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VOL. VIII
Fine Chance to Reducc
Water Rate to 60 Cents
The annual report of the superin
tendent W. G. Webb of the city water
works shows that for the year 1916 his
department has a gross earning of
over $13,000. In Mayor Jones’ annual
message he predicted that the water
rents for 1917 would reach $15,000. It
will be noted that the earnings for
1916 were more than $500.00 above the
water rent assessment for the year.
It will also be noted that the water
works department has on hand a bal
ance of over $2,000 from the 1916 ap
propriation. In other words this is
money which it had to spend for op
erating purposes and which has not
been spent. This is considered in
deed a handsome sum with which to
pass into the new year.
Mayor Jones, Alderman King, and
possibly others of the members of
council will start anew for the mini
mum rate of 60 cents per month. Al
derman King has strongly champion
ed this movement and in his annual
message Mayor Jones has urged it
again for 1917. It looks like a mini
mum of 60 cents on water for 1917.
The report of Superintendent Webb is
given in full.below:
Honorable Mayor and City Council:
I beg to hand you my report for
the waterworks departemnt for the
year 1916, from Jan. Ist to Dec. Ist.
RECEIPTS— '
Water rent assessment ....$12,500.00
Water rent cellections .... 13,005.22
Collections above assessment 505.22
Look Out Speeders; Here
Comes the Police Otficer
Look out, auto speeders! The po
lice have been rounding up the dear
racing cnes of late and Mayor Jones
handed a few of them some remind
£rs the other day,-Christmas pres
ents that were of special interest to
more than one person.
©One of the officers when asked how
fast the car was going, said that the
FIRST SERVICE IN NEW POSITION
. WILL BE IN - SISTER CITY I[N
JANUARY.
Judge D. A. R. Crum, recently ap
pointed as judge of the Cordele Ju
dicial circuit to succeed Judge W. F.
George, who goes to serve on the
bench of the court of appeals will
hold his first session of court at Fitz
gerald on the third Monday in Janu
ary. He is promised an interesting
session -there, with much business be
bore the court and a mumber of im
portant cases to be heard. He will
preside over the first session of the
court in Cordele on the third Monday
in February.
LOCAL MARBLE WORKS GOT
LARGE ORDER IN SUMTER
The Cordele Marble Works secured
an order in Sumter county several
days ago amounting to several thou
sand dollars. It was the largest or
der given for some time in this sec
tion for monumental work.
Sl e i pus
A LETTER TO SANTA CLAUS.
Dear Santa Claus:
Please bring me a roll carriage and
Please bring de a doll carriage anr
cabinet. Your little girl,
HARRIETTE MANN.
CHRISTMAS DAY.
Jingle, jingle, jingle,
Jingle all the day;
I'm neither young nor single, §
But I’d dance a jig today.
Jingle, jingle, jingle,
I'd don Old Santa’s wig
And dance with all the children -
A jingle jingle jig.
Jingle, jingle, jingle,
Jingle, jingle say;
oOld Santa’s come to see us, 7
old Santa won’t you stay? :
Jingle, jingle, jingle," .
Till evening’s latest bell,
Jingle, jingle, jingle—
The day is gone farewell.
. —A. M. S.
FENN-WILSON.
The engagement of Miss Lovella
Wilson, of Atlanta, and J. R. Fenn, of
this city, is announced, the wedding
to occur at the home of the bride’s
parents during January. Miss Wilson
was a trimmer during the season just
closed in the millinery department of
L. J. Roobin. She is an attractive
young woman and made numerous
friends while in Cordele. Mr. Fenn is
a prominent young traveling man and
is widely known throughout Cordele
and this section.
Miss Margaret Fahnestock, daugh
ter of Mrs. Gibosn Fahenstock of Wash
ington, has just been introduced to
Washington society and is now re
garded as one of the prettiest debut
antes o fthe capital season, where
ther are many pretty girls in society.
