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FALL AND WINTER OPENING
My fall and winter opening is more complete than ever before and
I am in betrer condition to give my patrons
CLOSE PRICES ini GOOD MERCHANDISE
than I have ever been
I have the most complete up-to-date and largest line of General Merdhandise ever brought to Spring Place, and I mean to
g.ve my customere the benefit of my close buying and low prices,
ounrc I have a large line of shoes on hand and these combined with the large stock recently bought enables me to make
UllULu prices that are hard to duplicate, considering the fact that shoes in market have advanced complete from 25 to line 50 of per Dress cent. UOOds For
prices it will pay you to see my line before buying elsewhers for I can save you money. I he most
ever shown in Spring Place is now on my shelves.
CLOTHING You need not go to Dalton to get your winter suit for I can fit yot in anything you need in this line and will
not only duplicate Dalton prices, but will come way under them.
BARGAIN DAYS
OOK OUT NEXT WEEK for announcement of BAR
AIN DAYS. You remember what I gave you last fall?
)|11, I am going to do the same thing this fall. Watch
for the days. Yours truly,
L. W. THOMPSON
DOtiTAQ SYSTEM OFFERED
AS REMEDY FOR VAGRANCY.
Here is a unique suggestion of ¬
fered as a remedy for vagrancy.
It might properly be called the
dog tag system. The author of
it, who is a well known Georgian,
suggests that every male citizen
18 years old or of a certain height
shall wear a tag with a number
on it.
He is to purchase this tag, to¬
gether with the right to register,
from the ordinary for the sum of
$1, the fund arising from this
source to be given to the public
schools.
Not only this, hut it is to be
required that each citizen shall
wear his tag conspicuously.
Untagged citizens are to he
subject to arrest the same as un¬
tagged dogs, but work on the
public roads is substituted for
the usual “pound” and drowning
Different forms of tags are to
be furnished for whites and lie
groes.
But here is, in detail, this
unique suggestion for subduing
vagrancy:
“Let it be enacted,” says this
citizen, “that every male inhab¬
itant of the state of Georgia who
has attained the age of 18 years,
of a height of shall pay the
sum of one dollar annually as a
citizen’s tax.
“Registration under this law,
shall be within thirty days prior
to January 1 of the year 1907,and
each succeeding year thereafter.
"That registration shall in¬
clude address, age, occupation,
exact weight, height and other
personal description as deemed
necessary.
“That registration be made as
above with the ordinary of the
county of said inhabitant’s legal
residence at that time.
“That the ordinary shall at
time of such registration furnish
said male inhabitant with a reg¬
istered numbered badge, desig¬
nating t he year, state, county and
the serial number of said badge.
“That said I adge must be
prised or worn in front of the per
iv) while on the streets or high
ways of the state of Georgia.
“That failure to exhibit same
while iu public be made a felony
punishable by actual service upon
the public roads or other county
improvements, the time to lie
witlun the discretion of the trial
judge. of
“That actual accidental loss
such badge may he established
by proper proof and new badge
tarnished by the ordinary upon
payment of same sum of money
as originally charged, etc.
“That a failure by any male
inhabitant, who may claim to
have lost his badge, to give his
original number or county of is¬
sue be made an extra cause for
suspicion and a continued refusal
to give such number or issue to
merit a considerable harsher sen¬
tence as a felony.
“That there shall he a distin¬
guishing badge or number used
for males of the white race and
the males of all other races.
“That failure to register and
procure number shall constitute
felony, punishable by actual ser¬
vice on the county roads or other
county improvements.
“That residents of othor states
using a similar system as this,
need not register upon entering
the state of Georgia.
“That residents of other states
not using a similar system be re¬
(provided their stay in
the state is not of a longer dura¬
tion than forty-eight hours), to
to the ordinary of the coun¬
ty in which they may happen to
be and after registering and pay¬
ing the usual tax, be giveu a
similar badge, distinguished,
however, by the initials ‘N. R.’
(for non-resident.)
“That it be made a felony to
transfer these numbers trom one
person to another.
“That the fund derived from
this citizens’ tax be used in de¬
THE MURRAY NEWS FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 28, 1906
fraying the expenses of the pub¬
lic schools of the state after
deducting the expenses and
charge in collecting and the cost
of the number of badge, etc.
That ordinaries of each county
will forward each year, not later
than thirty days after January 1,
the number of registrations in
their respective counties, etc.
“That any male inhabitant ar¬
riving at the age or height desig¬
nated above after the regulur
registration period shall register
immediately at arriving at the
age or height specified.
“That ordinaries properly fur¬
nish to............... record r of all
duplicates issued.
“That ordinaries be given dis¬
cretion to giant light to use gold
or silver badge if conforming to
requirements.
No one would buy a sail boat
with sails that could not be reef¬
ed, There is always that possi¬
bility of a little too much wind
that makes a cautions man afraid
to go unprovided. The thinking
man, whose stomach sometimes
goes back on him, provides for
his stomach by keeping a bottle
of Kodol For Dyspepsia within
reach. Kodol digests what you
eat and restores the stomach to
the condition to properly perforin
its functions. Sold by S.II.Kelly.
la Memory.
On the 19th day of this mouth
the death angel visited the home
of Mrs. Greeson and took away
the joy of her home, Harrison,
her youngest ton. He was loved
by ail who knew him. O, it was
hard to give him up, but God
knows best. It looks that when
He is calling on so many He
would pick for those who are not
of much benefit to their commun¬
ity and country.
But we all hope to go where he
said he was going. He told hi*
sister not to weep for he was go¬
ing to glory.
