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ATHENS, GA^ TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 16, 1916.
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ADVANCE GUARD OF DIG K. P. lUPYirAlU
CONVENTION ARRIVED IN ciIv" ,,LA,unn
MERCHANTS URGED TO DECO
RATE FOR THE GRAND
LODGE TO DE IN
SESSION HERE
DATES FIXED FOR “NORTHEAST
GEORGIA FAIR,” OCT. 3I-N0V, 4
The Grand Lodge of the Knights
of Pythias of Georgia will meet in
this city tomorrow morning. The full
program of events has been published.
The greater part of the body will ar
rive tonight and ’ on the first trains
tomorrow. The uniform rank will be
coming to camp also—arriving - to
night and tomorrow morning. The
Pythian Sisters will be here in large
numbers. The Khorassans—every
body will know when^they arrive.
Urged to Decorate.
Some of the arrangements for dec
oration and illumination of the streets
have been perfected. Merchants are
asked to decorate liberally in honor
of the visitors. Most of the places of
business have their flag day colors
and flags and decorations already on
hand—and the national colors are en
tirely appropriate for the K. P. con
vention. Get out the red, white, and
blue and make the streets a riot of
COlOT.
Already Arriving.
Several of the grand lodge officers
and others who will attend the grand
lodge have already arrived in the city.
The grand keeper of records and seal,
Mr. W. H. Leopold of Savannah, came
in yesterday morning, accompanied
by Mr. J. C. Sipple of Savannah, chair
man of the finance committee. They
took a little while yesterday to meet
a number of the citizens of Athens'
and take in a bit of the city. Mr.
Sipple is a live wire and has won the
of S. P. K. P. and O
G. >T.' o .--Pro
Here After 56 Yea re.
One member of the grand lodge—
Mr. Prank Gobert of MilledgeviUe—
arrived yesterday and is stopping at
the Jones house corner of Hancock
and Lumpkin street. He was an in
terested inspector of the city yester
day. It has been fifty-six years since
he was in Athens. The first year of
the war he was in college at the Uni
versity and was among the first to
answer to the call to arms and enter
the service of the Confederacy. He
was some time ago—two years or so
—voted his diploma by the trustees
of the University, after leaving school
more than half a century ago. When
he went away to the war he never
came back to school—or to Athens
Yesterday was the first time he had
seen Athens in all that time and he
was amazed at the progress and
growth—he could not find himself
nor the old scenes, and even Old Col
lege on the campus looked strange In
its modern surroundings. He was
present at the lodge last night and
spoke interestingly of the old times
and the new and modern Athens. He
is seventy-two years old and looks
hardly a day over fifty.
“Camp Barrow,” U. R. K. P.
The camp site for the first annual
encampment of the Uniformed Rank
of the Knights of Pythias of Georgia
already presents an inviting scene
The tents are up and all is in readi
ness for the coming of the first com
panies tonight The Savannah special
gets in tomorrow morning at 6 o’clock.
The Macon delegation arrived to
night
The camp, not far from the home
of the chancellor of the University
on the campus, in a few steps from
the Alumni Hall Gymnasium, will be
_ known as "Camp Barrow.”
Pythian Sisters to Meet
There will be many members of
the “Pythian Sisters” in the city to
morrow and Thursday, for their an
nual meeting in conjunction with the
grand lodge. They will hold their
sessions in the hall of the Mount
Vernon Masonic lodge—and for once
the ladies will hold a secret meeting
in a Masonic lodge.
Automobiles Wanted.
The reception committee named
for the entertainment of the large
number of ladleB who will be in at
tendance at the convention will need
a few more automobiles for their ar
rangements and any one who owns a
car will confer a favor on the com
mittee and a courtesy to these visitors
by giving the use of the machine to
the committee. Notify any one of
this committee: Mir. C. D. Heldler,
W. G. Grlffeth, Mr. Herschel Carl th
ere. or Mr. Harold Hinton.
ATTACKS!
FRENCH DRIVE THE GERMANS
FROM THEIR TRENCHES
ALONG THE MEUSE.
NO CHANGE IS REPORTED AT
WASHINGTON IN THE SITU
ATION ON BORDER.
(By Associated Press.)
London, May 15.—The French, in
a surprise attack along the Meuse
east of Verdun, have driven the Ger
mans from the trenches on 200 yards
of front. i
They also repulsed German attacks
in the Champagne region.
