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or anything in the harness line.
Second hand harness bought and sold, work guaranteed,
prices right.
ANDERSON HARNESS GO.
SOJ_JMajjn_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 the world, because they hold their shape, fit
better, wear longer, and are of greater value than
any other shoes in the world today,
W. L. Douglas $4 and $5 Gilt Edge Shoes Cannot Be
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.
Illustrated catalog free to any address
—W. L. Douglas, Brookton, Mas.
P t A/J Sole Distributor. 14 West 9xh St.
1 tillU | Chattanooga, Tenn.
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WE wish"to announce
THAT OUR FALL LINE OF
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Is now complete and we can
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yon need in our line.
Call in and see our Heaters
and Ranges, we have the
Best Chunk Burners at the
Lowest Prices found any
where.
Our line of Bed Room Suits,
Odd Beds, Dressers, Side
boards, Extension Tables,
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THE MONTGOMERY AVENUE FURNITURE COMPANY
257 MAIN ST. CHATTANOOGA, TENN.
Chattanooga’s Reliable Firms
WHO APPRECIATE YOUR TRADE.
DEMAND FOR CONVICTS
Greatly Exceeds Supply—l,437
Overs Have Been Asked For.
MANY REQUISITIONS MADE
Prison Commission Prepares Table
Showing That Counties Will Take All
Convicts State Can Supply.
Atlanta, Ga. —Secretary Goodloe
Yancey of the prison commission has
compiled a table of the counties that
have made requisition upon the state
for felony convicts, to he worked on
the public roads after April ], 1909,
when the lease system will expire.
The table is interesting and estab
lishes beyond the shadow of doubt
that the demand will far exceed the
supply.
Fifty-four counties have made for
mal application, and the following
summary is based upon their requisi
tions:
Total number of convicts wanted,
1,855.
Actual number counties are entitled
to under quota, 448.
“Overs” desired by the 54 counties,
1,437.
In other words, the 54 counties want
88 per cent of all the convicts the
state expects to have in the peniten
tiary next April.
The number of “overs” requested is
58 per cent of the whole number to
be disposed of under the law.
Of the 54 counties heard from 42
want their quota and more, while
only 12 ask for their quota alone.
Chatham and DeKalb counties are
the biggest bidders. The former, un
der its quota, is entitled to 71 con
victs, and it wants 129 men to make
the total number 200. DeKalb county
is entitled to only 21 men, but she
wants 1779 “overs,” so as to have
a road gang of 200 men.
The appended table is self-explan
atory:
County. Quota. Overs. Total.
Baker ........ 7 .. 7
Banks 11 15 26
Bryan 6 8 14
Bulloch ...... ..22 .. 22
Burke 25 20 - 45
Camden ........ 8 17 25
Chatham 71 129 200
Campbell .... ..10 .. 10
Clarke ...... ..18 32 50
Clayton 10 20 30
Clinch 9 11 20
DeKalb ...... ..21 179 200
Dougherty 14 26 40
Early ...... ..15 10 25
Elbert 20 30 50
Emanuel 18 .. IIS
Glascock 5 15 20
Green ...... ..17 .. 17
Hart ...... ..14 6 20
Heard 11 20 31
Henry 18 20 38
Houston 23 .. 23
Jasper 15 20 35
Jefferson .... ..18 42 60
Jenkins .. 10 10 20
Johnson ill 9 20
Jones 13 .. 13
Laurens 26 74 100
Lee 10 10 20
Lincoln ....... 7 t . 7
Lowndes.. 20 30 50
Macon 14 20 34
Madison 13 12 25
Mitchell 18 12 30
Monroe 21 40 61
Morgan (16 40 56
Muscogee 30 20 50
Newton 17 7 24
Oconee 9 6 15
Oglethorpe .... ..18 .. IS
Pike 19 .11 30
Putnam ..13 25 38
Randolph 17 18 35
Richmond 54 .. 54
Rockdale ....... 8 7 15
Telfair 10 (15 25
Troup 24 .. 24
Turner 7 33 40
Walton 21 .. 21
Warren ..11 9 20
Wilcox 10 .. 10
Wilkes 21 10 31
Wilkinson .... ..11 (15 26
Worth ..._.. ..13 40 53
Georgia, 50. ‘
Brooks, Clay and have ap
plied for misdemeanors, bSNio felo
nies as yet.
STATE FACES BIG DEFICIT.
Incoming Administration Confronted
by Serious Problem of Debt.
Atlanta, Ga. —When the new state
administration assumes charge of af
fairs next June, it will face one of
the most colossal financial deficits in
the history of Georgia.
Captain R. E. Park, state treasurer
of Georgia, estimated that the deficit
confronting the treasury will not be
less than SBOO,OOO, and may reach
$1,000,000.
Provision to meet this burden, in ad
dition to the regular state budget of
something like $5,000,000, must be
made by the Joseph M. Brown admin
istration, and the legislature* which
meets next June. Just how it is to
be done is causing deep apprehension,
on the part of the lawmakers.
The cause of the concern of the al
ways conservative state treasurer and
the newly elected governor is pre
sented in the following table;
Loss from the hire of con
viots $250,000
Loss from liquor revenue .. . . 240,000
Increased appropriation for
common schools.. .. .. .. 250,000
Appropriation for 11 districts
agricultural schools 77,000
Normal increase in appropria
tions .. 30,000
Total $847,000
THROUGHOUT THE STATE.
