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PRESS NEWS
OF THE WORLD
FORTY-SECOND YEAR—NUMBER 212
G. 0. P. WORKER ON STAND CONFIRMS COX
GEORGIANS FOUND
WONDERLAND ON
TRIP INTO NORTH
C. C. Hawkins Tells of
Stock Farms
Visited
“It is worth the time of any man
interested in cattle and hog raising
to take such a trip,’’ said C. C. Haw
kins this morning, on his return from
a tour of Indiana, Illinois and Ohio
stock farms.''ln the party with him
was L. A. Jennings, of Plains, who
also returned last night. Two hundred
others composed the party traveling
by speiial train and arrangements
had been perfected in advance for
them to see all of the splendid stock
farms in the section visited. They
were gone one week on the trip.
Traveling in a special train of sev
en Pullmans, the party, which assem
bled in Atlanta, went direct from
that city to Lexington, Ky., where
Walnut Hills farm was the first point
of jnterest visited. At this farm. Mr.
Hawkins said, there are maintained
as stock animals no less than 300
mares, all of them of finest thorough
bred stock, the total value of the
farm and its equipment being given
as $6,000,000. Besides the mares
maintained for breeding purposes,
and which supply most of the racing ]
stock on the grand circuit, as well
as a vast number of horses and
mares shown at fairs and stock |
shows all over the country, there are I
3,000 Hampshire sheep, every one I
pure bred and of uniform coloring.
This sheep herd, Mr. Hawkins said. |
was one of the most beautiful sights .
he witnessed during the whole trip. |
Only Few Cattle
The Walnut Hall farm is devoted
wholly to the raising of horses and
sheep and with the exception of a
few cows which supply milk for
farm uses there are no cattle on the
entire 600-acre tract. One feature |
of this farm which attracted, the at-1
ntion of all the tourists was the I
.rge quantity of standing walnut I
timber. “All of the virgin walnut,
forest,” Mr. Hawkins said, “ has been
left standing, except that this has j
been thinned out to permit proper I
grazing and the growing of luxun-,
ant blue grass which covers the en-;
tire acreage.” ... I
At Columbus, Ohio, the party vis-.
ited the famous Hartmann farm.
Here there are 500 milk cows main
tained constantly, with an additional
number grazing, besides a lar^e herd
of heifers and young calves, all of
them pure bred and of finest strain.
Os the 500 which enter the
sheds daily 200 are of a Jersey and
Holstein cross, being the finest milk
and butter combination kn ® w e n^
rving Three hundred of the milkers
at present are pure-bred Holsteins
these probably producing more milk
San the others and falling behind
them a little m butter.
.
nure-bred cattle on this farm besides
were distributed throughout the.coun
try from the Hartmann farm atteast
one of these was sold to a bumte
C lffind Hereford farm at
I a Fayette, Ind., the party made an
P ’. n e. , K >
their visit. This calf is sired by Wood
ford VIII. and out of one of.the fin
est Hereford brood cows on the farm
Here the management appeared great
1V interested in stock and cattle rais
ing in Georgia and already negotia
tions have been begun looking toward ,
the establishment of mutual rela
tions between breeders m the two
sections.
Universities Impressive
The state universities visited es
pecially impressed Mr. Hawkins and
others in the party. At Columbus
there are 52 magnificent buildings
devoted to the various branches of
science and study, and the college
farm there is equippedl with. every
modern convenience, as well as stock
ed with a fine herd of cattle, stock
and hogs The equipment of this
farm so impressed the Georgia tour
ists Hiat they took a collection among
ih™“ e to comply
ed cattle barn on the campus of the,
State College of Agriculture at Ath- >
ens. a gocdlv sum being contributed. ,
At Chicago the members of the
party were guests of Aromur & Co.,
and were served a lunch m the dining
hall of their big packing plant there.
The menu was of Armour products
entirely and after luncheon, the par-
The state returns will begin rolling in about 7 o’clock tonight. The Times-Recorder has a comfortable place for
you, with hundreds of seats. Forrest street will be closed, for everybody’s convenience, so park your cars on
Lamar or Church streets.
WIFE OF MACSWEENEY AND ARCHBISHOP OUTSIDE PRISON.
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Mrs. Terrence Mac Sweeney, wife of the Sinn Fein lord mayor of Cork, and Archbishop Mannix,
leaving Brixton prison, London, where Mac Sweeney is slowly dying from a hunger strike.
