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m. o. ■.' ' ' "*" ' ** ' J Would be nice, but JACKSON FURNITURE COMPANY extends a Special Invitation for you to come and inspect their full line cf FURNITURE,- RUGS, MATTING, ART SQUARES, TABLES, ETC. If You Buy $5.00 worth they Enlarge your Picture FREE. When You Pay Up You Get a Picture FREE. Chamber of Commerce Ogranized in Cochran A thoroughly interesting and enthusiastic mass meeting was held at the opera house Thursday night, a Chamber of Commerce was organized; and officers were elected for six months. Dr. .). B Peacock was cho sen President, J. Jr., vice-President, J. .!. Taylor, second vice-Prcsident, J M . Wynne, Treasurer, and T. L. Bailey Secretary. The Constitution was read by Prof. Leo 11. Browning and, after a few alterations and amendments, was unanimously adopted. The following Committees wiil he appointed by the President; Ist. Advertising, 2nd. Civic Improvement, 3rd. New Enterprises, -Ith. Transportation, sth. Entertainment, oth. Finance. Judge Geo. F. Hendricks, .J. J. Taylor, and W. M. Wynne were appointed as a Committee on .Membership. Everybody talked pros perity, and it was unanimously agreed that the "knocker" was a very undesirable citizen and that we should as a whole resolve ourselves into a Committee of Anti-“kuookers” and begin to boost Cochran, and we will soon have as good a town as there is in the State of Georgia. NOTICE! Editor Cochran Journal, Cochran, (ia. r Sir: announce to the reader- ■ paper that there will Reno adjourned term of Pulaski Su perior Court held on the second l :i y ia Decendier, as announced at the close of the regular August court, fir the reason that the court house will he in such condition that it will he impossible to hold court therein in consequence of the addition to the court house being unfinished. Jurors, both grand and petit, are notilied not to attend, but court will he opened at that time for the transaction of such business as does not require juries. Yours truly, J. 11. Martin. Notice to Tax-payers I will divide my time as follows; llawkin.sville fiom Nov. 7 to 12, Cochran from 14 to If. Hawkins vilie 21 to 2d, Co -lir m 28 to Dec. A Hawkinsville sto 10, Cochran 12 to 14, Hawkinsville 15 to 17, Fin leyson 11), Books close 20th. J. J. Pollock, T. 0. P. C. “The Players” Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Finch and Mi-s libelts, “The Player-,’ gave the opening number of our Ly ceum course to a large and enthu as tic audience last Frida v night. feature of the evening s en tertainment was met with appre ciation and enjoyment. The monologues given by Mr. arid Mrs. Finch were full of realism and held the undivided attention of the audence. Ti.<\ music furnished by Miss Rhetts was melody of the highest order. Her technique and expression were excellent. The program as a whole was a happy one and pleased the audience beyond their expectations. ®l )t Ccrcljcati fernowl COCHRAN, PULASKI COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY. NOVUM PER :i. I DID. Davis—Trice On last Thursday evening at 3 o’clock occurred the beautiful wed ding of Miss Mattie Davis to Mr. Charles Trice, at the home of the bride. The ceremony was performed by Dr. Nash of the Baptist church. A number of relatives and friends were present. The bride was beau tifully attired in a grey suit with a large black hat. The guests were • served with sumptuous viands. Many valuable and beautiful pres ents were received which showed the popularity of the bride and groom. They left immediately for a trip including Macon, Barnosville, Grif fin, and will spend two weeks in Chattanooga, Tcnn. —Hawkinsville Dispatch and News. A Card of Thanks We extend our sincere thanks to the generous hearted people of Cochran for their kindness to us in our sad bereavement. J. M. and Annie C. Jones. For Sale! 1 will sell at my place on Novem ber 23rd next the following: 3 or 4 mules, from two to three hundred bales hay, four or five him dred bushels oats, farming imple ments, such as hay presses, mowing machines, binders, etc. 11 -3-3t-p(K Jarrett < < reen. A Card of Thanfs .Duggan Bros & Co., Cochran, Ga. Gentlemen, — Please accept my sincerest thanks for your genefous gift of five dol lars. 