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FRIDAY, JANUARY, 17, IS
DAUGHTERS OF
CONFEDERACY
Prizes Offered—Last
Prize Won By Them-
asville Girl.'
CERTIFICATES
CALLED IN
within whose Jurisdiction the county
•lull tell. It shall b* the duty ot
taoh county committee to assix! In
conducting the work in the county
to select from the essays submitted
to It, the beet one to represent tne'
cuunty before the ets:e committee,' D _ , . , ,
and to send to Ite state committee-, Ity jdVillQah-'COIlQltiOIlS
man the chosen 06say, together wlta
the Information as to the numberj
ot contestants In the county.
Bach member of the state commit-!
The Georgia dlTlsion of the daugb- tee shall hare direct supervision of I Savannah. Ga., Jan.
tare of the Confederacy, are endeavor, the work In the designated counties,! meeting of the Savannah Clearlag
lag to do all In their power to lB-j.atuH attend to the appointing of a !o- House Association late yesterday, it
crese among the boys and girls ofj C al committee in each of her counties,J was decided to call in the clearing
the state an Interest in Confederate, an j together with two assistants house certificates Monday next.
GAS PUNT OPERATION.
in South Georgia
improved.
history. They feel that it is a pat- whom she may appoint, shall judge
rlotic duty which the Bouth owes her- the essays submitted by those coun
self to see that her future citizens, ties, selecting the beat two for the
shall know, and know In lta truth, tne: final consideration of the entire state
part her sona and daughters played jn committee: these essays with Infior-
the drama of the late ’60's and early
'60’s.
They have consequently establish
ed the custom of giving annually a
handsome gold medal to the boy or
girl of the state, writing the best
essay upon a subject which they may
assign.
In addition to this medal It has
been customary for prizes of money
mation as to the number of contes
tants In her counties, to be sent to
the chairmen of the state committee.
The entire number of essays thus se
lected shall be sent In rotation to ail
the members of the state committee
for examination and grading, being
retained by each member for one
week only, then forwarding to an
other and finally returned to the
to be offered by the schools and local! chairman,
chapter of W. D. C. Last year. in The grading or decisions on these
Thomas county these prizes amount-, essays shall be sent directly to the
ed to $25 In all. and Miss Sarah Han-, chairman by each committee, as soon
sell of Young’s College who won the as practicable after completion.
prize offered by the John B. Gordon Immediately after the receipt of
nanclal conditions in South Georgia
are Improved.
BLK'S DANCE.
Fine Music From Carnival Bund and
Large Crowd.
One of the most delightful and
largely attended of the dances
given at the Elks Club was that
given there Thursday evening.
The Manager of the Carnival, Mr.
Weaver, voluntarily came to the
Blks and offered his carnival band
for the occasion, if they cared to give
one. This was the best music that
they have bad and a U were unani
mous in their onjoyraent of the oc
casion. Delicious refreshments add
ed to the pleasure of the affair and
Chapter of U. D. C.’s for the best es- a n reports, the chalrrman shall for-j the crowd dispersed near the wee
Luetsn H. Tyng Compares PuWio anti
I * Private Ownership.
Lnclen H. Tyng contributed t* the
I August issue of Moody's Magadan a
| strong article on "Private versus Pub
lic Operation of Gaa Companies," tram
which we take the following:
“Making money out of a gas ptaat Is
not like picking gold eagles oat at the
street, and a franchise to run the gas
business In s community is a* gold
mine. It may be developed Into a
source of great profit but only la con
junction with capital and business abil
ity. especially the latter, which tf not
employed In the particular gas busi
ness in questlou might be scouring
-"enter returns In some other field.
“There Is no more logic In the belief
that the surplus earnings of e success
ful gas company over a certain per
centage on the Investment should go
to tbo municipality than that a whole
sale grocer should refund to hla cus
tomer nil profits over 0 per cent, say,
on the capitalization of bis company.
The success of tbo gas company comes
from lhe use of proper judgment en
ergy and business methods In tbo use
ami risk of capital Invested, just ns In
any other business.
