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TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY S ,1922.
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NEW CITY DIRECTORY OF
THOMASVILLE GIVES CITY
13,000 POPULATION
The City Directory to be printed
and distributed within the next three
months showB that Tbomasriila's
population is about thirteen thousand.
The directory Is gotten out under the
auspices of R L. Polk and Co., of De
troit. Mr. E. H. Betts has been here
as Manager, Mr. W. F. White, sales'
man and Messrs. W Q. Willey and G.
Dodson, assistants The work Is
as complete and accurate as trained
men con make It.
These hooks will be sold for five
dollars each and there are a large
number of business and commercial
firms that will have a copy In addi
tion to the local copies, Mr. Betts has
made arrangements with the Cham
her of Commerce to have In Its library
a copy of the directories of all cities
In this Immediate territory.
The estimate of population is made
on a basis of two and a half times the
number of actual names secured, only
those over sixteen years of age being
taken. It Is generally estimated that
the number of people In any city Is
more than two and a half times the
number of people over sixteen years
of age. The directory takes In the
names outside of the city. Immediate
ly adjoining its limits and will give a
very accurate description of the name
address and business of all persons
in the city and its environs The es
timate of thirteen thousand Is not far
from that figured at the time of the
last census, despite the fact that the
census only gives us slightly over
8,700 in the limits.
conseqftence of a disagreement over
jwages.' The strikes at Adasol burned
I the temporary quarters occupied by
the workers there and this started a
fracas between the workers and the
strikes, two of whom were injured.
Magistrates at Allahabad and Dban-
bad have prohibited gatherings of
j more than 10 men because the strikers
were holding mass meetings and In
timidating the employes who wanted
to work.
More than half the Calcutta suburb
an trains, which usually carried about
30,000 passengers each way dally, have
been discontinued owing to the strike.
The secretary of the Indian Labor
Association has called for a Confer
ence of railway delegates to be held
at Anasol to discuss terms of settle
ment which have been offered by the
East Indian Railway.
PUBLIC AID IS ASKED
BY FLOOD VICTIMS
Vicksburg, Migs., May ;9.'—The
Mississippi flood relief committee, at
a meeting here yesterday, adopted a
resolution to request President Hard
ing to issue an appeal for public
contributions to the fund for the re
lief of flood sufferers in the Yazoo
basin, where 20,000 .men, women and
children, marooned or driven from
their homes by the Mississippi River
OUR
Loyal. Firemen
DO THEIR BEST
—BUT—
OFTEN ALL IS LOST
YOUR ONLY HOPE
Oat a Fire Policy. Oet a Good
one, the Kind Furnished by
W. M. Parker
Mitchell Bldg.
For Picnics
and lunches try my potk sau
sage, pig feet, sandwich spread
and sliced beef in glass.
J. R. EVANS
PHONE 128
LIVE NEWS FROM SOUTH GEORGIA
(BY 8. O. D. A.)
FUNERAL SERVICES HELD
FOR DR. B. S. BURTON, TODAY
Valdosta, May 9.—Funeral services
were conducted this morning for Dr.
Benjamin Sullivan Burton, whose sud
den death Sunday night was almost
tragic and removed from active life
one of the best known chemists, medi
cal practioneers and surgeons in South
Georgia, as well as a man of most
peculiar generosity.
Dr. Burton was about 56 years of
age, and a first honor graduate of Au
burn, Ala., College, where he special
flood, were declared to be in absolute
need of help.
The call for additional aid was
taken after it had been found by the
committee that available funds were
inadequate to take care of the rapid-
KIND TREATMENT SERVES ly increasing number of destitute
flood victims.
BIG DANCE
AT
SMITH’S PARK
Friday Night, Hay 12
Music by f
MikelPs Band
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ROBISON HARDWARE CO.
117 -119 E. Jackson St. Phone 168
TO REFORM PRISONERS
SAYS ILLINOIS WARDEN
Reports submitted by a score of
field Red Cross secretaries yester
day showed that the number to be
prov't ed for this v*eek would be 20.
