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rising temperature, moder
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VOLUME NO. 9
LOSING IN CRISP, POWER ATTORNEYS SEEK TO CARRY STATE
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rdOLD STATE VOTE
TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF MON
EY BEING EXPENDED TO KEEP
STONE AND WEBSTER HOLD ON
CRISP COUNTY.
The hard-working loyal citizens of
Cordele and Crisp county who have
sought for more than two years to
get their legal right to go out on
Flint river and develop abundant
cheap power for industrial uses in
Crisp county charge today that the
Stone and Webster power attorneys
have given up their fight to defeat
the power bonds in Crisp county,
seeing the strength which is being
developed, and have now gone out
to the state in an effort to defeat
‘the, approval of the amendment by
tooll_ng_ t.hp pgople into 'believing that
Crisp county wants it defeated.
“The fact that they are spcnding
such a tremendous sum of money in
their campaign over the state is the
best evidence of what they think
about it. “They never would spend
what they are spending to defeat us,
if they did not prize Cordele and
Crisp county as they do, and yet they
would have us think that there isn’t
enough power sale in the whole coun
ty to haif way pay the interest on
the-bonds we would issue to build
our power plant,”
Another fighting for the cause said
today: “Talk to me about taxes.
Why, I had just as soon be burden
ed with taxes as to have to pay what
I do pay for power and lighting.
That’s a better bet—that power plant
on the river.. I would prefer many
times to be relieved of the costs
Stone and Webster are imposing on
mg‘now, f v they are getting in ex
cesi} _;cha:l’”from me many times
mot ztha®sgy tota] taxes.”” And so
it is counted with many who talk
about the handicaps in power costs
and the impossibility of ever raising
a worth while industry in the county
by the use of electric power.
Another said 'that the power costs
had to be reckoned with sconer or
later. “It is taking the other pro
gressive communities far ahead of us
—vpower development. There isn’t a
citizen in Crisp county who would
not be for the Crisp county power
development if he could but see the
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THE CORDELE. DISPA'T'CH
MEMBERS ASSOCIATED PRESS
LARGER TELESCOPES
NEEDED TO STUDY
PLANET MARS
'CHICAGO, 111., October 27—(#)
—Mars, the ruddy world of mystery,
about which men have speculated for
a hundred years, is not likely to
yield very much information con
cerning its physical aspects until
larger and more powerful telescopes
are made. This is the opinion of as
tronomers at Yerke's observatory,
who have been training lenses on
the enigma of the skies, now a scant
forty million miles from questioning
WILL BE HELD FRIDAY—IN
FANTRY BAND TO HEAD PA.
RADE.
On account of unavoidable cir
cumstances the Fair parade and
pageant including the crowning of
the King and Queen, has been post
poned until Friday.
The parade, in which will be the
beautifully decorated float of the
Royal pair an dhteir attendants,
merchant floats, individual floats and
decorated cars will be headed by the
Fort Benning Band. The musicians
arrived in Cordele this morning and
gave an execellent concert on the
library lawn up town. They will play
the remainder of the week at the
fair grounds, Friday will be school
day at the Fair and every school in
the county as well as the city schools
will be represented. All in all, this
promises to be one of the best days
of the entire week, and doubtless
large numbers of the people through
out the community will attend.
v;s_t—i;(;;é-r_dcvelopcd in North Caro
lina and what it has meant in the
way of new industries, That state
has one county with seventy-six big
factories in it and several great pow
er dams, The industrial power is
there, but as fast as it is created, it
is taken. So it will be with us.
“We warn our friends— we warn
them—unless we build our power sup
ply, there will never be anything
here but the losing farming enter
prise which we have conducted so
long. There isn’t anything now to‘
draw industries. The power supply‘
we have ig far too limited and far
too costly. it will be farming—farm-}
ing at a loss—or move out. Amli
when we move out and abandon the‘i
lands, there will be nothing clsc.i
Those who know what are our real
~;:u,l_vantagos do not 'want to accept:
such an alternative. They want the
power supply and want to add values
and earnihg powér to all our present}
possessions.
| “There is far less risk in the pow
‘er development than there is in re
‘maining in the old farmnig business.
‘We know we are lost if we remain
there. Something wil] have to be
done to change things. The power
supply will do it. I know that be
cause it has changed things else
‘where., The comcunity tsat tries to
go on without its power supply must
!stand aside and watch other sectinos
‘grow, There Isn't anything else to
it. Electric power is the all-import
lant controlling industrial factor of
this age. Without it we cannot cope
with others.” d
CLOSING SESSION
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' MACON, Ga., October 27—(P)-—
With the most important business
' of the Georgia Masonic Grand Lodge
to be transacted, today, the Grand
Lodge began its second and closing
day of the one hundred and
Ifortieth session this morning. with
Grand Master Richardson presiding,
CORDELE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1926
HOPES TO HAVE SITUATION
CLEARED UP BY 1930 IN
WHICH CENSUS WILL BE
TAKEN.
