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************ Official Organ Thomas County SEMI-WEEKLY EDITION ****** ****** Why Wait? Send m Your Subscription NOW. VOL. I. Xo. 70. THOMASVILLEJ, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1013. *1.00 PER ANNUM. REAGAN GETS FROM THE STANDARD OIL COM- PANY—KENNEDY SUING THE A., B. & A. FOR FIFTEEN THOU- SAND IN CITY COURT. AND PUMPED FULL OF BIRD SHOT—NEGRO DOES NOT KNOW THE NAME OF HIS ENEMY. A neK'o was am’jtfshel and shot last lilglit near the mill of Mr N POUNDS OF FISR TAKEN FROM ONE SMALL POND YESTERDAY — THREE THOU SAND PRESENT AT DAM OUT- TING NEAR PAVO. The city Court of Thomasvllle. Homer Williams, out from town, yesterday afternoon awarjed Mr. j He states that he was stopped «. W. Reagan, of Ochlocknee a ver-! front of the mill and shot by a ne- dlct of ten thousand dollars for dam-lgro. His wounds were given medl- ■ages. jcal attention at the City Hospital The case was Drought because of j where he was taken as soon as the the death of Mrs. Reagan, tho plain- police learned of the accldont. tiff charging that the Standard Oil The identity of the assailant is a Company Bold gasoline for kerosene, which resulted In her death, the ex plosion occurred as she poured the explosive stuff Into her stove. The verdict Is for just half of the amount of the suit. The matter will In all probability be taken to the Court of Appeals. Kennedy Suit 'loony. The suit of C. J. Kennedy versus the A. B. & A., was started this morning ' and continued through the afternoon session, the arguments starting about twelve o'clock. The suit Is for fifteen thousand damages. Mr. Kennedy claims that he stepped from an A. B. & A. train on a dark night, at ten o’clock, near Coolidge, the porter having previous ly honored, "Coolidge next stop.” He stepped onto a trestle and thence to the ground, fifteen feet down, sus taining Injuries for which be asks damages. Messrs. Titus and Luke represent the plaintiff and Messrs. Stiles Hopkins of Atlanta, and J. H. Merrill of this city the railroad. JifiE FOSTER WILL PRESIDE AT THE FALL TERM OF THE U. S- DISTRICT COURT IN PLACE OF JUDGE EMORY SPEER. matter which the police hope to es tablish In a slioft time. They have been working on the case for several (hours this morning. The negro, Ed. Taliaferro, says that last night, with two smaller negroes he was coming to town, when suddenly a man appeared the road and.demanded that they give up their money. An three de clined with thanks, because they were short of change. The bandit then demanded that they take their clothes as he had to have something for hie trouble. Title also the negroes declined to do, because they were en route to visit In town. The next they knew, Ed. was shot fn the side, the shot-gun used being fired at close range and severely wounded him In the right side. He stated today that he did not know the negro who stopped them. His wounds will not prove fatal, al though a big wad of shot tore a big hole near the waist. THAW PLAYS FOR CROWD JUBILANT OVER 1IEFEAT OF JE ROME, HE CELEBRATES WITH RAG-TIME ON THE PIANO — WILL GO TO CONCORD TODAY. Ten thousand pounds ot tlsh were caught yestorday from the Adams fish pond, near Pavo. This pond, some seven hundred acres In area, was advertised throughout this sec tion for fishermen for three days. A part of the dam has been cut and the water was allowed to run off. Fully three thousand people were present and many hundred went Into the pond to fish, using nets, seines, gigs and any and all dther kinds of para phernalia for the purpose of getting the fish. Everybody had a good string. Trout, bream, suckers, Jack and other .fish were caught in abundance,.and hundreds of camp fires were built and parties from various places cooked and ate their fleh on the ground. There were people pres ent from every town In this section of the state, as far east as Valdosta, north to Tlfton and west to Albany. Some Thomasvllle -people were also on the ground and participated In the great sport. The fishing privileges were sold for one dollar and are to last for three days. It Is estimated that as many more pounds of fish will he pulled out during today and tomor- The sight was one which has rarely been equalled In this section of the State. LECONTE GIVEN Sim YEARS TRIAL HELD MOUSING 1IKFOKE JUDGE 1'AllK OF ALBANY CIRCUIT— SENTENCED ON FOUR COUNTS. Macon. Ga., Sept. 17.