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e best interest of the whole people
of the county.
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I t box, and clean administration of ail
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county. _
' \V. D. B. CHAMBERS, Proprietor.
VOL. XIV.
GEORGIA BRIEFS
Fire Chief Seeks Mayoralty.
W. K. Joyner, for twenty 0113 year.--
chief of the Atlanta fire department,
jmcl for thirty-five years a citizen of
Atlanta, has made his definite an
noiincement for the mayoralty at (lie
next primary.
* * *
Rogers Succeeds White.
Professor J. N. Rogers of Mount
Vernon, at present in charge of the
agricultural and science department
of the I nion Baptist Institute at in at
place, has been tendered and lias ac
cepteu the appointment of assistant
to State School Commissioner W. L.
Merritt, to take effect February 1
when Commissioner Merritt’s present
assistant, Walker White, formerly ol
Forsyth, will retire to become sec re
tary of the Atlanta Young Men’s Chris
tlan Association.
* * *
Convicts at Macon Discharged.
Nineteen convicts sent to the Bibb
county chaingang from the recorder's
court of Macon have been discharged
from the gang because of the su
preme court's recent ruling in the
Pearson case.
At a special meeting of the city
council an ordinance was passed es
tablishing a city chaingang. The road
commissioners of Bibb have planned
to loan the city the necessary tools
for beginning work and the city of
fenders will not be housed at the bar
racks longer than one week.
German Colonists Coming.
Tile Georgia, Florida and Alabama
railway has issued a circular an
nouneing the appointment of F. It.
Graham as agricultural and industrial
agent of the road. He will devote his
time to Interesting the farmers of
Georgia and the Carolinas in the re
sources of the country traversed by
that line.
Mr. Graham will go to New York
to bring a large colony of Germans
to Decatur county, where they will
be put on small farms and helped to
grow the Sumatra and Cuba tobaccos
toe last opportunit it
Only ten days more beforetl.e final dissolution of the firm of Kirby, Mitchell and Lawless The big st*e is almost comply. "T° a Xal'Tsome
and trouble of moving the stock we have decided to put on another ten days sale and close the stock entirely out. Owing to the late arrival ot some
of our fall goods we still have a complete line of everything carried in an up-to-date store which makes it better for you because we T ,^ e .P f k
o n our shelves and now everything must go regardless of cost. We have gone over our entire stock and marked everything down. This no -
s ale. Every purchase guaranteed or money refunded,
THIS GREAT SALE POSITIVELY BEGINS WEDNESDAY, JAN. io, AND LASTS TEN DAYS.
JVlark the date, mark it well. Let nothing keep you away. We hereby agree to refund the money on any goods sold in this sale .f not sutislactory.
THE WONDER STORE 222 Montgomery Avenue
BE SURE AND LOOK FOR THE BIG RED LETTER SIGN
for which the section is famous.
* * *
Presbyterian University Assured.
The Presbyterian university cr high
grade college suggested by the Geor
gia synod in session at Griffin in
November last, now appears to be a
certainty.
All the latest indications are that
the school will be located in At
lanta.
The special committee named by
the synod to devise way 3 and moans
•or the accomplishment of the task
n Heated and which mot in the ofTice
•f the home missions in Atlanta a
lay or two ago will be convened
•.gain January 27, when what may
jC considered as a prospective finality
vil! be reached.
* * *
Ownership of Paper an Issue.
Alleging that an illegal transaction
contrary to the bylaws of the com
pany has been entered into between
Charles Daniel, business manager and
-c-cictary of the Atlanta News Pub
ishing company, with Samuel Spen
cer, president of the Southern rail
way, by which a controlling interest
in the Daily News has been secured
for Hie Southern railway and the
Central of Georgia railway, John Tein
ale Graves, editor of the Nows, was
granted an injunction in the Fulton
superior court, restraining the defend
ants from in any way changing the
•-tatus or ownership of the paper. The
hearing was set for January 27.
