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The Miller County Liberal
vol. xv.
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I Have Moved
In one of the new Wilkin Buildings and I
you will find me here at all times. I am, in a |
place where I can work and give you better ser
vice than ever. Having no fuss or excitement I
to bother me and will make all jobs good, that I
hasn't come up to what was expected. I am I
here for buisness and to stay and you will find |
here at all times a first class line of everything
pertaining to the Jewelry Business.
I have equipped my repair dep’t with Tags |
and Circulars. Nothing can become misplace d I
or lost. Remember I guarantee satisfaction
and will make good anything I sell.
YOURS FOR SERVICE |
GUESS I
The correct number of pieces in a n 18 size El- g
gin Whole Model complete watch and get a Big
Ben clock FREE. All you have to do is to call |
around and see me and. give me the number yon |
belive in. No trick. Come over on White Way ■
and see me.
EDWIN J. HUNTER.
Local Paragraphs.
Surely April has been the month
of shower? in the year of 1912.
Col. B. T. Castellow of Cuthbert
is spending the week here mmg.
ling with the many voters attend,
tog Supremo eouit.
Mr. and Mrs Wm Smith of th*
Belleview community were injtown
yesterday.
A considerable amount of hail
fell iu thia a ction Saturday and
Monday.
Due marriage has been announ
•ed to be so’einuized in this city
during the month of June; and
Dame Rumor knowingly assertn
that two ceremonies will be per
formed here, and that two of Col
quitt’s fair girls will he taken otti
er cities more anon.
Mr and Mrs John Cook were
here Monday, guests of their son,
Mr Roy Cook.
Snperioi court convened Mon
day. Large crowds have been
here this week.
The most eminent editor on
Heart's papers, Biisbane, fre.
qaently tosses bouqeets Io the
weekly press; but the Atlanta
Georgian, the newest Hearst dai
ly, has eut off ths weekly exchan
ges. This is i.ot inten led as a
klcki for ws do uot miss the Geor
gian ... Cuthbsrt Leader-
Maks the printer your partner,
Vos and he can do more for the
hmineaa good of the town than
and any other one man.— Mer-
Journal.
If a man could always be as po
lite te his pwn wife a, he tries td
•fee tq (onae other man's wife, there
gppld be more smiles than tears
In this old world we are living in.
4-Greensboro Herald Journal.
Getting rich quickly is not al
ways digcqlt, but it is a'ways dan
gerous—Youth’s Companion*
Wkether state prohibition cap
prohibit is to be answered by the
United States Supreme Court in a
case thet arose under the Tenne
aee law against the manufacture of
ijqqor. Adi filler wliu believed
that he eould keep on making whis.
key if he sold none of it inside the
state has been sentenced to impris,
onjaent, He has appealed to the
United Btatee Supreme Court
against what he regards as a re
striction on interstate commerce.
—Youth’s Companion.
Constant fault-finding is like
sand in the sugar. It lessens the
sweetness of life and sets the teeth
on edge.--Youth's Companion.
As we ge to press we learn of
the sad death of Mr Eager Shef
field. A fitting notice will appear
a onr next iasds.
There are a few citizens in C 1-
quitt who would have all mon pos
sess the powr'i of forgiving, Y.s,
these “few” citizei s would have
you forgive them for nnj incon
sideration on their part towards
you: but Ob! how anxious they are
that you consider their own neces
sities. Well “Forget and forgive
it will help you to live But no
man can help you to die” is the
advice of Ella Wheeler Wilcox,
the great authoress.
-We belteye Windrow Wilson
will sweep the state. Georgians
will be loyal to their own former
fellow citizen. Here is one idea
expressed by Senator Hoke Smith
“Mr. Underwood is not running
for President in the United States
He is only to be voted for in Geor
gia for President, while he is real
ly runtii<ig_for Congress from the
Burmingham district.
Do we wish a S mthern man
nominated fcr the Preaidecy? If
so, we should lay aside personal
feeling, quit wasting support on a
man who is not rellr in the rase,
and give our support to the one]
Southern man who can ba nomi
nated, and that man, every impar
tial person must concede, is Gov
snor Wilson.”
