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AN IDLE DOLLAR IS STILL WORTH
A DOLLAR. AN IDLE MAN IS
WORTH A GREAT DEAL LESS
THAN NOTHING. HOW DIFFERENT
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VOL. VIIL.
BOARD OF EDUCATION HAS NEAR
LY COMPLETED CORPS FOR AN
OTHER YEAR.
'~ The city board of education, B. H.
Palmer, president, T. J. McArthur,
secretary, M. M. Eakes, J. Slade and
L. A. Parker, held a meeting Tuesday
afternoon and elected the following
teachers for the!Cordele public schools
for the ensuing year:
" Superintendent—A. L. Brewer, re
clected. )
Principal High School—D. B. Nich
clson, re-elected.
Principal Northern Heights School
—Miss Nell Denton, re-elecied.
Teachers Northern Heights school
—Misses Pansy Webb, Seale and
Marie Lanier, re-elected.
Primary Grades—DMiss Maggie Bass,
re-elected; Miss Annie Vihite, of Quit
man, elected.
Second grades—Miss Mae Dunlap
and Miss Frances Carswell, re-elected.
Third grade—Miss Elsie Monk, of
Quitman, elected.
Fifth grade—Miss Norma Conwell,
re-elected. |
Sixth grade—Miss Ethel Pierce, re
elected.
Seventh grades—Miss Eva McEll
hannon and Miss Ella Brady, re-elect
ed.
High school department—J. T. Dun
can, teacher of commercial course and
manual training, re-elected.
There were no other applicants for
peositions in the high school department
and these places will be filled at a sub
sequent meeting. There are two va
cancies in the Northern Heights
school also; two for the fourth grades
in the original scheol; another teacher
to be added to the third grade; one
for the fifth grade, and another for
the sixth. i
Miss Mildred Eakes was re-elected
as teacher of piano and sight singing;
Miss Claudia Pate re-elected as teach
er of violin, and Miss Jennie Belle
Jackson re-elected as teacher in the
department of elocution.
CORDELE STARTS
OUT FOR BALL
A GOOD TEAM IS PROMISED FOR
SUMMER DIVERSION.
With the increasing warmth of the
weather and growing sportive senti
ment that usually atiaches to the sea
son, Cordele is beginning to look about
for diversion and recreation for the
summer months. Naturally, baseball
comes in for first consideration. Pros
pects for a good all-college or mixed]
team are looking better.
The Dispatch is assisting other en
thusiasts in making up a fund to in
sure the organization of the club, and
some liberal subscriptions have al
rcady been made. Not a man has been
seen who it at all interested in base-‘
ball who has refused to subscribe an
amount that he could reasonably af—{
ford. With the proper co-operation
the fund should be complete within
a week or two, and this will by no
means be too late to catch some of
the swiftest of the players from the
college clubs, since the colleges will
not be closing until the middle or lat
ter part of the approaching month.
Those who are particularly inter
ested in the movement to organize a
club here are in touch with a number
of players who would like to become
identified with a clvb in this city and
who would be instrumental in secur
ing other fast players. As a rule, base
ball for the snmmer is a diversion for
college players and they will not be
difficult to secure, and then, too, some
of the best players in the game come
from the college clubs.
Of course, the fans want the club
and there are hundreds of them, and‘
they never mind paying a reasonable‘
admission to witness a good ball game.
Cordele has one of the best ball
grounds in this section of the state,
and its railroad facilities touching sur
rounding towns and cities that have
their full quota cf baseball enthusiasts,
practically guarantees the success of
a good ball club for Cordele.
Young and old must have diversion
and recreation for the summer and if
it’s not a ball club, what will it be?
INJUNCTION HEARING
IN GINNERY CASE
Hearing in the injunction suit of Mrs.
Sally Perry et at vs. J. M. Diffee,
which was scheduled to be held be
fore Judge W. F. George of the su
perior court at Vienna last Saturday,
was postponed until today.
This is the litigation involving the
the erection of a big ginnery in Cor
dele. %
THE CORDELE DISPATCH
WILL GET FUND
LIBRARIAN AND TRUSTEES HIGH
LY ELATED OVER ENCOURAGE
MENT GIVEN.
