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AND SOUTH GEORGIA PROGRESS^^
TliomsnrUle Times, Vol XXX.
ThomasvUle Enterprise, Vol. XLVII.
MANY CHANGES
rpiite
Y.M.C.A. Increases lead
and Boston School to
the Front.
As the time shortens the pres
quickens. Tits week Jest
THOM A.SVTLLE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY NOVEMBER 10, 1006.
NEW SERIES' VOL. XVI.
was decidedly the liveliest that the
Times-Eaterprlst voting contest has
yet witnessed. The people teal lie
that the piano and the library irte
to he siren away la she at one more
month, end they want their favor
ites to have these. As « result
many thsiieeedi of -votes hare been
la the tars coanests
ten’s
«n TOun*
Is StlA
and the
i school, alter « week la see-'
i -the Head In the
not tar the Jterary of 200 volumes!
The result an agurse Ho the piano
nontest Is as follows:
T. M.UA MS*
■Vaahfl Home 4.4*1
Sissons 1,0*1
Elks .... w. ..1,811
'Odd Fellows ‘ ... .0*1
ac. at p. ....is*
'Woodmen 10*
The largest rote An- the week
’polled by The T. H. C. A. tkomth 1
-the Vasha Home was a dose eec-
<ond, -each rrocelvlng many hundreds.
.As a -resist the Association has.
- slightly Increased tin lead over the
Sale City people Tell
of Exciting Times
Up There.
Three well known dtlsens of Sale
City were In ThomasvUle .Friday,
and tell n startling story of condit
ions there, sad trouble between the
blncke end' whites. The men did.
net seem to be at aA angry, at the
negroes, but talked la a matter of
fset way about what the white peo
ple of the neighborhood planet to
is
Sato Ctty If a growing eewn Mid
way between Pelham and Meafltrle,
and the center of a black Mlt.'wffaare
tfte negroes outnumber the whites.
The trouble started last tomirday
when Jet Hicks, a negro umnrlct,
lust, released tram The gang, shot
dowe without earning or (excuse,
John Abridge, * prombesnt
-White farmer. .Abridge
Shaft from lkehtnd .-a (screen by
The knltst amtsred hi*
right *90, mad spattered dlls brains
agefamt the wdL The aborting oc
curred In -a tenant house belonging
*» AlnUdge, snfi .'lor men (than an
hoar Site wife nut betide the dead
body iff her lhusband, tuntll help
"Home. The Elks -were neat tbs her -of white non Sunday night, and
largest griners, -an* '.they decreaeed
'thd^dMaese between i them and Che
' "' , "through tbe : latter still se-
thlrd iplace.
The ffimwe* ferJthe sChool contest •* ithte# Two ‘hetag tnde ■ way- wltf,
ow: and any that jit lie reported there
2,450 that "two-more bed been'killed Wed-
ndoy.
Htdhe himself -was captured at
Vienna, -taken tram a iDoOly county
oncer "Thursday, .near :8ile City,
swung -up 'in the -woods, and fils
nten
•show:
Boston ...
Paro .....
Metcalfe .... . . . ™
'Ochlockones ... . ....
Merrillville .
Tredonla .... .... .....
Meigs
'Bummer Min
■Ozell ...: ....
This contest lust-as
-especially interesting.
100
10#
-.this tlme-.li
The three
leaden. Boston, Paro -and Metcalfe
.aretall around the 2,000-mark and
so close that they can be covered by
\ a blanket Boston pound 'Paro this
-week and regain resumed -the lead.
While Metcalfe comp up from fourth
place passing over OdUloekuaee. All
«f these have .received substantial
additions to the vote.
A new entry that starts up In the
race Is Merrill vine, and tbe good
people of that community say that
mare votes are to follow. Tredo-
nis has gone ahead at Meigs, and
another new entry Is Summer HOI.
The Wife at Micks ran known ns
a bad woman, and. mudhedf his evil
nature was -attributed 'to her. She
nans ttokan (from'her fumelby a num-
rlddlel with bullets.
A negro named Woods helped
Micks to escape, and Monday he was
killed. The Utile City people knew
...*4*0
.3445
.... .1,175
.*25
(?s body 'riddled with 'bullets. "The
* my that 'his body 'Is to ks'.burned as
an -object lesson.
As one of them expressed It,
""When -you pay nvnote at the hpnk
jwu -always 'have to pay Interest, too.
Those -diggers killed a good white
-and -they must pay '.Interest.
Three, or maybe live hare already
paid the -penalty. . Two moee were
concerned in the affair, and aha boys
say that they must go too. That
will make seven.”
< ANOTHER ASSAULT.
. Hear Atlanta. Negro lands Victim
With Leather Strap.
