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WoL. vii.
ICRISP REPRESENTATIVE LOST
NEW SENATORIAL DISTRICT
BILL: TO ATLANTA AND NORTH
"fi GEORGIA PIRATES.
Representative W. H. Deorris. of
Crisp county is an insurgent with the
remaining senators and representa
tives of central and south Georgia.
He came home all “roughed up” about
, the methods used in Atlanta and north
Georgia regarding the capitol removal
legislation and has been talking and
talking ever since.
If Representative Dorris has a cor
rect view of the situation, campaigns
are to be conducted in the future
with the capitol removal matter as an
issue. Those representatives and sen
tors who worked so hard for central
{:lmd south Georgia’s interest at the
summer session of the legislature
have promised themselves to stake
everything for a strong representa
tion next time that will make it pos
sible to take care of this section of
-tjle state. .
The senatorial redistrictation meas
ure introduced by Representative Dor
ris and. passed through the house and
later defeated in the senate, gave him
a clear acquaintanceship with the tac
tics used to keep south and central
Georgia from a stronger representa
tion in the legislature. Friends of the
new measure argued that central and
south Georgia were entitled in the
"]taw-making body to the same propor
ionate representation in the senate as
has north Georgia. Three counties
make up a senatorial district in North
Georgia while as many as five and six
counties are in one district in south
Georgia. Crisp would have been in
a new three county district if the
changing had been permitted.
Senators and representatives in
south and central Georgia are deter
mined to have the senatorial districts
cut down, according to Representa-
Aive Dorris and the fight is to be re
’uewed.
SUBMARINE IS SIGHTED.
Boston, Aug. 18.—The sighting of a
large submarine, believed to have been
‘the German merchantman Deutschland
off the Grand Banks Saturday, was re
ported by members of the crew of the
Warren liner Sachem, in tonight from
LaPallice, France, and Liverpool. The
submersible was traveling in a north
easterly direction at moderate speed.
Soon after the submarine was sighted
the steamer was turned toward her,
the Sachem’s officers believing at first
that she was a dimsantled vessel. A
few minutes later the submarine sub
merged and was not seen again.
COTTON IMPROVEMENT
IN CENTRAL SECTION
Washington, Aug. 18.—The national
weather crop bulletin today said that
cotton in the central cotton states
showed some improvement during the
past week.
' But in other sections it is reported
that conditions are not so promising.
Cofton is materially improving in
Georgia and northern Alabama, but
only a slight improvement is shown
in southern Alabama.
ECREASE SHOWN IN
fD' PARALYSIS DEATHS
New York, Aug. 16.—Another de
crease in deaths and new cases of.in
fantile paralysis today encouraged the
health authorities. There were 34
deaths today and 113 new cases, mak
ing the total fataltigs during the epi
demic 1,497 and th(la%‘ggtal cases 6,635.
Twenty-two patients ‘gvere discharg
ed from hospitals tod‘ayl:a.‘_s TECOVER
ed. L T
FIVE KILLED WHEN
TRAIN HITS AUTOMOBILE
G ¥
Elyria, Ohio, Aug. 17.—The New
York Central’'s Twentieth Century
»Limiled train tonight crashed into an
automobile at the Chestnut street
crossing in the downtown section,
killing four women and a man. The
dead: Mrs. C. H. Buttenbender, Mrs.
7. E. Emmert, Mrs. J. C. Conaway,
‘Mrs. J. E. Weiss and C. H. Butten
bender. ;
FELDER LEAVES HOSPITAL.
Atlanta, Aug. 18.—Attorney Thos.
B. Felder, seriously stabbed nearly
two weeks ago in a fight with G. K.
vason, doorkeeper of the house of rep
resentatives, was removed from the
hospital today to his home at 156
. Peachtree Circle. Mr. Felder is con
siderably improved and is resting eas
.ily, but is not yet allowed to see visi
? tors.
