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VOLUME XXXIII.
FAYETTEVILLE, GEORGIA, OCTOBER 6, 1922.
NUMBER 12.
Mrs. Watson Tendered Senatorship By Gov. Hardwick
‘‘Under the law I cannot appoint a
successor to the late Senator Watson,
who will have any right or title to
the office except from the date of his
death, on September 26, to the date
of the next general election. , In other
words, from September 26, 1922, to
November 7, 1922. On the latter date
the people of Georgia will, elect a
successor to fill out the unexpired
term, whose term of service will begin
on the day of the election. Conse
quently the appointee of the governor
can not perform any of the functions
or discharge any of the duties of the
office, because the senate will not be
in session at any time during the
term of the appointee. Under these
circumstances,, I should hesitate to
mak an yapopintinent if the laws of
Georgia did not require it.
“In these circumstances I feel that
since Senator Watson has been elect
ed by the people of Georgia for a
term of six years that I should, if pos
sible, take such action as to give to
his widow the salary of the office for
the period intervening between his
death and the election of his successor.
Tribute iTo Watson.
“I also feel that whatever of com
pliment and whatever of honor is in
volved in the appointment should go
to the faithful helpmeet of our late
distinguished senator, not only as a
fitting tribute to his memory, ljut;
also as a well deserved tribute to her
own sterling worth and noble charac
ter, and as a proper recognition of all
the long years in which she has shared
his labors and his sorrows, his hopes
and his aspirations. No one can appro
ciate more than 4 -I do all that a loving
wife means to any man, especially if
he bears public burdens, and now how
much of the credit she is entitled to
for whatever success he may achieve.
“Consequently, immediately upon
my return to Georgia I conveyed
through mutual friends to Mrs.
Thomas E. Watson the assurance that
I would be gla dto bestow this honor
upon her if she could possibly accept
it. It was a great pleasure for me to
do this because of my long and per
sonal friendship with Mrs. Watson
through many years. To my deep and
real regret Mrs. Watson has convey
ed the information to me that ill health
and an aversion to public station in
her own- name renders it impossible
for her to accept the appointment.
Mrs. Felton Chosen.
“In all of the circumstances, I have
therefore concluded to bestow the
honor of this appointment upon an
other noble Georgia woman. The lady
I have selected for the appointment is
now and has been for many years the
warm and loyal friend of the distin
guished Georgian whom she tempo
rarily succeeds in this high office. She
is my own loyal, devoted and dearly
loved friend. She is splendidly fitted
to adorn the highest public station
in the land, for she wields the gifted
pen of a cogent and forceful writer,
and has all the qualities of heart and
head that equip one for broad and con
structive statesmanship. She is wise,
even beyond her years, and is glorious
in the sunset of a splendid and useful
life. She is known and loved through
out Georgia, the South and the coun
try as Georgia’s foremost woman citi
zens.
“I have conferred by executive ap
pointment upon Mrs. William H. Fel
ton, of the County, of Bartow, the high
honor of being the first wdman ever
appointed a member of the United
States Senate.”
Called Chivalrous.
“England borrowed an American-
born woman to occupy a seat in the
British Parliament, but noble old Gebr-i
gia experiences no' need to borrow,
and she alone of the 48 Governors in
the United States of America had one
with the courage to say so, and to con
firm the saying by an executive proc
lamation.
“It was .eminently fitting that this
position should have been tendered to
the widow of the. late Senator Wat
son. Under existing circumstances,
but few would have considered it nec
essary, but your tender was so thor
oughly? unselfish and so filled with
genuine respect and sincere condo
lence, it. has extorted commendation
from many of your political opponents.
Mrs. Watson is a noble woman and
the tender of the position was made
to her by you in a manner that could
not have been excelled by any former
Governor of the State of Georgia, for
the kindly grace and chivalry extended.
“For myself I wish to thank you
expressly and emphatically in the
names of thousands of Georgia wom
en—wives, mothers, grandmothers and
great-grandmothers who are enthusias
tic Georgians—and who illustrate the
state in Us varied lines of noble philan
thropy and endeavor—who are thus
participants in the honor which you 1
HARDWICK ,
IN THE RACE !
