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VOLUME FIVE
FRESH AIR IS GOOD FOR THE YOUNG AND THE OLD!
Hon. Deese Writes
Important Letter
He Recommends Better Toilet
Facilities for Sonthern Rail
way Depot at Cochran
Mr. Campbell Wallace, Secretary,
Railroad Commission of (ia.
Atlaidf/i Georgia.
Dear Sir
(fi Refervjpg again to the toilet facil
jnes at jfUdinui Southern Railway
passenger depot, and to your reply
of the 6th instant, 1 have Uvn bar
red from answering your letter
sooner by very strenuous duties.
1 cannot agree in the argument
used by Asst, to tbe Pres’t, Mr. II
W, Miller, that because the City of
Cochran lias no organized system of
sewage, therefore the Southern Rail
way is absolved from providing a
lavatory for the use of the general
public at this point.
The fact that the Southern Rail
way in all it history has not provid
ed ordinarily decent accomodations
at Macon, where there is such an
organized system of sewerage, shows
no disposition to provide for the
said accomodation whereever such
sewage is easily’ available.
2. That the town of Cochran has
neglected to provide a sewerage sys
tem does in no wise excuse the
Southern Railway from providing
fur the general accommodation of
all its traveling public, at a station
that is used by all of the Hawkins
ville traveling public, as well as by
hundreds of others living in neither
city. The Southern is a public
utility corporation, due just as
good service to a transient English
man as to a Cochran traveler —bet-
ter in fact, since the Englishman
could find no other service.
3. The Southern has no lavatory
at Hawkinsville, which has a muni
cipal sewage system.
4. Air. Miller admits that the
Southern “will”, not that it
“ever has” provided such other ac
commodations as have in all of its
history been feasible. Why not?
5. There are in this town in use
in private houses nearly a score of
septic wells recommended as entiie
sanitary by the U. S. Government,
It is the choice of the citizen to
install these facilities according to
his needs, and his means.
It ; s the duty of, and it should be
of more easy accomplishment for, a
public utility corporation to provide
them.
6. It is a fact that the Southern
has easy drainage for sewage ovei
its own right of way.
7. The Southern has water with
in a few rods of the station and
it may use a septic tank as easily as
-a. dwelling may have it. There is
Tut one other pie-requisite —the
disposition to provide, and —should
that be wanting after these demon
strations —the requirement of the
Commission that it shall be done.
Very truly yours,
J. T. Deese.
®l|c €ocl)rait Journal.
Get a Go-Cart or Carriage from our large line for the baby, and get a
new Porch Rocker for tbe older ones, in Maple, Oak or Green.
*
Rockers $1.50 and up. Go-Carts $2.50 and up.
All we ask is: See our line and hear our low prices.
JAXON FURNITURE CO.
r T. 7* ——
Eastman to Figure
In District Meet
Boy Scouts to March to Cochran
and Many Other Eastmenites
Are to Get There Some Way
Eastman, April 9. —When the
Twelfth District meet is pulled off in
Cochran, next Friday, Eastman
will be well represented. Perhaps
every student of tbe high school
will lie present, besides a number of
other Eastmanites, who wiil go
to witness the sights.
The boy scouts are preparing to
hike it to Cochran, a distance of
twenty miles, and the members of
the boy scouts are looking for the
day with much interest.
A baseball game is scheduled to
be played between the Eastman
high school boys and the Cochran
high school boys, which will be
pulled off in the afternoon, in
which the Eastman boys are hoping
to bring this honor back with them.
The school team here has a splen
did line-up, and have already won
one victory from Plainfield this sea
son.
CONFEDERATE REUNION
Chattanooga, Tenn., April 9. —
All arrangements have been made
for cots and tents to accommodate
the Veterans who attend the Re
union of Confederates here, May
27-29. These arrangements pro
vide sleeping quarters for at least
15,000 men. The camp at Jackson
Park will be laid out and constrct
ed with due regard txj comfort and
sanitation. The work is under the
direction of a corps of competent
directors. If “Camp A. ,P. Stew
art” is not perfect, an army camp
can not he made so. Competent
judges who have examined the
plair and equipment pronounce it a
model.
COCHRAN, BLECKLEY COUNTY GEORGIA. THURSDAY, APRIL, 10, 1913
Welcome, Visitors,
To Our Beautiful City
We desiie to extend to every visitor to the Twelfth District Inter
High School contest a right royal welcome to our city and the new coun
ty of Bleckley. It is a joy and an inspiration to have you with us, and
we want every one of you, from the smallest child to the most cultured
and dignified teacher, to feel while you are here that our city is yours,
that our homes are opened to you with that warm Southern hospitality
proverbial in the homes of our blessed South land. Here you will find
maidens cultured and beautiful, who arc hatching no schemes beneath
our peaceful, sunny skies to demolish the property of him who would
fain stand at the helm and assume the responsibilities of Government.
