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The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-10-21

The board Of trustees of the Con
federate Soldiers home at its regular
quarterly meeting held at the home
the past week, adopted stringent reso-
lutions on the subject of drunkenness.
The trustees are determined that It
shall stop and stop at once.
AS a result Of disturbances which
he has created at the home because Of
intoMcation, one of the inmates was
expelled by the trustees, and the 9th
ers who have been disposed to give
trouble in this direction, some eight or
ten in number, were put on notice that
it will no longer be tolerated. The
matter was, by resolution, put in the
hands of the superintendent and the
president of the home, with power 70
act, and they may go to the extent
Of expelling an inmate from the home
if they consider it necessary for the
preservation of good order and disci-
pine.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-10-21
JAP CREW SENT DOWN.

Gun Boat Heiyen Strikes Floating
Mine and Quickly Sinks.
A Toxic special of Tuesday says:
The Japanese gunboat Heiyen, on
guard duty, struck a mine in Pigeon
Bay, west Of Port Arthur, September
Is and sank. Only four of her crew
of three hundred were rescued.
The Heiyen is of 2,O67 tons displace
ment, twenty-four hundred indicated
horse power. She was captured by
the Japanese from the Chinese at We!
Hal Wei during the war between Chi
ma and Japan.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-10-21
low RaIIota Mere cast.

In the state election of Wednesday,
October 9Th, there were cast more
than 10000 votes, az SHOWN by the
consolidation of the returns which has
Just been completed.
Secretary Of state Philip Cook, VINO
led the entire ticket, received 70,226
votes and as he was scratched in some
counties, as, for instance, in Gilmer,
where many voted only, for judge and
solicitor, the indications are that the
total Gcte cast was even larger than
that
The vote for governor and other
state house officials fell short of the
foregoing all the way from about 100
to 5000 votes, while tbs Judges and So
Iicitors generals ran nearly 10000
votes behind the ticket
The lowest vote was on the consti
tutional amendments, as many did not
vote on them at all The highest vote
on any constitutional amendment, for
and against, was about $4,000
The Constitution presents the total
vote by counties for and against the
ratification of the local taxation
amendment showing that it was car
ried by majority Of 10,144 votes.
The majorities by which the other
constitutional amendments were car.
ried were as follows:
Majority for amendment ia article 3.
article 7, section l, or the constitution,
limiting the ad valorem tax rate to
five mills, II 1914.
Majority for amendment to article
Il, section 1, paragraph 2, providing
for an increase in the number of coua-
ties from 1877 to 145, 18,843.
Majority for amendment article 8,
section 8, paragraph 1, increasing the
limit in the number of representatives
from 115 to 1873, 1920.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-10-21
Farming Class N Fine Shape.

According 70 Ira r Clark, district
manager for r. G. Dun & Co., sorth-
west Georgia was never more prosper
Gus than at present. lie has just re-
turned from a Visit to Dawson and 9th
er points in the Vicinity and says that
the farming classes are in splendid
condition
The farmers of southwest Georgia
have raised large crops and have not
only paid their obligations. but viii
have considerable surplus. This
prosperity is not confined 10 the larS
er planters, but hundreds of the negro
farmers viii have nice balances 10
show for their years work.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-10-21
suppoged IncendIary Won.

The ginnery, saw, planning and grist
mill. together with n bales Of cotton,
the property of James G. Brannen,
near statesboro, has been destroyed
by fire.
There was no insurance. The loss is
estimated at $4,000. The fire is believ-
ed to be the act of an incendiary.
Reed and Cato, recently lynched,
liver near the gin, one on the farm Of
Mr.. Brannen's father, the other on a
farm Of his brother
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-10-21
Falr a RrIlIIant success.

The Northeast Georgia fair, at Ath-
ems. which closed last Saturday, was
a success in every way. The crowds
attending were larger than last year,
the exhibits were excellent and all the
attractions full of interest The Bull
loch county agricultural exhibit was
very fine. Preparations will be be-
gun soon for another fair to be held
next year
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-10-21
Savannah &C. "a Ratee.

A delegation Of prominent Savannah
citizens, headed by Mayor Herman
Myers, appeared before the Georgia
railroad commission the past week and
protested against he enforcement If
circulars 30l and 302 unless the same
rates were made to apply to all points
in tho state in both directions. The
commission has the matter under ad-
visement.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-10-21
- Road seems Assumed.

