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The Waycross Journal
PUBLISHED TWICE-A-WEEK.
VOL. VII-NO. 71.
WAYCROSS, GA., TUESDAY. JUNE ‘24, 1902.
$1.00 A YEAR
BE JUDGE
He is a Strong Applicant
Has a Petition With Almost the Entire
City's Endorsement.
Col. A. E.Cochran iB nn appli
cant for the unexpired term of
judge of this circuit caused by the
resignation of Judge Bennet.
Col. Cochran has the endorse
ment of almost the entire city of
Waycross. He circulated a peti
tion umong his friends yesterday
and by four o’clock nearly four
hundred names were signed to it
His friends among the lawyers
have all written Governor Can
dler asking for his appointment
Col. Cochran hus a thorough
knowledge of law, having practic
ed it a number of years, lie has
been successful in his practice and
is considered one of the best in
the circuit. He is a gentleman of
the old school with all that im
plies and his appointment would
please Waycross people. His
chances for appointment are con
sidered good.
It is not known when the ap
pointment will he made, but
within a very few days, as Judge
Bennet goes out July 1.
REFRESHMENTS TO BE SFRVED.
Ladies of Grace Church will be at
Rifle's Next Drill.
The Rifles will hold their regu
lar monthly drill and inspection
next Thursday night.
The ladies of Grace Episcopal
Church will furnish refreshments
on that occasion. They hnve pre
pared an elaborate program for
the evening aud some of the best
local talent will take part in the
exercises.
The drills have proved very pop
ular since the ladies of the differ
ent churches took ohurge of the
programs and refreshments.
The Care of Roses.
After the seasou of blooming is
past the rose-plants require but
little care. They have labored
and earned their rest. However,
nuy seed-vessels should be care
fully picked off. So long as the
plants are in bloom water muBt be
given freely, afterward the stirr
ing of the surface of the ground,
so ns to keep it always loose and
free from weeds, will be the sum-
total of the culture requirements.
The “budding” of roses for the
multiplication of a rare variety is
done in July and August, The
little bud which is taken in the
way described in the horticultural
text-books is inserted into the
stock by cutting the bark of the
latter and slipping the bud under
neath it. It is one of the things
much more easy- to say than to tell
aboilt. If mildew has injured the
ONE LOAD SHOT
HIT BOTH MEN.
Serious Shooting Affair Near Bunn’s
Still on The River.
John and Dave Nettles were
shot by unknown parties Satur-
day night a week ago at the old
Coleman place across the river
near Bunn's still.
It had been reported that a man
named Anderson, who moved from
Florida some time ago, was liviiq
in a criminal relation with his sis
ter. The Nettles boys went to An
derson’s house the night of tin
shooting to investigate the matter
and while standing on the poreh
of the house were tired upon.
Only one load of buckshot was
fired. Part of the charge entered
Dave Nettles’ arm and tile rest
struck John’s spine, causing pa
ralysis.
Drs. Bngley and Friar were
called to the scene and gave the
wounded men every possible at
tention. Dave's wounds were
painful but not at all serious
John waB dangerously wounded,
but has been rapidly improving
ami it is thought that ho will re
cover.
The men are brothers and have
large families.
Our Lax Food Laws.
The average American has alum
dant opportunities to eat the peck
of dirt, which, according to the
old proverb, is nlloted to every
mortal as part of his diet in this
wicked world.
As a people we are apt to resent
sumptuary legislation in every
form but the need of legislative
protection against food adultera
tions must be admitted by every
impartial citizen who hus read the
reportB of any real investigation
of this subject. Inquiries have
been instituted by both state and
national authority and have ill-
varibly revealed the fact that the
adulteration of food is carried on
in this country systematically to
a disgusting and dangerous extent.
We are fond of bragging of the
particulars in which we lend all
other nations. It is quite certain
that in this respect we are quite
without a rivnl among civilized
nations.
There is'a long list of articles of
common consumption which we
are never aura of getting pure be
cause only a very small proportion
nf the entire quantity of them
sold in this country is unadulter
ated.
All food adulterations are not
dangerou, shut they are all frauds
against which tho unsuspecting
citizen should be protected. A
very large number of them con
tain elements which are injurious
ey are so shrewdly
disguised that u chemical analysis
is required to detect them.
