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(THIRTY-FIFTH YEAR. CHAUTAUQUA YESTERDAY HAD ESPECIALLY GOOD FEATURES Krjl’s Band Delighted Hundreds of People, While the Other Features Were Enjoyed—Today and Tomor row Close the Program of Attractions Here. ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦*♦♦> -t- PROGRAM FOR TODAY AND * ♦ TOMORROW. ♦ -f ♦ SUNDAY. ♦ ♦ Afternoon. ♦ ♦ Sacred Cpncert —The Mozart ♦ Concert Co. ♦ ♦ Lecture, “The Fight For a + State.”—Hon. Jos. W. Folk, of ♦ F- Missouri. ♦ •F Evening. ♦ F Sacred Concert —The Mozart t F Concert Co. ♦ F Sermon—Dr. E. W. Huelster. ♦ F F F MONDAY. ♦ F Morning. ♦ F Boy Scouts. F F Literary Interpretation, “Phases ♦ F of Shakespeare’s Wit and Humor.” F F Afternoon. e F Concert. —The Barnard Orches- ♦ F tra. ♦ F Lecture, “Lem Jucklin" —Opie ♦ F Read. ♦ F Evening. F F “Joy Night”—A Novel Program F F by Ralph Bingham assisted by the ♦ F Barnard Orchestra. ♦ FFFFFFFFFFFF Yesterday’s attractions at the Chau tauqua here pleased large crowds of people. It was a day of two excellent concerts, among other features of note, and the attendance was unusually large and enthusiastic. Many who attended the concert in the afternoon and evening said that 4. 4. 4- 4- 4 4 ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦ Z THEICHAUTAUQUA BILL I ♦ HAS BEEN PAID IN FULL 4 4- ♦ 4- * 4. AMERICUS, GA., MAY 24, 1913. ♦ 4- RECEIVED OF Mrs. Leila C. Arthur, for the Americus and Sumter 4- County Hospital Association, the sum of $1,500, in full for amount ♦ 4- guaranteed the Redpath Chautauqua Association by said Americus and ♦ 4- Sumter County Hospital Association for the 1913 Chautauqua. ♦ 4. HORACE ELLIS, Superintendent. ♦ 4. ITEMS. ♦ 4- RECEIVED the above as follows: 4- Wednesday, May 21, 191.1, S6OO ♦ 4- Thursday, May 22, 1913 300 ♦ 4- Friday, May 23, 1913 300 ♦ -4- Saturday May 24,1913, 300 * 4.4.4-4-4- + + -f + + + 4“»--*- + + + + + * ! + + + '*- GEORGIA COTTON MEN OFF FOR CAPITAL Will Protest on Cotton Sched ule as “Too Drastic” • Columbus, Ga., May 24.-I— F. B. Gor 1 - don, president of the Georgia Cotton Manufacturers’ association; E. W. Swift, president of the Columbus Tex tile association, and J. D. Massey, treasurer of the Eagle and Phoenix Mills, of Columbus, leave tomorrow morning for Washington, where on Monday the senate subcommittee on textiles, of which Senator Hoke Smith is chairman, will give a hearing to the cotton manufacturers of Georgia and North Carolina. C. E. Hutchens, president of the North Carolina association, will join the Columbus delegation. A brief pre pared by G. Gunby Jordan, president of the Eagle and Phoenix Mills, will be submitted, as well as resolutions adopted by the recent convention c-t the Georgia Cotton Manufacturers’ as sociation. The resolution is in the na ture of a protest against the reduc tion of the duty on cotton yarns and The Americus Times-Recorder this attraction alone was worth the price of the entire season ticket. The concerts were especially pleasing to a large number of people. , in the morning a literary interpre tation was given by Mr. Amsbary of his own volume of verse, “The Ballads of Bourmonnais.” This was received with pleasure by those who have bee 1 enjoying Mr. Amsbary’s interpretation of other verse during the week. Especially large crowds are expected to hear the address by Hon. Joseph W. Folk, of Missouri, who will speak at the afternoon hour. A sacred concert and sermon will also be features of the day. Some of the local churches will dispense with their evening services in order to give their members an op portunity to enjoy the Chautauqua. Tomorrow will be the last day of the Chautauqua, which occupies a sev en-day period. The attractions for the closing day are of a nature that will please all. Ralph Bingham will be heard as the concluding attraction. N Hope is expressed generally that the pledges for next season’s Chautauqua will be secured. The ladies are word ing on this feature now and success will in all likelihood greet their ef forts. All the money due the Redpath Chautauqua bureau for the present Chautauqua has been paid, as is shown by the receipt printed elsewhere in this issue. The enthusiastic support of the public is asked for the guaranteeing of the season next year, which will be made an even greater success. JAPAN’S RULER IS BETTER HOPE OF RECOVERY Favorable Change Has Come About Tokio, May 24.