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VOLUME SIX
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and all kinds of nice things for the home.
JACKSON FURNITURE COMPANY
Judge P. I. McGriff
Dies After Brief Illness
Pulaski County Loses One of Its
Oldest And Most Highly Re
spected Citizens.
Judge I’. T. McGriff, ordinary
of Pulaski county, and one of its
oldest and most highly esteemed
citizens, died at his home in this
city Monday morning at 1:1")
o’clock after a brief illness. Al
though he had been quite techie for
sometime he never gave tip ant
took his bed until about ten days
ago, when la l was forced to do so li
the result of a malarial attack,
which with other complications due
mainly to his advanced yeats, was
the cause of his doath.
Judge McGriff was of Irish line
age, his paternal grandfather hav
ing emigrated to America from
Ireland about the middle of the
eighteenth century. lie was a son
of Thomas McGriff, a native of Vir
ginia, who settled in Pulaski coun
ty in IXI2, and died March 20,
1543. He was horn in this country
July 20, 1833, ami would have
been 81 years old had he lived to
see his next birtlidnj. lie was
educated in the common schools of
his day, and when hut sixteen years
old served three months in the
Florida Indian war. He also
—served through the civil war, enlist
ing in 1802 as a member of Com
pany G, Tenth Confederate cavalry,
and was subsequently made its cap
tain. After the war was over he
returned to Pulaski county and en
gaged in farming which vocation i e
followed successfully until 1873.
when he was elected ordinary, of j
the country, succeeding J. J. Spai
row, one of its pioneer citizens and
father of Mr. H. 11. Sparrow, the
present clever and efficient manager
of the Farmer’s Union Wafehonse. i
He had held the Cilice continuously !
since that time for forty-one years, j
and was serving his eleventh term |
at the time of iiis death. His ad- j
ministration gave such universal ]
satisfaction and the people had such j
implicit confidence in his honesty j
and integrity that not a word of
| criticism has ever been heard
' f,gainst his otlicial conduct, and he
was never oppose 1 hut twice during
his long career as a public otlicial, j
perhaps the longest of any county
oflicer in the state. He was a very
charitable man and often made a
reduction in his fees or donated
them to the parties when they were
widows and orphans or others of
limited means.
Judge McGriff bad been a mem
ber of the grand lodge, F, & A. M.,
for 51 years, and served as high
®l )t Codjrmt Journal.
COCHRAN, BLECKLEY COUNTY GEORGIA. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1913
Cotton Report
There were 3,(>23 hales of cotton,
counting round as half hales, gin
t lied in Bleckley county, frem the
crop of ]:)13 prior to September 25,
as compared with I .N 53 hales gin
ned prior to September 25, 11)12.
The Cochran Union Warehouse
has received 2.771 hales of cotton,
while the Planters' Warehouse Uo.,
has received 2,7!)1.
Good Middling was selling for 13
cults Thursday afternoon.
> priest of Pula-si chapter No. ■2().
11. A. M., at Hawkinsville, an I
I was a Sir Knight Templar of St.
Oma Comm.uidary No. 2, at Mn-
I coil . lit: also served as mayor of
! Hawkinsville and as president of
! the city board of education, and in
j these as well as all other positions
of honor and trust that he held lie
was always found true and meas
ured fully up to all expectations
of his, friends.
Judge McGriff was twice married,
j the first time to Mary A. Dykes,
j daughter of .Judge 15. B. Dykes, in
1875, and the second time to Fran
(•is Cowan, widow of Dr. Cowan, d
this county, in December, 1 8GG,
1 >otl l of \ horn are dead. II" is sur
vived by three children. Rufus .),-.
by his first wife, and James P. and
Frances by his second wife, all of
this city. He also leaves three
stepsons, T. S. Cowan, of this coun
ty, 11. P. Cowan, of Macon, and
Walker Cowan, of Tunnel Springs,
Ala.
No man ever lived in this county
who had more friends or was more
highly thought of than this venera
ble gentleman, and many not only
in this b it in other sections of the
state will read with deep regret the
announcement of his death.
The funeral was held from the
house today at ten o’clock a. m.,
by his pastor, Rev. C. L. Greaves,
of tiie Baptist Church, and the re
mains were then escorted to Orange
Hill Cemetery and interred with the
beautiful and impressive ceremonies
of that order.
Many beautiful floral offerings
were sent in by admiring friends, j
and the stores were closed during
the funeral as a mark of respect
to the deceased.
The following members of the
lodge acted as pall hearers: H. F.
Lawson. J. .J. Harvard, H. 11.
Sparrow, Z. V. Peacock, R. A.
Pa.e, J. F. Coney, W. M. Taylor
aud F. 11. Boezman.
