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I THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1913. GENERAL RESUME OF WHAT LEGISLATURE DID AND DIDN’T DO (Continued From Page X.) it the right for the abrogation of the present book contract for five years, should it be determined that the books can be purchased more cheaply elsewhere. The resolution is especial ly designed to provide for an investiga tion of the feasibility of tne stave printing its own school books. “Get-Rich-Quick” Wallingfords and “wild-cat” schemes will be effectively blocked in the state through the pas sage of the “blue sky” law introduced in the house by Representatives Spence, of Carroll, and Wohlwender, of Musco gee. They must satisfy the secretary of state as to their standing before a license may be secured. STRENGTHENS INSURANCE LAWS. The insurance laws of the state will be strengthened by the passage of the bill of Representatives Cook and Wohl wender, which specifies the conditions under which foreign insurance compa nies may withdraw from the state. If any company desires to suspend busi ness in Georgia, it must first make a report of its financial condition to the comptroller general, show its as sets and liabilities and re-insure every policy t& the satisfaction of the comp troller before being allowed to with draw. General William A. Wright, in commenting on the bill when it was in troduced, expressed the wish that it would pass, as he considered it a most important piece of legislation. After a rather long fight in the com mittee room, the Mills-Jones bill, pro viding for the Georgia Training School for Girls (known as the nome ror way ward girls), finally reach tne calendar and was passed in the house. In the senate, however, the appropriation of $30,000 was cut to $20,000 owing to the depleted condition of the state’s finances. The house at once concurred in the amendment. As a companion to this bill, both of which were supported by prison re formists, the measure of Senator Tar ver giving a judge the right to put a prisoner on probation was also passed. The provisions of the bill specify that the trial judge shall at nis discretion allow one convicted of a misdemeanor to serve the sentence imposed outside of a jail, prison or other house of de tention and in the event a fine is impos ed, to pay it in installments. OTHER SENATE BILLS. Other senate bills passed in the house were those by Mr. Smith, of the ninth district, to allow superior court judges to grant charters to individuals or cor porations while on their vacation; by Messrs, Pope, Hixon and Tarver, to ex empt certain farm products from taxa tion; by Mr. Huie, providing for the election of United States senators by the people and by Mr. McNeil, to allow through freight trains .carrying perish ables, to run on Sundays. The first general tax act to pass was that of Representatives Swift, of Mus cogee; Cole, of Bartow, and Slater, of Bryan. This is the inheritance tax which will levy on all inheritances over and above $5,000 at the time the trans fer is made. The income from it Is entirely problematical, but a good rev enue is expected. Under such a law in New York the Astor estate has con tributed nearly $4,000,000 to the upkeep of the government. The occupation tax bill of Messrs. Slade and Akin, doubling the tax on foreign and domestic corporations so that the amount is now on a sliding scale of from $10 to $200 on the capital stock, is declared by leaders in the house and senate to be a most impor tant piece of legislation. Two other tax bills by Mr. Akin were passed, one increasing the tax on auto matic bottling plants and the other making the automobile license $5 per year instead of $2 for the life of the car. MANY BILLS KILLED. Such is a short resume of successful legislation. On the other hand, there were many bills killed, some good and others bad, while more were not reached or tabled and will lie over until next year to be taken up in their order. One of the most pernicious measures introduced this year and which, though it passed the house unobserved in the latter day rush, was tabled in the sen ate, was the bill of Representatives Cooper and Crawley, of Ware, providing for an early primary election to be held not later than June 15 of the year before the general October election. It 1 * flying trip for passage was nipped in the bud by Senators McNeil, Allen, El kins and Harrell, the latter conducting a filibuster in the senate to keep it from a second reading after it had been killed in the committee and subsequent ly reconsidered by the senate when it was appearently dead. The warning note was sounded by Representative Barry Wright on the day of its pas sage in the house and a further warn ing given in The Journal the following day. It Is generally hoped that the bill will never again be revived and threaten the pure election laws of 1908 with