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SEE Back Page FOR SPORT NEWS NUMBER 74 IA GRANGE FALL SESSION NEXT WEEI Public Schools Start Work Monday v.. Unusually Large Attendance Is Expected by Both Colleges 1st Year Pupils at High School Must Secure Vaccination Cards. . < Southern Female College. The seventy-third annual session of the Southern Female College will open Thursday, September the tenth, 1914. On this date the classification of students is begun. On Friday the eleventh, classes meet, and the first chapel exercises are held. The pub lic opening to which readers of this notice and their friends are invited occurs September the fifteenth at nine a. m. New members of the faculty are Miss Katherine Harrison and Miss Ruth Carlin. Miss Harrison comes from Louisville, Ky., and will assist in the Physical Culture and Prepara Only Georgian to Receive ment by Red Cross. Sails for Seat of War. Rr. Henry R. Slack, Jr., son of Dr. and Mrs. Henry R. Slack of LaGrange has been appointed a staff surgeon by the American Red Cross. He sails from New Yorx next Saturday on the steam ship, Red Cross for the 'seat of the war. There were thirty places to be fill ed and over three hundred applicants and we are pleased that our fellow townsman was selected for this im portant position. Dr. Slack has enjoyed splendid op portunities which he has carefully im proved. He graduated in the first class of the LaGjrange High School. In 1908 he took the M. D. degree at the university of Georgin, and in 1912 he graduated as M. D. from the Johns Hopkins University. He was then appointed assistant resident physican tory departments. Miss Carlin is a ^Th^'llounr'W»Bon~h«qpitaT,"an'dln Georgian who has spent several yea.s 0ctobe ,. 1912 . assistant resident sur- m Oklahoma. She teaches English and Modern Languages. Both are well equipped for their work. Mrs. L. F. Jackson, the efficient matron, has Wen here since the 27th, superintend ing preparations for the coming of the students. Quite a number of new students are enrolled. Among these are several of our home folks. Prospects are promising for another successful year for this very worthy institution. LaGrange College. The seventy-second annual session of LaGrange College will begin Fri day, September 11. The reservations already made insure a large atten dance at the opening. In spite of war talk, cheap ootton, ana high cost ■of living, the coming session promises to be one of the best school years in the history of the college. The buildings have been thoroughly renovated, and many improvements have been made during vacation. Mrs. Boza McKinney, lata of Thornwell College, will have charge of the dining room, and the service will be greatly improved during the coming session. The faculty has been strengthened by the addition of a half dozen new teachers. Miss Lettie Witherspoon of Meridian, Miss., will have charge of the Science Department. Miss Ellen Kilgo of Greenville, S. C., who has just completed a course at Colum bia University, will have charge of the department of Domestic Science and Domestic Art. Miss Alberta D. McCloud, of North Adams, Mass., will be the new instructor of violin. She is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music, and comes highly recommended. Miss Jula H. Tucker of Atlanta, Ga., will be in structor in Bible and Christian Educa tion. Preparatory English will be taught by Miss Margaret Eakes, a graduate of LaGrange College and the State Normal School. Miss Mary Rowden, of Ellenwood, Ga., will teach stenography and typewriting. Mias Eula Bradford will return soon to resume her work as head of the Department of Expression. She has spent the summer teaching Expres sion in Fairmount College, Monteagle, Tenn. Miss Hallie Smith has return ed from Washington, D. C., where she took special lessions in Art this sum mer. Miss Frederica Westmoreland will have charge of the Physical Training classes during the coming session. , The Faculty Concert will be given during the first ten days of the session the exact date to be announced later. The program will be varied and in teresting, and there will be no ad mission charged. Citizens of La Grange and friends of the College are cordially invitee to attend. All in all, prospects for the coming session are brightening daily, and 1914-1915 promises to be one of the very best years in the history of the college. LaGrange Public School*. The LaGrange Public