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UNDERWOOD’S
IY OF HIS LIFE
IS ANTECEDENTS
CONGRESS]
OWN
ipathiierDuring the War.—To Save his Wife’s
scar wjiis ©nly- Thrtfe Years Old.—Relatives
Organization of the Line
Completed This Week
Valdosta to More Than
Maintain her Lead
ISin Essential to Comfort
'wSJWarmth Is essential ’to com-
fort As you grow older, It Is
hardly leas essential to health.
Yj Get a Perfection Smokeless Oil
Heater, and you keep warm and com
fortable in your home, no matter what the weather without^,
The Perfection gives a strong, widespread heat, and giv^H
quicldy. It is always ready for me and bums nine hours on a snJH
filling—no more trouble than » lamp. It can be carried anywhereS
no pipes, no wires, no flues; no smoke, odor or dirt \ fiSS
I : barn in 1790, tod Seymour for president. All of
J.ud was', a.UWti Taut In one of l.he Oscar W. Underwood’s ancestors on
fMnj&jRH|j^H&n)zed In Kentucky in his paternal aids were Southern
Itr.e war of 7S12. He was aqyerely people, either Virginians or Ken-
wounded at the battle of Dudley’s tucklans.
difeut In -Ojlo. He afterwards I All for Confederacy,
stodled law, ^eiime a member of: Underwood’s maternal grandfath-
tbe court of appeals of Kentucky, -er was Jabes Smith, who was born
waa 'aleonK'Q’ congreag as a whig In Groton, Conn., ana moved to Pe-
nnd sfterwnrdjj,served In the United tenburg, V«., when he was a boy
8‘atea senate'as a colleague of Hen-. Id years of age. He bnllt one of
ry Clay. • -1 |the first cotton mdlle In the South at
He dfibed with Mr. Clay In h|s Petersburg and for a number of
advocacy-of* Vadual emancipation years was mayor of that city before
of the slavefi aihi In the early part the civil war. He was always a
of the fllttjb emancipated all his Democrat and came from a Demo-
slaves who dsntred freedom on con- cnetlc family. During the war his
Mil. U. F. SIll.MA.NS, OF BIRMANS,
G.V., IS PRESIDENT OF THE
HEW HOAD AND IX IS XO UK
BUILT AY ONCE.
TITK CONTRACT IS ALREADY
SIGNED UP FOR THE RUSSIAN
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND
£ THE GREAT VOCAL STARS.
Hon. Frank Birmans, of Birmans,
Oa„ was In Valdosta this morning
and talked with a greet deal of en
thusiasm of the proposed new rail
road which In to como from Way-
cross out by airmans, then to MIU-
town, then to Rays Mill and on to
Hablra or some other point on the
Georgia Southern and Florida road.
Thu new railroad Is to bo known as
the Waycro.il Weatern and thirteen
milea of the track out of Waycroaa
have already boon built with aixty
pound ateel rails.
At a meeting of stockholders and
dlrectora of tho Waycrosa und West
ern, officers for the ensuing year
wero elected »a follows: President,
Alex. ScBsoms, of Waycross; vice
president, F. I). Slrmans, of Sir-
Editor Constitution: 1 am send
ing yon a Statement prepared by Mr.
Underwood hlmaelf touching certain
newspaper misrepresentations that
have appeared concerning him.
I do not tend yon this statement
with the vlow of having you publish
It in full.
This year’. Perfection is finished is eidiei blue enamel oe plait
in?*: luht and ornamental, yet Smog and disable ne can be mat
waned. Auto made-locking Berne apeeader prevent, smoking.
DaalmeNmAefs , ec write to enr eseaev el tke
Standard Oil Company
(Incorporated)
Indeed,
f do not know
1 that It will be of any service yo:i
- at all, but I thought it wa* wt’Jl
r Miouph to have tho facts before yon.
, mil you can use you* own lirlgmenl
s nr l discretion aj ;o whether dny-
- thing: contained l n the statement,Trill
i i»c useful to you In refuting misrop-
l mentations.
It Is not Mr. Underwood’s habit
, to attempt to correct a newspaper
l Btatcmcnt, but he thinks perhaps In
the Interest of truth that botoo of
. the facts contained in this statement
, might well be put before the peoplo
of Georgia. For Instance, yon wll;
t aee that hla father wll arroated
early In the war and imprisoned on
account of being a Southern sym
pathizer, and kept In prison until
t he accepted a parole pledging him
not to take up arms against tho
United State8 v Ilia two uiMlea wup
’ ConWderato soldiers, as *you will
1 see, etc.
