I Cotton receipts in
Sumter warehouses 26.487
WEATHER
For Georgia—Fair, slightly cooler
tonight. Heavy frost Tuesday.
FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR—NO. - 2 5 7
•1925 Cotton Crop Is Estimated At 15,386,000 Bales
LAST ESTIMATE
SHOWS INCREASE
FOR OCTOBER
Indicates Yield of 1,150,000
Bales for Georgia for
1925 Crop
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.—A prob
able cotton production of about 15,-
386,000 bales this year, if average
influences prevail during the remain
der of the season, is indicated by the
Department of Agriculture today.
Reports as of November 1 on con
dition, abandonment and probable
yields and other factors were the
basis of this report. The indicated
production for Georgia was an
nounced as 1,150,000 bales; South
Carolina, 860,000 bales; and Ten
nessee, 485,000.
Cotton ginned from growth of
1925 prior to November 1, totalled
11,198,666 bales the Census Bureau
announced today compared to 9715,-
643 bales to that date last year.
LOCAL MARKET
PRICES DROP OFF
As the result of the new estimates
on the cotton crop the local market
dropped off for spot cotton middling
from 18 3-8 cents to 17 3-4 cents
New York markets opened at
20.50 for December and 19.90 for
January, but reopened as result of
report at 19.40 for December and
18,90 for January. The closing was
19.43 for December and 19.00 for
Jonuary.
KIRCHOFFER TO
* VISIT AMERICUS
Will Be Guests of Mr and Mrs.
Tom Harrold- Here in Inter
est of Episcopal Church
The Rev. A. Kirchoffer, rector of
Christ church, Mobile, will arrive in
Americus Tuesday afternoon and will
be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Harrold.
Mr. Kirchoffer is sent by the Na
tional Council of the Episcopal
church to explain the national bud
get and program.
At 3:30 p.m., Tuesday, Mr. Kir
choffer will speak to the women of
the parish in the parish house and
at 6 p.m., the vestry of Calvary
church will entertain him at dinner at
the Tea Room.
At 7:30 p. m. all members and
friends of the church will beet Mr.
Kirchoffer in the parish house. The
vestry and all the men, the Wom
an’s auxiliary and Parish Guild and
all the women, the Young People’s
Service League and all the young
people of the parish are urged to be
present at this meeting.
MORE PAVING
FOR ROUTE 3
I
I
Worth County Grand Jury Rec
ommends Paving More of
Short Route to Florida
| ' SYLVESTER, Ga„ Nov. 9.—The
grand jury of Worth Superior Court,
October term, made some important
b reccommendations, among which was
’ the approval of paving the Florida
Short Route through the county
' from Dougherty to Colquitt line.
/ The Slyvester Kiwanis Club also
/ went on record as approving the pav
ing of the same route through Worth
■ county.
♦nother important recommenda
is that the delegation in the Leg
5 islature introduce a bill at the next
session of the Legislature to change
’ the existing law under which the
•\ county commissioners are elected
> and to provide that three commis
'■ sioners be elected from the county
at large, instead of five as at pres
, ent, who will be empowered to em
. ploy a county business manager to
| look after all affairs coming under
the jurisdiction of the Board of
i ( County Commissioners.
POSTAL RATES DO NOT
PAY SALARY INCREASE
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.—The re-
■ cently increased postage rates will
meet only about half of the postal
salary increases, Postmaster-General
New said today in a statement to
j Congressional special joint sub-com
’ mittee on postal rates.
TU ET TI k J ETC’ i
I nu I
HEP IN THE HE -XR T G>r~7>X v m
Great Program Planned for Celebration Wednesday
1 o Speak Here
i
_ HOKE SMITH
MINONA SPRINGS
TO BE DEVELOPED
AS BIG RESORT
Property Is Sold to Florida Capi
talist. Forrester Peach Farm
Is Also Sold
Real estate is on the boom in
Montezuma according to a telephone
report this morning from Lynn Mc-
Kenzie a member of the real estate
firm known as the Georgia-Florida
Real Estate Co.
