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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA.,
TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1913.
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BIOKT-SEEINQ IN THE NATIONAL
CAPITAL.
Washington, D. C., May 22, 1913.
Dear Semi-Weekly: Since Tuesday
morning: I have ridden over miles and
miles of Washington City streets. The
town was never more beautiful in its
spring attire. It is the most perfect
of all cities on this western continent,
as tourists say.
The Speedway, which was known as
the Potomac Flats when I was here in
• the seventies, is the most beautiful of
; places for driving. , Not only has this
' beautiful place the profusion of green I
trees and velvety grass, but the river i
i has been * deepened and the grounds j
drained, until it has been made into a >
scene of bewitching beauty, with water
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scenery.
I have been through Chevy Chase
park, where millions of dollars have
been expended in these later years, and
through miles of Rock Creek park,
where the native woods are still pre
served and in beautiful profusion.
How these woods have been so well
; taken car© of, and so near this great
city. I cannot understand, wheA I think
of the vandalism that has prevailed in
our southern country;
I am enjoying the trip very greatly.
My right eye, which was injured in a
wreck some eighteen months ago, has
been troubling me for several weeks,
and I found it needful to hold up on
reading, etc. So I decided to come on
this little Jaunt and try to give the
eye its needful rest. I can ride and see
these fresh and beautiful scenes when
I might be longing (if at home) to
read, as was always my habit during a
long life. By the courtesy of Hon.
Gordon Lee, who instructed his chauf
feur (who, by the way, is one of our
Cartersville boys) to drive me in his
fine new car to these delightful parks
and over Washington City streets, I
have been greatly favored. It was
really the very thing that pleased me
most, as I have been more or less lame
since the wreck on the Southern rail
way occurred in September, 1911.
I accompanied the Old Guard of At
lanta to the White House on Tuesday
morning, in company with a dozen or
mor© Atlanta ladies, and enjoyed their
*con5pany and the White House cere
mony very greatly together. President
and Mrs. Wilson were introduced to the
Atlanta party by Senator Hoke Smith,
and I also met Representative W.
Schley Howard and Hon. Thomas Hard
wick in the East room, with the sol
diers, at the same time.
The Old Guard made a fine display as
they marched from near the capitol
down Pennsylvania avenue to the execu
tive mansion. I expected to see the
Misses Wilson, but theye were absent on
that day, perhaps entertaining the
crowds of sightseers who throng the
city in %he lovely springtime. We were
admitted at a side entrance into the
gallery, where the portraits of .former
presidents’ wives are placed. I shall ex
pect to see Mrs. Wilson’s portrait in
the same gallery if I ever visit the
White House in later years. I knew
Mrs. Hayes better than all the presi
dents’ wives to whom I have been ever
introduced, and I had seen her in the
beautiful ruby velvet robe which the
artist faithfully copied in this hand
some portrait that I glimpsed on Tues
day.
The Old Guard were not in the White
House exceeding fifteen minutes, but
they bore themselves proudly and the
people on the avenue gathered in great
crowds to witness this military parade
of Georgia soldiers.
As the house of representatives is
not holding regular sessions I do not
see much of the congressmen, and a
number of them are at home on brief
visits. I propose to go this forenoon
to the senate and hear th^se distinguish
ed senators talk on popular subjects. I
so well remember the distinguished men
who occupied these congressional posi
tions more than thirty years ago that
I can, I hope, see our later statesmen
as worthy successors of Hon. Allen
Thurman and Senator George F. Ed
munds. of Vermont, wh<? were very in
teresting to me in gone by days, because
I appreciated their active and virile
patriotism In pushing forward that won
derful "Thurman bill," which saved to
the United States government many
millions of dollars at a time when the
Pacific railroads were determined to
avoid this righteous payment of its ob
ligations.
But these old veterans in statesman
ship are gone, and there are but a very
few of those senators between 1876 to
1881 left on earth to recall the scenes
that occurred at the time mentioned. I
w.ill write you something of what these
* newer statesmen talk about in a later
article.
