Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, August 29, 1916, Page 3, Image 3
CDnON SMASHES ALL RECORDS FOR 3 YEARS Bl PISSM CENTS Atlanta Spot Advances With New . York Futures and Traders Predict 16 Cents for Actual Next Week Cotton smashed all records for the past three years Friday when future deliveries in New York advanced 65 to 68 points during the morning and Atlanta epot cotton passed IS cents. Cotton traders predict 16 cents for the actual next week, and no telling how much more if the present demand con tinues. Cotton has scored daily sensational advances for several days past, and whenever the trade expected the reac tion to set in. still another advance was scored. The New York market had the most excited opening of the season Friday, when first figures were at an advance of 23 to <1 points over Thursday’s dose. Liverpool placed big buying or ders and there was also considerable outside demand. CAUSES OF RISE. Drouth In the southeast, which in cludes Texas, the largest cotton pro ducer. and unexpected reports of de terioration in the eastern belt, including Georgia, the second largest cotton state, undoubtedly increased the demand. There was also a rumor of a private condition report of only 66.1. and this rumor sent futures later in the morning to 65 and 68 points over Thursday's close. Another factor causing the advance was the Journal of Commerce’s report on cotton tn Georgia and North Caro lina. as follows: CROP REPORT. Georgia—As in the Carolinas, the Georgia cotton crcg> has suffered from too much rain in J*uly. followed by hot. dry weather in August. For the first time the boll weevil has appeared in such Urge quantities a* to threaten serious damage. Fields are very grassy, the plant rather weak and sappy and fruitage generally poor. Considerable shedding is reported, but two weeks Uter than usual. The crop has suffered approximately four or five points de 'terioration from last month, when con dition was 71 per cent, a year ago 69.8 •per cent; in 1914 it was 80.9 per cent, and in 1918 it was 79 per cent. North Carolina— Owing to continuous rains the cotton has obtained excessive growth at expense of fruiting. Rains also retarded cultivation of fields and considerable grass is reported as the re sult. Shedding is quite general, though not more than normal for this time of year. Quite a Jew correspondents re port recent improvement and with a favorable fall ettpect a good crop. The season is still late. There is very little loss in percentage condition as com pared with a month ago. when it was 73.2 per cent. Last year at this time it was 76.8 per oenx. the year before 82 and in 1913 was 80 per cent. Cotton Gains Over $2 Per Bale in New Orleans (By Associated Press.) NEW ORLEANS. Aug. 2o.—An ad vance in cotton of Al to 43 points, or more than 33 a bale, compared to yes terday's prices, was scored by the most active months in the trading up to noon today on the local market. The market continued to display strength and all the active months went above the 15- cent level. The October option touched 15.26 and Mhrch went to 15.70. Although 17-cent cotton has been on the boards within the last seven years, today was the first time on record that the October option has sold above 15 cents. Present levels are the highest for this time of the year since the future market was established. ‘ The buying which war? met by scanty offerings, was stimulated by a much higher Liverpool than due. continued drouth in the western belt, a private condition report of 65.1 per cent of the normal and expectations of bullish con dition figures from the government. Danish Landsthing Has Rejected Proposal to Sell Islands to U. S. <By Associated Press.) LONDON. Aug. 24.-—The Danish Landsthing has rejected the proposal to sell the Danish West Indies to the Uni ted States, says a Reuter dispatch from Copenhagen. The vote was taken *n committee by the landsthing. the upper house of the Danish parliament. The treaty was re jected by thirty-nine votes. Although the lower house of the Dan ish parliament approved the project for sale of the islands to the United States for $25,000,000. the action of the lands thing in rejecting it was expected gen erally In Denmark. This vote, however, does not necessarily mean the final de feat of the project, as other questions of a political nature are Involved. The treaty with the United States will be brought up again after the general elec tion. COPENHAGEN. Aug. 24.