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Newspaper Page Texti * X Amerjcus Spot Cotton • Strict Middling 28 3-4 c. N. Y. Futures Jan Oct Dec. Prev. Close 28.32 29.23 28.83 Open . .28.27 29.10 18.83 11 am 28.61 29.50 29.1.’. Close ..28.95 29.67 29.1 > FORTY-FIFTH YEAR.—NO. 249. AGED MAN AND, SON MURDERED ON 70 Tons of Moul ten Steel Pores Over Human Bodies CPANE OPFRATDR IS MOT ME: STEEL EBES mm Three Other Men Die Os Severe Burns After Being Removed To Hospital MAIN CABLE CORD SLIPPED Seventy Tons of Molten Mellal Falls From Slide As Men Sat In Cage FARRELL, Pa., Oct. 19.—A crane operator was roasted to death in his steel cage and three other men so badly burned that they died in a hospital, when the cable slipped and spilled 70 tons of molten steel at the Farrell plant of the Carnegie Steel company today. STROM® !T HM ffilF Elio .annual Exposition To Begin Monday Promises Diversi fied Entertainment MACCIri, Oct. 19—The Georgia State Exposition to be held in Ma con during the week of October 22nd to 27th promises'to be one of the ibest State Fairs ever held in the Central City. A wonderful program of diver sified entertainment has been ar ranged oy the Fair Management, including novel and unique open air attrattions, day and night con cert. by tl:e Royal Scotch High landers Band, Texas Waif Jack Ral>bit and Grey hound races, automobile races by world famous drivers, Collegiate Football game, anu spectacular Fireworks displays nightly. Agricultural exhibits and dis plays will embrace counties sfrom the various sections of the state. The I’ouicry Show under the aus pices of the Georgia Poultry Breeders Association will be one of the features of this year's Fair. In the Live Stock Department famous herds of stock from Georgia and other states will compete, for hon ors. This department will embrace herds of the Dary Cattle class, and also the Beef Cattle class. Herds of swine in the various popular classes will be on exhibit. A carload of Government dis plays has been receved for this Fair, and the Woman’s Department apd Boys and G'irls Club exhibits will feature novel contests and ex hibits. The railroads of the state arc ottering reduced rates to Macon during the week of the Fair and immense crowds from all over this section will visit the Georgia State ■* ' ■ C'- j . . 32nd to 271 u. The f air grounds and buildings at the Central City Park have been put in Arst class condition for the Fair and all arrangements for staging a real live exposition are rapidly nearing completion. DESPITE BOLL WEEVIL FARMER MAKES CROP BLAKELY, Get. 19.—The boll weevil has flourished and the rains have descended but the successful manipulation of farm work by A. E. Alexander, of Blakely, has gone on just the same. Besides getting twenty-.eight bales of cotton from his thirty acres he gathered 600 bushels of corn and seven tons of velvet beans from the grounds : from which oats were harvested. These farms have been one of the show places of Early County this year. LOAFERS MUST WORK OR *GIT’ IN AT HENS i ATHENS, Oct. 19.—Athen’s no- ‘ lice arc waging a war on idlers) an 1 one day’s efforts netted evelep persons charged with vagranot. Four of this number are wonlfcn, “The loafers must either leave town or go to work,” Chief es Police Heussc said in giving instruct,ions for the clean-up. DRAWING CARD Al LANTA, Ga. Oct. 19—i The Stone Mountain memorial will fnea more to the state of Georgia lhan anything of its kind anywhere land will draw more people than citi sens ci n imagine, according to officials. The Lion of Lucerne, insignifi cant compared to Stone Mountan draws thousands to Switzerland each yea. 1 . Most of the big colleges have sculljng crews. One place vgiere pull gets your oar in, < theTW®hm®rder &WpUBLISHED HEART"OF FASHION SHOW CURTAIN! RISES AT 8 P. M. HKD AUTO BMITS HOLO DP PM SHOP 111 BMOHLIMT Cash Loot Estimated at $35,- 000 Secured by Highway Band HIGHWAYMEN ALL ESCAPE Bold Robbery Committed With in Block of Police Station In Business District PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 19. Four armed motor bandit* today held up the Kennedy Brothers pawn shop in the business section of the city, and escaped with jew elry and cash estimated at $35,000. The ‘hold-up occurred one block from the police station. iuSSI MAJORITY VOTE Uve? Mrs. Peterson For Presi dency of Federated Women’s Clubs ROME, Oct. 19. Unofficial election returns of the Georgia Federation of Women’s C lubs hero gave Mrs. Alonzo Richardson, of Atlanta, a .small majority over Mrs. Nichola.