Sincerely yours,
J. H. BANKHEAD,
Chairman.
Washington, March 20, 1912.
Oscar Underwood’s Own Statement
1 of Antecedent*.
Oscar W. Underwood was bom In
Louisville, Ky., on the 6Ui of May,
IF02. On his paternal aide he In
descended from a family of lawyers
and planters, who came from Eng
land and settled in Virginia In. \rt94.
Ills grandfather’s grandfather, Wll-
l«nm Thomae Underwood, wag a
planter before th<fc Revolutionary
war, high sheriff of Goochland coun
ty and at on« time a member of the
house of delegates of Virginia. /His
grandfather’* father waa John Un
derwood, a planter, and nt one time
high sheriff of Goochland county,
and also a member of the house
of delegatee. Hie grandfather was <
born In Goochland oounty, and when 1
10 years old went to Kentucky with I
ills uncle, Edmund Rogers, and Gen. i
George Rogers Clark, who was one ’
or hit cousins. ]
Hla grandfather wae Joseph R. 1
CHUFAS,
f n ivl :n-)k no a-’.ivs and a couain of the late Senator
unities, but hla sy;n-, Walthall, of Miislselpp!.
Why They Left South.
, When Oscar W. Underwood was
Underwood, j S year* old, 1 Q the fall of 1865, hla
pathke were -on‘the cine of tho i
union. His soil. Eufone Uiderwond.j
the father of Oscar tv. 1
was.toru ot Olascnw Ky., In' 1818. jmother had a number of heinorr-
He practiced la.v at bowling Green, hs.es. The doctors, tearing tuber-
K.- in partner-li' : . nit’u ala fkthi-,|culosia, advised hla father to ‘ake
nnd aub*equen:!y moved to Nuh- her to a dry climate, and they mov-
vllle, T«nn., and pract'cn'law there,el to St. Paul, Minn,, when it wa,
for about ten yenrs. Ifo was n mem- a frontier country, and there was
b«r of the original board of direct-,only ten miles of railroad in the
or. of th, T.oplsvlltc and Nashville etate. Hla father lived there until
railroad, but jnat before the begin-,1876, tvhen he returned to Kentucky
ring of the dlvll war moved lo Lou- J and brought Oscar W. UndeAvood
Invlllo and engaged in the practice back with him and placed him Is
of law la th^elty. school In Louisville, where hla fatli-
A ^utho*^ynipadli|*er." or o^abllihcd the family home. Os*
When th,' onion army flrat oeou- enr W. Underwood remained there
VELVET BEANS
Sorghum, Amber and Orange Cane
German Millet, Cat Tail Millet
VINSON’S DRUG STORE
oven better. The Valdoata Musical
Association hat already elgned a
contract for the Russian Symphony
Orchestra, with th, foremost Rus
sian dancer In th, world and four
or five of the world’s greatest sing-
cte for the mu.leal festvlal this
ye*r. There wilt be a two day*’
program, one to he devoted to home
talent, with two concert, by thl.
world famou. mu.leal organise-
- tlon. Tho Ruaalan Symphony Or
chestra la composed of the finest mu
sician! In the world and they come
fresh from a country whloh baa be
come famous all over the world for
the wonderful belle, lta splendid
chime, and |ta superb harmony In
musical organisations.
The people of Valdoata ought to
appreciate what It means to thli city
to have • musical aggregation Ilk*
thin to give a musical teattval In
this city. The credit to Valdoita la
rot so much |a scouring an organ!-
ration of this sort, but the aupport-
Ipg of It after It la secured. Every
< • D< u in Valdosta ought trf buy hla
ticv-i In ml vane, and aeetf it that
those who ore backing It do not
have to bo down In their own Pock
et, to pay th.. bill,, as they have
had lo do two or thro times be.
fore.
