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VOL. 4.
Dick Russell Is
for Local Option
Lyons, Ga., Aug. 22. —Declaring
that the state prohibition law ha<!
proven a failure, Judge Riehanl
Russell, candidate for governor to
succeed Hoke Smith, whose elec-1
tion recently t<* \he United States
senate, wHt cause a vacancy in the
governorship, in a campaign speech ,
here advocated the adoption of a i
local option law in dealing with the J
liquor question. Judge liussi.ll, it}
is stated, is the first of the candi-j
dates for governor to proclaim his
position on the temperance questioi
and his declaration is expected to
make the liquor problem one of the
leading issues of the campaign.
The Toombs county court house |
was crowded with an interesting and
enthusiastic audience. Judge Rus
sell was in the midst of his plan for
the extension of the state road to
the sea, when Judge Mann asked
permission to put a question to tlip
speaker.
“You have a good many friends
in this part of the state who want
to know how you stand on the pro
hibition question,” said Judge
Mann.
Judge Russell declared that he
would gladly answer the question as
soon as he had finished his discus
sion of the state road extension pro
position.
He began by saying his record on
this matter is clear.
‘‘l have purposely refrained from
injecting the prohibition question
into this campaign, ” declared Judge
Russell.
”1 regret that it is injected, but
I have never traveled behind a
mask; I am no two faced man, for
if 1 was I would have left this face
at home and brought the other. I
feel that under existing circumstan
ces candor requises me to state my
position. I would rather lie defeat
ed than elected by evasion or equiv
ocation. 1 have observed the ope
ration of the present prohibition
law and am convinced that it is a
failure. lam convinced that it is
incapable of enforcement. 1 have
always stood for local option —for
the right of the people to govern
themselves.
1 * Local self government is the
very essence of democracy.”
‘‘True, practical temperance can
only be achieved by consent of the
people upon whom a law is to ope
rate. If elected, I shall favor the
passage of a local option law, while
the terms of any law are a matter
of detail, and shouhj, in all events
contain proper resiricnions. The
bill iffered by Mr. Hall of Bibb in
the last legislature embodies in the
main part mv view of what a local
option law should contain.”
.Judge Russell was cheered lustily
after he had declared himself, and
announced that if he hadn’t made
his position plain enough he would
She glad to answer any further ques
Judge Mann said that he was
Xlioroughly satisfied with the ans
wer, which was frank to a degree.
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COCHRAN. PULASKI COUNTY. GA., THURSDAY M.TGUST24. 1911.
Hen Lays Egg with
Likeness of IVilson
Atlanta, Aug. 22.—The old
iolks atout Atlanta are toginning
to speculate on what serious portent \
may justly to taken from the egg '
laid in Hupeville last week, with!
the likeness of Woodrow Wilson
engrained in bluish stripes into the |
texture of the egg’s shell.
Such queer things have hap
pened before in the history of the
world. AL>ut fifty years ago in i
Brittany a young sailor was con
victed and sentenced to death,!
though protesting his innocence,
for the murder of his sweetheart.
On tiie day before lie was to he be
headed the jaiier went to his own
hack-yard to get a fresh laid egg
for the i>oor youth’s'last breakfast.
f.o and behold! on the pure white
shell of the egg was the image of
Blessed. Virgin, with her hands
outstretched as if in benediction.
The jailer hurried with it to the
omen, a miracle. The hanging
was stopped, and a week afterward
the real murderer was found.
in the ancient Roman chronicles
there is a still more pertinent piece
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ANNOUNCEMENT!
We are pleased to announce that Miss Mary Bowers is now in the East
ern Market, looking over the Millinery Displays of the largest Millinery
Stores in the Northeast.
tJShe will be with us again this Fall.
DUGGAN BROTHERS & COMPANY.
'Jacks® Furniture Co.'
ALL KINDS OF FURNITURE SEWING MACHINES
ORGANS PIANOS AND GRAPHOF HONES
priest, the priest, to the civil au
thorities. it was regarded as an
of egg lore. It is recorded that
when Julius ('a>sar was yet a con
sul, nursing imperial dreams stifled
in his breast, a hen at Rome laid
an egg on which appeared his like
ness and this was taken as a. sign
from the gods that Ciesar was to
rule.