-.on Peterson es Tif ton, in contest for state director. ONE SUNDAY SERMON IS NEW, UNIQUE PLEA MACON, Ga. Oct. 19—No nor mal minister can deliver more than one effective sermon on a- Sunaay and the time must come when a pastor will deliver no more stated Louis D. Newton editor of The Cristion index, organ es the Georgia Baptists, before the Mer cer University Ministerial associa tion here last night. The ideal boudble-service system from churches is to give ever the even ing service to the young people, he declared. bpeaking on “The Call of God for the Ministry.” Mr. Newton ex horted the students to avioid the peril of becoming successful in the eyes of the world. He urged them Ito never .play down to the desire for ser“ationalism that is rife afong church people of the day. The church of God seems to be fleenig from the places of action i and leaving the ways of difficult ; thought, he said. L_ i CONTRACT LET FOR BUILDING NEW MILS DUBLIN, Ga. Oct. 19—A con tract has been let .to E. M. Beck ham, of Perry, for building two | long fills at new bridges in this county, he fill will cost approxi- I mately $29,0000. Oqe fillis at Tingle bridge about i five miles from Dublin, and the . other is on the road to Dexter. New , bridges have been completed at i both these points, but the tills will i be long and rather heavy to put I in. Some paying work is to be done by the highway department here shortly one projject being to pave I the approacb.es on both sides of the Oconee River bride al Dublin and I the other to pave the bridge on I the Macon read known as Dudley I bridge. iCOATON BACKING ALMOST COMPLETED • VIDALIA, Ga. Oct. 19—Cotton (•picking 1; practically over in this section, the picking and ginning I season being e.xceptionally short i this year. Figures for ginnings in> j Inis county will be just over 4,- i : 00'; bah: (his season compared wit | B,', 90 last <-ar. A large percentage , lof the yield has been sold ami ' shipped ome of the bales going to I , he (.toreUi Cotton Pool. I BURIAL DELAYED A MONTH I SAVANNAH, Oct. 19—The fun-j I era! of Mr:. 0. IL Edge, 74 years ■ oi age who died here recently will! 1 net be held for a month. The in-! torment of the body will be held I I up until her daughter, Mrs. Glen-1 I nin ijruikerholf, arrives from 1 lou ■ ranp. lis Brazil. Mrs. Bruikeilioff ‘ announced that she would attend I the funeral ahich will be about the I middle cf November, AMERICUS, GA., FRIDA Y AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 19, 1925 ELIHO ROOT HOW ILL WITH W m II HOI IT HEW YORK Physicians Discover Stone In Left Side Which They Hope May Be Dissaved CUMJUIUN NUI CRITICAL Me dicines Administered .May Obviate Necessity cf Surgi cal Opeiaiion NEW YORK, Oct. 19— Eli'hu Root is suffering from an attack of kidney trouble, and is confined to his bed in this city, his secre tary stated today. Attending physicians said that they had discovered a stone in* the left kidney which they hoped to move without resorting to an op eration. weSSSe M SUPPORT Formal Resolution Adapted To Give Earnest Co-Operation In Law Enforcement ' WEST BADEN, Ind-, Oct. 19— A formal resolution pledging Pres ident Coolidge fullest co-operation in the enforcement of prohibition was adapted by the annual gover nor's conference after the most tumultuous scene in history of the organization. Governor Blaine declared that the methods of enforcing the pro hibition law should be discussed in stead of proclaiming from the house tops that “we are good gov ernors and virtuous men.’ - ' Governor. Parker, of Louisiana, ’ after declaring that the Ku Klux Klan was the biggest issue in the nation today, walked from the meetingg. sirniW MLLOM Quarantine May Be Applied To Farms Not Using Calcium Arsenate I ATLANTA, Oct. 19.—That the State will be asked, through the authorized agencies, to apply the provisions of quarantine law to all cotton planters in Georgia who do not use calcium arsenate to fight the boll weevil, is a statement made here today as a result of ac tion yesterday on the part of the Southern Fertilizer Association, in annual meetings, when that organ ization insisted that the use of this poison is essential to the advance ment of the cotton crop. It was sug gested that banks and business in stitutions decline to advance cred its to any farmer who declines to use calcium arsenate under the scientific methods developed by re search and experiment thro.ug'h ae credited agencies. The plan is now being advanced however, to invoke the provision cf the State laws to compel use o' the preparation on the ground that a farmer who does not treat his own crop and endeavor to rid it of noli weevil is endangering the crop of the neighbor who does. It is learned that the State Board of Entomology already has that matter under advisement and for seme days has been making a study of it provinces and duties in the matter of application of quarantine regulations. There arc under which ahe State board can work along the lines suggested. CRIMINAL COURT TO CONVENE IN PERRY i I’LKKY, Oct. 19.—Houston su-j perior court will convene on Mon-! uay,'Oct. 22, in adjourned term} i for the trial of criminal cases. So- I licitor General Charles H. Garrett | has set seventy-nine criminal cases i 1 lor Oct, 22, 23, 24, 25, 29, 30 and ; 31, tour days of next week/ and I I three days of the week ’after. The I court will be in session two full ! weeks as he intends clearing the ' docket. There are about twenty ! beside ■, a nuntbi r out on bond. I five criminal: in jail awaiting trial' ■ Among the seventy-nne cases set I there are 4 for murder 8 for as-: ! sauit with intent to murder, 11 f<> ■ ' 1 burgulare, 12 for manufacturing ‘ whisky and various crimes. Seven- 1 jy live jurors have been drawn and served for service on Monday 1 I the 22nd. This is the heaviest, > criminal docket the superior court has hhd for a number of years, 1 i LjGo'Order; Give 17 Negroes . (The following story from the Pittsburg Gazette tells its own stoiy. Stowe Town ship ’is near Woodlawn, wheri many Sumter negroes have gone during the past few nhonths:) , Citi dtas Band V isits Labor Camp and Houses and Serves ‘Get Out Notices as Result Os Murder and Hold-Up. “Every negro in Stowe Town ship was ordered to pack his be longings and move elsewhere within 24 hours by a viligance committee of 200 eitiens of the township which last night visited every negro family in the district, as well as several negro labor camps, according to the Stowe Township police. “No show of violence or dis order accompanied the action, but the negroes were warned, it is said, that force would follow failure to get out. •‘The order to leave was said to be an outgrowth of the mur der of Thomas Rowland, aged 75, and the wounding of his grand daughter, Edith Colter, aged 11: by an unidentified negro who waylaid them near W§st Park Saturday night. "The citizens last night, ac cording to information obtained bv the Stowe ownship police, gathered quietly, divided into squads and canvassed the entire township. Whenever a negro was encountered he was stopped and wyirijed to leave the town ship. Negroes, apparently terror ized, disappeared from streets and public places.” GEN. YOU i ELLER LOSES CBHINO 01 HARSH MEASURE Dispute Between Two Govern ments Settled With Dis plcement of Official SAXONY IS REBUKED Interference in Politics Causes Saxon Government To Re ceive Censure BERLIN, Oct. 19—It was re ported today that a dispute be tween the federal government and the government of Saxony will be solved by the former displacing of General von Mueller, commander of Reichstag in Saxony, whose mode of procedure is said to have been very harsh. This action, reports add will be accompanied by a rebuke to the Saxon government for its interfer- in polities of the republic. INVLbIiGAIION OF OIL KE 1 URNS BEGINS bOON ATLANTA, Oct. 19.