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The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-04-02
SPORTING BREVITIEs.

Miss Emily w. Scott, of the Vest
chester Country Club, has been NOM
mated for the presidency of the Wom-
ems Tennis Association.
M. E. Rambo, the champion long
distance runner of Mexico, has given
up a commercial position to take in
structions in bull fighting.
The official report of the State Rae
ing Commission shows that New York
States income was more than $780,
900 less last year than it was the
year before.
Willie Hoppe established new
worlds record for the 1872 billiard
game for high runs at Kansas City
with total of 329. His average was
200. The former record was 3O7.
George C. Bennett, of Memphis, a
former turfman, has purchased the
stock of the New Orleans Baseball
Club, and Leonard Stern, who has
been president of the club for four
years, will resign.
When Tim Jordan arrived in Jack
sonville he found that John Hummell
had been playing first base in such a
fiashy way that the Brooklyn colts
wondered what the regular first base
man could be like.
A new roller skating record was
established in the six-day relay race
in Denver when Risenhand and Burke
completed 1919 miles and four laps
on an eleyen-lap track. The previous
record was 1912 miles and eight laps.
There is in Hayerfordwest, Eng
land, a rugby football team composed
Of seven brothers named Williams,
sons of a former Superintendent Of
police. They sent out a challenge to
play any team of seven brothers for
5000 a side.
Battling Nelson, the lightweight
champion by virtue of his victory over
the decrepit Cans last fall, has con-
Guided to dodge Packy Mcfarland,
Owen Moran, Abe Attell. Freddie
Welsh. Cyclone Johnny Thompson
and other real pugilists.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-04-02
ARMIESAND NAVIES BANKRUPTEUROPE
So Foreign Secretary Gray Tells the
English Commons.

London, England. The house of
commons refused to express lack Of
confidence in the governments naval
policy. The motion on which the
notable debate hinged was proposed
by Arthur Hamilton Lee, conservative
member of the house from Hants. 1t
sets forth that, in the opinion of this
house, the declared policy of his maj
esty's government respecting the inn
mediate provision for battleships Of
the newest type does not sufficient Sc
cure the safety of the empire"
The debate was one of the most
Hnomentous the house has listened to
for years. A. j. Balfour and Mr.. Lee
accused the cabinet of incompetency,
and demanded that eight Dread
noughts be laid down Immediately.
Secretary Grey's speech was by far
the most notable contribution to the
debate. because of its remarkable can
dor. He dwelt on the diplomatic as
poets Of the British-German rivalry
and the hopelessness of expecting any
cessation of the race for ornaments,
and he predicted eventual European
bankruptcy II it continued,
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-04-02
NOTICE OF sHERIFF'S SALE
APRIL, 1909.
Georoia-Lee County.

Georgia-Lee County.
Will be sold before the court h
door of said county between the
hours of sale on the first Tuesda
April, 1909, the following property
wit:
One house and lot known as
house and lot bought by C. H. Hi
w. S. Jennings, containing one
more or less, and being in the
of Smithville, OF said county, and
ing situated on the west side of
town-beginning at the northwest
ner Of the lot owned by G. H.
on 2Sth Deer, 1887, on the line
tween the lot No. So and mol
thence west with this line to
owned by Mrs. Lena Paul on
Dec, 1887, thence south to the
trict line, thence east to the 81
west corner of Hills lot, afford
thence north to the point of b
hing. Levied on as the propert
G. H. Hill, under and by virtue
certain fl. ia. issued from the
court Of Leesburg in favor of |
burg Exchange, Bankers, VS.. C
Hill.
Alse, at the same time and p
I will sell:
The north half Of lot of land
1853 in the first district of Lee {
ty, Georgia, levied on as the PROF
of Nose Washington, under and
virtue of a certain execution ID
from the city court of Leesbur
favor of ]. A. Johnson VS..
Washington.
This, the first day of March,
tt S. B. SMITH, Sher|
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-04-02
AIMED AT THE SOUTH
Bill introduced in Congress to
Reduce Representation.
DISFRANCHlSEMENTO OF negro.
i the Cause Of the Agitation---V Validity
Of the Fourteenth Amendment
Is Questioned.

