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FOR OUR COUNTRY AND HER PEOPLE, FIRST AND ALL TILE TIME VOL 15, No. 5! A MATTER OF HEALTH sbi B®| MAKING POWDER AbsoSuteSy' Pure HAS HO SUBSTITUTE BOOK COMMITTEE’S REPORT At The March Term of Coffee Supe rior Court Gives A Full Account of Officer’s Books. We find the Minutes of the Or dinary’s Court neatly and correct ly kept We find that some administra tors have failed to make annual returns. YVe ask that the Grand Jury recommend a book to be kept in the Ordinary’s office in which a list of all the administrators and guardians be listed. We find that few citizens sub ject to pay special tax have regis tered in this office as theJa;v di “.CC!> We’Yinr. Bills of Sale to some properl} not sworn to. Clerk Ok Superior Court. We find the books in this office .neatly and correctly kept. Under the law the Judge grants insolvent orders to the Solicitor, •Clerk and Sheriff. To which or der ail collections from finds and forfeitures are credited. We find these orders entered on Minutes of ‘Court and proper credits placed thereto. Sheriff. We find n some cases no show ing in jail Docket as to how or when prisoners have been dis \charged. We find that the jailor keeps a Vii! record which he afterwards K Sheriff to be placed Jocket. Said record placed on Jail Dock -23, 1904. bat the Bench War dues not show dispo e warrants, ib at the Execution many executions not -of which are collect YiERS Of Roads And L \ the books of this m. V pt - Y ly vouchers on M A' pproval sigtia j i of said board vurioi.- UPHILL. Mud hi (if. -v* -’u :. i k ; 1: g “,T l !> ■ A, & purpose of showing all expences arising from each case and final deposition of parties accused. Said book is very essential under the (J above argument. This book has not been posted since Nov. i 1904. 4. We find that the cost of run ning City Court of Coffee County since March 1, 1904 has been •i's°^3-94* Amount of fines and forfeitures collected $2978.40. Leaving a balance of $2085.54 the amount that the City Court lacks of being self sustaining but after giving the County the benefit of the convict labor it is more than self sustaining. County .School Commissioner. 1. We find the books of this of fice neatly and correctly kept mak ing proper showing for all ex penditures. 2. We find balance on hand Feb. 1 1904 to county’s credit in State Treasury to be $1744.02 Feb. 1 1904. By apportionment for 1904 $10497.45 Feb. 1 1905. by Bal. in State Treasury $2330.67 Available amount for 1904 $12241.47 To expenditures for 1904. $9910.80 Feb. 1 1905. By apportionment for 1905. $11390.05 Amount in hands of County School Commissioner for school buildings. $292.18 Available amounts for 1905. $14012.90. Tax Receiver. 1. We find the Tax Receiver’s books correct with the exception of a defaulters list. It being the duty of the Tax Receiqer to enter all the defaulters names on a defaulters list, includ ing all unreturned lands. 2. We find that the Receiver has failed to have some parties re turn City property as such, and that said property has been re turned as average country property if returned at all. We ask that the Grand Jury au thorize the Tax Receiver to secure a list of all City property from the Tax Assessors or Collectors of the incorporated cities and towns of Coffee county from which list he may intelligently have all City property returned or entered upon his deiaulters list. 3. We find the amount of tax- able property to be $3i°39?967 Amount of Poll tax $2596 Amount of Prooessional tax $420 Tax Collector. 1. We find the Tax Collector’s books correctly kept. 2. We find amount of taxes to be collected on Digest $33,415,67 Amount of R. R. tax $3816.61 Amount Special tax s34° Amt. tax not on Digest $318.73 Total amt. tax to collect $37891.01 Amoun r collected $34°39-3 I Amt. of fi fa Executiogs $2778.79 Apportionment amt. Collector’s Commission S9OO Approximate amt. of errors in Digest $172.91 Total amt. of credits $37891.01 , 3. We find that the Collector has turned over to the Treasury $18320 Amt. sent State $16719.31 Treasury 1. We find the books of the County Treasury correct and we hereby congratulate Mr. H. Sears the retiring Treasurer for the ex cellent manner in which his books have been kept. Mr. Sears took a receipt from Mr. Wm. Vickers, his successor for $16495.10 amonut in hand J mi 2 1905. 