—The lands thing. sitting in committee this aftem ooon. adopted a resolution that iw the eale of the Danish West Indies cannot be postponed until after the war the question shall be settled by general elections. The resolution was adopted by 39 to 7. Three members refrained from voting and thirteen were absent. This resolu tion will be submitted formally to the landsthing tomorrow. Klqg Christian receiverd the leaders of the various parties today and thanked them for their efforts to form a coalition cabinet, although he said he regretted they had been unable to do so. v®'B0 AndTh,s Sult IS MV 'V’ on eKa **»Ut m«ke bit I I raon«» with cat n<* e»- e s* r *y T ’S l *»-«h'»wln«our K/-y ■■ X:*a ~——t a . a Te». Tbay-H bo» onMh?tor you y*7o crhritoujiuil XhjsaiJviiwU, / • \jZ-j \\ 1(1.1 «e4 oMily »>*• *5 to •S’>» if*Tk B —fuH iaatonotnoo —••eryttut »iwij ST *c rt«H yon In »Mt por'-'-i b**m. U ■ ’» eS-TChM oukM «o Koooare. A«m«*i6or I 17- *.'.' * We Pa* express Charges 6 1 « toba *ll e> >Mk MBtonb- j Ue»loena!u»'- r»o 4 »jFrc»»lt«!jrep*T- IfW W J niiiV- tr*- oouafy K■ Li/V ■1 today and W«<M :*''* wOl noon Uo tonlot UH | W J wo: way. Y«a»c4<u only om •«•»• In a II I ! town, on wrtto <Kldi u4bo Um txky woo gif torn laontboVc rioor, tU Ud -.U w ftSMSBLC TA.Lasime COMR*S* Es .-J/* ml w. jo isn»■ awe, obienei, m. w T INTROOUCED HORSEY BUT IS SUPPORTING POTTLE George H. Carswell Gives the Facts About Dorsey’s Meet ing at Irwinton Recently The Joseph E. Pottle headquarter.- gave out the following statement Satur day afternoon: “No better evidence could be had ol the Atlanta Constitution's misleading statements ir reference to the guberna torial race than its report of the recep tion of Hugh M. Dorsey at Irwinton in Wilkinson county. In the issue of the Constitution of August 25 and the re port of the speech or Mr. Dorsey at Ir winton, by the spectacular reporter of the Constitution, it was stated that Dor sey was introduced by Hon. George H. Carswell, who advised the audience to vote for Dorsey and paid him a glowing tribute. Mr. Carswell authorizes us to publish the following letter: Irwinton, Ga., Aug. 25, 1916. Mr. J. D. Howard, Atlanta, Ga. Dear sir: 1 have just noticed an article in the Constitution, wherein it is stated that I Introduced Mr. Dorsey, but it was after an effort been made to find a Dorsey man and none could be found. I told Mr. Dorsey I was for Mr. Pottle and would so state to the crowd, and did so state. I did not pay any tribute to Mr. Dorsey, neither did I urge his election. I stated that I was for Joe Pottle but we were a hospitable peo ple and treated everybody fairly and would give him a respectable hear ing. I know that it makes but lit tle difference in the county and none in the state whether I am for Mr. Dorsey or Mr. Pottle, but I do not care to allow a misstatement .to go unchallenged. I wafit to see Mr. Pot tle elected, and the people of Wilkin son county are for him. There was a very small crowd to hear Mr. Dor sey and 75 per cent of them were and are for Joe Pottle. Yours truly. GEORGE H. CARSWELL. "We have deferred from contradicting every exaggerated and unfounded report of the Constitution, relative to this cam paign. and the effort to minimize Mr. Pottle’s strength, but the foregoing let ter may be taken as a fair sample of nu merous similar statements which come to this headquarters. “J. D. HOWARD. "Manager Pottle’s Campaign. CAPTAIN OF FULTON BLUES SHOT IN TENT BY ATLANTA WOMAN (Continued from Page Ona.) the Fifth. Major Leahy is on the board of investigation appointed to make an official military report on Captain Spratling’s murder. MRS. MONK'S STORY. The interview took place in the par lor of the hotel in the presence of sev eral newspapermen. Mrs. Monk had no reluctance in telling what she knew and answered questions freely. She said she had known Captain Sprat ling for the last foqr years and for a long time had been his intimate friend, both in Atlanta and since the Georgia troops mobilized near Macon. She said she had made two visit* to Macon since mobilization began, tlfie present one when she came here from