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VOL. Vill.
THIRD YEAR W. A. HOLT HAS
BEEN FIRST COTTON GROWER
IN CRISP TO SHOW NEW SEA
SON PRODUCT.
f‘or the: third consecutive year W.
A. Holt, a well known farmer of the
Arabi community, has won the honor
of giving Cordele its first bale of cot
ton for the season. Several other
bales of the 1916 crop have been
ginned and marketed there. A number
of other bales have been ginned in oth
er parts of the county.
The first bale was brought in by Mr.
Hglt Thursday morning. In order to
maintain his record of the past two
years; he got an early start from his
farm and arrived in the city with his
bale shortly after midnight Wednes
day. It was ginned by the Empire
Cotton Oil company, weighed 535
pounds and when placed on the mar
ket was sold to the Brown-Cramer Cot
ton company for 15.30 per pound. The
staple graded well, especially in view
of the recent hea\}y rains. 1t was
placed at the combress of the Cordele
Compress gompany.
The second bale was brought in
Thursday morning from the farm of
P. S. Barber. It was also ginned by
the mpire Cotton Oil Company and
housed at the Ryals' Warehouse com
pany. On the same day a bale grown
by Walker Christopher, a negro, on
the farm of J. F. Cannon, was ginned
al Hatley and still another bale was
ginned o nthe same day at McKenzie's
Siding.
The cessation of the heavy rains
during the past week and the warm
sunshine following has opened the cot
ton rapidly, and picking is nmow gen
eral in all parts of the country. A
number of bales were ginned Friday
and Saturday and sold in the local
market. Cotton wagons are arriving
in close succession and it will only be
a few days before the ginneries will
be in full operation and the cotton
movement will be in full swing.
DORRIS T 0 RUN
MAKES FORMAL ANNOUNCEMENT
TO SUCCEED HIMSELF. NO OP
POSITION HAS SHOWN UP—MAY
BE UNOPPOSED.
Hon. W. H. Dorris formally announ
ces in this issue of The Dispatch for
re-election to the office of Represen
tative of Crisp county in the legisla
ture. Mr. Dorris determined upon
making the race several weeks ago and
stated then that he would make his
formal ‘announcement in a short time.
There is no opposition as yet.
Representative Dorris arrived home
Saturday morning to spend the week
end and will return to Atlanta Monday.
There is sufficient time, in his opin
ion, says Mr. Dorris, for the legislature
to give proper consideration to all of
the important measures now pending
before the séssion comes to a close.
MRS. QUILLIAN IS GONE TO
PURCHASE ROOBIN'S MILLINERY
Mrs. Mary Quillian left yesterday
for New York and the eastern mar
kets in the interest of buying for L. J.
Roobin’s millinery depzrtment the fall
and winter stock of millinery and la
die’s ready-to-wear and other novel
ties such. as are now being shown iu
the swell fashion centers of the lar
ger cities.
Mrs. Quillian will have her unusual
good taste and good buying judgment
to serve her on this trip and her wide
experience in the line she represents
will enable her to bring back for
Roobin’s a stock that will in every
way be in keeping with the latest fash
ions of the great fashion-making cen
ters.
Her purchases will enable the L. J.
Roobin store to offer the buying pub
lic in Cordele just the kind and va
riety of goods that the purchaser
would get shopping in the larger cities.
Mrs. Quillian’s good taste and Roobin’s
promising low prices will enable the
ladies of Cordele and this section to
get the very best and the latest fash
ions that could be gotton for the fall
of 1916.
NINETY-ONE STOOD.
% CRISP TEACHERS EXAMS.
. Teachers examinations for county
schools were held at the public school
building Friday. The examinations
were in charge of Superintendent J.
W. Bivins, and were taken by forty
one applicants. At the colored public
school there were fifty applicants who
stood the axaminations.
THE CORDELE DISPATCH
BADLY NEEDED
TRAVEL ACROSS FLINT RIVER
HAS BEEN CUT OFF FOR TWO
' WEEKS AND THE NEED OF A
~ BRIDGE AT HUGUENIN’S COMES
FTO THE FORE AGAIN.
- Increased importance has attached
jto the movement for the construction
of a bridge spanning Flint river at Hu
guenin’s Ferry on account of the rains
of the past several weeks. Renewed
interest is felt by the general public,
or at least that part comprising citi
zens of Cordele and Crisp county who
have had occasion to look after bus
‘ness on the other side of the river.
