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H. C. SEAMAN
The Leading Clothier
Waycross Evening Herald
OFFICIAL- organ of, waycross anl. ware county and county board of education
VOLUME XVI
WAYCROSS GA. SATURDAY MAY 22 1909
NUMBER 293
STEPS TAKEN TO
PREVENT ORDER
GOVERNOR WILL PREVENT INTER
FERENCE OF TRAINS ON
GEORGIA RY.
Atlanta, May 22.—Governor Smith
has ordered several of the sheriff's
along the line of the Georgia railroad
to take all steps necessary to preserve
order and to prevent any Interference
COMPOSITION PRIZE
SOON REWARDED
TWELVE THOU8AND GEOGIA
SCHOOL CHILDREN ENTERED
CONTEST.
Atlanta, Ga., May 22.—-(Special)
State School Commissioners, Jere M.
Pound has passed upon the composi
tions written on "The Value of Cotton
Seed Products as a Hmua*, Animal
and Plant Pood” by the school children
with trains or employes at towns |of Georgia for the $100 in gold of-
MOORE POT OUT
FOR GOVERNOR
NEW LIBERAL PARTY, UNDER SID.
NEY TAPP, NAMES CANDIDATE.
{GORMAN REPLIES !SIX AOTOS WILL
TO OONN CARD! LEAVE FOR MACON
along the road. This action by the
state's chief executive is in connec
tion with the strike now on among
the white firemen of that railway. The
Governor’s orders were Issued by
wire from Fitzgerald, where Friday
morning the report of President T. K.
Scott found him, advising him that the
railroad officials hud reason to reat
trouble at the following places, where
demonstrations are said to have been
made against ihe negro firemen whom
the railroad Is putting on in places
of the white men: Thomson, Bearing,
Camak, Union Point, Buckhead and
Ltthonla. The governor's order to the
sheriffs states expressly that It Is
without reference to the causes of the
controversy.
The Evening Herald reaches every
section of the city and there are very
fered by the Cotton Seed Crusher's
association of Gcorgiu, and they will
next be passed upon by State Chemist
K. E. Stallings, who is another of tho
stJte Judges selected to pass upon
them for final award. When he has
made his selections the compositions
Atlanta, May 22.—On Saturday at
noon a new candidate for governor,—
the first. In fact, for the shoes of
Governor-elect (yet) Joseph M. Brown,
—will step Into the political arena of
Georgia, when the Liberals, headed by
the redoubtable Sidney Calhoun Tapp,
ol Atlanta during the last presidential
campaign, will put Charles J. Moore,
the Atlanta lawyer, into the field for
chief executive of Georgia. In room
HM of tho Kimball, in Atlanta the
s ine evening, there will be another
{meeting of the party to effect a Btata
ganlzation, name an executive com-
JURY LIST MATTER 8TILL UNDER ,
DISCUSSION.
HO PARTY PULLS OUT FROM
WAYCROSS AT 10 TOMORROW.
Editors Herald:
I see in your issue of the 20th Inst,
a reply from Mr. Bunn to my card of
•nt date. Allow me to thank Mi
Bunn for his, suggestions to put Mr.
Blackburn and myself on the next
bo-ird of Jury revlf>l«*iiyrs. I can
will be sent lu Dr. A. M. Soule. Pres- | nilUee> an<l ondor8 „ tlll . candi<Iat0 . Mr .
!,L.nt of the 3tme Agricultural College | JIoore whonl (h „ cancu , w(|)
the slate at noon.
at Athens, who will make his selec
tion. Of those selected by these
three, four winners will be picked and |*be conditions. All children were ad*
these four will be awarded $60, $25, |njftted and the only restriction was
$16 and $10, respectively. Their (that the compositions should not b«
names and addresses will be anounc- over 750 words in length.
d at the annual meeting of the Co«*
ton Seed Crushers’ Association o!
Georgia at Atlantic Beach, Fin., on
June 14 and 15.
It is estimated that 12,000 children
Each teacher was asked to select
from all the compositions written in
that school the three bast. These
three were sent from each school to
(he State School Commissioner, and
j Six automobiles, carrying many of
the most prominent citizens of Way-
cross and Ware county, will leave this
‘city at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning
fin- Douglas. Fitzgerald and Macon
on a "pathfinder” trip In connection
with the Atlnnta Constitution's auto
mobile race and the good roads move
ment which seems to bo general
over the state.
