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WEATHER FORECAST
For Georgia—Probably showers
tonight and Thursday.
FORTY-FOURTH YEAR.—NO. 81
CITY TO GO AFTER $70,000 DEUQUENT TAXES
EACH TEAM GETS
$577.62 HERE AND
PROMOTERS $Bl3
Benefit Baseball Game Successful
Venture; To Net Pobably S3OO
Besides Permanent Seats
Approximately 2,000 persons at
tended the Detroit-Rochester exhi
bition baseball game at the Play
ground Tuesday afternoon. The
game was staged by the Playground
association, with the backing of the
three civic clubs of the city which
signed the guarantee, as a benefit
affair for the Playground. The to-
I tal receipts from general admissions
and reserved seat sales was sl,-
968.78. The two visiting baseball
clubs received $577.62 each for a to
tal of $1,155.22. This left a gross
balance for the Playground of
. $813.56.
Under the contract with the base
v ball management, the visitors were
guaranteed S7OO, but were to re
ceive the first SI,OOO of the general
admission ticket sales. The Play
ground was to receive the next S3OO
and all over that amount was to be
equally divided. The visitor?, by pre
vious arrangement', did not share in
the receipts of the reserved seat sale,
which amounted to $351.75, or more
than enough to pay all the cost of the
seating, including the permanent
stands which will be left on the
grounds. All of the 1,184 reserved
seats except 94 were sold, these be
ing withdrawn when the late crowd
rushed the grand stands and cheek
holders could not be seated with
out trouble.
Added to the receipts for the day
was a sum <>f $38.10 turned in by
Mrs. S. li'. McKee and Mrs. George
Van Riper, from the Woman’s club
lunch and ice cream stand operated
at the grounds during the game. An
other $12.50 obtained from the sale j
of the autographed baseball also was
i 'ded, and there will he still anoth
er amount from the sale of drinks
and sandwiches by C. J. Clara’s re
freshment committee.
Expenses of the game have not
bee i checked up, but the seating
cost will approximate S3OO, with an
additional $75 for rain insurance and
still other expense for printing tick
ets, cards and advertising. . It is
confidently believed t?ie Playground
will net as much a? S3OO cash from
the game besides the permanent
bleachers worth S3OO, which will
constitute a splendid permanent im
provement to the grounds.
SOUTHEASTERN COAL
MERCHANTS TO MEET
ATLANTA, April s.—Discussion
of the coal industry will be heard j
April 10-11, when the first cnoven- 1
tion of the Southeastern Coal Mer
chants’ association will be held here. {
Speeches and addresses will be heard I
Monday afternoon and Tuesday morn- i
ng, while Tuesday afternoon will be
taken up with a business session. |
Among the speakers are Governor
Hardwick," Mayor, Key and W. O. |
Foote, president of the Chamber of |
Commerce. Men interested in the or
ganization to speak will be J. D. A. >
Morrow, vice president of the Ameri-1
can Coal association; George Cush-1
ing, managing director of the Ameri
can Wholesale Coal association, and
Roderick Stephens, president of the
National Retail Coal Miners’ Asso
cialion. I
President J. A. Yarborough, of the i
Southeastern Coal Merchants’ asso
ciation, of Charlotte, N. C., wil; pre
side over the sessions.
WAYCROSS H. S .SENIORS
PROVE APT AS EDITORS
WAYCROSS, April s.—Xnc stu
dents'of the Senior Class of the Way
cross High school yesterday edited the
Waycross Journal-Herald. City Edi
tor Williams being out of the city, the
: tudents took charge of the editing
of all the different departments of
the paper, including the editorial and
advertising departments. By 11:45
o’clock sufficient material turned in
by the students made the printing of
an eighteen page paper necessary. 1
Success marked the efforts of the I
students. Every article afTpearing in I
the edition was up to standard, and
wire service and city news was handl-,
cl by the students as if they were old !
timers in the newspaper game.
AM I# IC US SPOT COTTON
Good middling, 17 1-4 cents.
LIVERPOOL COTTON.
LIVERPOOL, April 5. Market
opened steady 11-16 up. Fullys
10.72. Sales, 7000 hales.
Futures: April June Sept.
Prev. Close 10.23 10.12 8.96
First call 10.35 10.24 9.99
Close 10.32 10.22 10.00
NEW YORK FUTURES
May July Oct.