‘THE CORDELE DISPATCH
Appropriation for 1916 ...... 8,000.00
Sale of cast iron pipe ...... 3.61
Work on hydrant fer Cordele
WOmMDReaRi it by ST 3.50
C. M. Killian, balance on old
waterworks junk ........... 100.00
0. M. Heard, meter box top.. .75
Sale ot ol Sil et er 2.70
Cordele Elec. Co., weood ... 26.09
Sale of gerap.jron ....0..... 1.25
R. T. Aderhold, 4 valvas ... 40 00
Wood for sanitary Dept. ... 22.59
Qil for fire department ..... 4.50
. Total appropriation 8,204.31
EXPENDITURES—
eI il e sB4 T8:05
Salaries and labor.. 3,694.50
Oilg cetei i 120849
Pipe, fitting, waiste, !
ate s s ee~ 290063
Lights. 00, i abinn 20.02
Stationery, postage,
and printing .i.... 66.50
Meter parts ....... 91.67
Freight and express 15.47
Repatns iet ciane 35.90
Meter boxes and
Caps’ st Casen 10169190
Steel tape ... .. 1.50
Boiler compound ... 1.50
‘total expenditures. . $5,991.50 5,991.50
'Balance of appropriation on
fhands s rie eol oD 2,212.73
’ Respectfully submitted,
| W. G. WEBB, Supt. Waterworks.
driver made the block in five and a
half seconds. The driver didn’t deny
the charge, but admitted he was “hit
ting it up” when the officer hailed
him. All those who were brought into
police court were held for racing on
the pretty paved avenues in the res
idence section.
CAROLS: SUNG BY
MANY PEOPLE
LARGE CROWDS WERE IN PARADE
AND AROUND CHRISTMAS TREE
A4S SONGS WERE SUNG.
Hundreds of the men and women
and children of the community,
church goers, Sunday school workers,
league members, and many friends
from over the city took part last night
in the singing of the carols in ac
cordance with a program as arrang
ed by the members of the local Sym
phony club. The occasion was the
second which the people of Cordele
have enjoyed and those who took part
were deeply iupressed with this man
ner of obhserving Christmas.
The day and the evening were fair
and just nold enough to make ideal
koliday crisp and snappy atmosphere.
1t made it possible for much larger
numbers of people to take part in tie
exercises. The gathering was not as
prompt as the leaders desired, but
this was due. it was said, to the un
vsually busy hour at five o’clock.
It was more than an hour after the
scheduled time to start before the
people gathered, but the occasion was
none ihe less enthusiastic and im
pressive. Many people saw the pa
rade and kad tc ac with the exercises.
The exercises, including the parade,
were carried cut as planned, and the
singing around the pretty municipal
Clhristmag tree was an inspiring oc
casion.
DECEMBER REPORT SHOWS CON
SIDERABLE INCREASE OVER
1915 IN COTTON PORDUCTION.
The latest report from director Sam
Rogers gives Crisp county 20,537 hales
ginned up to December 1, this year,
as against 19,112 bales in 1915 for the
same period. December 1 included
practically all of the crop produced
in the county this year, and the same
was true of 1915.
With probably a slight decrease in
the acreage this year, and notwith
standing the severe rains and unfa
vorable conditions that came this year
about the maturing time for the crop,
Crisp county produced this year 1,425
bales more than the crop of 1915.
While the increased yield was much
to be considered, yet the splendid
prices that the staple brought on the
market was the greatest consideration
in favor of this year's crop.
\ NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.
- Beginning Tuesday, December 26th,
the Cordele Banks will close at 12
o’clock noon for the balance of Christ
mas week, except on Saturday, when
they close at the usual hour, 2 p. m.
CORDELE NATIONAL BANK,
AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK,
EXCHANGE BANK,
CITIZENS BANK.
MISS CORA LOU SOLOMON, GUEST
AT THE HOME OF MISS SARAH
HYDE, WAS HORRIBLY BURNED
AT A GRATE FIRE—FUNERAL IN
VIENNA.
One of the most deplorable deaths
that has ever come to Cordele occurr
ed Thursday night about 7 o'clock,
when Miss Cora Lou Solomon, aged 16
years, one ¢f the community’s most
accomplished and attractive young
girls, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. B.
Sblomon, and a student of the O’Neal
High school in the graduating class,
was burned at the home of Mrs. H.