FOR SENATOR
MRS. FELTON
ACCEPTS t>OST
IN SENATE
Hoke Smith Will Not
Run.
Governor Hardwick on Tuesday an
nounced himself a candidate for the
unexpired term of -'the late United
States Senator Thomas E. Watson,
and simultaneously announced his ap
pointment of Mrs. Willihm H. Felton
to the ad interim vacancy, after Mrs.
Watson, the late senator’s widow, had
declined to accept the appointment.
In his announcement the governor
gave a brief resume of what he term
ed his “political faith,” grounding
them on the proposition that he is “a
Democrat of the old school,” and es
pecially emphasizing the principle laid
down by Washington that the United
States in foreign relations should main
tain friendly relations with all coun
tries but form entangling alliances
with none.
In addition to this anouncement,
the governor issued a statement re
garding his appointment of Mrs. Fel
ton to the ad interim vacancy, and
this was shortly followed by a state
ment from Mrs. Felton in Cartersville
accepting the appointment.
The governor explained in his state
ment that the appointee will not ac
tually serve in the senate because that
body is now in recess and will not
reconvene until after the general elec
tion, in which a successor for the
full unexpired term , of the late sena
tor will be chosen by the people. The
governor said he thought the senator’s
widow, who lias been his helpmeet
and comrade throughout his public
career, should have the first call on
the ad interim vacancy, and conse
quently he tendered it to her, but
she declined, and he then bestowed
upon Mrs. Felton, a life-long friend ofl
Senator Watson and himself, the honor
of being the first woman in the history
of the United States to hold a commis
sion in the senate.
Sees Victory for Her Sex
in Being First Woman
to Wear the Toga.
“To win the distinction of being the
first woman to hear the title of United
States senator means nothing to me
personally at my stage of life, but it’s
a wonderful thing for the women of
the whole nation.”
Thus did Mrs. William H. Felton,
of Cartersville, distinguished Geor
gian, Tuesday accept the honor ac
corded her in the appointment by Gov
ernor Thomas W. Hardwick of a suc
cessor of the late United States Sena
tor Thomas E. Watson,
The famjousi woman,y now in the
evening of life—having reached her
eighty-seventh birthday last June—
seemed, to forget herself in her ex
pression of appreciation for the honor.
Her only thought appeared to be of
the great victory that had come to
American womankind. For Mrs. Fel
ton had spent her years in a tireless
fight for equal political rights for
women, and she had lived to see her
fondest dream realized—a woman with
the title of United States senator.
CANDIDATES
FOR SENATE
BIG NEW
FEATURES ADDED
TO COLOSSUS
Ringling Bros, and Bar-
num & Bailey Bring
Entire Shipload of Nov
elties from Europe.
Announced candidates for the un-
e^pired term of Senator Watson Tues
day were:
1. Thomas W. Hardwick, Governor
of Georgia and former United States
senator.
2. Judge Walter F. George, of
Vienna, former justice of the Geoi’gia
Supreme Court.
3. Judge G. H. Howard, of Colum
bus, former judge of the Superior
Court of the Chattahoochee Circuit
and manager of the recent campaign
of Clifford Walker for Governor.
4. Judge Horace Holden, of Ath
ens, former justice ofi the Georgia
Supreme Court.
5. Herbert Clay, of Marietta, law
yer and president of the Georgia sen
ate.
j6. John T. Boifeuillet, member of
the Georgia Public Service Commis
sion and former clerk in the Georgia
House of Representatives.
7. Cart F. Hutcheson, of Atlanta,
lawyer and member of the City Board
of Education.
FAYETTE COUNTY
TAX LEVY
SCHOOL NOTES.
WATSON’S PAPER
STOPPED ON
PARTNER’S PLEA
Waynesboro, Ga., Oct. 3 1 .—A tempo
rary injunction, restraining further
publication of The Columbia Sentinel,
edited by the late Senator Thomas E.