MRS. W. H. FELTON.
trussed and bandaged on their lower
limbs. On top of this, you generally
see a hat expansive enough for a para
sol, and with a perfect garden of flow
ers or mayhap a forest of plumes to
decorate the headgear. I can never for
get a likely young woman I saw at
the old depot in Atlanta one of the
hottest of last summer’s days. She
might have tipped the scales at less
than 200, but I thought she would have
cleared 240.
She was corseted to the limit, trying
to hold the extra fatness in place, and
the tightness around her body made her
face more than rosy, and her fat arms
were sweatin gjust as her face and neck
were performing on that hot day. The
dress was lingerie, made elaborately
with lace and tucks and it had possibly
been fresh washed and ironed the day
before, but the heat, the dust and the
skin-tight goods had all stamped their
marks on the outfit. She sat down be
cause she was dead tired ,with fatigue
and adipose tissue, but when she took
a seat the tight skirt pulled up and
gave all of u^ a view of her stockings
^nd far above those bovine ankles. Ev
erything had been made fine as to tex
ture, but now drabbled with sweat and
dust-.
On her head there was an immense
fine hat wtih a magnificent ostrich
plume on it. I suppose she paid some
where between $75 and $100 for the
headgear, and she had considerable jew-
elery thrown in to add to the expense.
Everything she wore seemed to increase
her very ample proportions, and yet
she wore such a tight skirt that there
was no difficulty in outlining her an
atomy, whether she was standing up
br sitting down. She had the money, I
guess, and yet she had no judgment
or private perception as to what would
be suitable for her wardrobe.
I recall the pity and even sympathy I
felt for this overgrown woman, and I
think of her when I urge the necessity
for a convention or a. caucus of patri
otic women to study the subject of fe
male attire from a sensible standpoint.
Why, even Chicago preachers are tell
ing their congregations that something
must be done to abate these vulgarly
suggestive, skin-tight dresses!
And if Chicago has a spasm of vir
tuous impulse certainly the rest of the
country should set up and take notice.
I commend this new organization to the
energies of our reform clubs, who are
actually in straits cnocasionaly for
“new worlds to conquor.”
WALKER Li TO REST;
FLOWERS HIDE GASKET
A NEW ORGANIZATION PROPOSED
As we have conventions without num
ber, conferences galore, and political
caucuses continually, and the women’s
clubs tackle everything in sight, for dis
cussion and. aotion, why shouldn't wom-
enkind get .together, to convene. con
fer and caucus on a suitable kind of
fashions for women’s wear?
I saw a young woman go down our
street the other day, and the^hind part
of* her frock was so narrow and so
awkward that she kicked it out at one
step and kicked it in at the next step,
until I agreed with some visitors that
she had certainly reached the limit for
.ugliness as well as uncomfortableness
In her style of dress. It was Just long
enough for her high-heeled shoe to
catch the hem and jerk it back and
forth as herein noted, automatically.
I asked myself why we women were
eo utterly incapable of making fash
ions for our own wear? When you
consider the amount of time, study,
money and material that this subject of
dress covers, it is just astonishing that
women must wear frocks that are
skin-tight on the limbs, and almost
nude on the neck and bust, and so scant
that they must hobble like they were
Young Macon Banker Sleeps
in Monroe Grave, Long
Fight Over
MONROE. Ga., May 26.—With the
casket literally hidden under great
banks of flowers, the body of B. San
ders Walker, the young banker whose
week-long fight against bichloride of
mercury poisoning was ended by death
Thursday, was laid to rest here Fri
day.
A great concourse of friends and ac
quaintances attended the last services.
The body of the young banker was
accompanied from Macon by relatives,
friends and escorts. The Walker lot in
the cemetery at Monroe is filled. Next
to it is that of Ex-Governor H. D. Mc
Daniel, who immediately wired that he
would give a port of his plot to inter
the latest dead of his neighbors’ house.
