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Twice-A-Week,
VALDOSTA, GA^ SA'
Briea, Chattanooga, E. U. Williams
New York, and S. R. Gallbart, Wash*
lngton, oooitltutes the hoard* ot direc
tor/. .
As usual, nothing waa siren oat tor
publication after the meeting, as to.
CARRYING UMBRELLAS.
Porto Ricans Wsi
thing That’s Coi
Few People Manage Them to the Best
Advantage.
•‘Curious about how some people
carry umbrellas," said Mr. Stormel-
ton.' “We think the ostrich it a
stupid bird because with Its head
labor today re
liction and re
lates providing
bers, who will
fto Rico,
b, doubling the
Ihthose paid in
It of ihe"Ameri-
[nvict labor on
ivement in their
hud preventing
le trades union
buried in - the sand it thinkB its
whole body is hidden from every
body. But plenty of men are quite
as stupid as that in their manner
of carrying an umbrella.
“They carry it in such a way as
to protect the front of their bodies
ami appear, tn think they have thora-
felves -wholly protected, while all
the time the water ia gayly dripping
down their backs. The fact ia that
not many men know how to carry
an umhfclla when it rain*.
“If it raina and blow* then in
stinctively they hold the umbrella
toward the wind to keep the um
brella from being blown inside out
as well as to protect tbemaelvea
from the rain. This ia proper. But
when the rain la coming down
straight they carry their umbrella
Brewery to Build big Tank, Notwith
standing the Coming of Prohibition.
—Many Evils Found in Convict
,Camps, and new Legislation Is
Almost 8ure.—Otper New* Items
Atlanta, Oa., Nov. K—At tho neat
mooting of the city council an ordin
ance will bo recommended by a
special committee authorizing a com
plete revision of tho city charter, a
change In the method of electing all
city offleors and the government ot
the city by a commission Instead ot
by a mayor and general -oounell.
Sweeping and radical changes will he
recommended, and It le safe to eay
that the matter -will come In for *
great deal of discussion and will be
fought to the last dltoh by the •Toe,"
who are certain to resent any effort
to -put them out Of office. The ordin
ance will provide for the creation of a
charter commission, to be composed
ot four of the moat prominent set
moat progressive men in Atlanta sal
four men of the general council who
ore known to bo well Informed as to
tho best and latcBt methods ot city
1 government The mayor Is to act
I wl'B the cr-nrflitte end IS to appoint
lllio members.
I Brew r. In Build Big Tank.
| The fact that too Atlanta Brewing
land Ico ./Company has applied to the
city bulfflT n(» Inapoetor for a permit
n m*tv trmk 'Mating $2,800 at
imittee,
Division United Sons ot Confederate 1 “' T", . w. r. neia, one L/glil, llcLUOllafl
of the beet known druggists In Ba- *
Veterans at the coming general re- T4tmaJ , a man taowtt through-, v. i. r , , T j vr „
union to bo held at Birmingham next ltate took Bll „ ttll ^ French Lick, Ind., Nov. 14.—ChaJjni^
spring to more 'lonely connect the noon at four oMock. It was attended ? 11 ® Democratic National Committe iAioi
organisation *Itb that of the United b7 ^ iriah eocleles, to which he * ssue ^ a c sH 1 or a meeting- of the membei
Confederate Veterans. - That belonged. For forty Tears Dp. Reid! French Lick on November 22nd.
thing of this <*armcter eeems neces- ^ ta 4^ builnesa on the 1 The time and place for holding the nr
sary to malnUln tho organization ot ot Oglethorpe Avenue and
the Sons in Georgia, waa made mini- to, Drosd gtreet3<
feet by the re-unloa at Augusta on
Tuesday. Out of all the camps In the
state, but three were represented at
, Auguatb, end there wee no report
that more than one cf these camps
had complied, lu ever, way with the
requiring Teports and the payment of
*' per capita tax. 1
One of the speakers at the Augusta
- A meeting referred to the fact that It ot inspection to the
. appeared essential to tho I fa of’tho
organization that there ~
-with tl-o Vote, ins with the Idea that
Wien «■! Itte \etera 13 are gone tho
sons m-y havo had onough patriotism
tp carry on tho work and .keep tho
'organlzatlqum^llv-'. Such a plan
' Would glvejHAans mmcthlng to
cheria Untidto^Bing to lglb’e to
k w ork u^ii7 Ji: w$j^K.-oi!l^ fall heir to
$ the record? and ttir. p^jes of their 1
forefathers. pud .would, have more In
spiratton tp strive tor toclr organlza- .
