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VOLUME SIXTEEN
VIENNA, GA., THURSDAY. September 21st, <916.
* WEEVIL MEETING
'.*• TO BE HELD HERE
CAMPAIGN AGAINST WEEVIL
TO BE WAGED IN THIS COUN-
In the next issue of the News the
e'ete of a meeting of the gravest im
portance to the people of this city
and community will be announced.
Arrangements are being made to set
apart a day for the Boll weevil and
in order to extend the benefits of the
meeting as widely as possible the pres
ence of every man and woman in the
county who desires to see the present
prosperous conditions continue, is ear
nestly desired. The plan is for the
day to be made a sort of “get-togeth-
er” occasion and everybody is urged
4 to lay aside everything for one day
* and come to Vienna, the women are
requested to bring .lunches for the
family and make a day of it. The
feature of chief interest will be the
talks made by several men who are
making an exhaustive .stndv of the
weevil. ' 'These men are prepared to
impart a great deal of information in
regard to this subject Upon which
farmers and all business men have
need to be informed. It is to be
hoped that the people will cooperate
^ in making the day widely beneficial
and that many will avail themselves
of the opportunity to learn all they
can about the weevil, its habits and
how to win out in the fight against
hin^
SPECIAL TRAINS CARRY
STUDENTS TO C. N, & 1. C.
LESS WOOL AND MC
WOOL B V. USED
' i
Atlanta, Ga., Sept.—% cot
ton,"’ the famous slogan \ % was
started in the fall of 1914, V %> the
sudden outbreak of the Europv *war
closed the doors of the cotton V ket
and left the south’s great v, -le
stranded high and dry, is bet' g
fruit in a very substantial way. V">
A report made public by the United
States bureau of census shows that
less wool and more cotton is being
used in the manufacture of “Made in
America” clothing. There has been a
decrease in wool consumption of 14.2
per cent, and an increase in cotton
consumption of 41.8 per cent.
IMPORTANT NOTICE.
The privilege of selling lunches and
cold drinks during the fair, will be
sold to the highest bidder at the court
house on the first Tuesday in October.
Milledgeville, Sept.—Georgia Nor
mal and Industrial College opened
Friday with the largest enrollment in
its history and with the greatest en-
t,number of students of any girl’s col
lege in the south. Twelve passenger
trains, four of them specials, brought
the students to Milledgeville.
More than 900 girls are here and
baggage cars for over 1,00 trunks
were provided. Counting suit cases
there were at least 3,000 pieces of
baggage accompanying the students.
Over 100 automobiles were here also
bringing girls from nearby towns,
Suffrage Play to Ba Shown in Atlanta
Savannah, Sept.—“The Trial of
Georgia Wright,” a suffrage play, de-
r signed to show the unfairness
Georgia’s laws to women, which ere
ated quite a sensation when given in
Savannah last spring, with Judge
Lambdtn and other prominent law
yers and judges in the various roles,
will be produced in Atlanta soon by
the Equal Suffrage Party of Georgia.
BETHEL BAPTIST CHURCH
Last Sunday at the Bethel Baptist
church, this city, the Colored Bsptists
raised in cold cash for their new
brick edifice 3935.30. Rev. C. S. Wil
kins, D. D., is the pastor. The struct
ure is of solid brick and will be rendy
tor use by the next third Sunday. Dr.
A N. Morris, pastor of the first Bap
tist church this city preached an able
rnd instructive sermon for the colored
Baptists, which was highly enjoyed
and appreciated by the entire congre
gation. The church was packed with
negroes and they exhibited their ap
predation of the sermon by extending
a rising vote of thanks to Dr. Morris.
There was some of the leading officers
and members of Dr. Morris’ church
present. This week the Union Bap
tist Association meets here with Beth
el church and brings to the city more
than two hundred delegates. The as
sociation opens Wednesday.
Reported.
OPENING OF,SCHOOL TENDS
TO SPREAD DISEASE
GEORGE AND JENKINS OUT OF
IT, SAYS RUMOR HERE
Reported That Bloodworth, Stephens
and Hutcheson will be Nominees.
(From Wednesday’s Atlanta Journal)
It was persistently reported around
the Capitol and among the politicians
Tuesday that those who will be in
power at the Macon convention on
Scpterber 26 have sent out word that
the three candidates who are to be
nominated for the court of appeals
will be O. H. B. Bloodworth, of For
syth; Alex W. Stephens, of Atlanta,
and John B. Hutcheson, of Ashburn.