Father and Daughter
Are Drowned Together
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark., May 26.—A
father, his daughter of nineteen and
two young women school teachers,
members of a camping party from Rus
sellville, were drowned near here late
today while bathing in the Illinois
river. The dead:
W. A. CRAWFORD.
MISS FRANCES CRAWOFRD.
MISS RUTH VAN LANDINGHAM.
MISS VERA MEADE.
The Crawford family and a number
of young women school teachers ar
rived at the river today for an outing.
All went bathing. Miss Crawford got
beyond her depth, and her father, Miss
Van.Landingnam and Miss Meade went
to her rescue. After struggling in the
current for a moment, all four appar
ently stepped from a sand bar into deep
water and sank from sight. The bodies
were recovered.
Mr. Crawford was principal of the
public schools at Russellville, secretary
of the Arkansas Athletic association
and one of the most widely known
educators of the state. Miss Van
Landingham was one of his assistants
and Miss Meade was principal of the
high school at Ola, Ark. She was the
daughter of U. G. Meade, a Russell
ville attorney.
T HE country is to be congratu
lated that' the President, the i
Vice President and the Secreta
ry of State of the Republic are all to
tal abstainers, and* have banished wine
from their social entertainments.
A few British editors have underta
ken to deride Mr. Bryan because he
excluded wine from the banquet
which he gave in honor of Mr. Bryce,
the retiring Ambassador of Great Brit
ain at Washington. Some editorial
runts also in our own country have
undertaken to ridicule our honored
Secretary of State; but Mr. Bryan de
serves the cordial approval of all good
people for the stand which he has ta
ken upon this subject. London editors
may allude to Washington as "Wishy-
Washington” because of Mr. Bryan’s
winesless banquet: but it is better to
have a “Wishy-Washington" for this
republic than a "liquored London.’’
Mr. Bryan sets a good example to
people of position in the United States;
and following his leadership they
should make a declaration of independ-
e: ce from all those social usages in
conformity to which wine has beerr
considered indispensable to a dinner
party. The drinking habits of "soci
ety" can not be defended on any rea-,
sonable grounds; and it is time refor
mation were Degun in this matter of
social wine drinking. There is not a
sensible person in America who will
not admit that wine drinking at social
entertainments has been the ruin of
multiplied thousands of young men.
Even women have not escaped demor
alization through this wine drinking
custom.
Doubtless there are many good men
and women in what is called "society"
who have secretly lamented these de
moralizing social usages, although they
have refrained from openly condemn
ing them. Now is a good time for
these people to assert openly and em
phatically what they have long be
lieved, but have hesitated to express.
Let them declare that the indiscrimi
nate offer of wine at dinners and other
social functions is not only improper
but positively vulgar, as it undoubt
edly is. Let them affirm flatly and
finally that for the sake of the young,
the weak, the wayward—for the sake
cf personal purity and family* peace,
for the sake of social propriety and tne
national welfare,—they will banish
wine from tneir feasts from this time
forth aftd forever. >
It is worse than idle for men and
women to indulge in private intemper
ance which they dare not defend In
public. They can not, without stulti
fying themselves, stand for temper
ance publicly while promoting intem
perance by their serial customs.
Many more people now travel in Eu
rope annually than was the case twen
ty-five years ago. There they see wine
drinking and beer drinking, both pub
licly and privately, as we never see it
in this country. Some may be misled
by what they thus observe in European
cities. It is very easy for half-educated
people to imagine that whatever they
see abroad must be all right. But peo
ple of sense know we have nothing to
learn on the subject of temperance from
European customs. It does not become
us to ape the evil things of Europe, but
to copy only the good and make it bet
ter. It is time Europe learned some
things from America; and Mr. Bryan
has set a conspicuous example of virtue
which should be copied by European
statesmen and social leaders. But
whether our friends across the sea im
itate this good example of our honored
Secretary of State or not, we in Amer
ica should follow his leadership in the
matter.
