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The Sandersville Herald.
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SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA, OCTOBER 16, 1908.
VOLUME LXVtll. No. 21
COUNTY BOARD TAKES
FIFTY CONVICTS.
Important Joint Meeting
Held Thursday in In
terest of Roads.
LASER BEER IS SURE
LY INTOXICATING.
Decision Handed Down By
The Georgia Court of"~
Appeals.
A joint meeting of the Hoard of
Roads and Revenues of the county
and of the newly elected members
was held in the Commissioners
room at the court house Thursday
and the important matter of the
county roads was discussed.
It was determined at this meet
ing to take fifty convicts under
the recent felony convict law for
our public roads and those will
come about the first day of the
coming April. Secretary New
man was directed to look after the
details and notify the Prison
Commission of the Hoard s action
and to see to the securing of able
bodied men.
The Herald has long made a
light for the felony convicts to be
put to work on the public roads
instead of being leased to private
individuals, being the first news
paper in Georgia to take up the
question after the passage of the
convict bill of 19011 and has con
stantly kept this question before
the people. We congratulate the
members of the Board and the
people of the county on this wise
step.
There was a movement to se
cure as many as seventy five or
one hundred convicts, but the
Board thought wise to secure only
fifty at present.
Notice.
Violet Rebekah Lodge No. 9,
X. O. O. F., meets first and third
Friday afternoons at Four o’clock,
at Lodge room. Visitors wel*
corned.
Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 12.—Lager
beer is, on its lace, intoxicating
and should bo so considered by
the courts, iu the absence of evi
dence to the contrary, according
to a decision handed down today
by the Georgia court of appeals.
According to the decision, it is
unnecessary, m prosecutions for
the sale of intoxicating bevernges,
to prove that beer is in that class,
but the defense may oiler testi
mony to show that it is not in
that class.
The decision was rendered in a
case arising under the old liquor
law, but, owing to the wide sale
of various brands of beer through
out the state now, may havo im
portant bearing on the enforce
ment of the prohibition law.
DUCKWORTH QUITS
AS HEAD OF UNION.
Resigned to Give Entire
* Time to Legislative
Committee.
REV. L1NK0US WRITES
FROM NEW ORLEANS.
Has Interesting Trip to the
Christian Church Na=
tional Convention.
A press dispatch from In ion
City states that Hon. It. F. Duck
worth had resigned the presiden
cy of the Georgia division of the
Farmer’s Educational and Co-op-
epative Union to devote all of his
time to the chairmanship of the
legislative committee, to which he
was recently elected. He found
tho duties of his new office of
such a character as to demand all
of his time, and he resigned from
the Georgia division.
Mr. .T. L. Lee of Stone Moun
tain has been elected president of
the Georgia division by the exec
utive committee. Mr. Lee was at
the meeting and accepted the of
fice of President. Ho is a splen
did man, and will make a worthy
successor to Mr. Duckworth.
Splendid Crops
Aronnd Warthen.
While out in the country this
week we have traveled over a
goodly portion of the county and
we find that the crops are very
short in some places while around
W r arthon they are better or as
good as last year.
Mr. Green W. Duggan will
make more cotton this year on
his individual crop than last
year. He has oue field, a nine
acre cut, that he will get nine
bales, off of, averaging five hun
dred pounds. His corn crop is
also good.
Mr. Corley Duggan and George
For Judge City Court.
To the white voters of Washington
county:
I announce myself a candidate for
the ollice of Judge of the city Court of
Sandersville, subject to the primary
election to be held Thursday October
22od and will gratefully appreciate the
support of the people.
Very respectfully,
E. W. Jorclai
In this issue will he found another
advertisement of Jackson’s store. He
keeps right on telling the readers of
this paper where to find good-goods at
lowest prices. Head his add and give
him a call and see for yourself that he
has anything on earth nearly that you
can buy at very low prices.
Gilmore will also make very near
or as much or fully as much as
last year. This is very gratifying
to these gentlemen as crops are
so very short over the county.
THOMPSON BROS.
SHOES FOR MEN.
c
NO NAME
HATS
A Sale Here Is not a Sale Until the Garment is
Stamped With Your Approval.
