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JU THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, APRIL ,14. <005
New Series, Vo) XV—' o ij rk
BIG COURT MEETS |AMATEUR RECORD GREAT NAVAL BATTLE
I; ON NEXT MONDAY SMASHED BY VOSE REPOR^P AS FOUGHT.
Interest it> legal circles jut now.
center* in ilie April term of Ihomu
- County Superior tponrt. Judge Robert
Mr. Hamilton Voee, Thomasville’s
crack golfer ie wearing a new feather in
Ilia cap. This week he broke the ama-
K:
G, Mitchell i. at preaont in Moultre for the Thomaltm , Golf
holding Colquitt ecnrt. He will return ^ Although the Hnke were not in
Saturday and convene court here ' the ^ c0DdlIicn , he made th , ronnd
Monday. Tb. hot week will be devo oatln ind the « torn ln 37. . total
ted to civil caws, and the cecood to | ^ ^
criminal. The docket is a heavy one. j° Therec- rd waa previonsly held by
A number of cate, were continued irom Dr T E Blackabear, who made the
the Octoler term and many new and roand donble 37 _ total 74 , <<n . .troke
important ones have coue up since that! more , ban Mr V o»e.
ume. Perhaps the caae if grtatest in- The ThomuTil! , 0 lob , hia week be-
tereat is that of J B. Barrow who is canie a member of the Southern League
charged with the murder of his mother. I ofGo „ Clnbi , This aelodallcn hold „
in law, Mra. Wm. Parish. Jhe rensa- ^ , tg a(Hula t tournament and convention
tional tragedy aroused everyone, and ! iD 8lTaIli ; a |, May 10th 11th i2th and
the cou.t room will be crowded to hear] ]3th . a team will probably be sent
1 ( t from the home club. ■ This organisation
TLereit always inteiest in the tnake j ba9on ttsro n B0 f t h e beat amateur
up of. the gm&d Jury, lhia important | goif erg | D the aonth and is sure to make
tody, has all the affaiis of the connty ^good showing. Special inducement*
for its field of inquiry. The tliii ty re* ^ 0 ff ere d to these who enter, in the
preientative citizens'who constitute it way of rates, entertainments, trophies,
W. 8. Wight
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M. 1*. Uvd'enrn
W. 8 Buiioch
A. J. Owen*
Wllrt«“
J. V. Kay
1. Adams J. B. Way
There are two pant lv of petit jurors.
Thirty six of toern will do*dutv on the
Oftws that will come up during the first
week of court, These are:
M. 8. Hasan
Ale* Mai
H M. Mn ■
I . J. Mtsutleid
, O. Harrell
Lem HlogleU
U. L. Bulloch
W. II. MeUraw
J. W. Copeland
K. rt. Heeih
0. C.ahelley
<J. W. Niiuo
1. D. Lewis
M. Pops.
F. m. McKinnon
I), w. Morphy, Jr.
T. K. Hnctnlneou
C. A. Boatwright
J. H. Vann
J. 34. Hiptumm
W. it. Bwllley
W.T. Wooltolk
t’ Formter
1. .Smith
Those who wl’l serve during the sec
ond week are,
BuMle
NORTH GEORGIA LADY
PASSED AWAY HERE
Tuesday at „ noon, Mra. James T.
etc. In case the gentlemen go, they
will be accompanied by several ladles
who will also play.
PARALYSIS STRIKES
"BEPPO” SHACKLEFORD
Mr, H. K..Shackleford, was recently
stricken with paralysis in Bainbridge,
and la wriontly ill, In that town, though
his condition wa, somewhat Improved
last night. Mr. Shackleford ia the fath
er of Mra A. W. Stuart of this olty,
and formerly resided here. He ia one-{,"-{
of the meat interesting characters, who
ever claimed this city .for a borne. He
ia a prolific writer of boys stories, and
lias been taming them out at the rate of
two a weak, for many yeara. Hla novels
ineluda the “Work and Win” “Liberty
Boys of ’76“ aud other aeries, and' are
very popular with the youth of the land,
every where,’ During a recent residence
in Hew York -Mr. Shackleford wee a
regular contributor to the Timee-Eoter-
prise, nnder the pen name of ‘ Beppo.”
