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VALDOSTA TIMES.
VALDOSTA. GA,
By the Valdosta Board of Trade* to visit
” VALDOSTA
to 13th
When there will be X Free ‘Exhibition of the first
No
to visit the So&th, which will make
Two Flights Every Day and One Every Night
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This, the Greatest Scientific Wonder of the Age, is the same as will exhibit at
Savannah during the visit of President Taft,, is 50 feet long and 14 feet in diameter.
Other Attractions. FIVE DAYS Reduced Rates on all Railroads.
TURPENTINE
MARKET WEAK
Savannah Has a Very Dull Period
with Slump In Prices
Savannah, Ga., Oct SO—Thla baa
been literally a do-Dotblsg week la
tbe circlet ot tba naval atorea man
of Savannah, it thsre baa baan any
activity It baa not baan ao that any
oaa could notice It The market
opened oa Monday morning firm at
•I cents, vent tram tbara to ataady
oa Tuesday at on tba'to
boggan and slid to nothing doing
oa Wednesday and there It remain
ed until Friday at noon when tt
ateggered back to uniat By Friday
afternoon it had goat again to
nothing doing and tbara aeemed to
Tie ao chanca tor It to lift up It*
bead any more until next waak.
hat ot a year, n no but when the
difference in recelpta la considered
there are more Calk* on band com
paratively than a year ago. Tbe
high prices of spirits have started
tbe European conaumera to using
substitutes and have put 'sufficient
life Into the owners ot retorts In
thla country to get their machinery
started up again. Spirits turpen
tine Is quoted today at 21 cents
I higher than It was a year ago out
tho producers have evidently de
termined to get more than this.
They are acting, too, on tbe advice
of their factors.
Rosins are holding their own very
well. Water white eold all the
week at S6.7S a barrel and every
barrel offered waa lobbied np la a
harry. The lower grades flnetnatad
a little hut the demand waa pretty
kaen tor them also. The principal
Interact daring the waak baa baan
centered la aplrlta and It la going to
(tap tbara until somebody or some
thing gives way. It la expected that
there will be something doing ben
thro Taft cornea to town next Than-
■Jay.
ft «■ — ’
Thera were only 115 casks of splr- **'*• °°*
Its sold during tba entire week—a “ " ~
record that has not been equalled
In Savannah In many yean. Ev
erybody aeemed to bo waiting, and
■o one appeared anxious to mate a
move to see,If something wouldn't
happen. Tbe American Navel Store*
Company did get Into tbe market
on Thursday and bought 75 casks
tram a local concern but that waa
not enough to scare .anybody or to
the othen with (took* turn
them loose. There wen several ot
ter* 6a Friday of 57 cents but tho
Tactora decided to play a waiting
gama a Jlttlo longer before they
took inch a price. There are now
JOHN D’S. HOOK
WORM MONEY
State Board of Health Is Anxious
to Get Hold of It
Atlanta, Oa., October 30.—tJo an
nouncement that John D. Rockefeller
will give 11,000,000 to tbe ciiae ot
wiping out tbe hook worm, In
South baa aroused gem
here. Officials of tbe state
health are particularly wall
and «ay that tala gift meant eradicat
ing the disease which la doing 'ao
much damage In tbe Boeth.
“Wo have examined aad treated
some Bv* hundred cone of book
worm In our offices bore." saM a
member of the staff ot tbe etate
CHILD WIFE WANTS ALIMONY. fboard of health. “It baa been-.demon
strated that a small quantity of thy-
ln Savannah, is the railroad yards ... ! _
aad on the river wharves nearly Ne * m Won, * B Wanl " ,or
30.000 casks of spirits and of this
amount fully 5,000 casks are In the
factors hands watting to bo sold for
the benefit of tho producer. But the
factor scorns to think spirits are
worth more than the exporters and
tho local buyers want to giro, so
there la more waiting. None of tho
big boys seem anxious to make *
purchase of spirits. The American
Is doing netting, the Standard is
ont of tho market for tho present
apparently and the Ix>nden and Sa-
Tbe stock of spirit* Is lot at big
Month and
Atlanta, Oa, Oct 29—Mrs. Mary
Lucy 8tona, a pretty 13-year-old
girl, has entered salt for alimony
against her husband, Samml*
Stone. The gtq charged that Stone
persuaded her to run away with
him whan eh* etui wore short
dresses, and that they met Stone’s
mother, who aided the plan by
garbing tha girl In long dresses.
Sht lived with him one month du
ring which time she- received 30
cents from Saminte, and that he
then deserted her.
SUES FOR 52,000.
the Death of Her Husband,
Atlanta, Oa., October 19—Levy
has been made on tho property of
tha Tennessee Coal, Iron and Rail
road company In Barlow county be
cause a suit K*lnit the company for
52,000 has been Bled hero by Ginale
Jackson, a negress.
She chnrges that her husbanJ,
conTlcted for train riding, was sent
Into tho company’s mines in Pratt
City, Ala., and left over night, and
the London anil S.-\. that an explosion of gasses la tbs
vsnnah agent has”gons to Xnropa. ynines ignited in his death. She
wants damages is the sum of 53,009.