East of Loos the Germans succeed
ed in gaining a foothold in the Brit
ish trenches, but were driven out by
a counter-attack.
Italians in the Monte Ademello
zone have occupied strategic posi
tions in their movement toward
Trent
Italians have advanced in the. re
gion of Mount Sperone and put down
the Austrian attacks north of Len-
sumo.
Artillery fighting continues on the
Russian front
Petrograd reports Russian progress
against the Turks in Armenia.
In the operations toward Mosul,
having Bagdad as an objective, the
Turks are said to be retreating after
abandoning war material.
Differences between Greece and
the Entente powers have been set
tled, the British foreign office an
nounces. This means possibly that
Greece has acquiesced to the En
tentes request to transport Serbian
troops across Greek territory from
of.Corfu tO SxilOIliki.
IRELAND DECLINES TO.
DISCUSS DISARMAMENT.
Belfast, Ireland, May 15.—A disin
clination to accept any plan of gov
ernment for Ireland that would sub
ject Ulster to home rule was evident
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, May 15.—Both the
state departments and the Carranza
government are awaiting a detailed
report on the report of the El Paso
military conferences before seeking
an agreement as to the Mexican bor
der situation through diplomatic
channels.
General Scott returned here today,
confident that the border conferences
had created a better understanding
between the two nations which might
furnish the basis of a formal proto
col. War and state department ad
vices showed no change today in the
border situation.
THREE BANDITS KILLED
BY U. S. AUTO SQUIAD.
Lake Itascate, Mexico, May 15.—
(Wireless to Columbus.)—Three ban
dits, including Julio Cardenas, Villa
leader, were killed in a skirmish with
the American detachment near Ru
bio, twenty miles east of here, today.
The Americans, twelve in number,
comprised an automobile detach
ment under Lieut. George S. Dutton,
which was out foraging. No Amer
ican casualties were reported.
SEVEN VILLA BANDITS
RESPITED FOR 21 DAYS.
Sante Fe, N. M., May 15.—Governor
McDonald today granted a 21-day re
spite to seven Villa bandits who had
been sentenced to hang at Deming,
May 19th, for their part in the Colum
bus raid. The respite is to enable
the governor to make investigation
r-JEiMBKluiil -Wlhrm,
LOST TROOPER IS FOUND
DEMENTED AND HALF-DEAD.
hfarathon, Texas, May 15.—F. Bun-
danis, the lost trooper of the Four
teenth cavalry, who has been missing
since the Glenn Springs raid, was
At a meeting of the special com
mittee of the chamber of commerce
to confer with Mr. Robertson con
cerning the agricultural fair here thiB
fall there were present yesterday af
ternoon Messrs. C. D. Flanigen, C.
D. Heidler, Jas. W. Morton, H. W.
Odum, A. Rhodes, J. G. Woodruff,'!):'
G. Bickers, E. W. Carroll, J. Z. Hoke,
M. P. Jarnigan, E. D. Sledge, and W.
Dilps.
The proposition was explained by
Mr. Robertson and the plan met with
hearty co-operation of the committee.
Mr. Morton, as chairman, and Mr.
Woodruff, county farm demonstration
agent, will soon have committee
heads for various departments an
nounced. * i;
The management, which hopes to
make the fair a permanent, annual
institution, has only to be guaran
teed the sale of 500 season tickets at
$2 to take over the whole project—
furnish tents, grounds, attractions,
premium lists, advertising; and the
prizes.
The fair will bring great crowds
to Athens and will do business good
here and at the same time stimulate
the farmers to better work in pro
ducing better field crops and better
live stock. The get-together effect
will also be a great feature.
The name of the enterprise was by
vote designated “The Northeast
Georgia Fair.”
By vote also the date for the event
was fixed for the five days of Oct.
61 to Nov. 4th, inclusive.
Features of the Fair.
The following departments for ex
hibits with prizes for all these class
es will be included:
Field crops, horses, mules, beef
cattle, dairy cattle, sheep, goats,
swine, horticulture, domestic science,
household fabrics, manufactures, ma
chinery, implement^ education, min
erals, curios, poultry, pet stock, and
mercantile.
Special amusement features will
be:
today on the occasion of Premier As- found wandering ln the woods a^out
quith’s visit to Belfast.
It is understood that Asquith dis
cussed general disarmament for Ire
land but the result of the discussion
was unsatisfactory.
Belfast does not show any signs of
accepting the compromise govern
ment Redmond is said to be willing
to offer.
