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Vol I* No. 44
Jack Slaton Joins Down-and-Out Club
GERMANS CAPTURED 70,000 RUSSIANS
TWO COMMANDERS AMONG
PRISONERS TAKEN BY GERMANS
lilies Have Lost All Hopes of Persuading the Otter
man Empire to Remain Neutral
ITALY MAY AID THE TBIPPLE ENTENTE
Appears Probable War Drama Will be Extended to
Ail Eastern Europe
Washington, D. C. Sept. I—Offi
cial advices received through dip
lomatic channels to-day report two
of the most Important develop
ments of the present war.
The German embassy £ave out
| message from Berlin, received
wireless, claiming that German
forces near Allenstein had captur
ed 70,000 Russian prisoners, in
cluding two commanding generals
300 officers and the entire equip
ment of Russian artillery-
Great Britain asked the United
States to be prepared to care for
British diplomatic interests in Tur
key, indicating that the allies had
lost hope of persuading the Otter
man Empire to remain neutral,
Dispatches received at the British
embassy referred to the incorpo
ration in the Turkish army of sev
eral German officers, which was
yarded as the forernnner of
mirkey’s iniervention in behalf of
Germany
30,000 Russians Are
Captured by Germans
X w York, Sept. 2. —The capture of
'0 Russians by German troops is
<*' ounced in a wireless dispatch from
:)in received here Monday. The dis
i> h follows:
"!t was officially announced in Ber
today that about 30,000 Russians
: been taken prisoners by the Ger
n .ns in the fighting in> East Prussia,
Menial ly at Ortelsburg, Hohenstein
av . : , Tanneburg. They include many
officers of high rank. The German
attack at these points was across
swamps and lakes."
Tue Russian General Staff last week
a r.ounced the capture of Ortelsburg
fr >ni the Germans without opposition,
i Ms town is 85 miles south by east
' f Koenigsburg and 105 miles east by
north of Thorn, both of which, says
ar, official announcement in St. Pet
ersburg. have been invested by the
Russians. It will be "recalled that of
ficial announcements made in Brus
sels continually reported victories for
but the Germans made a
Bpfdy advance. The same course of
wevtion may be followed in St. Peters
b'ft'sr.
Drops Bombs in Paris
M-indon, Sept. 2.—A Paris dispatch
to the Exchange Telegraph Co. says:
"A German aviator flew over Paris
Sunday afternoon and dropped five
bombs, which fell in the most popu-
quarter of the city. In one case
two women were wounded.
"One bomb fell in front of the shop
’S 3 barber and wine-merchant at
tvue Albuy ar.d Rue Des Yinaigriers:
two on Qual de Yaimy. one of which
| did not explode, while another struck
| the walls of the Night Refuge, behind
St. Martin’s hospital. Two others
dropped in the Rue Des Recollets and
Rue Martin, both of which exploded.
"The aviator, who signed himself,
Lieut. Yon Heissen, dropped manifes
tos on which were written ‘The Ger-
I man army is at the gate of Paris; you
j can do nothing but surrender.’ ”
18 Atlanta Youths Off
Join Canadian Troops
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 2.—More than a
dozen Atlanta young men are plan
ning to leave for Canada within a few r
days to join the Canadian expedition
ary force which leaves there to fight
| with the British troops. They are
I yonug fellows of adventurous spirit,
I and range from members of the Peach
J tree set to hard handed working men.
j They are going simply because they
I want to get in to the excitement, afid
j they are likely to have plenty of it
j before they return,
k
American Money No
Good In Europe Now
Atlanta. Ga., Sept. 2. —On every ship
which reaches an American port Geor
gia folk are returning from Europe
with tales of war time in Europe.
Many of them were caught in the hu
man maestrom which surged in the
streets of Paris or Berlin, found
themselves in a perilous passage to
London, whence sailed the only re
maining ships, or were seriously de
layed in trying to get from one spot
on the continent to another.
Real suffering was experienced by
many Atlantans.
“I had more than a thousand dol
lars in letters of credit and English
currency in my purse," said one At
lanta woman who returned this week.