—(Spe cial.)—Eil. LeConte, the negro who murderously assaulted the Hodiford family, in Grady county several weeks ago, pleaded guilty l>efore Judge Frank Dark, of the Albany Circuit, in Macon today, to two charges of assault with intent to rn|>e and two | charges of assault and battery. In the first two cases, he was given a sentence of twenty years eaoli, and in the second two cases, ten years each, mak ing a total of - sixty years in the penitentiary. Two otfier charges, in which he is charged with assault with intent to murder, were held up, to see whether Mr. and Mrs. Hodiford would recover. MACON THIS | Mk . j. WILLIS MOORE MAKES PUBLISHED RUMOR TO THAT EF MERGER DENIES FALL NEAR; SOME COMMENTS OX TIIE SYS-] TEM OF RECORDS FOR COIN-1 TV COMMISSIONER. I FECT HE SAYS WAS ABSO LUTELY WITHOUT FOUNDA TION — WARRANTS AGAINST PROMINENT GRADY HUNTERS. Thomasvllle, Ga., Sept. 17, 1913. Editor Times-Enterprlse: We have In Thomas County 800 miles of county highway, which has cost In labor and material less than $1,000 per mile, equal to.. $300,000 County Court House and grounds County Jail and grounds. County Poor Farm .... County Stockade and Grounds County Warehouse . . . Equipment, Tools. Mules, etc 33,000 50,000 25,000 15,000 10,000 1,500 SENTENGED ONE GETS TWO YEARS AND THE OTHER EIGHTEEN MONTHS, AND ROTH ARE FINED FOR BEING WHITE SLAVERS. Augusta, Ga., Sept. 17.--.Tudge, Rufus E. Foster, of New Orleans,. 1 the coming term of the United States,, court, in the place of Judge Emory j * Speer, against whom charges are j pending In Congress at this time. j The case against Thomas E. Wat- • son. who was at one time a candidate Littleton, X. H., Sept. 17.—Harry 1 K. Thaw today moved on to Con- . . . , . , . ' | cord, the state capital, to await his has been designated to preside over, 4 ’ , . , . # 0 fJ ‘extradition hearing before Governor iTeikner Tuesday, knowing that ft ! he loses out in that bearing, the ’iiited States court will revjew the •ooe, on the habeas corpus writ. Thaw w»s light-hearted and smil- for President on the Populist tick- j ,n * toda >'- 1,6 "' lpbrated :,la co,,rt et. and who Is charged with send-: vktor >’ over V! " lam Traver.e Je- lnst obscene matter through the 1 rome b >' l’ la > ,ln!! a I'"" 0 ln ‘ he h0 ‘ malls, will be tried at this time. ! ,el whero hc ,a '> uartered ' " bn ® an | admiring throng crowded around. S|teer Declined to Serve. , Ex-Govemor Stone, of Pennsyl- Washington, 3ept. 17.—It Is un-vanla, was the only lawyer with j building, derstood that Judge Emory Speer,Thaw today. The others will Join doesn’t wish to preside over his him at Concord for the extradition court, pending the outcome of the hearing. charges against him. This was thei • — — — reason for naming Judge Foster, of ( Dr* B. H. Ingram left last night New Orleans. The term opens in for* Miami, where he will spend sev- October at Augusta. jeral days with relatives. TIMES BOMB A PARCEL POST CARRIED DYNA MITE CONTRAPTION, AND LOS ANGELES IS DEEPLY STIRRED. jOs Angeles, Sept. 17.—Officers today are beading every effort to uncover some trace of the person > yesterday sent a dynamite bomb through the mail to General Harrison Gray Otis, proprietor of the Los An geles Times. The detectives are certain the sender of the bomb lives in the down town district, because the package was put in a percel post box there. The dynamite used in the con struction of the bomb was the same kind hb that used by James B. Mc Namara in blowing up The Times WE HAVE EVERYTHING YOU NEED FOR YOUR Fall Garden Irish Potatoes Onion Sets AU kinds of small seed and Buists Winter Lawn Grass. Our seeds of proven worth always make good, and you never miss a crop that is a credit to any gardener. Agents: NUNN ALLY’S CANDIES. mmmt pHNtolllcc Authorities to Make Rigid Investigation. Washington, Sept. 17.