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Official Organ Thomas County ********* Why Wait? ************ SEM I-WEEKLY EDITION Send in Your Subscription NOW. ************ VOL. 1. No. 00. THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1013. $1.00 PER ANNUM. BIG EVENTS Ml HOMES WANTED S THE THIRTEENTH FOR ORPHANS DAY AND SPECIAL' |,ITTLE ONES IN HOME IN AT- EVEXTS BETWEEN VALDOSTA AND THOMASVILLE WILL GIVE UNUSUAL INTEREST. August thirteenth will be a big day In baseball circles In Thomas- ville. This was assured last nlghf when the Valdosta baseball manage ment consented to transfer a posi tioned game, scheduled to be played In Valdosta to Thomasville on that day. / The Valdosta team plays here on the eleventh and twelfth and the lo cal management decided that it would be a mighty good plan to have a special field day, in addition to a legular game on that occasion. A committee will be appointed to can/as the merchants of the city, and ask them to close at two o’clock on that day. The field event* will begin at two thirty and continue for an hour. Both teams will partici pate and there will be prizes donated for each event by Thomasville mer chants, with possibly a grand prize LANTA ARE IN NEED OF PAR- ENTS—SECRETARY OF GEOR- GIA CHILDREN’S *6oCIETY WHITES CARD. The Times-Enterprlse is in receipt of the following communication: Editor Times-Enterprlse, Thomasville, Ga. Dear Sir: Will you aid the Geor gia Children’s Home 3ociety to And among the readers of your paper a j i n , few good homes for the homeless j most of that time. A few days ago little boys and girls that are con- his trouble was diagnosed as pneu- stantly coming under our protecting monia. 0. JOHNSTON COLLEGE DEED FRIDAY HIDE TO CITY alaiuma REPRESBNTA t I v e PASSED AWAY SUDDENLY — MAY CHANGE COMPLEXION OF THE SENATE. Washington, Aug. 8.—Senator Joseph F. Johnston, of Alabama, died at his apartments here this morn ing, shortly before nine o'clock. Senator Johns'on has been in poor health and hasn't attended the ses sions of the Senate for weeks, *hav- becn confined to his apartments TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY GIVE PAPER WHICH CONVEYS THE FLETCHERVILLE SCHOOL TO THOMASVILLE — JUDGE HOPKINS WILL DELIVER THE DEED. care? Although the Senator s son had These little orphans, ranging in | been summoned from Birmingham, age from infancy up to fifteen years, deserve each a father and mother who will love them as their own child. They were born without their consent into what is said to bo a Christian world. Here we are ex pected to teach* them to look up and honor a Heavenly Father, but how are they to realize the meaning of He wn’s unanimously elected to suc- an unseen Father when they have J C ed the late Senator Pettus, and was for the winner of the largest num-!not appreciated the personal le&dlns re-elected in 1909. it was not believed last night that the Senator was ih any danger. Senator Johnston was seventy years old. H« served through the Civil War in the Confederate army, was Governor of Alabama two terms and has been a member of the United States Senate since 1907. her of events. ■The field events are: > Iking distance throwing. Fungo Hitting. Bunt and Run to first base. Circling the bases. Accurate throwing. One hundred yards dash. This should bring about unusual and unprecedented enthusiasm among the memebrs of the two rival teams, end with the people. The affair will be advertised In all of the towns hereabouts, and the day will be a gala event. of an earthly father? How are they to know a Divine Lord without first realizing the depth and expression of mother love? Moreover, how can men and wom en, born to love, learn Its full depth and meaning without a child to lead them? As one of many examples, the home society over a year ago placed a baby boy, six months old with Mr. and Mrs. M , of At* Death is Great Loss to Democracy. The death of Senator Johnston weakens the Democratic majority for the Administration tariff bill in the.3enate, thought the party lead ers Insist there Is still no serious difficulty In passing the measure. In the Democratic caucus, forty- nine Senators declared they would support the bill on Its final passage. On this basis, the Senate stood forty- The admission fee will be seventy- j answer to our inquiry. lanta. An agent of the society has i nine for the bill and forty-seven seen the child In the home several j against it. In the event of any times since, but here is a letter just | Western Senator, not favoring free ; received from the foster mother iu i sugar, might vote against the meas- five cents for grandstand for men, fifty cents for ladles and a general admission of fifty cents to all. Plans in detail will be announced later. ATLANTA POLO GAME A JOKE Atlanta, Aug. 8.