IS IT FAIR.
Mr. B 'Belt, in his platform for the Legislature, says he favors
abolishing the Law under which they collect thes3.ooCommutation tax
He has now a oircqlar heZore the people ihowing according to Mr.
Moody’s figures that in order to raise the approximate sum of $3200.00
dt-rleyed from this oommu’atlon tax it will require a levy of only 1 3-b
mills on the whole of tar taxable property cf the county to reinburSt
the Ireaatny for thia enm. Ris argument in defense of bis platform
sounds good but he bat failed to show the actual results should h*’
ever get the law abi lished.
He argues that a man will bav? to be worth $2500.00 before his law
would effcqt him. But he doesn't tell you that abolishing this law
would practically relieve approximately 75 per caul ot the negro road
tax. In other words approximately four hundred negroes in this coun
ty pay this $3 00 oom nutation Mad tax, wh ch amounts to $1200.00.
They alec pay $2.00 on the sloto.oo or $2 00 advalcrem road tax, a
grand total of SI4OO 00.
Under Mr Beach’a way of arranging things you will readily s a e that
the S2OO 00 now t aid f lt:a a levy of 1 3-8 mills which amounts to $1 37
1-2 on taxable property as given in by m-grors a grand total of $337.50
as compared to$1400(K) now paid. Think over it fellow citizens and
see if you can jm.«ify yourself in supporting a man on such a plat,
form.
■ Yon is <o sevre
H. Drew Roberts.
Club Entertained.
Mrs E. B. Baugbn entertained
the club Wednesday afternoon in
a delightful manner.
Mukdames B. P. Coachman, N
L Stapleton, S. M Watson, R. H.
Saunders, W. C. Dancer, F. D.
Bush, and Harry Stein were pns.
ent,
Mrs Stein, one among the bright
est members, won the first prize in
a Biblical contest and another ot
th* highly accomplished mambar
COLQUITT, GEORGIA, -WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2.'/ 1912.
Trestle Damaged.
Traffic along the G F. & A. Ry.
was greatly retarded Monday
when it was f.mnd that the railroai
tr. stl." across the “Big Drain’
just below Buy km was so b idly in
jured by the recent rains that tin
trains cool I not pass over it.
The Norih bound and South
bound met as near as possible an
the mnil and passengers were
transferred from one train to the
other. x
Boykin Items.
Every one is wishing the rain
would cease.
Toe heavy rains of ths past few
days are making the farmers feel
very much discourag' d
A good many of onr citiz. ns are
attending court in Colquitt this
week.
Miss Matlie Lou Stamper ac
companied by Misses Gertie Hatch
er and J je G rimes and Sidney Par
rot spent a few days last week vis
iting her relatives in Jakin.
Messrs R .land Middleton am
Eager Lunsl'i rd of Thompson
I’own community were welconn
guests here Sunday after noon.
Miss Trudie Hatcher spent a fey
days last week in Bibcock. - |
Mr Albert Knighten of Benev
olence v'sited his sister Mis. 0. E
Hixon n few days ago.
Mrs. S. L. Dean and Mrs. Hirttii,
Parrot spent Thursday in Bain
bridge entertained in a dental office
Messrs Jim Guess and Mauric
Valentine of Eldorendo were pleas
ant v : sitors here Sunday afternoon
Mis. fl. Z. Clifton has been .vis
iting relatives in Colquitt.
Mr. H. D. Dean of St Marks Fla.
is spending few days here with
home folks.
We are sorry to report Mrs.
Johnnie Nalls is on the sicklist.
Little Miss Ossie Cook of Col
riuit is spending a few days with
her cousin Lura Harrell.
Miss Luna Mae McDonald pass
ed thru here Sunday evening en
|route to her school at Pondtown.
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Rawls are
the proud possessors of a baby
girl. The little one will be chris
tened “Jimtr ie”.
Mrs N. L Stapleton won the priz
in a contest of original conum
druins.
After the contests a luncheon of
two courses was served, the first
consisted of chicken cioquetts, to
mato sandwiches with Mayonaise
dressing, stuffed dates. sarnt< ga
chips, piekies end crackers, the
second, strawberry si ort cakes.
