Statewide-Mitchell-Crisp County GaArchives News.....NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE November 20, 1899
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Savannah Morning  News November 20, 1899
                         NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE
                              20 NOVEMBER 1899
     Two Mitchell County citizens went to law about a 75-cent turkey last week,
says an exchange. The expense of the litigation amounted to $15.00, and the
turkey remains with the party who started out with it. The cost will buy a
Thanksgiving turkey for the bailiff, the justice of the pease, four lawyers, six
jurors, and leaves $8.00 for cranberry sauce.
     Quitman Free Press: Mr. Henry Turner is straining his sugar cane juice
through moss and is delighted with the result. He finds, as Judge Tillman has
frequently published to the world that the passage of the juice through the moss
frees it of all foreign particles and the non-sugar contents and coloring
matter, which adheres to the moss.
     Moultrie Observer: Uncle Joel Norman came in town Monday with several bales
of short cotton which he held over from last year hoping to get a better price
for it. His hopes were realized, we might say fully, for he probably did not
expect, when he decided to hold the cotton, to realize as much for it as he was
paid Monday. The advance was more than 2-1/2 cents . It isn't safe to hold
cotton, but this one instance in which it paid.
     The little son of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Bethea died a few days ago at
Bainbridge, and was buried. As the funeral procession was moving down Clark
street to Oak City Cemetery the hearse was halted, the colored driver pulled off
and loudly abused in obscene language by a Negro named Holly Young. The driver
made no resistance and as soon as released proceeded with the hearse. The matter
was promptly taken up and Holly Young taken out and severely beaten with traces.
     Mr. Clayton, who is in charge of the slot machine that have recently been
introduced in Macon, was on Friday fined $1,000.00 by Judge Felton in the
Superior Court on an indictment found against him by the grand jury a few days
ago. Mr. Clayton has not yet paid the fine and is in the custody of the
officers. It is understood that indicitments have been found against each person
allowing the machines to be put in their places of business, and that the heavy
fine assessed Mr. Clayton has made them all uneasy.


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