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VOL 14, No. 31
INSTALLATION OF OFFICERS.
The New Officers Elected for the Cur
rent Term Douglas Lodge F. & A.
M. No- 386.
At the last meeting of this lodge
officers were elected, and last Mon
day afternoon at 3 p. m., were pub
licly installed at the Normal Insti
tute, District G. M. Patterson con
ducting the beautiful and impressive
ceremony. The new installed offi
cers are as follows:
\Y. C. Lankford, Worshipful
Master.
J. M. Hall, Senior Warden.
T. J. Harrison, Junior Warden.
W. C. Bryan, Secretary.
S. Quincey, Treasurer.
J. F. Overstreet, Junior Deacon.
S. Fales, T. J. Hersey, Junior
Stewards.
After the installation Dist. Dep.
G. M., J. J. Hyman read an
elaborate type written address on
Masonry, which*was interesting,
and described the formation, prin
ciples and purposes of this order.
It was an instructive paper, full of
information, not generally know to
the persons who sometimes attempt
to discourse knowingly on the sub
ject of Masonry, and we should
have been glad to have had the op
portunity of publishing it had it
not been for its extreme length.
Just before this address Rev. Mr.
Butler, who is now a citizen and
minister of our town announced
that Rev. Mr. Hyman would preach
at the Baptist church at night.
HRS. GRUNDY SAYS
tThat this is the time of
year when most people
“swear off,” but Mr. Grun
dy does that all the time,
and she’d like for him to
“swear on” to something.
That she is determined
during this year to have less to say
about other people, if possible, but
it will be a hard task.
That a great many sins and omis
sions are known but it would open
your eyes if the light was thrown
on the acts of many persons that
are unknown.
That a great many Christmas
sprees were charged up to some
people and then there were many
persons who had these sprees to
whom they were not charged.
That it is easy traveling going
down hill, and the farther you go
the easier and faster the trip, but it
is not that way traveling in the
opposite direction.
That if you repent you must con
fess and she intends to repent for
herself and then confess how mean
some of her friends and Mr. Grundy
are. '
Douglas Chapter No 49.
Held the annual election on Tues
day night, December 22nd, and the
following officers were elected and
installed :
W. F. Sibbett. High Priest.
Moses Griffin, King.
S. W. Johnson, Scribe.
John M. Hall, Treasurer.
W. C. Bryan, Secretary.
W C. Lankford, Captain of Host.
\V. W. Southerland, Principal
Sojourner.
J. J. Dußose, Royal Arch Cip
tain.
F. M. Appleby, Master 3rd Veil.
J. £>• Lott, Master 2nd Veil.
John McLean, Master Ist Vnil.
C. J. Darley, Sentinel.
The great democratic dalies of
New York are divided in their sup
port of President Roosevelt, for
the next nomination.
Dou ps Mm\% §mzt
SIXTY THOUSAND GIRLS-
A Syndicate Formed at St- Louis to
Collect that Number to be Used
for Immoral Purposes Dur
ing World’s Fair.
The most shocking affair of the
traffic of human souls and the de
grading of woman’s virtue, is told
in detail by a Chicago paper which
has a weekly circulation of 250,000
copies, under date of December 26.
Its St. Louis correspondent has un
earthed the formation of a syndi
cate, said to have $500,000 capital
to send emmisaries and agents all
over the world for the collection of
innocent girls between the ages of
16 and 20 to be used in a mammoth
hotel erected at St. Louis for im
moral purposes.
It is arranged that they shall have
held out to them situations as cham
bermaids, waitresses and house
keepers it fabulous salaries, and in
addition to this will be allowed to
see the great World’s Fair, the
gaies of which will soon be thrown
open to the public of all countries
of the world at St. Louis, Mo.
When within the walls of this great
hotel they will be exposed to all the
allurements of vice, wealth in the
hands of demons and the intolera
ble advice and commands of the de
praved wretches in whose brains
this devilish scheme is brought,
forth. Being thousands of miles
away from homes where they may
have left fathers and mothers that
are bending under the weight of
years, these htlp’ess girls will be
entrapped by these archers of satan,
and instead of helping by their
honest salaries the enfeebled ones
tney’ve left behind, will be crushed
into the depths of crime and in
famy.
The Christian organizations of
the great cities of the northwest and
northeast have heard of this gigan
tic plot, and are marshalling their
hosts to nip it in its infancy, but,
like many other schemes of the
devil and his agents, it is announc
ed that already more than 500
agents, male and female, are abroad
in the land, as book agents, sales
men, pic’ure dealers and other pre
tended professions, who will put in
practice at every opportunity to
ensnare and allure girls from home
to this mighty harem of hell and
destruction in St. Louis.
