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The Pelham Journal.
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FARMERS BANK OF PELHAM
City Court of Pelham.
The adjourned term of city
court of Pelham lasted only one
day, the court convening at
o’clock Monday morning and ad¬
journing for the term a little af¬
ter night.
The case of M. I. Earnest vs.
Mrs. S. T. Council, suit
damages, was dimissed for want
of prosecution.
The case of Everett
Company vs. .T. G. Haire, et al,
illegality, and traverse to return
of services, resulted in a
for Everett Mercantile Company.
No other civil business
t ried and only one criminal
went to trial. This case was
prosecution instituted by
Goldstein against Sam Stein
assault and battery. The
after being out a short
brought, in a verdict of
and the judge imposed a fine
or twelve months.
The following attorneys were
attendance: S. S. Bennett,
E. Cox, IV. H. Hoggard, Judge
A Bush, J. J. Hill and H.
Merry.
’Possum Hunt.
A gay party of young
went out East of Pelham
hunting last Friday night.
though this section is noted
what has lately become the
tional bird,” it is said the
arrived too late to capture
However, they had plenty of
plenty to eat and plenty to
—(soda water.)
The party was composed
Misses Gillespie. Huie,
Maggie Belle Thaxton,
Hanks, Twitty, Powell
nold; Messrs. Ben Wilkinson,
Hurst, W. C. Twitty, Jr.,
Cleveland and Grover Mize,
his famous coon dogs.
Ginning Notice.
We will run our Cotton
neries on Friday and
February 12 and 18. Those
i|||ve c °tton to gin will
bring it in at that time, as we will
have no further gin days for
season. Hand Trading Co.
jan29-2t
DID YOU KNOW
THAT
HILL & KING
HAS A BEAUTIFUL
DISPLAY OF STATIONERY
ALL NEW.
The Old Reliable Druggists.
PELHAM, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY, 29, 1909.
Can a Legislator Hold Two
Offices in Georgia?
Atlanta, Ga., January 2o —
Since the announcement of the
resignation of Representative R.
C. Norman, of Wilkes county. At¬
torney General Hart has received
many inquiries from other legisla¬
tors in regard to their qualifica¬
tions.
Mr. Norman resigned his seat,
he stated, because of the decision
of the Supreme Court in the Mc¬
Williams case from Henry county.
It was hejd that a member of the
Legislature cannot hold two of¬
fices.
Judge Hart states that a wrong
construction has been placed on
the decision, and that Mr. Nor¬
man is able to qualify and take
his seat. He holds that the fact,
that one office is held at the time
of election does not disqualify,
and that if the office is given up
before the oath is taken and the
seat in the General Assembly is
occupied that all encumbrances
are removed. Mr. Norman was
solicitor of the City Court of
Washington at the time of his
election, and was of tin* opinion
that this disqualified him.
Numerous members of the State
Legislature hold small offices, like
justices of the peace or members
of county boards of education.
To retain any of these after a seat
in the General Assembly is taken
would be a disqualification for the
latter office; but the question can
alone be raised by the Legislature
itself, which is the sole judge of
the qualifications of its members.
Harry Hirschensohn En¬
ters Business in
Pelham.
Mr. Harry Hirschensohn is
planning to put in a stock of dry
goods and shoes in the store
on Railroad street next door t,o
the Pelham Mercantile Company.
He has been in Donaldsonville
for the past year or so He is a
son-in-law of Mr. M. Goldstein
He will carry a large stock, and
expects to have all of it in and
opened by February 5.
QUARTERLY
Dr. Williams Presides and
Preaches.
The first Quarterly Conference
was held at the Methodist church
Tuesday night. Presiding Elder
A. M. Williams presided at the
Conference. Before the Confer¬
ence be delivered a strong and in¬
teresting discourse on the subject
of close relationship with Christ.
Dr. Williams took occasion to
say he was not in much sympathy
with the movement in various
parts of the country, In which
many people are pledging them¬
selves to live for a definite period
as Christ would have lived. He
feared a lack of the deep sincerity,
unselfish devotion and personal
reverence and piety whi|h would
be necessary in order to even ap¬
proach the Christ-life, and pointed
out the different relationships and
conditions now- existing from
those that existed in the time of
the Savior. His words were a
plea for deeper devotion and
higher realization of the
of a closer nature with Christ.
At the Conference
business Th®teports ofe^he quarter reeeia|ed was
acted.
pncouraginfpmnd gave iij^<
of a very successful ? yea^ in
church.
Mr. R. A. Mallard was J|it
leader of the Layman’s
Movement.
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Near Beer S
The way some of our
pers and municipal ramrods
throwing fits over tlie hoar
proposition would be*
were they not ridiculous,
The mayor of Quitman
the near beer license, on
ground that if folks cannot
the genuine they should
none, which is a little far-fetched.