* * *
Will Remove Offices to Atlanta.
The headquarters and general of
fices of the Atlantic and Birmingham
railroad company, which are at Way
moss, will bo moved to Atlanta. The
change in the location of the general
offices will include the executive, aud
iting, general freight and passenger
departments. The offices of the su
nei intendent, purchasing agent and
the operating department and general
shops of the company will remain in
Waycross.
The removal is brought about by
the decision of the egrupany to con
tinue its line to Atlanta, which will
necessitate the company to have its
headquarters in that place.
* * *
Murdered on Top of Pole.
John Floyd, a lineman in the em-
The entire stock of KIRBY,
MiTCHEbL & LAWLESS must be
closed out in ten days and to do this
we realize the fact that we will have
to sell goods regardless of cost, hut
our loss is your gain. Come and see
for yourself. DON’T FAIL TO LOOK
FOR THE 810 RED LETTER SIGN.
One lot of Calico, per yard,
3 and • • • 4c
One lot Storm Flannels, per
yard
2,000 yards 6 l-2c Ginghams at 4 l-2c
36-inch Bleech Domestic at.. 5c
1,500 yards Outing Flannel at 3c
DADE COUNTY SENTINEL.
Flannelette, worth 10c per yard
at 7°
60-inc.h Damask Table Linen
at .... 19c
72-inch Damask Table Linen
at 4SC
Double width Worsted, per
yard 9 c
All wool Secillian, worth 50c
at • 35c
54-inch Brcadcloth, worth ?1.25,
39c
BED QUILTS CHEAP.
Cotton Blankets at the Trice of Raw
Cotton.
Embroidery worth 5c at . . . • 2c
ploy of the Southern Bell Telephone
company, was shot to death at the
top of a pole near Savannah and
Jesse Roundtree, a fellow lineman,
was arrested, charged with the crime.
Roundtree denied the allegation, and
claims that he can prove an alibi.
Roundtree had been displaced by
Floyd in the company’s employ. The
reason for Floyd’s going out was that
the wires had been cut. This was
shown by an examination when his
body was taken down. The shoot
ing had evidently been done by some
one who had stood almost under
Floyd. The shooting was done with
No. 1 shot. Two loads had been fired
up into Floyd’s body at close range
# * #
Experimental Tobacco Farms.
At the instance of Congressman
Bell, the department of agriculture in
AUnshington will, in the very near fu
ture, establish throe experimental to
bacco farms in the ninth district of
Georgia. Two experts of the depart
ment visited Gainesville to make a
thorough survey of the situation and
determine upon the location for the
experiments.
The idea of the department is to
secure about two acres of suitable
land in each county, to be taken
charge of by the government for the
purpose indicated. This will be de
voted to the raising of Sumatra to
bacco* the perfect leaves of which
make the best of all wrappers, while
the*rest makes excellent filler. The
high grade Sumatra now brings $2.50
a pound.
Some Sumatra tobacco has been
raised near Gainesville, and Mr. Bell
is strongly of the opinion that the
soil and climatic conditions in a num
ber of the counties of that section
are favorable to making it a substan
tial industry.
* * *
Power Furnished Free of Charge.
Fower for running all the operative
exhibits of the 1910 exposition in At
lanta will be furnished free of charge
by the Lane & Bodley company, one
of the largest builders of steam en
gines in the world.
A letter from the local lepresenta
tive of the company to Secretary Wal
ter G. Cooper announces the generous
offer of the Lane & Bodley company,
stating that the company will be glad
TRENTON. GA. FRIDAY. JANUARY 26. 1906.
to “install any or all engines neces
sary, either of the four valve cr Cor
liss type, and furnish the exposition
company all the power they demand.’’
The plan of the exposition is to
have all the exhibits, so far as pos
sible, operative, and it will require a
vast amount of power to run these
exhibits.
