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IRIFFIN, GEORGIA, W EDISES DAY MORNING, JANUARY 1, 1908.
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F resolutions don’t forget to resolve to invest a few dollars in
WIN REAL ESTATE.
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tM and Panics Go, but Griffin Dirt Goes UP Forever.
County real estate if you invest it right The way to invest right is to invest with an agent who is reliable, responsible and
*t us from saying that our agencj merits these requirements.
ply With Us and Know That You Have Been Treated Right.
ISEPH ID. BOYD, Manager,
t BOYD’S REAL ESTATE AGENCY.
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COUNCIL DISCOVERS SOME
• NEW THINGS TO LICENSE
You Can Run a Locker Club in Griff in a Whole Year
for Sio.ooo and Sell Cigarettes for SIOO.
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At the council meeting Monday
night, Chairman Smith, of the fi
nance committee, and .Clerk Nal,
made statements of the financial con
dition of the city,showing that it
would require some close manage
ment to carry all departments
through successfully until the new
taxes come in next September. Ex
penses are increasing every yejir-jiist
a little faster than the revenue, run
ning expenses being about f 1,500 per
month. There are two unpaid war
rants but now, amounting to a thou
sand doilar Hen on the new year, one
being f 750 for the hospital and an
other 1250 for the military. The as
sessment of real estate increases
about 1125,000 a year, but the ad
ditional £gVenue thus derived only
amounts to about 1300 a year to each
of thetcity departments. The'total rev
enue derived from the special business
licenses last year was >7,000, bat that
was an especially good yc-r, and not
more than sfi,ooo or >6,500 could be
ordinarily expected. Licenses are
very much lower, here, it was stated,
than in other places, and the only re
course was to raise them.
For this reason, the qaestion of sal
aries was first settled and a raise was
refused. Aiderman Smith - then
moved a horizontal raise of ten per
cent, on all licenses, but other alder
men contended that this would
work a hardship in some cases, and
the following changes were made in
the license ordinance from last yeai:
>SO license on stock exceeding >5,-
000 and not exceeding >7,500, instead
of >IO,OOO.
>IOO on stocks of >7,500 to >15,000,
instead of >IO,OOO to $20,000.
>125 on stocks, of >15,000 to >25,-
ootr instead of >IO,OOO to >20,000.
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BRIEF DiSPATCHES.
Jean Francois, Edmund Guyot Dea
saigne, of Paris, the French minister
of justice, dropped dead of apoplexy
• during Tuesday morning’s session of
the senate.
WiHiam G. Reichard, of Pittsburg,
Pa., 50 years old, accused of forgery,
committed suicide late Monday night,
just at the police xrere about to ar
rest him, following a chase all over
the city.
Director Frank Ridgeway, of the
department of public safety, of Pitts
burg, Pa., and prominently known la
I eonnection with the United States
| of typhoid pneumonia. Mr.
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i mere is some wuxieiy rea. over uie
1 San Salvador She is bwiring ledhwr
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ft Bmeftburg, Dec.
has rehcbed here that
and sustain ci a dislocated rboulder
In tpße of Ma advanced age, the count
»« recorerj.
>l5O on stocks exceeding >25,006/
instead ot >30,000.
Picture frame dealers, >25 instead
of >lO. "
.. Oil mills, >75 instead of >4O.
Street buyers of cottonseed for out of
town mills, >25 instead of >lO.
Guano factories, >SO instead of >4O.
Ou pool and billiard tames, the li
cense remains >lO as before, but no
l license to be issued outside of fire
limits.
Warehouses, >SO instead of >25.
Livery, feed and sales stables, >SO
instead of >25.
Cigatette dealers, >IOO instead of
>lO.
Bootblacks in barbershops must
pay >2.50 per annum as well as those
located elsewhere.
Planing mills, >35 instead of >25.
Grist or roller mill, >5 for each ,
pair of grinders instead ot >lO per
mill.
Pants factory, >ls instead of >25.
Backband factory, >25 instead of
>ls.
Repairer of roller covers, >lO in- '
stead of >5.
i 1 The following new licenses were
imposed:
Cigar factory, >lO.
Bill posting, >IOO, and all itiuer- ,
ant bill posters >2 per day.
Any person, club or association
operating what is known and de
scribed iq_ the general tax act of the
legislature as a locker shall pay a
license of >IO,OOO per annum.
Theatorium or moving picture
show, >25.
Opera houses, >lO.
