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THOMASVILLE^ GEORGIA, FRIDAY/ EEBRUARY 23, 1906
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CLARK BOWELL
BOOMING
Will Address Voters Court
Week-Hoke May
Come Too.
Missing Man Discovered
After Five Weeks
Search.
A West Coast Railroad
By A. and B. Would be
Great Thing.
E. K. James Is in Jail
After Refunding Part of
Missing Property.
Michigan Governor Talks
of Thomasville and
Topics of the Tim**.
Hon. Clark Howell, editor ot the
Atlanta Constitution, and candidate
tor governor, |s coming to Thomas-
vllle on April sixteenth. He will
address the voters ot Thomas coun
ty at the court house at eleven
o’clock In the morning. Ur. Howell
is the first ot the candidates to make
arrangements to appear here. Hon.
Hoke Smith spoke at Boston last
November and was greeted by a
large and enthusiastic audience.
Many Thomasville people wenCdown
to hear him, hut the majority ot
the voters In this city have not as
yet heard any of the candidates in
person. Like all up-to-date Georgia
cities, thomasville Is much interest
ed in the gubernatorial campaingn
hear one of. the aspirants for the
and will welcome the opportunity to
Hon. Aaron T. Bliss, twice got*
ernor of Michigan, accompanied by
a party of near relatives and a pri
vate physleian, are quartereg at
the Townsend cottage they have
leased for a couple of months, next
to the Elks Home.
The moneyed men of this town
are seriously considering the matter
of putting in an oil mill at this place.
They have e^ay of executing their
decisions at short notice. Should
they decide the matter, work wilt
begin at once. The venture will be
no risky experiment. There are
thousands of acres of fine farming
lands around this place that are now
being placed under cultivation.
Anybody who will take the pains te
test it will find that'they can get
more goods for a dollar here, than
any where else. The trade of the
The party .con
sists of Mrs. Bliss, the ex-governor’s
wife, Dr. and Mrs. L. W. Bliss, and
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Bliss, and Dr.
E. W. Davis. All of them are from'
Saginaw, Mich., with the exception
of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Bliss, who hail
from Oneida,' N. T.
In discussing their visit here the
ex-governor said to a reporter ot
the Tlmes-Entefprlse that he and his
two brothers had \jeen in poor health
and had come 8outh In search of a
climate cure. Having tried Florida
they decided to pome to Thomasville,
and so far have agreed that the ell'
mate conditions are improving from
4»y to day. "Rest and recreation,
freedom from business cares and
quiet are the things we are after,”
said the ex-governor. "Politics do
not bother me now,” he said, smil
ing, “and I do not care to be in
terviewed on thp topics of the day.”
When asked if he was not a be
liever In the doctrine voiced by Col.
Cody or Buffalo Bill, that a man
should not retire from buslneser'but
keep in harness to his dying day,
ES-Governor Bliss declared that he
was of the opinion that it depends
entirely on the man. '“Some peo
ple,” he continued, "would doubt
less be benefited by keeping their
minds active while others require
rest when they have reached a cer
tain age. I feel that I am one of
the latter class,” he said laughing.
It goes without saying that Mr.
Howell will be greeted by^ large
audience. He has many warm sup
porters in Thomas county and'these
will rally around him when ' he
comes. Those who are opposed to
him will turn out too, and give him
a respectful hearing, for that is
Thomas county’s way. All who do
attend will be well repaid for Mr.
Howelf is a speaker of ability
coupled with a very pleasant, person
ality. He has surprised even his
best friends by the showing that
he has made on the stump during
this campaign, and/all his speeches
are filled with that spice and
aggressiveness that makes his audi
tors "sit up and take notice.”
Thomas superior court will be in
session on that day and will be ad
journed early In order to give Mr.
Howell ample time Just before noon,
and during the regular recess, to
present his argument It Js said
that the other candidates may also
come during the April term of
Mr. Hoke Smith’s friends
thslr present line pt Thomasville.
A glance at the map of Florida
wU] demonstrate the fact that there
Irf splCdSid opening for a railroad!
At the pree-
down the west coast
ent time there, is no road whatever
on the west coast comparing with
the Flagler lines on the Bast Coast
This western coast is heavily tim
bered and very fertile. It Is cer
tain that the right of way will be
taken up sooner or later, and the
A. A B. Are in better position to
handle . the connection than other
lines.
It Is a well known fact that the
A. A B. has long desired a direct
line to the Gulf of Mexico, and es
pecially since the Panama oanal be
came a certainty. The Thomasville
extremity of their line is by all odds
the most convenient for this exten
sion.
The "knowing ones” regard the
garbled news item, confusing the
Opelika and St. Andrews Bay prop
osition with the Tampa proposition,
Fall River, Mass., Feb. >0.—After
the steamer Plymouth left Newport
for this city today, officers of the
boat found in a stateroom part of a
woman's wearing apparel and a note
saying that she had thrown three
children overboard and was about
to follow them. The officers turned
the matter over to the police, and,
pending investigation, refuse to give
the names In the note.
Missing Woman Mrs. John Watters,
of Brooklyn.,
Fall River, Mass., Feb. 20.
Pavo, Ga., Feb. 19.—Mr. W. U
Adams of this place has sold to Par
ker A Co., of Tlfton, forty head of
beef cattle from a lot of seventy-five
or a hundred that he has been fat
tening In his field of velvet beans.