Columbus and Buena Vista about two weeks ago. On both occasions, she said, she was with Captain Spratling several times. “The first time he ever said anything to me about this woman was a long time ago—several months anyway,” said Mrs. Monk. “We were talking and he said, ’What would you do if you were a man and a woman was crazy about you and you wanted to get rid of her? 1 I told him I would make her hate me, and then I asked him what did he mean. “Then he told me about this Mrs. Adams—said that she was pestering him to let her come to Macon and had threatened to make trouble if he didn’t. No. I don’t know just what Captain Spratling’s relations to her were. I think it was just a case of the woman being mad about him and him not car ing anything for her. He used to say that if he wanted love, he could never love a woman like her. that she was a fool and was crazy. “Some time after that he said. ’You know that party I was telling you about? —well,'she’s written me another letter.’ He told me it was the same kind of letter and he said he thought somebody down here was spying on him because she was asking him about a ’friend* he had down here—l suppose she meant me. And he showed me the letter he wrote her. It was addressed to Mrs. Adams on Lovejoy street and it wasn «. signed with his full name. He told her not to be foolish and not to come to Macon. “Last week he showed me the third letter he got from her, threatening to come down here and ’put his lights out.’ She she hoped she could catch that ‘friend of his’ with him at the camp. The letter wasn’t signed with her name— just ‘yours.’ “The last time I saw Captain Sprat ling was Thursday afternoon, when he was with me in Macon. We talked about thia woman then and Thursday night I was sort of worried about her because she had been making all these threats and everything.” The letters Mrs. Monk referred to are believed to be gmong Captain Spratling’s effects at the camp. Officers who locked up these effects state that there were several letters among them from Atlanta addressed in a feminine handwriting. It is possible that Major Leahy will make the letters public after he has ex amined them today. Mrs. Adams’ Trial Can’t Be Held ’Til Last of November BY WARD GIEEME Journal Staff Correspondent. MACON, Ga.. Aug. 28.—Unless at torneys for the defense take action soon it is probable that Mrs. Mattle Stokes Adams, jailed here for the murder of Captain Edgar J. Spratling will have I no preliminary hearing and will not g > to trial until the latter part of Nov ember. Mrs. Adams herself is anxious for a hearing as soon as possible. She told The Journal correspondent this morning she hoped they were not going to keep her in jail long and she did not see how they could when her condition is what it is. **l want to go out in the yard and walk around; don’t you suppose they will let me?' she asked pathetically. Local authorities are waiting to hear from Atlanta attorneys for Jhe woman ; before they take any court action. It was stated today that by refusing to appear at the coroner's inquest Mrs. Adams forfeited her right to a commit ment hearing and must wait now until her case is considered by the grand jury. The grand jury does not meet un til the first Monday in November. Mrs. Adams was wan and pale this morning, but she said she spent a good night and ate a hearty breakfast. HE DID ATTACK ME. Mrs. Adams was asked this morning: "Did Captain Spratling actually attack you, or did you think that his treatment was doing you harm?'* “Yes,” she nodded, “he did attack mo. THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1916. CAPTAIN E. J. SPRATLING, COMMANDER OF COMPANY F, FIFTH REGIMENT, who was shot and killed in his tent at mobiliza tion camp, near Macon, by Mrs- H. C. Adams, wife of an Atlanta laundry wagon driver. Captain Spratling’s company is known as the "Fulton Blues,” and Captain Spratling was regarded as one of the finest officers in the regiment. -.WK . K - •/V; . ide vKvSiFjf ■ MSIw• W H ■ "Hr • . ■.l ■ • Pt-u ■■ *• '■ a** w • ' V ft I?.J-;.? 1 . • * . 