—Investiga tion of the returns of oil com panies to the state Department of Agriculture and the comptroller general with the view of enforc ing payment of taxes on gasoline by delinquent concerns, will be started immediately, Comptroller General Wright has announced. COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA WILL MEET TUESDAi The community orchestra mem bers and those nterested will meet in the Community club house on Tuesday night at 8 o’clock. “This is the only organisation of its kind in the state,’ one of those interested stated today. I‘There smaller cities we know of no simi are community bands, but in the lar organiatjon. There may be one of a like nature in Alabama.’ In the North and East there are a number of such bodies. They are very popular there.” , The community orchestra is un-1 dm- the auspices of the Music Study : iclub, and is being directed by Mr. Alfred A. Gane, free of charge. Mr. Gane is organist at the Ry lander Theatre. - i KILL THE DOGS FIRST Sheep-raising was a profitable I industry in Wiregrass Georgia not so many years ago. It should be profitable again; pasturage and a little care are the first re quirements.—Tifton Gazette, ITALIANS ATTACK FORCE OF BEBELS 111 PROVINCE OF ffllPOLi Rebels Dispersed Leaving Hun dreds Dead and Many Wounded MUCH BOOTY IS TAKEN Italian Casualties Only IO Dead and 5 Wounded During Skirmish LONDON,. Oct. 19—Italians in Tripoli yesterday attacked a force of 1,500 rdbcls south of Mount Surata, says a Central News dispatch from Rome. The rebels were deposed, leaving 440 dead and a large number wounded. Considerable booty was taken. Italian casualties amounted to 10 dead and 5 wounded. CEITMOffITE IN MALARIAL DRAINAGE Roadmaster Weaver To Confer With Dr. Branhan Regard ing Drainage Projects Central of Georgia officials are actively co-operating in the effort to eliminate malaria in Sumter county, according to Dr. Henry Branham, acting health officer here. Discussing this co-operation today, Dr. Branham said that “a railroad is not spending money un less it sees returns,” continuing, D.r Branham declared: “The intelligent men direiting the Central of GGeorgia realize that. Malaria hurts business and that is obviously good business to de stroy mosquiqt breeding ponds. A few days a„. 1 wrote the Cen tral of Georgia, about some ponds ponds worth of Sumter, that is the reply: M i *•««, Now if Malaria hurts freight production this much how much mere imprtant is it to the people here who not only suffer finan cially but bodily. Good business for the Railroad is even better busi ness for the county. h riday there came to my notije and obvious example of what is be ing done to Americus and Sumpter by Malaria. "Mr. F. E. Brown came to this county from Worth, Ga., and in vested some twenty thousands dol lars in farm land. He was very well satisfied with liis: purchase and wrote his friends advising the mto come down here and settle. Two of his relatives were nego tiating tor adjoining property. When one of his children develop ed malaria, and wrote home about it. Immediately the prospective settlers—solid desirable citizens— called off their negotiations, and decided not to come here. Mr. Brown is going to return home un less conditions are remeredied. "The two ponds from which which came this malaria can easily be drained for less than one hun dred dollars. “Certaintly Mr. Brown trade in Americus, not to speak of the taxes he pays and the labor he em ploys or the wealth he produces is worth SI.OO to the county. TOBACCO EXPERT SPEAKS IN SPARTA SI'AKTA, Oct. 19. L. M. Spuires, a well-known V»bacco ex pert of Burlington, N. C., was in Sparta yesterday and met with the