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MANY CONVICTIONS MONDAY
• IN THE CITY COURT OF GRIFFIN
An Unusually Heavy Docket and Court Will be in
T Session All This Week.
The City Court oi Grifiin convened
at 9 o’clock Monday) morning.
There are about seventy-five cases on
. the docket and court will be in ses
sion all this week and probably next.
Judge T. E. Patterson is presiding
and Solicitor W. H. Beck is on hand
as prosecuting attorney.
The following is a list of the cases
tried Monday, there being many
convictions made:
State vs. General Allen, liquor
setting; verdict of not guilty.
State vs. Doc Crittenden, gaming;
guilty, 10 months or SSO.
State vs. Minnie Bell Jester, stab
bing; guilty; 6 months or $lO.
• State vs. Andrew Jackson, shoot
ing on Sunday; guilty, 12 months or
s<so.
State vs. John Thrash, larceny;
guilty, 10 months or S4O.
State vs. Will Jones, gaming;
guilty, 10 months or SSO.
State vs. Bill Goggins, gaming;
guilty, 10 months or SSO.
St ite. vs Raymond and Hamp Dor-]
sey, rioting; guilty, 10 months or SSO.
State vs. Forest Moore Foster, Dan
Foster and Lee Foster, rioting; guil
ty, 10 months or SSO each.
State vs. “Hen” Bennett, gaming;
guilty; 10’months or S6O.
State vs. Charlie White, gaming,
guilty; 10 months or SSO.
State vs. John Sanders, gaming,
glilty; 10 months or SSO.
State vs. John Shepherd, shooting
on highway, guilty; 12 months or
Business in the city court moved
along a little slower Tuesday than on
the day liefore. Following is a list of
the cases disposed of and how :
Maurice Gordon, cheating and swin
dling, guilty ; fined S4O.
Henry Hollins, assault and battery,!
not guilty.
Harry Kendall, change of carrying
concealed weapons to church, not ■
guilty,
Andrew Scott, assault and battery,
not guilty.
Will McLendon and John Henry
Baker, misdemeanor case, guilty. -
Whitt and Conwell Whijte, riot, not
guilty.
Jim Scott, cheating and swindling
guilty : six months or S4O.
C. K. and Charlie Baird and Will
Harper, assault and battery, guilty;
fined $35 each.
Court will meet again at the usual
hour this morning.
The following cases were disposed
of in the city court Wednesday:
Arthur White, assault and battery,
not guilty.
G. L. Davidson, cheating and
swindling, not guilty.
John Rafter, malicious mischief,
not guilty.
Bailey Jester, colored, larceny,
guilty; 6 months or SSO.
Virt Ponder, colored, simple lar
ceny, not guilty.
Jim Scott, colored, cheating and
swindling, guilty; 6 months or $50.0
Stephen Smyfleld, colored, breach
of labor contract, guilty; 12 months.!
COLLEGE TRAIN
FOR NEXT SPRING
— :
Dean Soule Asks Permission to Oper
ate it Next March.
Atlanta, Dee. 9.—Professor A. M. ’
Soule, dean ot the agricultural col-!
lege at Athens, h a written a letter i!
to the railroad commission in which ,
he requests permission to operate an ■
agricultural educational train through 1
the State during the month of March, ‘
at which time the professor is desir- j
ous of taking his annual vacation on 1
a pleasant journey over the State.
'l’lie train was operated under the '
direction of Prrofessor Soule last
February.
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Chairman McLendon, of ithe com- ! (
mission, stated today that the re- ‘
quest would be granted. <
POSTOFFICE ORDERS
OF LOCAL INTEREST
Stamps May Now Be Perforated to
Prevent Theft—Big Help to Large
Purchasers.
An important order, one which is
expected to be of benefit to large pur
chasers of postage and special deliv
erystamps, has just been received by
Postmaster R. L. Williams.
By this order it is now permissible
for large purchasers of stamps to
perforate them by letters or other
marks provided ink is not used and
the stamps are not mutilated beyond
the point of identification.
It happens, according to the post
office officials, that stamps are some
times stolen and sold and the idea in
marking them is to furnish means of
apprehending the thief. The decision
iof the postmaster general in permit
• ting the marking of stamps is ex
pected to bring about a great saving
to the business houses in postage ac
counts, as a stop will now be put to
the thieving which, it is said, is gen
eral. The perforations must not ex
ceed a half inch square.
