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REGISTRATION Ilf SUMTER COUNTY
SHOWS ABOUT 2,000 ELIGIBLES
Efficient Organization of Registrars
Handles Work With Gratifying
Dispatch
NO EVIDENCE OF EVASION OF
LAW IS SHOWN BY CITIZENS
Volunteer Assistants Are Kept Busy
Throughout Day Following Pre
viously Arranged System
That 2,000 male citizens of Sumter
county between the ages of 21. and 31
years will have registered for military
service before the registrars cease op
erations at 9 o’clock tonight, is the es
timate made by the officials who have
charge of the work.
The figures are based on the regis
tration up to 3 o’clock this afternoon,
when returns from the various militia
districts showed that something over
1,500 men had been registered in com
pliance with the provisions of the uni
versal service act.
The smoothness with which the reg
istration is being accomplished in the
various districts of the county enables
the registrars to handle large numbers
of eligibles within a remarkably short
space of time. The organization gath
ered by the county Ward of registrars
has succeeded in solving the problem
most satisfactorily and there is none
of the rush and hurly-burly that was
expected today.
Registration d»y was ushered in this
morning by the blowing of whistles
and the ringing of bells throughout
Americus and when the registration
places opened at 7 o’clock there were
long lines of men both white and col
ored, waiting to comply with the law.
The courthouse has been a scene ot
activity throughout the day, a large
force of registrars working faithfully
to handle the crowds of eligibles whe
thronged the corridors. The white cit
izens registered in the main court
room on the second floor, while the
negroes were handled in the basement,
the offices of the two justices of the
peace being used for this purpose.
Sumter county is the only county in
Georgia, with the exception of Rich
mond, utilizing the services of negro
registrars and today the colored as
sistants have worked to excellent ad
vantage, handling the negro eligibles
with remarkable efficiency.
The white registrars and clerical as
sistants in this city include the county
beard of registrars, composed of Sheriff
Lucius Harvey, Clerk H. E. Allen. Or
dinary John A. Cobb and County Phy
sician R E. Cato. Besides these offi
cials, the following assistant registrars
(volunteered .their services: Walter
Page, Dr. C. P. Davis. T. 0. Marshall,
I J. Kalmon, H. B. Graddy, Stephen
Pace, Raymond McNeill. R. H. Horton
0 D. Reese. F. P- Harrold, H. F. Co
mer. H. G- Stanfield, C. T. Thaxton.
.). E. Hightower, George Anderson. W.
M Humber, S. R. Heys, F. G. Give.
ar.d Cloyd Buchanan.
Misses Clara Moore, Willie William,
and Alice Nall rendered excellent ser
vice in copying registration card ■
which must be held for reference and .
checking purposes.
The ladies of the W. C. T. U. serv
ed fruit nectar in the upper corridor
of the court house, while J. W. War
ren of the Coca Cola Bottling Works
and E. B. Hill of the Chero Cola Bot
tling Works finished supplies o p
Coca Cola and Chero Cola for the re
freshment of the corps of registrars
and clerks. The Moreland & Jones
Company sent up cigars for the regis
trars and aside from the rather stren
uous time during the early morning
hours, the force had quite an enjoy
able time.
Capt. John A. Cobb and Justice W.
T McMath looked after the registra
tion of the colored eligibles, superin
tending the operations of the colored
registrars. Several of the most prom-
inent colored citizens of Americus act
ed as registrars and their work show.
e>’ up very satisfactorily. They were
A. S. Staley, B. W. Warren, J. W.
Hua ley, A. B. McCoy, J. E. Brown, T.
J. Smith, G. W. F. Phillips.
Registration cards had been receiv
ed up to Monday night from 99 resi
dents of Americus who were unable to
get home to register, while about tha
number of non-residents applied at
this office for registration cards to be
sent back to their home counties.
At 10 o’clock this forenoon there
had been 500 whites and negroes reg
istered. counting the 99 registered up
to Monday night. The balance be
tween the whites pnd negroes regis
tering today has been well maintained,
at 10 o’clock the figures standing at
200 each.
While complete figures will not be
available until after the registration
places close at 9 o’clock tonight and
possibly not until tomorrow-, when
the country precincts will report, it is
thought that the registration in the
city of Americus will amount to about
1,000 or 1,200 eligibles.
At noon the registration figures
showed about 600 men registered, 325
ci these bein gwhites and 275 negroes
At 3 o'clock this afternoon there
were about 700 names registered, with
a’most 300 eligibles remaining to ap
pear before the registrars.
25,000 Register al Atlanta.