“That often the gas business is np-
pcrently n natural monopoly in a given
community does not disprove the fore
going reasoning. The gas companies
that are making the most money today
are not those that ure taking advan
tage of their franchise rights to exact
high rates. They are lhe ones tvho by
their own effort in educating the jteo-
pie are so Increasing the per capita
consumption of gas as to make a lower
rate a business possibility and by their
Intelligent uttentlou to operating cost
and Investment of large amounts of
uow capital when needed are able to
reduce the cost of making gas sulfi-
ch-ully to secure u greater total profit
oul of selling a large amount of gas at
a lo-.v rate than was before received
rates were higher and business
say in tho county, also received j ward to each member of the commit-
most honorable mention at the hands, toe, a compiled list of the decisions of
of the stato committee, her essay i nil.
ranking second In the list of all those 1 9, Essays aro to be sent to local
sent in from the state. | (county) committees on or beftae
Doubtless there will be prizes of-j March lBt.
fared by the Daughters, the city and The best essay from each county
county school system etc., again this
year, and It Is hoped all teachers will
Interest themselves and endeavor to
Interest their pupils in the matter.
Further information can be obtain
ed from Capt. McLean, county scsool
commissioner or from Mrs. John
arker who has been appointed by
local chapter to take charge ot
tke world to ISO* tf *««.
Below will be found rules and reg
ulation! governing the oontest:
. Rnlee and Regulations for Medal Cos
test, 1007-1008.
The Georgia Division, U. D. C.
with the deelrc of stimulating among
the young people of the atate, an in
terest In the etudy of history, espec
ially the history si the war betwc
the states, again offers a gold modal
to the student writing the best
say on the subject assigned.
Teachers of the stats are earnestly
requested to encourage and urge
their pupils to enter the contest.
Rules and Regulations.
1. Subject, 1862 In the Confed
eracy.
2. The contest Is open to all white
children of Georgia, under ths age
•t eighteen.
S. The length of the essay to be
from 1000 to 1500 words. The papers
t# be type written, If possible, though
that fs not essential.
4. Preparation! tor the essays may
bs made at home or elsewhere with
full use of nil reference!.
Essays must bn written within tan
week. Feb. H-21 Inclusive, In pres-
nncs of teachers or county commit
teeman. i
t. Each essay shall bs signed
with fictitious name, sad accompan
ied by n sealed envelops addressed
with same fictitious name, but com
talnlng real name'and address of writ
or and name ot nnhool.
$. Manuscript to he graded upon
■nkjoct matter and-style.
7. The medal will bo awarded
at closing exercises of school at or
near which it Is won. It will bo pre
sented by tbn president of tho local
chapter of .tho Daagbtere of ten Con
federacy.
t. The principal of ooeh contest
ing nnhool, shall send to the local son
wlttes of his eonnty. ths best sneer
from big school, seeding ni name
time, information ns to tho number
of attestants frost bis school. These
lscst (eonnty) oommitteoa shell be ap
pointed or nmaged-for, one In each
county, by fho state oommltteemnn
must bo sent (a WU stato com:.
man os or betore March 22.
Tho bast two ot tho essays submit
ted to each ot ths members of tho
atate committee must bs fa possssi
ot tbo ohalraos on or betore April
6th.
Retsroneo books recommended:
1. Ths War between too States,
Stephens.
2. School History ot ths Uslted
States—Field.
3. Hlotory of the Confederacy—
Derry.
4. History of the United States—
White.
5. Campaigns of the Confederacy
—Hull.
6. The Strife of Brother*—Dorr-
small hours of the night, declaring
this the best dance of the year.
The chaperones Include the follow
ing.
Mr! and Mrs. F. D. DIsmuke, George
Cox, W. H. Hammond, H. H. Ben
nett, J. H. Merrill. R. L. Wylly, Eld-
rldge Clarke. M. M. Cooper. Others
attending were Mlsie?E. Voae, May
Hopkins, Claudio Lucas of Savannah,
Floy Mowborn of Memphis, Edith and
Margaret Houston of Louisville, Mar
lon Half oar, Annie Pringle, Jeane
Brown, Mary Philips of Columbus,
Blaaek* Ainsworth and Erslyn Mal
lard. Mums B. C. Ayer, James and
Will Bapklns, Albert Pringle, ltaett
aid Albert Pringle, Kischer, Lamar,
Will and John Watt, W. I. MacIntyre,
Olla and Ralph Derr, ha Chisholm.