Another important notice received
by Postmaster Williams in his recent
daily bulletin, issued by the depart
i rnent at Washington, is that when
one stamp overlaps another, the
stamp which is partly covered shall
not be reckoned in the postage ac
count.
11,010,864 BALES
GINNtD TO DEC. 1
This is Against 8,343,396 Bales to
Same Date Last Year.
Washington, Dec. <T._ a total of
11,010,864 bales of cotton ginned
from the growth of 1908 to December
1 and 26,922 active ginneries against
8,043,396 bales ginned to December 1
last year and 26,854 ginneries a year
ago were announced in the census
bureau report on cotton ginning to
day. The 1907 crop was 11,057,822,
cl which 75.5 percent, was ginned to
December 1, the 1906 crop was 12,-
983,201, with 77.2 to December 1, and
1905 crop 10,495,105 with 82.8 to De
cember 1. In 1906 there were 10,-
027,868 bales and in 1905, 8,689,663
bales ginned to December 1.
The report counts round as half
bales and excludes linters. It includes
200,818 round bales for 1908, 154,636
for 1907, and 227,145 for 1906. Sea
island bales included 68,497 for 1908,
55,299 for 1907, and 41,250 for 1906.
AN EPOCH IN THE
DEVELOPMENT OF SOUTH.
The Southern Commercial Congress
Meets in Washington.
Washington, Dec. 9.—What may
prove an epoch in the commercial
development of the South was the
opening of the Southern Com
mercial Congress, an assemblage of
leaders in the nation’s business affairs,
whose mission - is to discuss the re
sources and industrial possibilities of
the South.
The congress is one of several
bodies, national in their scope and
purpose, that assemble here this
week, a group of days in which a
more thorough study will be devoted
to the problem cf conservation than
ever before was attempted in the
country’s history. The programs
furnished a series of notable addresses,
the various themes hinging upon an
interpellation of the resourc s of the
Southern States.
K< d>l for dyspepsia, indigestion,
weak stomach, gas on the stomach,
etc., is guaranteed to give prompt, re
lief from any form of stomach trouble.
It will cure your dyspepsia. Sold by
Carlisle & Ward. j
GRIFFIN. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11 1908.
The Only Sure Enough Ga. Barbecue.
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“They sure have their nerve with
them,” was the remark of by-standers
Sunday morning as Ed Smith’s Bob
Williams’ and Aiderman Odom’s mo
tor cars left with full loads of passen
gers in a cold rain on an eighteen mile
jaunt to High Falls. But such re
marks were made only by those who
had never eaten one of Bob Phinazee’s
barbecues, which was the object of the
journey. Those who had been so fa
fored must have had stronger nerve to
stay away, no (matter what the
weather.
For a quarter of a century I have
been eating, off’ and on and oftener
only when I couldn't get out of it, the
much over-praLsed Georgia barbecue,
and have myself been guilty of lauding
it when I knew that it was simply
tough overdone or underdone steer and
strong whiskered mutton, with baker’s
bread thrown in to make it even drier.
But since during a few years past I
have had occasional opportunities to
enjoy the real thing, a belated waken
ing of conscience compels me to say
that there is only one real barbecue in
Georgia, the South, the United States
of America, Europe, Asia, Africa, the
Philippine Islands and the planet of
Mars, and that is out at the royal
bachelor domain of the broad acres of
Bob Phinazee, in the east end of Mon
roe county, off from High Falls.
I have been under the pledge of se
crecy so far, nor am I one who believes
in giving a good thing away, not being
so altruistic but that 1 appreciate the
ingratitude bf those who would rush
in to take the hot barbecue meat out of
one’s mouth. But recent events have
made this last Sunday’s barbecue
rather a public matter, not to say a
sectional epoch, and it might as well be
norated here as elsewhere, and this is
how it happened: A couple of Sun
days previous a congenial party of
Griffinites and the Hon. Gus Morrow,
of Jonesboro and the State at large,
me*, at Mr. Phinazee’s on one of these
too infrequent occasions adverted to,
and the Griffinites, relying too strong
ly on the indecency of such Atlanta
citizens as they had met, put up such
shekels and evidences of wealth as
they possessed on the wayward Wood
ward as against the moral Maddox,
ail of which was promptly covered by
the opulent editor of the Joneslioro En
terprise. That this wagering on the
wrong side and on the Sabbath day
was absolutely and totally wrong,
wicked and inexcusable, I freely ad
mit in advance of any accusation, and
no one regrets it any more than I.
