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The Americas Times-Recorder
THIRTY-FIFTH YEAR.
MONDAY’S TOTAL $20,812.
WHIRLWIND WORKERS DEFY
HOODOO WITH TWO THIRTEENS
*
Success of Campaign Seems Assured With Two More Days to
Run. Mid Day Dinners Continue to* Feature.
Public Invited to Attend.
Citizens Committee — J. E. Mathis, Chairman.
Previously Reported Yesterday Total
Team eader No, Amount No. Amount No. Amount
1... Carswell, E. U 2 “ * 625 4 %60 23
2. Fort, Jas. A ' 233 0 ~ J ” 3 ?
3. Hightower, J. E 43 325 3 50 13 ' 4< ’
4. Jones, H. 0 44 266 5 130 16
5. Mays Dr. D. B « 233 3 147 2 « «?
6. Smith, W. F ® 35 7 20 4 "
Xotal ....69 1,790 28 407 97 2,19<
Business Mens’ Committee—John W. Shiver, Chairman.
Previously Reported Yesterday Total
Trim I eader No. Amount No. Amount No. Amount
A. Davis, Dr. C. P-, 10 * 4 67 1 * 25 12 1132
R. Gardner, G. S 44 243 4 23 42 **
C. Marshall, T. 0 4 « 541 15 62 ° 30 1137
D. Melton, O. Q « 105 4 f® J 2 JJ*
E. Morgan, L. A 43 375 5 43
F. Payne, Frank J A .>0 3 70 . P-0
G. Prather, Dr. W. S 8 233 4 55 4 - 34 »
Tota , .66 1,768 33 906 99 2,674
Miscellaneous 444 4 **,941 444 10,941
(tRiND TOT4L .246
The dial points to $20,812-
That was the total rung up by yes
terday’s reports.
Thirteen is considered an unlucky
number by some, but the committees
that are conducting the whirlwind cam-
I paign defied the fates yesterday and re
ported collections for the day totaling
$1313.
The Business Men’s committee car
ried off tne laurels ior the day and
•Company C, captained by T. O. Mar
shall, made the banner report for
both committees. This company turn
ed in 15 pledges for a total of $625..
Team No. 5 of the Citizens’ commit
tee was second with a report of J
subscriptions for a total of $147.
With two more days for the cam
paign to run and a balance of $3,188 to
make the grand total reach the amount
wanted, the committees and work
ers in charge of the campaign are con
fident of its success. Americas is go
ing to open the Young Men’s Christ
an Association building, after putting
U in first class repair and constructing
v. modern swimming pool.
The campaign is gaining momentum
and the goal is within reach, but it is
up to the committees and public
spirited citizens to double their efforts
in order to end the campaign with
ors flying. Americus wants to raiti
more than $24,000, and Americus can
do it
The luncheon yesterday was well at
tended. Those lucky enough to be or.
hand were treated to as fine a turkey
dinner as ever graced the most pala
tial home in Americus on Thanksgiv
ing day. The following attractive
young ladies graced the occasion as
waitresses.
Misses Annie Bailey, Laura Anslew
Martha Dedrnan, Maude Sherlock, Ma
ry Hawkins, Floyd Fort, Elizabeth
Murphey, of California; Louise Mar
shall. Mrs. John Butt and Mrs. Dav
idson, of Atlanta.
A telegram from the Jacksonville Y.
M. C. A. was read by Secretary Read
congratulating the Americus associa
tion on the fight they are waging ffi
re-organize the local association. The
telegram was greeted with rounds o’
applause from the friends of the asso
t'; H on who were gathered for lunch.
A special invitation is extended to
the mends of the movement to be on
hand at the luncheon today at 1
ooh ck. The ladies of the Hospital as
sociation are serving tip-top meals and
« treat *s in store for anyone who at-
Unds. If you have not yet turned out,
come i.p today'. You will leave the ha.l
WITH FOND
COUTH TO (now
4
♦ AMERICUS AND SUMTER ♦
♦ COUNTY HOSPITAL FUND. ♦
4 ♦
4- Previously acknowledged $3,719.35 -f
4- Harrold Brothers 250.00 ■*
4 Total $3,969.35 ♦
-* **4 + 444 + 4444 + 44
A substantial cash donation was
added to the Hospital fund yesterdav
when the committee cf ladies reported
$250 given by Harrold Brothers. In
addition to this cash donation, J. W.
Hightower, of the Southern Art Metal
company, agreed to furnish the metal
ceilings for the halls and porches n
the new building. This donation rep- (
resents a saving of several hundre 1
dollars for the association.