* * *
Ex-Policeman Manages Home.
Captain John A. fThompson, an ex
policcnian of Atlanta, has been elected
superintendent of the Confederate Sol
diers’ Home by the board of trustees,
Superintendent Bowie’s term having
expired the first of the year. Captain
Thompson received*six of the ten
votes on the first ballot.
Dr. Amos Fox, treasurer and pur
chasing agent of the home, it is said,
led the fight against Captain Bowie
on the ground that the superintend
ent had allowed a large number of
the old soldiers to go to the city one
night last November to take part in
a political meeting at the court house.
The other elections by the trus
tees were as follows:
H. W. Bell of Jefferson, president;
W. S. Thompson of Atlanta, vice pres
ident; W. H. Harrison of Atlanta, sec
retary; Amos Fox of Atlanta, treas
urer and purchasing agent; 'Mrs, M.
B. Maddox, matron; Dr. L. C. Brewer,
surgeon; Rev. A. R. Holderby, chap
lain.
The only change was in the elec
tion of Mr. Thompson as vice presi
dent in place of E. H. Thornton, re
signed.
The board ordered that three meals
a day instead of two be served here
after.
OFFICERS WINK AT HAZING,
Such is Assertion of Cadet on Trial
Before Courtmartia!.
For the first time since the pres
ent hazing trials began evidence was
given before the courtmartia 1 at An
napolis Monday tending to support
the assertion that officers on duty at
A.nnapolis have winked at hazing.
Midshipman Claude Mayo swore that
Lieutenant Snyder, the officer in
charge of Bancroft hall had used lan
guage interpreted by the upper class
men to mean that they should dis
cipline the fourth classmen by the
usual hazing methods.
Embroidery worth Sc at .... 4c
Swiss Embroidery worth TO and
and 15c at 6c
Men’s and ladies’ fine Congo
Handles and steel rod Umbrel
las at 39c
Extra fine Umbrellas . worth
$1.25 to $1.50 at S9c
Men’s and ladies’ fine silk Um
brellas, worth $1.50 and $2.00
at 98c
Ladies’ knit Vests ot 23c
Ladies’ heavy Vests or Pants
worth 5Cc at 39e
Men’s heavy fleeced Shirts
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF DADE COUNTY.
worth 50c at 29c
100 Boys’ Knee Suits worth SI.OO
and $1.25 in this sale $ .53
100 Boys’ Knee Suits worth
$1.50 at 93
50 Boys’ Knee Suits worth
$2.50 and $3.00 at 1.9S
All men’s Suits and Overcoats
must be sold, so we have put
them down at 50c on the dollar.
209 pairs men’s Working Pants
worth SI.OO at $ .69
Men’s Corduroy Pants worth
1.50 at 98
Men’s fine Pants worth $2.00
and $2.50 at 1.43
PLACES FOR “HAS BEENS”
Secretary Root Expresses in Satirical
Vein the Chief Evil of American
Consulate Service.
A Washington special says; Secre
tary Root, while appearing before the
house appropriations committee in re
lation to the expenses of the state de
partment, spoke frankly concerning
the shortcomings of the American con
sellar service.
The statements of Mr. Root, which
have just been made public, show
that in response to questions by Rep
resentative Livingston, the secretary
said:
“There are a great many consulates
that have been in that condition and
there are some that are still In that
condition, and the fact arises from
several causes. One cause is that
consulates are used and regarded here
not as place3 in which active and ef
ficient work is to be done, but are
used as places in which to shelve es
timable and elderly gents whose
friends find it necessary to take care
of them in some way.
“Now, I have got old enough to be
able to say that sort of thing without
anybody being offended. I don’t think
that when a man has lived out the
activity of his life and passed be
yond his ambition and his‘ energy and
his desire to make a career for him
self, I do not think that then Is the
time to start him out In anew place
where he has got to learn anew
business and push the commerce of
the country.”
