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DEMOCRATS RALLY
AS BANKERS FIGHT
Tightening of Lines on
Currency Measure
HARMONY WITH DEMOCRATS
Active Supporters of Currency Pl«»
Expect to Put the Measure Through
the House of Representatives With
out Substantial Change.
The answer of the administration
forces in the house to the criticisms
of the new currency bill made by the
conference of bankers at Chicago will
be a tightening up of the lines and
a more vigorous endorsement of the
bill as it now stands. Informal con
ferences of Democratic members of
the house currency committee empha
sized the fact that the active sup
porters of the president’s currency
plan expect to put the measure
through the house without substan
tial change.
The amendments proposed by the
bankers, it was pointed out by the
house leaders, were all considered in
detail when the bill originally was
prepared and in the long debate over
its provisions in the house committee
on banking and currency. The pro
posal to reduce the quantity of re
serves and give country banks the
privilege of keeping part of their re
serves in the large cities had many
supporters and ultimately may be
worked into the bill in the senate,
but the change is not expected in the
house.
The bankers will have an oppor
tunity to present their views openly
to congress after the currency bill
gets into the senate. Chairman Owen,
of the senate currency committee,
said that while hearings had not yet
been arranged, he expected leading
representatives of the various “fac
tions” amongst the bankers of the
country would be invited to give their
views of the bill to the senate com
mittee.
TALLEST IN WORLD.
900-Foot Skyscraper in New York to
Cost $9,000,000.
A skyscraper whose topmost tower
will rise 900 feet avove the curb is
planned by the Pan-American States
association. Unless plans miscarry,
it will be built in New York, con
structed wholly of materials from the
Latin-American republics. It will
overtower the Woolworth building,
the world’s tallest habitable struc
ture, 150 feet, and will be ready for
occupancy with the opening of the
Panama-Pacific exposition in Califor
nia in 1915.
Plans and specifications for the
structure have been drafted and will
be given to a building committee of
the association for review and accept
ance. Francis H. Kimball, designer
of notable downtown skyscrapers
in New York, made the plans. The
estimated cost of the structure is
$9,000,000. The site has not yet been
selected.
Jno. C. Carter
DENTIST
Truitt Bldg, LaGrange
You Need No
Experience
Wi t Premo
Anyone can make
good pictures from
the start.
A Premo Always
Pleases.
Gilbert Jewelry
Company.
SPEER INQUIRY.
Searching Probe Into Charges Agalnsl
Georgia Judge.
A searching investigation of the
charges against Federal Judge Em
ery Speer, of Georgia, was decided or
by the house judiciary committee, anc
Chairman Clayton, of that committee
will offer a resolution asking that tin
investigation start at once.
Upon the result of the investiga
tion will depend whether articles of im
peachment are to be offered against
the judge.
The resolution of Clayton will pro
vide that the committee may hold pub
lie hearings, subpena witnesses an<
perform all the other functions of ar
investigating committee.
Judge Speer will be allowed repre
sentation by counsel and he also wil
be allowed to offer witnesses and tea
timony in opposition to the charge!
that have been made against him.
The judiciary committee reached
conclusion after a full perusal of th<
report of the department of justic<
relative to Judge Speer’s official con
duct. The charges are said to include
favoritism and autocratic methods ol
court, dissipation of estates and gen
eral abuses. The report also is saic
to have commented unfavorably upor
Judge Speer's personal conduct.
The investigation of the official con
duct of Judge Speer is the result pri
rnarily of the controversy between th<
judge and Colonel William A. Huff, of
Macon, over bankruptcy proceedings
started more than ten years ago.
MORE CRAZY FASHIONS.
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Peg-Topped Skirt Slit to Knee Worn
en’a Fall Style.
This is going to be a hard autumr
on the blind men. A famous women’s
costumer of Paris declared that the
following will be the 1913 fall styles
for fashionable women: Extremely
tight “peg-topped” skirts, slit to the
knee, and perhaps a trifle higher if the
lady wishes to be extremely fashion
able.
The skirts will be folded up at the
bottom after the manner of men’s
trousers and, of course, this will make
artistic hose imperative.
Fur will be used in dress trimmings
coats will be hip length and not toe
roomy, and the color will be mainly
purple.