ATHENS, October. 27—(P)—The
University of Georgia has launched
a campaign to clean up child illitera
cy in the state by nineteen thirty,
in which t3he next national census
will be taken, it was announced t»-
day Chancellor Charles M. Snecllings
Public school officials state school
department attendance officers and
editors will be called upon to aid
movement.
BIRTH OF ROOSEVELT
OBSERVED OVER NATION
NEW YORK, October 27—(&)-—
Today was the sixty-eighth anniver
sary of Theodore Recosevelt’s birtn
observed throughout the country as
navy day.
Ships in the port were thrown open
to visitors, ceremonies and radio
programs arranged to call attention
to the country’s first line defense
and to the career of the men who
as assistant secretary of the navy
and its commander in chief, pro
moted the navy’ interest with all his
energy. ;
ANGEL OF DEATH CLAIMS
LITTLE FRANCES PATE
Friends of the family throughout
the community were shocked and
grieved today to learn of the death
of little Frances Pate, four year old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Pate,
of Raines, which occurred this morn
ing about nine o’clock at the local
hospital. The little girl was ill only
a few days. She was carried to the
Cordele hospital early last night for
an emergency operation in an at
tempt to save her lile. An abscesed
appendix and the fact that her con
stitution was weakened from a pre
vious attack of whooping cough,
caused complications that medical
aid could not overcome, and the lit
tle spirit was called back to God who
gave it.
. Funeral services will be held to
morrow afternoon from the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Ramie Baulloch con
ducted by Rev. J. B. Johnstone, and
interment will be at Ebenezer ceme
tery.
Sincerest sympathy of a host of
friends is extended the grief-strick
en young parents.
TORD AND HIS PARTY
VISIT SMOKY
MOUNTAIN
KNOXVILLE, Oct. 27. — (AP) —
lenry Ford and others in a party
from Detroit came to Knoxville this
morning on a specia] train and de
parted at once for the smoky moun
tains, where the president has desig
nated as- a national park. They will
visit the Pi Beta Phi scrority school
at Gatlinburg, in the heart of the
Smokies.
COURT ORDERS PONZI BE
- SENT TO MASSACHUSETTS
~ AUSTIN, October 27—(P)— Chas,
Ponzi, the financial wizard, was or
dered turned over to MaMssachu
setts authorities by the court of
criminal appeals today. Ponzi is held
' in jail at Houston,
KING AND QUEEN
MISS MARTHA FOX AND MR. ED
GAR FLETCHER CHOSEN AS
ROYAL PAIR.
The crowning of King and Queen
Cotton will take place Friday after
noon at the Fair grounds immediate
ly after the parade which will be
held promptly at twelve o’clock.;
The King and Queen, Mr. Edgai
Fletcher, and Miss Martha Fox, willi
be crowned sovereigns of Crisp‘
county in most impressive mannel"
by “Miss Cordele” frepresented by‘
Miss Frankic Bell Wi§liams. The roy
al pair will have thefr court attend-‘
ants including the trdin bearers, Annl
Kilby Smith and Dglores Miller;
pages, Clyde Wilson| Jr., and Jack
Sheppard Jr; crown [bearers, Ceciic<
Heard and Betty Jongs; flower girls.‘
Ann Bland, Elizabpth Hamilton,
Jean Starr and Annjßutt. The fu!-%
lowing young girls fwill be the
Queen’s attendants: § Misses Essie
Harris, Sara Sheppard, Carolyn Fox,
Gladys King, Pauline Wheeler, Elsie
Wililams, Elizabeth Jennings, Evelyn
MeMillan, Bert Harder and Mary
Strozier.
Featuring the cotton states and
cotton countries in the pageant will
be the teachers of Cordele schools
including Misses Hood, Parker, Pink
ston, Hiller, Christian McKenzie,
Strozier, Harrison, stan"ard;, Me-
Kinney, Braswell. Miss Mamie Laura
Harris will be America: Miss Holmes,
Mexico; Miss Rose Spain; Miss Sara
Crum, India; Miss Mfl’ner_Egypt.
