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VOLUME XIX
AYCROSS
WAYCROSS,. GA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER £2,-1911
NUMBER 1
AS KILLED BY
IN WIFE’S PRESENCE
- Fruit Grower Killed In
Florida--Green Was
Wounded
Tampa, Fla., Nov. 21.—C. F. Perry,
a fruit grower, was killed, and T. W.
Green wounded In a gun battle today
near {ValaUa, Lake county, Florida,
which resulted from the deceased be
ing overtaken in the woods with the
six-months’ bride of T. H. Pantiey,
Jr., by the angry husband ana the
young woman’s father.
Pantiey, it - is said, had for some
time suspocted that the Intentions of
Perry, a neighbor, toward his young
wife were not as they should have
been.
When the husband returned to his
home this morning after an absence
of several hours he found his bride
absent. He immediately told her fath
er, T. W. Green, of Ills suspicions
and tho two armed themselves and
started in pursuit.
Perry and Mrs. Pantiey wore over
tyken in the woods. Perry nought
cover behind a tree and opening fire
with a revolver shot the young wom
an’s father in tho wrist, missed. Pant-
ley and then shot Green iq the side.
As Green fell to the ground he shoe
Perry twice. As Perry fell, Pantiey
discharged both barrels of his shot
gun. into his prostrate body. Perry
ed before medical attention could
be summoned. Pantiey and Green
have not been arrested.
ahass meeting the city council
AT COURT HOUSE
MAYOR J. M. COX’S CALL
For Meeting Of The Regis
tered Voters For To
morrow Night
Waycross, Ga., Nov. 22, 1911.
In pursuance of a resolution adopted
by the Mayor and Council of the City
of Waycross a masg meeting of the
qualified, registered voters of the Citv
of Waycross is hereby called to con
eno, at the Court House In the City
of Waycross on Thursday, November
23rd, 1811, at 7:30 o’clock p. m., for
tho purpose of electing an Executive
Cpmmittee for the City of Waycros3
and arranging for the call of a prima
ry for the nomination of a Mayor and
three Aldermen and three members of
the Board of Education, and for the
purpose of transacting such other bus
iness as may be' pertinent and ger
mane to the purposes for which said
meeting was called. No one other
than a qualified registered voter of
the City of Waycross will be author
ized to take part in said meeting.
John M. Cox, Mayor.
22 2t
PUBLIC SPEAKING.
Harry D. Reed, candidate for mayor,
will speak at the band stand on Fri
day evening November 24th at 7:30
o’clock,,Everybody invited. The Way-
cross Band will furnish music. 21 4*.
MET LAST NIGHT
REGISTRARS • NAMED
To Purge Registration List
Other Matters Before
Council
GREAT JOE BROWNS
RALLY IN ATLANTA
IINGIZER AGAIN TWO ROYS PERISH
UNDER ARREST INTHEELAMES
OCCURRED LAST NIGHT BUFFALO OFFICER HERE
‘Little Joe” Attended The
Meeting And Was Given
Great Ovation
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 22.—The
Brown rally at the Grand Opera House
last night was by long odds the most
The City Council met last night in
regular session, Mayor John M. Cox,
Aldermen Moore, LeCount, Sinclair,
Parker, Dunn and Brewer being pres- j enthusiastic meeting of the present
ent. j campaign fur governor and wW hard-
The matter of appointing a board of jly be surpassed by any other meeting
registras to purge the registrtion list ; held anywhere In the state thlU year
was appointed as follows: T. J. Mc
Clellan, Dan Lott and W. W. Sharpe,
Fully 2,000 voters were crowded Into
the opera‘house.
Jr. . Governor Brown himself appeared
l the stand and addressed Ills en-
the registration books against the jthusiastic supporters. lie was given
tax books. a jyeat ovation as he was introduced
Mr. W. J. Smith appeared before | to tho largo audience by Governor
Council and asked for an endorsement |john ,M. Slaton In a brief but effec-
from that body of a sanitary milk c*v» tlve speech. Judgo James L. Ander-
top ho recently Invented. Tfie city isou presided nifd Introduced the var-
health officer and a number of other j ious other speakers,
physicians had already endorsed the ) Judge Hopkln’s Talk,
invention. The Council voted to givo J Almcct rivaling tho interest of the
Mr. Smith nn endorsement. great crowd in Governor Brown him-
Tho Mayor and Council accepteZran j self was that felt In the appearance
Invitation to attend the openlhg of of the venerable Atlanta jurist, Judgo
tho Hazzard Hill high school on to* John L. Ilopkins. The dean oi I ho
morrow. Tho colored people of the J Georgia bar, co rccogulzod In his so-
city have a building that will cost lection by tho state legislature on iv/o
about $5,000 when completed. They occasions to prepare a code of lav/s
of the stale of Georgia, mado a won
derful appeal to tho audience to up
hold tho letter and spirit of tho law.