The same interest is felt by a large
‘population on the other side of the riv
er who have occasion to travel on this
side. ‘lt is an interest prompted by
difficulties, sometimes serious and
near-fatal, encountered in attempting
‘to travel, or not being able to travel
‘at all, between points divided by the
river. i
The ferry has been rendered practi
cally useless during the rainy season.
The river has been swollen far out
of its banks, and the ferry ropes have
been submerged most of the time,
making passage not only very danger
ous but utterly impossible.” The cur
rent has been so swift that, even
though vehicles could reach the fer
ry from either side, the danger has by
no means been eliminated.
While it has been impossible for
other vehicles to make the trip be
tween points across the river, per
sons who were compelled to make such
trips and who found it suited to their
best purpose to travel by automobile,
in many instances were forced to go
more than a hupdred miles out of the
direct route. For insiance, travel be
tween Cordele and Americus had to go
by way of Albany. The roads to Al
bany are passable, but from there to
Americus is a trip through mud, slush
and water, attended by difficulties of
being frequently “struck.” Persons
who made such a trip can fully appre
ciate the advantage that travel would
have with a bridge across the river
at Hugeunin’'s and they are doubtless
strong advocates now more than ever
of the movement to have a bridge
censtructed. .
While some of the wooden bridges
across the river at different points in
this section have been undermined or
washed away by the swollen stream,
there is not a steel structure spanning
the river that has been damaged, and a
steel bridge at Hugeunin’s would with
stand all of the high water that the
river might reach at that point.
MUST NOT MOVE EXPLOSIVES
New York, Aug. 2.—Drastic action
was taken by the city commissioners
of Jersey City late today to make im
possible a recurrence of such disaster
as the fire and explosion on Black Tom
island early Sunday morning. The com
missioners adopted a resolution order
ing the removal and exclusion from
the city of freight cars laden with high
explosives. This step was taken after
it had been found that federal and
state authorities were powerless to act
under existing laws. .
The railroads were given twenty
four hours’ notice to obey the require
ments of the resolution.
The death list was increased to five
tonight when Patrolman James Doher
ty, of the Jersey City department ,suc
cumbed to internal injuries caused by
being buried under tons of debris.
FRANKLIN COUNTY FARMERS
"CAME ON PROSPECTING TOUR
J. J. and F. D. Andrews, L. H. and J.
T. Smith ‘and E. J. Minion of Carnes
ville, Franklin county were in Cordela
Thursday and Friday looking for farm
ing interests which will enable them to
locate here the coming year.
J. J. Andrews secured a farm suita
ble for his needs and will come at the
end of the season to take up his res
idence in Crisp. All the prospectors
are enterprising, hard working citizens
of Franklin county and they were giv
en a warm welcome here and through
out the county. They were elated at
the condition of Crisp county farms.
BIG RATTLER QN DISPLAY; |
SEVILLE NEGRO TOOK HIM|
A negro living on the farm of George !
Taylor near Seville, displayed at the |
Louis Miller store the skin of a dia
mond back rattler Friday which meas
ured seven feet in length. The snake‘
had fif‘een rattles and was Kkilled on‘
the Taylor farm Thursday. It was in
its coil beneath a peanut vine in the
immediate . vicinity of where several,‘
negroes were at work and appear&l
ready to strike when it was discovered |
by a dog. A gun was secured and the
snake was shot. |
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Photographs passed by the censor
of the War Department in Washington
indicate that General Pershing is pre
paring for a long stay at Colonia Dub
lan. These pictures show troopers
~ GREEX-AMERICAN
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CONTRACTOR LITTLE NOW BUSY
MAKING EXTENSIVE IMPROVE
MENTS AT RESTAURANT A HAND
SOME DINING ROOM.
Improvements that will cost a hand
some sum are under way at the Greek:
American . restaurant. A new plate
glass front, set 'up on a foundation of
Genuine marble will be installed; wall
mirrows will be installed at heavy
cost and wainscoating of Georgia mar
ble will also be provided. The fixtures
will be new_throughout, and especially
will the electric lighting facilities be
improved.
The restaurant will be renovated
throughout and converted into one of
the most modern dining places in the
city, its appearance being entirely
changed and the service made of the
highest type. Alex Chacknen and An
gel Chades are two enterprising and
progressive restauranteurs who Dbe
lieve in keeping pace with the times.
PYTHIANS IN SESSION
Portland Ore. Aug. I.—The supreme
lodge Knights of Pythias began it§
twenty-ninth biennal convention here
today and carried out a program that
kept the members busy from early
morning until late at night. In con
junction ‘with the supreme lodge, the
supreme temple, Pythian Sisters, and
the grand lodge of Oregon also called
their conventions to order.
