Weekly times enterprise and South Georgia progress. (Thomasville, Ga.) 1905-????, October 19, 1906, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextJ . SOUTH GEORGIA PROGRESS Wwmaavllle Times,'Vot: Vhomuville HOE SMITH IS oL'JX' — .. TIIOMASVHjLE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY OCTOBER 10, 1000. NEW SERIES VOL. XVI. No. 30. Talks to Times* ' prise of Issues of ttieDay,,;^ Ron. Hoke Smith, gbteruor-alect ot Georgia, in la the city. He win appear in Soperlor Court tedap, ip appear la Superior Court , today 1» homeT'^J®0*^-oaent were the del egates to the Ma, nventiou that dominated Mr. Smithy the officers of the Hoke Smflhr club \ ot Thomag county and County , Chairman Rod- denbery. > Mr. Smith will remain In Thornks* —, . , . , ylUe until the Mitchell case Is heard iQ6S6 flTc NOW LCHQBrS Jfl Superior Court. •-V>, TURPENTINE DEAL. {' > : ! SZlUCftil ftV Harwich Bay Blake aad| Vx&tmmn**- ■ $s Time change* all things, and the last few days hare witnessed a de cided change In the standing of the _ . . . ^ , . • ao contesting organisations and schools JMmkk.wd Smlt^hare bought ^j |# ^ by m , ub . P^e,ParkiOa«,0«t. 17.—Messrs. the tarpantlne farm ot Blake Patterson. “' *"• ■ Roy Berwick^' wife otMoM,' 'cello are-visitors hsre this weak. ■gar Moors, a brisk, mason ot Mom tlcello spent Sunday here with E. 8, Orwsne. Ho-played a-vloU* solo a* the Baptist Sunday school that was 0. Dr Hughs* of Montlcsllo and J) L. Puller of Metcalfe were visitors to thh family of Mr'. Green# on Sun day. Marlon Barber of Cairo was hsre Sunday. Dr. Kincaid, who located here sev eral months ago has returned’to Cov ington. Ga., where he will enter busjaews * s. Livingston Berwick, operator at Whlgham, and A. C. Mullins, oper ator here havr .exchanged places. i R. V. Ballard and wife of Tbomas- vllle spent last week at the home of Mrs. Fannie Ballard. Rev. Hines filled his regular monthly appointment at the-Metho dist church Saturday and Sunday. . The appointment at Pierce Chapel hat bean changed 'from the second to the drat Sunday and Saturday be fore In each montbf . ' Geo. Knight, the new section fore man .has recently moved hit family here end they have been gladly wel- - . ZM ■ T. M. Chastain has pnfpMW^ iha building and rertdepbf Jot ^f B?A. Alderman. ,, . , G. W. Stnbbg. went-, to Cairo on business Tuesday. f.t*. hh sc fiber* of the Tlmos-Enterpdlae, When the vote! were countA last 'night at eight o'clock the Y. -M. C. A. headed the list In the voting for the city organisation. For the schools outside of Thomaevtlle Bos ton takes the lead. When the last previous announcement of standing was made the Vashtl Home end the Metcalfe school stood at the top. The arrival ot the splendid piano that la to be given away aroused even greater Intereat than bad hith erto boM evinced In the contest for organizations and secret orders. The piano . I* on exhibition at the store of thsc'Thomasyllle Soda Company on Broad street- and nothing but words of praise have been accorded It by all who have tried It, and these are many. The friends of the Yonag Men’s Christian Association haye been busily at work, in a quiet Hay for the last few days and as a result that organisation now heads the list. The objects of this Institu tion are moot worthy, and, a new piano Is one of Its greatest needs. This being the case It appears that the opportunity tor Its members to seodre It, Is at hand, and they feel Ao. hesitation In pressing tbslr claims "for the piano. The Vsahtl the case of J. B. Mitchell against the Atlantic Coast Line. Mr. UttebeU is suing MraalBk ot a .hand in the enqsMy of tke Coast Line' Mr. Smith la of eounael for the plaintiff. 1 The governor-elect arrived at' ten thirty yeeterda^ meriting, and wpa met at the train by Hon. Fondren Mitchell, who la associated In the case with him. He (pent the morn ing at Mr. Mitchell’s law office go ing over the points In the case. Mr. Smith wee Interviewed yesterday . afternoon at the Mitchell Honae, by a - Tlmes-Enterprlse reporter. The Governor lookos well and happy and "was In good spirit*. He said: “I am very glgd to he In ThomssvUle. 