But the true chronicler sets down facts
regardless of personal feelings, and
since all things are now told, in the
newspapers everyone musti be ready
to bare his or her bosom. An essential
part of these wagers was that the win
ner or winners was or were to give a
bartiecue to the winner of the Atlanta
mayoralty race.
Thus it was that last Bnnday’s was
a Morrow and a Maddox barbecue’
Mr. Maddox, I understand, was invi
ted, but of course did not attend, be
ing too busy teaching his Sunday
school class and not being the kind of
a man who would attend a Sunday
barbecue on a bachelor’s place. Far
belt from him !—but not so far be it
from his friend, the Hon. Gus Morrow.
The loss was Mr. Maddox's, not Mr.
Morrow’s. For, as I starter! to tell
you, but I find no words to
do it justice, it was one of
Mr. Phinazee’s best. Now, Mr.
Phinazee doesn’t depend upon a stray
cow or a half-starved goat for his car
casses, but raises Biltmore Berkshires
of the best pedigree and the right age
for this special purpose, and he had
prepared three that were just eight
months old and weighed twenty
pounds each when dresseo. He has a
negro preacher named Wilson whom
his folks owned liefore the war and who
has been barbecuing ever since, until
there is scarce an acre on his aforesaid
broad domain that has not lieen hon
ored with a barbecue pit. Wilson
started at twelve o’clock Saturday
night and by (twelve o’clock Sunday
noon those sweet little pigs were ready
for the Wilson sauce, which was first
tested by the most expert of the visit
ors an<l declared to lie good, with just
enough of the different ingredients
with which they have been made ac
quainted.
I .Mr. Phinazee says that when Wilson
passes away—of which there is no
i sign—the secret of his successful bar
’ becuing will go with him; but Mr.
> Phinazee’s friends have a shrewd sus-
- picion that he knows as much about it
• and has as much to do with it as Will
5 son. Anyhow, they have faith that
- such a good thing shall not perish
> from the face of the earth.
i Now, most barbecues aie such that
5 you are sorrj’ that you ate so much; of
- the Phinazee brand only can it be said
» afterward that the only and lasting re
» gret is that you did not eat more. Bo
it was some time before the Hon. Gus
was called upon and responded in
, 3 most happy after dinner speech,
. which was responded to warmly by the
> manager of the Griffin Ice Works and
more coolly by the editor of the N«ws
, and Sun. All speakers were made
, happy by loud applause and must have
said some mighty good things, which
. lam sorry I can not reproduce, but to
tell the] truth in this o’r truthful
article I do not remember a word that
, was said ; and the Hon. Gus Morrow
confided to me on the way back that he
was in the same fix. Frequent public
speaking, it is said, dulls the memory.
But there is one incident that I do
’ remember, and that is that the gener.
ous winner of easy Woodward money
’ gave to each guest present a very hand
some scarf pin as a souvenir of the his
toric occasion. Also, that I agreed to
reprint the following original editorial
from the co’umns oi the Jenesboro En
terprise as an atonement for a few
1 slight remarks that I had made about
’ a recent escapade of tlie writer.
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“TAO.”
“The Jonesboro friend,’ whose re
-1 cherche taste in pajamas was ludicrous
-1 ly demanstrated in a recent innocent
and unavoidablecontretempts, may be
pardoned for reminding a certain
! coterie of his Griffin friends that he
] has subsequently established for him
self again a fairly reliable and remu
nerative judgment in Atlanta’s may
oralty contests.
•‘ln confessing that his blushing
embarrassment was at the time quite
as ‘pink’ as his pajamas were not, the
‘Jonesboro friend’ finds satisfactory
surcease in the well warranted surmise
that just now there is a bit of lurid
chagrin down the road that reflects
distinctly the powerful and prehensile
co’or of ‘Long Green.’
“0’1! no, no, Douglas, ‘tender and
true,’ this is no rude rubbing-it-in for
you—merely, good Sir, a convenient
renaissance of that dear old childhood
game, called ‘tag.’ And your‘Jones
boro fiiend’ cherishes an abiding faith
in the power of our long-standing
mutual regard to survive these two
correlative circumstances—one a mis
take in schedule, the other a mis
guidance of sentiment.”
