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place Your Ad. through The Sentinel. VOL. 14, NO. 13 . fl OTV ■ SEPTEMBER TERM. Ciiy Court Recommended to Take Place of County Court. Several Road Commission ers Presented for Neg= lect of Duty - - Others Escape. We, the Grand Jury for Sep tember term Superior Court, 1901, submit the following general pre sentments : We have through proper com mittees, examined the records of our county officers and report as follows: ordinary. In this office we find that Ordin ary J. D. Hargrove has everything in a correct and satisfactory con dition, having received from all sources during March to Septem ber $56.40 Paid to County Treas $53-93 Paid to State Treas.. $ 2 47-$56.40 clerk’s office. We find everything in a satis factory condition. TAX collector’s OFFICE. Tax collector Lewis has settled with the county for 1900 and is allowed $140.39 insolvent taxes, and $50. 25 errors on digest. He has now in his hands $126.28 col lected on sales of unknown prop erty. TAX receiver’s OFFICE. In this office we find the books in fine shape. We find the wild lands have decreased 6.257 acres,and improved lands have in creased 5,781 acres, showing a loss of 471 acres improved lands. Im proved lands returned 1901, 435,0871 acreB, valued at $1,342, 372. Improved lands returned in 1900 435,5681 acres, valued at $1, 801^70, showing an increase of $42, 192.50 in valuation. We also find an increase in all other lines of property returned except in the item of bicycles, which can be very easily accounted for in that the tax has been taken off the retail bicycle dealers, and that de crease is very small. SHERIFF’S OFFICE. So far as we can determine by a thorough of examination the affairs in this office are conducted a satisfactory manner. The jail register shows there are now 16 Editor’s Awful Plight, F m Higgins, editor Seneca Ill, News, was afflicted for years with piles that no other remedy or doctor helped until he tried Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. He writes that two boxes wholly cured him It’s the surest pile cure on earth and the best salve in the world Cure guaranteed. Only 25 cents at any drug store. TO THE PUBLIC © o Having purchased the entire business, formerly run by Parsons – Hill—the Cordele Grocery—I will continue with the same line of goods at the same stand. The stock is composed of Dry Goods,Notions, Clothing, Shoes, Hats, –c Good line of Fancy and Family Groceries. The line of Dry Goods, Notions, etc., I am selling at sacrifice prices in order to get them off the shelves to make room for Fail and Winter goods which are now arriving. Mr. W. M. Kennedy is with me, and we guarantee that the old customers and the new customers will receive courteous and fair treatment. Public Patronage is Solicited. Yours very truly, . A. B. HILL j CORDELE, GA. CTortldc J Aenlinel prisoners in jail, and 23 out on bond. treasurer’s office The books in this office are well kept. Dr. To amt. on hand Feb, 1901 To $10,257.41 amt. rec. all sources since.......... $2,017.10 Total $12,874,51 Cr. By amts. pd. out as per vouch’s ......... $ 8 , h-*. By commisson ...... IA By report to grand jury 1.00 Balance on hand..... 4,457.94 Total $12,874.51 COUNTY SCHOOL COMMISSONER’s OFFICE Dr. We find he has received from state............$ 6,103.33 To borrowed from bank 9,458.94 Total $15,562.27 Cr. By amt, paid out furniture..........$ 305.95 By amt. paid out teachers ..........12,697.56 By amt. paid note..........1,674.24 out bank ’ By amt. paid paid out board 36-00 By amt. out 474.00 E.G. Green...... By amt, incidentals...... paid out 168.74 By balance on hand 205.78 Total $15,562.27 We believe Commissioner Green and the Board of Education are looking well after the interest of our schools. COUNTY COURT . In this county we find it more than self-sustaining under the able management of Judge D. T. L. Henderson and Solicitor J. Hill, and find that it has disposed of 50 criminal cases and made 38 convictions, and paid into the county treasury $639.01. Many civil cases has also been disposed of. We made a thorough inspection of the books of Justice of the Peace and Notarys’ Public of various districts of our county and found them correct and neatly kept, find that they fail to sum mons witnesses as the law requires, and we recommend that they per form this important duty. Poor We examined the Farm and found seven inmates, four white and three colored, a very fine crop of corn and potatoes, seven