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THL/AMERIdDS TIMES-RECORDER
THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR
> AGGIE RECEIVES
'■HANDSOME CHECK
THREE THOUSAND
COLLEGES WELL CARLO LOR
$7,000 In Third District Ag
gie So Ear
The Americus district college, the A j
and M, is well remembered by the
state, along with the ten other “Aft- J
gies" in the frequent distributions of
■state funds for the maintenance of
these eleven agricultural schools. Yes-,
terday Supt. John M. Collum received,
a check from the state department for
three thousand dollars in lump sum. I
Four thousand dollars has been paid!
previously this year, making a total of,
seven thousand to date to the Americus;
school. A balance of three thousand
dollars Is due each school, and will be
paid some time in the fall. The Amer-i
leus "Aggie will thus have received a
total of ten thousand dollars this year ,
from the state which, in addition to its!
income from tuition and the sale of!
Jarm products. Insures the mainten- \
ance of the school.
GEORGIA ARCHEOLOGIST
10 DISH RUSSIA
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Atlanfft. iiay 27.—Professor William
J. (’ole, the aged and eminent archeo!- j
ogist, who has recovered from the ill-j
ness incident to his venturesome ex-1
ploratlons in the Stone .Mountain!
neighborhood, is planning a trip to)
Persia. Russia or Scandinavia, to ob
serve the total eclipse of the sun on
August 21 next. 1
He will be accompanied by a num
ber of scientists and astronomers from
nt rthern universities. On that date the
earth will pass between the moon an i
* the sun, and all the scientists who can
make the trip are anxious to be in the
tone.
Professor Cole has already been in
correspondence with fellow workers in
Europe, arranging stations for obser
vation and the- making of photographs.
M
His present intention is to go to the 85
mile total eclipse tone, which includes
the I’nlersity cities of Bitlis, Trebi
rond. Kief, Minsk and Riga. The total
ity of the eclispe at Kief will last two
minutes and thirty one seconds, but
Professor Cole counts a trip half wav
around the world time well spent iu
order to be there when it happens.
Since the end of the disorders in the
Balkan peninsula, the Atlanta scien
tist may remain on the other side of
the ocean this winter, in order to con
tinue the Greek excavations which
were interrupted by the war.
A BIG RAID IS
BEING PLANNED
New- York, May 27.—James A. Oil
oicre. president of the Federal League,
* in iwn today for a conference with
Mis chief advisers, declared an extend
■ ive raid on otganized baseball 1b plin
ned.
"! have thirty-seven major league
players of recognized ability ready to
Jump and If the Federal League is
favored in the court application to
dissolve the injunction on George
Johnson w«. can get all the stars we
need,” said Gilmore.
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“DUDE TRAINS” I
UNDER THE HUN
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Citizens of Classic Boston Doom Spec
ial suburban Trains of the Wealth)
Classes
Boston, May 27.—The "dude trains,”
kjiown in railroad circles as club
trains, which are run' for the exclus
ive use of rich citizens, with summer
homes on the north shore of Cape
Cod, have fallen under the displeas
ure of the public corporation and ap
parently are doomed,
j One train consists of four cars and
lis patronized by about 100 club mem
jbers. They subscribe a guarantee of
$13,000 to cover the fares and freight
I privileges.
The feature about which there is
a question, is the baggage car pro
| vision being operated on a basis that
jit is said to permit of discrimination
against that part of the traveling pub-
{ He that can not afford to provide it
self with special trains, and there
•also is a questionable element of com-
I parison between this baggage service
and the service performed by the
, railroads.
MISS ELAGIN THE GUIDE
OL RUFUS G. WEBB
A marriage in the nature of a pleas
urable surprise to the many friends
! of the young bride and groom was that
♦of Miss Janie Feagin and Mr. Rufus !
j 0. Webb, which was solemnized yes
terday afternoon. Securing a car. and
j accompanied by the bride's sister, Miss
! Laura ''Feagin and Mr. Clyde Webb, the
j young couple motored over to Ella
jville and to the residence of Rev. J.
M. Murray, where the interesting cere
mony was performed and congratula
tions extended the handsome young
couple. The bride is the eldest daugh
ter of Mrs. William H. Feagin, and one
of Americus’ most attractive young
ladies, while the groom, Mr. Webb, is j
alike highly esteemed here.
PRESBYTERIAN SCHOOL
ENJOYED PICNIC
The Presbyterian church and Sun
day school held its annual picnic yes
terday at Myrtle Springs, and the oc
casion was an enjoyable one through
out. The school and many invited
friends went out in automobiles anjl
wagons to this favorite picnic resort,
and the hours were spent there moot
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enjovably.
