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VOLUME SIX
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First Ginners
Report is Out
Crop is Ahead of Last Year.
Georgia Has Greater Yield
Than Last Year.
Washington, 1). C., Sept. 8. —
The greatest quantity of cotton
ever ginned in the period prior to
September 1, was reported by the
census bureau today when it was
announced 794,006 bales of the
growtli of 1913 had been put out
from the ginneries throughout the
south since the lieginning of the
ginning season.
The heavy ginnings for tins period
of the season are the result of an
early maturing of the crop and of
an effort of the farmers to beat the
boll weevil, is the opinion of census
bureau officials.
All states reported an increased
ginning for the period over last
year’s totals for that time, with the
exception of Texas and North Caro
lina.
Last September to September 1
there had been ginned 5.4 per cent
of the entire crop,in 1911 the quan
tity was 5 per cent.
Washington, I). C. Sept.B. —Lot-
ton from the growth of 1913 ginned
prior to September 1, amounted to
791,000, bales, counting round as
half bales, the census bureau an
nounced today in its first ginning
report of the season.
This compared with 1 30,935 bales
last year to September Ist, 771,297
bales in 1911, and 353,11 bales in
1-910.
Round bales included in this re
port numbered 7,584, compared
with 7,434 for last year.
Sea Island hales included 430,
compared with 232 for last year.
Ginning by States to September 1
States. 1913. 1912.
Alabama 44,525 12,824
Arkansas 2,200 81
Florida 2,956 1,832
Georgia <2,622 34,526
Louisiana 7,566 1,724
Mississippi 2,027 442
K. Carolina 188 <>74
Oklahoma 188 674
S. Carolina 7,272 4,260
Tennessee 9
Texas 649,694 674,249
All other states 4.
2 Mrs. J. B. Thompson, after
fs- ending several weeks in the Macon
has returned home very
much improved. Mrs. Thompson
has teen seriously ill and her friends
and relatives are delighted at her
recovery.
Mrs. Ethel Boothe and Miss Caro
line Boothe have returned to Coch
f*-an after quite an extended visit to
points in New York state.
Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Gregorv of
Vienna visited relatives in Cochran
this week.
FREE
FREE
Tariff Measure
Passes Senate
Progressive Republican and Bull
Moose Leaders Vote Their
Convictions.
Washington, I). C., Sept. 9 —The
democratic tariff revision bill pass
ed the senate at 5:13 o’clock this
afternoon amid a hurst of applause
that swept down from crowded gal
leries and found its echo on the
crowded floor of the senate. Its
passage was attended with surprises
in the final moments of the voting,
when Sena'nr LaFollette east his
vote with the democrats and was
joined a few moments later by Sen
ator Poindexter, progressive.
Until the names of Senator La
Follette and Senator Poindexter
were called no one knew definitely
the stand they would take and their
votes were greeted with loud ap
plause.
President Wilson tonight ex pi ess
ed great gratification over the end
of the long struggle in the senate.
Senator Simmons, who piloted the
lull through the finance committee,
the democratic caucus and the leu
ate, predicted its passage Wednes
day.
As it passed, the senate tariff bill
repiesents an average reduction of
more than 4 per cent from the rates
of the original hill that passed the
house and nearly 28 per cent from
the rates of-existing laws.
In many important places the
senate has changed the bill that
passed the house a.id a conference
committee of the two houses will
begin.work on Wednesday or Thurs
day to adjust differences. Leaders
of both houses predict that the con
ference will consume less than two
weeks’ time.
The senate named its members
of the conference committee as soon
as the bill passed. Vice President
Marshall appointed Senators Sim
mons, Stone, Williams and Johnson,
democrats, and Senators Penrose,
Lodge and LaFollette, republicans.
Senator Stone withdrew from the
senate and Senator Shively was ap
pointed in his place. The house
conferees will be Representatives
Underwood, Kitchin and Rainey,
demecrats, and Payne and Fordney,
republicans.
The final stiuggle began at 4
o’clock, when, under previous ar
rangement, arbitrary votes began
on pend.ng amendments. During
the closing hours of debate Senator
LaFollette had become the center
of interest, proposing final amend
ments on the cotton.and wool sche
dule. It was nearly 5:30 o’clock
when the v’ce president put the bill
on its passage. The roll call proceed
ed deliberately until the clerk called
“LaFollette.”
The Wisconsin senator, seated in
the front row, hesitated a mo-
COCHRAN, BLECKLEY COUNTY GEORGIA. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1913
FREE
Music and Expression
Recital Friday Night
The departments of music and
expression of the Public school will
give a recital at the school audito
rium on Friday, fcjrpt. 12.
Exercises will begin at 8 o’clock.
There will he no charges, and all
the people are urged to come out
and give these ladies a good house.
Please remember the date, the
hour and the place. Friday at 8
o’clock at the school auditorium.
Everybody come.
incut. 11 is bead was bowed and
resting on bis band. He leaned for
ward a trille and vigorously answer
ed : “Aye.”
Instantly applause broke from
the galleries and the s’enators on the
democratic side joined in handclap
ping. When the name of Senator j
I’oindexter, the only progressive |
senator, w s reached and he had
contributed his vote for the hill, the
applause was renewed. Tonight
Senator LaFollette liid a few words
to say of hi- vote, after many demo
cratic senators had surrounded his
• le.sk and shook his hand.
“I realize what I did was a. politi
cal sacrifice, hut that within me
compelled me to vote for the hill.
The tariff act of 1909 was a little
short of crime; the hill passed today
is not a democratic measure, hut
a protective measure. Give the
democrats time and they will put
everything on a free trade basis,hut
they have not done it in this hill.
