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LIGHT
VOLUME 7, NUMBER 18.
BAINBRIDGE, GA n THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1921.
$1.50 PER ANNUM
COMMISSIONERS
PROCEEDINGS
great deal of business
transacted at monthly
MEETING, MONDAY
The County Board met Monday in
regular session and spent most of the
morning in paying bills. Mr. E.
j perry met with the board and
took up the financial condition of the
county with them. The bank agreed
to carry for a short while longer the
cash pay roll of the county, but could
not pay vouchers for any other pur
pose. All holders of county war
rants will have to carry them them
selves for a time yet. The committee
to settle the disputed county line met
with the board and will meet with the
Seminole county board Tuesday. There
is only a slight disagreement now
existing between the counties. Ike
Taylor, John Foster and Mrs. Sellers
were placed on the pauper roll at $7.00
per month, each. The county board
then asked the committee for ex
pressions as to the dipping vat propo
sition, and Messrs. Powell, White,
Ausley, Donalson, and Russell expres
sed themselves as favoring the con
tinuing of the work until it was fin
ished. Judge Spooner and Solicitor
O’Neal were invited into conference
with the Board relative to trying cer
tain lines of reductions in the county
expense. In the afternoon quite a
large number of citizens appeared
asking for relief from dipping. Each
vat was taken up and the complaints
of the citizens heard. There were
many of them full of meat and
worthy of such relief as asked for,
but the commission stated they were
unable to do anything because of lack
of authority. The conditions along
the Florida line are very bad and the
citizenry down there have good and
sufficient reason for complaint. It
is to be hoped that they will get some
relief, but there seems to be no
chance. The bill introduced by Rep
resentative Dickerson of Clinch to put
the dipping business before the people
was defeated in the General Assem
bly. The Board then adjourned to
meet Tuesday at which time they
named the tax assessment for the
year 1921.
Offers Bonus Resolution
Senator Harris Offers Appeal Framed
by Macon Veterans.
Washington, Aug. 2.—A resolution
asking that all veterans with foreign
service in all American wars be in
cluded in the benefits of soldiers’ bon
us bill was presented to the Senate
by Senator Harris, of Georgia, today.
The Tesoluton came from the Bunting-
McWilliams Post of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars, of Macon, Ga.
Age 147, Wants Work,
Says Idleness Is Bad
Constantinople, July 30.—Zera, the
“human pack horse,” who claims to
be 147 years old and can still carry
200 pounds with ease, attributes his
long life and health to hard work
and proper diet. He has always been
a carrier of heavy burdens. His
rules of health are: Hard work, sleep,
cold baths at night, no to bacco, no al
cohol, no coffee, no meat, no oils, no
butter, no drinking water, but plenty
of hot tea, honey sugar cakes, bread
and cheese. Every five years he takes
three months’ rest. He says he
wants work as “idleness will ruin my
health.”
Six Legged Eel Found
In Okefinokee Swamps
Waycross, July 30.—One of the
n 'ost curious freaks of nature found
in this section in many a day was
bought to Waycross this morning by
«J«*?sie Crews, a resident of the fam-
0JF Okefinokee Swamp, and placed on
e *h:bition. The freak had the form
an eel and measured three feet
n length. It differed from ordinary
* n that it possessed three pairs of
; G Ps and was capable of propelling
•tself not only in the water but also
f n land. The six-legged animal or
r Ptili. as it may be, was found in Mr.
s back yard on Cow House Is-
‘nd, after a heavy rain yesterday.
‘ e freak has not been named but the
neor y ^ as been advanced that it is
ln * wnnant of some prehistoric tribe
f animal*.
*li«* Francis Hamil ha* returned
11 m Lanark.
B. Y. P. U. NOTES
The B. Y. P. U. met Sunday, at
7:15.
A good missionary program was
carried out with Miss Lucile Young
as leader. The meeting next Sun
day will be at 7:00, with E. G. Rich,
as Leader: His subject will be
“BLAMELESS AND HARMLESS.”
The QUIZ takes up the preaching
of Jonah and the outcome of his
work; also, the beginning of the study
of Paul’s first letter to the Corin
thians.
Each month, one group of the Union
Is going to write a letter to a mis
sionary.
On Sunday the 14th, the B. Y. P.
U. will have charge of the preaching
our, 8:00 o’clock, at which time the
new officers will be installed.