The party will he composed of mem
hers of the city council, members of
in Georgia entered this contest. Early ihe was Instructed to send to Stat<^
in February the county school coni- School Commissioner Pound tho one
few houses In which It is not a wet- j missioners were sent out notices of the J »»«*«( from his county. These were re-
com visitor. Advertise in the Her- Jcontest by Fielding Wallace, of Au- jcelved on April 10th and have been
aid and subscribe for the same, then' RUst j W |th leaflets to be distributed passed upon. A similar contest whs
retire and enjoy that, refreshing j n eac i, school | n the county, giving Inaugurated last year and met with
slumber to which you will he entitled. t | le gufiject, the amount of prizes and similar wide-spread Interest.
speak for myself that I am not seek
ing the Job mid would not accept it
unless I could have th** assurance
that I could have (he co-operation of
the bald nee of the board In that If
we have anything .taring u. In the ,"' e W “ r " cu, " ,ty eommlwtawr..
face Hint ha. tho .Grounding, and "" ot lhe W * ycro “ •to*"' ° f Trad °
circumstance, connected with It that and prominent cltl.cn. or tho city,
those hang cases did In regard to onr ! Mr ' J ' B - Cameron ' Proprietor of an
county being able to furnish a Jury nmomobne ««"«« here. I. taking
lo try them, that we will have tho Io ‘" l " ,g part ln 11,0 a °°" ro “ d " m °™-
rlght and privilege of pulling at least mt ' n ' 1,1,11 ,or ,lle ,r| P bo * lnn 'n* *o-
50 per cent or the 1,700 names we mom,w haH ,lo,,a ' ed for tho “* e ot
would have to select from. In Ihe Jury , Wa >c™»« cltfken. iwo Bulck and one
ox. for If 1 understand th rog. nn0 ™ n - Mr Calvl » w «
Hinting the revisions of the Jury box ,™".panled by Alderman C. M. Sweat,
you can put every man's name In the < wl " n,alin n,e lr| P h,a “*>• Tbo
box that , appear, on the tax digest | "* rt ' V be J° lned b >’ "> 8 “™
If yon consider him endowed with a | a * l ' n,r,ax ’ "mhlng »rx cars In the
aufflclency dt uprightness and Intolll " roce **' on ,rom 'Vaycross.
gence for a Juryman. Th,! partJr wl " B ° dlrcct to
•king dinner at that place, leaving In
l he early afternoon for Fitzgerald
place of Sir. Bunn and his associates A , , t ,, „ 1|lt „ ve or
lu Ihe last revision of the Jury box led with ottlclals and cltl-
I would conic out In the public prints
nbove the signature of nil the four
coiumlssloncrs that participated in the
Inst revisions and say that the matter
or (hose .being extraordinary cibch,
it id .not ooanvto our minds, ani
if there wan au error committed It
was an error of the head and not of
the heart. I only suggest tills In order
thnt they may be able to place them-
Ives in a more satisfactory posi
tion before tho public bh 1 look upon
them as four good citizens of our
county and would be pleased to see
them exonerate themselves liefore the
balance of the citizens of our county
for the public feels that hh matters
now stands, they are resting under a
cloud.
Now ^ trust that Mr. Bunn can take
kind consideration of this matter
and feel that I am not seeking him
any Injury before the public and not
zeris bf thnt place, will Join the Way-
cross party.
Flt/gerald will be Reached late In
he afternoon. At 7:30 Monday morn-
tfg the Waycross and Douglas auto-
les Will b^.(plneillb» gfrJesst 16
front Fltzgorald. the trip being
continued on to Macon, arriving at
hat'city Monday evening. Here the
South Georgians will be met by a large
number of automoblllsts from Atlan
ta and Albany, and at night u meet*
lug or utitoniolilllsts will bo held for
the purpose of discussing routes for
the series of races to be held through
out the state In November next.
