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The Lee County Journal VOL. IX. MMWWWS§ ; {:M*MMM Epitomized Items of Interest Gathered at Random. Making Tour of the Schools. Dr. Wallace Buitrick of New York, agent for the national education board and for the Slater board, and W. H. Heck, his assistant, are making a tour of the schools of Georgia, gathering data for the national board. The in . formation thus acquired will be used by the board in the distribution of funds for the aid of education in Geor gia, £ * 2 Fort Valiey Votes Bonds. Fort Valley has voted on the ques tion of issuing $12,000 in bonds for the purpose of establishing an electric light plant and extending the city waterworks. Out of 148 votes case only three were against the bonds. This being more than two-thirds of the registered voters in the last munie ipal election, the bonds will be issued. They are to be 5 per cent and will be put on the market at once. * 3 =% Will" Spend $lOO,OOO on Highways. The work on the macadamizing of the country roads in Clarke county will be started as soon as the weather set tles thoroughly. All the necessary ma chinery is on hand, the men are ready and the weather alone stands in the way. The first work will be done on the road leading from Athens to Jef ferson. The county expects to spend - $lOO,OOO on this kind of work, the money already being in bank and ready for use. P ® ¥ % The small towns of Georgia and neighboring states are responding lib erally to the Southern Cotton Associa tion and are making donations nearly every day to the movement inaugurat ed by the association to hold cotton, and reduce the acreage .twenty-five per cent. Newnan and LaGrange the past week each donated $lOO and other towns in the state are expected to fol low at once. President Jordan is very much elated over the success of the movement. ‘ & x * New Colony of St.” George. Over five hundred attended and par ticipated in the drawing at Cutler last Friday of the allotments to be made in the founding of the new colony of St. George by General Fitzgerald of Indianapolis, who established Fitzger ald, Ga., ten years ago. | The colony members began to draw lots at 8 o’clock, and before the noon hour lumber was laid down by manyi for residences and business houses. ( Surveys for five 40, 80 and 160-acre tracts will be commenced at once, and by September there will be a large force of farmers engaged in building up a section hitherto but sparsely settled and only partially developed. LEESBURG. GA.. FRIDAY, MARCH 3. 1905 Peachgrowers in Session, ~ The Georgia Peachgrowers’ Associ jatlon convened for its annual.session iin Macon with peachgrowers in at tendance from all partg of the state. THe most important action taken at the meeting was the adoption of the following resolution: “Resoived by the Georgia Peachgrow ers’ Association, in meeting regularly assembled, That we use all our influ ence to secure the passage of a bill in congress putting all private car lines under the control of the interstate com merce commission; that it is the sense of this meeting that our repre sentatives in congress be requested to favor the passage of the bill.” * % *® Educators Off for Milwaukee. A pariy of prominent educators, su perintendents of city schools and oth ers in various parts of Georgia, left Atlanta Sunday afternoon on the Southern railway for Milwaukee, Wis., for the purpose of attending the an nual convention of the department of superintendence of the National Edu cational Association. Among those who left with the Georgia party were State School Com missioner W. B. Merritt, Dr. G. R. Glenn, president of the North Georgia Agricultural College %«Mom. Chancellor Walter B. Hill and State Agent J. 8. Stewart of the State Uni versity; 1.. M. Landrum, assistant su perintendent of Atlanta’s schools; Su perintendent Lawton B. Evans of the Augusta schools; Superintendent Otis Ashmore of the Savannah schools; Su perintendent C. B. Gibson of the Co lumbus schools, and a number of other prominent Georgia educators, * % % Fine Premjums for State Fair. Premiums for the Georgia State Fair that is to be held in Atlanta during October of this year were decided upon daring a meeting in Atlanta attended by the officers of the State Agricultural Society and the officers of the Southern Interstate Fair Asso ciation, of the Capital City. A reading of the list will show that valuable premiums are offered for county and individual exhibits. It is now worth while for any county to make a special effort to capture the big prize of $1,600, one of the larg est that have ever been offered for a county exhibit in Georgia. The premiums determined upon were as follows: For the best and most attractive county exhibit, $1,600; for second best, $1,200; for third best, $800; for fourth best, $600; for fifth best, $400; for the next five best, $3OO each; for the next five best, $2OO - each. : This makes a total of fifteen coun ties which will receive a special pre mium, and every county after these which makes a creditable showing will get a prize of $lOO. The foilowing premiums were deter mined upon for the best collective in dividual agricultural exhibits, raised on