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VOLUME FIVE
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Jealous Man Shot
By One He Hunted
Dave Nobles, of Dublin, Shot
Three Times —Followed Wife
In Auto.
Dublin, Ga.. March 31. —Dave
Nobler, of this city, was shot three
times in an affray near this city
this afternoon, caused, it is said,
hy jealousy due to the attention of
a man hy the name of George Mc-
Cord to Nobles’ wife, who was pres
ent at the time the shooting occur
red.
Nobles and his wife have Ireen
separated for some time and she is
at present suing him for a divorce,
lie has been much wrought up over
the matter and Sunday afternoon
saw bis wife with McCord and sev
ergl others leave the eity in an
automobile. He hired a car and
followed them. Meeting the m
about two miles from Dublin, near
the Oconee cotton mills, returning
to the city, Nobles told the man
driving his car to stop. lie then
jumped out on the ground, waving
his pistol at the seat in the car con
taining his wife and McCord.
The car was stopped and both
Nobles and McCord began shooting,
which one shooting first is not
known. McCord was not hit, but
Nobles was hit three times, one
shot entering his hand, another bis
shoulder and a third going near his
groH, but he is not seriously
wounded. No one in the car with
McCord did apy shooting, but
McCord, it is said, and the party
immediately went back toward the
country, leaving Nobles and his
driver in the road. Up to a late
hour tne McCord party had not
been heard from and no one seems
to know where they went.
Besides McCord and Mrs. Nobles,
Dr. N. L. Bradshaw, a veterinary,
and his sister-in-law, Miss Russell,
both of Dublin, were in the car.
Nobles was brought to the city and
given medical -attention. He has
every chance to get well, as his
wounds are not as serious as at first
thought. He has been greatly wor
ried over the trouble between him
self and his wife and is said to love
her to distraction, while she seems
to care very little about him, and
has narrowly missed having trouble
with another party over attentions
to her, it is said, within the past
few weeks.
CARD OF THANKS*
We desire to thank the many
friends who so kindly assisted us in
the recent illness and death of our
beloved wife and mother, and for
the many floral offerings and words
of sympathy tendered. May God
bestow His richest blessings on each
one.
J. W. Cranford and family.
®l )t Cocfynm Journal.
Bond Issue the
Only Logical Plan
It is estimated that at our pres
ent tax valuation, say something
like two million dollars, in order to
obtain sufficient revenue for run
ning expenses and to provide funds
for the erection of court bouse and
jail a tax rate of about $55.00 per
SIOOO.OO valuation would have to
l»e levied if a direct tax is levied for
this purpose.
A great many of us already have
more obligations than we are able
meet. If this additional burden is
required some of us will be pretty
badly embarrassed.
For example, suppose a man
gives in his taxes at $3000.00 and
owes SIOOO.OO. He would have to
pay $105.00 taxes and SBO.OO in
terest, a total of $245.(X). I don’t
know that our people are any worse
in debt than the people in a great
many other counties and probably
not so bad as some but I know that
a large proportion of the business of
this country is transacted on a credit
and a great many of our people
have as much of a load as they can
carry.
The average man has no surplus
money and whenever you tax his
property 5L> per cent, you place on
nim an excessive burden and one
that would Ixs extremely hard to
bear in many instances. If this
coumy had a property valuation of
several million dollars it would not
be so heavy on us but with a pres
ent valuation of less than $2,000,000
it is a different proposition.
Now there is open to us only two
proposition as we see it, one is a
direct tax levy and the other is a
bond issue. If we make a direct
tax levy we will have to raise the
money in one or two years. If we
issue bonds we will have thirty
years to raise it. We will only
have to provide for the interest on
the bonds and a small banking fund
each year. The rising generation
who will in turn reap their share of
benefits, and will be required to help
bear these expenses, and why
shouldn’t they?
Besides the inevitable increase in
property valuation will soon enable
us to take care of the situatiorr
without any additional burden.
Now as to the amount $45,000.00
for a court house, equipments and
site, $12,000.00 f°r a jail and SB,-
000.00 for roads*_ The grand jury
after careful consideration, though t
these amounts conservative and eco
nomical. They are extremely con
servative when you consider
amounts expended for court houses
and jails in other counties. We
have been informed that the court
house alone in Dodge County cost
something like one hundred thous
and dollars.
