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THIRTT-EIGHTH YEAR.
GREAT PROGRESS
MADE IN SUNDAY
SCHODIS IN GA.
As is known by some of our readers,
the Georgia Sunday School associa
tion is a cooperative effort on the part
of the Sunday schol workers of all
denominations for more and better
Sunday schools. This association has
its office at 1519 Hurt building, Atlan
ta. About four years ago D. W. Sims
was employed as general secretary of
the association, and since that time
the work has made wonderful prog
ress. At this time four workers are
employed on full time. The growth of
the work during the past year has been
greater than any previous year.
One year ago 102 of the 151 counties
in the»state were organized into county
Sunday school association, and holding
county and division conventions. Dur
ing the year 31 new organizations have
been formed, and now there are 133
counties organized. After a county is
organized, there are two standards
that each one is urged to reach; first,
the “Banner County Standard,” and
then the “Gold Star County Standard.”
The requirements for the Banner
Standard are as follows: (1) A coun
ty convention every year; (2) A con
vention in each division every year;
(3) A statistical report every year;
(4) A contribution to the state w'ork
every year.
A year ago 30 counties in the state
had reached this standard; at this time
there are 49 banner counties. The
counties that have reached this stand
ards Dade, Whitfield, Habersham,
Floyd, Bartow, Cherokee, Polk, Pauld
ing, Cobb, Milton, Banks, Franklin,
Jackson, Coweta, Oconee, Madison,
Troup, Pike, Butts, Jasper, Franklin,
Jackson, Greene, Warren, McDuffie,
Richmond, Jefferson, Laurens, Hous
ton, Bibb. Crawford, Talbot, Sumter,
Dodge, Tattnall, Wilcox, Calhoun,
Dougherty, Miller, Baker, Ben Hill,
Jeff Davis, Fulton, Haralson, Carroll,
Douglas, Campbell, Fayette, DeKalb.
The Gold Star Standard is a higher
standard than the Banner Standard,
and is harder for a county to reach.
The requirements for this standard
are:
1. A county convention every year.
2. One or more conventions in each
division, every year.
3. Every Sunday school i epresented
at one or more division conventions
every year.
4. An annual statistical report from
every Sunday school.
5. An annual offering from every
Sunday school.
A year ago 4 counties had reached
this high standard; at this time there
are 12 Gold Star counties. The Gold
Star counties are Catoosa, Gwinnett,
Barrow, Elbert, Newton, Henry Spald
ing, Upson, Baldwin, Putnam, Ware,
Clarke.
Some of the results reported from
county and division conventions are as
follows. One county had 8 Sunday
schools, when the county association
was formed two years ago. That coun
ty now has 23 Sunday schools—ls new
•Sunday schools. One county had 10
Sunday schools a year ago. the same
County low has 15 Sunday schools. In
one division in another county there
were 3 Sunday schools when the divis
ion was organized. One year later
there were 10 Sunday schools in that
division —7 new Sunday schools. An
other division reports 4 new schools
in the past year.
Many schools have reoprted doubl
ing and some trebling in attendance
while a larger number have reported
putting in teacher training classes,
cradle rolls, organized Bible classes,
home departments and other points of
SECOND HIM IN
RMAYJEETiNG
ATLANTA, Ga., May 11.—A discus
sion of means to unify rules and reg
ulations promulgated by the Interstate
Railroad commission throughout the
South, comprised the principal busi
ness before the second day’s sesion
of the Southern Association of Rail
road Commissioners, which was
organized here Wednesday.
C. Murphey Candler, chairman of
the Railroad Commission of Georgia,
was elected president of the newly
organized body and presided today
over its deliberations. The sessions
will continue tomorrow, and are exec
utive in nature.
fiiewleioo
FEET INTO RIVER
NEAR MT.VERNON
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 11.—
One of the large naval hydro-aero
planes flying between Newport News
and Washington fell into the Potomac
river early today. The accident hap
pened near Mount Vernon, Va., and
the machine was badly damaged.
The machine was ocuepied by five
persons when it fell, three of these
being badly injured, while the other
two are missing, and probably were
drowned.. The injured were rescued
by tugs which chanced to be in the vi
cinity at the time of the accident, and
were hurriedly taken to a hospital at
Alexandria, Va., where medical aid
was given.
L. Louis Krantz, mechanician, and
Charles Good, a student aviator, are
the missing occupants of the plane,
and no trace of their bodies has yet
been l found. J. C. MacCauley, pilot,
and Phillip Utter, mechanician, were
severely bruised by their fall, and
Mayo Dudley, a Washington newspa
per man. who was accompanying the
I party, was badly shaken up but not
dangerously hurt.
The wrecked plane was flying from
Washington to Newport News at a
height of approximately one hundred
feet when the propeller flew off, pre
cipitating the machine and its occu
pants into the river.
