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WEEKLY EWDITTION,
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF WARE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
WAYOROSS, OA, FRIDAY JAN. 29,1909.
ONE DOLLAR A
HOTEL MEH
on uk mu * uis lint in m us m mm i nm ituirs era an m
L» Grande Turned Away Five
Guests Last Night—Phoenix
Etas Had to Turn Away People
Within Last Week—Steady In-
crease in Travel
As an evidence of the Bteady in*
crease in business in this city and
general revival of good times, it
may be'mentioned that both the
leading hotels here are finding it
hard to accommodate all the
guests who apply for rooms. The
managers of both the Phoenix
and La Grande state that this in.
crease has been noticed for some
ten days or two weeks past and
that they have all the business
they can well handle.
At La Grande last night, every
room was taken and there were
five, applicants for accommoda
tions who had to be turned away
because all the vacancies had been
filled.
The same thing happened last
week, would-be-guests having
been turned off several days ago
for the same reason.
The Phpenix states that , the
tame conditions obtain at that ho-
r tel. For some time past practical
ly every room has been taken- and
several times a good many guests
have been told that they would
have .to seek accommodations else-
t where. .
This is taken to mean a general
revival of all lines of business as
tho hotels are always among the
first sufferers from hard times and
business depression. ,,
Hearing in Leper Oase Continued
'—Gfchby Jordan Mentioned for
Governor next Term—Y. M. C.
A. for Albany—Not Cruelty to
Hill Sheepkilling Dogs.
Atlanta, Jan. 28.—The state su
preme court has been called on to
decide whether or not a firm do
ing a whiskey business in anoth
cr' state may legally solicit orders
for intoxicants through the Unit
ed States mails. This question
wia certified to that tribunal by
the state court of appeals Tuesday.
Several months ago the second
appellate court held that for a
Chattanooga firm to solicit orders
by mail in Georgia constituted a
violation of section 428 of the
penal code, which makes it a mis
demeanor for any one to solicit
liquor business in prohibition
communities.
R. M. Rose & Co. entered a plea
of guilty here in a case brought
for test purposes. Their attorneys
have appealed further on the
ground that section 428, as corn
structcd, is repugnant to article
1, section 8, paragraph 3 of the
Unitejd States constitution, the
same giving congress .exclusive
control'.of interstate commerce.
Yakima county, in the state of
Washington, will make a fine ex
hibit of apples at the Alaska-Yu-
kon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle
in 1909. The apples are the same
variety that Jafcs J. Hill sends to
the-King and Queen of England
every year.
JOE BROWN
VFSTFBMV
*»t ls«t.nimi
School Teacher Made Governor
Elect Rival of Hobson—Was
Old Friend of Family.
From Brunswick comes the sto
ry that when Governor Elect Joe
Brown was leaving that city yes-
terday morning a young lady paid
him the compliment of kissing him
good bye.
The party waa waiting at the
-depot for the train to Jesup and
. | considerable crowd bad gather-
1 ed to bid Mr. Brown farewell.
Good byes were in order and the
i tender nothings that are whisper-
• ed to departing friends were be
ing said, when a young lady step-
f out from the throng and kiss-
\eil the governor elect goodbye.
®he affair-created something of a
'‘sensation at the tintb, though it
^turned out afterwards that the
kisser'was a former neighbor of
.-the Brown’s and was well acquain-
l^tcd with the fnm.ly. She is a
teacher in the Brunswick schools,
iw-
Augusta, Ga., Jan. 28.—The in
junction hearing in the leper case
at Barnwell was continued. Coun
sel for Mrs. Kirkc raised the con
stitutional point that she was be
ing imprisoned without an oppor
tunity of being beard. Mrs.
Kirbe’s friends are confident the
injunction will be made perma-.
Columbus, Ga., Jan. 28.—Hon.
Gunby Jordan, president of the
Eagle and Phoenix mills, and also
of tho Third National Bank, and
former railroad commissioner of
the state, is prominently mention
ed and will be urged to run for
governor of the state in the next
gubernatorial campaign. Mr. Jor
dan has not expressed any prefer
ence for the office nor has he re
fused to allow his hame to be men
tioned.
