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W AS ONCE lIANGFD.
But This Man Still Lives to Tel!
the S-tory of His Close Call.
it is true th.it I have
been hanged,” said Rev. J. T.
Mann, of Fitzgerald, who is in
Albany to-day in the interest of
some religious books of which he
is the aul hor.
Mr. Mann was a confederate
soldier and relates an interesting
story a out his being hanged by
a nr. b of Federal soldiers at Bar
ranc Fla., on the charge of
being a confederate spy.
‘‘For the purpose of blowing
up a magazine,” said Mr. Mann,
I had entered the Union army at
Barrancas, Fla., and had formed
a strong friendship with one of
the sergeants. While in the lat
ter’s tent one night l secretly
ran the hands of the sergeant’s
watch up one hour and a half
leaving the tent at really 11
o’clock and not near 1 o’clock,
as the sergeant thought. At
once I made a vain attempt to
blow up the magazine and was
later captured.
“The soldiers, without any
formal trial, pul a rope around
my neck and suspended me in the
air, with the evident intention
of choking me to death.
After 1 had hung there until
I had become unconscious, the
friendly sergeant, who had just
learned that I was being hanged,
came running, saying: ‘You are j
hanging the wrong man, for this
fellow was in my tent last night
until 1 o’clock and the attempt
to blow up the magazine was
made before that time.’ This I
saved me and I was cut down,
given restoratives, and brought
back to life. Of course my run
ning up the sergeant’s watch
hands had fooled him.
“That is about the whole story
of how I was hanged and why I
am alive to-day.”
Mr. Mann was a resident of
Dawson at the time of the war,
but enlisted in the Confederate
army at New Orleans. He is
now a retired minister of the
gospel on account of throat
trouble—Albany Herald.
The Banner Year For Marriages.
Besides the good results of
business throughout the country
in 1906, a friend at YVashington
informs us that the census bureau
reports there were more mar
riages last year than in any one
year previously. This is evidence
that people are rendered happy
by prosperity. No man of good
sense cares to marry if he does
not know that his business will i
be sufficient to properly care for
a wife. Men who marry and
then enslave their wives and
compell them to lead a life of
drudgery and hardships should
be ashamed of themselves. The
object of marrying happiness,
and it is sincerely hoped that all
who married last year will realize
the fullest blessings such an event
can bring, and that disagreement
will be less and divorce suits
very few.
The uext report by the govern
ment on social conditions, it is
believed, will be the elfect that
more marriages were consumma
ted last year than for any year in
the history of the republic, and i
may there be no seperations of
those married last year, or cause
therefor, is the hope of the better
people of the nation.—Jackson
ville Metropolis.
Prosperity of Railroads.
According to the current issue
of the Railway Age the past year
has been one of the most pros
perous in the history of Rail
roading.
Six thousand miles of new track
built-the largest record in 18
years.
Only six out of 2000 companies
forced into the hands of the re
ceivers, and but eight sold at the
demand of creditors.
Three-quarters ot a billion
dollars were required for the
purchase of new equipment alone
and notwithstanding this enor
mous expenditure great profits
were gained. 3,400 passenger
Cars. 5,660 locomotives and
AIO.OOO freight cars were bought
fa order to cope with the great
WOULDN’T ENDORSE SMITH.
A Resolution Hedging Support to
Governor Smith Voted Down
by the Farmers.
In Atlanta last week officers 1
were elected and a number of
resolutions for advancing the in
terests of the association were
adopted at the convention of the
Georgia division of the Southern
I Cotton Association.
The following officials were
named: President, H. L. John
son, re-elected; vice president,
Rev. Dr. G.A. Nunnally, treas
urer; John D. Walker, re-elected;
executive committeemen, M. L.
I Everett of Stewart, Dan G.
Hughes of Danville and Martin
X. Calvin of Richmond, secretary,
Dan G. Hughes was nominated
for re-election, but declined to
serve, and the choice of his suc
cessor was left with President
Johnson, who will confer with a
sut committee of the executive
committee.
Resolutions were adopted as
I follows:
Pledging the support of the
best classes to the organization,
expressing confidence in Presi- i
dent Harvie Jordan of the South- j
j ern Cotton Association, and wish
ing him a happy, a peaceful and !
prosperous year; recommending
the establishment of warehouses j
financed by proper corporations;
to control the surplus cotton; ex
pressing sympathy with the cot- 1
ton men of South Carolina, Ala
bama, Florida, Tennessee, Ar- j
kansas and Texas in their con
tests against bucket shops.
A resolution introduced by
Treasurer John I). Walker, call
ing attention to the evidences
of good will by Governor-elect
Hoke Smith toward the cotton
planters and farmers and pledg
ing him the support of the mem- j
bers and urging that the new
administration take a firm stand 1
for the best immigrants for Geor-.
gia, was reported unfavorably
by the committee.
