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(Hb? (Earbratt JhmrttaL VOL. 3. 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. : — 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.