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THOMA8VILLF.. GEORGIA, FRIDAY
JUNE 81, 1907.
BOTH SIDES SOLDIER BOYS
HAVE HEARING! TO TYBEE.
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Uiiversiiy Trustees Re- Furtb Georgia
serve Decisiei on Ti
tled! Schoel Building..
mi
H&ve Ce&st IcfeiSe
Both sides of tb s controversy as j / ot b°‘b Interest to Uia publtpand Tl1 ' 9ue,Uon ownership of
a.s _m .a. _ ilia mtllinsv a9 »k. i. . a. — fitO
to the oirnerablp of the South'G«r- the military °* th ® *Uto Is the en-
gla College building were hehrd yvi- * camB “ eot et ,k * Foorfh Georgia
«rd.y morning by the full board .f.^"^ ! r °1_ th# ^ 1<th
-.lot July. st. Fort Semen. ~ The
trustee, of the Unlverrtty of Georgia Foa , th Gttrf ^ w^atelected a. the
The Board reserred Its decision, and, only OoorgtefoghntM to go Into folk
will announce it later, probably this camp. Under the Dick bill, by Qover-
week, before tbe adjournment Wed. OOT Terrell, This wag' la recognition
nceday. This information was con* marked Improvement of the
veyed In a telegram from Col. 8. G. re ® 1 ’ n,n * * or R* HR Year, and the
McLendon te Dr. R. J. Hiller. Col. »Plendld Inspection pasted by the
McLendon will return home today, j Only men In the
He represented the Board of Ed- entire‘command were absent from
ucatlon of the City of Thomasvllle., Company.'*, the Tbom-
Theae gentlemen wish the title to be.\**71116 .Guards, and the headquarters
verted la tbe city. Capt. W. M. Ham*? 1 ^ r ** lme * t ■* th ‘* point made
xnoad appeared before the Athens, * n **P* C I®U7 eredltsble showing and
meeting asking that the title be con
veyed to a number of gentlemen
wbe were trustees of the old South
Georgia College of Agriculture and
tbe Mechanic Arts They have re
cently reorganised.
weiw highly complimented by the
state Inspector and the V. b. army
oBlcer who accompanied him.
•It la tbe purpose of the govern
ment to appoint a militia reserve
!ter each coast fort to be
REFERRED
TO LEGISLATURE
University Trustees
coimend That Oil
Baard Get Prtperty.
The title of ownership of the cam- j ftftty there at time of war. If tbe
pns and building la now vested le Tourth makes a good ahowlag It will
the University trustees. • The people | doubtlees be designated by the re
ef Thomasvllle are anxious Tor settle ( serve tor Fort Screven, and would
ment of this controversy, one way i-’naalat tbe soldiers there la toast da-
■or the other .and will be pleased le jfenae lu time of war. If It la so
learn that the bearing has been j designated four machine cum and a
.granted and that an early docHten Dcl11 Tier# will be allotted to Its use.
may be expected.
IMMIGRATION
DEVELOPMENT
German Line Won't
Help—iabir Union
Hears Straight Talk.
that the present hoard of trustees
A pleasant spot for tbe camp *n
front of tbe offioenT quarters at
Tmt Screven hat been selected. The j "»* “>o Lofty that had given
men will mount thaOr own guard, j tLs property to me University.
*nd the camp *1U be entirely under j Th, ‘- wh,Ie 11 **• true that their
control of Col. WyTy wnd -the officers «l>«rt*r had expired In 1*99, they
•Of the Fourth. Every liberty com- j ha<1 H»> rwetatriered within such
patlblo with good Oadtpline will bo: tIm * “ to make their legal existence
-allowed. The m— will have time I continuous. Ho stated that It wa*
for ball games, serf-battling and the I not the purpose of bis board to dlr-
llke. A number «t -foe (Officers wllllturb the public schools, or oust
take their wives aed rfemilles ani j ^^“ yroa tie u*e ofthe property,
the encampment will to e social oc- but that ho Flmply asked a recon-
caslon. It Win !« fully as Interest- : veyance tc tbe torlglnal donors,
lug and Instrurtlwa as the famous “The Board «tf Education doe* dot
IS.—A Berlin j Manassas maneuvers, without tbe'grant that this view is correct. We
MELON SEASON
OPENING UP
Inspects are for Fair
Crip with High
Prices.
