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closing I It is our de® tend the! F Sale y *1 DAY and -1— —— . i - ■ /s HL &>aH/ray Goods > .. 4> • ■ ■ «r^k’andChildren’s t '''•> Cloaks, J Furs and Feather Bods, Dress Goods and Silks. Prices are made to Clean tip our entire-winter Stook» L_—— t _ x " yLss A A FTER we have heard a 0,130 ta lk, it does \ ; A not make so much difference what kind 1 of clothes he wears. I After we have read a letter. iVdoesn’t make I •A so much difference whatjkind of paper it is | \ written on. ,*T Wut as we see the man before we hear him * Vnd the paper before we’read the tetter, it jg Vehqoves the caller to give care to his dress ■/'* \d the correspondent thought to his sta ' wery f° r the priceless first impression it \ * / ’ . • mills printing company T^ S ?RtNIi r F?S>NC?STAnONERS ,G^ S \ GRIFFIN, GEORGIA . *.. \ \ j | M di <JMcdg cL- ' ■ r » xj| 111 ” V ’ / S"\rFA5 I JK X. L__ „ " „' ni , 1 r",..,'... • 't IRIFFIN, GEORGIA, W EDISES DAY MORNING, JANUARY 1, 1908. g Y'B * 1-W * ' * ■ ML—J. , ,• _ ■■ b prospfpoi m npw f' J a ' '' ' ' " F resolutions don’t forget to resolve to invest a few dollars in WIN REAL ESTATE. I 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. B 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. / —X ■ - —f - 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. Wasta hi .mini, hi ii ii !■■■■■. 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. |SX w * r * *** i mere is some wuxieiy rea. over uie 1 San Salvador She is bwiring ledhwr York”*** 7 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. —— ' ' .i ■— f 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. - _ 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 , A : j J The (sternlyx-Tonseem - to forget, madam, that then is eeeh J ] h"^** I** 1 ** < ■ . . . Z ' . 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 4 la a w ftjhA OT W*T IteCC, «liUCI MW VJUB* 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 W II ■■■ ——■nm—u——■■mmmsam—i 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 ’ MwWJi, ’ep UuJ wk