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BAINBRIDGE, DECATUR CO., GEORGIA, SATURDAY, MAY 18. 1901.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF DECATUR COUNTY AND OF THE CITY OF BAINBRIDGE.
am Jones and the Elk3.
ouvnal reporter called on Rev.
Jones at the home of Mr. W.
r j, t . Friday and asked him for
view in regard the resolu-
. ISSC ,1 by the Savannah Elks
•sday night, Mr. Jones said:
them that I’m the guest of
mid have met several while
„] they endorse thoroughly
have said about the Elks.
.. Elks of Wayoross have not
eiiug in six months, so they
and Wayoross being a dry
t is impossible to keep an Elk
allvu here.
Elk that doesn’t drink is as
,,t of place in his lodge as a
claiming fellowship with his
it and says he doesn’t believe
vrsion.
. Elk lodge is the only lodge
anything of which admits sa-
epeis and liquor dealers into
nvsliip. I got the idea the
atolied out of a beer keg be'
hey like heer so well, and that
brewer was their daddy be-
w kept his children so well
d.
Elk lodge that doesn’t haye
it would be as hard to find
locale a woman who didn’t
looking glass. Women will
minis and Elks will have
|fact that saloon keepers and
dealers make up a large
j the Elk membership convin-
that if yjju want to stay so
li had better stay out ot mat
|he Elks will take the temper-
-dge I’ll apologize for what
Id. It'the Elks will quit get
|ky I’ll quit saying anything
them—Wayoross Journal.
The Oa. Southern Military College.
The first term of this institution
closes on next Friday. For a long
time the people of this town have fell
the necessity of a school in which its.
patrons could educate their children
at home without incurring the heavy
expense of sending them away, which
a comparatively small number of our
citizens could afford. At last a spir
it of progress took hold of the people
and this long felt want has been filled
in the establishment of an institution
in which any conunuuityjcould feel a
just prides.
The trustees selected by the peo
pie to inaugurate a system of public
schools for the city have shown wis
dom and prudence in the selection of
a in'in to take the responsible position
of pviucipal, and the success which
has attended his efforts during the
past nine months attest his efficiency
for accomplishing the purpose of the
school. The people throughout the
county and elsewhere as never before
in the liistorv of our town, have man
ifested a common interest and pride
by giving it a liberal pn'ronage,
without which it can never attain the
purposes of its establishment.
The military features of the school
lias done much towards its discipli
nary management by instilling a
sense of individual responsibility
among the pupils.
With another term under Us pies
ent management the future success
of our school will he assured, and
Bainbridge will possess educational
advantages which will he a credit
not only to its own citizens and those
ot the county but also to Southwest
Georgia.
XOTILB TO ThUHEHS.
(regular examinations for li-
leach in public schools ot
County will he held in the
at Bain bridge Saturday
It commencing at 7 a. m. and
at fi p. m. The questions on
fcm i practice will he bused on
[Methods—All who expect to
•tuning year, or whose
I have expired; rn ist he pres
lo more special examinations
given unless recoommended
lioartl of Education.
Robt Bowen, O. S. C.
killkii at hoykin.
TIlKsF \—s AOTUK.
Mr. B. F. Grimes, while feeding
the planing mill of the Babcock Lum
ber Co., at Boykin, was fatally in
jured on Thursday of last week. In
some way the machinery of the plan
er got reversed, casting a piece of
timber back upon Mr. Grimes, from
the effects of which he diet! the next
day.
He was a young man of good
character* ami highly respected in tiis
community. His remains were buried
at Colquitt. -
The President and the South.
Krom tlic New York World:
The Mobile Register reminds Pres-
A Pointer for Unpaid Teachers.
While the political office-holders
in Chicago and the f&voied contrail-
Tne Ogden Philanthropists.
As yet we have seen nothing to
indicate that the South is to he hen-
efitled by the southern trip mode by
Mr. Robert V. Ogden and his party
a few weeks ago. A circular of the
Get-Together Club has been Rent
out containing an announcement of
a dinner to be given on the evening
of May 23, at which “Social and in
dustrial Betterment of the South” is
to be disc ssed by some of those
who were members os the Ogden
party.
The leaders of the Ogden party
have disdained any desire 10 dictate
to the South the course she should
pursue to bring about greater prog
ress in her upbuilding. What they
want, they say is to confer with
leading educators and others in the
South as to what 13 best to be done
to bring about educational improve
ment in the Southern states.
But before they undertake to give
advice would it not be well for them
to make sonic sort of showing as Jo
what material help they propose to
give? It is apparent that if they do
uot propose to contribute anything
they have no excuse for offering ad
vice. If they make contributions of
money—contributions that would be
helpful to the common schools or the
institutions of higher education, they
would be justified in asking to be
admitted to the councils of those
who direct the South’s educational
matters.