"Yet in Berlin I could not purchase
so much as a sandwich. I might as
well have been a pauper. It was 24
hours before I succeeded in finding a
German friend who lent me enough
i German gold to purchase food and
passage to England. I waited 18
I hours standing in line in the sun. be
} fore I could buy a ticket at the sta
| tion.”
600,000 MORE FRENCH
CALLED TO FRONT
Paris, France,4 Sept. 2. Before thr
German armies get to Paris they will
have to face 600,000 troops in addition
to the vast forces that are already at
the front.
That many have already been called
to tire colors, and work of equiping
them is proceeding rapidly.
As fast as they secure their outfits
they will depart for the front.
-These trops include veterans and
young men who are not called in the
first order for mobilization. Their be
ing called to the colors means a com
plete paralysis Of manufacture.
HEW VKD
I will pay liberal reward for the re
turn of bicycle stolen from my home
on last Saturday night. Description:
Ranger. New departure, coster brake,
made by Meade Cycle Co.. Will pay
good reward for proof to convict party
stealing same./ G. R. MOORE
Douglas, Georgia, Wednesday, September 2nd 1914
Railroads Will Have
To Guarantee Boyers
Says Farmers Here if They Expect
Many Acres of Watermelons
Planted Next Year
While talking with a prominent far
mer of the county this week, the sub
ject of the watermelon club was men
tioned. This farmer stated that there
would be no use for the farmers to
plant watermelons or any other of the
perishable crops unless buyers could
be guaranteed to come to the fields
and buy direct.
The gentleman in conversation said
that one of his neighbors had this sea
son shipped a carload of watermelons
to the Northern markets and that in
stead of realizing anything on them he
received an expense bill of $4.80, thus
being out the melons, his cost of grow
ing them and $4.80 besides. Of course,
this grower is not going to plant any
more melons under the existing cir
cumstances and neither will any of
his friends. The melons in question
we understand, brought from 40 to 50
cents a piece Jn the market —they av
eraged about thirty pounds and yet
the freight, wharfage and a hundred
and one other charges ate up all they
sold for and put the farmer in debt for
shipping them besides.
However, the farmer said that if the
planters of melons could have a bona
fide guarantee from the railroads that
they would be able to have buyers on
the ground when the crop was ready
for the market, and could get from 3
to 4 cents each for the melons on the
cars, money could be made growing
them.
That seems to be the meat of the
nut. The railroads are continually
trying to induce farmers to plant all
sorts of crops and when they dp so,
or when some of them do so, and the
product is shipped, the returns are of
times less than nothing, as in the case
above cited.
It would seem as if the railroads
operating in this territory might make
some definite arrangements to handle
any and all perishable crops the farm
ers wanted to plant and it is the opin
ion of hundreds of the best farmers
in Coffee County that the railroads,
the custodians of the crop, chould see
to it that the farmer is protected in
every way that is possible.
llnles this is done, it looks as if the
farmers here would be foolish in going
ahead with 'crops that they were not
sure of getting anything out of.
VALDOSTA MAKES STRONG BID
FOR DOUGLAS CIGAR FACTORY
Business Men of That City Trying Hard to Induce
Mr. Smith to Move the Factory There—Would
Take Thousands of Dollars of Payroll Money
Away From This City.
There have been persistent rumors
in Douglas the past few weeks to the
ffeet that Yaldosta business men are
ndeavoring to get Mr. J. B. Smith to
move the Douglas cigar factory to that
city.
A reporter for The Progress inter
viewed Mr. Smith on the subject last
Monday morning and Mr. Smith ack
nowledged that the rumors were well
founded. He stated that he had just
returned from Yaldosta. having been
called there Friday by wire to meet
with the business men to listen to
their proposition. ,
Mr. Smith would not state details
concerning the offer made him by the
Yaldosta people, but said that it was
an alluring one, and that he had made
them a tentative promise.