GENERAL HARRIS
OUT FOR SMITH
ON ELECTION EVE
Palmer Convention
Leader Says He is The
Ablest Man
ATLNTA, Sept B.—Hoke Smith
I supporters in Fulton county, as well
as throughout the state, were highly
elated Wednesday morning by the
news that General Walter A. Harris,
of Macon, will vote for Senator
Smith and has given an interview to i
the Macon News, which was publish
ed Tuesday afternoon, in support of|
the senator’s candidacy for re-elec-1
tion. • !
General Harris was one of the main ]
floor leaders of the Palmer delegates
in the presidential primary conven
tion held in Atlanta on May 18. He
was one of their spokesmen on the
resolutions committee of the con
vention and made the speech for the
resolution favored by the Palmer
delegates.
The name of General Harris has
probably been employed more often
in the present campaign, by newspa
pers fighting Senator Smith, than;
the name of any other man in Geor
gia. The effort has been to make it
appear that General Harris was fight- ■
ing Senator Smith because the Pal
mer delegates failed to obtain com
pletely and precisely what they want
ed in the Atlanta convention.. Thel
statement by General Harris in the
Macon News, announcing his support
of Senator Smith, and his belief that
the senator is by far the strongest
candidate against Mr. Watson, was
hailed by Hoke Smith headquarters
as the culminating disaster of the
Dorsey campaign.
In addition to the statement by
General Harris, the Macon News pub-'
I lished on Tuesday afternoon a state-
I ment by his father, Hon. Nat. E.
; Harris, former Governor of Georgia,
declaring his support of Senator
Smith as the ablest of the candidates j
offering for the senate and by far;
the only one who can possibly insure,
the defeat of Mr. Watson.
Hoke Smith headquarters confi
dently predicts that Bibb county will
go for Smith, and would not be sur
prised if the senator should be nomi
nated on the first ballot.
—~i
ty examined every department of the ]
plant where 13,000 cattle alone were
received for slaughter on the day of,
i their visit.
Ifez/r/er
Forecast for Georgia—Partly]
cloudy with local showers probably;
tonight and Thursday.
THE TIMES-RECORDER
ESLEubushed in the J heart or
Enters 27th Day of Hun
ger Strike in London
Cell
LONDON, Sept. B.—Terence Mac-
Sweeney entered the twenty-seventh
day of his hunger strike today. Re
ports from the prison state he is much
weaker and more exhausted.
SENATOR MOSES
RENAMED BY N. H.
League and Suffrage
Foe Nominated by
Republicans
MANCHESTER. New Hampshire,
Sept. B—Senator Moses, league of
nations and woman suffrage oppon
ent, received, a plurality of about
12.000 in yesterday’s Republican
primaries, according to unofficial re
turns today..
Raymond B. Stevens defeated Al
bert W. Noone for the Democratic
senatorial nomination and Charles
E. Tilton defeated Noone, who also
tried for the gubernatorial nomina
tion.
MASS. DEMOCRATS
NAME JOHN J. WALSH
BOSTON, Sept. B—John J. Walsh
was nominated for governor in yes
terday’s Democratic primary by a
narrow margin. Lieutenant Govern
or Cox was nominated by the Repub
licans without opposition.
MARKETS
WASHINGTON, Sept. B—Cotton
ginned nrior to September 1 total
led 367,241 running bales, including
21,143 round bales, the census bu
reau announced today in its first
ginning report of the season.
The ginning figures compare with
142,000 ginned to the same date
a year ago, 1,038,000 bales to Sep
tember 1, 1918. add 615,000 bales
in 1917.
AMERICUS SPOT COTTON
Good middling 30 cents. Receipts
Monday and Tuesday 376 bales; total
for season, 2,086 bales.
NEW YORK FUTURES
PC Open 11 am 1 pm Close
Oct. 27.90 27.90 27.58 28.30 27.95
Dec. 26.20 26.10 25.85 26.60 26.18
Jan. 25.30 25.21 24.88 25.67 25.25
Meh 25.15 24.85 24.47 25.32 24.85
NEW ORLEANS FUTURES
PC Open 9 am 11 am Close
Oct. 26.76 26.43 26.22 27.36 26.82
Dec. 25.65 25.15 24.90 25.75 25.25
Jan. 25.24 24.71 24j38 J 25.25 24.72
Meh 24.90 24.75 24'05 24.72 24.28
FT. PIERCE CENSUS
WASHINGTON, Sept. B—The
census of Fort Pierce, Fla., was giv
en out today as 2,115.