nice hogs in a pen, and one mule in nice condition ; the houses are well cared for and in good re pair, and the sanitary conditions are very good. examined the jail, and We also find the sanitary condition of it good. We recommend that it be kalsomined inside and the cages be painted, as they are rusting badly in places. We also recom mend that the jail be heated with stoves, and a wire fence be built around the prison part of the small jail. We recommend that the hall leading to the door of the office of the county school com missioner, in the court house be closed, and a door be made in the wall leading out on the west porch. PUBLIC ROADS. We find the condition of the public roads as follows: That part of the road leading from Cordele by J. .J. Wheeler’s to the line of the 14th district in bad CORDELE, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, eandition ; also the road from the 11th district running by Penia to Greer’s place in bad condition, in Cordele district; also, the Unadil la road by Dr. Pate’s place to West Ivey place; also Unadilla road leading to county line; road from Unadilla by .1 \V. >cott's to J. E. Peavy’s in bad condition, in Unadilla district. Also the Monte zuma road from district line to county line, in 2nd. district, in bad condition; also Vienna and Drayton 7th. road from Drayton to in line of district in the 9th bad condition, We hereby present the road commissioners for the above bad roads, namely: II W W heeler, W B Mathews and M M Doyle, of the Cordele district; also J L Clewis, J E Peavy and J F Lane F of the Unadilla district, also J Moreland, George Roberts and .T Y Edwards of the 2nd. district ; also A Wells, J S Morgan and R E Shirah of the.9th district, ali negligence of duty. Also, we fin d that E G Harris has made ap plication and had assigned to him by the road commissioners of said county, as provided by law, the following portions of the public roads of this county, towit: That part of the Vienna and Tippett road leading from C B Woods to W H Adkins, a distance of about 2 ^ miles; also that portion °f the lower Hawkinsville road, and coming about one fourth of a mile from Jesse Peavy’s and run nia g to the fronfc of Jim Demons’, distance of about 1^ miles. We And that be had failed to properly work the road assigned to him, and we of hereby duty, present him tor neglect The balance of the roads we find in a satisfactory condition. We recommend that the various road commissioners of each dis trict report annually on the first day of December, in writing, to the ordinary, the condition of roads, bridges and causeways in their respective districts, as re quired by Sec. 103 Par, 7 of the Road Laws of Georgia in their possessions, a form of which is laid down in said law. We recommend that the turn pike on the Vienna and Montezu ma road, on Turkey creek, near Byromville, be widened six feet. We recommend the following names be added to the pauper list: Mrs W H Calhoun, $7.00 per month. Mrs Sarah Pickles, $5.00 per month. Mrs Nellie Yawn, 2.50 per month Mrs Mariah Shirah, $5-00 per month. Mrs Martha Cox, $5.00 per month. Mrs Nellie Wilson, $3-00 per month. Romalis Bell, colored, $3,00 per month. Also the following changes: Green woodward from $3.00 to $4.00 per month; B S Caple from $4.00 to $10.00 per month. We examined the pension list and endorse the same. We recommend that the ac count of $25.00 D A R Crum for printing and distributing assign ment of cases for September term of court be paid. We recommend that F J Lewis, tax collector, be paid $20-00 for attorney fees. We recommend that our repre sentatives pass an act in the leg islature establishing a City Court at Vienna instead of the present County Court, and that the judge and solicitor for said court be elected by a vote of the people of the county. We recommend that these pre sentments be published in the Vienna News, Vienna Progress, Cordele Sentinel and Cordele Daily News, and each be paid $5.00. We beg leave to extend our thanks to Judges Littlejohn, Eei extended^hi^body, ^lsoTo^ou? able Solicitor. F A Hooper, and take pleasure in endorsing the administration ; of these able judges, especially the manner of that Judge Candler disposes business. We recommend that the strip of land between the court house and jail, running from Cotton street to Union street, be bought for the county $250.00 provided it can be bought for We appoint C R Morgan and John H Bedgood to examine the books of the county officers and report to