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Ben Hill Superior Court, Gctober Term, 1912.
List of Grand and Traverse Jurors Drawn for said Term
GRAND JURORS.
MeGlamory, M. G.
Davis, R.
Hitch, Chas.
Paulk, Jas. Jr.
Gaff, Larkin
Dodd, H. M.
Young, S. Jr.
Pool, W. A.
MecCall, A. W.
MeMillan, Geo.
Clark, P. F.
Scarbrough, J. W.
Dorminey, G. J.
Fitzgerald, Tharp
Lee, R. E.
TRAVERSE JURORS, FIRST WEEK:
Dixon, S. D.
Mercier, A. P.
Hunter, S. T.
Dalee, W. D.
Hanes J. M.
Luke. J. B.
Albritton, J. B.
Hunter, G. C.
George, J. A.
Hale, E. G.
Young, D. F.
Powell, H. G.
Griffin, T. M.
Broadhurst, W. G.
Null, D. F.
Dixon, L. L.
McLendon, R. W.
Griffin, T. J.
TRAVERSE JURY. SECOND WEEK.
Hussey, E.
Benton, Chas,
Fletcher, Blonie.
Barton, B. F.
Young, A. R.
Littlefield, N. N. .
Yarbrough, Tom.
Stevens, M. M.
Livingston, Toliver J.
Lee, C. B. :
Dorminey, W. R.
Land, Fred.
Alberson, J. E.
Royal, B. S.
Porterfield, J. W.
Batton, C. B.
McDonald, J. M.
Young, M. D.
Thurmond, A. H.
Miller, O. W.
Thornton, J. D.
Stever, C. R.
Martin, D. L.
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‘AP ouany . - Y. 5
Missionary Picnic
In their plan for enlargement
the Womans’ Missionary Society
of the Baptist Church has plan
ned a Missionary Pionic to which
the following invitation to the
women of the church has been
issued—
“ The W. M. Society cordially
invite you to a ‘‘Missionary Pic
nic’’ at Blue and Gray Park,
Friday Sept. 20th.
As we become better acquaint
ed, may we go hand in hand to
higher achievements in our
Chureh and Missionary work.
If inclement weather, meet at
home of Mrs. L. Kennedy, S-
Main St., 3.00 to 6.00 p. m.”’
» If by any circumstance the
card should miscarry the women
of the congregation are urged to
come. Mrs. J. B. Wall,
Pres. W. M. S. Baptist Church.
Evans, W. U.
Newcomer, C. A.
Harris, F. W.
Williamson, A. L.
Murray, V. D.
Kilerease, C. R.
Lee, O. D.
Dorminey, R. R.
Ewing, A. B.
Strange, J. C.
Denmark, A, H.
Robitzseh, W. H.
Holtzendorf, C. A.
Morris, J. W.
Barrentine, J. M.
Hopkins, M. S.
McCall, R. L.
Taylor, W. A.
Royal, C. A.
Hogan, W. T.
Hayes. C. W,
Armantrout, Jas,
Gibbs, S. Y.
McLean, G. W.
Lagerstrom, G. A.
Austin, F. C.
Barnes, B. B.
Farmer, E. K.
Luke, T. J., Jr,
Newton, A. F.
Gelders, 1.
Haddoex, F. J.
Vaugh, H. D.
Dorminey, J. W.
Dickey, T. J.
McLendon, W. R.
Mixon, Jno. C.
Hyatt, W. P.
Lewis, N. J.
Wilson, J. C.
Murray, R. H.
Player, Geo.
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Eldred, F. J.
Butts, J. B.
Reeves, M. F.
Swearinger, J. N.
Handley, R. V.
Adams, D. P.
McAlister, D. G.
Tayior..d. 1.
Johnson, G. H.
Fowler, D. S.
Tavlor, Reason.
Taylor, J. Hnrton.
Webster, M. P. .
Glover, J. C. ’
Another Gar Load
Horses And Mules
Williams and Maund Re
ceive More Fine Stock
Mr. J. W. Hogan, the Quitman
representative of Williams and
Maund dealers in Horses and
Mules, is in the city to assist the
genial dealers, Messrs, Stewart
and Mr, Spell, in disposing of a
fine car-load of Kentucky, horses
and mules which has just been re
ceived,
Mr. Hogan has just returned
from Kentucky where he person
ally supervised the selection of
this splendid car-load of stock and
states 1t is his candid opinion that
1t is the finest lot that bas ever
been brougkt to Fitzgerald.