We understand there is consider
able opposition to the one Commis
sioner plan of the supervision of
COCHRAN, BLECKLEY COUNTY GEORGIA. THURSDAY, APRIL, 3, 1913
To Our Subscribers!
v We have mailed bills to nil our subscribers who are in arrears.
The amounts due by each individual are small, but when taken to
gether they- amount to a great deal to us. Please bear this in mind.
We have the following propositions to submit:
Ist. If you are not prepared to pay us, call in to see us about
it anyway.
2nd. If you have any farm produce to spare and can’t get up
the cash come to see us about the farm produce, we want to keep
you on our list IF YOU ARE SATISFIED.
Don’t read the paper two or three years and say you didn’t
subscribe for it and don’t owe for it, and then tell us to take your
name off the list because we ask you to pay up.
What we are after is to get a list of live subscribers on our books
who are interested in our town and county and can take some pride
in their home paper.
We had rather have KXK) LIVE subscribers than any number of
DEAD ones.
We are now the official County organ for the best little county
in the State of Georgia. Our subscription is only ONE DOLLAR
per year, which we believe is the min@imum price for any Georgia
Weekly. Every loyal citizen of Cochran and Bleckley county should
be willing to co-operate with thoir home paper for the industrial,
moral and civic welfare of this community. Pay up your subscrip
tion. Give us your moral support, and occasionally, if you can
conscientiously do so, an encouraging word and we will do our best
to give you a good clean paper. But bear in mind that the encour
agement we need most just now is that “little dollar” you owe us,
or its equivalent. —--
roads and revenues and 3ome have
connected this proposition with our
bond issue, but they are two sepe
rate and distinct propositsons hav
ing nothing whatever to do with
each other. The law providing for
the administration of road affairs
will be fixed by the legislature and
our representative L. H. Browning
will recommend the kind of a bill
the people want. If Mr Browning
becomes satisfied that our people
are opposed to a law providing one
Commissioner, he will not force it
on them, regardless of what his in
dividual ideas are. We believe be
will do his best to give the people
what they want.
A court house and jail is °bso
lute necesssity and every loyal citi
zen in Bleckley County should have
priJe enough to want one, that they
would not be ashamed of. It should
be neat, comfortable and substan
tial. Let everybody get together
on the bond issue and not force
Judge Graham to levy a direct tax,
entailing an almost unbearable bur
den on us.
Clean Up The City
Let’s clean up the town and
whitewash the trees and telegraph
and telephone poles again before
we have our Inter-school Contest.
We would like to make a good im
pression on the people who attend.
With a little energy and very small
cost we can have a nice clean look
ing city which will make a good
impression on our visitors.
Death of Fell Morris
Fell Morris, age about forty,
dropped dead in J. L. Floyd’s
store about 7 o’clock a in. Friday.
He was standing by the fire talking
to Aithur NeSmith, when he began
to sink to the floor and died in a
few minutes. Heart failure is sup
posed to be the cause of bis death.
Fell was a good, honest worker,
attended to his own business and
did not interfere with any body.
He was interred in Weeping Pine
Cemetery Saturday afternoon.
Revs. Lester and Walker, of the
Methodist and Baptist Churches
made short talks over the grave.
He is survived by his father,
Henry Morris, two sisters, Misses
Pollie and Mattie Morris, three
brothers, Allen, Joe and Jim Mor
ris.
Chamber of Commerce
We should like to see a complete
reorganization of the Chamber of
Commerce. We can do but little
in a public way without organiza
tion. Our town will not develope
as rapidly as it should unless we
make a united effort. A live
Chamber of Commerce with a paid
secretary who has had some experi
ence in building up a town would
be a great thing for us. We need a
man who would be constantly ad
vertising our city and looking out
for new enterprises. We need
something now that will bring cap
ital and money into our town.
Court Proceedings
of This Week
The second session of January
Adjourned Term of Bleckley Coun
ty Superior Court convened at the
court house, Monday morning at 9
o’clock. On account of the absence
'of a great many witnesses and some
of the attorneys, there was no busi
ness transacted at the morning ses
sion.
In the afternoon the case of Coley
Grantham accused of murder was
called up. The jury was drawn
and sworn in, Caroline Anderson
was first called to the witness stand.