1 have not forgotten the Warm re ception tendered me when I came here as a candidate... Nor am 1 pa- mindful of the fact that Thomma county gave me perhaps the largest percentage ot Ita votes of any coqnty In the state. I shall always have a warm spot ln’my heart for Thomas. "Yon people ahonld^Aartalnly feel ' proud of the fact (hat Col. McLen don was elected railroad commission-, er by such a large majority. Dar ling my campaign I promised the . people that y I would see to It that JriljBrown Was not nominated as his «wa successor in office, lie result speaks tor itself. When asked In regard to the re-, , port that Joe Brown-would resign as -a member of the railroad commit slot when be was Inaugurated as' governor next June, Mr. Smith .said that he preferred not to make a statement "I do not know what Mr. BroWn will do) ’ I will" decide what I will do when - the ' time comes.” When shown a copy of the Tlmi - Enterprise which commented updn the recent Card of W. H. Fleming in . Smith said; ■ * - .V ohutch this week. “What little attention I Intend -tit pay to Mr. Fleming I paid him' ltj last Sunday morning's Jcpirnal. Mri Fleming knew, he was iffittUg somru thing unqualifiedly false' ‘when ho aald that my-agltattog the dftj franchlsement question vras thd cause pf- the recent'ietoedtoturbaiif ces.” I , , f*-T "But what Is' the uso a^Hiay fighting over tkto qoadjfon ^ageln' #) far as the ,Democratic .party concerned iti/ie' h|^Jei>’^itt, heei fought nud won. -The De'ppt-in party, the >ple,of G-vretaChn'i' endorsed dlsfranchlaement tmlerm* that cannot be mistaken. "The fact la there wonld never have been any fight pn the Issue at all If a certain class of weak poli ticians had not aean that they could not meet me on other questions In the recent campaign, and thought . they conld scare a large number of the ignorant white voter* of the state Into voting against me. “But as I said this battle has been fonght and Won, and I do not doubt that a law will be passed la Georgia similar to the Alabama law, sad I shall do everythin* In' my power to Mr. Slick of Georgia politics. That’ ton baa had warm support and now see that this la done.” J"*'", J - k Last night Mr. Smith wap enter tained at dinner by Col. 8. O.' Mc Lendon, at the Utter’*'- suburban ,r • .",n H,.v r >»•> ft' ELLABELLE BIST. ESTABLISHED Election for Jristlce of the Deace on Oct. 27. Other News. J. L. RehbCrg Is teaching a Sing- regard to the ‘race' question MrJ lug school -at-' little Ocblockonce Ith said: - * m it I church this week. Messrs. J. M. and'R. C. Bond of .this ffi^htjgrttpodare makjtt'.prcp- aratldds ho MoW to ColdmbUS, j Mrs. J. Stanaland is suffering from fzms&ssm-* 'at Thomasrllle this.week. D. H. Parker Is attending thf Bap- tlst Association at' Qulttnan this Wr. v:,- r. %h\. The public roads In the upper-part of,tJUs. dlatrlct are In'U vcrp.bad tort- dltlon. Some piece* ere almost im passable. Some ot the'citizens eay that If they -are. not soon worked the road taxes will be hara to collect > ,-j,, . ,- . • next year. At last’ the EUabelle district has been established and the J7th of Oc tober la the day tor the election ■ of officers. D. H. Parker, Jr., la- a eas- dldatc for the office gt Justice of the peace and the support of the vptere will be greatly appreciated. J. £. Hancock la here at the bed side of his sister, Mrs. J. Staaslsnd. r TEY.W.C.A., BOSTON SCHOOL In Contest For Piano and Library. In the new Ridgeway’s magazine hundreds of votes have been cast fob It this week, end It 1* only a tew votee behind the leader. The Mt 1 sonic order, the father of ell frater nal societies has moved up at one bound from last'place to third. -The lake with a good addition to thelr , , ,, i.