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.Epitomized Items of Interest
Gathered at Random,
School Teachers Get Salaries,
Some $225,000 was sent out from the
state capitol for the past week for the
payment of teachers’' galaries all over
the state for the montn of January.
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Justice Simmons Secks Re-Election.
Ghief Justice Thomas J. Simmops,
of the supreme court of Gorgia makes
his formal announcement as a candi
date to succeed himself, subject to the
primary which is to be held on April
20th.
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New Bank Chartered in Burke.
Secretary of State Phil Cook has
granted a charter to the Bank of Met
ter in Burke county. The capital stock
of the new bank will be $25000, of
which $15,000 hag already been paid
in. This makes the two hundred and
twenty-fifth state bank now in opera
wtlon in Georgia., :
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Dyal Held to Grand Jury.
At Hinesville a committant trial of
John Dyal, formerly section foreman
of the Atlantic Coast Line, charged
with the recent assassination of Leon
ard Murray, was held the past week.
It resulted in Dyal being held for
murder. The evidence against hiwm
was entirely circumstantial,
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Historic Building to Come Down.
Within a few weeks the otd building
that has served Savannah as a city ex
change for more than 100 years willl
be removed to make way for a new
city hall of modern type. The new
building will be erected at a cost of
$209,000 and will be five stories higa,
not to mention the lofty cupola.
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Cornerstone of Courthouse Laid.
The cornerstone of Jefferson coun
ty’'s magnificent new $40,000 court
house was laid a few days ago with
appropriate exercises. The ceremony
was witnesged by a large number of
citizens from Jefferson and adjoining
counties, including the city and coun
ty officials, and the pupils of the
Loulsville High school. 1
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Waycress Rifles on Probation.
The Waycross Rifles, company F,
of the Fourth Georgia regiment, has
been placed on probation by Inspector
General Willilam G. Obear. The in
spection did not show the company to
be in the best military condition, and
on that account it was given 90 days
to get in shape. Other companies are
showing up well, so far as is known,
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Bonds Voted for School Building.
An election was held in Nashville
the past week for the purpose of vot
ing bonds for a school building. A good
vote was polled, with only one against
bonds.
A $5,000 school building will be
erected at cnce. This means much [or
Nashville. The citizens are highly
pleased ‘over the result. :
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Baggs Held for Manslaughter.
The commitment trial of M. B.
Baggs, for the murder of John Hunter,
was heard at Bainbridge before Judge
B. B. Bower. A large number of wit
nesses, both for the defendant and
prosecution, were examined and after
all the evidence was in, Judge Bower
bound the defendant over for volun
tary manslaughter and fixed his bond
at $5,000, which was promptly given.
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Nurserymen to Meet in Atlanta.
The 29th annual convention of the
American Association of Nurserymen
will be held in Atlanta the latter part
of June,
Mayor Howell has received a letter
from Robert C. Berckmans, calling his
attention to the fact that the associa
tion will hold its annual convention at
the Georgia capital and inviting him
to make a welcome address on the
part of the city. Governor Joseph M.
Terrell has been invited to welcome
the delegates on bchalf of the state,
The association numbers about £OO
members and the convention will draw
several hundred delegates. The Atlan-'
ta conventlon will be the second ever
held in the south, and every effort will '
be made to give the nurserymen at
tending a royal good time, l
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Fulton Standg by Clayton,
The Fulton county democratic exec
utive committee met at Atlanta a few
days ago and changed the date of the
county primary from April 14 to April
20, the day on which the state pri
mary will be held. That was what the
committee was called together to do,
but it was merly incidental to what
transpired after the committee met.
There was a two hours’ wrangle, hot
debates and sensation denouments
which made th meeting the liveliest
the committee has held in a fortnight.
The wrangle grew out of a set,of reso
lutions pledging Fultocn county to sup
port the claimg of Clayton county in
tiio senatorial race for the thirty-fifth
district. Resolutions instructing Ful- |
ton county’s delegates to vote for
Clayton’'s claims were passad by a
majority of one vote.
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Pigmy Case Before High Court.
