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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. cui t, t. it,”-;-*., :h it 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. ✓ 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-