Atlanta, On., Nor. 11.—Mrs. J. K.
Camp, wife of a farmer Ifrf ag
mile outside of the city limits, w
bound and asnsnlted by n negro at
, her home today. The negro escaped
1 and has not . JMen found by the
; Armed posse that la in pursuit Two
jj. passersby discovered Mrs. Camp, In
. the yard, some time after the as
sault, bound with n leather strap,
besides being badly beaten,, Her
nearest neighbor lives bait a mile
' distant, and ahe was alone when
the negro appeared. She Is shout
i Jt 5 years old and th# mother of sev-
S r-li
The Lynching.
(Fern Friday’s Budly.-)
At a late hour last night it
reported that Ed. Hick*, the negro;
accused of tbe murder M Mn J. A.
Abridge, a prominent fanner who!
lived about six miles-frees Pelham,
was lynched at Sale City early. In
the night
The Tlmen-Eaterprlae Immediate
ly got in communication with Moul
trie, and Officer Morphy of the po
lice force of that city confirmed dw
report. Mr. Murphy stated that the
negro was lynched early la the
night
The negro was caught at Vienna
yesterday, .and wag carried to Sale
City to ho Identified. During the
day It w*rrumored tjiat a lynching
was threatened, and the governor
was applied to.
Governor Terrell immediately
ordered out the.spmpany of mtUtth
stationed at Moultrie, and Captain
Thad Adams and his men hurried
to the scene. However when they
leached Sale City, the negro had Al
ready been strung up. Late Inst
night CoL V. HI Clark,, of Moultris
ordered n special finin' to Sal# City
to carry the troops back.
BISHOP WARD
WILL PRESIDE
Methodist Conference to
Meet in Valdosta Tins
> Month.
Valdosta, On., Nor. 1*.—The
South Georgia conference will con
vene In this city on Wednesday
morning, November itth, at *
O’clock. Bishop Ward, the Junior
bishop of ths church, presiding.
Bishop Ward was elected by the
general conference at Birmingham
Inst spring and this will be his sec
ond conference, the North Georgia
conference at MUledgevtUe being tbe
.first.
•-5 The’ South Georgia conference has
.two* hundred and twenty minis tars,
and as they have been invited to
bring their wives If they noire to,
many ladles will be has* at that
time. There are alee forty Jay dele
gates and thirty-five or forty church
official! la Ibe variout departments,
who will be here. Then, there will
be many visltera, making A crowd of
about was* hundred wleitors, for
the city to entertain.
Rev. M. A. Morgan, itho pastor of
the church fane, assisted by Dr. A.
M. Williams and some energetic
committees, has been rat work this
week providing homes 'for the dele
gatee to the conference. About
two-thirds of those who are expec
ted has* Oman dialed innh ithe others
will be listed early next week, so
that th* list <nf delegates and their
hoete may :be published.
Tbe South Georgia -conference Is
now nsnrdefi as the -most agsrps-
sive off . Southern Atothodfsm, In
both utitelanaQr mud (Ebriitlan edu
cational aaork. At faulted the other
BIG SALE
COMPLETED
Timber, Lands of Thomas
County Co. Sell
; Jor $157,500. ‘
Negotiations which have been in
progrfli* for somd tithe Were com
pleted yesterday, by theans of which
the timber of »J!b'Thomas County
Lumbal Co. in this section was iibld.
Sixty tkousand dolsrs was paid id
three notes were given for
each, making the purchase
47,600. .The 'purchaser!
Derr, Olln Derr, And Hen-
err lumberman of New York
deal la one of the biggest
led la, Tkemastllle, -th
home of big lumber transactions.
Th* V!mes-Enterprtse gave notice
several mouths ago of tbe purchase
ofsn option by the Messrs Derr,
sad the tfem created much comment
at -tbft time. The original option
sxpifsdtoad mother was taken be
fore th* matter was finally dosed
up, but the last dstails were com
pleted yesterday, and the ^timber It
now the properiy of the New York
lnmtton&a. ' . i. 1 " r -
TUe holdings Include shoot 5,000
acre# of timber warty*ad soathwust
of TfaomuvlUe, th* mills and tram
road of ths Thomas Gouty Lumber
Company., Thu land «ad turpen
tine right* remain the property Of
the- coi#i*my, Th* Messrs Derr ars
In ThoigssssHte. and «ro at the Mit
chell Hoorn They will at once
makq arrangements tor handling the
timber. ■ It'will be shipped to New
Y^JAlVt vUtte 'handled by 1
fromJAat point. Tbe prio* paid
is 1ft the-, neighborhood of *30 per
1 — „
conferenoeu tin tthe smml of money * CTe ’ m tt0ort tar tMbBT ,a
South Georgia, Ibut tbe parch*Seri
raised jaif tthe slumber .of mission
aries supported by .fnUlvlduals and
Individual (Churches. Hev. T. W.
