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ITEMS Of GEORGIA CITIES -'B. C. Holtzclaw, Jr., son of ltzclaw, cashier of the Hous ing company, was aw ardod ( }es scholarship at Athens, holtzelaw has been attending university for about two ! is quite popular, ss.—ln a fight at the Atlan- T-.ine depot at Millwood j . ntlul. ea eta eta et ataoth I rncl:l, a well known 1 inner, in . v. ended I y R->y fijft injured man was rushed .■ross hospital, where an op us performed in the hope of j r ,g.— Chief ,1 linson and a policemen made a successful , cha. les Underwood's piace j t venue, securing a consul lantity of liquor in barrels which was hauled to -ters. Underwood's place has fled on .a. number of o casi -ns n yi !>.' and generally with jlts i.. t.be way o harvesting i .ii, ' the re , ! : , count ■ ' ent i i ge nci it to hei | al it cut to ff '.lie was shoe I’j Judg( Henry C. jg D afternoon issued an order e motion of a new trial t Mrs. Edna Perkins-God ■d in Jenkins county of of her former husband, odbee. The defendant d at that time on the 1 on the killing o!' Mrs. tyer Godbee, who was i in the Millen postoffice time. 'nus Fordham celebrated irth year a few days ago of his daughter, Mrs. T this county, with a big m and old fashioned din li about lull people were iding 125 of his descend ordham has been holding i reunion of this kind for ral years, and they have reckoned among the an of this county. He has i, all of whom are living. expensive dinner was i dog of questionable t consumed a large pea e plumage belonging to . a Rome merchant. The hing this meal of fifteen ore started in to devour gl< cock, which was on dis- Hocp in fiont of StampV I ipt ss, but was prevented Hfj/umpHcn of this gastron- H the arrival of a police- Horve the dog away. 'omit. J. It. Robinson of in !). C., site inspector 1 r ■ ■ !' till' H that have teen e Hon which to put a fifty Hilar building, to be u.-ed of: ce, for which an appi'o ■ already been made. The el anxious for the lot to be ■ml to see tlie work cn begin, as it has been un ation so long, udged by tlie number of being made in Athens dation cf these who havi ttend the short course or ho State Coliege cf Ibgii- G will be between 200 and |ance January 5-16. It is ? whether reservations are ance or not that accomo- Ite provided for all who preferred that previous ten. s provided by law, the nissicners at their meet the following gentlemen ssors: J. V. Wheeler, six 1. Watson, four years; C ■two years. Their tern of K on January 1. Tlie lav ■® Bit if any citizen is ds ith the action of the board 1 -sors he has a l ight to ' and demand ari ifafion, to name cue arbitrator, and these two to ■ ■Due of the first tragedie- Hlidays was the death cf who was instantly killed -Burmtimr tc a iig!!t from a id Atlantaic train at Tun tO" Orr and several c.unpan -53 id the train here, some in _ go to Chattanooga and i off at Tunnel Hill. His . urged him to accompany !p attanooga, which he fin ned to do. .Just as the tC *'* ‘ rom t,lp tunnel, think m station had 1 een r.-cch- L I ™ b , lb. i man endeavo:c! to 1 was thrown violently .- ankment and died in- I Having iieen advised 01 ie suspicious circum ■ bed witli the origin of 1 ; c which destroyed the ■ 1 ™ state fire marshal, ar- ah to make an inves jt his arrival here C.i, * V - taken to the ruins _ and with Fin Chief - * and chief cf detec ,]■; U’-iy. inspected the cel- UW l of the stores in til *■l r apt" in Joyner I 1 uld make a thorough a. COL ARTHUR HOFFMAMiM \ I**” -V r<. - ' x M ' I $ mt<? y »•<<' • 8 K I v " : • i"Vviu-: a .. i i r ( t” p:.-; ■ ■ ;^b kmms M-wmk O.'h '-u': :q';>U" . Ei. m Col. Arthur Hoffmann of the Canton of St Gall is the president-elect of the Swiss republic and wiil enter upon his new duties cn January 1. He is at present vice-president and chief of the military, and has been chief of the de partment of finance and head of the department of justice and of police. ukGls u. s. fo OiVN lines POSTMASTER GENERAL BURLE SON FAVORS ACGUISIT'ON BY GOVERNMENT. SERVICE SELF SUPPORTING Declares Postal Service Will Be Con ducted for Efficiency Rather Than Profit. Washington.—A sweeping declara tion in favor of the principle of gov ernment ownership of telephone and telegraph lines and an assertion that the postal service now is self-support ing for the first time since 1883, are features of the annual report of Post master General Burleson, transmitted to congress. Concerning the acquisition of tele phone and telegraph lines, Postmaster General Burleson says that the gov ernment has demonstrated its capacity to conduct public utilities, and, from iis present information, he is inclined clearly to the taking over by the post office department of the telegraph lines and, possibly, also, of the tele phone lines. Discussing that the post master general says: “A study of the constitutional pur poses ol the postal establishment leads to the conviction that the pcstoffice department should have control over all means of the communication of in telligence. The first telegraph line in this country was maintained and op erated as a part of the postal service, and it is to be regretted that congress saw fit to relinquish this facility to private enterprise. “The monopolistic nature of the tel egraph business makes it of vital im portance to the people that it be con ducted by unselfish interests, and this can be accomplished only through gov ernment ownership. “The act of July 24, 1566, providing for the government acquisition of the telegraph lines upon payment of an appraised valuation and the act o« 1902 directing the postmaster general ‘to report to congress the probable cost of connecting a telegraph and tel ephone system with the postal service by some feasible plan,’ are evidences of the policy of this government ulti mately to acquire and operate these electrical means of communication as postal facilities, as is done by all the principal nations, the l nited States alone excepted. “The successful operation of the parcel post has demonstrated the ca pacity of the government to conduct the public utilities which fall properly within the postal provision cf the Ton stitution.” Lived in One Spot 100 Years. Statesboro, Ga.