The following statements were then
made by Mr. Root in reply to ques
tions of members of the committee:
Mr. Brundige: “I quite agree with
you, Mr. Secretary, as to that, but on
whom rests the blame for that con
dition?”
(Secretary Root: “It rests on a long
standing custom, whereby the execu
tlve is expected to appoint to import
ant consulates important men from
the different states.”
Mr. Graff: “But you have a system
of examination?”
“Yes, so far as the young fellows
go. You can put the screws on them
aud make them come up for examina-
tion, but when an eminent citizen —”
Mr. Livingston: “An eminent ex
senator or member of congress?”
Secretary Root (continuing): “Yes;
when an eminent citizen comes around
you cannot examine him in geography
and arithmetic. He resents it and
there is the dickens to pay all along.
(Laughter.) It is a custom that ha?
grown up—just like this deficiency
custom. When you step in to change
a custom you cannot change it by
piecemeal, you have to jar something.”
LUKE WRIGHT AMBASSADOR.
Governor General of Philippines is
Given New Post In Japan.
Luke E. Wright, governor of the
Philippines, has been named by the
president as the first American am
bassador to Japan.
In accepting the new appointment
Governor Wiright sacrifices $3,000 a
year in compensation. It is believed
that congress will accept the recom
mendation of Secretary Root that in
connection with the elevation of the
American legation at Tokio to the
rank of an embassy, the compensa
tion of the incumbent be raised from
$12,000 to $17,500, but as Governor
Wright’s present salary is $20,500, he
Will still be suffering a considerable
financial loss.
THREE DIE IN COLLISION.
Freight and Switch Engines Crash To*
gether Near Atlanta.
A head-on collision occurred be
tween a through freight train and a
switch engine on the Seaboard Air
Line railroad at Mina, seven miles
from Atlanta, Friday evening at 5:33
o’clock, an dthree men were killed
and two injured. An engineer and
fireman saved their lives by jumping.
The dead are: Walter S. Taylor, en
gineer of switch engine; leaves wife
and two children. E. B. Rock, tele
graph operator; leaves wife and fiv
children. Thomas J. Eden, fireman
on the switch engine.
“Why,” asks a foreign visitor, “are
not your college students revolution
ists?” Evidently, replies the New York
Eiening Mail, this gentleman has not
seen them going through some of their
revolutions on the football field.
Men’s Fine Trousers for dress
and Sunday wear worth $3.00
and $4.00 1.98
Listen, mothers! $2.00 pair of
boys’ Knee Pants at 19
100 pairs of Knee Pants worth
59c in this sale at 39
250 men’s Sample Hats worth
$1.50 to $2.00 at 98c
A CHANCE LiKE THIS DOESN’T
COME EVERY DAY.
A great variety of men’s Woiiv
'Shirts worth 75c at 39c
Men’s Grey Sox at .. 3c
Men’s Heavy Sex at 7c
Our Shoe Stock consists of all
CROP THREE MILL'ONS SHORT.
Census Bureau Shows the Amount of
Cotton Ginned to January 16.
A bulletin Issued by the census bu
reau at Washington Tuesday on the
amount of cotton ginned from the
growth of 1905 to January 16, shows
the number of running bales for the
United States to be 9,998.11 as against
12,767,600 for 1905 and 9,485,482 for
1904.
The figures are based on the count
ing of round bales as half bales and
exclude linters.
The amount of cotton ginned by the
several cotton growing states up to
the date mentioned is as follows:
Alabama 1,202,627
Arkansas 535,422
Florida 74,270
Georgia 1,695,336
Indian Territory 305.297
Kansas .. 18
Kentucky ... 1,218
Louisiana , 483,820
Mississippi .. 1,095,402
Missouri .. 36,978
North Carolina .. .. 638 049
Oklahoma 288,171
South Carolina 1,093,482
Tennessee 248,171
Texas 2,281,550
Virginia 15,300
The explanatory statement accom
panying the figures is as follows:
"Linters obtained by the cotton
seed oil mills from reginning cotton
seed are not included in the reports.
