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Brief Summary of Doings
Throughout the State.
Cedartown’'s New Depot Started.
Work has commenced in the Sea
board's new $6,000 passenger depot
in Cedartown and will be pushed to
completion as rapidly as possible.
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To Use Secret Ballot.
At a xaz2ss meeting in Athens the
democrats of Clarke county ordered
the Australian ballot to be enforced
in all primarieg in the county and
city for the next two years.
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Educational Program.
Profegsor N. B. Ware, of Hawkins
ville, president of the Georgia Educa
tional Association, has sent out the
program which will be taken up at
their thirty-eighth annual session at
Warm Springs, June 20-23. The pro
gram is replete with interesting fea
tures,
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: Carrollton Issues Bonds.
At a municipal election held in Car
rollton last Saturday the issuance of
$45,000 worth of bonds was authorized
to be used in constructing water
works, sewerage and an electric light
plant owned by the city.
A survey will be made at once un
der authority of the mayor and coun
cil and it will be determined early
whether sewerage will be put in con
nection with water works at this time.
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' Nurserymen to Meet.
The Amercan Association of Nurse
rymen will meet in Atlanta on June
22, the convention*to last three days.
A large delegation from all sections
of the country is cexpected.
The CGeorgia Peach Growers’. Asso
ciation hag been invited to meet with
the nurserymen, and has accepted the
invitation. In this way the grow
ers of fruit and the growers of stock
will have a mutual meeting.
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Court House Site Case Decided.
Secretary of State Phil Cook has
dismissed the contest over the re
moval of the Worth county court
house from Isabella to Sylvester, be
cause the contestants failed to appear
in court either in person or by at
torney. According to the certificate
of Seccretary Cook it appears that
there were 2,541 votes cast in the
election, 2,126 of these being for re
moval from Isabella to Sylvester, and
415 being against removal.
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Money for Plant Creditors.
Checks representing $425,000, pay
able to the Plant esraie, reached Ma
con last Saturday and are now in the
hands of N. B. Corbin, receiver for
the 1. C. Plant’s Sons bank, and the
money for which they call is now
practically a part of the fund which
will be divided among the creditors
of that financial inetitution as the
courts may direct.
It was $1,025,000 the late banker
carried on his life, of which $75,000
went to his wife and children,
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Quiet Reigns at Georgia Normal.
Peace reigns over the Georgia Wor
mal School at Athens. The troubles
that have existed were settled a few
days ago by the members of the state
normal commission, and, it is presum
ed, settled for all time. The members
of the faculty have been re-elected and
put on notice that there must be no
further differences, and a prudential
committee, consisting of Chancellor
Hill and State School Commissioner
Merritt, has been aprointed with fuli
power to act should action on its part
become necessary.
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More Gordon Fund Committees.
President W. L. Calhoun, of the
John B. Gordon Monument Associa
tion, has just named several impori
ant committees in connection with the
work provided for under the by laws
recently adopted for permanent crgan
jzation under the charter, :
The committee previously appointed
on subscriptions, both in Atlgnta and
in various cities and states of the
g¢outh, have been continued by Presi
dent Calhcun, and will act as com
‘mittees of.the newly formed associa
tion.
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Hostess for State Building.
Mrs. John W. Hughes, of Atlanta
has been appointed by Governor Ter
rel] hostess of the Georgia building
at the St. Louis Exposition.
As hostess of the Georgia building,
Mrs. Hugheg will spend part of every
day at the building, where it will be
her pleasure to greet any ladies who
‘are visiting the exposition, and when
it is necessary to see that they arc
properly taken care of.
Governor Terrell has received defi
nite assurance that the Georgia build
ing will be formally openecd to the
public on Thursday, June 16,
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Large Sum for Fort McPherson.
Included in the allotments just ap
proved by Secretary Taft at Wagning
ton are appropriations for two ‘ieor
gia posts, Fort McPherson, §56%,000,
and Fort George H. Thomas, $ll,-
250,
The appropriation for Fort McPher
son is for improvements at this post
which are now under construction, and
include barracks for the first battalion
of the Sixteenth regiment, now sta
tioned at Fort Slocum, N. Y., and other
officers’ quarters, which are rapidly ap
proaching completion. It is expected
that the first battalion, officers and
men, will arrive in Atlanta in August,
and that the buildings now in course
of construction will be ready for their
accommodation at that time.