annihilation. The pure shoe bill of Senator Pey ton was killed outright and a like meas ure in the house failed to survive gen eral judiciary committee No. 2, to which it was referred. M’CRORY SCHOOL BOOK BILL. An all-important measure that is sure to come up next year is the school book bill of Representative C. R. McCrory, of AN OLD NURSE Persuaded Doctor to Drink Postum An old faithful nurse and an expe rienced doctor, are a pretty strong com bination in favor of Postum, instead of tea or coffee. The doctor said: “I began to drink Postum five years ago on the advice of an old nurse. “During an unusually busy winter, be tween coffee, tea and overwork, I be came a victim of insomnia. In a month after beginning Postum, in place of tea and coffee, I could eat anything and sleep as soundly as a baby. “In three months I had gained twen ty pounds in weight. I now use Postum altogether instead of tea and coffee; even at bedtime with a soda cracker or some other tasty biscuit. “Having little tendency to Diabetes, I used a small quantity of saccharine instead of sugar, to sweeten with. 1 may add that today tea or coffee are never present in our house and very many patients, on my advice, have adopted Postum as their regular bev erage. “In conclusion I can assure anyone that, as a refreshing, nourishing and nerve-strengthening beverage, there is nothing equal to Postum.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Write for booklet, “The Road to Wejlville.” Postum comes in two forms. Regular (must be boiled). Instant Postum doesn’t require boil ing but is prepared instantly by stirring a level teaspoonful in an ordinary cup of hot water, which makes it right for most persons. A big cup requires more and some people who like strong things put in a heaping spoonful and temper it With a large supply of cream. Experiment until you know the amount that pleases your palate and have it served that way in the future. “There’s a Reason” for Postum. INENT F SHOOTS SELF IN HEAD P, C. Colley Commits Suicide After Bidding His Wife Good-Night (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) ALBANY, Go., Aug. 18.—P. C. Col ley, a well known farmer of Terrell county, committed suicide at his home four miles southeast of Dawson last night by shooting himself with a pistol. The cause is not known. Colley had been in his usual health until the time he went upstairs to retire for the night. A few minutes afterward a pistol shot was heard. Mrs. Colley ran upstairs and, partial ly realizing what had happened, called to her husband without, however, enter ing his room. When he did not answer she ran back down stairs and called up neighbors over the telephone. When her call for assistance was answered it was found that Mr. Colley was dead with a bullet in his brain. Mr. Colley and his family had only recently moved to a. new. home in the country, having formerly made their home in Dawson. He leaves besides his wife four children, two boys and two girls, the youngest of whom is seven or eight years of age and the eldest a young man in the United States navy. Funeral arrangements have not yet been arranged. U. S. FOREST RANGERS EQUAL WONDERS OF EGYPT WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.—An en gineering feat that has called for special commendation from Chief Forester Graves was reported today to the forest service from the Sitgreaves national forest, in Arizona. A lookout . tower, built entirely of logs, and thrusting its bulk 115 feet into the air, was construct ed by forest rangers entirely without the aid of hoisting apparatus. The work was accomplished entirely ty unassisted man-muscle. “Talk of the wonders worked by the ancient Egyptians in their pyramid con struction,’’ said a forest service official. “Pharaoh’s artisans did not have very much not possessed by the forest riders of your Uncle Sam. 1 ’ The timber for the construction of tne tower was procured on the spot. The tower will be used in watching for forest fires. Schley, which is in effect a companion bill to his resolution passed at the ses sion just ended. The bill was read a second time in the house and carried a favorable report from the committee on education. The measure as drawn by Mr. Mc Crory provides i that the state school su perintendent be empowered to ask com petitive bids on certain of the books now used in the public schools of the state and let the contract to the lowest bid der. It is further specified that these books shall be sold to the school chil dren of Georgia at cost. INVESTMENT BILL DEFEATED. The bill of Senator McNeil, which specified the nature and amount of in vestments that could be made by state insurance companies, thus taking that power from the hands of the insur ance commissioner, was killed in the house by a large vote. A move to re consider was lost by an even larger majority. The important vital statistics bill of