The supreme court of the United
States will pass on the question as to
whether Vineville, formerly a suburb
of Macon, Bibb county, now a part
of Macon, has been legally incorpor
ated as a part of that city.
The Vinevllle legislation and litiga
tion has become famous. It was con
sidered practicallyclosed, but Attorney
John R. Cooper, of Macon, represent
ing J. W. Toney and others, has now
secured the assent of Chief Justice T.
J. Simmons, of the Georgia supreme
court, to a writ of error, carrying the
case to the supreme. court of the,
United St#fes. Citation was also is
gued directed to the mayor and alder
men of the city of Macon, who are
the defendants in the case, to appear
belore the United States suprenie
court to angwer this cause on Monday,
April 4.
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Day Fixed for Tax Returns.
February 1 is made the date for
tax returns this year by order of the
governor, comptroller general and
state treasurer. This means that all
parties who owned property on Keb
ruary 1, this year, will have to pay
taxes on it, no matter whether, they
were in continuous ownership, or
bought it the day before or sold It
the day after.
Under the law the governor, corap
troller general and state treasurer are
required immediately after the first
of March each year, to fix a date to
which all retuurns for taxation of both
real and personal property shall be
referred. A "day prior to the date
of the order is, of course, always se
lected so that no one will be put on
notice and thus given an opportunity
to transfer property, or in the case ot
personal property, get it out of the
state.
The date last year was March 15,
or a month and a half later than the
date scolected this time. It is custo
mary to get the dates some distance
apart from year to year, so that any
evasion of the law on the ground
of the date may be prevented. The
date must always be fixed between
January 1 and April 1.
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Capitol Officials Deny Allegation.
Capitol officials are discussing a
gtatement that has appeared in the2
public prints to the effect that the re
cent action of the state democratic
“executive committee in providing that
the delgates to the ‘state convention
\sha]l be from among the friends and
supporters of the successful candi-
dates, puts entirely into the hands of
the state house officers the maiter o&-
the attitude of the people of Georgia
on the presidency. .
The particular feature of the com
mittee’s resolutions which it is said
permits this states “that the respec
tive county committees shall, when
they compile and declare the result of
gaid vote, select from among the ac
tive supporters of the successful can
didates, delegates to the state conven
tion.”
It is well known that with the ex
ception of one or two instances, the
present state house officers this year
have no opposition for rs election. The
Augusta Chronicle charges, therefore,
in an editorial, that the capitol offi
cials have it entirely within their pow
er to control Georgia’s attitude on the
presidential nomination.
Capitol officials state that the intl
mation contained in this editorial does
them an injustice. They assert that
under the arrangmenf 1t is not only
impossible for them fo exercise any
such control, but they have no desire
to do it, even if they could. ]
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' To Correlate the High Schools.
' Of general interest to the people
of the state is the plan recendy
adopted by the State University forl
correlating the educational interests,
The state school commissioner has
arranged a seven years’ grammar
school course for all the elementary
schools of the state. The university
offers to accredit high schools that
will give three years’ instruction
above the grammar school course,
under competent teachers, in the sub
jects mentioned below. Students
from accredited high schools will
be admitted to the university on the
certificate of gthe of the principal
of the school. The schools will be
vigited by university officials and the
work ingpected and only those schools
will be placed on the accredited list
and be allowed to use the university
in their catalogs that are doing ef
ficient preparatory work., The school%
accredited will have a standing en-'
dorsement by the university and will
thus be enabled to increase their
patronage from the surrounding ter
ritory. It exalts the good school and
acts as an incentive for befter work
on the part of other schools.
The university presents the follow
ing requirements for all courses:
1. English: Grammar, Composition,l
Classics, 6 units.
2. Mathematics: Arithmetic, Alge
bra, Plane Geometry, 6 units. 1
3. History and Civics: 4 units. |
Ancient History, 2 units. }
English History, 1 unit. i
~ American Histary, 1 unit, or 18
- weeks. 1
Requirements for Bachelor of Arts
| Course: .
| 1-3. Studies in Group 1.
\ 4. Latin, 6 units, '
i 5. Greek, 4 units.
