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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (May 22, 1908)
JENNINGS FIGHTS CLARK Florida Congressman is Beaten With Stick by Ex-Governor. SCENE IN LOBBY OF HOTEL Remarks Made by Congressman Clark in a Public Speech Angered Ex- Governor, and Caused Assault. Jacksonville, Fla. Congressman Frank Clark of the second Florida dis trict was belabored with a stick by ex- Govemor W. S. Jennings in the lobby of the Hotel Aragon Sunday afternoon. Clark Is being opposed for re-election and he has been bitterly assailing those who are opposing him. Clark spoke at the opera house Saturday night, and among those whom he at tacked for opposing him was ex-Gover nor Jennings. Clark reviewed the pub lic career of Jennings, and, among oth er things, charged that the ex-governor had a genius tor grafting. The ex-governor called at the Hotel Aragon Sunday afternoon and found Clark in the lobby. One version of the affair is that the ex-governor wanted to know if he had been called a grafter by Clark. “Did yon call me a grafter?” asked the ex-governor of Clark. “I did,” replied the congressman. “Then you are a liar and you knew you were a liar when you said it,” cried Jennings. , Then the ex-governor snatched a heavy cane, which Clark was carry ing, and began to belabor the con gressman lustily about the head and shoulders. Congressman Clark was standing talking to Dr. G. A. Nunnally, presi dent of Columbia College at Lake City, when Governor Jennings approached him. According to Clark's version Jennings approached from behind and. jerking the stick from the congress man, struck the latter three times over the head. Jennings struck with such force that the walking cane, a stick three-eighths of an inch in thick ness, was broken, but, owing to a thick head of haid and a felt hat, Mr. Clark was not seriously injured. As soon as he realized that he was being at tacked, Mr. Clark wheeled and caught the sticlu wrenching it from Jennings’ hands. * Bystanders promptly caught hold of the gentlemen and prevented any more blows being struck. The language used by Mr. Clark, to which Governor Jennings most serius ly objected, was the statement that Governor Jennings entered the office of governor of Florida, reputed to be a poor man, and that he left that office reputed to be a man of wealth. “Where did he get it?” asked Mr. Clark, and this question he repeated In a signed statement given to the local press for publication. Ex-Governor Jennings is a cousin of William Jennings Bryan, and it is said the relationship had much to do with making him governor of Florida. TAFT TALKS OF CANAL. Says Work is Being Enthusiastically Rushed On Great Worterway. Charleston, S. C. —The Hon. Wil liam H. Taft, secretary of war, arrived in Charleston harbor at noon Sunday on board the cruiser Prairie, and, al ter spending a few hours in the city, during which time he was met and greeted by a number c;f officials and friends, left the city for Washington at 5:55 p. m., via the Atlantic Coast Line. Secretary Taft is returning from Panama, having sailed from this port May 1 and completing the work which we had in view two days ahead of his proposed schedule. He is the pictyrq of health in his accustomed gc:d humor. He said that his trip had been delightful and, while lie was kept very busy, he had enjoyed every moment of the time. The secretary dined with Mayor Rhett. and held an informal reception at the Charleston Hotel, afterwards meeting federal city officials and friends. When asked to say something of conditions and prespetets tin Panama, he talked freely with regard to gen eral conditions, but said that he would not wish to be quoted on such matters as the relations of the United States and Panama, which had been suggest ed as a possible reason for his visit. TWO RAILROADS INDICTED. Federal Jury Returns Indictments for Alleged Rebating. New Orleans, La. —Indictments for J the acceptance of rebates on cotton : shipments were returned Saturday against the Illinois Central and the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley railroads ! by a federal grand jury. NEW SCHEME OF NIUHT RIDERS. Pay Value Placed By Owner on Tobac co Beds and Then Destroy Them. Louisville, Ky.