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The Lee County Journal
YOL.-IX.
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Epitomized Items of Interest
Gathered at Raadom.
ESETIT TS
New Cotton Mill for Villa Rica.
Application for a charter has just
been made for the Golden City Mill
Company at Villa Rica. The men mak:
ing petition are W, J. Nally, H. W.
Nally and J. N. Weems. The cap
ital stock is to be $60,000. The princi
pal business will be manufacturing
cotton yarns and goods. Villa Rica
already has a cotton seed oil mill.
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Burglars Rob Flovilla Bank.
The vault of the Flovilla bank was
blown open with nitro-glycerine one
night the past week and robbed it
of about $4,000. The Flovilla bank
is owned by W. B. Dozier and Walter
Ward is cashier. Insurance for pro
tection was carried by the bank in
@ burglary insurance company,
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Pension Fund Falls Short.
Pension Commissioner J. W. Lind
sey has discovered that he has been
mistaken in his calculations as to the
deficit in the pension fund.
He has concluded his part of th=2
work of paying pensions, and instead
of coming out almost clear with the
$860,000 appropriation, he finds that
he has on hand ia deficit of $18,139.
In other words it will take just that
amount to pay all the pensioners
whose applications have been approv
ed, in addition to the appropriation
made by the legislature.
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Rosser Indicted for Shortage.
The grand jury at Lafayette return
ed a true bill against J. E. Rosser for
embezzlement of between $l,lOO and
$1,200 school funds. :
Rosser has employed counsel and
will fight the case. He claims that he
can account for the shortage.
The special committee appointed at
last term of the court gave Rosser a
week to explain matters, but on his
failure to do so he was reported short,
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By Direct Taxation,
Some weeks ago Morgan county
held an election for bonds to buiid
a new court house in Madison, but
through apathy on the part of the
qualified voters of the county and the
strong stand taken by some prominent
citizens the bond issue was defeated.
The commissioners of the county
have now decided to build one by di
rect taxation. The cost of the new
building will be $40,000. The plan has
been accepted and bids for the work
will be advertiseq at once.
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Packing Houses Must Pay.
By decision of the United States
supreme court, rendered a few days
ago, packing houses must continue to
pay to the state of Georgia the spe
cific tax of $2OO for each county in
which they do business.
~ Under this decision the state will re
%n possession of some $30,000 al
r@@dy paid in as taxes by agents of
pacßing houses, which would have hadq
to b@bpaid back to the packing houses
if gfe decision had been adverse to the
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LEESBURG. GA.. FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1905
Fewer Fertilizer Tags Sold.
While Commissioner of Agricultuie
0. B. Stevens is not prepared just yet
to give out a statement as to the
sales of fertilizer tags for the months
of January and February, 1905, it is
learned on good authority that the
sales of commercial fertilizers i
Georgia during these two months have
been 40 to 50 per cent less than they
were during the same months of 1905,
The figures given out by the railroads
as to the amount of fertilizers trans
ported bear out this statement as to
the reduction. T
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Court Fight Won by Albany.
The president signed the Albany
court bill, which measure provides
for a new division of the southern dis
trict of Georgia, with headquarters at
Albany.
It was introduced by Judge Griggs,
who passed through both houses witn
the active aid of Mr. Brantley and
Senator Bacon, who are members of
the respective judiciary committees
through which legislation of this kind{
comes. After the Dbill . was passed,
Judge Emory Speer entered his pro-!
test against the proposed division of
his district, writing the president and
the department of justice. }
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' New County Contests. l
~ Interest in the eight new counties
to be created by the legislature this
year, in accordance with the act advopt-l
ed by the general assembly at its last’
session, is still engaging the very act
ive attentiom of a number of commun-i
ities throughout the state, who have
j put forward their claims for new coun
ty organizations. |
~ Among the cities of the state which
are most aggressively at work in the
effort to secure the designation of
itheir towns as county sites are Millen,{
Meter, Adrian, Tifton, Hazlehurst, Cai-}
ro, Whigham, Ashburn, Winder, Villa
ißica, Buford, Barnesvile, Toccoa, and
'Cordele. Quite a number of other
places are advancing their claims and
pointing to geographical economic and |
legal reasons why they should be‘
designated as county sites. With so
many applicants in the field, the racei
promises to be a most interesting one.
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Court Stops Tax Execution. 1
' Judge J. H. Lumpkin of the supe
rior court at Atlanta signed a tem-|
porary restraining order, enjoining
Comptroller General William A.Wright |
and Sheriff John W. Nelms of Fu]ton!
=county from proceeding any further!
in an effort to collect $125,000 taxes
from the Georgia Railway and Banking |
Company. !
' The petition follows the levy made
‘recent]y by Streriff Nelms upon the
freight depot of the Georgia road and
Tthree acres of land in the heart of|
‘Atlanta to satisfy twenty-two tax exe
icutions renderedq by General Wright
for back taxes on 15,000 shares of
!stock of the Western Railway of Ala
ibama, said to be owned by the Geor
gia road. (
The comptroller general and sheriff
are prevented from carrying out the
execution of the tax fi. fas. The case
is set for a hearing March 18th.
