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M®NROE ADVERTISER
FIRST SECTION
INTERESTING FACTS
ABOUT INAUGURATION
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Wilson 28th President, First Born in South
since War, Mrs. Wilson Wears Georgia
Flowers. South Well Represented in
Cabinet. Clark and Underwood
Again Chosen.
Woodrow Wilson is the 28th
President of the United States;
he is the Second Democratic
President which this country has
had since the Civil War the other
being Cleveland and is the first
President since that time who
was born and raised in the South.
He is the Bth President from
Virginia, “The Mother of Presi
dents.” Ohio comes next with 6.
The oath of office was adminis
tered by Chief Justice White of
the Supreme Court of the United
States, himself from the South
and a confederate soldier, in the,
presence of the largest crowd
which ever attended an inaugura
tion. The parade was five hours
in passing the reviewing stand.
Mrs. Wilson was Miss Ellen
CIVIC LEAGUE TO GIVE ENTER-
TAINMENT TO MRS. R. T. DANIEL.
On Friday afternoon, the four
teenth, the Civic League will
have as its guest, Mrs. Robt. T.
Daniel of Griffin who is the Presi
dent of the sixth district of Fede
rated clubs of the state.
The League will hold its meet
ing at the residence of Mrs. V. B.
Hooks and all members of the
League are urged to be present as
Mrs. Daniel will descuss a num
ber of topics of interest to womans
club work.
After the business feature five
o’oclock tea will be served.
Several ladies from Griffin and
Barnesville are expected also as
guests and a delightful afternoon
is anticipated.
R. L. WILLIAMS MOVES AWAY.
It is a source of deep regret to the
many friends which he has made
since he has lived in Forsyth,
that Mr. R. L. Williams should
have moved his residence to Ma
con.
Mr. Williams for the past sev
eral years, indeed since his gra
duation in law from Mercer Uni
versity, has been engag°d in the
practice of law in Forsyth. Dur
ing that time he has won many
friends, who are sorry that he has
decided to leave.
Feeling that the opportunities
for advancement in his chosen
profession were better in a larger
city he left last week. He is now
associated with the firm of Ryals
and Anderson, with offices in the
Americal National Bank Build
ing.
We wish him abundant success
as a city lawyer.
TOO MANY WIVES LAND COOK IN JAIL.
Charged with having too many
wives, W. A. Cook of this county
is in the Forsyth jail.
ITor some months Cook, and
the former Mrs. Pug Bowden have
a beeu living together here as Mr.
jeipd Mrs. Cook, claim ing to have
' oeen married in Atlanta some
two years ago. Yet on last
Saturday night, Cook and a
Mrs. Herrington went up from
Forsyth to Griffin and were mar
ried. And it was because of this
that the accusation for Bigamy
was brought and Cook lodged be
hind the bars.
Cook, we understand, admits
his marriage io Mrs. Bowden in
Atlanta some months ago but
claims that this marriage was il
legal because Mrs. Bowden had
never been divorced from her
FORSYTH, MONROE COUNTY, GEORGIA. MARCH 14, 1913 VOL. 59 NO. 14
Louise Axson, a Georgia woman.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilson wer u mar
ried in Georgia, and two of their
daughters were born in this States
The American Beauty -‘Ros’-s
worn by Mrs. Wilson in the inau
guration were grown in Georgia,
sent her by the women of Moul
trie and presented by little Mary
Roddenbery, the daughter of Re
presentative Roddenbery.
There are no Georgians in the
cabinet, altho William G. Mc-
Adoo, the secretary of the Trea
sury was born in Georgia. Be
sides Mr. McAdoo, four of the
other cabinet members were born
in the South; they are James G.
Mcßeynolds of Tennessee and
New York, born in Kentucky At
torney General • Albert S. Burl
eson of Texas, Postmaster General
Josephus Daniels of Daniels of
North Carolina, Secretary of the
Navy; and David F. Houston of
Missouri, born in North Carolina,
Secretary of Agriculture.
* * *
Two of the cabinet members
are not native born Americans:
Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of
the Interior, was born in Canada,
and William B. Wilson, Secretary
of Labor, was born in Scotland.
Os the ten men in the cabinet,
five are, or have been, lawyers;
one is a jurist; one a newspaper
editor, one a manufacturer and
one a miner.
