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AMERICUS TIMES -R ECORDER
CORNER STONE LAID IN
IMPRESSIVE MANNER.
By Grand Master Banks, of
Georgia Masons.
Fifteen Hundred Specta
tors at Ceremonies at
High School.
Fifteen hundred or more persons were
spectators at the laying of the corner
stone of the new high school building
yesterday morning.
It was an ideal day. Nothing more
superb in the way of weather could
have been desired. The bright spring
day, with the sunshine tempered by a
refreshing breeze, added an additional
inspiration to the event. The services
were interesting and impressive. The
oration was thbughtful, instructive,
entertaining, full of wholesome food
for reflection, impressing on all the
part that education should and must
play in the development of high char
acter and its importance as one of
the corner stones of a democratic gov
ernment.
The Masons gathered at the Temple
at 10 o’clock and marched to the
school site, escorting Grand Master
Banks and his staff of acting Grand
Lodge officers as follows:
Henry Banks, of Lagrange, M. W
Grand Master.
E. A. Nesbit, Deputy "Grand Master
Acting. ■ i
J. W. Petty, of Dawson, Grand Senior
Warden. *
N. H. Ballard, of Brunswick, Grand
Junior Warden.
A. G. Miller, Grand Secretary.
J. A. McDonald, Grand Treasurer.
J. A. Littlejohn, Grand Senior Dea
ocn.
W. H. Seals, Grand Junior Deacon.
A. M. Thayer, Grand Senior Stew
ard.
V. M. Shipley, Grand Junior Stew
ard.
Dr. Lansing Burrows, Grand Chap
lain.
J. E. Mathis, Grand Marshal.
Little, Grand Architect.
J. W. Cobb, Grand Tyler.
Both of the local lodges
were well represented, and there were
a number of out-of-town members of
the fraternity in line as well. Seats
had beßn provided for them to the
right of the building. The schpol
Children, seven hundred in number,
arrived soon after the Masons and
were gathered in the shade of Rees
Park, fronting the building. On the
porch of the Holt home were accom
modations for the Mayor and Aider
men, tile members of the Board of
Education, and a number of ladies.
Several hundred other citizens were
also assembled in front of the new
school structure.
0
Laying the Cornerstone.
At 10:30 o’clock the craft and the
audience were called to attention and
Grand Master Banks called on the
Grand Secretary to read the invitation
from the authorities to the Grand
Lodge to lay the cornerstone. This
iwas followed by an invocation b>
Grand Chaplain Burrows, and the
usual testing of tb(e cornerstone by
the square, the level and the plumb.
When the proper officers had attested
that the craftsmen had done their
work properly, the emblems of the
order —corn, symbolic of plenty; wine
symbolic of joy, and oil, symbolic
of peace were cast upon the
stone, within had previously
been placed by Acting Grand Secre
tary Miller the following articles:
Copy of the Scriptures, Report of City
Schools for 1908-09; list of goard of
Education, list of committees of Board
of Education, list of City Council and
city officers, list of county officers
copy of “Georgia in the War of 1861-
65,” by C. E. Jones, copy of the Times-
Recorder of April 7, 11910. The final
prayer was then spoken by Chaplain
Burrows.
Acting Deputy Grand Master E. A
Nesbit then introduced Rev. O. B. Ches
ter, the orator of the day, who delivered
one of the most interesting addresses
ever heard in Americas on the brother
hood of Masonry and the value of edu
cation as a developing force. His tribute
to the true sentiment of brotherly love
inculcated and enforced by Masonry
was very effective, with apt illustra
rions that impressed the fact strongly
upon the audience that to the true
Mason fraternity is no idle or mean
ingless term.
In closing an address that was fol
lowed with closest attention through
out, not a sound from the large audi
ence disturbing the speaker, Mr.
Chester said:
Public School An Expression of
Brotherhood.
"It is especially fitting, then, that
this order lay the cornerstone for a
public school building, for public
schools are made possible by, and are
an expression of, the spirit of brother
hood. You can’t imagine the rich pa
tricians of Rome taxing themselves to
Solid Gold Top Cult Pins,
39c Per Pair.
New line Belt Pins,
Genuine Leather Hand Bags.
THOS. L. BELL.
The Leading Jeweler.
