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************ Only $1.00 For 1 Years Subscription To the Semi .Weekly. Why Wait? SEMI-WEEKLY EDITION THOMASVILLE GEORGIA. E, FRIDAY, FERRY ARY 7, 1013. Send in Your Subscription NOW. *********** WHITE WAY NEW DEPOT COMBS TREE FELL ON VAGRANTS TO METCALFE BOY WORK STREETS NATIONS ARE NEGRO DIED MAD DOG RITES ALBANY IN iSRAflIRO TRIED MANY NARROW ESCAPE OF LIFE BY ! WITH SOME OF THE PROVISIONS MAYOR'S SON, Vi MEN TIMBER MAYOR LIKE THROWS ROOM- OF THE IMMIGRATION LAW, I ..... . .wu. KIMYfl 1VTO IMVKSi nii> IOM-1 ‘SHINE," SMALL NEGRO, MEETS FORMER VISITOR TO THIS CITV I BREAKS ONE OF HIS LEGS. WHICH TAFT IS ADVOCATING. I RESOLUTIONS INTRODUCED IN COUNCIL PROVIDING FOR THLSE AND OTHER THINGS AT MEETING LAST NIGHT BY AL DERMAN BENNETT. Metcalfe, Ga., Feb. U.—tspeciai) —Early this* morning, Bennie Bent ley, son of Mr. B. M. Bentley, mayor of this place, had his right leg brok-j en just below the knee, while view Washington, Feb; 6.—When Presi-1 u ! dent Taft gave a hearing today upon j i the new immigration bill, he also. DEATH IN C1ITY PRISON FROM j APOPLEXY — WlAS IN GOOD! H EA I/TH A PPARENTLY ON MONDAY, (From Wednesday’.* Daily.) Yesterday afternoon, Joe Flowers, The council meeting last night would have been somewhat tame and without spice if A’derman Bennett ha i not have introduced a multt- • <1p of r^solut'^ns. dealing with in- teiv ai. 1 nrojii-«sive topics. The KRANG INTO RANKS OF LOAF ERS YESTERDAY AFTERNOON, THAT THEY WONT SOON FOR GET—FINES RUN INTO THEi HUNDREDS. ! had before him protests from Ger- onQ 0 f negroes convicted Monday ing the work on the right-of-way gt^uatton^into^a 11 crowd'“o? loalere I tha "tovision of the bill “"/ r ^ U ’ ba l r n rac P i^! Ce T hr r nc|l'o d of the Upmago Lumber Co. > enter day afternoon that they each j ^^autborizea^the Secretary of j about twe.ty-onc.year, of age and remember feelingly for TTeast a »<~ matrous “ d ‘-bile health j a^^ted to the hberni use of a“o- ninety days The Mayor is and al- Bervice surgeons aboard the imml-|jj 0 j an( j drugs of varioi s kinds for ways has been averse to the propen-1 ! 8evernI >' par8 and . whi,e apparently Young Bentley was standing with another young man, near where some trees were being cut down and as one of the trees fell it strucic another tree and swung around to ward where the young men were gentle^..... had them in squadron# l standing. The other other youug and without as n.’j^h ns waiting for, man saw the danger and told Bent- i. aldermen to catch their breath I ley to look out, for the tree, but i between drinks, read them oft in I was too late, and in a moment the "rapid suction.* The first one isftree ©trick him, knocking him down that the city be latu tit in wards, land falling across his legs breaking elr* - in numner, witn a councilman ! ‘he right leg. as stated above. Had from each ward. The second that a j the tree fallen across his body, "white way" *hall be had for the j death would have been instantan- iity from the Coast Line station to i eons. As It is, the young man Is the City Hall, nnu from the Tosco | suffering great pain, but the attend- Hofel to the monument, the clt to ( fng physicians say that the Injury, furnish the current and install the *houeb serious, is Tiot a dangerous fixture^, and the pioper'y owners to < pay for the fixt ires only. • Tin *hird was that the park sh: ire clCi«d"o vehicles and t_ .l drive* » and wuiaS ! e made in and about tl 's beau ifui spot. Fourth, that, the Mayor nd Aldern en sh i" at j c.icu tune ~ <‘pa to get a new slat from the Coast Line Railway. The»o resolutions appear in GOES F ROM RCCKLEDGE ATLANTA TO TAKE THE PAS TEUR TREATMENT. Atlanta, Feb. 4.