The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-03-06
Georgia Briefs
Items Of State Interest Culled
From Random Sources.
locker Gus Members Indieted.

Locker Clup MEMBERS InulCtSu.
The federal grand jury at Savannah
Saturday returned sixteen indictments
containing the names of forty indi-
viduals connected with locker clubs in
Savannah. Arrests will follow.
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G. A. r. Organized at ST. George.
A branch of the Grand Army of the
Republic was organized at st. George
Saturday with membership of TWEEN
ty-fiye veterans. P. O. Stoner Of Ohio
was chosen commander and Smith
Warren of Iowa, 4vice commander.
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WesIeyan's First Graduate Dead.
Mrs Katherine E. Benson is dead
at her home in Macon after several
weeks illness. She was the first grad
uate of eWsleyan. college, and was the
first woman in the world to receive
a diploma from ia chartered college.
She was widely known and beloved as
a woman Of excellent Christian char
acter. She had reached the advanc'
ed of Sc.
.
A., 3. g. A. Approves Mileage Books.
1T is announced by the Atlanta, Biz
mingham and Atlantic Railroad COM;
pany that the new mileage books of
the Southern railway will be honored
on their lines under certain conditions.
The action of this road makes the third.
road to become a party to the books.
as the Seaboard and the Atlantic Coast
Line have already agreed to the South
ems plan.
Can Run Only 10 Miles an Hour.
3 Following the report Of an iHspec-
ton made by one of the track walk
ers in the employ Of the railroad COM.
mission, the commission has issued san
order to the Fitzgerald, Della and
Broxton railway company, operating
between those points in south Geor-
gia, to reduce the speed of all pas
senger trains over its line to ten miles
an hour until certain repairs which
the commission deems necessary shall
have been made.
Brewers 20 Ask Modification of Law.
There is a movement on foot, back
ed by the brewers of the state, which
contemplates urging the legislature at
its next session to modify the state
prohibition law so as to permit the
sale within the state of beers and light
wines. Those urging the modification
of the law, it is reported, base their
hope in a large measure upon pub
lie statement of Governor Smith, made
last December, to the effect that he
hoped to see the standing saloon elm
mated everywhere and such modifca-
ton Of the law as would permit only
the use of light drinks, such as wines
and beer, at the table as food.
Auditor Resigns Temporarily.
Special Auditor L. G. Mathews, VINO
has been in the employ of the rail-
road commission for some months, has
severed his connection with the COM
mission, at least for the present,
though it is SAID to be with the I'M
Outstanding that he will be recalled
whenever the commission has occa-
sion to require his services.
1t is stated that the position OF spe-
cial auditor yas not intended to be
permanent, but that he was employed
for certain work which has now been
completed. The principal part of this
work is said to have been an examina-
ton into the books IND accounts Of
the Central Of Georgia Railway com.
pany in Savannah, upon which the
commission now has a complete re-
port. The Central afforded Mr. Math-
ews every facility for making this ex-
animation, although it does not con
cede the right of the commission to
make such inquiry.
George Barton Captured.
George Barton, one of the prisoners
who made sensational escape from
the Fulton county tower, Atlanta on
Sunday night, February I'd, has been
captured in Bessemer, Ala, and re-
turned to the Atlanta jail