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Semi-Weekly.
VOL. xxxvm.
SHERIFF BROWN
CONE TO TEXAS
Left Tnfe Morning For Waco,
to Briqg Back Man Charged
With Theft.
Sheriff 4James G. Brown 'left this
morning for Waco, Texas, 'foe bring
back Joe Tribble, charged with
stealing a horse and buggy from
W. A. McGinnis, of Norcross, on
May 17tfc.
The sheriff was notified by the
authorities of the Texas city that
Tribble had been captured.
Mr. McGinnis was in Lawrence
ville several wee'ks ago -and sent
out a description of Tribble, set
ting forth that on May 17fch the
latter hired a horse and buggy
from the former, stating that he
wished to -visit his sick father in
Milton comity and would return
the following day. Upon this fail
ure to return, a search was begun
and it was found he had disap
peared. McGinnis offered a, re
ward for Tribble’s arrest and the
recovery of his turnout.
Sheriff Brown will return the
latter part of the week.
PRIVATE ROAD
CAUSES TROUBLE
Ordinary Robinson Called on
to Adjust Differences Be
tween Neighbors.
A ease which has excited consider
able interest was tried before Ordi
nary Robinson last Friday and
brought a number of witnesses to
town.
The case was that of C. W. Brad
ford versus Ketus Holland and H. J.
Jackson. It seems that some two
weeks ago Messrs. Holland and Jack
son placed some obstructions across
a settlement or private road leading
from the Gainesville "road through
the lands of Holland, Jackson, Brad
ford, O’Kelley and others to the Bu
ford road, and which the defendants
wanted discontinued.
The road, it was shown in the evi
dence, had been in use for twenty or
twenty-live years, and after hearing
from both sides the ordinary ordered
the obstructions removed.
Mr. Bradford was represented by
(). A. Nix, Esq., and the defendants
were represented by Major VV. E.
Simmons and Col. Dan Byrd.
There were about thirty witnesses
present, and the case consumed the
entire day.
FIRST COTTON BLOOM
COMES FROM MARTINS
W. L. Greason was in Lawrence
vill Friday and handed us the first
cotton bloom of the season. It was a
white bloom and opened in his field
on the farm of R.L. Allen, in Martins
district.
Will doesn’t claim to do much a 6
a corn raiser, but when it comes to
cotton he is among the first on the
ground. He says he never fails to
make a bale to the acre and that this
can be done in a short while on any
ordinary land. In place of buying
fertilizers, he uses compost, which he
prepares himself, and he puts all the
seed, and frequently more, back on
the land from which it came. He
argues that the oil in the seed will
retain moisture longer than anything
else, and his crops seldom sutler
from drouth.
Will is a wide awake, industrious
young farmer, who deserves consid
erable credit for the success he is
making, and it gives us pleasure to
note his progress.
Th e Mews Herald
G. W. HUMPHRIES
GRANTED PARDON
In 1906 Plead Guilty to For
gery in Twa Cases —Sen-
tenced to 15 Years.
C. W.. Humphries, whoiplead guiii
ty in two cases at the September
term, of Gwinnett superis-r
court on the charge of forgery, was
pardowed from the penitentiary last
Thursday by'Governor Smith.
He was sent up for fifteen years,
five years in one case and ten years
in the other, and had not served
three years of the time until given
his freedom.
That Humphries should eo easily
escape further punishment for the
crimes to which he confessed comes
as a surprise to many people in this
county, who considered the case an
aggravated one, and they do not nu
clei stand upoai what groinxts the gov
ernor aeted.
Most of our readers are familiar
with the case, but we take the fol
lowing extract from a published ac
count of Humphries’ transactions
directly after his arrest at Athens,
where lie was captured :
“Humphries was known about
Buford as a horse trader and bought
and sold stock, takii.g mortgages on
the same. Some of these papers he
deposited with the bank and drew
money on them. Having secured
the confidence of the bank by putting
up good collateral they did not sus
pect anything wrong when he put up
bogus paper. Humphries is alleged
to have uttered A number of forged
mortgages and on this paper it is said
he obtained $3,100 from the Shadburn
Banking Co. The firm of Sears &
Bennett, it is said, was likewise
touched for S7OO, and a party atCum
ming is reported to be out SI,OOO on a
crooked transaction engineered by
Humphries.
“He claimed to be contracting near
Atlauta and came backward and for
ward to Buford. In this way lie
made his disappearance before the
forgeries were discovered.
