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About The Augusta daily herald. (Augusta, Ga.) 1908-1914 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 12, 1909)
PAGE TWO START A WRAPPER COLLECTION Grandma heads, Pearl fronts and Export Borax Soap wrappers are all good for premiums. With these wrap pers either for all wrappers or part cash and part wrap pers, you can earn hundreds of useful articles which otherwise you would have to buy. Tba large size 15c Alao 5c ilia SENATE PASSED MANY BILLS SENT TO THEM BY THE HOUSE Special to The Herald. ATLANTA, (la.—A large number Of general bills from the house were paasi d by the senate Wednesday. Tho majority of these were special appropriation bills of varying Inter est and Importance. Practically all of them went through without, any ob jection. The senate passed without opposi tion the bill by Mr. Upshaw of Doug las. already passed liy the house, pro viding tlmt where a confederate vet eran drawing a pension, dies after auen pension lias accrued or become due and before payment la made by the state, such pension shall be pnld by the pension commissioner to the widow of said deceased veteran. An amendment by Senator Cates, provld log for payment of pensions to widows in similar esses of death prior to the passage of tho bill, was adopted by the senate. The following general house bills were passed bv the senate and go to the governor for approval: For Agricultural School. By Messrs Brown of Carroll and Anderson of Chatham To appropri ate $22,000 to the district agricultu ral school of the stale, so ns to give each of them an additional appro priation of $2,000 or so much thereof a* may be necessary to supplement the fund from fertilizer fees and make their total maintenance fund for next year SIO,OOO each. By Messrs. Alexander and others of Fulton To pnv to C. }’. Byrd, state printer, sf,fio for printing the house and senate journals of the extra ses aion of the general accembly in 1608. By Mrs Anderson of t'luilhain—To pay O. K. Vaaoa the sum of $82.50 for services as sergeant-alarms to ihe McLendon Investigating com mlt tee. By Mr Hardman of Jefferson To pay nig Teltlebnum and D. O. smith, atenograpMu - to tho McLendon Inviv tlßntlng committee, the stun of $012.50 for services rendered. To Buy Hopkins Code. By Messrs. Sheppard of Sumter and - - Iced PosLum Served with cracked ice, lemon and *ugar to taste.') A delicious, cooling, hot weather bracer that is fast becoming the popular American summer drink. (on tains no stimulant, but is rich in the true rebuilding food elements which “relieve fatjwue'* in the natural wav. " See bow the old “go and “feel good*' comes back when you quit tea and coffee and use Postum. “There’s a Reason” Itfl. 72S — Or."iff icirl, tc-minf ham lit*. 14 inthr* wide. Ir,expen«.*e y t very effective. 35 wiappcil or 10c *ad 10 wrapper*. Wrappers on all good for premiums mmu & E&r£.ra£gtt jaZnSkLszx&lii 5c other. -To appropriate $6,500 to pay Judge |,. Hopkins for his services in preparing a new code ol' Georgia luws up to date, after said code hliiill have been examined and approved by a commission of two members of ihe senate and three from the house. By .Mr, Reid of Campbell- To levy a lax to raise a sinking fund to re tire bonds df the state. By Mr. Alexander of Fulton—To ap propriate $3,5tM) to pay tho expenses of publishing certain reports of the supreme court and the court of ap peals. By Mr. Hall of Mibb To authorize the governor to draw his warrant In favor of Slate Treasurer ,1. Pope Brown for $1,8)2.57, which wan paid ns eomnilsslona by the state to the re ceiver of the defunct Neal hank, a former state depository. By Mr. Hardman of Jackson—To appropriate $5,000 to the stale hoard of health to continue the Pasteur treatment of hydrophobia and the manufacture of diphtheria serum to he distributed free of cost. To Use Near Beer Money H.v Messrs. Held of Campbell and McWhorter of Greene—To divert the near beer tax fund of $234,000 now In Hie slate treasury, Into the general fund where It will be made available for general and ordinary expenses. By Mr. Vinson of Baldwin—To ap propriate SB,OOO to erect two negro reformatories and two tuberculosis uospltals at the state prison farms near Mllledgeville. By Messrs. Johnson of Bartow and Held ol Putnam- To appropriate $5,- 000 to be expended through the de partment of agriculture to establish and maintain cattle Quarantine lines for the protection of live stock against disease. B Mr. Peacock of Pulaski—To make me state treasurer bond com missioner and provide a fee for tho registration of lioiklh. Under this measure the sulady of Hen F. Perry, assistant to the state treasurer Is In creased by sßuo. 5c Hubert Latham's Aeroplane ; ■ “ . - sar This is a photograph of Hubert Latham’s aero plane, the machine in which he has been trying to cross the English channel. It was taken after the termination of his second unsuccessful attempt, and shows the aeroplane where it had fallen two and one-half miles from shore. The members of the crew of the French torpedo boat are seen standing by. "Tip” Harrison’s Salary By Mr. Reid of Campbell—To create the office of corporation clerk In the office of the comptroller gene ral who shall keep a record of all cor porations paying the required occupa tion tax. This bill carries with it a salary of $1,500 to come out of fees paid the state, and Is the measure which Increases the salary of Cap tain W. H. (Tip) Harrison, clerk in the office of the comptroller general. By Messrs Hardman of Jackson and others To direct the state board of health to