The most recent deal was the one
made with a Florida capitalist who
purchased the wonderful Minona
Springs property.
The amount of cash involved in
this deal was about SIO,OOO. State
ments from Montezuba are to the ef
fect that the buyer will make <. t ten
sive improvement on the ••'•petty,
building a large up-to-date hotel,
with golf links, swimming p. <’s and
other developments to make it a
modern resort.
It is not known at this time just
when these improvements will begin,
buut is thought tthat it wil Ibe in
the near future.
The other deal was the sale to a
Miami capitalist of the Forrest peach
farm, one of the most valuable pieces
of property in Macon county. The
cash consideration for this property
was $25,000.
The Georgia-Florida Realty Com
pany is composed of J. B.Easterlin,
Jr., Lynn McKenzie, E. C. Duke and
B. F. Neal. They also reported that
in addition to the deals named above
they had made two smaller deals dur
ing the past few days.
The boom at Montezuma is ex
pected to create much interest and
when the paving bonds are passed,
and the highway is paved that inter
est will increase.
HOSPITAL EMPLOYEES
GO ON STRIKE
| VERA CRUZ Nov. 9.—The sing
| ularly polite strikes has been record
ed in this city, where strikes of one
kind or another, frequently any
thing but amiable, are almost inces
sant.
Hospital employes and attendants
walked out when their salaries had
not been paid for several months.
Formal anl elaborate expression of
regret were transmitted to the pat
ients.
“We deplore the unfortunate con
diition in which we must leave you,”
the strikers said to the patients, ‘but
our own cases are more lamentable.
Our salaries in most instances are
S3O or less per month. And when
even that salary is not paid, we
must, with renewed expressions of
infinite regret proclaim that we cease
workl”
NEW FRENCH THEATRES
HAVE PLENTY OF AIR
PARIS, Nov. 9.—An open window
creates a panic almost anywhere in
a French theatre and as there are ro
means of mechanical ventilation, for
eigners suffocate winter and sum
mer alike. As smoking is permitted
In virtually all moving picture houses
' and many theatres, ventilatiton is
I more necessary.
New motion picture houses under
[construction here and in other
i French cities for American picture
companies will be equipped with ev
ery sort of modern ventilating equip
■ ment.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA. MONDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 9, 1925
EUROPEAN PLOT
AGAINST DR Y
LAW REVEALED
“Pussyfoot” Johnson, Temper
ance Lecturer, Says Europe
Will Finance Wet Rally
CHICAGO, Nov. 9.—William E.
(Pussyfoot) Johnson, international
temperance lecturer, says a Euro
pean plot against the American pro
hibition law is forming, to be launch
ed at a gathering of wet advocates at
Washington on next January 16th.
Johnson’s report was given out
today by Dr. Ernest Cherrington,
secretary of World League against
alcoholism, one of the principal
speakers at the Anti-Saluon League
convention in session here.
“Anti-prohibition demonstration
announced for Washington will be
engineered from Europe and finan
ces for it will be provided chiefly
by European distillers and brewerg,”
Johnson’s report said.
EDUCATION WEEK
TO BE OBSERVED
Beginning Monday, November
16. Special Program Through
All of Next Week
With the proclamation issued by
President Coolidge and Governor
Ciifford Walker, the nation will next
week observe American Education
Week.
Americus Education Week has be
come a permanent institution with
this years observance being mor e ex
tenisve than ever before. Practical
ly every State in the Union having
its Goernor to issue a proclamation,
■setting aside the week as one in
which education is the sole center of
interest to the parent, teacher and
the school child.
The American Legion, National
Education Association and the Unit
ed States Bureau of Educatiton
have arranged a program
to be followed out during the week.