14. > . If K s ■ P ' * His treatment was doing me good up to that time, I think. The attack spoil ed whatever good it might have been doing, though." Over the camp fires—which are elec tric lights at Camp Harris—the question being asked now is: "Why did Mrs. Adams kill Captain Spratling?" The majority believe Mrs. Adams is insane or was momentarily deranged when she fired the death shot. A great many declare she must have been the victim of an hallucination. Few place confidence in the story of Mrs. Maude Monk. The Bibb county officials place such little faith in it that they say they will not hold her as a witness. "We would not believe her on oath,” state attaches of the sheriff's office. If Mrs. Monk’s story is eliminated, one of the main contradictions to the statement of Mrs. Adams is elfftiinated at the same time. Mrs. Adams says she did not see or write to Captain Sprat ling from August a year ago until she killed him. Mrs. Monk's statement and the office records of Captain Spratling conflict with this. And now even the office records are about to be proved a mistake. Officers who accompanied Captain Spratling’s body to Atlanta, returning here yester day, told The Journal correspondent that these records show Mrs. Adams was treated by Dr. Spratling in June, July and August, 1915, not 1916, as was intimated in dispatches from Atlanta. These officers declare furthermore that on Thursday a week ago, the day It is said Captain Spratling treated Mrs. Adams, he was here in Camp Harris and not in Atlanta. They say this record is also for a year ago. MRS. ADAMS CONFIRMED. This confirms the actions of Mrs. Adams at the camp when she asked what kind of looking man Spratling was and whether he had a mustache, and in dicates that her statement is true when she says she had not seen him in a year. Granting then, that Mrs. Adams did not see Captain Spratling from the time he last treated her in August, 1915, until she killed him, the theorists ask this question: / "What motive prompted her to slay the man an entire year after she saw him?" Mrs. Adams' only reply to this ques tion Is: "He ruined my home.” The theory has been advanced that Mrs. Adams became obsessed with the idea that his treatment was doing her harm instead of good and that she quit going to him of her own accord, be lieving that he was injuring her. It Is known that she spent a week in the Grady hospital, and Miss Della Hampton, her friend, says "Dr. Spratling was re sponsible for that!” but, adds Miss Hampton, “it wasn't the attack that caused her to go to the hospital.” Was it the trouble for which Spratling had been treating her? Did she believe that he had only aggravated it instead of helping it? Did this trouble grow and grow until she bejgan to brood upon It and finally told her husband de claring that Dr. Spratling was responsi ble? Did he take her confession In such a manner that she believed only the death of Dr. Spratling could set her right with her husband, the one man she says she loved? And is it not probable that this trouble—coming at a time when she was approaching maternity— so crazed her that she determined to kill him herself? These are the questions which tba theorists are pondering. HIDDEN MOTIVE SUGGESTED. They are also hinting that there was| some other motive—something behind it all, a sinister design either to cause: Captain Stallings death or to get Mrs j Adams In jail—that has not yet been revealed. * It is believed that if Mrs. Adams waai examined by an alienist and a competent physician, that much of the mystery \ cloud which -now surrounds the motives of the murder would be cleared away | Macon physicians have told The Journal correspondent that women in Mrs. Ad ems* condition are sometimes subject to peculiar mental turns. But until the woman herself makes a more lucid explanation than she has hith erto given, the question of her sanity and the mystery of her motive seem destined to remain a secret. MISS HAMPTON’S STATEMENT. The statement was made yesterday by Miss Della Hampton, of Woodward ave nue. Atlanta, that Mrs. Adams intended to kill Captain Spratling a week ago Saturday. "She told me,’’ said Mlm Hampton, "that she bought a pistol with money her husband gave her for another pur pose, and that a week ago Saturday she went to Spratling’s office in the Empire building, looking for him. "That was the morning after she told her husband about the attack Captain Spratling made on her a year ago. I believe she had the pistol with her that morning and