All the talk about the sobriety of
wine-drinking countries is the veriest
nonsense. Any man who has visited
Paris, or Berlin, or Vienna knows that
there is not a syllable of truth in the
claim that the people of those capitals
are more sober and virtuous than the
people of our own country? But even
if it were true that those wine and
beer drinking countries are more tem
perate than ours, it would ,not follow
that we will become more temperate by
drinking wine as they do. Our case is
bad enough as it is, without superadding
their vices to our excesses. We can
gain nothing in the way of sobriety by
adding their wine drinking to our whis-
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LAGRANGE WILL HAVE
BIGGEST COUNTY FAIR
GEORGIA TO HAVE FOUR
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Chamber Commerce Launches
Fair for This Fall for Troup!
County to Be Largest Fair
in the State
PRINGE OF CUAABEREAND
UNITED SHOE PEOPLE
BOUGHT OUT RIVALS?
BOSTON, May 26.—Further evidence
of the buying up of rivals and the dis
appearance of the latter from the field
of their former activity was presented
by the government today in its suit to
dissolve the United Shoe Machinery com
pany.
The government contends that all of
these companies were acquired in pur
suance of a plan to monopolize the shoe
machinery business of the country. The
defense admits the acquisition of the
companies but denies the plan to monop
olize.
ky guzzling. Our case has its own
characteristics, and we must do our duty
to ourselves, to our neighbors, and to
our children in view of the conditions
which are hround us and not in view
of the remote condition of other lands.
Prohibition has spread very widely in
our country, and it can not be doubted
that the legal * prohibition of the liquor
traffic has greatly reduced intemper
ance in America. There have been dif
ficulties in enforcing prohibitory laws,
and oft-times they have been nullified
in some communities. Nevertheless
prohibition has done much good, and
it will do more- But temperance re
form can not be brought to perfection
by prohibition alone. We must have
a change in those social usages which
are prevalent in what is called the
higher classes of society and which
constantly produce a fearful crop of
drunkards and drunkenness. Locker
clubs would die of inanition blit for
the prevalence of these evil social cus
toms. The responsibility of destroying
the social usages which produce intem
perance in our land rests upon the
men and women who occupy positions
of prominence in the community. The
editor of Scribner’s Monthly, years
ago, put this matter most cogently and
conclusively in a strong editorial under
the caption of "The Wine Question in
Society.” The dosirw paragraph of
that editorial may suitably close this
article. The editor spoke as follows:
“If the men and women of good so
ciety wish to have less drinking to ex
cess, let them stop drinking moder
ately. If they are not willing to break
off the indulgence of a feeble appe
tite for the sake of doing a great
good to a great many people*, how can
they expect a poor, broken-down wretch
to deny an appetite that is stronger
than the love of wife and children and
even life itself? The punishment for
the failure to do‘ duty in this, business
is sickening to contemplate. The sac
rifice o^ life and peace and wealth will
go on. Every 'year young men will
rush widly to the devil, middle-aged
men will booze away into apoplexy,
and old men will swell up with the
sweet poison and become disgusting
idiots. What will become of the
women? We should think that they
had suffered enough from this evil to
hold it under everlasting ban, yet there
are drunken women as well as 'drinking
clergymen. Society, however, has a
great advantage in the fact that it is
vulgar for a woman to drink. There
are some things that a woman may not
do, and maintain her social standing.
Let her not quarrel with the fact that
society demands more of her than it
does of men. It is her, safeguard in
many ways."
The course of Secretary Bryan is not
■fanatical; it is conscientious, patri
otic, and worthy of universal approba
tion. Let men and women in promi-
ent position everywhere follow nis lorty
example in this important matter.
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
LAGRANGE, Ga., May 26.—The La-
Grange chamber of commerce has just
perfected plans for the holding in La-
Grange this fall of a fair for Troup
county to be the biggest fair held by
any colinty in this state and probably
in the south.