Newspapers, either daily <Tr week
ly, >lO.
Oil companies, >SO.
Skating rinks, >2O.
Ginneries, >5 on each gin stand.
Extra Section Called.
Ccrron, Nev. Dee. 31.—Governor
Sparks has calledlan extra aeeclon of
the legislature to convene January 14,
19C3. For the last twenty-four hours
the goversc-r has been deluged with
diEpatchee from all over the Mate and
many places outaide of Nevada urging
the calling of the extra session to set
tie the labor troubles.
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To Manage Tennessee Team.
Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 31—William
Bernhard, formerly a pitcher of the
Cleveland American League team, has
signed a contract to manage the NyMu
ville Southern league club next eea
son.
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Flotilla Arrives at Para, Brazil.
Para, Braafl, Dec. 31—The torpedo
boat Flotilla, which I* preceding the
battleship fleet to the Pacific arrived
here Tuesday. The boats left Port
of Spain December 25, and are now
five days behind their original sched
ule. due to accidents to the machinery
ot two of the de.troyers The trans
port Arethwa arrived here Mosday ,
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to forget, madam, that then is eeeh J ]
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GOOD-BY, BOOS!
1 the time is drawing near when
whiskey and beer will stop its work at
last—it has robed the fathers disgraace.l
the brothers and made the girls to fast.
2 o how proud 1 am its eavel work
is don it has caused amauy mother to
loos her lovely son.
3 its Cheated sites of famelys of its
Bally bread Caused lovely wives and
mothers in human tears to shed.
*1431® eavel stuff tasrpne ProerbUh
eons voted it out We will have:. bettor
State you could not have no dout.
6 there will be more at ehureir on
Bunday more men at home at night
When We see the result of Proerbish
ean we will say that it is all write.
8 they say that Wild Cat stills will
suply the State with boos but the man
who runs the still will be the one who
will loos. v
7 for unclele earn has his oflcere to
surch the country through and the
stills thats left among hills will be
nombered veary sue.
8 be ware you morphean eater Co
can snifter 1 think your habbit is worse
than all and yon loos yours to.
9 some of the peapie sniff Cocan a
Chinee he smokes hopp most all dope
feans drinh old boos but soon they will
have to stop.
10 the new year brings Proerblsh
ean wellcum It with a smile the drink
ing man can suport his wife and edu
cate his child.
11 if we had got Proerbishean ten
yean back lie say 1 would have had a
bettetjeducation and ben better off to
day.
12 i dont say this to the bar keeper
or to the man who runs the still i just
want to wellcum Proerbishean for lit
Jut fills the bill.
18 Borne drinks shampign whiskey
some drink sherry wine give me free
stone watter thata what 1 take for
mine. .
14 if all of us would drink more
watter aad less whiskey and rum Ino
we would have a better time in the
next sue days to come.
14 1 want the beys in Griffin to toy
thare level best so the extra police of
the city won't have a one to araest.
19 make your eggnog of watter
you can call it com or rye proerbishean
have covered old Georgia she has gone
high and drye.
17 Whiskey is what makes you lie
beg and steal walk up to a stranger
and uk him for a meal dig down in
your pocket spend your last dime ware
your old summer cloths in the winter
time.
Composed by
, Bkt Haralsox,
in Bpalin Co. jail.
p.g.—Mr. Editor pleas send ma a
copy and correct all mis teem, if any,
yours truly set Haralson.
p. s. Ho. 2—All complements ex
cepted but non expected.
[Editor’s Note.- Set Haralson has
been in jail since last August, having
been brought back from a trip to Co
lumbus after an alleged forgery on En
glish Brothers here. Be has probably
been a victim of everything that he so
feelingly condemns, and in addition
has been for five months past a victim
of the “locker" club run by Col. W.J.
Langford. Not being able to comet
all his “mistakes,” we decided Mt to
comet any, but M it ail go as the nat
ural outpourings of a genl as in distress.]
WUHares* KMaey Pills
Hare you neglected your kidneys?
Have you
H?voyoumSJ
in Mm, Side, back, grains and blad
der? Have you a flabby appearance
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THE PASSING OF WHISKEY ,
NECESSITATES NEW TAXES
1 Soda Founts and Insurance Companies to Suffer the
> ' Heaviest, h
Under the rteW tax law* which go
that wiU be Hable and most of these
are in the insurance Hue, where here
tofore there has been no State and
county tax required.
Besides the new taxes, increases
have been made IB several instances.
