The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-10-05
TO HAVE A TRADES DAY.
WaycrOss Merchants Arrange For
One-Mrs. Nora Burke Very Ill.

One-Mrs. Nora Burke Very Ill.
Waycross, Ga, Oct. A meeting of
the merchants Of Wayeross was held
last night Mr.. Brad Watson was
called to the chair and Mr.. S. d. Pit
man acted as secretary. The matter
of arranging for a big trades day was
discussed at length, and it was deter
mined to get up an entertainment some
time about the first of November.
Every effort will be made to make the
secession a success.
A committee consisting of e. H.
Crawley, j. w. MCGEE, and G. w. Par
ker, was appointed to secure attrac-
tions for the day. A committee con-
sisting of w. d. OQuinn, s. ID. Pitt
man, c. w. Parker and j. E. Dickens,
was appointed to raise funds for the oc-
casion. In a short time this morning
they secured subscriptions amounting
to $3.50, and a full canvass of the city
will Increase this amount very largely.
A general meeting of the merchants
will be held again Tuesday night.
The dry goods and clothing mer-
chants of Waycross have agreed to
close their stores during the winter
months at o'clock. This agreement Is
greatly appreciated by the clerks and
Wy bbC merchants dS we'll as IL IldhcS
their work hours shorter and they can
do better work while on duty when
they have their evenings for recreation.
No Home for the Poor.
Mr. Henry Strickland, Jr, who is
member of the Board of County Com
missioners, says that he is satisfied
that the commissioners will not pur-
chase home in Waycross or anywhere
else, for the purpose of caring for the
destitute poor of the county. He thinks
their experience in owning one home
for the poor is quite sufficient. He says,
however, that the commissioners may
make arrangements with parties who
are situated so as to do so, to care for
some that may be in a helpless condi-
ton, the monthly expense to be paid
out of the county funds.
News reaches here of the burning of
the home of Mr.. Thomas James, in the
Pleasant Grove settlement of Pierce
county. He lost his house and all it's
contents. The loss falls very heavily
on him as he has an invalid mother to
support.
Mrs. Burke Very III.
Mrs. Nora Burke, the adopted
daughter of Rev. and Mrs. T. M.
Christian, is not expected to live She
IS desperately Ill at the parsonage Oh
AADN NCAhOhlSl 1nuICn on HeR0
street. The young lady has been sick
about a week with gastritis, and the
past day or two has been growing
rapidly worse. Since yesterday at.noon,
but little hope has been Entertained for
her recovery. Her brother Mr.. Charles
Burke, arrived this morning from
Americas in response to telegram an
nouncing her illness. This morning
her case was pronounced typhoid fe-
yer by the attending physicians.
The SatiIla on n Rampage,
Since the heavy rains Tuesday
night, the Satilla river has been on a
regular tear. A gentleman who crossed
the river on the Waycross Air Line
Railroad, late yesterday afternoon,
says that the water was at that time
almost up to the cross tiles and that il
was running over the county bridge in
some places. A gentleman from out
near the river brought the news this
morning that the stream was still ris-
ing.
September weather.
Mr.. r. M. Hoskinson, voluntary OBJ
server, reports September as the dry
est month of the year. There were
only five days when more than one
inch of rain fell. He reports for the
month, mean temperature, 795; maxi
mum, 81. on the 14th; minimum, so,
on the oath. There were thirteen clear
days. seven partly cloudy and ten
cloudy. The total precipitation was
3.1S, the greatest in the twenty -four
hours, ESQ. on the 9th. From May !
to Oct. the temperature at noon has
been from 80 to 103 degrees, 113 times.
Mr.. Hoskinson's observatory is just
one and one-quarter miles north OF
Wares County Farm.
Capt. John Lee. superintendent OF
the county farm, reports a very good
crop, Notwithstanding the unfavorable
seasons. He has in cultivation about
forty acres of corn and peas and five
acres in peanuts. From one acre OF
cane Mr.. Lee says that he will pro-
duce about twelve barrels of syrup
He has fifteen acres from which he ex-
poets a fine yield of hay; about 10000
bushels of oats were harvested on the
farm, which is considered remarkably
good. There are forty-two head OF
hogs on the farm and forty four head
of cattle: fifty head of hogs have died
from cholera during the past two
months. At present there are seven
good houses on the place, occupied by
twenty-seven people. The inmates
have separate garden patches and have
done fairly well this year. Mr.. Lee
says that most of these people are APP
parently contented with things as they
are and will regret having to leave
the farm when the commissioners dis
pose of the place. Some of them, how
ever, will be anxious enough to get
away.
Mr.. Frank NJ. Hawkins, general man.
ager of the Satilla Manufacturing Com
pany, returned home last night from