The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-05-26
HAS STOOD THE TEST rs YEARS.
CITY BREVITIES.

There will be a special lecture at the
Seamen's Bethel tonight at o'clock
The subject will be THE Holy City"
The regular meeting of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union will be
held this afternoon at O'Clock at the
Mission Home on Liberty street.
Mrs s. E. Sheftall left Tuesday for
New York to visit her daughter, Mrs.
o. T. Bourne. She will be Joined later
by Misses Marguerite and Sadie Shelf
tall.
All City Court jurors summoned to
appear at court this morning are dis
charged until II o'clock Friday MORN
ing. The official notice to this effect
is elsewhere in the Morning News.
The subcommittee of the Chamber
of Commences. Speedway COMMITTEES
will have a meeting this afternoon at
which it is expected representatives of
the city and of the county will be pres
ert.
A petition from Judge T. NJ. Nor
wood, asking the city to mark the
streets and lanes and park in the land
he sold the city a few years ago, where
Myers Park is situated, was read IN
Council last night, and referred to the
Committee on Streets and Lanes.
The picnic of the German Volun-
teers at Tybee yesterday was an en-
joyable affair. 1t was held at Ora
hams pavilion and quite a crowd at
tended. The picnics of the German
Volunteers are always interesting, and
the one yesterday was no exception.
George Collins, colored. was bound
over to the City Court yesterday
morning by Recorder Myrick, charged
with stealing lumber from the Granger
Stubs Lumber Company. The negro
was arrested by Patrolman Laird while
disposing of some of the stolen lum-
Der.
The application of Mr.. J. @. Shaw,
temporary receiver for THE West
Broad Street Saloon" for a reduction
of bond, was argued in the Superior
Court yesterday. The bond was re-
duced from $1,000 to $500. Mr.. Shaw
had asked that the bond be reduced
to $500.
The ordinance by Alderman Thomas,
giving the Florence Crittenton Home a
title to the lot 1t recently occupied,
was passed in Council last night. A
mortgage will be taken on the new
home to protect the city in case It
should ever cease to be used for its
present purposes.
A shot that flew wide of the mark
was fired last night by Robert Cad
son, colored. at Henry Jordan, OF the
same cast of countenance. The shoot
ing occurred in front of No. 7l2 East
Broad street The offending negro has
not yet been apprehended. The quarrel
was over a trivial matter.
On a charge of malicious mischief,
Frank w. Thomas, white, was yester-
day committed to the county jail by
Mayor L. w. Nelson, of Thunderbolt.
1t is claimed that he killed several
chickens belonging to a resident of the
resort. Thomas was arrested on May 4,
charged with attempting criminal as
sau1t on a daughter of Mary Evans.
The grand jury failed to find true
bill
The Wyily- Gabbett Lumber Com
pany has gone out of the lumber COM
mission business and will close It's
Offices at the end Of this week Both
Mr.. Wylly and Mr. Gabbett are now
at Wylly, Fla. where the mills of the
company are located, and it is expect
ed they will spend the greater part
of the time there in the future Mr..
J. C. Lovelace. the bookkeeper of the
Savannah office, will also go to Wylly.
Mr.. F.. H. Vrieze who has been in
charge of the purchasing and shipping
department. will go to Jacksonville,
where he will be connected with the
wylly Lumber Company.