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soCHICKENS, 40
CAKES, 480 EGGS
FOR ROTARIANS
Preparations Being Made Enter
tainment Os 350 Guests
Thursday
Rotary expects to feed around 350
at its all-Rotary day Thursday, when
Rotarians from Albany, West Point,
Quitman, Thomasville, Columbus and
Moultrie will be guests of the local
club. , ,
Two chickens, one’cake, one doz
en deviled eggs, a dozen biscuits and
a table cloth is the quota fixed for
each Rotary family, the wives of
the 40 Rotarians having been phoned
Tuesday requesting that these be
furnished and sent to the playground
not later than 11 o’clock Thursday
morning.
The committee in charge ot bas
kets as appointed by President Carr
Glover is Mrs. L. F. Grubbs, chair
man; Mrs. W. G. Turpin and Mrs.
Lovelace Eve. The committee is
working under the general menu
committee of which W. E. Taylor is
chairman.
“We expect every woman in the
Rotary club to furnish just this list,”
Mrs. Grubbs said Tuesday. “And be
sides a white table cloth must come
with the basket. The baskets must
be sent to the playground not later
than 11 a. m. Thursday morning.”
The heads of all comittees met
President Carr Glover Tuesday morn
ing and reported all in readiness for
Thursday.
ANTI-FEE LAWMAKERS
PLAN ASSEMBLY PROGRAM
ATLANTA, July 11.— A meeting
of representatives of counties in
Georgia interested in the abolishing
of fees of county officers was held at
the Kimball House Monday night at
8 o’clock. Specially invited were rep
resentatives from the counties of
Fulton, Chatham, Richmond, Bibb,
Muscogee and other larger counties
where the fees of county officials
aggregate a large sum. Considera
ble agitation for the abolishment of
the fee system has taken place in
Fulton county, as is the case in other
counties of large population in the
state where many county officials are
stated to be paid enormous fees. The
object of the meeting Friday night
object of the meeting Monday night
was to work out some plan that would
be agreeable to all counties who are
desirous of doing away with the fee
system.
SUMMER SHORT COURSE
AT 2ND AGGIE JULY 24
TIFTON, July 11.—The annual
Summer Short Course at the Second
District A. & M. school will open
Monday night, July 24, and continue
thiough Friday. Daily lectures will
e given on cattle and dairying
bogs, poultry and horticulture. A
number of competent instructors
capable of handling the subjects in a
practical way will be on hand. A
Mme has been selected when farm
have most leisure and
ney and their wives and children
are invited to attend. The course
hcon ee tC> i aH and ararn Rcnients hate
who made r lo Provide board to those
Jo °me from a distance at a rate
<', ,cn “ « p” ■<«>•
S! S.'yA Y TO CONTROL
MALL MINES ON PRICES
BenUtkes IN O ? T t ?? T ’ July 12—Repre
union coal °Perators of non
«ether this we'T t™’ 1 be > Callcd to '
°f dealim-w F 1 consider means
who are Alin-- \" C ‘■ malle y operators
thaa th P >- ' ' ,a ‘ ab Prices higher
bv voluntar U,U reccntl - v reached
time toda v ''b' situation marked
th 'operators - the decision of
ionized field n ‘ n ? ncrs in th e un-
President K- V° ‘, he acce Ptance of
fixing a d ‘ ng 8 P r °Posal for
ti " a BCa,e arbUra
work at th. dU resumption of
last. wage rates of March 31
RECORDS
nhtD ER AL GRAND JURY
. ci ' W p A '!;S (,X ; July Fran
t°d 'an in the u-’l H ' n P ro l*rty cus
and now 1)r , ' son
F’nndatio’ 1 | ,‘ enl . of th e Chemical
‘«rton all tin”,. ’ ~r? to Wash
tll(‘foundati,,.. 1 ‘ ° r,,s and books of
. Clal grand j u '' lo to the spe
liJ ‘ llvt 'sligate W ‘“‘ ntl >’ impanelled
••te war controls.
FRANCE OPPOSES
ALLIED PARLEY
ON REPARATIONS
Would Consent Only As Last Re
sort —Lloyd George May
Summon Poincare
PARIS, July 11.— (By Associated
Press.) —France has decided to keep
her experts at The Hague until the
end of the conference on Russian af
fairs there, it was officially announc
ed today.