“Humphries is twenty or twenty
one years old and married, but it is
reported was not living with his wife.
He is the son of Mr. Gns Hum
phries.”
KNICHTS OF PYTHIAS
ELECT NEW OFFICERS
At a regular meeting of Lawrence
ville lodge No. 177 Knights or
Pythias, last Thursday evening, offi
cers for the ensuing year were elected
{is follows:
Dan M. Byrd, C. C.
J. C. Houston, V. C.
Rev. Fritz Rauschenberg, Prelate.
J. L. Cooper, M. at A.
P. H. McElroy, M. of W.
W. A. Holland, I. G.
This is one of the most progressive
young lodges in the state and stands
high in the councils of the order.
Grand Chancellor Clifford M.
Walker has appointed J. L Exum
deputy grand chancellor for the first
district, Mr. Exum knowing nothing
of th • intention of his grand chan
cellor until his commission arrived
with a notice of his appointment.
This is quite a distinction and the
honors will be worthily worn by Mr.
Exum.
LOCALS TO MEET AN
UNDEFEATED TEAM
Manager Taylor, of the Lawrence
ville Baseball Club, phoned us this
morning that he had made a game
with the Piedmont Baseball Club, of
Atlanta, which has not lost a game,
for next Saturday.
This team ranks among the best
amatures in the business, having de
feated the strong Norcross aggrega
tion and last Saturday added the
scalp of the fast White Caps to their
collection. It will be remembered
that both Norcross and the White
Caps have defeated the locals and
they will be up against the real ar
ticle next Saturday.
NOTICE
We are now prepared to grind your
corn by gasoline power. Will grind
at any honr. Your patronage solicit
ed. Pate & Barnett,
Snellville, Ga.
LAWRENCEVILLE, GA.. MONDAY, JUNE 21, 1909.
TRIED TO ESCAPE
FROM COUNTY JAIL
J. D. DeLoach Detected in At
tempt to Gain Liberty.
Now in CeJL
J. D. DeLoach, who was recently
bound over on tfie charge of stealing
a large sum of money from a farmer
in Ben Smith district, and who gave
Sheriff Brown* lively chase through
SouthCaroiira before being captured,
was detected last week in an effort
to break jail, and but for the vigi
lance of Sheritff Brown would have
succeeded.
DeLoach, with the other prisoners,
has been allowed the use eff the cor
ridors surrounding the cages, only
being locked in the cells at night
In tile rear of the jail tfiere is a
door which has a solid steei shutter
and an outer door of steel lattice
work. The inside shutter had been
left open in order to give proper ven
tilation and by the use of a small
piece of iron DeLoach had loosened
the hinges on the lattice door and
was awaiting a favorable opportunity
to walk out when his plans were
frustrated by the sheriff.
Sheriff Brown had his suspicions
aroused several days ago, and be
lieving that the man was up to mis
chief he set a trap wliichjworked like
a charm. Telling his wife, so that
DeLoach might hear, that lie was
going up town for awhile, Mrs.
Brown replied that she also was go
ing away for a few hours, and in
stead of staying away Jim soon re
turned and concealed himself where
he could watch operations. He saw
DeLoach go to the door above men
tioned and after working with the
hinges a few minutes, complacently
sat down, took a fresh chew of tobac
co and was evidently planning what
course to take when tie shook the
dust of the prison from his feet, His
astonishment and chagrin can best
be imagined when the sheritf rudely
broke in on his reverie and ordered
him to his cell, where he was in
formed he would stay until further
notice.
DeLoach says another prisoner
helped him remove the hinges but
the sheriff does not believe his story.
Mr. Brown says it is rather hard on
a man to keep him confined in a cell
these hot days, but he will take no
risk with a prisoner who has tried to
escape.
Mr. C. U. Born, of Lawrenceville,
Ga., came up accompanied by Mr. A.
J. Poe, and exhumed the remains of
Mrs. George W. Brock and built a
brick and cement vault for her and
her only son, George M. Brock. So
mother and son rest side by side on a
beautiful hill in a solid brick cement
vault. Mr. Born said it*was the sad
dest but the most beautiful burial he j
had ever taken part in.
The larger number of friends who
attended the burial were of one mind
in pronouncing the workmanship on
the vault as far superior to anything
of the kind they had ever seen. The
vault is waterproof, and though the
bodies of Mrs. Emma Brock and her
son George will be in their narrow
cor>fine for the years to come their
bodies will remain in a perfect 3tate
of preservation.
