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THOplASVILLE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MAY 5 1005
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New Series, Vol XV—No. 18
NMCNT WILL PERMIT {AUTOMAh^,,,^- «*0ARD
lEW v P0ST0FFICE BUILDING. FOUTELEPHjttjiE'fcJkiwANGE
gSnirui Decision and Strue-
WIU Ba Built at Once-
tur>.
jUa.ta.to have its ntyr p-st-
I buiUtng,sfter all. Several dits -
George O^j
dent of the
1 and appropriations jrat his teto
t project. He said that he wonltl
t consider anything else than the rs-
r the present oorder site.
1 action brought forth a vigorous
I from Postmaster Dismnkt who
set his heart, on a new two story
nsxt to the present site and
[ on Jackson. Ho had dreamsd Lnew board will lighten the labor* of
> often of that atoade its tiled floor,
i modern fixtures to give np without
la draggle. So well did he plead his
| cause, seconded by the able efforts of Mr.
I Snodgrass who is to own the new bnild*
I ing, that Mr. Wood ravened Ms decis
ion. Ho yesterday wrote Mr. Dismnko
to go ahtad on the new site, and there
will he no hitch in the proceeding*. The
new building will soon be a reality.
TEACHER'S COMMITTEE
. TELLS rfF SITUATION
4By H. W. Hopkins.)
To the Public:
While it is the desire of the Board of
Education ti give preference to a large
majority of tbe teachers now employed
. ia the publto schools, in the Jevenl they
Great improvement Promised
Thomesvllle'e Hells 8yetem
There are great Improvements in store
for ThomasviUe'a telephone system,
and tbe people are-promised a service
thst will bo suunXmu pone. The prln
cipal alteration wfU bo the installation
of an antomatic switch board. This will
do away with the ringing'jot the belt.
All that will have to be doue nader tbe
new order of thlogs is to remove the re
ceiver from the hook and yon will be
greeted by the pleasant hello of (lie cen
tral operator. This will save muoh
time and llbor for each individual', The
f*jie
girls In the central office, and .will on*.
Me them to gnawer much more prompt*
Iv, as it does away with a great deal of
tbe meohaq'jfsl work of making conneo-
tiona,, manipulating oordt, and the like
The now hoard ia now being built, at
a cost of several thousand dollar* in the
shops
An oil
oentlr to map the town and the Improve'
tnenti will be mqde before the rammer
U over. Ooe result will be the eularg
ing of the offloe, and its removal to oom
modio
e making
overt!
FINNY THOUSANDS
' SEINED BY SPORTSMEN
Sho
phone
ery n
eqnipl
the examinations require
should they see lit to do-
wish to assure the ctttxena
an attend the school and
mousy support it that tharf wilt
matortaUrom Watch to as-
t farther "hotloe than a Male,
tnentinthejlo'wlpaper we have el-
ready twelve applications on Die by
ling to tart 'the
KAPI
The seining of Shelton’s pond Toes-
day was conrammated In all its abond
ance. Hot deterred by a steady down
poor of rain, the eothnsiaata bled them-
aelves from every quarter for a look at
tbe fnu. At leaat one party of piscator
ial artists braved the terrors of the
twenty mile drive by night. They an
free to aoknowlege that they spent the
night "out." -
The seine, furnished by the redoubt
able O H Carter of Pidcook, was S50
feet long. It reached almoet across the
lake and waa a task for forty men' to
poll.
At one haul there ware two thousand
fish brought in. The total catch
waa generally estimated to be about five
thousand. Ineluding negroes, there
were more than a hundred people pres,
ant, and an honr after dinner yon could
haidly have found a minnow left on the
£ank. What they didn’t kill at the din
company.,| *er they oaptured and took home with
i here re*
Among the leaders in the fan were
Mr W I Maointyre, Frank and Mltoh
Jones, Oapt 0 P Hansell, E B Whaley,
GD Williams, W W Linton, Harry
Linton, Artie Smart, Guy Youngblood,
Thayer Orovatt, Oscar Groover, Will
Proctor, Boh Pollard, Paul McGee, W
Hopkins, 0 W Winters, H H Vann,
Tom Vann, 8M WoUf, Theo Titus,
Tom Jooss, J M end F O Jones, Lem
Ooehkan, W H and T 0 Mitchell, Em,
met Mitohsll, Lathrop, James. Mitchell
Bosh, Walter Hammond, Dr Alnaworth,
Jim Pillion end others
MEIGS TO HAVE
HAVE
«EW
LIGHT PLANT
The Week's News as Chronloled by
by Professor Searcy
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Bespcss attended
the Bespest—Parham reception in
Thomasville a«jw days since.