C. Hyde, on Eleventh avenue.
Her clothing caught fire from an open
grate. She wore a dress of light fab
bric and the flame quickly enveloped
her.
The only occupants of the house at
the time besides her were Miss Sarah
Hyde and J. Q. Spires, a young man.
Both young Spires and Miss Hyde
were very painfully burned about the
hands when they attempted to extin
guish the flame. They pulled down
a pair of portieres in the hall and
wrapped them about Miss Solomon,
hoping by this means to smother the
flame, but this was to little avail.
0. S. Bazemore and 1. T. Murrah,
neighbors, came to the young lady’s
assistance and the burning clothing
was torn from her, though not until
after her entire body had been se
verely -burned and her limbs and head
most painfully blistered.
Miss Solomon was spending the
night at the home of Miss Hyde, a
school girl friend. With Miss Hyde
and young Spires, she was in the par
lor, playing the piano. Saying that
her hands were cold, she went into
the bed room to warm them before
the grate. As she bent over the fire
her clothing was ignited. Her screams
as she ran into the hallway attract
ed Miss Hyde and Spires and they
immediately rendered all aid possible.
Physilians were quickly summoned
and they held out no hope from the
first to the relatives and friends for
the recovery of the young lady.
Though suffering excruciating pain,
which the physicians could not alle
viate, Miss Solomon bore up bravely
in her agony and did not murmur a
complaint. Her composure was re
markable.
Mrs. Solomon when informed of
the accident of her daughter, was ter
ribly shocked. She said that she had
felt some indescribable premonition
that her daughter would be safest at
hame, and after calling her over the
phone and asking her to come home,
at which time the young lady prevail
ed on her to let her stay at the home
of Miss Hyde for the night, she sent
a relative in an automobile to request
her to come home. The young lady
finally secured her mother’s consent
to remain. Mr. Solomon, who is a
traveling man, was located in Fitz
gerald by long distance telephone. He
arrived in the city on the midnight
train. Miss Solomon was a most lov
able young lady and had numerous
friends. She would have graduated
from the O’Neal High school in June
and her seventeenth birthday would
have occurred next April.
The remains were carried to Vienna,
the former home of the family, Thurs
day afternoon and interment occurred
at 3 o'clock. Funeral services were
conducted by Rev. J. H. Coin, ‘pastor
of the First Baptist church of this
city, of which Miss Solomon was a
member.
A large concourse of friends of the
young lady and family went by auto
mobile to Vienna to attend the fun
eral services. School was to have
closed Friday at noon but was dismiss
ed Thursday at noon out of respect for
the young lady. She was president
of her class, and many of her school
mates attended the funeral.
PALACE CHRISTMAS PROGRAM.
Manager Cain of the Palace Thea
tre, has arranged an excellent pro
gram for next week, as will be seen
by reference to announcement in our
advertising columns. Tomorrow, the
ever popular Blanche Sweet, will be
shown in “The Storm,” one of her
best productions. Tuesday, Viola Da
no in a Metro Wonderplay and Wed
nesday, Robert Edeson in “Martmain”
one of the most sensational proto
dramas ever filmed. In addition to
the features, a good comedy will be
shown each day. The palace will
open tomorrow at 2 o’clock and the
usual admission price of 5 and 10
cents will prevail throughout the
week.
Monday, January 1, the Palace will
show the “Life of Our Savior,” a sev
en reel Pathe production. The picture
is colored and exquisitely arranged so
as to bring to the vision a graphic
realization of the infinite simplicity,
yet monumental strength of Jesus.
ROOBIN’'S EMPLOYEES GAVE
PRETTY PEN AS PRESENT
The employees of the store present
ed L. J. Roobin with a pretty Water
man fountain pen with his name en
graved thereon yesterday as a token
of the high.esteem in which he is
held as their friend. His thanks were
prcfuse and when the hapy surprise
dawned on him as a real thing, his
smile broadened and before the close
of yesterday’s business he was one of
the happiest business men of the
community.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1916.
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S. M. WATSON HEADS ORDER FOR
ANOTHER YEAR. FEW CHANGES
MADE.
