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THE ATHENS DAILY HERALD
THE WEATHER
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VOL. 2. NO. 133.
ATHENS, GA, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 23, 1914.
OOKS LIKE THE AUT0I8T
CAN’T GET WISE TO THE LAW
lfr , Pay The Police Court
p 0 ,-|,ct Shows Cases of No
Lights or Driving on Wrong
Side of Street Violations—
getter Read Up on The Auto
Regulations, You Autoists.
j'rohahly there iR no city in the
tt that lias its police watch out for
ffj,. ordinance violations with the
a that Athens docs. It' is hardly a
,v hut that three or four cases arc
unded in police court, cases concern-
r . having a light on an auto or
... ^ the wrong side of the
T„,iav jaw four or five of these
,1 of cases in the court. The dc-
obi.t.. paid the $3 which is the mi
tt a tit such cases. .
|J0 you own or drive an auto?
j you can very profitably pe-
, c the traffic ordinance of Athens,
It may put you wise as to how
Forecast WasFor
a Fight After
[Court
it- main irouble seems to be that
au to drivers get on the wrong
of the street or fail to have their
lamps lit after nightfall.
; t„ these two sections of the auto
ianee it will not be amiss to quote
Rctter Drive Right.
1. Ail vehicles shall drive to
e right and keep on the right
hand side of the street.
When passing vehicled coming
nward you, pass them on the
ight of the street and allow them
pason your left. When pass-
nj vehicles going in the same
inction as you are going, pass
hem on your right or to the left
f the vehicles being passed ex
cept when such vehicle i> a street
When turning from one
itrect into another jtfrett to the
right, turn the corner as near the
curb as possible. When turning
rom one street into another
troet to the left, circle around
h? center of the two intersecting
. All vehicles on each side of
treet shall be headed in the
ic direction. Vehicles shall be
uired to stop, when stopping
sidewalks, so that the sidewalk
.-hall be on the righthand side of
ehicle. No vehicle shall stop
lift in front of the entrance
my office building, theater,
hotel, department store, or other
where congestion is liable
cur, longer than is necessary
liver or take on occupants or
handise intended for or from
building and the driver shall
then drive on to give way for
As to Lights.
11 moti.r-driven vehicles and
do.- shall be equipped with
piate danger signal* and aft-
lark .'hall display front and
lights, which may be easily
i fiom a point at right angles
aid vehicle. No motor-driven
The forecast was good for a fight
in police court this morning between
two gentlemen one of whom was the
uncle of two juvenile defendants, Otis
and Curtis Harris (ages 8 and 0 re
spectively) who were charged with
throwing rocks at another boy, a
much smaller boy, by the way.
However, Judge Price calmed the
beligcrent conditions ami only so far
as one gentleman remarking that
what the other gent said in evidence
was not so ,the matter remained
closed, yet the party of the first part
did say that he had something to say
to the party of the second part after
the court had adjourned. Nothing
happened.
So far as the Juvenile defendants
were ecuncernvd they were assessed
$1.00 each, and gave them a strong
talk on the sin of rock throwing.
RECEIVER ASKED
;t,
LIFE-SAVERS TAKE
CREW OFF BENEFIT
(By Associated Press.)
Beaufort, S. C., January 23.—The
crew of the power cargo boat Benefit
was taken off here last night by life-
savers. The boat was a total loss.
BITTEN BY MAD DOG.
Lexington, Ga., January 23.—W. H.
Willoughby, an overseer for R. Lee
Callaway, living five miles east of
this place, was bitten by a mad dog
on the arm and Te^.’’ ftfr J 1eft'for At
lanta yesterday to take the Pasteur
treatment. A negro at Stephens was
bitten yesterday morning by the
same dog.
AGAINST 13TH AMENDMENT.
Columbia, S. C„ January 23.—The
South Carolina general assembly yes
terday went on record as favoring the
repeal of the fifteenth amendment to
the United States constitution, which,
in effect, gives negroes the right to
vote.