Mrs Baughn is n charming hos
tess and the members left under
obligations to her for a most pleas
ant afternoon
The Lost Ship.
When the survivors from the ilifateil Titsnic, the finest steamship
ever built reached New-York, many facts and heart rending incidents
were made Known.
Sixteen hundred and thirty-five huttian beings went down just after
midnight Mondty morning, the 15th hist.
Surely bjaut'ful angels wardens stood holding the pearly gates aga
f r the passage of the lirsVc spirits whose bodies found a grave in the
boltim of the Atlantic.
The accident seems to Live been caused by the crew believing the
litanio uusinKable. Although warned that ice bergs from the frozen
Arctic regions were drifting Southward, the crew iu their mad desire
o breaK th * record for swiftness Ou the maiden trip of the Titania
heeded not the warnings.
U hen the members of the band were last seen they were standing
Knee deep In the water playing “Nearer My God To Thee.”
Seven hundred and forty-five survivors were picked up by the Car.
pathisi, the steam ship which rescued those who were io life boats or
in rafts. Six of those rescued died from exposure.
B low we reproduce from the Atlanta Journal an estimate of the
wealth of some of the men who perish* 1, and the experiences of some
wtio were picKed up.
ESTIMATED WEALTH OF TWELVE
LOST AMERICANS IS $191,000,000
l< hn Jacob Astor, head of f!:e house of Astor in Am*nca.
society leader and one of the richest if not the richest land
owner in the United States,..sl2s 000000
ienjimiu Guggenheim, son of Meyer Guggenheim, and a
member of the Smelter trust .... * 10 000000
George D Wick, Youngstown, Ohio, a cuai and iron mag-
nate 5,000,000
[sidor Straus, merchant and philanthropist; member of the
firms of L. Straus & Co., R. H. Macy & Co. and Abraham
& Straus .. 5,(00,000
ieo’-ge I) W idetter, of Philadelphia, s m of P. A. B. Wide-
ner, society man and promoter of many enterprises and
traefion schemess,ouo,ooo
Harry Elkins Widener, his son 2, OX),000
V-lhur Ryerson, of Philadelphia 5,000,000
William C Dulles, member of an old Philadelphia family 2,500,000
0. Duane Williams, Philadelphia.. 2,000,000
Frederick Sutton, Philadelphia... 5,00,000
Charles M. Hays, president of the Grand Trunk railroad
one qf the most noted railroad npa in the county 3,000,000
Henry B. Harris, owner of the Hudson, Hairia and other
tbeatsrf 1,000,000
ffifti'odo.ooo
Col. Gracies Story.
Colonel Grade tol 1 ot how he was driven to the topmoat deck when
the rhip settl'd, and was the sole survivor after the wave that swept
her just before her final plunge had passed.
‘I jumped with the wave,” said he. “just as I have often jamped with
the breakers at the seishore. By great good fortune I managed to
grasp the brass railing on the deck above, and I hung on by might
and main. When the ship clunged down I was forced to let go, and I
was swiiled around and around for what seemed to bs an eternal time,
Thon I came to the surface, to find the sea a mass of tangled wreck
age.
“Luckily, I was unhurt, and easting about, I managed to seize a
wooden block floating nearby. When I had recovered my breath I
hecovered a large canvas and cork life raft which had Aisled up. A
man, whose nam< I did not learn, was struggling toward it from some
wn ck ge to which he had clung. I oast off and helped him to get on
the raft, and we then began the work of rescuing those who had jump
ed into tile sea and were floundering in the water.
Thirty Aboard Raft.
“When dawn broke there were thirty of us on the raft, standing
xnro deep in the icy water, and afraid to move lest the evsnky craft
be. overturned.
Several unfortunates, benumber and half dead, besought us to sav
them, and one or two made and effort to reach us, bnt we had to warn
them away. Had we made any effut to save them, we all might have
p risked.
Numbed By Cold.