the exhibitor’s own farm: First, $400; second, $300; third, $200; fourth, $lOO. For the best one-horse farm exhibit the prizes settled upon were: First premium, $300; second, $200; third, $150; fourth, $5O. ‘ In this classification the artistic ar rangement of the exhibit will be care fully considered and will count for ten points in making the awards. $ % % President Johnson Issues Cail. President M. I. Johnson of the Geor gia division of the Southern Cotton Association, has issued an address to the people of Georgia, asking their support in the cotton holding move ment and the reduction of the acre age. He also calls for mass meetings in every county. His call, in part, fol lows: The Georgia division of the South ern Cotton Association at:' their meet ing on the 21st instant honored me by my election to its presidency. It provided for meetings taking place in each county of the state on the first Tuesday of March, April and May, re spectively; and by the authority thus vested in me, I hereby call said meet ing for each of said days in each of said months, : - Georgians in the continuation of fight for right, justice, the freedom of your calling and a fair remuneration for your labors, let me warn you not to underestimate the resources, wiles, devices, efforts and determination of your enemies, Be there a man in Georgia who will now sell his cotton below the price fixed? Be there one who is not 80 thrilled with pride and love of Geor gia that he can stay out and fail to aid in winning this fight? Who is there within this great state who does not wish and who will not bear his part in this fight we are now waging. Men, we must whip ‘them to a standstill; we can do it; we have only to continue in future as we have for the past thirty days. They ro longer doubt we will stick; that we will hold. They have changed their point of attack. They now say we won’t reduce. Yet, the information continues to come: Acreage being re duced from 25 per cent to 50 per cent; indeed at every point our line grows and moves forward with no evidence of wavering. Scarcely a car of fer tilizer moving. The watchword should be “Orga,n~j ize;” house to house canvass take place, tili not a man is missed; see that everyone has the opportunity of joining and doubt not he will do so, for there is not a fair man in this great state who is not with us in this fight. He only wants the opportunity of helping us. MILES REFUSES TO REPLY. General Will Ignore Request of Mrs, Davis Regarding Letter. General Nelson A. Miles, inspector general of the Massachusetts militia, said Tuesday that he did not intend lo make any response to the letter which she charged General Miles with per petrating cruelties as custodian of her kusband at the close of the civil war. é FIGHT I 8 COMINGG, Advices from Manchuria Indicate Increased Activity, - A dispatch reaching St. Petersburg from Sachetun, Manchuria, dated Feb ruary 24, says: “The Japanese in su perior numbers forced the Russian de tachment at Tsinkhetchin to aban don their base at Beresneff hill. The ‘battle has been desperate on both ‘gides. The result is not yet known.” Official dispatches given out Friday dispose of the rumor of General Kuro patkin’s retirement from the Shakhe river, but taken in connection with the Associated Press’ Tsinkhetchin dis patch, shows that operations of an important nature are in progress in the mountain region to the eastward. The movement was precipitated by the Russians, who last week sent out two divisions and ooeupled well ad vanced positions. The Japanese at tacked these positions in force, The Russions retired slowly, fighting, and Thursday evening were driven within their fortified lines. The latest dis patches prophesied heavy fighting Fri day. ‘ The war office attaches considera ble importance to the blowing up of the bridge south of Halcheng, and hopes it will interrupt the transporta. tion north of the Port Arthur muni tions for some time at this critical stage of affairs. ARKANSAS STRICTLY IN LINE, Farmers in State Organization Pledge to Carry Out Instructions. Twenty-seven Arkansas .counties were represented in the state conven tion of cotton growers at Little Rock Tuesday. : The convention carried out the in structions of the county meetings, at which the plan of reducing the cot ton acreage 256 per cent was com mended. . | NO BAIL ALLOWED HOCH. Alleged “Bluebeard” Must Btand Trial on Murder Charge, : Johann Hoch was held to the grand jury at Chicago Thursday without bail The coroner’s jury which iniestigated the death aof Mrs. Marie Welcker Hoch found that the deceased cameé to her death from the effects of arsiaic poisoning and it was the expressec belief of the jury that Hoch adminis tered the poison. " LATHROP SLATED FOR TOGA. Friends of Neidringhause Make Move to Select Another Candidate., . Gardiner Lathrop of Kansas City may he decided upon as a compromise candidate for United States senator to succeed Francis M. Cockrell, ac cording to political gossip in Kansas City, Mo, | ‘This gossip is based upon a con ference held with Mr. Lathrop by Alex Neldringhause, a brother of Thomas Neidringlaus, ‘he republican senato rial caucus nominee, and others, NO. 31.