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Mayor W. F. Hinson, of Hazel-
hurst, is a candidate for re-election.
Richmond county’s floating debt
has reduced *5,808 during the past
year.
Within the shipping territory of
Perry there are 450 acres devoted to
melons this year.
Baldwin county board of educa
tion borrowed sufficient money to
meet the deficit in the teachers sal
ary fund.
Representative R. P, Hobson will
deliver an address in Augusta after
the adjournment of the extra session
of congress.
W. J, Williams, of Eastman, will
address the veterans of the Telfair
camp next Saturday on the subject
“The Battle of Chaneellorsville.”
The heavy rains of Wednesday
resulted in the killing of hundreds
of chicks, they being unable to get
to shelter in time to escape the down
pour.
The Daniel Mineral Springs prop
erty, in Greene county, known
throughout the state, has been pur
chased by J. F. Holden, of Craw-
fordsville.
Crane, the boy in jain at Dah-
lonega for murdering a man named
Parks, is frequently visited by
parties, including preachers, wom
en and pretty girls.
Laurens, Emanuel and Irwin
counties are all agitating the matter
of a bond issue for building public
roads. The grand jury strongly in
dorsed the bond issue.
The Presbytery of Eacon will
convene with the Presbyterian
Church at Camilla on the evening of
April 18. There are 26 ministers
and forty-six churches embraced
in the Presbytery.
In Jeff Davis county, Lucinda
Hall, in company with William
Durr, seriously cut Henry Williams
an old ex-slave, at a supper. Wil
liams was cut in nine places. The
woman has been jailed.
C. M. Courie, a Dawson county
poultry fancier, pays $8.50 a piece
for chicks the descendants of “Peg
gy,” the famous $100,000 prize
hen. Dawson enthusiasts are pay
ing some fancy prices foi hen fruit.
Presiding Judge L. S. Roan, at
Atlanta, has refused a new trial to
Sam Swatson, the negro convicted
of a criminal assault on a young
woman at Columbus last Dccembor.
No new date has Ikjou set for the
hanging.
In each of the twenty-two dis
tricts of Terrell county an election
for school trustees will be held May
6. County School Commissioner J.
W-F. Lowrcy gives notice that in
districts in which there is no incor
porate town three trustees will be
elected,
Will Pindergast, with two child
ren, returning home from Thomas-
ville, when the bridge across Bar
nett’s Creek gave way with team
and mules, was badly damaged.
One of the little boys jumped and
saved himself, but the father and
the other child fell in the stream.
Twenty years ago Mat Wood, a
gold mine operative in Lumpkin
county, while at work in the gold
mines, was. covered up by a cave in
there, having a broken leg and be
ing otherwise injured. Recently
this old wound gave Mr. Wood so
much trouble that an operation be
came necessary.
The semi-annual meeting of the
Odd Fellows of the First Division
will be held at Sparks, April 26 and
27. Hon. Orrin Roberts, grand
master of Georgia, yhas been invited
and will be presentVs will also Hon.
T. II. Robertson, grand secretaay
of the state. ' This division is com
prised of the following counties:
Baker, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun,
Colquitt, Decatur, Dougherty,Early
Echols, Grady, Lee*, Lowndes, Mil
ler, Mitchell, Terrell, Thomas, Tift
Turner, and Worth. There are
thirty-seven lodges in the territory,
New Reclining Chairs In
stalled by A.C.L.R.R.Co.
The Atlantic Coast Line has just
put into service New Reclining
Chair cars in the Florida & West
Indian Limited, Trains No. 82 and
35, between Jacksonville, Fla., and
Washington, D. C.
These cars are equipped with all
melal trucks, steel wheels, and
compartments, one a toilet room
equipped with two large mirrors, a
dresser and white porcelian wash-
stand with running water; the other
is provided with sanitary convonieno
flushed with, water, the same as
Pullmans cars. In the other end of
the car is a large smoking compart
ment, in one corner which is a white
porcelian washstand with running
water. There is also a men’s saloon
heavy steel underframes fitted with with a sanitary convenience as de
friction draft gear and heavy buffing scribed above#
Special attention has been given
to ventilation by means of venti-
device to preyent shock. The
the latest improved approved ap^
paratus of the Westinghouse Air lators which automatically change
Brake Company, known as . High the air in the car and keeps it fresh
High Speed Erake. The cars are and pleasant. The heating is what
60 feet in length and have a hand? is known as the Vapor System which
some exterior appearance; the gothic, is so arranged as to prevent the over
windows being arranged to give the heating of the car and affords a mild
effect of a pullman parlor car. The pleasant temperature,
interior finish is mahogny with a j Special care has been exercised in
delicate line inlay and tasteful mar- j the design of the springs and the
quetry over the piers between the cars ric}6 as easy as a Pullman car.
windows. In addition to the double'
■ Building “For Keeps.”
. The 1 Baltimore Manufacturers’
Recbrd, in a' reCent issue, prints an
interesting 'interview with Mr
floor there is a deafening floor- pro
vided to reduce the noise -while.;,,the.
car is in motion. V. -
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The floor coyering is of, v ,Wilton. , Tr ......