The beef brought two and a halt
cents on the hoof f. o, b, Pavo. It
is the largest lot of cattle thaj has
been sold by one man of this sec
tion for some time.
The farmers of this section aro
now hauling their fertiliser and a
train of wagons can be seen comint
and going out nearly all the time.
It is not' believed that there will be
as many watermelons planted here
this year'as heretofore, due to the
fact that the crop last year brought
very unsatisfactory returns, and to
the further fact that cotton is now
a safer money crop.
There 1* still much building going
on here. The Georgia Northern la
building a number of houses near
the depot and will locate a road gang
court
are expecting him then. Judge Rus
sell may drop in at any moment and
commence one of his successful
band-shaking, man-to-man canvass
es. Col. J. H. Estlll has mafiy warm
friends who are urging him to visit
Thomas, and It is said that Col.
James Smith’s private car is headed
this way. If they al) v *aomc Dr.
Nnnnally may come, too. At any
rato the voters of the county will
find food for gubernatorial thought.
-Agent
Bushey, of the Fall River Line, of
this city, says that a woman and
three children were on the steamer
Plymouth when she left New Yorkl
They were missing wbemthe steamer
reached here. 1
The woman Is believed to have
been Mrs. John Watters, of Brook
lyn, 'daughter of Captain Brady, col
lector of the port of Fall River. She
Is said to have been suffering from
mental trouble for some time past.
Among the letters found in the
stateroom was one addressed to John
Watters,
as cleaning nothing less than a fore
warning that Amorous’ and his A.
A B. crowd aye actually moving to
ward their desired west coast line
to Tampa.
Even should this road materialise
It will In no way Interfere with the
road lately conceived among Thomas
ville men from Thomasville to St
Joseph's Bay. It would run south-,
west from here, while the A. A B.
line would run south-east
Cap*. Denham to be General Man
ager of South Georgia Road.
Capt. If, B. Denham, for many
years with the Atlantic Coast Line,
will In future be general manager
of the Georgia, Florida and Alabama
railroad. He will probably make his
headquarters In Bainbrldge. The
news is of great Interest to his rel
atives and friends in Thomasville.
Capt. Denham is pt present first
assistant to the third vice president
of the Coast Line with headquarters
in Wilmington. He was recently
transferred there from Savannah,
where he was general superintendent
of the A. C. L.' and was succeeded
by M. B. Riddle.
170 Broadway, In which
the writer begged forgiveness, say
ing she was worried so much, that
she feared Insanity, and could noO
live, and could not leave her chil
dren. In another letter she wrote
a hurried will, disposing ot various
trinkets. The three children sup-
poeed to have been killed were one
girl eight years old and two young
er boys, one a nursing infant
Positive Identification.
Fall River, Mass., Feb. 90.—
Dwight Brady, brother of the miss
ing woman, has identified the arti
cles found in the stateroom as be
longing to his sister, Mrs. John Wat
ters, of Brooklyn. He''could give
no reason for his sister’s rash act
CROP STATISTICS
Washington. Feb. 10.—The House
Committee on Agriculture today be
gan the general hearing on crop sta
tistics. Among those present were
President J. H. Taylor, ot the Na
tional Glnners* Association, and
many Southern members, of Con
gress, representing the planters of
that sectlpn. .
Assistant / 8ecretary Hayes, of the
Department of Agriculture, gave the
details ot the department’s plans for
gathering Odttpn statistics, and the
changes recently made by the de
partment
TOBACCO SEED
His resignation
will take place on March first The
O. F. A A. is one of the most Im-j
portent new roads in this section.
It is rapidly increasing and building
and will progress wonderfully un
der the experienced management of
Mr. Denham.
Tallahassee, Feb. 1«.—Sheriff
Hopkins made a raid on the viola
tors ot the local option law in this
county, recently, and yesterday the
offenders have been beard before
the county judge. There was a
large crowd ot witnaases'and spec
tators in the court house attending
the commitment trials. Thus far
two of the "blind tiger” operators'
bjvm bee^ bound over to await the
t£jjo of . the grand jury. It Is be-
lleved that the action ot the sheriff
will put a stop to violations of the
local option laws in Leon county for
In this section of Georgia many
people plant’ tobacco seed. Hereto
fore this , as. well as other seeds,
has been sent through the Congress
man from each district. Congress
man Griggs has requested the
Tlmes-Enterprise to inform its read
ers of a change In the method of
distribution. Here after it will be
sent out by the Agricultural De
partment direct. Anyone who wants
seed, can do so by applying to B.-
1 Mobile, Ala., Feb. 20.—Local
- Health Officer Good today said that
t the .reported quarantine against Cu-
. ha and other tropical ports, effective
i March 1, will be a quarantine in
modified form, meaniar detention
1 and inspection. All vessels from
; Havana will be detained at quaran-
: tine long enongh for inspection, tho
time being determined by the health
officer. Through passengers for
Cairo, Ga.. Feb. 19.—W. W.
Pearce, a prominent dtlxen of Gra
dy county, died Wednesday at the
home of Mr. Jim Dees. Mr, Pearce
preachers always hat
on hand, but this
express a w«
had been ill for 8omo time, and his reached here of an attempt to
physicians thought best to perform sinate the President of Colt
an operation, but his weak condition February 10. Eight shots