Mr. Born seems to understand his
business as a vault builder and when
you lose your loved ones you will
make no mistake in securing his ser
vices. He responds to calls far and
near.—Lula Hustler.
Young Man in Trouble.
Otis Brogdon was tried before
Justice Cross one day last week
on the charge of taking $16.90
from the money drawer of the
Southern depot at Suwanee and
was bound over under a bond of
SBSO, which was given by his
father.
TEACHERS STAND
AN EXAMINATION
Many Applications For License
. to Help Educate Young
Americans.
C-e-mty School Commissioner C. K
Ware held the regular stale exami
nation for public school teachers last
Friday and Saturday.
Prof. Ware was assisted by Prof.
W. P. Martin and Prof. J. R. Berry.
The examination was held in the
courthouse aucl there were seventy
throe white and five colored appli
cants for license.
For the next few weeks the com
missioner will have his hands full
grading the papers and then he will
notify each applicant as to the record
made.
Iu a few days the News-Herald
will begin the publication of the
questions submitted by State School
Commissioner Pound for use at tins
time.
Below is a list of those taking the
examination and among them will
be found a number of new names,
with a sprinkling of teachers of long
experience in this county. Several
teachers in Gwinnett hold license
which have not expired, consequent
ly they were not required to take
the examination.
WHITE APPLICANTS..
Florence Austin,
Lewis Brainlett,
Mary Bvrd,
Annie Bagwell,
Bertha Brooks,
Va°hti Buchanan,
Carfax Baxter,
Era Benson,
Harold J. Campbell,
R. L. Campbell,
Maggie Cook,
Thomas Alvin Glower,
Stt 11a Cofer,
Delpha Chesser,
Lucile Durham,
Mary Lee Dunagan,
Mable Davis,
May Funderburg,
G. Garner,
Lettie Gunter,
Flora Giles,
Annie B. Garner,
Louise Howardy
Lonnie Hudgins,
Pearl Hudgins,
H. B. Harmon,
Lucie Howard,
Bertha Hadaway,
Irene Harris,
Pearl Harris,
Bertie Harmon,
Earl Holt,
Dean W. Hornbuckle,
Essie Jo.ies,
Lula Jennings,
Essie Jacobs,
Mary Jackson,
Marion Jones,
A. L. Jacobs.
Lola Liddell,
Louie McDaniels,
Edna McDaniel,
Ida Medlock,
Pauline Maffett,
Pearl Mayfield,
W. L. Nix,
Sallie Pendergrass,
Eva Pirkle,
R. P. Pickens,
Dora Pirkle,
Lollie Pendergmss,
Winnie Rowe,
Rosa Rives,
Mildred Sasser,
J. A.Smith,
Tcie Smith,
Ludie Simpsou,
Bertie Tanner,
Lillie Turner,
K. E. Taylor,
Mamie Tanner,
A. C. Tanner,
Johnnie Tharp,
Mattie Williams,
C. G. Weaver,
Minnie Williams,
Daisy Williams,
Susie West,
Lillie Williams,
May Woodward,
Frank Webb,
Bettie Williams,
George Williams.
COLORED APPLICANTS.
Adell Horton,
Mattie Strickland,
Ada Marse,
Ithina Gholaton,
Willie May Bacon. ______
RURAL ROUTE NEWS.
Department Devoted to Interest of People on Rural
Routes. Social and Otherwise.
CONDUCTED BY J. L. EXUTI.
SUNDAY SERVICES
IN OUR CITY
Protracted Meeting at Baptist
Church —Methodists Hear
Dr. Magath.
Protracted services were begun
at the Baptist church Sunday
morning, Rev. E. H. Jennings,
the pastor, preaching to a good
congregation morning and even
ing.
Prof. A. A. Lyon, of Atlanta,
was present and led the music.
He will remain through the meet
ing.
At 4 o’clock in the afternoon
Miss Mary Gunter, who is engaged
in the woman’s missionary work,
met with the ladies of the church
and held an interesting service.
The meeting will continue
through this week, services being
held at 4:80 in the afternoon and
S:80 at night.
Dr. Julius Magath, a missionary
to the Hebrews, occupied the
Methodist pulpit Sunday morning
and evening, and those who at
tended were delighted with the
sermons delivered.
Dr. Magath is a Russian Jew
who has accepted the Christian
religion and is a man of most re
markable experience. His ac
count of the persecution of the
chosen people was very pathetic
and touched a responsive chord in
the hearts of his hearers. He is
engaged in the work of bringing
about a better understanding be
tween the Jew and Gentile and no
one who hears him can fail to be
impressed with the righteousness
of his mission.