the next grand jury, and that they be paid $2.00 per day for their services. Respectfully summitted .1 O Hamilton, foreman. John H Pkbuood, Clerk. John F Ilogsett, C S « Walls, W G B Forehand, Johnson A R Morgan, Davies, J B J E Brown, J M Cox, .J T Murray, T A Royal, J B Whitehead. IT A J Fuqua, J H Calhoun, Mark Raney, W H Page, J E Calhoun, J A McLendon. R S M Lilly. H I) Wood. Read m open court and ordered filed of record Let the present ments be published and publica tion be paid for as requested. It is also ordered that the accounts recommended be paid by the county treasurer. This 19, Sept. 1901. John 8 Candler Judge Stone Mountain Circuit. F A Hooper, Sol. Gen. Georgia—Dooly County. I hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a true Dooly extract from the minutes ol Superior Court. J Frank Powell, C S C D C Notice to Delegates. All delegates to Houston Baptist Association, to meet with Pine hurst church October 9th, will please send their names to F, M. Barfield. Pinehurst, Ga., at once, that homes may be secured for them. Ready For the Public. Mrs. J. A. Bell has received her outfit of ladies’ Suita, Waists, Jackets, etc. The styles are the latest; see the samples, ranging in price to suit every one. I ask the ladies to call and examine— the latest in style and fabric. They are from the well known house of Cbas. H. Stevens, Chicago. Mass Meeting. A mass meeting was held by a few of the citizens at the court house Monday afternoon for the purpose of appointing a committee to meet with the town council that night to arrange for publishing notices for the intention of apply ing for a new charter for the town, changing it from a town to a city m order to establish a city court here The people of the county are tak ing right hold of the matter of establishing a city court in lieu of the county court as per the recom mendation of the grand jury and the bill will no doubt pass at the next session of the legislature. The notices will be published of at once for four weeks as a result the decision reached by the council at their meeting Monday night. of The committee was composed and Cols. Busbee, Copeland Har vard.—Vienna News. Christian Workers' Conference. The First Baptist Church is plan ing a Christian Workers’Conference for Nov. 12th to 16th. The one object of the meeting is to deepen spirituality and quicken religious activity among Christians of all de nominations. Hence all the exer cises will be conducted with this end in view. Some of the most successful, con secrated men of the Southern Bap tist pulpit, (specialists.) have been engaged to deliver the leading ad dresses for the meeting. Mr. II. A. Wolfsohn the distinguished gospel singer will have charge of the music, and this will be an attractive feature of the conference. While this meeting will be under auspices of the Baptist church it will be strictly evangelistic and unde nominational, and the co-operation, prayers and presence of all Christians are desiied that this conference may mark an epoch in the spiritual strengthening and advancement of our city and community. Robbed the Graye. A startling incident, of which Mr John Oliver, of Philadelphia, was the subject, is narrated by him as follows: “I was in a most dreadful condition. My skin was almost yellow, eyes sunken,tongue coated, pain continually in back and sides, no appetite, gradually day. growing weaker day by Three physicians had given me up. Fortunately a friend advised trying Electric Bitters, and to my great joy and surprise the first bottle made a decided improve ment; I continued their use for three weeks and am now a well man. 1 know they sayed my life and robbed the grave of another yictim.” None should fail to use them. Only 50 cents at any drug store. DISPENSARIES BY C. .J. SHIPP. The subject of state prohibition, local option and being legal sale of whiskey is now agitated throughout the state as I have it never known it to he before ; seems that the great church in fluences that have so long refused to unite for the purpose of stamp ing out the barroom evil, have at last decided to place their heavy influence in the contest; the great part ot the fight, will, I presume, be confined to the nomination of representatives of and state senators, as the result this issue will lie in the hands of the next legisla ture, although being a determined ef fort is made to ingraft this issue into the gubernatorial cam paign; the three candidates who have already announced for the high