—The condition of Emperor Yoshihito continued to im prove today. The physicians in at tendance declare themselves confident that he will recover from the attack of pneumonia. His majesty is cheerful. He takes nourishment regularly and his heart action Is strong. Count Chiaki Wantanabe, the impe rial master of ceremonies, today read to the emperor President Wilson’s cabled message of sympathy, whica is also prominently displayed in the newspapers. The bulletin issued by the court phy sicians in attendance on Emperor Yos hihito at 4 o’clock this afternoon said "His majesty’s condition has improved, his temperature is 102.74 degrees Fah renheit. His pulse is 85 and his res piration 28.” fabrics proposed under the Underwood tariff bill as “too drastic.” AMERICUS. GEORGIA. SUNDAY MORNING. MAY 25. 1913. MISS M’MATH WAS CLAIMED JY DEATH HAD BEEN ILL LONG TIME Funeral Exercises to Be Held Today The death angel has claimed Miss Helen McMath, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. McMath, who pass ed away at noon Saturday at their residence on Rees park. In view of her protracted illness, extending over a period of several years, the death of Miss McMath was not unexpected to her family and a large number of de voted friends. For three or four yea r s she had been in poor health, and while at times a ray of hope came to those who watched tenderly at her bedside, it was but for a little while, and never did the roses come back to her cheeks to remain. With the hope that the mountain at mosphere of North Carolina would prove beneficial, she remained twj years at Highlands, but the relict sought was not permanent. Through out her long illness and confinement to her home never did a murmur es cape her lips. With devotion and ten » derness lavished upon her, she gave love and smiles in return. Miss McMath was reared in Ameri cus and no one claimed more friends than did this beautiful young girl, and many are there who grieve today at her death. Besides her parents, she is survived by four sisters and four brothers, to whom sincere sympathy is extended. The funeral services will be con ducted this afternoon at four o’clock from the family residence by Rev. J. A. Thomas, of the First Methodist church. The pall-bearers will be Messrs. L. W. Brown, L. L. McCleskey, W. C. Sullivan, W. M. Riley, C. S. Glover, J. L. Sparks, E. L. Bell, J. B. Poole. ROYALWEDDING 18 SOLEMNIZED SATURDAY EVE BRILLIANT AFFAIR IN BERLIN Sovereigns of Europe Wit ness Nuptials Berlin, May 24. —Princess Victoria Luise of Prussia, only daughter of the German emperor, was married to Prince Ernest August of Cumberland with the rftes of the Lutheran church at 5 o’clock this evening. The ceremony, which took place in the royal chapel of the imperial cas tle, seals the reconciliation between the dethroned house of Hanover and the house of Hotoenzollern. The presence of the three most powerful sovereigns of Europe—the German emperor, the Russian emperor and the British king-emperor—on terms of intimate friendship, madF the event a demonstration of interna tional peace. The civil ceremony was performed half an hour earlier in the great elec tors hall, a small room in the most ancient part of the castle. It was at tended only by the immediate families of the bride and bridegroom. The short formal civil marriage jf Princess Victoria Luise and Prince Ernest August of Cumberland, w; completed at exactly 4:30 this after noon. TFE WEATHERs Fair and Cooler. SUGGEST AN EXTENSION JF TAYLOR FROM LEE TO JACKSON ST. Attention Has Been Attracted to Such a Change Recently the holding of the Chautau qua on the vacant lot up in the city has served to attract attention anew to the extension of Taylor street ti Jackson street. A number of refer ences have been made to this recent ly. The fact that this block, which is an unwieldy one and has the extent, is a matter of fact, of two ordinary blo( ks, has no street through it from Church to Finn has caused the sugges tion that Taylor street be extended from Lee to Jackson, thereby opening up some valuable property for resi dence purposes and greatly enhancing the value of this property. From the comment recently made, it seems that such a change would be an advantage both to the public and "o the property holders. What discussion, if any, will be given the matter by city council will be awaited with interest. MARKETS AND LOCAL DAIRIES AREjNSPECTED BY OFFICIALS OF STATE Inspection Will be Gnntinued Monday Under direction of Dr. Wade Cham bliss, chairman of th Americus Board of Health, a careful and thorough ex amination of all the city meat markets, local dairies and pens where cattle and hogs are slaughtered was begun yesterday and will be continued until every such place in