—A rigid investigation will be made by the Postoffice Inspector of the latest at tempt on the life of Gen. Harrison Gray Otis, at Los Angeles. No offi cial report has been received yet of his finding of an infernal machine in his mail. I San Francisco, Sept. 17.—Maury 1. Diggs, forpter State Architect of California, was today sentenced to two years in the penitentiary, and he was also given a fine of two thousand dollars. F. Drew Caminnetti was sentenced to serve eighteen months, and pay a fine of fifteen hundred dollars. The two .men were convicted violating the Mann \Vhite 31ave Act, when they trffffaported two young women from this city to Reno, Nev. Dime she Tom was FIITEES f££T L08G TOTAL $936,500 The above represents the property owned by the county. Supervision by County Com missioners, per month. . $55.00 Clerical force 33.00 TOTAL, per month . . . . $90.00 Or, for the year, a grand total of $1,080.00 Is there another Investment in the county that pays in proportion so little for supervision? Does any man in the county know the money spent on a.iy mile of road in a year? The road forces are On gaged lit repairs, betterments and construc tion, adding each year to the value of the county property. All tax-pay ers are stock-holders and supply the funds to carry on the work. Do they get reasonable results Are the records of supplies, ma terials and labor so kept that a dis satisfied tax-payer after Inspecting a section of roads could go tn tile of fice of the Clerk of the Board and see .what the work on that mile or section cost? I will suggest tnis remedy: Make a suitable room in the county court house for the Commissioners. Pay a Clerk not less than $75.00 per month and require the County Treas urer to make his office iti the same room with the Clerk. Place the Clerk under the Road Superinten dent and I**t him check everything bought by the county and deliver land account for everything that Is ordered out by the Superintendent, i write letters and make monthly statements for the Superintendent. Employ an engineer to set stakes for cuts, fills and ditches; locate aud supe-lntend the placing of .’ulverts and bridges; superintendent the mix ing and placing of concrete and the erection of bridges, and Inspect all county buildings, and see to repairs tnadf to same. A competent man State Game Warden Jesse Mercer was In the city for a short time to day. He was en route to Nashville. Ga., from Cairo. While in Grady county he made a thorough investi gation of the charges which had been brought to his attention against prominent men of that county for vio lations of the state game laws. — While giving out no definite in y EAGER XO BEGIN DOVE HUNTING —STATE GAME WARDEN MER CER SAID TO RE IN FAVOR OF EARLY OPENING AND CLOSING. With the advent of fall, the heart* of sportsmen throughout Georgia will naturally be turned to the hunt ing fields. Reports coming from all over the 'date of the unusv.al abun dance of birds this year gives every assurance that there will also be plenty of shooting. While the open season for birds nearly two months and a half . the hunting licenses for 1913 formation, It Is understood thatl llave already been placed on eale cases were made against several and the response of the hunter* la very prominent men, and some of, evcn no *’ found ln the ready de- them on three or four counts, and | mand that Is being found for lleena- that warrants will he sworn out to a short time. There have been de predations of many kinds on prop erty which the owners determined, with the Game Warden's aid, to stop. No Washington Job. Mr. Mercer stated that there was not the slightest foundation In fact In the published statement that he was going to get a Job In Washing ton. He stopped thero for two hours while en route from Boston to At- es. Of course, many are taking oat their licenses early |n order that they may have an opportunity to hunt squirrels and foxes, the sea son for which game opens several weeks earlier than that for birds. Say Birds Migrate. d. So Impatient are the hunters to be gin their annual sport that Game Commissioner Jesse E. Mercer Is re- • reiving complaltns, particularly from North and Middle Georgli, about the lateness ef the season prescribed U. S. MI SOLZERIHAS jikM.. ■ - JH® - ’ i* i - > OX THE NEW YORK PRIMARIES YESTERDAY OUTSIDE OF NEW YORK CITY—TAMMANY WAS BEATEN EXCEPT IN THE ME- TROPOLIS. New York, Sept. 17.