The French government is opposed
to any immediate meeting of Allied
powers to discuss the reparations sit
uation and will only consent to such a
meeting as a final step. This was
made plain in official circles today
after a conference between Presi
dent Dußouis, of the reparations
commission, and Premier Poincare.
POINCARE MAY BE
CALLED TO LONDON.
LONDON, July 11.— (By Associat
ed Press.) —French Premier Poincare
probably will be invited to London
immediately for discussions with
Prime Minister Lloyd George on the
reparations questions as affected by
thg present condition in Germany, ac
cording to official circles here.
PECAN INDUSTRY
IN SUMTER FILM
Movie Made Here Being Shown At
Rylander Theater Wednesday
And Friday
A reel of Sumter county scenes,
demonstrating the pecan industry,
will be shown at the Rylander the
ater Wednesday and Friday as an ad
dition to the regular program. The
reel was prepared by the National
Pecan Groves company, of Washing
ton, D. C., owners of the executive
pecan development at Flintside, un
der the direction of Ben C. Geiger, of
Washington, secretary, and H. W.
Smithwick, of Americus, horticultur
ist. The film shows in detail the
method of budding and grafting
trees, development in the nursery,
setting out, and growth after plant
ing up to several year of age. It
show’s the method of picking, dry
ing, sorting and packing, and gives
a splendid panorama of the Flintside
property, which contains 3,000 acres
of growing pecan trees and is being
extended at the rate of something
like 500 acres per year for sale in
tracts of units of 5 acres. The film
has been on display in the theaters
of Chicago for eight months, it is
said, and has elicited much interest.
HAWKINSVILLE HOTEL
FIRE FATAL TO GUEST
CORDELE, July 11.—The Globe
House, a two-story hotel in Hawkins
ville, was destroyed by fire at 2
o’clock Monday morning. The flames
injured Robert Elrod, 45 years of
age, a roomer at the hotel, so badly
that he died later in the day. The
house was totally destroyed and the
fire was thought to have been in
cendiary. A blaze which started in
the same house the night before in
a clothes closet was extinguished.
The victim of the fire ran out on
the roof of the veranda, according to
spectators, and was urged to jump.
Instead he ran back into his room
and when he jumped from a window
to the ground he had already been
so badly burned that death followed.
BIG PLANING MILL HAS
CLOSE CALL FROM FIRE
THOMASVILLE, July 11. The
boiler room and rawdust shed of
W. E. Beverly’s planing mill was de
stroyed by fire yesterday at noon.
Swift and fine fighting saved the
planing mill, dry kilns, five freight
cars and other equipment from burn
ing. The loss will not be material
and the operation of the immense
plant was delayed only a short time.
CORDELE AT LAST GETS
PAVING REPAIR ACTION
CORDELE, July 11.—Members of
the city council are pleased today
to announce that they are soon to
get extensive repairs on the asphalt
paving done here nearly ten years
ago. West & Company, contractors,
with offices in Chatanooga, are com
ing here as soon as impediments ami
machinery can arrive ami will do ex
tensive repairs on that portion of
the paving which has failed to stand.
THE TIMESSRECORDER
ESI PUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF
MASKS MUST GO,
SAYS HARDWICK
ATLANTA, July 11.—In a letter
to W. W. Rainey, publicity manager
in Muscogee county of Clifford
Walker’s first campaign for gover
nor, accepting Mr. Rainey’s pledge
of support* and renewing the gover
nor’s earlier stand for law and or
der, Governor Hardwick said that if
the Ku Klux Klan will not discard
the mask voluntarily that he would
ask the general assembly to make
the wearing of masks criminal. A por
tion of his letter referring to that
topic follows:
“It is my earnest hope that the
leaders of this organization may
promptly realize the necessity for
discarding the mask and from remov
ing all secrecy about their member
ship. Unless they do, it will be nec
essary, in the interests of the public
and of law and order, to take strong
steps to make the wearing of masks
criminal in this state and I shall un
hesitatingly advise and recommend
such a course to our general assem
bly.”
A resolution commending Gover
nor Hardwick for his stand against
lynching and the wearing of masks
by the Ku Klux Klan, as expressed in
his recent address before the law
enforcement league, offered by Dr.
Ashby Jones, pastor of the Ponce de
Leon Batist church, was adopted in
the face of opposition at the regular
monthly meeting of the Evangelical
Ministers association Monday. Only
about twenty members of the associa
tion werg present and the resolution
was adopted by a very small margin
of votes.