Americus has un dergone inspection by a state board. Assisting Dr. Chambliss in this im portant work are Dr. P. H. Bahnsen and Dr. H. C. Hutchens, of the state veterinary department, and Mr. P. A. Methvin, of the pure food department, all of whom spent yesterday here up on this work. As there are such a large number of places to be inspected, the officials did not nearly complete the round 3 yesterday, Dr. Chembliss stated last night The work of inspection will b} resumed tomorrow morning and con tinued through the day, when every market, butcher pen and dairy will have been inspected. Only one dairy was visited yester day by these officials, who found con ditions most favorable from a sanitarv standpoint. The condition of the cows, and of the dairy premises as well, was highly complimented. As milk is such an important part of the daily food supply, it is a matter of congratulation that the dairies are in good condition. When the inspection of markets, pens and dairies is completed Monday the board of inspectors will request a special meeting of the city council for the purpose of making recommen dations to that body. To tire end of safeguarding the pub lic health, 1t is quite likely that Amer icus ere long will have a central slaughter house, where all cattle and pigs sold in the local market will be killed and dressed, and the meat care fully Inspected before It Is offered for sale. HO PROSECUTE THREE HEALERS COTTONFIITUBES ■EI INDICTMENT IS ISNED In New York Court Against Southern Men New York, May 24.—The department of justice has decided to seek the re indictment of Frank Hayne and Wil liam P. Brown, of New Orleans, E> grne Scales of Texas and Col. Robert M. Thompson of New York, on charges of conspiracy to corner the cotton crop of 1909. This was learned today when sijb poenaes were issued by United States District Attorney Marshall for the ap pearance next week before the federal grand jury of the wtnesses upon whose testimony the indictments now standing against them were found. The document contained flaws, it is understood, which the government fears might stand in the way of con viction. tl is charged that, with Jab. A. Patten, of Chicago, the defendants conspired to create a bull pool with the intention of artificially raising the price of cotton in order to obtain -a profit of ten million dollars. Patten pleaded guilty last February to the sixth count of the indictmenr, known as the "contract count”, which alleged that the defendants entered in to contracts to buy up all the raw cot ton produced in 1909 and to hold i. out of the market until November, 1910 He w-as fined four thousand dollars, and under an agreement between his counsel and the department of just! ,e the other counts in the indictment were nol prossed. Patten announced in entering his plea that he was “not conscious of any moral turpitude.” Messrs. Hayne, Brown and Scales professed to be indignant at his ac tion and said that they would fight the case to the end. Col. Thompson lecently sailed for Europe. All five defendants originally pleaded not guilty and with the ex ception of Col. Thompson, demurred to the indictment. The demurrer was defeated in the United States supreme court. REGULAR SCHEDULE FOR WAGON WILL BE ANNOUNCED LATER Garbage Wagon Will Make , Regular Rounds Now that the city has secured a new garbage wagon, regular rounds for the wagon will be established soon. This will be done in order that housekeeu ers may know when to have garbage ready. The time of the week when the wa gon will make Its rounds has not yet been agreed upon. Thlß will be done later. Announcement will be made of this fact in order that all may know of it. It is the purpose of the city board r health to keep the city aa clean as can possibly be done with the available agencies during the summer season. The new wagon will be used regularly and effectively in. this work. DICTAGRAPH IS NOW TURNED QN “JIM” WOODWARD ANOTHER STiR IN ATLANTA Attorney Felder is Preparing Statement Atlanta, Ga., May 24. The stir created in local political circles when it became known that the fight be tween one of the political elements in the city and the police department had reached the stage where city detectives had resorted to the use of a secret tele phone device was enhanced today by the publication in the Atlanta Joum-1 of a record wh’ich shows that the de tectives have employed the device against the mayor of the city, James G. Woodward. The device had first Deen used against Thomas B. Felder, a promin ent local attorney, who had interested himself in