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VOL. Vill.
HANDSOME CHURCH EDIFICE
SOON TO BE DEDICATE—COST
LY AND HANDSOME STRUCTURE
A campaign promoted by Rev. Wal
ier Anthony, the pastor, has resulted
in more than $5,000 being subscribed
in actual cash for the purpose of pay
ing off the remainder of the debt of
the Methodist church for the con
struction of its handsome edifice, the
total cost of which was approximately
$60,000. The funds raised will give
the church a clean record so far as
the building is concerned, and it will
be dedicated in a short time. It is ex
pected that either Bishop Warren Can
dler or Bishop Kilgo will preach the
dedication sermon. :
Announcements will be made later
from the pulpit regarding the dedi
cation services.
'The announcement of the success
of the campaign to close out the
church’s indebtedness for the building.
is received with elation among the
membership of the church, and the
people of the city as a whole. Rev.
Anthony met with hearty response in
raising - the funds.
DID POLITICS PLAY
PART IN BIG FIRE?
Atlanta, Sept. 14—There is more
than the passing suspicion in DeKalb
county that the destruction of the
magnificent courthouse in Decatur the
night following the election is the out
burst of political factionalism that has
been brewing in that county and sec
tion some time, ar® -viich seems.to
have come to a head in the. recent
campaign. No further importance is
attached to, in fact, little credence is
now put in the theory advanced that
it was“caused by a cigarette.”
For two days the grand jury has
been investigating the destruction of
the building, a number of witnesses
have heen called, among them certain
officials, members of the Atlanta fire
department who fought the flames.
and members of the volunteer compa
ny of Decatur. The report is that
kerosene oil had been poured liberally
over the building before the fire start
ed. T is reported that "enough has
Leen told to the grand jury to make it
caite clear that the building was fired
hy somebody and that it was not in
any sense an accidental flame.
The theory now is that local politi
cal factionalism is at the bottcm of the
burning of the building
It has been definitely decided that
the affair will be probed to the bot
tom not only by the grand jury, but
that state officers will be called in to
aid, or have already been called in.
. The state fire marshal and detec
tives have been before the DeKalb
grand jury and testimony has been giv
en that the court house fire was un
questionably of incendiary origin.
That the destruction of the building
grew entirely out of local county poli
tics is becoming common talk and in
it there is a great deal of reference
to the Dekalb-Fulton county merger
scheme, which was beaten.
T 0 BE CONSTRUCTED
CITY WILL HAVE UP-TO-DATE
CREMATORY AND GARBAGE
DISPOSAL WILL BE CARED FOR.
Cordele’s newest municipal improve
ment is to be a modern and latest im
proved crematory. The city council
at its meeting last Wednesday night
authorized a committee from this body
to close a contraet with the Nye Odor
less Crematory company of Macon,
for the purchase of a crematory that
will meet the needs of the city in the
consumption- of garbage of all kinds
for many years to come. Alderman
King is acting as chairman of the
committee investigating the improve
ment. Aldermna C. L. McMillan and
C. L. Lifsey are other members of the
committee. '
The crematory was purchased at a
cost of ’4,000, and there is an agree
mnet under the contract between the
city and the Crematory company that
no payment shall be made to the com
pany until the improvement has been
installed for a year and proven thor
oughly satisfactory. The contract
carries with it a guarantee that the
crematory is odorless and that there
is no fumes or smoke coming from
same.
C. C. Brown, of Macon, represent
ing the Crematory Company, is in the
city for the purpcse of installing the
crematory, shipment of which has al
ready been made. A deal has practi
cally been closed for the purchase of
a site and work on the buildings will
pbe started immediately.
THE CORDELE DISPATCH
SLASHED TO DEATH
BODY OF J. W. YATES FOUND
WITH BLOODY RAZOR NEAR
HIM ON FLOOR—CORONER’'S
JURY SAYS SUICIDE.