X-RAY TAKEN OF HIP OF
ROBT. HODGES AFTER FALL
Robe.-t Hodges, who was hurt in
a fall in in an elevator shaft in At
lanta Saturday night, is resting well
and is expected to recover rapidly,
his mother, Mrs. A. F. Hodges, re
ported on her return home here Mon
day, after she had spent Sunday with
him. An X-ray photograph of the
injury to his hip was taken, permit
ting the surgeons to proceed intelli
fently with treatment.
The accident occurred in the room
ing house where Mr, Hodges resides.
He was with Dan Chappell, of Amer
icus, at the time. In this rooming
house it is said to be the custom of
the roomers to operate the elevator
themselves. When Mr. Hodges and
Mr. Chappell went to his room they
left the elevator on their floor level.
When they emerged the hall was
dark and Mr. Hodges walked into the
open shaft, someone having taken the
elevator higher. He fell 25 or 30
feet ami wa« picked up unconscious.
Mr. (’happell was immediately behind
Mr. Hodges and barely missed fall
ing himself.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY I I, 1922.
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SENATE WANTS REPORT
ON COTTON ABANDONMENT
WASHINGTON, July 11. _ The
senate today adopted a resolution by
Senator Heflin, of Alabama, requir
ing publication in August of a crop
report of information on the aban
donment of cotton acreage to July
first.
JUDGE COZART
FOR HARDWICK
COLUMBUS, July 11.—Judge A.
W. Cozart, in a letter to the En
quirer-Sun lauds Governor Hardwick
and his administration and pledges
his support of the governor in the
coming campaign.
Judge Cozart, who was last fall
elected chairman of the city Demo
cratic committee, and who did not
support Hardwick in 1920, says the
governor “has brains, backbone and
experience and is a statesman par
excellence.’’ The judge states that
the governor’s administration “has
been marked by wisdom and has
I been remarkably free from errors
and he deserves the endorsement of
all good citizens.”
His letter follows:
“The late Bishop Ward, of Texas,
used to say that he had more hope
for a man who had common sense
without religion than he had for a
man who had religion without com
mon sense, for, said he, a man who
has common sense may get religion,
but a man who has religion only can
not get common sense.
“As between Hardwick and Walk
er 1 shall support Hardwick. This is
a time when the state needs a gover
nor who Las stamina plu. Hard
wick can be neither driven or push
ed. He has brains, backbone and
experience and is a statesman par
excellence.
“I did not support him for gov
ernor before but his administration
has been marked by wisdom and has
been remarkably free from errors
and he deserves the endorsement of
all good citizens.”
BOY SCOUTS TO CALL AT
HOMES FOR WRAPPERS
The Boy Scouts will call at all of
the homes in the city the latter part
of next week to collect the Octagon
soap wrappers for which the ladies
of the Woman’s club sent out an ap
peal several weeks ago. These wrap
pers will be exchanged for silver
ware to be used in the soup kitchens
in the local schools. Mrs. B. C.
Keister is chairman of soup kitch
en committee and she is anxious to
have everything in readiness for the
beginning of the fall term.
OFFERS BILL FOR
GEORGIA BONUS
ATLANTA, July 11.—Representa
tive Ernest G. Bentley, of Fulton
county, will introduce a bill in the
house today, granting sl2 a month to
every Georgian for each month of
service during the war. He declared
that the bill would carry an appro
priation of about $2,000,000 to be
raised over a period of five years by
a tax on automobile oils and greases.
His plan is ’to divide the bonus
into five installments, one to be paid
on January 1, of each year, which
he stated would require about $400,-
000 annually. If tax collections fell
short of the $400,000 required, he
stated that the time for payment
would be extended, possibly another
year being added. The tax proposed
to be imposed would be 8 cents a
gallon on oils and 2 cents a pound
on greases.
The author of the bill stated that
he proposed to make a fight for his
measure, though did not indicate the
probable strength his proposal would
command. He stated further that
’administration of the bonus would be
placed in the adjutant general’s of
fice, and ‘every man who went to
the war from Georgia will be eligible
to the bonus. I believe it only right
' that the state should follow the ex
> ample of many others and give recog
: nition to those who served.”
22 LARGE BOLLS, TWENTY
SMALLER ON SINGLE STALK
That Sumter county is growing
some fine cotton this year, in spite
of the boll’weevil, was demonstrated
by W. L. English, who left at the
Commercial warehouse Tuesday
j morning two splendidly developed
cotton stalks from the farm about 6
miles from Americus in the Old 16th
district owned by himself and W. W.
