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VOLUME SIX
Southern Railway
Solicits Imigration
Washington, I>. C. Septemlier 3,
—An office of the land and Indus- j
trial department of the Southern
Railwnv ', Mobile and Ohio Rail
road and Georgia Southern and,
Florida Railway was estahli ~ d at!
I tenver, t'olo., September Ist. with I
v ‘ i
11. R. Buckey in charge with tie
title of Traveling Agent. The open-i
ing of the Denver office will extend
the work of Southern Railway and
affiliated lines in the solicitation of
imigration and industries farther
into the W estern State's and should
prove of value to the entire South
eastern States. Mr. Buekey is an
experienced man, having assisted j
in the preparation of exhibits of j
the Southern products made by
the Southern and affiliated lines at
fairs in the North and West and is
thoroughly conversant with condi
tions in the Southeast and with the
many attractions which this section
offers to the homeseeker.
Negro Commits Suicide
111 Health Causes Dave Williams
To Shoot Himself.
Dave Williams, a young negro
about twenty-five years old, who
Jived on C. B. and A. L. Adams’
farm on the east side of the river,
e mmitted suicide last Wednesday
by shooting himself through the
head with a pistol. He had several
days ago attempted to end his
earthly existence by jumping in the
Ocmulgee river and drowning and
doubtless would have succeeded had
it not been for some parties who
happened to come along.
Williams was a victim of tuber
culosis and other troubles and des
pondency over his condition is said
to have been the cause of his act. —
llawkinsville Dispatch & News.
J. J. May Burned.
Saturday at noon a gasoline iron
which a negro employee of the City
Pressing Club left burning while
out at ainner, set fire to some doth
on which it was resting. Messrs.
Geeen Purser and J. J. May enter
ed the building just as the iron ex
ploded. Mr. Pu.ser’s h«.ir was
slightly singed while Mr. May was
badly burned about the face and
hands. After the accident Mr.
May’s wounds were dressed by Dr,
Kelly who stated that the wounds,
though painful, were not necessarily
serious. That they were not serious
ly burned was due to the fact that
there was only a small amount of
gasoline in the iron. 1
®f )t Codfim Journal.
COCHRAN, BLECKLEY COUNTY GEORGIA. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1913
INVITATION
Please call and get that piece of Furniture you have
been talking about all the year. You can find, the best
Solid Oak Beds, Dressers add Wash Stands,
also Art Squares, runks, Suit
Cases, Go-Carts, Graphcpliones, Organs,
Pianos, and many other nice things for home.
Beware of Rome;
History Repeats Itself
We reproduce in another column
of the Journal i n article headed
“parental responsibility.’’ It is
well that thoughtful men and wom
en, who have the welfare of their
children at heart to take notice. ■ It
is a well known fact that for some
reason or other the average man
does not hold our women in as high
esteem as formerly. We cannot
say that womanstandard lias been
elevated, although education is
more universal and civilization is
progressing at rapid paces. A wo
man is arrested in a Sot.them City, j
and subjected to a heavy line for j
what the recorder termed her ap- j
pea ranee on the public streets of the
City in indecent apparel. Another I
City ollieer of a Southern City calls
on the ministers and good people of
Ins City to aid him in keeping
winnen of so called good families,
oIT the street attired in improper
clothing, stating if they would hack
him up in this, he would see that
the other class stayed off, while
another Mayor discharged a woman
who came up before him charged
with a like offense, stating that the
attiie was very becoming and that
he rather liked it.
Our women want to vote. They
want to occupy the same positions
as men in every avenue of life,
so duly, commercially and p< • Jit i
cully. While some of them are in
strenous and militant pursuit of
“their rights’’ they leave trie child
-eti at home to take care of them
selves or in charge of some irre
sponsib'e cook or nurse, while they
are out parading around attending
suffnrage The other day j
in a distant city, a man came home
for his supper after a hard days
work and found the children cry
ing for supper and to he put to bed.