Watson, of Thomson, was granted in
Burke Superior Court Tuesday morn
ing by Judge Henry Hammond.
The petition seeking the temporary
injunction was presented to the court
by Judge J. B. Burnside, of Thomson,
representing J. Miller, part owner in
the publication, according to the alle
gations set forth in the prayer.
According to the pleadings, The
Sentinel Publishing Company was a
partnership, composed of Thomas E.
Watson, J. Miller and Mrs. Alice Lytle.
The publication formerly was owned
by Mr. Miller.
It was ordered by Judge Hammond
that the defendants appear before him
on October 21, at noon, in his cham
bers in the Richmond Superior Court,
to show cause why the injunction
should not be made permanent. J, B.
Stevens, executor of the estate of Sen
ator Watson, was appointed as receiv
er.
The order enjoins the defendants
from (taking any action whatsoever
pending the final hearing, and from
moving anything belonging to the part
nership, such as property or money on
deposit in bank.
According to the allegations of the
plaintiff, to continue operation of the
paper would result in a great loss to
him. Because of the death of Sena
tor Watson, the partnership is dissolv
ed, and there are several thousand
dollars of undivided profits, of which
he is owner of a part and seeks a
settlement.
He further alleges that because of
absence of the great influence of Sen
ator Watson, the paper would go to
pieces as a money-making proposition.
have bestowed upon me with the rep
resentative provision.
“Women in other states would hail
this recognition with delight. I trust
Georgia women will be none the less
appreciative and if you should ever
offer for another position the women
of Georgia will reward you in keeping
with the honor you have bestowed upon
one of their number.
“Again thanking you, my dear Gov
ernor, I am,
"Yours very sincerely,
(Signed) “MRS. W. H. FELTON.”
Made even more tremendous than in
1921 by the recent addition of many
more trained-wild animal displays and
the purchase of Europe’s biggest horse
show, Ringling Brothers and Barnum
& Bailey combined will exhibit at At
lanta, Monday, October 23rd.
All who glance over the cable, news
or who read the magazines must have
noted the many contracts entered into
by the Ringling Brothers for foreign
talent last winter. A special ship was
chartered this spring to bring the hun
dreds of human performers, trained
animal acts and equine displays to
America. More than a million per
sons saw the mammoth new circus of
1922 during the weeks that it exhibited
in Madison Square Garden, New York.
Now this marvelous exhibition is tour
ing the country aboard five great rail
road trains. It is a third bigger than
the Ringling Brothers and Barnum &
Bailey show of last season. It is ten,
times larger than any other circus
now on tour.
Big as is this wonder circus of 1922
—with its more than twenty trained
wild-animal displays in steel arenas,
fully 150 wonderfully schooled trick
horses, 700 men and women perform
ers, 100 clowns, and scores of fea
tures—the prices of admission is no
more than before. And though the
trained animal numbers and the im
mense horse show were circuses in
themselves while touring Europe, they
are not offered as separate attrac
tions ' by the Ringling Brothers and
Barnum & Bailey combined shows.
Instead all are on one gigantic pro
gram. Everything is in one mam
moth main tent. One ticket admits
to all and includes admission to the
tremendous menagerie. There are
more than a thousand animals in the
zoo of this circus and these include
a tiny baby hippopotamus only re-
three-ton mother. Another remarkable
zoological feature jis an armored rhi-
nocerous, the only one known to exist
and for which the Ringlings recently
refused an offer of $30,000.—(advt.).
Reports for the month of September
were given out this week. Only a few
students on roll did not attend enough
during the past month to get a report,
Last Monday was the beginning of the
second school month.
The students hope that the school
board and patrons will act as soon as
possible in the matter of getting the
school ground soiled. It is very hard
to keep the school building clean dur
ing rainy weather as the grounds at
present are covered with clay.
Work on the tennis courts is prac
tically completed and a number of
students are showing increased inter
est in tennis. Games go on during
recess and in the afternoon.
At a recent meeting of the high
school boys, Loy Mize, was elected
basket-ball manager for the coming
season. He will begin working on
the schedule at once. Practice will
begin in a few days and the first
scheduled game will be played in
about two or three weeks.