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First Anniversary
of Civic Feague
An important and very interest
ing meeting of the Ladies Civic Lea
gue cornmenorating the first anni
versary of its organization was held
at the rest room Tuesday afternoon
There was a large and enthusias
tic; attendance. After the business
program of the meeting was finish
ed, interesting talks were made by
Mesdaines U. E. Taylor and J. J.
Taylor. Mis. C. E. Taylor in a
very interesting talk told of the
great work that the league had ac
complished since its organization.
In co-operation with the City coun
cil the leqcue has been an important
factor in having the big ditch clean
ed out and now they are wa king to
beautify this once very unattractive
p!a<o. Grass will be sodded along’
it - bunks and benches placed on the
bridges dossing each street.
A circulating library lias been
started and they have a nucleus of
several dozen honks to begin with
Mrs. J. .1. Taylor told of the work
the league intended to do in the fu
ture 1 staling that their efforts had
just begun and there was gr-at work
ahead. She made an interesting
and inspirational talk.
'Phis organization is a great factor
in the moral, intellectual and civic
welfare of our City and should hi
encouraged and suppoited by every
citizen of the community.
Mrs. G. \V. Kelly spent a few
days with friends in Macon last
week.
Atlanta Wins Tenant
In Southern Feague
Hilly Smith and Atlanta won the
1913 penant in the Southern League
W hen that message came over the
wires to Macon it sent thrills of real
pleasure through the hundreds of
admirers of the former manager of
the Macon South Atlantic League
team.
The drug stores in the business
part of the city, where the result
of the NewOrleans-Mobile game
was given, were thronged with anx
ious Macon fans, who held out hut
a faint hope that the Pelicans would
beat the Gulls and give the bunting
to the Atlanta team.
When the bulletin was posted in
the drug stores tl at New Orleans
bad won by the score of sto 2,
Macon fans knew that the Crackers
were winners by half a game, and
only the fact that it was Sunday
caused them to refrain front send
ing up a mighty cheer.
The game struggle put up by the
Mobile club under a terrible ner
vous strain, which lasted since the
final and critical series started with
the Crackers in Atlanta last Tues
day afternoon, was the cause of
many favorable comments.
Although most of the Macon fans
wanted to see Billy Smith and his
Crackers win out, there wen* many
who are admirers of Mike Finn,
Haul Scntell and ethers of the M<>-
bile roster, and these were some
what disappointed over the out
come of the final and deciding
game.
Billy Smith justly deserves all the
honor that the Atlanta fans can ex
tend to him. Never before in the
history of Southern baseball has
such a gallant fight been made for
a championship, and through the
three weeks of terillic lighting put
up by the Crackers, the man at the
helm has guided iiis athletes with a
grim determination to give Atlanta
the best there was in him.
Those in Macon who know Billy
Smith, those who watched his two
fights in the early days of the Sally,
know that there never lived a truer
or more conscientious hall player.
Billy Smith plays the game for all
there is in it. A contract to him
means that he is pledge <lto give
the owners of his club every possible
advantage of his experience as a
manager and his knowledge of the
national game. Billy Smith does
this, and therein lies the secret of his
success with Macon and Atlanta.
Macon fans join The News in
congratulating the grand little man
ager —Macon News.
Miss Sarah Mullis, who has been
in Macon for several weeks assist
ing her sister, Mrs. J. B. Thump
son, who was under treatment in
the Macon Hospital has returned
home.
NUMBER 5
Dublin Woman Is
Killed By Train
Mrs. G. N. Bowers is Hit By
Flat Car Before Engine. Death
Results Instantly as a result
Dublin, Sept. 8. —On her way
home after entering her 6-yeai-old
daughter, Eunice in school here
this morning, Mrs. G N. Bowers,
wife of Engineer Bowers, of the
Oconee river cotton mill, was struck
by a switch engine and flat car at a
railroad crossing in the city and
killed instantly, the blow from the
car breaking her neck, her right
leg near the ankle, and making a
flesh wound in her left arm.
How she got in the way of the
t rain is a mystery. The engine was
pushing a flat ear out to the cotton
mills, and approached the crossing
ringing the hell, as claimed by the
yard crew of the Macon, Dublin &
Savannah railroad, on which road
the accident happened. There is a
clear view of the track from the
crossing for a long distance each
way, and just as the train neared
the crossing Engineer Reese saw
Mrs. Rowers step on the track just
a few feet from the approaching
train.
lie made every possible effort to
stop his engine, but it was impossi
ble to check tne speed in so short a
iL-tanc‘, ai 1 the end of the flat
ear struck her appearantly on the
back of her head, breaking iier neck
and throwing her down a small em
bankment at the side of the track
just a few feet from the track.
Whether she saw the train near
and became so confused that she
could not get out of the way, or
whether she was not noticing the
train and let it strike her or what,
is not known. She was in the best
of health, apparently in good spirits
and how she came to let tlio train
catch her is a mystery.
She had been married only about
four months, and before that was a
Mrs. McKelvin, a widow with two
onall children. Besides her hus
band, she is survived by a mother,
two children and sever il other rela
tives. Her remains were carried to
Xilit*, Liberty county, for interment
near her old home on Tuesday.
The tragedy was an unusually
sad one and there is much regret
over it among the people of the city.
—Macon Telegraph.
\V. 11. Chapman and Dr. W. N.
Fleetwood attended the sing at
Ruth last Sunday. They report a
nice time. There was a large crowd
in attendance and a splendid dinner
was served on the ground. Someone
put a well filled basket of delicious
eatables in their buggy before thej
left. They do not know who did
this, but it was very much appre
ciated and they wish to return their
thanks for the gift.