This report has given considerable
apprehension to the friends of Wal
ter F. George, of Vienna, and W.
Frank Jenkins, of Eatonton, who ran
third and fourth, respectively, in the
toient primary.
According to the report, George
and Jenkins are to be punished for
their past political affiliations by hav-
Hutcheson jumped over them,
joodworth and Stephens were well
in the lead in the primary, both in
-r votes received* counties car-
nd county unit votes cbtaired.
ore, according to ther eport, it
was considered advisable to allow
thena to be nominated by-the conven-
, tion.
At a meeting of the county exe- Hutcheson, who. it is said, is slated
cutive committee held at the court for^the third place on the court of
house on Wednesday of last week, appeals, ran fifth. Here is the way the
Messrs. E. Y. Halliburton, of Ungr, five,l?adera stood.
Popular Counties Conv’n
Vote Carried Vote
“OLD-TIMERS” TO ATTEND
STATE CONVENTION
Atlanta, Ga., Sept.—It is reported
on reliable authority in Atlanta that
Thomas E. Watson, the well-known
editor of the “Jeffersonian” of Thom
son, Ga., will be in attendance upon
the state convention to be held in Ma
con next Tuesday, September 26. If
he goes to Macon, it will be the first
time he has attended a state-wide po
litical gathering since the famous
Underwood convention held in Atlan
ta four years ago, when Mr. Watson
came to Atlanta with the announced
intention of having himself elected
to Baltimore as a delgeate, and of
seizing control of the Democratic
party. Another noted old-timer who
will play ap rominet part in the con
vention at Macon is “Little Albert”
Howell of Atlanta, brother of Clark
Howell, of the Atlanta Constitution
and'himself president of the Constitu
tion Publishing company. Mr. How
ell ia the law partner of Hugh M. Dor
sey, directed the policy of the Dorsey
campaign, and will head the Fulton
county delegation to Macon.
DELEGATES ELECTED TO
THE STATE CONVENTION
dilla, and L. L. Woodward, of this
city were elected as delegates to the Blool j worth 71 661
state Democratic convention in Macon Stephens 65 981
the 26th. Judge D. L. Henderson'
and Mr. J. A. Lilly were chosen as
alternates.
Geot*e .
Jenkins
Hutcheson
Church Fsstivsl.
There will be an old fashioned
church festival at the Pleasant Valley
school house Friday night, Sept. 29,
for the benefit of the Pleasant Valley
Methodist church. Everybody Is cor
dially invited to attend.
60 DOUGHERTY FARMS
QUARANTINED FOR TICK
Albany, Ga- Sept.—No cattle can
be moved into Dougherty county from
any other county without a permission
from the United States inspector,
State inspector or one of the county
inspectors.
A canvass of the county has just
been completed, as a result of which
more than sixty farms were quaran
tined on accout of cattle ticks, Dip
ping is now in progress on the farms
under the supervision of a United
4l States inspector.
Catle can not be moved from the
^quarantined farms without a permit.
Savannah Gets Big Catalog Shipment
Savannah, Ga., Sept.—Twenty-two
thousand catalogs of a New York mail
order house arrived here yesterday
by freight on rf steamer from New
York, and were shipped out at once
from this city, through the United
States mails, to the surrounding ter
ritory.
Postmaster Lucas said the stamps
for this shipment cost 11,390.
sent six clerks to the docks of the
Ocean Steamship Company to get the
huge bunch of catalogues into the
mails.
Now that the schools have opened,
it is highly probable that there will
be an increase in the prevalence of
the diseases of childhood. These con
ditions are looked upon lightly by
n<any of the public, but they should
not be so viewed, by any means. Not
only are they often immediately dis
astrous, maiming or killing their vic
tims, but many of those children who
apparently recover succumb later on
to heart disease, kidney disease, or
other maladies, directly traceable to
a previous attack of one of the co-
called diseases of childhood.
Medical inspection should be broad
ened and extended until every child
in the state is reached by it. Strip
ping ths subject of all sentiment, it
is not right to bring children into the
world and let them become crippled
or killed by causes that can be pre
vented. Children who live in cities
or town; where medical attention ex
ists, and those who live in counties
like Glynn, Floyd, Irwin, Tift and
Dougherty, that have adopted the El
lis Public Health law, which provides
for medical inspection for country
school children, have a much beter
chance in life than do those children
who live where no provision is made
to protect them against the ravages
of disease.
