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A PROCLAMATION
Submitting a proposed amendment
to the Constitution o£ Georgia, to be
▼oted on at the General Election to be
be held on Tuesday, November 2, 1928,
l&ld amendment to authorise Lowndes
County to Issue bonds for establish
ing and maintaining an educational
Institution of college rank.
By His Excellency,
Clifford Walker, Governor,
State of Georgia,
Executive Department,
August 24, 1926.
WHEREAS, th 6 General Assembly
at Its extraordinary session In 1928
proposed an amendment to the Con
stitution of this State as set forth In
an Act approved April 2, 1926.
LOWNDES COUNTY BOND ISSUE
FOR COLLEGE.
No. 16, Becond Session.
An Act to propose to the qualified
voters of this State an Amendment
to Article Seven (7), Section Seven
(7), Paragraph One (1), of the Con
stitution of Georgia, authorizing tha
County of Lowndes, or the City of
Valdosta, or both, to Increase the
bonded indebtedness of said County
of Lowndes, or City of Valdosta, or
both, for the purpose of aiding In
the establishing, maintaining, or
endowing an educatiohal institution
of college rank, located or to be lo
cated within said County, whether'
same be owned or controlled by the
Stale, County, or City, or not owned
or controlled by the State, County,
or City, and as memorial to Wood
row Wilson; provided said educa
tional institution be non-sectarian
and non-denominatlonal.
Section 1. Be It enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly, and it Is hereby enact
ed by authority of the same, that Ar
ticle Seven (7), Section Seven 17),
Paragraph One (1), of the Constitu
tion of Georgia be and the same is
hereby amended by adding thereto tile
following words: “And except that the
County of Lowndes or the City of Val
dosta or both may incur a bonded in
debtedness in addition to the debts
hereinbefore in this paragraph allow
ed to be incurred, iu an amount in
the aggregate not exceeding one mil
lion ($1,000,000.00) for the purpose of
aiding in establishing, maintaining, or
endowing an educational institution of
college rank, located or to be locat
ed within said county, whether same
be owned or controlled by the State or
County or City or not owned or con
trolled by the State or County or City,
and as a memorial to Woodrow Wil
son, provided said educational insti
tution be non-sectarian and non-de
nominational, and provided that such
indebtedness shall not be incurred ex
cept with the assent of a majority of
the qualified voters of said county or
said city, as the case may be, and th«
assent of two-thirds (2-3) of the qual
ified voters of said county or of said
city, as the same may be. actually
voting at an election, or elections, foi
the purpose to be held as may now or
may hereafter be prescribed by law
for the purpose of incurring new debts
by any county or municipality within
this State. In the event this amend
ment be ratified and becomes a part
of the Constitution, and in the event
the bonds provided for are author
ized, validated, and sold as provided
by law by said County of Lowndes or
the City of Valdosta or both, the
County Commissioners of Roads and
Revenues of said County, or the May
or and Council of said City of Val
dosta, as the case may be, may pay
over the proceeds of the sale of said
bonds to the Board of Trustees of
such educational institution.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by
the authority aforesaid, that when
said amendment be agreed to by two
thirds (2-3) vote of the members elect
ed to each House, it shall.be entered
upon the Journal of each House with
the ayes and nays thereon, and pub
lished in one or more newspapers in
each congressional district of thli
State for two months previous to th«
time for holding the next general
election, and shall at the next general
election be submitted to the peopl*
for ratification. All persons voting
at said election in favor of adopting
the said proposed amendment to th«
Constitution shall have written oi
printed on their ballots the words
“For ratification of amendment to Ar
ticle Seven. Section Seven, Paragraph
One of the Constitution, authorizing
the County of Lowndes or the City ol
Valdosta, or both, to increase the
bonded indebtedness of said County
of Lowndes, or the City of Valdosta
or both, for the purpose of aiding ir
establishing, maintaining, or endow
ing an educational institution of col
lege rank," and all persons opposed
to the adoption of said amendment
shall have written or printed on theii
ballots the words, “Against ratificatioz
of amendment to Article Seven, Sec
tion Seven, Paragraph One, of the
Constitution, authorizing the County
of Lowndes or the City of Valdosta
or both to increase the indebtednesi
of said County of Lowndes or the City
of Valdosta, or both, for the purpose
of aiding in establishing, maintaining
or endowing an educational institutioi
of college rank." and if a majority o!
the electors qualified to vote foi
members of the General Assembly
voting thereon, shall vote for ratifica
tion thereof, when the result shall b«
consolidated as now required by lav
in elections for members of the Gen
eral Assembly, then said amendmen
shall become a part of Article Seven
Section Seven, Paragraph One. of thi
Constitution of the State, and tin
Governor shall make procla'natloi
therefor as provided by law.
