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r H IBTY-EIGHTH TEAK.
MR. J. L HUND ID
HE BURIED Al HIS
HOME INPEEHIM
The sad news of the death of Mr.
Judson L. Hand, of Pelham, at an
Atlanta sanitarium, was received early
Sunday morning in Americus by the
Times-Recorder and relatives of the
prominent Georgian who had just
passed away. Mr. Hand married Miss
Florence Hollis, of Americus, and
hosts of friends and relatives join in
deepest sympathy. He was a brother of
Mrs. Joe Day Stewart of Americus.
The funeral will be held at Pelham,
Ga., the remains passing through
Americus early this morning, accom
panied by many lifelong friends and
associates who went up to Atlanta yes
terday from Pelham to accompany the
body. They were joined in Americus
by Congressman and Mrs. Charles R.
Crisp, the latter being a sister of Mrs.
Hand; Miss Mildred Hollis, another
sister of Mrs. Hand, and Frank Lanier,
a brother-in-law of Mr. Hand.
The Atlanta Constitution in its city
edition yesterday had the following ar
ticle concerning Mr. Hand and his de
mise.
Judson L. Hand, of Pelham, promi
nent in the business world, a leader in
Georgia’s political affairs and a mem
ber of the recently organized Western
and Atlantic commission, died late last
night at the Piedmont sanitarium.
Mr. Hand was suffering from acute
Bright’s disease. He was brought to
Atlanta from his home in Pelham last
Sunday and was at once taken to the
local hospital for treatment. He was
placed under the care of three of At
lanta’s leading physicians, but from the
first it was known that his condition
was so critical that there was little
chance for recovery.
End Comes Saturday Night.
A slight improvement in his condi
tion was noted on Friday of last week,
but on Saturday he became weaker,
and it was soon evident that it was
only a matter of hours until the end.
His death came at 11:30 o’clock.
He is survived by his wife, six
daughters, Mrs. T. T. P. Hinman, of At
lanta ;Mrs. John Corrigan, of Wash
ington, D. C.; Misses Katherine, Vir
ginia, Alice and Clara, and six sons,
J. Leland, of Sanger, Cal.; Larabee,
Frederick, C. W., Hollis, and Henry, of
Pelham.
Sketch of Mr. Hand.
Judson L. Hand, one of the most
prominent business men of the state,
was named a member of the Western
and Atlantic railroad commission upon
its creation in the fall of 1915.
He served ten years in the house and
senate of the Georgia legislature, first
going to the senate for two years, then
to the house for two years, and back
to the senate for six years, having
closed his legislative career about 11
years ago.
Mr. Hand had been mayor and mem
ber of the council of the city of Pel
ham a number of times, and for many
years was intimately identified with the
public life of both his town and county.
He held several county offices, princi
pally as a member of the board of edu
cation and the finance committee of the
county, when he was especially iden
tified with educational developmnt.
Mr. Hand’s businss connections were
perhaps more extensive than that of
any other one man in his section of the
state. He was president of the Hand
Trading company, a general merchan
tile concern; president of the Farm
ers’ bank, of the Pelham Oil and Fer
tilizer company, of the Pelham Manu
facturing Company, of the Flint River
ai d Northeastern railroad, and vice
president of the Albany Phosphate
Compan.!.
For a number of years he was presi
dent of the Abbington Cotton mills.
Mr. Hand a Member of Commission.
ATLANTA, Ga., Oct. 16.—The death
in Atlanta late Saturday night of Jud
son L. Hand of Pelham, Ga., created a
vacancy on the Western & Atlantic
leasing commission, which has in
hand the future disposition of the
V’estern & Atlantic railroad, owned by
MELLS CHAPTER TO
HAVE MEETING TONIGHT
The regular meeting of Wells’ chap
ter will be held this evening at ?
o’clock in the Masonic hall, and dur
ing this meeting six candidates will be
ready to take the Royal Arch degree.
All members are urgently requested
to be present and take part in this
meeting.
WANT HIH LEAGUE
TEAM 10 TRAIN IN
THIS CITY IN 17
Americus has been quietly at work
looking towards securing some big
league baseball team to train here
during the coming early spring, and it
is very likely that she will meet with
success. The wonderful climate and
facilities, which will be arranged, are
rn attractive inducement for one of
the major league clubs.
