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AUTOMOBILE LAWS OF INTEREST
TO COFFEE CUUNTY PEOPLE
For the benefit of those who own
automobiles, the following sections
are published, that they may govern
themselves accordingly and escape
prosecution. This is copied from the
Georgia Laws of 1915:
Sec. 8. Every motor-vehicle or
motorcycle, which is in use upon the
streets and highways of the State,
shall at all times display the number
plaee assigned to it; and the same
shall be fastened on the rear of the
machine, in a position so as not to
swing, and shall be at all times plain
ly visible. No number-plates other
than those furnished by the Secre
tary of State shall be used.
Sec. 9. Every motor-vehicle and
motorcycle, while in use or operation
upon the streets or highways of this
State, shall at all times be provided
and equipped with efficient and ser
viceable brakes, and with a signal
ing device, consisting of a horn, bell
or some other suitable device: It
shall likewise be equipped with at
least two front lamps, throwing
strong, white lights to a reasonable
distance in the direction in which
such vehicle is proceeding, a rear
lamp showing a red light plainly vis
ible in the reverse direction to which
said vehicle is proceeding, and such
other light so rflected as to clearly
reveal the figures on the number
plate; provided, that a motorcycle
shall be required to be equipped with
one front light only. Alt of such
lamps or lights shall at all times be
kept burning while such vehicle is in
use or operation or standing in a
public street or highway during the
period from one hour after sunset
until one hour before sunrise.
Sec. 10. No person shall operate
a motor-vehicle or motorcycle upon
any public street or highway at a
speed greater than is reasonable and
safe, not to exceed a speed of 30 miles
per hour, having due regard for the
width, grade, character, traffic and
coramon use of such street or high
way; or so as to endanger life, limb
or property in any respect whatever.
Upon approaching any bridge, rail
road-crossing, dam, sharp curve, dug
way or deep descent, or in traversing
such -vdprn.
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I AM A DIRECTOR OF
The Southern States Life Insurance Company
BECAUSE its officers and directors are my friends — Atlanta’s
friends-the South’s GOOD offspring.
BECAUSE its management is good, honest, free from schemes,
active in doing good as well as being good.
BECAUSE I know that such conditions insure for future gen
erations the existence in the South of a strong, abid
ing, helping Life Insurance Company.
ASA 0. CANDLER, President
Central Bank & Trust Corporation, Atlanta, Ga.
erator <sf a motor-vehicle or motor
cycle shall at all times have said ve
hicle under immediate control, and
shall not operate said vehicle at a
greater speed than ten miles per
hour.
Upon approaching or passing any
person walking in the roadway, trav
eling any public street or highway,
or any horse or any other draft ani
mal being led, ridden or driven there
on, or upon any bridge or crossing
at an intersection of public streets or
highways, the operator of a motor
vehicle or motorcycle shall at all
times have the same under immediate
control; and if such animal shall ap
pear to be frightened, or if the per
son in charge thereof shall signal by
raising his hand or calling, the op
eraor shall immediately stop his ve
hicle. If traveling in the opposite
direction, the operator shall hold his
vehicle stationary until such animal
shall have had reasonable time to
pass by; and if traveling in the same
direction, he shall use reasonable pre
caution in order to avoid frightening
the animal or causing accident; and
in approaching or passing such ani
mal, the operaor shall not use ex
haust cut-out of his vehicle, or cause
other unnecessary noise.
Sec. 11. Whenever any operator
of a motor-vehicle or motorcycle
shall meet, on a public street or
highway, any person or persons rid
ing or driving one or more horses,
or any other draft animal, or any
other vehicle, approaching in the op
posite direction, the operator shall
turn his vehicle to the right so as to
give one-half of the traveled road
way, if practicable, and a fair op
portunity to the other to pass by
without unneccessary interference;
and if traveling in the same direction,
he shall pass to the left side of the
person or vehicle overtaken, and the
person or vehicle overtaken shall give
him a fair opportunity to pass.
The operator of a motor-vehicle or
motorcycle in motion on any public
street or highway shall give due and
timely warning, by using his signal
ing apparatus, to every person rid
ing or driving any horse or horses,
)v-rce drawn or other vehicle.
G. S. WILCOX, General Agent,
Ocilia, Georgia
THEOOITGLAS ENTERPRISE. DOUGLAS, GEORGIA, JULY 8, 1916.
he shall likewise give due warning
and reduce speed upon approaching
any sharp curve, dugway, descent or
other dangerous place upon such
street or highway.