0C0 compared with 17,000 last week
Joliet. Ill.r May 9—An iron hand! w h en the issuing rations was started,
and mere confinement “make con- The board of health basing its esci-
no nwre; a progressive J ma tes for a balanced ration, recom-
tion, and it was said to be a rare thing
that he ever presented a patient with
a bill for his services. In spite of this
peculiar characteristic he was re
markably successful as a business an( j
man and accumulated a large and val- M ~ !i J jmaics x , . __
uable estate. Besides his medical SC8,e ° f . PriV " eg f and fr f, ed ° m T mended a pcr cap,tal rat, ° n ° f $1 '° 5
, ... . ty „ . i j i ! ,n a P r,son makes men, according a week, but members of the commit-
work without pay, Dr. Burton Is said t0 John L Whltman , 8U p er | nten dent
to have also loaned large sums to of , Hinois is under who3 ,
needy friends for which he never
prisons, under
, „ , ; supervision the new state peniten-
charged interest. He was always very tlary at statevlUei near here| , 8 be .
particular, however, to assist only
those whom he knew would
jing constructed.
tee declared that funds on hand
would permit the allowance of but
70 cents per wee.k The board of
health’s estimate, it was said, in-
The architecture j c ] u ded medical supplies for prevent-
mention his assistance. He was ap- f bui “ in * is de8i * n *f M j ing diseases, which if they developed
nurnntiv w.ii and in a inviai mnnd fac,1, . tatc application of the Illinois in crowded refugee camps, entail a
much greater expenditure of money
as well as increase fatalities.
Mrs. R. S. Butler, member of the
committee from Issaquena county
Roast Pork with gravy 3So
Roast Beef, with gravy 35c
Roaat Chicken,
wIHTHIce 50c
Roaat Chicken
and Dressing' 60c
8mall Steak 35c
8lrloln 8teak 50c
Sirloin 8teak,
extra cut for two ..$1.00
WE SERVE THE BE8T
MADE MOCA ANO
JAVA COFFEE IN
TOWN.
CEHMU
CAFE
ized in chemistry. Following his grad- parenlly wel1 a “ d ,n a J°j ial “°° d idea” or progressive merit system,
uation he spent some time in the w etl e wen a ur ay n g , p r j goners w jj| b e grouped according
South Sea Islands as a chemist for a, * a * er was 80 ze an M ne8B to thejr grade of advancement us-
large corporation engaged in securing and ® rew worse » soon aps ng nto un j er ^he system, and each group will
fertilizer materials. lie later graduat- ^oufsunday mldnighL^Ke^^wide- : be assiprT1ed to one of the l reported the loss of several lives in
ed In medicine from an Atlanta col- ^ thrnmrhnut Smith fVnnria ce ‘“ 10Uses ' second of which will-her field and heavy loss of live stock,
lege, took a post graduate course at y ^’Ibe completed and in use within a
Tulane, In New Orleans, and then went ^ aB 8 a er e ore ra ’ * * j few days. Prisoners will move from
to Philadelphia, where he remained for, U ° n ’ j cellhouse to cellhouse with their ad-
a year doing hospital work. From I
there he went to Germany and spent. WAYCROSS A||T injiiriea
a year perfecting himself and from I FR0M AUT0 ‘"JURIES
there he went to England and remain-! Way cross Ga., May 9.—Mildred
ed another year before returning to the eleven year-old daughter of Mr.
Vadlosta to practice medicine. and Mrs. C. B. Smith, died late Sun-
He was generally reputed to have! day ni S h ‘ at a local W** “ a
done more practice for people without r ® sult injuries received Sunday
pay than any physician in this se c- afternoon "he" * he fel1 from **
[running board of an automobile
j driven by her father. A party of
children and Mr. and ^Irs. Smfth
were returning from a trip to the
Satilla river when the car passed
204 West Jackson 8L
LOOK! LISTEN!
CONSIDER!
Beef, Pork and
Sausage
are cheaper now than
last year. Our stock is
the best; our market is
absolutely sanitary; our
price is as low as good
service and good food
can be sold.
