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VOL. XXVII.
STATE CANNOT SAVE
BEAUTIFUL TALLULAH
Governor Brown Decides
State Gave Away All
Legal Rights.
The earnest and most en
thusiastic fight to save the scenic
beauty of Tallulah Falls for com
ing generations, waged heroical
ly by Mrs. Helen D. Longstreet
and others, is about ended. The
matter was fixed by the failure
of the state to reserve this re
markable piece of nature’s handi
work.
Attorney General Felder, un
der date of June 4. wrote Gov.
Brown:
“I carefully igvestigated the
statutes and law r controlling
the question, and the several
grants, plates and other rec
ords in the secretary of state’s
office bearing thereon, as
well as the report and sui'-
vey made by Prof. Kosh, and
advised yours excellency in a
conference had on June 6
that the state did not reserve
to itself any of the lands in
controversy.”
Gov. Brown said this after
noon: ‘‘l have never announced
a decision which was more dis
tasteful to me than this. I re
gard Tallulah Falls as being one
of the natural wonders of Ameri
ca and consider their destruction
a calamity, but the question invol
ved in the case brought to the
executive office was strictly a
legal one, in other words, the
sole question for determination
of whether the state in making
its grants under the survey of
1818 reserved the falls. It is held
by the attorney general, whom
the constitution makes the legal
adviser of the executive office,
‘after a very thorough investiga
tion and after mature considera
tion,’ that ‘the state did not re
serve to itself any of the -lands in
controversy.’
‘‘Therefore, as the state did
not reserve any of these lands,
there is no basis upon which I
could put this matter into the
courts of this state.
‘‘lf the state has nothing to
sue for she has no grounds for
instituting a suit.
‘‘lf Georgia parted w'ith her
right of ownership to these lands
about the year 1818, she has now
no right to attempt to assert
ownership over these lands.
‘‘l repeat that I consider that
the grant which passed the falls
from the control of the state was
a calamity, but under, the state’s
own laws, she is stopped from
recovering the ownership of this
unmatched senic wonder.”
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Broken Rail Causes
Wreck On M. D. & S.
Macon, Ga., June 9.—Three
members of the train crew were
injured and the locomotive ten
der and two coaches damaged,
| when passenger train No. 18, of
the Macon, Dublin and Savannah
railroad left the track near Dan
ville, between Macon and Dub
lin, Saturday morning at 8:20
o’clock. None of the crew were
seriously injured. The wreck is
thought to have been caused
from a broken rail.
The injured are:
Walter J. Jones, 224 Clinton
street, East Macon, baggagemas
ter, slight bruises about the
body.
J. D. Greene, of Dublin, mhil
clerk, head bruised and left arm
sprained.
E. M. Attaway, of Vidalia, ex
press messenger, slight body
bruises.
The tender of the locomotive
was overturned, carrying with it
the baggage and express cars.
The train which wa!§ wrecked is
the regular train leaving Macon
at 7 o’clock a. m. The wreck
was cleared and traffic resumed
after nearly two hours work by a
wrecker and crew sent out from
Macon.
The west bound passenger
trafin, due to reach Macon about
noon, did not reach here until 2
o’clock.
A Congressman Killed.
Washington, June 11. —Hon.
Robt. C. Wickliffe, a member of
the house of representatives from
Louisiana, took a day off to go
fishing today, and was killed by
a train of the Southern road while
crossing the tracks in Potomac
park. Mrs. Wickliffe reached the
capitol just as the house was
about to adjourn out of respect
to the memory of Mr. Wickliffe,
and, on being told of her hus
band’s sudden death, fainted
from the shock.
Because his father, was a
drunkard and gave the family
lots of trouble, Elmer Watt of
j Greensburg, Pa., put poison in
the old man’s whiskey and put
him out of the way.
In a government trial demon
stration of flying machines at
Washington on Tuesday night,
Alfred L. Welch, a Wright ex
pert, and L. W. Hazlehurst, of
the U. S. Infantry and a former
Georgian, were killed by a fall of
, the machine.
MT. VERNON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. JUNE 13, 1912.
General News Items
Told in Short Meter.
Volcanoes off the coast of
Alaska are in violent eruption
and the inhabitants of the islands
are in great danger. In some,
places the country is covered
with four feet of ashes.
Application has been made to
Secretary of State Cook for a (
charter to build a railroad from
Claxton through Brooklet to Clio
in Effingham county, with
Brooklet as principal office.
W. H. Reeves of Jackson, Ga.,
was buried last Thursday. He
died from being struck with the
handles of his plow while plow
ing a few days before.
Waynesboro, Ga., had a fire)
last week that destroyed a block ,
of stores at a loss for buildings j
and stock of $140,000.
Lieutenant Werner of Vienna
disappeared in a military balloon \
last December, and his body wasj
found last week on the Dead
Mountains by a wood cutter who
saw a white hand lifted above
the snow.
