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THE VAjLDQSTA TIMES. SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1909
WAS KILLED BY
HIS OWN DUN.
Charles'Griggs Met Death In a
Peculiar Manner Yesterday
k (Fronr Thursday's Pally.)' ■ -
' A report reached Valdosta yester
day afternoon of the accidental death
of a young white man named Charles
Griggs, who was coming from Cor-
-dele.to.tfili city through thecountry
driving a team belonging to Mr.
Bel and. who reoently bought the
"Byrd-Hightower timber and has start-
<-d a mill Jipon It.
There were several reports as to
"how the accident occurred and an of
-them- varied about as much sis such
reports usually vary when passed
from 'one mouth (o another, or until
,Hhe newspaper man gets hold of ft
‘ and tries to present the tacts.
The report last night was that
Griggs was In charge of three teams;
that he had a yoke of oxen and stop
ped at a branch to let them drink:
the yoke got off of one of the oxen's
head and he went to fix It. While ha
was llxlng It, his pistol fell from h's
Inside ebat pocket, the hammergitrlk
lng something that caused 1t to dis
charge. The bullet entered h's body,
causing Instant death.
The other report was that he had
a lot of chickens on his wagon and
stopped to feed and water them. The
other report was that he was driving
a mule-team, but there was an ox
team along. He stopped the teams
to eat dinner and rest.Whtle getting
out of his wagon, the gun slipped
from his pocket and struck the
wheel, the bullet killing him.
Toung Griggs was formerly from
Rochelle and Is said to have been a
nephew of Mr. Boland. The killing
occurred near the home of Mr. King,
out some distance from Hahlra.
Toung Mr. King brought the news
to this city. Griggs' body wad car
ried to the King residence apd was
kept- there until a coffin could be se
cured from Ousley ft Co., of this city.
It is-said, too, that a man and -hts
wife were near Griggs when the trag
edy occurred. They saw him-fall,
Just as th?i report, of his gun wsa
heard. .The Times could not learn
wo this couple was.
Griggs is said to- have been about
twenty-one years of age and was In
the employ of is uncle Mr. Boland.
He was bringing the teams and some
other effects from Cordele to the
mill here.
THEIR CHILDREN OBJECTED.
To Represent Hays and Calhoun.
Judge O. M. Smith was yesterday
employed to represent J. H. Hays
and hb son-in-law, Calhoun, who are
•charged with shooting Mr. G'b Jones
near Hahlra recently, Calhoun being
held as accessory to the fact. It Is. . . ,
understood that preliminary hearlns 1 ">e V. «osta public «hooIfor the
will he asked for .. soon a. the S> P“‘ flfteen yrar.. having been, con-
An Elderly Couple' Make a “Get-
Away” and Marry at Courthouse.
(From Thursday's Dally.)
This morning a couple apparently
about «n years of age. with the stamp
of determination on their faces, but
ill st ease anil with apprehensive
glances from side to side, aimeared
at the courthouse looking for the or
dinary's office.
Tt^was plain that they wanted *0
get married, and equally plain that
they were In a hurry about it. They
went to the Sheriff's office at llrst
and the obliging officials there dlrect-
'ed them across the hall to the or
dinary's office.' In his agitation the
would-be groom got into the clerk'
office by mistake, but here he got bit
bearings and soon found the office
he was looking tor. He told assis
tant-ordinary Will Simms that
wanted a marriage license, which
wag promptly Issued.
"Now. we want you to marry us.
said the purchaser.
Mr. Stmmn explained to the conple
that he was only assistant to the or
dinary and not authorized to perform
the ceremony. "But wait a minute,'
and the ordinary will soon be In.'
“There’s no waiting about this.'
replied the would-be groom. “Csn’i
you get somebody to tie us up
Mr. Simms sympathetically Inter
ested himself In the couple’s behalf
and hastily called Justice W. D.
Peeples, who performed the cere
mony that united the lovers for life.
"What do I owe you?" asked the
'groom.
CAny old thing.” replied the Jus
tice.
Running his hand In his pocket
the happy groom pulled forth a hand-
full of coin and hastily passing It to
the Judge, the couple hurried out and
jumped In a carriage standing at the
curb.
As the carriage dashed away the
by-standers heard the grom say:
"Pull the lines tight, Mr. Beckton.
My children and hers are both after
But If there was thought of pursuit
by the children, they mmt have
qulekly reallxed that It was useless
—that the lovers had too much
start—and given It np. Anyway the
pursuers did not ahow up at the
courthouse.