Washington, of. the American league,
managed by Clark Griffith, and well
known as the team on which Walter
Johnson twirls, is the squad which
Americus is working on. The follow
ing dispatch gives further encourage
ment that Americus has a strong
chance to land the aggregation:
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—The Wash
ington American league baseball club
has decided to abandon Charlottes
ville, Va., as a spring training camp,
it has been learned, and will next
year seek a city further south to pre
pare for the pennant race.
The change was attributed to the
desire of the team for warmer weather
early in the spring.
Americus will enjoy the big leaguers.
They mean advertising and lively in
terest for a city, and Americus will
welcome the big leaguers.
HELUS OLN DIDN'T
SEE I SUBMARITE
NEW YORK, Oct. 16.—N0 subma
dine had been sighted by the Danish
steamer Hellig Olav up to 8 o’clock
Sunday morning, according to a wire
less message from the captain of the
ship to the agents of the Scandinav
ian-American liner here. Observers
on the White Star line steamer Bovic,
arriving Saturday, reported seeing a
submarine’s periscope when about two
hundred miles out of port, apparently
pursuing the Hellig Olav.
WILL HALL MIXED UP
IN CHARGES OF LIQUOR
On August 28th, Will Hall, a negro,
had a case charging keeping liquor on
hand for sale registered in the re
corder’s court, and it was only this
morning when it was disposed of be
cause of Will’s more or less forced ab
sence. He was fined sixty days on the
street, or $25.00, choosing to pay the
twenty-five wheels. Now a warrant
charging illegal sale of liquor hangs
over him, returnable to the city court.
NO RECORDER’S COURT
WAS HELD THIS MORNING
The absence of Recorder Marshall
from the city necessitated a postpone
ment of the docket for the trial of sev
eral cases until Tuesday morning,
when he returns.
the state. The commission has power
to lease teh road or to entertain pro
posals for extending it to the sea. Mr.
successor will probably be
appointed in the next few days.
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WILSON SENT THE
CASEMENT NOTE
IN PLENTY TIME
LONDON, Oct 16 —Denial of charges
that the American government was
negligent in the efforts made to save
Sir Roger Casement from execution
for his part in the Dublin uprising
is made in a letter Secretary Joseph
Tumulty wrote Michael F. Doyle, one
cf the attorneys for Casement, and
made public here today. Solicitor
Doyle wrote Secretary Tumulty that
Casement’s sister informed him that if
the resolution adopted by the United
Slates senate urging clemency for the
prisoner had been forwarded more
promptly. Casement’s life might have
been spared.
Secretary Tumulty, replying to the
communication of Doyle, quoted from
a letter from acting Secretary Polk of
the state department, asserting that
the senate resolution referred to had
been forwarded promptly to the Lon
don foreign office, and saying further
that the British ambassador, Sir Cecil
Spring-Rice had shown him a cable
gram on the day before Casement’s ex
ecution, saying the British government
had considered the case and the reso
lution, but that clemency could not
be granted under existing circum
stances.
Publication of Secretary Tumalty’s
letter has done much to clear up cir
cumstances surrounding Casement’s
execution, and establishes clearly that
the Washington government acted
promptly to carry into execution the
desire of the American sentiment ex
pressing sympathy for the prisoner and
urging clemency in his behalf. It is
denied that the letter was written for
its political effect, or that other than
humanitarian principles actuated the
adoption of the resolution, though ths
prompt action of the Wilson adminis
tration is expected to have great
weight in bringing Irish-American
votes to the democratic candidate for
president in the United States.
ATLANTA PROPERTY OWNERS
MUST PAY TAXES AT ONCE
ATLANTA. Oct. 16. —Atlanta prop
erty owners today were put on notice
tnat the city government simply must
have money, and that unless they paid
their 1916 city taxes before the close
of the day the property would be sub
ject to immediate issuance of fi-fas.
For several months the city govern
ment has been struggling to pay its
bills on account of the slow’ payment
of taxes and the situation has now be
come more or less acute. Os a total
tax income of more than $2,250,000,
the city has collected up to date not
more than $1,000,000.