AMERICUS. GEORGIA. FRIDAY MORNING. APRIL 8 1910
WRECK ON LOUISVILLE
& NASHVILLEE ROAD.
!
Engineer Killed and Mes
senger Injured.
Seaboard Has Wreck
Plunging, 22 Cars in
Burning Trestle.
(Special to Times-Recorder.)
| Cincinnati, 0., April 7. —-Passenger
train No. 34, on the Louisville & Nash
i ville Railroad, from Atlanta to Cin
nati, was wrecked at Saxton, Ky., this
morning. Engineer William Rudolph
of Knoxville, Tenn., was killed, and
I Express Messenger Eadsten, of Cin
cinnati, was seriously injured. The
engine and part of the train was de
molished. Freight trainmen left coal
cars standing on this main line, and
the passenger train ran into them.
(Special to Times-Recorder.)
Greenwood, S. C., April 7.—A north
bound Seaboard freight train, consist
ing of twenty-two cars plunged into
a burning trestle over the Coronacca
creek, six miles above Greenwood, at
1 o'clock this morning.
educate the children of plebians, nor
the latter for former. But, when all
our people, rich and poor alike, con
sent to have their property taxed that
each other’s children and all children
may have an education, you have a
magnificent and far-reaching expres
sion of genuine brotherhood. A great
man, some years ago, expressed him
self as opposed to the whole public
school idea. Said he: ‘You have no
more right to make me educate my
neighbor’s children than to make me
spank them and put them to bed.’ He
may not have realized that a democ
racy is based upon thle brotherhood
of man. Our laws and government
depend, after all, upon the intelligence
and character of our people. We are
not ofteiT misrepresented in legisla
tive halls. The men elected to make
our laws and to enforce them repre
sent pretty accurately the average in
telligence and character of their con
stituency. Democracy, real patriotism
and brotherhood, alike require that
we unite our efforts to make every
citizen intelligent and upright. Prussia
defeated by France went home and
built school houses all over the land,
and educated a generation—then met
France and defeated her.”
Should Fit For Life’s Rattles.
Mr. Chester cited other practical
illustrations as to the value of train
ing and education in public and in
private life and its value to the na
tion, and the difference in value be
tween an education that is purely or
namental and one th'at is useful, de
cried the idea of a parrot-like educa
tion that leads merely to the repeti
tion of other men’s ideas instead of
the cultivation of ideas that are
original. Education should not, he
held, fasten a people to a dead past
that can never return, but should
think and fight new battles. It should
be an institution for developing man
htood and womanhood. The claim that
society has on those whom it has ed
ucated was then discussed. It was
pointed out that eople owe it tc
themselves to build and maintain
schools. Every individual, he pointed
out, is a debtor to society, and
should seek to repay it for what it
has done for him.
The vital necessity of properly train
ing the children for the great work of
the future was strongly impressed
uipon those present “Let Us take a
look into the future,” said Mr. Ches
ter,. “Listen and hear the footsteps
of vast numbers of young people, with
their faces turned toward this build
ing. Through many long years they
come and come. We hear their glad
voices at playtime. We watch) their
young minds beginning to struggle
with the profound mysteries and intri
cate problems of the First Reader.
Some years pass, all too swiftly, and
they are beginning to read the very
riddle of the universe. They leave
this institution, many of them, to pur
sue their studies elsewhere in higher
institutions of learning and after
awhile some of the’r voices are Deard
in the halls of congress, influencing
legislation, at the bar pleading for jus
tice, in the pulpit asserting the rights
of God to the homage of our hearts.
Some, perhaps, will go as messengers
of God to distant lands and use the
powers developed here in staking the
kingdoms of this world the kingdom
of our Lord. Sweet voices of girl
hood developed into rich cadences of
woman’s tones, ennobled and made
musical by the sanctifying influences
of motherhood, will be heard in happy
homes where they reign as queens and
govern the world.”
At the closing of the address the
chaplain delivered th'e closing invoca
tion, and the Masons returned to the
hall again to doff their regalia.
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LETTERS OF LONG AGO
READ OLJJjJN COURT.
Sensational Case Tried al
Preston.
Judge Z. A. Littlejohn presided yes
terday at Preston in a case which, ow
ing to its sensational features and
prominence of the parties involved
created profound interest in the county
and attracted hundreds to hear the
proceedings.
