The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-01-08
THROUGHOUT THE STATE.

WHO were Travelling III ltdly dlICA lCdF-
ing Paris, have been apprehensive VI
their safety since the earthquake
which devastated that section. The
fact that nothing has been heard
from them for two or three weeks has
caused their friends to fear that they
were in the earthquake zone when the
terrible disaster overwhelmed the
country.
County School Commissioner Bacon
has received notice from the state
ohool commissioner that Oglethorpe
county is entitled to $4,000 more this
year than last from the appropria
tions made for the public school fund.
The state school commissioner
hcv~ht, however, that it would be i'm
| possible to deliver the money for the
reason that the state would not like
IIy have it on hand.
| A train load Of wagons and horses
'vere received at Fort Oglethorpe,
Chickamauga Park, from Cuba. Fort
/. Oglthorpe Ga, is now filled to it's
capacity and no more recruits for the
calvary will be brought here until the
property Of the Thirty-eighth infan-
try is moved.
The first steps looking to the, ex-
! tension Of the Western and Atlantic
railroad from Atlanta to the sea were
taken when the extension commission
appointed by Governor Smith met at
the state capitol, elected Hooper Al
exander chairman and appointed d
committee to gather information con-
corning the feasibility and advisable
| ity Of carrying the project into effect.
1t was agreed by the commission
that the main features Of the propos-
ed extension which it is called upon
| to investigate are the probable cost,
| the direction the extension will take,
whether the work can be done by con-
victs, and whether, as a general prop
osition, it will be advisable for the
state to continue its policy of own
| ing a railroad. The committee indulg-
ed in a general discussion of these
questions, but no definite action was
taken.
A letter from Congressman Thomas
" Bell states that the national bu-
reau expert, DIR. Shamel, has announc-
Cd that ]. M. Whichel Of Hall county
has won the first prize and other
prizes at the contest at Omaha, Neb.,
over all contestants for the corn
prizes in the southern zone. Mr..
TFToelchel's corn was in competition
with the product of Texas, Oklahoma,
southern Kansas and other southwes-
| tern states in addition to all the cas-
tern south.
When asked about the report that
pools were being sold regularly on
horse races now being held at Thun-
derbolt, near Savannah, Governor
Smith said that he had not officially
heard of it and that whilo there was
nothing wrong in horse racing in it.
self, pool selling or hookmaking is
violation of the Georgia law
Richard F. Ledrord has been ap.
pointed postmaster at Burnett, Gilmer
county, vice w P. Harper, resigned.
The sale of the Gainesville Elec-
trio Railway company has been post
poned from the first Tuesday in Feb
ruary till the first Tuesday in March.
The road is in receivers hands.
Sumter county begins the new year
with every dollar of Indebtedness can
celed and money in the treasury,
which is a gratifying condition of af-
heavy Indebtedness in building the
Third District Agricultural and Me-
chanical college, but the entire in
debtedness has since been liquidated,
| Prohibition has affected Rome per-,
haps to a greater degree than any
other city in the state of Georgia. The
police books show a decrease of 81
per cent in arrests Tor the year 1908.
In his report to the city council,
Mayor Dunbar of Augusta suggested
the extension Of the city limits so that
the city could keep pace with the 9TH
err cities of the state, and not drop
back by holding to it's old boundaries.
| The confederate monument, erect
cd by the Daughters of The Confed-
eracy of Morgan county, was unyeii-
ed here with most impressive cere-
monies. The chief attraction at the
Iunveiling was the presence of General
Clement A. Evans and Honoraoie
Hoke Smith.
Secretary of State Philip Cook has
granted an amendment to the charter
| of the Georgia and Florida Railway
company, now completing the COLI
struction of its line from Augusta to
the gulf in Florida, permitting it 10
construct branch line three miles in
length from the town Of Sparks to the
town of Abel, both in Berrien county.
Leonard Ward, an aged and respec-
table farmer, was remanded to jail at
Americas for violation of the state
prohibition laws in having made a
few quarts of blackberry wine of the
fruit gathered from his fence corners,
probably selling small quantity to
his neighbor.
Attorney General John G. Hart has
rendered an opinion holding that the
term of office of the state school com