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Twice-A-Weefci
Twice-A-Week.
VALDOSTA, GA, SATURDAY,
:UARY 29, 19(8.
Great Educational Meeting
Begun in Washington City.
Washington, D. C, Fob. 26.—Wash* the project conceived by the Nation-
ington today welcomed the largest *> Educational Association .tor the'
gathering of dl.tlngui.hed educators organization of . department of rural
and agricultural education.
that ever met In this city. The ac-. . _
A discussion of the place of ru
ction is the annual conference of du , r| „ |n wlll b , ,
the department of superintendence of i u dlng feature of the programme. \
the National Educational Association, Among those who will take' part In
the session of which opened today In this discussion are James E. Russell,
the Metropolitan M. E. Church, and dean of the teachers' college of Co-
will continue until Saturday. The lumbla University; Prof. Edward C.
president and presiding officer of the Elliott of the University of Wlecon-
conference Is Frank B. Cooper, super- sin; Charles H. Morse, Secretary of
Intendent of :hs schools of Seattle, (he Massachusetts commission on Id-
Wash. I dustrlal education, and James F. Mo-
officers of filename territory to do- advance In wages. In this frame of
clde whether • Joint conference of m lnd the operators and miners ad-
miners and operators shall be called Journed the conference without com
to re-establish^, the In erstate wage |„g to any understanding,
agreement Since , ho j aBuar y conference ad
The wage.agrement which has been journed the. operators and miners of
In force for three years past wlll ex- several states have discussed the
plre by limitation the first of April, question 'and In most Instances have
Efforts to bring about Its renewal practically agreed to make some mu-
have so far been unsuccessful. When tusl concessions. As ■ consequence
(ho Joint conference met here the lat- there Is an Improved prospect for a
ter part of January It found It Impoe- re-eetsbllshment of the'Joint relatione
slble to accomplish any definite re- that have existed during the past
The miners were Inclined to three years. The wage scale eon
It Means That Other Roads Must
Brant Theatrical
Much of Their
Coming to Agreement on Flat Rate,
too—Southern's Increased Earnings
—A. 8. League's Work.
Atlanta, Os., Feb. 27—Events in
Every Effort has Been Made to 8ave
hie Neck, but Without Avail—Bow
ernor Decided Yesterday not to
Stay ..the ..Execution—Important
Case In Chancery has Been Con
tinued by Judge Speer.
Savannah, Ga, Feb. 27—lea
Holmes, a small negro, from Hob-
tosh county, wlll probably be taken
from the Chatham county jail lata
this afternoon and carried to Darien
Where he la to be hanged tomorrow
for ths murder of Dr. B. A. Sands.
Holmes had bis sentence recommend
ed to be commuted by the pardon
board but Governor Smith would hot
accede to that recommendation. The
people of Uelntosh county In large
numbers asked that the negro be
Business—Roads
represented at the conference, ths Car Heating Companjf of Albany, i
roll call showing the largest at end- N. Y.' 1
ance of cojlege presidents, stats and j E. D. Cameron, stats superintend- j 1
city superintendents and other sdu- snt of public Instruction of Oklahoma, 4.*
cators of note that was. ever present»wlll explain to ths conference the 1
at a meeting of ths department, j way ho Intends to map out the edu-j 1
Several features of the programme eatlonal scheme for (he new stats. 1
are expected to attract widespread During the week aids conferences' 1
Interest In ths proceedings of the wlll be,held by the 8oelety of College 1
conference. A body of the delegatee Teachers of Education, the National j •
will confer with Secretary .Wilson, Socle y for the Scientific Study of |.
Speaker Cannon and other high offl- Education and the. Educational Press t
dale of‘the Government relative to Association Of Amerled.
Man Charged with Burglary
Tried Twice to Kill Himself
Compromise of Rate Question New Orleans
Her Mafdi Gras Festival
New Orleans, Ljit, Feb. 27^—With, Ing states, with a considerable nuro-
thousands of Mardf'Qras'vIfttors (here: bar from the Middle states and the
cent rate to parties of ten or more
It came like a bomb shell In file
camp. It means that the other lines
must come to 1L or lose' much bust
.ness. If they do thle will settle the
problem of then'rlcal rates whleh
f base resulted In eo many companies
staying out of the South this season
This rate, ‘however, li not confined
to theatrical parties, but anybody In
a party of ten may take advantage
of It.
As a further Indication that affaire
are rapidly shaping In Georgia to
wards a general flat rate of 2Vt cents
with 2,000 and 1,000 mileage , at 2
cents and 500 mileage at 2& cents.