That the railroad which was begun
over a year ago from Ashburn to sgl-
vester is to be completed is an assured
fact Civil engineers are now going
over the route and in a very short time
the work Of grading and laying iron
will begin.
This viii connect with a road that is
now being built to some place in Flor
ida. 1t is also very likely that this
read will connect with the H. and T.
S., at Worth, only three miles above
Ashburn.
The road from Ashburn to Sylves-
ter is graded for about ten miles and
three miles of track has been laid
for some time That Ashburn, the
county site Of the proposed new coun.
ty of Henderson, and Sylvester, the
new site Of Worth county, are to be
connected by rail is matter in which
the citizens of the whole section are
greatly interested.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-10-21
AtIanta VIII Her sult.

Atlanta has won her suit against
the water pipe trust. BY decision
handed down in the courts in Chatta-
tanooga, the city is allowed 81 500
damages and $4,000 attorneys fees
The suit was brought against the Chat
tanooga Foundry and Pipe Company
and the South Pittsburg Pipe Company,
and charged these companies with
forming a trust TO make overcharges
on pipe material. The suit was brought
several years ago and was bitterly
contested.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-10-21
no ComnIete Harbor Work.

The board of trade of Brunswick
has secured through Congressman
Brantley the promise of the govern
ment to soon complete the work re-
Gently discontinued, of deepening the
Brunswick bar.
1t is the purpose of the war depart
ment, under which supervision the
work is carried on, to send back to
Brunswick the large dredge Cumber.
land, owned by the government, and
said to be the second largest vessel
of its kind afoat.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-10-21
Erom AtIanta to the Sea.

Columbus is intensely interested
over the proposition to build a railroad
from Atlanta to the sea, via Columbus,
and the articles in The Atlanta Con.
stitution on this subject have been
widely read in the city and section
and generally commented upon.
For several years it has been the
dream of Columbus to have a direct
railroad line to the gulf coast, and the
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-10-21
cotton on 49, gurned.

The jersey cotton oil mill at Jersey,
Walton county ten miles north Of Gov
ington together with 100 tons OF cot
ton seed and 1900 cords Of wood, has
been destroyed by fire by hard work
the gincry and Oil tanks were saved.
The origin Of the fire is unknown.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-10-21
MlNNEsoTA's WEALTH OF IRON.
Unparalleled Source Of supply Estab'
fishing Americas Leadership.

fishing Americas leadership
The Mesabi range of wodied hills,
sixty miles from the northar shore
Of Lake Superior contains the do
posts of iron ore which nave given
america supremacy in iron and steel.
Twelve years ago, says an interesting
account in Worlds Work, the first
shipment Of this ore or sand was
made. Today the shipments are 3D.
100000 tons in the season Of seven
months. A sixth of the Wcrlds iron
ore product and a third Of ours cones
from this place. This is the only
place in the world where there are
fields Of iron ore to be entered on and
plowed as a field is fer agricultural
products Instead Of mines there are
here simply open fields; instead OF
blocks of black rock there is a soil
Of red and yellow dust, with here and
there a patch Of pebbles. It losks
like a rusty bed Of sand and gravel;
it is high-grade iron ere. A few feet
of soil, with gfowing trees, cover it.
These are cleared" just as the far
mer clears a field, and then ~ae soil
is plowed UP and carried off, and the
mine" is ready.
A steam engine on the surface
guided by enc man, works shovel
that scoops up five tons at a time and
dumps it into a railroad train along
side This takes place ten times in
three minutes, and a carload is
mined" Tracks, of course, are laid
anywhere temporarily as in a gravel
pit There is room on the different
terraces of an eighty-acre field or
mine" for hundred steam shoyels
to work at once. The deposit range
from seventy-fve ito two hundred feet
in depth, in some cases as deep as 524
feet. Five of the mines here Or
duce together 100000 tons a year,
which is nearly Spain's annual pro
duct and a half more than Frances.
The cost of getting this ore has cen
as low as II to 10 cents a ton, and
seldom exceeds 80 cents. 1t is laid
down at Lake Erie docks at rs cents
to ST a ton more than the actual cast
of transportation, plus royalty of the
fee owner.
The business has created at Drltt
Superior and Two Harbors the larg
ore docks in the world, one at
p9rior being 2,100 feet long, fir
which as much as $4,000 tons have
been loaded in twenty-four hours.
Last year a steamer got her load of
5,400 tons in thirty minutes and TWEEN
ty seconds. The ircn ore traffic
alone through the SEQ canal equals
the total annual tonnage Of the Suez
canal But the field is remarkable
not only for what it yields, but
for what it has to yield
There is in sight billion tons Of
Gre, 60 per cent. of which is of Bes-
semer grade, and it has the greatest
volume of reserved ore in the world.
The United States Steel Company
produces 60 per cent. of the output
and the Great Northern Railroad
controls several hundred millions of
tons. And yet our iron and steel in
dustry must be protected" against
the pauper product of Europe by a
fierce tariff.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-10-21
INVENTOR AND WIFE KILLED.