100 MEXICANS AWAIT
COURT-MARTIAL TRIALS
Chihuahua City, Aug. 16.—Prepara
ions are under way here for the great
‘Hl series of court-martials ever held
in Mexico in an effort to stamp out
disloyalty in Northern Mexico. One
hundred men, prominent in Mexican
politics are held awaiting trial here in
connection with the discovery of re
cent revolutionary plots and hundreds
of witnesses have been summoned
from over the republic. In the first of
the trials J. Arrolla, apriest, today
was found not guilty. .
W. O. W. PICNIC AT ST. SIMON.
Brunswick, Aug. 17.——Jeff Davis
Camp W. 0. W,, from Hazelhurst, to
cether with a number of other camps
from Baxiey, Surrency, and Orun and
other points on the Southen Railway,
will bring about five hundred members
and families down today for a picnic
on St. Simon Island. The local Wood
men have arranged an open hause and
rest rooms in their hall in the city.
THE CORDELE DISPATCH
FALL BUSINESS
COTTON SET THINGS IN MOTION
AND NOW THE WHEELS OF BUS
INESS ARE TURNING FAST.
The gathering and marketing of the
cotton crop is telling the tale of pros
perity. Business has heen steadily on
the up-go since the cotton movement
started, and Saturday it was boom
ing. ‘That's what the Cordele mer
chants say, and there is every evi
dence of it everywhere.
According to what business men say
trade. is better now than it was al
this time last year and the prospects
generally are better for a continued
good trade and prosperous season.
HAS GEORGIA
A COMMISSION?
LEGISLATURE QUIT WITH SOME
THING THAT MAY IN THE END
CAUSE STATE TO LOSE ROAD
FUND.
Atlanta, Aug. 17.—Will the state of
Georgia get her share of the federal
appropriation for public' roads with
the highway commission which has
jusi been created by the legislature.
According to official advices from
Washington, the commission does not
‘meet the requirements of the federal
act and the state of Georgia, there
fore will lose her share of the appro
priation. :
The bill passed by the house creates
a highway commission consisting of
the thiee members of the prison com
missiop The senate amended the bill
by adding the state geologist, the pro
fessor of civil engineering at Georgia
Tech and the professor of civil engin
eering at the University of Georgia to
the commission. This amendment
was agreed to by the house.
The commission still lacks author
ity, still lacks funds, %till lacks a high
way engineer, still lacks clerical help
and the numerous and various other
functions and facilities necessary to
organize an efficient highway depart
ment.
COMING TO FPUT BIBLES
IN HOTEL GUEST ROCMS
Cliif G. Childs, of Atlanta, will de
liver three Gideon addresses in Cor
dele on Sunday, August 27. The ob
ject of his lectures is to secure for
cach guest room in all of the Cordele
hotels a Bible.
{At the Sunday school service at the
Presbyterian church on the above date
Mr. Childs will deliver his first talk.
He will occupy the pulpit at the First
Baptist church at the morning hour,
and will make a short talk following
Rev. Walter Anthony’s sermon at the
First Methodist church in the evening.
} Mr. Child’s addresses are very in
terestihg and instructive. The public
is cordially invited to hear him. He
will solicit -funds through free offer
ings to purchase the Bibles needed.
GERMAN .SUBMARINE
CAPTURED BY BRITISH
New York, Aug. 17.—Passengers on
the Cunarder Alauni, which arrived
here today from London, old of being
Leld in poit at Deal while destroyers
were active outside and later of see
ing a damaged British destroyer enter,
followed by a British cruiser, against
wlicse freehoard was lashed a shell
torn German submarine. The destroy
er, the passenger said, evidently had
suffered from shell fire. The subma
rine appeared to be one of the larger
class and evidently had been complete
1y disabled and rendered unseaworthy. |
None of the passengers learned the
particulars of the action or the fate of {
the submarine crew. ,
MORGAN & CO. PLAN
BIG LOAN TO BRITISH
New York, Aug. 18.—J. P. Morgan
& Co., today announced that they had‘
arranged a new war loan to Great Brit-|
ain.
This amount is placed at $250.000,-‘
000.
