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LEGAL ORGAN OF
COFFEE COUNTY.
FOR OUR COUNTRY AND HER PEOPLE, FIRST AND ALL THE TIME!
VOL. 14, No. 19
UNCLE WASH-
He Talks About Good Roads and the
Vagrant Law.
Mr. Editor : —lt has been said
that the condition ot tht public
roads is an index to the peop’e.
I believe such to be true. Stran
gers judge the people almost en
tirely by the roads. If a stranger
drives into a section and finds poor
roads he soon forms a poor opinion
of such section, and it would be
impossible to interest him in pur
chasing for permanent settle
ment. Coffee county can have
every public road good. There are
a few sandy places, it is true, but
clay is within less than one or two
miles to any of them, and clay,
properly put on and mixed with
the sand in right proportions, will
make a first class and permanent
road. Notice those that have
been clayed, and note the differ
ance. We understand that every
effort is being put fortli by cur
County Commissioners to build
good roads, but we should have
concerted action by the people
generally to supplement their
work. A farm ten or twelve miles
from town or market, with good
roado would soon be very nearly as
valuable as one nearrer town. \V ith
good roads every farm, and every
piece of property is materially en
hanced in value. It will not be
many years before Coffee County 7
will be one in the forefront in an
agricultural way. Let us put the
ball in more rapid motion to that
end, by attaching more interests
in the building of our roads.
The Calvin vagrant law is one
of the most wholesome measures
on our statue books, and it is to
be sincerely hoped that our Su
preme Court will sustain it,
and I beleive it will. Every- im
portant measure should go before
the Supreme Court to test its le
gality, or constitutionality, and if
tnis measure stands as it is hoped
it will, if will do our state an im
mense good. Then let it be rigidly
enforced. The greatest law of the
universe has said that man shall
“eat bread by 7 the sweat of his
face.” It does not give man a
right to live in tins world with
out producing his own sustenance.
The law of our land should not,
and it will not. Coffee county is
freer of vagrants than most any
section. Everyman in this coun
ty can procure good, steady w'ork,
at a fair wage and there is abso
lutely no excuse for vagrancy in
our good county of Coffee, and
we will have none of it. * *
There has only been one accusation
up to now, and the party is help
ing Henry Davis put our roads in
to better fix. If a man will not
work voluntaryily, make him
work. If he will not work at
home put him on the roads, where
his work will not only do him
good, but will help every citizen
in Coffee County 7 . Let it be hop
ed that the proper authorities will
see that this law is enforced to the
letter. You need have no fear of
the man who works in the day
time, and when night comes is
ready 7 to lie down and take his
well earned rest, but the man
who lounges around during the day
loafs from place to place, and at
is not tired or weary, is the
man our law has to try to protect
us from, and that it fails to do this
is too often told in our papers. It
is rare that an honest, hard work
ing man commits a crime’. When
vou make a man earn his daily
bread, if he has a tendency to be
dishonest, it will gradually disap
pear and you make a good citi
zen of him. Let us all get to
gether now fur a long pull.—a
strong pull, and all pull for the
betterment, and advancement of all
the interes s . our county.
Uncle Wash.
The good looking, polite young
gentleman at the Union Banking
Co., is Mr. Parker. Judge Parkers
son. The increasing clerical work
makes his ser\ ice* necessary.
THE COTTON CROP-
Georgia First and Texas Comes
Second-
A census report of the quantity
of cotton ginned in the United
States from the growth of 1903 up
to and including August 31st gives
the following figures :
Total commercial bales
including 16,991 square bales ; 509
round bales of upland crop.and 26
bales of sea island crop. The total
gins in operation number 2,176.
These statistics were collected
through a canvas of the 32,635
ginneries of the cotton states by
631 local special agents. Only
3,176 ginneries had begun opera
tions up to Sept. 1 and these had
ginned but 17,587 commercial
bales.
This report will be followed by 7
four others for this season show
ing the quantity ginned respective
ly to October iS : November 13,
and a final report which will give
the quantity ginned from the
growth of 1903.
The number of baler in each
Stata follows:
Alabama, ginneries in operation,
243; total commercial bales 1,314.
Arkansas, 12 ginneries; total
commercial bales 17.
