The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1911-03-30
GEORGIA
NEWS

county, the county commissioners de.
cided tc build $4,000 court house.
the county will also spend this year
81 900 on good roads.
Dublin. Property values in the
city Of Dublin have increased to the
extent Of not less t1an $75O,0OO, DUR
ing the past twelve months, accord
ing to an estimate made by the clerk
Of the city council. The largest in
crease ever made in Dublin I'D one
year previously was about two hum
bred and seventy-fVe thousand dol
lars. .hTe total assessed value Of
property in Dublin this year will be,
in round numbers, $3,650,000.
Sparta. The main building of the
Tenth District Agricultural school.
rear here, was burned The origin
of the fire is not known. The struc-
lure was protected fully by insurance
and will be replaced.
Statesboro.- The boards Of educa.
ton Of Bulloch county and States,
boro are planning uniform course
OF study for the high schools OF the
county for the opening of tne fall
term. The Statesboro board will add
fourth year for 1911-12. 1t was
found that seven pupils were going
off to preparatory schools for the
last years preparation for college,
and the board thought it best to give
full training at home for these and for
the many who could not afford the
extra expense.
Waycross Waycross is growing so
fast that the thre brick school build
ings will not accommodate the pu-i
pills. BY the end of the year a new.
$4,000 high school building will be
under way and a fourth grade added
Rome and Waycross are the only cit,
les without four year high schools.
Superintendent Pound means to put
Waycross abreast of the best, and Su
perintendent Harris has 100000 to
improve the Rome schools. The Way
cross Medical association has done a
good thing for the schools. The as
ISOLATION offered the board of educa
ton to examine the school children
free. Each doctor was assigned two
to three grades. The examinations
were made on uniform plans and re.
ports made to the parents and to the
superintendent In less than two
weeks every child had been examined
and many of the defects remedied
The association proposes to repeat
he examination annually.
Cordele.-President w. M Legg Of
the Georgia Southwestern and Cult
railroad, together with General Coun-
sci Col. John Donaldson of cambridge
and local counsel, appeared before the
mayor and city council Of Cordele and
secured a right-of-way for the extern
SIGN of their road to Hawkinsville,
distance of 35 miles. Work of con-
structing the extension will begin as
early as the management of the road
can organize its forces. The work Of
extending the road from Albany, Ga,
to st. Andrews Bay, Fla, will also
begin at the same time.
Rome.-T Through one of the biggest
realty deals in recent years the Cher
okee Insurance company purchased
for $4,000 from Mrs. NJ. Wall four
story brick office building on Second
avenue. The deal is OF interest in
Chattanooga, where there are many
stockholders OF the company, and
throughout the South. The new own.
ers will convert the property into q
modern high class hotel with seventy
two rooms, plans for which have al.
ready been drawn up. The company
will continue to have its Offices on
the ground floor OF this building. The
work will commence within sixty days.
Americus.--A shock was given five
members Of the Americas city council
and two Baptist ministers when Dep
uty United States Marshal Norton
served them separately with petitions
and subpoenas in the cases of Tnom.
as Dixon, the author and playwright,
and the Southern Amusement compa-
ny, in the suit for heavy damages and
alleged conspiracy. On hundred thou'
sand dollars in each case is demand
ed for action of alleged shutting out
and adopting denunciatory resolutions
against Dixons play, 1.-THE Sins of the
Father" in Americas, in November
last.
Thomaston.-A ''Five-Acre Corn
Club" has been formed by ten of the
leading farmers of Upson county. This
organization is rather unique. The
members of the club have contributed
| $40 90 Q fund to be awarded as a
prize to the one gathering from the
largest number OF bushels from the
five acres planted They will meet
in a few days to perfect the rules and
regulations governing the contest. The
members of the club are A. and R
Middlebrooks, ]. H. B. Butts, Thomas
Trice, John Matthews, Raleigh Green
r. A. Williams, ]. r. Hoyle, Len
Holmes, John w. Robertson, w. c
Hightower.
Townsville. -R. F. Whiddon Of this
city, whose daughter, Mrs. Mai
Wright. has been sending him inter
esting letters of conditions in Mexico
where she is making her home, il