I am sorry td See tbe friction in the
Publlo Schools of Thomasville. I am
raising a daughter for a place in that
excellent systaiqaad hope to see thifags
easy going before many days.
This has been 5 * bed season for having
school. The assure cold, lagrippe, me*'
•let, mumps, whooping oongh and other
diseases have, played havoo with attend.
ALLEGED ASSASSIN
LODGED IN JAIL.
BQSTON Will GET
GEORGIA NORTHERN. 1
Negro Boy Charged With Attempt On *T > ' .. w-
Mra. Parker’* Ufa- I Think* Judge Jordan. Other News of, "
the Week'fjromtho Hub.
| Stephens and Alva Ben
Hatohings and Mr.
r attended the Bap
fcnrday and Sunday at
V?-'
Golding, y*
est tele-
sarly sv-
iiroso is
the mod.
rved and
IAPTER
The
f raten
Toesdi
pa Alpha
rlile met
Edward
Eke r*4#Hi#Sa0 TNbUt Eft been
given aathoriiv to advertise move ex.
tenslvely if nscosaary. This ba* oot
bow done herstofors, preferng to give
whoso work hss been satis!aclory. The
change of teachers in 41 gradsd school is
of decided tv less detriment thun in
t others whore (lie same teacher inatract*
hosami ph i mii yi»r. ti
jrith few except Ions, the children have
a nkw ini tractor each year and tbe
teachen have now popils brought abou
by the advancement of the children
(ram lower to higher grades.
I H.W. Hopkins,
Chairman Committee cn liulm.
Jerger on Xtotohox street and organised
an alumni cliapter of ths order -Kappa
.AlfiJtttfofcuftbs leading college socle-
Mad in
it^as
chapters in all .of tho sou thard colleges,
Susina News Items.
(By S. M. Beach.)
Oapt. B. P. Does, Dr. W. B. Ooohran,
and Sqnlre Bibb of Tliomaaville,
at the Lake lest Tuesday.
Fifteen balsa of.ootton wen
by has* last Thursday id ths Cairo mar
ket. This eraa.part of tbs outran -held
Ly the late Dir.-%.»! Bdtfgjwi^ftomw^.,. t - -j™,—
the 1P03 crop. Tha prloe paid was *i*f"U ,h >»- “
Misses H<
nett, Bev. O.
Haywood
list meeting
Cairo.
Uisaos Lina preeu and Emma Peart
Taylor of, Pattern, were the guests of
Mrs. E. E Wliras 8unday.
Mr Lyourgtil C. Hairs and wife of
ThomasvUle, pare visitors hare Sunday
the guests of tho family of Mr. J, T.
this place, will be
“'lie for the next
braue. .
I. G. Battle ware rial
lee Sunday,
of Camilla, was hut
Sunday, tfr. Dixon has a farm near
here and oomei down occasionally |jatt
to see the oom grow.
LOST—One set of pale brown lAna-
taehe. Last teen straggling ’about the
month of Diok Bohinsoc. Return to
hit admirers (Or
Mr. G. L. Doran has bean to Thom,
asvilia several days this week attending
hi* mother who Uvea near that, olty and
who la very aiok.
A gentleman waa hare this week by
Invitation. 1 who did some rig- light
Jack Miles, a twenty year old negro
boy, waa jailed Wednesday afternoon,
charged with assault with intent to
murder Mrs. Belle H. Parker. This is
the crime whioh .created snch a tens*,
tion here a few weeks ago. Mrs. Par-
ker is a daughter of Oapt. John B.
Knowlton, plantation superintendent
for Ohas. H. Thorne, a Chicago million
aire whose beautiful country borne
“Wildwood” ia six milts from town. On
the night of Msroh (1st. while Mr*.