Quattlebaum, Clerk; A. A. Dorman, G.
Woodmen of America, elected the fol
lowing officers for the year 1917 at
their last regular meeting:
S. M. 'Watson, Consul; L. O. White,
Worthy Advigcr; James F. Hamilton,
Banker; ‘George D. Hartshorn, Past
Consul; Charlie Bowen, Escort; R. H.
Quaddlebaum, Celrk; A. A. Dorman, G.
M. Bazemore, H. A. Pridgen, trustees;
0. W. Phillips, Chief Forrester; W. E.
Parrish, Watchman; B. E. Watson,
Sentry
LEAGUE PROGRAM.
The Senior Epworth League will
present the following special Christ
fmas program on Sunday afternoon at
3:30 at the Methodist church. Every
one is cordially invited to attend.
Song: Joy to the World.
Scripture reading: Palmer Greene.
Prayer: Rev. Walter Anthony.
Vocal Duet: Misses Mary and Mar
garet Bulloch.
Christmas Story: Mrs. Mather M.
Eakes.
Music.
Christmas in other lands: Miss Lou
ise Bercaw.
Music.
Reading: Out of the East: Miss
All City Departments
Saved Money Last Year
One of the most striking testimo
nials of splendid financial condition of
the city government of Cordele is in
dicated in the handsome sum of mon
ey which has been retained in the
treasury from amounts appropriated
for running expenses during the year
just closed. Every operating depart
ment of the city government has mon
ey to its credit that was not spent
during the year. The city spent more
money for insurance than was set
aside for this purpose. It spent more
money for interest on bonds than was
Cash balance, general fund L e e 1,741.44
SinKmaEGlEd - e b bB e s e 25,049.15
Delinquent taxes $12.75078
CollEelalll ov o, i v B S e ety ge s 10,029.07— 2,721.71
Taxes, 1916 45,000.00
Collenton: 1 1l 0b il ee e e 8,589.65— 36,410.35
Merpeantile: BICONSEe. .\ .- v diriatibbes e s e oo 9,000.00
Gollected S i s . e So e TIDAAEROE -
Marshalle SoIBE ... -iaoisnommmbes sionsisisnnsapnennene 600.00
COUBCIBE Gty il Tt pi iy osste s erie s o Bisoainit 367.36— 232.64
SINOOb BaXs &0 s i ohr il e S el il g RBlo el e 3,500.00
Colldotedr: v b Gil eesao e i 3,435.00— 65.00
ator PeNtS . e ek st s dhic ki e sttt 12,500.00
Gollecte & i i eG e 13,006.22—
Fines and forfeitures .........c.eoocecveececcorcccccne 3,000.00
Gollected: . s s e ee s s 2,030.00—- 970.00
Rentalst i Sl s aiat s vvl diale sy 300.60
@ollected |e i o e eel 151:94— 148.06
Gometieniest { e et e g e e 200.00
Collectld o . G e aesderere et 160.00— 40.00
Waterworks, mains and SEWErS .........ccocccececcccncorincece 130,729.69
@ity hall DTODerEY: «ot vt icncsn or s ane est o 16,000.00
Pitblic school PROPErtY: .ol inci e 00l doie sl Do gy G 42,693.43
@ityastockade S 0 bil il ses e s s S 2,601.79
FADIALY: DIODEDbYE = oo i B ires sre i s e (UG LS 10,000.00
Live stock and road machinery ............c..ccececononcnrccnccs 5,695.75
@iy crematony s & iilee s s e i i R 4,250.00
@nera house furniture; €tc & itepim: v ociarace e cns oo siantatasy 883.35
ke CONIPDIeNt it o odl B il Rso el g g e R 7,944.50
Insurance, excess of appropriation ............ccceceeeeeiniineene 252.50
Interest on bodns, excess of appropriation .......... ..c..ceeee 30.00
Total $38835908
albile el oo e
Bills payable, miscellaneous income e e 9,750.00
THLEnERIE ol e L et e oie S isid it B 8 922.96
