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The Stag Hotel
Room O lean and Up-to-Date European
Baths in Connection Every Modern Convenience
STANLEY A BOGENSHOTT, PROP’R
834 MARKET ST. PHONE 2598. CHATTANOOGA
CHATTANOOGA MARBLE W’KS
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or anything in the harness line.
Second hand harness bought and sold, work guaranteed,
prices light. ■'*
ANDERSON HARNESS CO. 1
£Qlr*t% Tain st. Chattanooga.
W. L, Douglas
$3.00 SHOES $3.50
Shoes at all prices, for every member of the family.
Men, Boys, Women, Misses and Children
W. L. Douglas makes and sells more.men’s $2.50,
$3.00 and $3.50 shoes than any other manufacturer
in world, because they hold their shape, fit
betxer, wear longer, and are of greater value than
any other shoes in the world today.
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Equalled at Any Price.
caution, W. L. Douglas’ name and price is stamped on
bottom. Take no substitute. Sold by the best shoe
dealers everywhere.
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—W. L. Douglas, Brook ton, Mas.
Sole 14 est 9th St.
I UUllj Chattanooga, Tenn.
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In that little “Feathered Nest,”
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If you hear don't treat it light
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And Your future will be blight.
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Telephone Main 4379
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257 Montgomery Ave, Chattanooga Tens
Chattanooga’s Reliable Firms
WHO APPRECIATE YOUR TRADE.
GEORGIA’SMOLE LAW
New Way of Reforming Criminals
Shows Progress of Penology.
PRISONERS TO BE PARDONED
Those Evincing a Desire to Reform Will
Be Released and Offered Every In
ducement To Do So.
Atlanta, Ga. —Hereafter the inmate
of the Georgia penitentiary,who shows
a disposition to reform, will be offered
every inducement and encouragement
to do so.
Believing that better results in the
reformation of criminals will be se
cured by releasing a good prisoner,
while holding over him the unexpired
term of his sentence, the legislature,
at the recent extra session, adopted
the parole bill offered by Mr. Persons
of Monroe.
A bill, which was the basis of the
present Georgia law, was introduced
at the extra session called to consider
the convict question. It was unani
mously adopted. As soon as the pris
on commission can malre the necessa
ry arrangements it will be put into
effeti.
The law opens the door of hope to
convicted criminals. It provides that
after serving the minimum sentence
fixed by law they may be sent out
among free men. After a year’s pro
mation and observance of the terms
of their parole, they will be granted
full pardons and restored to citizen
ship.
It places upon the prison commis
sion the duty of inquiring very care
fully into the record of any prisoner
before the commission of the crime or
which convicted, and his record in
prison. If the whole board should be
come convinced that a man might
again become a useful and productive
member of society, they may grant
him a conditional pardon.
The prisoner must show that he will
be given employment at honest labor,
and will have a good home, or, if un
able to work, that he will not become
an object of public charity. During
the term of his parole he must not
leave the state, but must make regular
reports to the commission.
If a man breaks the terms of his
parole, he will be returned to prison,
and forced to serve the remainder of
the term for which he was originally
sentenced. An order by the commis
sion for the arrest of a paroled pris
oner becomes a legal warrant, and
must be enforced by any police officer.
Providing the prisoner justifies the
belief of the commission, he will, at
the end of twelve months, receive a
full pardon from the governor.
The law does not apply to persons
convicted of treason, arson, rape or as
sault with intent to rape. It was the
intention of its author to have it ap
ply to those convicted of other crimes
w r hich led to life sentences. In such
cases ten years was specified as the
minimum term of service.
There are now in the Georgia peni
tentiary 745 life-term men. There are
238 prisoners in for twenty years, 138
for fifteen years, 301 for ten years and
295 for five years.
While there are 17G men in the
Georgia penitentiary over 50 years of
age, the men who have spent the long
est time in prison are not the old
men. A great number of men who
were sent up in their eighteenth or
twentieth year have served twenty or
thirty years in the pen. The men of
&0, 7Q and 80 years of age have, in
most instances, served much shorter
sentences.
Convinced that the men who have
served a life time of twenty or thirty
years for crimes committed in the
years of their youth deserve an op
portunity to make anew start in life,
MAIL CARRIER ABSCONDED.
