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VALDOSTA, GA., SATUKDAY, JULY I4, 1906,
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A. M. E. CHURCH CONFERENCE.
3HRINERS TO SAVANNAH.
.f: . .\.ggr f*
DEADLY FEVER AT PAVO.
i Valdosta to Send a Good Delegation
to the Meeting Saturday. |
AleRFempls. of tho Ancient Order
of the Mystic Shrine, Oasis of Savnn-;
nah, Deseyt of Georgia, will have n ;
mid-summer and shirt waist ceremon-'
lal session next Monday, and Valdos-'
ta wIU send a pretty good delegation
of AcglMto sttetd.
The"Valdosta delegation will leave
'rfi'-r- Saturday afternoon and will re,
■ turn aSoiit Tuesday. They will go im-
[j mediately to Tybee Island where tho
jceremonies are to be conducted. Tho
ceremoitaL sesslan will occur thero
■Monday at m < tfapllowed by n lunch-
The win be devoted
“ another session
Will be held in tho evening, followed
by a janquet.'
" It fOkld that there are about fifty the bll
unregfcerate -tons of the desert toH
bo conlucted over the hot sands, and
many of tho Arabs who attend will bo
accom^imled by their wives or lady
friend# Ais the occasion is to be n
regular, picnic. The Savannah crowd
who are adepts In ,the art of senSsr. Al
talning, will prepare the plcnip. Be- cd J
sides the regular picnio dinner,’there uro -
1 will be such accessories as will; make , h0 b
the heart of the average Shrlnc'r leapt p.™,
I wrua Joy. ■ T ImoUo
j The Valdosta Shrinera have Vewlv- ot E
ed veiW attractive programmes' and , mmc
invitations to the outings. | nt _
And 8unday School Convention Is Be
ing Held In This City.
The first day’s session of the dis
trict conference and Sunday school
convention of the African Methodist
church convened
Town Scourged by Epidemic of Ty.
j phold—The People Alarmed,
j The little town of Pavo, in Thomas
j county, Is scourged by a small epb
domic of typhoid fever, accordln gto
la report sent out frqm Moultrie. In
one part of the town tuere seems to
be some local cause from which s
number of cases have emanated and'
, a peculiar thing about the fever ll
1 that up to the present time no one
j has recovered from it’ Two were re-
I ported from there today, the persona
being Mrs. J. D. Strickland and MT.
Lee Hampton. The physicians be*
llleve the fever has been occasioned*
by the draining of some ponds In the
at St. Timothy
S church, in this city, yesterday morn*
,at 9:30 o'clock, Rev: R. H. Single-
I ton, presiding.
Appropriate religious exercises
were conducted by Rev. Robert
Pierce and Rev/ J. F. Leapart. Af
ter the devotion the president called
, the conference to order. Rev. R. H.
j Singleton was elected president and
Rev. Lona Rice secretary and Rev.
-IN. H. Hardwick, assistant secretary.
I Dr. Singleton’s address to the con
ference was considered one of the
- best yet heard here. Rev. Ed. Mo-
.'Cray and J. K. Davis were tntroduc-
, ed to the conference. The annual
, sermon was preached by Rev. L. W. ,
• Daniel, ot Mt. Zion church and was
an able one. 1
I This morning the conference met 1
r City Attorney Presented a ^Report
ft..' Showing a Shortage of $2,494,
Which Will be Paid by his Bonds
men—Pretty Entertainment at In-1
stallment of Rathbone Sisters. |
Savannah, July 13—As was expect-
p^gt the special meeting of council yes- (
n ,"jterday afternoon the resignation of
: J-' Robert C'eamer as clerk of coun- 1
ell was accepted. The charges against •'
Discussion—^ 8on of General Long-
stifeot Is Undar Arrest for Disord*#- vicinity.
ly Conduct In Atlanta. I Bo,rd of » Investigate.
j #A report from Albany says:
Atlanta; July 12—There was a live- "Mayor R. H. Barwlck, of Pavo,
ly time In the bouse yesterday before wns ln lbe city yesterday to interest
■ ’ “ by Mr. Conner, of Bartow, tlle men,ber » of th « board of
_ ,,,- ,, . ■ . health who have taken up headduar- 1
““ , appr0pr ™ 0 “ 0 ^ter. in Albany, in a strange fe*er,
* . ’ *11 ma ? t * *? #ltr " * which has broken out among the peo-
cultural college to ty/.located, upon . . -
the campus of the UjUrarslty of Geor, ., S(!Veral c0IeB or tm ttIIege(l
97 to Ifever have developed In Pa*
i vo, four of which have already prov*
* m fatal - Th ® other lhreo case*
is mown t at tho mens- aro Btll | unt j er treatment by local doc*
g£dj ’advocates of tor| an( , Majror Barwlck . a Tlllt to,
folngvO^esra, Mr. A n, an y waa f 0r the purpose of enlist*
jB^gave notice of a lng ctK , perat j on ot the state
■BSC’. board of j health representatives - in
■Md that the bill be pon t, aU i n g the' spread ot the teyer.
THraqmltted to tho sen* nwmlB ™ ronnrted
"men. Half of It has been paid al* Wy ™ maooncedi -amo Pror. j.