2. We find amount of money .received since March 22. 1904 to kMarch 1. 1905 to be as follows: fcax Collector $18320.74 Bkv Court j $2978.40 Hire *.52634.51 Jail fees ’ $75.57 e on hand March 1:4- *iis9i-59 Douglas, Ga., April 22nd, 1905. Total amount in treasury during past year $55500,91 Amount paid out $21364.29 Balance in treasury March 1 1905 $14136.62 3. We find the above amounts to have been divided into the fol lowing funds. General Fund. March 22 1904. To amount on hand $1054. To amount for Tax Col lector $3053.16 To amount as per appor tionment from other funds order number 7 $1905.33 To Deposit $4.27 By County Commission ers orders 4521.42 By balance on hand March 1, 1905 J 555.34 Pauper Fund. March 22 1904 to amount on hand 438.21 To amt. received from Tax Collector by County 975-7° Commissioners orders by bal. on hand Mar. 1905. 504.83 Jury Fund. Mar. 22 1904 to apportionment as per order No. 7 $504.67 To apportionment by county Commissioners orders 504.67 This fund has been discontinued all orders for Jurors given on city court and Superior Court Funds. Superior Court Fund. Mar. 22 1004 to amt. on hand $3‘5 28 -73 To amt. from Tax Collector $5,603.67 By county Commissioners orders 3’ 88j -53 SI,OOO of above orders divided be tween other funds by balance on hand Mar. 1 1904 $3,250.87 Coroner Fund. Mar. 23 1905 to amt. on hand 273.25 To amt. from Tax Collector 629.44 By county Commissioner 130.00 By Balance on hand Mar. 1 1905 772.60 City Court Fund. Mar. 22 1904 To amt. on hand 1984.1 S From Andes & forfeitures 2,978.40 To amt. from Tav Collectors $2833.00 To amt. by County Com missioners orders 5,063.94 By balance on hand Mar. 1 1905 2,731.73 Jail Fund. Mar. 22 1904 to amt. on hand 2,367.1)7 To cost collected on jail fees 71.40 To amt. from Tax Collector 3<33 6 -34 By County Commissioners orders 3 -535-77 $1,500 of above orders between other funds. By balance on hand Mar. 1 i9°s 2,731.73 Chaingang Fund. Mar. 22 1904 to amt. on hand 1.946.15 To convict hire on W. & Mt. V. Ex. R. R. $2534.52 To amt. from Tax Collector 3889-35 By County Commissioners’ orders. 6617.88 By bal. on hand Mar. 1, 1 9°5 T 752-135 2 - 13 There is yet dne the county for convict labor on YV. & Mt. V. Ex. R. R. about 400 dollars. By Book Committee appointed by Grand Jury of Oct. term 1904. Ssid appointment approved by Commissioners of Roads and Revenues March 1, 1605. Respectfully submitted, t J. S. Roberts Committee ' Jas. 1. Hatfield ( Jesse M. Pafford Dont be too sensitive ! Don’t take offense at everything you hear or see in.the paper that you can construe as thrust at you. Pe-hapsyou were not thought of when the remark was made or the thought written. It will matte you miserable to al ways be looking for something to get offended at. Don’t let feelings stick out too much. THE NEW COUNTY MOVEMENT. Seems to Be a Desire to Carve Coffee County to Pieces. The Breeze did not oppose the proposition of the people of north ern Coffee county and a portion of Appling to form a new county with Hazlehurst as the count-site. In fact, it thought as our friend H. C. Girtman does, that it was a hardships for the people to be compelled to travel 40 miles to at tend to legal matters. A small portion of the counties named could be spared very readily to accom modate those remote people as a conven’ \ce, and would not really injure o\ Ve and Appling much. But now comes in notice that the peole of Broxton, only twelve miles from the court house, want to hold meetings of her people to discuss the question of making a new county with Broxton as a county-site. Is this a necessity? Would it not be cutting un the county too much? The Breeze does not and never has opposed anything that the people want. It has ideas on the sequestions and ex presses them but it has never pre sumed to be dictator nor urged action for or against any proposi tion in which the people were con cerned, notwithstaning the fact that an assertion has been made to the contrary on the dispensary ques tion, recently settled by the people of the county. In this matter—this new county question the Breeze takes the posi tion that 't held in the dispensary contest. It is a question for the people to settle, not the Breeze. The late Grand Jury objects to giving up part of the county to form a new one and there are many