n f
e South Georgia College property
wil go before tbe legislature at the
coming session, which open. hKs
letter part^t this month. The Uhl-
versify Board ot Trustee* hold (Let
they -fcava not the power to nujta
title to the property without leg)e-
latlve enactment. The trustee, of
the University will recommend thdt
the property be transferred to the
old board ot trustees, of tbe former
South Georgia College ot Agricul-
turn and Mechanic Arts.
Capt. W. M. Hammond, who rep
resented the old board, has not yet
returned from Athens. Col. 8. G.
McLendon, who appeared in beball
of tbs Board ot Education talked to
tbe. Tlmes-Enterprlse yesterday of
the decision pf the University trus
tees. He said "The Unticrsiiy trus
tees took the ground that the legis
lature would bare to pass on tbe
matter before tbe property could be
transferred. I appeared as attor
ney for tbe Board of Education, and
naked for tbe title to the property;
showing that I was backed by the
action of tbe people of Thomasvllle
in mat. meeting. «m by tbe vote of; „ T ^ tQ Thom asviJle while It lasts,
the city council. ,(i There Is a great deal of telephoning
"Capt Hammond took the ground, » nd telegraphing. The telegraph of-
, ..... "
. 'Tbe watermelon reason will open,
th Thomas county this week. Tiiorn-
asvlllo is hea-lqunrit ri for bjyo’S
from the m.-lh; and hundreds of ! «f*
ate' .shipped from here every year.
TbV'iseuon >• ,*howt two weeks late
this year, but the buyers will come
in itRii week. There are as many as
fifteen or twenty foreign. representa
tives, besides tb*. tour or Bye local
concerns that deni In the luacloui
coitpodity. '
The acreage-in the county Is about
tie' same as. last year, jut tbe yield
will be leas. Indications are that
very good prices will be obtained,
and that the growers with anything
like s good crop will make big mon
ey. f Of course- the earlier shipments
command the higher prices.
The first car from Thomas coun
ty was ■ shipped, from Meigs last
week; and four, cars more were
sent from there Monday. The fruit
was consigned to St. Louis, and It la
said'that the price paid was (300 per
ear; Growers are of the opinion
that the price will not go below (100
this year.
The melon business makes things
New York, June
dispatch to the Herald eayw that th«| hardships. The Federal government’, make no claim to have been the do
nors of the property, but ask that
the original purpose having failed
North German Lloyd and the Ham-, t , gya for the traimportatton and the
bnrg-Amerlcan fleam ship Hues have rat i oni> , nd glees the anon a peg
.refused to act on the resolution! diem,
adoited by the Southwestern imml
Bees put on extra help, and the
phone people operate additional
boottu at the hotels. With the pros
pects .of a profitable season every
one la feellog good over the opening,
while of course the colored brother
rejoices-at the approach of Me
"boneless bam." Ju»t at present
they are a little beyond bis reach
howeve& t *a theycannot, be bought
tt>r lesrfntfiiib V’quarter in. the lotal
■tores.
ALCOHOLIC TRAFFIC.
-Stats niU to Regulate It Will be In
troduced bj Representative Stubbs.
that the property bo given to the
I There will be fifty-eight men to; city for the beat purpoae possible.
grutlon Congress, and will do no-tb-' . .