While waling for the ceremony to
be performed the would-be groom
stated that he had been married
twice, but that both of his w
were dead. The bride-to-be eald she
lad beep married once,-but had ob
tained a divorce from her- huaband,
whom the had not heard from In 1*
years.
Miss Mlnnis Lane Takes a Rest.
Miss Minnie I-ane, who enjoys the
distinction of having the longest
continuous service of any teacher
connected with the Valdosta schools,
has had to retire for a riiort while
on account of her health. She has
gone to Waycross to visit her sister,
and will not resume^her school wo.k
until next fall.
Miss Lane has been teaching
will be asked for as soon aa the S>
-Heitor General gets back from Nash
ville.
Judge Smith has held a consulta
tion with his clients and be la con
vinced that there are two aides to
the case. He think* that both sides
onght to be heard before anybody Is
convicted.
Just arrived fine lot of children
and Misses strop pump and-oxtord*.
Wyone Shoo Company.
3-2fi-dlt swlt
The Rain and Wind Lait Night.
A little after dark last night
hard wind came up and by nine
o’clock It was blowing with grsat
fury. The wind Blaw up , heavy
cloud* and It began to sprinkle by-n
little after'nlnq. During the night
a good rain came up.
Thl* morning, about four o'clock,
the Hood gates opened and the water
peered down. Ther was much thun
der and lightning during the storm.
The clouds passed off eoon after day
light and the day has beta a pretty
R. J. Knight Fined *10,000. |
R. J. Knight, who to engaged la the
tsVat, stores business in Florida and
who fs connected with many different
concerns in that state, to said to
have been fined $10,000 In tb« U. 8.
eonrt tX Jacksonville this week on a
charge of trespassing on land that
belonged to the , government .The!
epeclflc charge was' that he went | I
yond his own boundaries la chipping
boxes. Several of the largo, naval
stores concerns were interested with
I|lm in business. Tbs'tine was paid.
l-adles. WP have a lino lino of up-
to-date dressy neat pump
and strops. Wyone Shoe Co.
nected with the school either aa pu
pil or teacher ever alnce she was tlx
years old, except two years that sbo
was off st college.
8hd Is sn excellent teacher, pati
ent. studtoui and sympathetic. She
Is greatly loved by the pupils and Is
a favorite with the achool board.
Her friends hope that she will be
able to resume her work next fall,
fully restored to strength by a period
of rest
YOU REMEMBER
CHAS. SHULAR?
Nep Who Was sent
31 Year
(From Thursday’s,Dally.) -
WORK ON OAKLAWN ACADEMY.
The School l. hearty Completed, but
Dormitories Need Attention.
Mllltown, Da..- March 21—The
Oiiklawa Baptist College to nearing
completion. The carpenters have
finished the oelllng of the auditori
um'and tho class rooms .upstairs,
apd the painters are now at work
painting the upstairs. The carpen-
ter* arc hanging the doors and put
ting, the flhlsblng touches to the
lower floor. The 'rustees have done
„ . remarkably well under the trying
There wa» a negro In - Valdosta jtwrfIII#w co „ eg<
this morning wllo was convicted ot j wo rk | n , #07 Uut J y pcrl i a tent
manslaughter In this county, thirty- work by their field agent. Rev. hi.
one years jand who has been D. Todd, and” the trustees them-
KNIFE BLADE
IN HIS THROAT
hurt? Well. It felt like m
was (jelng pulled off,
“I feel all right now. No. the
plaice Isn't even sore."—.Fitzgerald
Nows.’ Xv - 1 !'!;
“Bum” Jot) by Florida Surgeon
Caused Man Trouble.,
serving In the penitentiary evar
since that time.
Some of the older residents may
remember him. Hto name to Charles
8hu!ar and he was sent to the peni
tentiary for flfteen, year* for the
crime. He killed another negro.
While serving a sentence In the
penitentiary and about throe -weeks
before his first sentence expired, he
killed a fellow-convict md was giv
en a life sentence. He has been
serving that time at the Milltown
camps, but Is new an old man, too
infirm for worji upon the roads.
The prison commission has Issued
orders f for all such as he 1s to he
carried to the state farm at Mil-
ledgevllle. He and live other con
victs were brought by here this
morning. In charge of Warden
Lowe. They will be carried to
the state farm today. and Mr. Lowe
will return tonight.