Parker was croating a room of the lodge
at ’-Wildwood,” a 88 calibre ballet
oreshed through the window gtau,
whizzed by her head, and buried itzelf
in the walk She fell to the floor, and
this act probably saved her life, aa no
other shot followed. .Wednesday after,
noon's arrest was tbe sequel to the
deed.
Offioers investigated the aoqne and
fonnd tracks where th* would be a*,
sauin had dropped on one knee, a few
feet from the window to take oarefnl
aim. Several people were suspected but
all proved alibis and for a time it looked
as if the murderous attempt would re
main In the realm of mystery. It was
determined to spare no expense
trouble, to And th* man and deteolives
have boon working svar since. Their
Industry and shrewdness his been re
warded by what they olaim Is unmis
takable evidence against Miles.
He was arrested yesterday morning,
oharged with a miner offense, that of
taking Mr. Thoms'* horsss from hi*
bam and riling them at, night. Ha
plead guilty to this and waa Stud
and oosta. ' Hi* fine was immediately
paid, and do sooner wss th* money pat
in Jadge Hansell’* hand!, than th*
sheriff pot him under arrest again, on
tha mare serious oharg*.
is
fraten
J.
John!
WiU 1
ger, Jo
Moore,
soil vs
thevai
tor ma
future,
high re
did on
neljprs
E- B. Jerger, Secy.
southern
K. A.’a
immond
. Parker,
rard Jer-
i, K. 0.
oaororal
-now at
ten plan
iia in the
rill take
ill aplen
in Bon.
ce prat.
THE SOLDIER BOYS
HAD GREAT DAY.'
GUARDS DIDN’T GO
BUT OTHERS DID.
The day in Albany waa a complete
raooem and tboss who braved the
weather enjoyed it. There were nine
teen companies in line. These formed
two provisional regiments one ef which
tree commanded by Lieut.-Col. Hop*.ins
and the'oilier by .Major B L Willy.
The ThoOusrills Guards was the only
company in the entire Fonrt Regiment
not represented. The regimental
officers expressed thsir surprise and
mortification, at ibis failure to appear
in no uncertain termr, and the local
. company is not receiving any compli
m'ents from them,
The rain fell all the morning, bat the
parade wss held notwithstanding.
Governor Terrell and a goodly number
of his famous colonels reviewed tlio
parade. The weather wss clear in the
afternoon, and the Thomasville crowd
had a chan-e to dry out before their re
turn at nine o’clock tonight.
The attendance of Thomaaville people
at Military Day in Albany waa slimmer
than canal. Wednesday morning many
an alarm olock shrilled its warning at
half past Are, bat a glance at tbe skids
caused the awakened sleeper to harrow
his head in the pillow for another nap,
About a dozen of the Thomasville
Gourds were on hand at the Aimoty.
Even to this faithfnl few the prospect
of a tramp throng(i muddy streets did
not appeal, and the company did not go.
Four or five of them went on tlioirown
responsibility however.
Among the ptasongers on the traiu
were Misses Blanton, Olancie Pinson,
Blanche Cairoll, May Hopkins, Daisy
Dekle, Ella Sanford, Loui-e Bottoms.
Messrs. Grover Cochran, Webster Ed
wards, J. B. Reynolds, l-Vaiik Mitchell,
Archie Pittman.
and eleven-sixteen tha.
lire. K. T. Madean and Mias Oynthla
Maclean of Thomaaville, spent
Thursday at the home of Mr. and Mr*.
8. M. Beach.
Mr. F. B. Van Brant and Willi* Rob
ertson went to Cairo l*it;Thurtd*y.
Mr. and Mrs. J L, Polk, Mias** Luoy
OJnm. Lena Mauldin, Hattie Mauldin
and Messrs. Bio hard Pearoa, Goa Poole
and Jamas Sapp, all of Cairo, enjoyed a
flab fry at tbo Lake leal Wednesday.
Mr. W. E. Stanaland and sister Mias
Mamie B tan aland went over to spend
So^ay at Boston.
Mire Graoe Beach came home from
ThonusvlUe last Thursday on tbe aiok
list.
Mr. Willis Qoarterman want
Thomaaville last Friday.
Matter Albert Moller came home last
Friday from Thomasville where he is
going to soliod, to spend Sunday with
horn* fdka.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Culpepper of Boa-
ton, passed through here lest Monday
on thsir way home from Conoord, Fla,
where they hive been visiting.