With his throat slashed and the
jugular vein severed, the dead body
of J. W. Yates, who conducted a sub
urban store in the western part of the
city, was discoverea FKriday morning
lying face down in a pool of blood in
a room adjoining his store house,
where he formerly had a meat mar
ket. The discovery was made when
J. M. Bundrick, a young man employ
ed by Yates, forced an entrance
through a second story window.
The throat was slashed half way
around from the left side, beginning
just behind the jugular vein. A bloody
razer, identified by young Bundrick
as belonging to Yates, was found near
his. right hand. Coroner W. C. Cul
pepper summoned a jury and an in
quest was held. The verdict was that
Yates came to his death from a cut
in his throat by a razor and that the
wound was by his own hands. The
jury was composed of J. F. McCarity,
M.. N. Johnson, M. D. Mikel, G. H.
Stephens, G. B. Wilkes, Perry Clem
ents.
Yates had a bed room over his store
and it was the usual custom of young
Bundrick, or his mother, Mrs. Min
aie Bundrick, who also assisted about
the store, to call or make a noise by
knocking on the door to arouse him
when ‘he did not wake at the usual
time between 5 and 6 o'clock. When
Mrs. Bundrick went to the store Fri
day morning, according to her testi
-Iwony, she could not arouse Yates, and
sent for her son, who also made an
effort to arouse Yates, before climb
ing by a ladder to a second story win
dew and entering the building. There
were several customers waiting at the
store to be served, and after failing to
find Yates in his bed rocom and making
further investigation as to his where
abouts, Bundrick went to wait on the
customers. In the meantime Martha
Burrows, a negro woman who cooked
for Yates, arrived at the store, and
began to search for him. She discov
ered blood on the market room floor
and called to others in the store.
Yates had been in bad health for
some time and had become despon
dent, it is said. According to the tes
timony before the coroner’s jury of
Mrs. Bundrick, he received two let
ters Thursday and these seemed to
depress him greatly. The jury failed
to find the letters or other papers in
dicating that Yates had contemplated
suicide. .
Though the coroner’s verdict was
suicide, relatives of the dead man who
arrived in the city Friday afternoon
from Experiment, Ga., are inclined to
believe that he mat with foul play.
He was a farmer and had been selling
some cotton. A few cents cver a dol
lar was found in the pockets of his
clothing. He was fully dressed when
the body was found. The outer door
of the safe in the store was not locked,
chcugh the inner door was, and keys
were secured to unlock this. About
310 in change was found. A juryman
‘ound a dime lying near the safe and
several pennies elsewhere about the
‘loor.
Mrs. Mollie Crane, a sister of the
dead man, and Mr. Jennings, a nephew
of Experiment, arrived Friday to take
charge of the body, which was car
ried to a’ point near that place for
interment.
MYSTERY ABOUT DEATH
OF HALL COUNTY FARMER
(Gainesville, Sept. 14.—11. B. Haw
kins, Hubert Buffington and Ernest
Hawkins are in Hall county jail await
ing the investigation by the coroner,
which will be completed tomorrow,
into the death of Cicero Culpepper,
who, it is alleged, was carried home
lead last night, his family being told
‘hat he was drunk.
These three men were out in a bug
zy and all are said to have bheen drink
ing heavily, and a while after 8 o’clock
they drove up to the Culpepper home
near Gillsville and put the dead man
sut, telling his wife that he was drunk,
and drove off. The officers were no
tified and Ernest and 1. B. Hawkins
snd Hubert Buffington were taken in
sharge until a coroner’s inquest could
be held over the body of Culpepper.
Culpepper leaves a wife and several
children. All the parties are well
to-do farmers, living near Gainesville.
Japan’s production of atinque dye is
rapidly increasing. The dye merchants
have formed a trust with the object of
regulating the market.
Swine provided 60 per cent of the
total meat consumed in the German
empire last year.
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('anadian cabinet officers and offi
cials on a gala day saw twenty-five
werkmen killed when this great cen
tral span of the $17.000.000 Quebeck
Bridge over the St. Lawrence River
broke locse and plunged to the bhot
tom, 200 feet bhelow. It was the
second accident on the bridge, the
first nine years ago, when another
CITY TAX RATE
ADJOURNMENT SESSION CITY
COUNCIL GAVE THE TAX PAY
PAYERS A SMALLER RATE—
KiNG FATHERED FINANCIAL
PLAN.