L At the joint assembly which opened
today, which wasr open to both mem
bers and friends, addresses of welcome
were delivered by Governor Withy
combe and Mayor Albee. Executive
}sessions followed, and in the afternoon
'a monster Pythian parade was held,
}which was participated in by Uniform
'Rank, Knights of Khorassen, grand
Ilodge and subordinate lodges. The
drill teams of the varfous lodges gave
a military appearance to the parade.
~ Tonight at a general gathering of
Knights and ladies, Walter B. Richie,
of Illinois, past supreme chancellor,
repeated an address which he deliver
ed at the golden jubilee of the order
on “Pythian Lesson of Friendship.”
FIOODS !N THE SOUTH
DEPRESSED FARMERS
Washington, August 4.—The farm
ing element in the sixth district is in
a depressed mood over the conditic{T™
following the stormis and continuous
rains for the past few weeks, and bus
iness conditions in.general have been
considerably disturbed. Most of the
damage done has largely been in the
states of Alabdma and Georgia, with
Alabama probably the greater suffer
er. The flood damage throuéhout the
section was confined to the crops and
physical properties, with very small
loss of life. o
THE CORDELE DISPATM H, SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 1916.
practising running for a deep trench
they have dug near their tents. These
trenches have been so placed that in
case of a surprise attack by Mexi
cans the men could easily run to
SERMONS ON DUTY.
Special Subjects for Sunday Evening
Sermons at Methodist Church
During Month of August.
Special attention is called to the se
ries of sermons to be preached by Rev.
Walter Anthony, pastor First Metho
dist church, at the evening hours dur
ing the month of August.
Beginning Sunday evening, August
6, a series of four sermons on the gen
eral theme “Duty” will be preached at
the eight o’clock service. The series
as announced touches upon four great
fundamentals of Christian life:
August 6. 8 p. m.—“My Duty as a
Home-Maker.” -
August 13, 8 p. m.—"“My Duty as a Cit
izen.” o
August 20, 8§ p. m.—“My Duty as a
Church Member.”
August 27, 8 p. m.—“My Duty as an
Individual.” ' “
The series promises 1o be filled with
more than ordinary interest and will
no doubt be heard by splendid congre
gations. % T &
Morning subject, August 6, 11 a. m.,
“Forgotten ‘Vows.” . . .
The other ministers of the eity be
ing_ out of town during the. month of
August, Mr. An,thony. freely offers his
services to the "people of the town as
a whélé,.irrespective of denomination
al affiliation, in any of the sickness or
sorrow which may attend them. .
He has asked the f)ispatch especial
ly to add that “unusual inducements
and facilities will be offered by him
to love-sick young couples who may
need his services in a matrimonial ca
pacibys - ! sk i
WALTERS HIERS GOES TO
~ NEW FILM CORPOKATION
Friends in Cordele of Walters Hiers
will be interested to learn that on Au
gust 1 he severed his connection with
the Thanhouser Film Corporation to
sign up with the Frohman Amusement
Corporation, releasing for the Hearst
International Film Service. His first
picture was started on Wednesday, the
title being “The Conquest of Canaan,”
by Zooth Tarkington. Hiers supports
Miss Fudith Taliferro the popular Broad
way. star, playing tlis part of Norman
Wiiteroft.. The picture is being pro
duced in seven reels.
VISITOR SUFFERS FROM.
APPENDICITIS ATTACK
An operation for appendicitis was
performed Thursday afternoon on Miss
Offenberg, of Ohio, who has been the
guest of her sister, Mrs. W. H. Offen
berg, for some weeks. She was at
tacked only a few days ago. The op
eration ‘was performed at the Cordele
Sanitorium, ‘and latest reports are that
the patient is improving rapidly.
Argentina imported 1,000 thrashing
machines during year ending March
1, 1916, a record importatino. The
1915 s:atistics showed 'a total impor
tation of 627 thrashers, which was 546
more than in 1914.
cover. The lower picture shows the
troopers at work building adobe
foundations for their tents. The
wall are being constructed in a form
good enough for long occupation.
THE ONLY THING UNDER THE
SUN THAT DECREASED IN PRICE
FOR THE YEAR IS THE IMMUTA
BLE JOHN HENRY.
If “insects of the road” is indicative
of numbers as applied to Fords, then
new meaning will attach durifig the
next year. The price of Fords is go
ing down and the number of Ford
owners is going up and will be increas
ing by leaps and buunds as soon as
the cotton movement is well under
way and the farmers get well “on their
feet” again. Of course, the increased
sales of Fords is not confined altogeth
er to farmers, though this class is be
coming a more common user of this
car than any other class.