He went out to search for his wife
and found her on a street corner
mounted on a dry goods box mak
ing a speech in behalf of the vote
foi women. That man “butted”
into that meeting, and reminded
his wife of conditions at home and
liked to have been mobbed. The
other day the Prime Minister of
England was attacked by two husky
suffragettes, while he was on the
golf links. He jvas thrown to the
ground and bruised up before he
could be rescued by his stalwart
daughter and a few other nearby
friends. What kind of business is
all of this anyway? Does it have
any connection with the fact that
there seems to he a tendency to
wards the lowering of the high
moral standard that our grand j
southern women have always held |
aloft? A standard that has always!
been the inspiration of our chival- )
rou? men and the lied rock of our j
southern ideals and civilization, j
Rise up noble men and women* of ‘
Mr. J. P. Peacock
Entertains Ball Club
Mr. J. P. •'Peacock was host at
a barbecue Friday night in compli
ment to the base bull team and a
few friends. The 1 cue” was pro
nounced by all of the guests as the
“best ever”. Besides the barbecue
the spread was composed tf all the
delicacies of the season.
After the feast, Rev. Walker in
well chosen words presented Mr.
Clifford Lestei with checks from
the ba-v hall team and admiring
friends, (\\ . <>. Peacock, 11. 11.
Patrick, \\ . 11. and J. I’. Peacock
and P. C. Walker.)
The affair formally closed the
season of l'.M:> which proved to lie a
very successful one under the supW
vision*,f Mr. .1. P. Peacock assisted
h.v Messrs. I . 11. Patrick and II
C. Duggan.
Mr. Peacock's guests included
Messrs. W. < ). Peacock, W. H. Pea
cork, I 11. Patrick, J. Walker
K.C. Elder, Rev. P. Walker. Dr.
Kelly, .1. (). .McCrary, W S. llugg,
Joe Tavlor, Barney Hendricks,
Jimmie Walker, Lewis Peacock. T.
11. IF eves, Clifford Lester, Fain
Lester, Thus Hall, Harvey Asbell,
11. C. Duggan, Jim Cook, Guy
Jackson, Walter Ard and Allie
Taylor.
our beloved South and kill this
awful monster before he dutches
the throats of our fair women and
• Irags their unpointed standard
down into the mire.
Beware of Rome! Do not give
history a chance to repeat itself.
Rub er Goods!
YES—Quality Rubber Goods
YES—Complete Stock
YES—We guarantee each piece.
OUR PRICES
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are rite, range from $ 1.00 to $4.00
on Fountain Syringes and
Water Bottles.
If it’s made of Rubber you’ll find it at
Walter s Pharmacy
The Rexall & Nyal Store
Phone No. 9 Cochran, Ca.
Jackson Furniture Company
Ihree Marriages
In One Day
Cupid played an important role
in and near Cochran last Sunday.
Quite a romantic double marriage
oceurcd at Greens Park in Cochran
last Sunday morning, our popular
minister Rev. P. C. Walker, tying
the nuptial knots.
The principals were Miss Ollic
Poole and Mr, Austin Funderburk,
Miss May Ingram and Mr, Charles
(I nnislcy.
Miss Poole is the daughter of our
fellow citizen, Mr. W iley F. Poole,
and sister to (lus and Chester
Poole. She is an csteemable young
lady and Mr. Funderburk did well
to win her. Mr. Funderburk is an
employee at flic (lotion mills, and
is a good, ipiict, hard working
young man.
.Miss Ingram is quite a young
girl having been a pupil in the
Cochran lligh School last term.
She is an amiable girl and has
many friends in the younger set.
She is only about lifted) or sixteen
years old. Mr. Grimsley is also a
cotton mill operative, is attentive
to business and is sober and iodus
t lions.
Miss Ruth Scarbrough was mar
ried to Mr. Walter Norris at Trail
Branch church near Cochran last
Sunday, an account of which is
given in another column of the
Journal.
The Journal joins with their
friends in wishing all of these brides
and grooms much happiness and
success.
Cochran Public
School Opened.
Cochran Public school opened
Monday morning with very encour
aging prospects. The enrollment
was larga and is now nearing the
two hundred mark.
Dr. Hall spoke for a few minutes
of the very great School advantages
that w r e enjoy, and the improve
ments wc need in laboratory equip
ment for the seientilic courses. We
would emphasize this need since
we must do some, of this work to
make our place in the first group
of accredited sell iols.