that she went to the office looking for the man to kill him. I be lieve that she had been brooding over the attack for months and that she final ly reached a decision to kill the man because of nervous tension brought on by her delicate condition and because she had just told her husband and he was almost crazy with horror and she was afraid he would take matters into his own hands. "Mrs. Adams was in the Grady hos pital,” continued Miss Hampton, “for a week last August. That was right after the attack on her by Captain Spratling, and he was responsible for her having to go to the hospital. She tells me that she never saw him after that. She says that the reason she didn’t tell her hus band about the attack then was because Captain Spratling had begged her not to, telling her that it would mean trou ble and publicity. “She wouldn’t say why she finally did tell her husband, and she wouldn't tell me why she suddenly determined to go and kill Spratling. But I believe she intended to kill him on that Saturday she went to his office.” NO KISSES, NO TEARS. H. C. Adams, the Atlanta laundryman. come to Macon Sunday afternoon and for forty-five minutes talked to his wife in the Bibb county jail. The meeting between them was more like the casual encounter of two ac quaintances on a street corner than a reunion of husband and wife brought to gether after the most tragic of circum stances. “Hello,” said Adams and gripped her hand in his between the bars. "Hello, daddy,” she said, "how are the chil dren?” And the children were the chief topic of conversation from that time on. Only once was the shooting directly referred to, when Mrs. Adams said something about "she didn’t know how mean that man was until she read about him aft erward.” Mr. Adams arrived in Macon at 3:45 o'clock Sunday afternoon and left at 5:10 o’clock, accompanied by Miss Della Hampton. The Journal correspondent was with Mr. Adams as he walked up the steep flight of steps to Mrs. Adams’ cell on the second floor. "Here’s Mr. Adams,” called the turn key. She had been sitting at the win dow staring out at the sunny street, but now she got up and crossed swiftly to the bars. There were no kisses, no tears, no re criminations nor reproaches nor pleas for forgiveness —just that quick hand clasp through the bars that “Hello, dad dy, where are the children?—Then, “When did you get here?—why didn't you come sooner —when are you going back ?” They sat down in chairs on opposite sides of the iron fence while he told her about Kudbeck, Harry and William. Saturday, he said, he took them to the Home for the Friendless on Highland avenue. But the kids got homesick and run away. . r "They walked that three miles back to Lovejoy street,” said Mr. Adams, ‘‘and I had to take them out to the home again Sunday morning before I could catch the train.” Just before he left, her husband gave her a dollar bill and told her to buy stationery with and write to him. “Did you get a lawyer?” Mrs. Adams asked him once. "Yes,” he said. "Who i-s he?" she asked. LAWYER S NAME CONCEALED. Mr. Adams glanced over his shoulder at the jailor and when he spoke, spoke so low that he could not be heard ex cept by the woman. “He’ll have asso ciates,” he added. While he was talking to newspaper men, Mr Adams wanted to know how many laundries there are in Macon and what were the names, speaking as If he wanted to get a job here. When he left at 5 o’clock he told her he would be back again soon and urged her to keep up her courage. "Public sentiment is with you,” he said. "Everything is go ing to come out all right." • TAKES POISON. THEN WRITES FINAL NOTES EXPLAINING HIS DEED When A. A. Webb, former employe in the Atlanta postoffice, left* his home, 18 Argard avenue, at 4 o’clock Friday aft ernoon saying that he would be back to supper, his family little suspected that he was going to enact a tragedy that compares with some of the grimmest stories of Edgar Allen Poe. Taking a dose of thirty grains of aspirin, which he believed to be fatal, he took a pencil and pad in his hand and began writing his final memoir, tell ing of the sensations of a man looking death in the face and giving instructions to his family for his funeral and inter ment. Then when the supposed poison did not work, he turned to another, carbolic