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BRADLEY MEETS
DEATH UNDER TRAIN
A. B. & A. FREIGHT CONDUCTOR
HAD LEGS CRUSHED IN COR
‘f) DELE YARDS AND EXPIRED AT
HOSPITAL.
Tatally injured from having both of
his legs crushed off beneath the
wheels of a freight car in the local
yards Tuesday afternoon about four
o’clock, W. O. Bradley, conductor on
No. 91, a through freight northbound
over the Atlanta Birmingham & At
lantic railway, died three hours la
ter at the local hospital. The left leg
was severed just below the body and
the right leg cut off just below the
knee. :
Bradley remained conscious for ful
ly lve minutes after the accident and
displayed remarkable coolness. He
told Engineer J. R. Welsh, who heard
his cry of agony and brought the train
to a stop, to take charge of his mon
ey, watch and some private papers
which he carried in his pocket and re
quested him to notify his mother at
Cedartown. A brother B. C. Brad
ley, living at Buchanan, was also
wired, and he arrived in Cordele this
afternoon to take charge of the body.
Bradley’s train was just puilling in
to the yards when the accident oc
curred and was going at a moderate
speed. In an effort to locate a “hot
box” he was swinging onto the grab
bars on the side of the tender of the
engine and looking back along the
train. Shortly before he lapsed into
unconsciousness at the sanitorium he
said that his hands had slipped from
the grab bars and he fé¢ll beneath the
wheels of the box car following the
engine. The conductor was extreme:
ly weak from the loss of blood when
the sanitorium was reached. As
soon as his condition would permit an
operation was performed to remove
the crushed limbs though the shock
and loss of blood was so great that
physicians held out little hope for his
recovery from the first.
Bradley had been a railroad man
practically all of his life. He was
between 28 and 30 years of ago, and
had been with the A. B. & A. for a
number of years. He made headquar
ters at Fitzgerald, and was very pop
ular in railroad circles.
The hody was prepared for burial
at the undertaking apartments of G.
L. Dekle & Brother and will be car
ried to Cedartown today for inter-i
ment. Mr. Bradley, of Buchanan, will |
accompany the remains there. ‘
FOR SUMMER BALL
b
CORDELE, FITZGERALD, DAWSON
AND MONTEZUMA WILL START
SCHEDULE JUNE 19.
Two thirds of the funds necessary
for the maintenance and operation of
a local ball club this season has beein
subscribed and it is now an assured
fact that Cordele will have a ball
team. Representatives of Montezu
ma, Dawson, Fitzgerald and the oth
er points that will have teams will
be in Cordele tomorrow for a confer
ence at whaich all of the details will
be arranged for the start.
So far as is known the schedule
will be arranged so as to have the
first game on June 19. Up to the
present time it is definitely known
that Cordele, Dawson, Montezuma and
Fitzgerald will' be in the schedule at
the start. Others of the same class
may be entered before the schedule
begins.
Johnny Henderson, captain of the
University of Georgia ball team, has
been definitely engaged to manage
the Cordele club. This assures Cor
dele a fast team.
“VETS” AND SONS 1
PLEDGE LOYALTY
Birmingham, Ala., May 16.—Both
the United Confederate Veterans and
the Sons of Veterans adopted resolu
tions at their ueetings today pledg
ing lives, fortunes and honor to the
government of the United States
should it become necessary for the de
gense of this country. :
W(The veterans at the opening ses
sion of their reunion, took this ac
tion. 8
The Sons at their afternoon session
adopted resolutions introduced by
Clarence J. Owens, of Washington,
past commander-in-chief of ‘the or
ganization. After calling attention to
the fact that the international rela
tions of the United States call for “the
highest and purest patriotism and the
loftiest statesmanship" and that in
' president Wilson, a son of the South,
the nation has a worthy leader, the
resolution was adopted.
THE CORDELE DISPATCH
FAIR PLANS ARE
WELL UNDER WAY
MASS MEETING MONDAY DECID
ED COUNTY FAIR FOR FALL. O.
~ T. GOWER IN CHARGE OF DE
TAILS.