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KAISER’S FIFTH SON IS
ENCAGED 10 BE MARRIED
Potsdam, Germany, May 27—The en
gagement of Prince Oskar, fifth son of
the German emperor and empress, to
Marie von Bassewitz, maid of honor
Ito the empress, was announced to
day. The princess is 26 years old.
Lively comment was caused by the
‘ announcement, owing to the fact that
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• the marriage will be the first morgan
-1 tic union which has occurred in the
-. Hohenzollern family since 1853.
-j It is assumed that the emperor.
jwho consented to the engagement, wi l
"‘ confer a higher rank in the nobility
r > on the young Countess Ina Marie von
s Uassewltz-Levetzow.
o His Majesty's consent is said to
'• have been granted owing to the lack
• of an available German princess an 1
to his aversion to a foreign marriage
for his son.
* The countess was born on Jan. 27,
* 1888, and her father, Count Charles
von Bassewitz-Levetzow Is premier
« of the grand duchy of Mecklenburg
♦ Schwerin.
JSIERTCUS. GEORGIA. THURSDAY MORNING. MAY 28. 1914.
! BAPTIST YOUNG
.PEOPLE HOLDING
INSTITUTE HERE
AT FURLOW LAWN CHURCH
Address Tonight With Exer
cises Friday
The Southwest Georgia district in
stitute of the Baptist Young People’s
union of Georgia is to be held at Fur
low Lawn Baptist church tonight anJ
tomorrow. This institute will be
charge of Mr. Frank H. Leavell, state
secretary of Georgia,' assisted by Mr.
*.i *,
E. E. Lee, general secretary of the B.
Y. P. U., west of the Mississippi.
It is expected that quite a number
of young people from churches in
south and southwest Georgia will be iu 1
attendance. All the young people of
Americus are invited to get the bene
i
fit of the expert instruction in young
people's work which this institute will
furnish.
The following program will be car
ried out tonight, beginning at at 8
o’clock.
B. y. P. U. Address by Mr. Lee.
Friday, 10 A. M. to 12 M.—l. Who
Should Be Members. 2. How Select
Officers. 3. The Group Plan. 4. Du
ties of Officers and Committees.
Friday Afternoon, 2:30 to 4 O’clock
| —l. The Daily Bible Reader’s Course.
12 The Program for the Weekly
Meeting: Who-What-Wbere-When 3.
The Study Course. 4. Missionary Stu
dy.
Friday Night, S O’clock —1. Demon
stration of Weekly Meeting by Furlow
Lawn Union. 2. Round Table. 3.
The State Convention. 4. Adjourn
ment.
A splendid program this, and the
people of Americus, especially the
young people, have a fine opportunity
|to learn from those who know thz
j practical workings of the B. Y. P. U.
The older as veil as the younger
people will be welcomed.
FEAST DF THE ’CUE CLUB
IS PLANNED FOR TODAY
The fortnightly joyfest of the Amer
icas Cue club, that aggregation of bun
•■ivants who assemble at stated inter
vale to discuss that acme of the art
culinaire—barbecue—will be held to
day at the usual trysting place out
Lee street, and anyone can safely net
a block of defunct tank stock that
there will not be an absentee. The 'cue j
will be served up to the queen 3 tajte,
with spring water as a chaser.
: | Si tint) cmmc supply hi mos Mexico city i
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Here is a long line of Villa cavalry guarding a supply train for the army, which may march into Mexico
City. Since the rebels have virtually conquared the northern part of Mexico they don’t find much trouble
r bringing in food and supplies. But when they do move a train for the army they send along cavalry to take
C are of it. If the march is continued into Mexico City—after a battle at San Potosi—many such trains
will have to be taken along.
BUSINESS SUCH,
JURY ADJOURNED
’TILE WEDNESDAY
WILE DIM IN 11IBUS
One of Interest Investigated
Yesterday
Disposing rapidly of the few felony
cases brought before that body, the
grand jury on yesterday took a week’s
recess, declaring an adjournment un
til-next Wednesday morning, June 3d .
the indictments returned so far,
■few are of public interest and none
of any nature in the least sensational
—as expected.
In the indictments returned yester*
day were bills against Mr. D. A. Sayre
I and Mr. Hollis Hurley, as the result
( of an encounter between them quite
recently in which Mr. Sayre sustained
a flesh wound from a pistol shot, while
Mr. Hurley bore marks of the battle
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as well.
Both men were indicted alike upon
the charge of assault yith intent to
murder.
In the superior court yesterday the
afternoon session was taken up in the
trial of the case of Porter versus Por
ter, suit for divoixe and alimony. All
of the evidence was concluded ere the
close, and the case will reach a con
clusion this morning, in all likelihood.
