About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 9, 1923)
SUMTER FARMERS URGEDjTO' FIGHT WEEVILS BY DESTROYING, CUTTING AND PLOWING UNDER ALL COTTON STALKS NOW —————— Americus Spot Cotton Strict middling 27c . N. Y. Futures: Oct. Jan. Dec. Previous Close ..27.70 27.34 26.73 Open 27 65 27.30 26.60 11 am 27.80 27.45 26.88 Close 27.85 27.50 26.91 FORTY-FIFTH YEAR—NO. 230. EVERGLADES FLOWING OVER MOOREHAVEN * * * * * ************ .* ** ♦** ¥***♦*» « * ♦ ¥ ¥ Chamber Sends Milner East Seeking Cotton Mill COUNCIL ASKED 18 ACT »N PROPUSAL OF M. POWER COJ Takes Hand in Effort to Secure | Cheaper Power for Municipal Water Plant Here \ PROBE PROBABLE SAVING * Representative Sent to East to i I Exploit Americus’ Advantages; Be Away Two Weeks Cobb Milner, an engineer, was Tuesday requested by the directors of the Chamber of Commerce, to visit the East in an endeavor io secure prospectant cotton mill in vestors to locate in Sumter couty. The chamber directors, by res olution, requested the Mayor and Council to meet with a committee • from thg chamber and an eigineei from the Georgia Alabama power company to see if a saving can be made in pumpping city water by electricity rather than by steam. The directors of the chamber by motion requested tna. a commit tee from the membership of the ot the chamber be appointed to aid the diversification tarm prog ram in Sumter county. Present at the two-hour meet ing were Directors Sam Heys, John Shiver, Edgar Shipp E. B. Everett, Frank Lanier, C. A. Ames and Lovelace Eve, president. After going into the subject thoroughly, it was decided that it was now the proper time' for a representative of the local body ■ to visit (the East and other cotton mill centers, primarily to find out what mills expect when they re * move their plants to the south. Bioirnfm is BRINE BEMIS BICK Body of Oglethorpe to Be Re turned to Georgia and Re-In terred in University Campus CRANHAM, Eng., OW., 9.—Ex cavations under the Chancellor of the Church of All Saints for the recovery of the bodies of General Oglethorpe and his wife were be gun today. Dr. Thornwell Jacobs, president of the University of . Georgia, who/plans to have the re mains re-interred at (that institu tion, directed a force of laborers in breaking the concrete flooring. MAKING PROGRESS IN ORGANIZATION WORK WAYCROSS, Oct. 9. The ■Waycross and Ware County Cham ber of Commerce has received the first response to its invitations mailed out calling for representa tives to be named to a meeting in Waycross on October 24 for the purpose of organizing a Southeast Georgia Chamber of Commerce. This response is from »Dr. A. Fleming, Mayor of Folkston, who says: , “I am in receipt of yours of Oc tober 3rd, in reference to a meet ing to be held in Waycross, Ga., October 24th, for the purpose of organizing a Southeast Georgia Board of Trade. Wish to say that I am heartily in favor of this movement. “Folkston will send a delegation composed of L. E. Mallard, William ' Mizell, Jr., and S. F. Mills, Jr. who will represent Folkston and Charl ! ton county. 1 will try to attend I this meeting also as will A. S. Mc- Queen, City Attorney.” REV. HARDISON ACCEPTS CALL TO BRUNSWICK BRUNSWICK, Oct. 9. Rev. Edwin Hardison, former pastor of the Advent Christian church, who has been in Live Oak, Fla., for the past year, has accepted the call of the church and returned to Bruns wick. Mrs. Hardison and two chil dren, Mary Lee and Edwin Noble, have arrived and are stopping with Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Noble, on Nor- . with street. THE TIMESBRECORDER PUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF DIXIE” {feu? CAMPAIGN AGAINST WEEVIL BEGUN HERE PLAINS EARNERS KI i BEGIN TO DEW i STALKS lIfIMEDIATELY !• Meeting There Last Night At- At tended 40 to 50 Farmers, With Enthusiasm Shown ‘SOLD’ ON After Talk By Geo. O.'Marshall “ J Every Man. Z * eseni: Pledges 11 to Begin Work aV Once Between fort; and fifty farmers and business men at Plains attend-, ed the first of the stalk destroy-? 