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smwm ■ ■ city of Waycross, than at or before Georgia—’Ware County. A RESOLUTION. A Reaolutlon Calling an Elation to Authorize The Mayor And Council cf I he City ct nraycroM to la sue Bonds. Wildcat! by virtue of aaragiapb J and 2 acctioo \ii Article VII el the Cenctltutlon of the Stale of Georgia, =t of the Legislature ap prove! October Htb, 1870, Volume 1 Code Section (377 I, j, k and 11 muni clpalltles are authorized to Incur la- deptednesa under the restrictions therein provided, after having first ob tained by un election called for that purpose the assent of two-thirds of the qualified voters of said municip ality; and, Wl.eri as Lh+- Mayor und Council of the City of Waycrosa desire to Incur a bonded debt In addition to that al ready existing. In the sum of one hun dred thousand (lieu,(100.00) dollars, for the purpose of providing additional school facilities for tiio City of Way-1 cross, for the purpose of paving the | PETITION FOR CHARTER, streets of Huld City, and for the ex-1 Georgia—Ware County, tension of the waterualns and sew-1 To the Superior Court of said erage system thereof: County. Now, therefore, be It resolved by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Waycross In meeting assembled, as Incurring the said bonded Indebted- nese, provide for the assessment and collection of an annual tax of 13,333.- 33 dollars for thirty (30) years for the purpose of paying the principal of said bonded Indebtedness, and a like assessment and collection of an annual lax of live thousand (16,000.00) dollars for thirty (30) years to pay the Interest at the rate of five per cent per annum upon said Indebtedness. Said turns so arising from said assess ment and collection of an annual tax being sufllclent In amount to pay the principal and Interest of said debt within thirty (30) years from the date of the Incurring of said Indebtedness. Adopted, this 5th day-of June, 1906. A. M. KNIGHT, Mayor. Attested: J. W. STRICKLAND, Clerk of Council, I, E. J. Berry, Clerk of the Superior Court, hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a true and exact copy of a petition for charter now of file In the office of clerk of the Su perior Court of said county. Tals 2nd day of May, 1906. E. J. BERRY, Clerk, fl. C. W. C. Ga. follows, to-wlt: | (1) That notice be given for the space of thirty days next proceeding the day of election In the newspaper in which the sheriff’s advertisements for tho County ofjWare are published, notifying the qualified voters of the City of Waycross that on the 7th day of July, 1906, an election will be held to determine the question whether ba'* bonds shall be Issue J by the Mayor and Council of the City of Way- cross for the purpose aforesaid, which notice the .Mayor and Council « of the City of Waycross shall specify: (a) That the amount of tho bonds to be Issued shall be one hundred thousand ($100,000.00) dollars, (b) The purpose for which said bonds shall be Issued shall be: 1. To provide additional school facilities for the City of Waycross, to which purpose, there shall be devoted of the proceed! cf said bonds the sum of twentrflve thousand ($25,000.00) dollars. 2. For the purpose of paving the streets of said City, to which purpose there shall be devoted of the proceeds of slid bonds the sum of forty thou sand ($40,000.00) dollars. 3. For the extension of the water* mains and ‘sewerage system of the City of Waycross', to which purpose there shall be devoted of the proceeds of said bonds the sum of thirty-five thousand (3,500.00) dollars (c) That said bonds shall bear In terest at the rate of five per cent per annum from date of Issue, payable soral annually In gold at Tho Ameri can Exchange National Bank (of New * York; the annual Interest of said bonds, to-wlt: five thousand ($5,000.00) dollars payable In semi annual pay ments of twenty-five hundred ($2,500.- 00) dollars as aforesaid, each year for .thirty (30) yean. ""(d) That the principal amount of aald bonds shall not become due and payable annually, but only at the end of a period of thirty (30) years from ' the date of the Incurring of aald In debtedness, the Mayor and Council of the City of Waycross shall, however, at or before the time of Incurring - Wald bonded Indebtedness under pro vision of the Constitution of the 8tate of Georgia, provide for the assessment and collertlon of an annual tax suf ficient In amount to,pay the principal and Interest of said debt within thirty (30) years from the date of the In curring or said Indebtedness, In gold at The American Exchange National Bank of New York.