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Hubbard Woods, a suburb of
Chicago, has its epic. Behind the.
quiet easy running life of the
North Shore suburb there’s a feel
ing of awe, as if something holy
had passed through the streets.
Monday night Mr. and Mrs. Wil
liam Tanner started for the movies.
Crossing the railroad tracks at the
station, Mrs. Tanner’s foot slip
ped into the crevice between the
track and the planking. The head
light of the train was shining
down the tracks as it rushed from
Glencoe. The flagman and the
husband worked to free Mrs. Tan
ner’s foot.
There were three children <it
home. There was an old mother.
There were years of work and
health ahead. William Tanner, a
cashier in the office of the B &
0. railroad, straightened to his feet
and put his arms around his wife
He stood there —free to step into
safety, his back to the oncoming
train. ’ Some hysterical persons on
the station platform saw Tan
ner and his wife framed in the
halo of a locomotive searchlight.
John Miller, the flagman at the
crossing, jumped. The train side
swiped him. The Tanners were
lifted together into the air, smash
ed against the ground forty feet
away and killed.
“This is the place/ said the
new flagman of a train passing the
scene of the place a couple of days
later. Then there was talk. One
woman cried as she looked at it.
And then she raised the question
that all Chicago is discussing
whether the husband should have
elected to remain with his wife
and make the supreme sacrifice as
he did or whether he should have
saved himself for the safety of
his children.
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But in the Tanner home the
epic wore another air. Three chil
dren were playing on the porch
with a dog named Rab. A white
haired old woman sat in a chair
rocking. She is Mrs. W. D. Chat
ley, Tanner’s mother. Long ago
her husband was killed by a rail
road train. Tanner was her only
son and now he’s gone.
The children don’t know about
Monday night’s tragedy. No ar
rangements have been made for
the future care of the children,
one of the women who spent the
morning at the house said. All
were awaiting the arrival of Mr.
Tanner’s sister from New York.
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Here’s a mighty fair and square
thing a state is doing for its re
turned soldiers. The Wisconsin
Soldiers’ Bonus Bill, providing ap
proximately 15 million dollars, to
be obtained through taxes, which
passed the recent legislature with
a refendum amendment attached
to it, at a special election through
out the state last week, was rati
fied by a wide margin.
Under the measure, soldiers,
sailors, marines and nurses, who
enlisted in the World War, will
receive $lO for each months serv
ice, the minimum to be SSO.
About 9 million dollars will be ob
tained by a tax of three mills on
every dollar of genera] property
assessment and the remainder
from surtaxes.
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“Uncle Johnny” Shell, probab
ly the oldest man in tbe world,
celebrated his 131st birthday at
Lexington, Ky". a day or two ago by
sending for a life insurance agent.
“You never can. tell what'll hap
pen sonny,” he told the agent,
“and I want to prepare for the
worst.” ,
The agent looked over his rate
rate and found that his card cov
ered only the 105 years of a man’s
life. The agent is now busy with
his headquarters trying to learn
if he can insure “Uncle Johnny.”
If this story had ended by the ■
agent being able to fix “Uncle
Johnny” up with a policy one
might have suspected that an in
surance man concocted the whole
yarn. But still, who can tell? It’s
not a bad bit of press agenting
for the life insurance men at that.
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The navy is having great diffi
culty in getting enough recruits
to replace the emergency men as
they are discharged and of this As
sistant Secretary of the Navy
Roosevelt has brought back to
Washington a new story:
The assistant secretary was vis
iting the naval base at Newport
recently and desiring to go down
to the bay, a small destroyer was
signalled to take on oil and come
to the dock. Back came the wig
wag :
“W’ill proceed to take on oil
as soon as crew can return from
shore. He has gone to town to
get the morning paper.”
The Weather Forecast
Georgia.—Fair Sunday, except
showers in extreme south portion.