3 mg meeting to be Heid tnroug'uouiL lHc county tuere Last nigb- rres- * u _- ent besides these were ueorge (J. Marshall, coun L y tarm umonstra non agent; Henry F. Everett, sec- (n retary of trie unttmber ot Com- p. merce, and R. C. Moran, of the h. Times-Recorder, who are assisting >e i.he county agent in this work. X Mr. Marshall called themeeting [f to order and made the chief talk •" of the evening in the auditorium F of Plains Consolidated school. Speaking entirely informally, he outlined the plans formulated at a ' county-wide meeting of farmers, warehousemen, fertilizer dealers, j bankers and business men in Amer ;t icus several days ago. This plan, he told his fearers contemplates d the planting of cotton as a money i crop during future years as well a? ip the past. Sumter county, it he said, because of certain local p conditions, chief among which is iS that of the absentee landlord, is ■> essentially a cotton county. This r statement, he said should not be I* confused with former statements to the effeat that hogs, cattle and I other crops furnished opportunity » for Sumter county farmers to pro- I duce money, crops other than cot ton and that such crops hold good profits for thse who roise ithem. BBOWSIM >: POAD BLOCKED •' S S- . Y * Cause of Break Not Known, As There Was No Unusual Head cf Water When Dam Broke Monday Vaal mowus auu v*. on tne Ainencus-Vioiina eight nines out, nau am. > lUV xuaU xn luai po.nl Id com pletely biocaeu.' j. u. mown, owner of lihe.prop erty, who operates a mill mere, i was unaole to slate today wnat | caused the break, as there was no , , unusual head ox water present . when t'pe oam gave way. It is bc i lieved because of the normal wa ter head ithere that the dam was weakened by the action of craw , fish or other crustaceans upon the understructure of the dam, which forms a part of the road at that point. As a result of Ithe break, the road there is completely blocked. . and probably will remain so dur ing several days. In the meantime travel is being diverted around the head of the mill creek by the Roach road and other highways ' traversing that section. Many persons travelling be tween Americus and Cordele via ! t'he bridge route were tunred back , at the site of the broken mill dam ! today and Monday, necessitating their returning back towards I Americus as far as the Rylander farm, where a satisfactory detour is available. PORTS ASSOCIATION - | TO MEET OCTOBER IB ‘ | BRUNSWICK. Oct. 9.—The an i nual meeting of the South Atlan j tic Port Association to be held in , Brunswick ,on Satuijday, nerft, Oc , teber 13th, will be one of the most f important ever held by that organ ization and the are that it will be attended by a large nuin- I her of representatives from the I chambers of commerce and the ! board? of trade of Wilmington, . I Charleston, Savannah and Jackson- Vile, AMERICUS, GA., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 9, 1923 WWW ' —-VTXVUV lUCSYI* j'eflf and unloaded, those standing at terminals and in sidings; even tnosc in shops tor repairs. He says the average speed of all freight trains, through tne local, was 13 miles per hour. Increased business enabled the raliway to make a good showing in operating revenue in the face of the fact that the average freight rates are lower than in previous years. The revenue in 1923 for hauling a ton of freight one mile was 1 9-LOFS cents, a reduction of 47.4 per cer i from the revenue received in 1921 which was 1-32-100 cents. Closing the statement, Mr. Wii burn says that no small part of tt j credit goes to shippers and co( signees for their prompt loadir I and unloading of ireight, and thi the showing is not alone alga I xor tne Central, but a splendid re I ord for tne territory the railrot * serves. HUNTINGTON ' Mrs. R. J. Cheek, wtio has be; seriously ill during the past wet her home here is now convale; j Several from here attended i| , funeral of Bill Kaylor in Lcs| * Sunday afternoon. Willie Cheek of Winter Havl Fla., is visiting here at the ho ot his parents, havrig been “call here by the illness of his moth - Mfs. R. J. Cheek. F Mrs. Wilson RyaU and Miss G V aldine Ryals spent Saturday c Americus as the guest of relativi ® Mr. W. B. Jotinson and M a Curtis Patrick motored to Coluj 1 bus Thursday on a briet visit. I j Mrs. Exom of Smithville, spe last week here at the home ot { and Mrs. R. J. Cheek. ji Mesdames.R. P.* and W. A.. Pane er of New Era were the spend-th ' .guest to their sister, Mjs. I C. Harris Saturday. Wilson Ryals of Americus was 1 visitor to home folks Sunday afte noon. ; Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Perry an j Mr. and Mrs. Allie Perry and bab £ of Americus, .were visitors in thl community Sunday afternoon. Dr. and Mrs. Anderson and Wa i ■ ter Kayes, Jr., left Sunday fol Danville, Va., to spend several : days. ’ . ! Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Tomlinson . of Americus were Sunday visitor to their parents, Mr. and Mrs. C W. Kennore. Mrs. E. L. Green, of AmericuJ was the guest of her daughter Mr. Roy Johnson Friday. NEW ERA -II Mcsdames, H. J. Morris, and V ( T. O. Bray, were visitors alt ti ( .home of Mrs. S. M. Parker Tuej day. £ Mrs. M. C. Veal, and Mrs. T. ii Bradley spent Tuesday with Mr 1 K A. Bailey at her home in Ame icus. - I J. B. Griffin, of Atlanta w; 1 calling on friends here Wednesda* Francis and bri, j spent Tuesday night at the parso age with his parents, Rev and M j E. R. Brewton. Miss Della Parker, was a visit | at the home of Mrs. M. C. V« I Wednesday. / ' I J. C. Bray spent Wednesd LUDWIG IS NAMED GLYNN GAME WARDEN BRUNSWICK, Ock. 9.—L. Lud wig, well known and popular Bruns ; wiekian, has been selected as dep uty warden for Glynn county by State Game ami Fish Warden P. S. Twitty, who was recently named to this important office by Gover- - nor Clifford Walker. Mr. Ludwig succeeds J. Hunter Hopkins, who has held the position for the past two years and his commission reads for a like period. RALPH PETERS, RAIL PRESIDENT, DIED TODAY NEW YORK, Oct. 9. Ralph Peters, president of the Long Is land Railroad, died suddenly today at his home in Garden City L I. He had been president of the rail road during 18 years and was to have retired from his active office November 19. He was *7O yeais of age, a native of Atlanta, and a graduate of the University of Geor gia. The pallbearer® were: Tom H'a'l, Claude Ballard* T. L. Bunch. F. L. Cordell, C. F. Hall and R. C. And erson, „ W ...J * * ; ] CortezTWW as'u’ii vrre y l-riv >• \ ' ; last week, his friends are glad t ’ krow he is well again. Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Bradle I were Sunday visitors at the shorn of Mr. and Mrs. B. R. Bradley, f » T L ’ START MOVEMENT TO ? CREATE tax dept I 1 I AT LANTAx-Ga.. Oct IL;—A moi MffIWLLS ON W HOW SHE PERJURED HERSELF Principal Witness In Stokes Di vorce Suit Admits on Stand She Swore Fabely MISREPRESENTED PAST i Mrs. Stokes Wins Important Point When Negress Breaks Down Under Examination NEW YORK, Oct. 9. Rose Nell Miller, a negress, and princi-J pal witness against Mrs. Helen Ell wood Stokes in yesterdays hearing of the divorce suit brought by Mrs. Stokes’ husband, W. E. D. Stokes, admitted under severe cross-exami nation today that she had delib erately perjured 4rtYsel£ concerning her pass. The negress, who is intelligent, claimed on the stand, to have been married a number of times but could give, no definite d ites op which any of her marriages had ; been performed. Finally »she ad mitted that she was testifying false ly in this respect. In breaking down the testimony of this witness, attorneys for Mrs. Stokes claimed’to have scored an important point in their defense against the allegations of her mil lionaire husband. legilMSers 'END PUBLIC SESSION Fas tef Open Meeting to Be Held During This Afternoon At Atlanta ATLANTA. Octi 9. Public hearings in the investigation of the Georgia state department of agri culture will be concluded this aft ernoon, Chiarman Lankford of the* ■legislative investigating committee, announced today. The session this ■afternoon, it is expected, will be • very brief. The committee plans to hold one or more executive sessions follow ing the ending of the open probe, during which it will formulate its report to. the governor aqd mem. ’ bers of the legislature. The re port, it is probable, will be made public as soon formulated, and it is expected will contain a statement | to the effect that certain charges against the department have not been sustained. TWO MAD DOGS ARE KILLED AT WAYCROSS WAYCROSS, Oct. 9.—Two mad dogs, an Airdale and a bulldog, were s|iot here recently by Police man Leroy Smith at the request of their owners. This it is believed, is the record for one day so far as the record of Policeman Smith goes. He has thus, at the very end of the “mad dog” season, upheld the reputation which he »has won .as a mad dog exterminator. The bulldog, owned by parties living on Albany avenue, was bit ten by the bird dog which was shot about three weeks ago. Late Fri day he began to show symptoms of being mad and was locked up by his owner.'