Besides Shular, there -.was a negro
named Simon Locked-, from McDuf
fie county, who has been In the pen
itentiary twenty-six years. He waa
also sent up for murder. In the
bunch were two other-life prisoners
and two more who were pent up for
shorter terms. ^ ' ;
Warden Lowe says that Shular
has made a model prisoner and that
be has not given the officials a bit
of trouble. He thinks the state
could afford to parole him. The
old negro la an Interesting talker c
being a negro of ,the old school, with
good deitl-of sense and n good
large talent for gtb.
He remembers the Valdosta that
wa* hero thirty-one years ago, but
he saw nothing here today to remind
him of those times. The prisoners
were'kept in/the city prison this
morning, during their itayl^bere.
selves, they have succeeded in ral*;
Ing enough funds to oomplete the
main building.
This leaves one of the big dorml-
toriefi uncompleted.’ Two stories ot
one of the dormitories stand just
like the contractors left 1) in 190(.
sad the lumber and woodwork to
decaying fast. If money lKnot rais
ed the money already'spent on It
will be a losa . The trustees are in
hopet that they can succeed In rais
in* enough funds to carry tha build
ing tljRat:other story (the Original
plan) and put a roof on It to aare
the wood work
Edward Garner, a lineman, em
ployed by the Atlanta Telephone and
Telegraph Company and, living
Atlanta, has had an unusual experi
ence.
He baa lived over two year* with
a knife blade In his Jaw, and only
discovered that something was
wrong when he waa unable to swal
low a glass of water.
He called a physician and when
the latter arrived Garner gave him
an -exhibition of being unable to
drink water. He tried to swallow a
tumblerful, but It all came back.
The doctor peered down bis throat
and saw a steel blade pressing down
on his patient's palate. He ran' hit
The funds to finish the big col- fln *'T <K>"(n In the palate region and
lege are not In sight, but the teach-1 1n ’ ,d ® ,ure that *“ rl * ht ' 1 ' '
era and pupils hope to raise tad He then <,ueat,on< ‘ d Garner ' “ nrt
fcfoney by giving entertainment*
here, at Valdosta and. other points
in the Valdoeta Association. Rev. J,
C. Wilkinson and his raltbfu! stu
dents have been conducting the
school In the Baptist church during
the completion of the. college.
Escape From Burning House-
The house of Adriel Roberts,
the Gornto place, three mile* above
Valdoeta, was burned last night
shout -cine o'clock. The fire to sup
posed to have caught' from a defect
five flue. The glow from the blase,
was plainly eeen from the elty and
many thought that It waa one of the
pretty homes at Pine Park being de-
Roberta waa absent Dorn hi.
when the fir* occurred and bin wife
was asleep. The house was almost
ready to fall In when she awoke and
ibe escaped by Jumping from a win
dow. All of their household 'effects
were destroyed.
- Covington Goes to Denver,
Judge W. A. Covington left last
njght tor Dearer, CoL, where he will
lecture this week on prohibition.
Judge Covington hss been booked
tor.a eerie* of speeches In Colorado
In the Interest of prohibition. He will
fire hto opening gun In the capital
city and wRl then tonr the stale,
speaking in all the larger d-le*
Judge Covington's reputation at «
speaker and a prohibition campaign
er ha* precceded him, sad It to <*■
8om* Very Old Documents.
Mr. Turner Jones hat a lot of. In
teresting old papers that have been
In hto family for many years. One
of them to the commission, which
was given to hto great, grand father,
Allen Jones, as tax receiver of Bul
loch county In 1822., John Forsyth
waa Governor of the state at the
time. He also hss a comm’aslnn
that was given his grand father a*
justice of the Inferior court
Berrien county by Joseph E. Brown
before the war.
In the Idt of papers are old deeds
and legal documents dated In the
early part of the last century. There
are also a number of letters that
were written by his grand uncle (o
his grand mother during the war be
tween the states. Many of them
tell a pathetic story of the privations
and suffering ot camp life. -
In one of them, he shows that con
ditions wer so bad to the southern
army that he had not had a*cbange
of raiment from April to October,
and other soldiers were going
through with the Mine experience.
Teacher* Meet Next Saturday.
Prof. T. H. Hatton, the hortlcnltu-
rlat of the State Agricultural college,
will be here Saturday and will deliv
er an addrees before the teachers
of Lowndes county st their monthly
meeting. It will be the test meeting
of the present term and It promise*
to be a very Intersting meeting.
A toll attendance of the taachsn to
expeeted.
The county school* will doe* dur
ing the latter pert ot the month ot
April, after a very successful term.
