The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-06-26
STATE GLEMINGS.

AZ man leg, and who wore thirty
SIX rattles, was killed in the tiatwoods
section, near Lexington, by Joe Don
nelly, who killed twenty-six snakes.
nlgnland moccasins and king snakes.
Active efforts have been renewed
toward opening up the railroad be-
tween Athens, Ca, and Anderson. S.
Y. Those who are on the inside de-
clare that this railroad is among the
edl!y posslpll1ties. All along the line
acolve interest is being taken.
MOI to he outdone by the CAROLYN
lans VINO gave Joe Cannon a suit of
home-Wool clothes Or the Texans who
marched into the Chicago convention
WITH an enormous pair Of trousers
which bore tine legend. Texas pants
Ior Taft" Lotus B. Magid Of Tallulah
Fals, shoemaker, promises to weave
Mrs. Tafts inaugural bail costume
from silk raised in Georgia and having
no foreign element in it's composition.
Cordner Smith, one of the most
prominent young men in Washington.
was drowned in Fishing Creek. 1t is
Delleyed he was seized with an attack
OF acute indigestion, to which disease
ne was subject, while in bathing and
was unable to call for assistance.
Charles S. Northen, secretary of the
Georgia state senate, has been named
ny the Hon. Urey Woodson of Ken.
lucky, who is secretary of the national
democratic executive committee. one
OF the assistant secretaries for the
democratic national convention. which
| 1908.
Professor Hugh T. Alfriend has re-
signed the principalship of the Dublin
| SCHOOLS On account OF being elected
professor in the Gresham high school
at Macon.
AS the result of falling from the
Tram, from which she was alighting,
Mrs. Charlie Mills of Griffin was pain
fully, though not seriously, hurt.
B. H. Handy was reelected super
lntendent of the Cuthbert schools.
| The teachers namedare Miss Hettie
Tison OF Cuthbert, Miss Louise Aston
OF Clayton, Ala, Miss Clyde Stovall.
Columbia, Ala, Mary Glen, Edgewood,
Isabelle Williams, Cordele, Mrs. E. H.
A4onuy, Supernumerary.
The boys of Cuthbert have oranized
a brass band with Prof. E. M. Cole
man as instructor. They elected Off
GERS as follows Leland S. Bussey,
president; E. M. Coleman, vice presi-
dent: Chas. A. Moye, secretary and
treasurer; E. NJ Coleman, w. H.
Moye, Jr., and Frank Stanford were
elected to draw up the bylaws and
| regulations.
In conformity with the terms of
before-the- primary bet, in which the
"Hoke Smith" men of the city We're to
serve a "crow eating supper in case
Hoke Smith failed to get the renomi-
mating vote of the state and like
supper by the Little Joe" men should
the governor be returned, a nMmber of
Joe Brown" men each with an invit-
ed guest was treated to sumptuous
repast at the home of Mr.. P. T. Gala
way by the "Hoke Smith" men of
Washington. 1t was the most unique
and enjoyable occasion of its kind
ever held in the city.
The city court jury Of Moultrie gave
a verdict in favor of B. F. Bryan and
against the Union Pinopolis saw mills
for $4,000. The suit was for $4,000
and was one of the hardest fought
cases that has ever been tried in the
Moultrie courts. Bryan was a track
constructor for the company, and
was on roadway train that was
wrecked last year. He received Sc
we're injuries, but has partially recov-
cred and is at work again
The democratic convention of the
first senatorial district in session at
Atlanta, selected MIR. w. F. Slater
nominee Of the party for state sena-
tor
The congressional convention in
session at Columbus, which nominated
Judge w. @. Adamson to succeed him
self without opposition, named the fol-
lowing executive committee for the
the fourth district: Talbot county, 7.
Fl. Bussey; Harris, G.. N Murrah;
Muscogee, S. D. Baldwin; Marion, T.
B. Rajney; Troup, E. T. Moon; Heard,
o. A. Moore; Coweta, Y. L. Stallings;
Chattahoochee, Hubert Howard; Meri-
wether, @. L. Davis; Carroll, w. F.
Brown.
At the alumni luncheon Of the Geor-
gia School of Technology given on the
school campus, Hon. S. G. McLendon,
chairman of the state railroad COM
mission, delivered a thoughtful talk on
the subject of the Critical Periods in
American History"
Andrew Price, well known citizen
Of Oconee county, who was shot by
Marshal Sterling Of Bishop, Ca, two
weeks since, is dead. He had been
under treatment at Athens for two
weeks.
The United Daughters of the Con-
federacy of Sylvania have let the con-
tract for the erection of a Confederate
monument at that place.