I rev. Close 18.00 17.36 17.21
Open 18.07 17.43 17.28
10:15 am 17.98 17.35 17.18
10:30 18.00 17.37 17.20
10:45 18.02 17.38 17.19
1 1:00 18.00 17.36 17.17
11:15 18.00 17.36 17.18
11:30 18.01 17.37 17.16
11:45 7.99 17.35 17.14
12:00 noon 18.01 17.38 17.16
12:15 pm 18.01 17.38 17.16
12:30 17.99 17.3ip, 17.14
12:45 18.00 17.35 17.15
1:00 17.96 17.33 17.12
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MUCH GOLDEN
RULE TRADING
Merchants Report Good Business,
Particularly From Out Os
Town
The Golden Rule sale yesterday,
wihch had been moved up one day
from the regular first Wednesday to
Tuesday because of the baseball
game, proved a splendid success in
practically all the stores heard from,
it was impossible to make the rounds
and completely check-up the remits,
but those merchants interviewed by
j chance all reported good business and
! most of them extraordinary trade,
Following are those reporting:
“We had a tremendous day, one
of the best days we have ever had,”
said Chas. L. Ansley, this njprning.
“In fact 1 do not know of any day
in five years when we had so many
people to call and to wait on. Dur
ing the afternoon we could not wait
on tne customers. The • men went
to the game but the women stayed
m town to shop. We had customers
from Cuthbert, Montezuma, Dawson
and other towns some distance away.
We are more than pleased. We arc
del'ghted with our day."
“From 6:50 yesterday morning un
til '7:00 o’clock last night,” J. E.
Hightower of Hightower & Taylor's
Fashion Shop, said, “we had our
hands full, there was not a minute
in the day that we could stop. Wom
en came from everywhere!” And
W. E. Taylor stated "it was the best
day of our business —we are tired
out, but happy.” One thing seems
absolutely certain, and that is that
Americus is extending her trade ter
ritory. We are seeing faces we nev
er saw before. People are coming
here in response to our advertising
from long distances. “As an evi
dence of tha crowd,” Mr. Hightower
said, “I ran out to the Playground
during the game, just to count the
automobiles. I counted 475 on three
streets and there were cars inside
the grounds and over beyond the rail
road 1 did not count. There could
not have been less than 500 to 550
cars out there.”
“We had a fine day and were
very well pleased,” said C. C. Wil
liams, of the Williams-Niles Hard
ware company. “Our trade was
about 50-50 between town and out
of-town people. Our garden hose
special sold out before the day was
over and we supplied buyers out of
other stock at tjje advertised price,
i he trade kept up well all day until
the hall game, and then was brisk
after the game.” t
“We sold four of our special porch
lockers before breakfast, and all
were gone by ten o’clock. We could
have sold a dozen or two more if we
bad ordered them. Four went to
Riihland people.” This was the re
port of Ed Gyles of the Gyles-An
drewr Furniture company, one of the
enthusiastic supporters of the Gold
en Rule sale plan, which has report
ed good business in every sale thus
far.
'1 he Rylander Shoe company had
a good day’s business, D. R. Andrews
reported. Practically all the trading
was from outside of Americus.
Churchwell’s had a splendid day’s
general sales. The men’s wear had
a lighter trade than the side in which
the women shopped, Manager Royal
reported. Sales during the baseball
game, he said, amounted to fully
AMERICUS. GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY .AFTERNOON. APRIL 5, 1922
| FISHERMEN!
i WHAT SHALL
WE DO TO HIM?
I riIOMASVIKLE, April 4.
j Thomasville fishermen are up in
| arms over a story told here re
j cently. A certain proud father
j wanted to weigh a healthy and
j happy arrival of the male persuas
j ion. Ee borrowed the fisherman’s
J scales and the infant tipped the
i scales at forty-two pounds. *
ENGLAND TO PAY ‘
INTEREST TO U.S.
Informs Allies She Will Expect
Them To Pay Her
Interest
LONDON, April 5. — (By Associat
ed Press.) —The British government
has addressed a note to the Allies de
claring that owing to the fact that
Graet Britain has to pay interest on
her debt to he Unied States, she re
serves to herself the right to call upon
the Allies in turn to pay interest on
their war debts to Great Britain.