The state department of entomol
agy, after four years of experiment,
has succeeded in producing a hybird
type of cotton which resists the rav
ages of the black root fungus, gener
ally recognized as the worst of all
cotton pests, with the exception of the
boll weavil which is not known in
Georgia. It lias taken long and expen
sive series of experiments to produce
this resistant type, but this important
work has at last been accomplished,
and the department announces that it
has a limited amount of the seed on
hand. Samples of the seed will be sent
to representative farmers throughout
the state, their names being neces
sarily limited on account of the recent
farmers’ institutes that have been held
in various sections.
Information of an experiment about
to be made in raising sea island cot
ton in California was contained in a
letter received by Commissioner of
Agriculture T. G. Hudson from Robert
H. Harris of Holtville, Cal. Mr. Har
his stated that an association has
been organized for the purpose apd
that about seven thousand acres of
land will be planted in Egyptian cot
ton of the Texas variety. He express
es the opinion that the cotton raising
experiment in California will prove a
great success.
According to a list compiled by Sec
retary Goodloe Yancey of the prison
commission, between sixty-five and
seventy counties have applied for con
victs under the new law to the num
ber approximately of one thousand
eight hundred. The counties which
have already sent in requisitions for
convicts number only about half of
those in the state, and do not include
Fulton and many of the larger coun
ties. From preseent indications the
2,500 felony convicts of the state will*
all he employed upon the public roads
of the various counties and there will
be no “overs” to dispose of.
The membership of the commission
to investigate the advisability and
feasibility of extending the Western
and Atlantic railroad to the sea with
the aid of convict labor, was complet
ed by the appointment by Governor
Smith of Honorable Paul Trammel of
Dalton, and Honorable W. H. Burwell
of Hancock. The eovernor had form
erly appointed Honorable J. R. Gray
of Atlanta, and George Dole Wadley
of Monroe county, as members of tho
commission. As announced at the
time of the passage of the bill, Presi
dent J. J. Flynt appointed Senators J.
D. Howard of Baldwin, and C. W.
Brantley of Laurens, as members of
the commission. Speaker John M. Sla
ton named Messrs. Hooper Alexander
of DeKalb, Joe Hill of Bibb, and H. J.
Fullbright of Burke, as members of
the cmpmisslon.
The citizens of Wadly voted almost
unanimously to grant to R. L. Parkims
the right to operate electric fights
and waterworks there. Mr. Perkins is
the lessee of the Wadley Yellow Pine
Company’s plant at this place, and
the light and power will be generated
at his mill plant just outside Wadley
city limits.
Mr. W. A. DuPre, a prominent bus
iness man of Marietta, has on exhibi
tion a fine specimen of an American
eagle that measures eight and a half
feet from tip to tip. This eagle was
killed by four school boys who were
out hunting near Marietta. The eagle
came down and was making an effort
to capture the bird dog of the school
boys and all the boys immediately
opened fire and after shooting four or
fie times each, finally succeeded in
killing the eagle. This is a fine spec
imen and is one of the few eagles that
hae been seen In Cobb county for a
long time and is the only one that has
been killed in the county.
Savannah has developed what Is
thought to be a brand new swindle. It
is nothing more nor less than the col
lection of city taxes on personal prop
erty from new comers to the city. The
scheme seems to be to watch the col
umns of the daily newspapers to see
where new arrivals live and to then
present themselves as city tax collec
tors who want to collect money for
personal property. The scheme has
worked very well in one or two in
stances and it is not known how many
unreported cases there are. Mayor
Tiedeman will make an effort to have
these petty crooks run down.
Stockholders of the former Bank of
Waycross have announced that the re
organization and re-opening of the
bank was now practically assured.
Several have canceled their stock and
subscribed to the new stock. Colonel
W. M. Toomer and Colonel L .A. Wil
son were authorized to appoint a com
mittee of five to confer with leading
bankers in Atlanta, Savannah and
Jacksonville in the formulation of a
plan for the re-organization to be sub
mitted at a meeting in Waycross De
cember 5.
W. R. McCants of Winder, Ga., has
been named by Governor Smith as a
trustee of the North Georgia Agrcul
tural college at Dahlonega. Mr. Mc-
Cants is a well-known business man
of Jackson county. His appointment Is
for six years for October 1, 1908.
An incident of interest to the medi
cal and scientific world occurred at
Eatonton when grave diggers, in dig
ging the grave of Major William A.
Crawford, unearthed the corpse of an
infant brother of the deceased perfect
ly preserved after sixty-two years’ in
terment. The grave was opened by
headstones being misplaced and the
grave diggers struck the glass plate
covering the metalic casket with such
force that it was dislocated and the
features of the corpse revealed. The
facial and physical features were re
markably preserved, even the teetn
and hair, with the exception of being
very dark. The headstone bore the
name Flournoy Gatewood.
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Clothiers, Hatters, furnishers
EVERYTHING THAT MEN WEAR EXCEPT SHOES
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BURKE & COMPANY
TAILORS
825 MARKET STREET, CHATTANOOGA, TGSN,
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1 Dentist |-3
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PUBLIC NOTICE
We wish to notify the readers of this paper that there are
a number of unscrupulous spectacle peddlers traveling an
Georgia nnd Tenne-soe claiming to be agents of our firm.
Such claims are FALSE and we denounce these parties as
FAKIIiS and IMPOSTERS and will prosecute any offend
er of the above If we can secure evidence against him.
Broken Lenses Duplicated on Short Notice
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Mf g . Op t i’c ia n s
13 E Eighth st. Chattanooga, Tenn.
PHONE, MAIN 676 '
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