BISHOP HARRIS HONORED
WHEN LEAVING KOREA
TOKIO, May 11. —Unusual honors
were paid to Bishop Merriman C. Har
ris, of Korea, before his departure
from Japan for the United States. It
is understood that the bishop, who is
the head of the American Methodist
Episcopal mission in Korea, will re
tire, but friends and admirers have
agreed to provide a residence at
Kamabura by the Sea, if he will return
to live here permanently.
Among the prominent men present
at a farewell»dinner were Baron Ishii
the miister for foreign affairs, George
W. Guthrie, the American ambassador,
and Viscount Kaneko. Baron Ishii in
the name of Emperor Yoshihito con
ferred upon the Bishop the second
Order of the Sacred Treasure,
and at the same time eulogized the
veteran missionary’s work in Korea.
Ambassador Guthrie likewise made a
speech of appreciation of the bishop’s
labors.
efficiency as results of county and di
-1 vision conventions. •
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AMERIEUSTIMES-RECDROER
GOVERNMENT TO
MAKE PARK FDR
ANDERSONVILLE
The committee to whom was en
trusted the task of parking the ground
in front of the nationa cemetery at
Andersonville, composed of Ben
Easterlin, chairman; J. W. Hightower,
D F. Davenport, W. C. Carter, Arthur
Ry lander and Secretary E. H. Hyman,
are happy today, for Charles R. Crisp,
congressman from this district, has
just notified Secretary Hyman that the
quartermaster of the war department
has allowed an appropriation and
v. ork will begin at once on this piece
of work. In a short while travelers
on trains going through the country
by automobile will get a full view of
the cemetery, and it will be classed as
one of the show places along the Dixie
Highway. There are hundreds of
autos that have gone through Ander
sonville that never knew there was a
national cemetery there at all. On
trains the same thing has happened.
The members of the committee and the
Chamber of Commerce are very thank
ful to Congressman Crisp for this good
work.
POTASH FOUND IK
UTAH SALINE MARSH
In view of the fact that the ingred
ients that go to make up a complete
fertilizer for our soils on extremely
scarce, owing to war conditions, it will
be o finterest to note that the discov
ery has been made that potash in large
proportions is present in the brines
and muds of the Salduro Marsh, a sink
in the Salt Lake Desert, about 60 miles
west of the southwest edge of Great
Salt Lake, in Utah. From the clays
underlying the salt body, which cov
ers the marsh the United States
Geological survey collected samples at
depths of 8 to 12 feet, in which the
dissolved salts were found to contain
from two on three and a half per cent,
of potash, and two and a quarter per
cent, was found in the coluble salts at
a depth of about 4 feet. According to
analyses made by the survey, the muds
and brines from the Salduro Marsh
contain considerable magnesium chlo
ride as well as chlorides of potassium
and sodium, and so are somewhat
similar in composition to the deposits
Dorn which potash is manufactured in
Germany.
CHIEF PARKER IS
RESTING IHE SAME
Fire Chief James B. Parker, who
was injured Wednesday morning by
being thrown from the automobile fire
truck, is resting as well as could be
anticipated under the circumstances.
His many friends hope that he will
scon be himself again.
EDITOR “JIM" WILLIAMS
VISIEO£IN THE GIH
Editor "Jim” Williams of the Greens
boro Herald-Journal, is a visitor in the
city, the guest of his son, Cranston
Williams.
He came down in an automobile
from Greensboro, accompanying John
L Caldwell, Mrs. Ernest Taylor, of
Crawfordville, Tom Caldwell and Mas
ter John Caldwell.
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 11, 1916
SON OF A COMRADE TO
ENTERTAIN GEN. DAVENPORT
While attending the Confederate
Veterans’ reunion at Birmingham, Gen.
b T. Davenport Will be the guest of
W. T. Simons. Mr. Simons is the son
of one of Gen. Davenport’s compan
ions during the dark days of the
sixties that tried men’s souls. They
served together on more than twenty
battlefields, slept together in the same
tent, were captured together at
Spottsylvania Courthouse, Va., and
Gen. Davenport was in prison with the
elder Simmons when he died at Point
Lookout, Md.
Coincident with this gathering of a
last remnant of what once composed
the bravest body of men the world has
ever known, will be the greeting of
this son of an old departed comrade
to the old war-scarred veteran who
survived the bloody conflict, pathos
and stern reality can but intermingle
here, and the meeting between these
two will be memorable to them both.
FIGHTING DN ALL
FRONTS TODAY;
MIMED
Reports of a heavy bombardment
in progress northeast of Verdun indi
cates a probable speedy resumption of
infantry drives there.
The French claim German attacks
east of the fortress were repulsed to
day, while the Germans assert Frenhc
assaults on the German line near Dead
Man’s Hill and Hill 304 were repulsed.