^- t^tal com* fourth, and a.new entry Id the Woodmen pf the WdMft . •• , 1 This Is the way the vofe standi: ’ t ■ . ' ’ V. M.-0.-A- •• •1,470 Vashtl Homo ,,,. . .. ,,f.t 2,350 Masons . . :. . . ; \ ... 1,200 Elks --*y'^/..|,y;JW0 (Jdd Fellows'.. . ;v :.. !\y - <00 k. ot p.'. j. ... .. - ,-.lfto' Woodmen , MOO Just ms much Interest-la being,dis played In. the ".contest'for the mqst popular school outside, of.Thptnas- ville, in, Thppibs county., Tho 'peo ple of the county, are, and always have been much Interested In edit- They realize that the com mon school I* the basis of the whole ed^datlolUd strUcfurCr and' that any thing for the bette'rment of these schools shoould.be hasrtfly seconded They realise Also that-nothing„can better aerve the needs of the schools thin such a library as the Time#-' Enterprise proposes to give. There Is no gem* of chance about this mat ter. The library will go to that sec tion of the county whose residents display tha most Interest In their school. It Is a plain business prop osition, the voting costs nothing, so' there pan be no hard feelings by those sections that do not come first, and the Interest Is accordingly llre- >/• Th* Metcalfis school, which stood TOWN BURNED . BY NEGROES Senaca, S. C„ In Ashes as Result of Race Troubles. .. Atlanta, Ga., Oct, 17.—A special to th* Journal says that Seneca, S. 0., Is In ashes as the result of race troubles. Tha work Is generally be lieved to be that of negroes seeking revenge for the dynamiting of a ne gro cottage last Friday night. The fire; Which-started In the basement of e hotel, was soon beyond control No fire apparatus was available and dysamite .mite used. The fire we# controlled■ at'4,o’clock tbla mornlnd after raging three hours. Bnt few hontes are left and the entire bus iness section Is burned. No af reets have been made, and all was quint this morning, although the negro** still show some feeling. The Iom by the fire Is |150,000, with $50,400 Insurance. INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS. Wlmt In Doing In Georgia Alabama. Columbus, Ga., Oct. If.—Tha Georgia and Alabama Industrial In dex says In Its regular weekly Is sue “The great Industrial activity In Georgia and Alabama la Illustrated In advance report* to The Index showing that dni$ng the past week applications for Incorporation were made In the two states by twenty-five compqjjUi and tor qgptndments to . FHJtarterel. Houie, which was formerly at thg ^ t0 i Bcreu8 their capital stocks, head of th* list Is now ( second, bat representing ,'a. total of $1,023,000. This Includes s water po4er develop ment company with a' capital itock of $1,000,000 but does not Include the Incorporation of a railroad com pany. previously referred to, with a minimum oSpHal itock of $1,000,- 800. Of the twenty-five companies nineteen will engage In lnduatrial en terprises. ‘ • Among other things The Index Announces s wktsr-power plant and cotton mlirat Ragland, Ala., broom factory, Waycroas, Ga., manufactur ing neval stores company, Macon Ga., planing mill, Dothaij, Ala., ean- tnlt.g’ foctory, Columbus, Ga., fer User plant, Clayton, 'Ala., nine saw mills, two banks,, two steam laun dries, telephone Hue, two apartment ponses, - two auditoriums and arm ories, five hotels. Including a $250,- 000 hotel «!i Mobile, Ale.,’ $60,000 hotel Improvements at Brunaklck, Oa„ five railway, depots, two bridges,, church, $35,000 tbeatrf at Gadsden, Ala., three warehouses, live business buildings, Including a tdn-story ot- die building at Augusta, Ga., pav ing plana In four cities, sewer plans In two cities and' five- contracts awarded." < v Quitman has come to this city and Will establish a new bottling plant In Thomasvllle. The style of the con cern will be the Crown Bottling Works and will be conducted by Jos. Alderman & Co. Mr. Alderman says that the machinery has been ordered: and the plant will be opened about the-first of January. LEGISLATE FOR