FIVE PERSONS KILLED.
Train Strikes Auto Running at High
Rate of Speed.
Five persons were killed and three
badly hurt when an automobile in
which they were riding was struck by
the “Hoosier limited ’ train on the
Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville
railroad 1 mile north of St. John’s
Ind.
The party was returning from sum
mer resorts and the machine was being
driven slowly. All who were killed
were riding in the tonneau, while
those riding in front escaped death.
The occupants of the automobile
were tossed 20 feet in the air and the
car was crushed.
The train, which was late and was
running at high speed, stopped an:
brought the dead and injured to Chi
cago.
INVENTED OYSTER LOAF.-
Joseph Catanzaro Served Bivalve
“Peace Maker” 40 Years Ago.
Joseph Catanzaro, aged 57 years
known as the inventor of the oyster
loaf, died at New Orleans.
Forty years ago Catanzaro first of
fered for sale the famous oyster loai
at his place of business. The new
way of serving the bivalve sprang in
to popularity at once.
Because of the fact that many men
would stop into Catanzaro’s late al
night to get an oyster loaf to bring
home to a waiting wife in order tc
keep peace in the house, Mr. Catanzarc
celled them “Peace-Makers.”
Loaves have been known by this ti
tle ever since, for they are still used
as peace-makers by husbands whe
stay out late.
,700,000 TO MOVE
GEORGIA CROPS
Amount Will Be Placed Wi
the Various Banks
FUNDS REGARDED AS DEPOSIST
It la Expected That Thia Money Will
Be Depoaited in the Next Few Daya,
And Will Be Withdrawn Gradually.
Georgia has been allotted $1,700,000
of the $50,000,000 which Secretary Me-
Adoo will deposit in the banks of the
south and west to assist in moving the
crops.
Atlanta national banks will receive
$800,000 deposits. The remaining
$900,000 will be divided among Sa
vannah banks and those of other cit
ies, probably including Macon.
Six Atlanta banks are eligible t«
receive these deposits under the rule
laid down by the secretary that any
bank so favored must have a circula
tion equal to 40 per cent of its capital
stock.
It is expected that the money will
be deposited within the next few days.
It will be withdrawn gradually, one
quarter at a time, over a period ex
tending through February, 1914, so as
not to create any disturbance oi
credits.
These funds are not loans in any
sense of the word. They are depos
its. The only difference between
them and the deposits of any pri
vate concern is that the banks are
required to give collateral of 10 pei
cent in government bonds and 90 pet
cent in commercial paper at 66 pet
cent valuation, or municipal or state
bonds at 75 per cent valuation. The
banks must pay 2 per cent interest.
Where the Trouble
Lies.
1 KILLED, 14 HURT.
Crash on Georgia Railroad Resulte
Fatally.
One negro was killed, fourteen pas
sengers were injured, two seriously
and several freight and passenger
cars were almost totally destroyed
whe nnorthbound freight train No. 19
of the Georgia railroad, crashed intc
the rear end of passenger train No. 3
as the latter train was pulling out ol
Alta Loma, not far from Decatur.
The accident occurred just as the
passenger train was getting under
way after the regular stop. The cars
had gone scarcely one hundred yards
when the freight train swept around
the curve a short distance south of
the station, and before the engineer
could throw on the brakes the heavy
freight engine, followed by twenty
heavily loaded cars, crashed into the
rear end of the slowly moving passen
ger train at the rate of 20 miles an
hour.
“JACK THE RIPPER” AGAIN.
Mysterious Murder of Mrs. Daisy Opie
Grace’s Maid.
Martha Ruffin, at one time a maid
in the employ of Mrs. Daisy Opie
Grace and a witness in the famous
trial of Mrs. Grace for the attempted
murder of her husband, was found
dead Sunday morning in the rear oi
59 Ponce de Leon avenue.
The woman had been living for the
past month in an alley just off Ponce
de Leon avenue.
Her death was due to a single knife
wound in the throat, which severed
the jugular vein. The crime is a
mystery to the police, who can assign
no motive for the murder of the ne-
gress unless it can be shown that
Alex Smith a negro lately intimate
with her, killed her in a jealous rage.
