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GEORGIA NEWS
Epitomized Items of Interest
Gathered at Random.
Hansen Using the Ax.
Genera] Superintendent Moise, of
the Central railway, has appointed C.
L. Calder trainmaster at Macon, su
perintendent of the first division of
tlio Central.
Expenses are being considerably re
duced under the management of
President Hanson. It is understood
that the salaries of several high-priced
men have been cut.
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Host of Agricultural Students.
Professor J. M. Johnson and Profes
sor J. F. Hart, Jr., of the department
of agriculture in the University of
Georgia, are now busily engaged in
the work of instructing a large num
ber of students in the winter school
of agriculture and in preparing for
the opening of the two weeks’ special
course for farmers, which will begin
the £th of February.
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At’ar.t Fair Directors Meet.
The Southern Interstate Fair Asso
ciation at Atlanta will be reorganized.
An attraction of some kind will be
maintained at Piedmont park this fall,
tut the ideas of the directors are still
in the formative state, and it is not
certain what will be done. It is cer
tain, however, that the Southern In
terstate Fair Association will not be
allowed to die.
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Georgia Cotton Seed for Texas.
Six car loads of seed for the cot
ton section of Texas that was devas
tated by the boll weevil last year
were shipped from Athens a few days
ago. This was simply one of the nu
merous shipments that have been
made recently and that will continue
to he made until enough seed from
Georgia and a few other states in this
latitude are shipped to give the farm
ers enough to plant their next crop oi
cotton.
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Veterans Asked to Subscribe.
General P. A. S. McGlashin, com
mander of the Georgia division, Uni
ted Confederate Veterans, has issued
an appeal to the Confederate veterans
of Georgia to subscribe to the fund for
reproducing Sutherland, the home of
the late General John B. Gordon, as
the Georgia building at tne St. Louis
expositien.
The order does not make any as
sessment against the camps, but sim
ply calls for voluntary contributions.
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Union Veterans Want Home.
A petition has been formulated by
the old union veterans of the Fitzger
ald colony, praying congress to erect
a soldiers’ home at Fitzgerald, as
there are now many thousands of old
•soldiers located in the southern states
and they find that the genial climate
is of great advantage to them in their
declining days.
This colony was settled originally
by them and they are still coming,
finding as they do a healthy and
balmy climate and a hearty welcome.
They feel at home at once, but many
of them are cripples and in poor
health depend upon their little pen
sion for a support, consequently many
have to live without any of the luxu
ries of life.
A home at Fitzgerald would no
-doubt be highly commendable to the
.government by the old veterans.
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Request of Chairman Brown.
E. T. Brown, chairman of the state
Democratic executive committee, has
made the following request to the
chairman or secretaries of the county
committees in the state:
“As a number of the counties have
recently elected new county executive
committees, the chairmen or secreta
ries will confer a favor upon the state
•executive committee by forwarding at
-once a complete list of their new com
mittees with postoffice address of each
member to the secretary of the
Hon. J. W. Goldsmith, Atlanta, Ga.
“The state press will kindly pub
lish. E. T. BROWN,
•“Chairman State Democratic Execu
tive Committee.’’
As a number of these committees
2iave just recently been formed, Mr.
Drown adopted this method as the
rsurest one of getting a complete list
of them and avoiding all confusion.
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Wa s 120 Years Old.
“Granny” Loggins, probably the old
est woman in Georgia, died last week
at her heme near Gillsville She was
just about 120 years of age. having
been born in 1784. ahe enjoyed the
unique and unusual distinction of liv
ing in three centuries, the 18th, 10th
and 2Cth.
Her extreme age and the statistics
of the numerous posterity of this cen
tenarian have been matters of inter
esting newspaper stories for twenty
years Dast in northeast Georgia. Sh?
had a grandson, Klmsey Loggins, who
was a veteran of the civil war, and
died seme years ago at an advanced
age.
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Planning for Georgia Building.
President H. H. Tift, of the Georgia
Sawmill Association, which has given
the state SSOO in cash and all the ma
terial needed for erecting the Georgia
state building at the coming exposi
tion at St. Louis, was in conference
with Governor Terrell and Glascock
Barrett, assistant commissioner, at At
lanta the past week relative to the
plans in this connection.
The question of changing the style
of the building from that of Liberty
Hall, Alexander Stephen’s old home,
to that of Sutherland, the home of
the late General John B. Gordon was
discussed at some length, and to the
proposed change Mr. Tift gave his en
tire approval.