IN JAIL ON UGLY CHARGE.
J. H. Fulford of Clinch County
Taken to Valdosta.
Valdosta, Ga., Jan. 4. —Sheriff
Sweat of Homerville brought J.
H. Fulford, a white man who
formerly kept the waterworks of
the Coast Line at Dupont, to this
City for confinement in the jail
here, the charge against him be
ing that of assaulting his daugh
ter. criminally. He was indicted
by the grand jury at the last term.
It is said that a mob took him
in charge soon after the charges
were prefered against him, but
he gave it the slip and made his
escape. He was later located at
Blackshear and traced to Kissim
mee, Fla., and to a mill 117 miles
from a railroad in South Florida.
Sheriff Sweat went after him
and arrested him there.
Fulford is a machinist and was
earning $4. a day when he was
arrested. It is also said that he
had married again, so the charge
of bigamy will be added to that
of criminal assault.
Sheriff Sweat was afraid to
leave the prisoner at Homerville
on account of the insecurity of
the jail.
tlood of traffic.
From the above figures it will
be seen that the railroads have
enjoyed the greatest prosperity
the past year and have netted
unknown thousands of dollars,
and still they refuse to buy enough
equipment to handle the freight
with any degree of satisfaction.
They handle their enormous pro
fits to pay a big dividend on their
watered stock instead of purchas
ing necessary equipment to
handle their business.
They also try to handle the
business at present with the same
expenses they handled their busi
ness live years ago when it was
net one-fourth as heavy as it is
at present. The public is greatly
inconvenienced at the cramped
condition of trafic at present and
the public should have some re
source to obtain relief. The roads
should be forced to provide ample
accommodations for their patrons
instead of holding their profits
to pay large dividends on their
watered stock.
FOR THE GIRLS AT HOME.
Teach Them How to Buy and
Provide for a Family.
“There are many hundreds of
young girls who, having finished
at school, are at home for the first
time, this winter. Before the
end of their first year at home
;many of them will be unhaopy
I and discontented, unless the fu
! ture has something definite to
offer them. Many of them will
become simply unsalaried ser
vants in the home,” says an ex
change, ‘ ‘and will not take cheer
fully to the task, while others
will go into business, or wage
working, or learning an occupa
tion. But there will be hundreds
who have neither the desire nor
j the aptitude for joining in the
struggle, and the problem is,
what is to be done with them.
One wise mother suggest a course
which she hopes to persue with
I her daughter, and the young lady
will, each week, receive each
; week, an envelope containing the
' amount which must otherwise be
| paid to a housekeeper. The
young lady will be taught to buy
everything that comes into the
house, and can, if she buys wisely,
save from the amount that is
stipulated for house-keeping ex
penses.”
This plan has much to recom
mend it, as girls would feel much
more independent in their own ’
home, and would be less likely to .
make a loveless marriage, or en
ter into the struggle with the
world, if they could feel that
they were earning by the work
they do, and that the money they
spend is justly their own. The
sense of responsibility in the
social rush would give them the j
intellectual poise that is so nec
essary to one’s happiness, and
the experience in real, boni fide
house-keepihg would be of great
value them in fitting them to
keep hemes of their own. The
amount of wage might not be so
great as they could earn in some.
gainful occupation, but the work
in the home would carry with it
no sense, real or fancied, of de-
H Union Banking Co.,
CissDirpMraitedl HOSSB.
OFFICERS:
j M. ASHLEY, S J. S. LOTT, J. L. SHELTON
President it C. E. BAKER, Cashier
V. Presidents.
Directors.
J. J. LEWIS, LLIAS LOTT. I. M. ASHLEY, J. S.
VICAERS, J. W. QUINCEY, JOHN* Me LEAN
C. E. BAKER. DANIEL NEWBEEn
Accounts f Individuals* Herchants and Corporations
Solicited.
FREEST} & B3SS
(Successors to Dan Vickers) <
will keep a full line of Staple and famey <
groceries I
COLD DRINKS OF ALL KINDS. ;
Goods exchanged for country produce. Prices met on all goods,
Goods delivered promptly. Phone No. 38. j
FREEMAN <SI BASS.
Coffins and
Caskets
We beg to announce that we have added a
large and nomplete line of Coffins and Caskets,
and will be pleased have you call and see them.
We have them from $i 75,00 down to the cheap
est plain coffin,
Will be glad to wait on you at
any iiour, day or night.
B. H. TANNER & SON,
DOUGLAS, GORGIA.
MR. BERRY ANDERSON. 1
Made Deputy Sheriff Coffee Co.
Will Move There at Once.
Mr. L. B. Anderson has ac-,
i cepted the position of deputy
| sheriff and jailor of Coffee county 1
; and will go there to commence 1
1 his duties next Monday.