This program is as follows: Monday
November 16, Constitution Day;
Tuesday, Patriotism Day; Wednes
day, School and Teacher day; Thurs
day, Conservatism and Thrift day;
Friday, Know your school today;
Saturday Community and Health
day Sunday for God and Country
day.
KILLS DAUGHTER,
NOW FACES TRIAL
Old Country Doctor Testified in
Own Defense in Unusual
Case
LITTLETON, Col. Nov. 9.—An
old fashioned country doctor, Harold
E. Blazer, took the stand today at
the opening of court in his own de
fense at his trial where he is charg
ed with slaying his own daughter,
Hazel, 34 years of age “child wo
man.”
He spoke without visiole emotion
as he described his helpless imbecile
daughter. “She could not walk, talk
feed or help herself. “She could roll
qbout the floor” was all that he said.
WALSH PURCHASES
FLORIDA PROPERTY
CORAL GABLES, Fla., Nov. 9.
IJ. Irving Walsh, president of the
New York Real Estate Board, today
signed contracts for an investment
of a quarter of a million dollars in
property in the city of Coral Gables. .
Walsh announced that his invest
ment is only an initial one, as he
expects to make public a great con
struction program shortly.
The property purchased by Walsh
is the riviera section of Coral Ga
bles, within a short distance of where
the great open-air University of Mi
■ ami, is being constructed, and adjac
ent to the projected Seaboard Air
line Railroad Terminal, which will be
I the largest south of Jacksonville.
Dr. Henry B. Allen Dies
After Only Short Illness
FUNERAL HELD
TODAY: BODY TO
SANDERSVILLE
Was Well Known As Specialist
And As Official of the Wood
men of the World
Dr. Henry B. Allen, prominent
specialist of Americus, died at his
home on Taylor street Sunday night
at 7:15 o’clock, after a comparative
ly short illness. Death came as a
result of influenza, with some com
plications developing during the aft
ernoon.
Funeral services were held Monday
at 1 o’clock from the Episcopal
church, Rev. James B. Lawrence,
rector, officiating. Immediately fol
lowing the services at the church the
body was entrained for Sandersville,
where it will be interred Tuesday.
Services at Sandersville will be held
from the home of Mrs. Alien’s moth
er, Mrs. M. G. Joyner.
Dr. Allen was 47 years of age and
had been a resident of Americus for
21 years. K’e was a member of the
local Episcopal church, prominent in
business, medical and fraternal cir
cles.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. H.
B. Allen, and two daughters, Miss
Mary Earle Allen and Miss Elizabeth
Dean Allen; his mother, Mrs. Ida
( C< -tinued on Page Four.)
MITCHELLTRIAL
RESUME HEARING
Colonel Mitchel Turns Loose
Again On Air
Services
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.—Anoth
er reverberating connonade of accus
ations was turned loose today by
Colonel William Mitchell against
those in charge of the Miitary and
Naval air services.
Through his counsel Mitchell in
formed the courtmartial trying him,
because of his previous utterance in
air controversies, that he was fully
prepared to prove his charge of crim
inal and almost treasonable neglig
ence in government aviation.
ROME BEGGARS
HAVE WEALTH
ROME, Nov. 9. —The police have
fount} that many of the sorriest and
most pathetic appearing street beg
gars are some of the city’s most
opulent citizens behind the walls of
their homes.
One of these aged mendicants was
searched and his . pockets shown to
contain about S3O as one day’s re
ceipts. Another beggar was found
to be a proprietor of dwelling houses,
another an owner of a livery stable
that boasted several horses and car
riages, a third was a professional
money lender at unusrious rates, and
a fourth was a frequenter of one of
the capital's most expensive restau-|
rants in the evenings.
Cesare Sanesi, palsied and miser
ably dressed in tatters, died sudden
ly on the street of heart failure.
His body was gathered up uncermon
iously by carabineers and buried in
the public cemetery for the destitute.
It was later learned that Sanesi was
. a member of one of the most noble
of Florentine families, and that he
bore the autentic title of count.