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PHONE 52
If you are not perfectly
satisfied with your pres
ent market service, try
us one time. That is all
we ask.
lover the curbing at the intersection
vancement in grade.
CRITICISES RELIEF POLICY
Natchez, Miss., May 9.—Criticising
what he claimed to be the policy of
The plan provides that prisoners f] 00 d relief committees in not
may pass through the following tending relief to flood sufferers unless
stages; confinement usder strict they are in concentration camps es-
prison discipline; increasing oppor- jtablished since water from the Missis-
tunity to merit more confidence os, 8 jppj river and Its tributaries have
the part of prison authorities; driven thousands of people from their
positions of trust within prison walls homes in teu or more parishes in cen-
life in cottages outside the prison
but .under the supervises of prison
authorities; parole; freedom.
The system is an outgrowth of
psychological study of convicts which
was conducted by Superintendent
Whitman, the late Warden Everett
! _ , , - i . . wnitman, tne
. of Stephenson and Jenkens streets, T .. , , . .. . . ,
. . , .. J. Murphy, and staff of experts dur-
jarring Mildred off and throwing.
n . , isg the last twenty years.
( her beneath the rear wheels of tne
car. The wheel passed over her body
cutting several ugly gashes, which
bled profusely. The child was*
rushed to the hospital but was so
badly injured that medical attention
was of no avail.
TURKISH PROFESSORS RESIGN
Constantinople. April—(By Mall)—
Four professors have resigned from
the University of Stamboul at the de
mand of the students on the ground
The body was carried Monday J that thcv were “strangers to the senti-
night to Tellice Plains Tenn., where *
isterment will be made.
meats of independence, nationality
and sacred rights.”
Rlza Tewfik Bey, professor of Phil
osophy who was one of the signers of
the peace treaty of Sevres, also was
Waycross, Ga., May D.^United roquested t„ resign but did not do so.
WAYCROSS LAWYERS ATTEND
FUNERAL OF JUDGE EVANS
States district attorney for the
Southern District of Georgia John
W. Benner was appointed by the BRITISH ROYALTY PLANS
president of the Georgia bar associa
tion an honorary pallbearer at the
funeral of Judge Beverly D. Evans I
TO EFFECT ECONOMIES
April 21—In order to effect econo-
held in Sandcrsvilte today. Other.mles to the extent of £10,000 a year
In the royal household. R. E. Harwood,
(Continued on Page Four)
POUND TO HAVE
HYGIENIC INSTITUTE
has been appointed deputy treasurer
to the King.
tute which will develop the work of
the natfonal Polish Hygienical Inst!-
| tute already in operation.
Warsaw, April l*^-(By Mail)—The Under the terms of the agrcooment,
announcement has been made here which appropriates $250,000 for the
that Rockefeller Foundation of New,work, similar institutes will later he
York has signed a contract with the'founded in other Polish cities If the
local Polish government providing for'Warsaw experiment proves satisfact-
the establishment of a hygienic insti- ory.
tral Louisiana, H. B. Comer, member
of the state flood relief committee,
and a member of the Louisiana House
of Representatives, stated last night
that he would make an appeal to state
food relief and Red Cross headquarters
in Baton Rouge, in behalf of the flood
stricken people of Concordia and Ten
sas parishes.
Mr. Comer stated that although a
barge load of rations wa9 sent to Fer- j
rlday to be distributed, no provisions
had been made for over 4,000 people
marooned in these two parishes. He
declared the situation was becoming
acute and unless immediate steps
taken to provide for these people who
have elected to remain in their flooded
homes, much suffering will result.
C. F. Patterson, chairman of the
flood relief committee, appointed to
organize a refugee camp at Artonish,
in Wilkinson county, after surveying
conditions there, said that 429 people
within two miles of Artonish are In
need of relief. Tents and foor supplies
will be sent there immediately.
Additional refugees were were com
pelled to leave the Bougere section of
Concordia parish on account of lack of
food, b*gan arriving at the Natchez
refugee camp today.
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disorders have resulted from the
strike of employes of the East Indian
Railway which began February. 22. In
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