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The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-08-21
IN THE SENATE.
August IL.

Most of the session of the senate
Wednesday morning was devoted to a
discussion of bill to appropriate $685.
900 for the fiscal year 1908 and $4,000
for the fiscal year 1909, to the Uni
versity of Georgia for the support
and maintenance of the State Agri-
cultural college at Athens After
much discussion the senate voted
these appropriations in addition to
the sum of $4,000 for expenses Of
that institution up to June l OF this
present year. Under amendments,
$4,000 was also appropriated for the
erection of certain buildings at the
experiment station at Experiment,
Ca, the necessity OF which was earn
estly urged by Senator Flynt Five
thousand dollars for the year 1908 and
$4,000 for 1909 was voted for the car
rying out of experiments in connec-
ton with the preserving of sugar
cane syrups at the state branch ex-
detrimental station at Waycross.
The governors message was read
and the senate agreed to let the con-
vict bill await the extra session.
The afternoon session of the senate
was given over to the passage Of ap-
Precipitation bills. These bills having
already been passed by the house
need only the governors signature to
become laws.
The following bills were passed at
the afternoon session: BY Mr.. Foster
of Cobb, to appropriate $4,000 to inn
prove the confederate cemetery at Ma
rietta; by Mr.. Dawson of Greene, to
pay Mrs. L. H. Ledsinger for copying
pension rolls in the pension Office; by
MIR. Ellison of Harris, to pay pension
to Mrs. Nancy M. Collier for the year
1908; by Mr.. McMahan of Clarke, to
appropriate $1,000 to the trustees OF
the University Of Georgia for the sup
port of the State Normal School at
Athens; by Mr.. Hines of Baldwin,
to appropriate the sum of S7,671.76
for the Georgia Normal and Industrial
College at Milledgeville to supply a
deficiency in the appropriation OF said
college for the year 1908; by Mr.. Hines
Of Baldwin, to appropriate the sum
of $4,000 for the year 1908 and $780,
600 for the year 1909 for the support
and maintenance Of the Georgia State
Sanitarium for the insane; by Mr..
Jones of Mitchell, to authorize the
payment of pension due Mrs. Queen
SILVER for the year 1908; by Mr.. VIII
liams Of Dodge, to incorporate the
town of Leon; by Mr.. Ward of Coffee,
to repeal an act Incorporating the
town of Buchanan; by Messrs. Cham
blee. Dean and Wright of Floyd, to
amend an act creating the city court
of Floyd county; by Mr.. Pope OF
Brooks, to incorporate the town OF
Dixie; by Mr.. White Of Madison, to
establish the city court Of Daniels
Vile. by Mr.. White of Madison, to
abolish the city court of Madison
county; by Messrs. Alexander and
Gambler of DeKalb, to amend the
charter Of Kirkwood; by Mr., Cook Of
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-08-21
Railroad Granted Charter.

Atlanta, GA charter was grant
ed by Secretary of State Phil Cook
to the Atlanta Northeastern aRilroad
company, which proposes to construct
railroad between Atlanta and the
town of Cumming, passing through
the towns of Alpharetta and Roswell,
a distance Of about Nforty miles. 1t
is set forth in the petition that the
line will be operated by steam, gaso-
line, animals or electricity" or such
other mechanical power as may be
decided upon. The "present purpose
is said, is to use electrical power
The company is to be capitalized at
$4,000.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-08-21
State News in Brief.

The cotton crop in thirty south
Georgia counties is reported to State
Entomologist E. l.. Worsham to be
suffering from black root, which he
estimates will reduce the crop in that
section of the state by 10 per cent.
The counties which report this black
root are Columbia, McDuffie, Washing
ton, Bibb, Talbot, Harris, Muscogee,
Chattooga, Marion, SUMTER. Ma
con, Houston, Pulaski, Dolly, Stew
art, Webster, Randolph, Terrell, Cal
houn, Dougherty Early, Worth, Col
quit, Thomas, Brooks, Lowndes, Ber-
rfen, Montgomery, Tattnall, Effngham
and Pierce.
The Georgia State Agricultural So
ciety which, met in Gainesville select
ed Quitman, Brooks county, as its
next meeting place and elected the
following officers: President, ]. s.
Conner of Barlow; first vice presi-
dent, r. F. Crittenden of Randolph
Other officers are chosen by the exec
utive committee and as yet their
terms have not expired.
According to an afidavit made by
Gene Bryant, a negro, julie Howard
a Harris county white man who last
year was sent up for the murder of
Dozier Hucks5ee, another young
white man Of that county, is not gull
ty of the crime.
Claiming that the city of Macon
was negligent in allowing a pile Of
cotton to be stored on the street. J..
H. Shaw, who was seriously injured
by collding with the obstruction, has
sued that city for $4,000 damages.
Macon citizens have raised fund
of $4,000 to be used for the purpose
of holding a state fair in that city
1t was deemed advisable to ad-
iourn the Spalding county superior
court, and allow the farmers to re-
turn to their work, as very season
able rain has fallen in the last two
days, which will be of vast benefit to
the growing crops.
The plant of Dawson Variety Works
of Dawson was destroyed by fire. Loss
100000, with no insurance.
David Delk has been appointed
postmaster at Mount Hope, Bryan
county, vice D. M. Beggs resigned.
Tax Receiver Steed of Augusta has
completed a summary of tax returns
for that city, which show. "a decrease
of $24,S4O, due to the closing of the
saloons since the prohibition law went
into effect.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-08-21
AAA AAAAAAAA

