The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-03-26
LATE NEWS NOTES
Generai

DrdSb choir ana some OF the most Ia
nous sOloists in America will be
heard all at the same time in some
OF the program numbers that are be-
ing arranged for the Southern Music
festival at Atlanta, Ga, May 4, and
8. This will, perhaps, be the largest
combination of voices and instru-
ments ever brought together for such
an occasion.
Chicago women's clubs, refuting
the doctrine of politicians that WON
en- cannot understand the tariff" have
adopted resolutions inaugurating a
nationwide protest against an In
crease upon necessities in every
American home which emphasize cot
ton gloves and hosiery
The Minnesota house committee
on crime and punishment reported
fayorably a bill providing that any
chorus girl who appears in public in
tights when the same are red white
and blue, shall be fined 500, or be
locked up for ninety days.
The patriotic order, Sons Of Amer
lea, has secured an option on STRAIT
ford, the ancestral home of the Vir-
ginia Lees, which the order will pre-
sent to the state of Virginia The
price is given at 100000.
Mrs. Polly Love, aged 10, the old
est resident of Walker county, Geor-
gia, died last week at her home near
Bronco. She was a native of North
Carolina, having been born in that
state in August Of 1898, her span Of
life touching three centuries.
War on the Standard Oil company
by independent dealers at Berlin, who
complain because the American COM
pany is distributing oil direct to
small retailers in tWenty-one-quar
cans, is threatened. 1t is said the
Standard offered certain concessions
which did not satisfy the wholesal.
ers, who are urging the public to
cease purchasing American oil.
1t is learned from one of ex-Presi-
dent OF Venezuela Castros friends
that he has only about $4,000 in Eu-
rope, and that the stories of immense
sums being sent out to him from Ven
ezuela are pure fiction. Castro ar
ranged for a credit of 100000 with
the Deutsche bank of Berlin which
was later supplemented by drafts on
the Bank of Venezuela for about $780,,
900 more.
Twenty-eight minutes spent il
New Orleans dentists chair in an
effort to have a refractory tooth ex-
tracted was the basis of a $4,000
damage suit that has been filed in
that city by Antonio P. Broussard.
The petitioner claims that during the
process of attempted extraction, the
dentist broke her jawbone, which Sc
riously affected her nervous system,
and led up to paralysis
Washington.
President Taft has given his in
and conference to be held at Wash
ington beginning May 20. The con-
ference is to be held for the purpose
of lettering conditions of city life all
over the country and making NUM-
cipal improvements in all large cities.
The president so strongly favors the
movement that he will attend the
| first meeting. Practically every large
city in the country will make an ex-
hibit of housing plans which are in
tended to solve the tenement prob
lem.
Secretary of War Dickinson states
! that he will leave Washington about
April Is for his visit to the Isthmus
| of Panama. He does not know how
long he will be gone, but intends to
stay long enough to fully inform him
self as to the work and conditions in
the canal zone.
Sir Lionel Carbon, British minister
! to Central America, has closed an ar
rangement with the government of
Honduras for the settlement Of the
| foreign debt, on behalf Of the council
Of foreign bondholders.
AT the final session of the Ameri-
can Society for the Study of Alcohol
and other Drug Narcotics, an inter-
! esting paper was read by DR., G. o.
| Webster of Chicago, president of the
| Illinois state board of health. His
| subject was alcohol and Public
Health Dr. Webster drew the fol-
lowing conclusions That the alcohol
problem is more important than the
| tuberculosis problem, because 1t
causes the loss of more lives and
more money. Traffic in alcohol costs
the United States in direct money
loss more than $4,000, 100000 a year."
| said the speaker. 1T causes direct
! " or indirectly, at least 10 per cent
! of all the deaths in the country"
Non-interest bearing treasury notes
to amount of one million dollars may
be issued by the secretary of the
treasury when in his discretion the
business situation requires it, II Ine
! bill recently introduced by Represent
| alive Weiss of wisconsin becomes
law The notes which are to be in
denominations of S., $40 and $40,
/ and are to be legal tender for du-
ties. public and private, until the
time named by the secretary for their
ing money and valuables, to the
A novel way of raising revenue was
| ,,rnnnnnd II, The hnnse by Renresenta-