VOCATIONAL BOARD
MEMBERS NAMED
APPOINT G. GUNBY JORDAN, W.
C. VEREEN AND JUDGE
MAX L. MCRAE
Atlanta, Ga. Aug. 4.—Announce
ment of three important changes in
the membership of the Georgia board
of vocational education was made
Thursday by Governor Thomas V/.
Hardwick. G. Gunby Jordan, of Co
lumbus, was appointed member of the
board to succeed Sam Tate, of Tate;
W. C. Vereen, of Moultrie, was ap
pointed to succeed Dudley M. Hughes,
of Danville, and Judge Max L. McRae,
of McRae, was appointed to succeed
B. H. Hardy, of Barnesville.
Mr. Jordan was selected as mem
ber of the board to represent the
manufacturing andi dommfercial in
terests of the state. Mr. Vereen was
named to represent the district agri
cultural schools. Judge McRae was
named to represent the agricultural
interests.
There are two other members of
the board whose terms do not expire
until two years from now. They
are Ross Copeland, of Augusta, and
A. B. Lovett, of Savannah.
The board discharges important
duties in connection with the use
and distribution of funds acruing
from the federal government and
from the state under the provisions
of the Smith-Hughes vocational edu
cation laws.
WOMAN ADMITS
TAKING $32,000
WEST PALM BEACH POSTMIS
TRESS HELD IN OR
LANDO JAIL
West Palm Beach, Fla. Aug. 3.—
According to a statement given to
the West Palm Beach Post this after
noon, by L. A. Johnson, chief pos
tal inspector for the Southeastern
district, Miss Lena Clarke, postmis
tress here, confessed to F. J. G. Hilsf-
fer, an assistant inspector, in her cell
at Orlando, Fla., Tuesday night, that
she alone was responsible for the loss
of two registered packages contain
ing $33,000 missing from the local
postoffice since July 26.
Fifty-seven hundred dollars of the
money, Miss Clark told Hulsiffer, ac
cording to statement, would be found
at the residence of J. E. Chambers, of
this city and this amount, Inspector
Johnson says his men recovered this
afternoon. Other sums according to
the signed statement, were used to
cover a deficit in her local accounts.
Miss Clark is held without bail at
Orlando, in connection with the kill
ing of F. A. Miltimore, Monday night
in that city. Miltimore was formerly
employed in the local postoffice.
Chambers is Miss Clarke’s grand
father, at whose house she lived.
Shortage of the money was first
revealed, according to postal inspec
tors, when the twt> pouches were
opened at the Federal Reserve Bank
at Atlanta and found to contain dum
my packages instead of $23,000 and
$9,000, respectively.
U. I). C. AUGUST PROGRAM
Georgia's Famous Summer Resorts.
History of Indian Springs.
Indian Legends of Nacoocheo, Tal
lulah, Toccoa.
Reading—“Toccoa, the Beautiful,"
by state* poet Laureate, U. D. C.
History of Francis Bartow Me
morial at Rabun Gap.
Mia* Edna Nuaabaum is visiting in
New York.
DISTRICT MEDICAL
ASSO. TOMEET HERE
ON AUGUST 12th. AND WILL BE
ENTERTAINED BY THE
DECATUR SOCIETY
The 2nd Congressional district med
ical association will hold its regular
semi-annual meeting in Bainbridge,
August 12th and the members of the
Decatur county society are busy per
fecting plans for its entertainment
on that date.
Assembled in the court house at
9:30. The invocation by the Rever
end Mr. Ward of the Presbyterian
church. The address of welcome by
Mayor-elect, A. B. Conger. The meet
ing will bo turned over to the district
president, Dr. Brown of Camilla.
Prominent men of Atlanta will be
among the expected seventy-five
guests and will add to the interest
of the program with papers on' late
and important subjects.
At 1:30, the Bainbridge Woman’s
Club will serve an al fresco luncheon,
under the trees in rear of court house
grounds. Tifton will perhaps capture
the next convention.
CITY COUNCIL
PROCEEDINGS
HOLDS IMPORTANT SESSION
MONDAY NIGHT AND TRANS
ACTS MUCH BUSINESS
City council met Monday night in
regular session, all present except
Alderman Lane, who was out of the
city. All citizens were notified that
this was the night to hear complaints
as to property assessment and quite
a lot of time was taken up on this
subject. Several citizens objecting
to the assessments on their property.