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Merry Fight is Coming.
There will be a merry fight between
the state, Richmond county and Au
gusta on the one hand, against the
Georgia Railroad and Banking Com
pany on the other for a fortune in
‘taxes, amouting to a total sum of more
than $500,000. ;
! Comptroller General W. A, Wrightl
has just completed a statement show
ing the amount of taxes due Richmond
county and the city of Augusta on thz
$1,500,000 capital stock of the Western
Railway of Alabama, owned by the
Georgia Railroad Company. |
The total amount of taxes allegedi
to be due Richmond county on this
stock since 1890 is $139,952, of which
$90,895 is for general and $49,057 for
school purposes. The total amount of
taxes claimed for the city of Augustal
since 1891 is $221,250, making thej
total of taxes demanded for the county
of Richmond and the city of Augusta
$361,202. Add to this the taxes de
manded by the state since 1883, which
are $125,974, and the grand total which
the Georgia railroad is called on to
pay on this Western and Alabama
stock is $487,175. There must still
be added to this interest at 7 per
cent on all amounts due the state
since- 1890, which will bring the sum
total up to considerable over half a
million dollars, or an amount equal
to more than one-third of the total
par value of the stock in question.
NEW RAILROAD PROPOSED. ‘
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Ling of Brief Length-to-be Buiit In
Screven County, Georgia, 1
Application will be made in a few
days to the secretary of state for a
charter for the Sylvania and Burton’s
flerry railroad, in Screven county,
Georgia.
The proposed line is 18 miles in
length, and will run in a northerly di
rection from Sylvania, crossing Brier
creek at Mill Haven.
NET EARNINGS FROM CONVICTS,
State of Alabama Receives Handsome
Sum from That Source.
In his quarterly report, which was
gent to the governor of Alabama Tues
day afternoon, President J. M. Car
michael of the state baard of convict
inspectors shows that during the past
four years and six months the depart
ment has made $812,151.77. The |
gross earnings for the time were §l,
469,287.02.
WOMAN SUICIDES WITH GUN.
Dead Body of Miss Mary Dodson of
Pooler Found in Woods,
The body of Miss Mury Dodson cf
Pooler, Ga, was found dead in the
woods near her home Wednesday |
morning. Her death was caused by
a double barreled gun, which wag
found beside the hody.
AS TO “DISTRESSED” COTTON.
President Jordan Suggests That Cot
ton Companies Buy It Up.
Hon. Harvie Jordan, president of
the Southern Cotton Association, hasg
written an interesting article regard
ing “distressed cotton.” He suggests
thaf the cotton which is being sold in
the small towns and cities where there
are not the proper warchouse or bank
ing facilities be bought by some cot
' ton company and kept off the market
at the present prices. 1
ANENT WAREHOUSE SYSTEM.
President Jordan Calls for Meeting of
Commlttéo in News Orleans.
President Harvie Jordan of the
Southern Cotton Association has is
sued a call for a meeting of the com
mittee on establishing a system of cot:
ton warehouses in the southern states
for March 13. The meeting will be
beld in New Orleans. Bankers, ware
housermen, insurance men and others
have been invited to attend the mee¥
ing, which will be an important one
In the call President Jordan says:
“There is considerable Interest at:
tached to a proper solution of this
matter, and the coming meeting of the
committee, which proposes to get!
down to business, will attract the at
tention of the people generally all
over the country. With a first class
system of local bonded warehouses,
the cotton crop could be handled at a
largely decreased cost to the grow
ers.”
FOR JAMESTON FAIR.
A Quarter Million Anpropriation is
Voted by the House.
v -wevornient partieipation in the ex
position to celebrate the first perma
nent settlement of English speaking
people on the western hemisphere ia
the vicinity of Jamestown, Va. was
provided by the house Thursday when,
by a vote of 192 to 91, the bill for that
purpose was passed under a suspern
sion of the rules. The amount appro
priated is $250,000,
THE SAN DOMINGO TREATY.
President Will Ask New Senate to
Ratify Convention, :
President Roosevelt will send to the
new senate a speclal message relating
to the Santo Domingo treaty. The
message will present in concrete form
the circumstances of the negotiations
of the convention and the arguments
on which its ratification is urged by
the administration. '
CASSIE AND LOAN SHARKS.
Old Lady Paid lllegally High Intzrest
on Borrowed Money.
W. V. Coons, a broker, was the
principal witness examined in the
Chadwick bankruptey case before Ref
erce Remington at Cleveland, Ohio,
Wednesday. Coons admitted that he
had made a number of loans to Mre.
Chadwick and frankly admittted that
Mrs. Chadwick was to have paid him
much more than legal interest.
FOR CATTLE QUARANTINE.
House Passes Bill Authorizing Estab
lishment of Districts,
The house Thursday passed the bill
authorizing the secretary of agricul
ture to establish and maintain quaran
tine districts in the several states,
and to permit and regulate the move
ment of cattle,
NO. 34.