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Vol 11. No. 9
II NINETEEN FOURTEEN HAS TREATED YOU TOUGH.
AND LEAVES YOU FEELING LIFE’S PATH\\AY IS ROUGH;
WHITE MAN ASSAULTED BY NEGRO
AND ROBBED WHILE UNCONSCIOUS
Henry Hailey, of TV rays 31111, Assault
ed Here Saturday Night by Un
known Negro.—3Vas on His
3Vay to Denton
When Henry Bailey, who has been
employed at Creech's saw mill at
Wray’s Mill for the past five years,
stepped off a G. & F. train at the
crossing of the A. 8.,\ & A. last Sat
urday night he was accosted by a ne
gro, who was strange to him, and ask
ed if he was going up town. Mr. Bai
ley said that he was and the negro
remarked that he would go along.
Mr. Bailey says that he walked on
towards the A. 8., & A depot and that
the negro kept by his side. It was
dark and so Mr. Bailey could not get
a good look at the man with him. He
says that they had walked but a short
distance when the negro called his at
tention to something that caused him
to turn his head away from his com
panion and as he did so, the negro hit
him in the back of the head with a
heavy stick. The blow knocked Mr.
Bailey forward on the track and as he
fell he struck his forehead on the end
of a cresstie, cutting a gash over his
left eye.
Mr. Bailey stated that he remembers
nothing after the negro hit him until
a policeman found him sitting in front
of Mr. Exum’s store on Peterson ave
, nue about nine o’clock. He does not
remember how he got there. And he
could not tell the policeman anything
definite when he was at first question
ed and so the officer took him to jail,
thinking that he had been in a fight.
After awhile Mr. Bailey gained his
senses and was able to tell the officer
what had happened to him, and upon
investigation his story was found to
be true and he was turned loose.
When found sitting in front of Mr.
Exum’s, Mr. Bailey was covered with
blood from a deep wound in the back
of his head and the gash over his eye.
He secured medical treatment and it
•is not thought that anything serious
will result from his assault.
He was on his way to visit his fath
er at Denton, who is ill’, and thought
he would stop over in Douglas until
Sunday morning in order to buy some
things to take with him, and as he
wanted to see some one stopping near
the A. 8., & A. he got off the train at
the crossing instead of coming on to
the G. & F. depot.
Mr. Bailey’s asailant was a short,
stocky negro, but that is all that he
can give in the way of a description of
him. The negro took from Mr. Bailey
all the money he had his keys and a
small pocket knife. Up until this time
no arrests have been made in connec
tion with the matter.
WILL GIVE BANQUET
AT THE NEW DOUGLAS
At the regular semi-monthly meet
ing of the Merchants and Business
Mens' Association, held Monday night,
it was unanimously voted to hold a
banquet at the New Douglas hotel ear
ly in January.
The details of the occasion have not
yet been worked out but nothing will
be left undone to make the banquet a
success from every point of view.
The association is in a very flour
ishing condition and nearly every bus
iness house, and several professional
men, are now members. The idea of
a banquet each year came up for dis
cussion and it was decided to hold the
first one during the second week of
January next. The banquet will be
only for members of the association.
Georgia Holds 2nd Place
Special to The Progress.
Atlanta, Dec. 29.—That Georgia is
the second state in the production of
cotton, with Texas leading, is shown
in the recent report of the govern
ment bureau. Georgia’s crop was 16.4
per cent of the total world’s produc
tion. The United States, which means
the South, in this instance, produced
60.9 per cent of the total production.
This country also led in the consump
tion of cotton by mills, using 26.6 per
cent, with Great Britain next.
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TEACHERS ANNUAL
INSTITURE IN SESSION
The county teachers annual insti
tute is in session this keek under the
direction of County Superintendent
Floyd and Prof. George B. Goddard,
special state school supervisor.
About sixty-five teachers are in at
tendance.
Educational addresses are sched
uled and will be delivered today by
State School Superintendent Brittain
and by Prof. R. H. Powell, of Valdosta.
