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VOLUME SIX
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Southern Railway
Improves Facilities
Macon, Ga., Nov. 12. — Instal
lation of the telephone block signal
system on the 147 miles of the Sou
thern Railway between Macon and
Jesup is announced by vice Pres,
and General Mgr. E. H. Chapman.
A telephone line with stations at
every passing track has been con
structed and fifty additional tele
phone operators have been employ
ed. Three additional train dispatch
ers were employed in the Atlanta
division headquarters to give their
entire time to the Macon-Jesup line
Safety and facility in handling
trains will both be increased by the
introduction of this new system.
The telephone has l>eon tried on
other important lines of the South
ern system and has been found en
tirely successful. With the instal
lation of this modern system of sig
nalling between Macon and Jesup,
the entire line of the Southern Rail
way and the Queen and Crescent
Route between Cinci.iatti and Jack
sonville is protected in the most ef
ficient manner.
Double track extending from the
Southern passenger Station at Ma
con to the entrance to the new
freight terminal, a distance of a
mile and a half, has just been plac
ed in service and a number of other
important improvements including
the construction of nine new pass
ing tracks, have recently been com
pleted between Macon and Jesup,
this line forming a very important
link in the route over which are op
erated the Southern’s through trains
between Jacksonville and Chicago,
Cincinnati, St. Louis, Memphis and
Kansas City.
The recent improvements provide
facilities which the management of
the Southern Railway considers ade
quate not only for the prompt and
efficient handling of present busi
ness but also for the increased busi
ness that is hoped for in the future
COTTON REPORT
There were 9,738 bales of cotton,
counting round as half bales, gin
ned in Bleckley County, from the
crop of 1913 prior to November Ist.
as compared with 6,019 bales gin
ned prior to November 1, 1912.
SERVICES AT THE
METHODIST CHURCH
Sunday School, 10 a. m.
Morning Services, 11 a. m.
Junior League, 3:00 p. m.
Preaching at night, 7:00.
Senior League Monday night 7:00.
Prayer Meeting Wed. 7:00 p. m.
All are cordially invited
Wt)t Cocljran Journal
COCHRAN, BLECKLEY COUNTY GEORGIA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1913
Sol Bollinger Passes
Into Great Beyond
One of the oldest and best known
citizens of our county, Mr. Sol Bol
linger. died very suddenly with pa
ralysis at his residenc seven miles
from Cochran near Evergreen Bap
tist church, at one o’clock Saturday
afternoon.
Mr. Bollinger arose at his usual
time Saturday morning in apparent
ly in good health. About seven
o’clock he went out into the yard
and got some stove wood and brought
it into the kitchen, he then went to
the cow pen snd milked the cow.
As he was returning to the house
with tha bucket of milk, his son,
Rural, who was at the cane mill
near by, noticed that his father was
walking very unsteady. He ran to
him as quickly as possible, and
reached him just in time to prevent
him from falling to the ground.
He assisted him into the house and
phoned for a doctor, but nothing
could be done for him. He died at
one o’clock, P. M.
Mr Bollinger was 68 years old
and was born and reared in Bleckley
county. He was one of the best
men in the county, and by his kind
and loving disposition made many
friends. He was a life long member
of old Evergreen Baptist church,
near where he was born, lived and
died.
Mr. Bollinger was a Confederate
soldier, first joining Findley’s bat
tallion in Macon and serving on
guard duty. He afterwards enlisted
in the 49th Georgia Regiment and
served three years in the army of
Virginia. He was present at Appo
mattox when Lee surrendered. He
was a member of Cochran Camp of
Confederate Veterans.
His body was interred in Bethany
grave yard at two o’clock Saturday
afternoon. Rev. F. B. Asbell con
ducted the ceremony in the presence
of a large unmber of friends and
relatives.
He is survived bv a wife and three
sons, Tom, Bob and Rural, all of
this county, one brother, John Bol
linger of this county, and a sister,
Mrs. Mary Hogg, of Macon county.
NOTICE
All veterans and widows that are
on the pension roll will please call
at my office and give their names
as this is a new county, and it is
very necessary that I send a correct
list to the pension commissioner
not later than Dec. Ist.
W. M. Wynne, Ordinary.
Mrs. J. A. Anderson spent Tues
day in Macon,
No concern is stronger than the
quality of the goods they sell
You run no risk when you fur
nish your home at
Jackson Furniture Company
State-Wide War On
Saloons Opens Soon
Seaborn Wright Opened Up At
Augusta, Then He’s To Go
To South Georgia
Atlanta, Nov. 16. —
A state-wide campaign to close
down beer saloons and locker clubs
begins this week in South Georgia
when Seaborn Wright, the wheel
horse of the prohibition forces, will
unlimber his seige guns in half a
dozen towns. He spoke tonight at
Augusta.
Mr. Wright stated that he was
now busy arranging an itinerary of
sixty Georgia towns, which he will
begin visiting and arousing imme
diately after she new year.
He stated that this campaign would
take some three months to fill. Mr
Wright said he was working iri co
operation with the Woman’s Chris
tian Temperance Union in his plan
to put the lid on in Georgia.
His present trip will embrace Au
gusta, Savannah, Fitzerald, Valdos
ta, Bainbridge, Thomasville, Moul
trie and Americus.
The Roman made it clear that
there was to be a statewide campaign
to close up illegally operated places
such as were successfully operated
in Rome and Macon.
