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CAM'LL4 ENTERPRISE.
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WALTER A. ALLEN
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1904.
Hon. G. Gurtley Jordon has re¬
signed from the Board of Rail¬
road Commissioners, anl Mr. J.
M. Brown, son of ex-Coverior
.1. E. Brown, wid succeed him
after the 15th instant.
Judge Speer has dissolved thp
tern pot ary injunction stopping
ifie sale of the Brunswick and
Birmingham railroad, and now
the commissioner will proceed
with the sale of the road under
the order of the Superior Court.
The legislature has changed
the time for holding the fall term
of the Superior Court of Colquitt
county from the 3rd Monday in
September to the 1st Monday in
October, and gives that county
two weeks instead of one as
heretofore.
Chairman M. J, Yeomans of
the State Democratic Executive
Commi'tae has called a meeting
of the committee for August 27th
next in Atlanta to take under
consideration the question of the
ineiligibility of certain persons
who were chosen by the state
convention as presidential elec¬
tors,
Macon county, in which are lo
cated the towns of Montezuma
and Oglethorpe, went dry in an
election held there last Monday
by a majority of 23 votes. It
took hard work to accomplish
this result, but then nothing of
importance is ever accomplished
■without untiring and persistent
effort.
In last week’s issue of
the Enterprise we publish an
open letter from Tuberculosis
Committee of the State Medical
Association. The co-operation
of the people is needed in fight¬
ing this disease. It i9 curable
but the cure requires mo.e will
power on the part of the patient
than most diseases perhaps. One
of the chief reasons of its con¬
tinued existence is ignorance on
the part cf the people as to its
nature and the treatment needed.
The Medical Association desires
to institute a campaign of educa¬
tion on this sucject and popular
subscriptions are asked for this
purpose. The dootors themselves
expect no remuneration but the
subscriptions are asked for to
cover the expenses of distribut¬
ing inhumation in a
form,
. This should appeal to the peo¬
ple, especially of this section
,
where, we understand, this
disease has found a number
victims in the past.
Dewitt's Salve
For Pilos, Burnsi Soros*
How Shall It Be Sold?
Is the question that is agitat¬
ing the Camillaites these few
days.
Early in the year at an elec¬
tion held for the purpose of de¬
termining whether or not Mitch¬
ell county should remain “dry”
or whether h?r people wanted it
“wet,” the latter won out by a
safe majority.
Very soon thereafter those
towns in the county whose char¬
ters were not in their way issued
1 cense for bar-rioms, but opened
dispensaries and have gone ahead
s diing whiskey.
Under Camilla’s Charter, it re¬
quired the signature of two-thirds
o: the free-holders to enable any
one to get a license and under
this law all applicants failed, and
neither bar-rooms nor dispensar¬
ies could be opened ir. Camilla
without some special local legis¬
lation.
The advocates of dispensaries
and bar-rooms immediately went
to work to procure such legisla¬
tion as would be to their interest
and bills were introduced in the
legislature. That for dispensa¬
ries passed the senate as was
recommended by the Grand Jury,
but was tabled in the House be¬
cause of the weight of an amend¬
ment by Representative Maples,
which required that the law, be¬
fore becoming operative, must be
ratified by a vote of the people.
The next bill was to repeal the
two-thirds clause in the towrn
charter, which would enable the
council to then issue license for
bar-rooms. This bill was report¬
ed as having passed both branch¬
es of the legislature early in the
week and only required the sig¬
nature of the governor to become
a law and parties acting under
the presumption that it would be
signed, immediately deposited
with the clerk of council checks
for $1,000, that being the amount
of license as fixed by council, and
went about getting ready to be¬
gin the sale, even going so far as
to buy their stock.
But there seems tc be a hitch
somewhere, just where, the En¬
terprise does not know, neither
can it tell what the result will be,
but what it does know is that it
seems to be the liveliest question
at issue in Camilla this week,
Capt. Richard Hobbs Dead.
Since the last issue of the En¬
terprise, the death of Judge
Hobbs, which occurred at ,his
home in Albany the first of the
week,hasbeen announced through
the'state papers.
Capt. Hobbs was well known
throughout this section of the
State, having been one of Al¬
bany’s most prominent lawyers,
and for many years chairman of
the Congressional Executive
Committee of the 2nd district al¬
so Commander of Camp Slaugh¬
ter Confederate veterans, and for
several years past he has been
Judge of the City Court of Al¬
bany.
Capt. Hobbs had hosts of
friends throughout this section
who will regret to learn of his
death.