If our memory serves us correctly,
this official laid the
for his fortune in selling whisky,
and after lie has used it to
advantage he objects to
else using a less harmful project
to accumulate a dollar .or two.
Thomasville is upset
an old veteran or two is likely to
sell a bottle or two.
Camilla lias most turned
council into an anti-chewing gum
organization while in a delirium
over the thing, and declares
against Senegambia by way
emphasizing her displeasure.
Atlanta is mad because the
beer is not the real thing.
Statesboro has cut down all of
her china berry trees because the
robins get drunk on them.
Pelham is liable to veil
pretty girls because a fellow
intoxicated with delight
looking upon the face of one, and
there is no telling where
thing will go. All of which
to show that the founders and
promoters of this government
to about twenty-five years
were a pack of fools, and had no
idea as to theory of government.
Now, when we hear trom
the jig will be up for good and
always. Oh! Consistency, thy
name is Ichabod. — Bainbridge
Post.
Miss Velma McRae, of Boston,
is expected today to visit
aunt, Mrs. B. Surles.
FOR FIRE INSURANCE
SEE
Pelham Insurance Agency
C. G. LOTT and M. V. ROBBINS.
No “College on Wheels”
for Georgia This Year.
President J. J. Connor, of the
Board of Trustees of the .f 100,000
Agricultural College at Athens,
aud also tlie president of the State
Agricultural Society of Georgia,
while in Atlanta Saturday an¬
nounced definitely that the “Agri¬
cultural College on Wheels” will
not be operated this year, as at
first contemplated.
The reason given for this action
is not on account of any lack of
co-operation by the roads of Geor¬
gia, or the opposition by the rail¬
road commission of Georgia, or
lack of interest in the train by
the planters of the State, for these
three elements were heartily in
favor of the train : but because of
the splendid growth in the inter¬
est at the Agricultural College,
which would prevent Dr. Sonic
and his able corps of assistants
from devoting the time necessary
to the trip at this juncture.
The absence of the train will be
keenly felt throughout the State,
because it is believed the tour of
1908 was jirwocaQyy, yi|. -gregt
President Connor had just re¬
turned from Athens, where he has
been in attendance at the Far¬
mers’ Institute and that of the
Farmers’ Wives, which came to a
close Saturday. He declared il
had been so successful that it had
been decided to repeat the confer¬
ence next year.
At this conference some of the
best known authorities ou agri¬
cultural topics in the Slate wen
heard in lectures.
One of the chief industries gen¬
erally discussed at this conference
was that of cattle raising in Geor¬
gia. Dr. Soule is bending all of
his energies in this direction. He
is an ardent advocate of the use
of cotton seed meal mixed with
hulls as a feed, having made ex¬
periments whereby it has been
proved that by feeding a ton of
this mixture properly propor¬
tioned five hundred pounds can
be added to the weight of the cat¬
tle fed. ft is accepted as the
cheapest, as well as the best, feed
PURSES and HAND BAGS
We have a few of the latest styles
left over from Xmas that we are
Cloasing Out Cheap. Call and in =
spect the stock before they are sold.
Consolidated Clothing & Drug Co.
THE LEADING DRUGGISTS
PHONE 32.
$1.00 PER YEAR.
Mrs. Sheppard and Mrs.
Wilson Will Enter
General Merchan¬
dise Business.
Mrs. L. A. Sheppard and her
sister, Mrs. Wilson, and brother,
Ma. JjJ E. Ward, of Monticello,
Fia., have planned to enter busi¬
ness in the store now occupied by
the clothing department of the
Consolidated Clothing and Drug
Company as soon as this concern
moves to their new apartments,
now being fitted up on the north
side of Matthewson avenue.
They will carry a complete line
of General Merchandise and Milli¬
nery. Mrs. Sheppard has pre¬
viously been in a business of this
character and is thoroughly fa¬
miliar with the details of tie
business. This building is owned
by Mr. Sheppard. They expect
to open business in February.
E. W. Tucker is Planting
Potatoes.
In addition to his other trad;
farming, Mr. E. \V. Tucker is
planting this week six acres of
potatoes, which he ex pee
dr fo the trade in dfieth,
ami elsewhere. Mr, Tucker has
developed a nice little truck farm
in the suburbs of the city. After
the Irish potatoes are gathered he
expects to plant the same land in
sweet potatoes. He has been
quite successful with his truck
farming and the'*dairy business
which he conducts.
Flies on Starvation.
Next week we will take orders
for Screen Doors and Windows.
Give us a trial and we will do the
rost. J. M. Culpepper Co.
on the market. The Southern
planter helps himself who fur¬
nishes to the mills the seed from
which it is made. Dairy demon¬
strations, too, prove its splendid
qualities for making more and
richer cream. The soil tests
where cotton seed meal is ifsed in
a ^commercial fertilizer, demon¬
strating its value there, will be
made early in the Spring.