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MANY AUTOS ARE NEEDED
FRIDAY LOR THE PICNIC
The annual Sunday senool picnic of
the Methodist church, which will take
place tomorrow at Myrtle Springs,
will be the splendid success that these
annual occasions are always, and hun
dreds of good church folks, uSnday
school scholars and invited friends
will enjoy the day at romantic Myrtle
Springs.
The committee in charge has leased
the grounds and bathing privileges for
the day, and all will be free to the!
picnickers. Lemonade—the best that
can be brewed—will be in plenteous
abundance and as free to all as the
waters that bubble from the beautiful
spring there.
It is going to require many automo
biles for the transportation of the hun
dreds of picnickers, and all friends
who will tender the use of their cars
are requested to have them at the
church at 7:30 o’clock, or as soon
thereagter as possible. Every Ameri
cus kiddie many, perhaps, who have
never enjoyed an auto ride, will hop
I the buzz-cart tomorrow.
The road to the springs—all the wav
—is in perfect rim, and the trip will
be made in comfort.
MANY CARLOADS
MELONS GROWING
ABOUT AMERICUS
RECENT RAIN SAVED CROPS
A
Crop Prospect Has Improved
- Greatly
Melon growers in the Americus ter
ritory, both the cantaloupe and water
melon producers, felt greatly relieved
yesterday as the result of the fine raia
here the day before, which came at
the opportune moment to save the
hundreds of acres of young melons.
The several weeks of continued dry
weather was showing its effect upon
the vines, but the damage inflicted by
drouth will quickly disappear now.
In the Andersonville neighborhood,
where the most melons are produced
for carload shipments north, the rain
was most beneficial, and the vast,
fields showed the beneficial effect of
the rain yesterday.
About six hundred acres are planted
in watermelons in' that vicinity, and
producers expeat to realize handsome
ly this year from the sale of this fi‘l3
fruit. Probably fifty carloads melons
were shipped from Andersonville last
season, and the output will be very
much larger this year.
In spite of the dry weather and the
cool winds of the past week, the wa
termelon vines seem to he in very
flourishing condition, and are looking
fresh and green. The vines are cov
ered with little melons, and every in
dication points to a bumper crop. They
are growing off rapidly, and it will
not be long before the business will
open up.
The cantaloupe crop is also report
ed in fine shaps and shipments are
expected to begin before the last of
next month.
MIS) McKIE IS SELEUTEB
JUDGE AT ASHBURN FAIR
t
Miss Annie Sue McKie, of Americus,
who has charge of the department of
domestic science and art at the Third
District Agricultural and Mechanical
college, will go today to Ashburn, Ga..
having been selected as one of the
board of judges in that department at
the Ashburn fair tomorrow. Miss Mc
• Kie is a most efficient teacher in thl3
important branch of study, and her
j friends appreciate the honor conferred
by the Ashburn fair committee in
electing he» to their board of judges.
From Ashburn Miss McKie will go tc
Athens to spend the summer vacation
returning to to Americus at the open
ing of the college fall session.
CLARK WANTS
A 6-YEAR TERM
Speaker Would Mace It So the Pres
ident Yould Serve But One Term in
Office. \ \
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New York, May 27. —Speaker Clark
in an address last night to the grad
uates of a commercial school, declared
he would like to have the president
elected for six years with the pro
vision that after that he be "eternally
ineligible.”
“As it is now,’ he said, “a presi
dent spends most of his first term
trying to get back-again. We should
do away with the custom of inaugu
rations, particularly on March 4.
, They are merely spectacles for sight
.seers. Elections should be held on
the last Monday in October.
“This should be done not before
. nor later than 1920. This would give
Wilson and Taft an oppor
tunity to get aur'.her term before the
one-term law went into effect.”
ELEPHANT FALLS ON
EXPRESS MESSENGER
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New York, May 27.—Peter Mullins,
30 years old, of 193 Mercer street, Jer
sey City, was severely hurt the other
night when an elephant in a crate fell
on him. He was taken to St. Francis’
Hospital. Mullins is employed by the
Adams Express Company.
He was assisting in unloading sev
eral elephants in crates from a boat
to freight cars at Exchange place to be
shipped to the West, when a heavv
crate with an elephant in it fell ou j
him. He was rushed to the hospital
and may not recover.
WILL PRESENT THE RIVALS
TONIGHT AT RICHLAND
As previously announced, the Amer
icus High school students who, quite
recently, presented “The Rivals” at
the Opera House here to an apprecia
tive audience; will repeat the produc
tion tonight in Richland, with the
same excellent cast of characters.