Schools will open the session of 1914-15 on Mon day, September 7, 1914. Pupils en tering for the first time will secure vaccination certificates before being registered. • Pupils having conditioned work will report promptly on Monday at nine o’clock to their respective teachers In order that they may be registered promptly. Registration of pupils at. the high school will not take place until Tues day, September 8, 1914, commencing at 8:30, it will be unnecessary tor promoted pupils and applicants for the first grade to report on Monday. Do not purchase any books until your classification and registration is completed. ROSTER OF TEACHERS IN THE LAGRANGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS 1914-15. October 1912, assistant resident sur geon in the Johns Hopkins Hospital, whieh position he has held until he resigned to accept the Red Cross ap- pointment. Dr. Slack also spent last summer studying in Berlin, so he is eminently qualified for the position he has re ceived of the Red Cross staff surgeon which gives him unlimited opportuni ties for observation and practice. ant and profitable service in the European war, and Wish for him a safe return to his native land. “Borders’ Buzzer" Takes Hills on High One of the recent constructions of wonder in LaGrange is the unique lit- itle cycle car which was planned and imade by Mr, C. P. Borders, Jr. The frames of an iron bed compose the base of the car and a one-cylinder Indian motor cycle engine furnishes the “get-a-way” force. Four small bicycle wheels makes the wee little automobile run with “ball-bearing” ease. Thursday morning, Mr. Borders took a spin in this little “Borders’ Buzzer” and tested it out. He was well satisfied with the results and states his intentions of making seve ral other similar conveyances THANKS VOTED TO ADAMSON ResolutionsAdopted by Convention “He Is Now in Washington Look ing After Important Legislation of Great Moment to the Peo ple.” Photo by American Preu Association. HARDWICK WINS ON m[BALLOT Afer an All-Night Deadlock, Fel der Withdraws and Hardwick Wins with 235 Conventional Votes; Slaton Next with 133. Congressman Thomas W. Hardwick was Wednesday afternoon nominated ;s for observation and practice. was Wednesday aiternoon nominated We hope that he will have a pleas- (junior United States Senator ’from Georgia to succeed the late Senator A. O. Bacon. His election came on the fourteenth ballot, immediately af ter the convention had reconvened at noon and followed the withdrawal in his favor of Hon. T. S. Felder. Mr. Felder personally appeared on the stage and withdrew his name. Among other things, Mr. Felder said: “Gientlemen of the convention, I ask i your consent to withdraw my name as a candidate. “I say it, however, under no false i colors. I have not tried to control my delegates and 1 am not going to try to control them now. They can ,go the way they please, but if they follow me they will follow the banner of progressive Democracy.” t Immediately after Mr. Felder'con cluded his statement H. IT. Dean, Gov ernor Slaton’s floor leader, asked that inasmuch as one of the candidates for the senate had been allowed to ad dress the convention he wished to ask that privilege for the governor. The governor began his speech by CONVENTION HELD SUNDAY SCHOOLS AT WARM SPRINGS TO MEET SUNDAY That the little machine is a sue- deL ,| arin * K he hud received the highest cess is best proved by the fact that t number of both un i t an d popular votes can run about th' rt y- fiv e^Borders an d was, therefore, entitled to the hour without a knock. Mr. Borders u„ sa :H he was a pro states that it takes the hills on high Rear. Mr. J. L. Bostick Returns Home Mr. J. L. Bostick, who has been in „ hospital in Atlanta for the past month under treatment for a nervous itrouble, returned to LaGrange Mon- iday night and has taken up his duti- es at the hotel. The friends of Mr. Bostick will be glad to learn that he has almost en tirely recovered and is able to be out again Ctifford L. Smith, Superintendent The High School T. G. Polhill, principal, mathematics. Miss Stella Bradfield, English. Miss Alice MacFarlane, Latin. Miss Margaret Shepherd, history Miss Maude Simpson, science and French. Grammar School Miss Juliet Tuggle. Miss Louise Vaughan. Miss Mattie McGiee. Miss Mary Crowder. Mrs. Dollie Curd. Miss Ruth Hopkins. Miss Mary Nix. Primary School. Miss Ruth Tuggle. Mrs. J. E. Witherspoon. Miss Gussie