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Omega is to have a new
with *15,000 capital.
Cartcrsville will hold a Chautau
qua in June or July.
Dr. G. W. Malone is mentioned
for Mayor of Snndorsvillo.
The News is making a vigorous
fight against the slot machines in
Statesboro.
J. Estes Johnston, of Ellijay, has
acquired a half-interest in the West
Point Herald.
C. D. Rountree, for three years
editor of the Graymount Hustler,be
came editor of the Richland Hustler
on March 1.
W. II. Bowen, of Blackshcar, has
on exhibition a cabbage head weigh
ing 8i pounds, grown from his
home-grown plants.
Unless the Savannah near-beer
dealers take out a license Ijy tomor
row the grand jury which convenes
that day will take the matter up
In a shooting affray near Unadilla
in a field on the plantation, Mr.
Allen Dortch wounded a negro
farm hand by shooting him in the
.side.
Will Childs, arrested at Columbus
ia, believed to he a notorious and ex
tensive counterfeiter. He was found
■with $60 spurious coin. The out
fit was destroyed before the arrest.
While Mrs. G. N. Miller was in
the field near Adel burning some
grass near where her husband wis
work her clothes caught on fire and
burned her so badly she died a few
hours later.
April 4 is the date fixed by the
Americus city council for the next
bond election, whereat the qualified
voters of Americus will pass u
the issuance of $65,00 of municg.it} 1
. bonds for needed improvements.
W. T. Lang, recently connected
with the Lang Manufacturing Com
pany, West Point, will build the
Castle mills at Monticello, the pow :
er to be generated from the Central
Power Company plant at Jackson.
J. D. Dyer, of near Tallulah Falls
while at work for J. E. Harvie, cut
ting down timber for a sawmill, was
killed by a tree which he had cut
downfalling upon him. His neck
was broken and skull badly crushed
A hen owned by J. C, Perkins, of
Norristown, has outdone the others
of he. gehus, producing a double
egg of a very peculiar shape, similar
to two connected may-pops, one a
small one and one large one contain
ing two yolks.
In order to raise funds to be
used in building a parsonage the
Ladies’ Aid Society of the Presby
terian church gave an entertainment
at the school auditorium Friday
night. Children were assigned to
parts in a Tom Thumb wedding,
Houston, the 14-year-old son of
Mr. and and Mrs, T. F. Thompson
was run over by the automobile of
C. W. Smith at Cedartown. The
boy was on a wheel whert the; two
collided, the car passing over boy
and wheel, resulting in sbalp wounds.
A voluntary petition in bank
ruptcy has heen filed with Referee
Isaac by E. F. Taylor at Bumswick,
former chief of the fire department.
The liabilities are scheduled at $952,
and he has no assets. The petition
Was filed and will be heard there,
March 10.
W. H. Lanier, of Savannah, 'has
announced his candidacy for state
p msion commissioner in 1912, Mr.
Lanier is probably the first man in
the state to make his formal an
nouncement of bis intention to run
for office in the primary of that year
A young Greek giving his name
as Nontas Kelhagas, who wont to
Brunswick several days ago and was
employed by a restaurant as night,
waiter, is missing, as well as $142
belonging to V. Poletae, the propric
t;r of the restaurant. He stated lie
came here from Savannah.
D:catur has organized a hoard of
trade with some seventy-five mem
bers. Chas. D. McKinney is presi
dent,’ T. Y. Weeks, first vice-presi
dent;.!. F. Ridley, second vice-presi
dent; J. F. Green, third vice-presi
dent; Robert Rauispeck, secretary,
and A. E. Almon, treasurer.
The body of Henry Johnson,
colored, was found cold in death by
some of his neighbors at Columbus.
The negro had not been seen
around his home and an investiga
tion revealed his body lying across
a bed in his room. The negro ap
parently w'as about 65 years of age
C. A. Dobbs, Gainesville’s well-
known fancier, sold one of his prize
liens for $100. He paid $15 for
this hen sometime ago,but after ex
hibiting her at several poultry bIiows
and winning many prizes with her
her value increased perceptibly and
many offers were made to buy her.
Citizens on the west side of the
Oconee river, in Montgomey coun
ty, are actively engaged in the work
of arousing sentiment favorable to
the establishment of a new county
with Alamo as the capital. Peti
tions are now being circulated, and
considerable interest is felt the
movement.
John D. Dowling, who lives near
Hi boken, irt» Piefcfe, killed a large
wild cat near Ttis houi'e after a chase
of a bo listen hburs. Mr. Dowling
presented ono.'bf its feet to Prof.
E. M. "Nighl^red, of the United
States bureau of animal indqstry,
who was with the Agriculture train
at Blackshear.