The Ryals Motor company, sales
agents, and the Cordele Motor Car
company, distributors for this section,
announce a reduction of $BO on tour
ing cars and $45 on runabouts from
the previously existing prices during
the current year.
LOCAL LUMBER.-CONCERN
ON BIG JOB AT LESLIE
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The Crisp county Lumber company
has been awarded the contract for ad
ditions and improvements to be made
to the public school buildings at Les
lie. J. L. Barrow has been placed in
charge of the construction work by
the company and has gone to Leslie
to begin work.
COOPER GOES TO ACCEPT
POSITION IN MACON
R. T. Cooper, who has been connect
ed with the Walker barber shop until
a few days ago, has accepted a position
in Macon, and left for that city Friday.
Mrs. Cooper and children expect to
leave Monday to visit relatives at For
syth before joining him in Macon.
NO END TO COME UNTIL
COLD WEATHER BEGINS
New York, Aug. 4.—Health Commis
sioner Emerson says he predicts 5,500
cases of infantile paralysis here and
that the epidemic will not be controll
ed before cold weather. More chil
dren of the well-to-do than underfed
children are suffering from the dis
ease. A conference of physicians from
throughout the country was begun
here today.
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* CQTTON MARKET *
* The New York future market *
* took a leap of 24 points Saturday *
* gyer Friday’s close. January 14.33; *
* March 14.46; August 13.88; Octo- *
* her 14.03; December 14.24. .
* Local market: Good middling, *
* 13 1-4; fully- middling 13; Middling *
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CAR LEFT IN STREET IN FRONT
OF HOME TAKEN AND CARRIED
AWAY BEFORE OWNER COULD
EFFECT CAPTURE.
Wednesday night a Ford touring car,
belonging to O. S. Bazemore was stol
en from in front of his home on Elev
enth avenue. The car was practically
new, having been purchased only a
few days before.
The theft was perpetrated about
10 o’clock and the thief or thieves
cranked up the machine and made a
get-a-way under the drowning noise
of a freight train which was pulling
into the yards of the Atlanta, Birm
ingham & Atlanti¢ railway, the track
running in close proximity at the rear
of the Bazemore home.
Mr. Bazemore, realizing the possi
bility of the machine being stolen, be
fore retiring removed three of the coil
units from the magneto box. However,
the thief or thieves seemed thorough
ly familiar with the circumstances and
were prepared for this emergency. O.
H. Hammack had left his Ford stand
ing in his yard at his home on Four
teenth avenue. Three of the coil units
were removed from his car and were
doubtless used in perpetrating the
theft of the Bazemore machine. Par
ties !iv ng next door to the Bazemore
home heard the noise of the motor as
the car was cranked up and run off,
but did not suspect theft at the time.
LAYING LAW FOR
~ SISTER SKEETER
MORE CLEAN-UP ADVICE FOR
THOSE WHO HAVE TO SUFFER
FROM MOSQUITOES IS GIVEN BY
SANITARY DEPARTMENT.
The mosquito we have with us much
ly. Their presence is a topic of gen
eral conversation. The continual rains
have caused them to multiply with
great rapidity, and the worries of the
sufferers from this pest have increas
ed.
The advice of Sanitary Inspector
Bussey is to get rid of old tin cans
about the yards, by driving a hole
through the bottom after the cans are
used to prevent their holding water.
There is entirely too much standing
water everywhere. That makes mos
quitoes.
To have a general cleaning, remove
the weeds from the premises, rake
them up and place them where the
sanitary wagons can get them would
help wonderfully, according to Sani
tary Inspector Bussey. }
He is making a city-wide campaign
in order to have the work of removing
the weeds accomplished with expedi
ency, as the longer the weeks remain
for shelter and breeding placs for the
mosquitoes, the less possible it will
be to cope with them.
TIFTON OFFICER SHOT;
HIS ASSAILANT KILLED
Tifton, August 4.—Officer J. R. Kim
brough, of the Tifton police, was shot
and dangerously wounded by a des
perate negro at 8:45 o'clock last night,
lthe‘hu]let entering the officer’s mouth,
ranging downward and lodging back of
the jugular vein. :
Officer Kimbreugh was patrolling
the Atlantic Coast Line railroad yards
on the lookout for two escapes from
the Worth county chaingang, when he
saw the negro jump from a freight car
standing in the yards. He caught the
negro by the belt and began question
ing him, when the negro pulled a pis
tol from his pocket and opened fire.
