Statewide County GaArchives News.....NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE October 22, 1897
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Savannah Morning  News October 22, 1897
                         NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE
                            22 OCTOBER 1897
     Rev. J. A. Thompson of Thomasville has been preaching thirty-three years
and just had his first vacation of ten days away from his duties. A preacher's
lot is either a very soft snap or Rev. Thompson is extraordinary industrious.

     The Cordele Cotton Factory is working day and night, which doubles the pay
roll and pays out about $1,200.00 per week, which money is spent among the small
business men of the town. Connected with smaller manufacturing enterprises, the
cotton factory and other pay rolls weekly mean a large amount of cash money for
Cordele. 

     William H. White, was awarded a verdict in the superior court Tuesday
afternoon in his suit against his aunt, Miss E. A. White. White claimed he
bought an acre of land from his relative for $150.00, and that she declined to
deliver him more than half an acre. The case was submitted to a jury, which,
after some deliberation, decided the nephew's version of the trade was correct.

     Sunday while BAliff W. J. Shepherd of the Third district of Terrell county
, was riding along the public road near Herod, he met Asbury Mills, a negro who
was wanted in Dooly county for murdering a woman three months ago. Mill was
captured after a short race, and was taken to Dawson and lodged in jail. Sheriff
Roberts of Dooly county was notified of the murder's capture. Mills once lived
in Terrell county and has relatives in the southern portion of it.

     Coffee county is red hot or anew court house. The present framed structure
would do for ten or fifteen years ago, but with Coffee's growth in population,
prosperity, and legal business, it is now wholly unfit and inadequate. The
majority of the county commissioners, backed by all who have the county's best
interest at stake, are in favor of a new brick courthouse, to cost not less than
$20,000.00, with fire proof vaults and up to date in every particular, that will
not only be safe and durable, but an ornament to the county as well.

     Protracted meetings are going on at the Baptist Church at Stillmore this
week, Rev. H. J. Arnett of Sylvania, the pastor, is being ably assisted by Rev.
Car W. Minor of Valdosta. Mr. Minor is an able divine and is doing some ver
effectual work here. He was born in Hancock county, Georgia, was educated at the
Military and Agricultural College at Milledgeville, and after wards graduated at
Mercer. He then graduated at the Baptist Theological Seminary at Louisville
Kentucky, and for the last two years has been serving the Baptist Church at
Valdosta.

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