Mr. D. D. Gwaitoey was one of the
jurors who made Barrow a free men.
Mrs. W. F. Robertion and brother,
Hr. Wash Ban tannin, and Mr. Van
Brant went to Thomasville last Friday.
Mira Mamie Stanaland, who is teach
ing onr school, is detetving of great
praise for the competent manner id
which she is perlormiug her duty.
. «In fact It it .almost, oartain
fre sobn tohave mtn light on
rarest, A gallant will bo pot In
it it hot
that we
th*
and it ii hoped that it will ba extended
throughout tbe town.
Somebody of tbe Boll Telephone Co.
promised us a booth at ths Telephone
offloe here. It would greatly improve
tha servico, and add mnoh to (ho boai
There is muoh dissatisfaction in
the present, arrangement, Th* lnstru
meat is situated in Hie largest business
hone* hare and besides ths noise from
tbe crowds who fraqnont tbe store, one
does not ears to disclose bit business to
everybody in th* plaoe.
Mr. E. M. Singletary went to Ooh
ockonee Sunday.
Farm work np to date has progressed
satisfactorily. Cotton ohopping ia bo-
in^ rapidly poshed and moch’ young
ootton ha* been plowed tha asoond tlm*.
This town is suffering a plagne of Hire
Every lions* has Its share and that is
not a small portion.
Mr. V. E. Walton and others attended
the quarterly conference of the Metho
dist ohnrcli at Oohlookone* Wednesday.
FIRES INTO TRAIN
AND HITS PASSENGER
Visitor to Chautauqua Gets Bullet In
His Lag Wednesday Nlglrt-
Rjv. J. W. Arnold, wife and t
tor, Wessie, spent a day and night ko-
onr city the guests of Dr. H. A. Vann
and family. Mr. Arnold was forma rly
pastorof the Methodist ehnroh at tb.t».
place but is now stationed in Wayeroea,,
Ga. He is note domiciled at WMkfc
Springs, Fla., trying to reoupemt® hit,
health which lias been vory precarious,,
for several months. v
Miss Alma Roberts assisted by Kta*.
Bertie Brown gave an ontertainmank
last Thnrsday evening at lier home nit
Main street to a select party of hag-
friends which was vary wells
Those present; report a most
evening.
A select party of our young folks hkrt,
themselves off one day last week to tiatg
■inks and had a moat delightful pteajta.
In this bevy of yonng man and yoooy;
ladies were th* following: IsHdi
Graver, Murray Molotoeh, nuganq.
Varnede, George Dopson, Sam Forroft,
and Misses Hattie Fambrongb, Luoy-
Molotosh, Marlon MoMnrny, Jan*..
Vann and Alison Wade.
Tbo Chat. King Dramatio Co. will he-.
gin a series of entertainments at th*
Opera House this (Thursday) evening tfe
continue three nlphte.^ Daring ttuic-
engagement they will be the guest* ot
that well known and popnlar hotel,,thte
Roberta House on Main street.
H. M. Myriok and J. W. Alford, tw*
of Boston’s good citizens visited Val
dosta last Sunday returning Monday-
The following quartette of soma q£
Boston's leading citizens visited Albany-
this woeV to attend tho Chautauqua^
Mrs. David Comfort, Misses Julia and.
Luoy Belle Molntosli and J. D. I
tosh.
F. O. Jones of Thomaaville,
Snndsy tiers visiting his brothers, J. 1
-~fAhrj."W.'3r<Snas. t; VJj
The following, namod officials 0
Georgia Northern R. B. Co. ’
last Tuesday to confer with a c
of our leading citizens
men regarding t
our city. Messrs. J. l
cock. Geo. E. Smlt
J. R Hackett. :
can glean we are assured
pletion oyald road into t
Capt.Jfe Way of Mayviewv
yr'Tj
A COUPLE MARRIED
IN ORDINARY’S OFFICE.
Nctftiea the Board-
Mr. C. A. Keith yesterday notified
tbe Board of Education that he did nrt
expect tn apply for s position in the
position in tho public schools unit
year. Mr. Keith is a University of Geor
gia man. a scholar of attainments and
Rev. G. S Whitney came home from
Wuycrcs Wednesday afternoon,
went to ss.f.t ia the dedication of the
beautiful Episcopal church there. He
was accompanied h me by Mr. E. O.