^eadj^nd the rest wil, be paid,on '^legates are still coming and
a ci nus. ■ -. . .'.t.' / •' by Friday at noon there will /be
oral 'AliSlan James M; mor0 * ihan uu, ^ red of thtm ta
rho had pushed- the charges ftttendance ’ '’'jjjftf' A-il
.against Creamer and whose veracity 'jjr; r s -- ■■ ■==
tht.d'beeu questioned by Mayor Myers' Chiefc There was an address of
stem],ted, to get iu a statement under, welcotpe by little Miss Gladys Heh»j
the li&d.fcl''^e^sonal.jirivllege but be dersoi, and a tableau of fairies who!
'Vlld otfi’ oi ord«. This Incl were impersonated by little girls.]
had seen them. Aa the claim has!
been mndo all the time that the!
Rawlins boys'"were not at the kill-
Jjsgt iif.ls not exactly'cleor why thej
att$Vuiy should want to prove a mo-'
M for It. i
■gha aUegfd new testimony in the
Hpns Jn tho following lotted:
■"Stockton, Ga., July 1900
"Col. John R. (Aoper, Macon, Ga.
"Dear Sir—fnrVard tont'he Raw-
lingg i^se, yoj^ *. plenwy pardon
vFflf P^eif providing
frenuent reports to' *ho
er officers.
'I**. Creamer
mbject of Tils;
resigns^
>ught ul
] give a fl| bed eduoai^u ... fli? clas-[~o' !' -■’TTCTgf of leech's
ses. 1 am against It. God MUnlthtjr•ck'oaf in conjunctionduties
mado.m^ a sympatlilier ,^lth tho un-hn th^ stato gco1og|g&^ft|j&)eni'. ,
; dor dogViPour your tnohey into thol Gfn. Lo’ngstreetySoiiwHKted.
i f"* **’~ **the! “He is the degffimUMN^HH^no*
1 needy—but not ono dollar ns tribute, blc »lro,” declared P.*cn^f|Sr Riov:, i
i to th^ncbditvho-are able to take care yesterday when John Cp./Xongetreet,
of them^ws/ j tho eldest i *
Mr. Wright then mndn pointed ref- I.ongstrcet,
tfun'i (hi
iTirrSSfft' mi to shov, nd bear *e:
fact of the story told by Mr. be;
Rawllnp In denial el* being ln- drt
J in tl»e murder of toe CtiCTr
a..What I know Is aaTOllon’s:
^V*iast of October, 1905, .1
Being Mr. W. I.. Carter’s my
$ myself, en route to Mr. Oren
FS his wlfo being my Bister,
re going to visit them, and as
we got bothered ln onr route, wo
drove up to Mr. Carter’s to ask the
anion;; ihe llfqjl.Td character of aenc,7)t Og- 0 ut
J. J. Ilethorpe. 'It is hopeT through Mr. j, (
-Thsv CEarlton’s adifress to get th6 leglsla* Bt tj
‘ Mr. tiiro snffldently Interested lit the'plan ujM
lie for to erect a monument to Gen. Ogle*ft£p
tloned thorpe to have that body oppropfi-l
:ate $15,000 to the cause. [wife
The 8. A. L. Physicians. ' I'lReg
t nov- Tile advance guard of the Seaboard!^
i have Air Lino physicians who are to hold
Hi In- their annual meeting In Savannah to-
i Teir- morrow and Saturday began to ar-
it tho rive In the city this afternoon. They
night, are being cared for at the DeSoto
be or- hotel. The opening session tomorrow
week will be an Interesting part of the two
kngus- day’s meeting and thel sojourn to
organ- the resorta on the second day will
nlnino also be a pleasant feature. Most of
arrive tomorrow
'ittfford and Palmer
r he, 11< r, believed tlbt they Bhot
: the children ln Rtder to keep from
1 being M-ntifled, and he further said
r that die boy was only seven steps
i from" tho parties and he, W. L.
Carter,^ was 22 steps, and could tden-
i tlfy distinctly each party, and he
showed me the place where It all oc
curred and It looked about 22 steps.
Ha aleo told me a different story
about Tim and Jim McDonald from
that be told on tbe witness stand In
ValdosRi;
"Now, Mr. -Cooper, I am anxious
to see the guilty parties punished,
but not the innocent, so If this Is
no good, Just excuse such Informa
tion, and I will feel satisfied, as I
have triad not to tell this as I did
not want to have anything to do, with
IV biit't: can't feel satisefld to. keep It
any longer. I am yours respectfully,
“A. J. BURKHALTER." i
was arrglljped In police
erence to what he termed lobbying In court on a charge of [ratting drunk
coneotlon with tho consideration of and cursing the proprietor of a Greek
tho bill. He said he bad been a restaurant ln Decatur street. Law-
member of the house for 20 years but yer A. R. Smith, as soon as ho heard
had never Hen so much lobbying. | the name of the prisoner, begged tbe
ten, but) such methods are general to dismiss tbe oaso. The re-
he said. "It curtails the ln-;corder replied that he reverred tho
freedom ot the members of: name of Longstreet, but that the
se.” young man had been beforo him time
4ew School of Mines. | find again on-various charges and that
I W. McCaillo, assistant state ho had already served tlmo in tho
:, will bead tbe new school city stockade. He said he would not
■ and mining ot the Georgia be true to hlB duty If ho did not pun*
it Technology which Is to bo lsh tbe prisoner. So he lined Long-
Led this fall. It Is under* street $3.75 or 11 days In the work-
si the state board of geology bouse.
the doctors will
morning.
Even the boastful man has but lib
tie to say about his gold brick In
vestments.
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