Senator Elkins, is held over until the next session. It never came up for a third reading and accordingly failed to get a chance at passage. Sentiment in both houses is favorable to the meas ure and even at this time there is every indication that it will become a law next year. Senator Anderson’s child labor bill was tabled, giving it a new lease on life that it may again be put to a vote. Like measures in the house failed to come up for passage, but the final ses sion of this general assembly may see fit to enact one of them into a law. The uncertain fate of whether or not free kindergartens should become a part of .the public school system of the state was settled after many stormy sessions of the house committee on ed ucation. The bill favorably reported in the senate the house kills it and vice to die at the hands of the house com mittee. LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR BILL. Representative Crawford Wheatley’s lieutenant governor bill will lay over until next session. It was reported back to the house with the’ recom mendation “do pass’’ by the committee on amendments to the constitution but never found a place on the calendar. This bill is getting to be a landmark in the legislative halls of Georgia. When it is looked upon with favor by the senate the house kills it and vise versa. The ultimate ending of the present measure is therefore looked forward to with no small amount of speculation. Other bills that have a chance of coming up again next June are that of Representative Jones, of Coweta, to provide seats for women in factories and workshops; Representative David son, of Putnam, to allow prisoners to testify under oath if they so elect, and the white slave act of Representative Kimbrough, of Harris. All efforts to change the state militia laws at the session just ended came to no avail when the bills of Senator McGregor towards that end were tabled in the house. The principal feature of the measures and one that, it is under stood, meets with the approval of the adjutant general’s office, is to have the official calling for help from the state to first make an affidavit to the ordi nary that his force is unable to cope with the situation before troops will be ordered out. Four more senate bills stopped in the house and may or may not be again brought up. They are a bill by Senator Kea to provide for the ventila tion of factories, etc.; a bill by Sena tors Bush, Foster and Searcy, for a white slave law in Georgia; a bill by Senator Sweat, providing for compul sory education, and a bill by Senator Huie, making punishable the crime of passing worthless checks. HIXON-SEARCY BILL. The now famous Hixon-Searey Webb bjll, that created a sensation in the house when Representative Kidd, of Baker, charged the temperance com mittee with usurpation of power for not reporting on the measure one way or the other, is in the hands of a sub committee appointed to investigate in to the United States supreme court decision on the constitutionality of the Webb law and report to the main com mittee next year. It is probable that one of the first acts of the next session will be to re consider the two administration bills of Speaker Burwell, providing that out of the ad-valorem tax of five mills, two and a half mills be set aside for the general school fund and one and a half mills for penesions. Both failed to get the necessary two- thirds vote of the house and the notice for a reconsideration given by Mr. Fullbright, of Burke, was carried. Such is a brief history of what the general assembly of 1913 did and did not do. KILLS WIFE AND TRIES TO CREMATE HER BODY Macon Man Brains Wife With Beer Bottle in North Caro lina Hotel NAVIES OF THE WORLD WILL GHOISTEN CANAL • HAMLET, N. C., Aug. 1,8.—Guests of a local hotel rushed into one of the rpoms from which they saw smoke is suing yesterday, and found stretched on the floor the dead body of a woman who had given the name of Mrs. George S. Nance, of Macon, Ga. Her skull was fractured in several places, her cloth ing had burned off, and beside the body lay an empty beer bottle. Her hus band, who came to the hotel with her this morning, was arrested in a room three doors from that of the woman, and told the police a sensational story of killing nis wife after they had en gaged in a struggle. According to the report given by the police. Nance said that his wife had told him she knew he was craz^, and that she was also insane “and would stop at nothing.” They struggled, and he seized the beer bottle and fractured her skull. Then he poured kerosene over her clothing and the furniture, and set fire to the room. After a coroner’s jury had returned a verdict that Mrs. Nance had been killed by her husband, George S. Nance, he was hurried to jail at Rockingham, where he was charged with murder and arson. In Mrs. Nance’s handbag was a re ceipted bill from S. H. George & Co., Greenville, S. C., addressed to Mrs. George S. Nance, 321 Laurens street, Greenville. Her shoes bear the mark of a Knoxville, Tenn., firm. Nance appears to be about 40 years old. He had more than $500 in his pockets, together with a government bond for $1,000 and a deposit slip show ing $1,000 deposited in a Macon, Ga., bank. Efforts to find relatives of Nance or ol’ his wife had not succeeded late to night. The woman’s b?dy was placed in charge of an undertaker to be held subject to instructions. Atlantic Fleet Starts on Tour of Mediterranean on - October 25 • (By Associated Press.) NEWPORK, R. I., Aug. 18.