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Five Thousand Customers
to move our entire stock of hea\\\ r
Groceries in the next 60 days.
Pelham Mercantile Com pan
Phone 2. Free Delivery. Pelham, Qa.
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The Pelham Journal.
Entered December 3rd, at J'elliani, Ca
as second.class mail matter, under act of Con
tress of March 3rd, 187H.
Published Evey Friday,
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How Georgia Disposes of
Convicts Under
New Law.
(Atlanta Georgian.)
Under the terms of the new
convict law adopted by the gen¬
eral assembly Saturday morning,
the 2,400 misdemeanor convicts
and the 2,000 felony convicts
which the state has to handle are
disposed of as follows:
The counties are forced to
maintain and work the misde
■ mcatrcnr*>^-|r?Vi-cto, no<■ h_ . oou^Ay
taking the number it convicts
The counties are allowed to buy
or lease farms upon which both
the misdemeanor and telony con¬
victs may be worked in order to
raise supplies for the road work
it may be engaged upon.
Counties desiring to work their
quota of felony convicts upon the
roads must notify the prisou
commission not later than Feb¬
ruary 10, 1909, and annually
thereafter before that date. Af¬
ter this first distribution is made
to counties desiring to work their
quota, then counties desiring
more may apply to the commiss¬
ion and shall have them without
cost, except that an equal amount
of convict labor is to be returned
to counties furnishing the con¬
victs when those counties are
ready to work their roads.
Two or more counties may com¬
bine into districts and work their
convietB together, alternating in
the use of the gangs.
The prison commission, when
in funds, is to organize and equip
road gangs for working roads in
counties not able to maintain
their own gangs.
Municipilties are to be allowed
to hire any number of convicts
they desire, at $100 per year
each.
The prison commission may,
with the consent of the governor,
buy or lease for five years addi¬
tional farms upon which to work
convicts. Each state institution
may have the use of fifty convicts
when it desires them.
If any felony convicts remain
after these plans have been ex¬
hausted the governor and the
commission may dispose of them
(felony convicts only) as they
thiuk the best interest of the
state demands, for a period of
not more than one year after
March 31, and to no individual
or corporation interested iu the
THE PELHAM JOURNAL, FRIDAY,- SEPT- ?$, 1908-
AN EVENING WITH
ROBERT LOVEMAN.
Thursday Night, Odtober l^t.
Delightful Program of RHYME, MUSIC and
REMINISCENCE.
Mr. Loveman is making a tour of the south, and this is an op¬
portunity of hearing The Southern poet in his own verses, and
poems by Riley, and others of the music makers.
No lecture, but a happy and intellectual feast of good things,
gleaned from the happy hills of Song and Poesy.
Under the auspices of THE WOMANS’ CLUB.
Remember the date OCTOBER the First.
Admission, 50 cents for aduHs, 25 cents for the youthful, and
15 cents for children under 12 yejmm of age.
The young folks will enjoy this entertainment as well as the
gro iwu-ups aji Mx. ^jo Riley’s veman tel Is all ■'•bout,
Mr. Whitcomb Pi •?, f
How Pomp stole deui breeches to be baptized in,
I want to be a brakemau, go!lee,
The Coffee like your Mother used to make, etc. etc.
Come out and bring every one of the family.
At The School Auditorium.
Proceeds will be donated to the Library.
amount of labor a convict may
perform per day.
The commission is made a
bureau of information for road
ouildmg, and four road super
visiors are provided to aid the
counties in road work.
Recognized Him.
Blinks after inviting his friend Jinks,
who has ^)ust returned from abroad, to
dinner is telling him what a fine mem¬
ory bis little son Bobby has.
“And do you suppose he will remem¬
ber me?” said Jinks.
“Remember you? Why, he remem¬
bers every face that he ever saw.”
An hour later they enter the house,
and after Jinks has shaken hands with
Mrs. Jinks he calls Bobby over to him.
“And do you remember me, my little
man?”
“Course I do. You’re the same feller
that pa brought home last summer, and
ma was so wild about it that she didn’t
speak to pa for a whole week."—Lon¬
don Express.
Too Sudden.
“Before I consent to let you have my
daughter,” said the square jawed cap¬
tain of industry, “I want you to an¬
swer a question. What would you do
if I were to give you half a million?”
After the coroner had viewed the re¬
mains and decided that death was due
to heart failure, caused by a sudden
shock, the old man lit another cigar
and murmured, “That’s worth trying
again some time.”
