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The Sandersville Herald. $1.00 PER YEAR. 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. ‘A™ • ‘ ‘ 'H, ' •• ' 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.