* * *
The Secretary to the President
is Mr. Joseph P. Tumulty, who
was Wilson’s secretary while he
was Governor of New Jersey. He
is thirty years old and his salary
is $7,500 per year.
* * *
After the inauguration, the
Democratic caucus of the House
renamed Clark Speaker and re
chose Underwood as Democratic
floor leader. In the Senate Clark
of Arkansas was nanted President
protempore and Kern of Indiana
was chosen Democratic floor
leader.
IF YOU DON’T LIKE THE TOWN
AMERICAN LUMBERMAN
If you don’t like the kind of town
That this town seems to be,
If buildings here are tumbled down
Away you hate to see,
If something isn’t up-to-date,
<)r good as things of old.
While other towns are simply great
(Or so you have been told);
If you would like to see a place
That’s full of push and snap,
A town that hits a faster pace,
A town that’s on the map;
Yes, if away you’d like to know
To find it in a jerk,
I’ll tell you where you ought to go—
You ought to go to WORK.
You needn’t pack a trunk or grip
And leave the folks behind,
You needn’t go and take a trip,
Some other place to find,
You needn’t go and settle down
Where friends of old you miss—
For, if you want that kind of town,
Just make it out of TITIS.
husband, now a resident of Bibb
countn. According to Mrs. Bow
den or Mrs. Cook, she, several
years ago obtained a divorce from
Pug Bowden, her husband. Just
what the truth of the transaction
is and whose wife is who it will
take the courts to unravel.
Meanwhile Cook is honeymoon
ing behind the bars.
POST OFFICE APPRO-
PRIATION PASSES
Money Appropriated for Site for Gov
ernment Building for Forsyth.
Government Wants Bids.
We’re going to have that post
office building. Some of the peo
ple thought it a bluff, but its so!
The money for the site has been
appropriated and now $7,500 in
the United States Treasury is For
syth’s for the purchase of a site
for a post office building, provided
of course that a convenient and
acceptible site can be found at a
reasonable price and approved by
the Post-office Department.
The amendment placed on the
bill by Senator Hoke Smith was
agreed to by the House and the
money will be forthcoming just as
soon as the proper site can be
purchased. It is only a question
of a short time before Congress
can be induced to begin the erec
tion of a Goverment building here.
On Monday morning a request
was received by the local post
office for a map of Forsyth show
ing the location of the present
postoffice, the business part of
town, the depot etc. and this has
been forwarded to the Supervising
Architect.
Within a reasonable time the
Department will ask for proposals
for the sale of land for this site.
Any person having property which
he thinks would be suitable for
this purpose may make a bid.
These are opened in Wasington
and a special agent is sent by the
Department to make a personal
examination of the proposed loca
tions and any others that he may
deem advisable and to investigate
the reasonableness of prices asked
If the property cannot be pur
chased for a reasonable price, a
resort may be had by condemna
tion proceedings to ascertain the
value of the property. If the
price so determined is satisfactory
a purchase is made; otherwise,
the site is abandoned and other
property chosen
The Government will not pur
chase the buildings on the lots se
lected and the owner must remove
same within sixty days from date
of notice so to do from the depart
ment. It is not usual however to
demand that the buildings be re
moved until the erection of the
Federal building is about to begin I
Too exorbitant a price will call!
for the selection of a Jess advan-’
tageous site.
It is hoped that the people of
Forsyth will give the matter their
consideration to the end that the
most advantageous site may be
selected. A cordial cooperation
on the part, of the people will
help the Government to obtain
an appropriate site, one that will
serve purpose for years to come.
LEE WORSHAM FOR
ASST.SECRETARY
Former Forsyth Boy, now State Ento
mologist, Prominently Mentioned
as Assistant to Secy. Houston.
It is a source of gratification to
the people of this county who
know E. Lee Worsham, the State
entomologist to learn that he is
being urged for Assistant Secre
tary of the Department of Agri
culture at Washington.
Mr. Worsham the son of Mr.