ATLANTA, Ga„ June s.—Twenty-five
thousand men are expected to register
for military service in Atlanta today,
according to the estimates of the l.nit
• - i States census bureau, and the long
Gnes of men constantly streaming
through the precincts throughout the
forenoon indicated that the city will
•'urnish its full quota.
Anti-registration talkers and men of
uilitary age who announced their in
tent ion not to register were conspic
uous by their absence when the hou’-
struck and the precincts opened. In
practically every instance of such talk
the federal authorities quietly notified
'he talkers that they would land in
the federal prison if they didn’t shut
jp. And they shut up
At practically all of the precincts to
uay the women of various patriotic or
ganizations are pinning arm bands on
the sleeves of men who register, and
large crowds around the precincts are
encouraging the men in the perform
ance of their patriotic duty.
VOTERS IB OIIILIFY
FOB 80ND FLEGTIOh
The registration books which will
contain the names of the voters qua!
ified to vote in the election to be call
ed within a short time to decide
whether SIOO,OOO worth of road and
bridge bonds shall be issued, have been
opened, in accordance with a resolution
passed at yesterday’s regular meeting
cf the board of county commissioners
The election date will be set at the
next monthly meeting of the commis
sioners, it is thought.
Further announcement will be made
regarding the bond election, as the de
tails have not yet been fully arranged.
RECRUITING OFFICE FOR AMERICUS LIGHT INFANTRY IS NOW OPEN IN THIS CITY—THE'NATION CALLS
AMERIMSIMESsffiaROER
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
HEID Os SPY SYSTEM
VISITED THIS COUNTRY
NEW YORK, June 5. —Police au
thorities here announced today they
had positive information in their pos
session showing that the head of the
German wireless system came to the
United /States some time ago, and
while here made plans regarding in
stallation of clandestine wireless out
fits, through which information of mil
itary and political value is to be con
veyed to Berlin. After completing
his plans, the police say, the master
spy departed, crossing the Texas bor
der into Mexico.
NATION ENGAGED
IN REGISTERING
HER VOUNG MEN
WASHINGTON, D. C., June s.—Up to
this afternoon the registration of eligi
bles under the selective conscription
act is proceeding all over the country,
with no reports of disturbances of any
kind received. No resistance is re ■
ported in those section where organiz
er' resistance had been threatened, nor
in any of the large citie sos the coun
try where anti-registration propaganda
has been active. There is nothing to
show whether or not there is any con
siderable evasion of the terms of the
law.
In the great cities, as well as in
cross-roads polling places ten million
American citizens are registering fo» -
the selective conscription today, under
a vast system designed to collect the
names and furnish data for the compil
ing of reports. Anti-conscription work,
apparently, is not bearing fruit and
evidently is not as widespread as had
been believed previously. In some cit
ies the work of registration began amid
the din of whistles and other noise
making devices, the celebration rival
ling that usually staged on New Year’s
Eve. as long lines of young men, the
very flower of the nation’s mandhooi,
I waited to be registered for military
service.
Government authorities at Washing,
ton guarded against misleading com
parisons between communities by or
dering that only complete figures in
each registration unit be reported,
while only completed state reports are
to be made to Washington. This order,
of course, makes it impossible to re
port with any accuracy the total reg
istration to to any stated hour before,
the registration closes at 'J o’clock to
night.
WILL DELIVER MANY '
LEW IN COIiNHI
Dr. W. B. McWhorter, county health
vemmissioner under the Ellis public :
health law. has announced his lecture '
schedule for the next ,'ew weeks. Tn '
accordance with his plan to thoroughly I
acquaint the citizens of Sumter coun-'
ty with the details and aims of the'
public health work. Dr. McWhorter is I
visiting the various sections of the
county delivering lectures in which ho
outlines his plans and describes the j
most modern methods of preventing,
the outbreak of epidemics. He also
talks on the prevention and treatment.
of malaria, typhoid fever and similar,
ailments peculiar to this climate.
Dr. McWhorter will speak at the Fi
delity school house on June 7th. at *’
P m.; at New Point on June 9th. Crox-i
ton’s Cros Roads, on June 11th. How
ell School on June 18th; Anthony
Schoo], on June 20th.