The local trustees, three from each
school, making a total of about two
hundred, are holding a convention
here today for the purpose of organ
izing and unifying the w r ork of the
county public schools. This meeting
foreshadows great and decisive prog
ress in the educational work of Coffee
county.
The rural school is rapidly taking
the place it should occupy in making
country life more attractive and in
training the young for the duties of
citizenship and usefulness.
■ Superintendent Floyd and the Coun
ty Board of Education are entitled to
the commendation of the public for
the efforts they have made to advance
the county’s edfucational interests, es
pecially in point of securing an effi
cient teaching force which is now in
service.
LEIIATON NEWS
3fany Items of Interest From a Thrifty
Section of the County, Briefly
Told f°r Quick Reading
(Special Correspondence)
Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Cady returned
Sunday from Cecil, where they spent
the holidays.
Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Fielding, of Doug
las, are visiting relatives near here
this week.
Miss Marie Horton attended the
band concert in Willacoochee Satur
day night.
Mr. Otis Wilson, of Douglas, has
been visiting near here this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Owen Roberts, of Tif
ton, spent Sunday with their parents,
Rev. and Mrs. Dan Roberts, of near
here.
Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Overman, of
Douglas, are visiting relatives near
here.
Miss Gussie Roberts entertained a
number of young people on Sunday
afternoon at her home.
Rev. Kemp, of Willacoochee, was the
guest of Rev. Dan Roberts Sunday.
XEGRO SHRINERS ENJOINED
Special to The Progress.
Atlanta. Dec. 29. —Members of the
Mystic Shrine in the South will be
pleased to learn that Yaarab Temple
of this city has won its point in a
suit against the Ancient Egyptian Ar
abic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic
Shrine, a negro order which recently
blew in from Washington, D. C., and
established a “temple” in Atlanta.
Its name, insignia and titles were so
clearly imitations of the famous Ma
sonic order that Potentate Forrest
Adair, who has just been re-elected
head of the Atlanta temple, got busy
and with other members instituted a
suit against the African order. Every
Atlanta judge was disqualified through
being a member or relative of a mem
ber, but Judge H. L. Patterson, of the
Blue Ridge Circuit, who heard the
case, issued a temporary injunction
against the negro order.
FILIPINO UPRISING CHEEKED BY
POLICE
Washington. Dec. 30.—GovernorGen
era! Harrison, at Manila, has cabled
the War Department that the arehi
pelgo is quiet and there had been no
uprising since those reported to have
been suppressed by the constabulary
on Friday.
Some people assume they can't have
a good time by being good.
Douglas, Georgia, Wednesday, December 30rd 1914
DON’T CRY “HARD TIMES,” AND LOAF AND MOI’E—
REM EMBER: “WHERE LIFE IS THERE ALSO IS HOPE”—
PRESTON HADSOCK, Jr.
KILLED AT KIRKLAND
Trouble etween Dead Man and His
Assailants Had Been of Long
Standing, It Is Said,—Mur
derers Lodged in Jail.
On Wednesday of last week, Preston
Hadsock, Jr., was shot and instantly
killed by Tom Brown and his son, Fred
Brown.
Mr. Hadsock lived near Kirkland,
but the killing occurred near Will Gid
dens’ store at Kirkland. From the
best information The Progress is able
to get hold of, it seems that trouble
between the parties had been of long
standing and was a feud involving a
woman.
Brown and his son were held for
murder on testimony produced at the
inquest, and were brought to Douglas
and placed in jail.
Negro Shoots Another .
In Overstreet Quarters
On Christmas Day, two negroes be
came involved in a difficulty in Over
streets quarters, in the northern part
of the city, and Will Harris, one of
the combatants, caught a load of shot
fired from a gun in the hands of Wess
Lacue, the second party in the diffi
culty.
Harris was rushed to the hospital
for surgical aid. His wound, though
serious, will probably not prove fa
tal. Loaue is in jail awaiting develop
ments.
