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
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> »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.
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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.
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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
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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. ’
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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.
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special purchase of some
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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 || "
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CHURCHWELL'S
218-222 W. Lamar St. Americus, Ga. m
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