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CHARLTON CAUNTY HERALD VOL. X.--NO. 38. TAXES UNCONSTITUTIONAL. ] PUBLISHED BY REQUEST. | Saint George, Ga., Dec. 21. 1007, ~Jditor of Enterpnise, 4 Fitzgerald, Ga., ‘ Dear Siri— ‘ I take this way to advise every proverty holder of 1904 colony, thaq‘ the sales of lots for special street tax.i Imposed by Council, since January 1907, are unconstitutional, therefore illegal; and all deeds given by these officers, are void, and cons2quently taey can redeem them. The last sale advertised of about 400 lots and two five acre tracts unknown owners were to be sold for advalorem tax, ranging from 5 cts-to. I.co this tox ust be paid. and they can now be rydeemed by paying thetaxes, The Mayor and Editor at Gazette John Hairis, Tom W. Wrench, City Clerk and Fr A. Carwichaely Street Com. : an] Marshal the Jast named officer drawing $50.00 a month salary, have bid n the majority of these lots, which was-illegal; have given deeds with additional cost of over $9.00 beside the taxes; this last sale was ciijoined by the court and property hotders can redeemtheir lotsby pay ing advalorem tax. Col. Robt. L. Berner had this in charge and one evening gave the people a nice talk, and assured them, not withstanding rumoers to the contrary, that the deeds given by the court, willbea valid one. D. C. Welch and alder man McConchie have resigned, and two elected to fill their places on Council. We hope for an honest ‘administration. 4 "~ Wait and see. : P A Subcriber. c ~ The Clinch County News speak” Jing of Col. E. L. Walker’s candi ~ Col. Walker was in our town last Tuesday, and met a few of his nu aerons triends during his short visit, He received numerous assurances ot “his support in his county, and his frienes predict that he will carry the couaty by a -safe majority. While Col. Walker is still on the sunny side of life, he is 2 man of ripe ex perience as a member of the ‘bar and as a statesman. He has served his county as a member of the House, aud his Senatorial District as a member of the Senate. ably and well. His professional life has been clean ond upright, and, personally, he is one of the cleveres men Geor gia has produced, and to know Law ton Walker, as his triends familiar ly call him, is to like him, It might also be mentioned that Mr, Walker is a lawyer of ability as well as ex perience.' He, together wiih Hon, Andrew B, Estes, form one of the strongest law firms in South Geor gia, and have invariably taken care! of the interests of their clients to their = entire satisfaction, Col. Walker has several relatives 1n the county, and bis friends claim that this will ingure to his benefit, ‘ The News doos not hesitate to say’ that, in the evenl of Col. Walker’s election, that the office of Sohcitorl General will be-as ably filled, and the interests of the people as con-‘f scientgusly protected iu the Bruns wick Circuit as any Circuit in Geot gia. To the Voters of Charlton County and the Brunswick Circuit, I hereby announce myself a can didate for Solicitor General of the Brunswick Judicial Circuit, subject to the Democratic Primacy. { so licit the support and influence of the voters of the circuit, and if nominated and elected to said office, I pledge a faithful discharge of the duties thereof without fear, favor or ifl'edi,qu. . | Yours obedieatly, . Lawion Walker, FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY ORG ANIZED AT _ ATHENS - With Capital of $100,0600 and Asks State Cearter. . _(BY THE SAYANNAM NEWS.) L ik Atlanta, Feb. B.— There has baen orgenized in Athens a new fire insurance company, a stcck coms pany backed by abundant capital, and steps are now being taken to secure a cifarter from the state. This'company is to have a capital stock of SIOO,OOO and a paid in sur plus of a like amount, so that it will start business with $200,000 cash. As yet this new company has no name; it is still looking for one that would suit. The Empire State Fire Insurance Company of Georgie has been suggested, but no action has been taken. ““There is no question in my mind but that such a company will suc. ceed from the start, if it will stick to Georgia,” said Insurance Commiss ioner W. A. Wright to.day. Here is a remarkable record made by one company doing business in Georgia and there are others doing almost as well, T'his company,sollected in premiums in Georgia last year gtone $220,000 and its total losses amoun ted to less than SIOO,OOO. Accord ing to the usual estimate of expenses this company made in Georgia alone last year about 60 percent, net, or more thaz $60.000. The total an nual ayerage of the losses in Georgia will not run over 4o per cent of the premiums collected.” . ~ CHURCH DIRECTORY. }: .AT THE BAPTIST CHURCH, fourth Satnrday at 1 o’clock A, M. and omrSunday at 11 A. M. and at 7130 P. M, ‘ Prayer Meeting every Tuesday at Py M Sunday School every Sunday at 9;30 A. M. G. W. Haddock, Supt. - Woman's Missionary Society, ev: ery Wednesday at 3 P. M., Miss Mattic Denmark, Pres, Everybody is invited to attend each service. DEAD. . Hon. G. W. Haddock passed away this morning at 4.30 o'clock of organic heart trouble, At a few minutes to four o’clock he asked his wife if she knew what time it was, The clock was then striking four, and Mrs. Haddock heard him struggling. Help was summonsed but he had