Harris the wounded negro, killed
Will Moore, another negro, in a row
near the city power house two years
ago to the day.
SHOOTING SCRAPE AT DENTON'
A shooting scrape occurred at Den
ton, this county, on Christmas Day, in
which H. A. Lawson shot Sheb Rod
denberry with a pistol, the ball enter
ing the neck and passing between the
jugular vein and the spinal column,
lodging in the right arm. Roddenber
ry was taken to Dr. Hall’s sanitarium
at Hazelhurst and it is thought that
he will recover.
As the shooting took place across
the line in Jeff Davis county, Sheriff
Gillis of Hazelhurst went to the scene
and took Lawson, to Hazelhurst and
lodged him in jail.
A dollar now will be more appre
ciated than two dollars later on.
THE COFFEE COUNTY COTTON CLUB
WILL AID RURAL SCHOOL LIBRARIES
The following information concern
ing the Coffee County Cotton Club has
been sent to us by County School Sup
erintendent Floyd, and it is of deep in
terest to all the school teachers, pu
pils and patrons:
Purpose—To equip schools with li
braries.
Qualifications for Entrance Any
boy or girl not over 18 years of age on
November 1, 1915.
Time of Entrance —Not later than
April 1, 1915.
Length of Row —100 yards.
Cotton to be gathered and weighed
in the presence of three disinterested
parties said parties to be chosen by
the trustees and one-half of the cot
ton to be returned to the producer, and
the other half to be delivered to the
trustees for disposition. The proceeds
to be used to purchase library books
only, under the direction of the teach
er and county school superintendent.
Seed Will Be Furnished
Seed will be furnished by Board of
Education.
Prizes f°r County at Large
Best yield by and child SIO.OO
Best yield by any club of 20..510.00
Best yield by any club of 10*.. .$ 5.00
Prizes for Individual Schools
Best yield any boy or girl $2.50
2nd best yield any boy or girl.sl.so
3rd best yield any boy or girl.sl.oo
Also a SIO.OO book case will be giv'- !
by the Board of Education to any
school raising $25.00 for library from
any source.
A SIO.OO gold medal or a set of
PIG CLUB LECTURE
WAS INTERESTING
Prof. Downing, State Agent of the Pig
Club Work Delivered Interesting
Lecture to Farmers and Teach
ers Monday at the Grand
A most interesting moving picture
exhibition and lecture were given at
the Grand Theatre on last Monday by
Prof. Downing. State Agent of the Pig
Club work in Georgia. The audience
consisted of a few farmers and about
fifty teachers of the county public
schools. The demonstration was free
to the public, and was given to work
up interest in meat production in Cof
fee county, and to emphasize the im
portance of the Pig Club work which
will be inaugurated in this county in
the early part of the year.
The pictures were largely from
views of South Georgia scenes—in
Lowndes, Brooks and Grady counties.
Brooks is the banenr meat producing
county in the State. In the early part
of this year, twenty-six wagons load
ed with bacon were drawn Into Quit
man in an unbroken line. Forty thou
sand pounds were marketed on that
day. A splendid view of this meat
sale was shown in a moving picture.
Also the curing in cold storage at
Valdosta, and marketing of hams by
parcel post made a very interesting
and instructive picture.
Interest in the pictures as they ap
peared on the canvas was intensified
by the practical lecture given by Prof.
Downing.
NO WAR TAX ON
CO. OFFICERS BONDS
Special to The Progress,
Atlanta, Dec. 29. —State and County
officers in every Georgia town will be
gratified to learn that their bonds for
faithful service need not bear the gov
ernment. war tax stamp.
Governor John M. Slaton was for
some time doubtful about this matter
The Atlanta revenue collector ruled
that the tax was required, but Gover
nor Slaton is a believer in state’s
rights, and decided to look further in
to the matter before calling on the
county officers to pay the tax. So he
wrote direct to headquarters at Wash
ington, and the chief of the depart
ment said the tax would not be re
quired. State and County officers will
be saved a total of at least SI,OOO by
the ruling.