The general secretary of the chamber
of commerce announced yesterday the
appointment of Mr. H. H. Wadsworth,
;i« fair secretary of the chamber of
commerce, and he will devote his entire
time to the fair from this time for
ward.
Mr. Wadsworth is a native of Ohio
and has been in Troup county for about
eighteen months, having been in charge
of the Southern Poultry Farms, which
he has given up to take charge of the
Troup county fair. He has had experi
ence in fairs held in Ohio and is a
clean, aggressive and conscientious man.
It took a handsome salary to secure
his services, and if the fair is a suc
cess this fall it will be a permanent
proposition and Mr. Wadsworth very
likely will be retained as permanent
fair secretary of the chamber of com
merce.
Plans already outlined for the fair
are the most elaborate and expensive of
any county fair ever undertaken in
Georgia. In fact, it will be a miniature
exposition. Plans are now being drawn
for the necessary buildings, and con
struction work will begin on them as
soon as plans are complete.
BASEBALL GROUNDS.
The grounds secured will be the ones
now being used by the baseball club,
and are just two blocks from the court
house square. The baseball diamond
will be fitted up for a race track’, ahd
all the judging of stock and outdoor
sports ’will take place in front of the
grandstand, which seats about 1,000 peo
pie.
The bu angs to be edected will be
built on the corner of the lot toward
town, and will be two-story structures,
having place for exhibits on both first
and second floors.
Fireworks will blaze at night from
the center of the opening in front of
the grandstand, and a flrstclass mid
•way will be open all afternoon and up
to midnight.
Full details of the exposition will be
ready and the premiums within the r.ext
ten days and will be announced by the
secretary.
BIG CHAMBER WORK.
The announcement of the appointing
of a fair secretary, who will doubtless
be a permanent factor of the work of
the chamber of commerce of LaGrange,
is but another step forward by the
livest and most aggressive chamber
of commerce work in Georgia or the
south.
This addition to the chamber of com
merce force gives in addition to the
general secretary and two stenogra
phers, thre,e strong and aggressive men
in charge of various departments. They
are: O. E. Wilson, real estate secretary;
T. J. Moultor.. promotion secretary; H.
H. Wadsworth, fair secretary, making
six active workers in the chamber of
commerce office.
The general secretary of the chamber
of commerce at LaGrange has daily re
quests for details of the workings of the
LaGrange chamber, and to most of them
he replies that the secret of the great
work being done lies in the splendid
snd very active board of directors. They
are men who seldom miss a meeting
of the board and represent every walk
of life in LaGrange and Troup county.
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On the pages of ecclesiastical history is
written in bold lettering the 1913 session
of the general assembly of the Presbyte
rian church in the United States.
The memorable conference that began
on Wednesday of last week with the
farewell address of the retiring modera
tor, Dr. Thomas S. Clyce, and the elec
tion of Dr. J. S. Lyons to succeed him,
adjourned sine die Thursday afternoon at
6:10 o’clock, as the few remaining com
missioners stood and joined in the sing
ing of the Doxology. The ranks began
to thin out during the morning and at
the closing session there were scarcely
two-thirds of the assembly present.
Tired and worn from eight days of hard
committee work and strenuous debate
that at times bordered on the sensational,
developing many tense and dramatic mo
ments, the commissioners moved about
restlessly In their seats as the hour of
permanent adjournment neared.
FINAL HOURS LISTLESS.
Reports of minor committees were re
ceived and adopted with a listlessness
that sp-ke plainly that all were anxious
to get back to their home pulpits for
Sunday. Debate in the final hours was
unenthuslastic and the conservative ele
ment of the conference, constituting the
minority, seemed to have lost its spirit
of aggressiveness manifested during the
morning in the tense fight for withdrawal
from the federal council of the Churches
of Christ in America.
The only interesting phase came at the
opening of the afternoon session and
threatened for a moment to delay ad
journment indefinitely. The "select com
mittee on closer relations with other ec
clesiastical bodies," headed by Dr. R. F.