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Notice to Georgia Teachers.
To the Teachers of Georgia and
the Friends of Education:
The National Educational Associa
tion meets at St. Louis June 27th-July
18t.
The educational exhibit of the Unit
ed States and foreign countries will
be the greatest in the world’s his
tory.
The National Department of Super
intendence which recently convened
in Atlanta, resolved to emphasize this
exhibit from all the leading cities. The
purpose is to show original work. BY
that means the real educational con
dition of the city and country schools
can be known .and compared.
The program is unusually rich and
full. Men and women of national rep
utations will take part.
The exhibition itself covers more
area and cost millions more than any
other in the history of nations. The
area is 1,240 acres and cost $50,000,-
000.
To attend the sessions of the asso
ciation and to study the exposition
is a liberal education, and all progres
sive teachers ought to go, and all who
desire general culture.
Superintendent W. F. Slaton, of
the Atlanta Public Schools, and State
Commissioner W. B. Merritt, and
others, ladies and gentlemen of dis
tinction, will compose the party and
assist the state director. They will
leave Atlanta Saturday June 25th for
the Exposition city.
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Governer Favors Immigration.
Governor Terrell will aid in the
movement to start a department of
immigration in Georgia in his Jes
sage, which will read to the general
assembly of the state during the ses
sion that will commence this month,
Covernor Terrell has not yet determin
ed exactly what he will say to the
legislature or what he =J'l recommend,
but it is certain that he will montion
the matter and will lend his inflvence
to the movement.
“] am heartily in favor of inviting
the better eclass of immigrants 0
come to Georgia,” declared Governor
Tereil several days ago, “and I want
to aid in bringing them to this state
all T can. I have not perfected the
portion of my message which will
deal with immigration, but I expect to
incorporate several ideas in”it.”
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Investigating the Kloeckler Case.
After a half hour's meeting at the
court house in Atlanta Saturday morn
‘ ing, which bristled with some startling
}sensations and some most remarxable
idialogues, the coroner decided to wipe
coff his slate everything that had been
done in the investigation of the death
of Miss Sophie Kloeckler and to get
|2 new jury, summon all the witneszes
| cver again, and hold a new injuest
from start to finish. :
Never bhefore in Fulton county, and
probably never before in the state, has
such a thing as two inquests heen held
over the dead hody of the same person.
| It will be dque this time, as Solicitor
Hill expressed it, ‘to s~tisfy the pub
lic and stop a certain zmmount of ad
verse criticism.”
The reward offered by The Atlanta
| Constitution for the arrest and con
viction of the murderer of Sophie
Kloeckler was quickly followed by
other rewards, and now the grand to
tal reaches $1,600, the largest reward
that has been offered for a murderer
in Georgia in several years.
l This Constitution reward recalls the
payment of a reward of $5OO which
was offered by that paper in 1899 for
the capture of Sam Hose, the unegro
murderer and rapist.
The murder of Alfred Cranford
i and the assault of Mrs. Cranford by
| Sam Hose, which occured in April,
‘1899, near Palmetto, Ga., was one
| of the most shocking crimes éver com
| mitted in Gecrgia. The captor of Hose
| was promptly paid, although the negro
]was burned at the stake. <
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| Use of Tobacce by School Children.
| President Lyman Hall, in a talk
to his students, some time ago, on
the use of tobacco hy the students,
gave the following facts:
“The use of tobacco in early youth
checks the growth of mind and body.
When you offer a cigarette to a friend,
you are saying: ‘Allow me to impair
your future manhood by offering a
poison, delightful in present effect,
but which leaves in its wake the ashes
of intellect and a withered remmnant
of your physique.
“A friend of mine, who is a Ph.
D. from one of the universities
abroad, says that although the Ger
mans are the greatest smokers of all
| nations, the first prize in mathematics
| has never been won in a German uni
versity by a student who uses to
bacco.
“Let us come nearer home. The
present senior class is about evenly
divided into smokers and non-smokers.