BUT LITTLE DISORDER
HERE ON CHRISTMAS
“Christmas was quiet in Douglas”.
So reports Chief of Police Stevens,
who says the docket in the mayor’s
court on Monday was scratched only
a few times, the usual number of of
fenders being in the minority as com
pared with other court days just af
ter Christmas.
The most serious case docketed was
against Wess Lacue for shooting Will
Harris, an account of which appears in
another column. The city continued
the case on account of the absence of
some maetrial witnesses. The State
holds the accused for asault and at
tempt to murder. Lacue is now out
of jail under a SSOO bond to await the
action of the next grand jury.
George Lewis, colored, charged with
disorderly conduct o n Christmas
(wife beating) was given fifteen dol
lars or thirty days on the city chain
gang.
Job printing at The Progress office.
books will be given to the teacher
whose club of twenty wins prize.
#5.00 silver medal or set of books
will be given to the teacher whose
club of ten wins prize.
SO THROW OUT YOUR CHEST! ACT LIKE A MAN!
HITCH UP YOUR GALL US AND G# AT IT AGAIN!
J. P. BYRD SUCCUMBS TO GUN
SNOT WOUNDS RECEIVEO SUNDAY
Was Siiot By Bruce Adams at Fairs
And Brought to Tospital Here But
It Was Impossible to Save His
Life.—Funeral Today.
Last Sunday night J. P. Byrd, of
Fales, this county, was shot and fatal
ly wounded by Bruce Adams, from
which wound Mr. Byrd died last night.
Immediately following the shooting,
physicians Whelchel and Roberts were
called to attend the w r oiinded man, to
which call they responded in haste. On
arriving at the scene of the shooting,
the physicians found the patient in a
precarious condition. They adminis
tered the best treatment possible un
der the conditions which revived him
sufficiently to enable those attending
him to bring him to the City Hospital
early Monday morning. The wound
was dressed, which for a time appear
ed to relieve the injured man and a
slight hope was entertained that he
might recover.
Ysterday, however, unfavorable sym
ptoms developed and Mr. Byrd began
to sink rapidly until he died. His
death was announced at 10 o’clock last
night.
The shooting occurred at the home
of Bill Adams who resides near Fales
in the lower part of the county. The
Adams’ report that Byrd went first to
the home of Easter Adams under the
influence of liquor and frightened the
woman and children, making them flee
from the threatened danger in the cold
night air thinly clad. It is claimed
that Byrd then proceeded to the home
of Bill Adams, near by, and made an
attack on Bruce, a son of Bill Adams,
chasing him into the house. Byrd
then, according to reports, procured
an axe, and began battering the door,
whereupon the young Adams fired on
him, emptying a load of number seven
shot into his left shoulder and chest,
which perforated the lungs.
The post mortem examination, con
ducted this morning, developed evi
dence that makes it appear that Byrd
must have been in a declining position
when the shot which took his life was
fired. This circumstance puts a new
phase on the ease, and other startling
developments are anticipated. Adams
report was accepted by the friends
and relatives of both parties to the
tragedy, which, if true would have
justified the act, consequently, no ar
rests were wade until today, since the
death of the w'ounded man, and the
conflicting evidence developed in the
examination.
Deputy Sheriff Shaw went out ear
ly this morning and brought Adams to
the city and placed him in jail.
The deceased is a young man well
known in this section of the State. He
was born and reared in Pierce county.
(Continued on page 2)
FRANK WINS FIRST
VICTORY IN COURTS
Leo M. Fran's first victory in the
courts came last Monday in the certi
fication of his appeal to the United
States Supreme Court by Associate
Justice Joseph Lamar. The action of
Justice Lamar will permit a review of
the points entering into Frank’s ap
peal for a writ of habeas corpus which
recently was denied by Federal Judge
W. T. Newman, of Atlanta.
When Frank was told of the action
of Justice Lamar, he said: “It is a
long lane that has no turning.” He
then spoke at some length on his se
ries of defeats, broken only by this
belated victory.