NO INFORMATION
AT U. S. TREASURY
WASHINGTON, April s.—(By As
sociated Press.) —Beyond the press
reports of Great Britain’s preparation
to begin the payment of interest up
on her five billion dollar, war debt to
the United States, the treasury is
without information on the subject.
Great Britain, officials said oday, has
been reported laying aside twenty
five million pounds in her budget for
this year to meet interest payments
to this country.
CUBA READY TO HELP
U. S. STOP BOOZE TRAFFIC
ATLANTA, April s.—Cuba is will
ing to co-operate with the United
States in fighting whisky and drug
running, according to T. E. Middle
brooks, federal narcotics agent here,
who has just returned from a ten
day visit to the island in company
with other national prohibition
agents. While in Cuba, the visitors
interviewed a number of officials of
the Cuban government.
“Cuba has proimsed to do every
thing possible to assist in stopping il
licit liquor and drug running into this
country,” Mr. Middlebrooks said.
“Everything there iA wide open, but
they respect the United States laws,
and are anxious, they -■ay, to assist
us v ”
Miss Emma Chapman, Mrs. C. K.
Chapman, Iris Johnson, Herbert Co
man and Fred Betz spent the day
with a party of friends at Anderson
ville, where they vsiited the ceme
tery.
Dawson to Montezuma.
A. Cohen & Son had a very satis
factory day, Ferdinand Cohen re
ported.
Howell’s Pharmacy doubled its
usual business, I)r. Howell reported,
although the Golden Rule specials
were not in great demand.
The Harris Hardware company had
fair dav /
REPORT FUND TO
RESUME BIG DAM
Senate Committee Asks $7,500,-
000 To Start Work At
Muscle Shoals
WASHINGTON, April s.—Re
sunition of work on the Wilson dam
of army engineers was recommended
at Muscle Shoals under the charge
today by the senate agricultural
committee.
The committee voted unanimously
to report an amendment to the army
sundry bill when it was presented
providing an appropriation of $7,-
500,000 to finance work on the dam
for the year beginning July first
next.
Senator Harrison, :,f Mississippi,
suggested that the agricultural com
mittee should communicate it 1 inten
tions to the appropriation sub-com
mittee in charge of the army bill if
possible to obtain its approval of the
proposed amendement. Chairman
Norris said he would take the mat
ter up with the appropriations mem
bers.
WIFE OF SLAYER
ACCUSES OFFICER
Mrs. Day Says He Grabbed Her
After Husband and Friends
Left the House
OKLAHOMA CITY, April 5.
Preparations were made today to
launch three separate inquiries into
events surrounding the death of
Lieut. Col. Paul W. Beck,who was
killed by Jean P. Day, prominent
Oklahoma attorney, in the latter’s
home here early yesterday, when, ac
cording to Day, he found Beck strug
gling with Mrs. Day.
In a statement today by Mrs. Day,
she said Beck had grabbed her
wrists after her husband and friends
had left the house and made improp
er proposals to her.
KEY IS FURNISHED
TO TREASURE HOUSE
What vast and mighty treasures of
words full of rich meaning lie locked
up in our language—hidden away
from common use, and enjoyed only
by the learned few. It is as if pos
sessing the mineral wealth of Mexico,
mined, smelted and ready for the
mint, we turned scornfully aside rev
elling in a voluntary poverty.
A dictionary constitutes the treas
ure house of a language. As a people,
we needlessly deprive ourselves of
the helps at our command. In our
daily tasks, not one of which can be
performed without the use of words,
we possess only the most primitive
tools, when we might be equipped
with the keenest and most efficient.
If the dictionary be the barred and
bolted treasure house we have men
tioned, then the coupon we print dai
ly in this paper is its key.
The coupon will appear only a few
more times. This marvelous distri
bution draws to a close. Readers are
advised to consult the coupon now,
read the display announcements and
ascertain at once how this great New
Universities DictioriatV can be secur-
DETROIT TIGERS
BADLY TROUNCE
STALLINGS’ MEN
Cobb Sprains Ankle In Americus
Game, But Gets 4 Hits In
5 Tiroes
Thb following story of Tuesday’s
exhibition game at the Playground
between Detroit and Rochester was
written 'for the Times-Reeorder and
the Detroit Free Press by Harry Bul
lion, of the Free Press staff, who was
official scorer of the game:
BY HARRY BULLION
Sporting Writer, Detroit Free Press.