\BAMS MARKET
xtra Specials for the week
'■ 'li'C-ttil Spinach, Cat*
w*. Beets, Oysters Plants,
'P'itiR Turnips, Green
^ans. Bell Peppers, Squash,
Irish Potatoes, Turnip
alatl. Cabbage, Fresh To-
na toes, Egg Plants and
"eet Potatoes, Fresh Coun-
;. v Butter, Eggs, Hens and
r - vcr "- Everything in the
• r °cei v line at cut prices.
u> on just one bill of
Torpfjps, and if you are not
0| "inred that we can save
f " nione y don’t try us any
have just received
‘‘arer shipment'of Snow
S, babbits from the Blue
Her
mountains. Try them.
ISc each.
I'E
JUDGE SPEER INCENSED.
(By Associated Press.)
Macon, Ga., January 23.—Federal
Judge Speer, atung by charges by
District Attorney Akcrman today,
tried to reply. The congressional in
vestigators declined to allow him to
be heard.
Akerman charged that Judge Speer
delivered a charge antagonistic to the
government on account of personal
feeling for the district attorney.
lie tptid the estrangement was due
to Akerman’s refusal to recommend
Judge Speer's son-in-law as assistant
United tSatcs attorney.
vehicle shall be allowed on the
streets a'ter dark 'without show
ing lights, regardless of whether
vehicle is in motion or at a stand
still.
Liquor wiu Tobacco
Bill of American
People
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, D. C., January 23.—
The American people drank 70,000,000
gallons of whiskey and smoked 4,090,-
300,000 cigars and 8,711,000,000 ci
garettes during the six months ending
December 31, according to the an
nouncement today of the Internal
Revenue Bureau. $
Trade in Athens.
Augusta, Ga., January 23.—A pe
tition for a receiver has been filed by
Attorney General Felder for the Irish
American Bank.
The report of the state bank exam
iner to the governor showing the in
stitution to be unable to pay all of
its creditors, including the sharehold
ers, caused the governor to direct the
attorney general to institute proper
proceedings toward securing a receiv
er. Attorney General Felder in the
city and Judge Hammond this morn
ing signed an order directing ail par
ties concerned to show’ cause at lj
o’clock this morning at the court
house why the petition should not be
granted. In the appointment of a
receiver Judge Hammond although
empowered to designate any person
he chooses, will follow the custom ob
taining in the federal courts in the
naming of a trustee in bankruptcy
and allow the majority of the credit
ors to decide whom shall be chosen.
Passed Resolution.
The board of directors of the Irish
American Bank met on Monday and
passed a resolution asking the-'state
bank examiner, the attorney general
and the governor of the state to take
the proper steps to have a receiver
named because of the necessity of
having some representative of the
bank in charge to take steps to pre
serve and collect the assets. The re
ceiver is also being asked for because
certain note creditors of the Irish
American are endeavoring to get pri
orities.
The Resolution.
,p hi action of th* slate bank ex
aminer, the attorney general and the
governor followed the meeting of the
directors.
Here is the resolution:
“Resolved, by the undersigned, con
stituting the majority of the acting
directors of the Irish American Bank
of Augusta, Ga., that in view bf the
condition of the affairs, of said hank
and probable insolvency and threat?
cned litigation against said bank by
which certain note creditors are seek-
ing to get priorities over the deposi
tors and other creditors, and because
of the necessity to have some repre
sentative of the bank in charge of its
assets for the purpose of taking im
mediate steps to collect and preserve
the assets, the state bank examiner,
his excellency, the governor of Geor
gia, be, and they are hereby respec
tively requested to take the necessary
legal steps, immediately, to have a re
ceiver appointed to tak charge of the
assets of said bank.
HOWARD H. STAFFORD,
L. J. WILLIAMS,
JOHN SANCKEN,
P. ARMSTRONG.
FORGERY IS CHARGED
TO CASHIER ARMSTRONG
Four indictments, containing four
separate counts each, were returned
by the Richmond county grand jury
yesterday against James P. Arm
strong, cashier of the defunct Irish-
American bank, charging him with
forgery. John C. Hagler, John L.