J. R. Worsham of this county,
has made quite a name for him
self since he has been connected
with the State Bureau of entomo
logy and the esteem in which he
is held is reflected in the follow
ing from an editorial in the At
lanta Journal:
“E. Lee Worsham, State ento
mologist of Georgia, was reared
on a farm and, m the most prac
tical and progressive sense of the
word, he is a farmer still. The
people of this State and of neigh
boring States know that he is a
leader and a builder in the cause
of scientific agriculture. His
campaign against orchard pests
and particularly against the cot
ton boll weevil have saved mil
lions of dollars to farming inter
ests. He is president of the
Southern Conservation Congress
and chnirman of the executive
committee of the National Con
servation Association, these hon
ors having been accorded him m
recoguization of his distinctive
service and ability.
On his record, of which the
foraging facts are merely sug
gestive, Mr. Worsham is well
equipped and eminently entitled
to the first assistant’s place under
the United States Secretary of
Agriculture. His name is being
unzed for the position by the Geor
gia delegation, and by agriculture
and conservation leaders. In be
half of the department and of the
nation’s interests as well as the
South’s, it is earnestly to he hop
ed that Mr. Worsham will be ap
pointed. Cotton is perhaps the
greatest of American crops.
Surely, ’hen the great cotton-pro
ducing States should have repre
sentation in the department of
agricull u re.
For this purpose, Mr. Worsham
is peculiarly well fitted. He is
an expert on the cutton plant and
the cotton situation; at the same
time he is liberally and soundly
conversant with^agricultural mat
ters at large. He is aB. S. gra
duate of the University of Geor
gia, where he taught for two
years, and he took post graduate
work at Cornell. He has literally
made the State department of
entomology in Georgia. He has
the culture, the experienced tr/id
the executive ability to make an
INCENDIARY BURNS
HOLLOWAY’S BARN
At 1:30 Monday Night Fire Destroys
Barn at Russellville. Contents in-
cluding Horses and Mules Lost.
Fire thought to be of incendiary
origin completely destroyed the
barn and contents on the place of
Mr. J. J. Holloway at Russelvillo
on Monday. When discovered
about 1:30 P. M. the barn was a
mass of flames and only the bug
gies and wagons were saved. There
was no insurance.
In the barn were two mules and
a horse, valued at $900; SBOO
worth of forage; SSO worth of cot
ton seed; one hog and some small
crops. This was the property of
Mr. R. L. Holloway and was com
pletely destroyed.
The barn belonged to Mr. J. J.
Holloway. Since there was no
tire about the place during the
day or night, and because of the
lateness of the hour at which the
fire broke out. it is supposed that
it was set on fire. As yet there is
no clue to the perpetrator of the
deed.
RUSSELLS SHOWS TO BE
IN FORSYTH NEXT WEEK.
The Robt. L. Russel Shows will
reopen in Forsyth on next Mon
day night, with a high class
vaudeville performance, the show
to continue throughout the week.
Mr. Russell has an entirely new
set of actors, all new people and
accoiding to him, it will be even
better than ever. The show was
here last fall and ail who attend
ed will remember that it was a
clean performance, containing
nothing objectionable. Mr. Rus
sell caters especially to women
and children and he prides him
self on the fact that nothing of
fensive to them can be found in
any of his performances. Many
ladies and children attended last
year and because of the class of
his performance then given he ex
pects them to come our in greater
numbers during next week.
This season he has, besides the
black-face funny-men, Dutch and
Irish comedians. All the special
ties are new, the songs and dan
ces up to date. Mr. Russell takes
pride not only in the cleanness of
his show but also on the excellent
order which is maintained in his
big teuton old Forsvth Hotel lot.
Forsyth people feel an especial
interest in the success of these
shows for the reason that the
“show” wintered at Forsyth; all
of the equipment, tents etc. being
stored here since last fall.
For two weeks a scene painter
has been busily engaged in pre
paring new scenery and Mr. Rus
sell promises an excellent show
for the money. A complete
change of progrum will be given
each night and the ladies and
children are especially and cor
dially invited. Mr. Russell
promises that nothing will be said
or done to which they could ob
ject.
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MR. McCOWEN LEADS SALES FORCE.
One of our townmen is “some
salesman,” according to the fol
lowing note which appeared in
the Atlanta Journal of Sunday:
R. G. McGowen climbed back to
his old position us leader of the
Warren Manufacturing company
Bules force with the biggest total
for February and is in the leud so
far this month. M. L. Miner
pulled down the ten dollar month
ly prize for several months, but
he will have to hurry to win out
this time.
ideal assistant secretary of agri
culture. We trust he will receive
the appointment.”
To all of this, we say “Amen.”