Indications portku one of the most
successful county fair that has ever
bee.n held in Crisp next fall, and’sug
gestions and plans are being offered
for a number of features that will
especially mark it as a success.
Among the interesting events being
planned in connection with the fair
is a “home coming” or old settlers’
reunion.. As many of the original set
tlers of the city and county as pos~‘
sibly cah be reached by invitation
will be arranged for them in homes{
of the city and hotels while they are
here. l
At the mass meeting in the court
house Monday, O. T. Gower was made
chairman and plans were made for
the naming of a standing committee
to complete the details for the fair.
E. H. Hyman, W. Oliver and othersl
from Americus were present and urg
ed those who will have charge of Ihe!
county fair ta make plans to be rep
resented at the Third District fair
in Americus at a later date.
DUNLAP MADE FOREMAN
OF CRISP GRAND JURY
The Crisp County Grand Jury was
organized Monday morning and went
to the work that will have to be done
immediately. B. S. Dunlap was made
foreman of the body.
The work of appointing the vari
ous committees of the body was soon
done and it was only a short time
before business was being passed very
rapidly.
Atlanta Ga., May 14.—Robert B.
Blackburn, Atlanta lawyer, member of
the Georgia house of representatives
from Fulton county, chairman of the
rules committee of the house and
leader of the famous filibuster in op
position to the prohibition bills during
the extra session of the legislature last
fall announced in the Atlanta Sunday
papers, his candidacy for congress in
the fifth district in opposicon to Con
gressman William Schley Howard.
COMMENCEMENT 1S
WELL UNDER WAY
MUSIC AND EXPRESSION DE
PARTMENTS HAD SPLENDID
EXERCISES—MORE TO COME.
The entertainment at the school au
ditorium Tuesday night under the
directions of the music and expressicn
departments of the school, directed
by Misses Mildred Eakes and Jennie
Belle Jackson, was attended by an
audience that utilized the entire seat
ing capacity of the auditorium. About
seventy-five children took part on the
prdgram and alcquitted themselves®
with an ability that reflected credit
on themselves and those in charge of
their training. Each number was
roundly applauded.
Thursday night the class play “A
Corner of The Campus,” will be pre
sented by the graduating class. This
is to be an event of credit to the
school and worthy of a large audience.
It is to be a play full of ginger car
rying out a plot that will appeal to
all alike. There will be intermission
numbers among which will be a girls’
quartette composed of Misses Bula
Bivins, Ruth Roberts, Frederica ‘Boat
which promise to be equally as inter
rigth and Willie Belle Todd and a
boys’ quartette composed of Paul
Wilkes, William Webster, Leon Webb
and Joe Walters. An' admission of
25 cents will be charged.
The graduating ciass exercises,
esting as any the school has ever had,
will be held on Friday night.
FOR RECEPTION OF PRESIDENT
Charlotte, N. C., May 16.—Final ar
rangements have been completed for
the reception of President and Mrs.
Wilson Saturday morning as guests
of North Carolina and this city for
a few hours. The occasion is the one'
hundred and forty-first anniversary of ‘
the signing of the Macklenburg declar!
aticn of independence, a date cele
brated every year throughout the
state of North Carclina and by North
Carolina societies throughout the
United States.
i The Dispatch is showing the pret
tiest line of Engraved Social and Com
lmercial Staicnery ever seen in Geor
gia. Call and let us show you.
’ A little cough is frequentiy the warn
signal of tuberculosis.
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BICYCLE THIEVES BUSY;
& CLEVER STEALING DONE
There is an epidemic of bicycle
stealing in Cordele and within the
past two weeks more than half a doz
en bicycles have been stolen from
different parts of the city, some from
private homes, others from in front
of places of business where they
were left by their owners. It is
thought that the stealing is being done
by a gang of negro boys, and they
seem much on the alert. Several
men leaving the wheels on the
street curbing to go into a place of
business for only a few minutes have
come back to find that “bikes” have
disappeared. Two bicycles have been
stolen _from the telephone exchange
within the past two weeks.
The U. S. public healtl: -ervice has
proven that typhus is spread by lice.