If a child is in a public school dnd
is found to be suffering from a dis
ease or a correctable defect, the pa
rents should be immediately notified
of the existing condition, and, if they
do not take such steps as are within
their means to have the defect
promptly corrected, the child should
be excluded from the public school
until the correction is made. This
should be done for the benefit of the
tax payers.
A sound mind seldom exists except
in a sound body, and it usually costs
more to educate a sickly child than
it does a healthy one. Healthy chil
dren are bright and quick to learn,
sickly ones are dull and not only
backward themselves but hold their
classes back. Society is as much re
sponsible for child's body ns it is
for a child’s mind, and society will
be only partly performing its duty
until it gives to both mind and body
their due proportion of attention.
• W. O. W. Notice.
The monument of Sovereign Geerge
Lqe Herring, of Pinehurst, will be
unveiled Sunday, Sept. 24th, at 3
o’clock p. m.
T. W. Walton, Clerk.
“MOUNTAIN DEW" IS A
VERY POPULAR DRINK
Atlanta, Ga., Sept.—The increased
popularity of mountain dew ns a bev-
ciago in me among Atlanta’s elite
convivial gatherings has solved the
north Georgia farmer’s problem of
marketing his corn.
Instead of selling it on the ear or
in the grain, he can make it into
mountain dew and haul it to Atlanta
and sell it for a better price and at
a better profit, even though he does
run the risk of being arrested for vio
lating the prohibition law.
The city and county police have un
covered a number of shrewd schemes
whereby the mountaineers get their
product into the city, but the supply
of white lightning doesn’t seem to
have diminished in the slightest. On
the contrary, it is increasingly the
vogue. One can get a quart of corn
liquor with more ease than any other
kind on the market.
FACTS ABOUT THE TAX ON
COTTON AFTER THE WAR
60,762
64,407
63,281
Senator Smith to Speck for Wilson.
Atlanta, Ga., Sept.—Senator Hoke
Smi.th, of Georgia has been selected
as one of the principal campaign
speakers to deliver addresses in sup
port of President Wilson for reelec-
tion. , Owing to his ability as a stump
speaker Senator Smith will be sent in
to thaterritory where the Democrats
have (heir hardest-fight. During the
month of October Senator Smith will
ipe&ln a number of northern cities
fih&Wkhe middle west. Following ad
journment of congress the senator re
turned to Atlanta for a brief visit and
reft.
GET READY FOR
THE
DOOLY COUNTY
FAIR
Atlanta, Ga., September.—The
many efforts which have been made
to secure from the - United States
government a refund of the 365,000,-
000 cotton tax collected shortly after
the Civil War have all been based up
on the mistaken idea that the United
States supreme court held the cotton
tax to be unconstitutional.
The facts, which have just been
cleared up, are these:
In 1866 a Mr. Farrington of Mem
phis sought to enjoin the collector of
internal revenue in that district,
whose'name was Saunders, from col
lecting the cotton tax, on the ground
that the law creating the tax was un
constitutional. 'The court held that
the law was unconstitutional and the
case of Farrington versus Saunders
was taken to the United States su-
jiicme court on December 6,1867. On
February 20,1871, the supreme court
decided the case. The vote of the
eight judges was evenly.divided, four
end four, and the effect of this tie
was to uphold the constitutionality of
the tax. At that time, when the vote
of the judges was evenly divided and
no opinion was written, the case was
rot included in the supreme court re
ports. For this reason the case does
not appear in the reports and is not
mentioned in the ideas digests of the
reports.
Georgians and Southerners who
have interested themselves in securing
n refund of the tax on the idea that
it had been declared unconstitution
al, will doubtless regret to learn that
all further efforts along this line will
be in vain. .
SPEAKERSHIP-FOR
CRISP PREDICTED
THIRD DISTRICT CONGRESSMAN"
RENOMINATED, RESOLUTIONS
PASSED ENDORSING WILSON.
Americas, Sept. 19.—Charles R.
Crisp was unanimously nominated Tor
congress from the Third Georgia dis
trict today at the convention for the
district. The committee canvassing .
the returns announced the vote in the *
district of Crisp, 7,310; Thomas G. -
Hudson, 3,766, with a Crisp majority
of 3, 544.
W. R. Bowen, of Fitxgerald, was
elected chairman of the convention .
and will head the executive commit-i.;
tee by virtue of his office. Edwin '
Rodgers, of Ashburn, was elected sec
retary, to succeed H. O. Crittendon, '
of Shellman, who could not.be pres
ent '■
William J. Harris, a member of the
federal trade commission and a com- -
mandlng figure in the national capt- : "
tol, attended the convention and re- I
sponded to an invitation to address .**
the meeting, and in his remarks he
predicted that CongresSmSli ' Crisp
would be the leader of the democratic ..
side of the house, or speaker, within
a few sessions. The prediction was
received with interest because-' the -
present congressman's father ’ was-
the lamented Speaker Charles F,
Crisp.
