YOU MUST DEFEND YOUR OWN HOMES! -
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The Mexican Bandits are invading New Mexico, the United States--YES, even invading Georgia, -
and if not checked will make Sherman’s raid look like a mole hill by the side of a mountain. 'We
must destroy every possible Fort that they will seek to inhabit ere they reach our own homes.
Preparedness is the world slogan of today. Congress is doing all in its power, not only in words,
but by mobilizing troops and munitions, which must all come to naught unless backed by our own
individual preparedness. , S
Will you come to the rescue by making this slogan a reality? Although Carranza has not de
clared war, the Mexican Bandits are today giving the United States a great deal of concern by
invading our country and fighting from the bush, which not only deprives us of our individual
homes and plantations, but is costing the United States millions of dollars. The United States ‘
with all its army cannot guard each home. But you, Mr. Farmer, can protect your own home and
lands as well as the loved ones depending on you for protection, by fortifying yourself with proper
munitions of war, which can be had from a well known firm in your midst. = | , -
The Mexicans we refer to are the much heard of well known MEXICAN BOLL WEEVIL. Their strongest Forts are the ’
stumps that are in your cotton fields today. Consult the best authorities of today and they will tell you that the best
method of exterminating the 801 l Weevil is to CLEAN UP and the way to clean up is to PULL UP, for you, Mr. Farmer, are
in greater danger of owning a devastated and worthless farm than the United States is in danger of losing any territory
to the Mexican armies. | e o L :
We offer the BEST STUMPING CUTFITS sold on the American continent today. They are the WILLIAMSON
and the MONARCH. Let our munitions fight your battle. Our terms will enable every |
energetic farmer to own one of our machines. . , -
it D e ee i i eLS e
CAI.T: ON OR VWRITIE: :
WILLIAMSON STEEL STUMP PULLER COMPANY &eorcia’
' . GEORGIA
4 -30,000 FOR 650 BALES.
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F Thomasville, July 14.—L Steyerman
of this city sold today 650 bales of cot
ton, which netted him in the neigh
borhood of $30,000. The cotton was
sold to a representative of the Brown,
Cramer company.
We Take Care of the Burglar
Insure with us against Burglary, Fire and Accident
and be safe—we go on your bond.
J. E. LINDSEY & COMPANY
Office over Cordele National Bank Phone 475
Will H. Thornton Dray Line
Heavy Hauling a Specialty
When it is your move remember the name.
It will pay you. Quick service.
Moderate charge.
WILL H. THORNTON DRAY LINE
DO YOU KNOW WHAT’S SO
All the Ladies in Town are Talking
About it--It’s a Fact--It Must be-- .
That The Red Cross Drug Store
Drinks Can’t be Excelled--Sundaes,
Sodas, Ice Cream, the Best in Town ;
Yes, we sell evervthing in the way of
Perfumes, Toilet Preparations
and Stationery
Oders Taken for Kinnett’s Velvet Ice Cream
to be Delivered on Quick Notice
The Store With The Minute Service
JUST CALL 125, THAT'S ALL
HOGS ARE INOCULATED.
Tifton, July 14.—Tift county farm.
ers are having their nogs inoculated
against cholera as fast as possible.
'('mmfy Demonstrator Watson and
Farm Superintendent Owen at the
agricaltural school inoculated 550
Tuesday and have made many more en
gagemants,
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time of misfortune is woman’s mission
in the grove of the Woodmen Circle.
Some Facts.
Since the organization of the Wood
men Circle, the order with its sacred
coin has achieved as follows: Paid
out to bless the homes of loved ones,
$5,000,000, or $263,111.%0 per year. It
has erected about 5,000 monuments
over the sleeping dust of its deceased
members at a'cost of $lOO each, total
$500,000. It has readily met every
claim and not one of its sacred dead
sleeps in an unmarked and unkept
grave. It has today a surplus and
emergency fund of about four and one
half million dollars. On January 1,
1915, its membership was as follows:
Total number of groves, 3,956; total
number of members, 145,105.
In the state of Georgia we have
2,000 members, and during the past
two years only, we have paid out
15513.183.30 and erected 21 monuments
at a cost of $2,100.00. The first grove
organized in the siate is Savamlah‘
Grove No. 1, organized April, 1898, at
Savannah, Ga., by Mrs. Newton Phil
lips now of Atlanta.
What a glorious achievement! The
| Woodmen Cirele has completely dem
!m\s(mled what organized womanhood
lcan do for humanity—fraternally so
cially and Inancially. Let the heads
of all men be bared and bowed as this
host of noble, sensible, earnest and
devoted women, who have and are do
ing so much, pass in review. May the
Isweot dews of God’s approbation fall
| upon these redolent, thornless flow
ers in His garden of humanity, for
llhvy walk up earth as angels among
men, to brighten and to bless.