—Night riders insti tuted a new system tn Kentucky when a band of fifty from Owen comity rode , through Grant countj into Scott and destroyed many tobacco plant beds. In each instance they called ont the owner of tne bed and told him to fix value on it. This dom\ they paid him cash for It, nnd then proceeded to destroy it. hi the rime time advis ing the owner not to moke ally fur ther attempt to raise a t ,,! ’'' re crop. It Builds Force J-21 WILL FINANCE COTTON Farmers’ Union Reaches Agree ment at Atlanta Meeting. SOLUTION NOT MADE PUBLIC President Duckworth Deliver* an Inter esting Address Explaining Greatest Proposition Yet Undertaken. After adopting a plan to warehouse and finance the coining cotton crop, gathering statistics from seventy-five counties, which indicates the acreage i in Georgia is eff by 10 per cent and : the crop condition off from 35 per cent | to 60 per cent, the Farmers’ union, af ter a session of two days in ttys sen ate chamber of the state capitol, ad journed. The plan of financing the crop Is kept an executive secret for the pres ent, at lgast, but, it is stated, it has been settled and the union will go ahead-on this basis. - The system of warehousing, as un dertaken in a "number of counties throughout the state during the past few years,- and which has proved suc cessful, will be expanded and in creased. The union believes this method to be the solution of the .situation, and will act accordingly. President R. F. Duckworth set forth the full purpose and aim of the meet ing in a speech delivered to those gath ered. He said in part: “You have been called here today for the purpose of completing plans for carrying out the greatest proposi tion that has ever been undertaken by the Georgia farmers. “We would call your attention to the fact that the plans you are about to prosecute have required .the very best brain in all ages. Thousands of men have lost their hundreds of thous ands of dollars in attempting a corner on cotton, and while your efforts are not an attempt to corner the cotton crop, it is a plan for financing it, which will require a similar amount of money, and the plans you develop to day will have a great deal to do with the successful pricing of cotton by the southern farmer. “We have always realized the great Importance to the cotton producer of a plan for the financing of his cotton. Heretofore our financial propositions have been confined principally to coun ties. This plan has proven very suc cessful, but not so completely controll ing the cotton situation as would a plan by which the co-tton of each state would be financed from a central of fice operating through the several counties interested. When this plan is put in operation, and that, too, not in violation of the anti-trust law, the southern farmer will become as inde pendent and prosperous as any of his fellow citizens engaged in other lines of business.” WASHING AWAY AN ISLAND. • «*••*•; Novel Scheme Adopted to Remove Obstruction to Augusta Canal. Augusta is going to wash away an island. For some time the normal power of the Augusta canal has been reduced and traffic obstructed by an island of considerable size at Harkers Bend. The obstruction was never re moved on account of the considerable cost attached to dredging it. Super intendent John D. Twiggs, after an experiment of several months, has ar ranged a movable coffer dam, as it were, operated by means cf flats, with which he is washing the island away at practically no cost to the city. PROHIBITION CONVENTION Called to Meet in Atlanta On the 2Sth. No State Ticket Planned. An official call has been issued for a state prohibition convention to be held in the hall of the house of rep resentatives, capitol, Atlanta, May 28, at 11 o’clock in the morning. Seven delegates to the national pro hibition convention in Columbus, Ohio, on July 15, will be selected, and an electoral ticket for this state nomi nated. No state ticket will be put out, and local candidates will not be put up by the party. A new executive commit tee is also to be named. BARRETT DECLINED. President cf State Farmers’ Union Turned Down Trip to Washington. Charles S. Barrett of Union City, na tional president of the Farmers’ union, declined the appointment recently ten dered him by Governor Smith to rep resent the state at the conference of governors and prominent citizens of the various states, at the white house to Washington. What is medicine for? To cure you, if sick, you say. But one medicine will not cure every kind of sickness, because different medicines act on different parts of the body. One medicine goes to the liver, another to the spine, Wine of Cardui to the womanly organs. So that is why Wine of Cardui has proven so efficacious in most cases of womanly disease. Try it.' Mrs. Wm. Turner, of Bartonville, 111., writes: “I suffered for years vtth female diseases, and doctored without relief. My back and head would hurt me, and I suffered agony with bearing-down pains. At last I took Wine of Cardui and now I am in good health.” Sold everywhere. In SI.OO bottles. lA/DITI- liC A f CTTFD Write Today for a free copy of valuable illustrated Book far Women. If yoa need MedVrf ffflS I L UJ 1% LL 1 I Lli Advice, describe your symptoms, stating; age. and reply wilt be sent In plain sealed envelope. Address: Ladles Advisory Dept,, The Chattanooga Medicine Co., Chattanooga. Tenn. PEACH GROWERS IN SESSION. Meeting