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BAIT GET IN a RUSH!,
And Forget what to buy Christmas and buy something which will be of no service after the holidaW®
W Think soberly now, and see if your mind won’t suggest a Nice Clean New Reei Rocker, a Nice Mill
hogany Rocker or a Nice Bright Rug or a Handsome Art Square or a Nice Davenport Cheap or a gooij, A
$3 Graphophone or a good Organ or a Nice Parlor Suite, all these and many other nice things at
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JACKSON FURNITURE CO."
Shelton Gets Heauy
Fine in Macon
Failing to Qive Bond He Is
Lodged in the City Bar
racks-Fine is S6OO.
Alter pending in the recorder’s
cuort for nearly a week the two cas
«**against F. \V. Shelton, charged
with violating flie city blind tiger
otvlinance and the state prohibition
, were disposed of yesterday so
far as the police court is concerned, j
vrfjrti Recorder Daly imposed a fin;
(4 S3OO or sixty days in each case of
violating the blind tiger ordinances,
tn l bound the defendant over to the
«aty court in both cases of violating
tfve state prohibition law under a
bond of $501) in each case. It was
trete evident from the beginning of
the first trial which grew out of a
rail made on Shelton’s place Mon
day, in which a large quantity of
whiskey wiis found in a room, ml*
joining Sheltoh’-s bar,-that the de
fendant woittd Inkconvicted
The evidence : .case. tried
Wedncs Joy idteiaioon at a special
«Hsipn of the recorder's court was
dearly and beyond,the shadow of a
daibt against the defendant The
argument in this, case was post
paid on account of the illness of
ine attorney fer the defense, and
was heard jointiy with the second
rj e yesterday morning.
’l'lie second case was made by the
chief of police Wednesday, shortly
after noon, and was prompted by
five suspicions that whiskey was still
Pei tig dispensed at the Shelton bar.
This ease came up for trial yester
day morning and again everything
'"was'clearly against the defendant,
w that the decision ( f the recorder
came as no surprise neither to the
defendant nor his attorney.
Li the case yesteiday morning
Chief Chapman, Lieut. Davis and
(tfleer Ranch each testified to raid-
Shelton’s place on last Wednes
day, ad, in addition to finding a
keif pint buttle in a drawer in the
i'jJuon of the defendant, also stated
Viral they found five barrels partly
Sfarl with pints and half pints of
w’-L-ke}' in a room about thirty feet
Lnm the saloon. The room in
T.-ieh the whi Key was found was
~.v-up:ed by a blind peanut vender,
1.-wis Thomas, who when placed on
Vw stand stated that the whiskey
} iuid in his room belonged to Shel
ve and that the defendant made
fsepuent trips to the roam for the
purpose of carrying away small
liusntjties of tne \>i»isktj.
* Officer Avaut, when put on the
aland, stated to the Court tliat when
te went into Shelton’s saloon Wed
saw the defendant pass a bottle
or a package over the counter of the
nation to Jailer Roberts and that
Huberts stated to him in the pre--
•n*e of the defendant that he
1 Might the whiskey from Shelton.
,Wder Roberts testified that on
Wednesday afternoon, shortly be
i wCte arrival of the officers, tnat
he went into Shelton’s saloon and
asked him if he could get him a
quart of whiskey, at the same time
stating that he had a ' yearning for
an eggllip. Witness stated that the
defendant left the saioon and in a.
few minutes returned with the quart
of whiskey for which he paid him
one doll a;.
Shelton’s defense consisted en
tirely of bis own statement, in which
be defied that any of the whiskey
found in his place belonged to him.
The defendant stated that Ik
knew nothing whatever of the hall
pint found in the drawer back ol
his counter.
Regarding the transaction with
jailer Roberts, Shelton stated that
he purchased the quart of whiskey
which he gave to Roberts from a ne
gro who was passing bis place of
business at the time.
Attorney Harris, considering that
! the odds .were entirely against him
made an able plea for bis client.
After the '■•recorder had passed
sentence on Shelton, Attorney Har
iis made a plea for bis client in
which he urged the. recorder not to
impose a chaingang sentence on the
defendant, as lie felt that the defen
dant would he unable to pay the
fines imposed on him and therefore
asked the recorder to transfer the
chaingang sentence to a period of
confinement in the jail. 1 lie recor
der, however, stuck to his original
sentence.