Fatal Accident FefalIs Them While
Testing New Fire Escape.
P. M. Scannon and wife, Of Mime
apolis fell from the third story win
dow of the Germania Life building to
the stone sidewalk at ST. Paul Friday
afternoon. The woman was killed and
Scannon fatally hurt. They both
struck on their heads. Scannon is the
inventor of fire escape, and it was
during test of the apparatus that
the accident occurred.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-10-21

city has also realized what great
benefit it would be to have more d.
rect road between Columbus and At
Ianta than now exists and has longed
for the building Of such a road.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-10-21
Persuasion That Brought Conf. sion

= u SNGSlSlI ) liAe ~ SNStfN SSiit' siSiA'
Did l understand you to sa that
this boy voluntarily confessel his
share in the mischief done the
schoolhouse?" asked the magi trate,
addressing the determined look ng fe-
male parent of a small and dirt boy.
Eyes sir, he did," the wom re-
sponded. Il just had to persuad him
a little, and then he told me the whole
thing voluntarily"
How did you persuade him?" que
ried his worship.
We'll, I first gave him a good
threshing," said the firm parent, and
then I put him to bed without any
supper and took his clothes away and
told him he'd stay in bed till he'd con-
fessed what he'd done, if twas the
rest of his days, and l should thresh
him again in the morning. And in
less than an hour he told me the
whole story voluntarily. Prom Cas-
sells Saturday Journal.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-10-21
oWeevII suIIetIn0 Issued.


State Entomologist Wilmon Newell
has just issued a most important and
interesting bulletin upon the Mexican
boil weevil, which has proven SO de
structive in the cotton fields Of Texas
and Louisiana and which is known to
be moving toward the east.
This bulletin, which will be sent by
Mr., Newell to any enc In the state In
terested in the subject, is well illus
trated and deals with the Mexican
boil weeviI in general and in detail,
giving just such facts and information
as the farmer would want 10 enable
him to recognize this dreaded pest
should it, by any chance, reach Geor-
gia. All of the characteristics of the
boil weeyi are clearly set forth, and
brief accounts are given of insects
which have frequently been mistaken
for the boil weevl, such as the cowpea
pod weevil, the acorn and chestnut
weevil, the blood weed weevil, the cot
ton sharpshooter and the cotton boil
worm. Many of these bugs which
have been found in Georgia cotton
have been sent to the department I'M
der the supposition that they were the
real thing.
Attorney General in Washington.
Attorney General John G. Hart left
Atlanta Sunday for Washington, to ap-
pear Monday in the United States su-
preme court in the case of the state of
Georgia VS.. the Louisville and Nash
Vile and Atlantic Coast Line railways,
as lessees of the Georgia railroad.
The state contends that the Georgia
railroad owns $1,5OO,OOO worth of the
stock of the Western of Alabama Rail.
road Company, on which no taxes are
paid. The district court and the cir
cult court of appeals both decided
against the state, and on tYis account
Attorney General Hart carried the mat
ter to the supreme court Of the United
States, where he hopes to win the
case.
He will return to Georgia in time to
take part in the railroad commission
injunction which comes up before
Judge Newman on October 81.
Booty Veterans Barred.
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CARMEL.
August :, 1901.


Herbert Spargur will leave the last
week of this month to enter school at
Washington, d. c. Herbert is one of
our brightest young men and we wish
him success.
Dick Beavers will leave in a few
days to visit the st. Louis Fair.
George Henry and family and their
guest, Miss Melva Redkey, of Hills
boro, called on Mrs. Mary Upp and
family Sunday evening.
The X, of p. Lodge at Cynthiana, is
making great preparations to make
their annual reunion grand success.
1t will be held August l3 in Cameron's
grove.
Willie Keelor and sister, Alma, Wis
tied over Sunday with relatives at
New Market and Shackelton.
George Liebrock and family are Wis.
iting relatives at Newport, Ky.
Borter Spargur and family were
Sunday guests of Joe Mccall and
family.
Charley Spargur made his regular
evening call at Marshall.
Miss Melva Redkey, of Hillsboro, is
being delightfully."- entertained by her
cousins, Ruth and Lewis Henry.
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WILLETTSVILLE.
August s, 1901

