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Fntered as second class matter Januar y 8, 1916, at the post office at Cordele,
Georgia, under the Act of March 8, 1879.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF CRISP COUNTY.
RUSSELL C. HARRIS.
n the passing of R. (. Harri§ (lbr
dele gives to the grave one of the best
citizens within ‘4ts worders. He was
here so long and had so much to do
with the upbuilding of the business
community that no one could think of
it as a good community without includ
ing him as among those who made it.
He came here when the first stroke
was made that opened the yellow pine
wilderness. He saw the commercial
development of the community take its
infant beginning and lived with it,
worked side by side with the pioneer
¢itizens here and dia his part to make
it a bigger, better business center. He
gave-his life to a business that he
loved, to a business that had its share
in the wider development of a section.
that is now one of the richest in Geor
gia. Tlis handiwork will live after him
for he was a builder, The wheels of
commerce that go on turning will tell
of his skill and his effort.
Such a citizen must be missed. His
going takes from the community one
whose labors were constant and faith
ful every moment of his life was de
voted to his calling as truly and as
sincerely as ever the world could ask
of any man. He worked becanse he
loved to work. He enjoyed seeing his
mechanical skill put life into the cold
steel which he shaped for use.
And in every public interest he was
just as faithful and loyal. He was easy
to know a public good and enthusias
tic in his support of community uplift
and betterment. For years his fellow
townsmen had sought his advice inl
matters touching civic improvement
and what he thought of public matters
often decided the course to be follow
ed.
He will be missed for many years.
His life long friends and associates
who havé for a quarter of a century
worked side by side with him for the
good of Cordele will have his fine ex
ample of citizenship to inspire them
and encourage them in their future
labors. In life the whole community
admitted him as a voyal citizen. | In
death it marks his career as one of
noble manhood.
MOVE THE MONUMENT.
At the risk of getting into disfavor
with the ladies, The Disptach wishes
to urge that those who care much for
the value of human life should not
delay the duty of finding a more suitas
ble place for the Confederate monu
ment. That would be hard to do, were
it not for the danger {hat arises from
its being directly in the center of a
street intersection that is coming to
be more and more a great artery of
trafic. There has been more than
one automobile crushed at this point
and only last week a local citizen had,
to head directly for the monument
with his wife and little ones in his
car in order to prevent a crash with
another car where there was another
family whose lives would have been
endangered to have Kkept straight
ahead.
However much we may appreciate
the monument and its present site,
one day we will have to ask the ques
tion, do we appreciate human life more
than we value the pretty site? It will
be too late if we have to wait till some
body is killed. If last week's crash
had been a tragedy, we would have
been moving the monument this week.
Why wait till somebody loses his life
here?
The monument is in ‘“‘the middle of
the road,” coming and going two ways.
Neither street has been wid¢hed at
this point and the obstruction is going
to mean death sometime to the person
off guard or the person inclined to
take risks. This treasure of ours is in
our National Highway as well as in
the very center of tlie intersection of
two of our busiest streets. We have
a better place for it, if we would only
find it. The time to move it is now,
when it has not cost anybody's life.
_..The Dispatch knows well how to
appreciate this token of devotion to
the heroes of the South. We would
not be satisfied to see it in a less pub
lic place. It speaks too highly of the
loyalty of its founders. There is a
spot less dangerous and yet one where
its beauty can be fully as well dis
played.
{ LET US DO OUR BEST.
_’l‘omorrow and Friday the Woodmen
of the entire southern portion of the
state are to be guests of the people
of Cordele. With them are coming
many visitors, not Woodmen, but our
friends, people who come here to at
tend to business. Many of them are
going to make the visit serve for both
business and pleasure and the com
‘munity will be alive with thousands
who come simply for the pleasures
such an occasion always affords.
Local Woodmen and their friends
have worked hard for many weeks to
make a success of the Log Rolling oc
casion. They are going to be the hap
niest people among us if the two days
pass successfully and every visitor has
2 good time. They are deeply con
cerned, for as members of the order,
they are hosts to those of other coun
;ils in other portions of the state, and
hey want the visitors to enjoy the oc
casion,
There is not a citizen of the city
who is not bound to do his full duty
towards helping the local Woodmen
to make it a great time for the visi
tors. Hospitality has no bigger mean
ing anywhere than in Cordele. The
people will have it no other way. If
any part of the program miscarries,
it will not be due to a lack of effort
on the part of those who want the
occasion to be a success, but more
likely will be due to the immense
crowds who will be here if weather
permits.
But there is not going to be failure
anywhere. All the city will have full
opportunity to do its best and the best
is going to be done. No visitor will
be left to himself. We will be out
early in our “Sunday Clothes” and in
fine spirits ready with a warm hees
shake for every visitor and so full of
interest in his coming and his enjoy
ment of the occasion that he will find
it out in less time than it takes to tell
it.
Many strangers will ‘be here. IT-will
be their first visit. They must have
our best time and attention, for they
will speak of us when they are gone.
This is our one big opportunity. Let
us do our best.
MONEY FOR GOOD ROADS.
The federal government in the law
which became effective July 11 has
undertaken the huge task of assist
ing in building and improving the post
roads of tthe country by appropri'at
ing seventy-five millions of dollars to
be apportioned among the states qual
ified to take the use of the funds. Geor
gia has yet to qualiry by creating its
highway commission. The present ses
sion of the legislature is on that mat
ter apparently making the necessary
arrangements. Our portions will be
about two millions.