Hta spicy letters were a feature of this
paper. He ia a man of genial character
and ia most plrausutlr remembered by
Thomasville people, who hope to hear
of bis early and complete restoration to
health.
no Naval scrap
YET REPORTED
New York, April 11.—No mention of
Riclia d<on pasted away at her home on the expected naval battle betweeu 'the
Jefferson street in thla cl'y. Her re- Russian and Japanese Yl-eta, ismade in
mains were shipped at 4:30 to her for
mal home in Dalton.Ga. Mrs. Richard*
son wa*46 years of age. She had lived
ln Thomasville bnt a few mouths, but
during that abort lima many had learn
ed to loro har. Her sorrowing husband
accompanied her body home. He was : nothing lueaiab.iali the aniheji. ity of
i formerly a preacher of thq North Geor- \ the repurr. It is -whored that the great
giaconference of the Methodist church, j nasal haul.- which the dispatches from
bnt hal not been in active service for the Far Last led the public to expect at
: fevers! years. | any time, since last Saturday, has not
tins evening’s press dispatches. .Certain
papers, have published what purports
to be a special cablegram reporting the
loss of five bitt.esliips by Admiral To
go. The Associated Press has made no
ms ntson of such a battle, and there is
I years. I
*> Mrs, Richardson leaves three children
two boys and a married daughter. Her
mother, daughter and sitter were with
her .when she piwed awa y.
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To Writ* up Thomasville.
Mr. J. C. McBride representing the
G Savannah Press, is in the city. Mr.
' McBride will institute a carrier service,
having hit paper delivered each morn
ing. He wi)i also wnte a apecal article
about the town to appear in an early ia-j riage in Roswell, New Mexico, of Mr.
I Varnedoe M. Heeth to Miss May Rot*,
taken place.
The Haitian and Japanese fleets which
were reported to be close together on
Saturday and again on Snnday have
not jet met.
VARNIE HEETH MARRIES
NEW MEXICO GIRL
News lias reached the city of the mar-
■ueofthe Press.
of that city. Mr. Heeth is a nephew of
Mr. O. H. Young, who ia doing some Tax collector P. S Heeth, and a ion of
railroad building for the Georgia North- the late N. R M. Heeth. He waa rear-
era, hear Albany ia in the city for a few e d in Thomasville, and has many re-
days. lativea and friends among the people of
Mr. J. o. Maguess, formerly with the this city. For the last* five years, he
O. H. & D. railroad, and well known in has lived in Savannah and other cities
this territory, is now with the J. L* aud itas only recently gone west. The
Phillips Lumber Co., in this city. marriage took place on March Mod.
P*
The ceremony waa performed by Rev.
The Report Lacks Particulars and is
Only Half Credited,
Amsterdam, Holland, April IS.—Ac.
carding to a telegram from Batavia,
JaTa, a naval fight ia now ln progress
near Anambas Islands, east of Malay
Peninsula. Fire Dutch warships are
n ear the scene.
St. Petersburg, April 12.--The Adrnir-
a lty has no information of a laval bat
tie off Anambas Ialand and does not
credit the responsibility of a general
n aval battle, yet. The officials concede
however, that the Japanese may have
attem pted a torpedo boat attack on the
Rcssian convoy during the night
New York, April 12.—An American
dispatch from London, based on i dis
patch from Toklo, says: “It is guarded,
ly admitted there that Togo has com'
pleted a battle organization of hia fleet
Into a flying main and reserve squadron
The flying squadron, made np of the
fastest erntsers, is already iconring the
China Sea anJ will open the fighting
with the Russian fleet.
MITCHELL IS LEADER
IN REFORM PARTY
According to Hon. Joe Hill Hall, Hon
Fondren M’itchell of this oonnty ia one
of the leaden In an element which la to
settle upon a candidate for governor, to
whom united support shall be given,
The Atlanta News quotes Mr. Hall aa
follows.
“Whan are yon going to annonnoe
for governor,” Mr. Hall waa asked this
morning.
“I dori't know,” he replied. “I will
tell yon; I don't know whether I am
to be an mended at all or noL It ia like
this. Whon the legislature meets here
in Jane we are to have a conference of
the leaden, of the element for which I
•tend and for which they stand, and [a
candidate will be announced for gover
nor as a member of that element. Un
til that time nothing will be done.”
“Who are the leaden referred to?”
he was asked.