Many of Frank's friends hastened to
the tower in Atlanta where he has
been confined for so long, and with
him at the time the glad news came
was his wife, Mrs. Lucile Frank, and
she was more effected by the news, ap
parently, than her husband.
The case will be placed on the Su
preme Court calendar at once. On mo
tion of Solicitor Dorsey and Attorney
General Grice, it is more than likely
that it will be moved forwerd from
the position it would take
and will be up for hearing within 30
or 0u days. Frank’s lawyers have
high hopes of success before the high
court, asserting that their plea has a
strong legal foundation.
$1 Per Annum
NEW OFFICERS
ASSUME DUTIES
The new year comes in this week,
and its advent means many business
and official changes in Douglas and
elsewhere.
The newly elected county officers
have qualified and will take up their
duties on the first.
Dan Wall will succeed J. R. Over
man as clerk of the Superior Court.
As previously announced, Mrs. Atlas
Huckabee will be retained as assist
ant in the clerk’s office.
Mr. Overman who did not stand for
re-election, retires with the good will
and best wishes of his many friends.
He will for a time join the State
Farmers’ Union forces and will re-or
ganize the work in Coffee and prebab
lyother counties. His wide acquaint
ance and influence eminently qualify
him for this important work.
J. C. Gillis, after a two-year term as
sheriff, retires and will be succeeded
by Dave Ricketson, who comes back
to the position he formerly filled. Mr.
Gillis will likely continue to reside
in Douglas. He has not yet decided
what line of business he will engage
in. Sheriff Ricketson has appointed
Perry Strickland, Who is one of the re
tiring county commissioners, to aid
him as first deputy. Mr. Strickland
will move his family to Douglas and
make his home here.
The newly elected board of county
commisisoners will be installed and
will transact their first day’s business
on next Monday. The old board, head
ed by A. J. Meeks, as chairman, retires
op that day.
Daniel Vickers will succeed Daniel
Moore as tax collector.
E. S. Sapp will succeed D. S. Wall,
Sr., as tax receiver,
T. Tanner will succeed W. L. Kirk
land as county treasurer.
G. W. Kight succeeds himself as the
county surveyor.
G. L. Sims succeeds himself as cor
oner.
( liiinges in City Officials.
Mayor T. A. Wallace who succeeds
himself as mayor, and the city coun
cil recently elected will be inducted
into office next Monday night. Many
applications for positions with the ci
ty are being filed, all of which will
be taken up and duly considered at
the first meeting. The members of
the outgoing council are entitled to
eornest and faithful discharge of
their duties under very adverse con
ditions during the year now p closing.
S. J. Stubbs is the only councilman
who acted on the old board w p ho will
be with the new r board. The other
members of the council are: T. W.
Upton, J. R. Overman, W. L. Rogers,
Melvin Tanner.
WILL SPEAK AGAIN
TONIGHT
Those who had the pleasure of hear
ing Hon. M. L. Brittain, state super
intendent of education, speak this
morning at the Court House, were at
tracted to his eloquence and the splen
did manner in which he handled his
subject. He is an enthusiastic believ
er in “better and more schools,” and
has a state-wide reputation.
Mr. Brittain will speak again to
night at the school auditorium at 7:30
and it is expected that the spacious
room will be well filled.
It is not often that Douglas has the
oportunity of hearing such men as Mr.
Brittain and Prof. Powell, of Valdosta,
who also spoke this morning and will
speak again tonight, and they should
be greeted with a big attendance.
The auditorium will be open before
the hour for the speaking to begin, and
there is to be no charge for admission.
Woman Justin of the Peace.
Miss Rhea Whitehead has been el
ected justice of the peace at Seattle,
Wash., She has made a study of so
cial and civic reform work in the
East. Serving under the prosecuting
attorney as deputy, she has had the
j necessary experience.
J.D.J.