position of governor, Messrs. Guerry,Brown and Estill, have de clared their position on this ques tion; (I can hardly call it proper ly an issue.) Mr. (Juorry for state prohibition outright to go into ef fect as early Estii as practicable. Messrs Brown and for local option ; and I have been informed that the difference between the two last named gentlemen is that Mr. Brown is a local option prohibi tionist, while Mr. Estill is a local option whiskey man, or in other words that Mr. Brown votes a dry ticket, while Mr. Estill votes wet in local option contests. As to the two prospective can didates Messrs. Terreli and Tur ner, they have of course not yet defined their positions. I have known Joe Terrell for a number of years; he has been a prohibitionist from his early manhood, and has been identified with a great deal of prohibition legislation, but I have as yet seen nothing from him that would indicate whether his posi tion in this compaign would be for prohibition for the entire state or for local option by counties. Mr, Terrell is attorney general for the state and thinks it im proper to commence his campaign while still holding this office; so we will probably not hear from him until after Christmas, besides he thinksdt better to not com mence a fight so early especially as this is an off year. Mr. Turner is, I understand, an anti-prohibitionist, he having voted a wet ticket in a local election. Under all of this con fusion the voice of the people will be last if this question is made an issue in thi9 campaign. None of the candidates so far have expressed themselves for dispen saries, in favor of which so much can be said. Terrell county voted a dispensary about a year ago, and already enough revenue has been derived from the profits paying to relieve her citizens from tax; other dispensaries have paid equally as well, and I suggest that if our present local option law could was so amended that the people vote for dispensaries as well as for strict prohibition and bar rooms, the profit of the dispen saries go to the public school fund, that we would soon not only be rid of the barroom evil, but every RICKLY ASH BITTER CURES CONSTIPATION. CASH DRUG STORE, Special Agents. Stoves STOVES, STOVES Stoves, • Stoves. Surely Stoves have struck the bottom, and if it’s Stoves you want, we have ’em at the Cordele Hardware Co., Job Printing AT OFFICE OF The Sentinel. $1.00 A YEAR poor boy and girl in the state would have an opporturnity of re ceiving a good common school education, with plenty of money in the treasury to pay off thohard worked teachers as their salaries become due. The question of educating the children of the poor and unfortunate is the most im portant one that presents itself to our people at the present time ; while the barroom is one of the greatest evils that afflicts society. Let us have the dispensary in place of the barroom and the school house in the place of public court fines. The Sentinel will re ceive and transmit free of charge all subscrip tions to the McKinley monument fund , the monument to be erected in the city of Atlanta . W e ha ve a blank sub scription list and anyone wishing to sign* and sub scribe to the fund can do so at the Sentinel office and the amounts will be remitted free of charge to the proper authorities in Atlanta. “OOM JOE” F1LL1BUSTERED. Hon. J. H. Hall was announced for a speech at 8:80 o’clock in the afternoon, in front Suwanee Hotel in Cordele last Saturday week. He wms here all right, but properly postponed the speech on account of the President’s death. He was again announced for a speech last Saturday afternoon but he tele graphed that he was tied up in the trial of a case and could not come The gentleman from Bibb mustn’t “fillibuster” on us down here, but next time should be careful to carry out his an nouncement. Come to time ‘‘Oom Joe.” VIGOR pF MEN EASILY, QUICKLY AND PER MANENTLY RESTORED, MAGNETIC NEK VINE is sold with a written guarantee to cure Insomnia, Fits, Dizziness, Hysteria, Nervous Debility, Lost Memory—the Vitality, result Semi nal Losses, Failing Sickness, Errors of Over-work, Worry, Price of Youth or Over-indulgence. plain pack $i, 6 boxes $5. By mail in age to any address on receipt store,C'or- of price. For sale only at Stead’s Drug dele, Ga. Put your stomach, liver and blood in healthy condition and you can defy disease. Prickly Ash Bitters is a successful system regulator. Cash Drug Store. Fortune usually has gloves on when she knocks at a man’s door.