Walter Hammond, Bob Pardee, Cyras
Hudsaa, F. Hopkins, E. R. Jerger.
▼ulga) to oonfer with a committee of
throe named at Jacksonville and a
Ilka number at Brunswick, whose du
ties will be to draft rule* and by-laws
Southern 8tates of the Amcrl- aQ( ] | n short transact al of the pro
can Union—Curry. I ltminary work prior to the final meet-
8. From Manassas to Appomattox
,—Longstreet.
9. Rise and Fall of the Confed
erate States—Jefforsdn Davis.
10. Life and Letter! of R. E. I.ee
—Jones.
Jacktoa—
11. Life of Stonewall
Henderaron.
MRS. A. W. VAN HOOSB. Cbm.
Gainesville. Ga.
MRS. Z. W. OGLESBY.
Quitman, Ga.
MRS. S. M. LANG, Ssaderavtlle,
MRS. THOMAS P. BRANCH,
Augusta, Ga.
MRS. J. F. LEWIS, Thomaeton, Oa
MRS. H. H. McCALL, Atlanta, Oa
less.
'•Hut It la oul.v by the most aggres
sive and intelligent business methods
flint u gna company cuu hope to mie-
coed under Much conditions. Tho abil
ity to bn utile the business In thin way
la something that n municipality can
not buy at a oalary. The opportunities
la other lines of business aro too groat
to those with the cnpuclty that enables
them to dovelop the highest earning
power out of a gxm company at a low
uurgii. of profit for the product 1 *
PUBLIC BUSINESS NEGLECTED
No Privats Enterprises Could Havt
Caen So Badly Managed Without Col
lapse.
It Is a stem hut not a pleasant duty
to call occusleaul uttentlou to 11* way
vvsnft ooatkiue to staltlfy the otakna
of the municipal •wnarship advocates
that the public does lta own buaiaesa
ns v.ol! as or bettor than the Individual
dov;< bis.
Talc* three enterprises of present
moment. No private Individual or
eorporatlen constrained by a profit
.making purpose and upbolsterad by
the taxing power would make such
crazy and corrupt contracts for a
building as those which Investigation
shews the state of Pennsylvania made
for the Harrisburg cnpitol. No private
enterprise would have so little to show
for six years of work on a simple en
gineering problem as the municipality
linn hi the Manhattan bridge. No in
dividual able to keep out of the bank
ruptcy courts and the Insane asylum
would have spent, ns Father Knicker
bocker has spent. $7,000,000 for a hall
of records, taken seven years to build
It and then round that it would not
hold his records.
The huge debt of the metropolis. Its
narrow borrowing power, the condition
lumbbu association.
Will B# Formed at Ones la Georgia
BM4 Florida, j
lng at which the legal organization
will take place.
The organization meeting wll, or
course, be held at Savannah and
wnile unusual reticenoo is maintain* 1
regarding the new organization It 18, 0 f streets, docks and parks and ths
conceded that the new association: confusion of Its tax system, all ars ex-
. _ . i plained aud illuminated by these con-
will fill a lone felt want and will ga-| tuuipurary mcldents.-Editorlal ta Naw
thor many recruits from the ranks of, York Mail and Express,
the local colony of lumbermen,
On* of the first actions of tbs naw
Thera Waa a Reason.
Soma of the forme of graft pragtlaad
In certain Indians cities wbleb have
. gone Into the municipal owaataklp
endeavor to have lnipactloo made at lluaiQeta be peculiar tv U,
association It la believed, will be to
Savannah, Ga., Job. IS.——'Within a
abort Urn* “Th* Souther* Lumbar
Dealers’ Association,’’ composed e$
tke lumber dealers of Georgia and
Florida, will be offlclally launched la
the southern builaeaa geld. The eo-
aoelatloa wBl be formed. It Is assorted
for the purpose of matually protest ■
III Ra membership; to eliminate any
ansk oooarreao* aa that witnessed
recently at Philadelphia whe* ta* 1
voting power* of th* lumbermen rep-,
resenting th* Savaanah Board el
Trede wae thrown ont and to gsaeral-
ly bettor the lumber industry of tel*
section and establish a higher ptanej
bf business standards.
