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The Fort Valley Leader.
VOL. XIX.
Application For Railroad Charter
State of Georgia,Pul&ski County;
To the Honorable Phillip Cook,
Secretary of State:
The petition of M. H. Boyer,
of the county of Pulaski, said
state, George W. Bannerman,
John E. Lang;, S, N. Kriescher,
David J. Gilto, John S. Duncan.
D. Parry Bannerman, H. M.
Bannerman. George W. Flood,
of the county of Nassau, state of
New York, and John R. Parry, of
the state of Connecticut, respect¬
fully shows:
1st. That they desire to- form
a railroad corporation pursuant
to the provisions of the Act of
the General Assembly of Georgia,
Approved December 20. 1892,
Code Sections 2159-2179 inclu¬
sive, and laws amendatory there
of.
2nd. That the name of said
railroad company, which
ers desire to have incorporated,
is to be the American Railroad
Company.
3rd. The length of said rail¬
road, as near as can be accurate¬
ly estimated, will be sixty miles,
more or less. Said railroad will
run from a point in the city of
Abbeville, County of Wilcox, said
State, in a northwesterly direc¬ Wil
tion through the county of
<jox to Hawkinsville in the coun¬
ty of Pulaski, said state; thence
from Hawkinsville in a north¬
westerly direction to Grovania,
in the county of Houston, said
state; from Grovania in a wester¬
ly direction to the town of Win¬
chester, in the county of Macon,
said state.
4.th Petitioners desire to be in¬
corporated fora term of 101
years, with the privilege of re¬
newal at the expiration of that
time. Petitioners desire incor¬
poration with a capital stock of
$100,000., divided into shares of
$100. each, all of said stock to be
common stock of equal dignity,
■with the privilege of increasing
said stock from time to time as
the majority of the Directors of
said railroad company may see
fit and proper, to an amount not
exceeding in the aggregate of
$ 1 , 000 , 000 - 00 . desire the
5th. Petitioners
right to acquire at such points as
ia advisable, territory for side
tracts, spur-tracks, reservations
for stations and ter¬
minal facilities for said railroad
company, as may be deemed
necessary in the successful con¬
struction, maintenance and ope¬
ration of said railroad company
and its properties. that they
6th. Petitioners pray
do intend in good faith to imme¬
diately go forward at once with¬
out delay to secure subscriptions rail¬
to the capital stock of said
road company and to construct,
equip, maintain and operate said
railroad. that they
7th. Petitioners pray
desire to be incorporated under
the name and style of the Amer¬
ican Railroad Company, with the
right to issue bonds against said
railroad company and its proper¬
ties, in amount not exceeding
$15,000. per mile, said issue of
bonds not to be made until the
proper authorities within the
aforesaid state have been applied
to and their permission granted,
as under the law in such cases
made and provided. desire be
8th. Petitioners to
incorporated under the name and
style aforesaid with the rights,
privileges and immunities of the
law in such cases made and pro¬
vided, and to enjoy all the rights
and benefits legally accruing to a
railroad corporation under the
laws of Georgia, and subject to
legal restrictions thereof.
9th. Petitioners aver that the
original capital stock of $100,000.
aforesaid, is to be known as com
non stock, but petitioners desire
the right to be incorporated with
the right to issue an amount of
preferred stock and bunded m
debtedness, or both, in the dis¬
cretion of stockholders and direc¬
tors of said railroad company,
the rights and privileges of such
preferred stock and bonded in¬
debtedness over the common
PORT VALLEY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GEORGIA'FRIDAY. DECEMBER 25, 1908.
stock to be such as are filed in
the manner provided bylaw, and
in the order or resolution of the
proper authorities, of said state,
who authorize the issuance
such preferred stock and bonded
indebtedness, and said corpora¬
tion may if it sees fit and proper,
make classes of said preferred
stock and bonded indebtedness.
Said preferred stock and bonded
indebtedness shall not exceed in
the aggregate of $900,000.00.
10th. Petitioners show that tlie
principal office of said corpora¬
tion shall be in the city of Haw¬
kinsville Pulaski county Georgia.
