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The Butler Herald
Volume XXXXII.
BUTLER. TAYLOR COUNTY. GEORGIA. THURSDAY. AUGUST jfg 1918.
Number 40
WOMAN HELD FOR
KILLLIN6 HER HUSBAND.
Body, With Head and Leg* Severed,
Found in Abandoned Well.
La Fayette, Ga., Aug'. 3.—
Following the finding of the
body of her husband, Will Cor
nish, head and both legs severed,
h. an abandoned well near Es
telle Mines, six miles west of
here, Mi's. Cornish is under ar
rest charged with his killing
while Lee Hobbs is also being
held, as he is alleged to be im
plicated in the affair.
Cornish's body was found af
ter he had been missing for sev
eral weeks. It had been tied in
a sack.
At the coroner’s inquest Mrs.
Cornish confesed to killing her
husband, giving as her reason
that she was jealour of another
woman and was driven by mad-
net, to take her husband’s life.
A son of the couple admitted
that his mother killed his father
while the latter was asleep and
that he aided in dragging the
tody from the house.
Cornish ih said to have had
a!>out $800 on his person at the
time of his disappearance. The
Cornish is said to have had
aged.
Hobbs was arrested near
Cnipkamauga, Ga., by Sheriff
Garmany, of this county, and
brought to LaFayette at a late
hour last night. Hobbs pro
tests his innocence.
Lame Shoulder,
This ailment is usually caused by
rheumatism of the muscles. All that
is rpeded is absolute rest and a few
anplications of Chamberlain's Lini
ment. Try it. -
American Losses
Amazingly Slight.
American Salvage Corps Busy
Clearing up Boche Debris
and Burying Dead Huns
and Horses.
By Fred S. Ferguson
With the American Armies in
France, Aug. 5.—German ar
tillery has opened up on the
American lines and roads more
vigorously than for the past two
days, and there is machine gun
activity from about the region
of Fismes—now in the hands of
the Americans—indicating the
enemy may possibly plan tem
porary resistance there.
American patrols are across
the VehTe. After the Americans
took Fismes, other United States
troops moved northward in the
Mareuil-en-Dole region. They
marched steadily forward
through a downpour of rain Sat
urday night and Sunday, and
spent most of the day feeling
out the Boche positions in an ef
fort to establish contact.
Late in the afternoon the Ger
man artillery began shelling the
Americans. Whether the enemy
intends to make a stand or with
draw his artillery further, it is
impohsible to guess at this time,
but American officers believe the
Germans must now, of a neces
sity, retreat beyond the Aisne.
The entire retreat was marked
by vigorous shelling just prior
to an extended artillery silence.
After a great outburst of shell
fire, the Boche artillery re
mained quiet for two days, and
the American guns necessarily
HOW YOU CAN HELP
What To Save And What To Use
Pr.pftred b, Fod.r.i Fuoi Administration for Unorgj.
Three times each day every Ameri-1ginning with the close of July. It
can has opportunity to be of direct,
practical help to the men on the bat
tle front:
. National Program
SAVE SUGAR. Two pounds per per
son per month is the American honor-
ration Try to eat less and add to the
National surplus for canning. Do this
that the fighting force may be kept
fully supplied, and that England,
France and Italy may receive their
greatly restricted requirements.
SAVE BEEF. Food for fighting men.
Save the large carcasses for them by
restricting yourself to small cuts, by
products and trimmings; — hearts,
is. therefore,
“Ordered: That at and after mid
night, July Slst. the household con
sumption of sugar be limited to a basis
of two pounds per person per month
for each member in family and each
domestic employed; that all public
eaUng places be limited to a basis of
two pounds of sugar for each 90 meals
served; that all boarding houses serv
ing 26 or more persons be limited to
tbe same basis and under the same
heading as 'public eating plaoes:'
that ail manufacturers, heretofore de
fined as soft drink dealers and dispen
sers, candy makers, confectioners,
etc., be strictly held to consumption
of not more than 50 per cent of last
tongues, livers. We have enough in- s com P ule< i consumption.
orease supply of pork this summer to
permit economical expansion in its
use, to relieve the pleasure on beef.
SAVE WHEAT. Keep on saving.
'Ordered further: That dining ears,
cafes, restaurants, public dining rooms,
etc., remove sugar bowls from all pub
lic tables and. effective at once, serve
no more than two half-lumps (not 2(4
though the harvest is large. Build up iumpg| of or one te „p 0<m fu]1
war reserves by persistent conserva- '
tion. Without American wheat saved
from the last harvest the Allied cause
would have been lost. The margin next
year must not. be so narrow.