A mob of 300 striking waiters
attempted to break up a dinner
at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in
New York on Monday evening, j
Arrests were made of 120 before
quiet was restored.
J. W. Fields, of Faith Crossing |
in Fulton county, raised a rad-j
dish weighing four pounds and
measuring 16 inches in length.
He used government seed.
The famous sea island cotton j
case in which the A. P. Brantley
Co. of Blackshear sued William ,
Heaton & Sons of England for J
damages, resulted in a verdict I
for the Brantley’s, awarding
them SIIO,OOO.
Captures Unknown Man
In Depths Os Swamp.
Hagan, Ga., June 10.—H. N.
Drigers, deputy sheriff of Tatt
nall county, captured a man in
Cedar Creek swamp this morn
ing who has been lying out in
this swamp off and on for a year
or more. No one scarcely ever
could see him. He was tried be
fore Justice Harden for vagrancy
and bound over to a higher
court.
The man refuses to tell his
name or where he is from or
whether he has any relatives.
lie is a white man about 45
years old, about five feet eight or
ten inches tall, sandy with hair,
Igray eyes, small mustache;
| weight about 165 pounds; wears
: a brown suit of clothes and white
hat.
Miss Bright Entertains.
On Tuesday evening at the
home of Mrs. Christian Bright
jon Institute Heights, Miss Han
| nah Bright entertained delight
fully a number of her young
friends. Hot chocolates and oth
er refreshments interspersed the
games and joyous music.
Those pressent were: Misses
Maggie Mae and Marion Ix*e,
Iris Simpson, Louise Mackay,
Jeddie Cockfield, Hannah Bright.
Messrs. Jim A. McAllister, T. M.
Mason, Jno. A. Morris, Charlie
Beugnot.
Drug Store Burned.
The drug store of Dr, J. H.
Dees at Alston, together with its
entire contents, was destroyed
by fire on Wednesday night of
last week. The building and stock
were both partly covered by in
surance. As the drug store was
a real convenience to the entire
j section, and almost a necessity
i to Dr. Dees in his practice, it is
i probable that it will be rebuilt at
! an early date.
James B. Moore, his wife, and
six others were found murdered
in his home at Villisca, lowa, on
| Monday. An ax with brains and
blood on it showed how they had
been killed in bed.
The Supreme Court of the
j United States has set aside the
! decree of the Georgia Surpreme
J Court in which negroes were de
nied the right to incorporate;
lodges of the Knights of j
Pythias.
R. C. Berckmans & Bros, of
Augusta sold the poaches in their
May field Orchards to a Newark,
N. J., firm for $75,000.
! Fire destroyed the warehouse
jof the Nakomis cotton mills at
1 Lexington, N. C., on Sunday)
morning, burning 295 bales of
! cotton and causing a loss of
j sloo,ooo.
A mad bull took possession of
a street in Valdosta last Friday.
A woman undertook to pass the
animal and was knocked down
and her arm broken.
R. E. Lockhart, a car builder]
!of the Central shops at Macon,
shot and killed a negro named
i Vaughan Tuesday, and wounded
two others. They were throw
ing beer Dottles at him in a sa
loon.
j The schooner Judge Pennewill,
bound from New York to Jack
sonville, was wrecked off the
j coast of Charleston Sunday
1 night. The men were picked up
from lifeboats by a Brunswick
I steamer.
The dry kiln of the Henderson
| Lumber Co. at Ocilla was burned
Monday with a loss of $3,000,
which is covered by insurance.
Baseball Last Saturday.
The Adamsville team and the
Glen wood boys met on the Mt.
Vernon ball ground here on Sat
urday last. The double header
resulted in a victory for both
teams.
The first game resulted in 14 to
3 in favor of Adafnsville and the
second in favor of Glen wood
with a score of 6 to 7. Batteries:
Adamsville: McAllister and
Smith. Glenwood: Rivers and
Reynolds.
Second game. .
Adamsville: Hughes and Sri.i h;
Glenwood: Morrison, Reynolds
and Geiger. Strikeouts by Glen
wood 16; by Adamsville 15.
Killed A Monster Rattler.
On Monday evening Mr. J. W.
Lett and family, living just be
low Hack Branch, were out
picking berries and came upon a
monster rattlesnake. They found
the snake near the old Burch
place and soon put him out of
business. The dangerous reptile
was six feet long and sported ten
rattles. If the number of rattles
indicate the years of a snake’s
life, this monster reptile has
roamed around the berry patches
in that vicinity for ten years.
New Advertisements.
Iri addition to the regular state
ment called for by the state, the
Bank of Soporton makes special
announcement of their ability to
take care of the deposits and
business of their friends. Their
business shows a healthy growth
from good and safe management.
The Citizens Bank of Alston,
the youngest in the county, makes
. a good showing, and in a neat
. ad calls attention to their facili
' ties for doing business.