: , The A'Untlc Coast Line notified the
-railroad commission yesterday that
^ it was prepared to operate on tint!
bast\ The Charleston and Western
Carolidt'. which has only 17 miles
^Mg| ’
^^^a-inouncemVnt. These two roads now
"have a flat rate of 2 l /r/ten'a. J "This ^
K-'plan Is the one favored inti aidng by
Governor Smith, and be hat probably
- been* the moving factor <ia bringing
f about the adjustment!' If the gen
eral agreement Is.reached the West-
if* vero and AtlanMc and the Atlanta and
West Point would Increase their flat
rate from 2 cents. The Central will
perhaps be the only line to'flght the
whole scheme. i
Sou hern’s Increased Earnings., ,
Between the perlodtr povered by
July 1, 1907 to February... 190S the
Southern Railway’s passenger, depart
ment showed bioreased earning! of
9398,906 over the same period for
the year previous. This Increase Is
shown In spite of file fact that the
Southern has been operating under
lower passenger rates since Septem
ber 1. 1907. The frelgh* rccelits,
however, show a heavy falling off Tor
this period as compared with tho
previous time. The Southern’s net
earnlnn for the period named was
only 97,777.
Antl-8aloon League at Work.
The Anti-Saloon League of Fulton
— eoun'y is to be reorganised for the
purpose of combat'ln’g tho Illegal sale
. ..of Intoxicants In Atlanta. Tho state
anti-saloon league also proposes to
•eenre ultimately the passage of a
constitutional amendment mak'ni-
prohibition an organic law. They
•Iso desire an amendment to the
present law making the possession
Atlanta, ‘GA, Feb. 2*—The Central j
of Georgia and Louisville -and Nash- j
villa railroad will vigorously oppose
any compromise passenger ra’e In-1
volvlng all of tho lines. It la AMO'
rumoied that tho Atlantic Coast Lino
will oppose It, but It doee (lot eeem
to he aa certain atout that line as
the •other twp. When the 1 8otathern
proposed .the reduced Interstate flat
and ,mileage rate, It mot MM a cold
reception from moat’ of (if* other
lines., It aecma certain,; therefor*,
that the cock-aura talk hf-R ganaral
agreement effective April (>-•• • hit
premature yet. The Central Ip •till
fighting the reductions In It* pasatn-
gar rates in this, apt*,, and will not
give up un.ll the last expedient Is ex
hausted. . , .
Hurts the Prohibition Cause.
Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 25—A young At Whether It was that tpeech or not,
lanta lawyer said to Recorder Nash the attorney secured the dismissal of
Broyles the other day:' “You are a
prohibitionist and I am a prohibition
ist, bu; the construction you are put
ting on this law It paving tho way
for Its death. Unless there la a ces
sation of the technical application of
it in all theaa trlval cases, you and I
will soon it past Into (.ha oblivion pf
disuse.*
hit client, a young man In whose of-
flee the police had eelzed four quarts
of whiskey. Four young men cent a
Joint order (o Chattanooga, each for
a quart of whiskey. Whan It came one
of them sent a negro boy to toe ex
press office to get it The boy brought
It to hie office, and the police taw
him and made a case against the
young man.
Dealers in Second Hand Graves
Belfast, Feb. 26.—Impending legal as tho tombetone, had passed Into
proceedings relative to the wlll of a the hands of a complete stranger.
. of deceased Belfaet men have brought The latter had made the purchase
of more then a certain quantity f remirk , b le state of things from the deed man’s niece and offer-
wtilakev nrlma facie evidence of Its w » . .. ..
from overy section of the country, West- Tho quota from tho East It
and with ovary arriving train swMt-1 not quite up to tho proportions of
Ing the eangastlqii pf stranger*' off-,’ some previous years. Cuba and M*»
the streets, .New, Orlaana la again;feo, on the other hand, ar* landing
ready for her. famous'spring Carnival moro sightseers than avtr before.
The' Indications! are that during tha | Some of the preliminary event* pf
remainder of the week the five trunk the carnival programme will begin
llnee wlll be pushed to the limit of tomorrow, but the big paradee and
their resources In handling travel to balls will not tpk* place until tha
the city. Hotels and boarding houses first of the week. The arrangements
wlll be filled (o overflowing.
The Mardl Gras vlaltore thle year
are largely people from the neighbor-
for these spectacles have been com
pleted on a scale of unprecedented
magnlflpenpp., ( u uU
Locker Clubs was Main Sub
ject of Judge Speer’s Charge
Savannah, Ga, Feb. 27.—Hon.
Emory Speer of tho United 8tate*
court, thle morning charged the Grand
Jury of that court at groat length.
The charge dealt almost entirely with
the question of-tho looker dubs and
fre - He instruction* to tho Grind
Jury upon thl* .topic, It la expected
there wlll soon be Indlctihenta found
whiskey prlma fade evidence of IU| » » eemeterle , of elty . Th . ». th. executor, at an «**>"•» •"•"l, P"''«. who have
role. Also an amendment defining " |(ft . amal , , Bereaaad pr!ce . It BO w tr.n.plre*. fen operetlng cub. In Savannah. If
exec-ly end explicitly a anBuall plaIrtln[| lhat the practle . of buying and edl- thle I. done It wW mem, that Sav.n-
: . „ a pw. _t„v- : TlOWen upon ni« grave. vwn«n me ing - - *-
loeker eyetem, and perhaps the clubs wen - , Q t(|e bur|a| plaea t0 occupat |on. and that Belfaet esn at
carry out the bequest they found that present, boast of several dealers Is
A w«n y tao e wn 8 \7.Cv H .M« eiat'^ 'o™. ” d ,U e0BtenU ' “ well eecnd-hand eepulchr.^
while on a recent visit to the South
he was In a small country town,
where, owing to the senrelt/ of good
servants most of the ladles do their
•I Sight:’
Casa. In Chancery Continued.