Uth. Petitioners show that the
counties through which said rail¬
road will run are Wilcox. Pulaski,
Houston and Macon, said state.
12th. Petitioners show that
they have given four weeks no
‘ ice “< their intention to apply
each ££?*
of the aforesaid counties for
four weeks prior to the filing of
this petition. Said charter ap¬
peared for four consecutive
weeks in the Hawkinsville Dis¬
patch and News, of Pulaski coun¬
ty, the Abbaville Chronicle, of
Wilcox county, the Houston
Home Journal of Houston coun¬
ty, and the Macon County Citi¬
zen, of Macon county.
Wherefore, petitioners pray to
be incorporated under the name
and style of the American Rail¬
road Company, with all the rights
powers, privileges and immuni¬
ties provided by law for railroad
companies and subject to the res¬
trictions and limitations of the
law, And petitioners pray in¬
corporation. W
M. H- Boyer, Geo. Bannei’man
John E. Lang, S. N. Kriescher
David J. Gitto, John S. Duncan
E. Parry Bannerman,
Geo. W. Flood, John R, Parry
H. M. Bannerman.
by M. H. Boyer, Atty at Law.
Commissioners Sale of Land
By authority of an order and
judgement of his Honor W. H.
Felton Jr., Judge of the Superior
Court of the Macon Judicial Cir¬
cuit and of the Superior Court of
Houston county Ga., in the case
of Mrs. Georgia Peyton et al Vs
Mrs. Emma Rooks efc al, petition
for partition, in Houston Super¬
ior Court; We will sell on the
first Tuesday m January 1909,
before the Court House in Perry,
Ga., within the legal hours of
sale, to the highest bidder, at
public outcry, all that tract or
parcel of land situated, lying and
being in the original Tenth Dis¬
trict of Houston county Ga., and
being the East half of lot Number
Sixty (60) ?and containing one
hundred acres more or less, and
being the lands deeded by M. J.
Nelson to Mrs. Edith Doles and
her children, and bounded as fol¬
lows: On the North by lands of
Jim Arnold, on the East by lands
of W. A. McLemore, on the
South by lands of J M Simmons
and on the West by lands of W.
W. Howard. Sale made for par¬
tition. Terms cash.
I. T. Woodard,
M. L. Cooper,
G. W. Winn,
Commissioners.
Prevaricator.
The word prevaricator is from the
Latin and originally meant a straddler
with distorted or misshapen legs. In
the Roman courts of law the expres¬
sion was applied to one who in a suit
was discovered to be in collusion with
his opponent to compass some dishon¬
esty. As falsehood was the necessary
part of such a perfc -mance, the word
by and by came to have the signifi¬
cance at present attached to Jt
, no vice pr-^enev
“It's sthraegi about th’ vice prlsi
dinev ” said Mr. Dooley. “Th’ prisi
Jmcy is th’ highest office in th’ gift
iv th' people. Th' vice priskiincy is
th’ nex’ highest an’ th’ lowest. It isn’t
a crime exactly. Ye can’t be sint to
jail f’r it, but it’s a kind iv a disgrace."
—“Dissertations by Mr. Dooley.”
Hie Hepe For Revenge.
Judge (to barber sentenced to death)
—If you have a last request, the court
will be glad to grant It. Barber—I
should like to shave the prosecuting at¬
torney.—litmicb Jusrend.
MERRY CHRISTMAS
The Leader takes occasion to
thank each and every one of our
patrons for the favors shown us
and the business given us this
year. We appreciate it. We
hope to begin the New Year with
renewed energy and will endeav¬
or to improve with each issue,
and solicit a continuence of the
patronage which has been exten¬
ded to us.
The editor wishes every one a
Jolly Christmas and a Prosper¬
ous New Year.
Ynletide Musings
The joyous time is drawing
nigh, the time of turkey, pudding
pie; nor do we dream of after
ills, of squills, and Christmas
bills.
A girl begins to hang up the
mistletoe at about the age when
she stops hanging up her stock¬
ings.
A pessimist is a fellow who
wouldn’t hang up his stocking
for fear Santy might swipe it.