The trial revealed the old story, so
oft retold, of a woman who loved not
wisely but too well; whose faith was
strong, who faltered faint, and fell.
The state was represented by Solic
itor-General J. R. Williams and Col.
J. F. Souter, while defendant was rep
resented by Messrs. J. B. Hudson, F.
A. Hooper, G. Y. Harrell, Judge Hickey
and Col. James, tbe two latter at
torneys from Lumpkin.
An array of witnesses were sum
moned, but only two or three were in
troduced, the evidence being largely
documentary.
Letters, the dear-sweet missives of
an unhallowed past, were produced in
court, sans flowers, sans ribbons, and
read. The old letters were supposed
to have been burned, as the writer re
quested, but they were destined for
another role, as was evidenced yes
terday.
A score of these letters were read
to the jury, amid the hushed stillness
of the courtroom, th)e young woman
sobbing convulsively during the try
ing ordeal.
Her statement was brief and concise,
as was that of the defendant. The
submission of letters ended early in
the afternoon and was followed by
argument of counsel, which consumed
the day. The case was not concluded
until well into the evening.
Messrs. Williams and Souter spoke
for the state, while Messrs. Hooper
and Hudson made arguments for the
defense.
TWO KILLED AND FIVE
INJURED IN WRECK.
Freight Trains on Georgia
Road in Crash.
(Special to Times-Recorder.)
Augusta, Gat, April 7.—There were
two killed and five injured as a result
of a head-on collision between two
freight trains on the Georgia Railroad
this morning at 2:40 o’clock, twenty
two miles from Augusta. The dead
are Conductor Charles Fitzgerald, of
Hqrlem, and Engineer E. S. Johnson,
of Augusta. Th'e injured are: Engi
neer Downing, Fireman Charles Wil
liams, Brakeman Jonah Lowe, Fireman
Will Parkman, Brakeman Forrest
Brown and four negroes. Mixed up
orders are said to be the cause of the
wreck.
FRESH SHIPMENT
% FANCY CHEESE
By express, today, new shipment
Purity Brand Cream Cheese, Neuf
chatel, Cottage Cheese, Potted Cream
and Pimento Cheese.
SPARKS GROCERY CO.
Have You looked at Those
FOUNTAIN PENS,
All Makes and Prices, From $1 to $lO Each
Somethin |That Has Become
a Necessity.
REMBERT’S DRUG STORE.
113 FORSYTH STREET.
MASONIC DINNER WAS
THOROUGHLY ENJOYLD
Over Two Hundred at Ihe
Banquet.
A fitting finale to the Masonic cere
monies of yesterday was the dinner at
the armory last night, between the
first and second sections of tbe Master
Mason’s degree work.
It was about 8 o’clock when the fra
ternity entered the hall, escorting the
Grand Lodge officers and other visit
ing brothers. There were accommoda
tions provided for 210 and every seat
was occupied.
The ball made a very pretty picture,
with its elaborate decorations, taste
fully arranged by the deft fingers of
the members of the Order of Eastern
Star, the ladies of the Americus Chap
ter having entire charge of the dinner.
The walls were concealed with
masses of smilax. From the centre
of the ceiling was suspended a basket
of exquisite carnations, from which
streamers of pink ran in all direc
tions. Suspended at four points of a
square were other baskets of carna
tions. The color scheme throughout
was pink, and th'e vases, of w'hich
there were four on each table, held
magnificent pink roses, whose fra
grance was shed over the hall.
A change was made in the usual ar
rangement of the tables. A round table,
with seats for twelve, occupied the
point of honor in the centre at the
front of tbe room. On this the decor
ations were ferns and rosebuds. Run
ning from it were two tables, and tc
each side of it ere two tables ex
tending the entire length of the room.
Another table of smaller length com
pleted the seven that provided ae.
commodations for all except the prin
cipal guests of the occasion. The
doylies were Masonic, with the em
blems of the order emblazoned upon
them and were beld by a ring also
bearing a Masonic emblem. The
menu for the dinner included roast
turkey, chicken salad boiled ham, witb
pickles, olives and salted crackers
celery, dainty bread and butter and
wiches, cranberry jelly, coffee, ice
cream and cake. The service was per
fect, a sufficient number of the ladies
of the chapter being on hand to en
sure quick attention to the wants of
the diners.
