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THE
NEWS
OFFICIAL O&GAN OF DOOLY COUNTY AND OF 7HE CITY OF VIENNA. LA.
'■EST BONA FIDE CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE COUNTY.
VOL. III. NO. 8.
Cuts his Throat With his
Pocket Knife While
Plowing.
-LEGISLATURE NEWS AS GATHERED
BY ODR ATLANTA CORRESPONDENT
Acts of The Qeneral Assembly For a Week—Special
‘ Attention Given to Legislation Affecting
Dooly County.
Atlanta, Ga., July 14—Nothing
of very much importance has
come up for consideration that
effects Dooly county. Several
bills establishing local school dis
tricts in the county, but have not
yet been introduced. <
Hon. J. S. Pate, one of Dooly’s
efficient representatives, has intro-
dupeil a bill incorporating the
Pleasant Valley school district.
A bill providing for the election
of the county school commission
ers by the people has passed the
House, Messrs. Fields and Pate
voting for the bill.
A bill providing for a separation
of the school funds according to
the amount paid into the treasury
by the two races, failed to pass the
House, both Messrs. Fields and
Pate voting for the bill.
The convict lease bill comes up
as a special order for Thursday.
It seems that the question that
concerns the people of Dooly
county more than any other, judg-
'■ ing from the petitions said to have
been received by the representa
tives from your 'county, is the
road law recently imposed by the
grand jury of your county. Hon.
S. R. Fields has worked very ear
nestly and faithfully on this bill
together with the other introduc
ers of,the bill, but it was defeated
this morning by a vote of 80 for
the bill and 18 against it. Only
eight more votes would have been
sufficient to have passed the bill.
The bill is number 517, and of
course cannot be reached again
this session, unless it can be re-
. considered and made a special
order. When the Speaker an
nounced the result this morning,
everyone thought that all was
over and the bill was finally lost,
but, no such thing; in an instant
Mr. Fields was on his feet, and
with a look of determination in
his eyes and a firm voice, said:
"** Mr. Speaker, I now give notice
that at the proper time, I shall
move a reconsideration of the
action of the House in defeating
this bill." Under the rules a mo
tion to reconsider will lie in order
tomorrow. Mr. Fields is deter
mined to pass the bill and will do
so if‘it enn possibly lie done, nnd
he can call about as many mem
bers of the House to his assistance
in a time of emergency as any
member here.
After the vote was taken to-day
I had a conversation with Mr.
Fields, and I asked him if he
thought' that the House would
pass the bill or nllow a reconsid
eration of it. “ I have no doubt
that the gentlemen of the House
will grant me the courtesy of un-
other hearing, and I certainly see
no reason why an honest person
should refuse to allow the people
to vote on a question as to whether
u law shall lie imposed upon them
or not.” This is all this young
- statesman from Dooly had to say,
but he is not half done with the
:alteraative road law yet. Mark
the prediction I
Owing to the fact that I have
Just made arrangements to write
for the News with its genial edi
tor, as be passed through Atlanta
the Editors Conven-
not been able to get
your read-
to do here-
A. A.
WEDNESDAY’S
IN THE SENATE.
The Senate passed the Uniform
ity Text-Book bill today by an
overwhelming majority. There
was applause in the House when
the action of the Senate was an
nounced. It is very likely that
the measure will pass the House
by a good majority.
IN THE HOUSE.
On motion of Mr. Fields, of
Dooly, the House today by a vote
of 115 to 1 voted to reconsider its
action of yesterday in defeating
the Alterative Roud Law amend
ment as offered by Messrs. Fields
and Pate of Dooly, McCurry of
Hart, Tigner of Muscogee, Derrick
of Rabun, and Bell of Milton.
This is considered a very flat
tering vote, and speaks well for
the personal popularity of Dooly’s
young representative.
During the day Mr. Fields in
troduced a privilege resolution to
make the Road Law bill a special
order for early next week. It is
believed the bill will pnss when
it is called up again.
The House today, by a good
majority, passed a bill introduced
’by Mr. Calvin, of Richmond,
eliminating the throe days of
grace on notes, etc., payable at
batiks. . Dooly’s representatives
favored the bill.