—October 25, 1913, has been set as the date for the Atlantic fleet to start on its Medi terranean tour. Plans for the trip were discussed today by Secretary of the Navy Daniels and Read Admiral Badger j aboard the flagship Wyoming. The fleet will return December 20, so that the sailors may spend the Christmas holidays at home. The ports at which it will call will be tentatively decided upon by Admiral Badger and submitted to the navy department. Secretary Daniels also announced that the battleship Oregon, made famous by her run around Cape Horn from the Pacific to the Atlantic during the Span ish war, will come through the Panama i canal next spring to lead the Atlantic fleet through to the Pacific. She is now at the Bremerton navy yards. An invitation to all the navies of the world to meet at Hampton Roads in January, 1915 and pass through the Panama canal to the Panama exposition at San Francisco, accompanied by fleet from the United States navy, shortly will be issued by President Wilson. Sec retary Daniels made this announcement tonight. The invitation will be in the form of a proclamation. 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Mrs. Wolfe was using an electric iron when the bolt ran down the cord and entered her body through the iron. She was unable to release her grasp for a time, but finally succeeded and fell unconscious. Physicians worked for an hour before she recovered consciousness, and she was unable to speak for the rest of the afternoon. Another freak of the storm occurred at the home of H. D. Hill when Mrs. Hill went to a hydrant to draw a glass of water. She touched the faucet and turned on the water, the electricity ran down the stream of water and broke out the bottom of the glass as cleanly as a glass cutter. Mrs. Hill did not CROPS OF TEXAS ARE IN NEED OF SHOWERS DALLAS, Tex., Aug. 18.—Crops have not been seriously injured by dry weather,'but rain within the next week is necessary in most sections of the state to prevent crop losses, according to reports from every section of Texas. The weather has played a trick this year by an unusual amount of local rains which has given one farmer an abundance of rain and his neighbor, a few miles away, scarcely a drop. Many localities in north and north east Texas and along the Oklahoma bor der will lose heavily In cotton unless rains come soon. The Texas corn crop seems to have been largely made before the present dry weather. THIEVES GET $50,000 IN JEWELS FROM GIRL vfiy Associated Press.) LONDON, Aug. 18.—Jewelry worth $50,000 was stolen from a hotel in Llandudne, a watering place in north Wales, yesterday. The thieves escaped in an automobile. The gems were owned by a jeweler, who exhibited them in a showcase at the hotel. They were in charge of a girl, who brought them from a bank every day in a bag. On arriving yesterday she put the bag down for a moment on the floor beside the case. A man spoke to her and she turned to answer. A few seconds later she found another bag sub stituted for the one containing the jew els. 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RAIN IS HURTING REIDSVILLE COTTON REIDSVILLE, Ga., Aug. 18.-—It is feared that the continued rains, which have fallen here for the past month or more, will work serious injury to the cotton already epen, as well as retard the future crop. Fodder pulling was se riously interfered with and a large part of it was never gathered. Those who have cotton open now, and there are a large number who have, are unable to pick it. ‘Other crops are doing well, and the farmers continue to - look optimistically upon the outcome. STANDING SOUTHERN LEAGUE Clubs. Won. Lost. Pet. Mobile ..72 49 .595 Montgomery . ..64 51 .557 ATLANTA ... ..62 54 .534 Birmingham . . .62 56 .525 Chattanooga . ..58 55 .51.*] Memphis ... . . .69 61 .492 Nashville ... . .49 67 .422 New Orleans . .39 72 .345 EMPIRE STATE. SOUTH ATLANTIC. Clubs. W. L. Pet. Clubs. W. L. Pet. Thomasv. 24 16 .600 Savannah 20 19 .578 Americas 22 19 .537 Columbus 25 19 .568 Brunsw’k 20 21 .488 Jacksonv. 24 9.9. .522 Cordele 11) 22 .403 Chariest’n 20 24 .453 Way cross 19 22 .463 Macon 20 24 Valdosta 30 23 .450 Albany 20 26 .435 AMERICAN. NATIONAL. Clubs. W. L. Tct. Clubs. W L. Pet. Phlla. 73 37 .604 N. York 75 33 .694 Cleveland 69 44 .611 Phi la . 