Albany, Ga., Jan. 28,raTiyjttl> n
a few days’ time, Albany parties
have subscribed $12,000 toward
II.D.C.ML
COMES!, 1909
i i . at. C. A; untld-
ing here, and the subscription list
is rapidly growing. Ail amounts
are subscribed on condition that
tho total shall reach $20,000, and
it is- believed that this frill be in
sight in a short time. From out
side sources it is believed an ad
ditional $20,000 will be secured,
making a total of $40,000.
Atlanta, Jan. 28.—The State
Court of Appeals reversed the
lower court today in the case of
Miller, wherein the defendant was
convicted of cruelty to animals be
cause he had killed a neighbor’s
dog, which had been pestering
and killing hit sheep.
The Court of Appeals bolds spe
cifically that a «heep-killing dog
it may be exterminated by‘the
owner of the sheep' without liabil
ity to prosecution under the stat
ute relative to cruelty to animals!
aeon, Ga., Jan. 28.—Georgia
*
Rules Governing don test—Chil
dren of : County and City
Schools Alike May Compete—
Local Chapter Offers Special
Prise for High School.
The stato division of tho United
Daughters of tho Confederacy of
fers each year a gold medal to the
pnpil who send in the best essay
on a given subject connected with
the civil war. The object is to
promote the study of history and
to exeite interest in the South’s
part in the great struggle of the
sixties. These essays may be com
peted for by pupils in any school
in tho state, under the rules laid
down by tho eommittee which are
published in full below. Ware
county has always taken an active
interest in this matter, at least
one pupil having borne off the
honors in the contest. It is hoped
that the pnpils from the county
schools as well os those from the
eity schools will compete this year.
Even if no one from this county
succeeds in winning the medal, the
writing of essays by the pupils
will mean a great deal to both
teachers and pupils in the increas
ed interest taken in historieal sub
jects. ' • ^
Thp following circular letter has
been Sent ont b^tbe state commit
tee in regard t^$his subject and
it will be seen that tho time in
which these essays con bo sent in
is short. They must be in the
hnnds of the local committee by
Feb. 14. The circular letter fol
lows:
U. D. C. Medal Contest.
The Georgia Division, U. D. C.
with the desire of stimulating
among the young people of the
state, an interest in the study of
history, especially the history of
the war between tho states, again
offers a good medal to the student
writing the best essay on tbe sub
ject assigned.
Teachers of the state are earn
estly requested to encourage and
urge-their pnpils to entr th eon-
tst
Rules and Regulations for don-
teetnants.
1. Subject: Confederate Sne-
ceMOS ond Reverses in 18C3.
2. The contest is open to all
w'uite c’nildren'oT‘Georgia, under
the age of eighteen.
3. The length of the essay to
be from 1,000 to 1,500 words. The
papers to be type-written, if pos
sible. though that is not essential.
4. Preparation for the essays
may be made at home or else
where with full me of W1 refer-
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NEWS IN
Roee to Retire from Liquor Busi
ness—Indiana Counties Went
Dry—Maine Wreck May be
Raised—Texas Prohibition
Fight—New Orleans Woman
Says She Killed Child.
Washington, Jan. 28.—The
house, with but a few faint ‘nays
adopted the report of the special
coihmittee on Willett’s speech.
Representative Mann of Illinois,
chairman of the special commit
tee, presented the report, which,
he'said, represented the unani
mous opinion of that committee.
After tbe report had been read
Mr, Mami offered to yield time to
any member wishing to discuss
the report, but no one responded.
The resolution striking out the
speech then was passed.
FINES IN THE
BEACH CASES
IMPOSED IS MORNING
Chattanooga, Tcnn., Jan. 28.-
Randolph Rose, probably tho larg-
est whiskey dealer 1n Chattanoo
ga, and one of the best known in
tho South, baa announced that on
July 1 this year, he will quit the
whiskey business never to enter it
again. He will close hjs store
here, along with the one at Jack
sonville and New York City. He
Writ start a wholesale drug busi
ness in Chattanooga. He hr now
building a twenty thousand dollar
residence bore.
