The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1911-02-23
GEORGIA
NEWS

facts and figures of the business done
by various concerns during the past
year. intending when it has been CON-
pleted to utilize them in advertising
the town and county. Between the
first of January, 1910, and the first
OF Janaury, 1911, over sixty-three hun,
bred carloads of freight were unload
ed in Moultrie, this number being
solid car lots. 1t has been shown
that more than $175,OOOO was spent in
this city for live stock by the farm.
ers and turpentine men, every dollar
of which was spent with local stock
dealers.
Macon.-A freeze would totally de-
stroy the Georgia fruit crop. Every,
where in this section the trees are
in full bloom and the orchard own.
ers are very uneasy over the next
change in the weather. The fruit, il
killed, means loss of $1O,OOO,OOO to
Georgia.
Milledgeville.- city's popula,
tion, as shown by special enumera-
tors employed by Milledgeville, shows
an increase of 1908 over the govern,
ment's returns, making a total of s.
4S3. This does not include the school
population of nearly one thousand,
mostly girls, attending the Georgia,
Normal and Industrial college, nor
does it include the state sanitarium,
in the suburbs, with approximately
two thousand people. Of course the
patients at the state hospital, number
ing S,400, are not included.
Albany .-Notice has been received
by the city and county authorities
that the Griggs memorial tablet, or
dered several months ago, and to be
placed in the government building
here, has been shipped, and should
arrive some time next week. The
tablet will be placed in one Of the
walls Of the lobby Of the postoffce.
The building, which will cost about
$125,000, and is now about 70 per
cent. completed, was secured for Al
bany as the result of Congressman
Griggs' efforts, and is the first FEEDER
al building for which dirt was broken
in the Second district.
Valdosta.-T1e farmers of Lowndes
county are alarmed over the prospect
of an enormous increase in the acre
aeg of sea island cotton as indicated
for the coming season. At a meeting
of the Sea Island Cotton Growers
association, held here, resolutions
were passed urging the farmers to
substitute short staple cotton or other
crops, and hold the acreage in long
cotton below that of last year. 1T
is understood that the farmers who
have not heretofore raised long cot
ton to practically any extent, are pre-
pairing to put in large acreage.
Athens-Of interest to the princi-
pals, teachers, students and patrons
Of the hundreds of nigh schools over
the state will be the announcement
from Prof. J. S. Stewart, professor
of secondary education at the Uni.
persity of Georgia, Of the following
dates and places for the holding in
the early spring of the. Congressional
High School associations:
First district. May IL, at SWANS
boro.
Second district, March 80 and 81,
at Moultrie.
Third district, April 21 and %. at
Fitzgerald.
Fourth district, not fixed, either the
date or place.
Fifth district, date not fixed, to meet
at Jonesboro
Sixth district, April q, at Barnes
vile.
Seventh district, April 81 and %,
at Dalton.
Eighth district. April q and %, at
Elberton.
Ninth district, April % and 20, at
Toccoa.
Tenth district, May 5 and 6, at War
renton.
Eleventh district, southern division,
at Blackshear, date not fixed.
The State High School association
will meet in Athens on June Is, 20
and 30.
Atlanta prison commission
has declined to make any recommen-
dation for clemency in the case OF
the three Rawlins boys, Milton, Leon
ard and Jesse, who are serving life
sentences for completely in the killing
Of the Garter children, near Valdosta,
several years ago. According to
Chairman Dawson, the commission
declined to recommend clemency on
the ground that more time should
elapse before any recommendation for
clemency is made, and that since the
boys have served only five or six
years of a. life sentence, it is too early
to consider granting a pardon.
Athens.-A loss estimated to be
$5OO,oOO, was sustained by the EN-
pire State Chemical company in the
burning of the greater part of their
fertilizer plant, just outside the limits
of the corporation at Athens.
Statesboro.- the people OF Grove.
land and Pembroke show sufficient
announcement, Bulloch county will,
in the near future, have another rail
road. making the fourth road to ira
verse her territory. This news was