* A local veterinarian and the police officer were called rn I s h e dog pronounced mad. The dog was ordered shot and Po’ivi man Smith ended its life. The Airdale owned by a Col lege Hill family, wept mad and dis appeared from its home four days ago. After roaming throughout the city and according to many wiwt- I nesses, fighting and perhaps biting ’ several other dogs, the Airdale | was finally found on a downtown street early Saturday morning and ;bot. ; MMOBCOAHiaRDEfIHIIJEWETT. OKLAHBIIM TO SERVE IT FIBMUN LEADER, GETS BTSTITEMMKIOII'TffIL POSTPONED FFormer Army Officer Convict ed of Killing McNeice Must Begin Life Term TRANSFER MADE. TODAY Talbot County Request That He Be Permitted to' Serve There Ignored By Commission ATLANTA, Oct., 9.—An order for Major n. uoart, sentenced to tne imprisonment lor tne killing ox A. b. McNeice, to be sent to Milledgeville, was issued here to day by Secretary Yancey, of the pnson commission. ( Coart was convicted in Talboit county, and a petition asking that he be allowed; to serye his sentence there was presented to the prison commission recently. This peti tion was signed by 11 of the jurors ■ who convicted Coart. 1 Secretary Yancey today ex pressed the opinion that if all the officials and citzens of Talbot county had requested that Major Coart be kept in that county to serve his sentence that the com mission would., send him to the state farm. NEW CANDIDATES ARE VOTED IN STYLE SHOW HOW CANDIDATES STAND Miss Mary Dudley 1,000 Miss Georgia Lumpkin 1,300 Miss Mary Parker 1,100 Miss Elizabeth McKenzie .... 1,500 Miss Martha Bell I,loo' Miss Laurie Johnson 1,750 Miss Elizabeth Richardson .. 1,250 Miss Fay Rooks 1,000 Miss Myra Sims 1,300 Miss Roxie Stevens 1,800 Miss Lucy Kate Clark I,2'U' Miss Saraji Dixon 1,275 Miss Lillian McMichael 1,000 Miss Pearl Lowe Hannon .... 1,000 Interest is growing in the Mer chants Fashion Show to be staged lat the Rylander Theater here Oc- Icober 19, Americus merchants sup mwO, L.c lo.—u.i: vV u. »<v.U vy UaCU' iespvcuvv luUutWi xaai.y ux mese tnuu ue saown xor luo xirssi Uuii uiey axe uou- ned uy oeauiixui gills and uispoii eu up on me xvyianael stage xor ihe auoxation ox Vue big auuiencc mat is sure co be present on mac occasion., Some of the gowns to be shown are described as “perxectly won derful creations that to be prop ally displayed should be worn anu which the merchants say((( only by really beautiful women, display all of their ingenius charm about the form of any of the many candidates already nominated. New candidates whose names appear in the list from Americus today are Miss Mary Dudley and Miss Mary Parker both young women of many charms and accustomed to being gowned in the most modish of garments, either of whom is sure to make a perfect model. Miss Lillian McMichael and Miss Pearl Lowe Hannon, two beautiful Buena Vista girls, are nominated today as candidates from that section, show ing ithe ipterest that is being aroused in Marion county in the big show here. HARRIS W. BAKER, 45 PUBLISHER. DIED TODAY SPRINGFIELD. Mass., Oct. 9. Harris W. Baker, aged 54. vice president of the G. & C. Merriam compaqy, dictionary publishers, ! died here today. It is estimated that 93 per cent of the ocean floor is entirely devoid ’ of plant life. The great armadillo has 92 teeth, more thaq any other animal. Heaing Set for Today at Okla homa Qty Continued Until Tomorrow CHARGED WITH RIOTING Continuance Was Granted By Court Upon Agree By Coun sel for State and Defense OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct., 9.—- The preliminary hearing in the case of N. C. Jewett, charged with riot, set for today injustice court here, was continued until tomorrow. The continuance, it is announced was by agreement of counsel for both state and defense in the case with every prospect that the case will go to trial upon its merits Wednesday morning. Jewett, who is grand dragon of I’.he Ku Klux Klan in Oklahoma, has been a consistent opporient of Governor J. C. Walton in hsi cam paign to eliminate the Klan from Oklahoma polities and great inter est centers n the trial because of Ahis feature. ianymSl OFWHILLIPS Young Americus Boy Laid to Rest in Fellowship Baptist Cemetery in Macon County Many Americus friends attended the funeral Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock, in the Fellowship Bap tist church in Macon county, of John Phillips, the fifteen-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Elijah Phillips of this emmuntiy. Elder J. M. Murray, of Ellaville, conducted the obsequies, and interment was in Fellowship cemetery. Surviving are his parents, five sisters, Beulah, Ella, Mary