“Why, yon know’em,” he replied:
•'voq'vo seen how we linod up on all
the important questions before the
house. I’ll tell yon who they are: John
W. Akin, of Bartow: Emerson George,
of Morgan; FondrenMitchell, of Thom
as; L. H. O. Martin, of Elbert; Mur-
phey Candler, of DeKalb; Knight,"jot
Berrien; and Seaborn Wright, of Floyd;
Hooiier Alexander, of DeKalb: T. S.
Felder, of Hibb, and nthen,”
BULLET FLATTENED
ON NEGRO’S SKULL
The olu saving that a negro’s skull Is
harder than a bullet is forcibly illustrat
ed in Tbomaavilie by John Henry Pon
der. There was a big celebration at
Vicar's Hall, near the edge of town, on
Monday night,, Along towards midnight
trouble arose, and a shooting scrape en
sued. The man behind the gnn waa a
16 year old negro named Carey Wil
liams. He let fly with hia 88, straight
at Ponder'a head. Pindei received the
ballet back of hia ear. It glanced
off followed around the conton of his
head Jest nnder hla skin, and came
out over hia nose.’ The woond Is a
alight one, and Ponder ia pondering
over the blessings of a thick aknll.
Another bullet stopper was Jim Mo-
Quien v ho got one in the arm. Wil
liams has not yet been arrested, bat
the re is a warrant out for him, and lie
will soon decorate the interior of the
Bastile.
J. F. Monk and T. E. Williams were
down from Moultrie yesterday.
A party of young people drove oat to George Henson rector of St. Aothonys.
I Eason farm for a dance Wednesday Mr. and Mrs. Heeih will reside in Bo.-
Urs. Artie Stewart went over to Bain
bridge yesterday atternooo.
the Eason f
bight. IgY
A. Simon the Mouticello meichant
waa in town Wednesday.
THE DAUGHTERS PLAN
\ FOR MEMORIAL DAY
John B. Gordon chapter, Daughters
of the Confederacy held an Important
meeting at the pnblie library (Tuesday
afternoon and perfected their plana for
Memorial Day. The orator of the oc
casion will beJCapt. Tip Harrison, of
Atlanta. Capl. Harrison will bo enter
tained by fils friend, Oapt. W. M. Ham
mond, daring his stay here.
Hts speech will be delivered at
Thompson’s Opera Honse at 11 a. m. He
will be / introduced by Oapt. Ham
mond. The master of ceremonies will
be Oapt. C. P. Han sell, commander of
the W. I” Mitchell [camp, U. O. V.
All the members of the camp and every
old toldier in the connty is expected to
bo present. The Odd Fellowe of the
Southern Judicial circuit will be in sea-
slon here on that day and they will Join
in appropriate celebration of the ocea-
•ion. Bev. Ed. F. Cook will represent
them on the program, and will give a
prayer. Special mnsic will be furnished
and the ringing song of which Capt,
Harrison is the author “We are
Old-time Confelerates,” will be a feat
ure.
Immediately upon the oonolnalon of
the exercises, the veterans will march in
a body totbeeonrt honse. Here they
will be the gucsts of the business men
of Thomasville, at a dinner, served by
the Daughters of the Confederacy. A
splendid list of eatables bat already been
provided. The anneal dinner is one of
the moit enjoyable features of the day.
In tba afternoon the cemetery will
be visited and the graves of the soldier
dead decorated. There are 118 soldiers'
graves lu the new cemetery, and 21, in
tbeold.On each of these will be plaoed a
wreath faahioued by loving hands. The
appointment yiFtxrmmlttees to decorate
'the graves and’the confederate monu
ment on Broad street, will be announc
ed later.
HOTEL SITE MAY BE
IN COUNTRY CLUB
The stockholders of the Glen Arren
Land Company he'd an important
meeting here Tue*(l»y morning. The
land compauy in tha curjMjiHtlon which
own* die land occupied by the Country
club. Its stockholders include amou»;
their number, the most prominent of
Thomasvillo’s winter visitors, and men
who piaj' ltadii-g p*rts in the affairs of
the nation. Tne majoriiy of the stock
wan represented either by ihe ktockhol*
ors in person, or by proxy. The meet*
ing voted to give the hoard of directors
power to lease or sell, a p-irt of the com
pany's property.