AMER T CUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 5, 1917
♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦l
4 ILLINOIS CONVICTS JOIN ♦!
♦ IN RIOTOUS OUTBREAKS 4
4- +
CHICAGO, June s.—Rioting in 4
4- the Illinois state prison at Joliet, 4-
4- was reported here today. Tip +
♦ temporary warden telegraphe *
♦ the governor to send troops to ♦
♦ the scene early today. *
This is the first outbreak in 4-
♦ prison reported since war was de- ♦
♦ dared between Germany and the *
♦ United States. ♦
♦ Preceding the inauguration of ♦
♦ the riots, five fires were started ♦
4- in the prison, two companies of ♦
♦ guardsmen driving the convicts >
♦ away from the burning building, ♦
♦ and herding them in the cell- ♦
♦ house, where after three hours ♦
♦ fighting they had not been sub- 4-
♦ dued. *
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BROueiifm on
■GLOW
B. C. Ammons, well known in this
city, where he was employed as a bar
ber for about two years, and only re
cently having given up the proprietor
ship of a barber shop, was brought
back to Americus this afternoon from
Savannah on a charge of bigamy.
Ammons, who left Americus about
a month ago, married the daughter of
a well known citizen of this city in
March, and within a short time relin
quished his business connection with
the barbershop of which he was the
proprietor, leaving for Savannah to
accept a position.
A few weeks ago a letter was re
ceived by a local barber in which the
writer spoke of having known Ammons
i,i Alabama, mentioning the fact that
he had married a young lady in that
state some years ago. The suspicions
of the Americus girl’s relatives were
aroused and after a short investigation
which brought to light the facts in the
case, a warrant was sworn out and
Deputy Sheriff Bob Price left Monday
night for Savannah to bring Ammons
back to this city.
It is alleged that Ammons has neve r
secured a divorce from his Alabama
wife, whom he married in Elba, Coffee
county. Alabama, in the fall of 1909.
She is now living in Victoria. Ala., with
her two daughters, aged 4 and 7 years.
During a residence of two years in
Americus, Ammons posed as a single
man and the news of the charge
against him has aroused public indig
nation to a high pitch, as the youn•;
lady whom he victimized by going
through the marriage ceremony in
i March is from one of the most sub-
Istantial families in this city.
REVISER FIGURES
SHO.V 55.8R0 LOSS
Later estimates on the loss from I
the fire which visited Leslie on Sat
in day night place the figures at ss,oouj
t.et, this being exclusive of all insur I
lance on the buildings destroyed.
The town guard-house and munici- '
pal building were uninsured, while the;
Griffin & Wallace warehouse, also
bi rued to the ground, carried about
750 insurance. Several bales of cbt j
ton stored in this structure were re I
moved without damage.
The old warehouse owned by J. M. I
Summerford was covered by no insur- I
ance whatever and contained practical-1
iy nothing of value, as it had not T*en I
in regular use for some time past.
The blaze is thought to have origi-1
nated in the guard-house, where a ire-'
j-.ro was confined temporarily, al- j
though definite proof that he set fire to
the structure has not yet been ob- >
tained.
«. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦■♦
♦ ATTEMPT TO WRECK GEN.
♦ WOOD’S TRAIN WAS FOILED ♦
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♦ BIRMINGHAM. Ala.. June a.— ♦
4 It became known here today that ♦
♦ an attempt was made to wreck ♦
♦ the Alabama Great Southern train ♦ ■
♦ bearing Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood ♦ |
♦ to Birmingham, a log being found * I
♦ tied to the track south of Chat- ♦ ]
♦ tanooga, * j
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DIES AFTER ILLNESS
OF SEVERAL WEEKS
Mrs. Mary Alice Harris, aged 38
years, died this morning at the Amer
icus hospital at 1:30 o’clock, after an
illness of about two months.
Mrs. Harris was a devout Christian,
of lovable disposition and a member
of the Methodist church near Ander
sonville.
The funeral services will be held
at the Americus Undertaking Com
pany’s chapel, at 3 o’clock Wednesday
afternoon. Interment will be in Oak
Grove cemetery. Rev. J. W. Patterson
at d Rev. George M. Acree will officiate.
Mrs. Harris was the wife of J. H.
Harris, superintendent of the bauxite
mine near Andersonville, and besides
her husband leaves several children to
mourn her loss; four sons, H. L. Har
ris, Rexford Harris, Cantrelle Harris
and Duel Harris, and four daughters.
Misses Belle, Rita, Bernice and Mildred
Harris. The sympathies of all are ex
tended the bereaved <nes in their
trouble.
BRITISH PREPARE
FOR GREAT DRIVE
ON WEST FRONT
NEW YORK, June 5. —(Compoled by
the Associated Press from European
cables during the day.)—The roaring
cf big guns from Wyitschote on the
Belgian front, almost to Vimy Ridge,
30 miles to the south, trench raids
.and feinting for positions indicate that
the British are preparing for an offen
give on a greater scale than any’ yet
attempted.
