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BU STS COUNTY PROG RES VOLUME 26 SHOOTING AFFRAY NEAR BIG DAM News of a shooting affray on the Ocmulgee driver at the camp of the Central Georgia Power company Sunday night has reached the city. It seems that Sunday night Tom Johnson, col ored, shot and severely wounded a negro woman whose name has not been learned here. The af fair was reported to Sheriff Wil son Sunday night at 11 o'clock. The details of the shooting are meagre. It is stated the negro woman will recover. No war rant nas been sworn out for the alleged culprit. The shooting took place at an early hour Sun day night. Johnson, who is said to be from Macon, was in the employ of Messrs. Lane and Bros. DEATH OF PROM INENT CITIZEN. The death of Mr. J. M. McMi chael, known locally as “Coon/' occured Sunday night at his home on Indian Spring street at 11 o'clock. His death was due to a complication of diseases. At the lime of his death Mr. McMichael was in his G9th year. He had been ill for only a few weeks, though he had been in declining health for some time. Mr. McMichael was one of the most prominent citizens of Jack son and Butts county. For about twenty years he was a member of the police force of Jackson and was a brave and efficient officer. He belongs “to one of the oldest and most highly respected famil ies in the county. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Nancy Mc- Michael, two daughters, Mrs. Kate Valentino, and Miss Marie McMichael, two sons, Messrs. Dave and William McMichael. The funeral was held Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock,the service; being conducted by the Rev. S. P. Wiggins, pastor of the Meth odist church. The interment was in the Jackson cemetery. The esteem in which the deceased was held was attested by the fact that a large crowd of friends and relatives gathered to pay a last tribute of respect. RESOLUTIONS PASSED Whereas, Drs. W. J. Waits and W. J. Smith, each a beloved bro ther in the medical profesrion, having' recently been bereic by death in each of their homes of their only two children; therefore be it resolved; Ist. That the members of the Butts County Medical Society of fer their sincerest sympathies. 2d. That we point them to the Lamb of God, who taketh away the sin of the world, as their on ly comforter. 3d. That a copy of these reso lutions be put on our minutes and also published in each of the county papers and a marked copy sent each of the families. A. F. White, President, J. A. Jarrell, Secy. Clearing Reservoir Sealed bids are asked for clear ing the whole or any part of the land that will be covered by back water from the dam now being erected at the foot of Capp’s and Lloyd’s shoals in the Ocmulgee river, in Butts and Jasper counties, Georgia. The land to be thoroughly cleared of standing or fallen tim ber, brush, stumps: etc., in ac cordance with specifications or information furnished by J. G. White & Cos., Jackson, Ga. Bids are asked in the following man ner: ■ V ■ . ■ First: At so much per acre for the land actually cleared; the company reserving all merchant able timber and cord wood. Second: At so much per acre for the land actually cleared; Certificates of Deposit Afford an opportunity and a safe way to place large or small amounts at interest. They are bona-fide notes of the bank and bear the bank’s seal. They bear interest if left six or twelve months, and the interest be gins the day you leave the money and is not figured only in January and July as is done in most savings banks. You can renew your certifi cates every six months and the in terest is compounded. If you have a large or small amount and wish to make it earn something, get a certifi cate of deposit at THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF JACKSON Go home Count your hoarded dollars that are sub ject to theft or fire. Hav’nt any? Well, you will have, if you deposit your money with the Jackson Banking Company JACKSON, GEORGIA Which solicits your patronage and will pay you 5 per cent per annum on time deposits. Your neighbor has, Why not you? JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1908. without any claim on the timber or cord wood. , Bids are lo be addressed to Georgia Construction Company, care J. G. White & Cos., at Jack son, Ga., and plainly marked BIDS FOR CLEARING RESER VOIR Bids to be received not later than Dec. Ist, 1908, and the company reserves the right to except the land purchased from any individual owner or reject any and all bids received. For particulars as to the man ner of doing the work, the time of completiou, etc., apply to the