Campbell, of Asheville, N. C., presented
a report e mbodying a plan recommending
an eventual federation of each branch
of the Presbyterian church in America
into a "Greater Presbyterian congress”—
formed on the basis of the congress of
the United States with an upper and low
er house, vested with supreme power ever
all Presbyterian affairs in the country.
ODOM IS ACQUITTED
OF OVERSTREET’S DEATH
(By Associated Press.)
SYLVANIA, Ga., May 23.—Morgan
Odom was acquitted late Thursday by
a jury of the charge of murdering Spur
geon Overstreet, w r hom he shot last
Thanksgiving day. Odom’s plea was
self-defense.
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ducah, Ky., to St. Louis, today, reach
ing this city at 4:56 p. m. He had only
half a pint of gasoline left, and was
compelled to land at the foot of Cher
okee street, nearly three miles south of
his intended landing place the foot ol
Market street.
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Princess Victoria Luise Be
comes Wife of Prince Er
nest August
BERLIN, May 26.—Princess Victoria
Luise of Prussia, only daughter of the
German emperor, was married to Prince
Ernest August of Cumberland with the
rites of the Lutheran church at 5
o’clock this evening.
The ceremony, which took place in
the royal chapel of the imperial castle,
seals the reconciliation between the de
throned house of Handver and the
house of Hohenzollern.
The presence of three of the most
powerful sovereigns of Europe—the
German emperor, the Russian emperor
and the British king-emperor—on terms
of intimate friendship made the event a
demonstration of international peace.
The civil ceremony was performed
half an hour earlier in the great elec
tors’ hall, a small room in the most an
cient part of the castle. It was at
tended by only the immediate families
of the bride and bridegroom.
A state banquet is to be given at the
castle this evening, followed by the
historic "torch dance" and the distribu
tion to the guests of souvenir "gar
ters." These are in the form of silk
ribbons, bearing the bride’s initials and
the date in gold letters, which modern
delicacy has substituted for pieces of
the bride’s garter, formerly cut up and
distributed by the pfinces of the j*oyal
family on the points of their swords.
Congressman William Schley
Howard Will Have Place
on Military Committee
COUNTIES IN NEW YORK
MUST PAY MILITIA
BUFFALO, N. Y., May 26.—The state
courts here today handed down a de
cision ordering the county to pay mem
bers of the National Guard called out
for duty during the recent strike of the
street car men. The sum amounts to
$20,000.
Payment of the bill was refused by
the county on the ground that the sec
tion of the military law under which
the troops were called out by a justice
of the state supreme court was uncon
stitutional In that it gave a civil officer
powers that were derogatory to the
powers of the governor conferred by
the state constitution.
Justice Marcus, in his decision, holds
that "the suppression of riots is dis
tinctly* a Judicial function under the
code of criminal procedure.
>A lantic Squadron
“Sinks’' Under Fire
Of U. S. Submarines
(By Associated Press.)
NEWPORT, R. I., May 26.—Eleven of
the biggest battleships in the navy,
constituting the Atlantic squadron,
were sunk, theoretically, today in an en
counter with five submarines off Block
Island sound. The attack took place
tjiree hours after dawn and under a
dull sky and streaks of fog.
The battleship fleet expected the at
tack and all hands had been mustered
to quarters when the gray back of an
underwater craft arose out of the sea off
the bow of the flagship Wyoming. Be
fore the guns of the flagship could be
trained on the "enemy," a “dummy"
torped.o struck the Wyoming well below
the water line.
The 20,000 ton warship, which cost
several million dollars to build, foun
dered, carrying down most of her 800
men, according to the umpires.
One by one the other battleships were
torpedoed and sent to the bottom, then
the beet returned to.Narrayansett Bay
with the victorious submarines.
BY RALPH SMITH.