If anything of such » nature can
he deducted from the picture of
Woodrow Wilson, the answer is
plain; for on the other side of the
same egg, traced in th» same queer
blue lines, is a map of the United
States.
Notice!
On Oct. JO, 1909 we issued a re
ceipt for 0.. e hale cotton No. 4737,
weight 466 lbs.; on November 24.
1909 we issued a receipt for one
hale cotton No. 5718. weight 656
lhs.; on Dec. 15, 1906 we issued a
receipt for one bale cotton No. 5935,
weight 5901b5. On Jan. 4, 1919
we delivered above cotton to the
Dixie Cotton Co.’s agent, C. M. Du-
Rose and he shipped same. The
said Dixie Cotton Co. still holds the
receipts for the above cotton, and
any one trading for same will do it
at their own risk. 8-24-4 t
Planters Warehouse & Gro. Co.
Cochran High School
Opens September 11
The High School will]
open Sept. 11th with the following]
teachers in charge;
Leo. If, Browning,
J. H. Cars well, 5 Jr., Mercer,
Miss Clarice Brooks, Brenau,
Miss Nina Thompson, Young
Harris and Summer School of South,
Miss Love Wells, Jtate Normal
and Ga. Normal and Industrial.
Miss Sallie E. Washburne, Kin
dergarten and Normal of Ky ,
Miss Clara Mae Smith, Brenau —
Music.
Miss Clennie Richmond, Vander-i
hilt —Expression.
Notice!
On and after Aug. 23 the hanks
here will open for business at 8:00
o’clock A. M. and close at 3:30 P.
M. instead of at 3:00 P. M., as
heretofore.
Foley Kidney Pills will check the
progress of your kidney and blad
der trouble and heal by removing
the cause. Try them. For sale by
Taylor & Kennington,
Pope Brown Urges
Good Roads in Ga.
Atlanta, Aug. 22. “Good
roads’ ’ is one of the principal planks
in trie conservative, though progres
sive, platform of Hon. J. Pope
Brown, which he has announced in
his candidacy for governor. Good
roads, lie believes, are absolutely
essential to anything like a full de
velopment of the state —not a few
superlatively good automobile
speedways —but good roads every
where, a networK of them through
jout all Georgia.
| Mr. Brown calls attention to his
! record as president of the State Ag-
I ricultura! Society, and shows that,
I through his efforts while in the leg
islature, the agricultural schools
were established.
One of the finest specimens of cot
ton seen this year is a stalk of Far
mers’ Friend Prolific cotton, with
136 matured tolls on it, which was
grown on the John Purser, Jr.
place by Mr. W. L. Langford.
The acre on which this stalk grew
yielded 1013 pounds of seed cotton
at the first picking, and Mr. Lang
ford thinks he will get three bales
from this acre.
NUMBER 12.
An Interesting Letter
from Prof. Browning
Editor T. L. Bailey,
Cochran, Ga.
My dear Sir,
I get “The Macon Telegraph,”
“The Atlanta Journal,” and “The
(Columbia) State” every day.
Every one of these papers are
splendid, hut I appreciate none
more than “The Cochran Journal.”
It is the paper gotten out by my
friend, containing news of and
atout my friends. It is my home
paper and is a mirror in which I see
the movements, the ambitions, the
aspirations of all of those who are
nearest and dearest to me. I can
not understand the psychology of a
human being who fails to appreci
ate the efforts of home industry and
home enterprise. I am proud of
the Journal because of its real mer
its and of its value to me.
Yes, friend, I am glad that God
permitted me to become a citizen of
Cochran, for her people are as kind
and as true toth in prosperity and
in adversity as you will find any
where. I have enjoyed their suc
cess, and I have seen sickness and
death; and they have always been
the same true-hearted, large-heart
ed people.
I predict that Cochran is facing
her renaissance. She will he a city
of S,(XXI in the next 10 years.
When the many improvements that
are tomg agib.ted are completed,
she will lx: one of the most attrac
tive cities in Georgia.
Witli best wishes for Cochran,
the Journal, and yourself, I am
Yours truly,
Leo H. Brownr.No.
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