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CITIZENS MEETING AT
OPERA HOUSE OCT. 27TH.
Everybody is Expected to be There
Friday at 7:30 p. m. Business
of Great Importance to our City.
Your Future Depends Greatly
upon the out-come of this meeting
\
Opportunity is surely knocking at our door. Shall tve
close against it and sit down idly and wait for prosperity?
if we do it will certainly never come —other places are forg
ing ahead —Our territory will be cut off, and absorbed by
more enterprising centers, and the time will come when our
stores will be closed, our residences vacated, real estate "val
ueless and tbe town as dead as “hector .Just as well come
out with the plain truth. Our fate is going to be decided in
the near future. We are either going forward or backwerd.
It the the splendid enterprises that have been undertaken
are allowed to die out, our fate is sealed. Confidence wdl
be hard to ever regain, and good people are going to move
away from here. Fellow citizens, if you have any interest
in the welfare of this town get busy. Our people want a new
railroad, and must have it. Our commercial life depends on
it. Nobody is going to build this railroad for us W e must
take the initiative. Start it from Cochran —Establish bead
quarters here, and we will at once begin to reap the advan
tages of it’s construction. Material will be shipped here, of
fices established and labor employed. Nothing seems more
plausible than the fact, that it would be perfect folly for us
to sit down and wait for some one else to build a railroad in
to Cochran. Should it ever be started this way and our peo
ple show no interest they would certainly go around us if
possible. Nobody is going to help us unless we first help
ourselves. It is a case of “root hog or die.” We have the
best town fn the State of Georgia as far as health, people and
location are concerned.
Did ycu ever hear of any cleverer, better or more hospit
able people than we have here, a splendid homogenious,
cosmopolitan community with every, element to make an
ideal city. Just some dormant qualities need arousing, this
that’s all, and we will have a city that our people will be
proud of. We already have capital here, and rank high in
commercial report—we understand there is only one town in
Georgia that ranks higher financially according to population
than Cochran. We shall and must go forward Now is the
time for every man, woman and child to talk prosperity
and pull for Cochran. We want to have the largest Citizen’s
Meeting, next Friday night, Oct. 27, that was ever held in
Cochran.
Let every man, woman and child come who have the in
terest of Cochran at heart. We want the ladies to come.
They are as much interested in Cochran as the men are.
Whatever helps us helps our wives and daughters.
They will be our inspirations and by the way our ladies
believe in doing things when they start, we feel that there
is not a good wife, daughter or mother in Cochran who will
feel humiliated if we let these enterprises fall through.
We want every single laboring man, clerk, merchant,
banker, professional man minister, railroad man, cotton buy
®l}£ Cocljtan Sournal.
COCHRAN, PULASKI COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20. 1911.
or, carpenter, shoemaker, blacksmith, artisan, in fact every
citizen, big, old,little and young regardless of who you are or
what you do if you live in or near Cochran, come to this
meeting, and at least lend your presence to the uplifting of
your city. We must live or die, go forward or backward.
If a famous lecturer were to come to our city he could get
a large crowd that would go there for the purpose of being
entertained for a short while. Flow vastly more important
it will be to attend this meeting to decide a question of vital
iterest to the welfare of our city. Come people am 1 fail not
and let standing room be at a premium. The next Saturday
morning fellow citizen you are asked, “Did you attend the
Citizens Meeting last night?” you ought to be ashamed to say
“I did not.” This meeting is going to tell the tale, and no
man can afford to say “I was absent at the crucial moment,
when the trig of war came 1 was sitting serenely by my tire
side smoking the pipe of peace, or safely wrapped in the arms
of Morpheus.” “I was not aware of any danger and thought if
the enemy was approaching, my neigbors could look out for
him, in fact lam not much of a tighter any way.” “If my
neighbors want to make this fight they can do it,
if they win they battle I will reap the benefit of the victory
with them, if the lose I will go down in defeat with a plenty
of company.
God knows we hope there is not a man in Cochran who
is built that way, if there is he is a sony citizen, no mistake
about that, don’t say you can’t help your town because you are
poor. The poorest man in Cochran with proper spirit and
love for his community can exert a helpful influence witli
harmony unity, oneness of purpose. We can succeed.
Without we will fail.