England, Caunda, France, Ger
many, and almost every other
high class country lias very rigid
laws for the prevention of tho
adulteration of articles of food
aud heavy penalties for any im
position upon the purchaser of
L
THE LINE OF THE B. & W. RY.
Lands and Morals are Rapidly lmproving*“Millwood
and Pearson' Coming to the Front.
SUCCUMBED TO
BRIGHT’S DISEASE.
Mr. Luther Miller, of favannati. Died
Si ddenly- Brother of Mr. W
A. Miller, of Waycross.
Mr. Luther C. Miller died in Sa
vannah Thursday and was buried
horn Sunday morning.
Mr. Miller had been in Park
vi«\v Sanitarium for about four
works prior to his death. He had
almost, reeoverrd and intended
paying a visit to his brother, Mr.
\V. A. Miller, at this place, last
Saturday. Thursday when his
Without a personal inspection At Pearson the writer found a
of the country districts of Ware • team to take him out to Henajah
and adjoiningeounties.it is not! Mills settlement, where a large
possible to form any just con-! picnic was in progress. Mr. Mills
eeption of the progress of agricul-1 and his neighbors hold this picnic
tural iuerest in this section of | anaunlly and it brings together I physician called on him ho thought
Georgia. the cleverest set of people a man | him much improved. About an
ever got in company with. A bean-! hour afterwards Mr. Miller’s nurse
tiful grove on tile aide of a hill, I culled ill Hie doctor, who found
near the creek, a speaker’s stnnd |,im suffering with acute Bright’s
with an organ and good singing,! disease, lie telegraphed Mr. W. A.
several speeches, and then a dill- 1 Miller at once of his brother’s se
ller table piled up so high with j rinus illness. At J :30 that after-
good things that you cannot see noon Mr. Miller received a 111ns-
nernss to the other side. !sage tlmt his brother was dead.
And the ladies see that nil the I Mr. Miller held an important
men ure well served. They realize ! position at Foye A Eckstein’s in
that men are best when woll led Savannah, and was considered one
foilage, the bushes should be
Bprnyed with a mixture of ker
osene and water, or, better still, a
solution that does not have freesuch articles. In this country the
alkali; thisjis also effectual against | practice of adulterating food pro-
insects, and will keep the foilage' ductB prevails to an extent that ia
healthy. July Woman’s Home: unknown elsewhere and pays so
Companion. jwell that it has become one of the
'most profitable of all our indus-
When a woman finds fault with tries. It is passing strange that
all the clothes she has, it is a sign the legislatures of our states and
she is pretending she has so much - the national congress continue so
money that all she’s got to do is indifferent to a wrong and a peril
to buy more. , that affect almost every household
in the land.
Summer girls don’t have to be
good at ping-pong or anything else There’s such a thing us dry bu-
in thst line as long as they are up mor but there is uolhing humor-
to the old etanderd in flirting. ous abont a drought.
A Jot’BNAi, reporter has just
returned from a trip through cer
tain sections . f Ware and Collet
counties. The writer had known
this section twenty years ago when
the deep, dark forests of pine cov
ered the lands and only a hut
here and there, and a bunch ul
sheep or cattle were present to in
ilk-ale the habitation of man.
It is all changed, and the trail
sition from pine forests to fair
•fields of verdant growth of fruit
ing crops is so marked and rapid
that within a decade more Wire-
grass Georgia will liavo ns many
broad fields in cultivation as any
other part- of Georgia.
At Millwood Mr. J. M. Hodges
informed the reporter that with
in a radius of three miles of that
place, there were eighty-four film
ilies settled oil farms of from 110
to 250 acres of cultivated laud.
Millwood long ngo was known
as the “toughest” place on the
Brunswick and Albany railroad.
Nearly everybody along the line
has heard the story of the drum
mer, whom Capt. Crovatt put oil'
nt Millwood.
The drummer was over half
drunk and Capt. Crovatt, who
was one of the two passenger con
ductora running on tho road at
that time, called for his fare and
nsked him where he wu9 going.
The drummer replied in a reckless
manner “'m—hic-going to Hell.”
The Captain could get no fur
ther response from him and put
him off at Millwood.
He carried hie sample cases in
to a little grog shop aud his reck
less demeanor soon found resent
ment. it was not hard to find re
sentment anywhere along the B.
& A. in those days, especially at
Millwood.
