The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1911-05-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK
LATE NEWS OFTHE WORLD
TERSELY TOLD.
SOUTH, EAST, NORTH AND WEST
Notes From Foreign Lands, Through
cut tn. Nation and Particularly
the Great South.


with the better portion OF the bust
ness section OF Stevenson, Ala, in
ashes, and with loss estimated at
over $125,000. the inhabitants face a
serious situation. The fire burned
Hercely for twenty-four hours, There
was no water available, and dynamite
was freely used in the effort to ar
rest progress of the flames. This was
unsuccessful until two entire blocks
had been destroyed. The town Is
left with but FIVE stores, and there
was little insurance on the property
destroyed.
A resolution will be introduced in
the Georgia legislature, which meets
In June, seeking to memorabilia con-
gress to cut the state OF Georgia into
two states to be known as North Geor-
gla and South Georgia, Its object,
according to J. L. Crawley, the repre-
sentative from the Waycross district,
who has drafted the resolution, is to
stop the continual pickering In poll
tics and other ways, between the two
sections. He states a number of SEN
Rtors and representatives favor the
division.
At a meeting Of the committees
representing the five cigarmakers
unions in Tampa, Fla, it was unani-
mously decided to call Of the strike
and a manifestow as issued calling
tho men back to their benches. The
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wolves ten thousand cigarmakers, six
thousand Of which walked out and the
remainder failed to return to work,
The decision of the joint advisory
committee followed conference be-
tween Circuit Judge Joseph B. Wall
and attorneys for the strikers
Savannah Confederate veterans will
make strong effort at the reunion
In Little Rock this month to have the
United Confederate veterans declare
for uniform memorial day Dele
gates from both camps of veterans
here are preparing resolution that
win bring the matter before the con-
yention, and the hope is expressed
that 1t will result in favorable action.
in Georgia, Alabama, Florida and
Mississippi, April 26 is memorial day;
In North Carolina and South Carolina
It is May 10; in Tennessee, May IL;
Louisiana, June s, and Virginia, May
go
A particularly narrowing story Of
alleged white slave traffic wss told
TO Atlanta police by Nellie Lewis,
pretty l7-year-old girl who says
her home is in Winston-Salem, NJ
O. The girl declares that she has
been carried from city to city for the
past several weeks by H. M. Burt Of
South Carolina and Cassie Cobb Of
Winston-Salem. She says that the
couple have kept her in state OF
bondage. In the varies cities she was
made to lead a life of shame to sup
port the man and woman,
Declaring that the wholesale gro
GERS Of the South have had nothing
to do with the high cost of living,
H. a. Forcheimer of Mobile. Ala, Wig
orously defended the Southern Whole
sale Grocers' Association, in paper
which proved to be the feature Of the
convention OF that body, which is now
holding its twentieth annual conven-
ton in Atlanta. At the same meet
ing Hon. T. G. Hudson, commissioner
OF agriculture of Georgia.. enlisted the
help of those present against the fur.
Their enoroachment Of the boil weevh,
which he characterized as the most
serious economic problem with which
the South is confronted