the board
of pardons than by its first name;
for it is a dull week at the state
house when it does not grind out
about as many pardons ns there
are convicts in two or three aver
age criminal courts combined.
Indeed, it is probably no great
exaggeration to say that the state
penitentiary and convict camps
might soon become depleted but
for the numerical advantage that
the trial courts have over the
board of pardons. Indeed, as one
who has been keeping tab on the
matter says, it has become “more
difficult to keep a criminal in the
penitentiary than to put him
there.”
Securing a pardon has come to
be regarded as such an easy mat
ter—a sort of matter of course, in
fact—that an attorney who barely
succeeds in Baving a murderer
from the gallows does not hesitate
after waiting a year or two, to ask
the prison commission for a full
pardon—usually with success. Or
if he fails for the time being, he
goes a second or third time, until
at last, he gains his point.
A prominent court official said
not long ago, “the people of Geor
gia don’t realize what a difficult
thing it is to keep a criminal in
the penitentiary after he has been
convicted. Of course, the duty of
the court officers ends with con
vietion, whereas the criminal’s
attorney is often paid to keep up
his tight, with the result that the
prison commission nearly always
hears an ex-parte presentation of
the case, and on that, together
with such of the records as may
be available, roaches a conclusion.
Then, there is the natural sym
pathy that must arise for the con
victed man, perhaps he is not as
robust as he once was (his victim
may be dead) or his family are in
distress, and all that sort of thing
—result, a pardon.”
Speaking of this matter, tho
editor of the Augusta Chronicle
said tho other day :
“Tliero have been several aggra
vated cases in point very recently,
but tho evil is not a new one, and
we draw attention to the matter
without reference to an)' case in
particular. The evil has been
growing worse from year to year,
until now even the court officers
aro privately entering a protest.
“What wh very greatly need in
Georgia is a system that will ren
der it extremely difficult to, in
fact, well nigh impossible, to send
an innocent man to the peniten
tiary—and equally difficult to
secure the release of a guilty one.”
It is pointed out here that, Wi
ley Williams, with his intimate
knowledge of the criminal classes,
is the very man not to bo so easily
moved by this ex-parte presenta
tion of a ease by a prisoner’s law
yer, but would be a foil on the
other two members of the hoard.
But Captain Williams is not mere-
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The Event of the Season at Auditorium:
SUNSHINE HAWKS
Monday Evening Jan. 27;
Admitted to be the most eloquent;
as well as most humorous lecturer
on the platform of today.
Mr. Hawks usually appears in large cities only buti
stops over to fill open date here.
Popular
Prices.
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a chief of police; he was a
newspaper man for fourteen years
before occupying that position,
rising from printer’s devil to edi
tor. This gave him a wide range
of knowledge that he has cultivat
ed and increased during the sub
sequent fifteen years that he has
been head of the police force of
Columbus, one of Georgia’s prin
cipal ci lies. - .
By all means let us put, in a
practical man on this important
commission, now that we have
another chance.
Chairman Calls a
Committee Meeting.
Macon, Ga.—Judge A. L. Miller
his issued the following call:
‘The members of the State
Democratic Executive Committee
are hereby requested to meet in
Atlanta on Thursday, the sixth
day of Feb., 1908, at 12 o’clock
noon, at the assembly room of
the Piedmont Hotel.
I ask that all Democratic pa
pers throughout the state publish
this call.
(Signed) “A. L. Miller,
“Chairman.
“Macon, Ga., Jan. 20, 1908.”
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LUeKY or UNLUCKY?
Card oi Thanks.
We desire to thank our friends
and the good people of this city
for their many kindnesses and for
their unselfish aid to us during
the illness and death of our wife
and mother, Mrs. E. Twiliey. We
know no words to adequately ex
press our thanks to those who as
sisted and comforted us and our
devoted wife and mother.
Sincerely,
E. Twilley.
Willif, L. Twii.i.ky,
Francis Twilley,
Orlander Twilley.
School Commission-
Examination.
er’s
In compl iance with instructions
from the State School Comm is
sioner, all applicants for the office
of County School Commissioner
in this county will be examined
in Sandersville February 4th, 1908
upon questions prepared by the
State School Commissioner ac
cording to law. Applicants take
notice.
George Gilmore
President County Board of Ed
ucatiou.
H AS it over occurred to you who are superstitious about the
number “18,” that almost daily you may be carrying
around with you a piece of money that is just full of
thirteens? Just take a look at a quarter of a dollar, and
you will note thirteen letters in the words “quarter dollar,”
thirteen arrow heads, thirteen feathers in the eagle’s wing,
thirteen parallel bars on the ehield, thirteen letters in the
scroll in the euglo’s beak, thirteen stars, thirteen horizontal
stripes and thirteen leaves in tho olive branch. If this in
formation happens to lie new to you, and you are supersti
tious about keeping quarters, we would add that you may
send from ono to a dozen of them to Hitt’s Market, San-
dersville, Ga., and he will take them in exchange for the
best meat to be found in this city, and you will then be
relieved of coins of that denomination.
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To cover your Fnrniture, Wearing Apparel and
Household effects. Phone 123. We will be
pleased to call and explain our policy to you.
SANDERSVILLE INSURANCE AGENCY