We mourn with those who are
left to stand the trial.
A Fribxd.
A PROCLAMATION
By His Excellency, Joseph M- Terrell,
Governor of Georfit.
ExKcimvy: Dkpaktm bnt.
Statk op Gbqriha,
Atlanta, July 81,
Whkrkas, The General Assem¬
bly, at its session in 1906, pro
posed an amendment to the Con¬
stitution of this State, as set forth
in an Act approved July 31, 1906,
to wit:
A bill to be entitled an Act to
propose to the qualified electors
of this State, an amendment
to paragraph 2 of section 1 of
article 11 of the Constitution
of this State as amended by
the ratification by tbe quali¬
fied voter* of this State of the
Act, approved July 19, 1904,
and for other purposes.
Suction 1. Be it enacted by
the General Assembly of Georgia,
That the following amendment is
hereby proposed to paragraph 2,
section 1, article 11 of the Con¬
stitution of this State, as amend¬
ed by the ratification by the
qualified voters of this State of
the Act of July 19, 1904, to wit,
by adding to said paragraph the
following language :
“Provided, however, that in
addition to the counties now pro¬
vided for by this Constitution,
there shall be a new county laid
out from the counties of Irwin
and Wilcox, bounded as follows:
‘Beginning at the point where
the south line of land lot No. 167
in the third district of Wilcox
county crosses the Alapaha river,
and running 4ue P as f alon S th e
said south fine to the northeast
corner of land lot 150 j» the
third district of Irwin county;
thence north to the northeast
corner of laud lot 172 iu the third
district of Wilcox county ; thence
east to the northeast corner of
land lot No. 174 in the third di*.
triet of Irwin county; thence
south to the northeast* corner of
land lot No. 157 in the third dis¬
trict of Irwin county, and thence
east to the northeast corner of
land lot 150 in the third district
of Irwin county, and thence south
to the northeast corner of lain!
lot No. 66 in the third district of
Irwin county; thence east to the
northeast corner of land lot 6*2 in
the third district of Irwin county,
and thence south to the northeast
corner of land lot No. 32 in the
third district of Irwin county;
thence east to the southeast cor
n er of land lot No, 'JIUi in the
fourth district of Irwin county,
and thence north to the south
west corner of land lot No. 206 in
the fourth district of Irwin
county, thence to the southeast
con er of land lot No. 80 in the
fourth district of Irwin county,
and thence north along the east
line of land lot No. 89 to the
Ocmulgee river, and thence in a
westerly direction along the Oc
mill gee river to the point where
House creek in Wilcox county
empties into the Ocmulgee
river, and thence in a westerly
direction along the said House
creek to the point where the
said House creek crosses the
north line of land No. 265 in the
third district of Wilcox county,
und thence we»t along the north
line of said land lot 255 and the
district lines between the first
and third districts in the said
county of Wilcox to the Alapaha
river, and thence in a southerly
direction along the said Alapaha
river to the starting point.’
“That Fitzgerald shall be the
7'h\ e r*%
circuit unpl another circuit shall
c^cuitSs^Mbe'^ttacheato tlm” Senatorial
Fifteenth i State
i- . •
district.
“That all legal voters residing
in the limits of said county of
pen Hill entitled to vote for
membgrg of the general of Assem
bly under the Ms Georgia
shall on Die first Tuesday ]p Jan
uary 1907. elect an ordinary, a
cleric of the superior court, a
sheriff, a coroner, a tax-collector,
a tax-receiver, a county surveyor,
a county treasurer, and
commissioners of roads and rev
enues for said county, said
ion to be held at Fitzgerald, the
county site of said county.
“That the superior courts of
said county shall be held on
befo^eacKear AP "
6 “The bruits of’tUe said county,
the congressional and senaW
districts and the judicial ciif
to which it is attached, the ti
of holding the terms of the
nor courtsshall be as;
“hove until changed by law
Pe it further enacted,
That when this proposed afnenfL
'»ent aha he agreed to by two,
third (2-o) of the members elect,
ed to each of the two Houses
at > d shall ! ' av ? be< ;» * ntered .°J l
the Journal of each House with
the ayes and nays taken thereon,
the Governor is hereby directed
to cause the said proposed
amendment to he advertised In
“t least two papers in each con.
gressumal district at least two
months before the next general
election, to he held on the first
Wednesday in October, 1906,
and lit- shall also provide for a
submission of the proposed
amendment at said general elect
»«»• And if a majority of the
electors shall ratify such propo¬
ed amendment by a majority
the member* electors qualified of the Genera to vote
for
Assembly, such amendment shall
become a part of the Oonstitu
tl on °f Georgia,
Be >t further enact,
^ That it shall be the duty of
the Governor to submit said
election in the following form:
Amendment to the Constitution
s«^tisSr?S. thow B o£&
Site,’.nd opposed to the
ratification of said amendment
shall have written or printed on
their tickets, ‘Opposed to the
Ratification j.[ of Amendment to
ie Constitution Creating the
County of Ben Hill with Fitzger
gld the County Site.’ 1 jpgeph ”
Jj 0Wj therefore, Governor of sajd M
do 1SSUC this proclamation
i iere by declaring that the fore,
g 0 j„g proposed amendment to
the Constitution is submitted for
or rejection to the
voters of the state, qualified to
vtde f nr niembers of the General
^ sse mbly, at the general elect
jon to be held on Wednesday,
October 3, 1906.
JOSEPH M. TERRELL,
the Governor ; Governor.
PPIH* <*>»*, Secretary of State,