Representing cotton will be Vir
ginia Rose Jennings, Frances Slade,
Elizabeth Williams, Caroline Gower,
Edna Wheeler, Isobel Heard, Mary
Jula Williams, Lily Crum, Louise
Bundrick, Elaine Pridgen, and Beryl
Coker. A group of lovely little
girls will represent cotton secd
They are Virginia Claire Fletcher,
Maxwell Williams, Martha Mize,
Jean Sheppard, Mary Bundrick, El
za Quay Herrington, Corinne Ter
rell, Mary Minor Whatley and Doug
las Mercer.
Fourteen attractive High School
girls will be dresed as farmerettes.
These include: Misses Elizabeth Lif
sey, Irma Wynne, Mildred Scarboro,
Martha Caudle, Marjorie Soloman,
Ruby Strickland, Cecil Williams, I£m
ma Arvaniti, Mary Gower, Mary Baol
lenger, Emma Greer, Eula West
brook, Grace Turk, Mildred Browi.
and Mary C. Wiley.
U. D. C. MEMBERS FAVOR
CRISP POWER PROJECT
The following resolution was adopt
ed at the U. D. C. meeting Thurs
day afternoon:
“Resolved bp the Cordele Chapter
U. D. C. that we endorse the Crisp
county hydro-electric project and urge
the voters to ratify the same by vot.
ing for the amendment to the con
stitution authorizing the issuing of
Crisp county bondg for erection,”
SCIENCE HALL HOWARD
- COLLEGE GOES IN FLAMES
BIRMINGHAM, Oct. 27.—(AP) -—
The science hall of Howard College
wag vidtually destroyed by fire today,
The loss is estimated at fifty thou
sand, Cause of the blaze is unde
termined. The building was erected
in nineteen twenty-two. Much valu
able equipment in chemistry and
physics in the laboratory was destroy
ed,
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BEAUTY SHOW AND OTHER CON.
TESTS WILL BE HELD AND
PRIZES AWARDED.
Thursday is Club Day at the Crisp
County Fair, The various clubs of
the citp have planned some very in
teresting features. These are for
young folks and children but every
one is urged to come and join in
the fun, The Doll Show comes first,
Be there by three o'clock with your
doll or dolls. The Civic club spons
ors this so report to Mrs. R. R, l:lar-‘
ris. Prizes will be given for the
following: .
Largest collection of dolls—Pretti
est doll—Cutest costume on .doll —
Largest doll—Smallest doll.
The Twenticth Century and Thalian
clubs are sponsoring the Pet Show.
Every boy in the town and county
is urged to bring their pets, Mrs.
0. T. Gower is in charge, 30 report
to her. Prizes will be given for the
following: ‘
Prettiest pet—Ugliest pet—Largest
pet—Smallest pet— Most unique pet—
Smartest and best trained pet.
The Beautp Contest will be con
ducted by the U. D. C's, Mrs, T. E.
Fletcher is in charge and they have
twelve contestants already entered.
Of course you want to see this and
congratulate the winner.
And surely every freckled-faced boy
in the county expects to compete for
the prize offered bp the Symphony
club. Report to Mrs. W, B, Shipp
and she will turn you over to the
judges. “Athletic” contests will fol
low. Prizes given by this club will
be for the following:
Boy with most freckles—Squatters
race—Egg and spoon race-—-Egg and
pencil race——Bang race.
Special features will close with an
old fashioned spelling bee. The D,
A. R's are having this and the coun
ty schools only are competing. Let’s
see how many good spellers our
county has.
SENDS TELEGRAM ADVISING HE
HAS ACCEPTED PASOTRRATE
CORDELE CHURCH. ;i
Mr. T. J. Durrett, chairman of the
board of deacons of the First Bap
tist church today received a message
from Rev. Andrew Caraker in which
he advised that he had accepted the
pastorate on the call extended last
Sunday by the congregation.
His message advised that he would
be here on Sunday, November 14th,
to take up his work.
You may travel far to other cities
but you’ll come “Rolling Home' 'to
Cordele for real opportunity. There's
as much money in Cordele as there is
in the big cities. Your associations
and friendships are here und yoor
success can be here. It isn‘t the size
of the town—but the size of the
man that counts.
Help us get our power plant No
vember 2nd.
And see “Rolling Home” at the
Capitol Theatre Thursday. A real
treat to the young man that wants
to go away from hime for success.
Boost the place that knows you
and thinks you are somebody —and
take our word for it —you'll be wise
and happy.