To the personal element in this bus
iness much of its success in due.
There is bore a close relationship be
tween buyei «.nd seller, which blend®
itself into a mutual object:
SATISFACTION.
A sale here isn’t a sale until the
garment is stamped with your ap
proval. This keeps us on our nn t-
tle. We cannot afierd to sell y°n
clothing that is, by hearsay, pintty
good clothing.” We can allord to
sell you only the best, and that. is
wliero High Art Clothing comes m.
High Art Clothing
Is the evolution of an idea. It
was conceived some forty odd
years ago by a man who be
lieved in doing things just a
little better than anybody else
could or would do them, and
he made clothes that way.
Today the superiority is as mark
ed as when first the idea was con
ceived. Every HIGH ART tailor
is imbued with this one subject of
hetterness, nnd every HIGH AR’l
garment hears tho earmarks of
liner tailoring, finer fit, more dis
tinctive style.
The new Fall Models we are showing
are illustrative of what metropolitan
dressors will don this season. There
are some mighty knobb ones amongst
them, which will he snapped up by
wise “early birds”, quickly.
GRJFFON
COHEN COMPANY, Sandersville.
XEIGLER BROS
si I OKS FOR LA HIES
New Orleans, La., Oct. 11, 'OS.
The writer left the city of Deep-
step, Ga., last Friday morning at
0:B0 on the private car of Mr. J.
II. Avant for the little villago of
Sandersville. Arriving at said
village I took the train, consist
iug of dining car, day coach for
both colors, smoker and Pullman
sleeper, for the town of Tennille.
There I took the accommodation
train over the Central for Atlan
ta. On this train we passed
through many red hills and cotton
fields—but more hills than cot
ton. In Atlanta I boarded the
Southern Pullman over the West
Point road to Montgomery and
thence over tho L. & N. for New
Ol-leans, and 1 will say right here
that the best railroad service one
can get in the south is over the
Central of Georgia, West Point
and L. <fc N. At West Point late
in the evening, we passed out of
the “Empire State of the South”
into “Alabatn.” I wus thus able
to see tho very heart of the South
as well as some of the extremities.
That part of the Bouth lying be
tween Atlanta and Montgomery
possesses a peculiar charm. It is
the line of tho march of transi
tion between the old and the new
South. Tho best illustrations of
the ante-bellum plantation life
were once presented upon the
sloping hills and in the rich val
leys of this section of Georgia and
Alabama; a life which has al
ready become half legendary but
is still typified by the imposing
mansions, magnificent in their
architecture and location, so fre
quently seen in country and town.
But the most interesting features
of this country are found in the
energetic and industrial develop
ment of the new south rather
than in decaying landmarks of
the old regime. Tho busy manu
factories with their armies of
workmen, fine cattle grazing in
green pastures, cotton fields white
with tho fleecy staple interspered
with fields of corn and peas: new
towns, new churches, now schools
—a teeming, busy population all
intent upon tho development of
the resources of a great country,
are features of the interesting
panorama which unfolds itself in
a journey through a section which
is so aptly called “the heart of
the South. The sun went down,
the stars came out, and the moon
tose liiglf in all her glory and pre
sented the country in grandeur in
describable. Soon I feel asleep
and waked nex-t morning in Miss
issippi somewhere between Mobile
and New Orleans, La. I cannot
begin to describe the low, marshy
country along the gulf and up the
Mississippi river, but wo passed
Ft. McCdmbe, an old Spanish fort
and I looked ahead at a great
smoke and thought surely some
city was burning but us we neared
11 found that it was acres and
acres of swamp grass burning.
The fire was probably eight miles
long. The land along tho gulf
and river is as level as a floor only
occasionally a small fishing sta
tion is all the buildings one can
see for miles and miles.’
At 7:45 Saturday morning we
arrived in the Crescent City, and
now a few words about this city
and I will stop. To one who has
never been to larger cities than
Sun Hill and Riddleville this is
an eye-opener. One can ride
eleven miles around the heart of
the city here on the cars for five
cents. As I was speeding around
as fast as electricity would carry
oue 1 saw a great embankment
FLOWER POTS
We have just received a large lot of
Flowers Pots right from the pottery.