Bavinge WE UL isO Bl iR G 4,967.99
Bolatotireting iit (os i caiiaies eee el Bitla i&0 68.00
MegaBRIVECIRING .. v i eei s e egl 46.50
APPROPRIATIONS:
Police department $ 6,500.00
HXPORAOti b Nty Lieee e s f e 5,973.11— 526.29
Firedepartmentsss . o oao o oo singd i s e s 3,000.00
FlXpendan iy ieel s e g e 2,763.82— 236.18
ATI B eel i el s e Geieie geg e e 8,204.31
FXPENASa@E ¥ n vo G e el e s 5,991.58— 2,212.73
StHeatS ot Bl i G ss e 8,413.86
HXDANAeds i s ol Liee ek b e e 7,144.81— 1,269.05
Genenal EXPENNe &v r i ee s s eo 8 1,500.00
Expended sil D aen i eide e e B 668.47— 831.53
Streot HEGhing e 0 oo oot it oo s R a 4,500.00
Expendel ki Gad s G es e 3:701.98— 798.02
SChool fOßde Gl e e S e e 16,000.000
ERpEnaed Tl fhil il Ge oo sot 6,760,88— 9,239.12
Sinldng fund, general:. . o .. o oee ss e 4,000.00
Kxpehde .iiR il s sl S none— 4,000.00
TADTARYEY: . o o Gkl S e eece A 2,158.82
Expended = L owe st saeset s e 2,026.81— 132.01
Saniiary. deDaRIIMENTy i vty e o eoo o ¢ 2,000.00
EXpended .l oGt v iest o 1,907.62— 92.35
Salapies: Gity OMOPLS. .ivs kv vvs taismear. sioecons eoeoe 4,200.00
BXpeRADd s e e 3,025.00— 1,175.00
Infekeltion DONGE. /. .o iil sl s yelniain e see 8,920.00
EXpEnUeds . A e e st e 8,950.00—
Interest on bills payable ..i...ccc cacococce covnoeecs 500.00
ERpendall ol d i tat eaVs Yo s Rne it 16.20— 484.80
INSUEIIeE. -008 e et e S eltie eb e 300.00
WXpended: .o on el Gl Sk sbes el es o e 552.60—
PESH RONEe 5o o e e S e et 100.00
Bxpenggds. -0 08 Seidoo SRR oo L s ede sg e g none— 100.00
Ghapilivee .-0 .Sl Gt eel Daieine 200.00
Pxpeßdiille. . . Jdio bvl o GRS ei vy ses 102.62— 97.38
Sanitary and building inspector ......... ..... coee-- 900.00
Hxpended .- ... .. Sauaßarfie¥ sil o glen sl s 825.00— 75.00
Comelery. OXPONSE ./« .s a 5 jo: i ldiTe sooeloorslioo s 300.00
Expendeds .Lvl G oiaetnil G eele de ¢ clse 283.45-— 16.55
THIDIOVERIENts “oc. o 0 coull o b ebe oo 1,000.00
Te A R R S si B 846.96— 153.04
Dotk IBNIEGVONBNEs . ... (ooilaii. cacee el pele o e 500.00
Mixpoifod s v Lot oo e s sfo 28.08— 471.92
SONORE Sel s o S Tl el eg g e 119.17
Bty oS il eia sl daieniae 16.08— 102.37
Vouchara pagable .. ...... .. ..co.occo iedeeaparense 2,492.04
FOXpen@ads - r sl caiT. ot el ana adaa) BnEl 1,862.04— 630.00
SONDUME voo sasies deonin si o dhiee Conitn s SRR T A 68,125.85
STRONG SOLICITATIONS BY HIS
FRIENDS ALL OVER STATE.
JUDGE WHIPPLE HAS MATTER
UNDER ADVISEMENT.
Judge U. V. Whipple, former judge
of the Cordele judicial circuit, and
one of the most prominent and most
widely known attorneys in the state,
is being strongly urged by friends
from all sections to become an appli
cant before President Wilson for ap
pointment to the Federal court judge
ship to succeed the late Judge W. W.
Lambdin of the United States court
of the southern district of Georgia.
A majority of the local bar and
other friends of Judge Whipple held a
meeting Thursday afternoon and adop
ted a resolution unanimously urging
him to become an applicant. Judge
Whipple has the matter under serious
consideration. As soon as the action
of the local bar became known over
came from all quarters.
from all quarters.