Cordele’s ad valorem tax rate was
lowered by a unanimous vote of the
city council in adjourned session last
Wednesday night” from 11-2 mills, or
$l5 on the thousand to 1-3 mills, or
$13.33 1-3 on the thousand.
Alderman Nelse King, chairman of
the finance committee of council, took
the initiative in advocating a lower
tax rate, setting out his claim that am
ple funds would be provided at a 11-3
rate for the maintenance of the mu
nicipality’'s finaucial responsibilities.
After due consideration and discus
sion of a resolutien offered by Alder
man King the entire aldermanic board
concurred in this opinion.
The levy, as is embodied in Alder
man King's resolution, is to be divid
ed as follows for the various purposes:
5-12 of one per cent for general pur
poses in support of the municipal gov
ernment and to pay the legal indebted
ness occasioned by casual deficiency.
1-2 of one per cent for the support
and maintenance of the public schools.
1-4 of one per cent for the purpose
of payment of interest on the bhonded
debt, including public school bonds,
and,
1-6 of one per cent to provide a
sinking fund for the payment of the
outstanding bonded indebtedness of
said city, as the same matures.
JESSE LITTLEJOHN MADE
MEMBER OF FIRE DEPARTMENT
Jesse Littlejohn has been appoint
ed on the fire department to succeed
Edgar Dorman, who tendered his res
ignation recently on account of de
clining health. Acting under the ad
vice of his physicians, Mr. Dorman
left several days ago for the west,
hoping to recuperate and probably
make his home permanently in that
section. The appointment of Little
john was made by Alderman @y
MecMillan, chairman of the fire com
mittee of council, and Chief Roy
Thompson of the fire department, who
have authority in such instances. Lit
tlejohn has had active experience duf
ing the past several years on the fire
department, serving at times during
sickness and vacation of the regular
members of the department.
REV. MITCHELL KELLY, COLORED
PREACHER, STRICKEN AS HE
PARTICIPATES IN FUNERAL SER
VICE OVER WOMAN’S BODY.
While he was participating in fun
eral services being held over the re
mains of Tildy Baldwin, a negro wo
man. and in the midst of prayer, Rev.
Mitchell Kelly, one of the best known
and most respectful of Cordele dar
kies. fell dead Friday night from heart
failure. He was known and liked by a
large number of white citizens, and
a number of them attended the fun
eral. Kelly was a conscientious ne
gro and his work among his people
as a Baptist preacher had been pro
ductive of much good.
The remains of the woman had been
brought from Chicago, where she had
lived for several months and died
there several days ago.
THE CORDELE DISPATCH, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER, 17, 1916.
| span cell, having resulted in the death
of eighty-four workmen.
‘ e bhridge was built for the pur
| post of shortening the railway jour
| ney across the continent by about
i:.‘lm miles. It was to he used by eight
! railways, the C. P. R, Grand Trunk.
Releware & Sudson. Intercoloitial,
Quebece Central, Quebec & Lake St
INTERNATIONAL POLIGE
.
IDEA IS GROWING IN FAVOR WITH
THE AMERICAN COMMISSION
ERS.
New London, Conn., Sept. 14—Se
rious consideration is being given by
the American-Mexican joint commis
sion to the idea of -siablishing some
sort of an international police or neu
tral constabulary along -the Mexican
border, it became known here today.
As yet the proposition has not taken
definite shape, but it is leéarned that
the American commissioners, with
whom the plan appears to be growing
in favor, talked it over last night with
Major General Bliss and that they de
voted part of today to further confer
ences with him on this and other
projects.
During the joint =cnference today
the American commissioners were told
that Mexico still adheres to hef ex
isting constitution and legal codes, a'
point on which there had been much
doubt. in the United States. Until
August 1, last, the Mexican members
said the provisions of the constitu
tion had been suspended by the war
power; but the re-establishment of
civil courts hegan on that date.
