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Call for Cherry Smash We Have Exclusive Agency Walker's Pharmacy. ' VOL. 3. $ $ FREE FREE FREE! $ $ • When you Pay Your Account or Trade $5.00 You get Your Picture Enlarged FREE at -r« JACKSON FURNITURE COMPANY, co =v. Try a Piano or Organ Free From Jackson’s. fiural Telephone 7 Development in Sumpter County. Walter Harper, Staff Correspond ent of the Birmingham Age Herald writing from Cuba, Ala., says: “The building of 61 miles of rural telephone lines to every section of the country has done more perhaps than any other one thing to im prove the general condition of the people and make the growing of truck and farm produce profitable. The system is complete in every re spect and the service all that could be desired. The Bank officials tell me that the rural telephone system has done more than any other one thing to increase individual bank deposits and increase the perminent ■■Asperity of the people. —Sun. t Winging School at Salem. The Salem Singing School lead by Prof. Pace closed Friday. This school lasted twenty days and there was about fifty pupils. A large crowd attended the clos ing session, probably five hundred- Refreshments were served on the grounds and everybody seemed to have a delightful tirtie. New Enterprise for Cochran The new cotton gin being erected just across the big ditch opposite the oil mill will be ready for business next week. This gin will be under the management of A. V. Horne who formerly operated a ginnery at Empire. He has four sixty saw gins and respectfuly solicits your patronage. News From Route 5. Master Earnest Cheek was brought -home from the river with a spell of fever, but we hope he will soon re cover. Mr. P. L. Anglon and family 'visited Mr. M. C. Cheek and fam ily Sunday. Mr. H. Hall and wife are visit ing the latter’s sister, Miss Anty Bellflower. * P Tax Notice R Books are now opens Please call Find pay your city taxes. J. E. COOK, Clerk. We cail our subscribers attention to the display advertisement of The Cochran Journal. Read it Over and call in to see about your subscrip tion before September 15th. Win ffindjratt dlauntal* COCHRAN, PULASKI COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1910. Says Woman Was Burned to Death By Husband. MACON, Ga., Aug. 22. —Win. Walker, a well known farmer w ; ho lives on the Thomaston road, is in jail here charged w ith the murder of his wife. It is said that while Mrs. Wal ker was lighting a fire in the stove that Walker poured gasoline on her and touched a match to her cloth ing. The woman died in great ag ony. As soon as he touched the match, it iR claimed, Walker ran out of the house shouting for help. When some of the neighbors arrived Mrs. Walker was barely alive, but lived long enough to say that her hus band “burned her alive. Coroner Young, after investigat ing the matter, ordered the arrest of Walker, and he is now in jail. fcWi.. Contract Let for Court House. H. Hargrove & Sons of Eastman Were the Successful Bidders. $11,266 Am’tof Bid. The Board of County Commiss ioners held a meeting at their office in the court houde Tuesday, the 16th for the purpose of receiving bids for the improvements that are to be made on the court .house. There were seven bidders for the .job, the bids running from SI 1,266 to $lB, (XX). The contract was awarded hi J. H. Hargrove & Sons of Eastman who were the lowest bidders, their bid being $11,266. The contract calls for completion Of the job within 120 working days. The contractors will begin work just as soon as they can file their bond ami get material on the ground. The contract calls for the rear ranging of the court room and an addition on the south of the build ing, a heating system and a change of the plumbing. When the improvements are made the building will lie comforta ble and commodious. Stockholders Meeting. Stockholders meeting of the Cochran Cotton Mills adjourned Tuesday to meet again Monday p: m 3:00 o’clock. Everybody requested to attend. Business of importance to transact. Ice Cream Supper The Ice Crearri Supper given by Daughters of the Confedracy in the grove in front of the Methodist church was quite a success. A large crowd attended and quite a nice little sum was realized forthe monu ment. The ladies have done a noble work in erecting this beautiful little monument. Prof. Walker. Leaves Hawkinsville Much regret is felt by patrons over the resignation of Prof. R. L. Walker, the music teacher of the Hawkinsville Public Schoojs, who resigned several weeks ago to open a studio in Macon. Mr. Walker has been associated with the public schools of our town for several years and his faithful and proficient work as a music teacher made him very popular with patrons and his resig nation was accepted with much re luctance. —Hawkinsville Disp. it News. We understand that Prof. Wal ker has secured a large class in Ma con at much more remunerative figures than he received in Haw kinsville. We congratulate him on his success. He is a very talanted musician and a splendid teacher, and Macon will be a larger field for him. We believe that he has every requisite of a successful teacher, and his patrons will be fortunate in securing him. Mr. G. R. Pettit Promoted Our genial, accomodating and ef ficient traveling passenger agent, Mr. G.R. Pettit, has been promoted to District • Passenger Agent, with headquarters at Jacksonville, Fla. This is a very deserved promotion and is a result of enterprising work and close attention to the passenger business in this territory. We re gret to give Mr. Pettit up, but con gratulate him on his merited rise. He will have a broader field and additional responsibility, but he will make good, and we believe will fully measure up to the require ments. Col. Hughes in City. - Col. Dudley M\ Hughes our De mocratic nominee for Congress was in the city Monday shaking hands with his many friends and support ers. Col., Hughes had. no opposi tion- He has made a good consci ; ; : « ; «• \ ■ •» V enfious, faithful servant of the peo ple, representing this distsict with ability and an eye single to the welfare of his constituents. His character is above reproach, and we believe he will do his duty as he sees it, to the very best of his ability. Col. Hughes belongs to the old school of Southern gentlemen, and represents those ideals upon which the best citizenship of our country was founded. DOSE ALL THE WORK. Five or six doses of Chil-Co cures chills and malarial fever 25c at all druggists and country merchants. 