PROTEST TO GREAT
BRITAIN PREPAREO
INTERRUPTIONS OF NEUTRAL
TRADE AND INTERFERENCE
WITH MAILS, THE
SUBJECT.
thirty-five miles north of Boquillas
today, demented' and half-dead from
thirst A chamuion wood mining man
who found Bundanis turned him over
to the hospital corps here.
It is reported here that Major Lang
home’s column is eighty miles south
of the border awaiting the arrival of
Colonel Sibley’s command to attack
bandits said to be encamped farther
south.
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, May 15.—Negotiations
with Great Britain regarding interfer
ence with mails and interruptions of
neutral trade will be resumed shortly.
A note insisting sharply upon modifi
cation of the treatment of mails has
already been prepared.
A reply to the latest British note
on neutral trade Interruptions will be
begun in the near future.
Great Britain’s reply is considered
unsatisfactory to President Wilson.
The United States’ new demands, ft
said, will be more decided in its lan
guage than the first
Germany's last submarine note, by
Insisting that the United States take
steps to force modification of the Al
lies’ blockade, made it difficult for the
United States to take up the neutral
trade question with England at once.
It was intimated by Secretary Lan
sing last week that hurried action on
the part of the United States would
look as, though this country were act
ing at the behest of the German gov
ernment.
EXPULSION
ANOTHER UNEXPLAINED DIS
ASTER, SPREADING DEATH,
DUPONTPOWDER WORKS
(By Associated Press.)
Gibbstown, N. J., May 15.—At least
fourteen were killed and about thirty
injured in an explosion at the Re-
pauno plant of the DuPont Powder
Company near here.
Among the dead are W. F. Lawley,
assistant superintendent, and George
Marsh, foreman of the Trlnitroluloul
plant, where the blast occurred.
A nearby building, in which niter-
benzol was manufactured, also blew
up.
The cause of the explosion was not
determined.
BRANDE1S NOMINATION
SENATE TO FIGHT OUT
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, May 15.—It appears
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS TO |certain that the issue over the nom-
HOLD REGULAR MEETINGI ination of Louis D. Brandeis for the
The board of county commissioners I supreme court will be fought out in
will hold their regular mid-month I the senate without recommendations
meeting this morning in the office of I from the judiciary committee. It
the clerk, Mr. Tate Wright, at the I was reported, after a protracted ses-
court house.
Home Grown Cabbage.
Home Grown Bqbts, 10c.
New Irish Potatoes, 10c the quart.
(Real Tender String Beans, 10c qL
Yellow Squash, 10c the pound.
i ARNOLD & ABNEY.
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sion today, that a report could not
jbe agreed.upon but several senators
are willing to vote to return the nom
ination to the senate without recom
mendation.
[Tender String Beans, 10c the quart
ARNOLD & ABNEY.
MERCER FACES RED AND BLACK
THIS AFTERNOON IN FIRST GAME
Aeroplane flights daily, balloon as
censions, fire works, acts by trained
animals, and a “Midway," in which
there will be plenty of lively Bhows
with all the objectionable shows cut
out no gambling features, and noth
ing to offend; there will be merry-go-
rounds, ferris wheels, “trip to Mars,”
shows and similar attractions.
There will be a number of special
days—two or three being combined
Into one date:
“Old Soldiers’ Day,” “Educational
Day,” “U. C. T. Day,” “Baby Day,”
with a baby show and prizes offered;
“Negro Day,” “Moving picture Day,”
’‘Automobile Day,” “Old Peoples’
Day,” and “Secret Order Day.”
Distinctly attractive features tp
draw will include:
An Indian war dance one evening;
a society circus, a cotton ball, a flor
al and decorated-automobile parade,
a cattle and live stock parade, a
clown and hand parade, a parade of
plain automobiles, and a “Ku-Klux
Klan” mounted parade.
Some of the exhibited displays will
be of the following subjects:
“Good Roads”—showing the com
parison between good and bad high
ways.
“Health”—an exhibit from the state
board.
"Mail Orders”—in which a number
of articles wil) he shown bought from
a mail order house, with the cost and
added Incidental expenses, and along
side the same quality of article
bought from the home merchant with
the lower cost.
“Fertilizers”—with exhibits show
ing the values of different commer
cial fertilizers.
Machinery, Manufacturers, and
Merchants; and Suffrage and W. C.
