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World to Celebrate With
America, Britain, Canada
S8EKT TREATY CENTENNIAL IN 1914
.Andrew Carnegie Heads Com
mittee to Arrange Demonstra
tion in 1914 and Erection ol Me
morial Bridge Across Niagara
Stiver—Tall and Sherman In
terested In Plans.
Preparations for a celebration in
1914 of the centennial, of the treaty
of Ghent, marking 100 years of
between this country and
' 45rent Britain,, will be begun at
at&Ce. It is. proposed to 'cominem-
onvhe the event by a. joint eelebra-
.1km in which all the nations will be
•‘iiiVt'f^d to participate.
The plan first was discussed dur
ing-the administration of President.
Roosevelt, and at the Harvard com
mencement a year ago the Hon. \V.
ib. King, minister of labor of Can-
wf», urged that a memorial be
Sitsetcd; on the frontier at Niagara.
Carnegie Heads Committee.
As a result the matter was dis
missed at the Mohonk peace confer
ence, and at a meeting in June a
temporary committee on organiza
tion, which later was made perma
nent, chose Andrew Carnegie chair-
snata., William H. Short secretary
amcT John A. Stewart chairman of
4he executive committee of one hun-
fi&red.
The Committee will be composed
ii 250 men and women from every
rtatef, territory and dependency of
ihe TFh'iwn. The executive commit
tee will be- composed of 100, with a
sub-executive committee of twenty-
five. State governors are being
asfced to join the committee as yico
pmddftiilftj, wh tin. advisory coiiP
* 0 f twenty-five important cit
izens will be chosen.
Tall Is Interested.
President Taft has evinced inter
est in the work, and a delegation
has arranged to visit Beverly to
c-onfer with him and to offer him
the pcsitiomof honorary president
<af the national committee. Vice
President Sherman will be asked to
serve as honorary vice president.
The first meeting of the general
eommittee will take place in the
fall, and in the meantime a special
eommittee will go abroad to discuss
(die plan in England and Canada,
No plan of celebration has been
decided upon, but it has been sug
gested that the program include the
erection of a monument, preferably
a bridge, over the Niagara river,
Harrying out the idea of Minister
King.
show? Hoke Smith received 97,-
989 Votes, practically every one of
his 98,000 of two years ago. Gov
ernor Brown received this year only
93,784, 16,071 less than wore cast
for him two years ago.
So the Hoke Smith men now say
that they know that he was beaten
by illegal voters before, and the
election figures sustain them
their claims.
FISH WARDEN WESTGOTT
KODAK’S FISHERMEN
Sunday Lawbreakers Treated
Him Rudely, Not to Say Rough
ly, and So He Planned On a
Scheme to Fix ’Em.
Savannah, Ga., Sept. 6.^-Fish
Warden C. B. Westcott, eistwliile
candidate for sheriff of Chatham
•.county, declares that he has? in his
possession photographs of a number
of men in the" very act of fishing on
Sunday and that he will exhibit
them in court to punish several
men who lie assents not only re
lated his efforts to arrest them and
poked him in the face with fishing
poles until his ears were torn and
bleeding and beat him until his
hands were badly bruised in his ef
forts to hold on to the painter of
the fishermen’s boat.
Hitherto Mr. Westcott has gone
armed with it pistol in his Sunday,
excursions but now he has taken to
the camera and will shoot alleged
violators of the law in another way.
Mr. Westcott’s service in his office
has oeen strenuous and several times
there has been a pistol figuring in
his method of discharging his du
ties.
j. s. mams ms
■isos m
Baptist Women of Thomas
Meet.
Thomasville, Ga., Sept. 6.-The
Woman’s Missionary Institute held
at Coolidge today was largely at
tended .by the ;j?embers of the var
ious missionary socteties belonging
to the Baptist church in the county.
An interesting program was ren
dered and some fine papers were
read. Among those whose names
were on the program are: Mrs. J.
J. Parraraore of Boston, Mrs. T. A.
White of Thomasville, Mrs. W. J.
White of Meigs, Mrs. B. A. Aider-
man of Pine Park, Mrs. T. C. Bev
erly, Mrs. J. F. Knapp, Mrs. J. C.