MICHIGAN CENTRAL
HELD UP Bf ROBBER
A1 J. Jennings, Former Train Robber,
Is a Candidate for Governor
DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. $5.00 PER YEAR
J?m0|
(By Associated Press.)
Detroit, Mich., January 23.—A
Michigan Central passenger train was
held up and robbed early this morn
ing near Jacfcosnn by four men. The
robbers secured $238. They jumped
from the train and escaped.
13,588,1/1 RULES
GINNED TO JAN, ID
es, or 96.8
Washington, D. C., January 23.—
The ninth cotton ginning report of
the Census Bureau for th# season, is
sued at 10 o'clock this morning, an
nounced that 13,689,171 bales of
cotton, counting round as* half bales,
of the growth of 1913 * had been
ginned prior to January IP, to which
date during the past seve|) years the
ginning averaged 95.5 perjeent of the
entire crop. Last year to January
16 there had been ginne^ 13,088,930
bales, or 97 per cent of (the entire
crap; in 1911 to that datej 14,515,799
bales, or 93.3 per cent, aid in 1908
to that date 12,666,203 ba
per cent.
Included in the ginn
97,034 round bales, compared with
78,690 bales last year, 97,654 bales in
1911, 111,079 bales in 1910 and 232,510
bales in 1908.
The number of Sea Island cotton
bales included were 76,182 com
pared with 70,758 bales last year,
109,867 bales in 1912 and 92,191 bales
in 1909.
Ginnings prior to January 16 by
states, with comparisons for. last year
and other big crop years andUthe per
centage of the entire crop ginned
prior to that date in those years, fob
Kfc’NiJSwi
EXPRESS COMPANY
IS
BY
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, D. C., January 2fv—
The Interstate Commerce CommisiAh
today declined to issue on order. re
ducing expre.a rales for the Southern
Express company on fruit and vege
tables from Florida to destination,
south of the Ohio mnd> east of the
Mississippi rivers on account of re-
jductions effective February 1. .'They
say the reduction will afford relief
from “inequalities now existing.” The
complaint in the case was filed by the
Florida railroad commissioners. >
STEAMSHIP WAR DECLARED.
Paris, January 23.—War officially
was declared yesterday between the
Hamburg-Americal* Line and other
steamship companies. The delegates tp
the North Atlantic Shipping Confer
ence reorganized the Combination this
morning, leaving out the Hamburg.
American . A notice excluding .that
company and declaring a state of war
was promptly issued. . L ■>
ngs were
Alabama 1913
I 1912
^ 1911
1908
Arkansas 1913
1912
1911
1908
Florida 1913
f 1912
1911
1908
Georgia 1913
1912
97A
Armstrong, J. M. Mulherin and Chas.
S. Bohler were those whose names, it
is alleged, were forged to a note for
$20,000, given hy Armstrong to take
up a qotc for $10,000, already drawn
on the Citizens and Southern bank,
of this city, by him.
Attorney General T. S. Felder re
turned to Macon yesterday after
Judge Henry C. Hammond, of the su
perior court, had agreed to appoint a
permanent receiver for the lrish-
American hank next Monday. Owing
to o plea by a majority of the credit
ors for further time, none was ap
pointed yesterday.
TRUE BILL FOR MURDER.
Greenville, S. C., January 23.—A
true bill was found in general sessions
court in the case of the state against
Clyde Willis, a well-known farmer,
who is accused of murdering Alex
Pruitt, another rominent planter. The
homicide occurred in the Fork Shoals
section some weeks ago. Willis, it
is said, will plead self-defense. The
case will be tried next Tuesday.
Mississippi
1911
1908
.1913
1912
1911
1908
.1913
1912
1911
1908
. 1913
1912
1911
1908
1,475,642
1,307,736
1,638,699
1,316303
976,729
741,282
797.597
931,133
65,754
57,324
88,177 93.3
68,624 97.2
2,316,204
1,781,232
2,657,984
1,952,113
420,094
369,076 98.6
367,758 93.9
458,762 98.3
1,176,626
952,620 94.8
1,061,859 90.8
1,551,792 95.8
2,078,863 ....