Dykes. One of the stalks held 22
large bolls, some of them nearly de
veloped, and a score of small bolls
as well as numerous blooms and
squares. The other, a smaller stalk,
held 15 food bolls and many small
ones. There were no evidences of
hob weevil on either plant. This
farm has been peculiarly free from
weevils in the past.
HOFFMAN BANKRUPT
STOCK OF GOODS SOLD
The o|d bankrupt stock of Reuben
Hoffman, (located in storeroom at
116 Cotton avenue, was purchased
Tuesday from Mrs. Fannie Hoffman
by Mrs. E. Pearlman. Mrs. Pearl
man paid SIOSO for stock, fixtqres
anti accounts. C. Sokulow has been
put in charge of the store, as it will
be operated by Mrs. Pearlman,
PRICE FIVE CENTS
SIGNAL MEN DECIDE NOT
TO STRIKE AT PRESENT;
MAILS STOP ON 3 LINES
Troops On Guard In Illinois, Kansas and Missouri
—3,000 Miles Os Wabash Road Tied Up—
President And Cabinet Discuss Industrial
Situation
CINCINNATI, July 11 A strike
of railway clerks, freight handlers
and express and station employes on
the Norfolk and Western has be m
sanctioned by Grand President E. H.
Fitzgerald, according to 1. D. Mum
by, assistant to Fihzgerabl. at the
headquarters of the brotherhood here
today.
Mumby also stated that the broth
erhood headquarters had been advis
ed that the executive board of the
brotherhood on the Chesapeake &
Ohio was to present resolutions to
the Official Read at Richmond to
day protesting against the wage cut
and demanding full time vacations.
NOT A CLERK QUIT
IN GENERAL OFFICES.
ROANOKE, Va., July 11.—Not a
single clerk struck at the gejjeral of
fices of the Norfolk ami Western
here at 10 o’clock this morning, the
time set by Chairman C. B. Lane for
a general walkout, according to a
statement at the offices of the presi
dent of the road at 10:30 o’clock.
35 OF 42 CLERKS AT
WINSTON-SALEM QUIT.
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., July 11
—Thirty-five of the 24 clerks em
ployed at the Norfolk and Western
road offices here went on strike at
10 o’clock this morning.
LAWHORNES TO TRIAL
AT TIFTON WEDNESDAY
TIFTON, July 11. The cases
against Simms and Floyd Lawhorne,
charged with the murder of S. S.
Monk, of Tifton, June 13, have
been set for trial in Tift Superior
court Wednesday. Mr. Monk was 70
years of age and was shot beside the
road at the field where the Law
horne boys were at work. There
had been feeling between the fami
lies and the Lawhorne’s claim self
defense. Floyd Lawhorne stated
that Simms did the sohoting.
The case against 11. T. Wrennick,
former cashier of the Bank of Ty
Ty, is set for trial on the same day.
Wrennick is charged with embezzle
ment, the amount being fixed at
$5,000. Soon after his arrest he is-
I sued a sensational statement in which
i he alleged that the charges grew out
I of his activities in trying to prose
j cute violator;-, of the prohibition law
and his opposition to the Ku Klux
Klan.
i JOCK HUTCHINSON SETS
NEW RECORD AT GOLF
l SKOKIE COUNTRY CUB, Glen
coe, 111., July 11.—Playing the
I greatest game of golf seen on the
I Skokie course in many a day, Jock
I Hutchison, of Chicago, British open
: champion last year, turned in a card
I of 33-34—67, three strokes under par
; for the first half of Monday’s 36-
hole qualifying round in the national
I open tournament. He missed an 18-
foot putt on the eighteenth for a 66.
■ Considering the wet course, Hutchi
! son’s score is looked upon as almost a
! miracle.
Hutchison, after shoothig 67 in the
i morning, made the afternoon round
in 68 for a total of 135, which set a
| new record for qualifying round in
I American open tournaments.
! Stewart Maiden, professional of
East Lake Club, Atlanta, turned in
77-79, a total of 156.
SUMTER MELONS COMING
IN BUT FIND NO DEMAND
Sumter county melons a,re coming
in plentifully, but are finding little
demapd. Two carloads of Irish Grays,
running 25 pounds, were loaded
Tuesday morning, but no offers could
be secured from buyers here. The
buyers, it is said, want only melons
of 28 pounds or larger. The quality
of the Sumter melons is fine, but the
wet weather in June curtailed the
size and quantity of yield.
