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JB||| BLECKLEY COUNTY
| The Low Prices we are now offering cn all Furniture, Pianos, Organs, Sewing Machines,
Etc., will make you feel as good as if you were living in a New County—Come and Price.
JACKSON FURNITURE COMPANY.
The Fight for the New County
Not Lost But Just Begun.
Between eleven and twelve hun
dred of Pulaski County’s citizens
signed a petition to create a new
county out of the east half of .Pu
laski. This petition was presented
to the Committee on Constitutional
Amendments, last Monday, and
about one hundred and fifty of our
best citizens went to the Capital City
to use their influence to present
their cause.
The Southern Railway promised
to give us a special train. •We
went to the expense of issuing cir
culars, and sending them out to the
people, and would have carried four
or five hundred, hut the Southern
failed to furnish the special. Our
were greatly disappointed.
A more determined, united and
sincere people never presented a
juster or more plausible proposition
to the Georgia Legislature. Every
argument of the opposition was
demolished. Her distinguished
eitizen the Hon. Pope Brown even
plead the baby act, claiming that
Hawkinsville and the west side
(mind you with two-thirds of the
taxable property) have a great pre
ponderance of swamps, sandy lands,
and negroes and was thereby unable
to stand alone while we had lands
on this side worth $75 or 8100 per
acre. The Lord help our poverty
stricken neighbors who reside on the
burning sands of old Pulaski, be
sieged by the reptiles alligators and
mosquitoes of her myriad swamps,
and menaced by the "dark sons of
Africa. We are truly glad from
the bottom of our hearts, that these
good people, who occupy the hum
ble homes nestled amid the sandy
waste or dreary swamps of our
beloved county, live beneath the
sliadow of their court house and do
not have to leave their homes over
night when they are summoned as
a witness or to do jury duty. In
our imagination we can see these
homes after the dark shadow of
night has spread its gloom about
them with the strong arms of the
father or brother to protect them.
The mother rests peacefully beneath
its shadows andthe daughter fears
no harm, for within that house the
strong man sleeps (the noble yeo
manry of our land) and woe be un
to him who enters its sacred pre
cintcs to destroy.
Allow us to lift the curtain, and
in our amagination view, the cot
tages in the border districts, twen
ty-eight miles from Hawkinsville,
while the liege lord and protector is
COCHRAN, PULASKI COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1910.
serving Ins county. We see the
trembling wife and children hover
ing around the hearth stone, start
led by every noise from Without,rea
lizing the impending danger siTrroun
ding them. Fearing to retire, they
stay together until overcome by na
ture, they drowsily repair to their
rooms, lay down upon their lieds
and lapse into a restless slumber;
and while between fitful dreams and
dreadful awakenings, the dispoiler
of that home, that black demon of
hell, is fast on his way, armed to
destroy and to kill, with designs in
his black heart to perpetrate a ieed
unparalelled in the annals of crime,
at the mention of which every true
Southern man rises up to avenge,
regardless of circumstances. No
gentlemen! the time is coming
when it will not be necessary to
to leave these homes alone. This
■fight has just begun. You may re
tard progress, but you cannot stop
it. You may defy justice; hut it
will prevail at last. We have
made a good beginning. Our peo
ple have put up a noble fight,- Uni
ted we will come again and there
will be a time when the Constitu
tional Committee of the house of
representatives will not be composed
of members unalterably and uncon
ditionally opposed to the formation
of new counties
High School
Faculty 1910-1 /
Leo H.- Browning, A. 8., Supt.
Miss Etta Reid, A. 8., 6th. and
7th. grades.
Miss Tinie Grimes, A. 8., 4th.
and sth. grades.
Miss Arrie Lawton, A. 8., 2nd
and 3rd grades.
Miss Charlotte Carson, A. 8., Ist.
grade.
Miss Ina M. Wright, high school
and expression; Emerson School,
Boston.
Miss Alva Bennett, music and
voice: Breneau Conservatory.
It is with pleasure that we note
that every teacher is an A. B. grad
uate of a reputable college. Every
teacher has had at least two years
experience, and has had normal
training.
Our school will be the equal, in the
subjects we teach, of any school in
Georgia.
The catalogues are published and
will be sent to any one interested.
New Rural
Phone Lines.
A new farmers’ telephone line
having nine subscribers has just
been connected with the Cochran
exchange of the Southern Bell Tele
phone Company. The line extends
eight miles out the Lime Stone
road and furnishes service to the
following well-known people:
J. T. Berryhill, Mrs. E. Berry
hill, Green Smith, James Coody,
W. J. Coody, H. A. Haskins, J. E.
Flovd, W. F. Searboro, G. M.
Scarboro, residence.
The subscribers on the line are
now in constant telephonic commu
nication with each other and
through the Southern Bell exchange
with telephone users in Cochran.