—The first polo game in Atlanta proved a huge joke that even Society (spelled with a ure, the Democrats had counted on The deed to the South Georgia College property in this city is in the hands of Judge H. W. Hopkins, ready to be delivered to the City of Thomasvillp. This transfer was or dered by the Legislature last year, but for some reason it has been de layed in transit. Judge Hopkins recently stated that he would take the matter up FRANK TRIAL AS A MEMBER OF THE HOUSE COMMITTEE OF LOBBYING — ANNOUNCEMENT MADE THIS MORNING. Washington, Aug. 8.—Represen tative 3. Anderson Roddenbery, of the Second Georgia District, today resigned as a member of the House Lobby Committee. Speaker Clark then appointed Re presentative Ferris, of Oklahoma, to fill the vacancy caused by Mr. Rod- denbery’s resignation. vigorously and see if the deal could not be closed up. The Chair man of the Board of Trustees readi ly complied with his determined re quest. The correspondence in that re- ANOTHER FIRE AT GOOLIDGE Diii'pii Hoarding House, nt That Place Burned This Morning— Young Mnn Injured. Cooliilge, Aug. 9.—(Special.)—At gard is Interesting and is given in three o'clock this morning the Duren THIS WEEK WILL SEE THE END OF THE FAMOUS CASE IN AT- LANTA — ANOTHER DOCTOR GIVES TESTIMONY RELATIVE TO FOOD. BIG FIELD DAY NEARS END PLANSGOMPLETE PRIZES FOB VARIOUS EVENTS BETWEEN VALDOSTA AND THOMASVILLE AKE GIVEN BY THOMASVILLE MERCHANTS. Everything is in readiness for the detail: Judge Hopkins Letter. Atlanta, Ga., July 26, 1913. Hon. Henry D. McDaniel, Monroe, Ga. Dear Governor: 1 am preparing a and furnishings were resolution setting forth the great | covered by Insurance, 1 Boarding House was entirely con- , sumed by fire. Most all the contents : were also destroyed. The fire originated In the roof, or overhead ceiling, and must have I mitted been caused by rats. The building only partly and the loss Atlanta, Aug. 11.—That the pres-i ent week will see established the j big Held day and baseball game with guilt or innocence of Leo M. Frank, Valdosta . Wednesday. The field on trial here for the murder of 1-1- events will start at two thirty and year old Mary Phagan, employe of I Mr. Ashley, of Valdosta, Mr. DIs- the pencil factory of which Frank | m uke. of Thomasville, aad the um- was superintendent, was confidently | p | re wi n act as judges or timers of predicted today. For two weeks at- j the various events. The prizes haro torneys for the defense have labored j been donated by the various mer- easelcssly to discover flaws in the chants of the rity and they hav* chain of circumstantial evidence j been apportioned as follows: which the prosecution has sought to j Tell dollars go i (1 wlu be given forge about the accused. „y J. I!. Jemison, President of tho Only through the remarkable story ThomasvlIle club . for the member of James Conley, negro sweeper at | elth(!r tpa11 wio makes the m0 , t the factory where the girl’s body po|nt9 |n the „ el(1 rtay events. This was found, has the state been able prizp ls one whlch shou | d bring to connect Frank with the murder,'^ the best e(forts o( a] , player i, and not oven Conley has asserted | f that ho actually saw the crime com* injustice done my people by the au-' W H1 be heavy on the owner, Mr. thorlties of the State University in your failure or refusal to carry out the Instructions of the last General Assembly in conveying to the City of Thomasville the school property at that place. I beg again to call your attention to tho Act of 1912. It recites the truth of the situation. My people have ben unjustly and unfairly treat ed. We gave the ^property to the State under at least an implied con tract that the State would sustain It by annual appropriation. It did G. Duren. Mr. E. L. ejvans, a -nephew of the proprietor, who was boarding there Jumped from the upper story, and sustained a badly crushed leg. He was Immediately removed by friends and taken in charge by Dr. Crow, who carried him to his home and dressed his limb. The last re ports from him is that he is not resting well. It is not learned whether he sustained any other in juries or not. Heroic work by the citizens saved for a few years, but the University I the near-by residences gave us no encouragement and the State left us out In the cold After long and repeated effort