* (2) That aald election shall be held at all of the voting or election pre cincts within the limits of the City of Waycnas, and ihall be held by the ■amt persons and In the same manner, under the rules and regulations that elections for Mayor and Aldermen of said City are held. Those voting la favor of bonds shall have written or printed ( on their ballots the words *Tor Bonds," and thosa voting again* aald bonds shall have written or ‘print ed on their ballots the words "Against Bonds." (S) When said notice is given and ssld election held as herein provided. If the requisite two-thirds of the quail fled voters of the City of Waycross at said election vote for said bonds, then the Mayor and Council of the City of Waycross shall Issue said bonds In* accordance with paragraphs 1 and 2 Section 7 of Article 7 of the Constitu tion of the State of Georgia. All of said bonds to be thus Issued and of the aggregate amount of one hundred thousand ($100,000.00) dollars In de nominations of one thousand ($1,000.- 00) dollars each shall be known designated, classed, stamped. Issued, •old and paid as "School, Street Pav* tag. Water and Sewerage Bonds** They shall be numbered from one td one hundred inclusive, shall bear la- tercet at aforesaid, and each bond •hall have attached to ft an Interest conpon IV twenty-five (25.00) dollar! tor the aaenat of each eeml annual payment of Interest ©a each bond, and nhaU not be sold for lens than par. Aid the Mayor and Council of tho The petition of J. Li. Walker and R. P. Izlar shows: (1) That your petitioners with their as sociates and assigns wish to become a body corporate for the purpose and with the right hereinafter set out (2) The name of said Corporation Is to be Cherokee Pharmacy. (3) They desire to be Incorporated for and during the term of twenty years with a privilege of renewal at the end of that period. (4) The capital stock of said corporation shall be at present Four Thousand Five Hundred (4,500) Dollars divided into nine shares of Five Hundred (500) Dollars each and all of common stock. Petitioners desire the right and privil- ege of Increasing the capital stock of said corporation by a vote of the Di rectors to that eflect to any amount not exceeding Twenty Thousand (20,000) Dollars. The Increase of capital stock If made, to be divided Into such number of snares tnd the shares to be of such amount as the Directors may see fit to fix them. (5) Tho object and purpose of the said corporation Is pecuniary gnln for the stock-holders of said corporation. («) Four Thousand Five Hundred (4,500) Dollars of the capital stock of said corporation has already been actually paid In. (7) The business proposed to be carried on by said corporation at present la a retail and wholesale drug business In the City of Waycross, .Georgia. Peti tioners desire, however, to have the Administrator's Sale. Will be sold before the Court House door In Waycross, Ware county, Ga., between legal hours of sale on May 1st, 1906 to the' highest bidder, for cash, the following described land, ly ing and being In the City of Waycross, In said County and State, (containing originally 37% acres, more or less;) bounded on North and East by At lantic Coast Line Railroad Company's right of way and on the South and We«t by the original lot lines of lot number two hundred and three, being all of t.ie Southwest corner of said lot 203 of the Eighth District of Ware County, lying South and West of said Railroad’s right of way, except such parts thereof as were sold by George Walters prior to bis death, said parts so sold and conveyed being as fol lows: Lots numbered one (1) to eight (8) Inclusive, of block one (1;) lots numb- erd one (1) to five (5) Inclusive of block two (2;) Jots numbered one (1) to six (C) Inclusive'of block three (3;) lots numbered three (3) and four (4) of block (6;) lots numbered one (1) | to seven (7) inclusive of block six (6;) lots two (2) thr*e (3.) four (4.) five (6) and seven (7) of block seven (7;) lots one (1) and two (2) of block eight (8;) lots four (4) and six (€) of block nine (9;) lot eight (8) of block ten (10;) lots two (2) and three (3) of block thirteen (13;) lots one (1.) three (3,) four (4,) five (5,) seven (7.) nine (9) and ten (10) of block fourteen (14;) lots one (1,) two (2.) three (3.) four (4,1 five (5,) six (6.) seven (7,) eight (8,) nine (9.) twenty (20,) twenty-one (21) and twenty-two (22) of block fifteen (15;) lots two (2.) four (4) and six (6) of block sixteen (1C;) lots three (3) and seven (7) of block seventeen (17;) lots two (2) and four (4) of block eighteen (18;) lots two (2) and three (3) of block twenty-one (21;) lot one (1) of block twenty-two (22;) lots six (6) and seven (7) of block fifty-one (51;) lot A of block eleven (11;) let two (2) block conveyed to Mitch Floyd by deed re corded March 26th, 1894, In book ’’K’ 693 of Ware County Record*-; four (4) lots bounded West by Railroad, North by eight (8) foot walk, East by land of Mllly Rolf, then South one hundred- six (106) fset to forty (40) foot street 8pec(al Notiet to Property Owners. I have moved my plumbing shop to JJemsbart street, near Jane street, back of the Vlrdle Hotel. I am prepar ed to gxve you a first class Job of plumbing at a low figure. All material the best. If you can’t come ling me up 'Phone 388. 