The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-16
MOULTRIE HOTEL BURNED.

MOULTRIE HOTEL BURNED.
Moultrie Observer: Moultrie suffered
another disastrous fire Thursday in
which the Commercial Hotel went up
in flames. The Commercial was a large
two-story frame building on South
Broad street near the square, and was
occupied at the time of the fire by two
families and two sets of household
goods. Mr.. c. G. Maulden, the owner
of the hotel, who has been running it.,
still occupied it, and a new lessee, Mr..
j. j. Butler, of Boston, Ga, had just
moved in. The value of the building
was $1,000. Mr. Maudens furniture
was valued at $4,000. Mr.. Butler esti-
mated the value of his furniture and
household goods at $1,000. on Mr.. But
ler's furniture there was no insurance.
Mr.. Maulden carried insurance
amounting do $1,500.
CONViCf PAID HIS SUBSCRIPTION.
Swainsboro Blade: A few days ago
the Blade sent statements of it's sub
scription accounts to all subscribers
who were in arrears. Among the lot was
one for a former citizen of this county,
now serving a term in the peniten-
tiary, for crime of which it is
thought he is innocent. The editor S
DCCI0bdl IildIe Oul tIlG statements, ana
the head of the office neglected to re-
move the one intended for the prisoner
from the list, as he did not wish TO
dun" a man who was in a position
that he could not pay. And SO, II few
days later, we received a letter aad a
money order for the full amount from
the unfortunate individual, saying that
he was sorry that it had run so long,
that he was complimented with the
paper by a lady friend the first year, and
h. had been under the impression that
she was still paying it. We ther tred-
tied the individual up o 1894, Che hav-
ing raid to 1-1-1S03) and wrote him tina t
he was a paid-up subscriber of the
Blade so long as he was incarcerated.
Such honesty deserved commenda ton,
and we We're proud to extend it,
The Georgia Baptist Convention
meets in Rome on March 26 to 80 in
elusive, and the railroads have given
rate of one and tenth fare for
the round trip from all points in Geor-
gia within 300 miles of Rome, the min
imum fare being so cents
DOVE HUNTERS DISAPPOINTED.
Albany Herald: The crowd of hunt
ers from Macon, Savannah, New York,
Albany and other cities, which congre-
gated in the field of Mr.. ]. w. For
rester, near Leesburg, yesterday morn
ing to kill thousands of doves, were
doomed to disappointment The doves
did not come. The hunters were there
with enough ammunition to storm a
Spanish. fort and everything was pre-
pared for wholesale slaughter of the
gentle doves, but the doves did not
snow up. For a number of years past
Leesburg has been the, rendezvous
about this season of the year for a
large number of dove shooters Large
fields were baited and the doves would
simply rain into this field to feed. On
past occasions the sum total of the
bags of the participants in these
shoots" has gone up in the thousands,
almost the tens of thousands, and
those who congregated there yester-
day expected n record breaker. 1t
was a record-breaker, but not the kind
they expected There the hunters
stood from crack of dawn with baited
field and bated breath waiting for such
an outpouring of doves as would re-
quire word like avalanche to describe.
Early in the morning, before old Sol
had well begun to tint the eastern
heavens, one lone dove-only one-hew
across the field every hunter took a
shot at him and even the intrepid Har-
ry Hall emptied the magazine of his
repeater without bringing down a fleet
spy from the army of doves to which
IL doubtless went back to report true
conditions. And it was ever thus"
as long as the hunters remained in the
held. Only dove-one dove-every
twice in a while. Perhaps one hun
dred birds We're killed, all told. Iudg-
ing from the experience of previous
years. the hunters had pitched their
hopes up among the top notches, and
were so confident of big shoot that
the disappointment was almost calam-
itous. But fishing and hunting are two
OF those things, that you can not all
ways tell about-until you get home.