83,831 93.1
114,176 82.2
69,732 95.3
98.3
95.1
98.7
The ginnings of Sea Island cotton,
prior to January 16, by states fol
lows:
South
Years Florida Georgia Carolina
1913
1012 21,085 39,543 '6,629
1911 39,340 65,577 4,960
1909 27,888 51,072 13.231
The final ginning report will be is
sued Friday, March 20, at 10 a- m.,
and will announce the quantity of
cotton ginned prior to February 28.
A1 J. Jennings, former train robber,
now practicing attorney in Oklahoma,
is determined the public shall indorse
his reformation, and to prove that
they will do so he is now a candidate
for the nomination for governor. He
believes if he is elected he will give
Oklahoma the best, at least the most
honest, administration it has known.
U he fails, of nomination or election
he will have achieved sufficient prom
inence to make his law practice even
more profitable than now.
The difference between Jennings
and some others in politics is that
he admits he was a highwayman and
a thief, and they don’t till indicted.
Jennings is making a perfectly plain
appeal to the people of his state. Ho
was a bandit, he served lime in a pris
on, but he reformed. Now he is going
out to hunt crooks and gangs and
rings in politics.
Already he has had the experience
of running for county attorney in his
home. He came within 500 votes of
election. Considering the fact that
the professional politicians of both
parties worked agMnst him, he says,
he believes 'he was really elected. He
gives the professionals, whom he had
attacked bitterly, cerdit for ability
sufficient to rake up 500 illegal bal- day” of Thursday,
lots.
EXPECTED TO PASS
NS A KIND OF “GOi
Attorney Shackelford Talks To
Herald on The Status in Ath
ens as to Coal Shipments—
Atlanta Gets the Coal a Great
Deal Cheaper Than This City
—Why?
Probably there is no one in the city
uf Alliens wiiv lakes more inieresl
in the welfare of this good town than
T. J. Shackelford, who had a talk
with a representative of the Athens
Daily Herald this afternoon and the
conversation was regarding coal rates
to this city.
As Mr. Shackelford stated at the
meeting of the chamber of commereo
a few nights ago, the rates on coal
shipments to Athens from the coal
fields of Virginia to Athens is $2.15
per ton. The lamo coal goes to At
lanta for $1.60. This seems rather
discriminatory. The chamber of com
merce is to look into the matter, and
committee has been appointed to
find out the facts, and may lay same
before the Interstate Commerce Com
mission.
The Story of the
Pig and the
Auto
HATS ALMOST GIVEN AWAY!
Here’s a Genuine Treat in Store Saturday For the
Ladies.
wuri'
If you don’t read Michael’s adver
tisement in this paper you will be the
loser. They will have a sale of hats
tomorrow for ladies’, misses and chil
dren at less than nai: the original
[cost of the hats.
over goods from season to season and
they will give the people the benefit
of this rule.
They could take their hat stock
and sell it at wholesale for
p-iren than ihey effer 11 l* Ih
.rade, but that would no* bo tho mod-Id:
NO ARBITRATION YET.
Augusta, Ga., January 23.—The
four arbitrators in the matter of dif
ference between the Augusta-Aiken
Raihlay & Electric Corporation and
their employes met yesterday after
noon. A number of names were sub
mitted, but definite decision as to who
the fifth arbitrator shall be was de
ferred until today, a meeting being Bet
for 11 o'clock this morning.
Another English literary man has
been knighted. Soon there will be
nothing to read in England but A
Thousand and One Knights.
Trade in Athens.
What do you know about a little
pig being the indirect cause of an
auto owner violating a city ordinance?
Yes, it's so. W. A. Willingham was
at police court today and on the dock
et written was “violation of the traffic
ordinance”—no light after nightfall
on his machine. He (defendant) said
he had stopped to feed a little pig
about dusk, and had forgot to light
up the auto lamps. v \
Judge Price ’lowed it would be Just
$3 for the violation.
BUFFALO HERD ON MARKET.
Gettysburg, S. D., January 23.—
The Phillip herd of buffalo, kept in a
10,000-acre pasturage near Fort
Pierre, S. D., has been placed on the
market by Philip Philip and George
Phillip, administrators of the estate
of their father, James Phillip. This
herd of buffalo, the largest in the
United States, now includes seventy
yearlings, fifty-five _2-year-olds and
275 older.