Since the opening their branch
office here several months ago, the
THE LEADER-ENTERPRISE TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1912
L. N. Buck Dead
Mr. L. N. Buck, a well known
resident of this county, died Sun
day morning at four o’clock, af
ter un Illness of several weeks.
The deceased was ivjured very
seriously several months ago by
an infuriated cow and had never
fully recovered, when he became
overheated while at work several
weelks ago, resulting in his death.
Mr. Buck was 35 years old and
had a host of friends in this city
and throughout the county. He
is survived by bis wife and several
sisters in Fitzgerald; his mother
who was in the north visiting one
of his brothers, and his father who
Isin the Soldiers’ Home in John
son City Tenn.
The funeral services were held
yesterday afternoon from the
First Methodist Church, Rev. L.
C. Hammond, pastor of the
Central Christian Church, officia
ting. assisted by Rev. E. J. Ham
mond. [A large concourse of
friends attended the funeral and
the burial which followed at
Evergreen.
SEEKS PLANT ENTHUSIASTS
Large Number of Young Slips to Be
Sent Qut From Chico, Cal,,
by Government.
Washington, D. C.—The United
States department of agriculture is
looking for plant enthusiasts to aid
in the work of experimenting with
the thousands of new varieties of for
eign plants brought to these shores
annually by the bureau of plant in
troduction. David Fairchild, in charge
of this work, is preparing to send out
from the government experiment farm
at Chico, Cal, a large number of
young plants. But they will be sent
only, he declared, to those pedple who
can prove to the government that they
are genuimely interested in experi
menting carefully with the plants to
help determine their pessible value
for further introduction into various
sections of the country.
Reain-proof canvas ecards, giving
name, history and known characteris
tics, will be attached to each speci
men, and the experimenter will be
expected to inform the government of
the results of his work.
FIND WHISKY [N HAY WAGON
Police Hold 500 Boetties for Bazhful
Claimant at Wilmington, North
Caroiiina.
Wilmington, N. C.—Five hundred
bottles of “Turkey Mountain” corn
whisky, neatly packed away in gunny
sacks, await an owner at the local po
lice station. A wagon ostensibly
loaded with hay broke down in the
street and when the poiics, “seeing the
trouble from afar,” arrived on the
scene the negro river took to his
heels, leaving the property without a
claimant. Following a senatorial cam
paign against ‘“blind tigers” here a
week ago, no one has the temerity to
claim the goods.
Forget Your Feet.
A busy man might as
well be crippled as to be
poorly shod. Poor shoes
make it awful hard to
keep your mind off your
feet.
King Bee and Easy
Street are comfortable.
They are made in our
Georgia Shoe Factory
and are ‘‘there’’ on
style and wearing qual
ties,
Two new classy lasts
have just been put in
“Ty Cobb,” Red Rock.”
They’ll please you.
Just ask your dealer to
show them.
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. K. O Shoe Co,,
Red Scul Shwe Facrory,
firm of Williams & Maund; has
made many friends throughkout the
county. and their reliabiiity is
testified to by all who have had
dealings with them, Read their
ad in this issue of the Leader-En
terprise and if in the market for
anything in their line, give them
a call.
REWARD FOR TENANT
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Owrer of House Offers $5O for
an Ocoupant. |
Landlord Also Wili Give Free Rent teo
Negro Who Promises to Make
“Haunted” Building His
Residence, ‘
Kent, Conn.—" Fifty dollars cash bo
nus and two months’ rent free to any
body who will live not less than two
months in this house.”
Such is the sign which Ezra Blake,
wealthy land owner, has put up on
one of his houses in the negro quar
ter near here.
Among negroes the house is reputed
“haunted.” Until a month ago it was
a perfectly self-respecting house,
never known to have any spiritual vis
itors. But the last tenants, a couple
named Jackson, after living in it for
five years, had a ghostly visitor one
night, and since then Mr. Blake has
been unable to rent the house.
The Jacksons are considered truth
ful people. At any rate, their neigh
bors believe them. Mrs. Jackson de
clares that a ghost ch#sed her up
the back stairs and Mr. Jackson cor
roberates her.