Florida, 60 ginneries; total com
-1 bales 582.
Georgia, 460 ginneries; total
commercial bales 6,283.
Indian Territory 7, 3 ginneries;
total commercial bales 4.
Louisiana, 117 ginneries; total
commercial bales 448.
Mississippi, 141 ginneries; total
commercial bales 384.
North Carolina. 35 ginneries:
total commercial bales Ix 2.
South Carolina, 254 ginneries;
total commercial bales 1,684.
Tennessee, 1 ginnery'; total com
mercial bales 1.
Texas, 850 ginneries: total com
mercial bales 6,761.
Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri,
Oklahoma, and Virginia, no gin
neries reported in operation.
Capt. D. G Purse-
Capt. D. G. Purse, an esteemed
citizen of Douglas and Savannah,
is one of Mie most earnest and un
tiring workers for Georgia and
the South known to the public.
In the investigation of the Syrup &
Sugar industries of the .South he
has done more than any other liv
ing man, and in pursuing his
studies and experiments he has
learned enough to put the world on
notice that while cotton is King,
it is not the only King. The
Sugar cane of the South will
soon share the honors. In a re
cent speech made before a large
assembly of farmers at Niagara
Falls, on this subject Capt. Purse
said :
Napoleon saw the advantage
that England had in the great
wealth that came from the sugar
of her West Indes possesssions,
Captain Purse said ,in his address
and it was his idea to encourage
the cultivation of beet sugar with
the idea of breaking down Eng
land's supremacy in the ri/gur
world.
“Your speaker stands today,”
said Captain Purse, “almost cen
tral to tiie section of our own
country that is profiting most by
the foresight of Napoleon and
contributing more largely each
year to our disenthralment from
dependence upon foreign sources
for the great bulk of our annual
consumptive sugar supply; that
is, bringing new value to lands
found suited for best cultivation
j and establishing an industry that
affords profitable and healthful em
ployment to many thousands of
our population. Your speaker has
also the honor to come from the
section of our country where, for
a hundred years, sugar cane
\ flourished in tropical luxuriance
jand where only now it is deing
Douglas, Ga., October, 3, 1903.
realized that, with more scientific
study devoted to its cultivation
and manufacture, Georgia. Florida,
Alabama,and Mississippi, led by 7
Louisiana and Texas, will soon be
able to join hands with the North
and West in producing our entire
consumptive supply of sugar with
out the importation of a pound
from even our island possessions
of Cuba.
1
Son Offers Whole Life For Father-
The most- remarkal le instance
in the annals of criminology in
Georgia has been brought to light
by the receipt of a letter bv Gov
ernor Terrell from Dr. W. P.
Rushin, of Albany, Ga., who pe
titions the governor to allow him
to enter the prison walls of the
state and serve the remainder of
the life sentence imposed upon his
father for the murder of J. F. Lil
ley, which crime was committed
in Thomas county in 1595.
The petition states that the cider
Rushin killed Lilley while both
were attending a Sunday school
convention.
The petitioner states that his fa
ther is growing old and the eight
years cf toil and confinement are
rapidly showing their ill effects
upon him and that he wants his fa
ther to spend his last vears at his
home with hi? family 7 and allow
him to die in freedom.
Dr. Rushin asks only to be per
mitted to serve nistead of his fa
ther, stating that he is willing to
enter the state’s service as an un
.convicted convict and serve until
the natural death of his father
pays the legal debt imposed.
The letter is the first of its kind
ever received at the capitol and is
the most wonderful act of.filial ob
ligation ever brought to the public
knowledge.
It is not within the power of the
chief executive to grant the re
quest, and the faithful son has
been informed of this status of
affairs.
The Wadley & Mt. Vernon Railroad-
Mr. Jno. McLean informs us that
the ties are on the road, piling is
being driven and the iron has been
ordered to complete this road to the
river, and he thinks the work vvil'
be pushed to completion. Our peo
ple will be delighted to hear this.
It is good news and it means some
thing. It means that we will not
have to pay $2.56 on a drum of
gasoline to Waycross and $2.16
from Waycross to Douglas, many
more times. This is excessive. It
may be right but it looks juat like
running your hand in a man’s
pocket and taking all he has, which
was the .case, for the writer is the
fellow. As matters now st rnd we
see no way to remedy it, for both
ouroxen have been killed and eaten
to help us through the summer, and
vve are unable to cart our gasoline
througii the country, thus boycot
ting both roads.