The federal aid we will have Wwill,
of course, not be as valuable to the
state as are the prisoners, because the
fund will not be equal to the services
of the prisoners, but both together
ought to make things hum in the di
rection of good roads.
Very few of the counties of the
state are now lagging in the road
building which has gradually assum
ed its proper value in the eyes of
the people. Crisp county is among
those early r)e:;l-iziuz the importance of
having good roads and as a conse
quence there are many miles of splen
did roads. The improvement is not
only creditable. It is marvelous.
But while we are recounting the
splendid work which has been done,
let us remember that what he have
accomplished is but a beginning. There
;is not a county commissioner or offi
lcial in Crisp who will deny the asser
tion that millions of wealth is to come
to us through the developmenrt of
our roads. Every public road ought
to be in even better condition than
our span of the National Highway is
at present. Our bridges should be
sybstantial and permanent and we
should have them where they are need
ed.
Our portion of the national futid, to
gether with the good work which is
being accomplished ' with the p'riéon
ers, ought to give us a bridge over
Flint river where we want it, good
bridges where they are needed else
where and a fine system of roads all
over the county. A wise distribution
of our revenues and the work of our
prisoners in the course of five or ten
years will almost double land values
all over the county. It. will hurry im
provenients everywhere with rapid
communication and ease of traffic.
A single county in California recent
ly voted bonds to the amount of three
millions of dollars for good roads.‘
Wouldn’t that kind of project jolt
some of us? They are after real high
ways. When we learn their value, we
will be building good roads on just
such a scale. Our growth is already
demanding tl;eln. |
WALKER'’S
BARBER SHOP
103 11th Avenue.
Hot and Cold Baths
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Suwanee Barber
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| G. W. RAINES, Prop.
I Sanitary Barber Shop—four
i first-class barbers. Fixtures and
! services most up-to-date.
CHOICE
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Fine lot, fine fla
vor. Breakfast deli
cacies of every
kind. IL,eave us
your orders.
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New Grocery Store
T. J. WHATLEY, Mgr.
PHONE 76.
g You can alwaya
tella T'ype LKlaxon. No
other signal lookslike it.
No other signal sounds
likeit. Itsloud,clear, far
carrying note belongs to
it alone. We will put
oneon your car ready to
sound for s2oo.
Klaxons are madeonly by
the Lovell-McConnell
Mfg. Co., Newark, N. J.
Like all standard articles
they are widely imitated.
To be sure, look for the
Klaxon name-plate.
700,000 are in use
Cordele Hardware Company
No. 666
This is a prescription prepared especially
‘or MALARIA or CHILLS & FEVEP,
Five or six doses will break any case, and
if taken then as a tonic the Fever will not
return. It acts on the liver better than
Calomel and does not gripe or sickea. 25¢
THE CORDELE . DISPATCH, WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1916.
DR. B. DANIEL
X-RAY '
. Electro-Therapeutics and
Internal Medicine
American National Bank Bldg.
TH@S. J. McCARTHUR, M. D.
“Special Attention to
Surgery and Gynaecology.
Cordele -, - - Georgia.
HUGH LA%SETER
Agtorney-At-Law
Farm“ Loans 6 per cent
Exchange Bank Bidg.
Cordele, Ga.
. L. L. DAVIS
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Farm Loans 6 per cent
Quick Service
v Cordele - - - Georgia.
MAX. E. LAND
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Office Over Old Postoffice
Prompt Attention Given To All
Business
D. A. R. Crum J. Gordon Jones
CRUM & JONES
ATTORNEYS AND COUNSEL
' LORS AT LAW
1-2 3 Raines and Oliver Building
Cordele - - - Georgla.
DR. J. C. PATTEN
= DENTIST
MéEArthur’s Old Stand Over
Williams Drug Co.
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you can buy it here at the lowest possible prices, and you . ; :
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VIOLATION OF LIQUOR LAW
COSTS TiHIS MAN $l,OOO
Macon, July 13.. R. H. Borders en
tered a rlea of guilty yvesterday in the
city court of Macon fer violation of
the prohibition law, and was fined
$l,OOO or twelve month. The fine was
paid.
Machinery is being used for trench
digging in some of the Canadian camps
Woomen and Friends!
If a Good Meal Will Help You to Enjoy
- This Gala Occasion, we Can |
Furnish the Meal
The season’s bestf‘t.o eat, prepared and served
in the best of style. Only Western Meats served.
We have arranged especially to accomodate the
Woodimen, their ladies and friends. S
WE WILL SATISFY |YOU N
Greek:American Restaurant \
DAVE WELLS CAPTURES RAT
TLERS-ON HIS RIVER FARM—
KILLED 35 LAST YEAR. g i
Dave Wells, a prominent farmer of J
lCrisp, whose farm borders the Flint
,i‘iver, Tuesday broughgt into the city
the skin of a big rattler. The high wa
ters of the past weeks have driven
'the snakes from the lowlands in large
numpers and during last week Mr.
Wells killed three rattlers on his farm,
the largest of which measured about
six feet and had twelve rattlers. That
displayed by him here has ten rat-}
tles, and the third one was smaller.
All of the snakes were killed‘by.shoot-‘
iny. :
Last year thirty-five were killed on
this same farm. Mr. Wells secured
good prices for some of the ‘skins, d
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