The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-01-25
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OF State Interest

street, and carried away many yalua-
Bile articles, such as diamonds, brooch
! es, rings, etc, as well as valuable pa
pers, the articles stolen being esti-
mated at something like $4,000 or
$4,000
Rome.-Floyd county is to be divid-i
ed into FIVE sections, with road SUI
perintendent or foreman and four men
for each section, one of the four men
to act as cook, each section to have
two road scrapers, road machine
and four mules. All the men are to
have employment the year round, the
foremen receiving SIS a month and
the others $1.75 a day.
Flowery Branch. Mrs. Mary Ben
nett, for over seventy years a resident
of this place, is dead from burns re-
ceived when her dress caught fire
at an open fireplace, and her daugh-
ter, Laura, aged IS, died as a result
of her vain attempt to rescue her
mother. The bodies of both mother and
daughter were buried in the same
grave at the Flowery Branch Gene
terry.
Augusta. -Wastage in water has put
Augusta in serious situation. I'm
filtered water has been turned into
the city mains. Filtered water, how
ever, goes to Camp Hancock and to the
Hill They are on different main
from the city proper. The Augusta wa
ter supply is furnished by water-driyen
pumps 1t is 100000 gallons of
water. The consumption during the
last few days has been 100000 gal
Ions per twenty-four hours.
Brunswick. THE labor union men
of Brunswick and there are now an
unusually large number Of them are
busy organizing a stock company to
open at an early date a grocery and
general merchandise store, to be
known as the Union Labor Store. A
large amount of the stock has already
been subscribed and the company will
shortly file its application for member
ship. The store, it is understood, is
to be operated on the cooperative
plan, and the profits used to pay the
operating expenses.
Milledgeville. The board of trus-
tees of the Georgia state sanitarium
met here. This being the initial meet
ing this year, the first business was
the organization of the board. John
T. BrantIey of Blackshear, who has
been the presiding officer for many
years, was reelected president; Henry
Banks of LAGRANGE, vice president,
and Richard Johnson of Jones county,
secretary The contract to erect a
new building for negroes was awarded
to Rome, Ga, company. There were
six bidders. DR.. Roger Swint was
elected clinical director.
Waycross--From January "a to %
there will be shown free in various
rural school houses in Ware a most
inteseting and instructive set of mo-
ton pictures, illustrating the cattle
breeding industry. Besides there will
be an interesting story film. The Geor-
gia Hereford Breeders association has
furnished some beautiful pictures Of
cattle The United States bureau of
animal industry will have an intensly
fascinating film showing how farmers
may improve their cattle and free
them from the tick, with details Of the
different watts.
Athens.-The Athens fuel admins
tration passed an order eliminating the
peddling of coal and the delivery of
coal by draymen, dealers being order
ed to deliver all coal (not sent by
consumers wagons), charging Is cents
per 500 pound load for delivery. Cards
calling for 500 pounds are to be sent
to dealers direct by the central adj
ministration office, instead Of the card
system adopted some days ago. Ev-
cry car of coal arriving in Athens
will be known, every delivery will
pass through the administration, and
record will be kept of all The munic-
ipal wood yard, with city and county
forces supplying and delivering, cut
ting and saving, has supplied more
than three thousand loads of wood.
Americus.-L G. Council received a
telegram stating that Americas had
been awarded the aviation camp to be
established by the war department in
Georgia. Information here is to the ef-
feet that the government will expend
about a million dollars in equipping
the camp. Local business interests
have worked hard to secure the camp
for Americas and are well pleased with
the decision just announced. There
will be LOO student aviators and
about 1000 officers, soldiers, mechan-
les and commissary men. It is not
known yet whether the Aries planta-
ton site or the Methvin place will be
chosen. Government officials are said
to favor the former. There will also
be two additional sites to be used as
auxiliary camps and landing stations
about four miles apart. It is expect
ed that work will begin by the first
of February
Camp Wheeler, Macon. - One hun
bred officers and men of the 1920 in
fantry Fifth Georgia) were actually
in contact with poisoned gas when the
first detachment passed through the