But $2.56 over the Coast Line,
96 miles from Savannah to Way
cross. and $2.16 from Waycross to
Douglas, 42 miles, is a heavy rale,
not only applied to us, but to all
patrons of the only route we now
have. We bear a good of com
plaint. and there is talk of organiz
ing some means of relief, which can
and must be done. We cannot, to
save our life, see the justice in pay
ing $2.16 on a drum of gasoline over
a roid of only 42 miles when we
pay only $3.56 for the same over a
road of 96 miles, more than twice
the former distance. We desire to
encourage and assist the Atlantic &
Birmingham all we can, but at this
rate the road will grow and prosper
while the people are robbed' and
impoverished.
Let us have the route to the river
at once, and let us have other con
nections by rail, or secure and m lin
t in a line of steam boats to the -ea.
Miss Eula Newbern was called
to tier home near Broxton,
Tuesday, mi account of tile serious
illness of Miss Winni-. her ; %tstrtf.
SOME SUNDAY READING.
Some Serious Thoughts for the man
or Woman Who Seeks the Truth.
This is a solemn and important
question. If a friend should ask
you where you expected to spend
the winter or summer season, you
would give him a candid and sensi
ble reply. But when asked the
question of all questions, the one
altogether important to yourself,
you laugh or smile and hang your
head as though ashamed of the per
son who would ask y 7 ou such a
question. Dear friend, God asks
you this quesrion, and what is your
reply? You treat with perfect
indifference and contempt the
things that concern your eternal
welfare. When you ase offered
salvation and eternat life through
Jesus Christ, you mock and scorn
and treat it with lightness and con
tempt, but when offered a faun, or
a house, or money, your face
lights up and yuor countenance
shows eagerness and earnestneses.
God bless you, friend; you can
talk sensibly about your farm or
horses, or money, tilings that must
perish and decay, but when asked
about your never dying soul, you
blush and give foolish answers and
excuses. None of you dare call
the Lord Jesus Christ a liar or
hypocrite ; hear what He says :
“How 7 can ye escope the dam
nation of hell?”—Matt. 23: 33.
This is what He says to those
who reject Him and neglect to
become converted.
‘•These shall go away into ever
lasting punishment.”—Matt. 25:
46. “If thine eye offend thee,
pluck it out; it is better for thee 1
to inter into the kingdom of God
with one eye, than having two
eyes to be cast into hell fire : j
Where this worm dieth not and ]
the fire is not quenched.”—Mark
9 : 47-48.
Unsaved friend, this is where
you will spend eternity, except
you get to God speedily, because
God cannot lie. and lie says that
••The wicked shall he turned into
bell, and all the nations that forget
God.”—Psalms 9: 17.
Poor soul, turn from God’s eter
nal wrath while mercey’s door is
open, soon the door will be clos
ed and you will be cast into outer
daskness, where “There shall be
weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
—Matt. 25 : 30.
What is thy hope for the fu
ture? You are looking for and
expecting pleasure, but none of
them reach beyond the grave.
Get Christ in your heart and you
can stand and rejoice when this
world is wrapped in flames. —Se-
lected.—Tract.
The South Georgia Fair.
We have before us the premium
list of the South Geor/ia Fair, to
be held at Waycross, November 10
to 14, next. This Fair Association
has been very liberal in its pre
miums, and as Coffee county is
included in its territory our people
should take some interest in its suc
cess, which we are sure they will.
Committees of Citizens of \v are,
Clinch, Coffee, Appling, Wayne,
Glynn, Camden, Charlton and
Pierce have been appointed, with
a view to secure from each county
a good attendance and an exhibit
if possible.- The Coffee County
committee is as follows: B. 11
Tanner, Chairman; B. Peterson,
Jesse Lott, Richard Kirkland, 11.
Vickers, W. W. McDonald, Frank
jL. Sweat, J. M- Ashley, C. A.
(Ward, James M. Freeman, Mes
j dames j’. M. Dent, J. W. Quincey,
: F. W. Dart, B. Peterson and B. F.