Mr. Smith stated that tm had no
doubt but that the business interests
of Yaldosta would come up to all the
promises they had made him to get the
factory, appreciating, as they said the
fact that the removal of the factory
there meant thousands of dollars an
nually turned loose in the woy of pay
roll money. However, Mr. Smith said
PLANS BEING LAID
FOR BIG CONGRESS
In Atlanta in October to be Known
as Southeastern Food Crop Con- *
ference—State Chamhes of
Commerce Backing the
Enterprise
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 2. —The Georgia
Chamber of Commerce is arranging to
hold a big meeting in Atlanta in the
early part of October, which will be
known as the Southeastern Food Crop
Conference. The object of the confer
ence will be to secure the growing of
a larger amount of all foodstuffs, Jaoth
for man and animals, in tha cotton
producing states of the southeast. At
the same time, the cotton states lying
wes of the Mississippi will be request
ed to hold a similar conference in
some suitably located city within easy
reach of their territory.
The plans outlined by the state
chamber call for between 500 and 600
delegates. The commissioner of Agri
culture in each state will be requested
to appoint a dlegate from each coun
ty in his state, with alternate dele
gates in case of inability to attend on
the part of the first one named. These
men will be selected by rason of their
influence among the farmers of tjieir
home counties.
The importance of raising sufficient
foodstuffs so that the southeast will
not have to import any next year will
be earnestly impressed upon the met
ing. Since the coming of the Euro
pean war, the entire South is getting
an object lesson on the foolishness of
depending too much.on any one crop,
no matter how strong a crop that may
be. It is necessary that every county
j shall grow at least enough to feed it
self next year. It is impossible to say
how long this war will last. Flail
Kitchner, the British Minister of War,
who is probably the most reliable
source of information, states that it
will extend over a period of eighteen
months. That will mean two crops
for us. it is imperative that the South
shall be absolutely independent of out
side sources of supply next year.
Then no matter what price cotton
may bring, we shall be immune from
the effects for food ood-eyfythd
the effects of high prices for food
stuffs in other parts of file world. The
South can do it. Before the Civil war
it was prastically an unknown thing
for a Southerner to buy any meats,
grain or other staple foods from any
where outside the South.
The date for the conference will
probably be October 5 and 6. It is
possible that it will be found advisa
ble to change these dates a little, but
it will be held at about that time in
he was reluctant to leave Douglas, hut
that he had, of course, to do what was
to his best interests.
The reporter for The Progress went
through the factory here and found
that at this time there are some twen
ty men at work there and learned up
on inquiry that they average about S2O
each per week. This means that the
factory is turning loose here in Doug
las in the neighborhood of S2OO a week
in payroll moneyand practically all of
this money is brought here from out
side the city and county, because every
thousand cigars that are sold in the
territory-traveled by representatives of
the cigar company is paid into the of
fice here and the only money that the
company sends out of the city and
county is for raw material. So it will
be seen that the factory is a feeder at
this time to the extent of some $20,000
a yar in cash which goes into every
line of business that exists in the city;
grocers, druggists, and all other class
es of merchants get their share, as
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MACON CONVENTION DEAD
LOCKED THROUGH THE NIGHT
STEAM ROLLER WORKED HARO
Steady Voting From Two o'Clock Tuesday Until Six
To-Day. Pandemonium Reigned From 3:30
Till Six This Morning—Hardwick Finally
Wins Out Through Felder Withdrawing
From Race
14th Ballot, Hardwick 222, Slaton 144, Hutchens 6
SUPERIOR COURT
BEEN ADJOURNED
The regular term of Superior Court,
which was to have convened last Mon
day has been adjourned until the 4th
and sth Monday’s in November. Judge
Quincey, in his order adjourning the
sessions stated:
“Owing to the fact that the farmers
of the county are extremely busy gath
ering the cotton crop and to the fact
that it is difficult to get money to pay
for cotton picking because of the fi
nancial stringency brought about by
the European war, and that it would
be an unnecessary hardship and bur
den upon the people of the county to
force jurors, witnesses and parties lit
igent away from their homes and busi
ness for two weeks at this time when
they are so badly needed in looking
after the gathering of their crops, Su
perior Court will not be held on the
first and second Mondays in Septem
ber, but will be adjourned over to the
fourth and fifth Mondays in November.