Employing 16 hits to excellent pur
pose the Detroit Tigers Tuesday aft
ernoon administered their most de
cisive defeat of the spring series to
Rochester, 10 to 3.
Bert Cole, who went the whole
route for Manager Cobb, weakened
in the eighth and ninth, where, in
the first of these periods the Rust
lers avoided a scoreless beating with
a single run and in the closing stanza
grouped a single and two triples for
two more markers.
There is no telling to what length
the Bengats would have carried the
atrocities on Stalling’s men had the
former miracle man failed to make
a good guess with his third pitcher,
Meador.
Keenan and Leonard were pound
ed unmercifully and while Cole re
mained strong it merely became a
question of how great a total the
Tigers would compile and how long
it would require the minor leaguers
to dent the plate.
Stallings toyk Keenan off the hill
at the conclusion of the fourth in
ning, by which time he had been
shamefully abused and Leonard, the
relief gunner, didn’t fare a great
deal better. With the introduction
of Meador, though, the artillery fire
stopped almost entirely.
Johnny Bassler and Lou Blue were
I the only men in Cobb’s cast who fail
ed to participate in the slugging jubi
j lee. Even Cole, a pitcher who isn’t
supposed to carry a bat to the plate
except that the rules require it, add
ed to the discomfiture of the young
moundsmen who struggled to please
their ranting manager on the bench.
Race for Honors.
Cobb and Fothergill ran a merry
race for batting honors, with the
laurels finally resting on the brow of
the Georgian, although in the num
ber of jolts to untenanted spots Bob
tied Ty. In the Peach’s collection
were a pair of doubles, however while
the Rochester graduate confined his
efforts to three singles and one blow
of the single extra base variety.
Afield the Tigers were not so
strong as in Monday’s game, hut the
way the clubber’s took toe holds and
massaged the leather an airtight de
fense wasn’t necessary. Emory Rig
ney was the principal offender with
i two “boots,” while Cutshaw contrib
' uted one.
i Rochester’s defensive merit was of
a cleaner character than the Tigers’
but with them it was either a case
j of the Tigers nailing the horsehide
1 straight at somebody or nowhere
near enough to be intercepted.
Liberties taken With Cole’s deliv
ery were limited, however. Bert
didn’t get away with much eclat in
the first inning, where he was solved
for a single and a double without
yielding a score, but thereafter or,
i until two were out in the seventh the
| sl *m total of the Rustlers’ achieve
j ments with the stick was one hit and
| the lean southpaw set six of the en
emy down on strikes.
In the seventh the strenuousness
of his toil began to exact toll, though
and a pair of singles bunched with an
error by Cutshaw scored a welcome
run for Stallings and in the ninth a
single by Archdeacon and triples
looped over the outfields’ heads by
R f ady and Merkle accounted for two
more.
Detroit Starts Ecariy.
! Detroit started early to profit by
the inviting mark Keenan offered,
j Cutshaw singled and doubles by
I Cobb and Fothergill followed for two
; runs. Rigney opened the second with
j a double to left, but he expired in a
I double play with Cole after Bassler
i sacrificed.
j The second and third were dull pe
; nods, but in the fourth singles by
i Fothergill, Mohardt, Rigney and
i Cole, with a w*eird heave by Pearce
netted three more runs. That finish
: cd Keenan, who yielded to Leonard,
a big right-hander. Cutshaw greet
ed the second gunner with a double
to left and Cobb scored the ex-Pirate
with a single to right. Then while
Feathergill took a cut at the third
strike Cobb stole second and scored
standing up on Jones’s belt for a
base to center.
Leonard got by the sixth without
[ trouble, but everything was done to
| him in the next round before he
I could get a man out. He hit Cut-
I sbaw to start the inning and Cobb
j doubled George to third base. Foth
ergill scored Cutshaw and sent Cobb
Ito third with a single to center. Bob
j moved up on the throw and scored
immediately after on Jones’es double
to light.
that concluded the Tigers’ scoring,
but up to that time the Rustlers were
still wondering when their first run
would arrive. It occurred in the
eighth on Cutshaw’s error behind a
lift to Murray and singles introduc
ed by Pool and Pearce.