AMERICUS, GA., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPT. 8, 1920
HUNDREDS DEAD
IN EARTHQUAKE
SHAKINGJTALY
District North of Flor
ence Hard Hit, Rome
Hears
ROME, Sept B.—Several hundred i
persons lost their lives in tne earth-1
quage at Fizzano and many mote
were injured, according to a dispatch;
from Massa. Scores of lives are be
lieved to have been lost in the dis-!
trict north of Florence.
As reports came in the extent of'
the disaster seems to be growing andi
there is a possibility that the dam
age done may reach more serious
than at first believed.
The territory violently disturbed
extends along the Etrurian coast and
runs over the Appenines upward of
one hundred miles.
Lightning Bolt
Kills Salesman
ALBANY—, Sept 8. —Robert M
Smith, of this city, known through
out the Southwestern part of Georgia
as “Uncle Bob,” one of the most'
popular traveling men in this section
of the state, was instantly killed by
lightning in the store of the Pittman
estate at Sumner, Worth county,
about 2:30 o’clock Tuesday after-;
noon.
L. D. Pierce, manager of the store,
with whom Mr. Smith was talking-!
at the time the bolt struck, was!
knocked down, but was not seriously
injured. The two men were stand
ing near a stove in the store, and the
bolt evidently came down the stove
pipe.
Mr. Smith, for many years, had
been traveling salesman for the Am
ericus Grocerj’ Company’s Albany;
branch, and had the warm friendship
of hundreds throughout Southwest;
Georgia.
The body will be brought to this;
city Thursday afternoon at 5:45 :
o’clock on the Central of Georgia,
and the funeral and burial will take;
place at Rose Hill cemetery immed
iately after the arrival of the train.
Bids to Be Opened
For Fair Concessions
In accordance with the announce-;
ment which has been running in the
Times-Recorder for more than a
week, the Sumter County Fair Asso
ciation will open bids for conces
sions durinv the fair at noon Satun
day of this week. According to Sec
retary Perkins a number of sealed
bids are already in hand, and more
! are expected.
BALLOTING HEAVY
ALL OVER STATE
IN HOT PRIMARY
Showers Generally Re-1
I ported—Sumter Total
May Reach 2,000
I One of the largest votes ever cast!
in Georgia was predicted for today’s!
, state-wide Democratic primary in
which a United States senator, gov-]
ernor, eight congressmen and num-'
erous legislators and other state of-1
ficals will be nominated. There are!
four candidates for the seat of Unit
ed States Senator Hoke Smith, Sena-
I tor Smith, Thomas E. Watson, Gov-!
I ernor Dorsey and John R. Cooper be-!
ing the four. Three are in the race
I for governor—Clifford Walker, John i
j Holder and Thomas W. Hardwick. I
I Scattering reports received,in At-;
! lanta show a heavy vote is being cast!
throughout the state despite general
ly showery weather. Atlanta east a
large early vote, with no reports of
disorders received up to noon.
In Sumtercounty where the weather
was fair most of the day, although'
occasional light showers fell about
mid-day, an unusually heavy vote
was being polled during the forenoon,,
and there were indications of a rec-;
ord-breaking total before closing
time. By 11 o’clock 450 ballots had!
been deposited >at the court house!
for the 27th district, and at 2 o’clock;
the total had been increased to 640.1
Predictions Ivere made freely that;
more than 1,000 votes would be cast
in this district by 6 o’clock, the hour
of closing here. The total for the
] county is expected to reach 2,000. ;
The voting place in Americus was
I a busy scene all day. Dorsey and
! Smith workers were present in large
! numbers, and there was keen, but
! goodmatured rivalry between them.
! There were also some Yatson work-!
! ers on hand, although the Watson
followers made no attempt to claim
a possibility of winning the county.
Estimates of the probable number of
votes Watson would receive in Sum
! ter county ranged from 100 to 300
' with some of his more ardent follow-
I ers claiming more than the larger
1 number.
