About 8 last Thursday morning Tom Cain came to the boiler room at the Lovett Planing Mill, stopped at a side door and called to Jeans Jenkins, the colored fireman at the Mill, and emptied a shotgun into the back of Jenkins as he was shoveling shavings into the fire. Jenkins was carried to Dr. R. E. Brinson who treated him for a big , round, ugly hole in his back just left of his backbone. He will probably survive. Cain was arrested immediately and is staying in the barroom of Sheriff Lewis Davis boarding house. Cain worked with a gang on the railroad.
Tom Pug Wright, who works for G. A. Tarbutton, is in jail on a charge of assault with attempt to murder having held a gun that shot a load into the left side of Florrie Fields, a colored woman. She is not hurt badly, only flesh wounds. The details aren't clear but Tom claims it was an accident. Grady Cox and Fluker Tarbutton obtained a written statement from the woman stating it was an accident. A bond was assessed and the colored man was released .
Justices, baliffs and Constables were elected Saturday. Ivey Dist. Judge J. S. Wheeler, J. P. and J. M. Powell and L. W. Harrison, baliffs. Spann Dist. Jas. T. Miller, J. P., C. B. Flanders and G. W. Young, baliffs. Bray Dist. J. C. Bray, J. P., N. D. Whitaker and R. M. Brantley, constable. Pullen Dist. H. D. Garnto, J. P., Reuben C. Douglas and W. T. N. Logue, baliffs. Wrightville Dist. Dr. T. L. Harris, J. P., W. J. Crawford and W. T. Rowland, baliffs. Kite Dist. Judge J. C. Harrison, J. P., J. C. Claxton and N. J. Meeks, baliffs. Adrian Dist. Judge T. I. Pope, J. P., Frank Drake, constable. Powell Dist. Judge J. K. Mixon, J. P., B. J. Lampp, constable.
Capt. Wright will move the gang to winter quarters as soon as they finish across the Ohoopee to Bartow on the Jeff Davis Highway. The road from the city to the Washington Co. line is next. The Ordinary is having the road surveyed to the Lauren's line by Spann and plans to work that road next.
The Duff brothers recently sold to Mr. William Jackson of Donovan the Johnson Co. farm of 714 acres, with all the stock, farming implements and feedstuff and Jackson will operate it. This is one of the largest land deals in the county in several years. The Duff brothers still own considerable farming lands adjoining this and will continue farming that land.
Mr. & Mrs. Dewitte Brinson had a fine son Dec. 5th. Dr. & Mrs. R. R. Douglas had a son on Dec. 3rd.
Mr. Dave Turner is now operating a grocery store at Tom. Mr. W. Marcus Anderson has moved here from Kite. He is now the cashier at the Farmers Bank. The Williams Furniture Co. has opened next to Kaplans store.
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