The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-05-21
GEDR6Ik NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

son Of the state department Of agri-
culture, who has returned from an
extended visit through the middle and
southern sections Of the state Com
missioner Hudson states mat tine
condition Of the oat crop Is excep-
fionally good. Corn Is also growing
well The cotton crop, however will
be short and late, according TO the
commissioner.
Patents issued Georgians: ]. f.
German. Atlanta, optometer; T. j.
Harper, deceased, Atlanta. fireplace
III. e. Kirby, Marietta, chain clasp; j.
RegengteiH, Atlanta, one-piece folding
suitcase and box.
Benjamin j. Lewis has been APP
pointed postmaster at Eldora, Bryan
county, vice q. Lewis. resigned.
A company composed Of the prom
inent farmers Of the Lincolnton sec
tion Of the county, has been formed
for the purpose of erecting an oil mill
at Pansy This is in keeping with
other developments that are going on
in Lincoln county
The Bibb county board of educa-
tion, headed by President T. D. Tin
sley, appeared before the county com
missioners and asked for an appropri-
tion of $4,000 for the running expens-
es OF another scholastic year. This
is a larger amount than has ever
been asked for the schools of Bibb
The increase In attendance has made
1t necessary TO add a number Of
teachers and number Of new school
buildings have been erected.
r. H. Burton, who is serving SEN
tence of twelve years in the peniten-
tiary for killing his nineteen-year-old
son, Jesse Burton, In Columbus in
1903. was pardoned by Governor
Smith. Burton was convicted of man
slaughter and has served five years
OF his sentence The prison commits
sion declined to recommend pardon,
but the governor took different view
of the case.
The state court of appeals decided
that municipality may prescribe
stringent regulations for the sale of
near-beer, but cannot prescribe such
regulations as shall be prohibitory.
Two decisions were handed down,
against the city of Waycross and
against the city of Thomasville. 1t
was decided that the, Waycross ordi-
nance governing the sale of near-beer
is invalid because the regulations pre-
scribed are so stringent that no one
could possibly comply with them,
amounting to the prohibition of the
sale Of near-beer.
BY organizing the Georgia State
Game Protective association and by
agreeing on a game bill to be present
ed to the next session of the legisla-
ture, the sportsmen of Georgia, as
sembled some forty or fifty strong in
Atlanta made the first concerted
move toward game protection in Geor-
gia. Charles L. Davis, of Warm
Springs, was elected the president of
the association and 1t was left to him
to appoint the secretary and the mem
Dbers of the executive committee, of
which there are to be two from the
state at large and one from each of
the eleven congressional districts. whe
meeting was called to order by Mr..
Davis and Henry A. Tarver of Dough
erty county, and was selected tempo
rary chairman and Marshall Andrews
OF Muscogee county as temporary Sec
rotary Mr.. Davis then addressed the
meeting, explaining what had been
done and what was yet TO be done to
secure game protection Ia Georgia.
He outlined the provisions of the
proposed law, chief Of which are the
prohibition of the sale of game. pro-
hibtion of the hunting on the land. of
others without written permission
and a system of licenses for shooting
make the game commissioners Office
self-supporting. After the election of
officers and the transaction of other
business, the meeting took up the pro-
posed game law and discussed it fully.
The passage of this law win be urg-
ed upon the next legislature by the
new Game Protective association.
In reply to letters sent the mem
bers of the Atlanta chamber of com
merce asking for suggestions, Attor-
ney Charles j. Haden offers tine sug.
gestion that the chamber not only adj.
vertise Atlanta to the world but take1
steps TO set forth the advantages of
the rest of the state. Mr.. Hader tales
the position that since Atlanta must
Draw from the rest of the state. che
must aid in bringing money to it. He
suggests some method of publicity
which would bring the resources ri
the state to the attention of outside
ers. He tells how this has been done
in Texas and the southwest, where ir-
rigation is necessary to bring the land
into productiveness. In south and
southwest Georgia, he says, lands are
lying idle or are not producing to
their capacity because outside capital
does not know about them. Those
lands have plenty of rainfall, and pro-
duce everything that those out west
do.