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FROM A GIRL'S NOTEBOOK
Jots and Dots Grave aud Gay
Written on the Busy Way.
Mockery has the character of an
coho and never comes from one cap
able of sufficient originality to create
the thing imitated.
In the home, poace that is main
tained at the price of endless com
fort is a greater error than a stormy
quarrel that elictrifies and.clcars up
the domestic atmosphere.
No imbecility quite equals that
that of one who lives in squalor in
order to die rich.
A horse that kicks over the traces
with one mate is liable to do so
with another.
In becoming wedded to finance
most men look upon their gold and
and repeat the marriage vow.
“Until death doth us part.”
he attempts to measure the infinite
by the meager standards of his finite
mind.
Tne individual soul is only happy
in proportion to the intimacy of its
union with the soul of the universe.
THREE LYNCHED BY
A KENTUCKY MOB
Shelby County Jail Stormed and
Three Negro Prisoners Taken
Out and Lynched Tunday.
Shelbyville, Ky., J^n. 16.—All
is quiet following the lynchiug yes
terday of three negroes, Gene Mar
shall, Wade Patterson and Jim
West. It is believed the mob mis
took Gene Marshall, accused of the
murder of a negro woman, for an
other negro. That they wanted
Patterson and West, charged with
crimes against white women, is a
well known fact. West and Patter
son were being held pending proba
ble indictments. Marshall had al
ready, been sentenced to hang.
Some Things Needed.
Editor Progress:
Parents ought to attend every
school meeting and take an interest.
Everybody should be informed, not
in books only, for they are a part
•of the education we all should have.
Parents should visit the school.
They should encourage the teacher
and children; take a part in literary
•societies, spellings, socials and din
ners at the school house.
They should also help keep order
by word and presence; thereby
showing the children that they are
interested in their advancement in
all lines. To my certain knowledge
•there « a great; lack or failure on
the part of the patrons in thus
showing their interest in the schools
Parents should encourage exhi
bitions, which improve and strength
ens the mind of the children in
memory and declamatory powers
What a person knows and can’t
tell is not more than of half value
to him.
There hasn’t been a spelling
•school near here for, lo, these many
years. There have been a few lit
erary societies, but they are seldom
attended by the parents,who should
lend encouragement and interest
and help to keep order. There is
nothing that will help a child like
parents taking an active interest in
their literary pursuits.
Another fault is that quite
number of teachers seldom pro
nounoe words for children or help
them with their examples. So the
•daily routine of the school is a mo
notonous round' of poorly recited
lessons.
If I tajght school I would have
every child, big or little,|recite every
■week. I would hfeve reading and
spelling matches and encourage
liteary societies.
I would try to get the parents
out and get them to help. Some
by spelling, some by reading and
others by acting as judges. I would
tell them that if they wanted the
children to learn they must show an
interest.
Forty years ago big and little folk
went to the same schools. Some of
those who never attended a high
school I would not fear to pit against
any professor in spelling and math
ematics today. A number of those
made good teachers and good
other callings.
C. W. Nazwovth.
15 DAYS
As the winter will soon be over, and I have a good
quantity of winter goods left, and instead of carrying them
over for next year, will offer these winter goods at
Story ol the Lynching.
Shelbyville, Ky., January 16.—
Storming the Shelby county jail
here early Sunday moriiing, a mob
of less than one hundred men seized
and lynched three negroes, two of
whom were charged with assaulting
white girls, and the third sentenced
to hang for the murder of his wife
and held in jail here until the day
for his execution could be set.
The three were lynched in differ
ent places and what first seemed to
have been a single lynching was
found to have been atriplbone with
the finding of the two other bodies
The body of Eugene Marshall,
sentenced to hang for the murder of
his wife, whom he had beheaded
was found hanging to a bridge over
Eminence Pike, only a short dii-
tance from the jail.
Jim West, employed as a chauf
feur here for several months, and
who.it is said, had bees seen throw
ing kisses at white girls, and who
was charged with assaulting the
daughter of a Shelby county farmer
was one of the victims. He, too,
was hanged to the bridge.
Wade Patterson, the third negro
lynched, also waB charged with as
saulting a white woman. Patter
son attempted to escape from the
mob, and was shot and his body
thrown into a creek.
The mob which attacked the jail
went about its work quietly and few
persons know of the triple lynching
until the bodies were found several
hours later.
Few of the mob were masked.
The jail lock was smashed with a
sledge-hammer and there was little
difficulty in getting to the prisoners.
According to Deputy Jailer Horn-
baclf, Jailer Bdvard Thompson hid
the jail keys when the mob appear
ed and later when the mob became
more insistent Hornback let the
men into the jail office.
“They said there were three ne
groes here they were going to get or
blow up the jail,” Hornback said.
They kept yelling for the dyna
mite while some of the mob started
to beat on the cell locks with
sledge hammer. About twelve men
had their guns pointed at me de
manding the keys, but I insisted
didn’t know where they were. Fi
nally at 3:25 they broke open the
cell door and took out Marshall
We3t and Patterson.”
Sacrifice Prices
Thus enabling me to also make room for my big
line of Spring Goods, and at the same time sell you bar
gains, the like of which you never received before in this
town.
Some of the small lots of goods, odds and ends will
be sold cheaper than they are quoted in this circular.
This Sale Will Positively Last Only
Fifteen Days.
Beginning Jan. 21 and Closing on Feb. 4, 1911
Do Not Miss This Great Opportunity
and Come and Get Your Big Bargains.
CAIRO, GEORGIA.
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W. J. Willie
Attorney-At-Law
Will practice in all Courts, State aud
Federal. Culleetioua a specialty.
Office in L. B. Powell building.
Phone 73 * - CAIRO, GA,
50,000 Peach Trees
Make Way For Cotton.
Americus, Ga., Jan. 13.—Fifty
thousand peach trees are being cut
down today in the great Bagley Ray
peach orchard near Americus, the
largest peach orchard in the world,
containing 250,000 trees.
Three hundred acres will thus be
cleared of old trees and the land
planted in cotton. Two hundred
thousand trees remaining wnl afford
the company considerably more
fruit than can be handled, as was
conclusively demonstrated last sea
son, when hundreds of tons of fine
fruit was left untouched upon the
trees, besides 150 car loads shipped I
away. [
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