The opening of the Austrian parlia
ment with a minority of the German
party in the chamber of deputies,
brings gloomy predictions from the
German press, while reports from Rus
sia are still conflicting.
London announces that a German
destroyer was sunk and another dam
aged in a running fight between Ger
man and British light naval forces. No
British casualties occurred.
The German naval base at Ostend on
the Belgian coast was bombarded by
monitors today, the British vessels
su staining no damage.
—
NEGRO UNDER DEATH SENTENCE
FIRST TO REGISTER IN GEORGI A
i
i ATLANTA, Ga., June s.—Charlie Wil ■
i liams, a negro under death sentence |
in the Decatur county jail, enjoys the;
distinction of being the first man i
I whose registration card has been turn-1
■id into the office of Adjutant-General!
i J Van Holt Nash.
I It seems that Charlie killed a man j
.and was tried and sentenced to hang,l
land is now awaiting the outcome of I
motion for a new trial, and like all |
iothei jail prisoners of military age he
Iliad to register. But instead of wait-'
ing until today, he asked the sheriff
Ito fill out his card in advance and
send it to "the adjutant and general"
JUNIOR B.Y.P. U. WILL I
MEETJCHTUESDAY
The Junior B. Y. P. U. of First;
| Baptist church has changed its day of I
[meeting, holding its weekly sessions on |
Tuesday nights, instead of on Sun-i
day.
The regular meeting of the organiza
tion will be held tonight and a most
interesting program has been ar
ranged .as follows:
Subject: "The End of the Journey.”
Miss Joyce Clark, Leader.
Song; Prayer.
"The End of the Journey”- Miss;
Mclva Clark.
"On the Island" —Johnnie Masten.
"Rome at Last”—Miss Ixniise Bragg i
Piano and Violin Duet —Misses Ev
elyn and Mamie Bragg.
"The Jews at Rome'—Miss France.-]
Harper.
"Preaching and Teaching"—Miss Sa-|
rah Hamrick.
Closing Song.
COMMITTEES 81151
IN ILL DISTRICTS
At every registration place in Sum
ter county today the members of the
production and conservation commit
tee of the county organization on the
food campaign have been busy per
sonally interviewing the farmers and
business men to arouse interest in the
ration wide movement for the In
creased production and conservation of
food products.
W. A. Dodson, chairman of the
county production and conservation
committee, with his assistant commit
teemen, have been distributing posters
end literature touching on the cam
paign in its various phases and the
citizens of the county generally have
l een urged to co-operate in the cam
paign.
GEORGIA’S STAR HAS HIGH
PLACE IN FIELD ON FLAG
ATLANTA, Ga., June s.—Do you
know- which star in the United States
flag represents Georgia? Or did you
know that Georgia had a particular,'
star?
Well, the Georgia star is the fourth
one in the top row, going from left to
right, and has that high and honorable
place because Georgia was the fourth
state to ratify the constitution of the
United States of America.
Beginning from left to right and
working across and gradually down,
the stars represent each state in the
order in which they ratified the consti
tution. or were admitted into the un
ion. Delaware is the first star, and
Arizona is the last.
The thirteen stripes represent the
thirteen original colonies, but no par
ticular stripe represents any particular
colony, as all thirteen had an equal
part in the war of the revolution.
ORPHAN BOYS RETURNING
FAVORS IN VEGETABLES
ATLANTA. Ga., June 5.-In times
gone by the boys from an orphanage
in a suburban town near Atlanta were
never overlooked by Homer Weaver,
custodian of the Atlanta auditorium
when it came to free tickets to enter
tainments in that famous establishment
which has housed everything from
the old-time fiddlers to grand opera;
and now the orphan boys are return
ing the favor by furnishing Custodian
Weaver, who is captain of a company
< f acompany of the Fifth Georgia, Na-|
tional Guard, with fresh vegetables. ’
I twice a week.
Twenty-four orphan boys under four- j
; teen years of age have twenty-four;
I garden plots on the orphanage grounds. :
land twice a week they take to the,
I men of Captain Weaver’s company a ;
; one-horse wagon load of snap beans,:
beets, squashes, lettuce and other I
[xegetables, which the hungry soldiers;
lon guard at the government ware
house near the city devour with avid
ity.
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4 MONGOLIA IN SECOND ♦
♦ BRUSH WITH SUBMARINE
♦ LONDON, June s.—The Ameri- ♦ ;
4 can armed steamship Mongolia 4-.