We do not know whether or not
the members'of the Ogden party oh
served the fact, during the Southern
trip, that if it were not for educating
the negroes the South would he able
to provide just about as satisfactory
common schools as are to be found | lia11 ? * lhe Prosperity of the South, persistent as the Oh leago rebool
the North. The providing of' and t,lat tb<! 8 llarantees tbe ^ on ' teachers, they might find a way to
idem McKinley that everything he 0 rs ailtl al | kltl(|R of boodlers were
saw at the South was calculated to j getting their tnonev, the school teach-
impress upon him the fact that “tliis,^^ W t*ro told that there were no
is a white man’s country,” and 'that t funds available for paving their sal-
“the prosperity he ro freely speaks j Rf1e(1 and they would, then fore, hate
about is the result of the white man’s j Wtt) t,
But the Chicago school teacher n| -
peais to know a thing or two out
side the school room. The ten diets
found after an examination that fully
$235,000,000 worth of property was
escaping taxation. It was not known
whether the assessors were indiffer
ent, incompetent or had been bought
off. A committee of the teachers,
however, waited 011 the assesrors,
pointed out the property and de
manded that it he taxed, so that the
city’s revenues would he sufficient io
pay them their salaries. The assess
ors refused. The matter was taken
to the Slate hoard of equalization,*
where another rebuff was met. Then
the courts were resorted to, and only
the other day the teachers won the
suit, and orders were issued to the
local assessors to take note of this
property as one of the city’s assets.
By this contest $5,000,000 have
been addeded to the citv’s revenue,
and it is safe to assume that the po
liticians, even, will risk no more
fights of this kind with the tenders,
but will see that their salaries are
promptly paid.
Nearly every other city in this
genius for government.”
In proof of this fact' the Register
notes that the officials and commit
tees who received the Presidential
party and the crowds that welcomed
him with enthusiasm were made up
of white men, and that the banquets
he attended and the speeches made
to him were everywhere managed
and made by white meu. And it
suggests that the Presidents logical
mind must see that what has been
done “is not an accident, but the nat
ural order ot tilings, which 110 man
can upset.”
In view of this, our Southern con
temporary thinks it would be a very
seryioable and patriotic thing in the
President to “declare himself in fav
or of a white man’s government in
the South.” This, it says, would not
only be bold and fight, but it would
“take the negro out of politics, where
lie is but the victim of designing men,
and would srraigfciteo him lip as a
negro for a future much more re
spectable and much more satisfactory
to all persons than the future that
now opens before him.”
It is probably not seriously expec
ted by anybody that Mr. McKinley colll(ty 18 following Chicago's tx.im-
is capable of doing a thing like this, ■ pIe o( - overlooking millions of del lurs
It does not harmonize with his char-1 worth of taxable property while cum-
noter. He would probably say, if pl a i„j n g 0 f scarcity of revenues. If
forced to speak on the question, that lhu unpa|d employes of these mimic-
negro labor has contributed poten- ipalitic-H are as smart and plucky and
cools for the negro, who com.i - stitution an to citizenship and suf
ute very little to the school fund,
prevents the common schools from
being made as efficient as they other
wise would lie. And the North is
as responsible for Uie presence of the
*i.:» . 1... .4 u
We see no reason why the first
yeajT of the twentieth century should
not be marked by an extraordinary
prosperity in Georgia. There
nothing that menaces progress
negroes in this country as the South,
and is wholly responsible for making
them citizens before they were
ready for citizenship. It is but right
therefore that the North should help
to beat the burdeil winch the ne
groes impose upon the South.
The fact should be kept in mind
that the South has not asked tor
any help. She will continue to hear
g her burden without complaining, hut
y 0 jif she has to hear it alone it would
far as one is able to anticipate from [ b « bat that «>'« W0l,ld ti »‘ * 1
unalloyed pleasure in being told by
part - cs are
|tishiutr, !iuntin a ,_ —, . ....
passing on lot of land' “P*™ 11 * U,08e wh,c ‘‘ have uun,e rn 0
231 i„ the 27th district of | commercially important. the
county. Also on lots 226 : fr,,,t K rowers w,l! 1,1 u11 prolmbilitv
II situated in the 27th dis-| obtai " l ,nw8 a " ,i tl ' C,e "
..closed i» my woods pas- | • profit In cotton as well. In the
Brinson*. ' This notice ‘ meantime every manufacturing plant
seems to be flourishing and more are
terras being built 1,1 many localities. The
. . , 8prmcrcondit.onsthcstatew.il (1| „ | unalloyed pleasure in neing torn i,y „ '
t:mhy i'*™'-L h.™.r-lv all kind — Son*" „h., “» *««
mg, or in any 1 h * 0 should do for the betterment of t)ie «i''ce lost its force, and that party is
nuson.