1 The honrsthat elapsed before we were picked up by the Csrpathis
were the longest and most terrible that I ever spent. Praetieally
without any sensation of feeling because of the ioy waler, we were al
m >st dropping f’om fatigue. We were afraid to turn around to look
to see whether were seen by passing craft, and when some one who
was facing the wind, stated that a ship was ceming, one of the men
broke into hysterics,”
Col G.acie denied with emphasis that any men were fired apon,
and declared that only once was a revolver discharged.
“This was to intimidate some steerage passengers,” he said, ‘who
had tumbled into a boat before it was prepared for launching.
This shot was fired iu the air, and whet, the foreigners were fold
that the next v-ould be directed at them, they promptly returned to
the deck. There was no confusion, an Ino panie.”
Col. Graeie was in his urtb when the vessel smashed into the berg,
-ind was aroused by the jar. He looked at bis watch, be said, and
found it was just midnight. The ship sank with him at 2;22 a. m.,
for his watch stopped at that hour.
“Before I retired,” said UoL Grack, ”1 b»d a long talk with Charles
H. Haynes, president ot the Grand Trunk railroad. One of the last
things Mr Haynes said is this.
‘ The White Stat, the Cuarad and Hamburg-Atneriean lines, are
levoting their attention and ingenuity in vising with the other, to at-J
:ain the supremacy in luxuiious ships, and in making speed records, i
The time will soon come when this will be cheeked by some appeal.;
mg disaster.”
“Poor fellow, a few hours later be was dead.”
News From Route 3.
Most all the nice of this part of
the county are attending court
this week.
We are glad to know Miss Linda
Grimes is Vetter. She has been
on the sick list for some time.
Mr Jim Kimbre! called on his
best girl Sunday.
Miss Bettie Grimes is still with
her home folks.
There was a large crowd at Sun
day school Sunday P. M.
Mhs Jessie Grimes is visiting
her sister Mrs J. S. Thompson of
Colquitt this week.
Miss Ruth Grimes was with her
home folks Saturday and Sunday.
Mr Will Johnson ha? got the
big head this wiek. You can’t
guess how come it, why the mumps.
Mies Orsie Williams of Colquitt
has b u en with her little friend Miss
Jessie Gri nes tor the last few
days.
Master Griggs Giimes has had
the smiles all the weeK He saw
his sweetheart Sunday.
Misslmone Grimes is in town
courting this weeK.
Saydont throw me in the waste
basKet and I will come again.
Rose Bud.
Mayhaw News.
The burners are geting badly
behind with their crops around
Maybaw. They have a nice hay
crop.
Mr I. A. Bush and wife went off
on a visit last Tuesday and will
return home Sunday afternoon.
Mr Bruton Davis and Mies Jes
sie Grimsley passed through our
burg Sunday.
The sing was very dull nt flat
creek. Suadny.
Mr I. A. Bush has a rabbit
proof garden, for it is overflowei
with water.
To keep fleas from biting you,
first catch them, pull their teeth
out or mussel them and to keep
the rabbits from bothering your
garden catch them, and stick a
sharp stick through his head.
Regular Correspondent.
The Storms.
The wind and rain Wednesday,
the 17th inst, wrought much dam
age co the farmers the roads and to
Ute telephone lines in this section.
Then again Saturday and Sunday
mornings the rain descended in
torrents and was again accompan
ied by heavy gusts of wind.
The top of the new depot in
Kestler was blown away. Farm
«ers cannot plough tn their fields.
Streams are so swollen that travel
in automobiles, wagons or bnggits
is much hindered.
It has V een years since South
West Georgia has been visited by
such incessant rains.
Wheat Advances
10c A Bushel.
Chicago.—Ten cents a bushel
advance in the price of wheat was •
the worst crop scare in the United 1
States since 1907. More than four
cents of the big rise took place in
about as many minutes of bedlam
on change. Again and again the
price receded only to jump once
more up to the high figures which
had started the nerves of even the'
most harden'd plungers >n the 1
pit. The strain continued with
but slight cessation till the jang
ling gongs at the close cl ared the
epeculat from the floor.
Mr Mrs Wash Perry are entain
isg a wee little girl.
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