•' Quite a number of friends will accora
! pany the young Thespians to Rich
land this afternoon and enjoy Sheri
dan’s delightful comedy.
CHINESE GIRL PRACTICES
OENISTRYIN FRISCO
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San Francisco, May 27.—First of
San Francisco’s native daughters of
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the Chinese race to start the practice
of denistry and the second Chinese-
American woman in the United States
to he a graduate in denistry is Miss
Marjorie Virginia Kimlau, of this city,
who has just graduated from the Col
lege of Physicians and Surgeons. Miss
Kimlau was born in San Francisco 22
years ago, and is a real American as
far as dress, speech, recreation, and
opinions are concerned.
It is hinted among her classmates, 1
of whom 33 are men and one woman,
that there is a romance hidden behind
the inscrutable face which looks upon
the world with the age-old wisdom )f
the Orient, tempered by the piquancy |
of the women of the Occident. This, j
however, is denied by Miss Kimlau
herself who says that it is time enouga
for any girl to think of marriage after
she has accomplished something in
the world. She believes that no Chin
ese" girl should marry ositside of her
own race, and she hopes to go to
Shanghai after she has practiced in
San Francisco with herfather for a
time.
She is the daughter ; of Dr. Thomas
Y. Kimlau, the first Chinese to practice
denistry in this city and a native sor..
IFELDER BEFORE
SUMTER VOTERS 1
NEXTJHUKSDAI
CANDIDATE FDR U. S. SENATE
jWill Address The Public Here]
\ Oo That Date 1
’• wmll be of interest to the general!
rub s?iPd many personal friends andfl
admi) rs \of Hon. Thomas S. Felds*®
to know treat he has accepted an invi-l
tation to spVak here on Thursday next#!
June 4th, in Ills campaign for the Unit-!
ed« States senate. I
Mr. Felder !\ias delivered addressal
in several sections of the state al-1
ready, and is greeted by large and ap-l
preciative audiencA at every point. HYm
coming to Americus' on Thursday nextl
is at the solicitation* of a number oil
his Sumter county friends and doubt-J
less a large audience, tf-'ill greet hi«jl
here. The hour and pftice of spea&M
ing will be announced in\tfve time, aaß
soon as arrangements are perfected.fȤ
OIKWI HU \ I
nOWSTEI 1.01F.1
Macon, Ga., May 27.
When the gavel of Grand Master Tjß
M. Hoynes sounded the opening thisl
morning in the city auditorium of thelj
sixty-eighth annual meeting of thjfl
grand lodge I. O O. F. of Georg**
more than 1,000 delegates were in at-l
tendance.'V
The principal feature of the busilfl
ness session this morning was th*fl
election of officers. H
W. B. Sloan, of Gainesville, wasß
named grand master, succeeding 17,1
M. Hoynes, of sWvannah. gi
In connection 4ith the grand lodgfl
meeting, about 2(4 delegates to thafl
annua) Rebekah as«nbly, ladies’ aux«B
iliary of the grand Mdge, opened them
session at the samejnLur in the Hotefl
Dempsey auditorium. j n
The grand lodge/is majJLany, AnplfM
tive session. Fin it 2
be taken tomorrow afterm
Fitzgerald looms up as tM Pd t3Hps|p|i
meeting place for the gran«
1915. i
Other Officers. 'iwSl
Deputy Grand Master, Franl ‘V
well, LaGrange:
Grand Warden, H. R. kMjlatxj
Rome. fHI
T. H. Robertson, grand secreU^BS!
Gainesville.
C. A. Von der Leith, grand treas®
urer, Athens. J
T. M. Hoynes, grand representative,
Savannah. j
Dr. L. B. Clarke, grand representa-j
tive, Atlanta. w
Appointive officers to he announceJ
by Grand Master Sloan will be choseJ
later. The appointive officers are the'i
grand chaplain, grand marshal, gran**'
conductor, grand guardian, grand her. *
aid. 1
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WAITS UNTIL HIS COFFIN *
IS FINISHED THEN 0IE5«
Fall River Mills, Cal., May 27.- Aftei 1
j se£> l n g that his coffin was made, J
Welch, father of Mrs. Nelson, died iron j
the ravages of cancer. He .Mmc fron .
Oabland last fall to live with hiR
daughter. Three months ago he re
quested that his coffin be made, so T
might be finished be’ore his dcat*>. IN
His son-in-law and daughter wer< *
a|
able to postpone the unpleasant task
k.
but Nelson yielded to entreaties of hit
father-in-law ten days ago, and un _
3C
willingly began to work to please th(
aged sufferer, finishing it before bIT j
death came.
j*-fin, Macon, CM