By that time i ole was sagging at
the knees and plainly tired. He en
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PRICE FIVE CENTS.
bqxsgore
DETROIT— ah r h po a e
Blue, 1 b 5 0 0 8 1 0
Cutshaw, 2 b 4 3 2 0 2 1
Cobb, c f 5 3 4 5 0 0
Flagstead, c f ....0 0 0 1 0 0
I Fothergill, rs ....5 1 4 0 0 0
Jones, 3 b 5 1 2 1 2 0
Mohardt, If f> 114 0 0
Rigney, s s 4 12 2 12
Bassler, c 2 0 0 5 1 0
Cole, p 4 0 1 110
TOTALS 39 10 16 27 8 3
ROCHESTER— ab r h po a e
Archdeacon, cf .5 1 2 3 1 0
I Brady, 2 b 4 12 16 0
Murray, 3 b 5 1 0 1 3 0
Merkle, 1 b 5 0 2 15 2 0
Connolly, 1 f .4 0 0 0 0 0
Pool, r f 4 0 10 0 0
Pearce, s s 3 0 1 2 3 1
Lake, c 4 0 0 4 0 0
Keenan, p 1 0 0 13 0
Leonard, p 1 0 0 0 0 0
Meador, p 1 0 10 0 0
’ OCohnell 1 0 0 0 0 0
TOTALS 38 3 9 27 18 1
’ Batted for Meador in ninth.
THE SCORE BY INNINGS
Detroit 2 0 0 3 .2 0 3 0 o—lo
Rochester .0 00000 0 1 2 3
Summary Two-base hits Cut
shaw, Cobb 2, Fothergill, Jones, Rig
ney, Brady; three-base hits Brady,
Merkle; stolen bases Cobb; double
plays. Pearce to Merkle to Lake; base
on balls Cole 2; left on bases Detroit
4; Rochester 10; hit by pitched balls
by Lenoard (Cutshaw) ; hits off
Keenan, 8 in 4; Leonard 6 in 2;
Meador 2 in 3; struck out Cole 6,
Leonard 3. Umpires Johnson and
McGowan.
!NOTES OF THE i
BIG BALL GAME |
* .+
Seeral small hoys who squatted on
the ground along the side lines to
watt h the game had several hard foul
balls bounced o#f their ribs, but none
were hurt. Tue only distressing ac
cident was when an infielder, try
ing for a double play, overthrew to
first base and struck Edward Heys
cleven-year-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Cloyd Buchanan, on the cheek
below the right eye. Several physi
cians were on hand immediately and
the little fellow given emergency
treatment and sent home. The De
troit physician gave him a league
baseball as a keepsake, which he took*
home, it partly compensating for
missing half the game.
J. Ralston Cargill, president of the
Playground association, pitched the
first ball and Umpire Johnson gave
it to hi mas a souvenir.
Col. W. A. Dodson, who has been
ill for a couple of weeks, but has
been getting out a bit for a few days,
was permitted to drive his car onto
, the grounds and saw the game from
it, he being the only one accorded
this privilege.
Chief Bragg, on a spotted pony,
was on the job as traftic chief and
handled the job to perfection, as
sisted by his force of dependable
men.
The autographed baseball, bearing
the signatures of both Cobb and
Stallings, donated for the benefit of
the Playground, was auctioned by
President Cargill and went to E. L.
Simpson, of Smithville, for $12.50.
C. J. Clark was on the job, with
a corps of helpers, in charge of the
drink stand at the grounds. He also
had general charge of the stands up
town, with able corps of ladies ana
men doing the selling.
All the grand stand reserved seats
except 04 were sold, these being tak
en off sale when the- crowd had ap
parently filled the stands. It became
apparent after the crowd was seated
that too little room had been allow
ed for each person, making the stands
less comfortable than <tney should
have been.
Barlow and Hill streets were roped
off for a block on each side of the
Playground, eliminating traffic con
gestion there.
. “Much credit and appreciation is
I due the ticket sellers, who remain
j cd on the jobs, denying themselves
; the pleasure of seeing the game,”,
; the chairman of the ticket sellers
, said. “George Marshall, George An
deruon, H. M. Sellers, O. C. John
stn, H. B. Mashburn, Walter Ry
\ lander, R. B. Hightower, J. A. Walk
er. Jack McArthur, Lewis Ellis, and
Mrs. Lovejpce Eve were on the job
j from 1 until after the game, under
| the able supervision of Emory Ry
! lander who had charge of this part
|of the game. Mrs. W. S. Kirkpat
r: k and Mrs. L|;elace Eve sold re
l serve seats at the Times-Reeorder
office, Saturday, Monday and Tues
day.”