Washington, d. Representative
Bennett Of New York has offered q
bill for the amendment Of the appor-
tionment Of the sixtieth congress, re-
duoing the representation of states
which deny to negro citizens the right
of franchise.
Mr.. BENEFITS bill specifies reduc-
tons he would have made, giving Ala
bama five instead of nine representa-
tiVes, Arkansas five instead OF seven,
Florida two instead of three, Georgia
six instead Of eleven, Louisiana four
instead Of seven, Mississippi three in
stead of eight, Texas thirteen instead
OF sixteen, Virginia seven instead Of
ten and South Carolina three instead
Of seven.
Senator Money of Mississippi would
have the validity of the fourteenth
amendment to the constitution tested.
This amendment regulates the fran
chise and has been constructed to au-
thorize the reduction by congress Of
the constitutional representation of
states which deny the voting privilege
to some of their citizens. 1t has been
frequently invoked by the authors of
bills reducing the representation of
southern states. Mr. Money intro
duced a resolution directing the attor-
ney general to submit to the supreme
court all the information available rel
alive to the method of adopting the
amendment so that the court may de-
termine whether the amendment is
binding
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-04-02
GEORGIA PEACH UNHURT.
Fruit Growers Believe Crop is Now
Practically Beyond Danger,

Adairsvilie, Cat seems that the
Georgia peach crop for 1909 may be
safely said to be practically without
the pale of danger with reference to
the possibility of serious damage from
severe frost or free. Such is the
opinion OF prominent growers here,
which is the heart of the liberia sta
ton Of northern Georgia.
AS the orchards about Adairsville
are the ones that are farthest north
in the state, they are the ones most
likely to be affected by the cold. The
fact that they are pronounced safe
by the principal growers Of that sec
ton is a pretty good indication that
the 1909 peach crop throughout the
state is in good way to bring nor.
NAL crop in point or quantity, and one
that will be most satisfactory in the
quality Of fruit produced.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-04-02
NOTICE or APPLICATION
NEW ROAD.

STATE OF GEORGIA--Lee Col
Commissioners Office, Leesburg,
March End, 1903.
To All Whom it May Concern:
Take notice that D. G. Jones, d
Richards, ]. F. Usry, s. M. Jones
H. Varnum and others, have apl
for an order seeking the estab
ment of new road, which has |
laid out and marked conformablI
law by commissioners duly appoi
and a report thereof made on |,
by them, said road commencing
the Americas road at place know
the old Watkins place and follow
the old settlement road east to brs
near Rift school road at D. G. 10
barn-beginning again at the pr
road below d. c. Jones gin ht
and run southwest until it str
woods. and then run as straight
possible to Smithville and Che
road near Mr.. Pritchard's place
Now, if no good cause be show
the contrary by persons interested
this matter, the order will be graz
by the undersigned at the Office
the County Commissioners in 1
county, on the first Tuesday in A
1909, establishing said road as on,
the public roads Of said county.
This End day of March, 1909.
/. P. COOKE, Commissioner.
w. C. LARAMORE, Commissio
N. MINCHEW, Commissioner.
A. ]. POWELL, Commissioner.
R. P. JOHNSON, Commissioner
A true copy Of the original Of
and of record. This March End, i
JAMES NORGA1
If Clerk County Commission
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-04-02
CHARGES NOT SUSTAINED.
No Low Grade Cotton Shipped to New
York

YORK;
Washington, D. C.-Declaring that
there appears to have been no sub
stantial basis for the allegations made
by officials of the Farmers Union
Cotton Company of Memphis, Tenn
regarding the shipment from the
south Of low grade cotton to New
York, to depress the market, Victor
H. Olmstead, chief of the bureau Of
statistics of the department of agri-
culture, in report to Secretary Will
son, recommended that the whole
matter be dropped.
Recently b., G. West of Memphis,
general manager of the Farmers I'm
ion Company, wrote Secretary Wilson
that he understood a lot of cotton
was 'headed'' for New York, and the
inference. was that it was dark blue
and black, low grades, to be used in
depressing the market" Letters OF
similar import also were received
from officials of the Farmers Union
Company at different points in the
south.
The secretary ordered a thorough
investigation of the allegations to be
made by six special agents of the bu-
reau of statistics in the south. They
reported that they were unable to Sc
cure any tangible evidence in support
of the charges.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-04-02
ANENT WHITE CONVICTS
Prison Commission VIII Dispose
Of Them Temporarily.
TO GO ON THE PUBLIC ROADS
Farm Will Be Purchased as Early a.
Possible and the While convicts
Win Work Ii.