SHORTAGE DE SUGAR
CANE IS REPORTED
ATLANTA, Ga., Oct. 16.—From south
Georgia come reprots of a shortage in
sugar cane and a shortage in syrup
which is said to be due to the fact that
a great of cane is now being used by
the moonshiners in their distilleries.
The price of Georgia cane syrup is
reported to have risen from 35 to 40
cents a gallon. Negroes who are fond
cf syrup are feeling the pinch of in
creased prices, and the counties are
having to pay more to supply it to
their convicts.
In this connection it is pointed out
that Hue price of syrup and cakes in
the restaurants will presently take a
rise, in common with everything else
the poor consumer has to buy.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, MONDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 16, 1916
VENTZELOS GOVERNMENT
RECOGNIZED BY ENTENTE
LONDON, Oct. 16. —The nations of
the Entente Allies today formally rec
ognized the provisional government of
Greece and the Island of Crete, set up
a Saloniki by former Premier Venize
los. Recognition by neutral nations
of the world is not anticipated at this
time by the Entente.
Two Colored
Brothers Had
Their Trouble
The pastor of Mr. Olive (colored)
church in Americus, was the basis of
a fight in the house of worship Sun
day morning, according to a story at
the police headquarters. Lease Wal
ker and S. F. Bynes, two colored
brethren of the church, exchanged'
words very freely on the floor during
a discussion of the pastor, who was
absent in another place. Some of the
dusky brethren wanted the matter
held up during the absence of the
preacher, and one word led to another
which resulted in the altercation —and
a charge of disorderly conduct in the
recorder’s court.
The case was postponed until Tues
day morning because of Recorder Mar
shall being out of the city “on busi
ness.”
COURT REFUSES TO
REVIEW SENTENCE
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Oct. 16.
The Supreme court today refused to
review the convictions of four leaders
in the 1913 West Virginia coal strike,
v. ho had been sentenced to serve six
months for contempt in failing to obey
an injunction issued by the federal
judge of the district court there. The
effect of the decision will be to force
the convicted men to begin at once
serving the sentencs imposed by the
district court.
WAGNUN TO SPEAK IT
HITT UNION MEETING
It will be interesting to the many
Philatheas and Baracas of the city to
know that they will have the pleasure
of hearing an address tonight by D. S.
Wagnon, of Macon, secretary of the
National Baraca association.
This being the regular meeting night
cf this newly-organized society, it is
hoped that quite a good representa
tion from the different churches will
be present to take part in this meet
ing, and also hear the address of Mr.
Wagnon, w'lo will discuss some essen
tial points for the good of the union.
Music will be furnished by a ten or
twelve-piece orchestra. The public
is cordially invited to attend this meet
ing tonight at 7:30 o’clock.
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RATTLESNAKE FOBS AND
BELTS WORN IN ATLANTA
ATLANTA. Ga., Oct. 16.—Rattlesnake
watch fobs and belts are being worn
by the dead game sports of Atlanta’s
jounger set—the boys of the college
fraternities and the dancing clubs. A
number of young men who spent their
summers in the mountains bought rat
tlesnake belts from the mountaineers
who kill the reptiles and tan their
bides, and when they brought them
home they found the odd-looking belts
the envy of all their friends. A flour
ishing trade in rattlesnake skins has
sprung up in consequence of the fad,
and the fellows back in the Blue
Ridge who hunt the dread rattlers in
hheir native haunts are selling all they
can kill.
HEAVY ATTACKS
ONSOMMEFHONT
FEATURE I BIT
Teutonic pressure against the Ru
manians along the Transylvanian front
continues, according to the latest re
ports from Europe this 'afternoon.
These reports are to the effect that
King Ferdinand’s troops have been
driven back well into Rumanian terri
tory at Torzburger Pass, and are re
ported to be making a determined
stand at Rucar’s, seven miles from the
border. The Teutonic thrust, appar
ently, is being aimed toward Buchar
est, the Rumanian capital.