Yet the highest average in class stand
ing predominate among the non-smok
ers. There is a member gf that class
who, in my opinion, would now be at
the top had he loved his interests
more and his tobacco less. When two
of that class were chosen as acting
‘instructors the ' faculty had many
|pointfi; of ability, tact and charagcter
!to consider. The choice happened to
| fall on two non-users,
i “The highest averages in the senior,
' middle, junior, apprentice and sub-
I apprentice classes at the present time
' happens to be heid by non-users.
| «In the middle class there is only
Eone user. His mark is below an av
| erage taken of all the others.
“In the apprentice class there are
four sections. The highest average in
each section is held by a non-user.
with one exception, and he is a young
l man who came here more advanced in
| his work than the rest of hig ~lass.
| His average is lower this year than
last.
‘ “In the sub-apprentice class ‘there
| are six sections, A, B, C, D, E and
'F. A non-user holds the highest av
ierage in each of these.
“Go to the high sections (the sec
tions of the classes are arranged by
merit) for the clear eye, the fine phy
sique, the neat appearance among
vour fellows; seek the lower sections
for the careless drgss, the dreamy ex
pression and the tinted fingers.
“Cigars and pipes are disrcputable
companions for any young gentleman,.
chewing tcbacco unfits you for decent
company and makes you repulsive to
your bosom friend and the cigargite:
is a ‘pestilence which walketh at noon
day’ destroying your brain and body,
and leading you to a fate full of pain
and misery, and often to crime, im
prisonment and death.”
The experience of President. Hall
is, in the main, that of nearly all col
lege presidents and school superin
tendents.—J. S. STEWART, of the
State University.
TRUCE EFFECTED IN DOMINGO.
- Rear Admira]l Sigshee Says Warring
Factions Make Agreement.
~ The navy department has received
‘the following cablegram from Rear
Admiral Sigsbee, dated PortQ Plata,
Santo Domingo, Sunday:
“Representatives met aboard the
Detroit today aecording to arrange
ments with the commanding officer
of the Detroit. Peace has been agreed
on in Santo Comingo and the cessa
tion of hostilities tomorrow and the
next two days to obtain the consent
of the recognized government.”
WAS KING OF CAR THIEVES.
Mike Donovan’s Gang Looted Rail
roads to Extent of a Million.
In the arest of Michael Donovan,
the Chicago police believe they have
begun the disruption of an organized
lband of car thieves, whose depreda
tions in recent years have cost rail
'roads nearly $1,000,000. The police
' say that while qguestioning the man’s
wife, she told them that her husband,
who is a property owner, and is con
sidered wealthy by his neighbors, was
selling only stolen goods in a big
store which he had bee: operating for
a number of years. An investigation
proved her assertion to be true.
MUST FACE PEONAGE CHARGE.
Man Haled to Court fo Keeping Ne
gro in Involuntary Servitude.
A Savannah dispatch says: Ancther
peonage case¢ was launched Thursday
when H. E. Barnes, of Bulloch coun
ty, was held under bond by the T'nit
ed States commissioner on a charge
of holding Mark Smith, a negro boy,
in involuntary servitude. The charge is
made by the boy’s fathér though
Barnes says the boy went with him
voluntarily and was well pleased with
; his stay in Bulloch county.
~ CANNOT EXHUME REMAINS.
South Carvl:na Judge Refuses Request
of Defendants in Murder Trial.
A dispaich from Columbia, S .
- goys: Cirevit Judge Ernext Gary Wed
nposday refised a motion by the at
torney of Morgan, Ihraiikill to allew
the body of B. B. Burton, of Saludii.
whom Threailkill is charged with kiil
ing, to be exhumed to permit furiher
seerch for a bullet supposed to be in
Burten’s body. The jndge held thot
there was no law permitting such pr -
’ ceedings,
PEACE AT GEORGIA NOR®RMAL.
Whole Faculty Re-Elected and Petty
Differences Adjusted.
peace reigns over the Geogia Nor
mal School at Athens. The troublss
that have existed were gettled Fri
day by the members of the state nor
mal commission, The members of the
faculty have been re-elected and put
on notice that there must he no f{ur
- ther differences, and a prudential com
mittes has been appointed with full
power to act should action on its
part become necessary. :