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FACULTY LIST
COMPLETE FOR
3DDISTSCHOOL
Principal J. M. Prance, of the
Third District Agricultural and Me
chanical school, yesterday announced
the faculty of that institution for the
coming session, which begins Septem
ber 15, and with an increased attend
ance anticipated.
The faculty is an unusually able
one, and in its selection Prof. Prance
and the board of trustees have pro
vided for a complete course of train
ing for all students who matriculate
at the Third District Aggie. Princi
pal Prance will fill the chair of Ap
plied Mathematics, with the other
members of the faculty, as follows:
English, Literature and Literature
Societies. —Mrs. E. C. Stallings.
History, Civics, Military Science,
Athletics and Boys’ , Dormitory.—
Wm. M. Steed, of Mercer University,
Macon.
Home Economics, Domestic Sci
ence and Arts and Matron of Girls'
Dormitory.—Miss Martha Cobb, of
Americus, a recent graduate of the
State Normal School, at Athens.
Agriculture, Farm and Live Stock
and Allied Sciences. —D. D. Still, of
Washington, D. C.
Matron of Dining Hall, Elementa
ry Science and Mathematics.—Miss
Jennie Harrison, of Americus, who
is a State Normal School graduate,
and who has been teaching here dur
ing several years past.
Prof. Still, who will have the chair
of agriculture at the college, has been
engaged in government farm exten
sion work during several years past,
and is, therefore, especially well
equipped for the work he will enter
upon here.
The fall sessions begins September
15, on which date the college officials
anticipate the largest attendance in
the history of the institution, but for
the accommodation of students who
will reach Americus a day earlier, the
college dormitories will be opened on
September 14. The exercises mark
ing the beginning of the session are
yet to be decided, upon, but the stu
dents will get down \o hard work ear
ly, and the faculty members have
planned a semester well filled with
study for them.
PUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF (
DIXIE COMMERCE MEN
SAIL TO STUDY EUROPE
NEW YORK, Sept. 6.—(By Asso
ciated Press.) —Nineteen members
of the Southern Commercial congress
were among the passengers sailing
today on the steamship Columbia for
Glasgow for a two months’ study of
trade conditions in Europe. They will
be joined in Paris by other members
of the Southern congress. The data
gathered will be submitted to tne
congress at the meeting in Savan
nah on December 8
HUNS FEEL METHODS
THEY USED IN BELGIUM
COLOGNE, Sept. s.—(Friday.)
(By Associated Press.) Disturb
ances between German citizens and
British troops at Euskirchen resulted
in one soldier being badly injured.
The leader of the Germans, named
Kupper, was courtmartialed and sen
tenced to death and the town fined
one hundred thousand marks.
LAFAYETTE’S BIRTHDAY
AND MARNE OBSERVED
NEW YORK. Sept. 6.—(By Asso
ciated Press.) —Ambassador Jusser
and, of France, was the principal
speaker at the Franco-American ex
ercises here today in commemoration
of the anniversary of the birth of
Lafayette and the fifth anniversary
of the First Battle of the Marne.
ALABAMA VETERANS’
COMMANDER IS DEAD
SELMA, Ala., Sept. 6. (By Asso
ciated Press.) —C. W. Hooper, state
commander of the United Confeder
ate Veterans of Alabama, died here
early today, aged 76, after two weeks’
illness. He was born near Rome, Ga.,
and served throughout the war, com
ing out with the rank of captain on
Gen. Forrest’s escort number 2.
ACTORS STRIKE ENDS
WITH AN ’OPEN SHOP’
NEW YORK, Sept. 6. (By Asso
ciated Press.) —The actors’ strike,
which began a month ago, was set
tled in New York early today. All
the theaters affected by the strike |
will be re-opened at once.
According to Augustus Thomas,
the plavwright, who is chairman of
the mediation committee of the Au-;
thors’ League of America, an open I
shop has been agreed upon.
AMTRICUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 7/ 1919.