YOUNG MAN LOSES
VALUABLE DIAMOND RING
Forgetful of the fact that he had in
one of his coat pockets a diamond ring
which cost him nearly $lOO.OO, H. A.
Pridgeon sent the suit to the pressing
club and several days thereafter re
membered his mistake only to make
a search which has thus far failed to
reveal where the diamond went. He
has made a close search and is yet
hopeful of finding the ring. He thinks
it possible that the mnegro boy who
had charge of the clothes might have
carlessly handled the suit so as to
let the ring drop in the street. Mr.
Pridgeon is now looking for the hon
est man who might have found it.
MODERN WOODMEN
MEET ON MONDAY NiGHT
The local camp, Modern Woodmen,
have changed their meeting nights
from Tuesday to Monday, and a reg
ular meeting of the camp will be held
next Monday night at 8 o'clock. All
members of the camp are urged to at
tend as there is business of impor
tance to come up. The degrees will
he conferred on a number of candi
dates.
The uniforms for the degree team
of the Modern Woodmen have arrived
and they will soon orginize for train
ing.
UNCLE SAM PLANS MAIL
DELIVERY BY AEROPLANE
.
Washington, May 17.—the postof
fice department will on Friday open
bids for carrving the mails by aero
plane on eight enumerated routes one
from Bedford, Mass., to Nantucket
and the other seven over mountains
in Alaska. It is expected that com
petitive bids will be filed and that
the plan will go through unless the
expense is prohibitive.
The postoffice chiefs are seeking a
way out of the dilemma of Ccrossing
the treacherous waters between Nan
tucket and the mainland and cross
ing the mountains of Alaska. Wind
velocities are high in all of the eight
routes for which the aeroplanes are
wanted. It appears that the wind and
cold are not feared by the experienc
ed aviator of today. Extremely dense
fog, it is understood, might bring
some delay in the service. '
THE CORDELE DISPATCH. WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 1916.
this picture shows. It was taken at
the Mally military c¢amp. The Rus-
iTOO MUCH AGITATION
" GEORGIA LYNCHINGS
JUDGE GEORGE ANSWERS CRIT
ICISM OF SUPERIOR COURT
JUDGES IN CHARGE TO CRIiSP
COUNTY GRAND JURY.
In his charge to the grand jury Mon
day morning Judge Walter teorge
stongly defended jthe superior court
judges as against the recent criticism
that has been rather general in ihe
press of the state with regard to
lynchings. He ‘went carefully into
the manner of handling the mob and
the difficulty of getting contempt ev
idence, declaring that it is as difii
cult to get the evidence to convict
for contempti as it is to get that
which would convict for taking part
in the lynching.
While he termed lawlessness with
regard to lynchings as atmospheric,
as in the very people, he said lynch
ing is no new problem and quoted
Webster and Lincoln in statements
where they long ago declared it one
of the ewils threatening to overthrow
the law, both north and south. The
community, now, he asserted, is dom
inated by forces that are for the mak
ing of good in spite of the fact that
the mob, in its elemental instinets is
uncurbed by law, and la.,wle’ssnesé, he
said, is not on the Ancrease, but is
decreasing, ‘eompared with the won
derful growth, and so it is with lynch
ing.
He charged the public press with
cerious error in dwelling all the time
on the evils of lynching. He said it
advertises us abroad and could do no
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cx-Speaker Joseph G. Cannon. |
When the House of Representatives
leld its little celebration of the Eigh-!‘
tieth birthday of Uncle Joe no one
took a greater interest than Speaker‘
Clark. Uncle Joe and Champ Clark
are old men now. Uncle Joe was al-!
most in at the birth of the Republi-j
sians are encamped here by the
thousands, and all ready for battle.
good and referred to the fact that the
papers of the state jump on the North
for public criticism instead of offer
ing some meritorious remedy for-the
evil.
Judge George gsaid the superior
court judges have not failed in their
duty to impress the awful rospoilsi
hility on the juries, and he told how
iong years ago the superior court
judges had laid the foundations for
temperance and prohibition by their
work before the juries. He believed
their efforts to stop lynching would
hear fruit.