FORTY-THREE ARE DEAD
FROM TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Nov. 9.,-*-
Forty-three persons are known to
have been killed and two hundred,
and eight are injured in traffic ac
cidents in ten Southern states last
week, reports collected today by the
Associated Press reveal.
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'CALLED TO BE
SAINTS', THEME
REV. HAYWOOD
Preaches Interesting Sermon at
Morning Service at Lee St.
Methodist Church
Using as his subjject, "Called to
be Sainis,” found in the second
verse of the first chapter of the first
Corinthian letter, Rev. William M.
Haywood, pastor, preached to his
congregation at the Lee Street Meth
odist Church.
The morning service was opened
with the reading of the entire first
chapter of the Corinthian letter, a
letter from the Apostle Paul to the
Church at Corinth, as the scripture
reading.
Rev. Haywood in the beginning of
his sermon spoke of the source of
the call to be saints, then the appli
cation of the call and the univers
ity of the call. He spoke of the
Christian people trying to liv e saint
ly lives and during the sermon re
marked that “ A Saint is one that is ,
separate from the world and filled
with the love of God.”
He also spoke of the existance of
long faced Christians, stating that
'there was not place for the long
faced Christian in the Church, the
community or in any place. He
stressed the fact that it was not nec
essary for a Christian to be a long
face or a grouch.
He also expressed belief that there
were Saints in the modern Church
an dsaid that a saintly life was a
great life, that it was doing the will
of God.
It was an interesting sermon,
spoken in away that anyone could
understand and appreciate. Follow
ing the sermon the congregation ob
served the ordinance of Holy Com
munion.
SPANISH-AMERICAN
VETS IN PARADE
■ The Spanish-American War Veter
j ans are requested to meet Wednes-
I day afternoon at 2 o’clock at the
Courthouse for the purpose of march
ing in the Armistice Day parade.
The veterans of 1898 were invited
by the American Legion to partic
ipate with them in the exercises of
the day.
MAYOR ELECT WALKER
ON VISIT TO ATLANTA
NEW YORK, Nov. 9.—A visit to
I i Atlanta' this week by James J. Wal-
■ ker, Mayor .elect of New York is in
-1 terpreted in political circles here as
»effort to “self’ Tammany to the
■ South with potentialities as to Gov
; ernor Smiths camprign in 1928 for
■ the Democratic Presidential nomina
tion.
DR. HENRY B. ALLEN
FERTILIZER MEN
START MEETING.
IN ATLANTA
National Fertilizer Association
Will Have Their First Meet
ing in Atlanta Today
ATLANTA, Ga., Nov. 9. The
first annual southern convention of
the new National Fertilizer Associa
tion will be held at Atlanta, Ga.,
beginning today and lasting through
Wednesday.
Program calls for discussions of
Muscle Shoals, by Charles H. Mac-
Dowell, president of Armour Fer
tilizer Works. Rural credits is a
subject that is to be handled by ex-
Governor Robert A. Cooper of South
Carolina, now with the Federal Loan
Bureau of the United States Treas
ury Department. President H. A.
Morgan of the University of Tennes
see is scheduled to speak on rural
handicaps and how they must be
overcome. Major E. Foote of the
United States Department of com
merce is to discuss “Elimination of
Waste in American Industry.”
The sessions of the association will
be presided over by Spencer L. Car
ter, Richmond, Va. The Executive
Secretary is Chas. J. Brand, Wash
ington, D. C.
Offcials of the association located
in Atlanta, state that the attendance,
of the meeting will be unusuallly
large, since there are more producers
now in the organization than ever
before.
THOMASVILLE LOTS
ARE SOLD RAPIDLY
THOMASVILLE, Ga„ Nov. 9 A
record for the asle of building lots
has been made by the Jemison Realty
company here, showing the eagerness
of the people to obtain building lots
here.
