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| GEORGIA KEWSi
Epitomized Items of Interest
Gathered at Random*
Hanson Using the Ax.
General Superintendent Moise, of
the Central railway, has appointed C.
L. Calder trainmaster at Macon, su
perintendent of the first division of
the Central.
Expenses are being considerably re
duced under the management of
President Hanson. It is understood
that the salaries of several high-priced
men have been cut.
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Host of Agricultural Students.
Professor J. M. Johnson and Profes
sor J. F. Hart, Jr., of the department
of agriculture In the University of
Georgia, are now busily engaged in
the work of instructing a large num
ber of students in the winter school
of agriculture and in preparing for
the opening of the two weeks’ special
course for farmers, which will begin
the Bth of February.
Atlant Fair Directors Meet.
The Southern Interstate Fair Asso
ciation at Atlanta will be reorganized.
An attraction of seme kind will be
maintained at Piedmont park this fall,
but the ideas of the directors are still
in the formative state, and it is not
certain what will be done. It is cer
tain, however, that, the Southern In
terstate Fair Association will not be
allowed to die.
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Georgia Cotton Seed for Texac.
Six car loads of seed for the cot
ton section of Texas that was devas
tated by the boil weevil last year
were shipped from Athens a few days
ago. This was simply one of the nu
merous shipments that have been
made recently and that will continue
to be made until enough seed from
Georgia and a few other states in this
latitude are shipped to give the farm-j
ers enough to plant their next crop ol 1
cotton.
Veterans Asked to Subscribe.
General P. A. S. McGlashin, com
mander of the Georgia division, Uni
ted Confederate Veterans, has issued
an appeal to the Confederate veterans
of Georgia to subscribe to the fund for
reproducing Sutherland, the home of
the lute General John B. Gordon, as
the Georgia building at tne St. Louis
exposition.
The order does not make any as
sessment against the camps, but sjjn
piy call;; for voluntary contributions,
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Union Veterans Want Home.
A petition has been formulated by
the old union veterans ot the Fitzger
ald colony, praying congress to erect
a soldiers’ homo at Fitzgerald, as
there are now many thousands ot old
soldiers located southern states
•and they find IftaT the genial climate
is of great to them in tliclr
declining days.
This colony was settled originally
by them and they are still coming,
finding as thoy do a healthy and
fialmy climate and a hearty welcome.
They feel at home at once, but many
of them are cripples and in poor
health depend upon their little pen
sion for a support, consequently many
have to live without any of the luxu
ries of life.
A home at Fitzgerald would no
doubt lie highly commendable to the
government by the old veterans.
Request of Chairman Brown.
E. T. Brown, chairman of tlie state
Democratic executive committee, has
made the following request to the
chairman or secretaries of the county
committees in the state:
“As a number of the counties have
recently elected new county executive
committees, the chairmen or secreta
ries will confer a favor upon the state
executive committee by forwarding at
once a complete list of their new com
mittees with postoffice address of each
member to the secretary of the state,
Hen. J. W. Goldsmith, Atlanta, Ga.
“The state press will kindly pub
lish. E. T. BROWN,
“Chairman State Democratic Execu
tive Committee."
As a number of these committees
have just recently been formed, Mr.
Brown adopted this method as the
surest one of getting a complete list
of t item and avoiding all confusion.
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Wag 120 Years Old.
"Granny” hoggins, probably the old
est woman in Georgia, died last week
at her home near Gillsville She was
just about 120 years of age, having
been bern in 1754. she enjoyed the
unique and unusual distinction of liv
ing in three centuries, the ISth, 19th
and 20 th.
Her extreme age and the statistics
of the numerous posterity of this cen
tenarian have been matters of infor
esting newspaper stories for twenty
rears nact in northeast Georgia. She
had a#grandsoh”insey Loggins, who
was a veteran ojhe civil war, and
died .some years ? 'o at an advanced
age.
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Planning for *<orgia Building.
President H. H.iift, of the Georgia
Sawmill Associate which has given
the state SSOO in sh and all the ma
terial needed for ecting the Georgia
state building at ie coming exposi
tion at St. Louis.vas in conference
with. Governor Tcell and Glascock
Barrett, assistant mmissioner, at At
lanta the past we relative to the
plans in this conation.
The question of tanging the style
of the building fre that of Liberty
Hall, Alexander Sthen's old home,
to that of Sutherjul, the home of
the late General Jo B. Gordon, was
discussed at some ngth, and to the
proposed change MTift gave his en
tire approval.
The Georgia bui ng will be well
located. The site lone of the high
est upon the expo Son grounds, and
Georgia will be inhe midst of the
most, prominent rte and foreign
buildings and witi short walking
distance of the agrultural buildings
ami others in whiclGeorgia’s princi
pal exhibits will btdisplayed.
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Value of Georgia’s otton Products.
(Cotton products i: Georgia for the
year 1903, accord!; to estimates
made at the departnnt of agriculture
amount to $101,855 0. This is an
increase of nearly 5,000,000 since
1901.
There were rairo;in Georgia last
year 1,300,000 bales ' cotton, which
brought approximaiy $18,000,000.
