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morning at Abbeville destroyed stores of George W. Doster, A. T. Baker and S. F. Sapp and the barber shop of Freeman Coney, the G. W. Doster ice house and T. J. Dixon's shoe shop. These were all wooden buildings and some of them had been built as long as thirty years. The loss will run up into several thousand dollars. Orville Randolph Bozeman, aged 12 years, died early Saturday at the Columbushospital where he was taken Thursday from his home, after being accidentally shot by his father while thelatter was instructing him in the use of a .22 calibre rifle he had purchased for him that morning instead of waiting until Christmas. A suit for the recovery of about $60,000 worth of securities that the National bank of Savannah secured from the Chase National bank, and which the late Citizens and Screven county bank of Sylvania claim should be returned for the benefit of the depositors of the defunct bank will be transferred from the Screven county Superior court to some other county in the Ogeechee circuit for trial as all stockholders and depositors of the bank were disqualified as jurors and the entire list was exhausted and only twenty jurors secured. At a meeting held in Quitman last week, a temporary organization of the Southwest Georgia Melon Growers' association was perfected and officers elected. The association is fostered by the Southwest Georgia Development association in the counties of Berrien, Brooks, Colquitt, Cook, Decatur, Lowndes, Tift, Thomas and Worth. The Southern bridge, near Toccoa, built by H. W. Wells, of Dalton, is considered one of the world's wonders in civil engineering. It is a piece of concrete work stretching from one mountain to another on the Southern railway. It is 1,613 feet long, and 200 feet high of concrete and is the first of its kind ever constructed. Burke county still leads the state in the production of cotton even though 13,358 bales behind last year. The latest report given out by the government shows Burke to have ginned 31,614 bales for 120 to November 1. Last year the same time the number was 46,972. Contracts have been let by the Georgia Ice company, Savannah, for the construction of the plant additions which will more than double the capacity of the plant. When completed, the new factory will be able to turn out 300 tons a day. Rev. W. F. Smith, presiding elder of the Cordele district, has been pretsented with a suit of clothes and an overcoat as a token of appreciation of his faithful and efficient service in the district in the past four years.