USE FRUITS. Take advantage of
the natural sugar in fruits. Can with
out sugar, or with little sugar Add
sugar later, when it will be more plen
tiful. Dried fruits, such as raisins,
dates and figs have much sugar in
of granulated sugar to each one per
son at one meal.
“Certificates Issued for the month of
August on all statement forms will
be held strictly to allotment figures
and resupply excesses will be held
available for call for redistribution
purposes where interim certificates
have been Issued.
"The net allotment for Georgia for
August can not be exceeded. It is,
them. Use honey, maple products and ;there f ore . of particular importance that
sirups when available. j retail dealers handling sugar under the
USE VEGETABLES Make local Administration’s regulations lend
vegetables fill as large a place as pos- i themselves unreservedly to obtaining
Bible in your diet, thus conserving not proper compliance on the part of indi-
only meat, and wheat, but transporta-1 vldual consumers with those regula
tion and labor. Don't use canned tions prepared for their protection. It
goods now, while the fresh are avail-1 is the home consumption supply which
able. | is sought to be safeguarded by the
! Food Administration, and the more
! complete the patriotic oo-operation of
i the individual that much more success-
| ful will be the efforts of the Food
i Administration in his behalf.
“The Conservation Division of the
USE FISH. New species are being j United States Food Administration es-
popularised and supplies inoreased. Elat; peoiallv urges the saving of the fruit
this nutritious but perishable food sev- 1 and vegetable crops by canning and
•ml times a week and let the non- j preserving now for winter uees, but
perishables go abroad. ] especially oalls upon home causers and
preservers to effect this conservation
without the use of sugar where possi
ble. In numerous experiments It has
i been found that sugar substitutes may
be successfully used and in others that
USB DAIRY PRODUCTS. Always
give the children plenty of milk, milk
products and eggs. Use them your
selves freely now, and thus conserve
■eat for export.
New Sugar Regulation
Dr. Soule has, in accordance with
the scale worked out in Washington,
issued the following order, effective on
the conservation work may be ear
tied forward now without the use of
sugar and the sugar added later, when
and after July Slst at midnight, and ; the supply le more plentiful,
until further ordered: j “The foregoing in Its entirety is ap-
“ A slight reduction of approximate-; plicable to the Fourth Zone and pub-
ly 30 per cent In the distribution of j lloation hereof U to be taken by all
sugar to consumers It necessary, be-' parties conoemed as official notice ''
1,706,000 Bales
Taken by Drouth.
Government Crop Report Es
timates the Cotton Crop this
Year at $13,619,000.
Washington, August 1.—Loss
of 1,706,000 bales in the prospec
tive cotton crop, due principally
to drouthy conditions in the wes
tern part of the cotton belt, es
pecially in Texas, was shown to
day in the Department of Agri
culture’s August production fore
cast placing the estimated crop at
13,619,000 bales foresast in July.
The crop in Louisiana also suf
fered greatly from drouth, the
conditions showing a decline of
22 points in the month, while in
Texas the decline was 23 points.
In Oklahoma there was a decline
of 15 points, and in Arkansas 14
points. The average decline from
June 25 to July 25 in those states
is from 1 to 3 points.
For the entire cotton belt the
decline in the condition of the
crop was 12.2 per cent, compar
ed with an average decline of 2.8
per cent.
Condition by States.
The condition by states follows:
Virginia, 75; North Carolina, 87;
South Carolina, 80; Georgia 77;
Florida, 70; Alabama, 78; Mississ
ippi, 81, Louisiana, 65; Texas, 61;
Arkansas, 77; Tennesse, 86; Mis
souri, 03; Oklahoma, 75; Califor
nia, 95; Arizona, 95.
Last month the condition of
cotton was 85.8 per cent of a nor
mal and a 15,325,000 bale produc
tion was forecast. The - crop last
year amounted to 11,300,254 bales
and the average for the five
years, 1912-16, was 13,327000b».les
The condition of the crop on July
25 last year was 70.3 per cent of
a normal, the previous year 72.3
and the 10-year average on that
date, 77. The area planted to
cotton this year is the second
largest on record—37,073,000
acres.
Up $5 at New Orleans.
NEW ORLEANS, La., August 1.
Heavy buying and a strong rise
in cotton prices resulted today
from the government’s report on
the crop to July 25, placing the
condition at 73.6 per cent of nor
mal. Shorts rushed to cover
and bullish traders bought in
volume, sending prices up $5 a
bale in a few minutes’ time and
creating the most sensational ses
sion in months around the future
ring.
Prior to the report the market
was unsettled and prices dropped
9 to 21 points under yesterday’s
close. From this there was a
bugle of 102 to 110 points.
were less active.