McAllister, traveling secretary of the
Brotherhood of St. Andrew Mr. Mo-
Mr. and Mrs. B. Lubln of Cuthbcrt,
Ga., are too guests of Mr. and Mrs
U. Rosenberg on Monroe street. Mrs.
Lubln is plensuutly remembered here
as Hiss Barron, and she was married
from liar sister's homo last February,
'i'll!- Is lier first visit siuco tlm: time.
Yesterday afternoon the^onrt-house
clique had the pleasure of witnessing a
marriage The scene of romance wns
the office of the-ordinory, where tho huge
safe and dusty law books smiled
ou tlm loving pair. Tho participants
were Mrs. Annie L. Tomlin and Mr
Henry Jones. Boll, are residents of
the Beulah neighborhood, with
Mr, Frank Grinulev, woodsman for
tbe Biggston Lumber Co. at Pelham,
waa shot Wednesday asjhe wa* starting
to leave tho train at Pelham.
A huge crowd waa returning from
th* Albany Ohantanqaa. Among tho
number were a crowd of boys, most of
whom were from Fulham. On* of them
bad a pistol and fired promiscuously
from tbe platform. Train master Bate*
hsppened to be on board. Ho saw the
boy (Ire a shot, and Immediately wont
for oondactor Lewis. When they got’
hook the boy with the pistol w*z stand
ing on the step* of tbe asoond oar from
the rear.
Mr. Lewis asked him his name, and
be stated that it was 8mith and that j i e. this scribe,
he lived at Pelham. Mr Lewis ao.-nsed j Surveyor, A. J,
him of firing his pistol from the train j was in oar oily last Wi
Ho denied it, hot Immediately jumped; log on hi* numerous friends,
off fhe car.. The traiu waa jost palling
into Pelham, and abynt the time' it
had advanced two oar lengths another
shot rang out, and Mr Grimaley oried
that hs was lilt 6
The bullet hole wss found through
the rear door of the la-t
coacli Mr Grlmsley had just start
ed to go out of tills door when lie receiv
ed the liollot io his right leg,after it had
passed through a grip that lie waa cany-
An exchange says, sometl
man oango home and tell as
salt was told to her.
a love story.
An (rid bachelor says, the
catches a' man, never does it 1
nlng after him, bat by i
from him. We don’t believo i
The Atlanta Journal says,
*100,000 whioh de
is to be spent on t
lag in tho expeotaney of somo d
ting oar there of it,” nndso
BIG MELON SEASON
IS EXPECTED
in/.
It in thought fhut the wound i« not
eerioa*. bat otery effort wilt be used to
catch j lie miserable miscreant who did
| the d»*cd A number of women and
friends in Thomas (ouuty, where tl.ceo
fdmiiits prominent. Tho br:u« is a
widow and her husband ajocug farm*
er. Justice of !he Peace, John \V. H.
Mitchell, pc fonmfd the ceremony in
customary felicitous style, and mid
children were in the car, and it wns a
metier of prod fortuao that uone of
them wore hurt.
Mr. who have beVn
has taught ia the high school since ikfct sddreFscd tho meu cf St, Them*
• September . as at the church WaJaoBdny night.
H L, Durkins laid nsile lus police* j couiratolatioua f,om the tua'tabled of- vlhittn^,> 4 ^i^!(^||tghter Mrs. Emmett
mau> club loj;g enougu t > talio in Chau
ntqua Wedncifd/.y
»the rcung jol
dicing.
i went their way
llitcheU ior their home
tu Cylcmf t,;-5i|^rh.
Tno indhnthas are that
county will li tre one ot
melooBiosons in. yeam. Reps
other places wh?re the loseiotn «
melon and the dainty cantelo
| Bliow that the acreage has t
J 35 pgr cent. Bat th?re in a
gtory here. Tha acreage
coirity has been iftcidised a
much. Conditious bo t
tirc’.y favumble and |
luppr oil tho way. Mtloo 1
fruit firms nil over tho country «
hi/-thdr afrjuReWeate to j
here ounng June, Ja
Tij^ ti lo^Jicue and I
u'O mahiup/
l'HMd > thv*
on Wrf* ago* &.>.(!»■