Sec. 3. Be if further enacted tha
U 1 laws or parts of laws in conflict
herewith are repealed.
Approved April 2, 1926
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Clifford
Walker, Governor of said State, do
Issue this my proclamation hereby
declaring that the proposed foregoing
amendment to the Constitution is
submitted for ratification or rejec
tion to the voters of the State quali
fied to vote for members of the Gen-
Assembly at the General Election
to be held on Tuesday, November 2,
1926.
CLIFFORD WALKER.
Governor.
By the Governor:
s. g. McLendon.
Secretary of State.
FOR SALE.
GEORGIA, Coffee County'.
Notice is hereby given that on the
23rd day of October, 1926, Mrs. K. L.
Lewis, as Guardian of Pearl Irene
Lewis, and Rebecca B. Lewis, will ap
ply to the Honorable Harry D. Reed,
Judge of Superior Court of Waycross
Judicial Circuit, at Chambers at Way
cross, Georgia, at the hour of ten
o’clock A. M., for an order to sell for
reinvestment the following property
of said wards, to-wit:
An undivided two-thirds interest in
those tracts or parcels of land situat
ed, lying and being in the City of
Nicholls, Coffee County, Georgia, des
cribed as follows:
All of the South half of lot of land
number two (2) in Block twenty (20)
of that part of said town of Nicholls
laid off and platted by Southern Pine
Company of Georgia.
Also, part of lot number one (1) in
Block number twenty (20) of that
part of the town of Nicholls, laid off
and platted by Southern Pine Com
pany of Georgia, described as com
mencing at the Southeast corner of
said lot; thence running North sixteen
(16) inches; thence in a Westerly di
rection along a brick wall and an es
tablished line seventy-five (75) feet;
thence South twenty-four (24) inches,
more or less, to the South line of said
lot number one (1); thence in an East,
erly direction along said line, which is
also the North line of lot number two
(2), to the point of beginning, and in
cluding the right to the common use
of said brick wall for the purpose of
a single story brick structure, which
is accompanied by an obligation for
joint maintainence and replacement.
Both of said tracts or parcels of
land being part of original lot of land
number five hundred fourteen (514) in
the Sixth (6th) Land District of said
County.
Application for said leave is made
for the reason that the expense inci
dent to the ownership of said property
is out of proportion to its value, and
is such that it. renders said property
unproductive and expensive to hold,
and for the further reason that the
proceeds of the sale of said property
may be invested in property that will
produce an income commensurate with
its value, and that will not be subject
to the charges and assessments that
said described property is subjected to.
This 27th dav of September, 1926.
MRS. K. L. LEWIS,
Guaidian for Pearl Irene Lewis and
Rebecca B. Lewis.
Slater & Moore, Attys.
FOR SALE.
GEORGIA, Coffee Connty.
Under and by virtue of a power of
sale contained in a deed to secure debt
executed by John W. Roberts, Jr., to
The British and ‘ merican Mortgage
Company Limited, on the sth day of
October, 1926, and recorded in the of
fice of the Clerk of the Superior Court
of Coffee County, Georgia, in book
A, page 590, the undersigned as trans
feree of said securitv deed, from The
British and American Mortgage Com
pany Limited, by transfer and assign
ment dated the Ist day of November,
1916, and recorded in deed book No.
39, page 179, of the records of the
Clerk of the Superior Court of Coffee
County, Georgia, will sell at public
outcry to the highest bidder for cash
on the 11th day of October, 1926, dur
ing the legal hours of sale, before the
cdurt house door of Coffee County,
Georgia, the following deseirbed
property, to-wit:
The South half (S%) of lot of land
No. (168) One Hundred sixty-eight in
the sixth (6th) District of what was
formerly Coffee County, Georgia, but
is now Atkinson County, Georgia, con
taining Two Hundred forty-five (245)
acres more or less.
Said sale is made for the purpose
of paying the amount of principal, in
terest and taxes due on loan made by
The British and American Mortgage
Company Limited to John W. Roberts,
Jr., on the sth day of October, 1916.
There being four notes for the prin
cipal sum of Two Hundred Fifty and
no-100 ($250.00) Dollars each and due
Noveuber 1, 1922, November 1, 1923,
November 1, 1924, and November 1,
1925, respectively, and one note for
the principal sum of One Thousand
and no-100 ($1000.00) Dollars due on
November 1, 192'6. All of said notes
dated October 5, 1916, payable to The
British and American Mortgage Com
pany Limited, signed by John W.