From these l,3oo,ooo>ales there were
650,000 tons of seed tiicth netted $13,-
000,000. Crude oil orn these seed
netted $1,800,000. T> linters from
the cotton seed werotold for $1,300,-
000, while the cotin seed hulls
brought $1,755,000.
Cotton products, tlrefore, are in
great, demand, ami thie is a constant
increase in the prict.
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Synods Favor tlanta.
The special conferepe held in At
lanta the past, week, iiwhich the syn
ods of seven states wje represented,
by a vote of 15 to 3, rqommended the
consolidation of Columia Theological
university, at Columbia S. C., and the
Southwestern Presbyteian university,
ucational institution ir Atlanta,
at Clarksville, Tenn., iflbne larger ed
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Goes to File Interring Quit.
Attorney General Joh C. Hart and
Ligon Johnson, special hunsel for the
| state of Georgia, went > Washington
. the past week where hoy will file
proceedings ip tho,-Unitd States su
premo court agairtst the state of Ten
nessee, the I ucktown , opper M i:\es
and the Pittsburg and *1 nnessee Cop
per Company.'’ v *- '
The suit is to' tfc file; by. the state
of Georgia- because oi the
damage which being? me the, prop
ert Georgia.
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Waycross. The station \tas operated
last year under a SIO,OOO appropria
tion. but there was expense in ths es
tablishment of the plant which could
not. be foreseen, and there is a de
ficit of $5,000. The $15,000 asked for
will operate this, and the new year's
expenses. Secretary Wilson is very
much interested in this work, and has
been co-operating with Mr. Branticy
in promoting the appropriation. It
is understood the house committee
which has the making of the appro
priation bill favors the iik/ease.
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Statement cf Book Commission,
Following a conference and a for
mal meeting in Atlanta the past week,
the state text-book commission, to
which was intrusted the work of put
ting into operation the uniform text
book law. issued a statement in an
swer to certain charges with refer
ence to the manner in which the adop
tions were made, published in certain
state papers.
The recent charge consisted in the
statement that alter ail the bids for
hooks had been opened and consider
ed, the American Book Company was
allowed to reduce its price on readers
by a supplement bid, which was un
dated, and that the same opportunity
was was given to other bidders.
The fact in the case Is that the Lee
readers, offered by tue American
Book Company, were adopted for the
third, fourth and nfth books, and all
other books in this class offered were
rejected. It was then that the com
pany was asked by the commission
to reduce its price, and it did so. The
reduction, at the request of the com
mission, was put in writing.
The members of the state text-book
commission are Governor Terrell,
Comptroller General William A.
Wright, Secretary of Stare Phil Cook,
Attorney General John C. Hart and
State School Commissioner W. B.
Merritt. Some of the members were
very much wrought up over the charg
es and were anxious to make a pretty
strong reply.
After careful consideration how
ever a statement was prepared by the
commission and given out by Gov
ernor Terrell, the gist of which is that
no secret or supplemental bids were
received, but lower prices were secur
ed for the books that were adopted.
SCORE ARE MANGLED.
Another Horror at Johnstown—Steam
Pipe in Steel Mill Explodes W.th
Frightful Results.
A special from Johnstown, Pa., says:
An immense steam pipe directly over
the engine in the boiler room of No.
2 mill, of the Cambria Steel Company
exploded at about 1:30 Thursday morn
ing bringing down the whole section
of roof running from the puddling mill
to the finishing shed of the mill. The
woodwork at once took fire from the
furnaces, and began burning fiercely.
About fifteen men were soon taken
out and either sent to the hospital, or
laid on improvised cots in offices near
by.
Added to the fire and explosion dis
aster, a large water pipe burst and
flooded the ground about the scene of
the accident. One man caught in the
debris was in plain sight, but could
not be rescued owing to the intensity
of the heat. The accident occurred be
tween a turn and a gieat many men
were seated in the mill.
At 2:40 a. m. the number of dead
was numbered at from twelve to four
teen men. The injured will number
twenty-five or more, many of whom
are terribly scalded and cannot live.
ELAM£ FOR iRGQUOiS THEATRE HORROR
Laid to Managers After Thorough Investi
gation cf Matter.
Upon the managers and builders of
the Iroquois theatre has been placed
the responsibility for the fire horror
in a report rendered to Mayor Harri
son by Fire Chief Musham Saturday.
The report is prepared by Fire De
partment Attorney Monroe Funker
son. after examination of nearly one
hundred witnesses in the
ciiatoly following the fire. fV
HOTEL FIRE RFSULTS l\ FATALITIES.
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Proprietor, His Wife end Manager of Cafe
Department Lose their lives.
• At Marion, Inn., three people were
burned to death and ten badly injured
in a tenement house fire.
The cause was a gas explosion fol
lowed by flames and the building was
destroyed. The explosion occurred in
the Seitz building a?| Thirty-eighth
street and Home avenue, which was
wrecked.
ROVELLE CASE IS MYSTERIOUS.
Alleged Heiress “Located” and Held in
Mobile by Detective From Meridian.