For three years Mr. Anderson
was deputy sheriff of this county
under sheriff Miller whose term
expired on the first day of Jan
uary. During this time the sher
iff was not in the best of health
and most of his official duties fell
upon Mr. Anderson. In the dis
charge of these duties Mr. An
derson’s conduct was such as to
win for him the admiration of
the county officials, the entire
bar and the general public. Tie
had many offers to remain in
Ware county, but he considered
the offer in Coffee best. The
sheriff of Coffee, Mr. Dave Rick
etson, will continue to live in the
i country and Mr. Anderson will
be the jailor. He will move hisj
, family to Douglas in a few days. j
—Waycross Journal.
1 gradation, nor would it serve to
I set them outside the pale of social
life because of the mistaken no
| tions held in general in regard
J to the status of the “hired girl.”
j Then too, the mother who has
toiled and moiled and saved, it
I may be, that he daughter should
! have the best there was to be had
jin the way of schooling, would
i be able to rest and take her right
ful place among her friends. The
' daughter’s work in the home
1 should be treated in a strictly
business way, with no mistaken
sentiment, and in this way, both
the parents and the girl would
be greatly benefited.
In many families there will be
more than one daughter, and in
this case, the work might be di
vided, each serving in the capa
city most suited to her tastes and
abilities. To those whose position
in life forbids their going out into
the world to become independent
workers, some such an arrange
ment might enable them to do in
the home other work than that
of the necessary housekeeping
by which much of their expenses
as to clothing, pin-money, etc.,
might be met, thus greatly re
lieving the father in helping him
to bear the burden of their sup
port.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
BENJ. T. ALLEN,
Attorney and Counselor at Law,
Pearson, Georgia.
Will practice in all courts. C< miner
cial law a specialty.
CHARLES T. ROAN,
Attorney at Law,
Douglas, - - Georgia,
! Will practice in all courts excep. ...c
City court of Douglas. Office in
Court House.
ROGERS eSc HEATH,
Attorneys at Law
Douglas, - - Georgia
I Special attention given to collections,
criminal law, anti-corporative prac
tice. abstracting titles, and real
estate loans.
LANKFORD & DICKERSON
Attorney at Law,
Douglas, - - Georgia.
Office in Union Bank Bl’d.
NEWTON M. PAFFORD,
Attorney at Law,
Nichols - - Georgia,
Commercial Lav, - a specialty
j. w. quincey, w. w. McDonald
quincey & McDonald,
Douglas, - - Georgia.
Practice in all Courts. Ofiice in Union
Bank Building'.
JOHN J. MOORE,
Attorney at Law,
Willacoochee, Georgia.
Will' attend to all professional Jbusi
ness entrusted to his care.
LAWSON KELLEY. ~
Attorney at Law.
Douglas, .... Georgia.
Office in Union Bank Bl’d.
GEO. R. BRIGGS.
Attorney at Law
Douglas, - - Georgia,
Office in court house.
Close attention given to all busines in
trusted.
p” WILLIS DART.
Attorney at Law,
Douglas Georgia.
Office in Vicker’s Bl’d
G R -T° VELACE ,
Work Guaranteed.
Prices Reasonable
DR. HENRY C. WHELCHEL
Office floor Tanner & Vickers
Building.
Douglas, Georgia.
Special attention to treatment or dis
eases of Women and Children.
Office hours 10 to 12 A. M - , 4to6P. M. i
QUITMAN HOLTON,
Physician & Surg -iDn.
Broxton Georg A.
DR. AT H. TURRENTINE,
DENTIST.
Office in Sweat and Vickers Bl'd next
door to Enterprise office.
Will gladly advise with any one on
their work. All work Guaranteed.
”’dr. w. f. sibbett,
D hysician & Surgeon
Douglas Georgia.
I Office Phone 27. Resident Phone 22
Office between Vickers and
Sibbett Block.
HENRY P. SMIthT
Physician & Surgeon,
Pearson, Georgia.
Special attention paid to night calls
| and prescriptions careftlly compound
ed.
C. A. WARD.”
Attorney at Law,
Douglas, Georgia.
Office in Union Bank Bl’d.
Secret Orders.
Douglas Lodge 203,1. C 0. f.
Meets every Monday nigl *t 7.30.
Visiting Brethren cordially vi';:l.
D. E. POSTON, N. G
j JOHN H. WILLIAMS. Sec.
Douglas Lodge F. & fl. M. No. 386
Meets every Third Friday night.
All visiting brethren requested o
meet with us.
J. M. HALL, W. M.
GEO. R. BRIGGs, Sec.
Nichols Lodge F. & ft. M., No. 400
Meets ou the fousth Tuesday night
in each month. Visiting brethren are
coadiallv invited to attend.
J. J. DuBOSE, W. M.
DAVID ANDERSON. Sec.