, t , ' „ the company, and four companies j “I will mako a full statement of
lng toward the development of New - . .. ,
, from tne Fourth. Other znllltla la the actloa to the Board of Educa*
Orleans as an Immigration station. I . . -I
camp ^ ill be fonr companies of.tlon. The matter *3 Just assuming
. 2vo official reason is given, bat An -l-.m ..hiu- . .. • '
heavy artillery making a battalion of a n Interesting pbale, as the peoplo
agent of the companies Is quoted xxts .. . .
the Savannah Volunteer Guards.; will see by later developments."
declaring that until the employers T . 7r , K . I
of labor in the Southern states learn ™ . '''' ' ] .Tl W ' S ,,r0t,ab ‘° theref ° r ° ' hat th<?
to treat whites as they should be ^ 9 T', ^'1 ‘ h ° ' ^ B ° ard of *“> f-ry their
treated. Immigration to that part of ^ °' ^ Coatt f Art,,,Bry ^ : contention before the Wlsiature,
t :e »u«ry : 111 not be cons.dered. CnTTc ““'l Wh ' Ch *"« ^ of
Atlanta. Ca. June 10.-A dispatch ' " , „ ' , fh _ I the malter - At "V ral ° «»
The four companies of the Fourth , cbooIi w| „ doubtlc6J contInuc the
. , ... be commanded by Cupt. Wood- j u „ of tbe pro ^ D0 matter t0
created this TU ff ( 0 f Columbus, Capt. Jarrell, of I , ■ . . . ..
, . whom It ig deeded, according to the
morning at the opening aesdon of Thomasvllle, Capt. Johnson of Fits-1 . a - , . .
. - . . (expression attributed to the repre*
the Georgia Federat.on of Labor by g^d, and Capt. Van Riper of ... ... ...
p ntiwnw vr.Krt nsoHo , sentatlves of the old board to trus-
F. M. Oliver, who made an address Amerlcus. In addition to the mem-
favoring Immigration. Many dele- ben, and officers of Co. K, there are
gates to the convention are openly B number of other officers from bare
opposed to Immigration, but the going. The regiment will b« of-
speaker was given respectful itt n- fleered as follows:
MASS MEETING
ISCALLED
Board o! Education
Wants People to Talk
Schools Friday. -
There will be a mass meeting ot
the citizens of Thomasville at tbe
Court House on Friday night June
21st to discuss schorl problems, If
tbe wishes of tbe Board of Education
are carried out. Tbey held a meet
ing yesterday afternoon, at their of
fice in tbe tbe Tlmes-Enterprlse
building, and tbe following resolu
tion Introduced by H/W Hopkins wae
carried.
RESOLVED. That tbe president
of this Board call a meeting of the
cltlzene of tbe city to be held at in*
court houee on Friday night June
21et, at elgbt p. m. to conilder tbe
matter of the ownership of the
Fletchervllle school property.
2nd. Tbat tbls bond request tbe
cooperation of the Board of Trus
tees of tbe South Georgia College of
A. and M. A. in tbe calling of said
meeting and tbe preiident of tbls
Board la Instructed to ask tbe pres
ident of said board to Join bim in
said call.
President J. T. Culpepper of the
otber board refuses to Join In the
call which la made below by Presi
dent MacIntyre.
Col. B. O. McLendon submitted a
brief report of the action of the
Board of Trustees ot tbe University,
outlined In there columns yesterday.
He makes tbe following points: That
there la and can be no legal Board
ot Trustees of tbe South Georgia Col
lege, except the original board, or
such Board aa may consist of per
sona, elected by tbe University trus
tees to fill the places made vacant on
tbe original board by desth 'or re
moval, according to the contract of
4S7S. Ho clSIm* font tbe present
Board baa violated this' contract 1>y
assuming to Itself tbo self-pepetuqt-
tng power. Tbat the question be
fore tbe people la whether tbe prop
erty shall be under tbe control of one
Board without responsibility to the
taxpayers, and tbe otber Board In
control of all other matters. Col.