The ladies will appreciate it if anv
on© who wants to contribute will call
Mrs. R. L. Maynard up or send the'.r
subscription to the Times-Recorder.
OLD HOSPITAL BUILOING
IS OFFERED FOR SALE
Association Will Sell Present
Structure.
As the handsome and modern new
building of the Americus Hospital as
sociation will soon be completed and
made ready for occupancy, the ladi?.a
of the Hospital association have decid
ed to offer for Bale at once the com
modious building on Barlow street, us
ed for several years as a hospital. The
property, located as it is in a choice
residence section of Americus, is very
valuable, and the proceeds arising from
its sale will be employed in completing
the new building out Lee street. Th?
present hospital can readily be con
verted into a residence or apartment
house. It contains eight or more
large rooms, and is one of the most
substantially constructed building in
Americuß. A bargain in it awaits the
purchaser.
an enth'.toastie booster for the Young
Men’s Christian Association of Amer
icus.
AMERICUS. GEORGIA TUESDAY MORNING. JANUARY 20, 1914.
WATCH THE DIAL
SKINNERS WERE
NEATLY SKINNED
SUNDAY MORNING
HOODOO BUNCH WERE POLLED
Several Plead Guilty M
Paid The Price
That thirteen is a “hoodoo” number
especially when applied to crap-shoo’-
ing and playing the favorite Africanic
game of “skin,” was proven Sunday
morning when the police rounded up
an unlucky thirteen upon this charge.
The covey of blackbirds were setting
in a game over across Muekalee bridge,
and so deeply absorbed were they in
the way the dice rolled that “de per
lice” were upon them before even one
'could fly away. The whole bunch >f
t crap shooters were thus lampooned
and put in ccld storage m Castle Suni-
I ter until yesterday when most of them
I entered a plea of guilty to the chart
of gaming in the city court and were
' sent up by Judge Harper to terms of
four months each or fines S6O.
HORSE IN FULL FLIGHT
CLEARED THE STREETS
Two horses attached to a hearse be
longing to a colored undertaker ran
away on Forsyth street yesterday af
ternoon and, in a sweeping gallop,
speeded towards Cotton avenue. The
affrighted team ran through the Bar
ker warehouse, putting’To hasty flight
the cotton “bulls and bears” assem
bled at the front.. The Jeani reached
the rear yard without doing any ma
terial damage. The hearse was without
an ocucpaut at the time of the runa
way.
Hill HE FOR
Si HID» WITCH
New York, Jan. 19.—The murder of
Ivan Martysewicz, whose body, cram
med in a trunk, was left in the street
by two pushcart men (lecemher 29, was
described today by Stefania Kiviathow
ski, a young Polish woman, one of the
six persona under arrest in connection
with the crime. She and two of the
men now in prh.on committed the mur
der for $2 and a cheap watch owned
by the slain man.
DEATH CLAIMED
IS. J. T. HOWELL
MONDAY MORNING
I
SUCCUMBED TO LONG ILLNESS
Funeral at Furlow Lawn
Church.
Following a protracted- illness ex
j tending over a period of several weeks,
j Mrs. Donia Howell, wife of Mr. John
|T. Howell, passed to her reward on
high at 6 o’clock Monday morning at
their residence on Jackson avenue. In
view of her long illness, the final
summons calling this dear, good wo
man home was not unexpected to
| family and loved ones who for weeks
had'watched tenderly at her bedside.
Mrs. Howell was widely known in
Americus and throughout this section
where she had long resided. A large
j.amily connection and many friends re
gret her death, although she was pre
j pared therefor, and had patiently
awaited the call of her master.
The deceased was fifty-three years
of age, and prior to her marriage w is
Miss Donia Chambliss. Besides her
j husband, Mr. Jchn T. Howell, and son,
I Gordon Howell, she is survived by two
C
I brothers, J. H. and N. J. Chambliss;
I two sisters, Mrs. Nancy Cordell and
| Mrs. M. E. Singletary, all of whom re
i side in or near Americus.
Three stepsons, Messrs. B. P., J. E,
laud W. S. Howell, of Moultrie, and two
! step-daughters, Mrs M. G. Gilmiore,
jof Pavo, Ga., and Mrs. H. D. Walker,
of Largo, Fla., mourn the loss of tli.s
good woman, whom all loved so well.
The funeral services will be con
| ducted from Furlow Lawn Baptist
‘church, of which Mrs. Howell had iom;
‘been a faithful and consistent member,
‘at 10 o’clock this morning by the pas
|tc r, Rev. Robert. L. Bivins. The inte»--
Jinent will be at the family cemetery at
ithe former Howell residence, four
! miles west of Americus. Friends of
jthe deceased, and of the family are re
spectfully invited to attend. The pal 1
bearers will be Messrs. E. L. Bell,
Kshton Bucbanan. Neon Buchanan, R
L. McMath, B. H. McM&th and J. E.
McMath.