The above is about all of general
importance, or of spocial interest
to readers that was done today.
J. A. A.
0U3 BOARD OF TRADE.
Are our business men losing
interest in the board of trade
already ? We trust not, but inac
tivity and apathy will surely bring
this result about. It seems to the
News that something should be
done to keep up the interest of
our business men in this organi
zation. Frequent meetings would
do this to some extent. If the
board only meets at long intervals
the members will be sure to lose
interest in the organization. It
would not l>e necessary to lose
business of importance before
meeting was culled. A frequent
coming together of our business
men would be of great benefit to
the town, because such meetings
would promote a better under
standing between them.
The News hopes great things of
our hoard of trade. It is the
most powerful organization a town
can have, if properly carried on,
and the necessary interest is mani
fested. A dead, inactive board of
trade is worse than no board at
all. To bo useful, it must bo
active nnd accomplish something,
nnd by all menus the interest of
its members should be kept arous
ed, for if they lose interest, it hud
just as well disband for all the
good it will do the town.
The News hopes that Vienna
will not have a dead board of
trade, but a live, energetic one
one that will do .something for the
town. This article is not meant
as a criticism against anybody or
anything, but the statements in
it are facts that cannot be dis
puted, and it is well enough to
look them square in the face.
Don’t fail to take advantage of
our cut prices in Clothing and
Pants. J. P. Heard & Sons.
Mr. Editor:
I am often told farming is the
back-bone of all business, and
occupations. If this be t-ue, we
farmers and our merchants would
only take the same interest that
they do in base ball and little
cross-roads horse racing. I look
upon base ball as a nuisance in
the land, although I have no ob
jection to the other fellow looking
after the ball games and horse
racing when it is carried on hon
orably ; it is the finest sport in
the world.
Tilling the soil is the most
ancient and honorable vocation
of man. It is the mort import
ant as it lies at the foundation of
of all other industries. It is the
source of all wealth and is there
fore the condition precedent upon
which all other arts and ' trades
are made possible. Farming is-
also the most healthful and inde
pendent of all the persuits of
which men are engaged. While
in the highest degree conducive
to mental and bodily vigor, the
work of the farmer enables him
to build up a competency and to
become his own master.
The greatest minds of all ages
have borne witness to the honor
and dignity of the farmer’s life.
At no period of the world’s his
tory has agriculture been more
certain than at the present time
in its rewards and honors and
pleasures which it bestows. A
department has been made for it
the national government
State governments liavp erected
colleges whose chief aim is to
teach tho theory nnd practiqo of
all human industries. The bright
est minds of the century, the
field work of the experimental
stations, are devoting their lives
to agriculture and well digested
results are scattered broadcast
over the land by the enterprising
publishers of tho farm papers
Labor-saving machinery, carried
to the highest point, has lighten
ed the furmer’s work, while Ele
vating his character.
The electric railway, tho tele
phone and free rural delivery
huve brought the farmer in touch
with the advantages of city life
without the necessity of exposing
his family to the temptations and
uncomforts. The country home
which constitutes the suberbs of
ever}’ city, usually built by men
who have exhausted their resources
of vitality in the fight for success,
are testimonials of the advantages
of living far from the maddening
crowd.
Tho out-look for tho farmor
one filled with hope nnd encour
agement. Such encouragement
ns should cause the fanner boy
to think carefully before exchang
ing tho prospectic plonty of the
farm for the glittering temptu-
tations, competition and uncer
tain rewards of the city. The
story of the few who have carved
out careers 'of usefulness nnd
honor in the business and profes
sional occupations of tho city lire
known of nil men, but no record
is kept of the vast army of those
allured by the glamour of thecily
who have left comfortable country
homes to go down in waters of
failure and dishonor, and who in
mid-life would wear}’ und with
every aspiration have been forced
to seek again the shelter and pro
tection of the once despised farm,
there to begin the battle of life, a
battle which would have already
been won with honor had they
been but true to themselves and
to the consecrated memory of the
old farm house.
0. B. Perry,
Farmer.