—Miss Regina Ram bo, of Marietta, well known through her interest in the Confed erate Veterans, was rushed to At lanta yesterday from her wlntei nome In Florida, for the Pasteur treatment, following being bitten by her pet dog, which died the next day from hydrophobia. The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Julius De- ,“ yB , aver " e l , Thi ii can immigration kuthoritlee, upon l|n iiilendid condition on Monday " a r ° r Mr * and MrB - .ities of some negroes to lie Idle all . , ondltlon of the i mra igrants i! apl , , condition on Monday, Glve of tn , B rlty, wa8 h:ttPn hv of the time, hang around pool t .^ 8 „ C0 “ .‘ . ° tne 1 8 he complalaed of being sick yester- n( , nnd h „ hrn COAST LINE REBUILDING j n»tjr Station by Replucing Wnitin.; Roo**t Floor and Patching a Part of tiie Roof. tail fa the minute, of the body. *ud|, The “ ?? Uh they will bear close inspection. Just ul) tlle 1 homasv.lle iepot. some sort of legation. with Tilt,. Th J“ ‘' a3 , bee " done at re « uIar ln : and get-up about it is what is u cd te , rvals - f ' ’}?' there many years an I ed to start things off during Um of course, the people .......,.i Ah,,.;. »ts/ari&r araiesjun “a? *e»„k spirit ud the desire of the corn- will be ascertained wt ta the ports of th, committees to which they are referred are made. Another resolution to have a po lice call gong on the corner of Broad and Jackson streets, with a phono attachment was referred to Alder man Bennett, and the V.irshal tot action. The city will advertise at onr. for • bids to sell the dumpings from tts barns and the street- sweepings, feeding the mutes and disposing of the city garbage. After the usual routine -.fork, the adjourned. Thomasville travelers. The entire waiting room for whites Is to have a brand new lloor, made of good old Georgia pine and probably painted. The walls will be brushed off, the cob-webs taken down and a coat of soot will be applied to the celling It being easier to make it black than white, as It now appears. The roof which heretofore has been leaking will not leak In as many places hereafter. A force of skilled workmen have been knock ing off some, Of .tke, 914. stuff with which ii Is covered'fujp putting on something! that will protect at least - -thf part 'Of Mis wlssii hi fkortt of the HORSE IS HANDS HIGH food house, run by the Union News Company. As soon ns the company has time and money enough it may try and accomplish the repairs of the shed where passengers wait for ' [ trains. Thomat> County Product Excites VVhll^ ».nese stupendous undertak- Sonic Interest on the Street* lugs are going on, the passengers <4. the Today. j are allowed to uSe the cemont floor | of the shed for a waiting room and A Thomas county norse eighteen the r have e T en P ,a <* d a fow inches hands high is being shown at the[J^ ere Mi® <!omfort and conven- etablee of the Thomasville Live Stock j‘ en £.® of ,ad,eB - Company. This horse created no' T? e P fi °P p of Thomasville may little amount of attention on the idecld ® t0 **” a *P e cial mass meet- •treets, as it was hems' ridden i ln,! *° '* > , nd th * C f“‘ bl , ne ° mcla s around by Mr. C. T. Gandy today. 1 8 v ° te ° { ,ha " 1< " f “ r ,he,r pon8,d : The horse was raised by Mr. J. B . I eratlon , ln mak, n* these repairs and Way and Is now owned by the Livei Stock Company. It Is the bilgest i horse ever eeen in this city and pos- j slbly as large ac any ever raised In the State. It. is a bay horse, five years old. of the time, hang around pool i rooms and restaurants and do uoih- »r. lie is going to see that they work if it has to be done for the municipality and he started yester day in the undertaking by giving ninety-day sentences on the streets to men and women. They came before him shapes and sizes and a few different cotare, too. They all loafed, so the policemen said, and some were never known to work. One big fel- 'oiv, six feet, weighing two hundred i aid he made a dollar and a half a veek, a negro woman said she washed and ironed for white, folks, .nd another worked both night and day for a white lady, running er rands. They worked alright, but !! was the hardest work they had done In some time when they tried tc evade the clutches of the law which surrounded them whe-n they appear ed before the newAy installed Judge of their misconduct. This was Mayor Luke's first court and it netted the city an awful handsome sum, both in money and wages. The vagrants and their sen tences ore Shady Wooten, who had i bad le", $16, or ninety days on the streets: John Wilson, no excuse,; $26, or ninety days on the streets; T op Flowers, no excuse and no pre tense of one, $100 or ninety days; Jim WPson, poor excuse, $50 or ninety days, George Banks, ttick all the lime. $5 or 63 days, sentence msi>ended; Minnie Moore, $60, or ninety days; Lula Walton, $50 or ninety days; Viola Banks, $50 or ninety days: Isabelle Patterson, worked both night and day, $25 or ninety days; John HJU, $60 or nine- while en route. Another protest from Austria is I I lay morning. Dr. Daniels, the city physician w f as now on Its way. an<l Intimations L.,,^ |n an j gave hlm the neces . hnvft hpen nwA vm thai France. .... .... have been received that France, and England will, also Join In the protest. These nations are said to regard the provision as an infringement upon their sovereignty over ships on the high seas, and impugning the faith ln their officials in executing the immigration Jaws WOODMEN WILL HOLD VERY IMPORTANT MEETING sary attention. The negro, how ever, died of apoplexy ln the after noon at four thirty. The stroke was probably caused by a shot wound the back of the head, which he re ceived some years ago, but which has apparently -not bothered him since. This is the first death ln city barracks since they have boon erected. A number of negroes went to the place to see the body, after it had been prepared for burial Ruilet in His Head. There is a twenty-two bullet in the head of this nejro, and has been there for six years. It will be re membered that one afternoon, when Friday * Evening Is the Time, and the Thomasville Golf Club was ln OllicialH of State Organization Will be. Present. ’.unsolicited and come as a delightful ! surprise. , girl. i They are both talking jit R .... [ § Rimes, the young grass widower, of if the policemen did do ATLANTA STILL TALKING ABOUT RECENT SCANDAL. AUanta, Feb. 6.—"I love him •i*ill.” says the girl. *'I ought to have shot the cow ardly cur,” says the father of the Ludowicl, who i« accused of entlo | ing Miss Gladys Sc^ogins away e»» the false promise that he would marry her. James Scroggins, the father, has thus far been unsuccessful In per suading h's daughter to return home •vfth him. ty days. Women to Sweep Streets, Jiift .women, flUd, Mayor Luk^e am not to be allowed to stay in^lhe'Bar- racks, getting seal fat on the jnib .hi h the city furnishes at for' r y •ents per day. They will have work. He has ordered a two-horse wagon full of gallberry brushes and he proposes to give them rakes and t them clean up the back yards around the public buildings. In front of the churches and- then, if nothing is left, take the jallberry twigs and clean the sidewalks. They shall work, the Mayor says, and work every day. The Mayor heard their pleas, one by one, all of the defendants and then lined them up in three bunches on one side of the room. As he came to the case- he sentenced them and there were some scared negroes when the Mayor started his work. They didn’t get over It, either when he ordered that they shall not be let out until the fine wan naid, and they Quaiity in Buying Stationery Quality and correctness are the principal features which interest purchasers of stationery. This is assured you every time that you make your purchase here We have the very latest of ex quisite colors, in linens, basket weaves, and the best of all the newest in white. The prices are from 10c to $1.50 per box. Come in and let us show you our exclusive line of stationery. Peaccick-MaDsh Drug Co. Phones. 