The Georgia building will be well
located. The site is one of the high
est upon the exposition grounds, and
Georgia will be in the midst of the
most prominent state and foreign
buildings and within short walking
distance of the agricultural buildings
and others in which Georgia’s princi
pal exhibits will be displayed.
Value of Georgia’s Cotton Products.
•Cotton products in Georgia for the
year 1903, according to estimates
made at the department of agriculture
amount to $101,355,000. This is an
increase of nearly $45,000,000 since
1901.
There were raised in Georgia last
year 1,300,000 bales of cotton, which
brought approximately $18,000,000.
From these 1,300,000 bales there were
650,000 tons of seed which netted $13,-
000,000. Crude oil from these seed
netted $1,800,000. The linters from
the cotton seed were sold for $1,300,-
000, while the cotton seed hulls
brought $1,755,000.
Cotton products, therefore, are in
great demand, ana there is a constant
increase in the prices.
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Synods Favor Atlanta.
The special conference held in At
lanta the past week, in which the syn
ods of seven states were represented,
by a vote of 15 to 3, recommended the
consolidation of Columbia Theological
university, at Columbia, S. C., and the
Southwestern Presbyterian university,
ucational institution in Atlanta,
at Clarksville, Tenn., in one larger ed
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Goes to File Interesting Suit.
Attorney General John C. Hart and
Ligon Johnson, special counsel for the
state of Georgia, went to Washington
the past week where they will file
proceedings in the United States su
preme court against the state of Ten
nessee, the Eucktown Copper Mines
and the Pittsburg and Tennessee Cop
per Company.
The suit is to be filed by the state
of Georgia because of the alleged
damage which is being done the prop
erty of citizens in North Georgia.
Moise Succeeds Kline.
T. S. Moise has been appointed gen
eral superintendent of the Central of
Georgia railway. The appointment is
made by the executive committee of
the railway.
J. T. Johnson has been appointed
superintendent of transportation.
Mr. Moise has been general superin
tendent of transportation. Since the
recent death of General Manager
Theodore D. Kline, Mir. Moise had
been receiving all reports that had
been made to Mr. Kline.
On the promotion of General Super
intendent Kline to be general mana
ger, Mr. Moise was made general su
perintendent of transportation. His
rise has been rapid.
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Cane Station at Waycrcss.
The agricultural department at
Washington has asked congress for
an appropriation of $15,000 for the
cane syrup experiment station at
Waycross. The station was operated
last year under a SIO,OOO appropria
tion, but there was expense in the es
tablishment of the plant which could
not be foreseen, and there is a de
ficit of $5,000. The $15,000 asked for
will operate this and the new year’s
expenses. Secretary Wilson is very
much interested in this work, and has
been co-operating with Mr. Brantiey
in promoting the appropriation. It
is understood the house committee
which has the making of the appro
priation bill favors the inc/ease.
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Statement of Book Commicsicn.
Following a conference and a for
mal meeting in Atlanta the past week,
the state text-book commission, to
which was intrusted the work of put
ting into operation the uniform text
book law, issued a statement in an
swer to certain charges with refer
ence to the manner in which the adop
tions were made, published in certain
state papers.
The recent, charge consisted in the
statement that atter all the bids for
books had been opened and consider
ed, the American Book Company was
allowed to reduce its price on readers
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A Severe Cold For Three Months. A Chattanooga Druggist's Statement.
The following letter from A. J. Nusbaum, of Bates- Robert J. Miller, proprietor of the Read House Drug
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by a supplement bid, which was un
dated, and that the same opportunity
was was given to other bidders.
The fact in the case is that the Lee
readers, offered by Lie American
Book Company, v/ere adopted for ihe
third, fourth and nfth books, and all
other books in this class offered were
rejected. It was then that the com
pany was asked Ly the commission
to reduce its price, and it did so. The
reduction, at the request of the com
mission, was put in writing.
The members of the state text-book
commission are Governor Terrell,
Comptroller General William A.
Wright, Secretary of State Phil Cook,
Attorney General John C. Hart and
State School Commissioner W. B.
Merritt. Some of the members were
very much wrought up over the charg
es and were anxious to make a pretty
strong reply.
After careful consideration how
ever a statement was prepared by the
commission and given out by Gov
ernor Terrell, the gist of which is that
no secret or supplemental bids wers
received, but lower prices were secur
ed for the books that were adopted.
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