been dead sowe time be fore any one could get there. Judge Haddeck was about 55 or 56 years of age, was a consistent member of the baptist chureh, a mason, an oddfellow and judge of the County Court at the time of his death. He leaves a wife, ffve daugh ters and four sons to mourn his un expected death. ANNOUNCEMENT. TO THE VOTERS OF THE BRUNS WICK CIRCUIT. y 1 beg to aunouce my candidacy in the next Demcracy Primacy for nomination for the of fice of Solicitor-General of the Brunswick Judicial Circuit. : Oa account of the illness of the present Solicitor-General, I have filled this office for him almost continuously for the past three years, and thorefore am famtliar with its ‘dl“- . Bl } 1 soiieit youl acjive supporot, and promise, if electected, to discharge the duties of the office honestly and to the best of my ability, A. D, Gale. On account of the death of fodge Haddock the entertainmem‘ at the court house will be called off. A later snvouncement will be made. Mrs, Looghmln.‘ FOLKSTON, GA. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1908. A BAINT AND AGOD. | - There are more Saint Va_.\letfl than yau can shake a stick at, the particular Valeatine whu;;s made tne patron of young loy seems to have been a quiet y'_ Florentine who never did anythis in particular to deserve the electi When the pagan gods were @it taeir official quietus some cent f‘ ago some of them wers rude enot to lefuse to odmit that they / 3 dead; old customs survived;":_é switch from gods to saints was;%}” made in a day; there was one (, i in particular who had gained the &§ sections of the stuid multitude, as he was very imprudent when he ,’ politely asked to retire. 'This ¢ 1 born individual was Cupid, and B recalcitrant attitude created a »Q dal throughout Christendom. Hilt Cupid stuck to his artillery, and;:i { nally forced a compromise. It': agreed that the old customs shoul§l continue, but jhat the patron gél should be changed to a patron saikfy and the saint selected was the afofge said Valentine. And yet @ seems to have got the best of thi bargain at that; it is on the s:_ti'_ 1 birthday that those sentimental mi sives are exchanged, but the v‘ k and pudgy god, clothed in nothing to speak of bu! his pinkness apfl pudginess is featured conspicougl on the posters—the saint can_ h , the name, but the god takes {he game,—Don Marquis in Uncle B ‘mus’s Magazine for February. : ;§ ~ Weclip the following from signed article m the Souti‘( : ;Geurgian of last week. We heartil§ ‘agree with the writer as to the pré; way of raising the neccessray fiili and would suggest that *v ‘s fathers adopt the example set by i give us artesian water delivered to ?every' family in town that are willing to pay a reasonable price for it, Bond for enough to give us ar tessan water and clay some of these sandy streets. ~ Now as I feel every citizen of the county of Camden is interested in the progress of this city, which un doubtedly will rebound to the credit of the entire. I feel that I should call your attention toa few facts‘} showing that at last the people of St. Marys are realizing her advant ages and earnestly desire to show that her advancement is to the ad vancement of the entire county, For instance the citizens, mayor and council have unanimously voted an appropriation of S4OO to carry on the St. Marys Academy for the Spring term begirning Eeb, st of this year. They- have opened the school to every boy and giriim Cam den and guarantee their expences, such as board and laundry, will not exceed what it costs for similar ser vices elsewhere in the state, They have noted with consider able pleasure that the connty comm issoners have established a chain gang system that good roads may be a practical benefit to our citizens and enalle them to reach the county site w'th more ease and pleasure than heretofore. This undoubtediy is @ move in the right direction, and will scarcely cost the county any thing. Now there is one more move that will rebound to the honor and credit of our honorabie board of county commissoners if they will take hold of at once, to-wit: Instead of spending several thovsand doll ars in bulding a vault to preserve the records of our county in, that they build a modern court house and jail. I’ow the question presents it self pirhow this fund should be raised: Thie is a very easily solved problem; why! because we have pre cedent after precedent used by other counties in the state, among the last, but by no means least, 18 our sister county Charlton, who have spuet between $20,000 and $30,000 to build 2 modern court house and jail, T'nis has been done by a bon ded issue the prorated on each pro perty owner being so light, that the people actually didn't know wbenl they had completed payment: of same, P - ~ DEPARTMENT. . CONDUCTED BY J. T. BRINKLEY. [q HORACE ~MANN Tine FOUNDER OF, AMERICAN SYs 5 TEM Or Epucarion, . No less in fact, if so in name, t the great founders Washington, Jes ferson and Monrtoe, the gigantic pillars of our grand republic, is ‘Horace Mann. For hile they, as soldiers and presidents were flighting and thinking to give our country civic independence, material, " sta. bility and universal recognition, he was quietly toiling, sometimes, a gainst natural causes, but most often against sectional predjudices for the emancipation of the individual mind For while Jefierson was theorizing and making his beautifui comments for education, Horace Mann was at work putting in practice these, and other theories. | As Massachusetts gave birth tol | civic freedom and independence, is itbut naiural for her also to osier first some metnod for preserving it |to the unborne millions of the future ages? She did this in the person of | I~H~orace__ ,Mann.