'Success to your firm and a long life to the “Red Goose” is my wish. Gratefully yours, Cleo Neal. We sell Edison Portland Cement. Cochran Lumber Co. Snell Coley*s Wrist Brofen Snell Coley, while cranking his automobile Thursday at noon, was struck on the inside of hand by the crank, inflicting a painful wound | and fracturing a small hone near ( the wrist-joint. While the lick was j on the inside of hand near wrist the ! force of it was .so strong that it [ broke a small hone on opposite side lof hand. He had just recovered from a right serious spell of sickness when this aeddent oecured. He was at his usual place of business Ibis morning, and we hope he will soon be alright again. Sam Karel ilz’s Big Sale Sam Karelifz, the proprietor of of the Country Trading Store, breaks the record by placing in this week’s issue of the Cochran Jour nal four solid pages of ads descri bing unprecedented bargains in ten | thousand dollars worth of up to-date j merchandise. This is the 1 rgc t amount of advertising ever sold to one merchant for one issue of this paper and denotes unusual enter prise on the part oi our patron. Cochran and surrounding country will he given the benefit of many big bargains. The sale commences- Wednesday. Nov. 9th, and will continue for thirty days. Green and Gaynor May be Pardoned Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 1. —Gaynor and Green, the two most famous prisoners, after Morse, now eon fined in the Federal penitentiary here, have !>)th made application for parole undei the workings of the new parole hoard which will meet here in two or three days, as soqn as Superintendent Robert La Dow arrives. They are legally eligible for parole, and rumor has it that their applications will he looked on with favor. The story that Morse would pos sibly be paroled proved to be sim ply another of those baseless pieces' of apparent “press agent” work that have appeared frequently since his incarceration. Morse isn't eli gible and hasn’t applied. The rule is that a prisoner must have served two-thirds of his sen tence and must have a record for good behavior. Both these re quirements are fulfilled in the cases of Green and Gaynor. Their four year terms will expire next Febru ary. Gaynor has been in ii! health since his incarceration, and at times it has been doubtful if he would survive his .sentence, but it is said the prospect of shortening his term of service even by a winter, has gi ven him new life. Tragedy at LaWrenceVille j (From Atlanta Constitution) Lawrcnceville, Ga., November 1. —The motive for the t rribletrajedy | enacted in Lawreneevillo this mom ling when Joe !>. Wallace, a tner | chant, killed his wife and 9-year j old son, Cline, anil desperately wounded another son, Felton, 11 years of age. and then killed him self, is still shrouded in mystery. Joe Wallace, a man about 45 years of age, and a piosperous gro cery merchant here, had attended a meeting of the Odd 1 Glows, of which order hi - had been a promi nent member for many vea : , and returned home about 10 o’cßek in the evening, lie soon ivii,, d and from that moment there no living member of his family v. bo can tell what transpired up to 2:7 ) o’clock in the morning, wl u his two daughters, Misses Estelic and Lollie Belle, were awakened by a rapid fire of pistol shots in their moth w’s ! ropm adjoining that of their own. ; The eldest daughter, Miss Lena, I was also aroused and together the three girls hastened to their parents to find the cause of the shooting. Upon entering the doorway thej saw their father standing by their mother's bed, while she lay gasp ing for breath, with her night do thing on (ire from the pistol shots. W allace turned to leave the room and seeing 1 iis little son, Felton, coming in at the other door v ex claimed, '[ will get you, too,” and at the report of the pistol the child fell to the floor. Stepping over the prostrate form Wallace went out the door, after picking up his pants on the floor, and feeling in his pockets for his keys as he walked, went to his grocery store, only a few yards below the house, and going in re loaded his pistol and returned to the house. (i!Ri.sc;ivK AiAinr. During his absence from ll.c room Miss Lena and Miss Lollie Belle Wallace ran to the residence of Rev. Montgomery, next door, and gave the alarm. They also sent their other little brother, Garland, to bring a physician. Miss Estelle remained by the side of her mother and the baby hoy, Cline, a child 7 years of age, was with her. When Wallace reentered the house he! walked up to his baby boy, Cline, ! an 1 said, “Well, I have killed your j mother, and holding the child out: at arm’s length, fired four balls J through its heart. Dropping M\e I quiversng form to the Hour lie walked to the entrance of the next room and placing the smoking re volver to his head, sent a bullet crashing through his own brain. Mrs. Wallace was shot four times through the breast and head while lying on the bed. Felton Wallace, the first child ! shot, is still alive and it is believed lie will recover. The bullet struck | him in the left arm, and