A terrible wreck occured near
Eden, seven miles north of Pue*
bio, Col., on last Sunday evening
on the Denver and Rio Grande
Railroad, oy the giving way of a
tre8sle on account of a flooded
stream into which the engine, the
baggage car, and two crowded
passenger cars were precipitated.
About one hundred lives
lost, only four persons having
escaped from this part of
train with their lives.
ly two sleepers and the
car escaped,
$13,158 Ahead.
The tax returns for the
or Camilla district, shows
largest returns of any district
the county by tbe neat sum
$13,158.
It is true that the returns
white tax payers of the 1194th,
or Pelham district, shows a
er increase than the Camilla dis¬
trict by $28,277, and a net
over 1903 of $205,812, while
net gain of the returns of
white tax payers of the Camilla
district show's a net gain over
1903 of $185,410, but when the
$01,840 as returned by the color¬
ed people of the Camilla district
is added to that of the white re¬
turns for this year it brings the
total for this district up to SI,—
063,098, while that of the colored
people of the Pelham district,
which is $25,405, added to the
BAILEY'S SALE, AUGUST 15th, 1904.
For some time we have not appeared before the peoples eyes
through this valuable sheet, but, here we are, and again do we hold
ourselves in readiness to serve every one on the basis of
Hu$inc$s and Honor.
We have had a prosperous year and for our FALL TRADE we
have bought many new lines, rarely seen in Camilla. These goods,
in conjunction with our present Summer Line, will be too great for
our floor space, so we have decided to close out our
$uuaiiior CkOOiLs at 4Jo$t.
Th°se goods are not some played out plugs of the past, but good
FRESH IAWSS, Etc.,
And it will pay you to see us.
We don’t claim to give you something for nothing, in fact we
don't intend to; but, we do intend to give you some of the best
trades on LAWNS Etc., you ever got. TO SEE IS TO BUY.
This Sale Will Begin August I5th, 1904.
YOURS VERY TRULY,
J. H. BAILEY,
Blue Serge Sale.
40 men’s blue serge suits, nice, cool, worth $15, going at
$ 7 . 24 boys’ and youths' long pants, blue serge suits $4. This
is an all-wool, guaranteed not to fade, suit with good linings
and padded shoulders. A genuine bargain. 150 all-wool
men’s round and square cut coats at $1.50. Clergymen’s coats
also on hand.
Ladies Dress Skirts Sale.
75c, $1.50, $2 and $5 dress skirts and walking skirts—grey, black, blue and
brown—all lengths and styles.
Men’s black silk parasols with horsehead and doghead pattern handles at $1.50.
Ladies’ black silk parasols, oxidized handles, paragon steel frames worth $5,
going at $1.50.
50 ladies’ mercerized silk petticoats, 50c and 75c each. Boys suspenders 10c.
Boy’s black suits with belts $1.75 each.
Berman’s,
CAMILLA, GEORGIA
Studebaker Wagons to close out cheap at Harrell’s Warehouse
returns of the white tax payers
makes a total of $1,049,940, or
balance of$13,158 in favor of the
Camilla district.
$220 Dollars for a 28 Months
Old Colt.
On last Saturday morning Mr.
G- B. Cochran sold his fine 28;
months old colt for the neat lit
tie sum of $220. !
Mr. Cochran raised this colt j
right here in Mitchell, which
shows that, with a little care and
attention, Mitchell as fine stock can be j
raised in county as can be
raised anywhere and at a com¬
paratively small expense.
This colt should be taken to
the stock fair to be held at Al¬
bany this fall. He woul be a
jmze taker.
The Mayors of the Jiffsrent |
towns and cities of Georgia are i
holding a big meeting down at!
Savannah this week. j
Infants Dead.
L{ttle Bernice> the foar mont! - 8
old dau2hter of Mr and Mrp
Dan Rivers, of Pebble City, died
acute Bronchitis, on last Tues
day morning.
0n Monday night last at the
^ orne 8 ranc * parents, Mr.
and Mrs - Frank Perr ?. the little
irdant of Mr. cud Airs. J. L.
Green, of Pelham, died and its
‘ e s Pj r ^ winged do ave its R flight back of
v ’ » as a ray
8Uns ^ ne f -* r a tune i° Die home
of i;s parents who are now over
shadowed with sorrow.
The remains were interred
Tu.sday morning in the new
cemetery at Camilla.
Tu the grief stricken parents
^ ese little jewels, the Enter
PRISE extends condolence.
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