1
Deserved or parties violating ,
will lie prosecuted in
IT!
May 15, 1901.
E. G. Piper.
Ill K OF I AX HKI'EIYKH.
confidence of the people in the man
ufacturing possibilities of Georgia is
steadily increasing and there is scon
to he a very large increase men t in
our taxable values.— Macon News.
Lkin affections will readily disap
■u of sickness I was unable to
I’ii'cntuieuts as advertised and* ar i 1(t iug i»e Witt’s Witch Hazel
honn the public that I will g rt | vt . Lookout for counterfeit*. If
i c e. that I tailed to reach ym , g el Jj e Witt’s voii will gel good
results.
condition of her people. Certainly
men who ride through the South 011
railway train, and stop a day or two
at each of a half-a-dozen places, can
not form as correct an idea of the edu
cational needs of tile people aa the
meu who have lived ail their lives in
the South and made that ami kin
dred matters subjects of study.—Sa
vannah News.
uk Monday, May 27th
ave. Tuesday, " 28th
Wednesday, -• 29th
|Jli!l. Thursday, “ :(0th
iu. Friday, “ 31st
Monday, June 3rd
A. P. Long, Tax Receiver,
If people only knew what we know
about Kodol Dyspepsia Cure, it
would be used in nearly every house
hold, as there are few people who do
not s ffer from a feeling of fullness
It is the q nek and positive after eating, belching, flatulence,
get their money promptly,— Hous
ton (Tex.,) Post.
JIM AftDEHSON KIH.I.II.
Jim Anderson, colored,‘died lust
Friday from the effect of a uoi.nd-
inflicted by Mr. Jim Baggs a few
days before with a hoe.
Mr. Baggs and Anderson were
both working for Mr. Geo. Davis 011
Ins farm near Branuliville. They had
a disagreement about some work.
They were chopping notion at the
time and both had hoes. Anderson
advanced uu Mr. Baggs and tried to
strike him wi h a hoe, when Baggs
laised his hoe and simek Andei.on
on the side of the head, inflicting a
wound, the effects of whiph produced
death three days afterward.
The difficulty was witnessed by
Mr. Geo. Davis, who exhonoratea
Mr. Baggs from all blame.)
Baggs came up to Camilla and no
tified the sheriff that he was ready
to give up at any time he should he
wanted. Mr. Baggs is a very quiet,
the “solid South” by the dynamics i a " d ba « b **-»
married about a year. Hi* many
friends regret the necessity for the
homicide but are satisfied that he is
blameless.—Camilla Clarion.
frage must be observed
And yet it is very noticeable that
all of the old Republican shibboleths
in regard lo the rights and wrongs of
the negro have been dropped. Mr.
McKinley 110 longer refers, in mes
sage or speech, to the virtual sup
pression of the bulk of the negro
vote in several of the Southern states.
Neither he nor any other leader of
Ins party has taken issue with Dr.
Parkhursl for Ids declaration that
the immediate enfranchisement of
the freed slaves was a terrible blun-
d> r —“one of those blunders that are
worse than crimes,” lie might with
truth have said. The formula of
Tiiad Sievens under which this crime
was committed—“So many niggers,
now making 110 effiort to revive it,
The most.tbal can be expected of
•Mr. McKinley is that he shall treat
the old sectional issue as dead and
buried, as he is doing in his speeches,
and shall try to aid in breaking up
of new issues and by a more sedu
lous selection of white men for office.
More than this Mr. McKinley will
not do just yet—if ever.
K.-tlUAk .WITlfc.
. cure for piles. R. L- Hicks.
Lost, strayed or stolen from my
home 4 miles so'.uli of Fowllowu on
the 4ih day of May one cream color
ed mare 7 or 8 years old with black
sour stomach or waterbrash, cause.! all( j U j|, branded on the left
i Th.E.k.^7.^. lol o< r\T “r, l 7
| advertising tor Uam Jones and he lfl whioh, with no aid from the stomach, mt * a,, ‘^ a sul ^ a ole reward will be
I reaping the profits. Sam knows a will digest yotr food, certainly can’t paid. Miss Euza Ward,
th.ng or two about human weaknesses, help but do you good. R. L. Hicks. 1 Fowltown, G*
Mr. W. J. Baxter, of North Brook,
N. O., says lie suffered with piles
for fifteen years. lie tried main rem
edies witli no results until he used
DeWiu’s Witch Hazel S.-ilve and
that quickly cured him. R L. Hicks.
I can furnish your material for the
wood work in your buildings. Eterv-
liiug cheap for the cash. Reid jfc
Sons.
First class Job Work executed
this office.
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