American members of the commis
sion were occupied m investigating
the cause and effect of Mexican min
ing decreces, -and in advising with Ma
jor General Bliss as to the sitnation
on the border.
There is little prospect that the
joint commission will return to the
formation of a border protocal until
the American members have reached
a tentative agreement among them
selves as to the wisest course to pur
sue. They will then present their
ideas to their Mexican associates for
general discussion.
In the case of land taxes under
(arranza decrees a punitive damage is
assessed against lands lying idle that
American intcrests have complained
to the state department amounted to
confiscating of their holdings. As in
the case of mining taxes, Carranza of
ficials have asserted that their pur
pese was to foster operators and to
compel ihe abandonmnt of large land
holdings for speculative purposes only.
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[ DWIGHT P DILWORTH |
Dewight P. Dilworth, a lawyer who
went to New York City from Fort
Scott, Kan., was murdered in lovers'
lane, Van Cortlandt Park, New York
Clity, while he was riding with Miss
Mary V. McNiff. The police helieve
(hat he was killed by blackmailers
whom he attacked when they ap
proached himi.
John, Quebece, & Saquenay and (‘ana
dian Northern.
The principal dimensions of the
bhridge are: Length, from shore to
shore. 5.839 feet; width between but
{resses. 1,800 feet; length of central
saan. 640 feet:; height of central span
ahove river, 150 feet.
COTTON TAXES
~ FOR OLD VETERANS
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' SUGGESTED THAT CiVIL WAR COT
| TON MONEY GO TO VETERANS
| OF SIXTIES—A BIT OF LEGAL
| HISTORY.
| i ony
| Atlanta, Sept. 14.—There seems to
| he a general misunderstanding thru
| out Georgia and the south as to the
| status of the mcney collected as a
| cotton tax during the and immediate
| after the Civil War,
{ The opinion seems to prevail that
‘ this tax was held to be unconstitution
jal by the United States supreme court
lflll(l that the money collected, amount
| ing to some $68.000,000. is still held
!as a separate fund in the Treasury
| Department.
| As far as the money is concerned,
there was not provision in the law
that it should be kept separate from
other moneys in the Treasury, and it
went into the general fund. As to
the legality of the tax, the following
asr the facts:
In 1866 a Mr. Farrington of Mem
phis, Tenn., sought to enjoin the col
lector of internal revenue of that dis
trict, whose name was Saunders, from
collecting the cotton tax on the ground
that the law levying the tax was un
constitutional.
‘ The court held that the tax was
coustitutional and the case of Far
rington vs Saunders was taken to the
Supreme court of the United States
on December 6, 1867. On February
20, 1871, the supreme court decided
the case. The vote on the decision
was evenly divided, four and four,
thereby sustaining the decision of the
lower court that the tax was consti
tutional.
It seems that at that time when
‘!ln' court was evenly divided on a
{ case and no opinion was written, the
case was not included in the supreme
court reports. For this reason, the
case is not in the reports and is not
mentioned in the index digests of the
reports.
} Many Georgians and southerners
have interested themselves in the mat
ter in the hope that they could secure
the return of the cotton tax collected
by the government. Some have sug
gested that the money be returned
to the south in thie shape of pensions
to Confederate veterans.
JUDGE W. F. GEORGE
WHILE NOMINATION SEEMS CER
TAIN FROM REPURTS, A CON
TEST WILE GO 0w IN THE
STATE CONVENTION.
l.atest reports from Atlanta place
Judge Walter F. George in third place
for nomination to one of the three
seats on the Appellate court, O. H.
Bloodworth and Alex Stephens com
ing first and second, respectively.
While Judge George's nomination
seems practically certain from the
latest reports, with all counties heard
from. the nomination will have to be
thrashed out through the state con
vention, and the principai interest of
the convention will center about this
contest. None of the leading candi
dates received sufficient eiectrol
votes without going into the conven
tion. and this will place in contest
the nomination of the three judges.
it is probable that all of the fourteen
candidates will participate in the con
vention.