The following bills were passed by
the house at the night session: BY
Senator Fielder of the Twenty-second
District, to quit the title to real es;
tate In Georgia held under foreign
wills; by Senator Overstreet Of the
Seventeen District, to Ak the adver.
Using of official notices in TatnaIl
county; by Mr.. Camden of DeKalb, to
supplement and increase the appro-
fpriations for the railroad commits
sion; by Mr.. McMahan Of Clarke, to
pay Mrs. @. HOuser, the per diem for
this session of the legislature that
would have been earned by G.. Hou-
ser, former doorkeeper of the house;
by Messrs. Taylor and Martin, to
more thoroughly carry out the pro-
visions OF the pure food act; by
Messrs, Blackburn and Bell of Full
ten, to appropriate $4,000 to the con-
federate soldiers home of Georgia;
by Mr.. Barrett of Stephens, to pro-
eide how and In which way pensions
due confederate veterans shall be
paid; by Mr.. Barrett Of Stephens, to
amend an act to make appropriations
for the ordinary expenses of the exec
utive, legislature and judicial depart
ments Of the government; by Senator
Gordy of the gwenty-fourth, to fix the
age for road duty in Muscogee coun-
ty: by Senator Camp of the Thirty.
first, to- authorize the governor to take
options on terminal sites in Chatta-
nnaga
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-08-21

On the last day Of the session both
houses worked hard, each holding
three sessions. With the usual
scenes the solons adjourned at a.
N. Thursday morning, though the
goodbyes we're not as solemn as usual,
owing to the fact that In few days
the two bodies will again be in ac-
fion.
AS the big bell In the court house
clock tolled the hour Of 8 Thursday
morning, the gavels of President
Flyht of the senate and Speaker Sla-
ton Of the house went bang and with
It the valedictory:
This house stands adjourned, sine
die; God bless you."
According to the Official clock Of
the house, which had been stopped.
It was only S:23 p. M, while that
in the senate pointed to $3.50.
This was made necessary by the
law, which makes the legislature adj
journ by midnight Of the fiftieth day.
During the closing hours of the SEES
sion OF the general assembly the off,
cials Of both houses were handsome
ly remembered with testimonials from
the members OF the legislature
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-08-21
IN THE HOUSE.
Auuust Il.