The result was that the drum
mer got himself well-flogged and
in order to get nway alive, beat a
hasty retreat down the railrond
track, leaving his sumple cases be
hind. He flagged the liret trait
and got aboard. He was tt or-
oughly sober and he told Capt.
Henry Taylor that he had enough
of “Hell.”
But Millwood is an Arcadia now.
It iB peaceful and quiet und its
people are wholesoul and clever
and if von go among them they
do their utmost to muke you wel
come.
There are several good stores in
the place and they all appear to do
a good business. Messrs. A. A.
Walden, J. M. Hodges, J. J. Har-
aml they make no allowance for
dyspeptics. Mr. Mills acls as
host of tliu occasion with Messrs.
I.evv Moore, Duncan Smith, Mica-
jsh Vickers, t he Searses, Corbetts,
and others as assistants. Mr. A.
Pallnord and his pretty daughter
are usually on hand to furnish the
music while the Misses Mills uro
the grucious hostesses of tho oc
casion.
It is always a pleasant place to
visit, for no trouble ever occurs
and good will and good cheer
abound to the dolightof the orowd
At Pearson the writer found a
great change from the Pearson of
a year ago. lip to tlint time the
town wus ufllicted with a gang of
insufferable rowdies who reuderod
tho nights hideous and the days
iinsufo for mankind.' But the
gang lias had its day and rowdy
ism lias passed away aud there
now not a more peaceable
of the best salesmen in the South.
He was of a genial nalurealid lutd
a large circle of friends.
He was forty-two years old at
tile time of his dentil. He visited
Waycross twice in the lust lew-
years and hud many friends here.
COMMITTEE MEETING.
Southern Nut Growers Association
Called to Meet In Macon.
A committee of the Southern
Nut Growers’ Association hus been
appointed to meet nt the Rrown
House, Mncon, July 15.
The chief feature of the meeting
is to plan for a general conven
tion and selecting the time und
place for it.
They will also discuss tho na
ture nnd extent of tho Assoeiu-
comnninity tilting the B. & W. I tion's work,
read than Pearson. |
It is cerluin that if bad men WILL GIVE SHOOT,
can bo given enough rope they will
hung themselves At Pearson tlioy
had all the rope they wanted and
some of them are dead, many have
gone away aud the few who were left
have no courage to keep up their
former pace. Old inhabitants say
the town never was so quiet and
peaceable ns now aud thut it is
taking on new life nnd prosperity.
Mr. Jim Overstreet is the post
master and he has one of the bust
stores in the place. M. 8. Cor
bett it Sou, Corbett Bros,, Cor
bett A White, B. Kirkland, Mose
Gridin. Harrell A Son, and Jeff
Kirkland are the other merchants
of the town. Mr. Jeff Kirkland
operates a turpentine still and Mr.
Zeb Tillman u saw mill in the
place.
Drs. Joe and Colonel Corbett
and Ur Izlar ure the physicians of
the town and they do not appear
to have more than they cuii do,
leaving one to conclude that tho
community is fairly io-uilhy.
In til A past few years large
|iiantitics of laud have been
ileured up around IV arson and it
s said that the soil in the lower
part of Coffee county is probably
the most productive land in Wire-
grass Georgia. The only draw-
back is an occasional over-wet sen-
s-,u. The 'armors are beginning
to-ditch their laud which obviates
this objection.
If one desires to lie convinced
Teams Will Probably Attend Shoot
Here Next Friday.
The Waycross Gun Club will
give a shoot at their grounds next
Friday.
They have invited the gun clubs
from Valdosta, Thonmaville, Sa
vannah, Jacksonville, Baxley and
Ilazleliurst to participate in the
shoot.
It is expected that all the clubs
will be represented und some high
scores will bo made.
graves. E. L. Rouse, and IV. M. that Wiregrass Georgia is thegar-
Murrav are the merchants, whittjden spot of Georgia, a trip through
Dr. Bagley carries drugs in his of- his favored section at this time
a hen tho crops were never better
and are iu full growth, will con
firm the most skeptical.
A few more year* will find this
fice.
Among the prominent farmers
whom the Journal reporter met
were Messrs. W. M. Griffis, W. C.
Oberry, W. B. Hargraves, J. M.