Referring to the fact that the meth
od of electing the judges by the peo
ple has been openly criticised, he de
clared he believed the present plan
one in accord with the basis laws of
the land and said it was mnot bad
wrong so long as it permitted the peo
ple to have in their own hands this
much of their plan of self govern
ment. He declared the election of
the judges by the people to be based
on a proper principle and he helieved
that any other method could only be
come puerile and silly. He asserted
it as his belief that in time the fed
eral judges would themselves be
named for office by direct vote of the
people:
He said the whole question of the
disposition of the lynching evil de
pends upon enlightened and impar
tial men in the jury box. No one
grand jury is responsible, hie declar
od. The whole people need to know
the evils of lynchipg.
| Speaker Champ Clark.
can party, but Champ is not old
enough to have seen the Democratic
party born. They have fought each
other in the House for more than a
quarier of a century. But never has
there been .a time they were not
;personal friends.
OLD TIME SONGS
AGAIN TO FORE
CORDELE PRIMITIVE BAPTISTS
CHURCH PLANNING FOR ALL
DAY SINGING ON MAY 28.
There will be an all day singing at
the Primitive Baptist church in Cor
dele May 28. There will be no din
ner on the ground. All can bring bas
kets or attend the restaurants and
have a good time. All who have Gol
den Gospel Bells song boks should
bring them. everybody is invited on
this occasion. The people of Cordele
and surrounding counties have great
ly enjoyed the singing services that
have heen held at the Primitive Bap
tist church and the attendance has
been greatly increased from time to
time.
The services planned en this oc
casion will be so arranged as to give
the admirers of the old time songs
all they will want in the musical pro
gran.
WILSON PURCHASES
SHIPP RESIDENCE
R. L. Wilson, of Macon, Monday
closed a deal with Homer Shipp for
the purchase of his home, located on
Fourth avenue. Approximately $2,-
000 was the price paid.
Mr. Shipp will shortly begin the
construction of a residence on lots
recently purchased from Mryr. Wilson
in the Northern Heights section.
BRYAN COMING
T 0 LECTURE HERE
WILL DELIVER FAMOUS ADDRESS
“THE PRINCE OF PEACE,” HERE
UNDER THE AUSPICES OF LO
CAL D. A: R;
William Jennings Bryan will lec
ture in Cordele at the school audito
rium on the evening of May 29th. He
comes under the auspices of the lo
cal D. A. R., Fort Early chapter. His
subject will be “The Prince of Peace.”
This announcement will be receiv
ed by the people or the community
with no little interest and most of
them will make the most of the op
portunity. The lecture to be deliver
ed by the people of the community
er secretary of state is known the
world over. He will deliver this lec
ture by special request.
In the lexicon of health there is no
such word as “neutrality” against dis
eases.
McLELLAN STORE
SOON TOO BE READY
NEW STOCK OF GOODS BEING
RAPIDLY PLACED—AN ENTER
PRISE THAT IS A GREAT CRED
IT TO CORDELE.
The McLellan store is soon to have
a formal opening that will reveal an
other enierprise in Cordele that is a
distinet credit. The big store is be
ing rapidly filled with a line of goods
that for novelty, variety, taste and
usefulness cannot he beaten any
where in this section of Georgia. This
is a five and ten and twenty-fice cent
store that would be a credit to a city
of fifty thousand people.
Mr. Keller is busy placing the stock
of goods as they arrive and soon the
store will put in pretty show win
dows and brilliant lighting that will
make it easily one of the most at
tractive places in town.
On opening day each department
will have its special line of big val
nes and those who come to see the
new store will be given a starter that
will put th McLellan store on the
best of terms with the people over a
wide community.
GEOLOGIST SAY THE SOUTH
WAS ONCE UNDER WATER
Geologist tell us that during the
Rocene era, when the shores of the
Gulf of Mexico lay considerably fur
ther inland that at the present time,
a long baylike extension of the gulf
filled the present valley of the Mis
sissippi up to the mouth of the Ohio,
says a bulletin of the United States
geological survey.