Returns from the from the country
precincts were expected to start com
! ing in shortly after 3 o’clock, the
; hour for closing the polls in all the
■ districts outside of Americus. In doz
ens of counties throughtout
; the state in /which there
■ is no city of any considerable
! size, all of the voting places close
!at 3 o’clock, which means that the
] returns will be pouring in to state
■ headquarters by 5 or 6 o’clock. These:
reports to state headquarters and
> news agencies will be relayed by
telegraph to the Times-Recorder, be-i
! ginning by 7 o’clock, and will be dis-;
] played to the public during the eve- ■
’ ning.
’ In anticipation of the results that:
will be tabulated tonight the final
claims of the various leading candi-;
[dates were recalled today as follows:!
For Governor.
Brown, 98 counties.
Hardwick, 103 counties, 254 unit!
votes.
Holder, 82 counties, 204 unit votes.!
Walker, 92 counties, and ia chance]
I of carrying 12 others that are doubt-!
ful.
For Senator.
Cooper, no claim.
Dorsey, 89 counties.
; Smith, “a comfortable plurality, if;
; not a majority.”
Watson, no claim.
Wilkinson Resigns
As Terrell Arbitrator
-
DAWSON, Sept B.—H. A. Wilkin-]
I son, who was appointed by the coun-]
]ty board of tax equalizers to rep-]
resent the taxpayers of Terrell in]
] the arbitration of the tax returns!
■] of the county which has been de
inianded by the state tax commission
|er, H. J. Fullbrigfct, who insists that
■values be raised $2,000,000, has re-]
! signed. It is probable that Judge
I M. C. Edwards will succeed Mr. Wilk-]
i inson on the board of arbitrators if
he will accept.
Mr. Wilkinson resigned because
he is county attorney, and is there-!
! fore disqualified. Furthermore, he
j states that he will probably represent
some of the taxpayers in the event
a contest in the court grows out of
the matter, some of whom have al
ready spoken to his law firm with a
! view of retaining them for any liti
| gation that may occur.
VIENNA MAN DEAD.
VIENNA. Sept B.—-W. R. Vaughn,
a prominent citizen of this town, is
! dead at his home here. Mr. Vaughn
‘ moved here from Hawkinsville about
j fiifteen years ago.
SHERIFF FOR 26
YEARS BUT HE’S
NEVER USED GUN
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LAGRANGE, Texas, Sept. B—ln
a land where “hard men and hard li
quor” (even in Mr. Volstead’s day)
are the rule a man has been sher
iff for 26 years without drawing a
gun!
Yes, Sheriff—“ Big Gus”—Loessi
of Fayette, county, is the “pride”
of the great, open southwest for he:
Threw away his gun when he was
elected sheriff in T 894. •
Has made 11.362 arrests in 26
years.
Doesn’t believe in prohibition but
has made 318 booze arrests.
Made cattle thieves seeks other
fields.
“I’ve had to treat some folks right
smart rough in my time,” says “Big
Gus,” “but I aint never had cause to
shoot. And—l aint never seen the
man I couldn’t lick without a gun.”
Six feet three in his stocking feet,
his trousers tucked into high boots,
and a big sombrero hat on the back
of his head, Loessin is the typical
sheriff of the movies—all except the
gun. If he ever wants to change jibs
he’d be “the goods” in movie land!
Wholesalers Will
Fight Sugar Gouge
MACON, Sept. B.—The Georgia
Wholesale Grocers plan to institute
several cases in the courts to deter
mine whether contracts for sugar, al
leged to have been signed under mis
apprehensions are legally binding.]
This was made known when R. B.
Small, president of the Georgia
Wholesale Grocers association, issued
a call for the meeting of the asso
ciation in Macon, September 9, to
discuss the situation. The members
have been instructed to bring all con
tracts and correspondence they had
with refiners.
The wholesalers claim they con
tracted for sugar at $.2228 per
pound and it is now retailing at from
$.15 to $.17. They claim the refin
ers, at the time the contracts were
made, represented to them that there
was a sugar shortage ,which they al
lege was false.
Two Negroes Dead in
Crisp Shooting Affray
CORDELE. Sept. B—Two negroes
were killed and another is now in
the Crisp county jail under charge
of murder as the outcome of a crap
game Sunday night in the quarters of
the R. A. Bedgood farm.
Lemon Causey was shot and killed
outright. Frank Latimer was shot
through the stomach and lingered un
til this morning when he died. John
King, a negro who admitted that he
did the shooting was taken in charge
by W. L. Patterson and delivered to
Sheriff Ward. King says he shot to
save his own life.