Rode “The Rods” From Abbeville.
It isn’t often that the class of
passengers that beat their way on
trains can successfully evada the
vigilance of train crews, and es
pecially one on a local freight,
which is continually stopping to
shift cars on such a run as from
Abbeville, S. C., to Winder, Ga.,
but when the south-bound local
ran into the yards at Winder
Monday afternoon a negro train
hand discovered that the train had
brought with it two hobos that
were seen about the depot in the
former town just as the train was
leaving. When the negro an
nounced his find the crowd
which was awaiting the arrival of
the south-bound passenger train
rushed out to see these nervy
riders and saw perched upon the
cross-beams under the caboose two
large gray cats which the crew
said had ridden there all the way
from Abbeville. They seemed
perfectly at home and none the
worse for their rough ride. —Win-
der News.
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
GOING AT ACTION
On Thursday, July Ist, be
ginning at 10 o’clock a. m.,
we will sell at the late resi
dence of T. P. Towtiley, de
ceased, in the city of Law
reuceville, all the household
aud kitchen furniture belong
ing to said deceased, including
bedsteads, dressers, chairs,
featherbeds, mattresses, etc.;
cooking stove, cooking utin
sils, tables, etc. To be sold
under an order of Charles H.
Brand, judge of the superior
courts of the Western circiiit,
for the purpose of distribution
among the heirs at law.
J. B. Whitworth,
J. A. Townley,
Administrators.
Semi-Weekly.
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THE purpose of this department is
to give the rural folk a chance
to find out what his neighbor is doing
and bring them in closer touch with
each other.
If your neighbor is sick, let your
carrier know it, or if von have sever
al items which you think will bfe of
interest to any one, jot them down on
a piece of paper and send them to J.
L. Exnm.
Mrs. Matilda Whitworth, of route:
2, isquite sick.
J. J. Johnson sold some cotton last
Tuesday that was four years old.
J. 8. Bracewell is out again after
being shut in for four weeks with
small pox.
Phene Morris and family, of Duluth
route l, visited F. B. Maddox at
Meadow last Sunday.
Mr. P. J. Buchanan, of Atlanta,-
visited friendsa ! relatives on routes •
l and 2 last week.
Mrs.|Elizabeth Lowe, of route 2,.
was quite sick for several days, but ip
better at the present.
l’aragraphers should never borrow
paragraphs without giving proper
credit. Contemporaries take notice.
H. B. Turner, of route 2, had two
hundred and ten shocks of wheat
from which he got eighty-nine bush
els.
Little Bunice Simonton, daughter
of P. \V. Simouton, of route 2, is very
low. She lies whooping cough in its
very worst form.
Carrier Exum is now up with Cai
rier Wood. He, too, found some nice
ripe peaches in a box at Maddox cor
ner last Saturday.
V. F. Coggius, cotton buyer
luth, bought all that was for
the vicinity of Meadow last w<4§,
giving ll cents for it.
Mr. F. Y. Williams, of route 4, had
24 shocks of oats threshed last week
from which he get twenty seven
bushels of oats. Can you beat it?
Mrs. J. W. Roberts, of route l, who
has been sick for several weeks, is no
better. Her physician says she now
has consumption with a very slight
chance for recovery.
On last Wednesday the hardest
rain ever known to fall around here
fell along the Peachtree road destroy
ing much of the cotton and corn and
washing away much valuable land.
Mrs. R. A. Smith, of route 1, has
returned from Hoschton, where she
has been visiting her father, Mr.
John Elder, who has been quite sick
for some time, but is better at pres
ent.
The lightning struck two trees at
different times on route 1, which were
right on the edge of the road and we
are very glad we were not at this
point at the time or perhaps some
one else would have had to tell the
tale.
Word comes from genial Neal
Smith, carr'er on route 3 from Flow
ery Branch, tiiat he recently went
three consecutive days without meet
ing any one. Possibly his patrons
are like Gwinnett county lolk—be
hind with their crops.
For Larceny After Trust.
Last Friday Boone Tumlin was
given a commitment trial before
A. J. Brown, Esq., on the charge
of larceny after trust, the warrant
having been sworn out by J. W.
McGee. His bond was placed at
SIOO.
Will Save You Money
1 I take orders for monuments, Stew
art’s Iron fences and fruit trees. See
me before buying.
T. W. Jones.
Lawrenceville, Ga.
no. 6a