Judge Emory -Speer la the United
State* court thle morntag eonttnued
the hearing of tha ihinwy cane of
HI** Florence if. Thomaa, of Ota-
ada, et-al., vs. the TTilmce A Bareton
Company, of Angutta.' Hie* Thornes
seta a* a stockholder ta the eoBcern
which She says has attempted to
change Its business and He name ah
ter spending thouggnds of dollars la
advertising for the purpose of build
ing np Its hueinese of selling furni
ture end musical Instruments. ' She
alleges that Arthur Thomas, who ta
'«Vtfo‘llet,'«ha prtetleaBy frozen
* 'eSj'ih pWdent And’Ai _
riVicj’ given a placo onfiio'road 'which
he afterwards tost. Bhe aske that
n rocolvcr he appointed and that tho
company be required to continue
business. The ease wm bo a herd
nah will have fewer locker clubs
than before. Since th. first of th. fonrt , 0 ne and w¥ proiwhli ^py
year they have been springing up In attent]03 of ^ dur , D fta
all parts of (he elty and membership K|t of t])e ^
.hip w... drop .ff a very decided auroroo^
hero next month. Ho will come to
The Grand Jury retired after hear- look over the oonrse with the idea
Ing the charge end began th* coneld- of Investigating Its Alness for Cto
oration of oases. It la expected there big Vanderbilt cup race In the fall,
will be some developments by tomor _______
row afternoon or Saturday morning. 1 Was Going to 8tate Farm.
Jonathan Nelson, a colored Baptist
preacher, was convicted In th* Unit-
Rich Women Living Pictures __ ^
, New York, Feb. 28r—The most gor-1 recllon of famous artiste end with a itli g the United 8tetes pension lews.
b J geou. entertainment that has mark.| equally famous aoelaty women a. th• verdlet ^ tha Jury read In
He ws* a ax n q 7 7 ^ Qotham goeijty functions In ih* principal*. those
_ a ea UOinim SUYISIJ IU..UMVI.U *•* ».v y.mv^eis, r wee. —■
the tone* of a soprano voice •hgln* „ ama ^ charity (or years le to fie gtwl who wlll be teen In representation*
“Nearer My God to Thro. As the ^ ^ tht p| ua hotel tonight, with of noted painting* are Mr*. J. J. As-
bishop by In bed he medlta'ed upon
_ a apo , a repetition tomorrow nlghL The, tor, Mies Nora Langhorne, Mrs.
the piety which his hostoss mute a •_ *_ t.h n...... u..l. u _•!** Rminaid
.. . .. . _ entertainment le to consist of Ub» Clarence Mickey and Mrs. Reginald
posses! which enabled her go |m|k vtvaBta> arra „ a ed under the dl-, Breoke.
Bailiff N. N. Ixingdale, of Mllltown,
Negro Preacher was Convicted negro life-prisoner who was being
savannah, Ga., Feb. 27—Rev. E
from the government and charging mmeageTiue. TOO negro’*
more then th* law allowed for the “” e '* Sap ? “ d w “
service. He stoutly maintained his ” P toT , ” n p d * r ** SaT *K>ah. He hat
Innocence of any crime and eald he ,n l> * d * nd aot * bta to ' a °
wee acting entirely from a bumanita- . rW,a *’*? ot **“• ** w ** Shelded
. . J nrin »I me jury »• r».u ... Hen standpoint Ho admitted (eking - or ®’ ° **nd him to the.state
Prominent among tho.e. th§ , UB|led 6latea eouft thIa morn- eufflelent money from the pen.lon.r. wiCT ® *>«<» , wqre lighter.
i Ing shortly after the assembling of' to reimburse him for cash advanced
cou t / | In their Interests but that was all.
f eleon was charged with securing The Jury wee out but a short time.
The few days of., dry weather has
helped the farmers get 4owp,,t0 tyork
right The plows are runclog and
from this time on therg, ulij. apt he
r;.;v.r‘.ri"," '7 a . _.~.— 'the Scout Cruiser to be Tried. rML’**»■
At breakfast he epoke to her abont Atlanta. WlcUl L/1CO at l03 Y 6SFS: I loeklaod. Me, Feb. 27r—The scout expected to conclude early thla after-
roll A >.«* tmv nlrtrtErtd tie WAS. * ^ * a# !»■
ft, and told tier how pleased ho wm.,* ****"** m " w — ^ ^ | cruiser Chester, the first vessel of Its
“Oh, taw," ehe replied. "*hafe the, Atlanta, Ga. Feb. 27.—Louis R. Powell, aged 103 year, died I ty|la to trt completed for the United
hynfc I boll the eggi b7: three ver- ^ ere y es t er day. Mr. Powell helped to construct the Western at ites navy, started out today for
sea for soft and flro for hard. i ^ At)allt j c ra ii r oad. and wa* for many years an eneineer on'bet official standardization trial on
noon and wlll b* fallowed tomorrow James R. Brady, chairman Of tha