tlon trsn they hava. now. It would
hither be e good thing to rtho Sorfs *
to unlto with ted^Veterens, or ciso
be cut off from them entirely, hold-
—.lmg their mce-‘ igs at a tlmo separata
and distinct from that of,the older
organization.' 1
(mas Taggart, ot straight the; cany their umbrella
today that he had in s3 sorts of ways, in which they
he Committee at reTcal more or le “ oi thcir P ereon>1
charactemtace.
v 7 „ . - “Here, for instance, is a man who
mocratic Nation- carr j e i nii umbrella held in his
:t ion taken. The right hand with the hand straight
Nsw Convict Legislation Liktly,
It ls llkely that-new legislation on
‘Flag of the Confeder
• Wav£s in Montgon)
*1 - iT ® (
H g convict camps of the .state. Senator Montgomery, Ala., Nov. 14.—The flat
be ccmblnatlo Brook - <*alrm«n of the Investigation floats: today just above the stars and stripet
committee from the senate, declares first c ; t0 , o{ the Confederacy,
that ho found many ovils In the , . , , , „ -»f
camp, visited and to regards reform! f? parade oday of Alabama Vetera
In tin cor,,let s> tom os Imperative| arm , ie s rode the Alabama commanti^l|g|
Miss Jessl: Particr ct tlic staff 0 t‘ the-Republic. The parade was
Won Pad
the suhstafic.i. w ‘
“And then’we meet thefamn u '.o
r carries his umbrella with .fore arm
• straight in line with his elbow, for
e the greater esse if that jMsitfBn of
the artn, but with the hand slightly
” turned so us tn.mske^he u umbreHa
*" more completely covo#him or with
e that end in viy-jewh end. hnw-
,s ever, it does wj^HTcfilfigph, for
with the umhqBP^op it does
- not cover so' large an“ea as it
does when carried in a horizontal
plane. This is a man who' ia lazy,
but trying by that twist of the hand
to get something for nothing or
• without much effprt.
.that Ih'e co|.;,:,ny on i;.-i'Jrit7tt»
now year, whan the prohibition law
goes Into effect, will begin the man
ufacture cf a new soft -drink. The
company, 'ft Is known; will cieitlnue
to manu'-rturo lco In largo quantit
ies.. It had tone ot the tjpgeet Ice
plan'a in the city. This, however, has
A Charity Commlitlonor.
It is the purpose of Councilman!
Longlne, ot Atlanta, Georgia, to In-j
traduce at the next meeting of oounell
an ordinance creating the office ot
charity commissioner. It will be the
purpose of this ordinance ' to have i
the oommUetoner take charge of all
charity work In the city, Including ths
Grady hospital.
Biikut uiitxuuiiu, is not repurieu i _
~tS.TSS2:i£S'- Arguments in Bradley Trial
US. m^n/“ “ 1 " “*1 Washington, NSv. 14,-The case of Mrs. Annie M. Bradley,
* I on trial for the murder of former Senator Arthur Brown, of Utah,
Dr. J. p. Prescott and bride came 1 was completed today and the opening arguments begun, Assist-
up from Lake Park this morning and ant District Attorney Turner making the presentation of the
spent the day here. . i case for the Government. (
“Successful dlsbonestr” Is another Ncv fust opened, repairers ot guns,
telling presidential phrase. It Is the pistols and bicycles. Scruggs and
unsuccestul thief who hay heretofore S wilier, under Times office.
Ware,
This Department is In
Charge ol
MISS ISABEL SMITH.
THE
Most Obliging Sales
lady In Vdldosfa.
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’ALDOSTA,
GEORGIA.