[ MRS. MINNIE VANN-MURRAH.
| Mrs. Minnie Vann-Murrah, the Grand
i(}uardiun of the Woodmen Circle of
!llu\ jurisdiction of Georgia, bears the
E(listinction of being the only lady in
ilhv state that has been honored with
;:\ Sovereign office.
} She was born and reared in the old
ihismriv city of Savannah, Ga., married
‘and moved to Valdosta, and later to
Texas where she became affiliated
!\\-ith the Woodmen Circle and re
ceived all the honors they could be
stow upon her.
On account of her husband’s health
she moved back to Madison, Fla., (his
former home), at which ‘place the cold
icy finger of death claimed her com
panion.
Being left in the cold world alone,
she felt the need of sympathy and
care which her woodcraft sisters
could and would render her under
THE CORDELE DISPATCH, WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1916.
these trying conditions. Knowing the
beautiful tenets of the order and the
many virtues it contained, together.
with the necessity of a Circle to be in
every town, she proceeded-at once to
organize a Circle in her home town.
After laboring in the forest for some
time daily searching for desirable tim
ber, she succeeded in building a nice
Circle within her midst, and later rep-‘
resented that circle at the state con
vention in Tampa, Fla. , in 1909, at
which session she was elected as a
state officer of the Florida Jurisdic
tion.
The value of her work soon drew
the attention of the supreme officers
and she was asked to go to Valdosta
and plant the seed of woodcraft in
that city, which she succeesfully did
and organized Mitchell Grove No. 18.
+ - The sucgess of her labors and the
necessity of her services was so bad
ly needed in Georgia, that she resign
ed her position in Florida and was
made a deputy in Georgia.
At the Head Camp Convention
which met in Columbus, Ga., in 1911
she was elected Grand State Guardian
‘and also honored by being elected Su
j preme Delegate, and in June, 1911, rep
resented the Woodmen Circle of Geor
gia at the Supreme Convention in Ro
chester, N. Y., with credit to herself
and the state organization.
| So well was the state represented
by Mrs. Murrah that at the next state
‘cnnvention which met in' Thomasville
in 1913, she was again elected as their
leader and also returned as a dele
gate to the Sovereign Head Camp in
Jacksonville, Fla. It was at this meet
ing that she was appointed as one of
the five on the Supreme Law Bench.
At the coming convention here, Mrs.
Murrah can deliver the “Beetle” of au
thority over to her successor with a
clean and untarnished record; and one
of which the Circle may boast.
When we look over the result of her
work we can but see why she has been
Jso greatly honored. Out of 445 mem
' bers initiated in 1914 she secured 301
of them; 14 Groves built during the
same year, and she planted 12. The
number of Groves in the state at the
lbvginning of 1913 was 102. Since then
inearly 100 member have been added
‘and five new Groves planted. The
growth of the Circle has been wonder
ful during her admintstration.
In October, 1914, Mrs. Vann, (as shel
Iwas then known), located a tree in the }
forest that appeéaled to her so dearly[
;that she succeeded in transplanting |
‘the tree in her own household andl
claim it for her own, which act caus-.!
ed the sign over the deor to be chang-’
ed from Vann to Mrs. F. L. Murrah.
Should she pass on through thel
chairs and: lay aside the honors of
others who may take up the work
where she left off, she will then have
the distinction of being the first “Past
Guardian” of the state, and can look
back over her stewardship with pride
and know she did her work well, and
for whick, we the Woodmen of the
World feel proud. i
ROTARIANS AT CinCINNATI
TO EAT GECRGIA MELONS
Atlanta,, July 11.—One thousand spe
cially selected Georgia watermelons
will tickfe the palate of delegates to
the annual convention of the Interna
tional A ssociation of Rotary Clubs
which mieet this week at Cincinnati.
‘They wele bought by the Atlanta Ro
tary Reitary Club and will be distri
buted &t Cincinnati by the Rotary
Clubs ¢ f Atlanta, Augusta, Savannah,
Macon, and Rome, all of whom are
joining together.in an effort to bring
the ne::t annual convention of the in
ternational association to this city.
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BULL()CH MELON CROP LARGE.
Statosboro, July 14—This is the
best ‘vzatermelon season the Bulloch
county’ growers have had in several
vears. +he fruit is the largest and
choic2 st obtainable and there are
more lbuyers in Statesboro than have
ever tiean at any one time. Supt. S.
T. Grimshay of the Savannah and
States horo railroad, who has made a
careful estimate of the crop, states
that t here will be fully 700 cars and
the movement will continue briskly
until August 10.