The sea island cotton ginned to Jan
uary 16, 1906, distributed by states, is
Florida 37,312; Georgia, 54,010; South
Carolina, 12,290.
“The number of ginneries operated
prior to January 16, 1906, was 28,881,-
compared with 30,221 for 1905, and
30,171 for 1904. One more report will
be issued this season, showing total
growth of 1905, and will be pub
lished about March 20, 1900.”
STEAMER TROJAN SENT DOWN.
Two Big Liners Collide in Fog and
One Sunk—Crew Rescued.
The loss of the steamer Trojan, of
the Boston-Philadelphia line, In col
lislon with th*e steamer Nacoochee of
the Savannah line, in Vineyard sound
Sunday, was reported at Boston Tues
day by the Nacoochee, which arrived,
sizes and kinds from the soft sole
shoe to a No. 13 in men’s, and the
way the leather market is today they
would cost us 25 per cent more than
we are now selling them for.
One table of ladies’ Shoes, all
solid leather, per pair $ .79
Ladies’ fine Shoes worth $1.50
at 9*
Ladies’ $2.00 Shoes at I- 48
Ladies’ $2.50 and $3.00 Shoes
at I-* 8
Ladies’ woolen Skirts worth
$1.50 at 79c
Indies’ very fine tailor made
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having on board the captain and crew
of the Trojan.
The incident was due to a fog. The
Nacoochee struck the Trojan amid
ship and the latter then went to the
bottom within three-quarters of an
hour, but Captain Thatcher and the
crew of twenty-seven men of the Tro
jan were taken off by men from the
Nacoochee. There were no passen
gers on the Trojan. The Nacoochee
sustained only a slight damage to the
bow.
GEN. WHEELER HAS PNEUMONIA
Case is a Mild One and Speedy Re
covery is Hoped For.
That Brigadier General Joseph
Wheeler of the United States army,
retired, has a mild attack of pneumo
nia was announced Tuesday at the
home of his sister, Mrs. Sterling
Smith, in Brooklyn, N. Y., where Gen
eral Wheeler is ill. He was stricken
with pleurisy Thursday night, pneu
monia developing Sunday. Dr. A. J.
McCorkle is in charge of the case,
which is a mild one, temperature hav
ing only been about 100. The gene
ral’s son, Major Joseph Wheeler, Jr.,
and his daughters are with him.
MORE NEGROES QUIT SCHOOL.
Strike at Talladega, Alabama, Insti
tute is Augmented.
The strike of students of the Tal
ladega, Ala., college for negroes con
tinues, and Tuesday additional mem
bers of the student body joined the
recalcitrant students. Trouble arose
over the appointment of L. O. Parks,
a southern as assistant
A •gtatemjjfct has been is
sued by the college in
which a the trouble is giv
en and the announcement made that
the faculty has no intention of reced
ing from its position.
Londoners are the worst people to
get a move on I ever knew, says C. T.
Yerkes in the New York World. To
see them board and get off a train one
would think that they had 100 years
to do it in; still they are doing better,
and in the end I shall work them down
to an allowance of thirty seconds.
Skirts, elegantly trimmed, in
the latest styles, worth $5.00
and $6.00 at $ 3.98
LADIES ARE ESPECIALLY INVIT
ED TO ATTEND THIS SALE.
Ladies’ wool Kersey Coats and
Jackets worth $5.00 and $6.00
at * 2.98
50 ladies’ Sample Coats worth
from $7.50 to SIO.OO, at .. .. 4.98
Men’s white Handkerchiefs 3c
Men's turkey red and blue
Handkerchiefs
Ladies’ 10c embroidered Hand
-4c
kerchiets • • • • ‘ ‘
SI.OO a Year.
NO. 37.