Thomas.
"DID ANDREW IS
E.”
WAT THE VOTE SHOWS.
Moke Smith Has Held His Vote
For Six Years.
The following figures show where
Hoke Smith stands with the voters
of Georgia. It proves that those
who stood for him in his first race
were still for him in his second and
ibird race. There is no getting
around the fact that if there has
been any changed or floating vote
it was among those who opposed
Smith all along. See what the fig
ures say:|Ts,I J
In 1908 Mr, Smith’s vote was
‘57,940; in 1910, it was97,989. In
1 Mr; Brown’s vote was 109,-
; in 1910, it was 93,734.
Two years ago Hoke Smith’s
believed that he was defeat-
llegal votes and they were,
therefore, awfully sore over the re
sult.
Savannah’s Giant Bartender
Passes Away Suddenly
Savannah, Ga., Sept. 6.—Andrew
Theland, once a bartender known to
his friends as “Big Andrew,” who
was found dying in his bed yester
day morning and who expired a few
hours after being discovered will be
buried this afternoon. Andrew was
probably the biggest man in Chat
ham county. He weighed between
300 and 400 pounds and those who
knew him best said he came came
near reaching the latter figures than
the former.
Although there is no suspicion of
foul play Andrew’s friends asked
the acting coroner to make an in
vestigation and he will do so. A cof
fin will have to be made for the ac
comodation of this huge dead man
for none of those in the stock of
undertakers will acomodate him.
Round About in Georgia
The Supreme Court has declared
W.
that the offenses charged to J.
Cabaniss in the Macon bank case
would.noLconstitute a crime. Dis
cretion was given the trial by Judge
Whipple in re-sentencing Mr. Caba
niss.
; Sam Ed wards, member of a prom-
ippnt family near Dalton died just
■or, , j . ... „ as he crossed home plate in a base-
Wliat do the election figures ball game at Rocky Ford.
(Contlipied from first page.)
gether for the overthrow of the peo
ple.
In one of your articles you inti
mated that a certain school was
closed down because the salary of
teacher was cut. I told you to
name the school, ‘‘Brother Tom,”
and I would’givo the facts to the
people of Grady county. But you
had a “severe'attack of cold feet
on that proposition, and failed to
“deliver the goods.”
In your last article you seem to
hold to the delusion that there is
appropriated for every male teacher
ip ileoEp'a $104.32 and claim that
it is in the report of Stipe School
Commissioner. Lchallenged you to
produce evidence! to show it. That
•is the average amount paid the
white male teacher in the local tax
systems as I showed in my last ar
ticle.
Your explanation of why you
failed to make license is a “howl
ing, screaming joke.” Who did
you expect to believe that, “Broth-
I'om?’’ I know the pores of
your skin have always been open
to the public’s good, but you should
have given better evidence of that
by doing your best on examination
and administering the affairs of
Providence school in a decent way.
I do not censure you for pulling
fodder (I have been there myself)
but I do censure you for neglecting
your school,to do so.
You asked me to account for
$400.00 of rily salary, saving that
the county commissioner under the
law can only receive $3.00 a day
for the time actually engaged in
work. I refer you to page 21 of
the “Laws and Decisions Relating
to the Common School System,”
Section 6, in which it is said that
the board is authorized to pay the
commissioner $3.00 a day for .time
actually employed in work. Now,
“Brother Tom/’ I am supposed to
be on duty three hundred and six
ty-five days in a year, and accord
ing to that the board of education
would be authorized to pay me
$1095.00 per year for my services,
and still be within the limits of the
law. By the way, I get. $425,00
less per year for supervision of Gra
dy county schools than I did as
principal of Cairo High School,
which is-a very small part of Grady
county.
You say that Elpino district has
160 children.. That may be true,
but only 118 were reported on the
school record for this year. What
were you handing out the people on
that? “Brother Tom,” the facts,
or did you wish to fool them?
You say I declined a “jint spute”
“Brother Tom.” Really do you
think I'could afford to be engaged
in a controversy with a man who
does not seem to know the facts,
and whose hide seems to be incapa
ble of being punctured by them
when they are given him from the
records and the pages, etc., cited
in proof hi them.