That th* association aril) be form
ed la quite sur. Mr. Harvey Oraagei
yesterday appointed a committee
three (who** aam.ee he refused
Savannah regarded es final at ail
Northern and Eastern points
th* inspections are mad* by licensed
me*. (
This question baa often
broached and while it was regarded
as desirable on the whole, it bee nev
er been possible or prudent ta have
the leeel inspections regarded as tael
is th* absence of'**, organization
whtah aould guarantee th* iaepvctiea
ss just sad proper.
Kodol For
Indigestion
In oue of ttyn. which earns
is its waterworks system, aa
towns.
and runs its waterworks sysi
Rochester does, th* city waterworks
were Insured for $22,000. A sonant
water tank carried $28,000 tasnrnoce,
though It could net be fired V » thou
sand Incendiaries weat to weta at IL
it happened that la that Uwa eae at
th* influential *01 dais was leant tar a
fir* insurance eempany whtqk bad
"Maks” so the water tank sad ether
proportion.—Rochester (ft Id Demo-
era t and Ohaeotata
Familiar SUry From Portsmouth, flu
Peru month. O.. was among ta* last
to Install Its ewu eleotrlo Kata* gloat
which U .p.rated aatfl a street mtt-
way system we* Installed, Afi Bt*t
time a aoatraat we*
attest antiwar eempaoj by Ike team*
at nbtah it beak charge If t* EiMtag
plant and furnished light ta tap sltj
for a specified earn. This eeaSaoct
continued in lerae snfil she* these
yeast age. wbta the prattles* mem.
cut and eat at date mlgtaB woe
■eld to the street railway ******
because the eity waa uawilUns tf **-
pend th* money neeeeraiy
re-equip the plant
Uftliniv 1 plant. The eity at the erne tf ta—»
: «SttfEg2SS -ssS—sSS
In Chthalit, Wash*
According to th* mayor of
Wank., “th. city own* th* plsah «Heh
we* leased eome dm* eg* t* a
party. That party now ewaa
all the machinery consorted m
plant. The ally at th* has U
ed the pleat did art make a Brandi!
SALE
25,000 yards’of fine
match sets Embroider
ies and Flounces. No
two alike. All Mill
End, imported direct
from St. Gaul, Switz
erland, at!prices which
will surprise you.
Sale Begins
Monday
L. STEYERMAN
H Plain Talk
At
As you all know our entire stock of
Clothing is marked in plain figures
For instance you know that for a
suit marked $25.00 every one Paid
$25.00 and were Pleased and sat
isfied
The $25.00 Suits For $18.90
22.50
20.00
18.90
16.90
10.00
16.90
5.90
14.90
12-90
7.90
7.90
5.90
Our entire stock of extra pants
and knee »pants suits will go at
same reduction. Also our entire
line of wool Underwear.
line ui nuui uuucrwcar.
The Broad Street Glothinglrouse
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Big Fir* at Banana City.
Kansas City, Ms.. Jaa. 13.—Ta*
uStea station annex, adjoining the
I’nloa Railway Shades, waa d«-
atroyad by fir* today. Th* unto*
rtaflaa groper was saved by th* fire
men alter a hard fight. Tha bnraed
bonding aoatalaad the reaalvtag of-
»** of Ik* Adams, Welto-Fsrgo and
Paella express companies, th* brtnah
mailing room of fike poelofflee. the
offieee at a* Harvey Bating Ho
Company, tho FaUraan Company's
lists roam, and th* railway men’s T.
M. O. A. rooms. She loss la esti
mated at elaae ta a «aaxtoa of ■ mil-
'-OJ —
Bank Foolishness.
Whaa attacked by a oongh or a
raid or whoa yoar throat ta sore, It
to rank foolishness to take any other
medietas than Dr. King's New Dis
coveryrays o. o. Bldrldge, of Em
pire, Ga. "I hare used New Bto-
eorerf seven years and I know ft ta
*«■* remedy on earth for eoagks
and sold*, eroap ana nil thront and
1"? . tro,bl “- *7 children are Ilk-
to troop, bol Kiv Dluovtcy
•*°ro.. Its and II. Trial bottle free.
KODOL ta ta* beet remedy kaewa
today for dyspepsia. Indigestion anfi
all I roubles arising from a disordered
stomach, it ta pleaannt, prompt and
taertneh. Sold by Montgomery «
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