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r. F. TATUM, Editor.
VOL XVI.
DIRECTORY OF CHATTANOOGA’S RELIABLE FTJ
Who Appreciate the Trade of Dade County People, j
la was mere anti Goi mere
When Heldman, Heldman & Cos., the
Great Makers of
k|l Men’s Fine Union
Made Suits and
Overcoats.
Decided to dissolve partnership and
sacrifice their entire stock of
V* ts'swr Winter Clothes
WWmmW THEY TELEGRAPHED FOR YUDD
Jk‘ AND YUDD WENT.
YUDD GOT THE CREAM AT
W • YUDD’B PRICE.
They’re all new, fresh and up to date,
'' £ suits and overcoats made by the best
\ tailors in Cincinnati, cut in nobby,
f: pfeMH snappy fashion —and priced as Yudd
ilralsa S jUH bought—that is, about half regular re
i&S-'li pH tall price. Now read your coupons
VH?i below and make your selections before
th Q best plums are off the tree.
‘ W&W $3.00, $3.50 and $4.00 Shoes
S7 BEST ON EARTH.
Cut off a coupon and bring it with
cash to
MAX YUDD
COUPON 1 — Heldman’s SIB.OO Wholesale Union
par made Overcoats and Suits. Bring this in'
with $12.45 and get a fine Union Made
Suit that Heldman wholesaled at $lB.
Fine Saratoga Cassimere. They are superb in every way. Overcoats are long,
wool cloth and handsomely tailored.
MAX YUDD 14 WEST NINTH STREET.
COUPON 2 i Heldman’s $20.00 Clothes. Yudd^
'"■W has priced these Suita and Overcoats
alike. The Suits are all hand tailored,'
r< m union made, cut on perfect lines and
overtop anything in Chattanooga for SIO.OO more. Yudd bought nine differ
ent kinds, but all good winter weights.
MAX YUDD 14 WEST NINTH STREET.
COUPON 3 Union Made Suits. Bring in this
jbiiw Coupon with $14.10 cash. You'll get a'
[ j&e. lt Suit such as no tailor here or in any
® other town could turn out for you. The
I Heldman firm certainly is to be congratulated on them. 29 different styles.
MAX YUDD 14 WEST NINTH STREET.
COUPON 4 ' Overcoats and Surtouts. Union
Label. Luxurious Elysian Beaver Over-
B coats (you know them of course, $25.00
® in ordinary stores) made in Heldman’s
own shops, and the very zenith of handsome workmanship. Bring in this cou
pon with $14.90.
MAX YUDD 14 WEST NINTH STREET.
COUPON 5 The Finest Ever in Overcoats.
W mmr ‘They sold these Overcoats at $25.00
! JP and no wonder. They’re grand. I could
get $25.00 for every one if I didn’t sell
them as I bought. That’s why they’re $16.50. You’ll see the great value
at once. All sizes. Bring in this coupon and $16.50 cash.
MAX YUDD ;... 14 WEST NINTH STREET.
COUPON 6 Regular $30.00 Dress Suits. You
tpmmmr can pick any one with your eyes shut
Vj and ,je sure of a beauty. All with Union
Label, which means the very finest.
Ml show a few in the window, but prefer you to try them on. Perfect tailor
lug and cloth.
MAX YUDD 14 WEST NINTH STREET.
The Animal Story vs
l By Edwin L. Sabin. *. g
§RITICISED though they are —these animal stories so popular
of late in fiction —as being mawkish, supersentimental, un
natural, and misinforming, is it not better to invest the beast
and bird creation with o'er-much humanization rather than
with o’er-little?
Man kills so easily, even so mechanically, with never a
thought for the agonies of the victims. Man is the only an
mal which kills, normally, just for the love of it. Other an
imals of prey to kill to eat or in defence. But it is man who
thousands of buffalo bulls, when they were valueless, simply to see
them stagger and fall; who slaughtered the passenger pigeons and fed them to
the hogs; who catches far more trout than he can consume, and shoots more
ducks than he can give away.
Step softly as an average man may Into a wood merry with bird and
tnuirrel, and he surely must note the sudden voices of alarm which herald his
Presence, the hush which attends his passage, the outburst again, timidly in
creasing, when he has gone. For through the wood his reputation is that or
a murderer, from whom no living thing is safe. He is Man; a “varmint''
worse than bear and wolf and tiger, snake and hawk.