Atlanta, Ga--The white convicts
Of the state will have to be placed
temporarily upon the public roads.
There appears to be no escape from
this disposition of them following Gov
ernor Smiths refusal to approve the
purchase of the Wimberly place In
Twiggg county as state prison farm.
II is not that the prison commission
will refuse TO make further effort
to find a farm which conforms To its
ideas as to what the law contemplates,
but that, as Chairman j. 8. Turner
stated, the commission does not al
present know OF any other available
farm which, in its opinion, would I'LL
the bill.
The commission, Chairman Turner
stated. will proceed with its investi-
cations with view to finding and
buying a farm at the earliest possible
date, but TO do this In time 70 take
care of the white conyicts on April /,
or at any time within the next month
or more, he states, would be manifest
~ impossible.
II Is practically settled, therefore,
that the 800 white convicts of the
state will have to go temporarily on
the public roads.
The commission will not, however,
distribute them pro rata among the
counties of the state. 1t Is its pur-
pose to dispose of them as overs" or
as the new law contemplated overs"
should be disposed OF, should there
be any.
The white convicts will be sent
chiefly to the larger counties of the
state, such as Fulton, Richmond, Bibb
and others II they are prepared to
take them and work them separate
and apart from the negro convicts.
1t Is said that Fulton would take
all OF them If the commission should
so award them, but it Is likely they
will be divided among three or four
of the larger counties.
This policy will be pursued because
of the fact that the arrangement will
be only temporary and 1t is the com
missions purpose ito get a farm and
put them ON 1t just as soon as 1t can
do so.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-04-02
LIQUOR LEAGUE PROHIBITION LAW.
Model License Organization Suggests
a Vote of People Be Taken.

NQAN VI EGSKtG GNNtAt
Atlanta, Ga-DefiRite proof of the
fact that the manufacturers and deal
ers in whisky and other alcoholic beY.
erages are making concerted effort
to bring about certain changes in the
present prohibition law in this state,
has recently come to light in the
shape of letter that has just been
received by member of the Georgia
legislature from an organization OF
liquor men known as the National
Model License League, with headquar-
ters in louisville, Ky.
1t is presumed that every member
Of the legislature has received a SIN
liar communication The letter re-
quests that the voters of Georgia be
given an opportunity of expressing
their exact wishes in regard to the
sale and use Of alcoholic beverages.
The manner in which this may be
done, according to the letter, is by
permitting the people of the state to
vote for or against the saloon license,
the tavern license or the merchants
license.
The term saloon license is self-ex-
planatory, tavern license is explained
as a license to permit liquor to be
used with meals at hotels. while a
merchants license is one that allows
liquor to be sold in original packages
not to be opened on the premises of
the merchant. In case no form OF
license were adopted, prohibition
would be the result. The letter states
that the league does not favor the
sale Of alcoholic beverages in terri
tory where the people do not want to
use liquor and that the league will
not oppose any law against the use
of LIQUOR in prohibition territory.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-04-02
DAILY EDITION.
THE MATTHEW'S REVIEW.
MondaY. Decemher PA. 19

AOA0o9t OOCCAOC1 90 1OUOs
The Christmas entertainment at the
NJ. E. Church last night was success
so far as attendance and the program
were concerned. The little ones ac-
quilted themselves very meritoriously.
Ed. Porter and wife, of Atlanta,
visited w. H. Trissel and wife a few
days last week.
]. w. McClellan's father-in-law
Mr.. Williamson, of Ohio, is visiting
with him during the holidays.
Chief of Police Bishop is doing
some very good and much needed
graveling on Sixth street.
]. D. Grant and wife, of Columbia
City, and o. E. Grant and wife, of
Albion. visited DR.. e. L. Grant and
wife last week.
WANTED-200 more subscribers
to the Matthews Review at rs cents a
year. The price will be 81 year af-
ter January 16.
Jared Brown and family, of Cam
ack Station, moved into their recent
ly purchased property on Ninth street
last week.
Job printing of all kinds at the
Review office.
Anti-steam Eye-glass Cleaners.
Padded Hat Brushes. Magic Polishing
Cloths and Wonder Clothes Cleaners.
only loo. each at the Central Com
pany.
-Muncie (Ind.) Dispatch to the In
dianapolis News.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-04-02
BLEACRED FLOUR BARRED.
Cannot Be sold in Georgia After oeto.
Der First, Next

