The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, December 27, 1916, Wednesday Edition, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextWednesday Edition Eight Pages 'VOL. VIIL o OOMNE TOMOE w };;;5 QUL l Ji lm o MPORTANT DEL! IBERATIONS AS {7O CHANGING SENATORIAL DIS r ICTS' OF GEORGIA. NUMBER F PROMINENT SPEAKERS. & \t? or more representatives of pos sißly as many counties in gouth and X "tfx"'él ‘Georgia are expected to be hére tomorrow afternoon to attend the theeting of senators and representa tives for the purpose of considering important legislation for the next Gen eral Assembly. The meeting will be‘ held in the parlors of the Suwanee hiotel. A smoker has been arranged for the entertainment of the visitors. | The principal object of the gather ;’iug is to plan arrangements for the redistricting of the state as to sena torial districts, and to discuss the question, as to whether the rules of ' the hg ’Xa senate will be changed Wg&seﬂt rules, which are au seatic to'a more democratic body. Other questions will also be consid: ered, - | _Organization will be affected imme diatély upon convening, and thoughl .no slated program has been arranged ‘addresses will be made by some of the ‘most prominent citizens of the section. Committees will be appointed to draft the proposed redistricting bill and also look into the matter of changing the rules of the house. TRAVEL MADE UNION STIATION LOOK LIKE THIRTY CENTS Passenger travel from, to and through Cordele from Saturday until Wednesday reached a high mark. Each day a congested throng filled the union station and crowded the yards for a block. The crowds on both days would have filled ten such union sta tions as Cordele has, notwithstanding the fact that it is quite a commodious station. There were unusual crowds, for never before in the history of Cor dele has passenger traffic through this point been so heavy. The sights about the union station “would -have -beéenr-an eye opener to those unacguainted with the enormity of travel through this point, and yet when one considers the thirty or more passenger trains daily, with four Toads touching Cordele and every‘ train carrying from three to five ex tra coaches, they can but know that \ TEN YEAR OLD SPENDING HOL IDAYS IN CORDELE IS (PAIN FULLY WOUNDED. 0. W. Turner, aged 10 years, who with other members of the family, has been spending the holidays with Mr. and Mrs. Homer Mims, was shot through the right foot Tuesday morn ing when a 22-calibre Marlin rifle was accidently discharged in his hands. The ball penetrated his shoe, passing through his foot into : the ground, taking effect in the ball' of the foot. Young Turner is a son of Mrs. F. M. Turner, of Waycross, a sister-in law of Mr. and Mrs. Mims. Visit ing here with her were her two sons, Marvin and O. W., and daugh ter, MisB Buna. They returned to their home Wednesday. | _After the boy’s accident medical‘ aid was immediately summoned, and he i now fast recovering from the wouud. | HOPE ROBERTS WILL JOIN | BOWEN IN GROCERY BUSINESS -Hope Roberts, who has been in the grocery business in Cordele for many years, and who was up till recently in charge of the Hinton Grocery com pany. will be associated with the Bow en Grocery company, located on Elev enth avenue after January Ist. His experience in the grocery busi ness has faimliarized him with a wide and upto-date trade in Cordele and surrounding section and his straight forward business methods, promptness and care in attending to the needs and . wants of his customers are known to all. He will doubtless prove an ex cellent acquisition to the Bowen Gro cery company. MSEABOARD TOOK AWAY . LARGE NUMBER LABORERS ‘More than a hundred and fifty ne gro laborers, occupying two coaches on the afternoon passenger train Tuedsay were on their way to Savan nah over the Seaboard railway to take TuE CORDELE DISPATCH PIONEER WOMAN MRS. W. F. TOMLINSON PASSES GREAT DIVIDE WHILE AT BED SIDE OF HER DAUGHTER IN PEL HAM. Mrs. W. F. Tomlinson, mother of Mrs. G. B. Gary of this city, with | whom she has been making her home for many vears, died Monday after ‘noon at the home,of her daughter, ‘Mrs. W. F. Holton at Pelham. She had been sick only a few days. Mrs. Tomlinson was called to Pel ham to attend the bedside of Mrs. Hol ton and had been there for only a few days when she was attacked, She was a pioneer citizen of Cordele, a mem ber of the Methodist church and had a, large number of friends. 