Hancock' County Boosters’ Club to discuss the planting of teba.co here next year, M. Squires has been in the county several weeks investigating the quality bf Han cock County lands and reported that he found the soil here to be as well adapted for the raising es to bacco as any in North Carolina, or the world for that matter. Mr. Squires made the club and the farmers .assembled a proposition to come here next Spring, make seed beus for tobacco plants, superin tend the setting out, cultivation, harvesting and curing of the ‘weed’ for a certain per cent of the gross receipts. Several farmers at the meeting signed up for a number of acres. Mr. Squires said he can not at ford to come here for less than 500 to 600 acres sign-up. A complete canvas of the farmers, of the county will be made at an I garly datg, . I PROGRAM FOB 818 SOCIETY EVENT HFFIF BOE PUBLIC TODAY Rylander Stage Beautifully Dec orated For Occasion Under Direction of Experts I PRETTY GIRLS AS MODELS l ii . Handsome Gowns, Coats, Cloaks and Negligee To Be Shown Upon Living Models " ■ Everything is all set for the premier fashion event of the year. At 8:00 the curtains will rise on 1 a stage that promises to be the most beautiful ever seen here. All • day Mr. Henry Stanfield and O. C. . Johnson, with a corps of workers have been engaged in carrying out the art s design for the stage ar rangement and decoration.. The house was practically sold out this morning thought a few adaed seats down staifs and some seats in the balcony were to be ■ The gallery for white people only will be opened at 7 o’clock and Manager Kincey stated that ev ery possible extra seat would be placed tonight to take care of late arrivals . At 2 o’clock a full dress re hearsal was successfully carried through by Walter Page, who is in charge of the show for the mer chants participating. The merchants staging the fashion event are Ansley’s, Cohen’, Bailey Co. Miss Eleanor Tillman, t inkston s, Miss Walker, Pearl man’s Fashion Shop. In the idbby of the theater there will ib e exhibited two SSOO oil paintings, secured by Cohen's from Hickey-f riVman, Mothers. These are the original paintings from men 's styles are planned for 1923-24. One is of tuxedo figure the other a business suit. 1. Song, by Kendall Beaver, Jr. “You tell ’em I stutter.” —Pinkston and Company., Sport Suits: Miss Ann Ellis, wear ing a hat from Miss Tillman; Miss Edith Greighton, wearing a hat (Continued on Page Five.) ROAD CONTRACT LET FOR MOULTRIE HIGHWAY MOULTRIE, Ga. Oct. 19—Just as soon as the plans for the re building of the Moultrie-Camilla road are approved by the State and Feder: 1 highway departments the contract for the work will be let, it was anounced today, at the office of the .hoard of county commis sioners. It is estimated that the project including the replacing of all wooden bridges with concrete or concrete and steel bridges, will cost some $65,000. The distanc from Moultrie to the Mitchell County line is 15 miles. It is stat ed that Mitchell will rebuild its end of the highway also, thus giv ing a good road all of the way from Moultrie to Camilla. WANDERING IN WOODS, SHLKiFF LUSES MIND QUITMAN, Oct. 19.—Sheriff Morrison, oi Waukulla county, Fla., h: s become hopelesslq insane, ac cording to a letter received today by the Quitnmn Free Press, from 1. H. Sealey, formerly of this coun ty, -who is now teaching school in I naukulla county. According to his letter, Sheriff I Morrison disappeared from his home at Crawfordville and search ing parties did not find him until after twenty-four hours had elapsed He appeared quite insane and his clothes were torn from his body and his flesh was badly cut and bruised from the flight through the swamps. Hi s two brothers got close to him several times during the search, but each time he fled from them. He apparently thought they were enemies pursuing him. He fired upon them several times, but was finally overtaken. Another delu sion he was suffering under was he thought that he had been kept in jail for