NEGRO. Hardy 8ays That is Solution of Race Problem and Cites Indians. > .. (By Wilson M. Hardy.) “There’s never a rose but has ita thorn, but oh how sweet the roses are.” Many and many is the time I get homesick for the pine laden winds of Thomaivllle, and th* mel lowness of a South Georgia sun. Bnt when I read the letter of Brother Bealer, telling of how be got up on “Bike Monday” and found lt rain ing. I am able to mitigate my lone liness with at least a word of thanks giving that It Is not multiplied by ‘‘Bins Mondays.” It has not rained in Phoenix tor six weeks, and the sun has shone every day with a brilliance that drives me to dark glasses. Yon don’t, get the sun In thle desert re gion sifted through an Indian sum mer. It comes down to you straight from the milky way, and If you want lt sifted you are put to man ufacturing your owu siftings. If lt were not for the street sprinklers we would have to wear coiton In our noses. Here, where the heavens cannot be depended on tori any assistance in the watering line, the water cart does not operate only between‘“the monument and the Masury,” as It were. Every resident street In town Is "salted down” twice a day, and the business streets get a dose every few minutes. Out In the country, on roa3| that are not Improved your buggy will some times go up to It’s hubs In tbe ac cumulated dust ot months. p ana tor *«*namenu to ..There are very tow Georgian* the preebytery wsa carried over «n- by two asking to he permit- 14 this country. Generally speaking y, the lprlng‘meeting. It Is pro- ...It.l e»A*i.. Hnnroinna nm f»nntnntnrl to ffitnV at ‘ ■ Pay up and votal You are going to pay sometime ao wpy not now? Jos; phi describes Tom Hudson,, the first at the formed count has dropped commissioner of agriculture' as the back to second. The school at B6s- place seem* to have a tendency tp stands first with, an tvan thousand mak* tlfscn that vsuy w RO one ever, votes, but Meteelfe b not far-behind, accused Unde Obe.fitsvena of bf. Ochleekouee comes tfafrd, and a new tag.* heavy walker. t ^ j j but active entry, Fredpnl* Is fourth. r>*T 'Hit'll Meigs and Psvo f* the other schools being voted for, and each bat re ceived additions to Ita sum total. Still otbsr schools are interested In the matter and will be (acton In tbe race during tbe weeki to come. The detailed standing Is as fol- Boston .'.. . ... .): 1,000 Metcalfe ... ... - 900 Ochlockonee .......... 475 Fredonla .". 400 Meigs »75 Pavo 280 Mr. Joe.' Alderman formerly ot Georgians are contented to stay at home. But the few of ns. who are onexlletn Arizona,have simply turn ed the drift of the conversation when reference has been .made to the riot in Atlanta. People- who have not Uyed .among ni are as utterly unable to' understand our negro problem as we arc to help the condition of the laboring man In Australia. They loook upon the killing of a dozen negroes In Atlanta In exactly th* same light a* we regard the massa cre Of ten thousand Jews In Arme nia.. They have never been brought to the horrible degradation of hav ing a wife, a sister, a friend as sailed by brutes of human form, either white or black. They have never, been aroused to tbe pitch ot frenzy, and they know not to what axtent a. man may be Justifiable of bis deed*. But Georgians abroad, as do some Georgians at home, deplore tbe riot that has disgraced the name of tbe commonwealth, and commend the apparent effort of this powers to pre vent It. The Atlanta mob, wltb all ita ktlltag, caught not one of .the guilts - negroes . It la madness of this,kind, that the crtmnlal wel come*. He escapes In the cloud that he himself stirs up, It will take Gebrgia several month* to re- cover ffom the-materiel lot* tbat entails upon that carnival of law lessness,. but It will take many year* for her to recover from th* stain and the stain upon the moral life of tbe rioters themselves, snd the contempt that descends upon our laws. * Th* suggestion