ESTABLISHED IN 1908
BARBER WHO REFUSED
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HAIR IN JAIL
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 27.—(AP)
Join 1, Diggs, a barber who won
wide fame for hig consistent refusal
to bob women’s hair, was still in
the city jail this morning, where he
was placed yesterday on a charge of
insanity, after complaint was nade by
his wife. Although thepolice had to
tie his hands and feet before they
conld take him from his home, he
has been quict today. The cause of
his raving when arrested is yet un.
ascertained, i
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BOBBY JONES WILL
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ATLANTA, Oct. 27—(AP)— Robert
Tpre Jones, golfer extraordinary, will'
not return to Great Britain next sum-.
mer to defend his British open
championship title won last June.
His law studies at Emory and busl-?
ness interests caused this decision. J
MEN AND WOMEN OPPOSED
it
ATLANTA, Ga., October 27-—(#)
—lntention to resist extradition to}
Indiana to face charges of bank rob
bery, was expressed here today byl
the three men and woman arrested
Monday night as suspects in the re-‘
cent thirty thiusand dollar ‘bank‘
robbery in Indianapolis. They have
employed an attorney to oppose ef
forts of the authorities to return
them. Police expect the officers to
bring requisition papers today. |
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TWELVE MOROS KILLED IN
MANILA, Oct. 27,—(AP)— Twelve
Moros were killed in a fight today
between the Phillipine constabulary
and a band of Moro outlaws. There
ware no casualties among the con
stabulary. The outlaws took refuge
in a fort, after resisting attempts of
the constabulary to arrest three mcu‘
charged with the murder of Ameri
!(:un citizen.
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IKIWANIS LUNCHEON WILL }
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BE HELD TOMORROW NOON
! The regular weekly Kiwanis lunch
eon will be held tomorrow at onel
o’clock at which time the entire
body will dine with the Methodist
ladies at their booth at the Fair. Ev
ery member is urged to assemble
promptly at one o’clock at the Fair
grounds,
NEW YORK COTTON
OPEN CLOSH P. C.
JAN, iiisinne LDED 1227 1231
I.luly e . 1300 1371 1203
\Wed, ... 106 1918 1280
T i ity
E CORDELE COTTON
FMIdAIIng clogald ... 11500
. LOCAL CREAM MARKET
!Sl.nmlurd BULLORIRL i 48200
‘2 T S AN,
i PEANUT MARKET
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| PBANULE iiiniiinuaiemniay. 390,00
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. COTTON SEED MARKET
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'l(,'otlon seed ... $20.00 & $23.00
NEW iNDUSTR.ES ;
Crisp County 1s developing
14,000 horse power electric
plant on Flint River. New
industries are tax free 6
years,
NUMBER 296
BROTHERS OF TWO SLAIN MEN
' HEAVILY ARMED AND SAY
‘ THEY WILL GET EVEN, -
- HERRIN, Illinois, October 27—(#),
—The two warring factions in
bloody Williamston county rested on
their arms today in the tense atmos«
phere created by the slaying of two
men in the latest renewal of hostili
ties in the county .
After the bodies of William Me-
Quay and Ward Jones were found
early yesterday gangs headed by
Charles Birger and Shelton, broth
ers, were reported heavily armed
and ready to fight to settle the boot
leg quarrels. McQuay and Jones
were members of the Birger gang’
and Birger swears today he will “get
even.” :
GRAND JURY TAKES
SHORT RECESS PERIOD
The Crisp county grand jury iook;
a recess today until called back again
on the first Monday in December,
if not sooner. The criminal business
before the body included a large
number of petty offenses. ¢
The body returned a no bill in the’
case of Red Patterson, young white
man charged with a' capital offense
against a young white woman in
Cordele. !
Alleged gambling at the county
fair was handled by the body and
satisfactory plans ~for guarding
against crooks and dishonest devi
ces.
The body took & shot at flagrant
violations of the Sunday closing laws
and will most likely get straight in
behind those who are said to be,
keeping places of business open on
Sunday where theer is no necessity
for it.
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LEBANON SERVICES
Elder C. M. Green of the Echecon
nee Association will preach at Le
banon Primitive Baptist church Sat
urday and Sunday mornings, October
30 and 31, at 11:30 o'clock. He is
a minister of ability and this church
cordiallp invites fits friends to coma
out and hear him. i
TO INTRODUCE ICE .
CREAM KISSES
This advertisement clipped from
the paper and presented at our
store together with a 26¢ cash
purchase will entitle the holder
to one of our NEW CHOCO.
LATE COVERED ICE CREAM
KISSES, made in the store from
KINNETTS VELVET ICE
CREAM & Chocolate coating.
RETAIL PRICE 5¢
TRY THEM AND YOU’LL
BUY THEM
New Today
Stead’s
Drug Store
. PHONE NO, 1 ;