M. S. Turner, who lives in Pauld
ing county, showed several Indian
relics which he found in an old
mine near his home some time ago.
AinoDg the relics were a set of tools
such as the Indians used in the
mine, viz: Drill point, chisels, etc.,
also several tomahawks, which were
the Indians’ deadly weapon.
A writer in the Dade County
Times says that within a “genera
tion hence our descendants will read
with amazing and incredulity that
their forebears, but a few years be
fore, bought»annually millions of
bushels of corn and billions of
pounds of meat from'distant States,
paying therefore at least double as
much as they could have produced
the same for themselves at home.”
W. F. Adams, who carries the
mail for Jloute 3, out from Mans
field, had a narrow escape and in
cidentally a exciting time when he
and his faithful steed broke through
the bridge .at Thompson’s Creek,
Jaspercbunty. Fortunately neither
Mr. Adams nor the horse went
•dbwn’ihto tl)A,creole, but the horse
Wtfrm badly skinned up, and the
two- shafts and ''the harness were
broken.
E. Z. Byrd, editor and proprie
tor of the Blackshein; .Times, has
disposed -of the plant, Clement A.
Sydnor becoming the new manager.
Mr. Byrd established the News in
1880 and published it three years,
tjqaii sold it to W. Brantley and
S: W.Hitch;in 1889 A. P. Brantley
<fc Cm purchased it and the name was
changed to‘the Times; In 1893 Mr.
Byrd again came into possession
who now retires because of ill health
The Baptist Young People’s Unit n
of Georgia has been invited to hold
its yearly meeting at Millcdgcvillc
11 July and will in all’ probability
accept. This organization of relig
ious workers was to have met in
Milledgeville in July and will in all
probability accept. This organiza
tion of religious workers was to
have met in Milledgeville last year,
but after accepting the invitation it
changed its plans to meet at the
Baptist assem bly grounds at Blue
Ridge.
The county school commissioner
of Walton in his report to the grand
jury says: “Not one copper docs
Walton county pay for her free
schools, receiving more for schools
than she pays out in taxes in the
State school fund. The plain fact
is, every patron who pays nothing
above the public salary to his teach
er instead of being taxed to educate
bis children, receives his education
absolutely froo at the hands of At
lanta, Savannah, Augusta, Macon
and otl e • cities in Georgia. ‘Gift
is contrary to the laws of nature,’
and to get something for nothing
has a tendency to spoil the patron.”
THOMAS COUNTY NEGRO
FARMERS PLAN FALL FAIR
Their Association Will Reward
Corn Growers.
Thomasvillc, Ga., March 5.—The
second . meeting of the Thomas
County Colored Farmers’ Associa
tion will be held at the court house
March 11, when j. C. Beverly, in
charge of the Experimental Farm
ers of Thomas county, will address
the association.
Prof. F. H. Cardoza, head of the
Agricultural Department of the
Florida Agricultural and Mechani
cal College, also will address the
meeting, his subject being “Better
Living on the Farm.” Congress
man Roddenbery has se.ilt the asso
ciation 2(j0 gOverriment\bulletins on
corn and cotton raising which will
be distributed at the meeting.
This association was oi^anizcd by
the colored' farmers of Thomas
county several months ago and it
has proved a great success and bids
fair to do much towards improving
the status of the negro farmer of
this county in every way.
The association has planned to
offer $50 to the colored farmer of
this county raising the best crop on
one acre.
At the meeting they will discuss
the proposition of holding a county
fair next fall. The officers of the
association are from the best and
most reliable negroes of the town
and county and they seem very
much in earnest in their desire to
do all they can to help and improve
those of their race engaged in farm
ing.
Thomasville Is to Have
Good Spring Cleaning
Thomasville, Ga., March 5.—
Thomasyille is preparing to have a
good spring cleaning as the ladies
are proposing to give it one if the
members of the City Council are
willing, and as the men on the
hoard are all married, ■ there will
hardly be any objection made.
The members of the Civic Com
mittee of the TWomasville Study
Classfeported’at the last meeting
that it was getting time for the la
dies, to take matters in their own
hands and “clean up” the town, on
the same principle that they give
their own homes a general spring
cleaning and all the members of the
class agreed with .the idea. This
cleaning will probably take place in
a short tirrfe, as soon as’, the ladies
and the Council have reached a defi
nite agreement.
“A perfect wonderland of the
beautiful” is our line of calendars
for 1912. See them and get prices.
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The Wagon that has stood
the test of time for durability.
Mitchell wagons have un
equalled records for long ser
vice,; there are hundreds of
them that have been in daily
use for more than
20 Years
and these wagons are good for
many more years yet.
Buy a Mitchell and you will
settle for all time your wagon
troubles.
Wight Hardware Co.
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