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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