This action has an important bearing
on the proposed quarter million dollar
touiist hotel. It teemed to be the sen*
tim-nt of those present that the hotel
might be e:ected within the club
grounds. Io case a hotelm in or com
l*ny wishes to build there they would
prooably be wi.liug to part with suill
bient ground on merely nominal terms.
There is a splendid location jost off Au
gusta Avenue, on a sightly slope, aud
scarcely two miles from the court
house, that has been suggested.
Should the hotel be built there it
would have many attractions. Right
at hand, would be golf links which have
no superior in the sonth, to sfiy nothing
of drives, shooting traps, tennis courts,
aud equipment of the best for oat door
sport of every kind. Such attractions
are a necessary part of the make-up of
every modern hotel, and where they
have to be built they need thoufands of
dollars. The move of the Glen Arven
compauy brings the tourist hotel near*
TALES OF TROUBLE
IN COUNTY COURT
Connty coart was in seaalon all day
Wednesday and many cares were heard.
The calender wae not oompleted and
three more cases are booked for today.
The proceedings docketed Wednesday
are aa followa. Ed Williams, aoensed
of jnisdemeaner by M. E. Berwick,
waived indictment and case will be
heard at May term.
Wash. Smart, prosecuted for gamb
ling by Depaty Sheriff J31ngletsry had
his oase continued by agreement.
Marise Frazier’s misdemeanor caae
ended in a plea of guilty and he was
fined |10-and costa. Howard Daniels,
aoensed by J. V. Snow of asaanlt and
baitery, had the first demsnd allowed,
the atate announcing not ready.
Wm. Rnshln accused by John Wade
of pointing a pistol and asaanlt and bat
tery demanded lndlotment on both
Wollin, Ed Plowers, and Wal
ter fiobinson, accused of gambling, all
plead guilty and ware fined f lOandoosts
apiece, or fi months on the gang,
John Wilson aoensed of ssssult and
baitery on the person of Scip Williams
was found guilty and fined tSO or five
months, / >
Tom Banks and Dave Moore aoensed
of gambling had theiir cases ebritlnaed
to nsxt term. Henty M. Leod,aoensed
of the same, demanded indictment.
The oase of Robert EeU. misdemeanor
was continued to May term he having
waived indictment.
Bern Walden, larceny, and Andrew
Williams, pointing a pistol ware both
acquitted.
Mamie MeMnrry, Nets MoMnrry
and Maode Smith, all plead guilty to
keeping a disorderly boose. They were
fined >100 and ooMe each. Upon signi
fying tnelr intention to leave town, the
fine was remitted, and they will go at
onoe.
The eases for today are James Floyd,
Cbarlee Flcyd, and Giles Hnnnlent all
misdemeanors.
Revs. W. A. Zeigler of - Albany, W.
H. Fraser of Macon, and J. L. Irjiri, of
Americas were three prominent I'rt-sby
teru.es who spcnt.most qf,Wednesday,in
town on their way to Boston.
Mr. B, F. McOat.ee of (Tcolid^e, visit
ed town Wednesday.
INDICTMENT DEMANDED
BY ACCUSED FISHERMEN
A number of Thomas county's citi
zens accused of violating the fish law
were in the city Wednesday .(The game-
warden, L. M, Li nano, accuses them of
setting fish traps. All of theui demand-
ed indictment by the grand Jary, and
they ret’inod Ool. 8. G. McLendon aa
ilieir a'tori.ey. They will appear be
fore the grand Jury next week. They
are, Jerome Curry, John Fitzgerald,
Steve Hall, ti. Jones aud Tom Ohsstain.
Three other accusations of trespais made
by the game warden were dismissed, on
account of a mistake in the charge. The
accusations were against Ed Flow eu
R. Moore and Tuner Walden,
Caught One-
The Bainbridge Argus brings the
news that Ben Temple*, one of the es
caped oonviota of a week ago. has Men
captured and returned .to the Deoatnr
county 4 JaiL He ref me* to give any in
formation m to the conne taken by
Neal Bnttoa or Fish, his two compan
ions.
The Jurors-
The following gentlemen of the coun
ty did Jury duty at oonnty court Wed-
day:
J. O. Ragan, T. M. Nesmith. J. W.
Knight, B. T. Gandy. M. T. MoUanens,
J. K. Goodwin, John M. Jones, W. B.
Humble ton, B. F. Cochran. J. A. Ghat-
tain, L. L. Berwick, J. T. Brown.