On motion, Alderman Willis, it was
ordered that seven speed limit sign
boards be bought and put up in the
city. The speed law will be enforced
in the city and all car drivers are
put on notice that they may expect
punishment if the laws are further
disregarded. Lucien C. Bower do
nated a street to the city that was
accepted. Street committee was au
thorized to drain West Street as per
plan laid down by Dr. Johnson. Cor
respondence between Mayor Nuss-
baum and City Attorney Hartsfield
was read, but tabled after some dis
cussion. A new street paving ordi
nance was passed which is published
elsewhere. The property assess
ment were finally closed for the year.
Council then adjourned.
Mrs. Subers Praised
The Following Letter Received From
Her Company Gives Her Third
Place on the Honor Roll
My dear Mrs. Subers:
I have just returned from a short
vacation, and am feeling unusually
fine. Of course, immediately I
wanted to know what the members of
The Franklin Life Family had been
doing during my absene, so Miss Ross
handed me the July Honor Roll. The
first name I find on it is that of
Hoefgen. Next come those of Ar
thur Lich, Illinois, Claude Allen,
Texas—third is our Bainbridge Mana
ger, Mrs. Subers. When I think of
the results being steadily qccom-
plished by her, under practically the
same conditions that others are al
lowing to get the best of them, I
marvel. Again the influence of mirid
fever matterl is demons/;n|t«^ very
clearly.
Whenever someone inquiries rela
tive to the field for women in life
insurance, invariably we point to
Mrs. Subers. Actions speak louder
than words.
Looking forward with pleasure to
meeting you all at the Mobile conven
tion, and hoping this will find your
self and family in the very best of
health, I am,
Sincerely yours,
GEO. W. STADDEN,
Pres. Franklin Life Ins. Co.
Panic Caused by Bomb
In N. Y. Italian Quarter
New York, Aug. 4.—A bomb ex
ploded in the door of a grocery in
the Italian quarter early Saturday
and threw the district into a panic,
requiring reserves to quiet the fears
of excited residents. Cbarlo Navarro,
the grocer, told Die police he had
recently received threatening letters.
TOM HARDWICK
NAMES HOLDER
HARDWICK MAKES HIM MEMBER
OF STATE HIGHWAY
COMMISSION
Atlanta, Aug. 3.—Announcement
was made shortly after noon today
that Governor Hardwick had issued a
commission to Hon. John N. Holder,
as a member of the State Highway
Department to succeed Dr. Charles N.
Strahan, whose term expires Janu
ary 1.
It has been the Governor’s purpose
that Mr. Holder become chairman of
the department, but under the law,
he can not make the appointment
designating him chairman. It is in
the province of the department, how
ever, to elect the chairman and the
understanding is that Mr. Holder will
be elected.
A commission also was issued by
the Governor naming Attorney G. H.
Howard special counsel for te High
way Department to succeed Attorney
S. H. Dell, whose term expires in
September.
UNION SERVICES
SUNDAY EVENING
TO BE HELD AT THE METHODIST
CHURCH IN INTEREST OF
ASSOCIATED CHARITIES
There will be a Union Service Sun
day evening in the Methodist Church
of all the churches and the Associated
Charities. A very interesting meet
ing is promised all who will attend.
The organization of the Associated
Charities needs no introduction or ex
planation concerning the limitless
amount of good it acomplishes. And
the churches giving their support iB
a sacred a .surance of its great im
portance. The demands on the As
sociation are growing; Bainbridge is
growing and to meet these growths,
we will have to have the organization
so arranged that to quickly meet
emergencies will not be a tash for
any one.
Come promptly at 8 o’clock and
learn all about one of the finest or
ganizations of your city.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Jones announce
the birth of a grand-daughter; born
to Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Savage of Mont
gomery, Ala., Tuesday morning. Mrs.
Savage will be remembered as Miss
Wilmer Jones, formerly of this city.
Weekly Report
Decatur County Board of Health
In the week Ending July
30th, 1921.
Births reported—White, male, 3,
female 0; total 3. Colored—Male, 2,
female 0; total 5.