'The remains were brought here from Pelham Tuesday afternoon, and interment occurred at Sunnyside cem atery. Rev. Walter Anthony, pastor of the Methodist church conducted the funeral services. Mr. and Mrs. Respess of Atlanta, who have just returned from an ex tended bridal tour through the north and east have been the guests for the past few days of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Jones. Mr. Respess is a brother of Mrs. Jones. The couple were recent ly married in Aflanta and the bride isB a charming and attractive young wo man. the traffic must be tremendous. When seven trains arrive at the union sta tion about the same time each after noon, the crowds reach the maximum. The number of travelers changing cars and others about the station dur ing the past few days have reached far into the thousands. 1t is doubtful if the new central sta ion in Wshington, D. C., with the crowds packed like sardines, would have held them, and the termianls in Atlanta wouldn’t have furnished stand ing room for half the crowd. ! ..Thers wag e’ oy Talhed by pas: sengers who just missed connections account of indisposition of train crews to wait. This was due to holiday reg ulations. If connections had been made travel through this point would have been ideal. OLDEST NEGRO IN SOUTH PASS ES AWAY AT HOME HERE— YOUNGEST CHILD IS 87 YEARS OF AGE. Floyd Armstrong, a negro, whose death occurred at his home here; Sunday, was a modern Methuslah. He was the oldest person in the‘ state, probably the oldest person in the south. Armstrong had celebrat ed his centennial birthday and had gone a quarter on such another length of time. In other words he was 125 years old, though until the past few weeks, when he was taken seriously ill, he had been able to get about, apparently no more feeble than a person in the seventies or eighties. | Armstrong’s youngest child, a wo man, is 87 years of age, making him 38 years of age at the time of her birth. He has frequently said that “De white folks tale him dat he wuz near-bout 73 years old at de time of de surrender.” ‘ The old negro had been a faithful servant of Dr. D. J. Williams for many years, and had lived in Cordele since it was a mere cross-roads vil lage. | DR. FORD WARE WILL STUDY AT TULANE UNIVERSITY Dr. Ford Ware, one of Cordele’s best known young physicians and surgeons, a graduate of the Georgia Medical col lege, expects to leave on January 2 to take a course at Tulane University at New Orleans in the special study of the eye, ear, nose and throat. He will complete the course in six to nine months and will then seek a location for practice. At present he has in mind locating in one of the larger cities. : employment there with the railroad company in the construction of docks, doing railroad construction work and constructing buildings. A number of Cordele negroes joined the lahorers. MUST :PAY HER $170,000 FOR FAILURE TO WED. 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ASHBURN YOUNG PEOPLE HURT When two automobiles collided on Seventh street in Northern Heights residence section Monday afternoon five were injured, though none were very seriously hurt. An Ashburn par ty, comprising 2 young ladies and 2 young men, were pinned beneath an overturned Ford. They were Misses Woods and Wilson and Messrs. Har ris and Willingham. Miss Woods sus tained several broken ribs and painful cuts about the body, Miss Wilson was painfully cut on one of her limbs and badly lacerated about the body. Both young men were lacerated and cut about the body and limbs. Willingham was driying the car, ._ - The accident occurred at the inter section of two streets. The driver of the other machine, an E. M. F.,, was S. \ 0 CIRCUS GETS LOWER RATE BUT CARNIVAL HAS TO KEEP TO “THE WOO0ODS.” SOME SUNDAY LAW CHANGES. The mayor and council passed the new license ordinance for 1917 at a session held yesterday afternoon and those who have to pay to do business in Cordele may now know what it will cost: The circus license was cut from $2OO to $lOO per day. The can}ivul,; after getting fair consideration, went‘ by the board again and will be prohib-i ited in 1917. The merry-go-round gets] a license of $5.00 a day. Bottling works are to pay $5O instead of $25 per year. Fire, wreck or bankrupt sales of merchadnise are changed from $25 to $5O. General supply hous es wiil have to pay $6O instead of 340 as L. retofore. Tiere was 2 license of $2OO on what is termed the loan shark. This was reduced to $75 per year. Some of the references to the operating of business places on Sunday were en tirely removed from the ordinance and others were allowed to remain. Near beer, or imitation beer drinks, had a license fixed last year at $lO,OOO. It was suggested that this be removed from the ordinance since the state has done away with the sale of beer or near beer, but it was decided to let the license remain. ROCHELLE TO HAVE : NEW $12,000 CHURCH Rev. Walter M. Lee, pastor of the Baptist church of Rochelle, and Mrs. Lee were in Cordele today as the guest