Free! Free!
Costs you nothing!
With every 50c purchase of
Sanitol Goods, such as:
Sanitol Face Cream,
Sanitol Cold Cream,
Sanitol Face Powder,
Sanitol Tooth Paste,
Sanitol Tooth Powder,
Sanitol Tooth Wash,
Sanitol Tooth Brushes,
we will give a set of Beautiful Gold
Filled Dress Pins , Free , as long as
they last. Only a few.
Walkers Pharmacy
The Quality Store
Phone No. 9 Cochran , Ga.
Postmasters To
Affix Postage
Christmas Gift Senders Will
Not Be Forced to Lick Own
Stamps This Year.
Washington,—Christmas gift giv
ers this year will not be forced to
lick their own stamps when they
affix the proper pastage to their
parcels for mailing unless they wish
to taste it, for the postoffice author
ities announced today that its post
masters and the assistants would at
tend to the duty if requested. The
innovation is put in force in the in
terest of better mail service during
the holiday rush and is expected to
facilitate the movement of the vast
crush of matter that will tax the re
sources of the department’s many
employes.
Orders were issued today to post
masters to affix postage when requ
ested on mail matter of the second
third, and fourth class, the latter
being parcel post matter. The
stamps will be precanceled.
Wanted: To sell at cost, our
stock of Ivory Cement Plaster,
Builder’s Hardware and paint sun
dries. Call on or write,
Cochran Lumber Company.
In Memory Of
Elijah Bollinger
Our hearts are sad. The Death
Angel has visited our community
and stolen one whom we loved.
There is a vacant place in our
hearts and community which can
never he refilled. We are not sad
because we are selfish, but because
we shall miss the heaity hand
shake, the sweet greeting smile and
his ever readiness to help his fellow
man.
Solomon Elijah Bollinger was
born December 29th, 1836, in Wal
ker District, Pulaski County, Geor
gia, and was reared to manhood in
this district. When he was about
17 years of age he joined the Con
federate Army and served therein,
in the Forty-Ninth Regiment, Com
pany “K”, until the end of the
war. He was one of the nine of
Company “K” who were left when
the was was over. Sometime after
the close of the war he was united
in marriage to Miss Ridley Mc-
Phail, and unto them were bom
four sons and one daughter, three
sons are left to mourn him. His
only daughter having left him eigh
teen years ago to meet her Heaven
ly Father, and his oldest son who
died eleven years ago at the age of
thirty-three.
If he ever had an enemy, it was
himself. For he often neglected
self to help others. He was loved
best by those who knew him best.
He was not what would he called a
financial success, because he rea
lized as did the poet; when he said;
“Life is too short for me to get rich
And do justice by my fellowman.”
He had his faults, he was human,
and so are we all.
He was a member and also a
Deacon of Eevergreen Baptist
Church, near Cochran, for perhaps
forty years or more, and seived
well in that capacity as long as he
was able to attend Church. Even
then he had its welfare in his heart.
The tender cord is broken and thou
hast gone above,
But for Thee dear friend and father
we will never lose our love,
And when before our Lord and Mas
ter we stand and touch His
Gentle Hand
May it be our privilege to hear
those loving words which oft
from His lips have fell
And with Thee dear friend and
father we shall enter
And with Him forever dwell.
‘By one who loved him as himself.’
Miss Emma Thomas and Mr.
Wood, of Hawkinsville, visited
1 friends here Sunday.
NUMBER 15
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National Society For
Practical Eugenics
Washington, D. C,, Nov, 16 —A
national society for the promotion
of practical eugenics was suggesged
by Mrs. John Hays Hammond, at
today’s meeting of the eugenics sec
tion of the American Association
for the Study and Prevention of In
fant Morality. As a result of her
suggestion, a committee was ap
pointed to meet the eugenics com
mittee of the American Breeders’
Association to discuss this question.
Mrs. Hammond declared that
with an organization such as she
proposed, individual and govern,
mental action could be secured
which, within a generation, would
reduce infant morality to a mini
mum
“The greatest need of today,”
Mrs, Hammond added, “is educa
tion as to how to increase the bio
logical capital with which a baby
enters on life’s battle. More than
half the processions of white coffins
in Washington are assured before
the birth or at the hours of birth of
the little occupants.”
That the sentiment and romance
of marriage was not destroyed by
eugenics was asserted by Dr.
Evangeline W. Young, of Boston,
who declared she bad seen just as
true romance as she would wish to
find in young couples seeking eu
genic marriage.
The boy, as much as the girl, she
said, need instruction in the spirit
ual significance of marriage. The
double standard of marriage, she
averred, makes it a hypocrisy which
the twentieth century woman will
not stand.
Condemnation of ihe “little
mothers” was scored by Dr. Helen
C. Putman, of Providence, R. 1.,
who said that “babies have the
right to the care of intelligent
mothers instead of elementary
school children.
Negro Cabin Burned
A negro cabin located on the hill
just at the East terminus of Beech
Street, caught on fire about 9:30 p,
m. Friday and burned to the
ground.
This cabin belonged to J. J. Tay
lor and was occupied by a negro
named Nora Daniels, and family.
The origin of the fire is unknown.
The occupants had retired for the
night and were aroused by someone
hollowing fire. Th e household
goods were saved.
Mr. Will Dunham spent last
Thursday in Macon,