The Montgomery County Real
' estate and L»an Co. want to sell
J your lands and lend you moncj*
t on terms that will interest you.
See their new announcement.
Entertain In Honor
Os Visiting Girls.
Mrs. C. A. Mason, who has
had as her guests Misses Mary
and Ruth Cochran of Flint, Ga,,
entertained in honor of the little
girls on Wednesday of last week.
Delightful refreshments were
served and the time passed joy
ously for the happy party. Those
attending were: Misses Bessie
and Mamie Higgs; Margueritte
Montgomery; Lucile and Eula
Mcßae; Hortense and Flossie
McCullough; Marie and Janie
McQueen; Trudie, Corinne, Es
ther and Alma Mason; Cadie Bell j
and Birdie Lu Adams; Alma Mor- j
rison; Mattele and Urma Lewis;
Winnie Smith; Inez Mcßride;
Mary and Ruth Cochran.
C. M. Sheffield, Dead.
Camden M. Sheffield, one of
Camden county’s most prominent
citizens, died at his residence,
near Kingsland, Thursday, in his
74 year. The funeral took place
Sunday afternoon from the resi
dence, the services being con
ducted by the Itev. T. B. Kemp
of St. Mary’s. The interment
was in the family cemetery near
Kingsland. Besides bis wife Mr.
Sheffield is survived by five daugh
ters, Misses Lillian and Lucile
Sheffield, and Mrs. John Clark
of Kingsland, Mrs. N. L. Staf
ford and Mrs. L. G. Westbrook
of Jacksonville, and five sons;
Herbert F., J. Dowmie and Sher
ord C. Sheffield of Kingsland,
John W. Sheffield of Jacksonville,
and R. L. Sheffield of Savannah.
Georgia. The use of side appli
cations will help the yield in our
judgment this season.
The advisability of using ni
trate of soda as a. top dressing
cannot be foretold at. this writ
ing, but we will inform the boys
relatives to this matter later on.
We want them to remember that
the College stands ready to give
them individual advice and sug
gestions relative to the cultiva
tion fertilization and manage
ment of their crop. They have a
month yet in which to plant and
still have an opportunity to make
as fine a record as the boy who
seeded his corn in March or
April. Tell your club members
| not to be disheartened. Advise
] with the county school superin
tendents and the teachers and
urge t hem to encourage the boys.
Ask the local papers to print any
information which will be help
ful. If we all pull together and
do our duty in this matter, we
need not worry about the out
come next fall.
Very Respectfully,
Andrew. M. Soule,
President.
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| and equipment, make this possible. We j
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\ publishing the same advertisement too i;
| many .times. You will constant ly find $
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| The Citizens Bank of Alston
\ ALSTON, GEORGIA
ENCOURAGES BOYS
TO KEEP PLANTING
Gives Specific Directions As
To Methods of Planting
And Fertilizing.
Athens, Ga., May 29th, 1912.
Mr. J. Walter Hendricks.
Savannah, Ga.
My Dear Sir:—
Now that you have
succeeded in securing a large en
rollment of club members, it is
of the utmost importance that
you leave no stone unturned to
encourage the boys in their work.
The unfavorable seasonal condi
tions may cause many fathers to
lose interest in the boy and deny
him the facilities needed to plant
his acre of corn to the best ad
vantage. The boys should be
advised to plant their corn even
up to the 15th of June, for the
season is lorjg enough in Georgia
to permit late planting and still
obtain a fine crop: in fact, corn
should either be planted late or
early in this climate and accord
ing to my observation, the late
planted corn often out-yields that
planted early.
Tell the boys not to plant the
corn until they have the land
ready, to plow it thoroughly, but
not when it is wet and to prepare
a fine seed bed as this is very im
portant. They should fertilize
liberally, using a rather large
amount of nitrogen, at least half
of which should bo quickly avail
able. If they can secure vegeta
ble matter to place in the drill
row so much the better. On
heavy clay lands, we think a 9-3-3
formula used at the rate of
pounds per acre would be about
right. On loamy soils which show
the presence of some sand, about
a 10-1-4. On light sandy land
from 10 to 12 per cent of phos
phoric acid, 4 to 5 per cent of
nitrogen, and 5 to (I per cent of
potash should Ik; used.
On heavy clay land and loamy
soils, a side application of two to
three hundred pounds should be
made. On sandy lands probably
j two side application of two to
I throe hundred pounds each can
jbe used to advantage. The side
iapplications should ho put on rel
atively early. Get the last one
!on at least two weeks before the
! corn bunches to tassel. Tell the
I boys that shallow persistent cul
tivation is of the utmost impor
tance and advise them to keep it
up as late in the season as possi
ble. The boys must not get dis
couraged for there is no place in
the United States where corn
may be planted so late and still
prod Jce as high a yield as in
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