Bruce. Mrs. E. B. Smith. Mrs. Lucile Artley. Miss Lulie Hudson. East LaGrange School Miss Maude Erdman, principal. Mrs. Emma Willis. Miss Echo Corless. Miss Corinne Jarrell. Unity School Miss Lulu Ward, principal. Miss Kate Bruce. > ,, Miss Kate Flovd. Miss Wilibel Moncrief. Miss Eunice McGee. Miss Martha Ware. r,. Dixie Kindergarten Miss Margaret Killinger. Colored Schools. James E. Brown, supervisor. Hill Street School L. S. Wingfield, principal. Miss Julia Gilmore. Mias Grace Harrison. Mrs. Mazie "Wingfield. Union Street School Charles H. Kelley, principal. James E. Brown, Mrs. Mary Walker. Miss Ida Pinkard., Miss Elizabeth Wallace. ' Miss Lulu Washington. , ' nomination. He said he was a pro gressive Democrat and stood for the principles of progressive Democracy. Mr. Slaton said: “I submit my name to you as candidate for the Unit- fed States senate and if you, in view of the claims I have upon this office, fail to nominate me I can well afford, to go down in defeat. If you fail to elect me I can go back to the duties of ■the governor’s office:” The deciding fourteenth ballot was then cast as follows: The vote on the fourteenth, the de ciding ballot, was: Hardwicx 235; Sla ton 33; Hutchens 4. The vote re quired to nominate was 187 Mr. Hard wick’s nomination was made un animous. The official vote by ballots follows: First ballot—Slaton 189; Hardwick 124; Felder 91; Hutchens 18. Second ballot—Slaton 137; Hard wick 130; Felder 91; Hutchens 14. Third ballot—Slaton 134; Hardwick 133; Felder 91; Hutchens 14. Fourth ballot—Slaton 134; Hard wick 136; Felder 91; Hutchens 11. Fifth ballot—Slaton 128; Hardwick 141; Felder 91; Hutchens 12. Sixth Bailot— Slaton 128; Hardwick 142; Felder 94; Hutchens 8. Seventh ballot—Slaton 124; Hard wick 144; Felder 91; Hutchens 11. Eighth ballot—Slaton 125; Hard wick 147; Felder 90; Hutchens 10. Ninth ballot—Slaton 121; Hard wick 151; Felder 92; Hutchens 8. Tenth ballot—Slaton 114; Hard wick 154; Felder 96; Hutchens 8. i Eleventh bailot—Slaton 112; Hard wick 160; Felder 93; Hutchens 6. Twelfth ballot—Slaton 110;' Hard- iwick 164; Felder 93; Hutchens 4. Thirteenth ballot — Slaton 110; Hardwick 164; Felder 90; Hutchenfii 3. I Fourteenth bellot.— SJaton 133; Hardwick 235;- Hutchens 4. Mr. and Mrs. Traylor Move to West Point , Mr.,, and Mrs. J. T. Traylor left Tuesday for West Point, where they ■will 'reside in future, Mr; Traylor having accepted a responsible pos’* 1 ' with the Henry Hart stores of ;city. Their removal from LaG: <wfll be a source of regret to ipany friend^ here, but the good Wish es of all will go with them to tt new home. A Hon. C. W. Adamson Declared Choice of the Convention for Congressman from the 4th District by Rising Vote. Warm Springs, Ga. Saturday, August 29, 1914. Pursuant to the call of the Fourth Congressional Democratic Executive Committee; the Fourth Congressional Convention mot at Warm Springs, Gia., Saturday, August 29 at 11 A. M. for the purpose of nominating a Con gressman and transacting such other business as might come before the body assembled. The meeting was called to order by Hon. E. T. Moon, chairman of the Fbui'th ’ Congressional' Democratic Executive Committee,' with S, H. Dun- son acting secretary. The first order of, business was, the roll cal] pf the epunties and the fol lowing named delegates and alter nates were reported by the chairmen of the different county delegations. Carroll, B. J. Stiles, J. T. Bradley, J. T. Veal and C. E. Roop. Chat- tuhoocheee,. W. ’V. O’Tool and 'O. E. Cook. Coweta, E. M. Camp and T. G. Farmer, Jr, Harris, ,L. W. Stan ford, J. W., Caldwell, R. L. Baldwin and B. H. Wiliams. Heard, D. B. Whitaker. Marion, George P. Mon roe. Merriwether, W. E. Johnson, J. A. Thrush, G. E. Culpepper, J. J. Stephens, B. R. Freeman, P. S. Wright, R. H. Farmer, W. J. Reeves, P. G. Awtrey, C. M. Harmon, P. S. Talbott, J. W. Tidwell, J. D. McGuirt, J. W. Estes, C. L. Davis, W. R. Jones. Muscogee, J. S. Gordy, F. U. Girrard, F. P. Baldwin, A. I. Jenkins, J. F. Flournoy, and J. M. Prophett. Talbott, N. G. Culpepper, T. M. Weston, W. N. McGee and J. A. Smith. Troup, F. P. Longley, J. T. Houston, J. W. Colley, J. W. T. Glass, Frank Har well, E. T. Moon, W. H. Hairston and S. H. Dunson. Following the roll call of the coun ties, the meeting was declared or or ganized, and Hon. Frank U.. Girrard of Muscogee was elected chairman of the meeting, and Hon. F. G. Lumpkin also of Muscogee, was chosen as secretary