At 10 o’clock Friday evening let
ters were mailed out to various par
ties here announcing that 25 of the
lots in Glennwood, the restricted
new residential subdivision being de
veloped in the eastern section of the
city, were ready aiyi would be sold
at once to parties wishing them In
the first mail Saturday morning it
was found that every one of the 25
lots were taken at price of $1,050.
the opening price set by the realty
company.
These lots are the first of this
new development and it was decided
to put them on the market a short I
time ahead of the regular opening
sale of lots, which will be held on
Tuesday, November 12.
At a London dancing academy a '
man of eighty-four is learning to [
dance the tango.
l’e. O;>, n 11 am Close ;
< Dec. 20.36-20.50 19.37 29.43 >
• lan - 19.85j19.90i18.90i19.00 ’
( Middling, 17 3-4,
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
WHITE WAY AND
ARMISTICE DAY
PLANS FINISHED
Address By Former Senator Hoke
Smith and Parade Are the
Features
Final and complete plans for the
Armistice Day—White Way celebra
tion are being rapidly perfected by
the committees in charge. The Le
gion parade Wednesday afternoon
at two-thirty, an address by former
Senator Hoke Smith at three o’clock
and the turning on of the new White
way light at seven-thirty.
Mr. Smith will be met and enter
tained while in the city by an official
reception committee, composed of L.
G.Counci 1, chairman; J. E. Poole,
Mayor; N. A. Ray, Chairman Board
of County Commissioners; Lovelace
Eve, President Chamber of Com
merce; and P. B. Williford, one of
Mr. Smih’s close personal friends.
Mr. Smith will speak from a plat
form erected along Lamar street,
either in front of the Post or the
Windsor Hotel; in the event the
weather is unfavorable plans are be
ing made for him to speak at the
Rylander Theater.
While Mr. Smith’s name is being
prominently mentioned as a candi
date for Governor, an office he has
previously filled with distinction for
for four years, his visit to Ameri
cus in no way political, but mere
ly as an old friend to aid in the ap
propriate celebration of one of the
greatest days in American History.
He is a distinguished citizen and an
able speaker, and will no doubt be
heard by thousands of people from
Sumter and adjoining counties.
The American Legion Parade, be
ginning promptly at two-thirty will
be led by a twenty-five piece band;
immediately following the band will
be the Kiwanis Club float which par
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GEORGIA PEACH
MEETSTUNNEY
Defeats George Cook in the Bout
at Columbus Last Satur
day Night
The “Georgia Peach” is again
victor.
In the ten round bout with George
C#ok, Australian heavyweight, at Co
lumbus Saturday night he clearly
demonstrated his superiority over
that of his opponent by taking • v
ery round of the ten round melee.
In the seventh round he had Cook
groggy and came witlvn one count
of having another knockout to his
credit. As for Cook, he was just
a glutton for punishment and did
not have a chance with the fast
“Young” Stribling.
There were between four and
five thousand there to see th e Geor
gia boy win and it was one time that
everybody was pleased with a fistic
exhibition.
Plans are under way to have Strib
ling meet Gene Tunney in New York
December 23. The only thing to
prevent the bout now is the refusal
of the New York Boxing commis
sion to waive three days on the 21
year old rule as Stribling will not be
21 until December 26. Those inter
ested mostly in the fistic game say
that they believe that Stribling will
defeat Tunney in the 15-round go He
has developed a remarkable punch
and if he does not defeat Tunney
he will at least make things interest
ing for him.
SEVERAL INJURED
IN SOUTHERN WRECK
ATLANTA, Nov. 9. The fast
Southern passenger train, the Su
wanee River Special, was wrecked
at Seney, about 40 miles north of
here about 6 o’clock Sunday after
noon and several persons were in
jured, according to dispatches reach
ing Atlanta Sunday night.
The engine and mail car were over
turned and the baggage car and
three passenger cars were derailed.
According to reports, the engineer,
I|. M. Bardlay, of Atlanta, was
among those injured.
The cause of the accident was not
learned.