Quite a number of relatives and
friends fcom Macon, Vienna, Cor
dele, Cochran, I’ineview and Fen
leyson attended the funeral. —Dis-
patch and News.
HAND PAINTED CHINA
AND OUT GLASS
At Your Own Price
V ery Beautiful for
J
Weddings,
Birthday and
ChrisTmas Presents
You’ll save money by
taking a shot at
these goods.
Walker’s Pharmacy
The Korrter Store
JOB PRINTING
u THE KIND THAT PLEASES
Gd it at VHE COCHRAN JOURNAL OFFICE
sjw IIIP
Plastic Currency Is
Needed At Once
Of Great Importance With The
New Tariff —Obstacles In Sen
ate. Committee May De
vote A Month to Bill.
Washington, 1). C., Oct. 7. —Po-
litical Washington, releaved of tl e
long-drawn out consideration of tin
tariff, will focus ils attention tlii
week on the second of the demo
cratic rofoun measures —U rkinj.
and currency legislation.
Though the administration cur,
reney hill easily passed the house,
its pathway in the senate admitted
ly is full of obstacles. At present
the senate hanking committee lm
not begun consideration of the hill.
Prediction at tlle eapitol are gencr
a I that the senate committee will be
at work for a mouth on the meas
ure.
SOME FA YOU SIMILE BANK
While there was unanimity on
tariff revision, widely divergent
views are held by demociatic sena
tors on hanking reform. A strong
desire for a single hank with
branches, under government con
trol, instead of a regional reserve
system of hanks, lias made its ap
pearance in the informal discussion.
Other changes of a far-reaching j
character are being suggested and
it is regarded generally as doubtful j
if a bill satisfactory to the senate
hanking committee can reach the
door of the senate hcfca the middle
of November.
At the white house there is a eon- :
faience the bill will he passed thi.-
session or be placed on the statute
hooks before the first of the year.
The president wants thorough con
sideration of the currency hill and
any improvement that the senate
can make on tne measure as passed
by the house will he welcome. IPs
disposition, however, is to strongly
oppose any undue delay.
President Wilson believes a gen
oral decrease in the cost of living
that will he felt by the rank and
tile of the country is not alone de
pendent on tariff revision, hut on
prompt reform of the nation’s
monetary system as well as careful
consideration of the anti-trust laws
Representative Underwood and
other democratic leaders, think that
while reductions in some cases will
be immediate, the general benefits
will not at once be apparent.
Fven though the tariff laws!
might bring many imports into
this country at low rate or free of
duty, the evils of price fixing, un
derselling and other discriminations
in restraint of trade might, in the
NUMBER 9
Bleckley karmer
Attempts Suicide
Steve L. Richardson, one of the
best known and most prominent
farmers of Bleckley County, in an
attempt to commit suicide shot
himself through the head with a
pistol on tln> porch of his residence,
it about 7:30 p. m., Wednesday.
No one was at home except liini
-elf and wife when the tragedy oc
•urred. A negro, who was picking
■niton in a nearby field, heard the
pistol report and*was the first one
io arrive on the scene. The pistol
ball entered on the right side of the
head peiiitrating the brain and
lodging somewhere on the inside of
the skull.
It appears that Mr. Richardson
had contemplated suicide for some
time, hut as he left no statement
prior to the time he shot himself
and has been unconscious since the
tragi ly we were unable to get any
of the details of the causes leading
up to the trouble.
It is reported that there had been
some dillieulty between him and
1 1 is oldest son, King Richardson,
and the latter had not been home
since last Sunday.
Mr. Richardson owned one of the
prettiest and most valuable places
in Bleckley County. lie had not
long since completed a beautiful
two storv re idence. He is a very
succe.-sful farmer and lias a splen
did crop. II" also runs a public
ginnery near Gary.
When last heard from Mr. Rich
ardson was not expected to live hut
a few hours.
president’s v.ew, i.-i freed nn of
fruits of tariff reform.
Another essential to free compe
tition, in the president’s view, is
freedom of credit. With the con
centration of credit in what the
president described an “inner
circle” even the benefits of Lust
regulation and tariff reduction can
he withheld from the consumer by
the stifling of enterpiise.
ELASTIC (VIIKKNCY NEEDED.
None of the administration lead
ers entertain tile idea that the tariff
will have any adverse effect. On
the other hand, they have pointed
out that an elastic financial system
is now nnecessary more than ever.
As soon as the December session
opens, the administration will be
gin to center its attention on the
anti-trust program. There is no
intention at the white house to
draft the administration measure.
What is expected to happen is that
the members of the house judiciary
committee and the senate committ
tee on interstate commerce will con
fer early with President Wilson and
discuss the subject informally. The
president hopes that before the ant
trust hill is launched there will be a
common agreement on it in the
committees.