JUDGE GRIGGS IS HERE
TO ARRANGE NEW STATffll
Ron. Jas. M. Griggs arrived ia tbs
city last night and la the gsestof Mayor
Roddenbery. The Jndgs will go wills a
congenial fishing party to tha . laka to
day and tomorrow. Among the pasty
will be Jndge Roddenbery, Jndge Hip
kins, Mr. J. L. Beverly and severe'
others.
Jndge Griggs visit here is primarily
connected with the establishing of
new weather station in ThinmsTiila.
He is engaged to meet here on Saturday
Mr. A. Zappone. Mr. Zappone: repra-
senta the government, and with Mn
Griggaexpeota to select a site for the
station and make other^ important ar
rangements concerning it.
COMPRESS DIRECTORS
VISIT THOMASVILLE
The Tbomaavilie plant of the MUn
tie Compress Oo.waa’vlstted Wedtoo»d»)
by Ihe president and direotore off t>»
company. These gentlemen are on tlbstj
anneal tom of the ocmpany’a compssa
ses.. Thev started from Savannah an
Monday and will spend the remainder of
the week on the tom. r
In the party were Resident O. 0.
Hanson, Col. W. W. Mafeka'I,' Got A.
B. Lawton and J. W. Barnard bt Savan
nah anil Dr^ Tnmer of Atlanta (They
arrived at * am. from Mrhfgt>merj.
The gentlemen travel in comfort, ao
copying with their secretaries and
stenographers, two private bars of Ihr
Central of Georgia railroad Enrly'&vd-
nesday morning they vidhed the lo«a
compresa.and found every-ing In-good
shape Thelr cara were h’Mi-d-U tht
2:28 s. in. train and they w. ut from'
here to Albany and Dothan.
Fined In Police Court.
At a special session of the Mayor’s
oourt at ten o’clock Wednesday morning
two young white men were fined for
disorderly conduct. A. H. Walker got
S26 and costa and Oscar Lee >16 and
costs.
Rev. H. G. Jones of Boston, wm in
the city on Wednesday.
STILLS WERE SMASHED
BY REVENUE OFFICERS
1 i-IJk
Deputy United Btates Marshal God
win and Internal Keteuue Collect0
Williams have spent the past week I
Mitchell and Thomas counties, raldlui
moonshine alilla anti smashing pgro
They strunk a nest of ’’moonsiitner,
near Pelham and spent several da
there bantiDg np the violators and pi -
ling their atilla ont of buaine’e. 1L.
first they captured waa a ttfty-galb >
copper Hill, tbe outfit being worth ab. '
>400. Tills they smashed to pieces Vi< i
axes while the owner, denying that v
was Ills, stot d by and gave them a. ton
gue-lashing that they will not soon 1« i-
get.
In the ainie neighborly'od they fosm
two twentv-gallon stills inude “f a»*‘
and another twenty-gallon pot atlll. Ii
oachslnatauee Ilieir attention waa at
tracted by the ydora and by the nnm’ier
of empty, auapiaiona-loaking barrels that
were around the premises.
Coming from Mitchell oonnty t<
Thomas, >lie officers fraud two- bin ■
•tills, made of wood with metal lot-
toms. One of them bad a empaoit* ol
>60 gallons and the other abont 20C»al
Iona. There were broken np befor- ih>
eyre of the men who were rappos* i •
own them. Betides the stills, tf,. tf
fleers captured between two and • km
thousand gallons of beer and forty s ai
Iona of whisky, which waa poued sni
upon the ground.
The stills were all located in iau stsi .
placet, near branobes or ln dense v, od>
far from the road.
Has Rented Stark Cottage-
Mrs. E. G. Stoddard of New Haven
Conn., has leased the Stark oottagu on
Crawford street fora term of HUM
years. Tills has been under Mia- Bail*
Stark’s management, a high class yojr •
ing honse for several seasons, at. t Mrs.
Stoddard spent Ihe winter of 1206 liar..
Mist Stark will go abroad this h <„„.y
aud will spend several inoetbs n. _j* *1: -
erland. Mrs. Stoddard will be a ,'* ■
come addition to ThomasviUe’s u
cottage eoh ny.
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