1 guarantee all my work. , tf. Yours Respectfully, J. F. MASTERS, • The Plumber. and privilege to .carry on any , luul , lTOl »rt or kind of . mercantile business convoyed to A. R. Bennett by deed recorded February nth. 1395. In book “L” page 688 oI Ware County Record., all. of .aid land heretofore sold and conveyed being parts of "Walter. Add ition to Waycrosa.” Bald land vlll be sold ea the prop* arty of George 1 Walter.’ deceased, by undersigned, ns Administrator ef the Estate of Mid George Walters, for tie purpose of paying debts and for distri bution, under an order of the Court either wholesale or retail as they may wlih. (8) Your petitioners desire the right to bare and to own and to buy mad well, to lease and to rent and to mortgage or to take mortgages oa any and all real e«tate or personal property, or prop erty of anv kind what-aoevar. <•> Yaur petitioner* desire Ike right to above Mt out. sue sad to be aued and to do all other of Ordinary ef aald County, granted act* and things necesiary and u.ual - February 5tb, 1906, during the Feb- anJ proper la connection with tnd In ruarr term, 1006 of said Court, au- carrylng on any part of the business thorlxlrg said tale by undersigned Tbit April 2nd, 1906. ' .George Walter., Jr.. Administrator of George Walter., deceased Toomer and Reynolds, Attorney, for Georg. Walter*. Jr., Administrator. (10) The principal office and place business of Hid corporation ahull bt In the City of Waycrosn, War* Cennty Georgia, where Ibe said business la at present proposed to be carrrted on. Your petitioner* desire the rlgnt anJ privilege, however, that of Jolng bus iness at any other place either In or out of Mid state that they may desire, w ._ _ _ ...... 'Ware Superior Court. November term and also the right and privilege of. _ establishing branch oifices at an* , 1i '- Freeman vs. J. E. Freeman. Divorce. Llbsl For Divorce. other point either within or without the Mtd .tats, CU) Your petitioner* ask tha right and privtlegt to do and transact any and nil business and things which may bo Booaasary and usual and proper for the aucetafttl management of nay ana *1 ef th* said busInoM abort deter‘b. Wherefore petitioner* pray that ttoy ho mad* n body corporate an J. WALTER BENNETT. Atty. Defendant J. E. Freeman la hereby required personally or by attorney to be and appear at Superior Court to bo hold In and for aald county on first Monday In November next then and - - ‘o answer tho plaintiff! corn 's. for Divorce, aa la default there, of, th* court will proceed aa to Jus- u <* «t“U appertain. Wltaaaa tho He *- T. A. Parker, Judge of mM “art, Aprtl ninth. IHt E. j. BERRY, ' Mtav-a«k COUNTY OF WARE. STATE OF GEORGIA To the Honorable Philip Cook, Sec retary of State: The petition of W. H. Buchanan, George W. Deen, J. M. Cox, W. R. Beach,, BenJ. G. Parks, John T. My ers anJ J. S. Bailey, residents of the city of Waycross, said state and coun ty; C. W. Deen, resident of Baxley, said state, Appling county; C. G. Ed wards, of Savannah, said state and Chatham Aunty; J. E. Melton, at Blarney, said state, Appling, county; W. T. McArthur, and George M. Math ews, of VIdalia, said state and Toombs county, respectfully snows: Toombs county, respectfully shows: First. ! That they desire to form a railroad I corporation pursuant to the provis ions of the act of the General Assem bly of Georgia, approved December 20th, 1S92. I Second. ! The name of the railroad corpora tion for which petltloaiers thus seek Incorporation is to be, “The Way- cross, Baxley and VlJalia Railroad Company," the same not being the flame of any existing railway corpora tion In the State of Georgia. TnlrJ. The length of raid road as near as can be estimated, will be about fifty- five miles. ' Fourth. Said roaJ will run from Waycross, Ware county, Georgia, In a north-w< terlv direction, thence through las count1of Pierce and Appling cross- *ng the Atlanta, Birmingham and At lantic Railroad formerly the Atlantic and Birmingham railroad, at or near Alma. Appling county, thence by way of Baxley crossing the Southern Rail way *jt Baxley, Appling county and on by way of or near Blarney, Ap pling county to Vidalla Toombs coun ty, crc'cs the Altamaha River at or near Flney Bluff in said county. Fifth. The amount of proposed capital stock Is two hundred thousand ($200,000.00) dollars, In shares of one hundred ($100.00) dollars each, all oommon stock of equal dignity, with privilege to Increase to one million ($1,000,000.00) dollars. 81xth. Petitioners desire to be Incorporat ed as aforesaid for and during ths term of thirty (30) years. . 