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For Americus and Vicinity.— *
♦ Probably rain. ♦
+ 4 4 4444 HM m +
(PAINFUL INJURY
INFLICTED WHEN
POWDER IGNITED
JOHN W. SHIVER IS BURNED
About Face, But Injuries Nut
Serious.
Mr. John W. Shiver is confined to
his home as the result of painful pow
der burns upon his face, sustained in
the burning of dry grass upon the lawn
of his Lee street residence. Mr. Shiver
had sprinkled gunpowder freely around
the dry Bermuda grass, and when
the match was applied the powder
blazed up in his face unexpectedly ere
he could get away. His hair and mus
tache were singed and his face severe
ly burned as well, his injuries being
quite painful, but not of serious nature.
Dr. W. S. Prather was called in and
dressed the burns thus inflicted. Mr.
Shiver’s large number of friends deep
ly deplore the accident and trust that
the genial “brigadier genral’’ will soon
be upon the field again.
WAGNER HAS BEEN
GETTING 1100 FOR
LAST SEVEN TEARS
BARNEY DREYFUS BREAKS .RULE
IN TALKING ABOUT SALARY FIG
IRES
Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 19.—President
Barney Dreyfus, today declared that
Hans Wagner has been getting SIO,OOO
for the last seven years; for the first
time breaking silence on a mooted
question. He said, concerning the ear
ly American raid:
"The Pittsburg club was playing in
Boston, and one day at the Copley
jSt uare hotel Wagner came to me and
I asked for a contract. He explained
that the people who> were getting up
the new league were bothering him to
death with all sorts of propositions,
and he had been getting rid of them
by giving out the idea that he had al
ready signed his Pittsburg contract 1
told him I had no contract made out
for him. He said that mattered not.
he wanted a blank contract.
“Only a few seasons after this Bos
cn incident Wagner was drawing down
■ 10,000 a year and we have paid him
SIO,OOO a year ever since—but I have
broken my rule and talked about sal
ary figures.”
KING OF EADEAWAT
DIDNTJCDRE ONCE
Cleveland, 0., Jan. 19.—Fred Falken
berg, the "Fadeaway King,” of the
American league pitchers, has a griev
ance. He wants Manager Birmingham
to give him a different location in the
batting order next season, so that he
may experience the peculiar sensa
tion of scoring a run.
The thin one, who, incidentally,
struck out 41 times last campaign,
took part in 36 games without ventur
ing past third.
“Is that my fault?” asked the hur
ler. “The men who bat behind me are
to blame. Look over the statistics and
you will see that I made ten hits, one
of them a double; walked ten times,
,vns hit three times, reached first on
errors twice and stole two bases. See,
’ got on 25 times, and yet Johnston,
Leibold and Chapman failed to send
me home.”
SALOON KEEPER
DRINK KILLS
AMERICUS PAYS
FINE TRIBUTE
GREAT CHIEFTAIN
LEE DAT IS WELL OBSERVLD
Appropriate Exercises Are
Held Monday.
Fitting tribute was paid the memory
of General Robert Edward Lee yes
terday by the people of Americus, as
is done upon each recurring birthday
anniversary, and the program of ex
ercises rendered at the auditorium,
participated fin by Confederate vet
erans, the U. D. C., and one thousand
pupils of the city public schools, was
alike interesting, instructive and im
pressive in its entirety, and largely
attended by the general public.
The exercises were opened at 11
o’clock with an invocation by Dr.
Lansing Burrows, himself a Confeder
ate veteran, after which the following
well prepared program was effectively
rendered:
Songi, "How Firm a Foundation(.”
(Lee's favorite hymn.)
Recitation—" Appomattox,” Louise
Bragg. Richard Herbert, Marie Bell,
Leroy Feagin, Hallie Walker, Carr
Glever—4t.h grade.
Recitation, “Sword of Lee.” —Kath-
leen Cameron —sth grade.
Mush, "Dixie.”
“Personal Recollections of Lee”—
Veteran J, P. Britton.
Song, "Bonnie Biue Flag.”
Declamation: "Our Inheritance From
the Soldier-Teacher.”—Harry Sullivan
—6th grade.
Declamation: “Character of Lee ’
—Charles Simmons —7th grade.
Recitation, “Gone Forward”—Susie
Stallings—loth grade.
Address: “Lee”—Prof. C. C. Yoa
mans.
“Order No. 9.”
Song, “God Be With You Till We
Meet Again.”
