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¢ ¢ ¢ GEORGIA. ¢ ¢ i 499999900 QQQ“QJ 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. [ . " 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. 5 » * 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, , 2 % : 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. ® ® ' 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. & * » 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. s ® @ 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, * L] = 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. § » * . 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. * * *® 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, * * d 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. & ® 5 X 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. = ¥ » 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.” #* * * 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. < £ & & | 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. :