« Following the muelcal festival In
Apr! will come the Chautauqua In
May or curly |„ June, thua tilting
this city one of the moot splendid
r usual program* that any small
(Formerly VINSON & BARNES)
121 N. Patterson St.
Valdosta
.to the bar In Birmingham, Ala., on
the first day of September, 5484,
and practiced law there until he was
elected to congress In 1884. ltlf
two sons were born In Birmingham,
and that city haa been hla homo for
nearly twenty-eight years. Hla tint
wife waa Mlaa Eugenia Maaale, whom
ho married at Charlotteville, Va„
and who waa a mamber of a Virginia
ramlty of revolutionary stock. HU
•econd wife was Mlaa Bertha Wood
ward. who. waa born In Wheeling,
W. Va„ her father moving to Bir
mingham, Ala, when ahe was six or
seven yean old, and has reside!
there ever since that time.
Canton No. 9 Cotton Planter
A Fine, Light, Strong, Simple and Accurate
Planter, one of those Kind that
Always Work Right.
In hla youth be voted the whig ticket.
Joseph R. Underiood, Oscar W. Un
derwood’s grandfather, waa a Whig
t p to the time ot the civil war; af-
ter that time he. aligned himself
with the Drmocmilc party and al
ways voted the Democratic ticket
Ife was a member of the national
NASHVILLE'S SENSATION,
I'minlnent Lawyer There Indicted
for Attempted Felonious Assault,
parties who came down from
Demotjrutlc conrenMop that nomine-
BRANTLEY IS SELECTED.
ZEMO MAKES ASTONISHING
ECZEMA CURES.
“WKJ’ROVK IT.”
To Represent Rig Naval Stores Co.
Reside in Rrunmvlck.
White no official announcement
uaa yet hee n made. It 1* understood
On good authority that'pongreaa-
man W. G. Brantley, or Brunswick,
has been "rat slued as counsel by the
American Naval Stores Company and
Will he associated with Judge S. B.
Adame,’of Savannah. In the big case
now ponding against that corpora
tion Ut ths United States, court.
It was stated In a tew Georgia
paper, when Mr. Brantley announced
that he would retire from congress
that he had been employed aa conn-
eel by the Downing company, ot
Brunswick, hut that statement waa
erroneous and no donbe wnt circu
lated aa n result ot Mr. Brantley be
ing employed by the big naval stores
company, of which Major C. Down
ing la n big stockholder.
It is understood that Br. Brant
ley’s work In this easa.-.wtll mean
that he will he associated with th,
company tor a number ot years, aa
th, salt Is one of th, largest and
moat Important ever brought Into
th. United Staten court la Georgia.
It la n suit to dissolve th, corpora
tion, th, government alleging that
It la being operated In violation ot
tho Shermap antl-truat law—Doug
las Newa. V
Every dgy ZEMO gives relief and f
Cures men, women and children In w j, 0
every city nnd town In America 1 open
whoae aklna are on fire with tor- acort
luring ECZEMA rashes and dtber l’* lr - <
Itching, burning, scaly, and eruated’
akin and aealp humors. jr ‘ T*a W am
ZEMO and ZEMO (ANTISEPTIC) It
SOAP, two refined preparations will ClJ»
give you such quick relief that you br,Jf
will tool like a new perton.
We give you three reasons why, r* „
w, recommend and endorse ZEMO " ’
and ZEMO SOAP ^for nil skin and' ^ u)n
aealp eruptions > Jb
1st. They are clean, iclentlflc
prepnrationa that give universal |
satisfaction and are pleasant nnd ron ,|
agreeable to ties at all times haVe
tnd. They are not-experiments, of t( ,
but nr« proven enrea for every form t|1 cl
of akin or scalp affections whether Dext
on Infanta or grown persons. n
3rd. They work on 'a new prin- ^ ari
dplt. They do not glue over the ovcr
surface, hut they penetrate to the ,nen
sent of the trouble and’ draw the than
germ Uf, ftom underneath the akin over
and destroy It. In this way a com- they
plate care la effected In any cans of to tr
SKIN OR 8CALP ERUPTION, mere!
Endorsed and sold ta Valdoata by one h
A. E. DImmock’e drag store, 1 one I
Th® feed fiheel tnd agitator more In opposite directions, tWoucMr Hrp-
aratlns tke oeed and drop pin* It ualftornly: Tho teed can Lo entirely
cloaed without (topping the planter. Tho wheel hat « detachable rim. s ; -o it
caa be operated either as a coocavaor open center wheel. Tbedrvppfag mcchanhm
can be thro«a in or oat o( gear by a loot latch. Th® iagiaiajKMd to Lv|iuu.
du>L Can also be used as a Corn Drill.
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