Slight Casualties
American casualties during
the past 48 hours have been
amazingly slight, considering
the depth of our advance. I saw
an advanced dressing station
empty, the doctors idle and am
bulances lined up with the driv
ers resting. Everything bears
out the statement of officers and
men that “there hasn’t been a
battle for the past two days—
just a march.”
Over the ground of the recent
bitter fighting, a striking note
was that all German dead lay in
valleys, woods and towns, while
the American dead were on the
ridges. This due to the Boche
system of establishing machine
gun nests. When in villages or
v/oods, the enemy machine guns
are carefully placed in hollows
200 yards from the top of a rise
or plateau. The advancing
Americans have no hint of re
sistance until they reach the
crest of the elevation. The
Bodies are then able to open a
surprise fire and the doughboys
have to rush the nests. The en
tire country from the Marne to
the Vesle is now a vast scene of
wreckage. Scarcely a mirror
even remains unbroken, the
Bodies having smashed them
with hammers. Every town and
village is wrecked. Not a house
is intact.
Avoiding Extra Ses-
soin of Legilature
is Now Problem.
Atlanta, Aug. 5.—There is
just one chance out of nine
there will not be an extra ses
sion of the present General As
sembly—and it is known on
good authority some of the
members of the House have ex
pressed to the Governor the
hope there will be-an extra ses-
hion; they want one.
Certainly the House acted to
day, just 113 members strong,
like they mean nothing short of
that expressed desire. How
ever, 33 members voted against
an appropriation bill which
spendh, in round figures, $2,-
100,000 more money than the
entile estimated income of the
state, from all sources, next
year. That, in itself, estab-
established a record for legisla
tion; not that men have not
heretofore voted against the
enactment of a proposed appro
priations bill which finally went
through, but that 33 men, out
of a total vote of 146 members
should stand flat-footed and put
a stamp of dihapproval on it.
Has Margin of 18 Votes
To pass a money order for the
state requires a minimum vote
of 35. The total membership
of the House is 189. The bill
which has been “immediately
transmitted to the Senate” was
passed by a margin of just 18
votes; a closer margin than per
haps any other appropriationh
bill has ever gone through the
bwer House, even when the “big
fight” was made a year ago.
The plan under which it was
“ immediately transmitted,”
however, isn’t going to work out.
In the Senate the common
school hysteria from which the
dominant wing of the House is
so seriously suffering, doesn’t
exiht, and, were it not for the
fact that the Senate is so far
more temperate than the House
the ship of state couldn’t have
kept off snags the coming year
by Governor Dorsey—or any
body else.
Senate Absolutely Opposed
At the same time, it is a def
initely known fact, regardless
of what pressure may be
brought on the Senate appro
priationh committee, that the
Senate itself absolutely will not
accept the appropriations bill as
it came from the House. It is
going to wade. into the items
with a heavy knife and bring
clown to reasoning. Nearly a
million dollars is bound to be cut
from one item alone, and others
of the increased items are go
ing to come in for much trim
ming.
The common schools, measured
on the basih of the temper of
the Senate, had an “L” last year
took out of it. This year they
ran away with the whole coil of
rope and have hanged. The ef
fect of that hysteria is going to
extend not only to the common
school fund, i at many other ap
propriations are going t> be
made 10 suffer material!/ be
cause of it. A flat increase of a
million dollars in one appropria
tion, and the stubbornn, in fact
irresistible fight made for that
million in the House, has served
to intensify the situation; to
magnify the increases made in
all other appropriations and has
unquestionably set up the state
of mind in the Senate that—
“We can’t, under the temper
of the House, cut that item with
out cutting them all.”
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An Interesting Letter From
Mr. IT, Bloodworth,
MAUK, Ga., Aug. 3 1918.
Editor Butler Herald:
I noticed Mr. Fow
ler’s card in the last issue of the
Herald, also read with interest
your reply to same. The latter
gave me so much pleasure that
I wanted others to read it, sa
took it to a number of my friends
who also indorsed all you said in
that article.
I heartily commend you on your
stand, and am indeed glad to al
ways find your heart and mind
working in the right direction.
1 feel that Georgia has already
been disgraced enough through
Senator Hardwick and believe it
our duty as patriotic Georgians
to elect a man for his place who
would have the confidence and
respect of our great President.
Georgia can and will, in a meas
ure redeem herself in the Sep
tember primary.