The murder was committed in the
regular “Jack the Ripper” style and is
the eighteenth crime of the same na
ture perpetrated in Atlanta within the
past three years.
What our Southern farmers mainly
need to do is not to cherish the de
lusion that farmers in other sections
have a better climate, but to prac
tice a better scheme of working
hours. The farmers in the West
have not only found that they can
accomplish a great deal more with
iless labor if they used improved lab
or-saving machinery, but many of
them are finding out that they can
accomplish just as much with short
er hours of work if they use more
system. A case in point was given
me by Mr. N. E. Christensen, of
Litchfield, Minnesota. “We had a
farmers’ club,” he told me, "and in
discussing the matter, we decided
that we could get just as much done
with shorter working days. Instead
of keeping at it from sunup till sun
down now, therefore, my field hours
are from 7:30 in the morning until
5:30 in the afternoon; and by 6:30
P. M. I have everything finished.
And I really do more work in this
shorter-hour day than I U3ed to do
when I worked all the time. More
over, this policy has made all the
difference in th e world in the atti
tude of our young people towards
farm life. Formerly they thought it
was all drudgery; now they get some
time for recreation and 1 believe it
is due to our shorter working day
and the neighborhood social ^meetings
that they are no longer leaving the
farm as formerly.”
I have no doubt but that 80 per
cent, of our Southern farmers could
also accomplish just as much by
working shorter hours. Then if
they lengthened the midday rest pe
riod in summer so as to reduce the
proportion of work necessary in the
heat of the day, farm work would be
even pleasanter here in the South
than in the Northwest—porvided we
use the same labor-saving and labor
easing implements and machinery.
Which reminds me that I was about
to forget to say that a great propor
tion of the two-horse cultivators in
the West are equipped with umbrellas
or canvas tops that enable the farm
er not only to ride while he does his
work, but to sit in the shade while he
works!
Nor need we delude ourselves with
the ieda that we cannot have these
two to four-horse plows, harrows,
and cultivators in the South about as
generally as in the North. There are
mountainous sections, of course,
FOSTER PARENTS WIN.
Court Declares Little Dyer Child Must
Be Returned.
7 he courts of Cleburne county,
Alabama, have awarded the custody
of the little Dyer child, which was
kidnaped by its mother, to the foster
parents, says a dispatch from Talla
poosa, Ala.
When the child was a babe the
mother gave it to Mr. and Mrs. Roy
Starr. Some days ago the mother
went to the Starr home, ostensibly
on a friendly visit, and when she
caught the child from under the watch
of Mrs. Starr she took it and fled in
a waiting buggy.
The courts decided that the child
was legally adopted, and that the
mother had no right to its possession.
However, no steps were taken in the
kidnaping charge.
“NICK CARTER” HELD.
Writer of Famous Detective Stories
Was Arrested.
Frederic Van Rennsselaer Dey, au
thor of the Nick Carter detective sto
ries, is under arrest at Denver, it is
said, charged with impersonating a
secret service officer.
Dey, who for many years wrote a
Nick Carter story every week, lives
in New York. He left for Los An
geles two weeks ago on a vacation
His health is bad and he has been in
several sanitariums. His friends say
that when he is ill he has hallucina
tions and imagines that he is one oi
his own story book detectives.
where the land is too rough; but the
fact is that even in our coastal plain
regions where the land is as level as
a dancing-floor, it is no uncommon
sight, in springtime, to see 3ix men
plowing a horse apiece. And per
haps you will find these same farm-
owners complaining of the “scarcity
of labor.” when they are already
using twice as much labor as they
need!
If our Southern farmers who have
from four to twenty horses will quit
doing one-horse farming—that is to
say, quit one-horse implements—and
if the farmers who have only one
horse will use every opportunity for
co-operating with their neighbors in
buying the large two or four-horse
plows, cultivators, etc., for joint use
and ownership, we may soon learn to
make as much profit as the Western
farmers make and to do it with as
little muscular labor.
But we can never do it with the
one-horse system and the one-crop
system.—Clarence Poe, in the Pro
gressive Farmer.
Some Quick
Turn of
Events
will often make it neces
sary for a family to move
on short notice. Confronted
with the necessity of find
ing a house, or apartment,
within a few days’ time,
every “To Let” ad is
read eagerly, hopefully—
and the advertiser whose
property is desirable will
realize what quick results
oftentimes follow classi
fied publicity.