Meet of this goes for educational pur
poses, as did the whiskey revenue,
which wIU be abolished with State
prohibition, the idea in levying new
taxes being to oflbet the missing rev
enue.
A >25 per annum tax will be lev
ied on special Mid traveling agents
of assessment, industrial, sick benefit
and live stock insurance companies,
while the local insurance agents or
firms and insurance brokers or $Mi
will be required to pay >IOO a year to |
the State for their existence.
' Traveling and special agents of life,
fire and accident
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WLL RETURN EAST,
Wife Has Promised to Forgive
and to Forget
IS TO COME BACK AND MARRY
Fugitives Jere Cooke and Floretta
Whaley Haye Been Located In
Home at Ban Francisco ,Cal.-awlH
Marry Girt.
San Francisco, Cal., Dec. 31—The
Rev. Jere Knode Cooke, who dlsap
pcare! from hie residence when Ma
identification became known together
with bis young companion, Floretta
Whaley, and their baby was located
here again Monday night. He it stay
ing at the home of a friend, where be
and hie companion are comfortably
situated. In an interview Monday
night Cooke said be would return east
a* aeon as he can get enough money
together to travel and as noon aa mat
ters can be arranged he will marry
Miss Whaley. 1
It te expected that the grandmother
of the young lady will send her the
funds necessary to return east.
San Francisco, Cal., Dec. 31—The
Call publishes an Interview with the
R>k. Jere Knode Cooke, formerly pas
tor of St. Georges church at Hemp
stead. U 1.. who, it is claimed, left
his wife eome eight months ago, elop
ing with a 17-year-oM heiress, named
Floretta Whaley. The pair have been
located, it Is stated, at s flat at H»
Green street, in this city, while a|
search ba* been going on for them ail I
or*r the country. •
• A child has been born to them dar-1
Ing the toterval, the rector working I
as a painter and decor* tor, and when 1
not occupied In that line, doing the r
hardest kind c< annual labor fer the I
support of his family, his companion I
and the ch-ld. He h wM,
• ¥SO tor each agent before they canbd’
, authorized toad.
, The coda fountains do .not escape -
the new tax laws. Five dollars WiU
‘ be levied on each draft and other de-
' vices used In drkwing
I water, making it* good amount on 4
the large founts.
, the past.
iDerCtWCtJ Will 00 UOMuG ItJ ttlo *
, of pawnbrokers, cigarette dealers,
> auto dealers and pool and billiard
U parlors. ,
While heretofore pawnbrokers were
assesssed SIOO, In 1908 titey will pay •
S2OO, a doubling of the sum. M
i Cigarette dealers and those who
sell tobacco and give cigarette papers ;
away will pay $26 instead of the old
tax of $lO.
The tax on auto dealers has been
raised from SSO to SIOO, and pool
and billiard parlors which have paid
$26 tor each table will now be called «
on for sss per table.
his unhappiness after that ti&e. 73e
declared that hie wife ad rallied to, |
him that she had married ftftk ftM /
no other reason than that ft
prove a convenient stepping stone Ah®
her soclsl ambition. He added that]
It would be "caddish to dilate on my
marriage troubles." & j
The only identification estaWtahcdfeg
to far of Gerald Balcom as the Bev.! JUI
Jere Knode Cooke was bM own ad-’
mlralon. Balcom, or Cooke, pleaded!, ~
hard to be given three daj< grace}
to again conceal hlmeelf and Ms young
oomnanlon and their baby. i
Afflicted With Heart Failure.
Cooke said be was afflicted wlftj'
heart failure, and several times Wagg
on the verge of collapoe during th*''/
interview Upon promise that’the
girl would not be apprised of the
that their identity had been
ered. Cooke accompanied the reporter ;
to a newspaper office to be airtlcfiad.'
On th* way down town he faftted Mi
the street car. Cooke's neigh
in the highest tifrms ot the
Mrs. 9. M. MMm. wlto fives »
adrjoininj apartment, Mated thflt
saw Cooke and Ms companion,
and Ms* Balcom, aa she-haew
leave their flat., early . Tuesday;
00 out in the storm. The mawyiMftV ’
a few pieces of baggage, *»d the girl
carried her baby ctowely wrapped at
bundled to protect It from the nolg and|.
rain. AU efforts to locate tlto'oMHM
were la vain.
Two Killed by
citizens of Hawkinayfl|||fe,^^:
■is v -e Monday -at <
o'clock . by. a ’
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