of the Fourth Congressional Democratic executive committee for the next two years. The next order of business was the nomination of a congressman, Hon. W. J. William from Carroll county, in a very eloquent and forceful speech placed in nomination his fellow towns man and present congressman the Hon. W. C. Adamson from the coun ty of Carroll, the nomination was seconded by R. H. Farmer of Coweta; Frank Harwell, of Troup; T. G. Far mer, of Coweta; Mr. Crawford, of Muscogee; W. N. McGhee, of Talbott; Chas. A. Davis, of Merriwether. A. motion was then carried to dispense with the usual form of ballot and elect a congressman by rising vote, and the Hon. W. C. Adamson was declared the choice of the convention as con gressman of the Fourth district. A letter from Hon. W. C. Adamson, ad dressed to the convention, in which he expressed his deep regret of not being able to attend the convention and outlining his reason, etc., was then read by the Chairman. Hon. J. P. Longley of Troup then offered a set of resolutions endorsing Congressman Adamson’s record while in congress, the resohltion* were adopted and ordered of Vecord. A set of resolutions were then offered by Hen. Gy P. Munroe of Marion county, endorsing President Wilson and the present Democratic administration, commending the party tor the legisla tion enacted by them #nd the stand they have taken on all rNational Mat ters. !. The following gentlemen, were named as the new executive com mittee to serve for ■ the next two years:' ■• , , Carroll, W. J. Millioon. . Chattahoochee, C. If, Howard, Jr. Coweta, T. G. Farmer, Jr., Harris, R. L. Baldwin. . ' Heard, Patrick C. Whitaker. Marion, T. B. Rainer. LaGrange, Loyd’s, East Vernon, Antioch McLendon and Pool’s Mill Sunday Schools Are Ex pected to Send Delegates. An oarnest appeal is being made for all tho Sunday Schools in the La- Grange district to be represented in the district Sunday School meeting, which is to be held in the Unity, Elm City Union church, next Sunday after noon at 3:30 o’clock The fdllowing Sunday Schools are embraced in this district: LaGrange, 'Loyd’s, East Vernoni Antioch, McLen don and Pool’s .Mill. Each of these Sunday Schools arc expected to ap point delegates for' the convention, and all the superintendents, teachers i and everybody in general, interested in. Sunday School work, should attegd. Professor,.A, M. Smith will sihg and have charge of the musical pttj^ gram and the meeting will be inter esting as well as instructive. The Program Follows’: ■Music .....' Songs Prayer. Music Song Address ...'...Prof. J. E. Ricketson Song Address ...Mr. Henry Reeves Song . , Address Prof. Cliff Smith Song Address R. W. Smith Song Collection. Miss McHan Back from New York Miss Georgia McHan, arrived in the city last night, and will take up her position, as trimmer, for the La Grange Dry Goods Company again this season. Mies McHan has been in New York for the last two weeks selecting Mil linery for this firm, and we feel sure you will see some very snappy styles at their opening : which will be an nounced through these columns later. Bound Over to Higher Court Louie Jenkins, who completed a term in the state penitentiary a short time ago for selling whiskey, was again arraigned before Mayor Ed mondson Thursday on the same charge and was bound over to the higher court. Jenkins was caught Saturday night; but 'sufficient evidence for his conviction was not discovered until Thursday. 1 ■ ' Wade 'Ursury,' who wasl charged with complicity in the violation of the prohibition law, was fined $110 or six months in the gang. Chief Reed states that a hot cam paign is being waged against blind tigers and law breakers of this kind are finding it dangerous business in LaGrange. RETURNS FROM NEW YORK. Mrs. A. L. Mays has just returned ifrom New York where she spent some ithne- assisting in the buying of the — wj , new f a n millinery for the LaGgange irion county,Jpjry Goods Company. Mrs. Mays, — — a ^ agsoc j a ted with Miss Georgia McHan and we feel sure that with these two ladies’ help you can find just what you want in millinery. , Merriwether, ‘B. R. Freeman. iMuscogee, S. B. Baldwin. ’Talbott, P. M. Weston. Troup, Frank Harwell. W ?