a number of days without water, and he ate moss and roots while in the woods. When finally captured, he had taken refuge in a negro shack and he was in a frightful condition. It is 'believed there is no hope for his recovery. He is 37 years of nge and has been high sheriff of Wau kulla county for twelve years and is highly esteemed. C. L. Morrison is his (brother, and is well known here. Sheriff Morrison has a wife gnd twp small children. WEATHE FOR Georgia—Generally fair I tonight and Saturday, cooler to— I night. I PRICE FIVE CENTS ROAD i TWO MEN KILLER FROM AMBUSH • NEAR VALDOSTA Kujlet Riddled Bodies of Vic tims round on Seat Os Truck on Roadside ARRESTS MADE IN CASE \ Suspect Now Confined in Cook County Jail To Await Trial VALDOSTA, Oct. 19.—Sherod McGill, aged 65, and his son, Tai '-‘y, were shot to death from abush near here this morning. The bodies were found on the seat of a truck in which they were riding. It is reported an arrest has been made and the man taken to Cook county jail. The killing occurred I on the road between Nashville and Adel. Later it was confirmed that John Kogers, the younger McGill’s son-in-law, had been arrested in connection with/the slayings., WDWN'TORACE HUWCLffI: Disabled Papyrus To Be Super ceded By Famous Racer In Great Event NEW YORK, Oct. 19.—My Own has been substituted for Zev as the American contender in the interna- . ticnal horse race against the Bri- / tish Derby winner, Papyrus, which is to be held Saturday, according to the New York Sun. it was learned definitely that Zev has developed a skin malady which may prevent his car rying the American colors. Jocket clubs race committee, however, af ter inspecting the horse, indicated it would withhold final decision pending the airival of My Own, which racer has been shipped hero prepared to take Zev’s place if nec essary. .• k.e.Sm HOME IN COLUMBUS Father of Mrs. A. J. Timmer man, of Plains Succumbs, After Long Illness COLUMBUS, Oct. 19—W. E. (Jody, lor many years a prominent business man of Columbus, died Wednesday at his home, four miles from the city on the Macon road. ,Mr. Cody has been a resident of Muscogee county lor many years being prominently identfied in Col umbus. For a long tme he was en gaged n the livery stables business later operating an automobile acce sory concern. Ine decreased had been in ill health tor many months. He had been confined to his bed forth« past two months. His many friends will hear of his death with sin cere regret. Mr. Uody is survived by his wife two daughters, Mrs. A. J. Timmer man, of Plains, Ga. and Miss Mar tha Cody of Colmubus, and three sons, Kufus K. Cody, David Cody and Garry Cody, of Columbus, funeral arrangements will be made today. MACON PLANNING TO AID WORK MACON, Oct. 19—Plans for anti-tuberculosis work in Macon were made yesterday at a meeting of the macon Anti-Tuberculosis As socirtion at the Chamber of Com merce. Seals will ibe sold here during November to raise funds to tight the white plague. 1* rederick D. Hopkins, adminis ed the meeting on the work of trative secretary of the National Tuberculosis Association, address--*' fighting the disease and the plans of the national association. Among those who attended were Lee H.'ipp, Dr. C. L. Ridley, Dr. T. D. Walker and Dr. O. S. Spivy. MORE ACREAGE TO BE PLANTED TO PECANS VIDALIA, Ga., Oct. 19—It is announceld that L. B. Godbee has purchased from M. L. Peterson fif ty acres of land just on the sub urbs of Vidalia, the consideration being for cash. This is considered to be a good indication of increas ing demand for farm landss, most of the transfer for the past several months having been trades. Mr. Godbee, it is said will im prove his new acquisition by plant ing his entire tract in pecan trees. The work will be started in Dec ember and improved trees will be used which sould guarantee a yield of in from three to five year*,

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Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, October 19, 1923, Image 1