The house adopted resolutions To-
menting the death Of former mem
bers Wednesday morning. The gov
ernor's message, stating that an ex
ira session OF the general assembly
would be called was read. After a
lengthy ard heated debate the house
passed the bill which makes the reg.
istration laws of the state more strin.
gent
Two important senate measures
were passed by the house at the az
ternoon session and with the sigma.
ture of the governor will become laws
In Georgia.
The first extends the present school
book contract, which expires January
1, 1908, to January /, 1911.
The other is a primary measure
which fixes the date of state prima-
ries at some date not sooner than
so days before the general election
in October.
The first means that there will be
no school book war in the fall, with
Its consequent fluctuations in bids and
change in textbooks.
{ The second means that there will
Another important action taken was
that of tabling the resolution which
sought to set as special order the
senate measure which gives the right
Of eminent domain to water powers.
In addition the following bills were
passed at the afternoon session: BY
Senator Bush of the Eighth, to amend
the charter of the town of Colquitt;
nv Senator Dobbs of the Twenty-hfth,
10 repeal act Incorporating the town
Of Edgewood in DeKalb vounty, to
extend the limits of the city of At
santa, to repeal act incorporating the
town of Battle Hill in Fulton county;
nv Senator Halves of the Thirtieth,
to incorporate the city of Union City
In Campbell county
The first bill passed by the house
at the night session had already been
passed by the senate, and will soon
become law.
II Furnishes as a misdemeanor any
person who puts a carcass in a road,
running stream or property Of anotn'
er without burying 1t deep enough to
destroy all stencil.
This measures, which provides that
One.thlrd OF the wages OF 10 Genus q
day or over Of iourneymen mechanics
and day laborers, not now subject to
garnishment, may be, after the pass
age of this act, was tabled after a
heated debate.
Following this the famous fight over
establishing secondary national
guard for Georgia, to be known as the
Georgia Volunteers, which organiza-
ton IS to do home guard duty in the
event of the regular national guard be-
ing called out of the state by the
president of the United States took
place and was passed.
The bill by Senator Dean Of the
nth district, to allow street car com
panies to make, manufacture and sell
gas, was defeated.
The house passed then, the bills by
Senator Fielder of the twenty-second
10 quit the titles to real estate in
Georgia under foreign wills, and that
~ Senator Overstreet, to provide for
county advertising in TattnaI county
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-08-21
Washington.

Liberty L. Bailey, dean
college of agriculture, who
Gently appointed by Preside
welt to be chairman Of a c
of five to investigate the $
itary and economic cond
American farms, has declin
pointment on the ground tn
not give the subject the tln
siders would be necessary
important matter.
John w. Riddle, American
dor to Russia, who recen
went an operation at st. /
is reported to be recovering
A report received in Y
from the Hague says that {
ton by the government OF t
lands regarding the dispute
attitude of the United Sta
probably will be favorable
Netherlands.
According to a report issl
treasury department the g
redeemed paper money to
of $912,OOO,OOO in the year
redemption was either for
pose of securing clean, fires
to get change Of some other
ton.
Divers examined the cru
ado and declared it would
eral weeks to repair her II
to grounding in the strai
Juan DeFuca.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-08-21
LATE NEWS NOTES


"a $4,000 widow for S5.'
many other matrimonial
were temptingly offered b!
monial agency run by Charl
son, in Chicago. but fedeI
did not believe that Hudsoi
to fulfill his promises and.
him arrested in Minneapoli
AS a result of eating t
for mushrooms, Harry ia
Mrs, Lillian FARRELL, his si'
died at Rochester, N. Y.
Filing Of the will of the L
Pratt, former mayor of M
revealed a romance. a. sh;
estate, valued at $4,000, !
Mary Bettin. Mr.. Pratt's no
who has agreed to become
reads the will.
The twelfth annual con
the National Association d
surance agent which has ebt
sion. at st. Paul, Mimi, q
following officers: Presiden
w. Beardsley, Hartford, q
presidents, |. w. Alexand
Case, Illinois; L. w. Childr
ia; E. H. Forty, Indiana; Al
Ohio; secretary, Henry n
Boston; treasurer, w. H. ]
clean, N. Y; chairman Of
committee, G. w. Olson, CT
Tenn.
Silas Griffin, aged 70 yea
ly respected citizen of Alex;
Ala, was killed by vicioul
his farm near that city.
had entered the pen to fee
when he was attacked by
literally torn to pieces.
Kingdom Gould, son of
Gould, the multi-milionaire
ing as a miner at Guanaju
co. Young Gould is study
engineering and has taken
cd Of gathering the pra(
ments of mining.
DIR. John Miller Moore,
geon in the United States
detained at the Villevard
Paris, whittier the police
him on account of his pect
vious in certain Paris hi
which led them to believe h
ing from hallucinations. Il
to have left the battleship
San Francisco.
Five million barrels of
81 a barrel, have been ID
great oil fire in the San Ger
trict, which has been ragin
ruptedly since July 4.
An English youth has
any one in the world to al
feats Of memory. 1t is sal
is a regular walking emf
and among other things b;
lied 10000 dates of the W
tory.
Juana Diaz, aged 8 years
sister, Natalia, aged 8, were
killed at Ell Paso, Texas,
ming, which struck their ia
tiago Dias, who was
in the front of his home !
infant of a few months.
struck the corner of the he
ed through the body of the
struck the little girls, who v
ing indoors. The baby was
John ]. Forester, a Cor
life saver, was the winner I
Of thirteen miles from U
Brooklyn Bridge to Coney Il
by members of the United s
unteer LiEesaving corps.
four hours and forty-six n
considered remarkable, hay
once been surpassed. Fhirt!
petitors started and eight
among them two girls, Miss
Hurst, of Staten Island, and
gusta Gallup, Of New Yorl
Electricity, particularly fc
purposes, is being extensive
the isthmian canal zone, i
in vogue supplying light to ]
every settlement between
Panama, excepting a few b
the territory north of GorgaI
villages of Miraf1ores and
temporary plant is being II
Gatun. Twenty-four thous
are in use, and power is
for various purposes.
Joseph Travis, a newspf
formerly of Portland, and
cisco, has been appointed g
sistant to DR.. George Mar
the commissioners Of the 9
ception committee appointe
come the battleship fleet OF
val at Annoy next October.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-08-21
HEADLIGHT BILL NOT A Law.
Railway Men Claim Senate Made Mis-
take at Last Session.