1 Seventh. The principal office of the proposed corporation will be In the City of Waycross, said state and county. Eighth. Petitioners do Intend In good faith to go forward without delay to se cure subscriptions to the capita] stock, construct, equip, maintain and operate said railroad. Ninth. Petit!oners show that they hare flren four weeks notice of their In tention to apply for a charter by pub lication according to law. Wherefore petitioners pray to be incorporated under tbs laws of Geor gia, with all the privilege! and Im munities Incident to like corporation! W. H. Buchanan. George W. Deen, J- M. Cox, W. R. Beach, BenJ. G. Parka, John T. Myers, J. S. Bailey, C. W. Deen, C. O. Edwards, J. E. Melton, W. T. McArthur, George M. Mathews. Myers 4k Parks, Petitioners Attorneys. Dissolution Notice. W. B. Taylor baring bougnt the in terest of S. V. Jeffords In tbs saw mil) business of the arm of Jeffords 4k Tay lor he assumes all liabilities of the firm a a, i all accounts due the firm should be paid to him. May 28, 1906. 29 It 4w. S. V. JEFFORDS. W. B. TAYLOR l ______ BOND ELECTION. To The Qualified Voters of The City Of Waycross. In pursuance of a resolution reg ularly adopted by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Waycross in meeting assembled, notice is hereby given that an election will be held In the City of Waycross on the 7th day of July, 1906, for the purpose of determining whether bonds shall be issued by the Mayor and Council of the City of Waycross as contemplated In said resolution and hereafter refer red to and described. The amount of the bonds to be Issued Is one hundred thousand ($100,000.00) dollars. The purpose for which said bonds shall be Issued are: 1. To (provide additional school facilities for the City of Waycross, to which purpose there shall be devoted of the proceeds of said bonds the sum off twenty five thousand (25*000^00) do’lars. 2. For the purpose of pacing the streets of said City, to which purpose Petition For Incorporation of "Way* creaa Hotel Company.** State of Georgia, County of Ware. To the Superior Court of said County. The petition of George R. Youmams, George W. Deen. J. M. Bell and Leon A. Wilson, all of said County, respect- fully shows: 1. That they desire for taemaelves, their associates, successors and as signs to become Incorporat^^mdef the name and style of tho "Wrcross Hotel Company." 2. The term for which petitioners ask to be Incorporated Is twenty (20) years with the privilege of renewal at the end of that time. 3. That the objects of the proposed corporation and tne particular bus iness they propose to carry on. are aa 'lows: To purchase a site In the City of Waycross for Hotel purposes; to erect thereon a modern and com modious hotel with such stores, of fices and other places of business in connection therewith as they may deem useful or necessary, and th© same to manage and operate, or lease to others, in whole or in part, Just as they may deem best. 4. The amount of capitol stock to be employed by your petitioners as the capital stock of said corporation will be one hundred thousand ($100,- 000.00) dollars divided into shares of one hundred ($100.00) dollars each. Petitioners further ask the privilege of increasing said capita] stock from therf shall be devoted of the proceeds of said bonds'the sum of forty thou- j ^ mo to time not exceeding In the eg- sand ($40,000.00) dollars. j gregate of two hundred thousand 3. For the extension of the water-1 ($200,000.00) dollars; and in addition mains and sewerage system in the ! to their said capital stock, or any In- City of Waycross, to which purpose crease capital stock as stated, your here shall be devoted of tho proceeds of said bonds the sum of tbirty-flvo thousand ($35,000.00) dollars. Said bonds shall bear Interest at the rate of five per cent, per annum from date of issue, payable semi an nually; the annual Interest of said petitioners desire and ask that said corporation be allowed at such tlm© or times as may be thought proper or necessary to borrow money and to Issue Its bonds therefor to be secured by a deed, mortgage or other lien on its property not to exceed in all th© sura of one hundred and fifty thou sand (150,000.00) dollars, such bonds to bear Interest at the rate of five per cent per annum, payable semi-annual ly and to be due and payable twenty (20) years after their Issue, the pro ceeds of which are to be applied to th© furtherance of Its said business and enterprise. The place ef doing bus iness by your petitioners* corporation Is and will be in the City of Waycross, Ware County, Georgia. 5. That twenty-five per cent, of aald capital stock of one hundred thousand $10^,000.00) dollars has already been bonds, to-wit: five thousand (5,000.00) dollars payable In semi-annual pay ments of twenty-five hundred ($2,500.