This loan has been under advise-‘
ment for several days and it was gen-‘
erally known that it would be arranged
'LAURENS COUNTY COTTON
CROP GREATLY DAMAGED
Dublin, Aug. 18—Lauren county’s
cotton crop will be cut at least 25 per.
cent. from normal because of the re
cent continued rains and the lack ot‘
petash in the fertilizer.
A trip over the country will show
the cotton is suffering considerahlyl
and in many patches it is already
dead. The fruit is sparse and a good
deal of it is shedding.
MRS. S. A. DAVIS, MOULTRIE
Moultrie, Aug. 16.—Following a
brief illness Mrs. S. A. Davis died at
the home of her daughter, Mrs. C. W.
Ashmore, at Autreyville yesterday. She
is survived by a large number of rel
atives. The funeral and interment
will be held at Murphy. ‘
ADMINISTRATION PUTS |
: OUT CANDIDATES ALSO‘
Savannah, Aug. 18.—James -Ham
mond Eve, superintendent of the S(mt_lu‘
ern Cotton Oil Compan{; Dawson Wy
ly, secretary-treasurer "of the Savan
nah Lumber Company, and John L.‘
Travis, a well known attorney, have
been named legislative candidates op
posing A. A. Lawrence, Shelby Myrick
and Samuel M. Jackson, the present
delegation from Chatham and the an
ti administration candidates. 1
BOLL WEEVIL HAS
“MOPPED UP"
COUNTY DEMONSTRATION AGENT
JOHNSON TELLS OF CONDITION
IN ALABAMA.
_County Demonstration Agent J. A.
Johnson of Crisp who is with the par
ty ‘of Georgia farmers and county
‘agents now in Alabama investigating
the weevil-infested districts, has fur
nished the Dispatch with a brief re
port of his trip thus far as it has to
do with the weevil. It reveals dis
tressing conditions.
His letter follows:
“The weevil proposition here is an
interesting ‘and also a distressing
thing. Not a bloom can be found on
the cotton and all young farms have
been stung.
“There are nearly 8,000 people here
in a pretty town. In front of a large
post office building I found cotton con
a vacant lot. At three o’clock this af
ternoon I went into the small plot
and pulled seven squares and found
five weevils in the seven forms.
“The country, the growths, the size
of the cotton and the scil are all very
similar to the conditions in Crisp.
“The weevil has ‘mopped up’ with
cotton here and all the way back into
Decatur and Early counties in Geor
gia. A farmer in the southern part of
this county, Houston, told me on the
street this afternoon that he had
picked the sauares up six times, has
the finest kind of weed on fertile land,
bui will karely get four bales on 27
acres.
“I could enumerate more and worse
examples, but I shall wait to tell you
more later.” : :
LOCAL ENTERTAINMENT WILL BE
RICH AND RACY—BEST TALENT
IN CITY INCLUDED.
“Minstrel Men in Dixie-Land,” one
of the best entertainments yet put on
for Cordele, will be presented at the
Opera house at an early date for the
benefit of Fort Eearly chapter D. A. R.
This entertainment is given under the
direction and management of Mrs. E.
M. Espy with Miss Maggie Em Coney
as pianist. The entertainment is
bristling with brightest wit and hu
mor throughout, interspersed with the
most popular southern songs of the
day. The cast of characters includes
the very best talent among the young
men of the city. Cordele’s popular
male quartette, composed of Messrs.
Robuck, Lanier, Mims and Filanders
will sing old time southern favorites
between acts and the Palace Theatre
orchestra will furnish the orchestral
music.
Mrs. Espy has presented this min
strel in various Alabama towns, al
ways playing to a crowded house. Dai
ly rehersals are now being held and
Cordele is looking forward to the an
nouncement of the date of this splen
did entertainment.
| Pen Sketches and
' Comparisons
|
t MARY E. TAYLOR.
| Reviewing the history of Cordele for
‘the past twenty-eight years, one notes
with pleasurable interest her rapid
strides from a hamlet numbering a
few hundred souls to a city of a pop
ulation approximating ten thousand,
an erst-while wayside station, whose
business section comprising two brick
buildings surrounded by wooden
shacks; an occasioned visit from a
minister of the gospel, congregation
worshiping under a brush arbor, small
and inconvenient school building, said
building serving for almost évery con
ceivable purpose from the delivery of
a Sunday discourse to a Saturday even
ing dance, in contrast with the Cordele
of today!