The past year hat been an unusually
good one with the school*. The
personnel of the teacher* has been
high end they have bad the coopera
tion of the patrons of thft schools In
a greater degree then ever before.
Many new schools have bees erected
and ther bet been a general revival
in Interest In tb* educational work-
Gentleman’s fine eboe* now In for
spring and summer wear. Wyone
Shoe Co.
3-^5-dlt awlL
Leonard and wife, of
Pevo', Mad Dog Epidemic.
Pavo to haring a aort’of an epldem-
few weeks ago a, policeman was bit
ten by one a few days ago and to bs-
ing treated at the Pasteur Institute.
Two little daughter! of Mr. Knowles
were bitten by a pet dog a abort Ume
ago,and have been treated for rabies.
After MUng the children the doff hit
a Pi* which afterward went mad. A
feW **° * Policeman w*§ bit-
ton by a dog which waa pronounced
mad aid went to Atlanta, where he
has been treated at the Pasteur IB-
stltu' '
rot to save your coupon*
Wyqpe. Shoe Co,
was Informed that the young man
had been in a fight two year* ago
Many School Now Closing.
This \li‘ the season fdyiSoun'ry
schools of Colquitt to close and the-,.
1* much •cttvlty among them. Fus
ion has an exercise tonight and
again Friday and Friday night. Back-
head closes roraorow with a plcntc
and an exhibition tomorrow night
Hon. G F Clark, President it -he
County Board of. Education Ip the ora
tor of the day'll Buckhend. New Blur
achool. nine miles north of Moultrie,
closes also Friday and VIII enjoy s
spread. On account of so many clow
Ing this geek, the Rochelle School
decided to have their 'picnic
tirday and special oxerclacs Saturday
night
Next week will be Just as busy, so
If you want to get off among the
neighbors and enjoy a good time an*
e
dinner and don’t know Just wheye
and When to go, Inquire of Commta-
sioner Jno, E. Howell and he wll)
put you next. He to working Jo*
and hta digestive and vocal organs
ovor-tlme now.—Moultrie Observer.
Quitman, School Board 8tsod Pat.
The principal of the QBTfman gra-l-
ed achool has been haying hto shaie
of trouble lately. He to Prof. Homer-
Wright, one of the best known and
most experienced men of his profen-
nau llrrn 111 a ilKiu mu" jear* ■ , ■ . _ . _
last October. HI. antagonist had *£" £ flW*
the aohool board Introduced a new
course In -the curriculum, that eT
driven h knife blade Into one sldo
ot -his temple. It had gone down
ward through the fleshy pert behind
the Jaw bone and Into the throat
The surgeon who attended Garner
then never discovered the blade, hut
effectually hid It from sight by sew
ing up the wojund. The doctor got
busy and eoon bad It out. It was two
and e half Inches long.-by a quarter
of an Inch wide.
"It wasn’t exactly a fight I waa
lh,” Garner explained last night,
"only a mix-up with two or three
other fellows In Fiords. After the
doctor fixed me up I never felt any
thing except that'at times I bed
trouble opening my mouth and some
pstn In my throat.
"I never paid any attention to it
until yesterday. When I tried to
drink water It would all' come back.
Then I called the doctor. Did -he
singing sod free hsnd. drawing t»
water color. Mis* Faekler was era ,
ployed as tesoher and made tbs
course very popular with the chil
dren. - . i . '
Recently Mr. Wright, In the inter
est of dlsclpype, sent tome of the
children homo because they came to
school without drawing triateriate ’
Several patrons of the echool drew’
toted a petition asking . the. school
boerd to make the taking ..of ,2Mb
course elective Instead of oompaf-.l
sory. The board held a meetlpg aa* .
there were those present who «*
tended that tinging and palatine
were new fang led and that the d#- '
fashioned R’s wer* sll that to essen
tial. Tha three R’s seemed to wt*
ouL when the hoard, after mudrata-
cusslon, decided-, to eliminate tho nen* ■
course at the end of thle term. •' .
For Spring 1909.
Mr.' F.
Boston. Mass., w{re in the city yes-
pected that there win be some lively j terdsy on their way to Lake Alcy-
tlindk In the prohibition campaign In one to spend a few days. Mr.-Lcon-
that state when he appears on ttn>| ar d to one of the largest commission
scene.—Moultrie Observer. J merchants of Boston.
I have received the exclusive
agency for the best line of
medium priced men’s suits
to sell at $12.50 to $18.00
that is made in the United
States. These are facts.
Come and see.
U A. Briggs,
ONE PRICE ONLY.
£sttB8