FOOD IN FIFTEENTH CENTURY
Herbal Remedies
Most of the old remedies pre
scribed by the lerballsts of the Six
teenth and Seventeenth centuries
contained some element which was
extremely difficult to secure, such ai
"the fat of a mountain mouse” oi
“the pounded residue of a swallow’i
nest,” while the greater number of
them were always taken with red
or white wine. y
The peony was said to be effica
cious for healing diseases at night
whereas, if the gatherer should chance
to he seen by a woodpecker, he “risked
the loss of his eyesight.” The earlj
root-gatherers were anxious to dis
courage competitors in their art, and
therefore made it as dangerous at
they could for anyone to obtain the
‘‘simples’’ in the right way.
Beer and Salt Fish Inseparable Com
panions, According to Household
Books of the Period.
In the Fifteenth century, provisions
for a noble household liad to be on
hand for a long while in advance,
for stores were not convenient to the
great estates. Breakfast is only one
of the excitements chronicled In “The
Pastons and Their England: Studies
In an Age of Transition," by H. S.
Bennett, but it was an extraordinary
menu that began the day In the period
of the Wars of the*Roses. In the
Northumberland Household Book Mar
garet Paston prescribes this meal “for
the Nurcy, for my Lady Margaret, and
Master Tngeram Percy. Item a Man-
chet a Quarte of Bere a Dysch of
Butter a Pece of Saltflsh a Dysch of
SproUts." - My Ladis Gentlywomen,
however, fared more simply: “Item a
Loof of Brede a Pottell of Bere a
Pece of Saltflsh.”
Throughout beer Is the faithful
companion of salt fish. Before Lent
it was necessary for Margaret Pas
ton to order fish by the “horse load”
and quantities of eels. Luxurlfes came
from overseas, and she frequently re
quested her absent menfolk to send
home spices of all, sorts. “I pray you
that you will vouchsafe to send me
another sugar loaf, for my old one is
done.”
Alfred Founded British Navy.
It was King Alfred the Great who
founded the English navy. Toward
the end of his reign the navy is said
to have consisted of about 300 vessels,
which were stationed on the east, west,
and south coasts of the kingdom; and
this system of stationing squadrons
at different parts of the coast may b<
said to be In force today, though mod
ern naval science has now substituted
destroyers and submarines for the ves
sels of Alfred’s day. Wit!) such ships
King Alfred, the founder of the “blue
water school” of sailors, scoured tht
narrow seas so effectually thut no In
vader dared approach, and asserted
such dominion In British waters thal
at last no pirate or sea-rover was tc
be found in them. A further advance
in warship building belongs to tlx
reign of Edward III, in the Fourteentl
century. The vessel most used was
called a “cog," a word from which w<
get our “cogswain,” or "coxswain," the
master of one of those “cogs."
O. N. Travis To Superin
tend County Farm.
September 14th, 1922.
GEORGIA—Fayette County.
The County Commissioners met in
adjourned -session with the following
commissioners present, J. G. Adams,
chairman; J. R. Adams and J. W.
McEachern to transact unfinished
business left over from September
5th. Selection of County Pauper
Farm Superintendent, and making
County Tax, Levy for year 1922, and
making final settlement with County
Tax Collector.
They have selected O. N. Travis as
pauper farm superintendent for the
year 1923 at a salary of $50.00 per
month.
GEORGIA—Fayette County.
Tax levy for year 1922. Levied as
follows:
It is ordered by the Commissioners
of Roads and Revenues of, in and for
Fayette county, Georgia, at their reg
ular September meeting, 1922, and that
upon $1,806,954.00, the amount of tax
able property returned by the tax re
ceiver and upon all other property,
both real and personal, in said county,
there be levied and collected, taxes as
follows:
1. To build and repair court houses,
bridges, ferries and other improve
ments, according to contract—$0.50
per $100.
2. To pay sheriffs, jailers, and oth
er officers fees that they may be leg
ally entitled to out of the county—
$0.06 per $100.