it has never been devastated by
storm, nor has her firesides been made
desolate by pestilence, having had
throughout her existence a light mor
tality, with elegent churches, well
equipped school buildings, scores of
beautiful homes and a number of
handsome business houses, her rail
road facilities equaled by few locali
ties. |
The colored population is orderly,
many of whom own their homes with |
their churches, school buildings, their
sanitarium and places of amusement
and dwelling harmoniously with their
white friends from whom they reap
good wages for honest labor. The ap
proving smile of heaven overshadows
all.
Far removed from the unfortunate
ones across the seas, where hearts and
homes are made desolate by the de
stroying hand of war. On reflecting
apon Ccrdele’s manifold blessings, I
am constrained with the balmist to
exclaim, “Blessed be the Lord who dai
ly leadeth us with his benefits.”
ASKS $30,000 DAMAGE
FOR HUSBAND'S DEATH
Atlanta, Aug. 17.—Mrs. Cora’ L.
Clark, whose husbhband was electrocut
ed by a live wire in saving the lives
of two little children on July 8, today
filed suit against the Georgia Railway
and Power Company for $30,000 dama
ges. The Atlanta Telephone and Tel
egraph company was made a co-de
fendant. It is claimed the wire that
caused his death was a telephone wire
which had fallen across a wire supply
ing an arc light.
THE CORDELE DISPAT\ H, SUNDAY, AUGUST 20, 1916.
- RERE’S THE RECORD OF |
| LEGISLATURE’S WORK
Atlanta, Aug. 18.—Following is a
brief showing of what the 1916 legila
ture did in the disposition of general
legislation: '
Bills Passed.
The Neill primary election bill—ve
toed by Gov. Harris.
To establish .a state highway com
mission. ;
To establish a state board of optom
ery examination.
To avpropriate $50,000 for a new
building for the Georgia Normal col
lege at Valdesta.
Compulsory schaol attendance bills.
To appropriate $30,000 for a new
build‘ng at the Georgia Normal and In
dustrial college at Milledgeville.
To appropriate $5OO for the Resaca
Confederate cemelery, and $l,OOO for
the Milledgeville Confederate ceme
try.
T'o provide for the appointment of
an umpire by any court of record in
cases of fire insurance appraisal.
A constitutional amendment to place
solicitors general on a salary.
To provide for the inspection of pri
vate philanthropic institutions by the
state.
To appropriate sloo,ooo° for new
buildings at the State Normal school
at Athens.
To allow women to practice law in
Georgia.
Tc¢ pav ordinaries and express com
panies for service in recording liquor
shipments under the shipping act of
the prohibition law.
To apprepriate $200,000 to state
sanitarium.
ALL CONTESTED BUSINESS WILL
GO OVER IN SUPREME COURT
TILL NEXT TERM. COURT OPENS
MONDAY. y
The resolution of the Crisp bar as
sociation to carry over all contesied
civil matter at the August term of
superior court, which convenes Mon
day, has met with the approval of
Judge George. Contested business
on the civil docket will go over to the
regular November term.
_A jury will probably be summoned
tomorrow to take verdicts, though will
likely be dismissed after Monday.
It is expected that the criminal bus
iness will be taken up on the second
week, and Judge George may call the
grand. jury. A large number of pris
oners are being held in the county
jail on misdemeanor charges and it
is the purpcse of the court to clear the
jail of such cases so far as possible.
BARBECUE DINNER
AT THE MERCER HOME
A congenial party composed of Mr.
and Mrs. J. R. Williamis and daugh
ter, Miss Maxwell, Mr. and Mrs. J. A.