EP{IDEMIC RAGES UNCHECKED
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Netar York, July.ll.—Rain and cooler
weatlier today failed to check the in
fantilen paralysis epidemic. There have
been 238 deaths since its inception 2
weeks; aga. There were 14 deaths in
24 hoars ending at 10 o’clock this
mornirag. There were 10 new cases.
Ther> were 30 new cases in Manhat
tan, tl 2 largest reports there in any
single day.
STEA MER OFF FLORIDA
GIVEN UP FOR LOST
TR T ;
. Key West, Fla., July 14.—The steam
‘er R 1: 10s and its crew of fifteen were
given up for lost today when efforts
to get into wireless commumication
with « e ship was made by other ves
sels art 1 51l failed to get any response.
Most ©f us can realize what blamed
fools the other fellows are. .
FRANCE ARRANGES
$100,000,000 LOAN
Additional evidence of the defermi
nation of France- to carry the war
against Germany to a decisive termin
ation regardless of cost, was fumished'
last evening in official announcement
of the completion of negotiations of
by the French government with Amer- |
ican bankers for a new loan of $lOO,-l
000,000, says the New York Herald of «
Friday. / |
This loan is to supplement France’s '
half of the $500,000,000 left last fall |
by American bankers and investors to
the government of Great Britain and
France jointly. As in that- case, the
proceeds of the new accommodation‘
‘are to be expended entirely in the
Unitd States for munitions manufac
turd here. : . “
In connection with the new loan
Amerisan bankers have taken a step
novel to American financing and one
which indicates the progress the
United States is making in the world
’finance. Instead of lending the mon
ey direct to France or underwriting
the loan and offering it directly to in
vestors here they mnave adopted a
method better known in London and
Paris, hitherto the great lenders offer
ed for the organizZation of a corpora
money to the world, and have arrang
tion to carry out the transaction. This
body is to be known as the American
Foreign Securities Company. It is to
have a capital of $10,000,000, subscrib
ed by the group of bankers which ar
ranged for the loan, and will have at
its head Mr. Robert Bacon, at one
time United States Ambassador to
France and prior to that a member of
the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co.
CHEESE AND SILKS SENT
TO THE UNITED STATES
Berne, July 15.—s Swiss exportation
to the United States shows large in
creases in several articies, particul
arly cheese, condensed milk, watches,
silks and embroideries.
HUGE CONCERN GETS CHARTER.
‘ Savannah, Ga., July ¢.—Secretary of
State Fhilip Cook has granted a char
ter to the Southland Steamship com
pany, of Savannah. The charter is
for one hundred years and the capi
tal stock authorized is for five million
dolNlars. Those who petitiored for the
charter are: George P. Walker, Geo
rge F. Armstrong, Robert W. Groves
and Henry D. Strachan, of Savannah,
and D. F. M. Strachan, of Bruaswick.
The Woodmen women have their
“circles.” ‘
DR BURROWS RESIGNS
° . PASTORATE AT AMERICUS
Arerim‘ July 18.—Dr. Lansing Bur
rows for seven and one-half years pas
tor of the First Baptist church at
Americus, resigned this morning with
his request that it become effective im
mediately. It was formally accepted by
the church. Dr. Burrows toolg the step
\under advice of physicians. He will
‘retain the presidency of the Southern
Baptist convention and Sunday school
class, together with other church
work and extensive writings. '
. Dr. Burrows has been in active min
istry for over forty-niné years and the
church regretted to lose his active
‘services as pastor. The' Americus
‘church has not yet called a minister
Ito succeed Dr. Burrrows. °
IF YOU ARE GOING AWAY.,
Don’t take too many clothes.
Yes, it is possible to have too many
—and they are a burden and a nui
sance. .
Be sure to take comfortable shoes
if your trip includes walking and éight
seeing—the most beautiful scenery
loses much of its' beauty if you are
not comfortable. \
For any kind of an ocean trip take
a wrap—except in ‘the most distant
tropics it is alwsys cool at night.
RECEIVE $75,000,600 ¢
FOR THIS YEAR’S WORK
Washington, July 18.—American
sheep raisers will receive about $75,-
000,000 for this year's wool crop, the
department. of agriculture announced
today. Average prices during June
were 28.7 cents a pound, higher than
for many years.
The average weight of a fleece of
wool is 6.92 pounds and the country
annually produces 37,000,000 fleeces.
The weight of fleeces has been increas
ed year by year, according to depart
ment figures.
WAYCROSS WISHES TO
ENTERTAIN METHODISTS
Waycross, Ga., July 15.—That Way
cross may be among the cities extend
’ing an invitation to the South Geor
gia Methodists for wne 1917 confer
ence at this year’s conference at
Thomasville is probable. It has been
many years since Waycross enter
tained the conference and in the
event it is decided to ask for the 1917
meeting Waycross people as a whole
will endeavor to make the Waycross
conference long remembered.