Brussells. The seats-.are the, latest H*'Flaglery relating t6 the develop-
designs of reclining chairs,, uphol-'Wfcnt ,qf f the. SoutH. . Mr, Flagler
stered in green frieze plusji. I exptessds tho conviction that the
.The window sash'are double to' : P r bgrcs& of of the country will bo
avoid draughts and‘to exclude dust ■greater in the next twenty-five years
and smoke. I thah tlie past.twentv-five and that
The cars are provided ^l^hniple the greatest precentage of increase
racks for hand baggage. .J ' ’. ( will be in the South.' Mr. Flagler
The lightening ii especially* bril-' hbs it’way of expressing himself in
liahtjbeing the latest foyij) of PintscH* the vcihacular." He: says: “The
mantle lamp with ; corona . ghad^s p?ah; who bets bn the United States
which produces the softest defusion ^nd keeps his debts paid' will win
thereof. ' ’ .. financial success.” When he was
. There, are two, g-cipen’«,i;e'tiring bom he eays in the iutbryietr, there
wore only twenty-four miles of rail
road in the United States, Ho has
lived to see the mileage expanded
to 240,000 miles. “Never in hu
man histmy,” soys Mr. Flagler,
“has there been such a limitless
scope for men of broad horizon.
The marvelous expansion of rail
road development during my life
time only exemplifies the vast de
velopment of the country during
the same time.
“While the development of the
whole country affords scope for the
capital and energy, I believe that
the resources of the south in climate
soil and mineral advantages, and in
geographical position for commerce,
will enable this section to create
greater business development of the
East coast of Florida is, I believe,
typical of the possibilities of the
South. Though I though I had
measured the probable growth of
this section, its advancement has
far exceeded my anticipations. Out
side af the great rush into Okla
homa, some seventeen or eighteen
years ago, and one or two similiar
movements of population in the
history of our country, nothing like
the present movement to Florida
has ever been known in the United
States.”
Mr. Flagler never talks idly. He
is a builder who has demonstrated
the courage of his convictions.
What he says of the outlook for the
South is the deliberate opinion of a
capatian of industry,” who is
familiar with the field.—Savannah
News.
CUTS HIS THROAT
IN JAIL CELL.
Secreted Razor Blade—W. C.
Byrd, Thomas county Prisoner,
Probably Will Ble. i
Thomasville, Ga., April 9-j-W.
C. Byrd, charged with the murder
of C, L. Prince, attempted suicide
in the county jail early this after
noon. After Byrd had been (sent
his dinner the sheriff heard three
caries from his cell and rushed
up, to find Byrd on bis cot, bleed
ing profusely from a large, gaging
wound in the neck. Physicians
were summoned and examination
showed the throat had been cut from
ear to ear and the smaller veins
served, but the artery was not cut.
the wound was dressed and sewed
by physicians.
The only weapon found was a
small blade of a safety razor which
Byrd said he had kept for such an
emergency for a long time, without
the sheriff’s knowledge. He had
asked for morphine this morning
and was despondent about his case
in the Superior Court next week.
Byrd killed Prince Sunday after
noon four months ago near Broad
street when, with two companions
Gunn and Stevenson, and the three
were held, Byrd for murder and the
two others for complicity.
Byrd is not expected to recover
from his wound. He has a wife
and child at Fort Valley.
LYNCHED FOR USUAL CRIME
Mob at Lawrencevllle Strung
Negro to Pole and Riddled Body
WItb Bullets.
Lowrenceville, Gal. April 8.—A
mob of 200 men stormed the jail at
this place this morning and took
Charlie Hale, a negro, from a cell
to a telegraph pole and strung him
up.
The mob riddled his body with
bullets.
. Hale confessed to a most atrocious
attack upon a white woman near
by.
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Spring’s Here
And the coming of Spring brings the detestable,
filthy, germ-soaked fly. Screen your home against
these invaders, who are armored with disease and
death. We have just received a large shipment
of screen doors and windows.
We have also received a car
of SASH and DOORS.
Come into see us and let us show. Our prices
are right and we’ll certainly please you.
Remember we handle lime and cement also in
carload lots.
Yours to Please,
Wight Hardware Co.
CAIRO, GA.
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Attractive
Buggies, that the prices and long-
wearing Qualities make more
Attractive
How many times have you accepted the deal
ers word about a so-called “Best-Made” buggy
to find that after a few months running it was
absolutely NO GOOD?
And you PAID good money for them too.
We deal in Buggies that are in strict keeping with the
RIGHT”, and it is NOT neccessary for us
words “ALL
to misrepresent them; .. B m __ IJ. ot ,
GOOD ONES and you needn't take our word for it.
We’ll sell you wagons, harness, fertilizer and feed
stuffs too, if you’ll consider meritable values.
In other words our buggies are
fo
W. G. Baggett & Son,
Cairo, Reno, Cranford, Calvary.
s SPRING SARSAPARILLA
For the Blood And Skin
It is better by far than most so-called
remedies. It’s better for the simple reason that
it performs it’s work.
It’s the most powerful remedy on the
market.
100 Doses $1.00
Wight & Browne#
Leading Druggists.
Are Your Clothes Used For
DOG BEDS?
Did you ever have an occa°ion to “follow your clothes” to
the pressing? If you should have an occasion to do so at an
expected hour, you’ll find that the “‘nig’ pres’n clubz” are
no respector of persons, in their filth-reeking dives, and you
likely to find some big dirty buck (or a dog perhaps) at calm
repose on your best suit. You’ll find nothing of this sort at
our shop, everything is clean, sanitary/>nd your clothes will
found hanging on clothes trees.
BETTER BE SAFE. Patronize a white man, because
it’s safer in the end.
Phone 81 CITY PRESSING CLUB Cairo, Ga.
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