64 39 .622 Wush'ton 61 49 .553 Chicago (>0 51 .541 Chicago 60 55 .522 Pittsburg 57 51 .528 Boston 53 55 .491 Brooklyn 47 58 .448 Detroit 48 65 .425 Boston 45* 61 .425 St. Louis 45 'lA .385 St. Louis 42 69 .378 N. York 37 69 .349 Cincinnati 43 71 .377 RESULTS THURSDAY THREE MEN ARE SHOT IN RIOT OF ERIE STRIKERS (By Associated Press.) ERIE, Pa., Aug. 18.—Ten men are under arrest in connection with serious rioting here last night, in which three men were shot. The rioting was the first serious de velopment of the molders’ strike, which has been in effect ten months and which involves 1,500 men. One of the reioters arrested was Jo seph Noyak, who was released two days ago from the penitentiary, where he had served a long sentence for a similar offense. Southern Atlanta 3, Chattanooga 3. Mobile 2, Montgomery 0. New Orleans 6-4, Memphis, Birmingham 5, Nashville 4. BLEASE DECLINED AID OF COMBINE, IS RUMOR Said That Newspapers Offered Support If He Would Name McLaurin Successor fSpecial Dispatch to The Journal.) COLUMBIA. S. C., Aug. 18.—That a certain combination backing Senator John L. McLaurin for governor offered to support Governor Blease for the United States senate if he would pub licly endorse McLaurin as his successor and that he declined, is understood here. It is said that this combination con sisted of certain newspapers which will back McLaurin and which will open u bureau in Columbia on September 1, with Colonel Leon M. Green in charge. Colonel Green until recently was edi tor of a strong Blease country paper in the upper part Df the state and prior to that time serv ed as a state detec tive. At present he. is said to be work ing for Senator McLaurin for governor. Recently at Hende/sonville, where Sen ator McLaurin has his summer home, a conference was held between McLau rin, Editors Green and Grist, and Gov ernor Blease. Then, it is said that the governor was urged to endorse Mc Laurin, being offered if he would, the support of the publicity combination said to be back of the senator. How ever, the governor, it is said, declined, and has stated on several stumps that he will “be hands off” in the race to succeed him. The papers which gossip in political centers say are in the combination to make Senator McLaurin the next gover nor are a morning newspaper in an other stav?, but near the border, sev eral county papers, ar.d it is said that probably a morning paper in upper Carolina, but this is in doubt. Just what papers there are will be disclosed when Colonel Green inaugurates his oureau, it is understood on September first. Several of the candidates for governor are greatly stirred by the gossip and are eagerly watching for more develop ments. I Sail Only Direct From Factory The Famous $500,000 Adler Factory - Groat- Wlffliir •at In Existence t »iiuliilUilill, BLAKELY Ml KIEFS FRIEND ON STREET Prominent Lumbermen Pistol Duel to Death Public Square Fight in ALBANY , Ga. Aug. 18.—W. C. Stamper shot and killed G. R. Keen In a pistol duel on the public square of Blakely this afternoon at two-thirty in a dispute over the divisions of proceeds of a debt owed both by a common debtor. Both are well known timber men of Blakely this afternoon at 3:30 in twice at Stamper and missed him ex cept a slight wound over the left eye. Keen had five bullet holes in his body. He leaves a wife and several children. WARDENS CHASE “SUMMER DUCKS” IN RESTAURANTS (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) SAVANNAH, Ga., Aug. 18.—The state game warden from South Carolina has been to Savannah in search of summer ducks. He called upon the game warden for Chatham county and his deputy yes terday and together they made a tour of the restaurants of Savannah and ran sacked ice boxes in search of summer ducks being held, in cold storage for rich epicures. They found none. The South Carolina game warden says that Savannahians are going into his state and shooting these birds and selling them in Georgia. It is against the law in either state for them to be shot at this season of the year. South Atlantic. Savannah 6, Macon 1. Jacksonville 6, Albany 2. Awaiting The Joyful Sound The Wonder ful Music that Bursts Forth When the Stork Arrives. American. Detroit 5, Washington 4. Boston 4, St. Louis 0. New York 2, Chicago 0. Cleveland C, Philadelphia 2 National. Philadelphia 1-7, Cincinnati 0-2. Chicago 9-5, Boston 7-1. New York 11-7, St. Louis 4-8. Pittsburg 13, Brooklyn 8. RESULTS FRIDAY UNION OF CHURCHES IS HELD BY COURT DECREE KANSAS CITY, Aug. 18.—The union of the Presbyterian church in the Unit ed ‘States of America and the Cumber land Presbyterian churches, effected in 1906, was upheld by Judge A. Van Valkenburg in the United States dis trict court here today. Members of the Cumberland church were forever en joined from interfering wwith the use by the United Church of church proper ty in Missouri. Southern Chattanooga 2-6. Atlanta 1-2. Mobile 6, New Orleans 4. Montgomery 5, Memphis 4. Birmingham 5, Nashville 2. South Atlantic. Carleston 5-3, Columbia 0-5. Macon 6, Savannah 2. WILSON PRESSES BUTTON AND STARTS JW0 EVENTS (By Associated Press.) CHICAGO, Aug. 18.