—The Im peachment of Gov. SuUer played a big part In yesterday’s Democratic primaries ln Now York state. The rovernor's friends declare It was largely responsible for the defeat of the organization candidates. Suiter's fight for direct primar ies was helped, his friends main tain, and in the biggest cities out side of New York City,“the organi zation which lined with Tammany was badly beaten. In New York City the Sulzer Issue was not apparent. MANY ACRES RESTORED Washington, Sept. 18.—Public lands to the extent of seven nundred and forty-eight thousand, nine hun dred and forty-three acres, were re stored to entry during August ln the United States, the Geological Sur vey announced today. The most im portant tract was ln Montana, where more than one million acres were thrown' open to home-seekera. And Big Around ns a Man Willi Twcnty.Fnur Rattles, Saiil to Have Been Caught With Poisoned Cheese. i Fish stories are common, some or them awfully common, and snake stories sometimes seriously stretch the credulity of folks. Tho latest along this latter line of remarkable stories comes from a negro woman who lives near town. She Is a thor oughly tillable negro and one who‘<a^ l>e secured for $100 per month evidently believes with all possible When not otherwise engaged, 4 ie fervor that her statements are ahso- could make a profile or the road lutely a:id totally correct. It will be remembered that there was a rather precarious experience by an employee ot the .Southern Bell Telephone Company, at the Parsons place, some weeks ago, when the gentleman barely escaped the fangs of two monster rattlesnakes. The woman who lives on the pla'e decid ed that she didn’t care to have the other snake hanging nround those diggings, especially so close to the house, as It was on the former oc casion. She therefore systematically pre pared for Its death. Mie first se cured a piece of cheese, not too young .either, and with the aid of rat poison she thoroughly Inoculated it. This she placed inside of a rab bit which she caught and laid the tempting hit where she believes the snake would find it, and waited de velopments. Two days later she found the snake. It had swallowed the rab bit and was dead, so dead that the skin had turned b’ack, the poison working as the negro believed It lanta, and he thought that the rum-‘ bv ,aw - 11 ls ur Red that b y the time or emanated from that. He denied j the opting date of the season, all connection with any position of: N ’ ovember 20 * arrives nearly all the that character. I doves from the Northern and Mid- Mr. Mercer would make no state-j (,,e sections ot the state have mterat* ment ns to the possibility of his re-! 0(1 to Georgia. ^ appointment, but his friends in tiiisj Mr. Mercer nimseir is not averse section «lncerely hope that he will; to an earlier opening date, but he get the place from Governor Slaton. J would also have the season c’ose $ month earlier than at present, which would make It close February 1, In stead of March 15 Discussing the j bird situation, he says: | “Inview of the great abundance of j doves this year— have received re ports from all parts of the state In- jdlcating that they are more plenti ful than they have been before In j many years—t feel quite sure that * the season could be opened six or Washington. Sept. IV.—Every (n-jeight weeks earlier for these blrdg dication is that tho United States j without serious menace to them, will keep a number of Its battleships| fg V || n f Uniting. Mexican waters, despite Presl-j „ Th|i , Parl | Pr fiowevW. la dent Huerta's declaration that they, rond|(lone[1 on str|ct would he unwelcome after another! of thp ,, rnvMnn ot tho m . aealatt i halting There Is -no habit of hunt- Tho administration officials lndl-; prs n|or „ , lestrilotlye t0 [he Mrds cato today they would keep the VPH -lthan scIh nearby, as long as American ' property was unsafe. it is pointed out that, under the international law. the United Sta*es, 