Christmas cigars are not al¬
ways puffed with pride.
There’s many a slip ’twixt the
Miss and the mistletoe.
Don’t make it too strong:
many a man has been knocked
out by one good, strong punch.
Hellow, Santa.
Hello, Santa, folks tellme that
you
Will bring ’good children what
they ask you to.
I’ve been a good boy all the year,
And now I ask this gift, oh Santa,
dear.
I do not ask for books, or toys,
Or skates; give them to other
little boys;
Just leave my stocking empty
qnite.
But, santa, won’t you please, on
Christmas night
Bring me my mother? Leave her
here
Besides the fireplace, in her rock¬
ing chair.
You bring her, please from heav¬
en to me.;
Then we can hug and kiss and
love you see!
I’ll pin this letter to her shawl,
Here on the chair, I believe I’ve
tpldyou all.
’Cc.pt this one thing: If I can’t
sleep
On Christmas night, s’cuse me
if I peep
And come a running’ down the
stair
To sit with mother in her rockin’
chair.
X
Famou* Anagrams.
Of all the extravagances caused by
the anagrammatlc fever when many
years ago it was at Its height, none
comes up to that of a Frenchman
named Andre Pujom, who, discovering
in his name the anagram Pendu a
Itiom (the seat of criminal justice in
the province of Auvergne), felt bound
to fulfill his destiny, committed a crime
in Auvergne and was actually hanged
In the place to which the omen point¬
ed.
Among the papers of William Oldys,
the bibliographer, was found the fol¬
lowing anagram on himself:
In word and will I am a friend to you,
And on* friend old Is worth a hundred
new.
The Father Pierre de fit T,oUls be¬
came a Carmelite monk on finding out
that his lay name, Ludovieus Bar
telemi, gave the anagram tjirmelo se
devovet, and Sylvester, in dedicating a
translation of Du Bartas to his sover¬
eign, made the following anagram:
“James Stuart—A Just master."—
Minneapolis Journal.
large Crowds Here
This
From present indications
will be record breaking
every day attending the
a t Fort Valley. Everybody
and see the fun.
An Unexpected Reply
A very’demure little
woman, who teaches her
tongue in a well Known
college, learned recently,
embarrassing circumstances
it is not always safe to accept
a final standard of correct
lish what one may casually
One night at supper the
dent of the college announced
the assembled young ladies and
teachers that an informal musical
program would be given present¬
ly in the college chapel.
Turning to the dainty Parisian
who, in addition to her other
accomplishments, plays the piano
well, he said:
if Perhaps Madam Petit will be
so good as to assist he.
The lady addressed arose and
coyly replied:
f f I vill do my durndest, profes
seur. December Lippincott’s.
A doctor came up to a patient
in an insane asylum, slapped him
on the back and said: “Well, old
man, you're all right. You can
run along and write your folks
that you will be back home in two
weeks as good as new.” The
patient went off gayly to write his
letter. He had it finished and
sealed, but when he was licking
thestamp it slipped through his
finger to the floor, lighted on the
back of a cockroach that was
passing and stuck. The patient
hadn’t seen the cockroach—what
he did see was his escaped post¬
age stamp zigzagging aimlessly
across the floor to the baseboard,
wavering up the baseboad, and
following a crooked track-up the
wall and across the ceiling. In
depressed silence he tore open
the letter that he had just written
and dropped the piece on the
floor. “Two weeks, Hell! he said.
<< I’won’t be out of here in three
years.”—Ex.
CU JSkm S TP m ■ m JtM.JL'M&rnm
Bears th# The Kind Yon Haw Always Boiigtt
Signature
A Fith Story.
“Trout protection! Nonsenser’ said
a gunner of local eminence. “Trout
are amply able to protect thejnselves.
Look at their depredation* among
ducks, for example, and you will agree
with me that it’s the birds that need
protection. It's a common thing for
& trout to Jump from the water, seize
a duck by the neck, drug the unfortu¬
nate fowl into the depths sufficiently to
leave Its feet sticking In the air. where
It can get no purchase upon the uni¬
verse, and thus drown It. Then tin
trout picks the I'm:thers from the bird
eats it at Its leisure and swims awa.
out of the jurbrlicti 'i) << r \).U l COU r<v
Are there any fishermen ?. ne i To¬
bad. This would be a u a ior o
of their fish stories.”—I’mlaib* 1 ;.'.'..