place diphtheria antitoxin with the ordinaries of the state for emergency use. By Mr. Henderson of Irwin —To ap propriate SIO,OOO to the state board of entomology for 1909 and 1910, to enable it to experiment with a view to the eradication of "black root" or THE AUGUSTA HERALD “wilt" and other diseases of cotton. To Divide Brunswick Circuit. By Mr. Drawdy of Clinch—To divide the Brunswick into two circuits, as follows: The Brunswick circuit to be composed of the counties of Appling Jeff Davis, Wayne, Glynn and Cam den, and the Waycross circuit to be composed of the counties of Ware, Clinch, Charlton, Pierce and Coffee. Judge T. A. Parker, of the Brunswick circuit, will tender his resignation and, It is said, will be unopposed for appointment by the governor as judge of the new Waycross circuit. By Mr. Boyd of Spalding—To per mit the consolidation and merger of electric street and lnterurban rail ways and power companies in accord ance with the constitution and la •*> of the state. This measure was enact ed to legalize the consolidation of the Macon Street Railway with the company which proposes to build thp Atlanta-Albany interurban line, and allied power companies. No such con solidation Is permitted where the ef fect is to prevent or lessen competi tion. A number of local hills were also passed. GRADUATED TAX OF SOFT DRINKS Debate Was Mainly on the Issue To Tax the Coco- Cola Company. ATLANTA, Oa.—By a vote ot 26 to 12 the senate adopted the Burwell substitute to the general tax act, Ax ing a graduated tax ranging from to $2,000 on manufacturers of soda water syrups. Ine tax Is arranged on the basis of amount of yearly business done by the manufacturers —$5 upon those who do a business ot SI,OOO a year and graduated up to a maximum im post of $2,000 on a business of $900,- 000. The debate was mainly on the is sue of taxing the Coca-Cola company. In the course of V Senator Ruther ford, of the Twenty-second declared he would rather a child of his drink beer than coca-cola. It was brought out during the de bate that the Coca-Cola company will pay the heaviest tax under this amend ment. It was estimated by one speaker that that company would pay SI,BOO or very near the maximum pro vided The house voted a tax of Ave cents on each gallon. Senator Rutherford offered an amendment to place a tax of one per cent on gross receipts. These two were promptly voted down and the Burwell substitute passed. ORANGEBURG COURT HOUSE IMPROVED Special to The Herald. ORANCIEBCRG. S.C.— Orangeburg's court house, when the present work has been completed, will present quite a different aspect to what was form erly the case. The building, under the direction of Supervisor F. ,T. D. Felder, has had the entire building overhauled, and It has been repalfited from the first floor to the very roof. All of the offices have been repainted and many needed repairs have been made. The building will be almost a new one, when the work is brought to an end. Every Pair of Hands Employed in the Grocer’s Store Go To the Butter Tub Every grocer employs several men. He keeps them busy tilling orders —grinding coffee, weighing tea and spices, drawing oil, putting up butter. Is it any wonder that ordinary tub butter tastes a little like every thing in the store? Now see this difference. is, first of all, the best butter that can possibly be made from the finest kind of thick, yellow cream, carefully pasteurized. Then it’s packed in clever, odor-proof, germ-proof packages. Nothing can possibly come in contact with it or taint it the least bit, and it doesn’t cost a penny more than common butter. MORE PROHIBITION TALK FOR AIKENITES Several Prominent Speak ers Will Address Crowds in Different Parts of the County. Special to The Herald. AIKEN, S. C.—The fight between the liquor people and the anti-dispen sarv people is on in earnest. Tues day' night Hon. Seab Wright, of Rome, Ga., made an appeal to the voters of Aiken county to vote out this liquor traffcu, and to rid themselves as well as Augusta from this evil. Mr. vvright said that prohibition could not be en forced in Augusta until 'the Aiken county dispensary across the river was wiped out of existence. He said that Georgia backed the Palmet to state up when she went out in secession ih ’6l and Aiken county ought to retaliate and pay a part of this obligation by doing away with the dispensary that was forced on the people of that district over a will of a majority. The court house was packed and many standing up. On Thursday night Miss Moore of North Carolina will address the people of Salley. At Windsor Dr. Phillip Mc- Lean will address the people of that neighborhood on Friday night, August 13th, and on Saturday Miss Moore and other prominent speakers xvill make addresses at Vaucluse. At Clear water on Sunday morning Miss Moore and others. Bath, Alias Moore and others on Sunday night, August 15'th and at Warrenville a grand rally will be held for the whole Horse Creek Valley and Aiken, on August 17th, Monday at 8 p. m. Hon. W>ab Wright will again ad dress the people of Aikeh Saturday evening, August 16th, in an open air meeting to he held on the street. Everybody Is invited to hear these eminent speakers. PUSSY SOUNDS FIRE ALARM IN BIG APARTMENT WACO, Tex. —That their lives were saved by a cat, is the belief of Ar thur Hanan, Joseph Burnett and oth ers. who escaped from thetr apart ments in the Avenue Fiats, which were destroyed by fire here recently. The cat jumped upon the bed and scratched and purred until it awoke Hanan. who aroused the others. 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