Roberts Jr. and transferred to the
Prudential Insurance Comrmy of
America. Default havin'' been made
, four of said notes, together with
taxes paid by the Prudential Insur
ance Company of Amr't for the
years 1923, 1924. 1925, and 1926, to
gether with unpaid interest on the
principal due and interest on the taxes
paid by the Prudential Insurance Com
pany of America. The undersigned
has exercised its authority as given in
said deed to secure debt and has de
clared the whole amount of said loan
due and payable at once and said sale
will be made for the purpose of pay
in'' said indebtedness due in said loan.
THE PRUDENTIAL INSUR
ANCE COMPANY of AMERICA.
Bv Quincey & Quincey,
It’s Atorneys at Law.
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* DR. H. H. OWENS, Dentist *
* Phone Office 324
* Residence 383
* Douglas, : Georgia
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THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA, OCT. 8, 1926.
NOTICE.
GEORGIA, Coffee County.
Under an order granted by the Or
dinary of Atkinson County on first
Monday in October, 1926, I will sell
before the court house door of Atkin
son County, Georgia, between the legal
hours of sale the following real estate
belonging to the estate of Jency Wood,
deceased of Atkinson County, to-wit,
as follows:
One Hundred Seventy-Five aci’es,
more or less, of lot of land No. 106.
in the 6th district of Coffee County.
Georgia, bound on the north and east
by the Satilla River, on the south by
lands of Jesse McKinnon and Martin
Taylor, and John McKinnon, on the
west by lands of Martin Taylor.
Said lands sold for the purpose of
paying creditors and heirs of the late
Jency Wood.
Terms of sale cash.
Daniel Wood,
Administrator Estate Jency Wood.
LEGAL NOTICE. ■
GEORGIA. Coffee County.
After four weeks notice pursuant to
law and on the 30th day of October,
1926, at eleven o’clock a. m., a petition
will be presented to the Honorable
Harry D. Reed, Judge of the Waycross
Judicial Circuit, of which Coffee
ty, Georgia, the county of the guard
ians appointment, is a part, at cham
bers at Waycross, Georgia, by the
undersigned, as guardians of the prop
erty of Julian Tanner, making appli
cation for leave to sell for reinvest
ment the following described proper
ty, to-wit: Four Hundred Nin
(490) acres, more or less, of lo o:
land No. 252, in the Sixth district of
Atkinson County, Georgia.
Leave to sell said property for re
investment is asked for the reason
that said property is bringing in very
little income at the present time and
that the taxes on said propeity is a
considerable sum of money each year,
and the income derived from said
prperty is insufficient to pay the taxes
and said property is an expense rather
than an income to said ward. Said
leave to sell said property is further
asked for the reason that the proceeds
of said sale of said property may and
can be invested in income producing
property.
This the 30th day of September.
1926. C. R. Tanner,
E. T. Tanner,
Guardians for Julian Tanner.
NOTICE.
R. Lancaster Williams, Chairman of
the Executive Committee of the first
mortgage bondholders’ committee of
Georgia & Florida Railway, hereby
gives notice that on September 28,
1926, he filed with the Interstate Com
merce Commission at Washington, D.
C., an application on behalf of the
Geoi’gia & Florida Railroad, a corpor
ation to be organized, for a certificate
that the present and future public
convenience and necessity require (a)
the acquisition and operation by said
Georgia & Florida Railroad, when in
corporated, of the line of railroad for
merly owned by the Georgia & Flor
ida Railway, extending from Augusta,
Georgia., in a general southerly di
rection to Madison, Fla., with several
branch lines, the whole comprising
404 miles of railroad; (b) the con
struction by said Georgia & Florida
Railroad of an extension of a line of
railroad from Augusta, Ga., in a gen
erarnortherly direction through Aiken,
Saluda, Edgefield, and Greenwood
Counties, to Greenwood, S. C., a dis
tance of about 56 miles; and (c) the
acquisition by said Georgia & Florida
Railroad of control of the railroad of
the Statesboro Northern Railway,
which extends from Stevens Crossing
in a Southeasterly direction to States
boro. Ga., approximately 39 miles, by
purchase, and by lease; or the acqui
sition of control of said company by
purchase of capital stock.
R. LANCASTER WILLIAMS,
Chairman of the Executive Committee
of the First Mortgage Bondholders’
Committee of the Georgia & Florida
Railway.