It will, therefore, not be necessary for
jurors, parties, and witnesses to be
present on the first and second Mon
days in September, but they will be
required to answer to all summonses
for those dates on the fourth and fifth
Mondays in November.”
Commissioner Jim Price
Says Hold Your Cotton
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 2. "Hold your
cotton. Sit steady in the boat. Don't
get rattled,” is the advice of Farmer
Jim Price, state commissioner of ag
riculture, to Georgia farmery.
Mr. Price has been one of the clos
est watchers of the effect of the Euro
pean war on cotton, and he has come
to the conclusion that the planter has
little to fear if he will only keep his
head.
"Hold your cotton in the seed where
possible,and if not, hold it in the bale.
Go ahead with your year’s work just
as though conditions were normal,”
is Mr. Price's advice.
Mr. Price and other leaders in the
agricultural field now feel confident
that the steps taken by the govern
ment for the protection of the cotton
planters will prove entirely adequate
nad the cotton people will suffer no
great, losses because of the delayed
market.
THE DOUGLAS DISTRICT
* SINGING CONVENTION
The South Georgia Singing conven
tion will convene at the Normal col
lege auditorium at 9:30 o’clock Sun
day morning, September 14. Nine or
ten glasses from different sections of
the county and a number from other
countieswill be present, including
some of the fluent sopranos, altos and
tenors in this section.
There will be two sessions: Morn
ing, from 9:30 to 12. and afternoon
from 1:30 to 4:00. If you can enter
tain any delegate, leave your name
with Judge C. A. Ward, or The Prog
ress office.
This convention will be well worth
attending and the public is cordially
invited to be present at both the ses
sions.
J. M. FREEMAN, See.
$1 Per Annum
One of the most strenuous convn
tions in th histry f Georgia came to
a close at 1 o'clock today with the
nomination of Tom Hardwick for the
short term senatorship.
From 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon
the forces at. Macon had ben lined up
and a battle royal ensued. From the
first ballot taken last night at six o’-
clock until early this morning, Hard
wick steadily gained on his opponent,
Jack Slaton, and at 7 o'clock this
morning the •convention adjourned un
til noon. During the recess a caucus
was held and Felder, whose forces had
been a rock aof Gibralter all through,
were finally influenced to go to Hard
wick.
When the convention reconve'ned at.
noon today Felder made a brief speech
stating that it was useles for him to
hold out longer and he withdrew. This
gave Hardwick the advantage and on
the next ballot Hardwick was elected.
The result of the convention puts
Jack Slaton in the down and out club,
and his “foxey” politics will not be
again inflicted upon Georgia for he
has done his best and lost. The odds
were too strong against him.
Mr. Slaton played a foxey game. He
tried to work both ends and the mid
dle, but the voters of the Empire State
did not seem to take to his way of
trying to get into the United States
senae, and consequently he is now, or
will be when his term as governor ex
pires. one of the plain citizens of the
state.
Formal Opening of Convention
When Senator West mounted the
pi*:form to open the convention by
virtue of his position as chairman of
tiie State Executive Committee, he was
given a cordial reception. Just as
the West applause died down someone
yelled.'Three cheers for Hoke Smith!’
They were given. The man who start
ed it was Judge Newt Morris, one of
the senior senator's most ardent ad
mirers.
The convention was opened with
prayer by Rev. Dr. Ainsworth, pastor
of the Mulberry Street Methodist
church. Dr. Ainsworth prayed that
God's hand would guide the delegates
in their deliberations, and that he
"He calm the passions of men."
Senator West implored the dele
gates to so conduct themselves that
there might be a minimum of noise
and confusion, as a preface’ to naming
United States Marshal Davis as Sar
geant at Arms.
There was a battle at once between
H. H. Dean, of Gainesville, and Du
pont Guerry, of Macon, to gain recog
nition for their nominees for tempora
ry chairman. Mr. Dean was recogniz
ed and put in onmination Judge J. P.
Pottle. Mr. Guerry then placed the
name of W. F. Jenkins, of Putnam,
in nomination. The temper of the
spectators was quickly shown in the
sharp yell that went up for Jenkins.
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