Key, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Williams
and sons, Bruce, Roland, Harold Lee
and nephew J. S. Pate, Jr., Mrs. Cecil
Williams and daughters, Cecil and
Evelyn, and Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Bow
en and family motored to the Mercer
plantation three miles out Tuesday and
were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Leo
Mercer and mother, Mrs. Lizzie Mer
cer. The occasion was a .delightful
dinner beneath the wide spreading
houghs of giant oaks, an ideal spot
for such a renast. The choicest of
barbecuved posis, mutton, ‘urkz2y. chick
en salad, and breads, with aceompany
ing delicacies, attested the combined
efforts of Leo Mercer, one of Crisp
county’s most successful planters, and
the skilled management of Mesdames
Mercer in the arts that tend to the
well ordered home.
'A SEASON OF REJOICING
AT L. J. ROOBIN'S HOME
In the observance of a Jewish rite,
when the fifth son was given the name
of Samuel Michael, (prior to which oc
casion ncne save the parents are ap
praised of the name chosen for the
child,) proved a season of rejoicing
in the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Roo
hin last Sunday. There were sixty
guests who shared the hospitality of
Mr. and Mrs. Roobin, among whom
were a number of their Gentile friends.
A sumptuous feast, consisting of the
costliest and most delightful viands
of the season, graced the tables. Mr.
and Mrs. Roobin have resided in Cor
dele for some years and their home
has been blessed with five, bright,
handsome sons.
MRS. W. H. CHAPMAN ILL;
"UNDERWENT OPERATION
The numerous friends of Mrs. W.
H. Chapman, who has heen seriously
sick for some time in Atlanta, will re
great that her condition is worse fol
lowing an operation several days ago,
though her general health has improv
ed some within the past few weeks.
*%****. # * * & * *
* COTTON MARKET. *
# Saturday’s future market gave *
% gn average incline of three points *
* over Friday's market. January *
* 14.43; March 14.62; May 14.76; *
# Qctober 14.28; December 14.41. *
* Spots took another jump Saturday *
* and chances are favoerables for *
* steady prices .Good middling, *
# 13 3-4; fully middling, 13 1-2; mid- *
# dling, 13 1-4. 2
**##**** % * B 3 * * *
Experiments on the Phillippine Is
land of Mindanao seem to indicate
that the finest qualities of rubber can
be produced there with profit.
To appropriate $12,500 to Georgia
Training School for Girls.
To appropriate $1 fund to be given
ordinaries for each pension paid.
To make a felony to steal an auto
mobile.
To allow women to hold the office
of elerk of the ordinary’s court.
Yoemans school book bill.
To prorate convicts for road work,
according to road mileage instead of
population.
The senate military bill, with Arn
old amendments.
Granting charters by secretary of
sipte to interuban railroads.
To create state board of osteopathic
examiners.
To create state board of electoria
exarniners.
To amend and revamp the game and
fish laws.
Bills Defeated.
All new county bills.
The Savannah recall bill. This bill
never came up for a final vote.
Person s law enfercement bill,
(reating five new senatorial dis
tricts.
(Capital removal bill. This measure
did not come up for a vote.
W. & A. bond election bill. (Con
gtitutional amendment for election on
bonds of $10,000,600 for extension of
W. & A. to the sea.)
To grant leassors of railroads the
right of eminent domain.
Tax equalization law repeal hill.
Anti-trading stamp bill. This bill
died in rules committee.
Bffort to repeal tax equalization law.
PARALYSIS UNKNOWN
aaon A
FEW CASES IN SOUTH—PROS
PECT OF NATION-WIDE EPIDEM
IC NOT ALARMING. .
Washington, D. €., Aug. 18—Plans
for a more vigorous campaign to pre
vent further spread of infantile pa
ralysis were made today at a con
ference of health authorities of most
of the states with cfficials of the fed
eral public health service.
Resclutions will be adopted tomor
row by the conference outlining de
finite proposals for checking dissemi
nation of the disease.
While few of those present today
expressed alarm that the epidemic
might assume country-wide propor
tions, they uniformly declared meas
ures were necessary to guard against
a widespread outbreak. Admission
was freely made by many experts that
the cause of the plague is unknown,
and the means of its transmission not
conclusively determined. Physicians
l\vho have been fighting it in New
York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and
|(‘mumcti(:utt. gave the latest scientific
| ohservation of theses aspects.