Last night Shelton had not yet
given bond and was confined in the
city barrreks. —Macon Telegraph
of December 18th.
Man Sewn in
Carcass of Mule.
Young Harris, Ga., Dec. 18.
(Special.) —Burt Brown, a young
man who re-ides at Gum Log, in
this county, has had an experience
similar to that undergore by the
prophet Jonah, who remained for
many hours in a whale’s belly after
being swallowed by the great fish.
Instead of being in a whale’s belly
Burt Brown was in the belly of a
mule, and he mnUincd there six
hours, and still lives to tell the tale.
Burt Brown’s novel experience
was the result of a practical joke
played on him by a half dozen com
panions. All of them were drink
ing, and, it is said thrt Burt Brown
was praefieally overcome by the
“Mountain Dew” he had been im
bibing. As the party passed down
the^road near Gum Log one of them
noticed the carcass of a large mule
which had just died by the road
side. The rnule was called Old
Hump Back,” and had carried the
mail from Brasstown to. Young Har
ris for seven years.
Burt Brown collapsed as he and
his ' friend's passed Hump
Back’s” carcass. As Brown fell
one of the party euggested that he
be put in the carcass of the mule
and sewed up. The suggestion ap
pealed 10. the humor of the drink
ers, and they went to work with
knives and soon had “Old Hump
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Back” prepared for the reception of
Brown. The unconscious man was
then placed in the carcass and the
skin sewed up.
Brown came t > after being in the
mule about four hours and bega > to
utter screams which had a grew -
some sound coming from a dear,
mule. Several persons who pas-d
were nearly frightened out of t leii
wits by the screams which Bru vn.
incased in “Oil Hump Bac.V
carcass, uttered, and they ran fo
dear life.
At last two men passed who wen
not easily frightened and they do
sided to investigate. They sooi
found that there was a man in tie
mule’s body, and after they out tie
stitches Brown crawled out, blood.;
from head to foot, hut cold, sober,
and badly frightened.
Brown swears he h sgone on the
water wagon for keeps, hut vows to
get even with his chums who sewed
him up in “Old Hump Back.” He
says that he had just the sane ex
perience as Jonah, only it was not
as fast sailing.
Commissioner s Sale
G EOIKi IA —Pijlask i County :
Under and by virtue of an order
ot Honorable J. H. Martin; Judge
oi the Superior Court of said county,
will be sold at public outcry, to the
highest and best bidder for cash, be
tween the legal hours of sale, on the
first Tuesday in January 1911, at
the residence of the late Mrs. E. J.
Martin, in Pulaski county, the fol
lowing property, to-wit: All the
personal property on said place,
consisting if household and kitchen
furniture, two horses, one mule,
one two-horse wagon, one one-horse
wagon, one road cart, one buggy,
eighteen head of hogs, two cows and
two calves. 200 bushels corn, more
or less, nine bales of cotton, cotton
seed, fodder, peas, and all other
personal property of whatever kind
or character on the place of the late
Mrs. E. J. Martin.
Also at the same time and place
the land and home place of the bite
Mrs. E. J. Martin, consisting of
115 acres, will be publicly rented
for the year 1911 to the highest
and best bidder.
This 19th. day of December 1910.
H. H. Sparrow,
1 -22-It Commissioner.
Mr. Brown on the
Railroad Question.
Gentlemen:
I would like to arouse your ambi
tion and stir your energy to greater
results, Georgia lias just com
menced to develop. I would have
you do your part in your own sec
tion. Probably persons are living
who will see greater development
and changes than any df'those pres
j ent have seen.
j Forty years ago a German chem
ist asked permission to explore
lands around Gris v,old ville. In a
month 1 had agreed to ship him
1 one thousand car loads of ten tons
each of Kaolin to Chattanooga,
Tenn. to he used in making fire
brick to line blast furna ies in Ohio
and Pennsylvania.
This clay cost him leis than one
dollar per ton loaded on ears at
Griswoldville, Twiggs ('<> Ga.