Ho lamented the appearance In the
political ring, at wal'd meetings an1
have arranged a program' foi* the oc
casion and hope to raise at least $500
for their building during the rally.
The committee to investigate tho
r factory proposition asked for
more time to make ft report on the
offermadeby Architect Scfiuremftn.
A Look at The New Fait Clothes,
Shoes, Hats
and Furnishings
Will Convince You That
You can get as good goods
and as nice Styles as are
Shown in the larger cities
The Prices Are Much Less.
H. C. SEAMAN.
NEW LINE OF LADIES, MISSES
AND CHILDRENS SHOES COMING
4
IN EVERY DAY. ALL THE LATEST
STYLES AND ANLL THE LATEST
on tbe stump, of a member of the
court of appeals of tho State of Geor
gia. His opening reference to Judgo
Russell caught the attention of tho
vast audience, and he held It while ho
discussed tho spirit of the i an .,' M ! They hood no «ot purse, no wmrdlan.
embraced In tho federal art state Th< ”' nood onl ’ r t0 bo told th0 truU >:
And Will Leave For Buffalo
With The Prisoner
Tonight
John SliiglzeV, Who wac recently ar
rested on advices from BufTdloT ftew
York, but wbo was releaued In habeas
corpus proceedings, is again under
arrest. This morning Officer Kern,
of Buffalo, N. Y., arrived hefo and
soon bad Singizer under arrest,
prevent uny trouble In carrying the
prisoner out of the Stnte, Mr. Kern
is armed with requistion papers.
Since his rcleaso Singizer has been
at work in the Coast Lino shops. The
charge against him in Buffalo is aban
doning bis family. Mr. Kern will
lenvo with the prisoner for Buffalo
tonight.
ry upon tho issue whereon ho assorts
candidacy is based. And their
zealous partisans have bodily proclaim
lielr belief that If tho people aro
ved to vote upon this Jssue cer
tain iaieorata would corrupt tho bal
lot box and debauch the electorate of
tho stato.
"My fellow cltlzeus, that Is a chargo
which Is personal to each of you- Do
you admit that you aro so. debased, so
lost to all senst» of responsibility and
honor?' llinve never believed it and
spurn tho -charge. I stand today
here I have over stood. I plant my-
solf on ground from which I will never
rocede—that the people of Goorgia
should never bo denied nor curtailed.
I baso ray public life on tho common
senso and conscience of tho olectorarb.
WHEN HOME BURNS
Were As'eep On Second
Floor When The House
Caught Fire
Anderson, S. C., Nov. 21.—Brooks
Wilson, aged 14, and Joe Sherard,
aged 1G, members of influential and
prominent families of Abbeville coua
ty were burned to death at 2 o'clock
this morning, when the home of Wal
ter Wilson, in the Warrenton section
of that county, was totally destroyed
by fire.
The young men had been to Abba
villo court house, five miles distant, to
attend an attraction at the opora
houBo. They returned to the WllBon
homo about midnight and went to bod
in a room oft tho second floor..
At 2 o’clock Walter Wilson, who oc
cupied a room on the first floor, was
awakened, by the blaze. Ho managod
to get the occupauts of tho first floor
out in safety, but tho fire had made
such headway on tho Btalrway that he
could not get upstalrB to urouBo young
Wilson and Sherard. Mr. Wilson ran
Into the yard and hurled rocks against
tho windows of tho room occupied by,
tho young men, hoping in this way
to warn them of the fire, but his ef
forts wero of no avail.
constitutions. The whole pufposo of
ftio framers of these constitutions, ho
said, was to remove tho judgo on ths
bench from the influence of passion
and prejudice, to set him, as It were,
apart.
For a judgo to tempor.irlly doff the
official ermine, and ‘ontor into 'fie
maelstrom of politics ns a seeker for
another office, was repugnant to hU
idoas of good tasto and the eternal
and it Is an insult to the manhood of
each when, eveH by indirection, a
promlso is made Which the promisor
knows is impossible of fulfillment by
him.
