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School News
Linton Hopkins and Charlie
Land were absent Monday, trans
acting business.
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Rev. Van Deveeter couducted
the chapel exercises one morning
this week.
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program for Friday afternoon
March 6th, “Resolved that
newspapers have more influence
than books” Affirmative Mar
in Ball, Linton Hopkins, Joel
Mallett. Negative Smith Settle,
Ellison McGufffe, Auby Redman.
Bert Carmichael, Historical
Inventions.
Mahone Crawley, Speech.
Ned Furlow, Composi6ion.
W. P- Newton, Jokes.
Lee Hammond, Oration,
Sam Johnson, Current Events.
Carl Thaxton, Biography of
some man.
Merritt Bailey, News of the
week.
Duke Meredith, Speech.
McCord Shaver, Speech.
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Program for High . School De
partment Tuesday February 28.
A. J. Biles, Current events.
Lewis Curry, Recitation.
James Edwards, Composition.
T. J. Hammond, Address.
• Von Taylor, Oration.
Tom Watkins, News of the
week.
C. W. Woodward, Jokes.
Zelma Childs, Reading.
DEBATE.
Resolved, '‘That wealth pro
duces more crime than ignor
ance.” Affirmative Morris Red
man, Dave Spencer, Sherwood
Thaxton, Negative, J. B.Mays,
Morris Wright, Leland Smith.
The children of the third grade
\ had an interesting program con
sisting of songs, recitations and
readings last Friday afternoon,
on the life of George Washing
ton. They were encouraged by
the presence of a good many visit
ors.
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John Johnson, Fred Erichsen
and Eyleen Scarborough have re
turned to school after an abscence
of several days on account of
sickness.
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Anna Mary Powers was on the
sick list last Monday.
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Lewis Moore is still sick and
not able to be at school.
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The teachers and pupils are
pleased to see so many of the
girls and boys who have been on
the sick list, back at work this
week. Among them are, Mattie
Mae McElroy, Elizabeth Sams,
Maurice Wright, Raymond
Wright, Emma Lu Nolen.
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Charles Bailey and Watson
Barnes were absent the first of
the week.
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A public debate will be held in
the school auditorium on Friday
evening, March 13th.
NOTICE.
All debtors to the firm of W .
B- Adams & Cos., are requested
to call and settle. The estate of
W. F. Adams is being wound up
an d it is necessary that all our
debts be paid at once.
W. F. Adams & Cos. |
CENTRAL GEORGIA POWER CO.
CONTINUED FROM SIXTH PAGE.
consumer of power from this
great plant on the Ocmulgee. is
already the manufacturing and
railroad center of Central Geor
gia With its beautiful homes
located upon the hills overlooking
both banks of the Ocmulgee and
its business and industrial sec
tions lying at the foot of these
hills, it presents a rare combina
tion of the low country and up
country, the old South and the
new South. Its famous seats of
learning and public institutions
and its stately residences, togeth
er with its varied and extensive
manufacturing and business in
terests, combine the culture,
charm and advantages of the an
te-bellum days with the thrift,
enterprise and rapid growth of
the new South, making it a de
lightful place of residence and
one of the most substantial, pro
gressive and promising cities of
the South. Macon has a popula
tion of 56,000, three national and
five State banks with a total cap
italization of $1,250,000, deposits
of $6,000,000 and annual clear
ings for 1907 of $35,466,698.
Twelve lines of railroad from as
many different directions focus
here, operating 68 passenger
trains into and out of Macon dai
ly, and having extensive termi
nal facilities and shops. The
work recently done by the Gov
ernment on the Ocmulgee river
has resulted in the Macon &
Brunswick Navigation Cos. build
ing steamers which will ply be
tween these cities and give Macon
all-water freight rates.
Atlanta with her great indus
tries demanding a constantly-in
creasing supply of power, is only
43 miles from the development
planned on the Ocmulgee, and
from this and other power sites
but little farther distant 20,000
horse-power or more could be
transmitted to the capital city,
while this company has 20,000
available horse-power on the
Oconee within 145 miles of Savan
nah, Georgia’s second city in
population, manufactures and
commerce, and her greatest sea
port. This is the nearest availa
ble hydro-electric power to
Savannah, and since for some
years past power has been suc
cessfully transmitted 175 miles
in New York State and over 220
miles in California for heavy and
continuous service, it will be but
a few years before the streams
of Central Georgia will furnish
light and power to her coast cities.
The Macon Railway & Light
Cos., a corporation capitalized at
$2,200,000, owning and operating
the street railways and lighting
system of Macon, has recently
become closely allied with the
Central Georgia Power Cos., the
controlling interests of both com
panies being identical. The lo
cal company has a large, modern
turbo-generator steam
which will be used as an auxili
ary to the hydro-electric plants of
the Power Company, enabling
the secondary power to be sold
as primary power.
Steam coal costs from 53 to
$3 50 a ton in this territory, and
the cost of power generated by
steam ranges from S3O to s7o per
horse-power per year, m v ery e a
instances being produced more
cheaply in even the ’argest an
most modern plants. The cost of
electric power at present is from
$lO4 per horse-power per year
Lward. This development will
furnish power at P™es r angmg
on the average from S2O to -
per horse-power per year. Y\ hat
a reduction in operating expenses
these figures mean to the present
manufacturing interests of this
section is readily seen, and that
they will attract many industries
seeking advantageous locations,
ample transportation facilitiesand
a plentiful supply of power at
low cost is scarcely to be doubted.