McLendon states that In bis opinion
this Is the most Important matter
BROTHERS HELD
F0RJ1URDER
Killing Near Eatonta
Causes Great Excite-
mentiaNsighbortiot
Eatonton, Ga., Juno It,—Albert
and Porter Jones, brothers, axe ha
jail as the result of a coroner’s te
nues t this morning, the' szxfCM
charging them with the sasawtue-
rnu of Robert Adams, a protnlxcsfl
farmer, who was shot to death yes
terday afternoon.
Adams .was ebot down white rt
work In his field,and was left ter
Ci ad. He lived lopj enough tn irrrasa
homo and tell Ms family tl^st ibe aart
been shot by the Jonea hoys, or nat
of them. Tbe latter are ttbree SrUtb-
ers, who ,lt Is said, had swnra vwa-
geance against Adams for UHa&
four years ago, Klah Jones, a brother
of tbelrs, for which Adams waatzdM
and acquitted on the grotiida nf ntS
defense.
The community and summaSteg
i-.« Ul.borhoods are greatly evlted xiv-
er tbe tragedy. A large crowd •
mon from bere went out yesterday
afternoon with blood hounds ts hety
run down and capture tbe Jeaea
brothers, who were finally arresteS.
Robert Adams was a prosperous
planter, and bad been married otly
two years. He le survived by Mo
wife, Mrs. Pet Hargrove Adams, >saa
one little daughter, Ms parents, thna
elsters, and two brothers, Dr.' W. E.
Adams of Madison, and Mr.-JCUhona
Adams, now of Cincinnati.
HOTSHOT
Win Give Site lot N»
“ > id Keep C
ly Capitol
Of greater heat 'jmfd,! iUteaaUj-
than any otber form ' of -pornttpl
contest, not excepting no-fence, ixw-
blbltton and cow elections la (he
question of removal of a county nest.
It seems that the people of Grady
county will be confronted wllh such
an election within the near fnlmw.
The citizens of Wi!:i are circa-
latlng a petition calling for an eleo-*
from Savannah rays:
A sensation was
Regimental Field and Staff.—
Colonel Robt. L. Wylly Thomasvllle;
Captain and Adjutant, C. M. Strong,
ThomaarUle; Captain and Quarter
master, M. M. Cooper, Thomssvtile;
Captain and Commissary, W. B. Fen-
Captain and Assls-’
Orga u lzJng Finri-rs* Union--.
Thomas county ts being thorough
ly organized by tbe Farmers’ Union
Mr. A. L. O. Stephenson ot this coun
ty has formed a number of branch- der, Valdosta;
ea, and there le an organizer now at taut Surgeon, T. E. White, Fltzger-
work In this county, who comes from a )d; Captain and Chaplain, Rev,
' Atanta. The farmers all apeak well Qharlei T. Wright, Albany,
of tb# Union. Its object la to raise Non-CommlrsloncC Staff.—Regl-
tbe price of cotton, and to work for
- the Interest of tbs farmers. The ot
ters promise to keep It out of poll,
tics. Large numbers of Thomas
county people are joining tbe Un
ion. 7
mental Sergeant-Major, E. R. lar
ger, Thomasvllle: Quartermaster-
Sergeant, C., W. McRae, Thomae-
vllle; Commissary Sergeant, A. A.
Parrish, Jr., Valdosta; Color Ser
geants, J. L. I. Dixon. Tbomaavllte,
tees, to wbom the University trus
tees wish to transfer the property.
end B. C. Adams, Albany.
The boys will have aetual exper
ience In coast defence aa two war
ships of the United States Navy have
been ordered to Fort Screven. The
Jackies will form landing parties,
will bombard tbe fort, and do other
■tnnts tbat will make tbe game of
war Interesting and realistic. Thla
with the social aide of camp life will
attract a large number of vlsltora
end will aeanre tbe TbomaSvlUe boys
weeks oi
nstlng.