Keep the tag, Gus; neither green nor
pink is becoming to our complexion
just plain red, with an occasional
pnrpiish tinge, such as the [stone in
the scarf pin. D. g.
Ordinary’s Court.
Judge J. A. Drewry transacted the fol
lowing business at the regular Decem
ber term of ordinary's courtiMonday:
E. J. Powell vs. C. B. Thomas, ad
ministrator W. M. Thomas, petition to
make titles to land. Petition granted.
J. C. Flemister vs. C. B. Thomas,
administrator W. M. Thomas, petition
to make titles to land. Petition
granted.
John F. Green, vs. Mrs. F. C. Hand,
administratrix Starkey Hand, petition
to make title to land. Petition granted.
Mrs. W. G. Meaior and W.G. Mealor,
notice to vacate discharge of H. C.
Burr, administrator of C. A. Cun
ningham. Judgment of discharge
set aside.
W. G. Mealor appointed administra
tor de bonis non G. A. Cunningham.
Mrs. Saiiie Hammond granted
twelve months' support.
W. P. Tarpley appointed guardian
his minor children.
Mrs. W. O. Maddox appointed
guardian her minor children.
G. W. (Wood, administrator Mrs.
Winnie Wood, petition for dismission;
granted.
W. P. DeLaperriere vs. Mrs. M. F.
Shellnut, executrix Malinda Kinney,
application to make titles to land ;
citation.
Mrs. F. C. Hand, administratrix
Starkey Hand, application for lea\e to
sell land ; citation.
J. F. Golightly vs. B. R. Blakely,
administrator Melvina Couch, petition
for unclaimed funds. Petition granted.
RIDDLED HOUSE WITH BULLETS.
FIRING ON WHOLE FAMILY
I hree Men Attack Gibson Family Near Cartersville
Wounding One Woman, and Attempt Criminal
Assault Upon Another.
Cartersville, Ga , Dec. 9.—[Spe
cial,]— On the charge of being im
plicated with two other men in firing
on the Gibson family near Carters
ville, resulting in the wounding ol
Mrs. Gibson, attempting assault and
pilaging the house, Tom Collier, a
young man, has been jailed here.
< Jfticers also have warranto for Bud
Lanham and Steve Heath and are
making every effort to locate them.
They are said to have been implicated
in the shooting and assaults.
A family by the name of Gibson
came to thia city from Lindale, Ga.,
recently to obtain work. The hus
band obtained work as a section hand
on the railroad, and together with
his family moved about three miles
south of here to a small house. With
this family was a young girl, about
sixteen years old, a relative of Mr.
Gibson, her name being Lizzie
Hardy. -
Bud Lanham, Steve Heath and
Tom Collier, it is claimed, left this
city Saturday night aft?r midnight,
after imbibing freely of whiskey and
near-beer, terrorizing the country
wherever they went, and stopped at
the house of.the Gibsons about 2
o'clock Sunday morning. They pro
ceeded, it is charged, to shoot the
house lull of holes, after breaking
down the doors and forcing an en
trance.
Mrs. Gibson was seriously shot by
one of the men, and the husband was
. forced at the point of a pistol to git
aside, while his house was pilaged
and outraged.
» Bud Lanham, at the point of a pis
tol, it is charged, dragged Lizzie
Hardy, a sister of Mrs. Gibson, and
who is but 16 years of age, by the
hair of the head from the house into
the bushes away from the house and
criminally assaulted her.
The other men, it is claimed, re
mained inside the house and proceed
ed to shoot up the house and at
tempted to assault Mrs. Gibson.
CONCORD PROVES
EQUAL TO PROBLEM
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Needing More Facilities for School
Pupils, She Builds a Dormitory.
Concord, Ga., Dec. 9.-[Special.]—
Concord is doing herself credit along
educational lines. In the first place,
she has made the finest record of her
history for full attendance. To start
with, one more teacher was added to
the faculty, and the patronage showed
their appreciation by entering their
children promptly aud keeping them
in. Then a new problem faced the
trustees. There were thirty-two pu
pils coming from outside of Concord
school district, many of them riding
more [than five miles tiecause board
could not be secured.
Showing themselves equal to the
emergency, the citizens, many of them
having no direct interest in the school,
came together and raised $3,000 with
which to build a dormitory. This
large building of seventeen roomswill
be ready for occupancy by January Ist.
They are now on the lookout for a
good woman to run this dormitory.