Mr. Crisp was nominated by W. H.
Lasse ter, of Vienna, and the nomina
tion was seconded by Edwin Rodgers,
of Ashburn.
Church Services et Shiloh Church,
Suudey, September 24tb.
Sunday School, 3 p. m.
Prayermeeting, 7 p. m.
Public cordiaily invited. Enter
your children in the fall and winter
term Sunday school raise them up
and educate them to be good citizens.
October 16th is the day I have ar
ranged to ship contributions to ths
orphans home. I will expect any thing
from a guinea egg to an elephant
meal corn potatoes, peas, syrup, eggs,
butter, flour, grits, cloth, laces cloth
ing or any surplus you may have. Any
one wishing to give anything please
put your name on the article and
send to Richwop.d on or before Oi
16th
A Card of Thanks.
I take this method to thank each
and every one of the friends and
neighbors who so kindly assisted us in
tch recent illness and d-:r.th of my
dear father. May God's richest bless
ings rest on each one of them is the
piayer of Mrs. C. S. Woodruff.
OCTOBER 27th-28th
Resolutions endorsing the Wilson
administration and complimenting
Woodrow Wilson as president were
introduced by T. M. Furlow, of Amer-
icus, and unanimously paued. The
copy of ther esolutions will be sent . ’
President Wilson.
The new executive committee elect
ed for the district was: Ben Hill, Geo.
Dorminey, Fitzgerald; Dooly, J. W.
Lytle; Vienna; Crisp, A.'L. "McAr
thur, Cord etc; Turner, W., K. Jenkins,
Ashburn; Taylor, A. H. Riley, Butler;
Macon, J. E. Hays, Montezuma;
Schley, A. S. Rainey, Ellaville; Supi- '
ter, Hollis Fort, Americua; Webster, ,
B. O. Brightweil, Weston; Stewart,
E. L. Carter, of Lumpkin; Lee, Reid
Stovall, of Leesburg; Terrell, A. L.
McLendon, Dawson; Randolph, W. R.
Curry, Shellman; .Clay, G. M. Bell, -
Bluffton; Quitman, Warren Jowers,
Georgetown.
Mr. Crisp entertained the conven
tion and a number of friends at a bar
becue at the grounds on Glessner
street.
DOOLY FARMER RAISES
SOME TALL SUGAR CANE
Mr. R. A. Bullington, a progressive
Dooly farmer living about seven mile*
east of this city is among those who
arc-planning to give Mr. Boll Weevil
a cold reception. Mr. Bullington
brought several stalks of cane to the
News office recently that measured
eight feet in length. He claims to
hsve an half acre just like it which
has been produced without the assist
ance of fertilizer. Mr. Bullington
states that he is going to confine his
fsrming next year largely to raising
cane, he says he always finds a ready
market for his syrup and that it is un
questionably a profitable business.
barns and
Feedini
Carefully
poultry houses;
Keeping the creatures well, rather
than getting them well;
Vigorous stock of all kinds, well
supported;
Systematic feeding;
Records.
Two Old Citiuas DU.
Two of the oldest men in this sec
tion died at their homes in Crisp,
county_thU week. Mr. J. B. Weldon
and MrfBob Taylor, both old veterans
and respected citizens passed away
within about 12 hours one Sunday
night and the other Sunday morning.
They were interred at the Dorough
cemetery.
Camphor for ths Future.
It Is estimated that Formosa con
tains about one million camphor trees,
some ten thousand of which are cut
town every year. At this rate the
supply will bo eihausted la a hundred
years: but when the country Is thor
oughly pacified there is no doubt that
the Japanese will see that reforesta
tion Is properly undertaken and an in
exhaustible supply Insured.
TO THE PEOPLE OF THE THIRD
CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT
From the bottom of my heart I
thank those friends in the District who
so loyally stood by me. It was owing
to their support and friendship (hat I
rm reelected. As long as I live 1 will
be grateful to them. I have no ill-
feelings toward any one in the Dis
trict, but, as God is my helper, I
shall continue to make all the people
of the District the best Congressman
I am capable of making. To each
friend who supported me, I extend
heartfelt gratitude.
CHARLES R. CRISP.