Robert E Lee G ! aoter U D G
Will hold their regular meetings on
2nd and 4th Wednesdays, at the school
house at 3 p. m. sharp.
Mrs. W. W. McDokald, Pres.
Mrs. Ttrkkk Brkwsk, Ne«. Sec.
Guardian’s Sale-
GEORGIA, Mitchell County. After
four weeks notice, pursuant to Section
2546 of the Civil Code, a petition, of
which a true and correct copy is sub
joined, will be presented to the Hon.
W. N- Spence, Judge of the Superior
Court, at the Court House in said County
on the third Monday of January 1907
GEORGIA, Mitchell County. To the
Honorable W. M. Spence, Judge of the
Superior Court of said county. The
petition of Henry Fuller pespectfully
shows:
That he is guardian of Narcissa
Williams, C. D. Daniels and leola Dar:-j
iels, heretofore duly appointed as suck 1
guardian in said county.
2. ‘that he desires to sell for rjWk
! vestment at private sale the follohy t
property, the same being a part 4 )
estate of the said wards, to wit:
j acres, more or less, in the to\^HJ> 7
Willaceochee, Coffee County,
j bounded on the south by lands of Polly
Mitchell and Henry Peterson, on East
by land of Bill Gaskins, on North by
street parellel wdth Atlantic Coast
Line Railroad aud seventy yards distant
therefrom, on West by alley, seperat
ing said tract from land of John Giddens
said tract in shape of upper portion of
a wedge, about seventy yards wide at
western end, and steadily narrowing to
about seventy five feet at eastern end,
said eastern and western boundary lines
j being perpendicular to said street.
I 3. Said realty pays but little rent,
! actually about $20.1'0 net per annum,
! is miles away from the abode of said
minors and their guardian aforssaid,
and the expenses of taxes and of re
pairs and of collection of rents practi
cally exhausts the income therefrom
rendering the property unprofitable and
a retention of it unwise. Houses there
on are liable to burn and are not in
surable.
4. Petitioner desires to invest the
proceeds of such sale in certain farming
lands, to wit: —Twenty acres, more or
less in the north-east coiner of lot num
ber One Hundred and Ninety Three in
the Ninth District of said county north
of Raccoon creek and east of lands of
F. Fleming.
5. Petitioner shows that notice of his
intention to make this application has
been published once a week for four
weeks, as required by law, in said
Mitchell County, and in county where
said land of said wards lies.
Henry Fuller,
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 15 day of November, 1906.
A. S. Mc’Collum, Jr
Mitchell County, Ga.
Money to im
Ihe Standard Trust Company
will lend you rnonej' at 5 per cent
interest to purchase or build homes
or business places, or to pay off
mortgages thereon.
Investigate the Liberal Offer of the
STANDARD TRUST COMPANY
THEY WILL BUILD YOU
SI,OOO
$2,000
A $3,000 HOME
$4,000
$5,000
You pay only 5 per cent
Read the Sample Contract which
■nished to all Agents representing this
Company.
THE STANDARD TRUST COMPANY,
BIRMINGHAM, ALA.
ftUTiIORiZLD CAPITAL, $500,000
cost or i siooo.oo loii
If Mode YVhe« $72.00 iu
Dues Have Bees Paid.
Monthly deposit SB.OI for 12 months
(or m advance) $ 72. On
Deducted out of dues for'expense.. 18.(0
Balance to your credit $ 54.00
Amount of Loan ..$1,000.00
Amount to your credit . 54.00
Bal. due the Companyolß.oo
$940.00 divided by 120 months equals 7.70
per month.
Note—The advance payment, or purcha-e
price, of Six Dollars will be added to th e
abova expenses.
INTEREST TABLE (ON S,OOO-00) Loan
Amount of Loan _ $1,000.00
Amount to your credit 54.10
Bal due at 5 per cent
Ist year... $946.00 $47.30
2nd “ 856.00 42.80
3rd “ . 766.00 . 38.3 w
4th “ .. 676.00 33.80
sth “ 556.00 29.30
6th “ . 496.00 24.80
7th “ 406.00 20.50
Bth “ 316.00 15.80
9th “ 226.00 11.30
10th “ 136.00 6.80
6 mos. . 46.00 l.li
Total Interest 10 1-2 Years $271.65
s*7l-6$ divided bv 126 months $2. 10 per monfh
Monthly payment credited on loan 7.50 per aion> 1
Total monthly payment $q.66
Loans May be Paid at any Time, thus
Stopping Further Interest. Jk /
A payment of SO. per montnlor
six months makes you eligible to
a Loan of sj,ooo, and pro rata for
more. Should the lean be made
at that time you would have to
pay $36. additional, making $72.
in dues, which is required to be
paid in before the contract holder
would be entitled to a SI,OOO loan,
and which would be applied as
per above table.
For further particulars call on
or address F. WILLIS DART,
Local Representative, Douglas, Cia