There were four shots, but only one
took effect. Kimbrough fell and the
negro ran. ‘
l The officer, thinking that the negro
| would try to get away on the same
train, wired the officer between Tifton
and Waycross to look out for him. Of
ficer Stevens, of Norwood, twenty-five
miles west of Waycross, was on the
lookout, and when the_freight pulled
in he saw the negro step off the train
with his pistol in his hand. Officer
Stevens began firing at him with a
shotgun, three of the loads taking ef
fect in the negro’s chest, killing him
instantly.
Chief of police Thrasher went to
Norwood this morning and identified
the negre as the one who shot officer
Kimbrough.
! 15 CENTS FOR FIRST BALE
Macon, Aug. 4.The first bale of new
cotton received in Macon was deliver
ed to the Georgia Warehouse company
vesterday. It was graded middling
and sold to Adams, Markwalter & Co.,
for 15 cents a pound.
In City 5¢ Per Week
FORMER RESIDENT HERE TO EN
TER BUSINESS AS PERMANENT
CITIZEN—FAMILY COMES. FOR
SCHOOLS. ¢
J. C. Hines and family, recently of
Albany, have become new residents of
Cordele. They will secure a residence
and locate permanently here in a few
days. Though he expects to purchase
a residence or build within the next
few months, Mr. Hines was desirous
of placing his several children in the
public schools here at the beginning' of
the next term, and concluded to locate
here before making permanent plans
for the residence of himself and fami
ly.
Mr. Hines is a former Cordele citi
zen. Some years ago he was engag
ed in the mercantile business ' here
with his brother-in-law, J. H. Church
well. Upon removing to Albany he ‘en
gaged in the contracting and building
business and has experienced a splen
did success in this line, However, \e
says he wants to live in a “real town”
and is coming back to Cordele. He has
not as yet determined upon the line of
business in which he will engage here,
though is prepared to enter actively in
some line.
ELECTION WENT
TWO TO ONE VOTED FOR BONDS
BUT NOT ENOUGH VOTES WERE
CAST TO WIN THE ELECTRIC
LIGHT PLANT FOR THE CITY.
In the special election Thursday to
determine the question of whether or
not the city should own its electrle
lighting and power plant and opei‘é’.'te
it in connection with the city water
plant, bonds were considerably in the
minority.
Out of the 522 registered voters 290
votes were polled, 201 for the bonds
and 89 against. While the bonds re
ceived a two-thirds majority of the
votes polled, 248 votes for the honds
would have been required to carry the
issue on the affirmative side.
~ HANDSOME PRICE
| —
‘W. H. CUNNINGHAM SOLD 175
~ BALES OF 1915 COTTON AT 13
~ CENTS—GREAT SAVING OVER
OLD PRICE.
~ Fleven thousand, three hundred and
seventy-five doliars was the amount
‘hat the Brown-Cramer Cotton compa
ny on Friday pdaid over to W. H. Cun
ningham as the purchase price of thir
teen cents per pound all round for 176
bales of 1915 cotton. The deal was
made through the Bazemore. : Cotiton
Wgrehouse company, in whose ware
holise the cotton had been stored: The
staple if placed on the market last
vear as soon as it was gathered,
would probably have averaged in sale
nrice between 7 and 9 cents. il
GLEATON PREDICTS HEAVY
FALL TRADE FOR CORDELE
P. B. Gleaton returned last week
from Baltimore and other markets in
ihe East, where he purchased a large
stock of fall and winter merchandise,
shipments of which have already be
gun arriving.
“I am expecting a prosperous fall
and winter,” Mr. Gleaton said,” and
have purchased my stock for tliese
seasons accordingly. Notwithsanding
the heavy damage done to the crop by
the recent rains, there will be a fair
crop of cotton produced in Crisp and
surrounding section this year, and ev
ery indication points to good prices for
the staple. It is evident that the price
will hardly fall below twelve or thir
teen cents and it appears probable
that even better prices will be secured
for a portion of the crop. 1 believe
that the merchants of Cordele will ex
perience the best trade this fall they
have ever had.”
Mr. Gleaton purchased a splendid
stock and bought for cash at figures
that will allow him to place the goods
on the market at very reasonable
prices. -
Lt e S -, -
BOY SCOUT TEAM IS - #
MAKING SPLENDID RECORD
The baseball team of the Cordele
Boy Scouts copped another game from
the Raines nine on the grounds there
Wednesday afternoon. For an ama
teur aggregation the Boy Scouts team
is making a corking good record.”
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