of the Times-En terprise that negroes be debarred from drinking 1 liquor Is an emin ently wfee on*, and th* experience ot the' government Itself bears out the practical .possibilities of thf plan. 8nch a law Is making thousands of Indians In Arizona to 6* far better citizens than are the majority of negroes. And-the In dian Is not on* generation removed from savagery, while Die Southern negro has been subjected to the dr ill ting influence of whit* man for twd’hundred years. In his original ■tat* th* American Indian was almost as low a savag* as th* African n*- 9°w than Is'it-that a savage, not PRESBYTERY JCT10NS Churchmen of This Hear College. After a qute^and uneventful ses sion at Eastman, Mason Presbytery has adjourned and th* visitors re turn sd <0 their hornet yesterday. Rev. B. L. McCarty, pastor of th* local ehnrch cam* home yesterday morals*. Mr. I. C. Hunt, the ether delegate from Thomeatill* went on to Atlanta and to expected home to day. Owing to the feet ihst Eastman • oa th* bardOr of the Presby tery’s territory, tbd attendance waa ■mall, sad most ef th* Important Mffiaese wad tarried over to th* spring meeting, which tfW be held. In Columbus next April. Rev. J. WL Quarterman of Dawoon acted as moderator, and Rev. O. T. Bourn* wal elected as stated dark to succeed. Rev. W H. Frailer wbo ha* gone to South Carolina. D. N. Mc Laughlin, D. D. baa come to th* Presbytery fr0m Alabama, and to In tbe Tatn^ll square pulpit vacated at Macon by Mr. Frasier. - Th* report op Young’s Female College was presented by Elder I. C. Hunt It showed th* college to bo In a most flourishing condition, and with brightest prospects Th* re-, port was received with th* usual enthusiasm. The question ot the division of S otod that proposition to cat the' rrltory in half, to dead. Th* general assembly ‘ sent down tor action the articles of agreement, bnt. owing to the smell attendance discussion of them was carrtod over until next meeting. Macon Pres bytery had asked the assembly to let ~ this matter drop, but their recom mendation waa not needed. The ar ticle* do not contemplate a consoli dation or union, of all Presbyterian bodies but propose a federation wltb a council of representatives fromVll ’ the Presbyterian bodies in the, country, to' decide questions ot *7 church government. * yet enough removed from savagery to speak the language of civilization : to a more law abiding, If not a more : highly civilised being than, the black man of more than a century’s train ing? It to (Imply find solely because the Indian to protected from the de moralizing influence ot liquor and’ the negro to left a prey to lt» as to tbe Chinaman to his opium, * A United Statee statute that to moet rigidly enforced, (orbldk not only thh sale, of Intoxicating llqhors to red men, but -forbids with equal force the giving Of lt to them. There to remarkably little crime committed by Indians In Arlxopp, bnt .when one of them does go wrong the se cret 1s almost Invariably burled In the redness of “fire water" that bee been smuggled to him. If, then thb public weal Justifies the curtailing of the rights of the Indian to the extent of depriving him of liquor, why conld not the seme principal he carried farther end applied to th* negro? Compare th* condition ot tho,negro in Thom- asrill*, where he to at least re strained In hto desire to obtain whto- kay, with hto condition In Atlanta - where he has bean allowed to swill to hto-tMnt’a content In tho -de bauching view of ohaceoo pictures. Forbid tho wiling or giving of, every form of Intoxicating liquor to th# nsgrd and w# have at toast bo- «un the solving ot-th* tkagro prob lem, a probltm that so tar treat being solved by our wiseacre friends in tha north, ha* grown continual ly won*. « rnmm

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Weekly times enterprise and South Georgia progress. (Thomasville, Ga.) 1905-????, October 19, 1906, Image 1