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CAM'LL4 ENTERPRISE. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY* WALTER A. ALLEN KD1TOH AMI PUBLISHER Entered at Camilla, Ga., post of¬ fice as second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES* ONE YEAR $ 1.00 SIX MONTHS - .50 Official organ of Camilla, Ga., • • And Mitcheff county • • TxLLEIKOHE KO. 64. Adverriwmoits and CbuimuiiicHtions must reach us not later than Wednes¬ day noon, to iusurt: publication. All vocating communications or Other articles iwl anybody's candidacy for of office will la: cliarged for at the rate 5c per line. “Local Iiines,” 5c per line for each in¬ sertion. Address all business communication and make all checks payable to W. A. At/v.:l, Camilla, Ga. Editorial and news items should be ad¬ dressed to The Enterprise, Camilla, Ga. Estimates for advertising furnished on application. All advertising unless contracts other¬ due after first insertion, wise stipulated. 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. -----—------ Subscribe for the Enterprise.