The Petrograd war office statement
reports that heavy Teutonic forces
have assumed the offensive south of
Dorna Matra in the southern Carpa
thians, near the junction of the Ru
manian, Transylvanian and Bukowina
boundaries. Hard fighting is declared
to continue in Galicia, east of the
Lemberg district, where neither side
has won advantage. The Russians re
port the taking of twelve hundred pris
oners.
In the Struma sector of the Mace
donian district, British patrols today
entered Bursuk, eight miles southeast
of Demir-Hissar.
A news dispatch from Berlin late
today announces that strong Russian
attacks in A’olhynia, west of Lutsk
yesterday, broke down with severe
Russian losses.
The Berlin war office statement says
the French today attacks German po
sitions west of Sailly-Saillisol and
penetrated the first line trenches there,
but later a counter attack drove the
Fiench entirely out of the village, and
to a position south of their former
line.
Heamy fighting along the Somme
front is reported today in both the
French and British official statements.
Paris announced that French troops
during last night penetrated German
positions at Sailly-Saillisel and Sailli
sel, occupying houses on the Bapaume
road. The German violently counter
attacked in the endeavor to recover
the lost positions, and fighting for pos
session of the ground still continues.
London reported heavy German at
tacks on the positions British troops
recently won in the vicinity of the ,
Schwabed redoubt, and that these were I
repulsed, the Teutons sustaining heavy 1
losses.
In the Monastir sector of the Mace
donian front, between the Monastir ;
road and the railway, the Sofia (Bulga
rian) war office statement declares that
Serbian attacks were repulsed today,
heavy losses being inflicted upon the
attackers.
A stubborn battle fought in the Cerna
sector along the Macedonian front, is
declared by Sofiia to have resulted in
the repulse of Entente forces.
Germans Recapture Trenches.
BERLIN. Oct. 16.—The British dur
ing Sunday attacked German positions
nertheast of Gueudecourt, near Ba
paume and succeeded in penetrating
the the German first line there. Later,
however, the ground so taken was re
captured during a counter attack says
today’s German official statement.
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TWO BLACKS LYN( HED
BY MOB AT PADUCAH, KY.
PADUCAH, Ky., Oct. 16. Two ne
groes were lynched and their bodies
burned by a mob here today. One of
the blacks executed was charged with
attacking a white woman and the other
accused of voicing approval of the at
tack. There was little excitement in
connection with the lynching.
FEARS ENTERTAINED FOR
RECOVERY OF MRS. SPEER
It is stated that the condition of
Mrs. W. H. Speer on Church street, is
now considered critical, that she grew
worse during Sunday night, and that
grave fears for her recovery are now
entertained. Her many friends, how
ever, trust that she will be spared
and again enjoy her usual health.
SUMTER-ODO LI
BRIDGE WILL HE
BUILT ON FLINT
It looks like a bridge over the Flint
river at Murray’s Ferry, to be built
jointly by Sumter and Dooly counties.
Commissioners Lee Johnson, Arthur
Rylander and T. B. Hooks, of Sumter,
met the commissioners of Dooly Mon
day morning at the river, and they
entered into an informal agreement
which was agreeable to construct a
bridge in its entire length 1,300 feet.
The main steel span of the bridge will
be about 210 feet. The entire struc
ture will be built of concrete and
steel.
This is the happy termination of
some time spent in figuring on the
bridge, and at one time it looked as ft
Dooly was going to fail to meet Sum
ter in the proposition. The necessary
federal consent to span the river with
a bridge has already been secured
through a special act of congress in
troduced by Congressman Crisp.
Commissioners Johnson and Rylan
der, with County Attorney R. L. May
nard, will go to Vienna Tuesday when
the Dooly commissioners hold their
regular meeting and draw up the for
mal and final contract to govern the
erection and cost of the bridge.
The news will be greeted with pleas
ure by the people of both counties, and
especially those citizens in the terri
tory covered by the bridge.
HI JBOUT MG
TRIT DIM SOON
Major J. J. Hanesley has added his
collar to the Wilson campaign fund.
He believes in the success of the
great president, and as a business man
thinks that this country needs his ser
vices for four more years.
The amounts now stand:
Previously subscribed $42.00
J. J. Hanesley 1.00
Total $43.00
What will you do?