■■■<*• , (There being'rto further business, the convention adjourned.' , S. H. DUNSON, Retiring Secretary of the Fourth Congressional Democratic Executive Ccrhmibtee. ‘ At the fourth Congressional con vention, held at Warm Springs last Saturday, Hon. F. P. Longley offered a set of resolutions endorsing Con gressman Adamson’s record while in congress and rendering thanks to him for his distinguished and efficient ser vice in behalf of his district. In closing, the resolutions state, “We justly feel proud of his record and congratulate ourselves upon the fact that no constituancy of the coun try is more ably represented than ours.” The resolutions were adopted and ordered of record. They follow: Warm Springs, Ga. August 29, 1914. Whereas our able and distinguished congressman, lion. W. C. Adamson, the ceaseless, tireless and indefatig able worker for his constituants, his state and the republic, who for the past 18 years has so ably represented this District, and has stood at the fore front in all legislation Looking to the best interests of the people, the state and the Republic, ever advocat ing good and wholesome, and fighting the doubtful and vicious; and has en diligently looked after our very in terest under these Republican Ad ministrations which were in power for 16 years of the time he has represent ed this district, preventing the ap pointment of negro postmasters at Columbus, LaGrange, Talbotton and Franklin, and succeeding in getting one removed from Hogansville about a year after his appointment; by his ntiring efforts in behalf of, the peo- le he has succeeded in haying es- ^.bllshed more R,. F. D. routes in this trict than have been established in any other district in the United States, and has never had one abolish ed; he secured large quantities of provisions from the war departthent for the people of the flood devastated sections along the Chattahoochee riv er; he procured’for soldiers from his district in the Spanish-American war more positions as officers than were secured by any other Democratic con gressman; he sectlred the position for his district for the best judge in the Philipine Islands and the position for the best lawyer for the Panama Canal Commission; he succeeded in sending the only Democrat to the World’s Exposition at"'Paris; he was largely instrumental in the passage Of the splendid quarantine law; he was also largely instrumental in having built a revenue cutter and the Marine hospital at Savannah; a lightship for Brunswick, and in protecting the en tire Southern Coast friim ’ Baltimore to Galveston with light houses, light ships and revenue cutters; he succeed ed in reconciling tjie conflicting views of the late Senator Morgan and CoL Hepburn on Isthmian Canal legisla tion, and it was on- his motion that the bill which came from the house committee for the actual construction of the canal was reported; all this was done while he was a member of the Interstate and foreign commerce com mittee. After he became chairman of that committee he wrote the laws for the actual operation of the canal, and i those laws prevent railroad owned vessels from going through the canal and put them out of competition with themselves and out of coast wise busi ness; he put through the law for the physical valuation of railroads, ex press companies, telegraph ■ companies, and telephone companies, and their stocks and bonds. He is now : in Washington looking after important legislation of great ■moment to the people, with the suc cess of which he is Chairman of that committee in charge. He is working hand in hand with the administration in formulating and putting into law measures of the greatest interest and import to the people and the republic; So important the business and so necessary his pres ence that he has been able to be away from Washington but. little in the last year; for this reason he was not able to leave and look after his in terests in the late campaign waged against him by a very distinguished opponent, and for that reason he is not now able to attend this convention. Therefore, we, the Democrats oT the Fourth Congressional District « Georgia in convention assembled, do most heartily endorse the record <* lour distinguished andtable representa tive which 1 Y4fl«ts no much credit and honor upon the Fourth,-Congressional. District ’of J Georgia. We justly feel proud of his record and congratulate Ourselves upon the fact that no oen- litituancy of the country is more ably represented ’thftn ours; . ■ ,>i ■>••• , ■ j Therefore, be it resolved that we render to him our thanks for his dis tinguished and efficient services ^ in bur behalf and pledge him our united Support. ” ' ' '