The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1910-09-22
THROUGHOUT GEORGIA.

THROUGHOUT GEORGIA.
The program Of the Southern Con
| servation congress to be held in At
lanta October Z and indicates that
this gathering will be one of the most
important held in the country, both
in point of attendance and the pres
ence of personages prominent in the
conservation movement now receiv-
ing so much attention Among those
most prominent on the program are
former. President Theodore Roosevelt,
former Chief Forester Clifford Pin
eliot, Governor Stubs Of Kansas, who
recently delivered a virtriolic attack
upon Secretary of the Interior Bal
linger at the opening Of the conservar
ton congress at st. Paul. DR.. c. w.
Hayes, chief of the government geo
logical department, will also be pres
ent. Invitations to attend have been
extended to President Taft, Vice Pres
ident Sherman and representatives of
foreign governments.
| A4JlOQSA LuO WIG p1GS1QSAL VI q
bank, the late Thomas Haskins of
Laurens county, left $4,000 in an
old flimsy desk when he died, after
keeping much of it there in prefer
ence to banking it. Of the sum SILL
400 was in money, the rest in notes
and mortgages The desk was opened
at the order of his widow and the for
tune was found.
| Columbus is making great prepare
lions for the coming Of the Confed-
crate veterans of Georgia, who will
| light their camp fires on the banks of
the Chattahoochee river on Octo-
Der nineteen for the tdo days session.
Camp Benning, the Columbus Confed-
crate organization, has the details Of
the occasion well in hand, numbers of
committees having been appointed to
look after the various features. An
entertainment fund is being raised
and the city council mas contributed
$500 to this fund. Columbus enter
tanned the Georgia division a few
years ago and the people here have
most pleasant recollection of that oc-
casion.
Comptroller General Wright said
that the returns from railroads and
other corporations this year would
probably show an increase of $4,000
900 over those of last year. Up to
date all the railroads have made tax
returns which have been accepted by
the comptroller general with the ex-
ception of the Georgia, Florida and
Southern. Arbitration will probably
be required in that case.
The immense new plant of the Con-
solidated Ice and Power company of
Valdosta is completed, and all of the
electrical connections have been
made; the light and power currents
were shut off at the old plant and
turned on from the new With the
installing of the new plant Valdosta
is furnished an electrical service the
equal of any in the south of four
times its size, and one which will
amply meet the public needs for
many years.
Standing Master ]. ~ Talley, in the
Tiff lumber rate case, fled reports
adverse to % lumber producers in
which claims aggregating 100000
were refused and disallowed These
were, most of them, members of the
Georgia Florida Saw Mill association.
The claims were filed under the I. 0.
b. rulings, and nearly all of them
were similar to that of the Garbutt
Lumber company, whose case was
made test case The ruling that
threw out this large number OF claim
ants under the decisions of the court
in the Tiff case, was that the lumber
and material was sold at the mill by
the producer, and after it was loaded
on the cars at the price named, the
freight fight could no longer rest
upon the shoulders of the producer.
Tiff county is to have a $4,000
courthouse, which will be built this
fall, and the money to pay for it will
be raised by direct taxation. Twice
under an ordinary and once under the
board Of county commissioners the
people have been giveen an opportu-
nifty to vote bond issue for this
purpose, but each time the constitu-
tional requirement of two-thirds the
total registered vote was not polled.
The commissioners have despaired. OF
securing bond issue. and they decid-
ed to levy direct tax for that pur-
pose.