Brown Reduced FreiuHt Rates.
( “l am willing to face you on thd
record I liavo mado. As a railroad
commissioner, I aided in reducing
freight rates moro than $2,000,000 in
such n manner ns brought no shock
ntness of tilings, said tho venerable | l ° corporation. I was ibo state'.'
j udge ! arbitrator for tho determination of
Governor Brown'. Remarks. " ,0 value of two ra " road »' » nd ° n °
'"Old men for counsel, young meJ. olhor corl,ora,lon ’ wlth tl10
for notion'. Such I. tho saying th«t| ,hat moro tl,an * 2 ' 500 ' 000 w * r “ add « d
has como down to us through the ■ 10 11,0 tax
I "I domurred to (he reduction or pa*.
' eenger fares on two of tbe rallroiNs
to 2 I t cents per mile, lin'd my Jtldo-
ages," said Governor Brown, In be
ginning. “But tonight the young men
or Atlanta, In blrnglng together this
vast assemblage of those who ‘do
things’ have shown that In counsel
they are peers of tbe elders.
•f .would bo untruo to the supremo
duty of manhood wore I to fall to er
preis my profound appreciation of tne
generous consideration and tbe spirit
of patriotic cooperation which has re-
sponded to the call of those noble,
young Georgians to hear tbe words, of
the..gifted sods of eloquence who,
while pleading my cause, assert also
the right, of the soverlgu people.
“Abovo all pretexts, for candidates,
however, standi the soverlgnty of tho
people. There Is no issue greater
than the unrestricted rights of the
people to rule. And linked to that
right, I. the enforcement of all the
laws, and contemptuously the discard
Ing of dummies and the ahelvlng of
shams.
Opponents Unfair to People
"The protest I make tonight, tbe
protest embodied In my candidacy, is
thnt > my disttngnlsbad opponents are
cot treating the people fairly. Each
arfugntes to himself a moral walght
which can only be fbund in the bal
lots of the electorate. Each declares
that the white' people should not be
| allowed to votn in tht pending pritna-
A CARD EROM
OR. WALKER
ment was subsequently vindicated by
the enlarged railroad commlaaton,
which railed the rate! to 2 1-2 cents
per mile, tho flgures I recommeudes,
Tax Values Show Incraate.
"In tho campaign preceding my elec
tion ns governor, I plead for a policy
of peace and of equal juatlco to ludl-
vlduali ahd corporatloni. During the
two yeare of my term with which I
waa honored, the tax raiuea of th«
state Increased 222,(74,228, tho total
returns reaching the top-notch in the
history of the atata.
"And, llluatratlng the general re
sults of a policy of. pence, let me add
that when I waa chosen In the primary
In 1908 tbe price of turpentine, one of
8outb Georgia'a chief producta,’ was
37 cents par gallon, and In dune, 1911,
It waa 21.07 por gallon.
"It is also pleasing to note that the
two winters covered by my administra
tion wore the only ones during the
past forty years within which the
price of cotton In Oeorgtn did not go
below 10 cento per pound,
"The value of thou flgures la pet-
nonal to no man, hut they Undoubted
ly vindicate the policy of peace, im
partial protection, co-or>oratlon and
construction.
(Continued on Page 1.)
Waycross, Cn., Nov. 22, 1911.
Mr. T. H. Calhoun,
President Wnro CotiMy Pope Brown
Club, Bench, Os.
Dear Sir:—
I notice from tho Journal of yeiter-
day that I bad been elected Vice-Tree,
idont of your organisation In Ware
count
As I am taking no active part In
Stnte politics, thle year, 1 beg to be
excused from participating In your
deliberations. While I appreciate the
honor you have'conferred upon me, I
cannot do more than exordso my
right ns' n citizen 1c the approaching
State primary by cnstlng my vote for
the man whom 1 believe will sorvd
the best Interests of the people.
Yours very truly,
J. L. WALKER,
There are several hundred vagrant*
In Waycroaa, white tan and black, of
nil ages, and they should be Introduc
ed to some useful occupation.
Dr. Nanney, eye, ear and noae, nil
Ml week nt Redding's drug store.
Eyee tested for glassee. 22 2t
Real Estate
Renting
and
Fire
Insurance
A.M.Knight
&Son
Phone 266
LaGrande Bldg.