Here you will find a superfluity of girl babies, who have been coming
into our community so fast that some have harbored a fear of future pre
dominance of this sex, but their twinkling eyes and ruddy cheeks indicate
that their mothers are no “suffragetts, ” and as one yesterday was
bending over the form of her infant I thought I saw a vision of heaven
in her countenance, as that most sacred of all things, “a mother’s love,”
beamed upon the offspring with eyes illumined with that sacred spark
unsurpassed by any other sentiment of the human heart.
We are building a city here and have placed the new County of
Bleckley upon the map of Georgia to take her place among the foremost
counties of this state. She is unexcelled in agricultural resources, with
comparatively no waste lands to be reclaimed.
We take pleasure in calling your attention to our elegant new
school building equipped with every modern convenience and presided
over by Prof. Leo H. Browning, one of the most progressive and thor
oughly competent educators and wide aw’ake citizens of any community
in tiiis state. He 7ias placed our school on the accredited list and brougnt
it up to its present state of efficiency, increasing the attendance some
thing like sixty or sixty-five per cent in the past few years.
We desire to call your attention to our splendid cotton mill that
is manufacturing a beautiful ladies dress goods. It is no common shod
dy stuff, but perfectly beautiful and comes from the factory ready to be
made up into garments. You will have an opportunity, while here, to
visit this southern cotton mill that bears the unique distil ction of man
ufacturing an excellent ladies dress goods that is manufactured nowhere
else south of Mason and Dixon’s line, and by but few mills in the Uni
ted States, and best of all our cotton mill management composed of
Manager D. E. Duggan and a corpse of able assistants originated the de
signs.
We have a splendid system of electric lights and water works,
a flourishing oil mill under the management of J. H. Mullis, Jr., who is
also our excellent Mayor. This mill has run on full time since its erect
ion, and has been a splendid investment for the stock holders who are all
home people.
All three of our banks are strong institutions, doing splendid bus
iness on a sound and conservative basis.
If you are looking for a location, come to the best town and coun
ty in the state of Georgia.
Watson Trial To
Be In August
Case Has Been Delayed, Says
District Attorney, Only Until
A Judge Can Be Obtained.
Augusta, April 8. —According to
a statement made here tonight by
District Attorney Alexander Aker
rnan, the case of the United States
vs Thomas E. Watson lias not been
postponed until December, but only
until a judge can he gotten to hear
the case. Mr. Ackeiman says he
has made arrangements to get some
other judge than Judge Speer but
there is none available. Mr. Ack
erman says the case will he sounded
for trial some time during the sum
mer and that the trial will be in
August.
Program of Inter-
School Meet
The different contests, which
will be held here Friday and Satur
day, between the high schools of
the twelfth congressional district,
have been arr tnged in the following
order:
Friday -
9:30 a. m. —Essays at the school.
10:00 a. m. —Association meets
at the school.
11:00 a. m. —Address by Hon.
C. L. Williams, at the school.
3:1X1 p. m. —Athletic exercises
at the baseball park.
7:30 p. m. —Music and girls, rec
itations at the school.
Saturday .
9:30 a. m. —Boys’ declamations
and delivery of medals, at the
school.
2:00 p. m. —Baseball game be
tween Eastman and Mt. Vernon
high schools.
NUMBER 36
Reciprocal Trade Is
Invited By New Bill
President Empowered to Meet
Nations Half Way
Canadians Believe That Proposed
Bill Will Open Up New
Market for Their Grain
and Meat
Washington, I). C., April 7 — An
attempt to widen the foriegn mark
et, lor American goods and to en
courage reciprocity treaties with all
foreign nations is embodied in the
new tariff bill introduced today, in
a clause empowering the President
to grant favors to any nation that
gives mutual concessions to the
United States.
The reciprocity clause takes the
place of the penajty clause of the
present law by which it was sought
to secure special concessions to the
United States. The new tariff bill
proposes that the normal tariff rates
shall be the .maximum and that
special rates shatl he granted to for
eign countries that will enter into
reciprocity with the United States.
In the present law the normal rates
are the minimum.
1 he clause designed to open wider
the markets for American exports
throughout the world is as follows;
“That for the pupose of readjust
ing the present duties on imports
into the United States, and at the
same time to encourage the export
trade of this country, the president
of the United States is authorized
and empowered to negotiate trade
agreements with foreign nations,
wherein mutual concessions are
made, looking toward freer trade
relations and further reciprocal ex
pression of trade and commerce.”
Such reciprocity agreements, un
der the new law. would have to be
approved by congress before becom
ing effective. In a statement ac
companying the bill, Chairman Un
derwood declared that under the
Payne law the United States had at
tempted to “expand commerce by
force.” “We went to the nations
of the world with the demand that
they stand and deliver, or we would
punish them,” he said.
Many years ago this system of
expanding trade and commerce was
abandoned by the enlightened na
tions. The only true course that
can be pursued to expand our for
eign trade along rational lines is
through mutual concessions that
may prove beneficial to both of the
contracting parties free from coer
cion.”
Another concession that would be
made, by the new bill is designed to
encourage American shipping. A
concession of 5 per cent would be
made in all tariff rates on goods
brought to this country in Ameri
can-built ships, owned wholly by
American citizens.