The people of Cordele are eager to
have Judge Whipple become an appli
cant for the place. Endorsement will
be unusually strong.
Martha Lifsey. ,
League benediction.
set aside for this purpose. In both
cases the difference is very small.
In the watér works department over
$2,000 was saved. On the streets over
$l,OOO was saved. Out of the general
expense fund of $1,500 over $BOO was
saved. Of the street lighting fund
over $7OO was saved. In the police
department over $5OO was saved. The
fire department has over $2OO to its
credit.
The last complete statement of city
clerk and treasurer, George Harris,
submitted Dec. 1, follows:
New Judge Cordele Circuit
Ranks as Self Made Man
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Newly appointed Judge Cordele Circuit
The recently appointed judge of the
superior courts of the Cordele circuit
is one of Georgias self-made men. e
is forty eight years old, a native of
Homerville, Clinch county, Ga., the
youngest son of Robert B. and Mar
garet (Mallette) Crum.
Judge Crum’s early educational ad
vantages were poor. His father, re
turning from the Civil War, found his
slaves and other property gone. Young
Crum, when old enough, was put to all
the work required of a farmer boy,
attending in the fail “three months”
school. In 1881 he entered Chatham
Academy at Savannah, where, outside
of school hours, he worked on a truck
farm, sold the farm producis at the
city market during market hours, and
No Blue Laws in Force
For loday in Cordele
The little high sheriff who has been
forced to chase everybody off the
streets on Sunday for a number of
weeks trying to enforce the blue laws,
is out with positive assurance that
nobody will be harmed today if it be
necessary to go into the stores to get
the things for Santa Claus to use on
his visits here tonight.
Santa Claus is coming. Ile has al
ready shown up in this part of the
country and some of us already have
had communication with him. He is
going all around the world tonight to
finish up his work of the year and if
Arahi Social News
Miss Ruth Mikel, Corinne Pirkle,
Undine McWilliams, Pansy Patterson,
Messrs. G. T. Kinnett, Byrom Pirkle
and Simmie G. Marshall were guests
of Ben Pate at a rook party Friduy
night. After the games a delicious
fruit, salad and cake cours2 was
served by Miss Flla Pate.
The Misses Hardin and Alton Ham
ilton and Emmons Pirkle attended the
picture show in Cordele Thursday
evening.
Mrs. M. D. Mikel and children left
Wednesday afternoon for Rome to
spend the holidays.
Miss Kathleen Pate is spending the
holidays in Grayson, Ga.
Mrs. R. J. Bunkly and Miss Ella
Pate were visitors to Cordele Monday.
Misses Myrtis and Pearl Pate, Nora
Davis and Dannie Odum who attend
ed school at Milledgeville, arrived
home last week for the holidays.
Miss Ruth McWilliams was shop
ping in Cordele Wednesday.
Miss Florence McWilliams is visit
ing in Americus.
Friends of Virgin McWilliams sym
pathize with him having the misfor
tune of breaking his arm while crank
ing up a car.
Of much interest to friends here is
the approaching marriage of Grady
Long to Miss Gill of Butler.
Mrs. Murphey of Florala, Ala., has
returned home, after a viist to Mrs.
M. J. Mikel.
T. J. Royal made a business trip to
Cordele Thursday.
Rev. J. O. J. Taylor who will fill
the Methodist pulpit for the next year
has arrived.
Mrs. Foxworth of Savannah is spend
ing a while in Arabi.
There was quite a nice article in re
gard Rev. George Hyman and his
work in a Tampa paper last Sunday.
Rev. Hyman will be remembered very
pleasantly by Arabi people, having
spent his boyhood days at this place.