Early Tuesday morning the South
leoi-gia automoblllsts will start
he homeward trip, scconipnnled by
the A Hunt i autos. The North Geor
gia cars will divide probably nt Cor-
dele, some .going over the various
roads to Albnny while others will
undertake to throw off on mo my aug- Jhoad to Jacksonville by the way of
ge.tlng tbBt I he placed on the next : Tlflon and Valdosta and by PltxgcraM.
Board of Revisors.
Your truly,
E. L. Gorman.
Douglas and Waycross.
Tho principal object of the trip Is
to determine the best automobile
route between Atlanta and Jackson-
W. A A. RAILROAD SUED 3"* T, ' t ° n ""' l V *““ te " a PU '
FOR »50,0C0 BACK TAXES. i 1,na *<* a »'* lu . road *>"» ,b « 0Mr ‘
!g!a Southern llailrond, and Fitzgerald,
Atlanta, May 22.—Suit for back tax-1
« upon its rolling stock, estimated at
between $60,000 and $75,000, will he
entered In superior court within the
next few days against the loesses of
the Western and Atlantic railroad by
tho stae of Georgia through Attorney
Douglas and Waycross wnnt the road-
through this section.
COMMISSION DECLINES REQUEST
j Atlanta, May 22.—The railroad com*
• mission has declined the request of
„ . _ .. . , , .the Abbeville and Northwestern rail-
General John C. Hart and apeclal
... . „ ... road company for authority lo Isaue
counsel Murphy Condlor and Hooper .
i $800,000 of stock. The commission
Alexander.
considered that an Issue of $800,000
i of 5 per cent bonds and $100,000 com-
COVEfiNOR APPOINTS jmon stock would bo sufllctcht for tho
BOARD OF VISITOR construction of the road.
Atlanta, Ga., • May 22.—Governor junior Order Kings Daughters Wars
• • Smith has Just onounced tho follow- j Entertalnsd.
Ing appointments to the bosrd of visit- f The members of the Junior Order of
era for the Academy for the Blind:, j Kings Daughters were aelightfully en
at Macon: Judge W. M. Clements, jt»rfslncd at the home of Dr. and Mrs.
Eastman; T. E. Fletcher, Forsyth; J. R- P. J*>r, on Gilmore street last of-
K. Mercer, Fitzgerald; 8. J. Tyson, cnfng. There were between 30 si>r
Swslnsboror; J. C. Barren. Gray; F. f 40 yonng people present. The yard
8. Hale, Smlthvtlle; L. Q. Stubbs, Dub- was decorated with Japanese lanterns
lin; Rev. 1C C. J, Dlcklns, Vfdalta; and many garnet were played. Dell*
Dr. J F. Lunsford, Preston and Dr. clous refreshments were served dor
W. \V Lee, Gordon lug the evening.
-*• ? -v. >i
ORDINARIES MAY GET FEE8
FROM NEAR BEER TAXE8.
Atlanta, May 22.—In his report for
the year 1 DOS. Just completed, Attorney
al Hart recommends that the re
gistration set of last year, bo amended
ovldc for holding special elec
prior to the first general election
In 11*1 P. Tile act made no provision
for speeiul elections oeforo that gen*
eral election, and a great deal of con
fusion lots iilrtcdy resulted.
The attorney general also rccom-
mnds thnt ordinaries be allowed soma
sort of remuneration for their services
In collecting the near beer taxes if
thiB duty continues vested in them
In the future. The report embodies all
the opinions rendered by tho attorney
general during the Tear, and shows
that a great deal of work was accom
plished by the state's counsel depart
ment.
GOVRNOR APPOINTS
8UCCE880R TO MORRI8.
Atlanta, Ga., May 22.—Tho resigna
tion of Judge N. A. Morris from the
board of trustees of the state normal
school at Athens has been received by
Governor Smith, and James A. Bag-
well, editor of The Marietta Courier
has been named to succeed him.
GOV. SMITH OFFER8
REWARD FOR KIDNAPPING.
Atlanta. Ga., Governor Smith has
offered a reward of $250 for the ap
prehension of the alleged kidnappers
who are believed to have stolen the
8-year-old daughter of Charles Boyd,
n prosperous farmer who lives near
Kiberton. The little girl disappeared
several days ago.
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New 6-room houses near A. C. L.
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