These are the high grade goods and
not the red clay kind, but at the low
price you pay for the red clay sort.
Come quick if you want any or they
will be gone.
Dog Medicine.
We Just received a full assormentof
Sergeant’s Dog Remedies
Right from the Manufac■
tures. If your dog is not
healthy come and get a free
book on dogs.
and on asking what it was, was
told that it was the river, So that
people really do go up to the river
instead of down to it. I stopped
tho car and went up and viewed
for the first time in reality the
‘great “father of waters.” I could
not refrain from crossing it, so I.
employed ft gasoline launch to
take me over and on the other
side saw for my first time an or
ange grove full of oranges. Then
1 recrossed the river and went to
the “city of the dead,” and a city
it is. It is simply indescribable.
The marble, the marble, tho mar
ble, used there. We frequently
hear of erecting a monument to
the dead, but here are simply
mansions erected out of solid
marble to the dead. The finest
cemetery in America is here, and
words of description fail me.
Nearly all the people here are bu
ried in vaults. Some toombs have
as many as 112 people buried in
them. 1 was told that the cheap
est tomb here cost $2500 and the
most expensive one $115,000. Just
think of it! A monument inside
the grounds erected to 1 know not
whom cost $85,000. Of the $1100,-
000 people here 197,000 are Cath
olics, hence there are many Cath
olic institutions of interest, one
of which is one of the oldest Span
ish Cathedral in America. One
very singular thing J find here is
more poor houses than I ever saw
in any town. People can live very
cheap here. Fruits of all. kinds
cost less than half what they do
in Georgia. Oysters only cost
$1.50 per bushel.
If I have not worried the Edi
tor and readers this time I may
write again.
T. T. G. Linkous.
Jackson tells you in this issue that
he has many things to sell at very
reasonable prices. He wants your
trade and we ask you to make him a
visit. He can save you money.
FOR SOLICITOR.
To the White Voters of Washington
County:
I am a candidate for the office of
Solicitor of the City Court of Sanders
ville subject to the primary election to
be held on the ‘22nd of this month. I
will appreciate the support of all tho
people and if elected I pledge myself
to faithfully discharge the duties of
the office.
Very respectfully,
J. E. Hyman.
Mr Editor:—1 would be glad if you
would grant me space in your paper to
announce to the white voters of Waah-
ington county my candidacy for the
position of Solicitor of the City Court of
Sandersville subject to the primary to be
held on the 22nd inst.
I assure the public, that if honored
with the office, that I will devote my
earnest efforts to the punishment and
suppiesb'.oii of crimo. Law will be
respected only when enforced, and its
enforcement is dependent, iu a great
measure upon the activity and energy
and impartiality of the state’s prosecuting
attorney. If elected l will, as such
attorney, administer the affairs of this
office with diligence, impartially and
without favor or affection to any party.
I further pledge myself to conduct this
office in such a manner as to reduce as
far as possible, and if possible, to elimi
nate entirely the annual deficit shown in
tho affairs of the City Court.
I feel that the public might at thiB
time view with favor the candidrcy of
another attorney. The present solicitor,
my only announced oppouont, has held
the solicitorship for about eight years
I believe, together with his term as
Judge of the City Court. His present
tenure of office does not expire (for ovor
twelve months. Because ol' the peculiar
nature of this office and the peculiar
benefits to l>« derived from holding tho
same, I believe that every attorney
should bo given an opportunity aud that
no man should be allowed to hold it
indefinitely.
As there is but a short time before tha
holding of the primary I will probably
not be able to make a thoroughe cauvass
of the eutire county, but I desire and
uolicit the vote aud support of every
white voter in the county, and if honored
with the office assure them that I will
conduct their affairs economically and s
with the purpose of enforcing the law
with the least possible expense,
J. J. Harris.
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Tax Notice.
The city tax books are now
open for the receiving of the tax
returns for the year, and will close
on November loth. Please call
and attend to this.
M. D. Jameraon, Treas.
