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

KIND upon female convicts, either In
Ine state penitentiary or on county
caaingangs. The order grew out Of q
case in Clarke county In which shack
les were placed upon a white woman,
recently convicted Of misdemeanor.
The commissions attention was at
tracted to the matter through the
newspaper reports. The commissions
order on the subject follows 1T is
ordered by the prison commission
that the following rule be, and the
same Is hereafter adopted, subject TO
the approval Of the governor: No.
a. No chains or shackles shall be
placed upon any female in the peni-
Tertiary or changing. A sufficient
guard and other necessary means
must be provided to prevent escape"
Governor Smith promptly signified
his approval of the order. Under
the new law the prison commission
has jurisdiction over county chain
gangs, and the new rule will be en-
forced both as to these and the state
penitentiary.
1t has been decided to make a per-
manent annual event of the great
Southern Musical Festival that is to
open in Atlanta next May the 4th,
5th and 9Th. The interest which the
festival has already aroused through
out the state proves that the people
OF Georgia and the south are eager
to support such an undertaking, and
that the opportunity is ripe to make
this section one of the big musical
centers of the United States. Here
after 1t viii not be necessary to go
to New York to hear famous singers
and performers. In fact, many of
them, Caruso being included, will be
heard at the festival next May.
Complete rural delivery service
has been ordered established in Muir
ray county, Georgia, effective May /,
1909 The number Of rural routes in
the county is ten, seven of which are
new and originate from offices within
the county, as follows: Carriers, one;
Chatsworth, one; Cisco, one; Gran
DALI one; Elton, one; Fairy one; Ram
hurst, one; Spring Place, three.
A monument to the Georgia sol
diers who participated in the seige of
Vicksburg is being looked forward to
by the Vicksburg Park commission.
which is said to be actively interest
ed in furthering the project for the
monument. The monument is in con-
temptation now. The raising of funds
will soon be undertaken, and 1t is
possible that the state of Georgia
may be asked to share in the expense.
The park is a national military res
e9yation and is rapidly filing up with
monuments to the memory Of the
brave men who fought over its terri
tory.
The Georgia branch Of the Ananias
club is being rapidly promoted by
Governor Holle Smith, who replies to
Commissioner Wiley Williams on
that state farm proposition and says,
among other things, that "the state
ment that the commission was ready
to report TO me two weeks before
March II can not be true" The
governor doesn't mince words n ~e,
plying to Mr.. Williams published
statement. He says the selection of
the old Milledgeville farm was one
blunder and he wishes to save the
state, from another. He says the
prison commission had plenty of time
to select farm and there has been
mo excuse for delay" He says the
Wimberly farm, the choice of the
commission, is partly swamp land,
unhealthy and subject to overflow,
and he doesn't understand how the
commissioners ever picked 1t out,
nor why they can not choose from
list of better tracts. In conclusion,
he takes up the expressed intention
of the commissioners to work the
white conyicts on the public roads,
and intimates strongly that such a
plan is calculated to render the abo-
lition of the lease system unpopular.
Surely this can not be the desire of
the commissions" he concludes. 1T
certainly is not my desire"
An advance Of 10 per cent of the
1909 school fund will be distributed
among the teachers of the state inn
mediately, Notwithstanding the heavy
drains made upon the treasury by the
prepayment of pensions and other
matters since the first of the year.
Governor Smith authorized State
School Commissioner Pound to, pre-
pare for the distribution of S225, 900.
This advance on the school fund will
relieve conditions that have lately
been growing somewhat strained. Pay
Is Unexpectedly coming to teachers
who had begun to reconcile them
selves to doing without till the end
of the year. Theoretically the school
fund is not available for distribution
till the general taxes are in along to-
ward the last of each year.
Assistant State Commissioner of
Agriculture r. F. Wright is in Haber-
sham county on q tour of inspection
of the dread cattle tick" Mr.. Wright
will visit u number Of counties. where
the cattle disease has appeared.
Now that it has been determined
that the white convicts of the state
,,n,,-st 90 tnnnnrarilu on the nnhlic