Miss Ethel Itovelle, the reputed heir
ess to an $8,000,000 estate, left her in
Denver, Colo., by Mrs'. Minerva Bin
ford, was found in Mobile, Ala., Wed
nesday by Detective Vanhand, of Me
ridian. Miss., and is being held accord
ing to instructions.
Meridian relatives of the girl were
notified of her discovery.
Dyspepsia Cura
Digests what you eat.
This preparation contains all of ths
digestants and digests all kinds o.
food. It gives instant relief and nevei
fails to cure. It allows you to eat all
the food you want. The most sensitive
stomachs can take it. By its use many
thousands of dyspeptics have beet
cured after everything else failed. Is
unequalled for the stomach. Child
ren with weak stomachs thrive on it»
tDyres sismEcfo trouhla*
Prepared ctiiv by E. C. Tie’Vit?,B-Co., Ohieag.
The SI . bottle contains 21* times the 50c. ccas
~pp &c Dent Drug Co.. Douglas; 1. \
loormau, Ambrose; Dr. Parker. Nk:
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T 1 . , ! 1903 19 04
Ladies
OUR
Tailor Made Suits,
Skirts, Waists, !
Furnishings,
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Men’s
su,ts ’ Ma:; - Stock
Overcoats,
Furnishings, ¥ .r*. ,f| it j
Underwear, Etc. Ilviiiij
Boys and fOF YOIL
Children’s
0 . WRITE FOR PARTICULARS.
Suits, Hats,
„ WE SHIP C. 0. D.
Overcoats, Caps,
To any Express Office, with privi-
Furnishings, Etc. lege of examination before
accepting.
SAVANNAH, GA. '
Citizens’ Bank.
INCORPORATED If£l.
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DOUGLAS, = - GEORGIA.
B. H. TANNER, Pres., W. W. M’DONA P., F. L, SWEAT, 2nd
V. P., E. L. TANNER, Cashier, A. W. Assistant Cashier.
DIRECTORS.
W. W. M’DONALD, B. H. TANNER, E. L. VICKERS, R. G. KIRK
LAND, F. L. SWEAT, W. F. SIBBETT, E. L. TANNER.
All accommodations afforded oui* customers consistent with good
business principles.
The Union Banking Company,
Incorporated 1898.
J. M. ASHLEY, President; J. S. LOTT, V. President, C. E. BAKER,
Cashier.
DIRECTORS:
J. J. LEWIS. ELIAS LOTT, J. M. ASHLEY. J S. LOTT, HENRY
VICKERS, J. W, Qt INCY, JOHN M’LEAN.
Accounts of individuals, merchants
and corporations solicited.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS^
J. R. Bradfield. J. J. Lott.
BRADFIELD & LOTT,
Physicians and Surgeons.
Broxton, Ga.
QUINCEY & MCDONALD,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW T ,
Douglas, Ga.
Offices in Bank Building.
DR. W. C. BRYAN,
Douglas, Ga.
Surgeon A. & B. and B. & B. Railways
Health Officer City of Dougla-s. Res
idence and Office Corner Ward anc
Pearl streets.
S. W. JOHNSON,
Physician and Druggist,
Douglas, Ga.
Offers his professional services to
the citizens of Douglas and Coffee
county, after fifteen years experience
in general practice. Diseases of wo
men and children and Chronic dis
eases a specialty.
W. F. SIBBETT,
Physician and Surgeon,
Douglas, Ga.
Calls promptly answered day or
night. Special attention to Diseases
of Women and Children and Surgery.
D. B. JAY,
Attorney at Law,
Fitzgerald, Ga.
DR. J. A. MONTGOMERY,
DENTAL SURGEON. -
Office in Bank Building.
"Will gladly advise with those de
siring dental work. Both operative
and prosthetic work guaranteed.
LEVI O’STEiEW,
Attorney at Laxv.
Money to loan on City and Farm
lands from 3 and 7 per cent, per an
num. Office in Overstreet Building,
Douglas.
THE CITY BARBER SHOP.
ARTHUR BROOKS, PROP.
In front of Bank Building, Douglas,
Ga. Carries a nice line of Cheroots,
Cigars, &c. Everything clean and
cool. Your patronage solicited.
J. T. BELLI HAN,
Justice of the Peace 748 Dist. G. M.
Douglas, Ga.
Regular terms, 4th Monday of each
month,
C. A. WARD,
Attorney at Law,
Douglas, Ga.
Prompt attention given to all busi
ness placed in our care. Office in
Bank Building.
LAWSON KELLEY,
Attorney at Law.
Douglas, Ga.
Prompt attention given to all mat
ters placed in my hands, special at
tention given to Commercial Law' and
Bankruptcy Practice.
DART & ROUN,
Attorney at Law,
Douglas, Ga.
Office in Vickers’ Building.
Will practice in all court#. Prompt
attention given to all business.
LANKFORD & DICKERSON,
Attorneys at Law,
Douglas. Ga.
Office in Bank Building. Money
to loan at 6 and 7 per cent, interest on
five years’ time secured by farm land.
If you have something to sell, let
: the people know it. An advertisement
I I", this paper will do ths v/erk.