The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1911-01-26
GEORGIA
NEWS


Macon. Sixty-eight near beer deal
ers have conformed to The require.
ments Of the law with regard to oper-
ating in Macon the coming year Tnis
is fully up to former records and lit
tie change will be made This is a
larger per cent. for the start
Grovania. Farmers in this section
are taking advantage of the splendid
weather and will soon be ready to
begin planting again. Merchants are
getting busy and with the expectation
of a new railroad the little town will
soon be on boom.
Washington, D. C.-The suggestion
that Mayor Herbert Clay, Marietta. will
enter the race for United States sena
tor to succeed mis- father, Hon. A. S
Clay, was the interesting news dis.
cussed among Georgians. 1t is said
pressure has been brought to bear up-
on Mayor Clay to have him enter the
race, and that he will have the back
ing Of some Influential political fac.
tors who were close to his father, the
late senator.
Americas The First Baptist Sun.
day school of Americas has the very
unique honor Of having two scholars
who have been on the roll of honor
continuously for five years, never hav.
ing missed attendance during that en-.
tire perid. They are Mr.. Barney Guer.
ry and Miss Ethel Query
Commerce.-Ten acres of land, one
and a half miles from the depot sold
few days ago at $140 per acre.
There is not a house nor a stick of
timber on it. 1t is situated on the
Southern railroad, south of town, at
Buffers crossing, and is known as
the Jack Farabee tract. E. w. P.
Richey of this place was the pur
chaser.
Jackson. Butts county will receive
as her part of the pension fund for
1911 $3.50, which will be divided
among 1879 pensioners. There are IA
widows of the old class, II INDECENT
widows, IA disabled soldiers, 73 indi.
gent soldiers and 16 widows approx
ed under the 1910 law and six sol
diers approved under the new law.
During the year just passed, Is veter.
ans and widows died in Butts county,
Thomson Three attempts to wreck
three different trains on the Georgia
road were made near Mesena, a small
town six miles west of here.
Athens.-The following officers
were elected by the Georgia Dairy
and Livestock association for the cur
rent year, at the close of the most
successful meeting of the association
ever held: J. D. Price, president; G..
T. Hunicutt, vice president, and Mil
ton P. Jarnigan, secretary and treasu
rer. The following is the substance
of a resolution which was adopted
unanimously by the association just
before adjournment: 1--WE urge the
representatives in congress not to re
peal the tax on oleomargarine; that
the legislature be memorlalized to
provide for the manufacture at the
state college of agriculture OF hog
cholera serum for the protection OF
the farmers in the state who are rals-
ing hogs; that we commend the eX-
tension work Of the state college );
that we cooperate in every way with
the work of decentralization, and that
we lend all suppost possible to the
movement for the second educational
train which is soon to tour the state. ~
Athens the past few weeks
almost every other house on several
of the main residence streets nave
mad the legend, Measles" posted on
the front. 1t is estimated that there
have been since the first OF December
about five hundred cases of measles
in the city. There has not been a
death from the epidemic, nor decid-
edly serious case 1t is stated that a
visitor who attended the recent as
sembling of the North Georgia con-
ference of the Methodists unwittingly
started the present epidemic.
Jackson on the Middle Geor.
gia Interurban railway from Jackson
to Griffin and Social Circle has been
started by Capt. w. F. Smith of Flo
villa. who is promoting the enter
prise. He is cutting crossties and
grading the line from Indian Springs
to Jackson. the terminus OF the road
for the present, AS soon as this INK
of the line is completed the other
end will be pushed
Griffn.-The custom Of Kissing tht
holy Bible in the superior court IN
this country has been revived Judge
Daniel remlires all witnesses to touch
the sacred book on being sworn. This
custom has not been observed in 70
wears and it is new experience to
MANY young jurors, though older jury
men were accustomed to it in the
long ago
Waynesboro.- Small, a ne
gro girl was tried and convicted OF
the murder of Harvey Jones, a white
merchant and farmer of this county.
on January II. The girl and Calvin
Johnston. negro man, convicted OF
the same crime, were sentenced 70
hang on February 8.
Waycross.-Pecans as shade trees
IS q feature of the tree planting in
Wavcross this month. Some time ago