GarbuLt, * prominent .lumberman,
supports .throe -missionaries In the
foreign fhflfl -and -much mther work
of this hind is done by the laymen.
ft-is jpndulbln (Hurt -Bishop Cand
ler will also -attend the conference,
provldel he reaches home from Chi
na. where he has .been holding con
ferences. in rinse;
Tbe church In -wttata -tbs -confer
ence le to be held Is mte -of the new
est and haadaesnest :in -ths (South
Georgia- conference, while the par
sonage, where Hiritop -Ward Is -to be
the guest of Rev. M A. Morgan, is
generally recognized » the hand-
somest in the State.
have completed (arrangements by
moans «ff whttdh 'they can market the
InsOer nt a (pilot) much '.lees per
theusand fast than they have been
paying heretofore.
< Trio Thomas Connty Lumber Co.
composed dT.Mr. .'J. R. Floyd, Mr. W.
U Bowel). Mr. L. C. Edwards of
Thamasvillu, and Mr. Ed Howell Of
Vienna. They have other turpen
tine and -timber Interests In this
■ectten -and -Will -continue -their bus
iness spereflana (hero.
ThomasvUle Agasis Henorefl.
Forty-dve agents of Ike Stai
Mutual Life Insurnsoe Co., of Geor-.
gin mot ,«t Atlanta and formed an
naaoclatlon for the betterment o
the company, the life loenranee 'bus
iness and themselves. Two Thom
tsvttle agents were honored by elec
tion tp office, C. J. Gamble, to one
of .the wlce-preridents and C. M.
Robinson, is s member of th* gov
erning hoard. Menem E. W. Bnsh-
don. end G. B. Reynolds who wpent
several weeks here this summer are
also among the vb+presldents.
BEAL HELL THROUGH.
•as to AseundtpniH oSpnf aaojf puy
-wngaqunmpo »m *oj 8uj
A Wonderful Refrigerator.
In thd yard of Mr. CL S, Parker’*
home on Remington stands s char
red refrigerator,, that passed through
the Are that destroyed the home.
The hardwire'man that sold the re
frigerator says that after .the Hr* a
cake of Ice was fonod unmelted In
the box, though Its outside had been
In flnniee. He wrote, the manu
facturers about thl* wonderful oc
currence and they are advertising
ths, ThomasvUle sldermnn’s refrig
orator nil over the country.
Judge 3. B. Montgomery has filed
suit In MinseogeD county against W.
W. Swift for 2TJ150. Tfae wait
grows oat ed what promised to be
one of tbe fog Umber deals <Jf this
■ectlon.
AcUng as agent 'for the -Swifts
Judge Montgomery sold to J. G.
Patterson at Thomesville the One
tract -of Umber tsnfl near Meigs,
which has been the navy of alf -the
lumbermen of Booth Georgia. The
price paid was $22.6* per acre, sad
ss there are 2,095 acres In the tract
the total amount paid area *47,150.
Mr. Patterson pot np *1400 to bind
the bargain,'bnt when ft came to
dosing the deal the SwHte refused
\ •
to confirm th* sale; The tract has
been reported Is sold' severs times,
but no transaction has been com
pleted and the land still belongs to
he Swifts.
The Judge claim* that hi# con
tract with Mr. Swift gave him a*
-ommlsslon all th* money shore
'.44.0*0 that he could secure for th*
(and. His suit therefore 1" foi
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SOUTHENR MAN IDEE GLASER
SAYSGRIGGS IS IN,
Oar Congressman Favors
John Sharp Williams
For President.
(My James 8. McCarthy.)
. Washington, Nor. 10.—“I am in
iavbr ot nominating John Sharp Wil
liams tor president regardless of the
supposition that a Southern man
cknnot be elected.
“tt is evident although Demo
cratic principles are accepted and
put In force by a Republican admin
istration, the Democratic party as
now organised cannot get. the of
fice.
••After this, I am a Democrat with
a prefix—a Southern Democrat-
one who will advocate the homlfia-
Uon of a candidate for the presi
dency that pleases the Bjuthem
Democrat*. If the Nort* Intend
continuing to punish us for the sins
of our fathers I am In favor Qt-ar-
ccptlng the -verdict now, and net ac
cordingly.”
The above remark* were made ay
Congressman James M. Griegs, of
Georgia, In a review of th* outcome
of last Tuesday's election. Mr.
Orlcc'e statement demonstrates that
landing Democrats are getting tired
of tying up with fuslonists In the
North for th* to** of expediency.
The tread 1» lor an old-time, straight
out fight against th* Republican
With tafia revision as th* Issue.