The dinner proved an exceedingly
pleasant- occasion throughout and
closed the day in as sociable and fra
ternal a manner as could have been
desired. The speakers of the evening
were:
E. A. Nisbet, Toastmaster.
Georgia in Masonry—Grand Master
Henry Banks.
The Fraternity—Grand Junior "War
den, N. H. Ballard.
Relation of Masonry to Woman, Dis
trict Deputy O. H. McDonald.
The Deputies—District Deputy F. F.
Baker. ** Ts
The Eastern Star—Miss Tallula At
kins. R
The Real Joys of Masonry—Hon.
Crawford Wheatley.
Attention, Shriners and Friends!
See me before making arrangements
for your trip to New Orleans. I have
something very special to offer.
H. P. EVERETT, Agent,
Seaboard Air Line Ry.
Weather forecast for today] FAIR
SEEK STOCKHOLDERS
THIS MORNING.)
Launching Movement For
Small Industries.
Next Public Meeting to
Be Held on Next
Monday Night.
The soliciting committee of the;
Americus Industrial Development com
pany will meet at the store of Mr. Tohi
Bell this morning at 10 o'clock, for
the purpose of making an initial can
vass of the city for subscribers to the
stock of the movement.
This committee is composed of
Messrs. Everett, Shiver, Gatewood
Williams and Bell.
The purpose this morning is to make
what may be termed a flying canvass
among the business men and prop
erty owners, who are greatly inter
ested, or should be, in the movement
to promote the interests of Americus
industrially,w ithi the purpose of se
curing stock subscriptions to report
at the next public meeting, when the
charter Is to be adopted and the in
corporators named.
It has been decided, owing to the ab
sence of W. T. Lane, Esq., who acted
as chairman of the first public meet
ing, as well as of other interested
parties, to postpone the public meet
ing until Monday night, whten all
will be present.
At that meeting th'e final arrange
ments for the organization of the com
pany are expected to be made.
It is believed there will be a liberal
response to the movement. The pur
pose is to make the movement a thor
oughly popular one, to induce every
one, if possible, to become financially
interested in it, to some extent, so that
there will be no great burden falling
upon any one. If the response is
general .there will he ample funds
coming in to assist, in establishing
several promising industries within
th'e year, and no one will feel that he
has been called upon to make any
material sacrifice.
Small industries should pay well
here, if carefully, selected, and the
stockholders in the Americus Indus
trial Development Company stand an
excellent chance of securing substan
tial dividends on their investments
and of having their money paid hack to
them after the desired industries have
been secured, if any should decide to
dispose of their stock at any time.
If all show an interest in the move
ment to some extent, there is no ques
tion that it can be made a pronounced
success and that within a very short
rime steps can be taken for the es
tablishment of t.he first one or two
small industries that are to be the
fruits of the movement.
INABILITY TO REALIZE
ON ITS ASSETS
Is Cause of Brooklyn Bank
Suspension.
(Special (to Times-Recorder.)
New York, April 7.—The Burroug'n
Bank of Brooklyn, 20 Court street, was
closed today by order of State Super
intendent of Banks Cheney. It is un
derstood the reason for the suspen
sion of the bank was its inability to
realize on assets inherited by present
directors from the old bank. The
closing of the Burroughs Bank fol-
of the Union Bank, which
suspended business two days ago. The
president of the Burroughs Bank is
B. R. Shear.
BUSINESS BUILDING IS
SOLD YESffRDAY.
Mrs. Bagley Buys fwn-
Story Building.
A fine piece of business property
was sold yesterday, and although the
price has not been made public, it is
said by interested parties to have been
at a figure that shtows that Americus
realty is in nowise suffering from any
tendency to depreciate.
The property in question is the two
story brick building on the west side
of Cotton avenue, near Lamar street
the lower floor of which is occupied
by Davis Brothers, and the upper by
Miss Anna May Bell as her studio.
This is a fine piece of renting prop
erty and hardly likely, from its loca
tion, to ever be otherwise thtan in
demand.
Mr. Lee Allen has been the owner
for some time. He disposed of it to
Mrs. L. Q. Bagley, who bought it
through her son, Mr. Henry Bagley.