people that were not jurymen who have the same objection, but we have heard some very fair ideas ex pressed in regards to the new coun ty with Hazlehurst a i the county site. What Broxton bases her claims upon for a new county is not known to us, more than that the real estate might bring more if the county-site was there, but is it fair to the people in the rural dis tricts to make them pay the ex pensees of a county goverment in order that the real estate of a town may be made more valuable? Pearson and Willacoochee have better claims for a new county than Broxton has, to tell the truth about the matter, as far as the Breeze can see. Since the above was written it is learned that Nichols has some new county aspirations. The Empire Mutual- The Empire Mutual Annuity Life Insurance Co., represented by Mr. J. D. Lockridge, the hust ling Insurance Agent, well known here, has an advertiement in this paper to-day. The Empire Mutual is in a class to itself, being the only Company in the Union sellign annuities only. An annuity means a steady income all the time. If a man’s life is insured n this way after his death his family receives a certain amount of money each month, (the amount depending on the sum for which the insurance was written) just the same as regu lar wages. See Mr. Lockridge and make arrangements to suit yousself. SI.OO per Annum AN EXPLANATION. Why the Book Committee’s Report Was Not Published Last Week- It will be remembered that the late Grand Jury reccommended that the report of the Book Com mittee should be embodied in the presentments, and that the same be published in the Douglas Breeze and the Coffee County Gazette. At the Courthouse on Tuesday morning after the Grand Jury had adjourned on Saturday we were informed by Ordinary Ward, who seemed to be in charge of the Clerk’s office, as the Clerk was absent, that “he had the present ments and would give them to 11s when he was through with them,” which he did, at the Sametitne say ing he would also “give us the re port of the Book Committee when the Gazette had finished setting it up.” This was on Tuesday, April 4 111, mind you. We published the presentments on April Bth, and on Wednesday 12th, more than a week, called up the Clerk’s office and asked if “we could get the re port of the Book Committee?” The reply was that we “could get the report when the Gazette had gotten through with it, which would be only a short time.” We did not get it in a “short time” however. So, Wednesday after noon we saw Mr. George Ward, who is in charge of the mechani cal department of the Gazette, and on asking if wc could get the re port of the Book Committee, was told that they (the Gazette) was not through with the manuscript, THAT THEY HAD ONLY RE CEIVED IT FROM HIS FA THER’S OFFICE THE DAY BEFORE,” Tuesday April nth, and that we could get it Thursday morning. Thursday afternoon, too late for publication last week, the manuscript was viven to us, with out any explanations. Editor-Or dinary Ward by virtue of his place and office had scooped us on an of cial document, but not fairly. We are not seeking a controver sy, nor are we attempting to avoid one, but simply stating facts in an explanation which inquiries make necessary, and which are beyond contradiction. The question to be answered is this: If Ordinary Ward was not going to use this manuscript when he had it in hand a week why couldn’t he have let us have the manuscript, or made a copy and let 11s have that. We have the report to-day. More About Freight Rates. In regard to an article in this [laper l ist week Col. 11. C. McFad den, of the A. B. does not consider that Douglas is discriminated against in the matter of freight rates and mentions the fact that paper shipped from Nashville to Douglas is 80; Waycross 72 and Fitzgerald 85. This is doubless true, as he says, but the rate i- too high, if there is no discrimination, and it must be that the places mentioned i do not receive their paper over the | A. 8., in anyway. A Daredevil Ride I often ends in a sad accident. To heal ac cidental injuries, use ilucklin’s Arnica Halve. “A deep wound in my foot, from an aocident,” writes Theodore Schuele, of Columbus, 0., “caused me great pain. ]*hy sicians were helpless, but Bucklin’s Arnica Halve quickly healed it.” Soothes and heals burns liks magic. 25c. at Union Pharmacy,