on “dn regard to the darling baby, he j the vote of Vice-President Marshal : our part to have the State restore is the joy and sunshine of our home j t 0 carry the day. | to U9 what in equity and good con- and our hearts are lifted in grati* j Th« death of Senator Johnston I scie ? c e she had no right to, I sue- tude to God each day for this be*«.j niake8 the county forty-eight to, m 2 uiLfmouMy*^p e «a!!?d 0lUt { 0 '“com! municated with Chancellor Barrow, tiful little life. He is our very own j forty-seven, and If his seat ls not baby, and were he our flesh and filled before the bill Is voted upon, blood, he could be no dearer to us.J one vote changed would defeat the God was so good to send him to our| Underwood-Slmmons tariff bill, home. I could write volumes about j The Senate paid a fitting tHbute This ls another strong reason Why Coolldge should go to work at once and establish water and fire works'. We urge the authorities to get busy and do something to save the citizens from the great clanger we are now In, from destruction -by similar conflagrations. and there is already keen rivalry as to who will take down the fat ! plum. Those who have followed the easel Fungo Hitting, closely believe that th. outcome! ,' t pr|ze> s|x palrs 9ilk B0X( will turn upon whether Conley’s nar. natcd „ y Vee , B . os . do- FIRE ALARM SATURDAY. enclosing a form of conveyance, and | he referred It to youj^nd that is the i » last of It as Jar as we are Informed. J Engine Makes Record Run Down I ara proud of the University and I! Jackson Street to Fairview. am lot to do any act that will tend * — our baby and still have more tojto Senator Johnston’s memory j to Injure It In tho public esteem, | An alarm of fire was sent in this write, but here it Is In a nutshell— through resolutions of respect and • but I cannot longer submit to this morning at eleven thirty from the he is the sweetest, brightest, best t immediate adjournment of today’s gr ° 89 injustice upon the people I re-1 residence of Mr. W. W. Beasley, in capital ”3”) for whom and by whom an( j ni0 st precious baby in the world, jsesslon. the spectacle was arranged, could not take It seriously. It was a polo game with two men on a side, astride of horses Instead of polo ponies, and further handi capped by the fact that some of the four knew nothing of the game, while the ones who did were sadly out of practice. , present. * j Fairview. The auto truck got there I trust that l may at least be ac-1 in record time. From the Postoffice Senator Overman offered the reso- j corded the courtesy of a reply to this j Castlebury, who was driving, opened to the small a space of time to count, making about sixty miles per hour. This was kept up until they reached the curve near the College and from Atlanta’s first attempt to Imitate the Four Hundred at Newport and j Atlanta Ga. Xarragansett Pier was not exactly | brilliant, though It was, in a way, • Rev. J. M. Gutter heroic. ' j leave this morning for Young Har- Miss Grace 9Igirc of San Francisco balance of the summer. Mr. Outler California, who lb visiting friends In will shortly go to Waynesvllle, N. C., Bainbridge was the guest yesterday to attend important committee for a short time of Miss Nell Pat-j meetings connected with the Sun- ten. j day School work in this territory. I cannot express in words how love him and what a comfort and a ’ lutions and spoke briefly in a trib- j note, as I was not to mine forward-j up the throttle and it was Joy he is to us.” s ! u t e to the Alabama Senator. ed t0 >* ou hy Chancellor. Barrow, i Coast Line Station in too Still Ollier homos ought to b« T he resolution provided • that a! many month* since. * - ‘ made happy while the needy and eommlttee of seventeen accompany i„ ona i regard for*you, Tam, 8 1>0r homeless are being trained up to body to Birmingham. i Very truly yours, •good citizenship. * The members of the family asked H. W. HOPKINS, ROBT. B. McCORD, tha t there be no public funeral In j Representative Thomas County v Superintendent. ; tho Senate chamber. j Monroe® Ga"'^ 28, 19J3. Office, Foote and Davies Building,. ! lion. H. W. Hopkins I Successor Will be Chosen as Soon as House of Representatives, — — * Possible. i Atlanta, Ga. family! „ . ■ Dear Sir: Your letter of 26 Inst.,; Tho damage will be but sligh Montgomery, Ala., Aug. S.