A letter received by R. L. Luffman,
president of the board of library trus
tees, from the Carnegie Corporation,
indicates that the application for an
appropriation of $lO,OOO to be applied
in the extension of the local library
will be passed on favorably and the
matter clesed within the shortest pos
sible time. The letter requests that
plans and specifications of the pres
ent library building, showing its ac
commodating, be submitied to the Car
negie Corporation.
On the boar¢ of library trustees
with Mr. Luffman are W. H. Dorris and
J. J. Williams, all of whom are greatly
interested in securing the appropria
tion for the extension of this institu
tion to meet the urgent needs that are
occasioned by the steadily and rapid
ly growing uses to which it is put.
Miss Helen Brewer, the librarian, fur
nished valuable data concerning the)
uses of the library and its needs which :
accompanied the application. The|
mayor and council, also gave tlleir!
endorsement and assistance. |
The original library building was a‘
$lO,OOO gift from the Carnegie corpor-‘
ation, the condition under which it
was given carrying. with them an cb‘i
ligation of $l,OOO ycarly for the main-i
tenance of the institutionr, or ten per{
cent of the investment. The city 1»‘
now paying toward a fund for the up
keep of the library $l,BOO each year,i
and the couniy is paying $4OO per
year to this fund. Placing the aznountl
for the maintenance of the institution
on a bacis of ten per cent of the in
vestment, Cordele is more than enti
tled to 2 $lO,OOO additional appropria
tion for its library. ‘
FOR MRS. WILLIANS
MEMBER OF PIONEER FAMILY
CALLED TO HER REWARD THIS
AFTERNOON AT CORDELE HOME
Mrs. Bettie Williams, widow of the
Tate Dr. J. Warren Williams, died at
the family home on Thirteenth avenue
this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock aiter
an illness which had lasted through
two months or more. Members of the
family were at the bedside when
death came.
Mrs. Williams was about 60 years
of age, was daughter of the late L.
M. Sumner, of Sumner, Ga., and was
a lady of many estimable traits of
character. She cawme of one of the
oldest and best known families in this
section of the state and as Mrs. Wil
liams bore the name of another of the
distinguished pioneer families of this
section. :
She survived her husband little more
than a year. A brother, L. M. Sum
ner, and a sister, Mr§. Charles Wil
liams, both of Cordele and other broth
ers and sisters in Worth county; two
children, R. W. Williams and Miss
(Caddie Williams, survive her.
The funeral services wil be con
ducted at the family residence tomor
row. Mrs. Williams was a life-long
member of the Baptist church and
was loved wherever she was known.
DEATH CLAIMS
AGED PASTOR
REV. H. C. FENTRESS, FOR YEARS
PASTOR AT ARABI, DIED YES
TERDAY AT McRAE.
Rev. H. C. Fentress, aged 706 years,|
known and loved throughout the en
tire southern part of the state. died‘
Monday night at his home at Mcßae.‘
Six or seven years ago Rev. Fentress.‘i
who later retired from the ministry,
on account of failing in years, was
pastor of the Methodist church at
Arabi, and while in charge of this
pastorate he came in contact with
and made friends among a great many
of the people of this county.
He was the father of Mrs. J. T. El
der, of Scotland, and father-in-law of
J. T. Elder, who is president of the
Elder Motor company of this city. Mr.
'Elder was in Cordele when notified of
the death of his father-in-law, and left
immediately by automobile fer Mec-
Rae. :
STORE IMPROVEMENTS.
Extensive improvements are being
made on the store rooms occupied by
George Miller on Eleventh avenue.
The store will be completely remodel
ed and otherwise improved.
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dress before the Daughters of the
American Revolution in Washington,
said: :
s 0 o and America will haye
tforgotten her traditions whenever
upon any occasion she fights merely
for herself under such circumstances
as will show that she has forgotten
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JURORS DRAWN
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LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS MADE
’ FOR SESSION CRISP SUPERIOR
COURT.
‘ Leccal arrangements have been made
for the Mdy term of Crisp superior
court. The grand jury and the tra
verse jurors for.the-first -week: have
been drawn and served and will re
port for work on May 15th, the third
Monday in May.