,JAX MADE DRY KILNS
i FOR SEATTLE CONCERN
Jacksonville, Aug. liB.—The L.
Moore Dry Kiln Company, of this city,
has just closed a contract with the Sno
| qualmie Falls Lumber company, of
Seattle, Wash., for eight large kilns
20x104 feet each, with drying capacity
of about 150,000 feet of lumber per
l\'ay. These kilns are to be built un
der the Moore moist air system of
drying. A good part of the iron equip
ment used in the construction of these
kiins will be manufactured in the
‘L\.lo\no Company's modern shops here
'and shipped to Seattle.
| It is a strong tribute to a Southern
‘made product that a lumber manufac
'turvr in £eattle should place an order
with a dry kiln manufacturer in the
’srmth. as there is a dry kiln mauufac
‘turing cencern located in the city of
Seattle. This, however, is another
demonstiration of the fact that with
¢ xcellence of design and construciion
Sonthern manufacturers need not nes
itate to go cut for a market anywieie
tueir products are required. ’
Mr. Moaie is a brother of Mrs. 13. M.
Pope of ihis city, and is a former Cor
aele resident. To his numercus
iriends here he is known as “Dry Kun”
Moore. His factory in Jacksonville is
one of the largest and most modern in
the south.
MACON’'S NEW RAILROAD
STATION OPENS OCTOBER 1
Macon, Aug. 18.—Macon's new mil
lion dollar terminal station
will be opened for use on October 1.
The people of the city are arranging
to pull off a big celebration on that
day. Special rates will be offered on
all of the railroads to Macon on the
day of the opening. Ii the Georgia
troops are still in camp here they
will be invited to give a parade
through the streets of the city. Offi
cials of all the railroad lines enter
ing the new station will be present.
Just as soon as the work on the
rew station is completed the Cen
tral of Georgia railway will begin
the construction of an enormous
freight station to cost in the neigh
horhood .of $500,000.
NEW LANDS DISCOVERED
IN THE FROZEN NORTH
Nome, Alaska, Aug. 18.—S8ix mem
bers of Vilhjalmur Stafansson’s Arctic
expedition, who arrived here yester
day. brought with them many speci
mens and a great deal of scientific da
ta.
in an interview today members of
the party said that Stafansson re
mained in the Arctic region for the
purpose of further exploring some
newly discovered lands which he de
scribed as a second Greenland.
106 ROLLING
|
ACTUAL REPRODUCTION OF
SCENES AS THEY OCCURRED AT
L CORDELE.
| Satart
\ Cordele people will have another op
portunity of witnessing the brilliant
”features of the recent South Georgia
‘Log Rolling held in Cordele and en
:joying the pleasures of this great oc
casion. Thursday, Friday and Satur
‘day. August 24, 25, 26, the motion pic
ture of the Log Rolling will be shown
at the Palace Theatre. The photo
graphy of the features of this event
are excellent, displaying with vivid re
alism the magnificent street parade,
street scenes, leccal people and officers
who took part in ther occasion and
made it the brilliant success that it
was. The picture has some surprises
for all who see it. There are scenes
included which many people did not
know had happened, or at least, they
did not see them when they happened.
There were too many people liere and
too much going on tor the spectators
to see it all, but the camera man had
his schedule well mapped cut and he
caught some of all of it with his mo
vie machine. There's really no tel
ling who and what you will see when
the Log Rolling picture is thrown on
the screen, but be assured that every
inch of it is going to be interesting.
GOODCEL!L. FEADS ORDER—TRANMS
MISSISSIPP! CONGRESS OF
AERIES FORMED.
LR
Savannah, Aug. .B.—Rex B. Good
cell of San Bernardino, Cal., was_elect
ed grand worthy president of the Fra
ternal Order of Fagles, and Buffalo,
N. Y., was chosen as the meeting place
for 1917 in the annual election in the
Grand Aerie yesterday.
With hte exeeption og Henry J.