WASHINGTON, May 26.—The state
of Georgia will fare unusually well in
the reorganization of the house of rep
resentatives by the ways and means
committee. She will com© out with
four desirable chairmanships, and rep
resentation of practically all of the im
portant standing commitees, unless the
program is changed.
Congressman W. C. Adamson, of
the Fourth, and T. W. Hardwick, of the
Tenth, will continue as chairmen of the
commerce and coinage committees re
spectively. Congressman Thomas M.
Bell, of the Ninth and Dudley M.
Hughes, of the Twelfth, will get chair
manships. The former will head the
census committee and the later will.be
chairman of the education committee.
Congressman William Schley Howard,
of the Atlanta district, will be given a
place on tjie military affairs commit
tee besides holding what he already has
in the way of assignments. He will suc
ceed to the vacancy occasioned by the
retirement from this committee of Mr.
Hughes.
Mr. Howard feels particularly fortu
nate in landing this assignment. The
military committee deals with many
matters of legislation in which the city
of Atlanta has a direct interest. Mr.
Howard feels that he can be of genu
ine value ‘through his wofk on this
committee. It will enable him to press
legislation for the development of the
army pest at Fort McPherson and the
construction of a military road.
AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL
* CLOSES AT DOUGLAS,
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
DOUGLAS, Ga., May 26.—The Eleventh
district agricultural school brings to a
close its fifth annual session with the
following exercises:
The graduating class for 1913 is com
posed of nine young men and young wo-
men, as % follows.
Mr. G. M. Yarbrough, Jeff Davis
county; Mr. Otis Woodard, Laurens
county; Miss Allie Fales and Mr
Emmett Welchel, from Douglas, Coffee
county; Mr. R. B. Wilson, from New
York state; Mr. J. P. Joiner, from
Brooks county; Mr. G. P. Crews, from
Charlton county; Mr. K. F. Baldwin,
from Clinch county, and Mr. R. G. Jen
nings, from Savannah, Chatham county.
NEGRO WANTED BY MOB
CARRIED TO NEBRASKA
LINCOLN, Neb., May 26.—Walter Bal-
lew, negro, charged with assault on a
white woman, of Falls City, is in the
penitentiary. He was brought here at
1:30 o’clock this morning. Sheriff Aldriehl
said he puposed to keep Ballew in the
penitentiay because of the intense feeling
against him at Falls City.
MINISTER DE LA BARRA.
TO LEAVE OLD MEXICO
MEXICO CITY. May 26.—Francisco
de la Barra, minister of foreign affairs,
has been granted a leave of absence.
He announces that he intends to go
abroad. He probably will visit (he
United States, and later proceed to
Europe. It is understood that sub-
Secretary Carlos Pereyra will act as
minister.
Senor de la Barra’s object In leaving
Mexico at the present time is to Sep
arate himself from politics, in the be
lief that his withdrawal from the po
litical struggle will best serve the in
terests' of. his country. He will ar
range affairs in his department so that
he can leave as soon as possible.
EVIDENCE IS GIVEN
AGAINST BURTON GIBSON
NEWBUGH, N. Y., May 26.—Taking
of testimony in the case of Burton W.
Gibson, charged w^th the murder of
Mrs. Rosa Szabo at Greenwood lake «ast
July, was begun here today.
Deforest Chauncey, clerk of the hotel
at Greenwood Lake, told of the arrival
I of Gibson and Mrs. Szabo, the death of
' the woman and the recovery of the
■ body.
Alexander McDowell, a boatman, tes-
' tided that on the day of the drowning
j he rented to the couple the light row
boat which figured In the fatality.
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FLORIDA HOUSE VOTES
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TALLAHASSEE. Fla., May 26—The |
house this morning passed a bill in- ;
| creasing the governor’s salary to $6,000 J
Locdl bills weer considered in the
i house and senate.
A baseball game between the mem- ■
hers of the two houses is the feature
planned for this afternoon. Governor !
Trammell and Attorney General West j
will umpire.
Speaker- Farris and President Drane
will do the twirling.
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