sof Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Henry. Rev. Lee is a brother of Mrs. lenry. He states that the Baptists of Ro chelle ha\,e pra;’;tically compiéeted plans for the construction of a hand some new church edifice, costing ap proximately $12;000 Appropriations cp 310"00 have already been sub seribed and a committee has been appointed to collect this fund next week. - SHERIFF WARD CALLED IN NOTED WADE CASE Sheriff John Ward received a tele phonic communication this morning WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1916. .’be his third eousin, $170,000 for fail ,.u,re to wed heér. Miss Richards, who | i§ forty years old, sued for $500,000. L. Summers, and he was the only oc cupant of the car. He was painfully bruised. Fach of the drivers, observ ing the approaching car, slowed their machines down, and each thinking that the other would wait, started off at the same time, with the result that tle heﬁ“i'?i%)‘r%&fi‘ headed into the Ford, striking‘vit at ghe rear end, completely overturning i and all four wheels were clear ofi§he ground. W. H. Par rish and oth@# citizens came to the rescue of the Ashburn party and lift ed the car off #hem. The young ladies were carried # the home of Mr. Par rish and medifal aid summoned. The car. was Bocn righted and after their wgufids had Weem dressed, the party‘eontigued their trip on their Te turn ‘home. NEW STANDARD OIL HEAD RIS, B . 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It took him thirty-four year: to work up froxll the lowest position in a subsi diary of the oil trust to its highest place. MISS JESSIE WHITMORE SUCCEEDS MISS DENTON Miss Jessie B. Whitmore, of Lexing ton, Ky., has been elected to succeed Miss Nell Denton, whose marriabe cccurred to Mr. Henry Mashburn, of Rochelle, today, as principal of the Northern Heights public school. Miss Whitmore taught in the public schools at Cedartown for five years and has taugth in other towns in the state. She was elected to the position in the school here with the highest recom mendations. from an attorney for the prosecution in the Wade case at Americus, re questing him to come to Americus in connection with some matter concern ing this noted case. The sheriff left on the afternocn train, though he was not acquainted with any reason for his being summoned, as he is un familiar with the crime of Wade's killing or any of the facts. GEORGIA PRODUCTS TO BE PRE PARED AND SERVED AT OCCAS ION WHICH D. A. R. WILL FOS TER. The Georgia Products dinner being arranged at the Crystal Cafe for New Year's is to be an elaborate affair and will be made one of the best meals ever served at the new cafe. Mrs. E. 'M. Espy and the members of the D. A. R. are working for the success of the occassion. This dinner was provided because of the fact that no Georgia products din ‘ner was had here on Georgia Pro ‘ducts Day earlier in the fall. This is to be a New Year's affair and the cafe proprietors will do their best to pro vide a meal good enough for anybody. Large numbers of people will dine here on this occasion for the purpose of getting an idea as to how wei;‘;-ﬁ-‘ Georgia products meal can be served.§ The largest possible variety of Geo‘r-‘ gia products will be had on this oc casion. | NEW LIBRARY BOOKS WHICH YOU MAY NOT HAVE READ Bartlett: “The Wall Street Girl,” (rent). Eaton: “The Bird House Man;” the story of a man who makes “match es” as well as bird houses. (Rent and 14 day.) Ibsen: Plays; A Doll’s House; The Lady from the Sea; The Wild Duck. McCutcheon: “From the House tops.” O'Brien: “A Captain Unafraid;” a story of a filibustering expedition. Orczy: ‘“Leatherface;” a new book by the author of The Scarlét Pimper nel. (14 day.) | Ruskin: “Seven Lamps of Archi-| tecture.” | Snaith: “The Sailor.” (Rent). ' Some Imagist Poets. | Spencer: “Te Faerie Queep.” ‘ Williamson, C. N. and A. M.: “The Lightning Conductor Discovers Amer-‘ ica;” a sequeal to the Lightnign Con ductor. (Rent and 14 day.) ‘ Williamson: ‘‘Lord Leveland Dis-} coverz America.” (Rent and 14 day.) | New instruction 'coks for those’ with nimble I zers: Bead Bags and. Furses. ‘ Crochet Fdginz and Collars--Irish Crochet Lace. | Cross-Stitch Work, Needlework Novelties. | Raffiawork and Indian Basketry. Tatting. White Embroidery. ‘ Do people in Cordele like to study their Sunday school lessons? Per haps they do. Not so very long ago, at the public library, Tarbell’s Guide to the International Sunday School lessons circulated four tinies in the space of one week. This was proba bly due to the fact that it is a book which can be kept for one night only, but everything considered, Tarbell’s was quite a popular book during that time. SATURDAY PICTURES FOR CHILDREN CHANGED TO FRIDAY So insistent have been the requests from men and women that the Satur day morning program at Palace Thea tre be change to afternoon so more adults can have opportunity of enjoy ing the excellent pictures presented, the management with D, A. R., have decided to make the change. Begin ning first Saturday in January, this special program of pictures suitable for the entertainment of the entirc family group, will be given on Friday afterncon and night. ~ The story hour at the library will be changed to Thursday afternoon so the pictures for Fridgy can be inter-‘ preted for the children. 