Superintendant, of Construction for J. G. White & Cos., at Jack son, Ga., or at the dam site. Georgia Construction Cos., W. J. Massee, President. SOUTH LOSES BRAVE STATESMAN Senator Carmack of Tennessee Murdered at the Rands Of Political Enemies Nashville, Tenn. —Former Uni ted States Senator E. W. Car mack was killed here Monday afternoon in a street duel with Robin Cooper, an attorney and son of Duncan B. Cooper. The crime is said to have had its ori gin in recent editorials published in the Nashville Tennesseean, of which Mr. Carmack was editor, attacking Cooper. The men met on Seventh aven ue this afternoon at four o’clock and the shooting began. Cooper is said to have fired three shots and Carmack two. Mr. Car mack was hit three times and fell in a dying condition. Coop er was wounded in the shoulder and was taken to a hospital. With Robin Cooper at the time of the shooting was his fa ther, Col. B. Cooper. He is said to have drawn his pistol but it is reported he did not shoot. Young Cooper was taken to the hospital and kept under po lice surveillance while his father was taken to the police station. Warrants have been issued for both of the two men, charging murder and concealed weapons and being an accomplice and car rying concealed weapons. Mr. Carmack was former Uni ted States senator from Tennes see and served his state with marked ability. He was a cand idate to succeed himself but was defeated by Robt. L. Taylor. He ran for governor and was de feated by Governor Patterson. Since the early summer Mr. Car mack has been editor of the Tennesseean. His attacks on Cooper have been bitter. Sev eral days ago it is stated Col. Cooper notified Mr. Carmack that these attacks must cease. The men were formally warm friends but recently have been divided politically. The killing of Senator Car mack has caused intense excite ment throughout his native state and tho South and nation. His remains were taken to his old home at Columbia, Tenn. GOOD ROADS SCHOOL Atlanta Constitution. The good roads school to be held January 25 to 29, at Athens under the direction of the de partment of engineering of the University of Georgia, is expect ed to attract visitors young and old, from all parts of the state. In his address before the Georgia Federation of Road Au thorities on yesterday, Prof. C. M. Strahan, head of the en- gineering department, urgeu m the county officials present to attend the session and expressed the belief that the course of lec tures and instructions would prove profitable. He insisted that it takes knowledge as well as labor to build good roads, The convicts furnish one, the county authorities must supply the oth er. L. W. Page, chief of the office of public roads of the national department of agriculture, will be present and make an address. Manufacturers of road machin ery have promised to make an extensive exhibit There will be held demonstrations showing how the roads have been relocat ed, constructed and drained; their cost, kind of machinery and material used; the workings of convicts, tfieir care, guarding and maintenance. The morning of each day will be given to inspection and dem onstration work and there will be three lectures each afternoon and evening, making fifteen lec tures in all during the five days session. Chancellor Barrow, formerly an engineer will discuss the road situation in Georgia. Other lecturers will be Judge J. S. Tur ner of the prison commission; ex-Justice Andrew J, Cobb, Henry L. Collier of Atlanta; Pro fessor C. M. Strahan, professor civil engineering in the state col lege of agriculture, will deliver one address each day on the principles and methods of road building. A class will be organized and given instruction in running the transit and level. This will be for the special benefit of county surveyors and road supervisors who may need this experience in assisting with local road work. The course will include instruc tion in the technique of field work, the plotting of roads and profiles, laying grades on the profiles, calculating cuts and fills and the amount of earth-work involved. It is expected that this instruc tion will enable those taking the course to more easily assimilate the facts contained in printed matter which will be furnished them. The most valuable and encour aging lesson which Professor Strahan promises the good roads school will teach is that roads are within the means of every coun t/if they go about their con struction in the right way. FOR RENT Four-horse farm, in good cul tivation, located seven miles west of Jackson. For terms apply to A. T. or B. 0. Woodward, Jack ison, Ga. 12-4-x