Belle, Myrtis, Helen, and five brothers, Herman, Fred, Cayce, Kelly, and Forrest Phillips, all residents of Brooklyn Heights. His maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Kall, of Ideal, and paternal grand father, Mr. Hardy Philips, of Ella- Elie. also survive, besides a large family connection throughout Sum ter and Macon counties. The young boy had been ill only a short time, having undergone an operation for acute appendicitis at the Americus hospital Saturday, death ensuing at 5 o’clock Sunday afternoon. He had been employed all summer by Georgia-Alabama Power Co., near Albany and came home ill just a week ago. He was born in Macon county, removing to Americus with his parents when a small child, where he had Ived until his death. Ke attended the Americus schools and was well known and greatly esteemed by a wide circle of friends and ac quaintances who loved for h|s splendid The floral offerings attested to the re gard in which he was held here. ALEC TELL DIES AT HOME IN QUITMAN Information reached Americus today of the death in Quitman county of Alec Tell, who passed away at his home there Monday morning at 9 o’clock, the remains being laid to rest at Springvale this afternoon at 3o’clock. Mr. Tell who was a former res ident of Sumter county was prom inent in his home community, a leader in church affairs and the holder of public office in Quitman during twenty years past, close relatives who survive him are W. T. t McMath, Miss Nora Mc- Math, Mrs*. G. W. Braford, .John F. McMath, T. M. A. Finch and Mrs. F. M. Webb all residents of Americus and Sumter county. Be sides these, there is a large family connection in Quitman, Randolph 1 »nd Webster counties who survive, WEATHE For Georgia—Fair tonight and probably Wednesday. No change in temperature. PRICE FIVE CENTS AKEDKEECHOBEEDMI BROKEN AND FLOOD IS FLBWIIfi 111 STREETS Lives of Citizen* Not Endanger ed, Though Property Los* Will Be Heavy STORES ARE INUNDATED Dredges Being Rudied to Scene to Repair Break and Hold Everglades Wjder Back MOOREHAVEN, Fla., Oct, fl.<- The dike protecting this town Lake Okeechobee broke early this morning, ana within a few hours water began flowing into the streets of Moorhaven. At this hour practically every street in the town is covered with wjater, but the lives of citizens are in no danger, as the level of the lake is not high enough to inun date the streets to any great depth. The property loss will be high, but no estimate of the total damages has as yet been made Stores in all parts of Moorehaven are filled with water now, and res idence yardp and lawns areyall over-flowed, but the water is not deep enough to endanger the foun dation of houses. Huge dredges are being rushed here, it is announced at noon, to assist in repairing the break n the lake dam and to remove th menice of inundation Which threatens now to do great property damage. iS-lILISAT HOME IN COLUMBUS Mother of J. Ralston Cargill, of Americus, Laid to Rest Mon day With Simple Ceremony Mr. and Mrs, J. Ralston Cargill chiluren are in Coiumous, where they were caked Monaay by the death of Mr. Cargill’s mother, Mrs. John Wesley Cargill, who died there at the home of her daugh ter, Mrs. James J. Gilbert. Mrs. Cargill was born in Fred onia, Ala., She lived in Columbus for more than fifty years. She was a member of the St Luke Methodist church and well known in Columbus. Her many friends will learn of her death with sin cere regret. The decased is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Ed F, Cook, of Nashxille, Tenn., and Mrs. James J. Gilbert, of Columbus, and two sons, Walter Hurt Cargill, of Co lumbus, and John Ralston Cargill, of Americus, Ga., She is also sur vived by a brother, W. H. Hol land, of Seale, Ala., and seven grandchildren. Funeral services' were con ducted from the residenc of Mrs. Gilbrt Monday. Gilbert Monday morning alt. 11 o’clock, with Dr. Charles R. Jen kins, pastor of 'fKe St. Luke Meth odist church officiating, assisted by Dr. T. M. McConnell, pastor of the (First Presbyterian church. Inter ment was in Linwood cemetery MERCHANTS’ FASHION SHOW Rylander Theater October 19 This Coupon Good for 25 Votes, if Cast Thursday NOMINATION COUPON (Gjgid for 1,000 Votes) I Hereby Nominate Miss as a candidate in the Merchants Fashion Show at Rylander the ater, Americus, Friday evening, October 19, to represent Community. (Only tone Nomi nation Coupon will be accept ed for any one candidate.)