Waterworks and sewer bonds ....... ..... coieiieael seeiinens 45,000.05
Senool Bomds &oo 0 2 s 0L LTR sLe st s ee o 10,000.00
Public improvement bonds ....... 17,000.00
Street, waterworks, school and sewer boßde L nt 95,000.0 C
Accrtiod interest on BoDAB - s tacl Urdas et ST eel vl seides B 215.00
Reserve for bills payable ........oc..ici coot.deulnlaiats se r e 1,500.0 C
Canll TESOTV@ isy siossanns it eSli s s e olols 119.72
Sawer extenslON - . ias sl taliue S esg v e 250.90
Mercantile license, excess of bodget .............cceeeeeenenccns 2,244.50
Water rents, excess of budget ......... .. seocecoreons eneomrinng 505.22
Public school improvement honds ...........ccccoeevverernesenes 10,000.00
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Total 8288,35908
Delivgregd By
In City 5¢ Per Week
studied his lessons alone at night.
From this institution he was graduat
ed in 1884. As a school teacher anc
clerk he made ‘sufficient money witi
which to attend the law school of the
University of Georgia, entering ther
in January, 1889, making up the stu
ies gone over by the class the pre:
ous term, and graduating in Jur
1889.
The young lawyer was at once a’
tracted to the ambitious city of Co:
dele, where, with the exception
thirteen years at Vienna, he has sin
lived. During twenty seven yea
practice he has been a member of {
law firms of Crum & Erwin; Bush.
& Crum; Busbee, Crum & Busbeo:
and Crum & Jones. Judge Crum's
practice has been general and exte:
sive, ranging from the lowest to th
highest courts, state and federal.
is said of him, that many of his bes
egorts were in behalf of the poor anc
oppressed; that he never faltered be
cause a client was unable to pay, anc
some of his greatest efforts were iu
cases involving trivial amounts, but
large in principle. !
He is a member of the Methodist
church, Knights of Pythias, Red Men,
Woodmen of the World, the Masons;
being a Pilgrim Knight, Knight Tem
plar, Thirty Second Degree Scottish
Rite, and a Shriner. He is also a
member of the Georgia Bar Associa
tion and the American Bar Associa
tion.
In 1896 Judge Crum and Miss Flor
ence Hamilton, daughter of James M.
and Suzannah (Whitehead- Hamiltor,
native of this immediate section, wers
married. They have gix children.
Judge Crum’s appointment to suc
ceed Judge George was generally ex
pected and has been favorably receiv
ed. His duties begin January Ist, ani!
continue for the unexpired term «'
two years.
there is a single little boy or a little
girl without the prospects of a visit
from him, it may be necessary today
to work some.to be assured that this
does not occir. *
At any r ate,Sheriff John Ward is
not going to bother a soul today for
working on Sunday to make sure San
ta Claus comes to every little one. But
he wants all hands to observe Christ
mas tomorrow and keep the stores
closed for that purpose wherever it is
necessary to give the employees this
one day.
l The regular meeting of the Matron=
Sewing Club was postponed until th«
Ist Wednesday in January at whici.
time it will meet with Mrs. S. A. Roy
al.
Zion Hill News It
! |
I By Lola Adkins.
Qur school has been on * the ir
[(:rease all the tall, with new pubi
!nearly every week. ;
‘ Most of us were pleased with o
:marks on our last examinations, fc
they show that we are making goor
; in our school work.
| We are now making ready for ouv
|holidays. The last thing on the pr
lgram is a Christmas tree, which is
for Friday night Dec. 22.
| As news is scarce at tiis writing,
lwill close, wishing for the editor «n
the many readers of the Dispatch
' happy Christmas.
i
Seville Social News
Rev. Lambert filled his fisrt appoint
ment here Sunday
A Waters has moved to town.
Mrs. McCall was called to the bed
side of her mother. She lived only a
few days.
Mr. Seweli has moved back .to his
home in town
Mrs. Malaire and daughter, of near
Atlanta, visited Mr. E. A. Walton and
family this week. i
Mr. Murphey has moved his family
to Pineview.
Miss Lambert who has been attend
ing school at Wesleyan, is at homo
for the holidays.
Mr. Crow has moved his family to
Cordele.
Mrs. E. V. Brogdon has returne:
from a visit to her parents at Amboy.
A. B. Tippett and son, Tiny, were in
tomn a short while Thursday.
Robert Wilson who has been attend
ing school here has returned home t¢
spend Christmas.
NO. 72.