Use The Reporter’s Want
Ad Columns for Results.
Another Big
Price Reduction
SUNBEAM
Mazda Lamps
Do not break as easily as othed
Tungsten or Mazda lamps you
have been buying. Try our
Sunbeam Mazda Lamps.
10 watts $ .35 each
15 “ 35
20 “ 35
25 “ 35
40 “ 35
60 “ 45
100 “ 80
Put a National Maxda
Lamp in Every Socket
Lozier-Gandy Co.
L. D. Mitchell
DENTIST
Office—Bank Building
Phone 219
LaGrange,
Georgia.
Duelling Scars for Sale.
A new industry has been started al
Hamburg, Germany, with the object
of “making men interesting to wo
men.” One firm advertises it is pre
pared to provide cuts such as decorate
the cheeks of students who have
fought duels in the universities. This
can be done “without pain or interrup
tion to business,” and accurate resem
blance to the real thing is guaranteed
Convicts Join Salvation Army.
The first Salvation army corps to be
formed among prisoners east of Chi
cago was organized at Windsor, Vt. :
in the state prison by Salvation armj
officials. More than fifty prisoners
were sworn in to become soldiers ol
the organization, and promised to live
up to all the “articles of war” as re
quired by the army.
Motor Launches Vs. Gondolas.
Stubborn resistance on the part oi
the Venetian boatmen to modern
means of locomotion on the Grand ca
nal seems about to be overcome by the
formation of a co-operative association
among the gondoliers. This body is
providing ft public service of motoi
launches between the railway station
and the Adriatic shore.
Boy’s Hand Shot Off by Playmate.
Willie Taylor, of Mobile, age 9
years, was the victim of a “Didn’t
know it was loaded” gun and lost his
right hand at the wrist. Henry Tay
lor, about the same age, picked up a
double-barreled gun, and just to show
his playmate how he could shoot it,
pulled the trigger.
Threw Pepper in Rival’s Eyes.
In a fit of jealousy, it is alleged.
Cooper Oliver threw a handful of pep
per into the eyes of Louis Greer,
at Columbus, Georgia, during
the course of a heated argument
The two at the time were at theii
boardinghouse kept by Mrs. M. Norris.
It is said they are both fond of their
boarding-house keeper, and that it was
due to jealousy on this account that
the pepper was thrown.
First Bale in Wilkes.
The first bale of cotton of the 1913
crop was marketed at Washington,
Ga., by H. L. Aycock and his son, who
produced a bale of good middling cot
ton weighing 420 pounds, for which
they received 13 cents per pound.
Wilkes county’s first bale this year
was just one week earlier than the
initial bale last season, despite the pre
diction that the crop would be fully
two weeks later in moving this year
than in 1912.
Meldrim May Head Bar Association
That General Peter W. Meldrim, of
Savannah, will be elected the next
president of the American Bar asso
ciation at its meeting on September 1
at Montreal, Canada, is thought by
many to be very probable. For a num
ber of years General Meldrim has
been regularly attending the annual
meetings of,this association, and he
has been regarded for some time as
one of its most prominent members.
Before the entrance to the cotton
exchange in Savannah the first bale
of upland cotton grown in Chatham
county was auctioned. The bale
brought 12 cents a pound,
tmtti
Vehicles! Vehicles!
Our fourth car of vehicles will reach us about Sept. 1st,
and as we will be crowded for room we will offer some
special low prices in order to house them all and keep
off immense charges. Now, we doubt whether there
has ever been a buggy sale equal to ours in the past
several years. The reason is plain---we have the right
kind of buggies at the right kind of price, from the
cheapest to the very best you can find in our showrooms
and a greater variety of styles than are shown by any
dealer in this section. A look will convince you of the
truthfulness of the above assertions.
HARNESS —Our special sale has disposed of about half of that
sample lot of harness that we bought so cheap and we will continue
this special sale until the last set has been sold. They are too cheap
and too good to miss.
VERY TRULY,
Cleaveland-Roper Co.
The All-The-Year-Round Live Stock and Vehicle Dealers.
Everything Sold is Guaranteed to be as Represented