Tho horse-races pulled off at the
Dooly (jounty Fair Ground park
on Thursday, July 10th, proved to
be quitq a success in’every partic
ular. There wero about 500 peo
ple present from the different
towns lit* the county and surround
ing country, a goodly number
being hein from Montezuma, Fort
Valley; Macon and other cities;
Thb first rnce was for the test
three oht of five, mile-heats, for
a purse of $100. The entries were:
Messrs. Ed. Howell and O. M.
Heard, of Vienna, and E. M.
Pleas, oi Cordele. •
The first' race was won by Mr.
Pless, but Mr. Howell won out in
the next three, which gave him
the race. The best time in this
race wad 2:85.
The next race was very interest
ing, but the result was a great
surprise to some of the spectators,
who expected the horse owned by
Mr. Shirah to win the race, as
had been his good fortune in the
recent races. The entries were:
Messrs. R. Whitehead, R. E. Shi
rah and J. O. Hamilton. This
race was for a purse of $25, for the
best two in three, half-mile, trot
ting.
There were no entries for the
running race nor tho mule rnce,
for which small purses had boen
offered.
As a result, of tho success of this
race meet another one will no
doubt bo arranged to take place
in the near future or in tho enrly
fall.
A GREAT REVIVAL
•A great revival meeting has
boon in progross at. Liberty church
a few milesnorth-east of the city
since Inst Friday. The pastor,
Rev. J. A. Nelson, has lieen assist
ed by Rev. Eubanks. Up to.Wed
nesday at noon twenty-five new
members had'been received.
Mr. J. L. Peavy, of this city,
attended the meeting Wednesday
morning and reports that if one
wanted to enjoy some genuine old
fashioned religion he should have
lioon present at that meeting.
Tho baptizing took plnco yester
day morning at Sandy Mount -in
the presonce of a large crowd.
Rev. Nelson, tho pastor, is an
earnest preacher and hns unusual
ly good success with his churches.
This is one of the host revivals in
tho history of tho church, and its
influence will doubtloss bo felt for
some time.
“Doing Business.'
The above is a likeness of Mr.
O. M. Heard, of the enterprising
firm of J^P. Heard & Sons, who
sold Thursday before dinner 8
Suits or Schloss Bros.’ Clothes,
One Buoor and Harness, and
Three or the Premium Old
Hickory Waoons. Mr. Heard is
one of the best salesmen in south
west Georgia, but he stated to a
News reporter that the merits of
the goods had more to do with
the selling than his ability as a
salesman. There is no question
about thia firm selling the BEST.
Their right eyes. These are
pledges that people often tender
for loans at pawnbrokers’, says
the Minneapolis Journal. “But,
of course, it’s only a joke,” says
B. Bank. Mr. Bank is a pawn
broker of many years’ profits.
He knows the difference between
a joke and a pledge. That is, he
generally knows.
“Once I didn’t,” he related
yesterday. “Once an old fellow
came up to my counter when I
was located in Trinidad, Col.,
and he said: ‘What’ll you let
me have on this, Bank?” 'On
what?' says I. ‘Why, on my
right eye, of course!’ ‘The old
joke,’ I thought, but I smiled just
the same. The older joke is the
more you have to smile in busi
ness circles. I smiled and says:
‘Twodollars for one eye; $8 for
two.’
“But it was up to the stranger
to do the smiling that time. He
put up his right hand and simply
rubbed his eye out on his -palm,
leaving a gory, red hole clean in
to his brain I thought. I shiver
ed and jumped back. It didn’t
fnze him though. He chuckled
and winked tho other eye. ‘Here
she is,’ suid he, ‘and a mighty
fine optic, too. Tho man that
made her for me down in ’Frisco
said that slic’d be a regular mas
cot. He warranted that he’d give
me something to please tho ladies
and he did." Why, I caught my
wife with that eye! She thought
it ever so much handsomer than
tho other ono long beforo sho
knew I was wearing glass.”
“I’d promised him $2 and $2 he
got. 1 thought I was sold for
once, but I wasn’t. Tho custom
er never catrie buck. HVfell down
a shaft I heard. He’d probably
have broken his eye if he’d been
Wearing it. But the eye was safe
and he wasn’t. And then a few
months afterward I sold tho old
man’s eye to a tenderfoot that
wanted a unique watch charm.