Government Seizes Big Plantation to
Satisfy Claim.
Washington, Ga—The plantation of
H. L. Aycock, a prominent farmer of
this county, 9tas been levied on by a
United States deputy marshal to sat
isfy a claim which the government
has against Aycock as a result of a
bond forfeiture of $1,500. Four years
ago Aycock in connection with his
neighbor, W. G. Barrett, went on the
bond of A. H. Evans, a rural free
delivery mail carrier from Washington
to the little village of Peerman.
Evans carried the mail on this route
for some time, and then sub-let the
contract to a Mr. Beckwith. Beck
with became involved in some trouble
and ‘skipped the country.” Now the
government authorities have come
back on Aycock for the amount of
the original bond under which Evans
worked, as the bondsman of Beckwith
is now dead.
REPUBLICANS NAME ELECTORS.
Robert J. Lowry of Atlanta Heads the
List.
Atlanta, Ga. —The republican state
Campaign committee, Hon. Waiter
Johnson, chairman, presiding, met
and named presidential electors of the
repubiican party for Georgia. The
electors are as follows: At large, Rob
ert J. Lowry of Atlanta and W. J.
Massee of Macon; first district, Hen
ry Blun, Sr., Savannah; second dis
trict, J. L. Phillips, Thomasville ;
third district, L. S. Osbornq, Fitzger
ald; fourth district, Henry O. Lovvorn,
Carrollton; fifth district, Fulton Col
ville, Atlanta; sixth district, Roswell
H. Drake, Griffin; seventh district,
John J. Duane, Dalton; eighth district,
A. Jj. Brooks, Athens; ninth district,
J. R. Allen, Talking Rock; tenth dis
trict, Joe Smith, Augusta; eleventh
district, C. P. Goodyear, Brunswick.
THROUGHOUT THE STATE.
Andrew Thomason, a farmer, 50
years of age, of Newton district, sev
en miles south of Alpharetta, hanged
himself to the rafters in a cotton gin.
Mr. Thomason is survived by a wife
and seven childien. Mr. Thomason
had always been regarded as an in
dustrious farmer of good habits, but
lately he had been ill and except for
this no reason is known for the act.
The iegist2aiion books, which have
'dosed for the fall eietcion, show that
.there are 3,565 \oters registered in
Oglethorpe county. Of that number
all are white but two hundred and fif
ty. The indications are that there
will be a big vote polled in that coun
ty at the state election on November
6. The registration is about the same
as last year.
Rewards have been offered by Gov
ernor Smith for the capture and con
viction of Corn and John Miller, who
are charged with having murdered W.
E. Keaton on August 25. It is claim
ed the Miller brothers entered the
field where Keaton was at work and
deliberately shot him down. There is
$125 offered in each case. Other re
wards have been offered for the cap
ture and conviction of Ben Whitehead
and Arlington Lewis, who are wanted
for murder in Lee county.
It is announced that Chatham coun
ty will be ready to take its full quota
of felony convicts next spring, when
the time comes to apportion them to
the different counties throughout the
state. When Governor Smith inquir
ed some weeks ago how many con
victs of this kind Chatham could work
he was told that fifty would be taken.
If the county is to get one hundred,
however, that many will be employ
ed.
The 4-year-old son of Mr. William
Wilkins, while playing in a pile of
cotton on the farm of Mr. A. J. Nully,
near Pine Log, was smothered to
death. It appears that he had dug a
deep hole in the cotton and had fallen
into it head first. He had been dead
some time when found.
A meeting of the Farmers’ union of
Spalding county was held at the court
house in Griffin at which strong res
olutions were passed condemning the
action of the night riders in Law
renceville, Ga., and other places. J.
T. Biles is president of the Spalding
union, T. P. Nichols is vice president
; and R. H. E. Ellis secretary and treas
urer, and they all signed the resolu
tions adopted.
At a meeting of the citizens of Bue
na Vista $50,000 was raised to build
a railroad from that city to Manks,
the additional capital, SIOO,OOO, to be
out of town, capitalists.
Mauks is a Wiving little town on the
Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic
railroad about fifteen miles from Tal
botton and about thirty-five miles
from Montezuma. Thesfooad will be
about seventeen or
long. A surveying corps
ordered to begin work at once —
A list of the presidential
representing the national prohibition 41
/party in the state of Georgia has been
tiled with the state department by W.
