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VOLUME SIX m Bf- . ''' - r 1 . !** .' 1 ~ 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 a.; ft 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,