3. To pay the expenses of the
county for bailiffs at court, non-resi
dent witnesses in criminal cases, ser
vant hire, fuel, stationery, and the
like—$0.04 per $100.
4. To pay jurors per diem compen
sation—$0.05 per $100.
5. To pay expenses incurred in sup
porting the poor of the county—$0.10
per $100.
6. To pay expenses of public roads,
alternating road law—$.40 per $100.
7. To pay casual deficiencies exist
ing in the revenue of the county—$0.05
per $100.
8. To pay any legal charge against
the county—$0.10 per $100.
Total tax levy for Fayette county for
year 1922—$1.30 per $\!00.
It is further ordered by the Com
missioners of Roads and Revenues of
said county, that all male inhabitants
between the ages of 21 and 50 years,
(except those who are now exempt by
law), be and they are hereby required
when notified or summoned to work on
the public roads of the county of his
residence, ten days before the 15th
day of November, 1922, except that
such persons may be exempted from
working said road by paying the sum
of $3.00 by November 15th, 1922,
which sum is hereby fixed as an
equivalent to six days work, the same
to be paid at the time notice is given
to work on said road by the overseer:
same to be paid to said overseer, and
the said overseer is hereby required to
pay said money over to the county
commissioners.
It is further ordered by the Commis
sioners of Roads and Revenues of said
county that upon $1,806,954 o6 the
amount of taxable property returned
law—$0,50 cents per $100.
It is further ordered by the Coi
sioners of Roads and,Revenues in and
for said county, that there he collect
ed upon the following amounts oppo
site the names of the several respec
tive school districts of said county,
and upon all other property, both real
and personal in the hereinafter named
school districts, for school purposes
to pay teachers, repair buildings, pro
vide sinking funds for bonds and for
other improvements, and to pay inter
est on bonds, the amount of the per
centum of the aggregate total opposite
the districts hereinafter named:
1. Upon $169,185.00, the amount of
taxable property in the Brooks school
district, 20 cents per $100 for main
tenance -and support of school, and
30 cents per $100 to pay Interest on
and as a sinking fund to retire bonds.
2. Upon $53,801.00, the amount of
taxable property in the Rest school
district, 10 cents per $100.
8. Upon $74,852.00, the amount of
taxable property in the Glen Grove
school district, 20 cents per $100.
4. Upon $68,101.00, the amount of
taxable property in the Ebenezer
school district, 20 cents per $100.
5. Upon $54,077.00, the amount of
taxable property in the Sandy Creek
school district, 25 cents per $100.
6. Upon $42,840.00, the amount of
taxable property in the Bethany school
district, 10 cents per $100.
7. Upon $65,557.00, the amount of
taxable property in the Kenwood
school district, 25 cents per $100.
8. Upon $34,967.00, the amount of
taxable property in the Tyrone school
district, 40 cents per $100.
9. Upon $48,600.00, the amount of
taxable property in The Rock school
district, 10 cents per $100.
10. Upon $64,978.00, the amount of
taxable property in the Hopeful school
district, 15 cents per $100.
11. Upon $77,229.00, the amount of
taxable property in the Union Grove
school district, 20 cents per $100.
, 12. Upon $61,258.00, the amount of
taxable property in the Oak Grove
'school district,- 30 cents per $100.
13. Upon $.45,250.00, the amount of
taxable property in the Inman school
district, 20 cents per $100.
14. Upon $85,585.00, the amount of
taxable property in the Woolsey school
district, 30 cents per $100.
15. Upon $400,000.00, the amount ,of
taxable property in Fayetteville school
district, 20 cents per $100 for mainte
nance and support of school, and 80
cents per $100 to pay interest on and
as a sinking fund to retire bonds.
Done by order of the Board in an
adjourned session. This September
14th, 1922.
, J. G. ADAMS,
J. R. ADAMS,
J. W. McEACHERN,
Commissioners of Roads and Rev
enues of Roads. of Fayette Coun
ty, Georgia.
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10, 3, 1922.
Published by order of Judge John
B. Hutchinson.
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