acid, and drank an ounce, more tnan enough to accomplish his purpose. Without waiting for the deadly chemical to do ’its work, he went to the Grant park lake, left his watch, some change, a number of letters, his coat and his final memoir, the bulletin of approach ing death, and then he plunged into the lake. Officers Gant and Robertson were standing in front of the refreshment stand engaged in conversation, when a woman, whom they did not know, in formed them that a man had thrown himself in the lake. GOES TO RESCUE. As soon as they reached the spot, Mr. Robertson took off his outer clothing and waded out into the water, which is cnl’y three feet deep. Mr. Robertson found the body lying on the bottom in the mud and he managed to bring it to the bank with ease, but found some difficulty in landing it. He said that the water was too shallow to drown anyone and that the man had not been in the water a sufficient time for drowning, anyway. Among the letters of the man. left on the bank, were found two from Senator Hoke Smith and William Schley How ard. The memoir was ten pages in length and the first bulletin was dated 6 p. m. and the last 7:15 p. m- It was continued up to within a few moments before he took his final plunge. The memoir was in an envelope on which was written “Open This.” The man told of his sufferings and straight ened circumstances, since he lost his position in the general delivery depart ment of the Atlanta postoffice. At inter vals he described the despair he felt and the physiological effect of the drug. To ward the last he directed his family to have him interred either at Adel, Ga., or Byiomville, Ga , and declared that rela tives or friends would have to bear the funeral expense, though he had a small amount of insurance. After signing his name, he added a postscript about the merry picnickers coming to the park and contrasted their mirth with his own gloom. His last re quest was that Boden & Hunter have charge of his body. Friends say that Mr. Webb was treas urer of the town of Adel, his birthplace, during 1912. and a letter that was found from the mayor of Adel recommended him highly. After coming to Atlanta four years ago, friends say that Mr. Webb held a position in the Atlanta postoffice, which he held until July, 1915. RAN MILK DEPOT. He afterwards opened a milk depot on Cleburne avenue, which did not pay. Mr. Webb is survived by his wife, three daughters and two sons and by his mother and three brothers living in Adel, Nashville and Byromville. Mrs. Webb, his widow, is his second wife to whom he had been married for four years. Miss Anita Webb is a county school teacher at Covington, Ga.; Miss Maud Webb is employed with the Southern Bell Telephone company here; Ralph Webb is a student at the state Industrial school at Hapeville, and the other son. Willis, is at the home on Argard ave nue. The body was carried Friday night to the chapel of Boden & Hunter. Patrick Calhoun Says $5 Is All He Has Left Now Os $14,000,000 Fortune fßy Associated Press.) NEW YORK, Aug. 26.—Patrick Cal houn, grandson of the famous statesman and prominently identified with the San Francisco street car system until a few years ago, testified in a receivership pro ceeding here that $5 was the only tan gible asset remaining of a fortune of $14,000,000 He possessed five years ago. The proceedings became known today. ' Financial reverses following the earth quake and fire in San Francisco were responsible for his losses, he asserted. Receivership proceedings were brought against Calhoun in a suit for office rent. American Foreign Trade Made New July Record (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 25. —American foreign trade during July amounted ~o $40,000,000 more than in the same month last year and set a new July record. It was $72,000,000 less, however, than the total for June, whldh was the record month in the country’s history. 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Stripling says be hopes to move his family to Hopewell soon. He is living there with a relative. His health is im proving. he says. WIDOW OF IRISH EDITOR A WITNESS AT TRIAL DUBLIN, Aug. 26.