The Savannah morning news., 1901-06-08
WAYCRoSS SCHOOLS CLOSE.
No Graduates This Year Because OF
Scarlet Fever Interruption.

| schools of Waycross closed for the term
to-day, and the teachers and little folks
will enter upon their summer vacation
Owing to the school being closed so long
during the spring months on account of
the prevalence of scarlet fever. there
were no closing exercises and no grad
yates. An additional grade has been add
! ed to the curriculum and the class which
should have graduated in 1901, will be
the class of 1902. Nearly all the teachers
who live outside of Waycross will leave
for their homes by Monday. 1t is thought
that all of the teachers, with possibly
one or two exceptions, will return to
their same positions at the opening of the
fall term of school. Prof E. A. Pound,
superintendent of the public schools,
! leaves tomorrow for cambridge, where
he will conduct a teachers institute next
week. He will speak in GAINESVILLE on
| the 18th, after which he goes to attend
the National Teachers Association at De-
troit, Mich, via Buffalo and Chautauqua,
New York. Mrs. Pound leaves tomorrow
| for GAINESVILLE.
Successful I'm Raising Honey.
Mr.. J. j. Chambers of Ruskin, Ware
| county, is making a success in bee cul-
ture He has Sc hives of bees. and will
this year sell 1000 pounds of strained
honey, and 400 pounds of honey in the
! comb The honey is as fine in quality as
any that can be raised anywhere.
Gasoline stove Caused 1t.
An alarm of fire was turned in to-day
! about noon, the scene of trouble being
the tailor shop of Max Isaac, in the Cen
trail Hotel building. The fire companies
responded, but the blaze was stopped be-
| fore any damage occurred. 1t was caused
by a gasoline stove.
stole "a Pair of shoes.
13-year-old negro boy by the name
of LOnnie Jones, was arrested by Police
man N. j. Mcclellan, charged with steal
ing pair of shoes from Mrs. Nancy
Smith, who runs a restaurant near the
| Waycross Air Line depot. The boy will
answer for his crime before Judge J. 8.
| Williams in the City Court next week.
To Be Tried Here First
Dodo Davenport, the young white man
who was arrested Tuesday night on the
! dual charge of forgery and demonstrating
is still in Jail here. 1t is hardly Droba-
bic that he will be sent to Brunswick to
be tried for the offense OF foFgery. be
fore he Is tried here for the crime Of
horse-stealing. 1t seems that young
! Davenport stopped for awhile with MI .
| John Corbett near Manor some time last
| fall, and he borrowed Mr.. Corbetts horse
for the purpose, as he claimed of riding
| over to the house of neighbor, but he
| never came back, and after a time it
was discovered that he had sold the
horse to some parties in Florida.
New Railroad to OcmuIgcc.
Among the visitors to the city yester-
day was Mr.. John Mclean, a prominent
citizen and property owner of Douglas
| He was returning from a business trip
to Savannah. To a newspaper reporter
Mr.. Mclean said that the railroad from
Douglas to the Ocmulgee river would GER
| tainly be built. The route is being survey
| ed now. and a sufficient amount of
money has been subscribed to insure its
| construction. Mr.. Mclean says that this
| road is to be a link in the James road
| from Augusta 1t will be of great bene-
| fit to the section of country through
which it proposes to run, and especially
to Douglas.
! Car Factory Talk.
There are some rumors afoat in Way
cross to the effect that another effort is
| to be made looking to the erection of ex-
tensive car works in Waycross. This
matter has been discussed before, but no
definite action has ever been taken. Some
effort is being made to divert the sub
scripton secured recently for the cotton
factory to the proposed car factory
His Mule Jumped on Him.
Mr. Chalt Smith, farmer living in the
western part of Ware county. came very
near being killed by his mule day or
two ago. The mule threw him to the
ground and, in jumping around. jumped
on the man and gave him some ugly
| bruises.
Brief News Notes.
Mr. II. e. Lester left last night for
! Lynchburg, Va, to close a contract with
| a prominent firm of that city. He will
travel in this territory, making Waycross
his headquarters
Mrs. w. w. Sharpe and her daughter
Miss Gussie, attended sthe marriage of
Mr.. ]. l.. Shelton and Miss Evelyn Dart
! at Douglas Wednesday night.
A freight train was partially wrecked
and one or two box cars broken up on
the Brunswick and Western Railroad east
of here Wednesday. The damage was
very small
Miss Emily Charlton, one Of the most
popular teachers in the public school, will
return to her home in Savannah. She
will be accompanied by her sister, Miss
c. Charlton, who has been her guest the
past few weeks.
There will be an unusual amount oi
business before the City Court next week
as the March term was postponed on &C.
count of scarlet fever Court will con-
vene Monday morning
Mrs. j. A. Lott has been elected dele
gate and Mrs. l.. A. Wilson alternate
from The Woman's Missionary Society OF
the First Methodist Church. to the For
eign Missionary Society meeting at Dub
lin, June IA to IS Mrs. ID. h. Sweat has
been elected from the society at Trinity
Church.
There were returns from only four OF
the voting precincts in the election OF
clerk Of the Superior Court. At the Court
House In Waycross. only 81 votes were
cast. AT the Opera House, precinct a.
Waresboro %. Braganza, 6.
Mr. George Il. DiXson. who has been
acting in the capacity Of chief train dis
patcher IN the Plant System office since
Chief Dspatche IL. y. Mobley left for
San Francisco, IS quite sick. and during
his Illness Mr. c. +. Gray IS filing his
place.
Mr.. c. A. Knowles. telegraph operator
at Race Pond has been moved to Grants
Crossing, Fla, where he holds the Office