Therefore, if the animal story, exaggerated as it undeniably i3, can bring
hian to look with more friendly and compassionate eye upon his humbler cou
ghs, and can interest, especially, the uprising generation, it deserves a God
speed despite its faults.—From Lippincott’e Magazine,
DADE COUNTY SENTINEL
TAILORS
825 MARKET STREET CHATTANOOGA, TENN.
“The man with the Shears” '
Who dally appears
In advertising our work
Is the man who knows z
What's best in Clothes—
If you doubt it call on BURKE.
M. M. f arrell Cos.,
LEADERS OP LOW PRICES IN
Men’s Clothing, Shoes, Hats ,and
Furnishings.
EVERYTHING REDUCED FOR THE HOLIDAY TRADE. GIVE US A
CALL. 24 WEST NINTH STREET.
An Edison Phonograph or Victor Talking Machine is an
Ideal Christinas Present.
THERE IS NO END TO THE FUN THAT YOU CAN HAVE WITH THESE WONDERFUL INSTRUMENTS.
OUR TERMS ARE EASY. BUY NOW, PAY LATER. WE ARE EDISON AND VICTOR’S REPRESENTATIVES
FOR CHATTANOOGA. CALL ON US, OR WRITE FOR CATALOGS AND PRICES.
O. K. Houck Piano Company,
920-922 MARKET STREET, AAA . CHATTANOOGA, TENN.
Georgia Briefs
Items of State Interest Culled
From Random Sources.
In general order No. 9, issued a few
days ago by the state railroad commis
sion, every corporation within the juris
diction of the commission is required
to furnish it with a list of stockhold
ers, giving name and address of each
Etockholder and amount of stock held
by each.
* * *
To Camp at Fort Screven.
A letter from Assistant Secretary
of War Oliver at Washington, stating
that he will order a portion of the
rational guard of Georgia into camp
at Fort Screven, on Tybee Island, from
May 16 to 25, has been received and
turned over to Adjutant General Scott,
who will notify the commands which
will go into camp at the time desig
nated.
* * *
To Open Up Tobacco Plantations.
Great preparations are being made to
open up tobacco plantations near Bow
er station, on the Georgia, Florida and
Alabama railroad, 12 miles below Bain
bridge. Hon. B. B. Bower, Jr., and
J. D. Bower, his brother, will have ten
acres of shaded tobacco each, which
will yield SI,OOO per acre. In addi
tion to these there are many others
cultivating the weed in that vicinity.
Bank in Abbeville Closed.
After a conference in Atlanta be
tween State Bank Examiner Park, At
torney General Hart and Governor
Smith, at which President Hal Law
son was present, the Citizens’ bank of
Abbeville was placed in the hands of
the state bank examiner.
President Lawson made a frank state
ment of the bank’s affairs. He said
ft had assets of $70,000 and liabilities
of about half that amount. A large
amount of outstanding paper with the
farmers and merchants, upon which the
bank could not realize now, forced it to
close its doors. The bank has a capi
tal stock of $35,000, and is the oldest
bank in Abbeville.
* * *
Georgia State Bonds Retired.
State Treasurer R. E. Park, through
the New York correspondent of the
state treasury 1 , has retired SIOO,OOO in
Georgia bonds, and paid out interest to
the sum of $156,000 on the $7,131,00(3
of Georgia bonds now being held
throughout the country.
It will probably be the latter part of
the month before the “clipped coupons"
—which denote the payment of. the in
terest —are received. This is the an
nual eJtpense of the state, and a spe
cial appropriation to cover it is made
each year by V'e general assembly.
The state is in splendid financial con
dition right now, and is amply able to
meet this debt.
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Woman Gets Stay of Sentence.
A etay of sentence has been granted
TRENTON. GA , FRIDAY. JANUARY’ 10, 1908.
by Governor Smith to Mrs. Sallie Free
ney, the vq-.’us woman&QW hL.tb.o4Ji.bb
county jail at Macon, convicted of the
murder of W. P. Harrell, a bill collec
tor, and sentenced to life imprison
ment.
The stay of sentence holds until Feb
ruary 4th, in order that the woman's at
torneys may take the ease to the pris
on commission and the governor.
The crime for which Mrs. Freeney
was sentenced to life imprisonment
was committed at her home in East
man, Dodge county. Harrell, the bill
collector, made improper proposals to
Mrs. Freeney, following which she se
cured a revolver and shot him to death.
Liquor Problem for Sheriff.
A complicated legal question regard
ing the new prohibition law has arisen
in Brooks county.
A saloon man in that county, on the
first of December, mortgaged his stock
of liquors and bar fixtures. He did not
pay off the mortgage, and there was a
foreclosure.