NEGRO iS ELECTROCUTED.
Columbia, S. C., May. 14.—Joe
Grant, a negro convicted of - killing
Jesse Durst at Johnson, in 1906, and
who for almost three years fought
extradition from Philadelphia on the
ground that he would be lynched if
returned to South Carolina, was elec
trocuted today.
Delivered By Cairier
In City 5¢ Per Week
GEORGE WILL NOT
IJUDGE WALTER GEORGE GOING
; OFF BENCH AT END OF PRES
~ ENT TERM.
Judge Walter . George, in the
course of his charge to the Crisp coun
ty grand jury Monday, stated that he
would not again ask for the office he
now holds. He declared he knew his
own mind well enough on this matter
and would not be a candidate. It
will be some time before another
judge is to be selected for the place
Judge George now holds, but his
statement from the bench carried
with it no little surprise for his many
friends.
many times has it zeen stated this
vear that Judge George would be a
candidate for congress, but this, too,
has becn quited by his own assertion
that he would not ask for the place
now held by Congressman Charles R.
Crisp at the present time.
Judge George intends to retire to
a practice of the law in a way that
will prove less strenuous. He has
thousands of friends over the circuit
who will regret to know he is plan
ning to leave the benhh.
GRAY DAMAGE SUIT
' TRIAL IN SUPERIOR COURT
The case of Mrs. Mertie E. Gray
;ugaiust, the Georgia Southern & Flor
ida railway for alleged damages for
the death of Orien T. Gray who was
kiilled near Arabi about two years
ago, was called for trial in superior
court this morning. Whipple and Mc-
Kenzie, of this city and Ernest Da
vis of Camilla, represent the plain
tiff and J. E. Hall of Macon is counsel
for the road.
Untreated pellagra ends in insani
iy.
DIFFEE GINNERY
WILL BE BUILT
JUDGE GEORGE DISSOLVED IN
JUNCTION AND REQUIRED BOND
OF BUILDER—APPEAL PROMIS
ISES FURTHER FIGHT.
In a decision handed down Tues
day, Judge W. F. George of the su
perior court dissolved the restrain
ing order in the case of Mrs. Sallie O.
Perry et at vs. J. ‘M. Diffee, relative
to the construction of a ginnery on
Eighteenth avenue, between Eighth
street and the track of the G. S. & F.
railway, and denied further interloc
utcery injunction. The order of the
judge however, requires the defend
and J. M. Dicee (o give bond subject
to approval of the clerk of the court
cenditioned to rpay petitioners such
damage as they may recover in this
or any other case that may develop
as a consequence of the construction
of the ginnery.
The order of the judge is as fol
lows:
“Upon consideration the restrain
ing order heretofore granted in this
cause js dissolved and further inter
locutory injunction denied, on condi
tion that the defendant enter into a
good and solvent bond to be approved
by the clerk of this court, condi
tioned to pay the petitioners severally
such damages as they may in this or
other action brought upon the same
cause of action set forth in their pe
tition or for the alleged wrong there
in sought to be presented, recover of
the defendant. Ordered that this or
der be entered on the minutes of the
court. Heresay and argumentative
testimony not considered in reaching
this judgment. The plaintics szaving
made timely effcrt to prevent the erec
tion of this ginnery, the same will be
erected at defendant’s risk, and I see
no reason for refusing him the right
to improve his property subject to
the conditions herein stated and the
pewer in petitioners to abate his en
terprise, if it in fact proves a nuisance
‘“ W. F. GECRGE,
oS O @
The case will be filed for hearing
before a jury in the August term of
the superior court. M. M. Eakes, rep
resentative of the plaintiffs, is prepar
ing a bill of exccoticns to Judge
George’s decision to be presented the
court and asking for a supercedeas,
pending an appeal to the surreme
court. a
Whipple and McKenzie represent
Mr. Diffee in the case and indications
are that it will be hard fought through
out.
Mr. Diffee states that he will im
mediately begin work of construction
on the ginnery. He has already
placed some of the material on the
ground and has purchased the ma
ncinery, shipment of which will soon
bhe made.
NO. 9.