Such have been the results of
hydro-electric developments
throughout the country.
The undertakings of the Cen
tral Georgia Power Cos., plans for
the financing of which are now
under way, must be regarded as
among the most important and
promising in the entire South
The plans of the company have
been carefully matured and are
based upon a close study and
thorough knowledge of local in
dustrial conditions, backed up by
the exhaustive engineering work,
investigations and reports of the
most skilled and successful hy
draulic and electrical engineers.
This company will supply the
last essential requisite for the
full development of the resources
and industries of a territory that
already has a thrifty and rapidly
increasing population, abundant
transportation facilities, exhaust
less supplies of raw material for
its well established and varied
lines of manufactures, a plenti
ful supply of labor, a genial cli
mate, and almost every product
of orchard, farm and forest.
A FRENCH WEDDING.
The Way a Marriage In the Country
Districts Is Conducted.
Sometimes a country wedding
passed, and that was always a pret
ty sight, A marriage is always an
important affair in France in every
class of life. There are long dis
cussions with all the members of
the two families. The cure, the
notary, the patron (if the young
man is a workman), are all consult
ed, and there are as many negotia
tions and agreements in the most
humble families as in the grand
monde of the Faubourg St. Ger
main. Almost all French parents
give a dot of some kind to their chil
dren, and whatever the sum is, ei
ther 500 francs or 2,000 francs, it is
always scrupulously paid over to the
notary.
The wedding day is a long one.
After the religious ceremony in the
church all the wedding party —
members of the two families and a
certain number of friends —adjourn
to the hotel of the little town for a
breakfast, which is long and most
abundant. Then comes the crown
ing glory of the day—a country
walk along the dusty highroud to
some wood or meadow, where they
can spend the whole afternoon.
It is pretty to see the little pro
cession trudging along, the bride in
all her wedding garments, white
dress, white shoes, wreath and veil',
the groom in a dress coat, top hat,
white cravat and waistcoat, with a
white ribbon bow on his sleeve.
Almost all the girls and young wo
men are dressed in white or light
colors; the mothers and grandmoth
ers (the whole family turns out) in
black, with flowers in their bon
nets.
There is usually a fiddler walking
ahead making most remarkable
sounds on his old cracked instru
ment, and the younger members of
the party take an occasional gallop
along the road. They are generally
very gay. There is much laughing
and from time to time a burst of
song. It is always a mystery to me
how the bride keeps her dress and
petticoat so clean, but she does,
with that extraordinary knack all
Frenchwomen seem to have of hold
ing up their skirts.
They passed often under the wall
of the' chateau, for a favorite rest
ing place was in our woods. At the
entrance of the allee verte, where it
widens out a little, the moss makes
a beautiful soft carpet, and the big
trees give perfect shade. We heard
sounds of merriment one day when
we were passing, and we stopped to
look on from behind the bushes,
where we couldn’t be seen. —Mrne,
Waddington in Scribner’s.
The latest styles in Job Print
ing at the Progress office.
JAMES F. CARMICHAEL
Real Estate and
Loans
(Office in First. National
Dunk Building)
Loans On City Property
and Parm Lands, Long
Time, at Low Interest.
W. E. WATKINS
LAWYER
Jackson ----- Georgia
Practice in all Courts, both State
and Federal.
Office in Bank Hall west side publie
sq mire.
T. J. DEMPSEY
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Jackson ----- Georgia
Y. A. WRIGHT,
ATTORNEY - AT - LAW,
Jackson, Georgia. .
Longest experienced lawyer at
the Jackson bar.
FOR RENT^
Rooms, for rent. Call on W. B.
Reeves. R. L. C. No 2.
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I THE GASOLINE ENGINE
You make a mistake if you think you cau run your (
e| farm economically or profitably without a gasoline engine.
E§ Do not overlook the possibilities of a gasoline engine for
pH farm use. A gasoline engine will furnish power to do the
p| hundred and one little jobs about your farm which make
p| farm work drudgery if hand, wind or horse power is used.
p=| The gasoline engine is so reliable, so simple, so safe, and
p| so economical to operate that you can not afford to over* 1
p| look it Of all the gasoline engines on the market the
ip| I. H. C. engine stands first because it is designed by men
B who understand the requirements of a practical and cheap
Hi Ei B f arm power.
I p| i§ :r I. H. C. engines are made in sizes
HI M rgbl' * from Ito 25 horse power in vertical or
rrWj f horizontal stationary and portable types.)
..We have one that will fit your needs. Calif
fiPRS j on us and we will gladly explain*
■i A# For sale by CARTER & WATKIto
through Pullman Service
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For Information and Reservations
WRITE TO
G. R. PETIT, T. P. A.,
Macon, Georgia.
DR. J. E. WOODS,
Physician and Surgeon.
Office upstairs in Ci*um build
ing. Residence phone, 163; office
phone, 137-J.
JOHN B. HOPKINS,
DENTIST
Jackson, - - - Georgia.
Office over the store of The J. S.
Johnson Company.
NOTICE.
Mr. J. R. Carmichael’s guano
business will be conducted by J.
W. Carmichael with office at the
First National Bank. He will at
tend to all sales and deliveries.
All notes and accounts of the <
guano business will be found ’
with him for collection.
FOR SALE.
The imported stalion Applaudi,
will be sold by the Jackson
French Coach Horse Company,
Jackson Georgia, on the first
Tuesday in March next.
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For Sale —My residence on
North Oak street. I have also
for sale or rent the residence of
J. V. Smith on West avenue,
tf J. T. SMITH,