3 | Send the children to the Palace Theatre in the afternoon; go yourself at night. The pictures will always be most attractive, instructive and en tertaining. Note the splendid attrac tions booked for Friday throughout January: “Sunshine and Shadews,”’ featuring “Little Mary Sunshine,” the baby screen favorite. “Snow White,” the .beautiful fairy story, featuring Marguerite Clarke. Enoch Arden adop ted from Tennyson’s beautiful clas sic. “The Flying Twins,” featuring the popular little sisters, Pumpelstells Kin, the fairy story universally: loved by old and young. William Webster entertained a num ber of friends last evening at a de lightful six o’clock dinner. Mrs. Web ster prepared an elaborate menu for the occasion and assisted the young host in making the event one of thor ough enjoyment. The guests were Edgar Fletcher, Fred and Leon Webb, Ivy Powell, Paul Wilkes, E. B. Mann, and Dr. A. J. Whelchel COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE WILL MAKE BOLL WEEVIL CONFER ENCE PROMINENT THIS YEAR-— WOMEN'S COURSE ADDED. Athens, Dec. 26.—The annual ses sion of Farmers’ Short Courses of the Georgia State College of Agriculture will run from January 3 to January 14, 1917. This year boll weevil con ference will be held each night dur ing the short course, which are to be addressed by farmers who have made a success growing cotton under bholl weevil conditions in states west of Georgia. Specially low railroad rates have been put into effect by the railrocads on account of the short course and farmers conference. The ten days spent at Athens will give a farmer the best of information about growing cot ton in spite of the boll weevil and the necessary information about varying ' farm practices. Two new courses are offered this yvear, one for farm machinery dealers ‘that they may know the best machin ery to recommend for changed farm ing conditions and a short course for farm women touching home gardens, poultry, dairying and the like. The short course is believed to be the most important provision for the future success of the Georgia farmer that is offered in the state. It is free excep} for one dollar initiation fee and is open to all farmers. PEOPLE OF CORDELE SPENT . - PEACEFUL HAPPY CHRISTMAS It was an ideal Christmas; the weather was just right, or rather it was favorable, and from a standpoint of saneness and soberness the cccas ion in Cordele has never passed with more general satisfaction. It was the quietest and most sober Christmas that Cordele has ever spent. With two arrests of negroes for drunken ness and one fight among negroes, the police foree had little to do, and with these exceptions there was no evi dence of drunkenness or rowdiness. Not a fire cracker disturbed the quietude of the day and not a roman cannon disturbed the blackness of the night, for it was sure enough black night with all of the street lights off and residence lights bhurning at low ebb on account of trouble at the light ing and power plant. A prohibitive tax assessed by the city c¢ouncil pre vented the sale of fireworks in the city and none were sold from the outside, with the result that one would have thought that the occasion was being treated with a profound reverential spirit, which influence very probably had something to do with making it an ideal Christmas. As the Dispatch had suggested, the Christmas tide was Rochelle Social News Among the entertainments to be giv en during the holidays is a New Year’s dinner dance by Col. and Mrs. A. Pea cock of Barnesville, sister of the for mer, who is here for the holidays. Many of the teachers have left for their respective homes to spend the holidays with parents. Those leaving last week were Misses Cora Womble, for Rhine; Kathleen Boatright, for Tennille; Lois Moore, for Hazelhurst; and Mrs. Winn. Miss Leah Sipple will remain in Rocbelle during the holidays. Messrs. Pierce Foster, Paul Reivere and Edward Settle of Emory and Hen ry Player of G. M. C.,, have returned to spend a few days with their par ents. Among the college set at home for the Christmas season are Messrs. Ce cil Crummey of G. M. C., John Doster of Gordon, Reid Doster of Georgia, and Virgile Vandivere of Douglas; Misses !Alberta Richie, Sarah Lou and Geneve Fenn and Mattie Claude Grantham of G. N. L.; Misses Escar Vandiver and Lois Rainwater of Athens. } Mrs. Walter Hill of Atlanta, whol has been spending a few days with relatives, returned this- week, accom panied by Mrs. H. C. Hill. . Miss Birdie Brown left Monday to visit relatives at Blondsdale. Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Owens and Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Futch left Sunday. for Thomasville and Boston, to be the guests of relatives Dr. and Mrs. Britt left Thursday for North Carolina to visit the form-’ er's parents. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Adams of Vienna visited relatives in the city Monday. Delivéred By Carrier In City 5¢ Per Week NEGRO ATTACKED; v ’ 3 ¥ - DANGERQUSLY SHoT. | ROBERT DAVIS SHOWS HIS ROLL - IN SKIN GAME AND NEGROES ARE INCITED TO MURDER. i Robert Davis, a negro employe o the farm of John Achley Walls, & Pinia, was shot and probably fatall, ’ wounded last night. All of the fles ‘was shot off the upper part of L . right lower limb, and he has a ve: doubtful chance of recovery. Davis says that he and four otier negroes were about to engage in 2 “gkin” game, and that he pulled out his “roll” to show them., They form:- ed a conspiracy to kill and rob him, says Davis, as he had a neat sum on his person. All four of them, he al leges, attacked him, beat him dow: and one of them fired on him with a shot gun, loaded with bird shot. He says that he knows all four of them, but could not identify the ne }gro who ghot him. He has not giv 'en the names of any of the negroes. MRS. WEBSTER MADE NUMBER OF PAINTINGS. Mrs. W. A. Webster, who has won the reputation of being a skillful and artistic painter, and who has recently sold a number of her larger paintings for handsome sums, experienced 2 large sale of small designs for Christ mas presents. The total sale of such pictures amounted to more than $75. largely spent in the home and about the firesidé and excellent attractions in the form of Christmas trees, etc., were provided in the homes for the entertainment of the children. Chief of Police Sheppard comment ed on teh exceptional observance of the Christmas season, .and certainly no one could have been more thank ful than he that it was a real sane and sober Christmas. He said that he had never seen a Christmas like it in Cordele, and that he wanted to per sonally thank somebody for it. “I want to thank all, white and colored, who could have made it other than an unusually quiet and well spent Christ mas, but refrained from doing so,” ha said. “The deportment of the public was excellent, and the police force did not feel the least anxiety of fatalities and crimes that sometimes accompa ny Christmas observance.” “There’s another thing I am thank ful for,” continued Chief Sheppard, “and that is the splendid Christmas present which the city council bestow ed on me in my re-election. lam de termined to fully merit the con? dence and. friendship that they hax shown in again naming me chief of ¢\ police department.” MISSING QUART CAUSFES NEGRO TO GET SLASHE! Jack Mathews a negro, imbibed to much of Christmas spirits and now probably wishes he hadn’t, but fron all accounts he is a frequent imbiber and to get to the point where one goes on the rampage is nothing ncw for him. He usually brings home sonie personal marks to give evidence of hi: ventures. He has one now that wili stay with him for a while. Sunday afternoon Mathews discov ereg that some one ahd stolen a quar’ of whisky from him, and in his opin ion, this was a calamity right here at Christmas times. He started out to find the guilty party, and suspicion led to Otton McDonald, his sister-in law, after he had accused 01l who might have been guilty. He and the negro woman raised a darktown row and Mathews got a severe knife wound in his back. He was badly cut and the wound was several inches long His condition is considered danger ous. The woman is accused of inflict ing the injury, though has not yel been captured. NEXT WEEK MERCHANTS _ TAKE STOCK FOR NEW YEAR Beginning next week Cordele mer chants will experience one of the busi est seasons that they will have during lthe new year, though there will be a temporary lull in trading. Some of them will close their stores for a few days and begin an inventory of their ’stocks. a customary event among up to-date merchants at the beginning of ;’ a new year. : ~ Cordele merchants state that they ‘have never before experienced as sat satisfactory Christmas trading as has prevailed this year. All of the mer chants, the dry goods men, the grocer, drug store keeper, jeweler, and all, are elated over the splendid trade which they have- enjoyed. NO. 73.