-After, aI)out t; , e Uel ay in execution by the — , _ . . , .. ; - conference with Governor Emmett t Trustee of the .University to the ris, Ga., where they will spend t* 19 , O'Neal, State Attorney General Ilrlclt-, City of Thomas'llle, of the deed to ! ell today telegraphed Attorney Gen- Gu: school property mentioned in j ■ there to the fl~e it was tho same speed. This is tho best run the de- i partment has made yet. ! There was a small place iu the , kitchen roof afire, probably catching from a spark. It was extinguished I with the chemicals in short order. rative is credited by the Jurv has been the atm of the defense to show that the negro unworthy of credence, and Conley admitted re peatedly on cross-examination that he had made false statements and ‘‘confessions’’ to the police. Forty-eight witnesses ‘have been | placed on the stand by the defense and prosecution, and more are ex-; nected to testify before tho case is j ready for argument. The most Important development; of the trial so .-far was the decision! of Judge L. 3. Roan to admit test!-j mony Introduced by the prosecution I tending to show that Frank had been j guilty of acts Involving moral tur-j pitude. The testimony of Conley as! to Frank’s alleged misconduct with! women was retained In the record j under tfiis ruling. It was through j testimony of this character that the; state attempted to establish a mo-j tive for the murder. Doctor Testified Today. Dr. George Backman, an Instruc-, tor in a local medical college, wai Prs * called by the defense today in the! 'I* trial of Leo M. Fra'nk. *tho Dr. Backman testified that no one. mor was aide to say positively how long -'ill the articles of food, which were ex- and hibited hi court, were In Mary Piia- mad gan’s stomach nd prize, bat, donated ky Robl- 1 son Stationery Co. IOO-Yard Dash. 1st prize — pair Crossett Shoes, d*- I-nated by Louis Steyerman. | 2nd prize—2 handsome ties, by Smith-Harley Shoe Co. Runt and Run to First Base, j 1st prize, $3..">0 glove, by James ! Watt & Bro. | 2nd prize, knife, by Robison Hard ware Co. Long Throw. 1st prize, gold tie clasp, by Louis H. Jerger. 2nd prize, box cigars, by R, Tkora- Jr. A emirate Throwing. 1st prize, Parker pen. by Peacock- Mash Drug Co. 2nd prize, umbrella, by Harry Stayerman. - ’’ Circling the Rases. 1st prize, 2 nice shirts, by the Fair. 2nd prize MILWAUKEE HOST TO OITIIOLIC.S box Thomasville Smok- arez Cigar Co. rizes will In* on display in vv of Louis steyerman to- orning. The store* have all agreed to close at two o’clock, and special arrangements will bo made to hold the unusual crowd which will bo present. The affair has been extensively advertised in all of the towns near Thomasville, and a record-breaking number of visitors are expected. Besides Five Hundred Delegates *n«| Thousand Visitors Tliei Milv eral McReynolds for his opinion as 10 cent Talcum Powder Perfumed and Borated. 2 Cans for 5c as long as it lasts. SEE OURj WINDOW. Agent*: NUNNALLY’S CANDIES. the resolution approved August. 1,1 lo tho proper methods of choosing 'yogret to' say Vh at‘\he fault Is! Colorado Clly ’ Co1 ’ AuK ' A a successor to Senator Johnston, un- mal. ly, if not entirely, mine, for j cloudburst last night caused one der the new Seventeenth Amendment which I tender an apology. More- hundred thousand dollars damage in to the Federal Constitution. over, I regret to learn that you re- this sec tion. Colorado City bore the _ , _i, eeived no answer from me to your-, . _ f Governor O’Neal Indicated that as; , tt ,. r colltaInIn2 a form of co-..vey-1 bru " t of the ^ ,Ee of "f Pr ' soon as the necessary legal steps are;ance, etc., forwarded to me by the j AH crops within a radius of fifty understood, he would plan for an • Chancellor. I was under the im-J miles were ba-lly damaged. [ session* ’ Americi ] Soolet je Tile nkee. Minn., Aug. i of t!ie Convention n Federation of was scheduled fa visiting Catholics thirty thousand. The flv tes. who are in charge of tho s? of tin* gathering, will dis- roposed religions changes In bile schools, and the problem ing Catholic citizens to main- ubiie schools when they al- maintain paro hial schools. immediate choice. DRY SPELL CONTINUES Kansas City, Aug. 9.