AUSTRIA TO SIGN
TREATY,RENNER
TELLSWRITERS
VUENNA, via London, Sept. 6.—•
(By Associated Press.) —Dr. Karl
Remer, head of the Austrian peace
delegation, has informed, the news
! paper correspondents here that he
! will return to St. Germain Sunday
j and sign the peace treaty handed
I Austria this week.
TREATY TO BE
SIGNED WEDNESDAY.
PARIS, Sept. 6 . (By Associated
Press.) —Dispatches which reached
tbe peace conference today 4 from Vi
enna indicated that the Austrians
probably would formally decide to
morrow to accept the peace treaty.
Chancellor Renner is expected to re
turn to Paris immediately in which
case the treaty will be signed Wed
nesday morning, September 10 at St.
Germain.
SHOPMEN CALLED TO
PASS ON WAGE OFFER
CHICAGO, September 6.—(By
Associated Press.) —The executive
council of tbe Federated Railway
Shopmen of the Chicago district
have called a national convention
here for September 25, it was an
nounced today, to act on the new
wage scale grantad by President Wil- I
son.
NEGRO ASSAILANT OF
WHITE WOMAN SLAIN
—
MONROE, La., Setember 6.—(By-
Associated Press.) —A crowd of 40 j
men early today took a negro charg
ed with an attempted attack upon a !
white woman from the sheriff of i
Morehouse parish and shot him to 1
death.
The Cotton Market
LOCAL SPOTS
Good Middling 26 3-4 cents.
NEW YORK FUTURES.
Close Open Close |
Prev High Low
Oct 28.89 28.98 28.80!
Dec 29.11 29.25 28.55,
Jan 29.05 29.15 28.42 ;
MASS MEETING I
AT “Y” CALLED;
DR. SMITH NOT I
INONPURCHASE
I
Didn’t Authorize Bid Ot;
Over $23,000, Tells
Court
SALVATION ARMY
AGENT ON GROUND
Chamber Committee Is
Named To Invite Drs.
Wise Here
A mass meeting of all citizens in
terested in the proposal of th,e Sal
vation Army to take over the Y. M.
C. A. building will be held at the
“Y” building at 3 :30 o’clock this af
ternoon, it was announced yester
day by Dr. Carl W. Minor, who made
the call as president of the Ameri
cus ministerial association at the re
quest of Rev. Fibley Baum, of At
lanta, who was in the city working
on the proposition as a representa
tive of the Salvation Army. Rev.
Mr. Baum asked that the interested
public attend this meeting tor the
purpose of discussing and hearing
discussed the plan or proposal of the
Salvation Army in connection with
the building and its luture work in
Americus.
This announcement was only one
of several developments in connec
tion with the Y. M. C. A. building
which last Teusday was' sold at re
ceiver’s sale to a group of Americus
physicians for '531,05u. The physi
cians’ bid was made by Dr. W. S.
• Prather, and it was announced at the
time that his associates in the pur
chase Were Drs. R. P. Glenn, Louis
Grubb and Herschel Smith. A sur
prise was sprung in the matter of
the personnel of the purchasers Sat
urday, however, when at the sitting
of Judge Littlejohn, of the Superior
| court, for the purpose of approving
] the sale, it developed that Dr. Smith
| was not a party to the purchase.
$23,000 His Limit.
Represented by Attorneys Hixon
& Pace, Dr. Smith presented a peti
j tion in intervention in which he sat
forth that he was originally a party
to the agreement of the four physi
cians named to bid on the property,
but he asserted that he had given
no authority for the bid to be in
creased beyond $23,000, and that his
liability ceased when the figure pass
ed that mark. He said that immed
iately after making the original
agreement be had left the city and
had not been communicated with
thereafter before the sale. The oth
er physicians in the purchase were in
court and admitted the correctness
of Dr. Smith’s Showing, and absolv
ed him from liability in the pur
chase.