Along the eastern front the Germans
are making occasional thrusts at the
Russian lines. The Russians are
standing off these attacks and at
tempting no offensive. Berlin reports
today the capture of five hundred yards
of Russian positions near Seiburg.
Much heavy artillery firing and some
infantry clashes occurred on the
Macedonian front in the Balkans to
day. Athens despatches report brisk
fighting north of Avlona, apparently
indicating the Austrians are again
advancing on the Italians.
Petrograd advices say the Russians
under Grand Duke Nicholas, have ad
vanced from the interior of Persia to
Mesopotamia, and are now only about
110 miles from Bagdad, the terminus
of the Berlin-Bagdad railway, and
the great base from which the Ottoman
troops hoped to strike against the
Suez canal. Russian statements are
to the effect that the Turks continue
to flee before the advancing Slav col
umns.
180 Civilians Killed.
LONDON, ay 10. —One hundred and
eighty civilians were killed and six
hundred and fourteen others wounded
during the Dublin uprising, Premier
Asquith stated today in the house of
commons.
Germans Repulsed at Verdun.
PARIS, May 11. —German troops at
tacked French positions near Vaux
pond on the Verdun front east of the
Meuse last night, says the war office.
The attack was completely repulsed,
according to the same authority.
West of the Meuse last night there
was a vigorous artillery action in the
region of Avacourt wood.
LONDON, May 11.—The war office
estimates that the cost of pensions
arising out of the war for 1915-16 will
be $13,000,000 and for 1916-17, assum
ing the war to last through the year,
will be $50,000,000. In addition there
Is a charge of nearly $25,000,000 for
pre-war pensions.
BLOODED CATTLE
COMING TO THE
DISTRICT FAIR
Secretary E. H. Hyman went to
Lawson and had quite a talk with
Robert Fitch Shedden relative to a
magnificent display of thoroughbred
short horn cattle for the Third Agri
cultural District fair. Mr. Shedden
w as delighted to talk about the coming
fair and w’as very enthusiastic over
the outlook for a big district fair to
represent 19 counties, and stated that
this fair would be worth thousands of
dollars to the counties who take part
in it.
"Go back and tell your people," said
Mr. Shedden, “that I will bring them
the finest display of shorthorn cattle
ever seen in Georgia to your fair, and
that not a single head will be shipped
back, but they will all be sold on the ■
grounds of the fair at auction to the
highest bidder.’’
We should feel fortunate, indeed, to
have this big exhibit of beautiful cat
tle.
Secretary Hyman has hundreds of
letters going out over the country
scouring for blooded cattle of all
kinds to come to the fair for exhibi
tion and sale purposes.
BRAHAM GETS LIFE
OHMURDERCHARGE
MACON, Ga., May 11.—D. B. ("Doc”)
Branam, who shot and l-illed Miss
Rosa Lee Eubanks on the streets of
Macon, while in a drunken frenzie last
March, was found guilty of murder by
a jury in Bibb Superior court today.
Branham was immediately sentenced
to imprisonment for life in the Geor
gia penitentiary, and his attorneys
gave notice of their intention to ap
peal the case to a higher court.
Eubanks was not acquainted with
his victim, who was on her way to
church when a stray shot from his
revolver pierced Miss Eubank’s
breast, resulting in almost instant
death. Following the tragedy, all of
the near-beer saloons in Macon closed
their doors, and a vigorous crusade
against blind tigers and the illegal
sale of whiskey was begun. The
case attracted statewide attention: at
the time, and for a time it was feared
summary vengeance W'ould be visited
upon Branham, but the excitement
soon passed away.
FIRST METHODIST GHDRGH
WIL! DBSEROOTHERS DAY
As is the usual custom, the First
Methodist church will observe next
Sunday as "Mother’s Day,” with spec
ial services.
A slight deviation, however, will be
carried out in the order of services, in
that Dr. Thomas, the pastor, will
preach the commencement sermon of
the Third District A. & M. College
at the 11:00 o’clock service, his theme
being “The Forces That Work For
Success."
It is expected that there will be a
large attendance of the students of
the school at this service. The grad
uating class will attend in a body.
Thus will the exercises of "Mother’s
Day” and "Commencement Day” be
combined, adding increased interest
and enjoyment to the occasion. An
appropriate program, of music and
song has been arranged and the event
promises to be one of inspiration and
pleasure to all who attend.
mHOU RHANDER
JR., PASSES EIl.
Arthur Rylander, Jr., the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur Rylander, Sr., of
Americus, received information this
afternoon from Congressman Charles
R. Crisp that he successfully passed
the mental examination for entrance
into the Naval Academy at Annapolis.
Mr. Rylander will stand the physi
cal examination in June, and if suc
cessful will enter the United States
school within a short time.