3-25-4 t-pd. A Letter from Pres. Finley. WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 17th. —President Finley, of the Sou thern Railway Company, being ask ed today about the policy of that Company relative to the validation of order notify bills of lading for export cotton, said: ‘ “The management of the South ern Railway Company recognizes the great commercial importance of this subject, and will do all that it properly can to promote confidence in the markets of the world in its bills of lading. It is believed that the effective enforcement of certain business precautions will go far , to satisfy any doubt which now exists as a re suit of certain alleged man ipulation by shippers of order noti fy hills of lading for export cotton last season, for which the railways were in no way responsible. “The system of issuing such lulls of lading was the subject of a special conference between the carriers and hankers. As a result of this confer* ence, which was held at White Sul phur springs, W. Va., on the 19th. ultimo, the Southern railway Com pany will arrange, beginning on Sept. 1, 1910, to make effective safeguards surrounding the issue of order notify bills of lading which were then agreed upon. Among other tilings agreed upon tending to improve the system of issuing order notify hills of lading for export cot ton, these regulations provide for a bill of lading signature certificate which will he signed and attached on behalf of the Railway Company by a validation officer, to each order notify hill of lading for export cot ton issued by agents of the Com pany authorized to issue such bills of lading. Each validation certifi cate will set forth that the agent who has signed the bill of lading is the regularly appointed agent of the Company, and as such, is authoriz ed to sign bills of lading in accord ance with the regulations of the Company, and that the signature on the attached order notify bill of fading is his signature. The cer tificate will be irremovably attached to the bill of lading covered by it, and, as an additional safeguard, the bill of lading, in addition to its own number, will bear the number of the certificate issued in connection with it. Agents will be instructed not to sign bills of lading until the cotton is in the poscssion of the Railway Company. “Realizing the importance of the matter, the officers in charge are in structed to adept every precaution to make the regulations effective, especially that prohibiting the issue of these bills of lading before cotton has been receivedby carrier. It is believed that the effect of these safeguards will be to prevent any manipulation of bills of lading as it is alleged was practiced in connect ion with last year’s crop, but, as I have said, for which the railways were in no way responsible.’’ Found Body Dang ling Above the Ocmulgee River. A Hlfman body dangling from toe timber s iff a raft in the Ocmul gee river, twelve miles below the city, opposite the Beauregard Thom pson plantation at Avondale, may afford another problem in crime for Bibb county officials. Farmers in that section telephoned Coroner T. E. Young of the gruesome find yes terday evening, while he was en gaged at the inquest over Mrs Al ma Walker, out on the Columbus road. Last night he left over the Georgia Southern and Florida rail way to investigate the case. The information given him did not state whether the body was that of a white person or negro. — Macon Telegraph. Election Returns - For Pulaski- Below is the consolidated vote in in Pulaski County in the primary election Tuesday, August 23rd. For Governor Joseph M. Brown 687 Hoke Smith 745 Edward H. Walker 8 For Secretary of State Phil! Cook 1468 For Ci imptri>l ler-G eneral William A. Wright 1460 For State Treasurer Peyton M. Hawes 836 W. J. Speer 583 For Attorney-General Thomas S. Felder 1010 Hewlette A. Hall 435 For Commissioner of Agriculture T. G. Hudson 1455 For State School Commissioner M. L. Brittain 876 B. M. Zettler 632 For Pension Commissioner John W. Lindsey 1444 For Prison Commissioner R. E. Davidson 873 G. R. Hutchens 633 For Chief Justice Supreme Court William 11. Fish 1461 For Associated Justice Supreme Court Marcus W. Beck 1157 Judge Court of Appeals Arthur G. Powell 1-161 For Railroad Commissioner Full Term, Beginning December 1 1911. J. A. Perry 802 O. B. Stevens 656 For Railroad Commissioner Unex pired Term Ending December 1 1911 C. M. Candler 1461 For Railroad Com missioner For Full Call for Cherry Smash We Have Exclusive Agency Walker's Pharmacy* NUMBER 13. The Georgia State Fair at Macon. The Georgia State Fair will be held at Macon from October 26th. to November sth., and the manag ers are arranging to have some fine attractions. They hope to make the home coming of Georgians who now are in other stales an especial fea ture of the fair and ask all who know of any such person to please send their names to the Macon Chamber of Commerce and invita tions will be sent to them to come back to the fair. This hustling' city will no doubt have a good fair this fall. Death of Pate Rollins Mr. Pate Rollins, a salesman for C. C. Hall at Empire, died at that place last Saturday. He was a very popular young man of excellent character, and had many friends. He was buried at the Rollins grave yard near Empire Sunday with both Masonic and Woodman of the World honors. He was a member of the Masonic lodge at Eastman and of the Woodman of the World lodge at Empire. There was prob ably six or seven hundred people at his funeral. Played with Gun; Child is Killed. Wigham, Ga. Aug. 22 —Last night J. M. Mobley, one of the wealthy planters of Grady county, ( together with his wife, who resides six miles north of Wigham, started for church at Spring Hill, a distance of about four miles. They decided to leave their young child about two years of age at their son’s home on the ruote, with his children. While they were at church one of the little boys, age ten, of the son’s home, began to examine an old guii, when suddenly it fired and killed the baby instantly. Term Beginning December 1 1911. C. M. Candler 14531 For Railroad Commissioner Unexpi red Term Ending December 1 1913 .Joseph F. Gray 880 E. B. Hornady 551 Por Congressman Third District I). M. Hughes 1447 For Representative Joel T. Deese 1026 For County School Commissioner F. B. Asbell 582, R. C. Sanders 528 J. A. Taylor 356 Latest figures indicate that Smith carries state by a popular majority of about 2500 votes and a majoirtyl of 24 counties. ji