Mr. Jackson was first to hear queer
noises and he aroused his wife Joseph
ine,
“Josephine,” he called to her,
“thar's suah an awful queer soun’ in
de cellar!”
Josephine listened, and sure encugh,
she heard low moaning. Jackson
said he’d investigate this matter thor
ough:y.”
“Josephine,” he said, without a tre
mor, ‘you go down in the cellar and
see wha' fo’ that noise is. E{f you
need any help, why jeg’ call me, that's
all, jes' call me.”
Josephine demurred, but Mr. Jack
con was firm, so Josephine went
downstairs,
| He didn’t have long te wait. Joseph
‘ine came flying back, shrieking: “Mah
gracious! It's arter me!”
~_Mr. Jackson didn’t wait to see what
“it” was, but sprang through the win
dow to the porch roof and slid down
a post to the ground. The last Jo
sephine saw of him he was sprinting
up the road.
Now, Mr. Jackson is very devoted
to his wife, and he’d have given
$5,000, if he had it, so he said after
wards, to have had that ghost right
then. What he would have dene to
it would have been a-plenty. =
As it was he hoofed it right along to
his neighbors and told his story.
Mr. Jackson and his neighbcrs re
turned to the house to rescue Joseph
ine, but when they reached the house
' her shrieks had ceased.
' Presently young Mose Johnson es
;pied 2 filmy white figure flitting past
{tho upstairs: window, He let iy ap
;npplc. It hit the white robed figure
isquare in the face. The head was
poked out of the windew.
' “Mose Johnson!” it shrieked. “Tll
' gmash yo’ everlastin’ gcod fo’ nufiin
1 happy head fo’ you.” :
It sounded like the voice of Joseph:
ine. And, in fact, as Mose did a quick
step up the road Josephine darted
down the back stairs.
Nothing could induce Josephine te
return, though her husband hinted to
‘her that her attire was not quite the
thing for the street. The couple spent
the rest of the night at Neighbor
Webster's house down the road.
Since then not a colored person has
crossed the threshold of the ‘“haunt.
ed house.”
Mr. Blake recently spent consider
able money repairing the place and
he says he does not propose to be
“robbed of his house by a supersti
tious prejudice.”
BAR ALL STOCKINGLESS GIRLS
Atlantic City Rules Bathers Must
Cover Legs While Walking
Around Beach.
Atlantic City, N. J.—Feminine
“calves” unprotected by stockings are
no longer to be seen along the beach.
Stockingless maids went under the
ban by order of Dr. John T. Beckwith,
chief of the beach patrol, acting under
direct orders from Willlam Bartlett,
director of the department of public
safety.
Shapely damsels, not content with
abbreviated bathing garments, started
a bare leg fad some weeks ago. Simce
then there has been a general move
by athletic girls to follow suit. Direc
tor Bartlett was ghocked when he
sighted several fine spe@mens drift
ing about the strand today and the
ukase followed.
Now the girls are protesting that
the men should be treated likewise.
MRS. BELMONT IS MARKETEF
Sosiety Woman Does This as a Pro
test Against Petty Graft
of Employees.
Newport, R. I.—Mrs. O. H. P. Bel
mont is doing her own marketing this
gsummer as a protest agalnst a sys
tem of petty graft, which she says has
become well-nigh universal in the
households of the wealthy summer
colonists here.
“This system of graft, by which em
ployees profit at the expense of em
ployers, is all wrong,” says Mrs. Bel
mont. “We pay our aids good wages,
for which they are expected to do a
certain service. It is certainly unfair
for them to expect to make a large
sum of money on commissions that
sre bound to come ot of the pockets
¢f their employers.”
Pastor and His Bride to Begin
~ Married Life Amid Lepers.
lsolation for Life Their Probable Sen
tence—While, in Addition, They
Run a Great Rigk of Contract-
Ing Disease.
Buffalo, N. Y.—The Rev. Martin P.
Davis and his young bride, married in
this city recently, are now on their
way to Chandkuri, the central pro
vince of far off India, where they{
will spend one of the strangest honey
moons on record. Thelr destination!
in Chandkuri is the leper colony in
the interior of the province, conducted
by the German Evangelical Mission
ary society, where they take up their
abode, probably nevermore to leave it.