The Methodist minister, Rev.
Lester, spoke at length, and with
eloquence of the wonderful resour
ces of our Southland and their di
rect relation to education. lie
was enthusiastic over the subject of
his own choosing and inside an in
spiring speech.
Dr. Walker spoke next ernpha
sizing the duty of the parents in
cooperating with the teacher in
school work and of the wonderful
advantages afforded the boys and
girls of today. I)r. Walker sees
the boys and girls of Cochran the
future men and women of the com
munity and with just pride points
to the beauty and manliness <>t
these girls and hoys. His speech
was well chosen.
Mr. Mullispnir Honorable Mayor,
spoke next, He is for Cochran
lirst, last and all the time, and an
ardent supporter of everything that
makes for progress in every line.
He is certainly the schoolman’s
friend and everything that furthers
educational interests. He grew
reminiscent in his speech, and
spoke of his own school days, when
lie seemed to have learned well. Un
lesson of obedience. The advice he
gave to the pupils is good, vejy
good; “Whitever you are told to
do, do it.”
Professor Trammel,our new prin
cipal, expressed his appreciation of
the cordial welcome Cochran gave
the teachers, and tlien Professor
Monts covered the whole situation
with a well chosen talk. He con
gratulated Cochran on her evidence
of interest in matters educational,
the splendid, well equipped build
ing, the co-operation the whole
town seems to accord the Superin
tendent and the fine showing made
at opening. He made mention of
three things necessary for a success
ful school; the child, ttie teacher
and the parent. These were all in
evidence and he looks forward to a
successful year.
Let us make our school the pride
of our town. There are two hun
dred and seventy five children of
school age in the incorporate limits
of the city and ample room in our
school building to accomodate them
all. Why are they not there? We
would urge every parent who is not
a patron of the school to become
one at once and give his child its
chance in life.
Why Such Interest
In Murder Cases?
Dorothy Dix in Ilearst’s Sunday
American gives a very plausible ex
planation as to why the public
takes such intense and you might
say morbid interest in such cases as
the Thaw murder case About this
particular ease she says, “No other
case in the whole history of the
world has been written about, so
much read about, and so much dis
cussed as the Thaw case.” If all
that has been printed about it
were spread out upon the earth, it
would blanket the United States
Irom Canada to the Gulf, and from
the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean.
Now what causes this? Is it
because the people generally like to
read about murder and bloodshed.
Not altogether. As a rule people
like excitement. They like some
thing out of the ordinary. They
like mystery.
This underlying interest in the
Tha\v case is easily explained in
many ways. For one thing, “it
was a great human draiha that
swept every chord of emotion.” It
had in it love, jealuosy and bitter
hate and revenge, every passion
that sways the heart. Moreover, it
went hack to the very foundation
stone of romance, and told the
tale in real life, that has been the
basic idoi of every novel from Pam
ela down to William Dean Howells,
“and then” the tale had a back
ground. “'l’lie Thaw millions gave
a sort of aureate hack ground to
the story. We like to hear of the
doings of the rich and great and
we like to read of millionaires’
affairs just as we prefer to persue
novels in which the characters are
(takes and duchesses rather than
scrubwomen and longshoremen.”
And so it goes. There was a
mystery surrounding the Phagan
case. A little factory girl, poor,
hut beautiful had been murdered
and perhaps outraged in defense of
her -virtue. The supposed perpe
trator was an intellegent and influ
ential factory superintendent, her
employee, in charge of the factory
within whose dark and somber walls
tne dastardly deed was committed.
Innocence had been outraged,virtue
trampled upon and murder com
mitted. Every chord that arouses
the indignation and resentment of an
outraged public had been touched
upon and the people arose as one
man to catch and punish tne mur
derer. You may talk about your
laws and civilization, but whenever
a man, white or black, puts their
unholy hands on our white girls or
women, to defile their purity, every
impulse of the heart cries out for
revenge and as much as mob laws
are to he deplored it seems that in
this day and time no moral suasion
is effective and no iron doors are
strong enough to keep back the
seemingly irresistible tide of mob
force when stirred to revenge,
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