“ He was born;“in‘ May, 1796. At twelve years ofage he was left fatherless to the des':.’j tinies, at twenty, under the influence of Mr. Barret he rumned his health for “all time by preparing, in six ifth\ for Sophqfore class of B !{wn’i University, from which he graduated two years later with first ”Wr two years he served as séntatise in the legislature of Mass. thus ‘made vacant. While there, seeing and knowing the need of edu cation for the public, he secured the passage of a bill establishing a State Board of Education, of which he was afterward made secretary. For twelve yers he stumped the state in the interest of education, being dis couraged often by meeting persons idéing what they cculd to work a gainst him, nevertheless he toiled on i.went to Europe in she interest of his 'theme and from Germany brought back new methods and thoughts compiled in the shape of a report, which made education a public duty, and established it permanetly as an institution of the state. This report also killed forever the doubt as to the advisability of having normal schools for the training of tsachers for the proffession. He did not consider the high school or the kindergarten: but he loved the comman schools, “The object of the common school system is to give to every child a free straight, solid pathway, whice he can walk up from the ignorance of an infant to the primary duties of a men,” he said.” He advocated ;more human treatment to the pupils, better preparation by the teachers and more general consideration for the advaucenent of education by the ‘parents. : : After severing coptiection with the State Board, . Mann served a term in Congress from ' 1848-73. He was defeated in‘_m‘c@:f.or govern or of Mass, but was elected presi. dent of Antiach Coliegé at Yellow Springs, Ohio, which p'szirion he held until Lis death in 1859. In an address to his last graduat. ing elags he made this gtatement, "“Pe ashamed to diz until you have won some victory for humanity,” 4 WINOKUR. j Rev. G. E. Jones fille(‘lfhis ragglar appointmant at~ Wiftokur l}affitiq ‘ church on lastßaturday and Sunday, Despite the bad weather the meet ing was well attended, - “We are informed that some time 1n the near future Mr. J. W, Dicke son 1s:t0 move his shingle will to the Brownell old millmj\w about fi'te wiles south of Winckaur, Tk IrE Quite a mumber of dur farmer .riends were Am,wv"kn' lagt Saturday. Lines of farmers “all remind us, that Wealth may roll in some ddf‘«fii ourselves.. b i Mrs. Vida Williams accompanifid by her husband and two ehildren ar rived here lust Satugday from Soutp Florida. They expect to spend some time with Mrs. Williams's brother Mr. C M. Griswold. Messrs. Allen Wainright ani Eugene Roddenderry attended the choir practice last Sunday. ! e . The Jumpnig off Place. kS “Consumption had *me in ils grasp; and I had almost reached the jumping off place when I was@advised to try Dr, King’s New Discovery;} and I want to say right now, it saved my life, Improvement began ‘with| the first bottli, and after taking one ‘dozen kggtlcfi Iwas a wcflafludw Grimesland, N, € As a remedy for, coughs and colds and healer of weak, soredungs’ and {6 preventing To Continue for 15 Days. ol oot ! Best Calico, 6 1-2 cts. per yd. Good Yellow Homespun s¢, per yd 2octs. Dress Goods, 16cts. per yd, 28cs. " N A Telp YR All r Dry Goods at reduc ed pricese. ' Clothing and lots of it at 10 per cent discount. All kinds of hats at reduc- ' ed pricese We have just received some New Goods which will go in this sale, ' e ‘ Try us if you are look= ing for bargains. Yours for good service. NMIZELL & PAXTON.. S.OO A YEAR, SO N A l> ‘TOLEDO.:y. ¥ - Ml, Walter Johnson weny to 'St George one day this week on busi ness, ‘ i@ . _ M.and Mrs. G. W: Gowen are both quite sick but_we hope to see them out again soon. g Y A - Mz. and Mrs. E~B. Stokes visit ed St, George.thes week, " . . * v v b "-”.' ’ ; Miss Tazzie Hodges -visited Mss, A. G. Gowen Sr. this week; I.+ L Mr. W, A+ Crews's family bag been quite sick but is imgscyeing, Miss_ Dela - Hodges is w@.‘ friepds audrelatives «t Jucks witle and C’a”ah.l:}, o N ‘,.»m ; HIGGINBO{HAM STURDIVANT. The marrage céremony ‘of C. Stardivant and Miss Carrte Higgigs botham was solemnized at the home of the bride’s parcnts, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Higginbotham, about one ‘mile south of Winokur last Sunday about 10 o’clock A, M. The nup tial knot was ‘tied by Rev. J. C, Lied: M Now that the State . Exccutive Committee has fixed june 4th for the State Primary we expect to see the “palitical pot” begin to boil, It has been gimmering now for some time, Most of the counties will adapt the same date as the siate i order to save time, expense and an noyance, It is more than Ali‘ke_lx that the executive committee of Charlron county will fix Jmm afi; for the county primary, in fact, we ave heard. lom. gopd_duthsity m;? X ”’W does, and alf those wha are willing