The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1911-01-12
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+. N|S A3C oO Adl ID Till
ty-siy. We even have colored!
grandmother at thirty-tnree. No race.
suicide in this country.
Fort Gaines,-Col G. " Morris of
Fort Gaines is the oldest man in the
Southern states who is actively engag-
ed in business. His .ninetieth birth
day comes early in January. He is a
keen business man and as clipper
as a youth of sixty.
Athens,-Mr. E. D. sledge of Ath-
ems is raising fund to buy a farm
/ for Joseph Stone, the twelve-year-old
boy who won the prize in Georgia in
the corn growing contest. He raised
102 bushels on an acre Of rented land.
Nearly 1900 boys, all in the South,
engaged in the contests. =,
Macon Macon is without doubt
the dryest city in the state, for the
prohibition law is receiving it's first
Iafair test, in . that it is being strictly
applied. The enforcement is partic-
ipated- in by the. county, as we'll, as
municipal officers.
Macon.-The new state law fixing
a tax on dogs has netted the county
treasury $716t for that many CANNES
have been paid for, to the county
tfeasury.H
Rome The last $4,000 of Floyd
county's bridge bonds was paid and
Floyd is now absolutely out of debt
of any, description. 1t has $4,000 in
bank, and is one of the few deptless
counties n the South.
Athens A prospective benedict,
who could not remember his fiance's'
last name, presented himself before.
| Ordinary S. B. Wingield for a mar
,riage license. The young man knew
| the girls first name perfectly, butt
| could not understand the Importance,
| of knowing her last name, since She
| was about to change it anyhow. Mr.
Wingfeld insisted and the young man,
after a trip home, returned with the
young womans last name written on
a slip Of paper.
i i - 1IOlll6Io f1AlV..F e" IA.
| Roddenbery has donated fifty acres of
land to the Odd Fellows to be used
for building an Odd Fellows Orphans
Home. A few days ago the secretary
of the Orphans Home committee wrote
! to members of the Thomasville lodge
| of, Odd Fellows asking what could be
| offered as an inducement to have such
a home located here. So that with the
land which Congressman Rodderfber-
Try has so generously. offered, it is now
| thought the home will be built.
Franklin.-A sensation was created
here when it was rumored that Pin
kerton men were at work on the rob-
berry of the Heard County bank, which
| occurred December 1, and that ar
rests would likely be made. The de-
tectiyes were employed to investigate
| the robbery by the company, which
/ carried the banks burglary INSURANCE.
IT is Stated that $500 of the banks
cash were looted.
wildwood. w. B. James of near Ma.
nor, in this county, reported recently
the record haul of rattlesnakes.. Ac-
| cording to the account told by James,
while on his way to this place with
a load Of cotton, he passed and killed
over forty rattlers. He had "a mum.
her of rattles to back up his story.
Stategboro.-Th farmers are kill
ing pork and saving the remnants OF
cotton. There never has been time
in the history of Bulloeh county when.
things looked better from the stand.
point Of the man behind the plow.
Americus.-A good indication of the
exfent to which the farmers Of this,
section of the state have taken up.
characterization was the recent sale in;
Americas of six thousand bales OF
| homegrown nay. This is by no means
the full crop raised in this neighbor-'
hood.
Montezuma.-Th fertility of Macon
county soil, was demonstrated here rel
Gently when D. F. Douglas, principal
.of the eolored school of this place.,
brought to town a handsome lot OF
Itmaaniflcent celery which ne had ralis7
81 IN his own farm in this county.
kIf,1s not at all improbable that the
raising of celery on large scale
NAV be. takensup. by; the farmers in
this section, as.,it has been proven,
that the soil and climate are well suit
Ne, ed- s4 ia its cultivation.
81 statesboro. The steamer Ellen
oWned by. w. r. Dart Of Brunswick
laRSd B B. cray of Gray's Mill, went
doWu ia the satflla river and is com
pieteiy submerged. None OF the crew
were drowned.
Milledgeville.-H. Sid Jones' private
secretary to DR.. L. M. Jones, super.
intandent of the state sanitarium at
Miltedgeville, has resigned. He viii
Taove "a Montezuma, where he wall
engage in the practice of law. +
Trenton.-The dog tax law is very
,,nnon5,lar In Dade, and the represen,
tatiye for that county in the general
s ssss, will be petitfoned to use mis-
tntIuenoe to have the law repealed,
wn4cConimigsioners Of Polk
coSnfT viii order an j election in q
s s time for the citizens toy vote
,ss,,ino bonds for the. purpose OF