The grand jury for the May term
follows:
H. 'K. Dowdy, S. G.» Walls, A. -J.
@Glary, J. H: Lamb; 7. J: Cox, W. B
Mathews, R. E. Harris, J. E. Hollings
worth, J. D. Clements, J. M. Cole, J. M.
Evans, W. F. Markert,'D. J. Graham,
H. W. Wheeler, B. S. Dunlap, J. H.
Roberts, J. P. Hughes, C. 1. Powell, J.
@, Slade; W. A. Tuck, J.' J. Segrest,
C. B. Bowen, J. S. Sheppard, J. R. John
son, W. B. Brock, V. R. Bridges, G. B.
Wilkes, C. D. Howington, S. A. Royzal,
D. W. Spires.
Traverse Jury.
J. R, Felder, J. V. Daniels, J. N
Clements, R. A. Dixon, Z. M. Wade, A.
U. Starr, J. J. Rowland, W. L. Bond,
J. D. Dowdy, H. A. Day, Frank Teu
ber, W. C. Hinton, B. C. Howell, H. C.
Lee, R. D. Mims, J. A. Sloan, John R.
Bridges, W. W. Hines, J. T. Simmeons,
J. E. Pirkle, W. D. Wilson, Fred Har
ber, G. Bi Grifin, W. H, Little, 'W. A.
Webster, O. L. Stephens, B. C. Wil
liams, N. Z. Taylor, T. S. Kinnett, H.
N. Collier, W. C. Hamilton, E. L.. Hutch
ins, J. H. Dupree, J. M. Gleaton, W. L
McKinney, D. L. Balloch.
LOCAL COMMANDERY
OFFICERS INSTALLED
At the regular lodge meeting last
Friday night the following newly
elected olffi('ers of Cyrene Command
ery No. 13 Knights Templar were in
stalled: C. B. Williams, E. C.; R. C.
Harris, Generalissimo; Fred Harder,
C. G.; Watts Powell, S. W.; W. C. Ham
jlton, J:- W-.; R. %11. Harris, Prelate; R.
R. Harris, Recorder; J. M. Hunt, Treas
urer; J. J. Williams, Warden; T. M.,
Coker, Standard Bearer; J. D. Shep
pard, Sword Bearer; J. S. Gordy, Sen
tinel.
The installation services were con
ducted by A. C. Atkins, Grand Junior
Warden of the Grand Commandery of
Georgia.
SIDEWALK IMPROVEMENTS.
Work was begun today on lowering
and reconstructing the sidewalks on
the east and north sides of the Ex
change bank buildizz. The work is
being done by the city at the expense
of the property owners, and is an im
porvement that will benefit the ap
pearance of things in this particular
vicinity and prove gratifying to pedes
trians generally.
CORDELE, GEORGIA, W.EDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1916.
have for the assertion cof her physical
force is that she asserts it in behalf
of the interests of humanity.”
“What a splendid thing it is to have
so singular a tradition—a tradition of
uselulness! When America ceases
to be unselfish she will cease to be
America. When she forgets the tradi
tions of devotion to human rights in
general, which gave spirit and impulse
to her feunders, she will have lost
her title deeds to her own nationality.”
BIG OLDS AND
TWO FORDS CRASH
ROAD INSECTS COME TO BLOWS
IN FRONT OF PCWELL HOME.
Three automobiles, two Fords and
an Cldsmobile, werc damaged late Sun
day afternoon in' a smash-up in the
viciniity of the country, home of I. M.
Powell on the-Vienna read, the Ford
cars beleng to Charlie Greer of this
city, and J. R. Causey, of Vienna. The
front wheels of these machines were
completely crushed and they were
otherwise damaged. The Olds is the
gix-cylinder red touring car bhelonging
to Mr. Powell. Its steering wheel was
broken and it was damaged otherwise.