—Reports of s P’cring from the extreme heat and drouth In Missouri, Kansas and Okla homa, reached here In greater num bers today than at any time since the period of intense heat set in nearly a week ago. Want of water is felt in sixty towns throughout the three states. Indications are that today’s tem- pression that I had written in re- \ Fifty families 1 ply. For this also, an apology is (lue ' \ CS9 j )Ut no om : which I hope you will accept. I ’ The delay occurred in this way: J The resolution authorized and re-j I qulred the Trustees to make the; of my private busine . deed. It was necessary for the 1 tees to pass a^resolution author the Chairman of the Board to cute the deed. At the time th> pers reached me- -the date not menibered at this writing— i probable that a special mee tile Trustees would soon be But for various reasc re rendered homc- as kil'ed. perature will reach yesterday’s max- 1)a8Sed , providing for the execution Imtim of from ninety to one hun dred and ten j-- ... - ngagements, prevented attention to this matter, ing • 1‘lease furnish me a description of j •xe- j the School property and the style ot pa-; the municipal government of Thoni- jt re- asville—as “.Mayor and Council,’’ for was! instance, or other designation in the! ing of I City Charter. The language of the held, j Resolution is “to the said Citjt- of I ..... leetins I Thomasville,” etc., and ifeyou think was not held until lute in January, | that is sufficient, in connection with ! or early In February 1913. i:i At- 1 the langauge following to the end of I lanta. 1 submitted the matter to j the resolution, 1 will make it ac I the Board, and a resolution was j cordinrly. All other essentials appear in the | resolution, etc. • Several towns are shipping water deed bv the Chairman. I should explain that while not | in the practice of law, I havi hy freight trains, while in others bee „ act|ve , enga?ed , particularly the low wells have caused diseases cf various kinds. since January, in matters of busi ness at home and elsewhere, and that ailing vour reply, and with great respect, v Truly yours, henry d. mcdaniel. A later letter from Mr. McDaniel We are sorry to lose P*of. K. C. Moore, who left for his new home in I have been away from home much j reads as follows of the time When, after the action of the 1913. ’Irginia last Friday afternoon. Prof, j Roard, I took up the matter of mak- Moore has been in Grady county for Ing the deed, 1 found th papers had several years, and has many friends I t )een lost or misplaced. My search here who will ever remember him f or them was ■necessarily intermit- kindly.—Grady County Progress. j tent. Not finding them, I wrote the ~ 1 Secretary of the Board at Athens, KNIGHT TEMPLARS AT DEN\ ER. i sometime In May. Unfortunately his sickness delayed a replv until just I before the annual meeting. He did Eighteen Thousand Is Estimated not think he had them, but said he Number in Attendance, j was not in Condition to make a thor- 0 (Lv Associated Press.l ou B h search. During the Annual Denver, Col., Aug. 11.—It i a | S9 s*lon of the Board, he required i assistance in his duties, and did not stimated that eighteen thousand . th meet « ne -Acentlv held in attend the meeting recently held In. Knights Templars arrived here yes- J Atlanta. On receiving advance cop- terday and last night, to attend the t tes of reports 6f Chancellor, .and of thirty-second tri-ennial conclave of that order, which opened Saturday night. Twenty-five thousand other dele gates are scheduled to arrive to day. Eight special traino came into the cUy Sunday. other members of the faculty the Chancellor, early In June, the duty of preparing the annual re port of the Trustees, submitting it to the Governor, and after he had delivered it to the public printer,.of reading the proofs, etc., incident to •retting the report to the members of the Legislature, to say nothing .Monroe, Ga., Aug. Hon. U. W. Hopkins, | House of Representatives, Atlanta, Ga. i Dear Sir: 1 ara forwarding to I you herewith the deed of the Uni-1 versity of Georgia, to the City of Thomasville, conveying as provided : in the Legislative Resolution of Au gust, 1912, and in the resolution of. the Board of Trustees, of January | 16, 1912. the scho M property Ini •Thomasville, formerly used by the J South Georgia College of Agriculture ; and the Mechanic Arts. •Accepting your kind offer to de liver the deed to the proper officials of the City, on your return home, after the adjournment of the Legis lature, It only remains for me to renew my expressions of regret at the delay since January 16, and to "hope that the deed will he satis factory. Thanking you for your attention, and with my best wishes, Truly youn, HENRY D. MCDANIEL. Fall Notice! We can now show you a full line of:- Woolen Dress Goods All Fashionable Shades, ranging in prices from 65c to $3.50 per yard. In Brocaded Material's there are Velvets Crepes and Woolen good*. We can at the same time show you some ele> gant new Tailored suits for ladies. Other lines in Ready-to-Wear, will arrive shortly. Louis Steyerman, The Shop of Quality On the Corner.