Arabs Outlive Eskimos.
While it may be true that the white
man loses in intellectual and bodily
power in the tropics. Dr. Luigi Sambon
maintains as a result of researches
that the average Arab lives twenty-five
years longer than the average Eski¬
mo, that the coast people of South
America are longer lived than the
mountain people, that old age is much
commoner in the southern countries of
Europe than in the northern countries
and that Spain, with a population
smaller by 9.000,000. has 401 centena¬
rians to England's 146.
Heavy Betting.
Not a tithe of the betting takes place
on the turf nowadays that existed in
what is known as the “Hastings era."
The plunging that took place on Her¬
mit’s Derby has never been equaled
in the annals of the race. The Mar¬
quis of Hastings lost over $500,000
and Lord Stamford almost as much.
Sir Joseph Hawley lost over $250,000
in one bet through backing his horse,
The Palmer, against Hermit, for that
amount w r ith the owner of the latter.
When Hermit was knocked down to
Mr. Chaplin as a yearling at the El
itham stud auction for $5,000, Mr. C.
(J. Merry bought the very next lot led
Into the sale ring for a similar sum.
This horse he christened Marksman.
He backed his purchase against that of
Mr. Chaplin with that gentleman for
$50,000 in the blue ribbon of 1857, and
he lost his wager by the narrow mar¬
gin of a neck.
About Your Luggage.
"What slovenly luggage!” And the
traveled man fixed on\his untraveled j
friend an amused frown. “Slovenly
luggage doesn’t matter here in the
United States," he said, “for It is nev¬
er with us, but abroad your luggage
will be as much a part of you as your
hat or boots. It will ride on cabs with
you; it will enter hotels with you; it
will surround you in the railway sta¬
tions as you await your trains. Abroad
people go in for smart and expensive
luggage with the same pride as for fine
clothes. Their kit bags and boxes of
leather are polished for every journey
like a pair of brown shoes. The brass
work of their costly trunks is bur¬
nished till it shines like fresh gold.
Abroad with that four dollar trunk
*nd that gray canvas telescope valise
you’ll be as much ashamed of yourself,
my boy, as though you had a red patch
on the seat of your trousers.”
There was a good deal of sound hu¬
man nature in the unexpected reply
of the dying old woman to her min¬
ister’s leading question. “Here, at the
end of a long life, which of the Lord's
mercies are you most thankful for?”
Her eyes brightened as she answered,
“My victuals.”—Argonaut.
Mr. “Bud” White who is sched¬
uled to speak in favor of disfran¬
chisement at Harmony to-night
have been invited to divide time
with Mr. N. B. Davis who cham¬
pions the opposite side.
Wood’s Liver Medicine in liquid
form for malaria, chills and fever,
regulates the liver, kidneys and blad¬
der, brings quick relief to bilious¬
ness, sick-headaehe, constipation.
Pleasant to take. The $ 1.00 bottle
contains 2)4 times the quantity of
the 50c. size. First dose brings re¬
lief. Sold by Consolidated Clothing
& Drug Co.
We Announce Our
Fall Opening
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Wednesday and Thursday ❖ <s>
Sept. 30 Oct 1. $
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The 5>
army of customers of 4> $ 3>
the One Price Store through=
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out Southwest Georgia will find <*>
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our 1908 opening for the Fall <$>
the most interesting &
season in <?> 4>
the history $
of this establish= ❖
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ment. *•>
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Our Millinery Department
will show greater variety in
style, and a much larger num=
ber of models than have ever
been offered in the past, and the
showing of ladies’ Ready=to=
Wear will eclipse anything to I
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be seen in Southwest Georgia.
Remember, this is a de=
partment store, and every de=
partment figures in next week’s
opening.
ROSENBERG BROS.
ALBANY, GA.
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Messers L. P. Tucker ai d J. J.
Blanton are attending a District
Meeting of the Odd Fellows at
Adel. It holds its sessions today
and tomorrow. They go as dele¬
gates from the Pelham Lodge.
They Take The Kinks Out.
“I have used Dr. King’s New Life
Pills for many years, with increasing
satisfaction. They take the kinks
out of stomach, liver and bowels,
without fuss or friction,” says N. H.
Brow'n, of Pittsfield, Vt. Guaran¬
teed satisfactory at Hill & King’s
drug store. 25c.