‘ HERDY PITTS
YCUNG MAN SUFFERED ONLY
SHORT TIME FROM TYPHOID—
FUNERAL YESTERDAY AT ARA
81.
| -
Mr. Hardy A. Pitts, aged about 30
,yvzlrs. died Friday night about 11
| o’clock at his home at Arabi following
'an illness of ten days from typhoid
fever. Mr. Pitts was well known ir
Cordele, having resided here until a
few months ago with his family, @
wife and one baby. He was a son o!
Me. and Mrs. H, A Pitts, of Double
Run, and a nephew of Messrs. Johr
Pitts, of Cordele, Jeftf, Charlie, and
Ashley Pitts, of Arabi.
Scores of friends here condole witl
Mrs. Pitts and other relatives in their
bereavement.
The funeral services and burial were
held at Antioch, two miles north of
Arabi Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock
“YLITTLE ALBERT" BACK
IN GEORGIA POLITICS
Atlanta, Sept. y4—Albert Howell
Jr., better known throughout the state
as “little Albert,” will head the Ful
ton county delegation to the Macon
convention which meets on Septembe:
26 to declare the nominees for gov
ernor and state house officials.
It will be the first time in severa’
yvears that ‘“Little Albert” has gonr
to a state democratic convention as a
delegate, and his presence there will
be a subject of state-wide notice.
Mr. Howell is a brother of Clarl
Howell, the editor of the Atlanta Con
stitution; is president of the Consti
tion Publishing ‘tompany; is chief
counsel in Georgia for the Louisville
& Nashville railroad; is the law part
ner of Hugh M. Dorsey, and furnish
ed the brains and political sagacity
for the Dorsey campaign. He is gen
erally regarded as oné¢ of the shrewd
est politicians in the state, and when
he gets into action his adversaries
are always on the lookout.
Milton H. Smith, president of the
Louisville & Nashville railroad, whe
recently refused to tell the Interstate
(Commerce Commission how much his
road had spent for political purposes
in Georgia and other southern states
spent Tuesday in Atlanta to watch
the election returns. It being the
Louisville & Nashville that controls
the present lessee of the Western &
Atlantic railroad, Mr. Smith was nat
urally very much interested in the
outcome of the election. The new gov
ernor, Hugh M. Dorsey, will be a mem
ber of the leasing commission.
TRAIN ROBBER SENT
TO ATLANTA PRISON
Martinsburg, W. Va., Sept. 14—
(‘harles Jefferson Harrison, of San An
tonio, made a full confession of the
train robbery with which he was
charged, in the United States couri
here today before Judge Dayton. Sen
tence of twelve years’ improsonment
‘n the penitentiary at Atlanta was
imposed.
Harrison presented a pathetic figure
when he advanced to the bar to con
fess after pleading not guilty yester
day to the nine indictments. Weak and
emanciated by tuberculosis, his voice
was scarcely audible,
The crime was the robbery of a Bal
timore and Ohio train near (‘entral
Station; W. Vo, on October 8 @ 1915,
With Harrison was implicated. Eugene
Dies, who will be placed on trial next
and H. Grady Webb, who has .never
been arrested.
The robbers took from the express
car of the train more than a hundred
thousand dollars in unsigned bank
notes, much of which has been recov
ered.
H. F. MUSSELWHITE WAS
ELECTED CITY PATROLMAN
The resignation of C. J. Williams
from the Cordele police force was ac
cepted at the last meeting of the city
council and H. F. Musselwhite was
elected to succeed him. Musselwhite
has been serving extra on the police
force from time to time during the
past svve!'al menths, He was form
erly a regular member of the force,
and has several years' experience in
this capacity.
RECRUITING OFFICER
HERE AFTER NEW MEN
Lieutenant John F. Ross of Atlanta,
is in the city as a recruiting officer for
the National Guards. He will be here
through Monday and will be very glad
to communicate with anyone interest
ed in joining the ranks.
F. . Chambers of the tire sales de
partment of the Miller Rubber com
pany, of Atlanta, was in the city yes
terday.