We do not like to fill the columns
of the Breeze with such details of
humanity’s treachery, but we be
lieve it is the duty of every news
paper in the South to sound this
note of warning, for we do not
know where this serpent may show
his head and put his devilish
schemes in practice.
Presbyterian Church.
Rev. W. S, Harden, Presbyterian
pastor, will hold services regularly
untill further notice, morning and
evening, at the Baptist church, on
the 4th Sunday in each month.
He hopes soon to have a new
church building uuder way, and be
lieves the public will help his con
gregation ir, its construction.
Quitman had a $2700. fire last
Sunday.
Col. McDnoald, the father of the
boys, is in towh again. He comes
once a year, can’t trust us out of
his sight any longei.
The safe robbers who broke into
two or three safes at Jacksonville
and Savanah and were subsequent
ly captured in Alabama, have been
returned to Jacksonville for trial.
Douglas, Ga., January 2nd, 1904.
GIN AND MILL BURNED.
Mr. B- Peterson a Heavy Loser- Cot
ton, Cotton Seed and other Goods
Destroyed by Fire last Mon
day Morning.
It has been a good long time since
Douglas had a fire, but it came last
Monday morning and in conse
quence the grist mill and gin of
Mr. B. Peterson is in ashes. In
addition to this fifteen bales of cot
ton packed, several bales in the
seed, some in lint, car load of salt,
three barrels of syrup, many other
articles, farming utensels, &c., to
the amount of between $3,000 and
$5,000 were destroyed, with no
insurance.
The fire was discovered about 3
o’clock Monday morning coming
from the roof of the north end of
the building, and before anything
could be done to save a thing the
fire had wrapped the entire build
ing in its lapping, seething grasp.
Some of the cotton was saved
after the building had burned down
on it, and so were a many
cotton seed, but all in hn injured
condition, besides the machinery
and engine was destroved.
AH day Monday Mr. Peterson
and several hands were busy trying
to save some of the cotton winch
had been burned over, leaving some
underneath scorched, and having
the pile of smoldering cotton seed
hauled out and put on his land.
It is believed the origin of the
fire was the work of an incendiary,
but if there are any suspicions as to
who it could have been we are not
informed.
Young Lady Burned to Death-
Miss Pearl Crawford, near Haz
lehur*t,with her mother, were in
the field picking cotton, Monday
of last week, when the young
lady stooped down by a fire to
warm her back, and her dress
caught on fire. Her mother had
started to the house, but on hear
ing the screams of her child, ran
back, found her wrapped in flames,
and threw her into a puddle of
water and rolled her over in it to
put out the flames, but the victim
was so seriously burned that she
died on Thursday, Chrismas eve.
She was between fourteen jd fif
teen years of age. ' ft
What About the Minutes** V.
Last October Smyrna I,
Association held its annual Meet
ing near Nichols, and the minutes
of the proceedings of the conven
tion were let under a guarntee that
they would be printed and deliver
ed within 30 days. Sixty days
have passed and we have seen not
a copy, but have received several
inquiries on the subject from inter
ested parties, and now, to answer
all others who may think the Breeze
responsible for the delay, we desire
to say that the contract forprintng
the minutes was given to the Coffee
County Gazeette and not to the
Douglas Breeze.
Hard Luck for Christmas.
Mr. B. Peterson has always
treated the editor of this paper fair
ly and squarely, and we regret to
know that his Chri tmas has been
a hard one. His mill and sin was
destroyed by fire Monday morni.ig
two fine mules have also died, and
now we learn t~at a house was
burned on Ills Carver place Tues
day night. Besides a few week’s
ago oueot tenement houses in town
was destroyed.
The “Old Man” Dodson, of the
Atlanta Printer’s Supply Co., of
Atlanta, went to the north west
to spend his Christmas and freeze
up last month. Thank the Lord
he is back in Georgia again.
MICHIGAN TO FLORIDA-
A Family on the Road Sixty Seven
Days Travel One Thousand Miles-
Last Saturday Messrs. J. F.
Burke and Fieri Marks, of Port
Huron, Mich., accompanied by
their wives and tw r o daughters,
passed through Douglas, in route
to Boynton, Fla., where the former
gentleman owns an orange grove.
The party were traveling in a top
buggy, followed by a two horse
wagon. The wagon was built on
the style of an omnibus with sides
protruding over the wheels, and
was covered with a leaden colored
oil-cloth, was coupled long with an
entrance at the back of the vehicle.
It was fitted with seats along the
sides that could be turned together
and made a very comfortable bed
stead ; on this they used mattresses,
quilts, &c. In the rear end of the
wagon body was a cooking stove
of small size, with the pipe running
up and out in the rear, and when
the wagon was moving down the
street it looked more like a car with
the smoke from the wrong end
than anything else. The contri
vance was very ingenius, and be
ing supplied witii poles and ten s
the party could stop and camp at
night. The party went from here
to VVaycross Saturday afternoon.