—Women crowded the four courts today when the inquiry Into the shooting of F. Sheehy Skeffing ton, editor of the Irish Citizen, and two others, during the rebellion In Dublin, was resumed. Mrs. Skeffington, the widow, was called to deny German sym pathies and that her husband was wear ing a green uniform when he was ar rested and killed. Otherwise the inquiry lacked interest. Mrs. Kettle, a sister of Mrs. Skeffing ton. described Captain Bowen-Colthirst, who was found guilty but declared in sane at his trial for the shootings, as of the “cold, collected type of Englishman whose eyes showed the cruel, cold look which went with an unimaginative na ture.” WHY THE FARMERS OF GEORGIA ARE FOR DR. L G. HARDMAN THE FARMER AND THE FARMER’S FRIEND FOR GOVERNOR f This is the ) “Zl— — / SEED V — ~ Z~~~ X The * s; |SW Co *moFs cii !!B Zl' l i s '"h. BECAUSE— Dr. Hardman is himself one of the best and most sue- .' cessful farmers in the state. BECAUSE — Dr. Hardman is the friend of agricultural interests, and’ has always worked for the improvement of farming life, methods, and conditions, BECAUSE— Dr. Hardman was author of the law requiring the teaching of agriculture and civil government in the common schools, which was the beginning of agricul tural education in Georgia, and the basis of all subse quent legislation in this respect. Following the enact ment of this measure came the establishment of the- Georgia Agricultural, Normal and Industrial College at Valdosta; the eleven district agricultural schools; the state agricultural college at Athens, (Dr. Hardmaiv. was chairman of the building committee expending SIOO,OOO building appropriation for the agricultural college, and is now president of its board of trustees.) BECAUSE — Dr. Hardman was author of the law extending the suppression of diseases among live stock, meaning a • saving of a million dollars annually; introduced a high-j; wav commission bill in 1907; and advocated a drain- ’ age commission for the reclamation of waste lands, y: BECAUSE— Dr. Hardman was author of the law providing free: treatment for the mad-dog bite, and for diphtheria, . which has saved nearly 20,000 lives, and vast sums: of money to the poor people; introduced measure: looking to state sanitarium for consumptives, and ad- ’ vocated and worked for measure establishing stata-« tuberculosis sanitarium at Alto; was author of law ; r regulating professional nursing; introduced first vital ; statistics bill in Georgia; advocated and worked for creation of state board of health. BECAUSE— Dr. Hardman is a life-long prohibitionist, and of the state’s first prohibition law, the Hardman-Cov ington-Neel bill of 1907. BECAUSE— Dr. Hardman is a man of the common people, who has made an eminent success of his cAvn farming, pro-, fessional, .and business undertakings, and can make * a success directing the state’s affairs and serving th&L* • masses of the people. VOTE FOR A WINNER DR. L. G. HARDMAN GEORGIA’S NEXT GOVERNOR FOUR COUNTIES PROTEST HIGHER LAND imOIIH Other Six, Which Received Order, Not Expected to Raise Objection With the last day at hand for the fil ing of protests against the order of Tax Commissioner John C. Hart instructing ten counties to Increase their "improved land’’ valuations to conform to the state average, but four counties have been heard from and it is not thought prob able that the will be other objections from the remaining six. The last protest to be received by Judge Hart reached him Saturday morn ing from Grady county’, which had been ordered to Increase its tax returns 20 per cent. The other three counties, which had already filed protests are Bulloch, Jeff Davis and Hart. C. T. TUlman, of Quitman, appointed arbitrator for the state in the other cases, will act in a like capacity with W. B. Roddenberry, of Cairo, arbitrator for Grady’ county. Grady county “Improved land” was re turned at $5.08 per acre against $7.01 per acre for Mitchell and $9.75 per acre for Thomas, the two adjoining counties. Un der the returns as given, Grady county would pay Into the state treasury $19,- 088 and receive for schools and pensions, under the appropriations made by the past general assembly, $26,297, or $7,209 more than it contributes. If within ten days from Monday, Au l gust 28, the arbitrators for the state and the several counties Involved fail to agree upon an umpire, the third member will then be appointed by the comptrol ler general. 3