Jeoffrds and W. H. Murray. Mur
ray A- Co run nstill '•! the place,
Mr. Hodges with hiss’ever wife
and daughters, run the Millwood
Hotel and Mr. A. A. Bailey ia the
agent for the Plant System.
Withal, Millwood is a good
town and in one respect it is ahead
of Waycross: Millwood buys cot-
too.
Food Adulterations.
Food adulteration pays so well
that those who profit by it are
very active iu their efforts to de-
feat all legislation that would con-
llict with their disreputable bus
iness. They have made so much
money that they have become able
to corrupt the fountains of legis
lation as well as the supply of tho
people’s food. We oat more mid
more dirt every year.
The adulterators of our food be-
come continuously bolder and
more unscrupulous and still the
conscience of our lawinukers slum
bers.
There is a pure food bill now
pending in congress, but very few
members of thst body seem to
cure a snap whether it shall pass
or not.
Tho groat majority of them are
ONE OFTHE BEST
Booth Elected President
W. F. Crawley Secretary—Reports
From District Were Flattering.
section all doited with beautiful "dent upon what they consider
plantation homos, surrounded by | more important matters. A re-
hundreds of acres of level fields, i view of the laws whicn congress
stumped and cleared of all ob- j p UH «ea at each session will show
""‘ructions and mellow with rich-: what , ()rt of rubbiHb these are.-
iiess, homes with large barns and
ample herds of beef and nnlch cat
tle, wooly sheep and blooded
swine, fat mules slid horses and
nil sbundance of everything that
the heart of man longs for.
Atlautn Journal.
Many an orator and author
might well say, “To make a long
story short.”
The Twenty-seventh District
Sunday School Convention held
Saturday and Sunday was one of
the largest und best ever held.
All tin-reports wore «f a very
llattering nature nnd showed that
much progress hud been made
during I lie year.
The convention wus called to
order by President Buchanan Sat
urday morning, ns the service for
Friday was called in on nccouut
of the heavy rain.
Col. W. F. Crawley welcomed
(lie visitors to the city nnd adjur
ed them tlint Waycross was only
loo glad lo have them as her
guests. His address wnsrepondod
to by Mr. It. B. •Reppard, of Sa-
vnnnah. Mr. Reppard ia the
father of most of the Sunday
schools in this section aud alwuya
attends tin- conventions held in
Wiregrass Georgia. He recoivo*
an ovation every time he makes ait
address ut the meetings, and many
of tho Waycross poopln attended
the convention solely to hear Mr.
Reppard again.
Prof. S. I’. Settles nnd Rev. R.
A. Brown delivered addressees
after which Rev. A. M. Williams
led ill tho discussion of 1 ‘2Jo
Opportunities of tho Sunday-
School."
Tho afternoon meeting was
opened with a praise service led
by Mr. G. C. Ingraham. Rev. W.
H. Scruggs followod with an ad
dress on “Christian Unity.” Mr.
R. P. Bird spoke on "The Sunday
School ns n Missionary Factor.”
Mr. W. S. Booth, of Manor, was
then elected president and Col. W.
F. Crawley secretary and treas
urer.
Tho officers were installed ut
tho evening service. The instal
lation was followed by bible read
ings, h-d by Mr. V. L. Stanton.
At nino o’clock Sunday morning
Mr. D. H. Bennett conducted tho
song and praise service. He was
follower by Mr. John W. Groer,
who delivered an address on “Re
ligion is Harmony.”
Tho regular Sunday aorvice was
conducted by Rev. J. H. Mather,
who preached u very able sermon
on Sunday school work.
Sunday afternoon Mr. Reppard
conducted the children’s muss
meeting. .Mr. Reppard loves tho
children and his tulks to them are
always instructive.
Mr. M. I,. Bunn led theevoniug
song and praiso service, after
which resolutions of thanks to the
Waycross people for their hospi-
tality were adopted. Dr. Wil
liams then preached on “The
Making of a Sunday School
Teacher."
The convention then adjoured
to meet iu Blackshear next year.
Little Girl Dead.
Willie Cato, tho fl-years-old girl
of Mrs. B. T. Summerali, died at
their home on Thomas Street,
Friday.
Tho little child had been ill
with pneumonia three weeks. The
funeral occurred Saturday after
noon, Rey. J. H. Mather officiating.
Very few men know enough
about women to understand they
can conyince them they are wrong
by agreeing with them.