-*Prigen Beasley, one cf the oldest men in Georgia, was buried near his home in this county. Mr. Beasley was born in Bulloch coun ty and lived in the same spot for over i hundred years. He was born in a leap year, on February “9. and though he has seen 100 summers, he has had hut twenty-five actual birthdays, this late falling every four years. On his one hundred anniversary he was giv en a celebration which was attended !)v 1,500 ! eop'w He was at t..::t time in the best of health. Thirty Cailo>s Saved. San Francisco.--Given up fi r lost, he crew of the dismasted and aban loned steel ship Dalgor.ar, owned in a < (n their way *r :board the French ship Loire, which, ■ricked them up October 9. a thousand miles efi ti e coast of Chile, ('apt. ) Ibe ter ar.d three of his men are lend. First word of the loss or the Vgorar, which carried a crew of ibcut thirty, readied here on Decern ■or 10, when the French bark Marie nchored Captain Morieet of the Ma .io sighted the I a.gona.. THE COFFKE COUNTY PROGRESS, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA GURBENCVREFORM RILL IS PASSED MEASURE FRAMED BY DEMO CT.ATiC SENATE CAUCUS ADOPTED. CARRIED BY VOTE OF 54 TC 34 Bill Will Be Completed by Confer ence Committee and Will Be Ready for President to Sign. Washington.—The administration currency reform bill, proposing a re vision cf the financial system of the United States and the creation ol regional reserve banks to act as sta bilizing elements in the banking and financial world, passed the senate by a vote of 54 to 34. Force, that had fought together for improvement and amendment of the measm to <>■ last divided when tlie final vote came. Senator Hitchcock, who had led the opposition to the bill, returned to the Democratic, ranks and Senator Weeks, one ol' the leaders on the Republican side, with live other Republicans, and Senator Poindexter (Progressive voted for the passage of the measure. Wide differences exist between the form of the legislation passed by the senate and the bill that passed tlie house several months ago. Dent; erot ic leaders already have partly ad lust ed these differences, however, and it was predicted that the bill would be completed by a conference committee and cent to President Wilson for his signature. The adoption of the administration bill, known as the “Owen bill,” follow ed upon the formal defeat, by 44 to 41, of the “Hitchcock hill” which had been endorsed by Senator Hitchcock and the five Republican members of the evenly divided senate committee that passed on the legislation. The senate had previously rejected, with out a roll call, a “central bank” bill offered as a substitute by Senator Burton. SUFFRAGISTS IN WRANGLE Break Threatened by Removal of Of ficer Who Refused Accounting. Washington. —A nation-wide break in tlie ranks of Suffragists is threaten ed as the result of the action of offi cers of the National American Worn j an Suffrage Association in ousting ! Miss Alice Paul from the chairman ship of tlie congressional committee j of the national association. Tliis action is said to be virtually a declaraton of war between tlie na tional association and the Congres sional Union for Woman Suffrage/ which is headed by Miss Paul, ami which raised $25,000 last year to car ry on lobby work in Washington for the national association. Officers of the national association demanded that the money raised by Miss Paul as head of the Congression al Union be- accounted for to the treasurer of the national association. Miss Paul’s refusal caused the nation al officers to remove her as chairman of the national association’s congres sional committee. As a result of the internal strife, Miss Paul collapsed from a nervous breakdown in Washington while de livering a suffrage speech, and is now confined to her home in Morristown, N. J. Her removal from office while too ill to journey to New York City to defend herself lias created indigna tion in the ranks of the Congressional Union. Officer Imprisoned for Zabern Affair. Strassburg, Germany. —A sentence of forty-three days’ imprisonment was pronounced by a eourtmartial on Lieut. Baron Yon Forstner of tlie Ninety-ninth infantry. The courtmar tial was opened on Lieutenant Forst ner for cutting down with his saber a lame shoemaker in Zabern, Alsace, on December 2. The charge brought against him was: “Willful assault and causing great bodily harm by the il legal use of a weapon.” Lieut. Von Forstner was the officer who brought about the recent troubles between the military and civilian population of Zabern. Famous First Bale Negro Dead. Albany, Ga. —Deal L. Johnson, known throughout the South as the ■first bale man of Georgia." and one of tire most prominent negroes in this section of Georgia, died in All a ny as lie "as being hurried to a hos pital. Jackson war. one of the mc-t intercAing men in this part of toe ate, and though lie refused to take ctivc part in politics was an ac knowledged leader of his race. ‘-.ter plantation in the western part of Dougherty county is one of the best Church Installs Barber £h:p. X Yevk -A modal bar’ is t! • • I! ’’I)< V > ;11» ill <’;’ ' 1 t.rl t a, - n cir.g th • new f are, sa'o: For the sake ci unifo-mity m the ai‘ .tecranee of our choir bcv« a* 1 a - c -mvht id ecf parochial ap trecia tuin " h--‘? c«- grel a special bar ter to the ovs t Sc/urdav ;n r v.ings a.id on Sundays before services.” Central Grocery Co. 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