Sec. 12. In case of accident to any
person or damage to property upon
the public street or highway, due to
the operation of a motor-vehicle or
motorcycle thereon, the operator of
such machine shall immediately stop,
and, upon request of the person in
jured or sustaining damages there
by, or of any other person present,
give such person his name and ad
dress; and if he is not the owner of
such vehicle, then the name and ad
dress of the owner thereof.
Sec. 15. No person shall operate
a motor-vehicle or motorcycle upon
any public street or highway, wheth
er as owner or operator of such ve
hicle, if under sixteen years of age,
or while under the influence of in
toxicating liquors or drugs; adn no
person shall take, use or operate any
motor-vehicle upon the public streets
and highways, without the permis
sion of the owner thereof.
Sec. 18. Be it further enacted,
That the Secretary of State shall, at
least once in each month, call the at
tention of the sheriffs in the several
counties of this State to the provis
ions of this Act; and it shall be the
duty of such sheriffs to make inves
tigations as to the violations of the
provisions of this Act; and such sher
iffs shall have authority and it is
hereby made their duty to swear out
warrants and prosecute any and all
owners of motor-vehicles'who violate
any of the provisions of this Act.
The costs of said sheriffs shall be
paid to him in the same manner as
other criminal costs are- paid under
the law. Provided, however, that
upon the failure of the sheriff of any
county to enforce the provisions of
this section, the Secretary of State
shall have the right to employ an
inspector in said county at not more
than four dollars per day, and his
actual expenses upon an itemized
swern statement furnished by said
inspector, to seek out and require all
owners of motor-vehicles to register
said vehicles in accordacne with this
Act.
Sec. 23. Be it further enacted,
That any person violating any of the
provisions of this Act shall be deem
ed guilty of a misdemeanor, and up
on conviction thereof shall be pun
ished as for a misdemeanor.
Sec. 26. Be it further enacted by
the authority aforesaid. That every
cr C^crct f cf r machine shall
have equal rights upon the üblic
highways of this State with ai. oth
er users of such highways, and no
person or persons shall throw glass,
nails, tacks or other obstructions up
on the public highways used and
traversed by automobiles, or unrea
sonably obstruct or impede the right
of travel of such owner or operator
while operating, propelling or driv
ing such machines, and no person or
persons shall give any signal or
signs of distress or danger, or call
for assistance upon a person lawfully
operating any uch machine on any
of the public highways of this State,
maliciously and without reasonable
cause for so doing.
Approved November 30, 1915.
PETITION FOR CHARTER.
GEORGIA, Coffee County.
To the Superior Court of Said
County:
The petition of Mrs. Vicey Peter
son, 0. Peterson and R. C. Relihan,
all of said state and county, respect
fully shows:
Ist. That they desire for them
selves, their associates and successors
to be incorporated and made a body
politic, under the name and style of
Peterson-Relihan Company, for a pe
riod of twenty years.
2nd. The principal office of said
Company shall be in the city of
Douglas, state and county aforesaid,
but petitioners- desire the right to es
tablish branch offices and agencies
within this state or elsewhere, when
ever said corporation may so deter
mine.
3rd, The object of said corpora
tion is pecuniary gain for itself, and
its shareholders.
4th. The business to be carried on
by said corppration is to be that of a
dealer in merchandise, at retail or
wholesale or both, especially in the
handling and sale of gentlemen and
ladies’ furnishings, clothing, shoes,
hats, caps and all such merchandise
as is usually kept in a first class store
handling such lines of goods, or any
line of merchandise that said corpor
ation may desire to handle and sell,
either as principal or agent.
sth. The capital stock of said cor
poration shall be Fifteen Thousand
Dollars ($15,000.00). divided into
shares of One Hundred Doll-»rs (SIOO.-
00) each, with the privelege of in
creasing same fom time to time by a
majority vote of stock then outstand
ing, to an amount not exceeding in
the aggregate the sum of Thirty
Thousand Dollars $(30,000.00), and
with a like privilege of decreasing in
a similar manner the stock to a sum
not less than Ten Thousand Dollars
($10,000.00).
More than Seventy-Five Per Cent
(75) of the amount of said capital
stock has already been actually paid
in cash or property at a fair and rea
sonable valuation, and petitioners de
sire the right to have any and all of
said capital stock paid in money or
property to be taken at a fair valu
ation.