‘They don’t make them nouniquer
than this,’ I told him nnd he paid
me $16.
“That reminds mo of Pedro
Pete, tho gambler, and his ‘hind
leg’. Always called it his hind
leg, though naturally it couldn’t
lio anything elso. Ho meant his
wooden leg. But it was more
than that. It was wood alright,
but it wus filled with springs and
hinges und everything that goes
with a high-priced artificial leg.
And it wns high-priced onough out
there in Colorado them days. He
reckoned it was worth $500 and
maybe it wns to him.
“But when Pete wanted to bor
row moucy on his limb I kicked
How was 1 to sell it if ho never
cutue buck? ‘But I’m suro to
come back if I’m alive,’ ho said.
‘Say, did you over try to spend
forty-eight hours on one leg?’
said I wus no sandhill crauo and
let him have $10 on his patent
He wus hack with the funds next
morning. A little while later he
gut $20 on the leg. I couldn’t
put the leg in the safe and I stuck
it away in the corner with the
mop nnd brooms. Didn’t think
any stranger was lmukcrin’ for it
“And it's a fact 1 got so used to
loaning Pete money on his south'
east corner that I sometimes ad
vanced us much ns $75. When
ever I’d see Pedro a-trottin’ down
the street inside a pair of crutches
1 knew he was going to soak his
leg. He hod to have the crutches
to escape with. But he always
camo bock,”
One of the most peculiar sui
cides happened in this county
down on, the plantation of Mr.
John E, Joiner, near Flint river,
last Tuesday afternoon about 5
o’clock, that ever occurred in this
county.
Mr. Joiner and Mr. John Barker
were ploughing in a field about
four acres in length and Mr.
Joiner, upon turning around at
the end of the row about 5 o’clock
noticed that Mr. Barker’s horse
was standing still, and he went
down to investigate, as he did not
see Mr. Barker. Upon his arrival
there he found him lying on the
ground dead from a gosh across
tho throat which had been caused
with a pocket knife which was
then grasped in his hand.
Mr. Joiner at once called to
to somo shingle mill men who
were cutting timber in the woods
near by to come there. Neither
of them knew anything*about how
it happened and had not seen any
one coming from the field.
Coronor J. W. Graham, of Una-
dilla, wns sent for and went down
Wednesday morning and held an
inquest over the dead body. The
cdtonor’s verdict was that of
death by suicide.
Mrs. Barker, wife of the de
ceased, testified at the inquest
that her husband had had some
thing preying on his mind heavily
for some time past and had often
threatened to kill himself, Baying
that he was going to do “the
Jesse James act.”
There was nothjng whatever
brought out in the evidence to
place the least suspicion on any
one, and the general opinion of
those living in the neighborhood
is that Barkor was driven to sui
cide by family trouble of some
kind.
FOR SALE—3 60-saw gins, feeders
and condensers, 1 press,. 1 elevating
system. Will sell at a very low price.
6-1203.
I sell at a very low pri
J. A. A D. 1. KINO,
Unadilla, Ua.
VIENNA CONTINUES TO GROW.
Five Handsome Brick Stores are Now
Being Erected.
Rev. P. G. McDonald has pur
chased the warehouse lot of Smith
& Walton and the dirt has already
been broken tor five and possibly
six new brick stores. Mr. J. Q.
Shipp is superintending the work
and a large force of hands are
busy at work diging out the foun
dation. Thus Vienna continues
to build up stendily and solidly.
Mr. McDonald is also figuring
on putting in 'some needed im
provements in the Southern hotel,
which will make it more conven
ient and commodious besides add
ing much to its appearance. _ -
The News is truly proud to see
this spirit of enterprise and prog
ress getting hold of our best citi
zens as the things that seemed to
meet the needs a few years ago
will no longer do and must give
way to new and more commodious
buildings.
Arrangements are now on foot
to pull off a series of three more
games between Vienna and Cordele
It is the present plan to have the
games come off in Macon. Mr.
B. M. Wood, the manager of the
Vienna team, is very anxious to
play the series with Cordele, and
unless something unforeseen turns
up these two teams will probably
meet in another swift series of
three games in Macon in the near
future.
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