■ 5
Ad
Mr. Aleck Iteigijave la now la Oc
tave, Arts., where he has a good pov
st'.'on with .the' Octave (’omrvrdal
Co, He Is Imrovtn’g In health
Hon. J. B. Stubbs ,one of Thom
as: county's three representatlves-
elect, spent Saturday /n Ibe city.
Mr. Stubbs will leave for Atlanta the that confronts the people today, and
latter part of next week for the advises a mass meeting. Ho says
summer session. Ho will Introduce ! ‘hat he believes the artlon- of the
a bill into the legislature that Is Board of Education, backed by the
sure to create much attention and action of the city council and a mass tlon ^change ^"tbe teunty''site
that will be of especial interest m meeting, will Induce the legislature!^ ^ Wh)gham g ^
dry counties. > dl8regnrd mcre '" U Grady county say that the quest*.
The bill will seek to regulate ^ture. that might be advanced to ’ , t f0vcr bcat ovej . and mtJa
alcohol, except denatured alcohol, hamper the settlement o( tbl. con-| c]so ]( dIscusfed The
It. object will be to prevent the sale ‘roversy upon the line, of a coun an , nterert
- - - - • public policy.” I, ..
The call of President MacIntyre l.i ,D ‘ lleWel,are0 ' the D ° W C ° nntT ’
az follows: j «nd are watching the cours^of
events, though not Immediately
concerned.
Cairo Won’t Put up Money.
Last week the Tlmevfofrvrpztea
published a communication Tram
the people of Whlgbam advancing
their claims, and showing tbat thgr
had raised (31.600 to build atosuxt
house, and jail bealdes a free site,
and with more money to follow. In
reply to thla tbe people of Gains
have Issued a circular letter ,
forth Cairo’s.old# ot the quo
It seems that Cairo will not attempt
to dupllcata WMgham’o cash wsftw,,
hot will donate a alto for tho puHhx
buildings, coating (4,600. Thk fc(
an aero of land whom tho residence'
of Hon. Walter Davis now stands.
Soya Whlgham Bribes.
Tbe letter of the Cairo people le a
decidedly spicy document and te
hot mince words. It Is addressed te
of grain alcohol for use ns a bov
erage. It will b eraodellcd upon the
ordinances regulating the sale In
throughout the state the traffic In
Thomasvllle, Cairo, and other South
Georgia towns la dry counties. Mr.
Stubbs' bill will make It a misde
meanor to sell grain alcohol ex
cept on the prescription of a phy
sician, and will prohibit the refil
ling of prescriptions. - It will also
put the burden of proof upon the
pbyslclan, who must prove. If a case
la made, tbat tbe fluid prescribed
was for medical purposes only.
It will be remembered tbat Mr.
Stubbs promised bin efforts In tuts
direction when be announced hla
platform In tbe campaign of May
1(06, and he states that hs intends
U keep tbte and all other prom lass
Btadq to tha people of Thomaa coun-
My. J. M. Rlcketson of Boaton waa
« vial tor of prominence Tuesday.
To the Cttlzeni of Thomasvllle:
I herewith call a mass meeting of
the citizens of Tbomarvtlle to be
held next Friday June 21, 1907 at
3 p. m. at tbe court house, to dis
cuss the question of the ownership
of the South Georgia College prop
erty. Said call la Issued, pursuant
to a resolution pasted unanimously,
by the full board of education, at a
special meeting held on the 18th of
June 1907. Having requested the
president ot tbe Board of Trustees
ot tbe South Georgia Collage of Ag
riculture and Mechanic Arte, to Join
with us. In tbls call, tor said mass
meeting to discuss the question ot
ownership of tbo said South Geor
gia College property, sad he having
refused to unite In said call, I have
herewith made the nforeenld celt In
accordance with the resolution of thef
Boat'd of Education.
H. J. MACINTYRE, Pres.
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