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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1923 Loyalty, From Beyond Grave Inspires Widow To Carry On For “Boss” Croker BY JOSEPHINE VAN DE GRIFT NEA Service Staff Writer NEW YORK, November s.—Richard Croker is dead but bammany Hall, the country’s most powerful political machine, vshich he helped assemble, will be guided in its campaign this fall by his voice. 1 Croker’s voice speaks through his widow Bula Edmondson Croker. She sits in council with Tammany chiefs. She holds out the Croker millions for Tammany to do with as it wills. Behind this is a story of loyalty undying even in death—of double loyalty. "All that I have I owe to the boys at Tammany Hall, and what I have is theirs.” That is /what Croker told his young wife short ly before he died. “When he died a part of me died,” says Mrs. Croker. “His spir it was with me after he died. It is with me now. And so now I am doing what I know he would - do. "Before my husband died,” Mrs. Croker continued, “he told me that the most desirable quality in any man was gratitude. ‘The boys in Tammany fought many a hard bat tle for me and with me,' he said to me. ‘Go back to them. Tell them that they can command you as they would command me. I would rather have them think of me as loyal than to think of me as great.’ ” And so Croker’s widow has of fered Tammany her money and her services. “I shall do anything ex cept run for office,” she says. If Al Smith, New Ybrk’s governor, should gain the Democratic nomi nation for president, you’ll probab ly see her as a campaign speaker throughout the country. Croker meat Bula Edmondson in September, 1914. In her veins ran the blood of the Cherokee Indians. She was studying music and public speaking. They were married in November. “Destiny guides us,” said Mrs. Croker. “Years before he met me Mr. Croker had a shack on some land in Florida. He called it, ‘The Wigwam.’ Little did he think that one day he would bring an Indian woman there to live. “I do not know how much my husband’s estate is worth, hut that land in Florida is now valued at a million and a half. Tammany can have it, for the spirit of Richard Croker is with me still and I cannot help but be loyal to his loyalties.” Mrs. Croker, still young in years, is wearing yet the mourning she donned at her husband’s death. I have had such happiness as few women know,” she said. “I do not need the fortune that was left me. I can live under a tree if necessary. Perhaps, some day. I shall adopt a child—but I shall ■'ever marry again.” m :trel rehearsal High school tonight '■' <<< > »1 costume rehearsal for the trel to be given by John D. * .al. ’ Post, American Legion, will be n d this evening at 7:30 o’clock in ne high school building, Welbur Smith, director of the minstrel, an nounced today. It is desired that all participants in the minstrel )>e present at the hour named in order that the pro gram may be covered thoroughly. GINNINGS SHOW GAIN OF OVER 1500 BALES AUGUSTA, Nov. 5. A. A. Sea go, special agent of the bureau of census of the department of agri culture, has reported that 4,152 bales of cotton were ginned in Rich mond county prior to October IS of this*year. An increase of 1,637 bales is shown by the report as compared with a corresponding period of 1922. The report of 1922 of a like period shows that only 2,515 bales were ginned. llgg Constant hacking . makes the cough worse STOP it now with Dr. Bell’s Pine- Tar Honey -or it may become chronic. Nothing so quickly loosens phlegm,soothesdry throatsand stops coughing Made of the very same medicines the best doctors prescribe combined with the good old time stand by—pine-tar honey! Its taste is pleasing, toe! Keep Dr. Bell s on hand for the whole family. All Be sur? to get the genuine. DR. BELL’S Pine-Tar Honey | WHOIL FLOWS SHOW EXHIBIT SJTURD.M Prizes Are Announced and A Large Out-of-Town Attend ance Is Expected The Chrysanthemum Club of Americus will hold its annual ex hibition Saturday, November 10, in the handsome show room of the W. G. Turpin building on the corner of Lee and Lamar streets. Already preparations are being made by the membership for the decorations and ararngement of the jars and urns, and it is expected that t. large aout of town attend ance will be present. Last year the prizes offered at tracted wide attention and the show ing was superb from every stand point. This year a number of hand some blooms have been added to the collection, .and it is anticipated that hundreds of blooms will be open and ready for the exhibition Saturday. The prizes as outlined early in the year are as follows: Six