The Cldsmobile was standing i n
frent of the home of Mr. Powell and
the two Fords met al that particular
piace. Mr. Greer, it is said, was trav
eling at a lively rate, when the head
lights of the Olds, shining in his eyes
partially chscured his view of the road
way ahead of him. He was in the act
of going around the Olds when he
gighted the car of Mr.. Causey for the
first time, as it was also about to pass
the Olds. The collisicn was unavoid
able under the circumstances. Greer
was dashed from his car to the ground,
though he sustained only a few scratch
es and bruises.
DEATH -OF MRS. POOLE.
After an illness of two months, Nirs.
[Clizabeth Poole died Tuesday night at
7 o’clock at her home in the southern
part of the city. The remains were
taken on the Hampton Springs Special
to Albany Tuesday night, and thence
to Arlington for interment. She is
survived by two daughters and sev
eral sons.
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George W. Peck, former governor
of Wisconsin, but who was known to
fame as author of “Peck’s Bad Boy”
has just died. Most of the successful
men of today had to hide in the barn
to read “Peck’s Bad Boy.”
CRISP TEACHERS
MONTHLY MEETING
LAST SESSION OF YEAR A GOOD
ONE—TEACHERS DID MUCH
GOOD WORK.
The last teachers meeting for the
spring term was held at the court
house Saturday morning, last. All the
county teachers were present except
six who were attending the state ed
ucational meet at Macon, and two with
good excuses.
The meeting Saturday was among
the best. All the nieetings this spring
were betier than usual for the reason
that the teachers all took part, respond
ed to subjects cof their own selection
and in other ways. President Snell
has presided over cach meceting.
The Pregram.
The program Saturday was divided
into two parts. The first part was re
sponses to subjects of their own selec
tion by a number of the teachers, as
tollows:
Huey Wright—*“Education as a
Preparation for Complete Living.”
J. W. Spires—*"That Bad Boy.”
Miss Maude Williams—" The Aims
of Education.”
Miss Tommic Wade—"lmportance
of Grading the Recitation and Keep
ing the Class Record.”
Miss Alma Wade—" Manners and
Morals.”
J. D, Spires—*“Agriculture.”
Miss Maude Taylor—"“Necessity of
Habit-Training in the School.,”
Miss Lola Lee—'The Importance of
Thoroughness.”
Second Part.
The second part of the program con
sisted of a call of the roll of the dif
ferent schools and responses by the
tcachers telling of the accomplish
ments during the year.
This second division of the program
was handled nicely by the teachers.
Many of the schools had made remark
able improvements upon their build
irg and grounds, while others devoted
most of their talks to the accomplish
nents inside the school room-—noting
rrogress in one direction or another
as best they could under all the cir
cumstances.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Johnson thanked
the teachers for their help and co-op
eration in their corn and canning club
worl, inviting those teachers who re
main in the county to continue their
co-operation during the summer and
fall months.
County School Superiniendent Biv
ins heartily thanked the teachers for
their faithful and efficient work dur
ing the school year just closing, as
sured them of his sincere appreciation
of the courtesy shown by the teachers
to their county superintendent and
their hearty co-operation in making
this one oi the most successful years
in many respects, in the history of
the schools of Crisp county.
REPRESENTATIVES OF SUMPTER,
DOOLY AND CRISP ARE DOWN
AT WORK ON PLANS FOR NEW
BRIDGE.
A project is under way to span the
Flint river with a steel bridge at Mur
ray’s Ferry, near Drayton, aboutl two
miles north of the Crisp county line in
Dooly county. County Commissioners
Walton, Lester and Ford of Dooly
county were in Cordele to in
terest the county commissioners of
Crisp county in the undertaking Satur
day morning. Saturday afternoon the
commissioners of Sumter and Dooly
counties met at the site o' the pro
poser bridge and discussed plans for
bridging the project to a successful
culmination.
The Crisp commissioners heard the
proposition outlined by the Dooly com
missioners without taking any definite
action. They determined to feel the
pulse of the pgople of Crisp. Definite
action will be taken by Commission
ers Byrd, Sheppard and Connor at
their regular monthly mceting on the
first Tuesday in May.
It is one and onc-halt miles furither
from Cordele to the site of the pro
posed bridge than from Vienna, hut
‘here is a splendid highway leading
troig Cordele immediately to Murray's
L'erry.