Ho d in Atlanta at Which Statu* of Crop i* Discussed. The Georgia Peach Growers’ asso ciation, one hundred strong, convened last Wednesday morning at the Kim ball house in Atlanta. The matter of the peach crop’s disposition, how much should go to the canners, and also the question of its price, con sumed the opening session. President H. A. Matthews, in his in troductory address, emphasized ijlia need of a large portion of the crop be ing canned, If a glut of the peach mar ket is to be avoided. He also brought out the fact that the peach crop is net so large this year 'fis has been thought. He insisted that there has been much over estimation of its size. A. M. Kitchen, of Baldwin, Ga., brought up the question of what price the crop will bring by stating that half the California crop is annually sold to the canners at fifty cents'per bushel. This price from the canners, he in sisted, would be more profitable to the growers than any' price secured by shipment. : ■T. C. Wade, moved that it be ascertained how many of the growers present would be willing to Sell their crop to the cannCrs-at fifty cents a bushel, but this motion was laid on the table. The sentiment was evidently strong among the growers that no such small price would be taken. A representative of a Pittsburg com mission house, speaking to the con vention, declared that the Georgia peach crop will be from 7,000 to 8,000 carloads this year, and will amount in value to $5,000,000. MONEY FOR GEORGIA. Summary of Appropriations for Public Buildings in the State. The omnibus public buildings bill reported in the house carries the fol lowing appropriations for public build ings in Georgia: Increased appropriations, Americus, $25,000; Gainesville, $15,000; Marietta, $10,000; Rome, $20,000. For enlargement, remodeling or im provement, Athens, $43,000; Augusta, SIO,OOO. New buildings, Griffin. $50,000; New nan, $45,000; Waycross, $75,000. of which not more than SG,OOO may be expended for additional ground. For purchase of sites and erection .of buildings, Cordele, $50,000; Dublin, $50,000; LaGrange, $50,000. For acquisition of sites alone, Bain bridge, $7,500; Cedartown, $7,500; El berton, $7,500; Milledgeville, $7,500. Savannah marine hospital, for addi tional land, $13,500; Tiftcn, $7,500. UNPLEDGED DELEGATION Slated for Chicago By Georgia Repub licans —Administration Indorsed. At the state republican convention held in Macon Walter H. Johnson of Atlanta; Judson Lyons, of Augusta; H. L. Johnson, of Columbus, and Clarke Gree of jpublin were elected delegates from the state-at-large Lo attend the national republican conven tion to be held in Chicago June 6. Al ternates, J. W. Gilbert cf Augusta, George S. White of Macon, S..S. Min cey o| Montgomery and S. A. Harris of Athens. The delegates will go to the conven tion uninstructed. Harry S. Edwards offered resolu tions in the convention indorsing the administration of President Roosevelt, which were adopted. Alexander Aker man presented resolutions indorsing Walter H. Johnson’s administration as chairman of the executive committee, which were also adopted. PRIZE “TWIN COUNTY” Is Meriwether as Revealed by School Report. Meriwether county is probably the prize “twin county” in Georgia, if not in the south. County School Commissioner R. M. McCaslan has just completed a cen sus of the school children of Meri wether. He found sixty-four sets of twins, fifty-one colored and thirteen white. In one family he found three sets of twins. TO PROMOTE EDUCATION Georgia Branch of National Associa tion is Organized. With a membership of 394 to begin with the Georgia branch of the Na tional Society for the Promotion of In dustrial Education was organized at the Atlanta chamber of commerce, constitution and by-laws drawn and adopted, Asa G. Candler named as president, Thomas C. Irwin as treas urer and a movement launched to have the national association meet in Atlanta this fall. TAX RECEIVER’S NOTICE. FIRST ROUND. Hampton, Wednesday April 1 Sixth, Thursday “ 2 Flippen, Friday “ 3 Stockbridge, Wednesday “ 8 Shakerag, Thursday “ 9 Brushy Knob, Friday “10 Loves Monday “13 Hampton, Thursday May 7 Sixth, Friday “ 8 Flippen, Monday “ II Stockbridge, Tuesday “ 12 Shakerag, * Wednesday “ 13 Brushy Knob, Thursday “ 14 Loves, Friday . “ 15 Hampton, Tuesday May 26 Sixth, Wednesday “ 27 Flippen, Thursday “ 28 Stockbridge, Friday “29 Shakerag, Wednesday June 3 Brushy Knob, Thursday “ 4 LdVes Friday “ 5 McMullins, Monday “ 8 Beersheba, Tuesday “ 9 FOURTH ROUND Hampton Wednesday June 17 Stockbridge Thursday June 18 Locust Grove Monday June 22 McDonough Court-week, First Tuesdays, and Saturdays until books are closed, June 25th. W. W. PATTERSON, TAX RECEIVER HENRY COUNTY. FRENCH COFFEE / }rf*eo F HOW WOULD YOU LIKE SIOO In Gold—$100? 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