Washington, Jan. 28.—The sen
ate judiciary committee haR de
termined 'to proceed with its in
quiry ns fo the authority of the
president to permit tho absorp
tion of tho Tennessee Coal and
Iron Company by Hits United
States Steel Corporation. It is
possible H. C. Frick and Judge
Gary may be called to testify.
people seem to bo expecting all
kinds of railroad improvements
since Karri man’s visit to the state,
and Macon persons have as much
right to expect some favors as the
rest. What is badly needed here
is a new union depot, and as Ma
con is the Central’s railroad’s cen
tral point a new depot may be
secured.
is a nuisance and where it is The Central has located here all
known to indulge in that practice °f its shops and is at present build
ing new ones that will . cost a
quarter of a million.
' Macon was impressed with Har-
riman and hopes to be able to ex
tend him a longer welcome at
some future time.
Austin, Tex., Jan. 28.—In the
senate this afternoon, senate ju
diciary committee No, 2 killed by
vote of 6 to 1 in the senate bill
providing for tbe establishment of
statutory prohibition in Texas.
This effectually terminates that
feature of the prohibition fight in
the Texas legislature, but still
leaves the state-wide prohibition
submission bill pending, which is
now being vigorously debated in
the senate, snd be sold within 10
2ile* pi My school house, which
is pending in the house.
Now Orleans, La., Jan. —28.—
“Judge I killed my adopted
child, a 5-months-old baby, and I
want to be punished fqr it.”
“.Such was the startling decla
ration made by Mrs. Aliee Thomp
son, 25 years old, of Fort Worth,
Texas, to Recorder Fogarty, when
she was arraigned before him, fol
lowing her unsuccessful attempt
to commit suicide by jumping in
the Mississippi river here yester
day.
The officers believe that the wo
man is insane, bat an investiga
tion as to thetruth of her state
ment is being made.
Mrs. Thompson says the deed
was committed on January 13,
1907, and that she succeeded in
causing the belief that the child
bad died a natural death.
Indianapolis. Tnd., Jan. 28.
Fifty-eiirht saloons were put out
of business as a result of feftd oik
One Hundred Dollars for Btewart
Lee—Lee Smith and Jack Sweat
Seventy-five Dollars Each—Es-
till Sweat and Bob Lee Twenty-
Five Dollars Each,
The cases against the five young
men charged with shooting up tho
town of Beach, against whom the
grand jury at the adjonmed term
this week brought indictments for
misdemeanor, riot and assnnlt with
intent to murder, came to an end
this morning.
Only one of tho coses went to
the jury, that of Lee Smith, who
was first to go to trial. His case
camo up for a hearing yesterday
and last evening went to tho jury,
This morning, the connsel for the
defendants suggested a compro
mise and all the young men plead
guilty and were fined in amounts
ranging from one hundred dollars
down to twenty-five dollars. Stow-
nrt Leo received a sentence of one
hundred dollars; Lee Smith and
Jack Sweat each received seventy-
five dollars and Bob Lee and Es
telle Sweat got a fine of twenty,
five dollars each.
Tho ease will bo recalled as oe-
earring on the evening of Dc
comber 18. Miss Maggie Taylor,
the daughter of Mr. Leonard Tay-
ing was returning home for tho
holidays from tho district agri
cultural school at Donglas and
waited for a short time after tho
train camo in with relatives in the
town. Lnte in tho evening she
started home with a party of
young pcoplo and while in tho
buggy tho ilittlo party was fired
on by a crowd of young men who
were driving down the street in a
buggy. One of the many shots
fired stmek J^iss Taylor and sho
was ill for several weeks with a
serious wound. Sho has improv
ed however and is now able to be
up.