The proposition is to make the
bridge at this ferry take the place of
the proposed bridge at Hugenin's
Ferry, linking the highways between
Cordele and Americus. Actual ac
counting of the distance shows that it
would be two miles nearer to Americus
from Cordele by way of the bridge at
Murray's Ferry it is pointed out, than
it would be by way of Hugenin's Fer
ry. There are also splendid highways
leading from Vienna and Americus to
Murray's Ferry.
FINE YEAR'S WORK
IN CRISP SCHOOLS
CORN AND CAMNNING CLUBS HAVE
DONE GOOD WORK AND CIRCU
LATING LIBRARY IS NOW BEING
SOUGHT.
The twenty-five county schools of
Urisp will close within the following
two weeks, and a number, practically
all of them, will observe the occasion
with closing exercises in music, elo
cution and oratory, or with excellent
picnics. These events will be largely
attended by the citizens of the respec
tive communities and by others from
alls parts of the county.
The county schools have made un
usual records during the year now
closing. Not only have they advanced
exceptionally well ni literary training,
but in the agricultural depariments
associated with these cchools, most
gratifiying progress has been made.
The Boys' Corn Club has been aug
mented by 2 large number of new
members from the various schools, and
the Girls’ Canning club has increased
in number much beyond that of last
year. The growing work in these de
partments reveals [ine co-operation
with the teachers on the part of J. A,
Johnson, the farm demonstrator who
has taken a most active interest in
the corn club. Mrs. Johnson and oth
ers have made every opportunity count
in behalf of the canning club. The
suggestions and plans of the county
school superintendent, J. W. Bivins,
in advancing the schools have been of
inestimable value.
In discussing with a Dispatch repre
sentative the county schools and their
progress for the year, Mr. Bivins said:
“We have experienced the hest year
in the history of the ~ouniy. Sincerest
mterest and most cairnest cooperation
has been manites'ed on every hand.
The average general attendance has
been the best, and the numbr of pupils
enrolle¢ has been unusually large .not
withstanding that measles and whoop
ing cough have been quite prevalent in
most sections of the county.
“This is the only county in the state
that has conducted summer schools
for the young men and young ladies
for the past three years, and this is
the only county in the state that has
county membership in a public libra.
Y.
State School Superintendent i L.
Brittain and State Supervisor F. E.
Land both are enthusiastic over the
progress of this nlan.
[Extensive preparations for the wel
fare of the schools for the following
vear are already under way, an under
taking in which County Superintend
ent Bivins, the board of iibrary trus
tees and Miss Brewer, librarian of the
local library, who are giving him their
assistance, arec espccially interested
is that of purchasing 300 volumes of
library books, suitable for children
from the first through the fifth grades,
to form a circulating library for the
schools. 1t is proposed to place the
three hundred volumes in twenty-five
hool: cases, a dozen books to the case,
thus allowing each school an equal
share in the library from the start.
Each case would bhe allowed to re
main at a school onc month, after
which it would be transferred to an
other school, creating a system where
by the library would become circulat
ing cach month, and each school would
eventually get the benefit of the en
tire three hundred volumes.
LADIES MAY TAKE
HOLD OF CITY PARK
A plan is being inaugurated among
the four working women’s clubs of the
city, the D. A. 8., U. D. C., Thalian and
Symphony clubs, to construct a joint
club house in the city park at the cor
per of Seventh street and Fiftecnth
avenue. The four clubs are now work
ing i conjunction in devising plans.
A board of managers will be in charge
of plans for securing the club
house.
The mayor and city council have un
der advisement the matter of divid
ing the grounds of the park in order
that the four clubs may have an equal
opportunity to becautify these grounds
by laying out walks, planting flowers,
shrubbery, etc., preparatory to the con
struction of thie club house.
It is possible that the four organ
izations will in this manner be able
to take hold of the city park and pro
vide a splendid place of recreation.
Platnum has been recently discov
ered in the southern part of Spain,
and the government has taken posses
sion of the property and will develop
it
DON'T CONSIDER YOUR NEIGHBOR
A TRAITOR IF HIS OPINION ON
MATTERS OF PUBLIC POLICY HAP
PENS TO DIFFER FROM YOURS.