Atlanta, Cain line with the re.
Gently promulgated decision Of the ma
tional department Of agriculture, un-
der the pure food law, forbidding the
interstate shipment and traflc in
flour bleached with nitrogen peroxide
after July 1, 1909. the state depart
ment Of agriculture issued an official
order prohibiting the sale of such
bleached -four in Georgia after Octo-
Der next.
The mill men will stop using the
bleaching process AT once. and will
have, time before the order goes into
effect to dispose Of the stocks now
on hand.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-04-02
TALKS ABOUT TARIFF.
President Taft says He Will Oppose
Tax on Poor Mans Breakfast

Washington. d. C.-President Taft
is opposed TO any attacks on the
breakfast table. He favors cheaper
commodities for the table and will
use his influence against any tax on
the poor mans breakfast table. It
is said he desires an income tax to
Increase the revenue.
These views we're expressed by the
president in a conversation with sew
eral western senators on the tariff.
The president would like to see cof-
fee. wooden goods. lumber and shoes
ON the free list if possible. He inti-
mated that he was much concerned
over the reveneus.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-04-02
TRAINED NURSE DEAD.
From Poisoned Kiss of Infected
Patient.

Cumberland, Md.-Having become
infected from a kiss bestowed by re-
quest on a patient dying of blood poi
soning. Miss Marion c. Spier, train
ed nurse, died at her home here. Miss
Spier attended Mrs. Virginia Callan
Carder, a prominent society woman
at the Allegheny Hospital, and the
latter asked the nurse to kiss her,
as she was dying. The request was
granted. and in few days Miss Spier
was stricken with the same malady.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-04-02
The Smallest Daily.

The Matthews Daily Review, pub
lished at Matthews, Ind, is believed
to be the smallest newspaper in the
United States, and certainly it is the
smallest in Indiana. The paper is in
the form of small handful, printed
on only one side. Here is the COM
plete newspaper for Monday of the
last week in 1908, both news and ad-
vertising:
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-04-02

Bankers viii be best dressed when
adhering closely to the checks. De-
Walton from this rule sometimes re-
suits in a vogue of stripes among the
fnanciers, which is sometimes not at
all suited to the dignity of the call
ing.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-04-02
NOTICE or APPLICATION
For Leave to Sell Land by Az
Istratcr,

For Leave to Sell Land by Az
Istrator.
Georsia-Lee County.
Notice is hereby given that tn
dersigned has applied to the c
airy of said county for leave to
land belonging to the estate OF
nice c. Bass, late of Lee County
ceased), for the payment Of
and for the purpose of distribl
Said application will be heard al
regular term of the court of ord
for said county, on the first Mo
in March, 1909.
This the LIST day of February,
H. R. JOHNSON, Administ
Upon the Estate of Eunice C.
Witness: N. M. DUDLEY, N. ]
Co., Ga. g
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-04-02
APPLICATION FOR GUARDIAN

Georgia-Lee County.
To All Whom 1t May Concern:
Mrs. Camilla Sapp having al
for guardianship of the person
property of Melton Webb,
Webb, Agnew Dell, minor chi
of Mary Dell, late of caid count
ceased
Notice is hereby given that sal
plication will be heard at my
at 10 o'clock a. m. on the first
day in March next.
This February 8, 1909.
GEO. c. EDWARDS, ordin'
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-04-02
GEO. c. EDWARDS, ordina
dissolution NoTlcE.

This is to notify all parties t
have this day dissolved partneI
with the firm of Smelling & 81
Mr.. j. A. Smelling becomes RESP
bic for all debts incurred after
date. This January 9th, 1909
G. A. BLAd
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-04-02
How Is Your Liver !?

II your liver is right you feel well
all over. L. L. L. keeps it right.
DO YOU FEEL BADLY?
II so your liver Is wrong you need
L. L. Ask your druggist about it.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-02-04
THE OLDEST ADVERTISER.