The new purchaser does not contem
plate making any changes in the prop
erty, simply regarding it as a good
fixed investment.
NOTICE TO WATER CONSUMERS
Water rents are now due and pay
l *able at our office at city hall. All
consumers will please settle for same
on or before April 10th, thereby avoid
ing the Inconvenience of having water
cut off.
AMERICUS WATER WORKS.
I Peals of laughter at a joke may in
dicate ignorance of the points as well
as no laugh at all.
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Mantague & Gilletf’s Straws $1.50 to $4
Eclipse Shirts, SI.OO, 1.50 and 2.00.
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DIAMONDS!
Have Advanced 20 per cent
since last August.
the- old prices as lopg as they last. Write us now.
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JEWELERS, Atlanta, Ga.
SESSION OF COURT TO
CONSUME THIS WEEK. |
Civil Docket in Webster a I
Heavy One.
The session of Webster court, over .
which Judge Z. A. Littlejohn is pre- |
siding this week, will probably con- j
tinue on until Saturday, as both j
dockets contain an unusually large j
number of cases for staid old Webster,
though many have been disposed oi
since the beginning on Monday morn
ing.
On the civil side many cases have,
been settled by agreement, thus ob. i
viat'ng the necessity of a trial, while
in others verdicts were quickly made. |
One negro prisoner is in jail upon >
a murder charge, this being among
the very few felony cases at thtrs term
of court.
The grand jury has been busy since
Monday and through the. good work of
Solicitor-General Will'ams has found
a number of indictments Hon. James
P. Walker, is foreman of that body,
which is made up of the following
well-known citizens:
James P. Walker, S. H. Patten, Wil
liam Minnick. W. T. McGill, R. E. L.
Reddick, J. E. Dennard, H. E. Hawkins
J. B. Wilson, Homer O. Moore, Eugene
Pickett, Thos. M. Lowrey, R. E.
Bridges, W. S. Bell, J. B. Nowlen, Leon
Passmore, J. W. Bigiham, T. W. Can
trell, Jack M. Jones, John W. Farrell
Jos. T. Tyler, C. L. Sapp, F. M. McGill.
Sheriff Christian is discharg'ng his
onerous duties with usual care and
fidelity, as is Col. George Thornton,
the urbane clerk of court.
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS.
The tax books of Sumter county are
now open for returns of your property
for 1910. You will please come :'n
promptly and give in your taxes and
thus escape double taxation. Under
the law as it stands I can not make
copies of your last year's tax, but
you will have to come in and make
returns yourself.
W. R. SPEER, Tax Receiver.
t
Some men boast of their luck be
cause none of their relations ever visit
NUMBER 81
! TERRIFIC BATTLE FOR
CONTROL OF COTTON.
i
Patten and McFadden Are
Principals.
(Special to Times-Recorder.)
Xew York. April 7.—A terrific battle
for the control of the market is tmmi
j nent. James A. Patten, the famous
Chicago wheat and cotton speculator,
who rushed into New York on the
8 o'clock train in his war regalia, de
clared he was here to fight to the
finish the McFadden interests (mean
ing George H. McFadden), head of the
’ firm of George H. McFadden & Bros.,
| the biggest cotton brokerage house In
I the world, which has been active In
the violent agitation in the cotton mar
ket for the past three days.
POSSE PURSUES AND
SHOOTS ROBBERS.
Two Escaped Carrying the
Plunder.
(Special to Times-Recorder.)
Chicago, April 7.—Three bandits
who robbed the Bank of Coal City, 111,
s xty miles southwest of Chicago of
SSOO, after pressing night watchmen
. and engineer, were pursued by a
; posse and shot today. Five men were
concerned in the robbery, the two who
, escaped carrying away the plunder.
The three wounded robbers are not
believed to be fatally hurt.
UNITED CONFEDERATE
VETERA NS' REUNION
Mobile, Ala., April 25th, 27th and
28th, 1910.
Very low rates via Central of Geor
' gia railway. Double dally service.
Tickets on sale April 24th, 25th, 26th
and 27th.
Final limit May 2nd, except that It.
can be extended to May 19th by com
plying with certain conditions.
For full information, call on
t J. E. HIGHTOWER, Agent.