'Requirements for General Science,
Engineering and Agricultural
Courses for Bachelor of Science De
gree:
1-3. Studies in Group 1.
4. One foreign language (either
Latin, Greek, French, German or
Spanish), 4 units. '
5. Elementary Physics, 2 units.
6. Physical Geography, 2 units. _
7. And one of the following, each 2
units.
1. Addi}ional year’s work in a
foreign language,. ‘
2. Botany.
3. Chemistry.
4. Drawing.
5. Physiology.
6. Elementary Agriculture.
Schools desiring further informa
tion regarding the above should ad
dross, the University, Athens, Ga.
—J. S. STEWART.
We are ready to enter your name on
our subscription books. You will net
miss the small sum necessary to be
ocome our subscriber.
HUNDRED MILE AN HOUR TRAIN.
is In Sight and Will Come on Long .
s Runs.
We note witn pleasure that our
:pace-devouring friends at Zossen
have not yet satiated their hunger
‘or space and touched the record the
sther day for no less than 140 miles
per hour. They seem to be overcom
ing air presure rather comfortably up
to the present, and we have heard
nothing about the motors. failing or -
the pressure caving in the front end
of the car. Perhaps the doubting gen- -
tlemen who figured on the motors
burning out from overload at 80 miles
per hour to 100 miles per hour will
now be convinced that higher speers
are both possible and practicable. One
hundred and forty miles per hour is
a decidedly hot pace, but it will more
than likely be beaten before we go to
press. It has taken a good many years
to evolve the two-minute trotting
horse, but this year we have him in
triplicate, and just so it has been with
electric railroading. -
Once the records began to break
they fairly blew up and left only small
fragments. One hundred and forty
miles per hour, even if not outdone by
a considerable margin, still means
that the hundred-mile-an-hour train is
much nearer to reality than it has
ever been before. That speed is quite
feasible whenever it is demanded, and
it is, moreover, quite high enough to
meet the requirements of humanity
for some little time to come.} Its real
importance lies, as we have/often re--
marked, in its application to ;ong lines
on which the saving of time would be
material. Cutting down the running
time to Flatbush or Hackensack may
defer the dyspepsia of the commuter
for another season or two, but it is not.
commercially important. It is cut--
ting the time on long runs that counts
—reducing the time to Washington to
less than three hours, converting the
trip to Chicago into a mere night’s.
run. It is now announced that the ex
periments have been conducted
largely with the idea of early applica--
tion of the system to the railroad con--
necting Berlin with Humburg, distant
by rail 176 miles from each other, and
that an early conversion jf that line
is by no means improbz:r;e. Some
how the hundred-mile-ar§ our train
looks nearer than it did a few months
ago, and our spyglass is still trained
in the direction of Germany.—Street
Railway Journal. ;
RATS MADE BED OF MONEY.
When the Nest Was Found‘the Miss
ing Bills Were All Intact.
A short time ago Mrs. Mike Huller,
who kecps a grocery store at the cor
ner of Eighth and Elm streets, hid
away where she could easily find it
$76 in Dbills for use at a time when
necessity or desire reqiaired it. She
i thought of thieves, but not of the ro
dent description, and was therefore
guite particular in seecting a hid
ing place. A few days later she
thought she would tak: a look at her
hidden treasure, with ‘he view of as
suring herself that the money was
where she had hidcden. it, but on
going to the place hir surprise can
[easil'y be imagined wlen, on placing
her hand where the noney ought to
have heen, she discoferad that it was.
gone.
Matters remained h that condition
‘up to a few days ag), when, héaring
| & rat traveling arourd the house, the
'idea struck her tha, rats were the
!real purloiners of ha money. Going
* to work with a vim, the was not long;
in ripping up two Or. three planks
| from the flcor of one¢ of the rooms of
’the house, and, intituting a close
gearch, was greatly dated to find that
Irodents had actudly stolen the
| money, packed it awgy and made a
‘lcosy bey of it, for bh it was be
i fore her eyes. Everl ill was found
“ntact, not a dollar fiséing.
' Fiji is the only British colony in
which natives pay (\eh taxes in kind,
chiefly in cocoanuti