Comparatively few business men adver-
tlse IN one newspaper any great length of
time. That is, the firms change and the
papers change ownership, but one individ-
ual to advertise in a newspaper consecu-
lively for forty years, is rare. There
are few such cases on record, if any. And.
for that particular newspaper to remain
under one management during these MANY
years, is very exceptional ease. The
Banner has been running the advertise
ment OF MIR. A. Kahn, dealer in stoves and
hardware, 212 Texas Street, Shreveport, for
forty-on years. His advertisement first
appeared in the Banner on January II.
1868. During all this time, the Banner
has been under its present management
and ownership. Mr.. Kahn has continued
his advertisement without intermission.
never missing an issue. We do not know
of similar instance on record or an adj
vertlsement Of an individual house re-
naming in paper that length Of time, and
the paper also being under the same con-
tlnuous management. Mr.. Kahn has been
in the same business as long, if not longer
than any other man in Shreveport, and has
been friend Of the Banner all these
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-02-04

years, both in business and personally.
Ever upright and fair in all his dealings,
a true man and an estimable citizen, we
hope he has many prosperous and happy
years before him.
We bought our first cooking stove and
general house furnishing goods from Mr..
Kahn in January, 1868, and have dealt
continuously with him since that time. In
all these years there was never dispute
over an account, nor an item in an account.
Our dealings have always been pleasant,
as have also our personal relations. In the
course of forty years there is, ordi-
narily, mistakes and disputes Of accounts
and amounts, but in our affairs there was
an exception, seemingly as rare as the
long continued advertisement of one per-
son in a newspaper under the same man.
agement for that 'length Of time.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-02-04

Qualities that characterizes womanhood's
refinement and gives to her nature its chief
adornment.
1t would debase her better being, destroy
the softer sentiments of her soul, degrade
her true dignity, faint her untarnished
purity. soil her unsulliedness and rob the
home of all that renders home peaceful,
pleasant and happy.
What does woman want with the elective
franchise? Would this privilege be pro-
ductive of any good? Would it ennoble
her being any? Would it add anything OF
benefit either to herself or her fellow NOR
tals-this slight extension Of her field Of
action in the world? In short, would the
gift to her of the right to vote benefit her
or mankind politically, morally or socially?
Such can hardly be thought would be the
result of such departure in political
affairs.
Aside from other considerations, upon
these few hasty reflections alone, should
the right Of the elective franchise be &C
corded to the fair daughters of Eve, unre-
servedly, as right, in order to preserve
these characteristics Of womanhood-a
delicate sense of refinement and of refined
taste, her dignity and her gentleness OF
ladyhood? We cannot but think she ought
not to accept or exercise the privilege.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-02-04
WOMAN'S HIGHEST DUTY.

The question of women's rights, it seems,
is destined soon to become leading issue
in the United States, and the degree of in
terest in the subject is scarcely less than
the momentous Importance that attaches
thereto; hence, the matter is worthy of no
little consideration and reflective thought
on the part of those persons who are in the
least degree concerned for social security
and have at heart the elevation and hap
piness of humanity.
Woman, it is said in that great compen-
dunn of all knowledge and wisdom, was
made ''helpmeet for man "a congenial
companion in his daily walks, an associate
in all his sorrows and participant in his
pleasures, ever sharing alike his disappoint-
ments as well as his highest enjoyments;
comforting him in distress by the genial
Influence OF her gentle nature, augmenting
pleasures until they become new delights
and higher joys. The place which she
occupies in the privacy of domestic life and
the peaceful home is one for which she is
admirably adapted, and there is where she
is respected and honored. BY nature she
is too delicate and refined creature to
assume the coaser occupations of man or
mingle among the rougher elements that
constitute the factions of political parties,
and is for that reason far better suited to
her present situation to control the man.
agement of her household and adorn the
precincts of home.
Graceful of form, fair of face, lovely in
temperament, having all those characteris-
ties that tend to render womanhood more
loveable, how beautiful she sits embelish-
ing the throne of the family circle, crowned
as the queen of the household, as the god.
dess of its happiest guidance, and what a
pity 1t would be-what an iconoclasm!-
what a dissertation and sacrilege Ito
depose herfrom such an enhancement. and.
dragging her from the most exalted posi-
ton, give her over to corrupting politics
and consign herto the degrading depths Of
polluting political life? How incompatible
with the quiet of her disposition and of her
domestic life! How homogeneous with that
delicate taste that is one of the highest