Atlanta, Ga.-While its supporters
thought the bill requiring that all To-
Oomotives on, regular RAILROADS. be
equipped with headlights had been
passed by the legislature, opponents
of the measure declare that through
an unintentional omission on the part
of the senate the measure is dead
1t will probably be tested in the
courts, whereby a peculiar question
of parliamentary procedure will be
decided.
The bill was introduced in the
house by Mr.. Tiff of Dougherty. 1t
passed. In the senate it passed by
substitute, by which the railroad COM
mission was merely empowered to
require headlights, the mandatory
feature being omitted. The substi-
tute was passed by a clear constitu-
tional majority.
The house refused to concur, and
ON the last night the senate voted to
recede from its action in passing the
substitute. The vote was Is to IL
This was sufficient to recede, but not
enough to pass bill.
The matter was dropped, the sena-
tors thinking the bill had been en-.
acted. Railroad attorneys claim that
the measure has not been passed;
that if by receding from its action
the senate made the measure law
such did not succeed in its purpose
because of the vote being less than
that required for the enactment of a
law
The hill was bitterly fought nv the
railroads on the ground that the re-
quirement is unnecessary and would
cost them between two and three
hundred thousand dollars to carry
out.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-08-21

The Southern Commercial Secreta-
ries, at their convention in Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, selected Atlanta as
their next meeting place and elected
w. r. Register of Chattanooga, presi-
dent, and John A. Benjamin of Alba
my, vice president
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-17
.JAYHlWKER .JOTS

Neodesha claims to have man who
saw the meteor and Lew Smucker
wants to know who assaulted him.
twas there ever a sister, asks Miss
Riddle, "who didn't have to help her
brother keep her mother from finding
out?',
Miss Lenora Cawker, a daughter of
the founder of Cawker City, has given
$4,000 to establish a hospital for dogs
in Milwaukee.
Three thousand gallons of peaches
are being canned at the states peni-
Tertiary at Lansing for the prisoners
consumption next winter.
A brawney German. who was in the
Hutchinson police court the other day
on a charge of drunkenness, bothered
the court not a little, by paying his 50
fine in ntckels.
Cider will be cheap in Kansas this
year according to the Troy Chief, but
the price Of headache medicine will
remain the same, pertinently adds the
Salina Journal.
Wichita is up against a real cold
proposition. The ice cream manufac-
turers have a trust agreement which
recently boosted the price of ice cream
from ten to twenty cents gallon.
The Lawrence Journal wants to know
how the office would go about seeking
the man under the primary law. AS
in the past, the office will probably re-
strain itself, comments Mr. Bristow's
paper, the Salina Journal
The towns which did not make a
gain in population last year are now
referring to the quality of their people
instead of the quantity. But if they
show a gain next year the quantity
will again be the popular cry.-Salina
Journal.
Ellabelle Beet, the poetess of Rock
City, kindly contributed the following
to the Minneapolis Messenger:
There was once a husky ex-president
In the jungles Of Africa resident,
Where armed with a blunderbuss
He beat up the underbrush
And wrote hunting tales without prece-
dent.
Ed Greer of the Winfield Courier
says: THE announcement of a Win
field revivalist Thursday: Tonight the
sermon will be How to Get to He'll"
and the quartette will sing Tell Moth
er I'll Be There" by special request
was one of the most talked of bits of
unintentional humor that has appeared
for some time"
An Atchison dispatch referring to
the accident which befell Miss Fran
ces Garside this week, refers 10 her
as the telegraph editor of the AtcniSon
Globe. Miss Garside is not only tele-
graph editor, but city editor, managing
editor, reporter, exchange editor, ed
itorial writer and advertising solicitor,
says Charlie Blakesley by way of cor
rection.
John Brassf1eld was drunk again
Monday night and Tuesday morning he
was arraigned in police court for abus-
ing his wife. Mrs. Brassfield was very
determined Monday night to prosecute
him, but by morning she had cooled
off and actually tried to help him. In
her testimony she said: John is not
bad. When he is drunk he sometimes
abuses me, but when he is sober 1 could
not ask for a better man. He treats
me more like g. friend than a wife I"
The Vinland Vine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-17
GLOBE SIGHTS.
I From the Atchison Globe. /