Communicable diseases reported—
Anchylostomiasis (hookworm) 8; Ma
laria, 23; Measles, 1; MumpB, 2; Sep
tic Sore Throat, 2; Smallpox, 1;
Trachcma, 1; Tuberculosis (pulmo
nary) 11; Typhoid fever, 2; Pellagra
1; Total, 42.
Deaths reported—White, male, 0;
female, 1; total 1. Colored—male, 0;
female, 0; total colored death 2,mT-,
female, 0; total 0.
Infant mortality none.
Mortality (cause of death) Ursemia,
1.
The following physicians made the
above reports:
Doctors, Bridges, Chason, Christo-
phine, Ehrlich & Ehrlich, Grant, Grif
fin and Wheat.
Respectfully submitted,
J. ALLEN JOHNSTON, M. D.
Commissioner of Health.
Special Notice
of Pine Grove
Thre will be services at Pine Grove
Church, Friday night at 7 o'clock and
also Saturday at 11:80 o'clock, a. m.,
and also Saturday night at 7:30
o'clock.
The Baptism will be at Smith Ford
at 2 o’clock, Sunday p. m. After
which they will return to the church
at 3:00 o’clock and have services, also
again Sunday night.
This all starts Friday before the
first Sunday in August.
Everyone is invited to come out and
he with us on these dates.
MISS DYER HONOREE
Mrs. D. L. Shackleford entertained
at four tables of bridge, Tuesday aft
ernoon in honor of her lovely sister,
Miss Annie Dyer of California.
Summers flowers decorated the
large living room where the game
was played. Misses Dyer and Korne-
gay were presented with cambric
handkerchiefs and Mrs. Walter Per
ry with a box of stationery for top
score. At the conclusion of the game
Miss Coleman assisted Mrs. Shackle
ford in entertaining and serving.
Those present were the Misses Dyer,
Kornegay, Farrar, Williams, Des-
Verges, Coleman, and Mesdames Dav
idson, Everett, Brinson, Bruton, Over-
street, Willis, Rich, Jones, Garrison,
Walter Perry and Bell.
SENATORS DISCUSS
GRANDOPERA TAX
REPRESENTATIVES OF ATLANTA
APPEAR BEFORE
COMMITTEE
Atlanta, Ga. Aug. 4.—In a session
which lasted more than three hours,
the question of placing a $2,500 tax
on grand opera in Atlanta, was dis
cussed 1 by the appropriations com
mittee of the senate, Wednesday af
ternoon, but action was deferred un
til Thursday afternoon.
Representatives of the Atlanta
Music Festival association came be
fore the committee to urge the kill
ing of the tax. Robert S. Parker,
Atlanta attorney, took the lead in
the fight against the tax. He pre
sented Murphy Holloway, the Ful
ton representative in the house, to
the committee and also W. M.
Brownlee, of the Music Festival as
sociation. Colonel W. L. Peel was
present at the meeting ready to
supply any information the commit
tee Bhould require.
After the delegation was heard
the committee went Into executive
session and Senator Weaver, of the
11 th, moved the eliminate the opera
tax. At this point a lengthy debate
arose which lasted uijtil the hour
of adjournment Senators Jackson,
Womblc and Nix led the right to
impose the tax, while they were op
posed by Senators Jones, of the 37th;
Weaver and Wohlwender.
EGYPT SHIPPING
CASECOMES UP
RIGHTS OF U*. S. TO WORLD
TONNAGE TAKEN
UP IN LONDON
Washington, Aug. 3.—The right of
American shipping to its just pro
portion of the world’s commercial ton
nage is the question involved in the
Egyptian cotton case being considered
by a conference in London, officials of
the Shipping Board said tonight.
Viewing the controversy as a real
test, the board is prepared to insist
to the limit, it was said, upon Ameri
can rights.
The Shipping Board had not re
ceived today a report on the progress
of the London conference, but it wbb
informd that a code message on the
subject was being sent through the
State Department.
The Egyptian cotton case is the
first international shipping problem to
come before the new Shipping Board.
The controversy is said to have arisen
as a result of the failure of Ameri
can ships to secure a fair share of the
655,000 tons of cotton exported from
Egypt of which 37 1-2 per cent even
tually is imported into the United
States. The board estimates that
50 per cent of the direct and indi
rect shipments should be carried by
American tonnage.