It is to ameliorate the condition of
the 427 members of the colony that the
young people are making the sacrifice.
And there are few who have made a
greater. Although. many experts are
of the belief that leprosy is not easily
contracted, the laws of sanitation pre
gcribe isolation for all who have the
disease and those who mingle with
them: The missioparies run rhore
than a passing chance of falling prey
to the disease, as have many before
them. One of the missionaries, Miss
Mary Reed, now laboring in the snow
capped I*imalayas, has been a leper
since girlhood. :
In a colony such as Chandkuri lep
ers are given little plots of ground and
they are encouraged to grow mangoes,
lemons, oranges and other Indian
fruits. An effort is made to instill a
spirit cf independence in them. lach
man and woman is given 20 ounces of
coarse ground wheat a day and eight
cents a week.
Each leper cooks his own food For
clothing, each man is given four yards
of coarse, strong cotton clotl, 40
inches wide, which costs about 30
cents; the women, because of head
gear they wear, receive two yvards
more than the men.
Two children's homes, for the segre
gation of the offspring of lepers, will
be under the care of Mr. Davis. Chil
dren of leprous parents usually con
tract the disease if they are not sep
aratc:’; if taken away trom their par
ents it an early age, they escape. It
will ;2 one of the duties of Mrs. Davis
to v can healthy children away from
isn ced mothers.
I'tom Biblical times leprosy has been
1o of the worst scourrez of the east.
'h. census retnra: show there are
‘ 203,950 Jerers in Iniin alone. These
arc on! rrorouacad cases.
GIVE MEN SOCKS TO WOMEN
‘Chinese Who . Take Ship Passengers’
| Clothes Make Odd Mistakes in
Returning Therm.
San Francisco, Cal.—The Chinese
are assimilating Caucasian customs
fast but their inability to differentiate
hbetween masculine and feminine garb
or to understand why half hose are
wornn only by men caused sixty-two
cabin passengers of the liner Man
churia much inconvenience at Shang
fiai three weeks ago. ' :
The Manchria, which arrived from
the orient recently, was ordered into
juarantine at Shanghai because of the
death of a steerage passenger from a
communicable disease, and all pas
sengers were ordered ashore to take
a plunge in a germ-killing solution.
Bach was assigned a bathroom and
the clothing of each was taken away
tor fumigation. The Chinese neglect
sd to mark the clothing. A sedate
man of sixty received a corset in lieu
of his waistcoat. Many of the women
received men’s socks, others no stocl
ings at all, while many garments
went astray, never to be restored to
rightful owners.
Captain Dixon, veteran of many a
storm, fled to his cabin when the wom
en appealed to him.
GIRL CORNERS “PIG” MARKET
Laboratory Experimenters Depend
on Drove Fostered by Eight-Year-
Old Child.
Dayton, O.—The youngest menopo
list in the world lives in Dayton. Ske
8 Beatrice Howell, daughter of Frank
Howell, wealthy attorney, and is only
pight years old.
She controls the guinea pig mar
ket. State boards of health, medical
zolleges and other organizations which
must have guinea pigs for laboratory
experimental purposes are at her
mercy. Beatrice actually is the head
»f America’s largest guinea pig farm
at her father’s magnificent country
home, just outside of Dayton, near
the National Soldiers’ home. Two sis
ters, Kathryn, eleven, and Pauline,
five, assist her.
“The business hag grown sgo enor
mously within the lakt year that Bea
‘rice is unable to look after the
finances,” said her mother, a popular
Dayton society matron, “so I keep the
accounts.
“This year her sales will amount to
about 15,000 pigs. She is getting 65
sents each for them in lots of 50 or
more, but the day will soon be here
when they will command at least
$1.50 each.”
“l.ove Me; Love My Dog.”
Boston.—Because they would not let
her land with her dog owing to a tech
nicality of the British law, Miss Cora
Chamberlain has returned to Boston
without leaving the ship.
COLONEL TAKEN FOR HOBO
Army Officer Statloned in California
Has Hard Luck in California
Town. ,
San Francisco.—When is a colonel
not a colonel? Colonel John P. Wis
ser, coast artillery, stationed at the
Presidio in this city, thinks he found
the answer in Soledad, Cal. - Also the.
colone! found that he does not like
Soledad.