There are scores of business men in
Americus who have profited by the
presidency of Wilson, and they will
continue to prosper with him in the
great chair for four more years.
Are they content to let the oppor
tunity pass without contributing only
one dollar to assist in his success.
Send your dollar to the Times-Re
corder, who is representing the com
mittee. The mony is being forwarded
to the national committee headquar
ters at New York.
GI FFORD, OF ATLANTA,
VISITING OLD SUMTER HOME
W. S. Gufford, of 217 Peters bldg.,
Atlanta is in the city. Mr. Gufford for- 1
merly lived in Sumter county and forj
any years was a resident of Plains. He I
is now engaged in the real estate and
loan business, and is here on a busi
ness ision. He will visit his old home
at Plains, where he has many friends, i
■a well as throughout the county, be-1
I i
fore returning to Atlanta.
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CW HARRIS MID
A. L I. BOYS GET
READY TO LEAVE
BY CLIFF WHEATLEY.
(Special Staff Correspondent.)
CAMP HARRIS, Macon, Ga., Oct. 16.
—ls George W. Bailey, the poet-laur
eate of Company I, was in camp, thia
story, or dope, or whatever those of
the newspaper fraternity call it, would
begin with a poem about going to
Mexico. But George W. received
semething in the mail this morning,
and it must be coin of the realm, for
Private Bailey has answered the call
of the wild, and is this morning en
camped somewhere in Macon. Any
way, he’s not here to tear off a little
Tome” and the Kipling style must be
left off. George's masterpiece was the
swan song of the regiment, and it re
lates to kangaroo court and pay-day.
thusly:
When the gang’s all broke, and they
cease to joke,
And pay day’s far away;
With a rip and a roar, the switches
soar,
Then the kangaroo court holds sway.
Yes,’ tis the time of the kangarooist
again, and woe to the one who rouses
the sleeping anger of the judge, Cor
poral Dewey E. Rouse. The last vic
time was our poet-laureate and his
attitude is reflected in the abova
“pome.". There’s more of it, but dis
cretion ust be used, even by an army
correspondent. Bailey plead guilty ts
emitting the “pome" but said spuds
and corn beef brought it forward.
Judge Rouse thought he was justified
to a certain extent, until Bailey lean
ed over with another stanzo, thus:
And they put it there,
Where the flesh was bare—
And, oh, gee! how it did hurt.
Os course, it wouldn’t do to tell
where “there" is, but there’s where
they laid it. Teh kangaroo court be
gin when Uncle Sam forgets it’s past
pay-day, and the boys can’t get to
town.
A Regular’s Story of War.
The day was hot, and the only thing
shining was the sun. In fact, it was
too hot for even “Red" Tygart and
Bat Ratley to work their laundry, and
altogether, it was a hot day. The time
for another column in the T.-R. was
coming around, and the kangaroo was
the only story on hand. So after a
session of “bunk fatigue" the writer
journeyed down to the “Toy s” tent,
v. here theye’s always a story going the
rounds, and strange to relate it wasn’t
about going to the border, but two ex
regulars were holding the attention of
the crowd, composed of Judge Rouse,
Corp’ral Howington, "Top” Guerry and
I’il Willie Stewart, besides “we." The
first ex-regular was Private Norris,
recently transferred from D Company
to “Bad Eye.” Norris was telling of
the Phillippines, and his best one was
about the fire-flies there. He told of
having a post away down in the wilds
cf Luzon, one of the worst of the is
land possessions of our respected un
cle, and it was ’bout three in the
mornin’; it was black dark, and all at
once Nori is saw ’bout a million lights
ccmin’; some were high as the sur
rounding foliage, and some were drag
gin’ the ground—and to use his words
“Scmethin’ was ’bout to start u>
’round there.” He pulled his fun and
: er.t a slip into the millions of ene
i mies approaching. Seeing none or
■them fail, Private Norris, then a roo
i sie, tucked in a prominent part of his
r.natomy and ’flew’ away. He told his
story to the veterans around the guard
tent, and after a good laugh they told
, Norris what the “enemies” were. Im
\ ter, Norris caught one, and discovered
(Continued on Pare 6.)
thusly:
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