The less a man knows, the more he
says about the necessity OF lifting up
the masses.
The narrow minded man never ad-
n1its that others have a right to opin-
ions that differ from his.
Better be imposed upon by giving
to the unworthy poor, than to allow
the worthy poor to go hungry.
At some parties, half the evening is
spent in coaxing the people to sing
and the other half in listening to poor
music.
If woman says her husband pro-
posed to her on his knees, she is a nice
woman, but her memory is failing her.
Men don't propose on their knees.
Whenever a man fails, his wife tells
the public that he was "too conscien-
tious'' to succeed. What she tells him
in private is sometime different.
How weak we think others are to
show impatience! It is so clear to US
that Impotence in others is a foolish
waste of vital force. since 1t can not
possibly do any good. but we are i'm
patient ourselves, and learn nothing
from the folly of others.
When a married man wants a mess
of turkey, it costs him at least two
dollars and a half, considering the
price of the bird, the cost of the oys-
tiers to stuff it, and the cranberry
sauce. Besides he has to carve it. But
an unmarried man can go to a restau-
rant and get all the turkey he wants
for Is cents.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-17
Battle With a Crane.

A lively battle with a giant crane
was fought last Monday night, short
ly after midnight, by Deputy Sheriff
James Jung and Gus Shoenlin, better
known as Americas, the wrestler,
while fishing in Back River, of Twin
Oaks shore.
Deputy Sheriff Jung and Americas
were in boat some distance from the
shore, when, to their surprise, they
were attacked by the big bird. Dep
large eel and was pulling it in when
both occupants of the boat were
startled by hearing the swoop of pow
erful wings. Just as they looked up
the crane struck them.
The huge bird beat with it's wings
and struck at them with its long,
keen bill. It was nearest to Deputy
Sheriff Jung, but he was tangled up
with the eel, and being unable to Of
fer much defense, was rapidly get
ting the worst of the encounter when
Americas came to the rescue. He
onds could not deliver a blow at the
bird for fear of hitting the deputy
sheriff. Finally, however, he saw his
chance to break in under the cranes
guard and land blow with the oar
on it's long, sinewy neck. The stroke
broke the birds neck and knocked it
into the water.
The battle broke up the fishing ex-
petition, as the fishermen had an idea
that the crane might be one of a
party. Both men are at a loss to
account for the bird attacking them
in such vicious manner. The only
possible reason that they can advance
is that the crane wanted the eel and
was willing to make a fight for it.
The bird was pulled into the boat
and taken ashore, where it was hung
up near the club house. 1t was meas
ured and found to be more than four
feet in height and to have a bill more
than a foot long. The bird is being
exhibited with considerable pride to
all visitors to the shore. Those who
have seen it have characterized its
bravery as conspicuous, it being the
first bird with spunk enough to tackle
a champion wrestler and a deputy
sheriff at the same time.-Baltimore
American
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-17
WHEN BABY AwAKEs.

At S when baby goes to bed,
His carnal cravings satisfied,
He is so plump and rosy red.
So dimpled, sweet, and drowsy-eyed,
That to his crib 1 often creep
And watch my wee one sleep.
lis then VOW this babe. somehow,
Is more than all the world to me,
cannot say 1 feel that way
When baby wakes at 8!
When baby rouses me at 6
O'clock / really do not care.
/ put him through his infant tricks
And toss him gayly in the air.
Most thoroughly 1 then enjoy
The darling little boy,
And gladl-- cry: mo gold could buy
This roly-poly winsoTne wee!"
must confess prize him less
When he wakes me at 81
One night in pain our wee one slept,
The fever on his restless brow;
And then, as to his crib crept,
In grief that makes me tremble now,
I wondered If our little one
Would wake to greet the sun.
The long night through watched with
you,
Dear wife-and oh, what Joy to see
Our darling smile, at last-the while
He woke-at 81
Chicago News.