NOTICE OF SALE.
GEORGIA, Coffee County.
Under and by virtue of the power
contained in a deed dated May Ist,
1919, executed by Albert L. Dowling,
to the Valunteer State Life Insurance
Company and transferred on the 18th
day of March, 1926, to the Georgia
Land and Securities Company, the un
dersigned will on the Ist Tuesday in
Nov., 1926, Nov. 2, 1926, sell before
the court house door to the highest
bidder for cash, between the legal
hours of sale the following property,
to-wit: Situated in the County of
Coffee and State of Georgia, and in
the City of Douglas, Georgia, to-wit:
All of lots of land numbers Fourteen
(14) and Fifteen (15) in Block One
Hundred Fourteen (114), according to
Thomas, J. Peck’s survey of the City
of Douglas, which survey is recorded
in Deed Book 21, pages 572 and 575,
inclusive. Said land is bounded on the
South by Ward Street; East by Lot
Number Thirteen (13), in block One
Hundred Fourteen (114); on North by
Street; and West by Lot number Six
teen (16), in Block One Hundred Four
teen (114); fronting on Ward Street
two hundred (200) feet and running
back to Cleveland Avenue one hundred
eighty-five (185) feet.
Said house and lot will be sold for
the purpose of paying one principal
note for $2000.00 with interest there
on at 8 per cent from Ist day of July
1925, with all cost of advertising and
10 per cent upon the principal and in
terest for auctioneers fee. Said note
dated May Ist, 1919, and due May Ist,
1924, and secured by the aforesaid
deed to secure debt.
A deed of conveyance will be made
to the purchaser by the undersigned.
The purchaser to pay for revenue
stamps.
This September 29th, 1926 .
Georgia Land and Securities Co.,
Transferee.
Kirkland & Kirkland, Attys.,
Metter, Ga.
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Statement, of the Ownership, Manage
ment, etc., Required by the Act of
Congress of August 24, 1912,
Of The Douglas Enterprise, publish
ed weekly at Douglas, Ga., for Oct.,
1926.
State of Georgia.
County of Coffee.
Before me, a Notary Public in and
for the State and county aforesaid,
personally appeared W. R. Frier, who,
having been duly sworn according to
law, deposs and says that he is the
editor of the Douglas Enterprise and
that he following is, to the best of his
knowledge and belief, a true state
ment of the ownership, management,
etc., of the aforesaid publication for
the date shown in the above caption,
required by the Act of August 24,
1912, embodied in section 411, Postal
Laws and Regulations, to-wit:
1. That the names and addresses of
the publisher and editor are:
Publisher, W. R. Frier, Douglas, Ga.
Editor, W. R. Frier, Douglas, Ga.
2. That the owners are: W. R.
Frier, J. W. Quinccy, T. S. Price, J.
M. Ashley estate, B. Peterson estate,
Moses Griffin, A. A. Kuhl, of Douglas,
Ga., and F. W. Dart, of Sarasota, Fla.,
J. J. Dorminy. of Fitzgerald, Ga.
3. That the known bondholders,
mortgagees, and other security hold
ers owning or holding 1 per cent or
more of total amount of bonds, mort
gages, or other securities are: None.
W. R. FRIER.
E. E. Roberts, N. P. State at Large.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this sth day of October, 1926.
In 2he District Cpurt ofthe United
States for the Waycross Division
of the Southern District of
Georgia.
In the matter of Seaboard Farms,
Bankrupt, in Bankruptcy.
To the Creditors of the above bank
rupt of Ambrose in the county of Cof
fee, district aforesaid.
Notice is hereby given that on the
Ist day of October, 1926, the said Sea
board Farms was duly adjudged bank
rupt and that the first meeting of the
creditors will be held at Waycross,
Ware County. Georgia at the office of
the Referee, 451 Bunn Building, on the
15th day of October A. D. 1926, at 10
o’clock at which • time the creditors
may attend, prove their claims ap
point a trustee, examine the bankrupt,
and transact such other business as
may properly come before said meet
ing.
This 2nd day of October, 1926.
- E. Kontz Dennett,
Referee in Bankruptcy.
NOTICE!
GEORGIA, Coffee County.
To Whom It May Concern:
Gordon Burns has filed his petition
for the removal of disabilities and the
same will be heard at the next term
of the Superior Court of said County
and this notice is given as required
by the law in such cases made and pro
vided. This Sept. Ist, 1926.
W. H. Lasseter,
Atty. for Plaintiff.
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From Oct. 13th to 22nd, inclusive,
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