Vacuum cleaners are handy for
men. A woman can’t hit her hus
'band over the head with one..
HOME
EDI TIO X
CHICAGO, July 11.—The Broth
erhood of Signal Men will not strike
for the present at least, according to
a statement this morning by Presi- |
dent Helt of that organization. The |
decision was reached after a confer- I
cnce between the union executive
board and the Railroad Labor Board.
INCREASING DISORDERS
IN SHOPMENS STRIKE.
CHICAGO, July 11.—(By Associ
ated Press.) —Increasing disorders, 1
curtailment of traili service and ad
ditional troops on duty at several
trouble centers marked the progress
of the railway shop strike today. The
ranks of the strikers also were re
cruited, as the clerks of the Norfolic
& Western were authorized to strike
at 10 o’clock this morning.
Troops were on guard at Blooming
ton and Clinton, Ills.; Parsons, Kans.,
and New Franklin, Mo., with other
units under arms and ready to en
train.
Interference with the United
States mails became a serious de- ■:
vclopment today in the strike situa
tion. Failure to operate mails on the
Missouri,"Kansas and Texas, and the
Baltimore and Ohio roads was re- I
ported to the postoffice department
which also had a report that 3000
miles of the Wabash road had ceased A
operation, partially due, however, to
a shortage of coal.
STRIKE SITUATION
BEFORE CABINET.
WASHINGTON, July 11.—I\icus- i
sion of the industrial situation oc- '
copied the attention today of Presi- !
dent Harding and his cabinet during
a two-hour meeting at the White
House, the rail and coal strikes be
ing the specific topics of conversa- ,
tion.
COTTON MARKET
AMERICUS SPOT COTTON. /
Strict middling, 22c.
LIVERPOOL COTTON.
LIVERPOOL, July 11. Market
opened steady. Fullys 13.41. Sales
8,000 bales. Receipt’s, 17,240 bales,
of which 12,986 are American.
Futures: Sept. Dec. Feb.
Prev. Close 12.44 12.11 11.96
First Call 12.41 12.07 11.92 '
Close 12.47 12.10 11.9 G ;
NEW YORK FUTURES.
Oct. Dec. Jan.
Prcv. Close 21.82 21.68 21.37
Open ... 21.91 21.73 21.40
10:15 am 21.92 21.85 -
10:30 21.89 21.77 21.43
10:45 21.93 21.77 21.47
11:00 21.91 21.81 21.50
11:15 21.96 21.79 21. f"
11:30 22.06 21.90 21. r
11 :45 .... 22.06 21.99 21.1
12:00 22.11 21.98 21.6
12:15 pm 22.10 21.95 21.58
12:30 22.10 21.95 21.58
1:00 22.00 21.78 21.50
1:15 22.00 21.82 1
1:30 . 21.91 22.00 21.47 ■
i 1:45 :.’....21.99 21.82 21.(18 I
2:00 22.09 21.93 21.1-6 j
2:15 21.98 21.83 21.65 |
2:30 21.96 21.78 21.50 |
2:45 ...21.87 21.71 21.50 I
Close 21.94 21.81 21.q0 1
PEACH MARKET.
ATLANTA, July 11. New York, 1
64 cars sold; Hiley, 1.70@3.00; Geor- 1
gia Belle, 50@3.50; Elberta, 1.35@ |
3.50.
Philadelphia, 12 cars sold; Georgia
Belle, 1.754/2.50; Elberta, 2.000
I 3.25.
Pittsburg, 22 cars sold; Hiley, 1.50 I
02.25; Georgia Belle, 2.0002.mH
Elberta, 3.0003.50.
Boston, 7 cars old; Hiley,
3.00; Georgia Belle, 2.25@3.50; £1- J
berta, 3.0047 3.50.
Cincinnati; Georgia Belle, 1.750 7
2.25; Elberta, 2.75CT3.50.
New Orleans, 4 cal’s sold; 1.5
2.50; George Belle, 1.50@2.50; Ei
berta. 1.750 3.00.
Cleveland, cars sold; Hiley, 1.7,5 j
0 2.25; Georgia Belle, 2.0002.50; EL
berta, 3.0003.50. t.
Number of cars out of state, 281fel
total. 5265.