The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-30
THROUGHOUT THE STATE.

tAoNCAbDAJ1 uCAJ 40 AdAANatO0 "
him. in his first public speech In At
lanta at the GOOD Roads Day" ex-
ercises at the state fair, when he
stated that 1t was practically certain
that the legislature, next year, would
enact legislation looking toward good
roads for Georgia. 1t was a keynote
statement, and one which met with
instant favor by the crowd which had
gathered to see the practical side and
hear the theoretical side Of good road
building In Georgia.
AS the direct result Of the investi-
cation made at the state farm by Col
onel Calvin M. Hitch, executive sec
Rotary, and George Tumlin, which was
ordered by Governor Smith, four cas-
es were acted upon favorably and sent
to the governor by the prison COM
mission. Levi Copeland, sent up from
Greene county in 1885 on a murder
charge, for life, has his sentence COM
muted to present service; Matte Vim
son. who has been in the penitentiary
since 1875 on murder charge, is par
doned; Jane Chapman, sent UP for life
from Wilkes county In 1880, for muir
der, is pardoned, and another pardon
is granted to Joseph Way, who has
been in stripes since 1879 for murder.
Most Of those cases recommended by
Colonel Hitch and Mr.. Tumlin were
those Of convicts who had been in the
penitentiary many years, and VINO nad
neither money nor influence to get
any one to work in their behalf.
Through the explosion of soda
water bottle, which badly injured his
eye, John G. Copeland, of Bremen,
proprietor of the Bremen Bottling
Works, has lost one eye entirely, as
it was found necessary by doctors IN
Atlanta to remove the eye.
After a trip through greater part
of Georgia, distributing fish at the ex-
pense OF the government, a car oper-
ated under the direction of the bureau
of fisheries at Washington and in
charge Of e. K Burnham, passed
through Atlanta on the return trip for
more supplies. The fish brought to
Georgia came from the government
hatchery at Lacrosse, Wis, and In
cluded black bass, catfish, Dream,
perch and crappie. The car carried
more than one hundred cans, amount
ing to about twenty-five thousand fish.
''The government has sent many
thousands of fish into Georgia recent
~" said Mr.. Burnham. This is the
fourth car that has visited Georgia
during the past few weeks, and
enough fish have been brought In to
stock nearly every mill pond in the
state. The fish are delivered free OF
charge to any person who has place
to keep them and they can be secured
by notifying the proper department at
Washington"
Rev. Henry Wilmer, who is in Jail
at Rome charged with larceny after
trust and embezzlement, has decided
to occupy his time writing sermons
between now and next January, when
his trial will, come off.
The United States department Of
agriculture at Washington has donat-
ed to the First District Agricultural
college at Statesboro, seven hundred
volumes of books, bulletins and publi-
cations of different kinds Some of the
works are very valuable. The gift was
secured by Professor 0. T. Harper,
of the agricultural department.
Postmasters appointed for Georgia:
Galloway, Fannin county, Joel II.
Queen, vice H. Galloway, resigned;
Union, Green county, Benjamin l..
Brya, vice j. H. Barnes, resigned.
Aaron Parks was appointed regular,
and Johnnie Ethridge substitute rural
carriers on Route 8, at Ty Ty.
Ordinary s. T.. Moore Of Bullock
county, has received a letter from the
prison commission stating that Bull
loch county may have number of
misdemeanor convicts from now until
the 1st Of April without any cost ex-
cent that of their transportation. The
offer has been accepted. The county
will take about fifteen convicts under
this offer. The convicts will not be
available until the LIST of November,
at which time steps will be taken to
secure them.
An election for the issuance of $751;
600 bonds, to install an electric light
plant, has been ordered by the city
council of Howkinsville.
Efforts Of sisters and brother &;
P. T. Foye, late department store hor-
chant of Savannah. who, in his will,
were cut OFF with 81 each, to nave
Miss Susie Keane, an employe Of the
Foye company, who received 10000
in the win, and James DAILY, removed
from their position as executors, fail
ed when Judge Henry McAlpin, ordi-
nary. asserted his inability to see
where the executors had mismanaged
the estate.
On account of general ineficiency
in the present organization, all the
way from top to bottom" as Adjutant
General A. J. Scott expressed 1t, it,
has been determined to completely re-
organize the Georgia naval militia,
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