The negroes are said to have been
drinking heavily.
Wagnon’s Umpiring
Wins Appreciation
John Wagnon returned yesterday
from Griffin, his headquarters, after
officiating during the season as um
pire in the Georgia State baseball
league. He brought with him a letter
of appreciation from J. P. Nichols.
Jr., of Griffin, president of the
league, expressing the complete sat
isfaction he had given as an umpire.
Mr. Wagnon will join the force of
the Atlantic Land company, of Cor
dele, tomorrow.
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PRICE FIVE CENTS.
HELPED TO RAISE
$40,000 QUOTA
FOR CLEVELAND
1 eils Senate Probers of
Methods Used in
Drive
CHICAGO, Sent. B—United States
District Attorney Cline announced to
day that information about presiden
tial campaign expenses had been sub
mitted to him by E. H. Moore, Gov
ernor Cox’s representative. Cline
said he was not ready to announce
what action may be taken on the in
formation.
CHICAGO, Sept B.—The first evi
dence supporting Governor Cox’s
charges that large quotas had been
assigned the principal cities by the
Republican campaign fund commit
tee was introduced before the senate
committee of investigation today
when Dudley S. Blossom, who helped
to raise Cleveland’s quota, testified
that Governor Cox’s figures of $400,-
000 for that city were correct.
Blossom testified that A. Protse
man, a paid agent of the national
committee, was present when the
Cleveland quota was announced, and
that Protseman 'helped direct the
raising of the money. Forty teams
of six men each were organized for
the drive, Blossom said, twenty un
der his direction and twenty under
C. T. Brooks. A list of three thous
and names of prospects was provided
by C. H. Woolford, chairman of the
ways and means committee of Cuy
ahoga countq.Some cards in the
list were furnished by Woolford
marked with the amounts the pros
pects should give, Blossom said.
C. M. McClure, of Atlanta, said
that Treasurer Upham had sent C. F.
Taylor, paid field worker, to him last
month with a letter stating that Tay
lor was delegated to raise more mor
ey in Georgia. McClure quoted Dr.
J. C. Stockbridge, of Atlanta, who as
sisted him, as saying that Taylor told
Stockbridge he wanted to raise $25.-
000 in Atlanta alone.
Gin Accident Fatal
To Charlie Lumpkin
ELLAVILLE, Sept.B.—The fun
eral services of Charlie Lumpkin who
Hide from injuries received in his
father’s gin near here last Saturday,
took place at he Baptist church Sun
day afternoon at 3:30 o’clock, at
tended by a large concourse of sor
rowing friends and relatives. Rev.
C. D. Carter preached the sermon
from the 35th Psalm, sth verse,
“Commit Thy Way Unto the Lord.”
His remarks were most appropriate.
The floral offerings were beautiful.
The body was interred in the ceme
tery here.
Charlie was a former student at
the Agricultural and Mechanical
school in Americus, and the many
friends he made while there win learn
of his tragic death with sorrow. He
is survived by his father and moth
er, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Lumpkin,
two brothers, Henry Lumpkin, of
Luthersville, and Willie Lumpkin, of
Draneville. and by four sisters, Mrs.
R. E. Battle, of Ellaville; Mrs.
Tondee, of Hopewell; Mrs. Grady
Stewart and Miss Katie Lumpkin, of
Midway.
Wilson Walks Briskly
Unassisted To His Car
WASHINGTON, Sept. B.—Presi
dent Wilson, without assistance, and
leaning lightly on his cane, walked
briskly throgh the front entrance of
the White House yesterday and step
ped into his automobile while a
crowd in Pennsylvania avenue iook
led on with unusual interest. It was
I the first time since his illness that
! the president had started on a motor
trip by that route, all trips hereto
fore having started from the rear
; grounds.
After entering the car with Mrs.
Wilson the president, wearing a cap,
waited several minutes until an at
tendant could bring his straw hat.
Meanwhile the crowd increased and
i made a rush for the gate on the ave-
I nue as the car approached. The presi
' dent lifted his hat and sm’led.
Tighter Regulations
On Sale of Stills
WASHINGTON, Sept. B.—-In an
I effort to end illicit distilling of in
' toxicating liquors, the treasury de
i partment today decided to tighten
I the regulations around the sale of
: stills, and add other checks to its
means of tracing down users.