105-106 were to depoalt the. amount of the fine with the Treasurer. Some negroes were violating the rules at the Coast Line. They had been doing this for some time and getting off with a dollar and cost. Mayor Luke handed them a lemon of very bright hue when he sen tenced Pleas Montgomery and tipaldin ; Wright to pay $16 or serve the city for ninety days; % Wesley Williams, ten dollars or sixty days and Ed, Smith, thirteen dollars, or sixty days. He advised them also not to forget themselves again. Mr. George W. Derrick, State Or ganizer Woodmen of the World of Georgia, will arrive in Thomasville either today or Friday, and will meet with the local Camp Woodmen of the World, tomorrow, Friday even ing. Mr. Derrick is one of tne most prominent Woodmen in the State, and is well-postqJ In all affaire per taining to woodcraft. He comes to Thomasville to assist the local lodge in making arrangements for the coming of the State Encampment, which convenes here April 8 to 11th Mr. Derrick ip one of the best or ganizers In the order, having just secured two hundred and fifty new members and assisted ln.their lnlt- ation at Roystfln, Ga. He will en deavor to have a like number of '•andldates to be initiated, when the -Utete Cohvorittdk. meetshere, in Wil. Friday evening is the regular semi monthly mr.»ting night of the Thom- an- 4 lle f'air.!), and a full attendance of Its members Is especially urged. Mr. Derr’ck is a fluent sneaker, and \ profitable and enjoyable erecis.r »s assured to all who attend. Mayor announced fifty and cost or ninety days, *nd requested the de fendant not to come again. Three little negro™ got into a * 'chunking scrape,” and the Mayor ordered their parents to take them home and switch them, one and all, big and little and to do It like they meant business. A young negress got into a scrap over a washboard called by the Mayor Plnnny,” and she was fined fifteen | terson operation, a negro caddy playing with "Shine,” accidentally shot twenty-two rifle, the bullet lodging In the head of this boy. Dr. Daniels attondei him at that time also and probed several Inches 5or the bullet, which entered the side of the head. Ho could not lo cate it. The boy, several minutes it happened, got up aad walk ed around and since that time h<ts ”ot been seriously worried by the wound. MR. KELLY DIED SUDDENLY Member of the Constitution Staff Falls Wit!* Apoplexy on Atlan ta Street Iaist Night. Friends in momasvillu will re gret to learn of the death last night Atlanta of Mr. Thomas J. Kelly who was stricken with apoplexy o»- -*ne of the streets of that city. Mrs. Kelly is a sister of Mrs. E. Af. ,'Smith and has visited here a num ber of times as has her laughter Mrs. Royster of Norfolk. The Constitution of whicn Mr. Kfelly was a valuable employee has the following account of his deaU. Thomas J. Kelly, 55 years old, and one of the most prominent news paper men in the state, was strick-! en with apoplexy on Broad street shortly before 7 o’clock last even ing and died at 7:10, after having been remove 1 to a private sanitarium Mr. Kelly left the Constitution build ing just a few minutes before he was struck down, and was in a Jovial f conversation with friends. The funeral will be held Thurs- other dog. and has also been brought here to take the precautionary treatment. The little winter resort calle 1 Roekledge, where the Rambos, De- Gives and others m*kes their winter homes, was thrown into the wildest excitement when It became known that the clogs which had bitter, their m ! strc3ses we:e Infected xviti* ♦he rabies, and the mayor gave all -"vnors of do' r * a day’s notice m which to either kill or tie up every dog within the city limits. Miss Rambo's pet lied the day following ils attack upon her, ana its head was se.it to Jacksonville, front whence a ielt graphic report 'bowed that It was infected. Taklnj the matter as cooly as though It was noth ng more than n ordinary