(Jpou that issue, gad that alone,
hundreds of Domocrate, and Repub
lican* as well, believe that the De
mocracy can bohoree the Republi
can party In the next campaign. It
will be nAVooilwtsd -that all Democ
racy'g victories since th* civil war
have been won on that leeiie. The
presidency was won twice, and the
.(louse of representatives controlled
on a clean cut demand for tariff re
form.
Man Who Killed
Ford Caught Neauv
Iiftoir,
Sheriff T. S. Hlgbt :
up to Titton And brought had
him Be* Gtaaher. Thpa *nf
gro who l« said to ham* jtOM.*
ley Ford, another negria to. re'rifott.
In th# public read ne at Ufflam. km.
wsek.
After the qusrfei thftt rateflteMEnr
Ford’s death OlAthef toMt ft* We
heels, and has been at Iftqan mftft
today. He x wu located Os THtee ter-
s .brother of the dead man ned TWi
offleors there placed Mm eeri-r aw
rest The sheriff weat air to see
Mm yeeterday and, he is i
In the county i*Di. there to.]
until b# tried et thejQntaber l
ot Superior Court
WRITES TO LEGTSDAXOMEL
FLAY HOUSE BURNED DOWN.
Disastrous Fire Visited Moultrl
Lest Night,
(From Wednesday’s Dally.) ,
There was a disastrous fire In
Moultrie last night which destroyed
the Opera House, and some stores
underneath. - The fire started yes
terday afternoon about five-thirty
clock and It was (only by the he
roic work of the fire deartment that
an adjoining block waa saved. Tbe
origin of the fire was unknown at
there had been no one in the build
ing fonce the night before when the
boy* Atom the Orphans' home nt Ma
con jilayed to a large audience.
Some think tke. feative cigarette
earned the blue.
There was la the building a law
office en the second floor occupied by
Mr, T. W. Maddox. It was not as
certained whether there wu «ny In
surance nu the office. The pntlr
contents \<tr» Jean. 'The lower dodr
wu accepted by the Moultrl* Sport
Ing Goods Conqmny and hr M.
Schloeabetg. i
Each member of the
legislature has received a
from Governor-elect Smith,
dated Atlanta, and la wrOXtexs
office pnper of the law firm.of4
Bconer, Smith & Hastings:. Tft
tor reads as follows:
"My Dear Sir.
- "The dally pres*-, did’ i
an accurate copy of the j
platform adopted, at. Mace
had acute capias-printed,-1
sure, that you are, inter**tod_ to rise
matter, I. take -pleasure to.l
you herewith a copy qf the]
which please accept with i
meats. > ^
"When you are In.the”
be glad to have you caUapui aaoi
Yours sincerely;.
(Signed.) "HOKE SMiTH.-
Accompanying each
neatly printed copy -
Mr. Smith does not say. iirn
spect the copy at’ the-
printed by tho dairy
diately after the convention eft. Mte-
con wu inaccurate. Howgies. the.
copy as printed by the preu did mnftr
contain the following wordsc
“We commend the putnge of andh.
law* by tho leglitature ns wlH ef
fectually protect the pnfeMMnni
counties of Georgia from the Impor
tation of intoxicating Uquon* #r |l * [ia! ’
their borders."
The above quoted language ap
pears In the printed copy ot tBe-pha:? .
form sent by Olvernor-eleett Smith sc..,- - -
the members of the newly-elc-cted
genoray assembly. Tho aforesaid,
words were adopted by tho eaavar-
tlon on platform nt the stain-ou- -i-
ventlon and were, reported J io; fhr
shape of a resolution to tliu ramap, -
tlon, but were not In
the platform itself, an,
read to the convention ;
the platform, but
adopted after the reading ;
tlon of the platform-. Thte (
an accurate copy or tbe ]
platform adopted a: Macon, w—
the "Jug trade” resolution warn im
ported favorably by' the pi.ifiim
j committee and was adopted ixr tor-
The Moultrie Sporting Goods Com
pany carried sufficient insurance to why the dalljr press dld
get out with a email loxa. M.
Schlossberg had no Insurance, but
the goods from Ms store, although
badly damaged by water and rongh
handling, were savea.
The manager of the opera house j convention, it became a part .
wu oat ot the city and the nmonatj regular platform of the .
of insnrance carried could not be. party of Georgia, and h
ascertained thbugh tt is believed thati sldered. It i. c „ rtafa that »c stem
Th ® m-mok of the legl-dature which ctra
building w M valued at 15.000 and, Tenca on (hff four(h w
with the exception of tbe walls which j., no Bext . , w „ w| „ t#
-•11 stand the building and fixtures ln conformity with thl, :
[ at the E’ry- ctm-. "
-etc a complete toss.