The sheriff was instructed to sell
tho liquors and fixtures to satisfy the
claim. The sheriff was troubled and
he has written Attorney General Hart
for an opinion. Judge Hart has sub
mitted an unofficial opinion that the
sheriff cannot sell the intoxicants be
cause the new act specifically forbids
an officer of the state to sell, make or
give away intoxicants.
“Agricultural College on Wheels.”
Dr. A. M. Soule, dean of the SIOO,OOO
agricultural college at Athens, and
Chancellor D. C. Barorw of the Uni
versity of Georgia, have secured from
the railroad commissioners of Georgia,
permission for the “agricultural college
on wheels” to begin its tour of the
state. The exact date for its depart
ure from Athens has not as yet been
decided upon, but will probably be be
tween the 10th and 15th of February.
Dr. Soule has mapped out the itinerary
and it will traverse every railroad in
the state of Georgia with the exception
of the Western and Atlantic, and will
consume a period of thirty-five days.
During this time rural towns with an
aggregate population of 350,000 people
will have been visited.
The special train, which is to be fur
nished free by the railroads, is to be
composed of one baggage car for ex
perimental purposes and two day coach
es for lecture rooms. Five instructors
will accompany the train.
Dr. Soule will advocate cattle raising
in Georgia. He is a strong believer in
the feeding qualities of cotton seed
meal and will urge its use. He will
also tell of soil tests to be made by
the use of this same meal as a fer
tilizer.
* * *
School Fund Apportioned.
State School Commissioner Jere M.
Pound, who assumed the duties of that
important office on the first of the year,
has made up the apportionment sheet
for 1908, dividing the $2,000,000 appro
priated for the common schools of
Georgia among the 147 county school
system, and the several city school
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF DADE COUNTY.
GLENN CLOTHING STORE,
816 Market street, Chattanooga, tenn.
—FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS .
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We are Giving Big Discounts
—ON ACCOUNT OF SCARCITY OF MONEY—
T. H. PAYNE & CO.
Holiday Books, Pictures, Frames,
Kodaks, Engraved Calling Cards,
Fine Stationery, Etc.
823 MARKET ST.
systems of Georgia.
'Toarrive at this basis of computation
it was necessary to take a school cen
sus, which shows that there are, today,
703,876 school children in Georgia, and
this appropriation sets aside $2.82 per
capita for each of these.
This is considerable increase over
1 that of last year, when the per capita
appropriation was only $2.58.
Of this sum, Fulton oounty and the
city of Atlanta will receive a large pro
portion. There are in Fulton county,
outside of Atlanta, 7,433 school chil
dren, which will give to this system
an appropriation of $20,993, while At
lanta, with her 22.302 school children,
will receive $64,432.60.
The county of Richmond, including
the schools in Augusta, will receive
$50,821.75.
Bibb county, including the Macon
schools, $44,312.95.
Chatham county, including Savannah,
wii receive $54,790.
Muscogee county, including Colum
bus, will get $11,876.80.
Next year this appropriation ’will be
increased by a quarter of a million, and
the school children of Georgia will re
ceive $2,250,000. Commissioner Pound
states that he hopes to send out an
other payment to the teachers early in
the spring.
DESPERADO LAID LOW BY POSSE
Strenuous Battle at Moonshine Distillery
Pulled Off in Tennessee Mountains.
A special from McCays, Tenn., says:
Sheriff B. E. Biggs and posse made the
most daring and desperate raid Satur
day morning ever made in the moun
tains of Polk county, Tennessee, at
tempting to arrest Garrett Hedden, a
noted murderer, outlaw and moon
shiner.
Hedden was located, with two sons,
ages 17 and 14, respectively; a nephew
and another man, working in an illicit
distillery, which was well fortified.
commanded to surrender Hed
den reached for his gun, a 38-Winches
ter, and he was instantly killed. His
nephew, John Hedden, attempted to fire
on the officers, and was shot through
the abdomen and is in a dying condi
tion. The 14-year-old son was shot in
the arm by a stray bullet,
HITCHCOCK WANTED BY TAFT
Aa Manager of His Presidential Campaign
in the Southern States.
Frank H. Hitchcock, first assistant
postmaster general, has been asked by
Secretary Taft to take charge of the
Taft presidential campaign in the south
and to line up southern delegates to
the next national convention for the
secretary of war.
The offer to Mr. Hitchcock does not
contemplate the removal of Arthur I.