Refering to Senator Hardwick’s
address at Butler, I saw no occa
sion for the gentleman to bore
his audience for more than two
hours and then thanking them
for their patience and endurance,
especially so when three minu
tes would have been sufficient
time in which the salient points
in his address could have been
told, that is to say that he was
opposed to everything Demo
cratic, liberty-loving and true
Americanism. There is no need
for Senator Hardwick to attempt
to deceive the people, because
those who read and think can
not be deceived. His w-hple ad
dress was an insult to an en
lightened community. People of
Taylor county are not so careless
with their reading and as ignor
ant as he and some of his political
boot-lickers may think. No, they
are folks of intelligence, pride of
county, state and nation, red-
blood patriots, who look with dis
gust and contempt on any man
who would prove a traitor to his
country in a crisis like this.
The “common people are not
going to elect Mr. Hardwick to
the senate, for it is the common
people who are trying to hold up
the hard of our Command in
Chief of the Army and Navy, our
boys in France and those in army
camps here who will soon cross
the sea, and the common people
will rule and will cheer our boys
on to victory by sending a man to
the senate who will support the
administration with all his mind
and strength. We are not going
to discourage our boys, who have
sacrificed every thing on their
country’s alter by electing Mr.
Hardwick, who voted for the war
and then tried to block all the
war machinery and tie these boys
hands behind them in as much as
to say “go to it and get licked.”
A man who votes for Hardwick
makes a grave mistake. In some
sections of Georgia they may do
it through ignorance or because
they are German sympathizers,
but we are in Taylor county,
where people think differently
and act differently, therefore we
have confidence in our people that
they will not put themselves in
either of these classes.
The people will never forget
how Hardwick proved a traitor to
the Hon. T. W. Watson and then
wanted to see him hung, at the
same time due Mr. Watson a debt
of gratitude that he could never
repay by even his most ardent
support of him. Now he comes
seeking the support of Mr. Wat
son’s friends by trying to deceive
them but he will never do so.
Mr. Hardwick is against every
thing the American people are for.
Men 18 to 45 to
Register Sept, 5,
It Is Suggested.
New Manpower Bill Introduc
ed in Both House and Sen
ate and Early Passage is
Urged by Provost Marshal
General.
Washington, Aug. 5.—With
an urgent recommendation
from Provost Marshal Gen.
Crowder that it' be enacted with
out delay and a suggestion that
Sept. 5, next, might be fixed as
registration day for approxi
mately 13,000,000 men through
out the country the administra
tion’s manpower bill requiring
the registration for military-
service of all men between the
ages of 18 and 45 years, was in
troduced today in the Senate
and House.
Unless immediate steps are
taken to provide additional men,
Gen. Crowder said the weekly-
registration of men as they at
tain twenty-one years of age,
will be necesary to fill the draft
quotas after Sept. 1, when only
100.000 of the 1918 registrants
will be available.
The bill would amend the
present selective service act so
as to require the registration of-
all men between 18 and 20 years
and 32 and 45, inclusive. While
the total number of men in the
latter classes would total 10,-
028,973, Gen. Crowder esti
mates the total number who
would be eligible for class 1,
would only be 601,236, owing to
exemptions for dependents or
industrial and physical reasons.
Between 18 and 20 years his es
timates show that 3,171 -771
would register, while 1,787,609
men would be eligible for class
1.
Weekly registration of youths
attaining the age of 21 during
the next few weeks was propos
ed by General Crowder as the
only means of obtaining the
200.000 men to be called to the
colors in September. This could
be done by presidential procla
mation and would add 80,000 to
the number of men available.
After carrying out the pro
gram for July and August, Gen.
Crowder pointed out that only
100.000 of the 1918 registrants
class would be left on Sept.l for
subsequent class.
“The second and more diffi
cult question,” Gen. Crowder’s
statement adds, “is how can we
supply on time the one hundred
and fifty thousand men requir
ed for each of the succeeding
months of October, November,
and December. The British-
Canadian treaty would help out
to the extent—it is estimated
—of about 50,000 men, which is
not even the conventional drop
in the bucket.
“A minimum period of ninety
day is necessary to enroll and
classify all the men registered
in the additional classes sr -t
ed. We can not, therefore,
wait for the completion of class
one, but must take men irres
pective of their order number
as fast as they find their way
into class one.”
He advocates thing German as
though orders were being re
ceived by him from the Kaiser
direct. We have some curosity
to know how much of the Kai
ser’s money Mr. Hardwick has
already received.
Let me, in conclusion, urge our
people, we “common people" of
Taylor county to stick together,
stand by our government, which
is the greatest in the world, en
courage our boys “over there 1 *
look after those in training here.
Never let our boys know of the
disloyal utterances of Mr. Hard
wick, when election time
comes put a man in tbe senate
who will have the respect and
esteem of the world’s greatest
chieftain, President Woodrow
Wilson.
Respectfully yours
Z. T. BLOODWORTH.