If you look at the Ma 'on Tele
graph published in 1870, you will
find a statement that 1 expeete 1 to
live to see more tons of Kaolin
shipped from Georgia, than to is of
coal shipped to Georgia and worth
its mi:h min it’. NniV 1 h sieve it
brings about the same prim at tin
mine as coal delivered at youi
house. But <ur demand for coal
has increased rapidly, and our out
put of Kaolin vcrysUw.
Along,the proposed route of thi
Danville it Gary South and Kuril
Railroad there is a large amount ol
the finest kind of Kaolin, which, if
mined and shipped, would make
this railroad pay good dividends.
It has been demonstrated that the
Black and Tupilo Gum will make
the best, kind of wood pulp for mak
ing paper. A mill in Wilmington,
DelewarC is using this gum wood
brought from South Carolina at a
cost of $7.53 per cord. A cord
makes about 1233 lbs. worth $45.09
per ton at the paper mill. If thi.-
gu'tn wood can he turned into pulp,
it will bring more money into
Georgia than its .pine timber has.
My personal friend, Dr. Baker, is
now building a 50 ton per day mill
at Gordon. Why not build this
railroad and haul him your gum
wood?
Wall paper is composed mainly
of wood pulp and Kaolin. A Geor
gia paper nrl! might cheat the rail
roads out of the long haul on both
pulp and Kaolin.
For several years I lived on one
of the poorest farms in Twiggs coun
ty, and got very tired and sick try
ing to raise 1 bale of cotton on 5
acres at 5 cents per pound, and I
paid 10 cents per bushel for cotton
seed. Now yo i got 15 cents per
pound for cotton and 40 cents per
bushel for cotton seed.
But you have something that will
pay better than this if you develop
it. Mining and manufacturing
bring a demand for food products
that pay better than raising cotton
on poor land.
Ten yeari ago I was invited to a
dinner in Providence, R. I. While
coffee was being served I was called
on by my friend, Joel Hayden, the
founder and head of the Hayden
Brass Works, to tell them some
thing about Georgia.
I said I would tell them about a
very obscure county named after the
beverage they were about to partake
of —Coffee county, Georgia, which
had about the same area as the
state of Rhode Island. “Jt has
about 10,909 people against your
375,090. Whereas your state can
not raise enough to feed its people
one week in a year, Coffee county
can easily raise enough to feed your
people the year around; and besides
raise enough cotton to supply your
' mills.
“Georgia has 137 counties' that
> Cors»»i ifcOr Ao.nWm gn <.**•
Dsar Friend: V‘ ■■ ■Gjl
I was very tired when I came down
this morning. Mamma sent me down to get oujj
Xmas things. We have invited lots oi our v 1
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friends to come and take Christmas dinner
with us.
Mamma said she wanted to get very best
kind of groceries, because it doesn't
nice to ask people to dinner and not put
the nicest things on the table. Here are a
few things we got:
Asparagus tips, ir. meat, white wax
cherries, pitted cherries, marichino cher- .
ries,, petit pois, pimentos, Hienz India
relish, Deviled Crabs, red beets Heinz pre
serves crushed peaches, ernberries, dill
pickets, celery, olives of all kinds, also
everything for your fruit cakes.
Your Friend,
JACOB.
P. S.
Can't tell you all the nice things
we got, but you can get everything you want
for Xmas of the very best and you aro al
ways welcome at
“COOK’S” '
can feed and support twenty million
of people. Come and see for your
selves.”
Mr. Hayden spent four months in
Georgia and said he would go hack
to Providence and confirm my
statement.
I have with me a map of North
and South Carolina showing the de
velopment of several hundred thous
and horse power from water power,
being carried all over these states <sn
iron towers and copper wire,
In a few years there will he wat
er power enough developed in these
two states and Georgia to manufac
ture every bale of cotton they raise.
With cheap water power, new
mills and new imu
cotton right from tor gin,
moist climate essential to
ling of the lint, abundant
lilies right'at your door
advantage of from ten
cent over Eastern nianuraettWpHß
As these mills come our
cotton will decrease and our exjW
of manufactured goods increase,.Sj
In my opinion, a railroad
Gordon, on the Central IlailroacjH
to some point on the Southern R lirH
road will develop a business that®
will pay, and give u large amount!
of business to the lailroads it
nects along this line, more than theJ
cost of the road. "
11. R. Brown