Record.
Gat the Autograph.
At Carlsbad on one occasion Brahms'
physician, Dr. Grunberger, asked the
composer for his autograph for a
young lady admirer, but Brahms scold¬
ed him for making a nuisance of him¬
self and refused to give It. Some
weeks later, at his departure from
Carlsbad, Brahms handed to the doc¬
tor an envelope Inscribed, “With th#
cordial thanks of Johannes Brahms.”
Noticing a broad grin on the doctor’s
face, he asked: “What makes you look
so cheerful? You don’t know yet what
the envelope contains. "Nor do I
care, retorted the doctor. “The *n
velope is the main thing. Much oblig¬
ed fur the autograph!”
NO. 44
A SHORT ISSUE
A« is customary with this and
all weekly papers, The Leader
issues no regular edition this
week, only a small issue being
printed carrying the legal ads.
LESAL ADVERTISEMENTS
Georgia Houston County;
J. P. Cooper: Administrator of
Robert Nelson, deceased, has ap¬
plied for leave to sell all the lands
belonging to the estate of said
deceased. This is therefore to
cite all persons concerned to ap¬
pear at Court the January Term Hous¬ 1909
of the of Ordinary of
ton county and show cause if any
they have, why said application
should not be granted.
Witness my official signature,
inis Nov. 14,1908.
S. T. Hurst, Ordinary,
Georgia Houston county:
W. M. Wynn, Administrator of
Mrs. E. M. Smith, deceased, has
applied for leave to sell all the
lands belonging to the estate of
said deceased. This is therefore
to cite all persons concerned to
appear at the January Term,
1909, of the Court of Ordinary of
Houston county and show cause,
if any they have why said appli¬
cation should not be granted.
Witness my official signature
this Nov. 2, 1908.
S. T- Hurst, Ordinary.
Georgia Houston county:
To whom it may concern.
J. E. Cheek having made appli¬
cation to me in due form to be
appointed Administrator upon
the estate of James H. Hall, late
of said county, notice is hereby
given that said application will be
heard at the regular term of the
Court of Ordinary for said coun¬
ty to be held on the first Monday
in January 1909.
S. T. Hurst Ordinary.
Georgia Houston county:
I. T. Woodard, Clerk S. C. and
as Administrator of Mrs. E. L.
Tooke, deceased, has applied for
dismission from his said trust.
This, is therefore to cite all per¬
sona concerned to appear at the
January Term, 1909, of the Court
of Ordinary of said county and
show cause, if any they have,
why said application should not
be granted.
Witness my official signature
this Dec. 7, 1908.
S. T. Hurst, Ordinary,
Sale For Partition
Under and by virtue of an or¬
der passed by the Superior
Court of Houston County on the
7th day of December 1908, in par¬
tition W. proceedings of Mrs. Mar¬
tha Munford, et ah, versus
Mrs. Annie E. Warren, et al., the
undersigned, acting as commis¬
sioners duly appointed by said
order, will sell at public outcry
before the court house door at
Perry, Ga., to the highest and
best bidder during the legal
hours of sale on the first Tues¬
day in January 1909, the follow¬
ing described property to-wit;
1060 acres of land, more or less,
known asOakyTucky plantation,
about four miles south of Perry,
and being the place now occupied
by Eugene Anderson as a stook
farm, being owned in fee simple L
at the time of his death b.y J.
Warren.
Eugene Anderson,
W. O. Livingston,
W. W- Merriman,
Commissioners.
Goblet*. j
Goblets with stem and stand Ilk*
those we use today were employs® 1a
Troy 900 B. G. Among the value ob'e
objects found by Dr. Schilemana was
a golden goblet Vessels of this metal
were commonly employed in the serv¬
ice of the temples. J
CASTOR IA
?or Infants and Children.
Thi Kind You Have Always Bought
Bears the
Signature of