1 has a right to continue its warships: month. there, with an injunction to Huerta not to offer any indignity to the sov ereignty of Mexico. system of the county and Indicate u-IHjn it sand beds and deposits of clay, suitable for top-dresr.lng; lo cation of each culve-t and bridge, giving length, helghth and width and kind of bridge, whether wood, steel or concerete. and length and diame ter, and kind of «u*h culvert: show the road and mile that each struc ture is on. Let each foreman keep a daily record of work done, number of men, free or convict; show time left ramp, reached work: time left work and time reached camp: mules and machines used. When a fo»*'e begins work iu a district, let the Commissioner of that district go over the road to be orked with the ^utierlntende/it and give information as to flow of water, suitable material and the cutting of side ditches to prevent water from abutting lands flowing Into roadway. Allow the commissioner not less than $3.00 per day for each day he Is so engaged. Let the Superintendent have a free hand In reporting what is seeded would. She took the snake, and for: and what should be done and hold fear It might contaminate or poison him accountable for proper results, chickens or other animals, burned | Teach the people that when a road the entire thing. , i« as much as sixteen feet and over The incredible part of the story In width to have two drive ways. tion. By election, the people say they have chosen from each road district the most competent man they could elect to the board. Who shall eay the people erred? I shall not? Yours truly, J. WILLIS MOORK. iting. and vot it seems to be the feature of the law which we ‘game wardens experience more dlffl- jculty in enforcing. I have known men who were hlghlv honorab’e la every other respect, who have been guilty of violating the law against 'baiting. So prevalent Is the custom, that. I find certain feed houses to I be putting on the market prepared i feeds, made up principally of what , was a mixture of cracked corn and | sun-flower seeds." | Mrs. F. A .Crittenden of Pelham I spent yesterday with Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Herring. conics with the description of the animal. She says it was fifteen feet long, had twenty-four rattles and a button, was fully as big as a man and had fangs almost as large as a defe’s tooth. Sho Insist that this is correct, but the snake had been burned and there Is no proof. The snake must have been puffed up over the poison, and to her Imag ination and somewhat limited idea of measurements. It must have ap peared that'size. Anyway, the snake has been kill ed and the negroes living ln that; •section are mighty glad. 1 everybody "Keep to the right," and that will be equal to two ro;*ls and will lessen the number of bad places In w’et seasons. I hope soon to see many farmers use motor trucks for long hauls and heavy loads, and every blessed one of them using a good automobile for their family's comfort and pleasure. With good material for road build ing on every mile of road In the county, Thomas county can have a magnificent system of public hish-j ways at possibly a smaller cost per: mile than any county In the state. But this Is a big business proposi-^ PALL CLOTHES You ’ll • probably spend- your money for clothes and naturally you want tho value you can. for every doilai You take some risk with your money when you buy clothes. Most men can’t tell whether «iothes art good or not. You know the color and pattern you want, and the style of coat and trousers. For the rest you’ve got to take somebody else's word. Hart 3chaffner (c Marx know about all the things that go to make the right klsd of clothes: right in fabric, In style, in workmanship. We’re glad to recommend these gooi clothes to you. Here’s a fine new line of the lat est fall suits and overcoats: also a beautiful assortment of shirts, neck wear, socks hats and furnishings. Everything we get together for you is intended to do away with any risk when you buy. Our service is at your disposal. C*rrri*H Haft Scfcaffccr k Mars Louis Steyerman, The Shop of Quality On the Corner. iwtsfe