Your record heretofore wou’d in
dicate that you never know when
you have enough, hut you show
com’/bendable symptoms of im
provement in wishing to quit this
controversy. This is my last shot.
Of course, I shall expect you to re
ply, inasmuch as you have nothing
left to stand on, you will have to
cover your defeat by a multitude of
words. Being unable to take care
of Mrs. Brunson’s husband in,a
straightrforward argument you have
New Orleans, Sect. 6.—In spite
of a short crop year, the south ob
tained more money for its cotton
during the past season than ever
before in its history, according to
the season-end statictics put out to
day by Col. Henry G. Hester, sec
retary and statistican of the New
Orleans Cotton exchange.
The money value of the crop, not
including cotton seed products,
amounted to $778,S94,095, showing
that while the quantity of cotton
marketed was in round figures 3,-
215,000 bales less than last year,
better prices for cotton resulted in
its bringing $95,099,601 more.
The nearest approach to this rec
ord was made in the season of 1906-
07, when the total value of the
commercial crop was $716,352,265.
When the value of the cotton seed,
$124,000,000 is added, the actual
wealth producing capacity of the
southern cotton lands is shown to
have been $902,894,095 during the
past season.
During the previous season, that
of 1908-09, the value of all cotton
produced was $683,794,494, and
the cotton seed was valued at $92- -
000,000, making a total of $775,-
794,494. Thus during the past
season the value of the cotton and
cotton seed combined surpassed the
previous season by more than $125,-
000,000.
about. In all kindness and with
utmost good humor, (for. I have
“ eble tk
really enjoyed your feeble thrusts)
I wish to' say that it is my honost
opinion that the main trouble with
you is that you are suffering from A"
an over active imagination.
Yours truly,
J. S. Weathers, CVS C,
SEASON COTTON DROP
Season Was Best Ever, Crops
Bringing 395,090,601 More Titan
Last Year.
LEGAL NOTICES.
CITATIONS.
Georgia—Grady County.
To whom It may concern: L. L. Bar-
wick having made application to me in
duo form to be appointed permanent ad
ministrator upon the estate of J. H. Bnr-
wick late of said county, notice is hereby
givon that said application will bo hoard
at the regular term of the Court of Ordi
nary for said county to be held on the
first Monday in October,1910.
Witness my hand and official signature
this oth day of September, 1910.
P. H. Hkurimo, Ordinary.
Georgia—Grady County.
Mrs. Lizzie Moss having made applica
tion for twelve months support out of the
estate of C. M. Moss and appraisers duly
appointed to set apart the saline having
filed theit ' ”
if
ONE SUICIDE CARRIED
INTO PRESENCE OF OTHER
Ruius Anderson Cut His Throat
and Office Borne to Contained
Another Would-Be Earth Quit
ter.
Waycfoss, Ga., Sept. 5.—Rufus
Anderson, an employe of the At
lantic Coast Line shops, attempted
suicide here this afternoon by cut
ting his throat with a knife. He is
dangerously, but not necessarily fa
tally wounded. Anderson had
been drinking and was despondent,
He is married and has one child.
By a strange coincidence he was
carried iuto the office in which
George Lynn, who attempted sui
cide a few weeks ago was visiting,
being out for the first time.
Frost May Come Early
Some weather prophets are de
claring that frost will come this
year before the middle of October.
They say that sixty days after the
first fog in August there will be a
frost. The first fog in August oc
curred this year about the fifteenth
of the month, so it is natural to
suppose that there wjll be frost about
the midle of October. Of course
there are exceptions to all rules and
it is possible that there will be no
exceptions to this one, as the mid
dle of October is rather early for
frost in this section.
Mrs. Burts.
We learn from the city papers, as
well as from people passing to and
fro, that Mrs. Mamie H. Burts
is singing, by special invitation,’
Sunday after Sunday, to the delight
of great audiences at the First Bap
tist church in Thomasville.