JUST A WORD
YOUNG LADIES
Calling your attention to a splen
did line of autumn boots, made button
style and of several leathers gun
metal, brown and black velvet, and
the high top white shoes you will like
them just as everyone who has tried
them. Shown by
H. F. BULLARD
PHYSICIAN HAKES STATEMENT
IN REGARD TO PERKINS CASE.
in Order to dace the public in
possesion of the facts in regard to
the death of John W. Perkins, who
died suddenly at his residence near
Empire. Sunday night, Oct. 15, 1
desire to say that 1 assisted by Dr.
T. I). Walker, Sr., removed the
stomach of Mr. Perkins and had it
ONE NEGRO KILLED
IN “SKIN GAME”
In Edge of County West of Hawk
insviile and Another Assinated
in His Cabin just Acoross Line
in Wilcox;
ll’ville, Ga. Oct. 21, —Last Fri
day Frank Locker colored was found
dead on G. \YL Jordan’s place on
Ten Mile creek in the lower edge of
the county. Investigation showed
that he was shot in the head and
cut in the face, and it is supposed
that he was killed in a “skin” game,
as cards and money were discovered
near where the body was found.
Locker had not been seen since
Tuesday night, and it is not known
when he was killed. Coroner Fann
held an inquest over the body Sat
urday and the jury returned a ver
dict charging Jonas McLeod, Obey
Oglesby and Wesley O’Neal as be
ing responsible for his death, and
were arrested by sheriff Rodgers
and are now in the county jail.
Saturday night another negro
named Torn Mcßae, who lived just
over the line in Wilcox county and
near where the body of Locker was
found, was shot and killed in his
home by some one who fired through
a knot hole in his cabin. Mcßae,
it is said, was one of the most im
portant witnesses in the tragedy
mentioned above, and this is sup
posed to have been the motive that
prompted his assassination.
Ben Oliver, a negro living on Mr.
J. J. Dennard’s place, was amsted
on suspicion of being one who shot
Mcßae, and Sunday night his house
was burned. Oliver and two other
negroes who are also suspected of
being connected with the crime are
being held in the jail at Abbeville.
—Dispatch & News.
LITTLE BOY HURT.
Litle Wimberley Napier, while
driving a Shetland poney this morn
ing, was thrown out of a buggy and
in some way the pony fell on him,
causing a painful cut on the little
fellow’s head, and fracturing the
outer bone of the skull. Wnile the
wound is painful, it is not thought
it will prove serious. It seems the
boy was trying to get out of the way
of an automobile and drove too
near a ditch, when he was thrown
from the buggy.—Dispatch & News
Oct. 24.
NUMBER 21.
forwarded to Atlanta for examina
tion. I have a written statement
from Dr. Edgar Everett, the
chemist who made the analysis,
saying there was no trace of poison
found in the stomach,
R. S. Forehand, M. D.
School Items
Last Friday afternoon'The Liter
ary Society of the Cochran Public
Schools was organized and has as
its officers Mary Lamb. Pres.,
Margurite I’rquhart, Vice Pres.,
Carrie Mae Taylor, See., and John
Sanders Treas. The society will
meet every two weeks. Visitors
are welcoipe-
The school is progressing fine. The
music and expression departments
have the largest classes they have
had in many years.
The boy raising the largest num
ber of bushels of corn was James
Mullis. \\ c were glad to sec the
boys o v Cochran take an interest in
the corn ciub. Will Fowler won
the prize for having the finest nas
turtiums and cabbage, and a gold
medal will be given sometime in
November to the girl raising the
lines chrysanthemum-i.
Prof. Carswell has organized a
non-speaking society.
On the twenty-seventh of No
vember the music and expression
pupils will give a recital.
We regret to know that the mu
sic teacher has a severe case of la
grippe. but wish her a speedy re
covery.
Announcement
To the people of Pulaski County:
I hereby announce myself a can
didate for Commissioner of Roads
and Revenues, subject to the rules
and regulations of the Democratic
primary. I will appreciate the
support of my people. If elected,
I will serve the people to the best
my ability.
10-26-tf J. J. Farm.
Announcement
I am a candidate for commission
er of roads and revenues of Pulaski
County, and respectfully solicit
your support,
D. G. Grantham
NOTICE
There will be preaching at Long
street Sunday at 11 o’clock, every
one invited to attend.
J. A. Sconyers, Pastor.