She was the wife of Sam Anderson,
whom it is alleged was killed by
Coley Grantham. After being
questioned by Solicitor General
Wooten for the State, the witness
was turned oyer to Col. Ghas. W.
Griffin, attorney for the defense.
Before lie finished it was stated
by the Judge that Col. Griffin had
asked permission to return home on
“Joe Brown” on account of the ill
ness of his wife, and as it was then
nearly time, Col. Griffin suspended
his examination and court adjourn
ed until 8:30 Tuesday morning.
Tuesday morning court opened
about 8:30 o’clock.
Caroline Anderson who did not
finish her testimony Monday, was
called for hut was not in the court
house and Frank Ingram was put
on the stand but before the investi
gation began Caroline arrived and
was called to the witness stand.
She testified that Coley Grantham
killed old man Sam but admitted
that she could not see well enough
to recognize a person and that she
did not know Coley Grantham well
enough to recognize his voice but
stated that she heard old man Sam
say that Coley killed him. She
stated that Coley Giantham and an
other man came to her house about
6 or 8 o’clock p, m. and hailed to
old man Sam, saying hello Uncle
Sam and Sam hailed back and then
Coley said, come out, Sam replied
don’t know you, I can’t come. He
then said if you don’t come out I’ll
come in, I don’t want to hurt you.
Sam then opened the door and they
came in and asked if he had any
sugar. They went in the cook
room, asked for the sugar and said
let’s have some toddy. All three
of them went in the cook room and
stayed in there about one hour and
a half drinking and talking about
the whiskey, what he gave for it
and how good it was, etc, said he
gave $6.00 a gallon for it. When
they came our of the cook room he
offered me some whiskey and 1 told
him, “I don’t want any of your
durn liquor.” He said, don’t you
want some money, and slapped
me on the shoulder. Old man
Sam says don’t bother the old wo
man she is on the county. They
then went out of the door and the
door was closed. A gun was fired
NUMBER 35
Inter School
Atheletic Contest
The Twelfth District Intel School
Atheletic Contest will meet at Coch
ran, April 11th and 12th, and from
what information we can obtain
there will be a good attendance
from all over the district.
This will he quite au interesting
occasion and of course Cochran will
extend her usual cordial welcome
and her hospitable homes will be
open to our visitors.
The spirit of wholesome rivalry
engendered by the these contests is
stimulating to the students and
arouses an effort to excell, besides
the social contact, and exchange of
ideas among the teachers and stu
dent body will he helpful to all.
We will be delighted to have the
contest in our city and trust every
citizen will put forth his best efforts
to make the day pleasant and profr
table.
and old man Sam fell to the floor.
He was shot through the door. It
was further alleged by old Aunt
Caroline that she heaid Coley
Grantham say there is one more
S — of B — I want to get and that
is Mat Turner and I don’t care
then what they do with me.
Frank Ingram testified he lived
two or three hundred yards from
Sam Anderson. He heard report
of gun and was called hy Caroline
Anderson and found the Md man
Sam laying on his back in the stove
room with his feet hanging out on
the ground. Old man Sam said he
was shot and wanted a doctor. He
did not talk like he thought he was
going to die. He said Coley Gran
tham killed him. Caroline said
Coley and his brother killed Sam.
Dr. Massey, of Chester, testified
that he was called by Mr. W. L.
Wynne to see old man Sam. Said
he had gun shot wound in left side
close to the heart, the wound was
two or three inches in diameter.
He says old man Sam didn’t say
anything,to him about dying.
W. L. Wynne testified that Sam
Anderson lived on his place about
one quarter or one half mile from
his house. He said he heard the
the report of the gun and thinks he
reached old man Sam’s house in
five or ten minutes after he heard
the report of the gun. He says old
man Sam did not say anything
when he first saw him. He left the
house and returned in a few min
utes and when he came back he ask
ed old man Sam “how come you to
be shot?” He said, “Coley Gran
tham shot me,” He then went for
Mat Smith one half mile away with
Frank Ingram, and came back with
Mat Smith. Old man Sam told
him he wanted a doctor and Wynne
told him he did not think a doctor
would do him any good. Mr.
Smith asked him who was with
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