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, D. C., January 1.—
The Senate wa3 expected to pass the.,
Alaska railroad bill today when it as-'
gambled and the supporters of thf'
measute claim almost a solid demo- ,
cratlc majority in its favor. The body ,
still working in the “legislative
m
COLLEGE HAZING OPPOSED, ia I
Columbia, S. C„ January 23.—The
state senate has put itself on record
L COl- .
pigg
the bouse bill, which makes hazing
of any form a misdemeanor punishable
by a fine of $50 or imprisonment
for not less than thirty days. The
hill, as it passed the senate and was
font back to the house with amend
ments, leavr/j it to the college author
ities to suspend students in caee of
haping. I ■'
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FARMER FOUND DEAD
ON CHATSWQRTH ROAD
Chatsworth, Ga., January 23.—L. B.
Leonard was found dead a snort dis<
tance north of Chatsworth yesterday;
His death was supposed to have hood
caused by his being thrown from > hi■
buggy on a pile of rocks in. the road*
He was a prominent farmer of Hurt
ray county and had resided' near
Chatsworth all hie life. . J
The Buffalo News says that thd
Shadd-Roe nuptials have been so
lemnised in Denver, but that sounds
fishy.—Ex. *
tMT
Mexico has the commission form
of government in one scuse—its rulers
arc all officers.—Ex. ■!
WASHINGTON HOME BOUGHT.
London, January 23.—Sulgrave Ma-
\tor, Northamptonshire, announces that
the home of the family of George
Washington today passed into the
hands of the British committee for the
celebration of a. century of peace be
tween the United States and Great
Britain. The price paid was $52,000.
GARRETT REMAINS IN SERVICE.
Washington, D. C., January 23.—
President Wilson has decided not to
accept the resignation of John W. Gar
rett, minister to Argentina, formally
tendered when the president took of-
botter j fire, .-in i the minister will continue
rrlati j in .* diplomat ic scrcice- The pre.-i*
t disposed of tile heaviest engarc-
Thia firm baa a
rule never to tarry Urn method ef merchandising. M. iment Uat he yet has had.
Dynamite hy the Million Tons
When President Wilson in the
White House touched the electric but
ton thnt gent a spark into each of the
hundreds of blasting caps of the great
dynamite charge under Gamdoa Dike
at Panama, he marked the practical
close of an era of blasting, the like of
which history does record.
During the work on the Isthmus, 1
the Americans turn loose some 60,-
000,000 pounds of dynamite. That ia
.30,000 turns, or about thirty train
loads. No one can emsgine the ter
rific colective force this dynamite re
presents. A single blast may turn
loose for an instant 16,000,000 horse
power, there times as much as is de
veloped by all the water wheels in the
United States in the length of time.
The whole story of the use of dyna
mite at Panama, of how the efficiency
engineers made one ton of dynamite
do the work of two, is told in "The Pa
nama Cimal," the remarkable new
The Athens Herald is now distribut
ing to its readers at cost price. Do
not fail to save the coupon in another
part of this paper and thus obtain for
yourself the authoritative account of
the canal.
A Fine Ldw and
A Fine Too—
Latter $2
“That’* a fine lay said L. > C.
Smith, defendant in recorder’s court
this morning. He was referring to
the automobile ordinance, and he
spoke sarcastically. He had driven
on the wrong side of tHe street, read 1
the charge against him.
“Ci»n\ heip the iaw being what it
W,” said the recorder, a*, bo fined
book by Frcdric J.Haskin, which the defendant $2.09,
THE HOLLAND 1
164 Vi Clayton St.
(Upitairs)
The beat aerrice for ihe buoy
bualneaa man or University sta- •
dent. No long wait for the tail.
Completeness ef cuisine and.
t courtesy ts sll is the motto of
the Holland folks. ~
Regular meats 50c. Breakfast
7 to 8; Dinner 13 to 2:30; Sup
per 6 to 7:39.
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