After the showing by Dr. Smith,
Judge Littlejohn proceeded with the
settlement of the sale, confirming it
when the purchasers presented their
notes for 80 per cent, of the pur
chase price after having deposited the
required 20 per cent, under the op
tion granted if the terms of sale. He
then directed the payment of a 30
: per cent, dividend on the bonds held
i against the property, the balance due
;on the bonds to be paid when the
i notes come due and are liquidated.
During the course of the proceed
■ ings Dr. Glenn made; a brief state
! merit to those present in which he
I stated that the purposes of the phy
: sicians in purchasing the Y. M. C. A.
I building had been grossly misunder-
I stood by the public and that, what
| ever might appear to be their pur-
I pose, his own heart was with the Y.
! M. C. A. and his sole purpose was
to save the property far public use '
in some manner such as the citizens
had not been able to work out, but
which he hoped would be worked out]
by the Salvation Army.
Growing out of the Y. M. C. A.
purchase, which many persons openly
express themselves to believe was for
the purpose of-keeping the Drs. Wise
of Plains, who were bidders for the
property, out of Americus, (which
tthe purchasers strenuously deny)
was the announcement late yester
day afternoon by President John
By Morris
Gen. Pershing
Ship to Dock at
8 a.m. Monday
■ '
MEW YORK, Sept. 6.—(By As- j
'Sociat.d Press) —A radio ;
j message received here today by J
I the naval communication service <,
! from the transport Leviathan, <
> which is bringing home General ?
) Pershing, stated that the rhip /
> was due to reach Ambrose Light- J
j Louse at 4a. m Mond y and 'J
( would dock at 8 o’clock.
; WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.—(By J
; Associated Press.) Secertary i
S Baker announced today the per- $
S sonnel of the committee of New (
J York citizens designated by him 5
I s as members of the reception com- ?
? mittee on behalf of the President j
. ? to greeting General Pershing on >
his arrival Monday at New York. >
> Composing the committeee are <
j Thomas L. Chadwick, Ambrose j
j Monell, Allan A. Ryan, Nicholas
iA Brady, Harry Payne Whitney, j>
Cleveland H. Dodge, Mortimer <
Schiff, John D. Ryan, B. M. Ba- 1 J
ruch, Henry P. Davidson, J. L. ?
Replogle, Wm. G. McAdoo, and >
Hugh Frayne. $
Secretary Baker and tbe mem- \
bers of the congressional commit
tee wil leave for New York to- <
7 morrow. In company with the
7 New York committee they will
1 > go the harbor to meet ?
J> General Persaing’s ship and re- >
7 turning will greet G'neral Per- \
5 shing on his landing at Hoboken. <
PUBLIC SCHOOL
REGiSTRATiONTO
START MONDAY
I .
I
Youngsters of Americus w 11 find a
> forcible reminder of the fact that
i the opening of schopl is at hand in
J the announcement of Prof. J. E.
[ Mathis, superintendent of the city
j schools, that registration books will
’ be opened Monday morning at 8:30
; o’clock for the enrollment of all pu
pils who expect to attend school at
the fall term. The white pupils of
! both the grammar and h gh schools
I will be enrolled at the superinten
dent’s office in the Furlow school
building, and the negro scholars will
be enrolled at the McKay Hill school.
The term will begin the following
Monday, Setpember 15.
Everything is being put in readi
ness for the new school year, and
■' indications are that the term will
’ start under most auspicious circum
stances. The faculty in which there
i have been a number of changes, as
j announced during tbe summer, is
considered one of the best that has
! been gathered together in the his
j tory of the school, and excellent re
! suits from an educational point of
' view are expected by Prof. Mathis
and the board of education for the
coming year.
OWN CAR KNOCKS DOWN
CORDELE POSTMASTER
CORDELE, Sept. 6.—Postmaster
A. L. McArthur is at the local sani
tarium suffering from severe injur
ies sustained Friday in the rear of
the postoffice building when he crank
ed his car and was knocked down and
run over by it. The machine had
been left in gear and when he crank
-1 ed it without warning it knocked him
’ down and dragged him a short dist-
I ar cc, inflicting internal injuries which
| wi.ll prove painful for a time, but not
; necessarily critical.