A large host of friends join in con
gratulating Mr. Rylander and are
proud of the record which he has made
in the preliminary work.
HALMTITO
SAILORS IN DPEN
BOAT REACH PORT
SAN LUS OBRISPO, Cal., May 11—
Forty-one members of the crew of the
steamer Roanoke, which capsized dur
ing a gale one hundred miles south of
San Francisco Tuesday, continued
missing today, and grave fears for
their safety are entertained. Search
is being made for the four or five life
beats in which the crew took refuge,
and hundreds of small craft are engag
ed in this task.
One of the boats of the Roanoke was
washed ashore late yesterday at Port
San Luis, Cal., with three famished
sailors and the bodies of five others
who died from exposure, therein. One
of the survivors in this boat states
Captain Richard Dickson, of the Roa
noke, jumped into the running sea in
ar. endeavor to save his wife's life, and
v. as probably drowned. The Roanoke
carried no passengers.
FIRST METHODIST GHDRGH
HOLDS QUARTERLY CONFERENCE
The affairs of the First Methodist
church in this city are in fine shape
as is shown by a report made at the
quarterly conference held at the First
Methodist church last night, May 10,
Rev. T. D. Ellis, D. D., presiding.
It was shown that the financial con
dition of the church was in a most
satisfactory shape and that the various
activities in the different departments
of church work were being zealously
looked after and that the best interests
of the church and community were
being subserved in the earnest effort
put forward by the various officers
of the church.
At the conclusion of the conference,
the Board of Missions went into ses
sion. The reports rendered here went
to show that the affairs of this de
partment of the church were pro
gressing nicely, that the different
obligations relating to the benevovl
ences of the church had been discharg
ed.
The Board of Stewards also held a
meeting at the close of the conference
and a most interesting and satisfactory
session was reported.
An assessment of approximately
$2,500 has been placed on the members
of this church for benevolent pur
poses, and it was shown that already
about half of this amount had been
paid, thus going to show that the
members of this church are alive to
the needs of the hour and to the dis
charge of their Christian duty, and
their obligations to the church and.
community.
riTv
V EDITIONS.
MORE TRDDPS GD
IN MEXIGO NEAR
MARATHON, TEA.
MARATHON, Tex., May 11.— Major
Langhorne, at. the head of two troopa
of the Eighth United States cavalry,
crossed the Rio Grande into Mexico
last night. The column is moving
rapidly south today, hot on the trail
of the bandits who recently raided
Glenn Springs and Alpine, Tex., to
Big Bend county.
Major Langhorne’s column is being
guided by two renegade bandits who
I became separated from their fellows
and were captured. They have to
formed the military authorities of the
location of the bandits’
located about twelve hours’ march to
the interior of Mexico.
Conference Resumed Today.
EL PASO, Tex., May 11.—Negotto
;tions toward a settlement of the
American-Mexican military question*
was resumed at ten o’clock this aim
ing. Generals Scott and Funston, rep
resented the United States, and Gol
Obregon and Sub-Foreign Minister
Amador, represented the Mexican de
i facto government.
COLUMBUS, N. W„ May 11.— Maj.
V. T . R. Samps, base commander hen,
allayed the fears of some of the more
credulous of Columbus’ residents by
calling on the mayor and assuring him
that defensive measures taken by the
troops stationed here are merely pre
cautionary. Maj. Sample before leav
ing the municipal officers told the
mayor he would notify the townspeo
ple in the event troublel is anticipated
at any time, and assist non combananta
in leaving Columbus.
Infantry troops here slept on their
I arms all night, and the construction of
trenches and earthworks beyond the
camp lines continued without inter
ruption. Many laborers are employed
■ in this work, as well as enlisted troops
and the construction of military
works is under the supervision of the
corps of engineers of the army. Prep
arations have been completed for the
reception of the New Mexico national
guardsmen, twelve hundred strong,
some of whom are expected to report
to Maj. Sample either late today or
early Friday.
TABLET TO BAGEHOT
| UNVEILED AT LANGPfIBI
LONDON, April 11. —Viscount Bryce,
' former ambassador to the United
States, unveiled a memorial table to
Walter Bagehot over the doorway of
the political economist’s birthplace at
Langport recently, and among other
things said; “Nowhere is he more
appreciated than in the United States,
where he is looked upon as the founder
of a new era in the study of political
economy.”
WITT MOVES TO NEW
ORLEANS WITH SWIFT
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Witt and family
left Thursday afternoon for New Or
leans, La., where they go to make their
home in the future. Mr. Witt has ac
cepted a position with Swift & Co., to
New Orleans, and his friends will bo
glad to learn of his connection with
this big company. While their friendr
I regret their departure all join to
wishing them a pleasant stay in their
| new home.
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