Benediction —Veteran Rev. A. j.
Hutchinson.
The principal speakers were Prof.
C. C. Youmans and Mr. J. P. Britton.
Mr. Yeomans spoke interestingly up
on the character of General Lee as a
Christian, patriot and chieftain of the
armies of the Confederacy, while Mr.
Britton, a veteran of the civil war and
follower of the dauntless soldier, spoke
entertainingly of his personal recol
lections of Lee, whose banner he had
courageously followed during four
years of strife.
The patriotic songs and recitations
by pupils of the High school and Fur
low school were well rendered, and
received merited applause.
In conclusion a bounteous luncheon
of sandwiches and coffee was tempt
ingly served by the local chapter of
Daughters of the Confederacy, under
whose auspices these annual tributes
of love for the south's heroes are con
ducted.
ASHES FROM A CIGARETTE
SET FIRE TO BEDROOM
Fire, which it was supposed orig
inated from a cigarette, was discovered
at an early hour Sunday evening in one
of the apartments of the Brown House,
the home of Mrs. W. C. Barorw on
Jackson street. A mattress and bed
clothing was partially' destroyed be
fore the blaze was extinguished.
CRAZED BY
SELF AND WIFE
JOE M'WHORTER, MEMBER OF A
1 WEALTHY OGLETHORPE FAMILY,T
DESPONDENT OVER LOSING FOR
TUNE, LOCKS DOOR OF BED ROOM
AND KILLS SELF AND WIFE
. _____ :.j
TWO YOUNG CHILDREN
HEAR FATAL SHOT
Little Brother Tries to Comfort Orphan
Sister, Who Cries for Mamma to
Come Back.
Macon, Ga„ Jan. 19.—(Special.)—On
a cold marble slab in a Macon under
taking establishment, the bodies of
Joe McWhorter, 45 years old, and his
wife, Nellie, 13 years younger, lay side
by side. Both are victims of a pistol
at the hands of the husband. Mc
| Whorter, just a few minutes before li
o'clock this morning fired a bullet into
i
the heart of the woman he married
when a girl in her teens, and then,
marking a culmination of more than 14
years of married life, he turned the
pistol to his hbcrt, and pulled the trig
ger.
| When neighbors and the police ar
j rived at the house just a few minute 3
.after the tragedy, they found the body
<>t Mrs. McWhorter outstretched on the
floor. The head of the husband lay
on the blood-soaked breast of the wife.
Death is believed to have been instan
taneous to both, as the hearts of each
were penetrated by the lcanen balls
of a Smith & Wesson, 32 calibre. The
revolver lay by their side.
Edith McWhorter, 12 and Penn, a
little boy who celebrated his fifth birth- '
day anniversary last week, are made
orphans. Edith realizes the serious
ness of the tragedy and is hysterical.
But little Penn’s childish mind can
not absorb it. He looks non-chalant
ly at the curious throng which encir
cles the house, apparently not realis
ing that anything out of the ordinary
has happened. When his sister cried
today, Penn looked at her, stroked her
forehead and said: “Edie, don’t cry;
mamma's a!! right.”
When the lives of his mother and
father were snuffed out by three shots
of a pistol in about as many seconds,
Penn, from a downstairs front room,
was watching boys of Whittle school,
just next door, play basketball. The
McWhorters live at No. 3 Hill Park,
just off .Mulberry street, and next door
to the Whittle school.
Friends of the McWhorters do not
hesitate to say that McWhorter,
ft rroerly of Oglethorpe county, and a
member of one of that county’s most
distinguished families, nad been drink
ing heavily ever since the first of
the year. His cruelty toward his
wife, according to a.-man who claims
mutual friendship to the McWhorters,
li.nl been extreme in the last two
v McWhorter formerly conducted
i .iluon near the Fifth street bridge,
known as "Old Seventy-six.” At the
first of the year he decided to qrnt
business. McWhorter had been drink:,
ing heavily the last few weeks, ac
rding to his associates, who con
cregater at the scene of the tragedy.
McWhorter’s father, the iate Joel
McWhorter, who was a representa
tive in the Georgia legislature for
many years, left McWhorter a for
tune close to $30,900, according to
friends of the family. When it was
sien several months ago that Mc-
Whorter was spending more of the
money than he should spend, througu
the influence of an uncle, a deed fo'
400 acres of Oglethorpe land owned
by McWhorter was made over to his
vise.
According to relatives, McWhorter
had never been known to threaten the
life of Mrs. McWhorter. Mr. Thomp
son, his father-in-law, said after the
t: agedy, “I always regarded him as too
big a coward to do anything like thak”
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