ociuireiice. Miss Rantbo being treated o> the Pasteur method, and making light of any danger that mny result from rabies. *he was bitten twice by the clog be fore she could stop Its attack u t ,on her. On« time the animal’s teeth Merced her ankle, Mid as she rt- ♦enipted to break Its grip It turred »nd struck her on the hand. At the time the pet was sPjt gnd hr was trying to give It medicine MnMn- fhn* tf hoc' merely got h «rr wVIe in a fight between severot -cors on the that I»a! iwakened the family early thn* TOOK LAUDANUM, POWDERED GLASS AND SLASHED HIE WIUST WITH A RAZOR AND A FEWT OTHER THINGS, BUT DOES NOT DIE. Albany, Ga., Feb. 5.—After tak ing laudanum and powdered glass, slashing bis wrist with a razor and shooting himself below the heart, Gordon Flournoy, Secretary-Treas urer for the Albany Cotton Mills, still llve^ today, although he is in a precarious condition. No reason can be ascertained for his act. J. F. HARRIS IS CHAIRMAN n-nln Shortly alter the Marietta girl /as Jtten, Dr. 'Sterett, a resident of » ..t. ti, was attacked by a m id .eg and aeriously bitten. Before a day har. passed he had developed 102 degrees of fever and It is feared that the rabies will develop uron him. He is now taking treatment from serum ordered from Jackjor* vllle, but may also be brought here Only the fact that it was six nays from the time that the dogs in the town went mad and bit the three people -jives their friends any worry as to their early lecovery, as all are taking every precaution, and fatali ties where the Pasteur treatment is used are rare. Of County Hoard of Education— Matter of Discipline in Stan*- Innd School Is. Adjusted. The Thomas County Board Of Education held a meeting yesterday at the Court House, being in ses sion for several hours. At that time the two newly appointed members, Messrs. J. F. Harris, of Pavo, and J. L. Gleason, of Metcalfe, partici pated in their first meetini. Mr. Harris was elected as President of the Board. Air. J. T. Chastain being the V r ice-Pre«ident and Superinten dent Searcy the Secretary. A matter of discipline, from tbw ■ifannland School, was referred to the Board for action. It seems that the teacher of that school, Miss Clevle Hand, ptin’shed a young child a switch hi order to make It perform the regular method of reading which she had adopted. Several stripes wore made on th© child’s legs and the matter was taken up by the trustees and then referred to the Board. Miss Halid was allowed to continue in charjg© of the school, the sense of the Board being that no action was necessary in the rase. Miss Hand is one of th© best informed and one of the most canahle teachers 'n the schools of the county. V* NEGROES GLEANING DP YARDS Squad, Under Sanitary Inspectoi With Hakes Slaking the Back Yards Leu Unsightly. The street gang Is rasing the During the time that no treatment I back ya- Js and getting thing, clean, was being given Itoekledgc pco| !■• Tho whole crew yesterday afternoon were telegrnphfag to Jackson.'C e I In charte of tho Sanitary Iniupec- and to Atlanta In a vain effort t< ; tor. and with new rake, and other have Horum shipped to them. Fo-1 Implent is tJ pother tra-.b, lei*, the some reason It did not come, ail barracks for the back yards. They Sunday Miss Rambo slartel lo A. worked for a whole afternoon and lalita. On the next train Mr. and the result was surprising. Mrs. DeGIve brought their II IV | These ■aegrocs will be kept at daughter. j work during their term of servitude Miss Ifumho Is making her homeland the public places will be kept The Geor'ia I day afternoon at 3 oclock from Pat-! at preflent '' ,,th «ovep.ior and Mrs. [clean for that period without any ” 1 • parlors, the body will be; nr< J w | n th^e Executive Maua.on,! doubt. The negroes were perturbed and cost, and'her partner in crime Interred * a West \iew. ten and cost. Ed. I’ripp was fined ^* le neW8 t:ie death created ten and co<»f, and