The construction of this line and
its connection with the telephone
exchange here is another step in
the progress of telephone develope
ment which is being made by the
residents in the rural sections of
Pulaski County. Under the plan
of the Southern Bell Company far
mers and other rural dwellers are
enabled to secure telephone service
on an economical basis. As a re
sult, farmers in all sections of the
state arc installing telephones in
their homes.
In the last year nineteen cities in
the South, their chambers of com
merce or through some organiza
tion of the merchants and business
men, have taken practical steps to
build telephone lines and connect
with their towns.
Funds have been raised to assist
the farmer in a financial way and,
according to Progress, the result has
been even more successful and grati
fying than was expected.
Farmers in Georgia and Alabama
are now selling their cotton and
other produce by telephone at high
er prices than they formerly obtain
ed when they first drove to town
and ran the risk of finding condi
tions unfavorable.
The plan under which farmers
secure universal telephone service
and connection with the comprehen
sive Bell system contemplates that
a group of farmers band together
in a co-operative organization,
build the line and purchase the
equipment. This requires a small
cash expenditure, but the farmers
own the telepliqnes, wires and oth
er material.
The line is connected with the
Bell system, a flat charge being
made for service. This monthly
charge is very low and when divid
ded among the farmers on the line
Negro Killed
Near Chester.
Lucias Brown, a negro who
works on the place of Jim Arnold
near Chester, shot and killed Alias
Coley another negro who was a la
borer on the place of Sol Purser.
Tt is stated the two negroes had
been at outs several years and had
quarrelled a number of times,
threatening to kill each other.
A New Artesian Well
An artesian well is being bored at
the Oil Mill for the benefit of the
Oil Mill property. They have gone
down about 45 feet and ex
pect to get water at abnut 250 or
300 feet. This will he a great im
provement to the Oil Mill property
as during dry weather they are
forced to use a lauge quahity of the
City water, whiah is quite expen
sive.
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Drainage Pipe.
We have just received a car load
of all sizes of drainage pipe and can
fill your requirments for any size.
Call on E. Cook, Jr.
At Salem Church.
Prof. Edgar Pace sings at Salem
church on Wednesday evening,
Sidy 27th, in the interest of his
Normal School of Music which be
gins July 28th, 1910.
Everybody invited to attend.
Acme Quality Kalsomine —A
Sanitary Wall Finish. Works in
cold or warm water. In White and
colors. For sale by Cochran Lumb
er Company.
Rev. H. P. Meyers and family,
Missess Fannie and Bessif Smith
and Miss Roberta Smith, of Dub
lin, left Tuesday for Indian Springs.
Miss Nan Dunham has won the
Georgia Scholarship from Seigle-
Meyei’s Correspondence School of
Music.
is seldom more than 50 cents a
month. The fact thac all the tele
phones are on the line is an advant
age rather than an objection in ru
ral districts. It enables a farmer
in an emergency to call every one
of his neighbors to Ids assistance
without loss of time. —N. Y. Sun.
NUMBER h:
Washout Caused
Wreck on Southern.
One Injured— Traffic Was
Tied Up.
Macon, Ga., July 19 —In a mira
culous manner passenger train No.
13, on the Southern Railway sped
over the trestle at Toiler’s
creek, 12 1-2 miles from here,
without harm, and still more so,
the engine of one section of freight
train No. 85 yesterday morning at
5 o’clock, before one of the benches
in the middle of the structure was
washed away, resulting in a crash
through of ten cars. Not a single
man of the crew was killed or in
jured. This singular wreck has
tied the line up since tin accident
took place with the exception of an
exchange of passengers there.
This was effected by the construc
tion of a foot bridge yesterday. The
train*was in charge of Conductor
Simpson. Engineer Alexander was
on the engine. Both men live in
Macon and are well-known here.
Traveling Passenger Agent G. R.
Pettit went to the scene and did all
he could to help traffic. An exch
ange was impossible for the fore
noon trains.
The cause of the wreck was tho
flood which was raging on Tober’s
creek Sunday, which carried a,
large amount of driftwood to lodge
against the trestle. The incessant
jarring on the middle bench finally
washed it loose. How the power*
ful engine managed to got over be
fore the crash came experienced
railroad men find it impossible to
calculate.
THROUOH TRAINS OVER CENTRAL.
As a result of the wreck the trains
over the Southern for Macon were
routed over the Central. By today
at daylight the trestle will lie re
paired.
train scheduled to
leave here yeetsni*y afternoon at
5 dock for Atlanta was held un
til 7 o’clock. It as far as. the
wreck and there transferred pnsseng
ers with the passenger 'train frbln
Atlanta, scheduled to arrive here a
short while after that hour.
MASS OB' TWISTED IRON AND CARS.
The wreck presented an awe-in
spiring spectacle with the mass of
twisted iron, trucks and splintered
cars some thirty feet below the level
of the rails. The cars were partly
filled with merchandise and this
with the cars constituted a total
loss.