ARBUCKLE ON STAND
FOR THIRD TIME TODAY
SAN FAANCISO, April s.—Ros
coe (Fatty) Arbuckkle will take the
1 stand in his own defense today, ac
j cording to announcement of Gavin
: McNab his chief counsel, in his third
trial on the charge of manslaughter
i in connection with the death of Vir
ginia
SMi
MARSHAL TOLD
TO PROCEED TO
FI FA AND SELL
Nearly $45,000 Uncollected For
1921 And $25,000 To $30,-
000 Behind That Data
Let all those who have city taxes
to pay prepare to pay them now.
For the axe is about to fall.
The city council finance committee
having discovered as a result of the
audit of the city’s hooks which has
just been completed, and a detailed
report of which is expected by the
first of next week, that large sums
of city tax money has never been
collected and no fi fas issued to
force collection, has issued positive
instructions to City Marshal Pouncey
to issue fi fds and proceed to sell the
property levied on in every case un
less due taxed are settled before
April 15.
Notice that this will be done ap
pears elsewhere in this issue over
Marshal Pouncey’s name.
The finance committee has been
informed by the auditors that the
records of the city clerk and treasur
er show that nearly $45,000 of the
1921 city tax levy remains uncol
lected. The records also show, it is
said, some $25,000 or $30,000 of un
paid taxes on the books for previous
years dating back seven years, be
yond which time taxes cannot be col
lected by law. The total delinquent
is put at about $70,000. The
amount due from the 1921 levy is
a third of the total of ad valorem
tax, which amounts to approximately
$119,000. According to Marshal
Pouncey, he will have fi fas to issue
against probably 350 persons, in
amounts ranging from $1 up.
J. T. Warren, chairman of the
council finance committee, who re
ceived this committee assignment for
the first time at the beginning of
the year, is largely icsponsible for
the audiio of the city’s books and
the effort to learn the exact conn"
tion of the city’s affairs, and the
order to tho -.marshal to proceed to
collect due taxes was issued through
him.
“The city has regular payrolls to
meet,” said he, “and we arc going
to feed everybody out of the same
spoon. Many people have already
paid their taxes and those who have
not are going to be required to p*y
them at once. The city has lost
thousands of dollars in the past by
permitting taxes to go uncollected
until citizens moved away taking
v.sth them all their property! and
leaving nothing to levy on; The city
marshal has been ordered to make
all collections at once and treat all
persons alike.”
ALLRATESPUT
IN TWO CLASSES
Discrimination Against Smaller
Points In Georgia Ended By
Commission
ATLANTA, April s.—The Georgia
j Railroad commission has issued a final
order on class freight rates, and ac
j cording to comment of expert rate
men over the state, it is the greatest
piece of constructive work in the his
i tory of the Georgia commission.
1 Among other desirable features of
! interest to the consumers throughout
! the state is that parr, of he order
which eliminates the base point sys
tem. Dating from the beginning of
railroad construction in the state, va
rious points have been favered with
| preferential rates, to the extent that
it is estimated there are today twenty
one hundred shipping points in the
state suffering the handicap of dis
i criminatory rates enjoyed by some
thirty-odd large shipping centers. The
order above referred to does away
with this discrimination.
The hearing by the commission, on
which the order is based, had its in
ception in a rule prepared and intro
j duced by Commissioner Perry, on
July 4, 1921. Thirty-eight days were
consumed in hearing evidence by the
shippers and carriers. The mileage
scale is adhered to in the decision,
which means that every point in the
state, on the same class railroad, for
the samem distance, will pay precise
ly the same freight rate.
Two classes of railroads are pro
vided for. All standard or trunk
lines are put in Class A; lines of less
earnings and importance are classed
as B roads.
SCALDED CHULA CHILD
DIES IN GREAT AGONY
TIFTON, April 5.—-Cleveland Rog
er', Jr., two and a half year old son
of Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland Rogers, of
Chula, died last night at 7:30 from
scalds received when the little fellow
fell headlong into a pot of boiling
water in the yard where his mother
was doing the family washing. It.
skin peeled from its body from .t
waist up and the child suffered ?
agony before death came to its re
lief.
Among those coming from Albany
:to see J’y Cobb play at Americus
j were Dr W. L. Davis, Mr. Will Davis,