The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1911-02-16
GEORGIA
NEWS

Gas OF tne Dalton public schools is
opposed to the sale in this city Of
the sensational five-cent novels 50
dear to the heart of youthful Ameri.
ca Superintendent Lucas has con.
nscated number of these books
from boys in the public schools and
at meeting of council recently he
asked that body to take steps to abol.
ssh their sale in Dalton.
Savannah Originating in the plant
OF the savannah candy factory fire
destroyed the factory, spread 10 the
storage shed of the Atlantic Coast
Line freight depot and DESTROYED
that and quantity of valuable
freight before its progress could be
checked. Loss estimated at $1,000
Macon.-James A.. Blair of New
York was elected president Of the
Macon. Dublin and Savannah railway
at the annual meeting of the board
OF directors in Macon. He succeeds
Homer Loring of Boston, Mass. TIE
firm OF Blair & Co., New York. now
hold controlling interest in the road.
1t is understood.
Washington, D. C.-Population sta.
tistics of the thirteenth census, an
nounced included: Blakley, Ga, l..
1888. against S04 in 1900.
Gainesville. DIR. e. M. Nighbert,
with headquarters at Spartanburg, S.
O., passed through Gainesville en-
route to Jefferson, where he was call
ed by request of the county author.
tiles to put under way the work of
tick eradication for Jackson county.
He is in charge of this work for Geor-
gia and South Carolina for the bureau
Of animal industry, United States de-
partment of agriculture. He states
that throughout Georgia there is much
interest concerning tick eradication
and that it now looks like it will be
no great while before Georgia will
be rid entirely of the deadly Texas
fever or cattle tick.
Macon.-With a record of twenty.
two years in the state penitentiary
without reprimand, Jim Daniels
went out free from the Bibb county
changing on parole given by Gov
ernor Brown upon the application of
DR.. 0. c. Gibson. Daniels was con-
victed of being an accessory to the
murder of another Negro in Jasper
county. Daniels brother was hanged
for the murder, and Daniels went up
for life.
ThOmaston. - Thomaston bids fair
to eclipse her reputation as the sec.
Ond largest retail mule market in the
state this year. The demand for
mules has been unusually heavy and
shows no signs of letting up To
February i, Al carloads Of mules
averaging 80 animals to the car, had
been sold. This makes a total of l..
2S0 mules sold that were shipped in
from the West.
I Thomasville -With peach, plum,
pear and other fruit trees in bloom,
fig trees in leaf, mockingbirds singing.
and the perfume of flowers on the
air, it is springtime in earnest in
South Georgia, although according to
the calendar it is still winter
bearing Recently about one mile
from bearing, John WEIGH, Ed Gay
and two colored men were cutting
a ditch through marsny place in
the middle of a large field, when one
of the men spied little hole of wa.
ter and started for a drink. AS, he
approached he saw something which
proved to be an alligator about three
feet in length. He growled and flirt.
ed his tail. In a few seconds Mr..
Gator was alone On reflection they
got a pitchfork and captured the
gator and brought it to bearing.
Franklin. Heard county has come
forward with loud and emphatic pro-
test against the statement that it
wants to be abolished. On the other
hand say prominent citizens of the
county, the county has more to be
proud of than any one OF the three
counties which it was alleged would
absorb it.
Americus.-WhiIe the destruction
of the fruit crop here by a late
freeze seems Well-nigh foregone
conclusion, farmers are very much
disturbed over conditions resulting
from lack of rain here during the
winter season. The rainfall has been
very light and in consequence the
ground is bone dry at slight depth
and in no condition to insure crop
this year. Where plowing mas been
done at all it is largely upon the sur
face and the plowshare turns up dry
dirt at the depth of a few inches.
Farmers assert that this creates
condition, general throughout South.
ceorgia that is most unfavorable, and
unless a long season of rain in the
early spring supplies the amount OF
moisture essential to the making OF
. .cron there may be a great shortage
in me Weld of corn, cotton and 'other
nroducts. Not in many years has the
rainfall been SO sparse, and farmers
view conditions as rather alarming.
statesboro.-A sea island cotton fac.
tory will likely be established here
al once Savannah capitalists are
largely interested. The promoters