Lemcke of Saginaw, Mich.,, none cf
the nominees was opposed. Mr Lemcke
was elected grand worthy chaplain
over Harry E. McVeigh of Cincinnati
by a safe majority. The other nomi
ness received more than 2,000. The
figures will not be known until the
election commiitee males its report
to the Grand Aerie today,
Following are the other oflicers elect
ed, all of whom will be insialled to
morrow and assume their duties im
mediately:
Frederick Hughes. New York, grand
worthy vice president; J. S. Parry,
San Francisco, grand secretary; Jo
seph H. Dowling, Dayton, 0., grand
treasurer; John W. Heélar,"York, Pal,
grand worthy conductor; Charles T.
Laird, Brockton, Mass., grand inside
guard.
Grand {rustees, Frank Mullen, Seat
tle, Wash., P, J. Barrett, Omaha, Neb.;
Congressman John M. Morin, Pitts
urg; 0. A. Becker, Milwaukee,
Because of lack of contests the elee
tion attracted slight interest. Most of
the delegates voted early, It was 10.30
o'clock before the counting was con
cluded.
Buffalo was unopposed in her ef
forts to secure the next convention
New York and Columbus, 0., having
withdrawn in her favor. The Grand
Aerie has gone on record i¥™7oring
Seattle, Wash., for the meeting place
in 1918.
INTERESTING SERVICES
‘ METHODIST CHURCH
| Epat
Two services of interest are an
nounced at the Methodist church for
today. At eleven o’clock a m., Mr.
Byron Koo, a young Korean, will de
liver a sermon address upon “Korea
and Christianity.” Mr. Koo, who has
spent a number of years in America,
is at present a student at Emory Uni
versity; he is a young man of splen
did scholarship, and of fine Chrisiian
character. His message will be edu
cational and insdirational, and will,
no doubt, bring out a splendid congre
gation.
Rev. Walier Anthony, pastor, will
preach at the 8 o’clock evening ser
vice, delivering the third of the series
of sermons on “Duty.”’” The subject
fer Sunday evening is *“My Duly As
A Church Member.”” Those who have
heen attending these services will not
wish to miss any one of these series of
“Duty’” sermons.
the people of the city and strangers,
the people of the city( and sirangers,
to come and be at home in the servi
ces,
DAVID PEARLMAN, AMERICUS.
Americus, Aug. 17.—David Pearl
man, age 52 years, died at his home
here this afternocn from cancer of the
stomach, having been sick for six
menths. ‘For over twenty-five years
he has been a prominent merchant
here. He was a member of the Jew
ish Church and a Mason and a Shriner.
His' widow, four children, Misses Pen
nie, Belle and Ethel FPeariham, and
William Pearlham and on brother,
Moses Pearlham, of Boston, Ga., sur
vive him. Funeral wil! be at Albany
Thursday.
RESOURCES OF NATICNAL
BANKS SHOW INCREASE
Washington, Aug. 17.—Resources of
the national banks of the United
States on Junc 30 amounted to §l3;
927,000,000, an increase over those
shown in revorts of June, 1915, of
about $2.131,000.000 and a derease of
about $269.000,000 from May 1 last.
Pigures made public today bv Con
troiler Williams show total deposits
on June 30 of $10,856,006.000; loans
and discounts of $7.679.000.,000, circu
lation of $676,000,000 and reserves of
$2,076,000,000.,
Delivered By Carrier
lin City 5S¢ 'Pe_r Week
GOVERNOR PLANNING TO COME
HERE ON SOUTH GEORGIA TRIP
FROM AMERICUS.
Supporters of CGovernor Harris ex
pect im to address the people of Cor
dele and Crisp county during this
week, or in event he cannot make a
speaking date here this week, it is
practically certain that he will be
here the early part of the following
weel:.
Governor Harris will attend the
State Confederate Reunion at Ameri
cus on August 23 and 24, and will ad
dress the vets and others atteanding
this oicasion. It is expected that he
will come to Cordele during this trip
in South Georgia.
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WOMEN MAY NOW PRACTICE
LAW IN GECRGIA
Atlanta, Aug. 17.—Hereafter the wo
man who decides that she will make
her living by the practice of law will
nhot be denied admission to the bar in
the state of Georgia.