the prosecution of the Mar£ Phagan murder case. The stenographic report of his con ference with G. C. February, secretary to Chief of Detectives ... A. Lanford, purported to show that the attorney | was endeavoring to secure papers In the Phagan case which he declared the local police had manufactured and which he believed would be sufficient to “drive Chief of Police Beavers and Lanford from office.” Mayor Woodward, in the record se cured with telephonic device, is quot ed as saying that he was looking for evidence against the police de partment and particularly against Chief Beavers. The mayor is als j alleged to have said there were suffi cient votes in the local police board to remove Beavers, if the evidence could be secured. Colonel Felder today is preparing a lengthy statement in reply to the charges contained in the record se cured by the telephonic device and made public yesterday. Mayor Wood ward *oday declared that he made no * statement at the conference which he was not wilbng to have published. MORE EVIDENCE IN PHAGAN CASE IS DISCOVERED NEGRO TELLS OF LETTERS Found Beside Body of Bead Girl Atlanta, Ga., May 24. —This morn ing James Connally, the negro sweep er formerly employed In the pencil factory, where Mary Phagan was killed, and who was arrested on sus picion and has been in jail since as a material witness for the state, sent for a city detective and declared that he wanted to tell the truth. "Boss, 1 wrote those notes,” said he, referring to the mysterious notas found beside the dead body of Mary Phagan. He declared that he could not iden tify them positively, inasmuch as In had never seen the originals, but that as were read to him out of the papers he believed they were the onto he wrote. On Friday, the day before the mur der, he told the detectives, Leo M. Frank called him Into his (Frank’s) office at the factory and said-he want mm" ~ ' 1 " " ' ""M 1 | (Continued on Page Fire.) PREPARED FOR JOURNEY TO l CHATTANOOGA i VETERANS AND SONS TO GO I Special Gar Will Take the Parly r Ready for the march upon Cliatta i nooga, Sumter’s veterans, sons of vet - erans and others who will attend the i national reunion there this week witi 1 leave Americus at 6:40 o’clock Monda - s morning. All details of the trip we-! completed yesterday, and the America* ’ Party is looking forward to the visit I to Chattanooga with a great deal of . interest. Camp Sumter’s commander, Major -1 General H. T. Davenport, commander also of the Georgia division, Unite t Confederate Veterains, will have a large escort in the camp representatives and the sons of veterans from Camp Cdtts, the entire party numbering twenty or more. Camp Cutts held a business session yesterday and completed all arrange ments for the trip of its representa- I tives, its sponsor, Miss Mamie Brown, and maid of honor, Miss Sailie Betel Carter. The entire Americus party will occupy a private car, leaving here at 6:40 o’clock tomorrow morning and arriving at Chattanooga in the afte-- noon. Among the sons of veterans who wUI attend as delegates and members wi’l be Messrs. C. J. Clark, Frank J. Payu -, E. A. Nisbet, W. E. Brown, W. F. Mur phy, T. L. Summers, George W. Wa’- ters, Dr. C. K. Chapman, Dr. T. ?*. Merritt, and, perhaps, others. Tfc-> ( sponsor and maid of honor go as spe cial guests of Camp Cutts, Sons j* Veterans. Camp Sumter’s representatives are Messrs. John A. McDonald, A. J. Hami!, J. P. Britton, W. S. Moore, J. W. Harris and R. S. Hutchinson, thouga I several others of the veterans will accompany the party and visit again the battlefields abound Chattanooga upon which they met the Federal hos:s ■i half century ago. The Americus pa«- ty will return Thursday night or eartv Friday morning, according to present program. SUPERIOR COURT TO CONVENE IN SPRING TERM TOMORROW Civil Docket is Light, Crimi nal Docket Average Tomorrow will maik the opening of the spring term of the superior court of Sumter county. The civ 1 docket will be taken up first, as usual, and it is understood to be unusually light. According to opinions expressed at the court house the civil docket may be finished not later than Wednesday, while it is possible that it will be con > eluded in one day. The criminal dock et is reported about an average one, i Whtch will likely consume the two weeks of time allotted to It. It is fortunate that at this time whe j the farmers are busy with their crops the court session Is a short one. It should enable them to stay at work in I their fields, where their attention Is s®, j greatly needed a* this juncture. NUMBER 125