Mose Everett, I wide-spread sorrow^ in newspaper venty-Ave. for participation In a circles, where Mr. Kelly was per- has been accustome cutting scrape. Tony Anderson cut j haps one of thtx nest-known and .. negro in the side Sunday because highly-esteemed workers, of a piece of pie. In Bessie Jenkins 1 a native of Virginia, born in Wythe- nd but for the fact that the State Board of Health for tr ment each day, is leading the s, orinnl outdoor life to which , ] during their first hours of real work -I but they got over It today and are • ^ working with a right good will. Mrs. Telford, of Cincinnati, and leave home after spending the past three weaio very pleasantly with Mr. and Mr* W. C. Thompson, on Dawson -trov* restaurant. The little negro was vl * le » 1,1 Wythe county. He was ed'i- Brittain of Orlando ordered to work on the streets for ‘ated In his native state, graduated th j s even i nif V or litter’** ninety lays without a fine alterna- from the University of Virginia. At ' five, it hein ? shown that he could j oa « t*™ 6 !» e w » 8 in charge of the not pay anything. The negro he cut< Bc l 10 °l 8 °f Talbotton, Ga. In about Is In a serious condition. | he joined the Constitution When the crowd had finished tliero I with which he has been connected as no grin on the faces of any of!«'er since. Prior to beginning his them, the folks that came to see or newspaper career he was associated testify looked as if they had e3- j with A. I*. Stewart in the stove an 1 ( raped something awful, the whole ’ hardware business in Whitehall Fleming Jones left a team un-j business w as completely flabber- 1 street. In his work on the Consti- Mtched on the streets ani it cost | meted, knocked out, hum-fuzz’** 1 tution he was associated with Hen- l - , m six dollars or ninety days: Lil-M>y the "unheard of fines." which ry Gray, at one time lieutenant gov- 'te Owens got drunk and ft was six the Mayor chose to assess. Thov ernor of Alabama, dollars or ninety Mays. Tom Mot- are all enough scared to behave, or Mr. Kelly was devoted to his lev. violating rules at A. C. L„ first at least to work for n while. The work apd was beloved by all who offence, six dollars, or s'xtv days, seven women summoned, in addition knew him. *»m Blalock was one of a crowd to to the ones sentenced for vagrancy.; He >s survived by his wff* and •’*oot crackerloo a.i a Sunl^v after- are at l’herty to remain out of town. I two children. *1 ncy are Eugene S, on t»*e norch of the Thomnsor. When they come hack, they are go- Kelly, vice-president of *he Glover home on Park Front. The neero 'nt he treated likewise, says the Realty Company, and Mru. R»|;* 1 rned almost whit© when the Mayor. Povster formerly of Xorfo'k. [CALL IS ISSUED FOR VATiosfm, RANK STATEMENTS*. fBy Associated Press.) | Washington, Feb. 6.—The Comp- 3 j troller of the Currency today Issued I a call for a statement of the condi tion of National banks at jhe close j [of business. Tuesday, "February L fourth. Fertilizers Fertilizers MANUFACTURED . ■ —by— Thomasville Fertilizer Company THESE FERTILIZERS ARE MADE WITH THE GREATEST TARE AND EVERY INGREDIENT IS THOROUGHLY TESTED AND MUST COME FULLY UI* TO TIIE RE. Ot rVi D STANDARD BEFORE REING USED. OUR FERTILIZERS ARE COMPOUNDED OF PLANT FOODS THAT WILL MAKE CROPS GROW. ALL KINDS AND BEST BRANDS —For Sale— Cash or Credit THOMAS UNION WAREHOUSE COMPANY Office Thomaa Union Warehouse, Thoma«viIIe, Ga. K. K. MOORE, Mgr. Thursday. Friday and Saturday We will put on sale a lot of fine EMBROIDERIES 45 in flouncing, worth $2.50 to go at. 27 in ” ” $2.00 to go at. 27 in ” ” $1.25 to go at. Narrower widths in edges end insertion to sell at 8, 13, 18 and 29c We have in this sale. Ladies Underwear, to sell 8t half price, made of fine material, and are won derful bargains at the price. COME AND SEE THESE SUSS ENOUGH BARGAINS. Louis Steyerman. The Shop^of Quality, on the Comer ijftSjSamMfe v hy. •-