- 00) dollars aa aforesaid, each year lor thirty (30) years. The principal amount of said bonds shall not become due and payable an nually, but only at the end of the per iod of thirty 1 (30) years from the date of the Incurring of said Indebtedness, at which time said bonds shall be fully paid off and the debt Incurred fully discharged. Said election shall be held at all: of the voting or election precincts within the limits of the City of Way- actually paid In. cross, and shall be held by the same | 6 - Wherefore your petitioned persons and In the same manner, un- * ha t they, their associates, sui der the rules and regulations that a &d assigns may be incorporated 1 elections for Mayor and Aldemen of J er the name, for the purpose, with said City are held. Those voting In the capital, place of business and for favor of bonds shall have written or the time as above set forth and that printed on their ballots the words they, their associates, successors and "For Bonds,” and those voting abainst a **Ign* may have conferred upon said bonds shall have written or, them all such other rights, powers and printed on their ballots the worfls privileges as are usual or Incident to "Against Bonds." ; such corporations and such as the law If the requisite two-thirds of the permits and sanctions In such cases, qualified voters of the City of Way- And your petitioner! will ever pray, cross at said election vote for said etc. LEON A. WILSON, bonds, then the Mayor and Council 1 Attorney for Petitioners, of the City of Waycross will Issue Petition for Incorporation filed la office this 6tb day of June, 1906. E. J. BERRY. Clerk Superior .Court, Ware Coon^ Georgia. The Governorship. said bonds In accordance with para graphs 1 and 2 Section 7 of Article 7 of the Constitution of the State of Georgia. AH of said bonds to be*thus issued and for the aggregate amount of one hundred thousand ($100,000.00) dollars In denominations of one thou sand ($1,000.00) dollars each shall be Wa . . . .. .... known, designated, classed, stamped, have been ,urveJ ' lDg the Issued, sold and paid as "School, al fleld Tery awfully, and we are not Street Paving, Water and Sewerage given to talking or writing at random, Bondi." They ihall be numbered from! but we do wlih to give, the reader* one to ono hundred Inclusive, shall I th „ . „ bear Intereit aa aforeiald, and each I" """ ‘ he beBeflt of our 01> • bond shall have attached to it an ln-| “ on b “ ed upon our '“™*‘**ation. It tereit coupon for twenty-five (325.00) | tttra no prophet to see from the prea- dollara for the amount of etch lcml ent trend of things that both Hoke annual payment of Interest on each bond, and ihall not be sold for leu than par. And the Mayor and Connell of the City of Waycrosa. will at or before Incurring tho said bonded In- Smith and Clark Howell are losing ground, and this was to bo expected. The people of Georgia have too much sense ana self respect to make them- debtedneai, provide for tho auess-! selves parties to a “mud slinging cam- ment and collection of an annual tax of ($3,333.33) dollars for thirty (30) palgn," and the friends of each of year* for tha purpose of paying the j tbe,e “ n<u ’l» t *» * re falling away from principal of raid bonded Indebtedness, J them, and In consequence the race and a like assesiment and collection for the Governorship Is now practical- of an annua! tax of five thousand (15.- ,» betw«n J u r-.ini ... 000.00) dollar* for thirty (30) yean to 1 J ' a E,tl " “ d JadBe Hl "- I any rate, by th* tha* th* ex- ettement la an nver, thejwckinghou* tmployM will understand what cus pidors are for. <• pay the Interest at tho rate of live per cent, per annum upon said In debtedness. Said sums ho arising from said assesiment and collection of an anneal tax being sufficient In amount to pay the principal and In- temt of raid debt within thirty (30) year* from tno date of the Incurring of said Indebtedness. A. M. KNIGHT. Mayor, B. H. WILLIAMS, T. J.McCLELLAN, A. 8. MORTON, JA8." KNOX, J. A. LOTT, Aldermen of the City of Wkycroca. J. W. STRICKLAND, Clerk of ConncU. Isn’t It shoot tlm* w* were "getting the troth” about the Panama Canal again? Sorely much truth must hare acumulated since we were handed th* Mat batch. sell, with Estlll largely In the lead. It seems that Hoke Smith and Clark Howell are both cooling down, and hedging, but the "dye" has been caat, and the people are tired of them. While they are both able men, Hoke Smith haa ruined himself by taklni unreasonable views oa dlsfranc! meat and against capital brought Into the state, and going soul and body to Tom Watson, and Howell and Smith both have "long mnd”nntil their names are "Dennis." Th* 8outh Georgia candidate will he Georgia’s next Governor. Get on th* Estlll band wagon nod you will not lose your vot*. Mark the prediction. aktng ehla^a belnjM : iv. i Brunswick la making war oe the mosquito. Nothing wll he allowed to stand In the way at Brunswick'* pr» 1 •• - *