Delivered By Carrier
In City 5S¢ Per Week
FINE PIPE ORGAN
1
REV. J. H. COIN, PASTOR, WILL AN
NOUNCE PLANS FROM PULPIT
AT CHURCH THIS MORNING.
At the regular deacon's meeting of
the First Baptist church last Sunday
plans for raising funds for the pur
chase of a handsome pipe gorgan were
‘ormulated. The instrument will
I'ml cost under $3,000. The board of
leacons are now developing their
lans for a concerted campaign to
aise the funds, and it is expected
hat this effort will be inaugurated
wo weeks from today. Announce
nents regarding this campaign will
)e made from the pulpit by Rev. J. H.'
‘oinfi the pastor, at today’s services.
The movement meets with general
wpproval of the church membership
ind the prospects for success are ex:,
ellent. The whole city will be
Jleased at the announcement.
ILECTION DISPUTE CAUSE OF
SHOOTING AT JEFFERSONVILLE
’ Macon, Sept. 15—With a ‘bullet
! vound in his head, where the lead
ntered through his mouth, and his
ight lung punctured M. J. Carswell,
L prominent attorney of Jefferson
‘ille, lies in a critical condition at the
\lacon hospital, having been shot by
Vill F. Shannon, a cotton warehouse
man of the sameplace. A
The shooting occurred yesterday af
ernoon shortly before y o’clock. in
he warehouse of D. S. Faulk at Jeffer
sonville, after the lie had been passed
n an argument oves the Hughes-Lar
sen election, in which Dudley M.
“Tughes, a cousin of Shannon, was de
‘eated for re-election by Judge W .W.
arsen of Dublin. :
Linmediately after the shooting
‘arswell was rushed to Macon, reach;
nging here at 4:30 o’clock, and car
‘ied to the Macon hospital, where he
vent on the operating table. He was
weompanied by his brother, George
1. Carswell of Irwinton, senator from
he Wilkinson county district; his
ousins, J. A. Carswell and Dr. W.
N. Carswell, of Irwinton, and Mrs. S.
W. Jones and H. C. Wood, of Jeffer
onville. :
NEW RATE OF INTEKEST.
Washington, Sept. 14.—A three and
yne-half per cent rate of interest for
ifteen-day notes at the Cleveland and
Atlanta federal reserve banks and four
er cent at the Minneapolis federal
reserve bank were approved today by
‘he federal reserve board under re
cent legislation. A four per cent
charge on fifteen-day maturities al
ready has been approved for Rich
mond.
IT IS PROPOSED TO ORGANIZE
THE NEW HIGHWAY DEPART
MENT FOR STATE OF GEORGIA
ATI THAT TIME:
Atlanta,Sept. 15.—A meeting has
heen called in the offices of the state
srison commission, vo be held next
I'uesday for the purpose of organizing
ne newly created Georgia highway de
partment. The meeung will be at
ended by Hon. L. W. Page, director of
he public roads bureau of the nation
al agricultural department, who will
id in the organization work. The Gecr
oia highway department is composed
of the three members of the prison
commission, Messrs. Davison Pattems
son and Rainey; Dr. S. W. McCall,
state geologist; C. M. Strahn, of the
I'niversity of Georgia, and R. D. Kneal
of Georgia Tech.
At Tuesday’'s meeting the members
f the department and Director Page
will discuss the prospective work that
may be begun at once, and how far
the department can go with that work,
in conformity with the general idea
of the federal government, in the ab
sence of any appropriation by tag
stare. S
To Employ Engineers.
The state department will employ
what road engineers it deems neces
sary, but som~ arrangement will have
to be made whereby tiiese men can
carry on their work witliout state mon
ey, until the next meeting of the gen
eral assembly, when some appropria
tion will he made to meet their sala
ries. In the bill as passed the amount
of these salaries is fixed, but no way
has been provided for the payment.
in the face of this, however, the
highway department, in order to avail
itself of the Georgia share in ihe gov
ernment fund, will proceed as far as
possible.
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