The rooms will tie nicely furnished by
the builders and board will be placed
at a minimum so that lioarding pupils
will lie induced to come.
The town and community are in a
prosperous condition. The ginnerie
re[K>rt more cotton ginned than is
usual and the nice weather has enabled
the fanner to wind up his business in
nice shape.
Medicine That is Medicine.
“I have suffered a good deal with
malaria and stomteh complaints, but
1 have now found a remedy that keeps
me well, and that remedy" is Electric
Bitters: a medicine that is medicine
for stomach.and liver troubles, and for
rundown conditions,” says \V.
Kiestier, of Halliday, Ark. Electric
Bitters purify and enrich the blood,
tone up the nerves and impart vigor
and energy to the weak. Your money
will be refunded if it falls to help vou.
50c al All Druggists.
THE lift
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ALL THE NEWS
OF FAYETTE
Gathered at Her Thriving Me
tropolis by the News and
Sun Man.
Brooks, Ga., Dec. B.—The election
here last Saturday for justice of the
peace and bailiffs resulted io selecting
Hon. J. B. Carson J. p. and J. T. Hen
son and O. R. Huckaby bailiffs.
Crawford, of Newnan, sod A.
T. ( rawford, of Brooks, have been
spending several days at Tifton and
Cordele and other parts of South Geor
gia, prospecting.
The boiler at Kam Drewry’s saw mill
exploded last Friday morning, while
the engine was running, but no one
was hurt.
Bird us Alford has opened a grocery
store bere and is doing a good business.
This gives Brooks five stores. With
this issue he becomes a subscriber i«
the News and Hun.
Harry Putnam has opened a first
class blacksmith shop here and will
run it another year. Harry is a fine
workman and will no doubt make a
success.
J. E. Dukes and family will move ts
Hmarr, Ga.,this week, where they will
make their future home. Jack has
accepted a position with the Central
railroad st that place.
Miss Lillie Henson, of Brooks, who
is now clerking in Griffin, J. J.
Hubbard, of Brooks, paid up and re
newed their subscription to the News
and Bun with this issue.
Oscar Coats will in a few days move
to Blanton’s mill, where he has con
tracted to run the mill another year.
L. L. Haynes has bought a saw mill
and is now engaged in sawing lumber
at (Starr's mill) Nyaon. He will move
his mill near Brooks in a few weeks.
1 here will be a singing and barbecue
dinner at Brooks on Tuesday, Decem
ber 29th Prof. C. H. Bottoms will
conduct the singing. The proceeds
will go to buy a new organ for the
Methodist church. Full program will
be published next week.
Rev. W. A. Sears, of Senoia, will
preach at Hand’s school house next
Bunday afternoon at 3 e’clock. The
public cordially invited to attend.
A new literary school has iieen
granted at Longino’s school house by
County School Commissioner Dixon.
This is on the line between Woolsey
and Brooks school district and to just
half way between the two towns.
FOR BALK.
8. C. Brown Leghorn, also White
Leghorn eggs, SI.OO per 15. None bet
ter. Fertility guaranteed. James N.
Carson, Brooks, Ga.
FOR SALE—COONS.
Pet Coons, $5.00 per pair. Address
Agent, Brooks, Ga.
GROCERIES.
I have opened up one of the best
grocery stores in town. My goods are
all fresh and cheap. I will treat you
right. Call in and see me when in
town. Birdus Alford, Brooks, Ga.
Drewryville Dots.
Drewryville, Ga., Dte. 6 —The far
mers are through gathering and are
now sowing oats and wheat.
Prof. W. C. Tinsley closed his sing
ing school at Fairview last Friday
afternoon with a concert. J. D. Biles
played the violin, Alien Biles the
guitar and Miss Annie Lee Biles the
organ. It wa< excellent music and
was highly enjoyed by all present.
There were twenty-four pupils enrolled,
two of whom, Miss Susie Rivers, of
Forest Park, and Mr. Lon .Stewart, of
Nixon Grove, txrarded here.
Last Saturday was election day at
the court house for bailiffs and justice
of the peace. R. A. Rivers and W. R.
Ix’ai h were elected bailiffs and N.
Norton justice cf the peace.
W. J Harrison has returned to his
home at Unionville, after a few days’
visit to friends and relatives here.
The entertainment given by Miss
Carrie Biles last Thursday night was
highly enjoyed by all.