Vorys as Taft’s political campaign
manager, but will restrict Mr. Vorys’
territory. The latter will continue the
work in Ohio, but other managers will
be appointed (for other section* of the
country.
Stewart Bros. & ComptM
Clothiers, Hallers and Fornishe!
821 MARKET STREET, AAA CHAT TANOO flj
THE SEABOARD
HAS TROUBLE
Big Railway System Victim of Ad
verse Legislation in the South.
RECEIVERS APPOINTED
Attorneys Rush to Federal Judge Pritchard
With Application to Place Road’s
Affairs in Court.
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Because of its inability to secure the
funds to pay fixed charges due January
Ist, this inability being due to adverse
legislation in tbe south, the Seaboard
Air Lane railroad system was put into
the hands of receivers at Richmond,
Va., Thursday morning, through the ac
tion of Federal Judge Pritchard,
who was hurriedly summoned from
Asheville, N. C., to take cognizance of
the application for a receivership.
Judge Pritchard appointed as receiv
ers R. Lancaster Williams, of Rich
mond, and R. Davies Warfield of Balti
more. Both men are identified with
banking houses Williams
being of the firm of Middendorf, Wil
liams & Cos., and Warfield is president
of the Continental Trust company. Mr.
Williams is also a partner in the firm
ef John L. Williams & Sons of Rich
mond. The bond of each was fixed at
$50,000.
The title of the case as filed is “The
Seaboard Air Line Railway, complain
ant, against the Continental Trust Com
pany, trustees, under the first mortgage
made by the Seaboard Air Line railway,
dfendant.”
Judge Pritchard’s decree gives the
receivers Immediate possession of the
property, which embraces the main
stem from Portsmouth, T®., to Tampa,
Fla., with numerous branches to coast
points on the east and to Atlanta, Mont
gomery and Birmingham on the west, a
total of 2,382 miles.
The preliminaries to th© appointment
of receivers for the Seaboard form a
dramatic incident quite unique in rail
road history. Decision to put the road
Into the hands of receivers was reached
at a conference in Washington on Tues
day night between members of the vot
ing pool and creditors of the road,
both the Ryan and Williams forcea
concurring. New year’s day application
for the receivership was made to Judge
Waddill, in Richmond, but he referred
the party to Judge Pritchard of the
United States circuit court, who was at
his home in Asheville, N. C. Respond
ing to an urgent request by wire, the
judge started at once for Richmond,
and was met at Danville, Va., Wednes
day midnight by several Seaboard
attorneys, who bad gone there from
Richmond by special train for a confer
ence.
The special train with Judge Pritch
ard on board returned to Richmond, ar
riving after a fast run at 7 o’clock on
Thursday morning After their sleep
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less night and strenuous efforts came
no relaxation, however, the party only
allowing them selves a hasty breakfast
before presenting themselves be
fore Judge Pritchard to have put into
effect the arrangement reached at the
midnight conference for the passing of
the crippled road with its $72,000,000
capital and $58,000,000 liabilities out
of the control of the voting trust into
the hands of two men The necessity
for prompt action arose from the ma
turing of heavy liabilities January Ist.
By the decree the receivers are em
powered to borrow money if needful to
pay such rental as may become due,
purchase cars, etc., and pay for labor
and supplies, but not for any other pur
est! without an order of the court hav
ing primary jurisdiction.
The effect of the receivership will be
far-reaching in Baltimore, where the.
securities of the company are m|i
largely dealt in and held than
other trading center, not even excepting
New York. The bond issues placed am
the property since it has ? .heen mergj*
into one system aggregate .$36,705,(*;
of which amount it is estimated
$5,000,000 is held in Baltimore. <
WOMAN ASKS FOR CLEMENCY.
Mrs. Freeney Pleads “Unwritten La\^’
Before Georgia Prison Commission. .
Mrs. Sallie Freeney of Dodge county,'
which is in the Bibb county jail, at
Macon, basing her plea on the “un
written law,” has filed with the prison
commission of Georgia a plea for
ency, asking that her sentence of li4
imprisonment
called that ago Mrs. Freeney
shot and P. Harrell in Dodge
county, whWWent to her house in an
effort to collect a debt and made an
improper proposal to her, insulted her
and she killed him in defend of her
honor.
LOUISIANA FAST GOING DRY^^B
Prohibition Has Already Spread
o i Parishes in
Prohibition is quietly \
t hr entire state of Louisiana,
to the official liquor
ju-t issued at PojdH
one pari hes. comp’-
the state. 1 *
option laws. In two
high liquor licenses of itj*
upo have in:e!‘‘
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