PAYING TRIBUTE T 0
SOLDIERS OF GRAY
FINE PROGRAM CARRIED OUT AT
CITY AUDITORIUM—GRAVES OF
CONFEDERATES DECORATED.
The South is today commemorating
the valorous deeds and chivalry of the
heroes of the sixtiey, and Cordele and
Crisp county are contributing their
tull share of honor to the men who
wore the gray. Impressive exercises,
attended by an audience that filled the
public school auditorium to its full
seating capacity, were prepared and
carried out under tlie auspices of the
Tallulah Atkins Chapter United
Dauvghters of the Confederacy. The
exercises began at 10 o'clock and con
cluded after the noon hour with the
decoration of the graves of the Con
federates at Sunnyside cemetery.
The Veterans and their wives were
cscorted to the cemetery in automo
biles, the line of march including hun
dreds of school children and others,
carrying garlands of flowers.
The usual decorations for the oc
casion, flags, bunting and flowers, wera
artistically arranged in the audivoriuni,
while palms, ferns and flowers made
the rostrum where the speakers and
others were seated most attractive.
The special music arranged by the
Symphony club and the songs by the
school added most impressively to the
exercises.
The Crisp county camp No. 1614
United Confederate Veterans and their
wives occupied scats in a hody imme
diately in front of the rostrum. The
Crisp county camp Sons of Veterans
were also seated in a body, as were
the Daughters of Confederacy.
The veterans and their wives wero
cntertained at an elaborate dinner as
the guests of the Daughters of Con
federacy and the Sons of Veterans.
The Confederate monument was dec
orated by the Boy Scouts of the eity.
From a patriotic, historical and ora
torical standpoint, the address of Ilon.
J. M. Moore, Mayor of Jackson, who
was the principal spealker of the oc
casion, was a masterly effort. ke was
frequently interrupted with enthusias
tic applause and the veterans checred
his words.
Others who took part on the pro
gram carried out their parts ably, and
altogether they made the day all that
worthy tribute to the noble Confed
erates, living and dead, called for.
The program observed was as fol
lows.
B. H. Palmer, Marshal of the day.
H. B. Nicholson, Master of Cere
monies.
Song—America—School. *
Invocation—Rev. Walter Anthony.
Chaplain Crisp Camp, S. C. V. .
Soldiers’ Chorus from Faust—Ccr
dele Symphory club. ;
Delivery of medal to County School
Coentestant, Jssay Contest—Mrs. T. 1%,
Atkins, Pres. U. D. C.
Solo-—Miss Janet Scandrett.
Thet Invisible Heroces—ltussell
Harris.
Song—Dixic—Schoo!. t
Introduction of Spcaker—ltev. Jno.
Moore Walker. . -
Merorial Address—llen. 1. T. Moors
Chorus—*Tenting Ton:ght"<=— Sym
rvhory Club. ‘
Announcemenis—2ir. Do H. Pflhper.
Song—“ God of the Nations’—School
Benediction—. Rev. Lit Connor,
Chapla'n Crisp County Camp U. C. V.
Decoration of graves af Sunnyside.
RAILROADS HELPING MOULTRIE
TO REACH WIDER PACKING
HOUSE TRADE.
In order to give better distribution
for the products of the Moultrie Pack
ing company, the railroads have ar
ranged for a rassenger car service
from Moultrie to Cordele. The car
will arrive a* I:4¢ p. m., and all
freight east as far as Lyons on the
Seaboard, the G. S. & F. as far north
as Grovania and south to Sycamore
and all deliveries for Cordele an? Cor
dele territory will be handled tkrough
this car. Cn the second day out from
Moultric all goods will reach desti
nations named.
This is an effort to assist the Moul
trie packing house (o compete with
the western packers, it is said, and af
ter time has shown the need ol the
service, the car service will be in
crased from one to two or three a
week.
TRUSTEE APPOINTED. -
In the hearing of the bankruptey
suit of Phil Aronstam at Amerieus lagt
Saturday James H. Brown was- ap
pointed as trustee in the case and has
taken charge of the bankrupt's affairs.
NO 4.