; Holzeudorf. We have not heard
j from Mr. B. 11. Tanner, Chairman,
\ but would suggest that be call a
i meeting of ibis committee at once,
| organize and make some decided
1 movement toward securing an ex
hibit, fro i' the county, if not, then
.some of tlie farmers should ha’.e
some field crops entered for pre
miums. Write to Lee L. Sweat.
Secretary, secure t premium list arm
get ready to be v; ;y busy.
OF $
JOS PRINTING.**^
SI.OO per Annum
City Court Hroceedings-
In order that our readers in the
country may keep up with what
goes on in court circles, we give,
with the assistance of Clerk J. M.
Dent, the proceedings of city court,
last week :
.State vs Genera! Green, assault
and battery, plea, guilty, 8 mos. or
SSO, to include cost.
State vs John Maddox, malicious
mischief, guilt} 7 , S mos. or SSO to
include cost.
State sv \Y. J. and John Mad
dox, malicious mischief no! prossed.
State vs Ella Brown, selling whis
key without license, not guilty.
State vs Ilarnp Bingham, same
as above.
State vs Martha Lyle, assault
and battery, nol prossed on pay
ment of cost.
State vs. Bettie Moore, vagrancy,
not guilty.
State vs Martha and Manda Tay
lor, larceny, nol prossed.
State vs Jack Leavens, fornica
tion and adultery, settled on con
tract of marriage.
CIVIL CASES.
E. E. Fletcher vs Bostwick &
Star, attachment. Settled.
Brunswick Grocery Co., vs M.
Clemens, suit on account, judge
ment for plaintiff $38.60 and cost.
Quincey A McDonald vs T, Byrd,
suit on note, judgement for plain
tiff, $148.00 and cost.
\V. J. Parker Co., vs L. Byrd,
suit on account, judgement for
plaintiff, $43.85 and cost.
Wyley Byrd, Jr., vs Wm. Woot
en and Daniel Kirkland suit on
note. Settled and cost paid.
BlackshearMfg., Co., vs L. Byrd,
suit on note, judgement for plain
tiff, $139 00 and cost.
Rice Weil & Co., vs J. E. Gas
kin, suit on account, judgemet for
plaintiff, $90,00 and cost.
Bank of Waycross vs 11. L. Vick
ers and E. 11. Crawley, suit on note,
verdict for plaintiff, $6.82 and cost.
Joel Gaskin vs Mattie and Willie
Courson, judgement for plaintiff,
J. A. Justice vs C. A. Taylor,
suiCori contract, judgement for
plaintiff, $55.00 and cost.
D. E. Gaskin vs M. Sheppard,
suit on account, judgement lor
pluinsiff $163.00 and cost.
[. M. Cox Co., vs Corbett Bros.,
dismissed, plaintiff paying cost.
11. F. Penniman vsC. E. Stewart,
judgement for defendant, $17.51.
| H. P. Chandlee, Sons A Co.,
vs Stewart Mercantile Co., suit on
account, judgement, $154.00 and
cost.
C. T. Caraker vs J. L. Brown,
suit on note, verdict directed for
plaintiff, $38.00 and cost.
Taking everything in considera
tion, three Judges being necessary
to run this court, Judges Reynolds,
of Waycross, Henderson, of Vienna
and O’Steen, of Douglas, a good
lot of business was done.
Mrs Vnlpoe Day has been quilfl
sick for several days.
Mrs Jerome McCormic has been
quite sick recently, we are sorry to
learn.
And, of course, you wi 1 be
present at *he horse-swappers,
convention, court week.
Several parties will go to
Prospect church next Sunday for
services. The services began on
Friday night before, and the
congregations are expected to be
large.
Tax Receiver Wails and Chair
man J. W. Roberts, are going over
the tax digests of 1902 and 1903, to
assertain if rhere aie slill some
delinquent tax dodgers that can be
found. It is quite a job, hut these
are the gentlemen to tactile it.
Mrs S. M. Merrier, mo*her of
Eugene and Hen. .. ■•■-as stricken
with paralvsis las -sunday night,
and since that time- has not spoken
or moved, lying like one dead. Dr.
:W. F. Sibbelt mg all that
medical science < *ug ge*t and
we hope she v. ■ , he better.