The colonel is addicted to long
tramps in perfods of rest from the
arduous duties of a soldier's life.
When he recently was granted a
month’s leave of absence he set out
with his son Edward on a walk to.
southern California, equipped with an
automobkile road guide, which,”among
other things, contained a list of the
best hotels between San Francisco and
Santa Barbara, the latter city being
the colonel’s destination.
After several days the road guide
showed the hikers that they were ap
proaching Soledad. The travelers bad
not shaved for three days; upon their
wrinkled and baggy garments the dust
of the road by thickly, night was
falling and they were hungry. They
stepped briskly into the lobby of the
hotel, the colonel in the van. The lat.
ter reached for a pen to register, when
the proprietor put forth a restraining
hand.
“You cannot stay here?” he said.
“Why not?” asked the colonel, mild
ly surprised.
“This hotel is not for such as youw,”
replied the manager.
“But I am a colonel of the United
States army,” said the colonel.
“Go tell that to the horse marines,”
said the manager, beckoning to &
couple of husky porters, and the colos
nel and his son found themselves
swiftly translated to the darknesg
without.
The next town was many miles
away and the trampers were tired, 80
they sought the sanctuary of a hay
wagon, only to be told to “beat it” by
the village constable.
Hence the colonel’s dislike of Sole
dad.
HONOR TO BRITISH GENERAL
People of Brockville, Ont., Laud the
Memory of Commander Who Won
Detroit in War of 1812,
Brockville, Ont.—A mcaument in
hener of the miemory of Gen., Sir
Isaac Brock, whe was in command of
the Canadian fcices against the Amer
icans in the war of 1812, was unveiled
in this city with interesting but mod
est ccremonieg. The local chapter of
the Daugiricrs of the Empire, to whose
efforts the erection of the monument
is due, was in charge of the ceremo
nies. The principel address was de.
livered by Col. Samue! Hughes, the
Canadian minister of militia and de
fense.
The date for the unveiling of the
memorial was appropriately chose:,
since it was just 100 years since tfxe
surrender of Detroit, with which
event the name of (General Brock is
most closely associated in American
history.
General Brock was born in the!
island of Guernsey in 1765 and had
a brilliant military career in the Brit.
ish service before be was sent to Cane
ada. He was made a knight of the
Bath for his victory at Detroit, bux
he survived his honors legs than twaq
months. i
BLACK EAGLE ATTACKS BOY
Fourteen-Year-Old Youth on Tullman:
Ranch in Nevada Kilis it After
a Hard Battle.
Reno, Nev.—Although it is against
the laws of the state to kill an Ameri
can eagle, little Jimmy Daniels, but
fcurteen years of age, living on the
Tullman ranch, near this city, vio.
lated this law to save his own life.
The youth was hunting rabbits, and
seeing a cottontail skid into a gully
he fired a shot at it. Immediately
there fiew from the . spot several
hawks, magpies, vultures and an
eagle. The big bird immediately at
tacked the boy, who fired the last twe
shots he had at the eagle, both finding
their mark.
Although wounded, the eagle con
tinued to attack Daniels and a fierce
battle ensued. The youth finally suc
ceeded in using the stock of his gun
to good effect, ene blow striking the
head of the vicious bird and killing it,
The boy dragged the bird to his
home, and upon measuring it, the
length from tip to tip of its wings was
six feet and ten inches. It was a
good specimen of black eagle, of
which there are not many in Nevada. .
SUN’S RAYS OPERATE DEVICE
Western Man’s Great Love of
Rest Leads to Unique
Device.
Klamath Falls, Ore. We see
stories of the meanest men, the stingi
est, the laziest, etc, but Klamath
Falls has a combination of laziness
and inventiveness which is hard to
excel.
This geniws likes to sleep with his
windows up and curtains as well, but
he does not enjoy getting up early.
His bedroom faces the east and his
slumbers are disturbed by the early
rising sun. He has attached weights
to the curtains which are released
when the sunbeams strike a 2 sensitive
plate attached to machinery which
acts on a pawl releasing the weights.
To check the sudden stcp of the
weights so that there is no unneces
sary jar or noise in the weorking of
the mechanism a sprimg holder has
beer attached.