—By touching an electric button in the White House, President Wilson was to fire a cannon here this afternoon which would an nounce the beginning of the centennial celebration of Perry’s victory on Lake Erie and of Chicago’s second annual water carnival. American. Washington 9, Detroit 7. Boston 2, St. Louis 1. Philadelphia 12. Cleveland 5. Chicago 3, New York 2. National. Chicago 14, Boston 6. New York 6, St. Louis 1. Philadelphia 3, Cincinnati 2. Pittsburg 3, Brooklyn 3. RESULTS SATURDAY Southern Atlanta 7, Chattanooga 2. Chattanooga 6, Atlanta 2. Mobile-New Orleans, rain. Nashville 9, Birmingham 4. Birmingham 7, Nashville 5. Memphis 4, Montrromery 3. That funny little, brassy cry that echoes the arrival of the new baby is perhaps the - most cherished re membrance o f our lives. And thousands of happy mothers owe their preservation to h -alth and strength to Mother’s Friend. This is an external remedy that is applied to the abdominal muscles. It relieves all the teu- , sion, prevents tender ness and pain, enables the muscles to ex pand gently, and, when baby comes, the muscles relax naturally, the form is pre served without laceration or other acci dent. It is one of the standard, reliable remedies that grandmothers everywhere have relied upon. 7ith its daily use during the period of expectation, there is no weakness, no nau sea, no morning sickness, no pain, distress or strain of any kind. You will find this wonderful remedy on sale at your drug store at $1.00 per bottle. It is prepared by Bradfield Regulator Co., 236 Lamar Bldg., Atlanta, Ga. Write them for a valuable book to expectant mothers. » MISSISSIPPI S0L0NS REST FROM LONG PROBE Secret Investigation of State Institutions Has Lasted Month and a Half (By Associated Press.) JACKSON, Miss., Aug. 18.—The Mis sissippi legislature investigating com mittee which has been charged with the duty of probing almost every state institution and some officials, began a week’s rest today after a month and half of continuous work. No newspaper representatives have been allowed to at tend the hearings and only unconfirmed reports have been made on the happen ings. The committee still is in the midst of the insane hospital probe, which probably will not be finished for some time. It has been decided to place evidence obtained before a grand jury Other state institutions slated for in vestigation in an effort to ascertain if charges of a general system of petty graft and embezzlement are true in clude: Jackson hospital, charity hospital, deaf and dumb institute, blind institute, state board of health, state live stock sanitary board, all state officers and state departments at Jackson, except the penitentiary; agricultural and me chanical college, industrial institute and college, state university, Mississippi levee board, Yazoo-Mississippi levee board, charity hospital, Vicksburg; char ity hospital, Natchez; East Mississippi insane hospital, Mattye Hirsee charity hospital, Meridian; State Normal collego, Confederate Soldiers’ home. State Oyster commission and King’s Daughters hos pital, Gulfport. In addition to this list the com- mitteee will probably be called upon to investigate four or five judges and a few district attorneys. 4,000,000 Dead Flies Bring 5 Cents a Pint -1 Harrisburg, Pa, Aug. 18.—Four million dead house flies were bought at he rate of 5 cents a pint today by the .iarrisburg Civic clubi this being the close of the swatting prize contest this season. Tile number is only a fraction of those killed as a result of the civic club’s campaign. Ella Marie Kreidler won first prize of $2 for the largest score, turning in 74 1-2 pints, for which she got $3.76, besides her prize. Second prize of $1 was won oy David Peters with 21 pints. More than 218 pints of flies were turned in. OFFICERS SEARCH FOR DROWNED BOY’S BODY Four-Year-Old Lad Falls Into Creek While Fishing and Is Swept Into City Sewer NEW YORK, Aug. 18.—Four-years- old Lee Petreleciez fell from a rowboat into Fresh Pond creek near Jamaica bay, late yesterday, and a few minutes later the incoming tide swept him into a big sewer far under the city, where he was lost. A throng of people watched until late last night the spectacular efforts of various city departments to get the body. Fish nets were placed at the outlet of the sewer and a battery of searchlights was played upon the scene, but to no avail. The sewer stretches across the meadows a mile and a half and is almost level, so that tide waters really extend up the entire distance. If the receding tide does not carry the body out, men will enter the sewer to search for It. 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