U. S. Ships Have Better Rates
In the matter of rates, an official
of the board pointed out, American
ships now have a differential of 5
shillings per cubic ton in their favor
on shipments from Alexandria to the
United Kingdom, while their rates
from Alexandria to the United States
are on a parity with those of their
competitors, but that despite this, the
Egyptian cotton exports are being
carried practicully entirely by British
ships.
William J. Love, vice president of
the board, w f ho is in charge of the
case for the board here, formerly was
ari operator for British ship owners
and is giving the benefit of his ex-
perisnees and information in thy mat
ter.
MR. J. T. SAUNDERS
PASSES TO BEYOND
PROMINENT SEMINOLE AND
DECATUR CITIZEN DIES FROM.
CARBUNCLE ON NECK
Mr. Saunders complained of a car
buncle on his neck, and was taken
to Dr. Chason’s Hospital for treat
ment. In spite of all Dr. Chason’e;
efforts and the attendance of the faith
ful nurses, he continued te grow
worse. On Wednesday evening, as
the Sun slowly sank into the West,
the spirit winged it’s way to Hit-
Great Beyond. When death came to
him he seemed to welcome it and pas
sed away to sweet peace to meet his
maker.
Mr. Saunders was born at El wood,
Va., Nannsemond County, and was a
member of one of the oldest families
of that state, he came to Georgia
when just a boy in his teen’s, he soon
became engaged in turpentine busi
ness, as well as saw milling, general
merchandise and stock farming . Mr.
Saunders employed a large number cT
negroes, some of them having been
with him all his life in Ga., at (coat
fifteen or twenty of these old negroes,
walked fifteen miles to the cemetery
at Donalsonville, to see the last of
the man they loved.
Mr. Saunders will be nnauaat?
throughout the country. To know
him was to love him, and to thorn:
who needed hiB assistance he was al
ways a ready friend and a friend In
deed. He was a devoted husband,
father and brother. He leaves a wife,
five children and seven sisters. Hist
children, Alva, J. T. Jr., Bartons
Bertie Mae and Mrs. Jno. L. Drake
of Iron City, Ga. His sisters, Mrs.
J. W. Johnson, Holland, Va., Mrs. W.
E. Smith, Frankland, Va., Mrs. J. B.
Jones, Washington, N. C., Mrs. M. A.
Parrlsh, Havanna, Fla., Mrs. A. J
McMullen, Greenwood, Fla., Mrs. K.
S. Parrish, Samson, Ala., Mrs. D. C.
Edwards, Donalsenville, Ga.
From the home of his sister, Wrs.
D. C- Edwards, the funeral possession*
winded its way to the Donalsonville'
cemetery, where the services' wore-
conducted by the Masons of wihch he
was a member since early manhood.
Short Course Called Off
State College Indefinitely Saspeoda
Summer Plans. .
t
Athens, Ga., Aug. 2.—According to
an announcement made Monday' by
Dr. Andrew M. Soule, president of Whs
State College of Agriculture, the 3-
weeks’ short course at that institution
which were to have begun this week
have been postponed indefinitely foU
lowing the suggestion of the appro
priations committee of the Georgia
Legislature that the Smith-Leger fund
be abolished in Georgia.
It is estimated that some 300: uttr-
dents would have taken advantage of*
this course, but in view of the fact
that the funds making posible thin
course are derived from the Smith-
Lever appropriation, it was dbcidkti to
postpone the course until it is known >
definitely what action will be taken j
by the Legislature in the measure..
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Has Marrying Habit, ** J
28 Wives in Year
Berlin, July 30.—Twenty-eight
wives is the record of Germany’s
most married man, who has just been
run to earth by the police. Formerly-
a forester, Erih Grubert, within a few-
months, manages to entrain fourteen -
women, with each of whom he went-
through a marriage ceremony, disap
pearing afterwards with the ctowry-
they brought him. After a short temr.i
in prison he resumed his career and
in the last six months managed to
acquire the affections and property of
another fourteen women. . ^
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Don not forget that there will be-
a delightful meeting of all the
church and associated charities Sun
day evening at the Methodist church.
An augumented choir and a good pro
gram will await you.
A recent resolution of the board
reducing insurance rates on vessels
not affecting their valuation, it was
announced today, will aid American
shippers materially in reducing their
(•Iterating costs. While this reduction
may aid ship owners to operate somu
ships now tied up, officials said, it
will in no way chunge the tonnagf*
vulue, which cannot be changed ex
cept by law,