As the result of an agitation cover
ing a period of several years and the
‘ntroduction and advocacy of many
bills in the house and senate of the
Georgia legislature, a bill admitting
woemen to the practice of law in this
state has bheen passed at last, and will
now he transmitted to the governor,
who will without doubt approve it.
In practically every other profes
sion and avocation in which a woman
elects to make her way in the world,
ihe deor is now open to her, but the
har of the law has always been ciosed
by reason of the fact that the statute
defining the terms and couditions un
der which a license may be issued to
practice law contained no provision
for the issuance of licenses to females.
Several women have taken thorough
courses in law at the Atlanta Law
Sehool and prepared themselves to
practice the profession in this siate,
and have passed i{he required exami
naticns for admission to the bar, A
few years ago an Atlanta woman, hav
ing egraauated from the Atlanta Law
School and passed the examination,
was denied a license by the superior
court of Multon county, and appealed
her case to the state supreme court,
which held that under the above men
tioned statute there was no provision
ESCAPES FROM JAIL CN
EVE OF EXECUTION DAY
Brunswick, Aug. 18.—Aaron Wil
liams, who was to have been hanged
today at the county jail, escaped last
night at 8 o’clock by sawing his way
through two Yale locks on his cell
and through the iron bars outside of
the death cell, just as Sheriff Berrie
was placing a death watch at the door.
P O, “Flouston, one of his deputies,
reached the door just in time to see
Williams leap from the second story
window to a porc¢h roof. Before the
vard could be reached he had fled. His
wife, it is said, was met running up a
side street by persons attracted by the
witery. Brunswick was thus cheated
of its first legal execution in twenty
vears. It is supposed that friends of
the condemned man supplied the saws
by climbind the porch under his win-
AOW.
JILTED BY GIRL, HE
ATTEMPTS DROWNING
Atlanta, Aug. 17.—Crady Jolinson, 26
vears old, an, Atlanta bharber, {ried to
drown himself by jumping into the
jake at Piedment Park this morning
hecause a girl had jilted him. In a
note found in the pocket of his coat,
which he had taken off bhefore jump
|ing into the water, he said that the
i disappointment over thc girl was
more than he could stand. ile was
pulled out, by one of the life-savers
lmul brought back to consciousness afi
ier hard work.
BLIND TIGERS TAXED
iN GIRARD, ALLEGED
Girard, Ala., Aug. 16.—The Girard
City Council voted to tax illegal liquor
venders in Girard $25 a month, and iit
structed City Marshal John Oakes o
collect the so-called tax, accoriding to
testimony given in Circuit Court at
Seale, Ala., tpday at the trial of Oakes
on charges of accepting bribes for pro
| tection of the liquor dealers. Qakes
| was convicted,
| After Cakes was convicted Mayor
| Barl Morgan and City Clerk 1. A,
f\’\'vu\;vr of CGirard were arrested on
'brihm'y charges. They were released
on $2,500 bond cash.
" Qalkes, at his trial, testified that the
City Council, afier agrecing io levy
the so-called tax on “blind tigers” in
structed him to collect it. ile admitted
receiving money under these instruc
' tions.
| Oczkes' testimony was corrobarated
by Aldermaan Holliday of Girard. |
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FILIPINOS MUST SHOW
FITNE3S FOR FREEDOM
Washington, D. C., Aug. 17..~The
Philippine Bill as reported from con
ference, with the Clarke amendment
providing for independence of the is
tands within four years. climinated,
hut conrtaining a promise of freedom
whenever Filipinos have demonstrated
heir ahility to maintain a stable gov
ernment, finally was approved icday
by the senate. The vote was 37 to 22
The house is expecied to approve
the conference measure within a few
days and send it to the President. It
provides for reorganization oi the is
land governmen: =o as to materially
axiernd native confrol. A senate amend
ment for prehibition in the island was
stricken out.
LEWIS EDWARDS RESIGNS.
Mouiirie, Aug. 17.—Lewis Edwards,
cashier of the Bank of Norman Park,
has resigned. He wili be succeeded by
(0. F. Creech of Savannah.
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