S. Witham, state chairman. They are:
At large, W. S. Witham, Atlanta, and
L. N. Stanfill, Hahira; first district,
Joseph N. Gary, Swainsboro; second
district, Dr. L. B. Bouchelle, Thomas
ville; third district, Judson Cheves,
Montezuma; fourth district, Leon
Smith, LaGrange; fifth district,Dr. J.
L. D. Hillyer, Decatur; sixth district,
W* W Milam, Stockbridge; seventh
district, G. W. Fleetwood, Rome;
eighth district, O. L. Teasley, Bow
man; tenth district, W. J. Wren,
Wrens; eleventh district. Herbert
Murphrey, Waynesboro.
It is reported that Governor Smith
is looking for farm lands in various
parts of the state for the purpose of
securing sites for new stockades and
prison tarms authorized under the con
vict bill which has just passed. The
governor has begun his investigation
at this time in order that the convicts
may be put to work making crops
immediately after they are released
by private lessees at the termination
of the present leases on March 31,
1909 They will then be able to make
a crop next year. Of course the build
ings and quarters for the men must
be erected in the meantime.
Andrew Guyton, who for the past
twenty-two years has been in the pen
itentiary of Georgia serving a life
sentence for murder committed in De
j catur county, has bean pardoned by
Governor Smith.
The prison commission lias receiv
ed notice that M. C. Clelehan, a con
vict employe at the Ashley-Price Lum
ber company in Coffee county, delioer
atelv put his hand upon a circular
saw' and cut off four fingers. He had
been employed at the rather light
work of firing a boiler, and had left
his post and gone 10 the saw to delib
erately cripple himself in order to get
out of work.
Ginners in Gwinnett county met at
Lawrenceville. Only two gins in the
county reported that they had receiv
ed notices not to gin the new crop of
cotton: All the other gins are run
ning. Sugar Hill Farmers’ union pass
ed Tesolutions denouncing the threats
to burn and calling ail the Unions to
join them
The citizens of Decatur, at an elec
tion authorized two bond issues of
$150,000 each, one to improve the wa
ter works system, the other to im
prove the public schools. The water
bonds carried by a vote of 134 to 6.
The schools bonds cairied by. a vote
of 129 to 10.
There are seven hundred and seven
names on the revised jury list in Og
! lethorpe. This is the largest list ever
jin an Oglethorpe county jury box.
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OPEN DAY AND NIGHT.
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Popular Prices and Polite Attention. Next to Stag Hotel
832 MARKET ST., CHATTANOOGA
Telephone No. 274.
STEWART BROS &1
Clothiers, Hatters, Furnishers
EVERYTHING THAT WEN WEAR EXCEPT SHOES
The genial John B. Hughes, a Dade County boy,
to wait on you. Cali; and see your friends.
821 MARKET ST, CHATTAHOQGt TEHH
BURKE & COMPANY
TAILORS
825 MARKET STREET, CHATTANOOGA, TEM
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“Theman with the shears”
Who daily appears
ln advertisin our work
Is the man who knows
What’s best in Clothes—
If you doubt it call on BURKE.
Office Phone 149S Residence Phone I34 y
H. B. HEYWOOD
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PtrULIC NOTICE
We wish to notify the readers of this paper that there ars
a number of unscrupulous spectacle peddlers traveling pn
Georgia nnd Tennessee claiming to be agents of our firm.
Such claims are FALSE and we denounce these parties as
FAKIRS and IMPOSTERS and will prosecute any offend*
or of the above If we can secure evidence against him.
Broken Lenses Duplicated on Short Notice
HARRIS & JOHNSON
Mf g . L 0 p t i’c ia n s
13 E Eighth st. Chattanooga, Tenn.
PHONE, MAIN 676 ;
Stacy Adams & Co’s
Jf CELEBRATED LINE OF SHOES
BEST ON EARTH
. Yfj V flu LE * THER ’ all sTUE ?
/Jgf Jtk PRICES $5.50 $6 00 and
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GREAT LINE OF MENS
$4.00 54.50 & SS.OOSHOL
803 MARKET ST.