T. U. displays.
Mr. Robertson will visit the busi
ness mol of the city today and itis
certain that enough season tickets
can he placed to insure the fair this
fall.
STANDARD OIL
BIG COMPANY JOINS NUMBER TO
PARTICIPATE IN BANNER’S
AUTO SHOW.
The Standard,- Oil Company taas
joined the number who will partic
ipate in the Banners Big Automobile
show that begins next Tuesday.
Their name has been added to the
list who will carry large advertise
ments in the special edition of the
Banner that is coming out Thursday
and automobile owners will do well
to look at their announcement.
The success of the show is loom
ing bigger and: bigger every day and
the occasion promises to be the most
Interesting ever pulled off here.
RURAL CREDITS
BILL PASSED BY HOUSE YESTER
DAY BY OVERWHELMING
MAJORITY.
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, May 15.—The rural
credit bill, providing a farm loan
board and a system of twelve land
banks, passed the house today by a
vote of 295 to 10.
A similar measure already has
passed the senate and the differences
probably will be worked out in con
ference soon.
Under the terms of this bill the
land banks would loan money to
farmers at not more than six per
cent interest through local loan as
sociations on mortgages running
from five to: thirty-six years. The
principal difference between the two
measures Is: The senate would cap
italize each farm loan bank at $500,-
U00 and the house bill at $750,000.
MEREST HIGH IN AUTO SHOW;
PARADE TO DE A DIG FEATURE
Interest Is running high in the big
automobil&Electrical show that the
Banner is promoting for three days
of next week, Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday.: New entries have
been added daily since it was decided
to put the show on and there will
be on display the handsomest auto
mobiles in the country.
The place of the show is ground
floor of the Moss auditorium, a part
of the room now being occupied by
the James Music Company.
The manufacturers of the country
have become interested in the event
and are sending their best cars and
men here to represent them. The
General Electric Company will have
wonderful display of electrical ap
pliances on hand, while the entire
building will be brilliantly illuminat
ed and every booth decorated in the
popular colors of the different cars.
The parade that will be a feature
Wednesday will attract hundreds of
cars to the city. There are to he no
decorated floats hut every car sold in
the South will he represented and
the parade will be one of the longest
ever seen here. There are a num
ber of prizes offered and much inter
est is being manifested in who will
be tbe winners of these.
Mark Tuesday, Wednesday an<^
Thursday on your calendar and plan
to visit tbe Automobile Show every
day, see the cars, hear the music,
meet the people and then finally join
in the dancing.
ATHENS CAPITALIST PURCHASES
THE JEFFERSON COTTON MILLS
Late yesterday the superior court
confirmed the sale of the Jefferson
Coton Mill, which has been in the
hands of receivers for some time, to
Mr. W. T. Bryan of tills city, for $44,-
000. Mr. Bryan, with possibly some
others interested with him; will as
sume control of the property (which
is a going concern doing good busi
ness now) on July 1st
The sale of the property had been
authorized, but parties interested-
the Martin Institute at Jefferson and
the Methodist church there (both of
which Institutions were endowed with
funds which had been invested in the
mill stock) could not agree on a price.
The matter was left in the hands of
Judge Brand to conclude—and he ef
fected the sale late yesterday after
noon.
Arranging for Exhibit at the
Banners Auto-Electric Show
Mr. James W. Smith of the Western
Electric Company, with headquarters
in Atlanta was in the city yesterday
arranging for the display' of that
company at the Banner’s Big Auto
mobile-Electric show that begins in
the ground floor room of the audi
torium building next Tuesday.
The Weetem* Electric Company Is
one of the biggest electrical concerns
in the world and that they are send
ing a special exhibit and putting it in
charge of one of their best men shows
what an Interest is being worked up
over the show that the Banner is
promoting.
The display made by the Western
Electrio Company will be possibly
the most complete ever shown in this
city and there will he on exhibition
many electrical appliances never seen
here before. - >
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BAPTISTS COMING TO DO THEIR
LEVEL BEST IN TWO CON
TESTS UPON SAN
FORD FIELD
MAY DAY GAMES
THIS YEAR HIGH SCHOOL TO
JOIN WITH OTHER GRADES
IN GREAT OCCASION.
This year the entire public school
system—the high school as well as
the grammar schools and primary
grades—will be included in the May
Day folk games and dances—which
has been tacitly made an annual
Bpring event in the schools in Athens.
The exact date of the event has not
been announced—but it may be one
day the latter part of . this week.