Mrs. Burts has a magnificent
voice, thoroughly oultivated, and
for years before coming down to be
with her father, Dr. Harris, in
Cairo, she was the leading singer in
his former church, the First Bap
tist, at Columbus. We h^pe that,
in a few months hence, conditions
can be so changed as to permit her
to return to our town, where she is
held in the highest esteem.
I their return, all persons concerned
are hereby required to allow cause befor#, •
the Court of Ordinary of said county on ;
the first Monday in October, 1910, why
said application should not bn grunted:
This 5th day of September, 1910.
P. H. Herring, Ordinary.
Georgia—Grady County.' ,
Whereas J. H. King, administrator of
W. Ii. Holt, represents to the court in '
his petition duly filed and entered on re
cord that lie has fully administered W. I
R. Holt’s estate. This is therefore to
cite all persons concerned,. kindred nhd
creditors, to.show cause if any they can
why said administrator should not be.
discharged from liiH administration and
receive letters of dismission on the first
Monday in October, 1910. Tins Septem
ber 5, 1910.
p j.j H]5niu NCI) Ordinary. v
Georgia—Grady County.
To whom it may concern: Mrs, Lena
Curry having made application to me in
due form to be appointed permanent ad
ministratrix upon the estate of l\ r . J.
Curry late of said county, notice is here
by given that said application will bo
heard at the regular term of Court of Or
dinary for said county to lie held on the
first Mob day in October, 1910.
Witness my hand and official signa
ture this September 5,0910.
P. H. IIE Rip no, Ordinary.
Georgia—Grady County/
The Hand Trading Company having
made application to require titles to be
executed to them to certain land de
scribed in a bond for title thereto at
tached purporting to be signed byd). W.
Chason late of said county deceased, the
said application alleging that said land
has been fully paid for or the money
tendered the administrator of D. W.
Chason’s estate, all parties concerned are
hereby notified that said application will
be heard before the Court of Ordinary
for Baid county on the 3rd day of Octo
ber, 1910. This September 5, 1910.
P. H. Herring, Ordinary.
Georgia—Grady County.
To whom it may concern: J. W. Can
non having made application to me ins
due form to be appointed permanent ad
ministrator upon the estate of A. F.
Richter late of said county, notice is.
hereby given that said application will .3
be heard at the regular term of the
Court of Ordinary for said eounty to -be
held on the first Monday in October,
1910.
Witness my hand and oflicial signa
ture this September 0, 1910.
P. H. Herring, Ordinary.
Georgia—Grady County.
Notice is hereby gi'ven that the under
signed has applied to the Ordinary of
said county for leaye to sell land belong
ing to Misses Maud and Maggie May
Pickron, wards of said W. A. Powell,
and said leave asked for for maintenance
and support of said wards, said applica
tion will be heard at the regular term of
the Court of Ordinary for said county to
be held on the first Monday in October,
1910. This September 7, 1910.
W. A. PowKr.n,
Guardian of Maud and Maggie Pickren.
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SHERIFF'S OCTOBER SALES.
Georg ia—G rady _ County.
1 will sell on first Tuesday in October,
1910, during the legal hours of sale, to
the highest bidder for cash, certain real
ty of which the following is a descrip
tion: 49 1-2 acres of land lying in the
southeast Corner of lot No: 397 in the
Kith district of said county, bounded on,
east and south by original lines, on the;
north by Palmer and Howell lands,'
west by Clyatt Jordan’s land. Said land ,
will sell to satisfy a fi fa from January-
Term 1909 of City Court of Cairo, in fa- ;
vor of J. D. Hohnan against Margarett
1. Hurst and Thomas K. Hurst; ; Skid}
land found in possession of said Margar- ..
ett I. and Thomas K. Hurst and levied;
on as theirs to satisfy said fl fa. Ijefen-
dants uotiffied according to law.' This
September .2, 1910.
E. F. DOLLAR. Sheriff:
P- C. ANDREWS,
Attorney-at-Law.
CAIRO, GA1
Office in Parker Bnildin",
Promptly negotiated at
reasonable rate of inter
est. Now is the^inte f
to arrange for your fall
needs. Call on or write \
R. C. BELL,
Cairo, Qa.
altera!*