He was taken up from under the
car and removed to the sanitarium
and after examination it was an
nounced that nothing worse than a
broken rib could be ascertained at
the time.
Sheffield, of the Chamber of Com
merce, of a committee which is to
to go to Plains in company with the,
Rotary club committee named for the
same purpose, to meet with the Drs.
Wise and offer them the co-opera
tion of the Chamber of Commerce
and the citizens of Americus in gen
eral if they should see fit to locate
in Americus, as they had planned to
do it, being their purpurse to estab
lish a santarium of thtf Mayo type. |
It was said these committees have
(Continued on Page Five.)
HOME I
EDITION I
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
URGES SUPPORT
ASCHARTERFOR
NEW ORDER OF
WORLDAFFAIRS
President Speaks To 15,-
000 In Reed’s Home
Town
GREAT OVATION
GIVEN PRESIDENT
League Ends Military
Clan Forever, He Tells
His Hearers
KANSAS CITY, Setember 6.
(By Associated Press.) — President
Wilson appealed to the Kansas dtg
crowd today to support the peace
treaty as a charter for a new order
‘ or world affairs.
j Making his tnLd speech for the
; treaty in Missouri, to a capacity
! audience, President W uson spoke iu
j convention Hall estimated to accom
modate 15,00 u. Kansas vity is tae
home of Senator» Reed, buter ireaiy
' opponent. ,
When the President, accompanied
by Mrs. Wilson, appeared on the
piatiorm oi the vast auditorium tae
crowd, each of whom had a small
American nag, arose and cneered lai
more than two minutes.
I President Vvilson had been cheered
,as the presidential party paraued
' through lour nines of the city’s
: streets to Convention tian.
| ivir. Wilson was introduced by £L
A. Parsons, president of the Kansas
.. City Chamber oi Commerce.
In his address ths President cov
ered many oi the same points of the
treaty he had discussed in prevmnj
addresses. He su.u he had come to
- report to the people direct about
one of the greatest document
human history, ine treaty, he de
■ dared, was “shot through” with
American principles, put there by
the common consent of the world.
From America’s Heart.
' One of the tilings America had had
in heart througnout her troubled ex
istence, said tne President, was that
arbitration and coiisultat.on should
. be substituted lor force. This was ac
complished, he declared, by tta
League of Nations covenant
j Nine months discussion of any in-
I ternational controversy would be as
-1 sured by the covenant, he said,
stating that this principle had been
written in thirty arbitration treaties,
“all of which Wre confirmed by the
i United States Senate.” The principle
I of the League ( he said, had been
. adopted by the United States.
1 The boycott imposed on covenant
bieakers was emphasized by the
• president as constituting a measure
' more effective than military force.
| The “most exclusive” thing that
i could happen to a nation, he contin
ued, was “to be read out of decent
society.” j (
Effective disarmament would be
accomplished under the covenant,
Mr. Wilson predicted, declaring it
was ridiculous to talk of the League
as tending to war when “its whole
I essence” is arbitration and peace.
End of Military Clan.
The League, he declared, would
mean the end of the “military clan’'
' throughout the world forever. ,
“There is no other way to dispense
with great armaments without an
agreement by the great nations of
1 the world,’’ said Mr. Wilson, “and
here is the agreement.
Autocracy would perish with mili
tarism, added the President and the
intr.gue which had terrorized Europe
for generation would be ended. He
declared that “democracies will soon
er or later have to destroy that kind
of government, “and if we don’t do
it now, the job will still be before
us.” This task, he continued, mast
be carried to the extent that no mi
nority anywhere could control the '
majority.
“The men who now control the af
fairs of Russia,” said Mr. Wilsoui;
“represent nobody but themselves.
They have no kind of a mandate.
(Continued on Page Five.}