Last year the spectacle was one
which attracted as large an audience
on Sanford Field as the Tech ball
games—and the scenes were beauti
ful—the hundreds upon hundreds of
children in white, with uniform
sashes to distinguish the grades and
schools, dancing about the ribboned
May-poles, or doing the folk games of
the children of other lands and in oth
er ages.
This year the plan is for an even
more comprehensive program and it
is expected: that the audience will be
fully as large.
The day and hour, with something
of the program will be announced as
early as possible to definitely fix
them.
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* Grand stand seats for the Mer- 4*
* cer-Georgia game will Ik. placed 4*
* on sale this morning at nine
* o’clock at Palmer’s Drug Store. 4*
4* The prices are the same as to 4»
►> the Tech games. General admls- »>
4* sion, fifty cents; grand stand ex- 4*
►> tra, twenty-five cents. ♦;«
* “Lil” Marcan, of the Atlanta *
* Southern League team, will urn- ♦
* pire the two game£ and will ar- 4>
* rive from Atlanta this morning. ♦
►> Jake Zellars, an old Mercer 4>
* star baseball and football play- 4»
4- er, is coach of the Mercer team, 4
*> and he has rounded together a 4>
* good looking bunch of athletes. 4*
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The University of Georgia baseball
team, after breaking even with Tech
in a twc^game series, will go up
against Mercer on Sanford Mead this
afternoon at four o’clock in the final
games of the year on the local field,
the last game being played Wednes
day.
Mercer and Georgia have already
played a couple of games and the
count stands fifty-fifty and to take
the series Georgia will have to win
both games here.
(Mercer has one of the best teams
in the history of the Macon college,
and has rounded out one of the most
successful seasons any team in the
South has enjoyed. This team won
the series from Auburn, being the
only team to accomplish this. The
Baptists have- won a number of
games in a row and Georgia will have
no easy task taking their measure.
Westbrook will probably oppose
Fuss this afternoon and the big right
hander of the Red and Black is about
due and should get away with a neat
game today.
The admission to these games will
be fifty cents, general, and resereved
Beats, twenty-tfive cents extra.
Today’s battle will start at four
o’clock.
The same line-up as was used in
the Tech series will very probably
open for Georgia.
STRAND TODAY
“SOLD FOR MARRIAGE" FEATUR
ING LILLIAN GISH—THAT IN
SURES SUCCESS.
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For ‘Information’:
Fourteen Hundred
The committee looking after the Re
ception of the Incoming Knights of
Pythias, has installed an information
station at the Georgian Hotel, and
Mr. Sam E. Woods Is in charge.
The station is equipped with a spe
cial phone for this convention week
and is—
'(Number Fourteen (Hundred.
If any citizen wishes to know if
friends have arrived for the‘conven
tion; if any have rooms or board to
offer to visitors; if there Is any In
quiry whatsoever to be made about
the convention—
Call One-Four-Doubl&O.
For 1400 Is the K. P. Information
Phone.
If “Sold for Marriage,” the Tri
angel Fine Arts picture that comes to
the Strand today did nothing else
than present Lillian Gish it would be
a success. But it is more than this;
it is an absorbing story told silently
but dramatically by a number of Tri
angle stars who are famoufs for their
portrayal of personalities on the
screen.
Taking the leading part in this co
terie of players is Lillian Gish, the
people’s sweetheart in “The Birth of
a Nation” and who by her dramatic
ability has literally made millions
weep and laugh. She plays the part
of Marfa and is bartered in marriage
In the course of the play and through
out the entire five reels she is the life
of the picture.
“Sold for Marriage” is an absorb
ingly interesting story laid in Rus
sia to begin with and then switches
to the American metropolis as a fi
nale. It must be seen to be appre
ciated.
Today, also, the funniest of all fdn.
makers, Roscoe (Arbuckle, with a col
lection of Keystone comedians.
Take a <tip, dorft miss the Strand
today.
Small Pig Hams.
iFresh Country Butter, 25c pound.
ARNOLD & ABNEY.
Made Monday Afternoon—
Fresh Potato Chips.
Fresh Old Fashion Pound Cake.
ARNOLD & ABNEY.
Fresh Hot Splits.
Whole Wheat Bread.
Quality Bread, made every day.
ARNOLD & ABNEY.
Sliced Tongue, Sliced Dried Beef.
Boiled Ham, sliced, kept on Ice.
ARNOLD & ABNEY.
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