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New Business to be Opened up; Big
Land 8alea Mads,
Amerlcus, Ga„ October 39-Sales
of farm properties yesterday In
clude the Snider plantation ot 500
acres at approximately 57,600, and
the former Hollis plantation, of 1,000
acres, at excellent valuation. Tares
automobiles Oiled with prospective
purchasers and Tealty agents trav
ersed Sumter county today, Inspect
ing plantations and numerous trans
fers at excellent prices will result
therefrom.
Representatives ot the East Liver
pool, Ohio. Pottery Company, owning
large kaolin deposits near Amerlcus.
rentals here, effecting preparation!
tor establishing that Important- en
terprise. Options have been request-
on stores and. warehouses here
aad Indications point to the estab
lishment ot a business of consider
able magnitude. Representatives ot
the company state that a large num
ber of kaolin workers will be trans
ported from Ohio tor employment
sear Americas. Immediately.
A CONFEDERATE WEDDING.
mol will kill thla intestinal hair-like
Pft tilt dfwUe b woWfai sandy Br>dc wore Gray and G«n. Evans
countries than In tho hills, I’;*Officiated In His Gray Uniform.■
hookworm * la thf'tVforo more prevai- j Atlanta, Ga., October 2D—A unique
ent In South Georgia: "thap., North j ohu »rh wedding took place hero
Goorglr., although we have treated j n U?hts Ago In tho Second Bap-
cases from the tipper part of the ttat church, when Miss Lodi Byrd
state.
"This gift of Mr. Itockefcl
start a general campaign
cation of tho hook worm
tain to remit In great good,
that in a few years the disease can
bo wiped out. While tho dlBSase ef
fects tbe poorer classes mors than
nny other, it is by no mean* confined erahs, dressed In the uniform. Tho
became the bride of Georgs E. Mor
in. .
It was a Confederate -ceremony
throughout The bride wore Confed
erate gray, General C. A. Evans, In
toll Confederate uniform performed
tbe ceremony, and the five ushers
were well-known Confederate ■
to them, as it is found In families of
wealth and culture." 7 -
The Atlanta rhamber of commerce
and other organisations in the state
have united In n -general campaign
to conquer this Insidious trouble, and
good effects are already seen.
rhumb wa« deaerated In Confederate
Big*.
Steel Coaches Received.
Atlanta, Ga., October 30.—A large
number of the eighty-five new steel
coaches ordered recently by the
Southern Railway havs been deliver
ed and are now In nee on all tho
through trains. The coache* are ©lee-
trie lighted throughout This la the
first time the Southern ha* attempt
ed to pat on electric lighted coaches.
Paxsoa Most Stay at Home.
Atlanta, Ga., Oct 29—As Colonel
F. J. Faxson. chief of aides on the
governor’s staff, will be compelled
to be In Atlanta during the automo
bile show and week, he baa been
compelled to decline making the
trip to Macon, Savannah end An-
gusta with Governor Brown on the
occasion ot President Taft’s visit to
those cities.
He has therefor* requested'.Col
J. Van Holt Nath, of Atlanta, to
act as chief tide for these visits.
The entire staff will be la Avgusta
is (»U dress uniform.*
UILD MONORAIL
Work Commenced on the First Sys-
tom of It* Kind in America.
New York, Oct. 29—Construction
work oa tbe City Island Monorail
read, the first of It* kind ever built
In America, will begin this after
noon. The line will connect Harlem,
by a branch of the New York, New
Haven and Hartford railroad, with
City Island. The company will use
electricity as a motive power.
ffViilE.'FAMt3?S ' nUSHHiJiir
Argument* In Haskell Case.
Ardmore, Okla. Oct 29—Arguments
were begun before Judge Marshall
today on the general demurrer to the
Indictments against Governor Chas.
N. Haskell and the six other defen
dants In the so-called Muskogee town
lot frauds. If the court overrules the
demurrer; the com will then coma
ts trial at tho earliest possible date.
T. P. O’Connor, the Irish Patriot,
May Visit Savannah.
Savannah, Oct. 29—It Is possible
that T. P. O'Connor, the prominent
Irishman who has been sent to this
country to raise money to fight for
free Ireland will be Invited to come
to Savannah and deliver a talk.
Tbe sons of old Erin and their
descendants have never failed to
respond to an appeal for Ireland
and if Tay Pay comes here he will
no doubt help his cause.
Scientists Plan Costly Church.
Atlanta, Ga., Oct 29—Following
tbe sale of their central property
here, It Is announced that the
Christian Scientists of Atlanta sra
planning a million dollar church
here. It Is proposed to erect on*
of tbs finest buddings In thq coun
try. v
$200,000 TO LOAN
On Improved Lands in Lowndes
County, at the Rates of
5 and 6 Per Cent
On 5 and 10 Years Time.
It is less expensive to get your money frgm me as I
deal direct with those loaning the money.
I Frill loan yon from 40 to SO per cent of tbe market
value of your farm; the amount loaned.depending on the
state of cultivation yonr farm is in.
Yon have the privilege of paying off the amount bor
rowed, or any part of it, at any time, and only pay interest
for the time yon have used the money.
If yon want a loan come to see me, and bring your
entire chain of titles. The title mast be perfect for at
least 28 years. It will be to yonr interest to see me when
yon are in need of money. No delay in getting the money
If year title is good. Call on or write to
WILUAM R. SMITH,
Attorney-At-Law,
Nashville, : : : Ga.