best blooms of each the fol lowing varieties: Louisa Pockett, Nakota, Vermont, William Vert. Prizes, first, $5 ; 2nd, $3, and 3rd, $2. Twelve best blooms of different varieties: First prize, $8; 2nd prize, $6; 3rd prize, $4. Six best blooms of each of White Turner, Yellow Turner, and Pink Turner. First prize, $5; 2nd prize $3; 3rd prize, $2. For each basket of little chrys antjiemums, of white, yellow, pink, red, bronze, a prize of $3 will be given for a basket of each color. I Six best white blooms, the Flow er Shop will give a flower basket. Six best yellow blooms, High tower’s Book store will give wall pockets. I Six best pink blooms, Rylander | Shoe company will give a pair of > silk hose. Six best blooms, different vari , eties, Miss Eleanor Tillman will give ■ a string of pearls. i 1 iettiest basket of little pink I chrysanthemums, Mrs. W. 11. Bow | ers will give a pot of buibs. IMEU LEGION I I Presents I I Land of Flowers, Mirth and I I Melody I MINSTRELS M emwll MMWMW—WBKaWW iIdNIUWMMIHKgMBFJtZBPgI Illi li I lIINIj ■■MMMMBnBBMMWWMM——S— High School I I Auditorium I I Friday Night I I« § November 9, 1923 -- BP. M. I Balcony 50c Orchestra 75c I School Children 50c B I /f \ WIDOW BULA EDMONDSON CROKER EGGS AND POULTRY SHIPPED LONG WAYS ATLANTA, Nov. s.—lmprove- ments in transportation and in stor age facilities make it quite feasible for producers of poultry and dairy products in Georgia and other Southern states to enter markets a thousand miles away, according to agricultural experts of the Atlanta, j Birmingham and Atlantic railway who have aided South Georgia far- I mers in handling their produce to I Atlanta and to markets north and ' east. Journeys that consumed days when Atlanta was Marthasville < re now reduced to hours and minutes. A crate 6f eggs or a firkin of but ter, the railroad experts show, can be shipped from here to New York ;in less time than formerly from I Macon to Savannah. The oppor- I tunities thus, opened, it is pointed out, are of immense import to the ' THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER 1 state’s agricultural and business in terests. South Georgia counties, .., B. and A. officials stated today, have realized this truth, and are making it the foundation of new freedom and unprecedented prosperity, it is shown that more ana more far mers are adopting the “hog-cow hen” program, with its assurance of a cash income the year around. ™ th& RED BAND \\ THE LARGiSI PENCIL fACTSRY y RUSSIAN NOBLES RUSH TO OFFENSE CONRADI Eighty Witnesses Will Testify In Famous Case of Assassin Who Shot Soviet Leader LAUSANNE, Nov; s.—Eighty witnesses, including a galaxy of in ternational figures, wi.l be called in the trial of Maurice Conradi, as sassin of soviet leader Vorowsky, which opens here today. Generals, dukes, princes and prin cesses of the czarist regime, soviet officials and allied officers will tes tify in details of the tragedy in the Hotel Cecil on May 10 when Con radi shot Vorowsky, leader of the Russian delegation to the Near East conference. Switzerland refused to accept re sponsibilities for the crime on the ground that the Russians had not been invited to the conference sia thereupon •declared a eommor cial boycott against Switzerland, and it was reported that Swiss in Russia were ill treated in the ex citement following the incident Conradi surrendered after the shooting. He will plead that there was strong provocation for the crime, his family having been per secuted by the bolsheviks. ’ - 5 - HOLDS CONFERENCE ON $18,000,000 MEETHODIST drive ATLANTA, Nov. 5.—A confer ence wag held here recently be tween Dr. Elam F. Dempsey, edu cational secretary of the North Georgia conference, and Dr. 11. H, Sherman, one of the secretaries of education of the Methodist Episco pal church, south and Judge John Candler, chairman of the board of education in this district, for the purpose of discussing the $18,000,- 000 educational driv? which the I Methodist church is sponsoring. Dr. Dempsey expressed himself as op timistic over the drive and Dr. Sher man said that many helpful things were suggested in th? conference. ■ ■ • A Sale of * • ’V > -»* ‘ iflf 08l fS LADIES’ COATS ? I. AT . ilpn • ■ A.. HU . - ■»•.' » 4 ■ v ,iVi 1 t ' ■. itht i ■. jneqe :tig ( > W $15.00 . n-> lu d' frfw bori’p n isrfl <2jjV Our New York buyer made a special purchase of some '• / sr LADIES' COATS for us that are really and truly wonderful values, they will compare easily with the aver age $25.00 Coats. We bought them right and & pass the saving on jo you at only $15.00. . A || " SEE THEM EARLY X X • - 5 CHURCHWELL'S 218-222 W. Lamar St. Americus, Ga. m PAGE FIVE