Bust Q, lSuf.
A. W. Hatcher and wife with the
Misses Hatcher, of Leesburg, visited
the Hopkins family near Pricetown,
Sunday.
Glenn Lewis, of Lynchburg, is vis-
iting his uncle, AFRO Carey and fam
lily.
Frank Sharp and family, of Sharps-
vile, spent Sunday with the formers
parents, Daniel Sharp and wife.
Miss Bessie Kidd, of Farmer Sta
tion, was a visitor at the Reeves
home Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Hixson and
daughter, Mary, were the guests of
Marshall Achor and wife at String
town, Sunday.
Miss Lummie Kier spent the past
week with her sister, Mrs. Frank
Achor.
Miss lone Austin, of Tippecanoe, is
spending the week with her cousin,
Miss Mary Morrow.
DIR. Emma Cadwalader, of Dayton,
is visiting her parents, Alfred Cad
walader and wife.
The Misses Hatcher were enter
tanned by Mrs. Daniel Sharp Friday.
Mrs. Mamie Buntain, of near Dali
las, spent Thursday night and Friday
with James Gibson and family.
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SYCAMORE VALLEY.
Aupust s. 1904

Mrs. Joseph Hatcher and Mrs. James
Spargur and daughter, Elsie, were
guests OF Mrs. Fox, Friday.
Miss Bessie Spruance spent Sunday
with Miss Elma Purdum.
Miss Annie Henderson, of Rainsboro,
was the guest of her cousin, Miss
Strain, last Thursday.
Mrs. Charley Pennington was the
guest of W. p. Leslie and family, Fri.
day.
Miss Mary'West was the guest of
Roscoe West and family, Sunday.
The Misses Countryman we're guests
of William Setty and family the lat
ter part of last week.
Frank Leslie and son, of Hillsboro,
were guests of Hugh Leslie and fami.
ly, Sunday.
r. Il. West and wife, G. w. Fox and
wife and Mrs. Glenn, of Champaign,
ILL.,, spent Monday with r. M. Lyle
and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar King and
nephew,were the guests of the formers S
parents, Friday.
Ova Haggerty, of Jacksonville, called
on his parents one day last week.
Charley Aikens and family called
on James Strain and family Sunday.
Misses Ruth and Dora Adams at
tended church at Hillsboro, Sunday.
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FORT HILL.
August s, 1904.

August s, 1904.
James Caplinger, of Greenfield, Wis
tied his parents last week.
Aunt Lou Butler, of Sinking Spring
accompanied by her brother, Thoma;
Pursell, of Loudon, called on Mr.. ant
Mrs. Daniel Butler Thursday after.
noon.
Ray Dearduff is suffering with ty.
phoid fever.
G. A. Roads called on friends a,
Carmel Sunday.
Mrs. John and Wesley Caplinger
visited the formers daughter, Mrs. S.
S. Dearduff, Thursday.
Daniel Butler and daughter Miss
Maud, made business trip to Hills.
boro Monday.
Orval McKeever, of PEBBLES, is the
guest Of his uncle, VIM. Mckee yer,
and wife.
l. w. Stults and wife were the
guests of their son-in.law, j. j. But
Ter, near Cedar Chapel, Monday.
Ova McCoppin, of Carmel, accom-
panied by his cousin, Miss George
Lucas, of Hillsboro, took supper at
Butler Spring Monday.
Joseph Mace and wife, of Sinking
Spring, have moved their effects into
j. L. Reeds property.
Charlie Freezes Oldest boy fell and
broke his arm last week. DR.. Chap
man, of Sinking Spring, was called
and set the limb and he is getting
along nicely.
VIM. Reed, who has been employed
at Springfield, is the guest of his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. John L. Reed.
Those who visited Butler Spring
Sunday were L. W. Kelly and wife,
OF Cynthiaua, accompanied by Mrs.
DR.. Pake, of Bainbridge; A. ]. Nor.
ris and Peck Squires, of Greenfield !;
A. r. Mccoy, Cynthiana H. W.
McManis, PEBBLES: II. N Head and
wife, Carmel: j. W. Heistand and
wife, Hillsboro Misses Alice Smith,
Hillsboro, Clara Becht, Cincinnati ;
Minnie Amole, Humbolt: Arlie Wolf,
cambridge; Clara E. Sayre, Lillian
Hass, Austie G. Sayre, Fruit Dale ;
Lillian Holiday, Hillsboro; Ernest
Hughes, Hillsboro; E. L. Kerns, Fruit
Dale; Harry Kincley, Bainbridge:
Hulett Hope, Paint John Amole,
Humbolt; A. II. Free, Bainbridge !;
Perry McCoppin, Hillsboro; MIR. and
Mrs. o. r. Kearns, Mr.. and Mrs. Ben
Stedman and Mr.. and Mrs. W. f.
Smalley and son, Bainbridge.
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F. v. Watts was at Martinsville,