♦ fired four shots at a submarine 4-
♦ on June Ist, the submarine dis- ♦
♦ charging one torpedo at the ves- ♦
4- sei, which failed to strike its ♦
4 mark. None of the shots fired by ♦
4 the gunners aboard the Mongolia 4-
♦ are believed to have taken effect. ♦
♦
MISS LONG WILL
CONTINUE WORK
At a meeting of the county school
board this morning at the court house
it was voted to appropriate the sum es
SSOO to secure the services of Miss
Rowena I>ong, home economics dem
onstrator for Sumter county, for an
other year.
This sum will be added to the SSOO
appropriation made by the State Col
iege of Agriculture and in this manre|
the compensation of the Home Eco
nomics agent will- be secured.
Miss Long Las conducted the work
in Sumter county during the past 10
months and her success has been evi-
fITV
editionl
REUM OPENS
FORMAL SESSION
AT WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON, D. C-, June 5. H»e
heavy arrivals of Confederate veterans
for the opening of the reunion today
swamped officials at the railroad sta
tions. where visitors registered by
states, and extra forces had to be call
ed into service to assist.
Every cot in the big tents erected to
shelter the aged soldiers is filled an*'
a note of unusual patriotism marked,
the welcome extended Confederates by
members of the Grand Army of the Re
public. many of whom are enjoying the
festivities equally with the Southern
ers. The veterans all took keen inter
est in the registration.
Thousands of veterans present gave
President and Mrs. Wilson a tremen
dous ovation when they mounted the
platform to welcome the guests to the
i capital.
The first formal session of the veter
ans took place this morning with CoL
Hilary A. Herbert, former secretary Os
the navy, an Alabamian, grand mar
shal, presiding. Robert N. Harper,
who conducted the inauguration of
President Wilson; Louis Brownlow, m
the District of Columbia commission;
I '. C. Brandenberg, of the Washington
Board of Trade; Capt. Fred Bealt,
commander of the Washington camp<£
Confederate veterans; James Tanner,
former commander of the Grand Array
of the Republic; Gen. George P. Har
rison, of Opelika, Ala., commander-to
chief of the veterans; Col. Robert E.
Lee, grandson of the Confederate chief
tain, and Mrs. R. D. Sheppard, of the
I nited Daughters of the Confederacy,,
will speak. Later President Wilson
will address the veterans.
The Confederated Southern Memo
rial association held its opening meet
ing yesterday with an address by Mrv-
Cordelia Powell Odenheimer, president
general of the United Daughters of the
Confederacy. Ernest G. Baldwin, com
mander of the Sons of Veterans,
greeting the Memorial association, -
pressed the hope that “the same low
ing inspiration and co-operation given
by the wo nen of the South to ;ne he
roes of the Sixties may be given
the manhood of the new South.”
The response was delivered by Mrs..
j W. J. Behan .president-general, Confed
erated Southern Memorial associatiost.
The Sons of Veterans held their
, meeting last night, and Ernest G.
Baldwin, of Roanoke, Va., their com
mander in chief, in calling on them
to respond to the call of duty which
'the nation is making, declared:
"I feel we would be unworthy o’
| the precious heritage of our forefather®
did we not with a single mind and sin -
gle voice answer the call that comes
to us at this crucial period of our na
I tional history.
The escort to General Harrison for
| the big parade today, which will be
,r* viewed by the president will be a
i detachment from the Second Corps as
scciation, army of the Potomac, headt- 1
;by their presiding officer, Col. Myreit
'M. Parker. Col. Parker and Col. An
drew Cowan, who rose to the rank of
lieutenant colonel in the Union array
are honorary members of the locil
camp, U. C. V., wlfile Col. Hilary A
Herbert is an honorary member cl
the Second Army Corps association,,
of the G. A. R.
Several grey-haired negroes mingl
ing with the veterans were objects of
■ interest today. One of them, a famil
liar figure at every reunion, is Howarff
; Divinity, now 88 years old, of Missis-
I .si ppi. »
Brig.-Gen. Claifk. of Columbia, st
iC.. brought with him a palmetto tree
from the coast of South Carolina
| which he will plant on Pennsylvania
avenue in front of Hie hotel where the
South Carolina headquarters are lo
cated. .
denced by the increasing interesK
among the canning club members,
throughout this section. The counix
board of education was requested to
make the appropriation by a large dele
gation of ladies from Americus anif
Sumter county, several forceful talks
being made. The board made the ap
propriations without any hesitation, be
lieving that this work is accomplisbuw
material results.
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