6th. Petitioners desire the right
to sue and be sued, to plead and be
impleaded, to have and use a com
mon seal, to make all necessary by
laws and regulations, and do all things
that may be necessary for the suc
cessful carrying on cf said business
including the right to buy, hold, and
sell real estate and personal proper
ty suitable to the purposes of the
corporation, and to execute notes and
bonds as evidence of indebtedness in
curred, or which may be incurred, in
the conduct of the affairs of the cor
poration and to secure the same by
mortgage, security deed, or other
form of lien, under existing laws.
7th. They desire for said corpora
tion the power and authority to ap
ply for and accept amendments to its
charter of either form or substance
by a vote of a majority of itts stock
outstanding at the time. They also
ask authority for said corporation to
wind up its affairs, liquidate and dis
continue its business at any time it
may determine to do so by a vote of
two-thirds of its stock outstandnig
at the time.
Bth. They desire for the said cor-,
poration the right of renewal when
and as provided by the laws of Geor
gia, and that it have all such other
rights, powers, privileges and immun
ities as are incident to like incorpor
ations or permissible under the laws
of Georgia.
9th. Wherefore petitioners pray
to be incorporated under the name
and style aforesaid with the powers,
privileges and immunities herein set
forth, and as are now, or may here
after be, allowed a corporation of
similar character under the laws of
Georgia.
F. W. DART,
Petitioners’ Attorney.
Filed in office this 7th day of July,
1916. GUS L. BRACK,
Deputy Clerk Superior Court.
GEORGIA, Coffee County.
I, Gus L. Brack, deputy clerk of
the Superior Court of said county, do
hereby certify that the foregoing is
a true and correct copy of the appli
cation for charter of Peterson-Reli
han Company, as the same appears
on file in this office.
Witness my official signature and
the seal of said court, this 7th day
of July, 1916.
[Seal] GUS L. BRACK,
Deputy Clerk of Superior Court Cof
fee County, Georgia.
A BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY.
I wish to lease out my telephone
business at Pearson, Ga., to a good,
live man, all tools necessary to keep
it up including one Ford car. If you
wnsh to get into a good business that
will pay you, come to see me at once.
LACY D. SUTTON.
WHEN Y’OU NEED AMERICAN
Wire Fence, see J. S. Lott.
SAGINAW DOTS.
Little James Hill is very sick. We
hope he will soon be well.
Miss Dollie Kirkland spent last
week with her sister, Mrs. Oliver Mc-
I Kinnon, near Douglas.
Little Minnie Lee Vickers spent
last week with Katie Hill.
Mr. Johnie Vickers and sisters,
Misses Martha, Cassie, Lillian and
Pauline, and Mr. 'Salter took dinner
at the home of Mr. Noel Hill Sunday.
The protracted meeting begins at
Saginaw on Friday before the fourth
j Sunday in July. Everybody invited
tto come.
' Miss Gaynell Everett and brother,
Percy, spent Saturday and Sunday at
tending the Sunday School Conven
tion at Sand Hill.
Mr. John Allen, of Groveland, Fla.
is visiting relatives here this week.
Several of the people around here
,are attending the Meeks reunion near
Nicholls today, Tuesday.
Mrs. J. A. Kirkland and daughter,
Dora, and Mr. D. M. Everett and
family, and Mr. Philip Kirkland and
sister, Miss Belle, attended the Sun
day School Convntion at Sand Hill
Sunday.
Howard Everett spent two days of
last w r eek at Rockingham picking
cantaloupes. NO. 38.
LOW EXCURSION FARES
Via
ATLANTIC, COAST LINE
“The Standard Railroad of the South”
FROM VVILLACOOCHEE
To ‘ '
BRUNSWICK JACKSONVILLE, ST.
AUGUSTINE, ST. PETERSBURG
AND TAMPA
JULY NINETEENTH
Tickets sold to Brunswick, Jack
sonville and St. Augustine limited to
reach original starting point return
ing not later than midnight July 24.
Tickets sold to Tampa and St. Peters
burg limited to midnight July 95.
1916.
For fares, schedules and further
information, call on
W. T. SINGLET*
Ticket Agent A. C. L. Rv. Company,
Willacoochee, Ga.
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We have made arrangements
for an unlimited amount of mon
ey to loan at a very rate of inter
est to the land owners of Coffee
county. Wallace & Luke- Doug
las, Ga-