Tho case was regarded as a se
rious one owing to the fact that
tho affair nearly proved fata! to
one person and that farther casu
alties might have resulted from
the indiscriminate firing. It is
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OF Ml
IKHSUWHSMI
tioo elections in four counties of
Indians Tuesday. The counties
fciT* retZi ! ‘dry”' are Ramil-
S n, Putnam, Dccatnr and Tip-
n. In each ease the majority
against the “wet” party was
large.
Washington, Jan, 28.—Prcai-
dent Roosevelt sent to congress a
message approving the recommen
dation of Gov. Magoon that an ap
propriation bo made to remove the
wreck of the battleship Maine
Maine from Havana harbor.
Tho president’s message fol
lows:
"Governor Magoon, on the eve
of leaving Cuba, has expressed the
hope that the wreck of the bat
tleship Maine may be removed
from the harbor of Havana. I
trust the congress will see the wis
dom of this suggestion and will
providq for the removal of the
Maine. We should not allow: tho
wreck of this historic ship to re
main as a danger to navigation in
Havtnnah harbor. .This is wise
fr.wa no standpoint. An appro
priation shoolil be mqde for the
Story of its Importance to OiviBma-
tion Reads Like a Tale Fram
the Arabian Nights—Few Peo
ple Realise its True PostUoii fa-t
Commerce. - <■ «... ,#'»
Pensacola, Fla., Jan. 28.—Off"
all the argricultural products off ■
daily consumption by tho poupfcr-
of every race on the fare off the- '
globe, there is perhaps less- general ’
familiar with statistics of the-'
sunny Southland's staple piradadt.
cotton, than any of tho other in
dispensable eommoditiee of com
merce. And yet no product of tbe-
soil holds e more unique position,.'
no pToduet of the labor, of the-
toiling massea of the universe in
capable of the good that may Bit’
done or the havoe that may be/
wrought with King Cotton.
Magnitude of Industry.
Yet how many are there, evns
of the million and a quarter Aemr-
icans residing in tho fourteen.
Sqpthem states of the Union" 1
which produce eighty per cent- off"
thp cotton of the world, wfio> ajjv-
prcciate in tho most superficial de
gree tho magnitude of the cotton
industry! How many of this mil
lion and a quarter Amerteansi
whose fields and-toil annually pns-
dnee tho thirteen million bales of.
the fleecy staple that ir now going-;
into the commerce off the world, -
appreciate the fact that eottan to'-
a largo extent has revolntaiaiasdrt
surgery, and that if one . yearV-
crop of it were woven tatb>cI6Cfc".
seventy-one billion yards ofif.oam'”
of tho snow-whito fabrics ol cow--
mcrce of an approximate vnlnnotT'
six billion dollars, would Bo pro
duced! How many of thmv .’
Southern planters resiTxe- that am
the sweat of their brew tfbrar fe
produced a commodity os
Iutely indispensable as bread i
rice, baeon and beef, to the hordes
of mankind- from Boston hay fa>
shanghai harbor, from AZmXa.’jr
golden strand to Valparaiso and',
from London to the Capa off (JnmW
Hope! How many of them appi-ir-
ciate the fact that so indispensa
ble has Kidg Cotton come to fete,
all of the peoples of th<r universe -
that with one stroke of a peirwithv---
n rawing eottan from the tAtnuterew-
of tho world, American coaBOE!
bring the continent of Europe tw
its knees with overturn for |
at any price!
Vast, incalculably vast, w I
power of King Cotton, and;
the science of its culture, the s
umo of its production, the <
of its conskmption is yet in its bo—
fancy. t
The loading of cotthn on kbit'
leviathan steamships which comb *
to Pensacola with tho gold off fife-
world to retnm with cargoes aff'
the South’s great staple, is n ad',
interesting sight
On February 22 and 23, nextj-
tho festival of Mardi Gross, whiefc i
in itself will prove a most instraw-'
tive and delightful entertainment .
Will be celebrated'• at Fensaeofe.
for wbieh occasion all of the rad-
road and steamboat linen nffip
make special, low. rates.
There will possibly bo huff m
doten steamers taking cotton eam-
goex at .the docks of the Devp Wae-