We were informed by Mr. and Mrs.
Burke that they left Port Huron,
Mich., on the 20th of October, and
when they arrived here had been
on the road two months and six
days—including Sundays, sixty
seven days, and had averaged about
sixteen miles per day—having made,
at this rate about 1000 miles. These
people say they could have m*ide
the trip by rail cheaper and faster,
but that they wanted to see the
They informed us also
that D . en jy had found, in their travels,
the warmest hearted people they
had ever met with, and were well
pleased with their expedition.
They will remain in Florida until
next fall when the orange crop is
gathered.
The Wadley & Mt- vernon Extens ion
We have it on pretty good in
foliation, that as soon as the work
of extending this road from Brox
ton to the river is fully completed
the work of grading and laying
track between Douglas and Valdos
ta will be taken up at once, indeed,
may be commenced before this pa
per is printed. We hope this is
true, because the link from Douglas
to Valdosta is a most important
one, opening up, as it will a good
scope of country remote from any
railway service, and giving the
people in the lower end of the
county easy and quick transporta
tion to the county site.
"Chain Gang's Christmas Dinner.
It is not every man in charge of
a gang of prisoners that remembers
that the thief on the cross was no
ticed by the Man said to have
been born on Christmas day, and
therefore that others, perhaps less
guilty should be treated likewise.
Superintendent 11. R. Davis, in
[control! of the Coffee county chain
[gang did, however, and rise un
fortunate men 011 the gang were
furnished with a bountiful dinner
on christ day. with eveythin r nice
and tempting to the epicurean’s
taste even though lie be in cnains.
Supt. Davis and Ins n ,b'e wife
who assisted him in this San. tritan
action have found warm places iri
the rugged hearts they thus made
ghid and there is an Eye ;h it
never closes which saw with love
pity and compassion.
Legal Organ
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Coffee County.
SI.OO per Annum
j NEGRO GAMBLERS IN THE TOILS.
Marshal Graham Runs in Five of the
Light Fingered Gentlemen
j For several weeks Marshal Gra
| ham has known that gambling was
I going on down in the quarter, and
j has been trying to capture them,
but so well were they supplied with
spies that this was almost impossi
ble.
However, he kept trying, and
last Tuesday morning a long train
of freight boxes 011 the A. & B.
railroad made a screen for him, and
! going down the side that hid him
from view from the shanty where
these gamblers met was upon
them before they knew it. There
were six of them engaged in the
game, but one of them—the leader,
made his escape. Five of them,
however, were safely bagged, and
the stake for which they were play
ing, was also captured. One of
them pointed a pistol at Mr.
Graham. Three cases will be made
against this one, and all of them
may go hard with him. They were
all young negroes, from sixteen to
eighteen years of age, and their
names are as follows: Ilercly
Morris, Rich:, id Presha, George
Airline, Will Henry and Earnest
Pridgen.
White G\m keeks in Town.
Marshal Graham informs us that
something of this same kind is go
ing on in town among the white
boys and young men, and he hopes
the fate of these negroes will cause
tirein to desist. If they don’t, they
will be caught up with sooner or
later, and, of course, besides bring
ing to troubie will plunge their
loved ones in a gulf o f woe. Mar
shal Graham is perfectly correct in
his surmises we expect, as to the
gambling, we cant say, but we do
know that some boys of very tender
years in this town indulge in
cursing and whiskey, and these two
practices lead to the other, or if
they do not lead to them, they go
hind in hand with - hem.
The Breeze should deplore the
necessity of publishing the names
of these young white boys when
caught gambling, but we tell them
right now, if they are caught up
with we intend to give the news
just as we find it in any case.
Some Tall Corn or Tall lying.
A South Carolina man claimed
a field of corn which measured fif
teen feet on an average, some time
ago, and a Georgia man living
near Augusta, not to let his State be
out done furnishes the following:
Augusta, Ga., Dec. 24, 1903.
Editor Evening Herald—Dear
Sir :—Your correspondent in Noris
town, Pa., must haul in his flag,
as the banner record for tall corn
is still held in Augusta, Ga. The
seed (ordinary) white corn pur
chased at a *tore on Broad street)
was planted on June 10. 19 3, on
the lot of Mr. Samuel Tanna-hill
on Reynolds street. The shortest
[stalks I saw of the patch measured
18 1-2 feet I meu-ured one which
i was 24 1-2 feet from where it was
ent off near the ground to the end
of the tassel, and one stalk which
grew up through the brar.ches of
a pecan tree me.a.-ured 29 1-2 feet.
The ear*, were, many of them, 12
feet from the ground.
The Africans have been killing
more white missionaries. It seems
like foolishness to send men and
women to those heathen countries
to be killed.