passing j through, grazed his body, tearing' Macon Telegraph Destroyed by Fire , The entire plant of The Macon Telegraph was destroyed by fire Thursday night. The damage is es timated at $100,000.00, practically covered by insurance. Thirty minnlesaftcr the lire broke out their contemporary, the Macon News, offered the use of their entire plant, and not a single issue of -the Telegraph will he missed, This was a generous act on the: part of the News, and” should he! high'y commended. Tim lire is | supposed to have started from a eig- j arette stub thrown in a pile of pa-1 per at the rear of the press room. ('. IS. Clay, a type-setter, was! burned to death in the toilet room on tlu* second door. It seems that | he was exhausted for want of sleep, and in all probability awoke too late to escape. While the (lames were raging, and alter it wa-. known the entire plant would he lost, a telegram was on itsj NOTICE! A good home for sale cheap. A 1-room house, barn, 2 stables, bug gy house, and one half acre lot on Dublin St. Can he bought cheap for cash. Apply to Cochran .Jour nal, Cochran, Ga. 11-3-2t-ns. the flesh as it went, but reaching no vital spot. TWICE MAHUIKI) Joe Wallace had been twice mar ried. By his first wife had four children, one son and three daugh ters, all grown. The son, Leon Wallace, has a position in Atlanta ; and was not at home. His daugh ters are Lena, Lollie Belle, and Es-1 telle. Wallace’s second wife wa.s a daughter of Andrew (). Bowman, a farmer residing in the upper part of the county. She took an active part in religious work, being a member of several societies in the Baptist church, of which church he was also a member. Their married life, so far as the general public knew, was a very happy one, al though it is stated by some that she was of a very jealous temperament. About seven years ago Mr. Wal lace was awakened at night by a noise on his front veranda and after opening the door slightly, saw a form in the darkness, whereupon he called to his wife to bring a lignt, and as she held the lamp he took deliberate aim and slot the man dead. He was a negro who worked for the Seaboard. It is thought that possibly this occurence preyed upon his mind had something to do with last Might’s trajedy. All three of the bodies will he carried to Hog Mountain, Mr. Wal lace’s old home, six miles above Lawrcnceville, for burial. NUMBER 23. way to the Last for a new equip ment. '1 his is in keeping with the spirit of the New South, and out of the wreck and ruin will no doubt arise a greater Macon Teleggaph. Lditor Pendleton is ole of the strongest editorial wr.ters in the state of Georgia, if not the very strongest. He is a man of broad experience, wide knowledge, and firm convictions. Ho stands in a [class with such men as Henry Wut ! terson and Henry Grady; and, al though some ol his politicaj oppo j nents tkink he is too much of a ! partisan, yet they cannot fail to re [ cognize his transcendent ability that plains him,in tne front rank of : the South’s greatest editors. \\ bile we sympathize with the i Telegraph in this misfortune we are glad to know the loss was practical ly covered by insurance and we are delighted that we will not miss a single copy from our exchange ta | ble. Dome Mission Society the Womans’ Home Mission So ciety observed last week as a week of prayer. The program was beau tifully carried out; the leaders of each afternoon handled their sub jects well: instructive leaflets and j papers were read on the different branches of our work, and the talks ■ made by the different members were j both profitable and pleasing. Sweet music was rendered each day. Al together, it was one of the most in tern-ting, as well as spiritual meet ings of its kind ever held in our church. Good crowds attended and a nice little contribution was raised for Ruth Hargrove Institute. Our president, Mrs, Grimsley, has been zealous and faithful, and has done much for the prosperity of the society. We are not quite a year old and the - following will show what we have accomplished in this length of time: Week of Prayer offering $15.00, Amount of money expended for local work 887.81, Number of mem ber.- 83, Number of Titliers9, Nuin-* lof Subscribers to “Our Homes” 9, Number of visits made to sick and strangers 500, Number of garments in good order distributed 180,. Number of papers and leaflets dis tributed 190. A nice box lias been sent to the Vashti Home in Thom asville, Ga. We hope that we may be able to accomplish greater things for our 'Master’s cause in the future. Mrs. J. M. Wynne, Cor. Sec. W. H. M. S. Tax Notice Books are now opens Please call and pay your city taxes. J. E. COOK, Clerk*