F. V. Watts was at Martinsville,
Friday, and attended X. of p. lodge.
Guy Wilkin, of Harriet, spent
Sunday the guest of Miss Eva Cam.
erOn.
j. A. W. Spargur, of Spargur's
Mill, attended services here Sunday
morning.
Mrs. M. G. Cummings and Sanford
Hiser attended Belfast Campmeeting
Sunday.
Misses Margaret Hammond, of
Elmville, and Elsie Roads, accom-.
panied by Charles T. Hiser and Rosco
McCoppin, of Carmel, we're at Bel.
fast, Sunday.
Misses Biddy and Katie Davidson,
of Bailyvllle, Kan, are guests OF
Mesdames. James Rice and James
Hughes.
Misses Jettie Elliott, Lulu and
Clara Martin, Charles Martin, +. H.
g. Bell, David Mccall, ID. w. Car
Isle, Charles and Clarence Hiser
and Prof. J. M. Kesler are attending
b. @. T. I. at Hlllsboro this week.
Walter Franklin, of Harriett, called
on Miss Annie Tarlet0n, Sunday.
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RAINSBORO.
August s, 1904.

John l., Strange, of the Greenfield
Journal, was in town Tuesday on busi-
ness.
Byron Redkey, of Dallas, spent the
past week with his grandparents at
the Kennedy Hotel.
Mrs. Henry Mason has been quite
sick for several days.
Mrs. Will Russell, of Greenfield, was
the guest of friends here Thursday.
c. L. Workman and wife, of Hills
boro, were visiting relatives here the
past week.
Mrs. Nancy Smith was united in
marriage to Samuel Thatcher, of
PEBBLES, at her home here last We'd
nesday evening. Squire T. M. Fer
guson officiated and the young people
of the village gave them a r0using
serenade after the ceremony.
Jos. Beach, of Greenfield, was in
town couple of days last week.
Misses Esther Redkey, Beatrice
Davis and Blair Smith attended a
festival at the Point Thursday night.
Mrs. Kate Hudson, who has been
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MARSHALL.

August s, 1904.
Mrs. Small, of Bridges, is guest
of Mrs. Herman Dick.
Jacob Cummings has been at the
Belfast Campmeeting since Thurs
day.
Ellsworth Hiser, accompanied by
his nephew and niece from near
Frankford, Ross county, is visiting
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Allen 7.
Hiser.
The Watts families of this place
attended the Watts reunion at Car
mel, Tuesday.
The Ladies' Aid Society, a deserv-
ing and worthy organization, has
made arrangements to have little
Miss Sara Worley, the child vocalist
of Hillsboro, to sing at the ice cream
festival here Saturday night. Mrs.
Kestle, of Rainsboro, is expected to
declaim.
Miss Mary and Mrs. Anna Cum.
mings attended Belfast Campmeet-
Ing Friday.
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RUSSELL.
August s, 1904.

August 8, 1904.
Mrs. Cinnie Roush and little sons, of
Greenfield, are visiting her mother,
Mrs. Catharine link, and other rela-
tives here.
Mrs Myrtle Wright and little daugh-
ter, of Columbus, are visiting her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. William Brit
ton.
Mr.. Haller and family went to White
Oak yesterday to spend day or two
with friends.
Harry Welty, of Hillsboro, was at
his uncle, George Calhan's, over Sun
day.
John Maxey, who has been at Della
ware and Lakeside few weeks, came
down last Tuesday to spend a few days
with his parents.
Charley CLANCY and granddaugh-
tiers, Thelma and Fay, we're at Hills
boro last Wednesday.
Homer Boatright and family have
been visiting few days at the home
of his sister, Mrs. Josie Strange, at
Greenfield.
Mrs. Ida Brown, of New York, Wis.,
tied at William Britton's last Thurs.
day.
Rev. Briggs, at his regular appoint.
ment here August q, will receive into
full connection all probationers. This
will be his last service here during
this conference year.
Almon Ross and wife, while on their
way to Erwin Roush's the other day,
met with quite an accident. The
horse became frightened and unman-
ageable, throwing Mr.. Ross out, hurt
ing him severely. Mrs. Ross sprang
from the buggy and was not so seri-
ously injured.
Mrs. Susan Hart took dinner at the
home of Andy Runyon August 5, it
being Mrs. Hart's ADD birthday.
Oscar Groves and Mrs. Ella Duck.
wall we're united in marriage one
evening last week by Eev. w. N.
Maxey at his residence.