The Grady County progress. (Cairo, Grady County, Ga.) 1910-19??, May 28, 1915, Image 2

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Newspaper Page Text— GRADY COUNTY PROGRESS, CAIRO, GEORGIA. IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER Happenings of This and Other Nations For Seven Days Are Given. THE NEWS THE SOUTH Whot Is Taking Place In the South, land Will Be Found In Brief Paragraphs. European War A stale of war,now virtually exists between Italy and the Teutonic allies, of which the. Roman government was formerly an ally. The Italian troopB are reported to be-crouched to spring nt Austria and bridges have been de stroyed on the frontier. In the east the Russians are report ed to have been severely repulsed by the German and Austrian armies in s the Carpathians. DisBenBion prevails in the English cabinet. Winston Spencer Churchill, first lord of the admiralty, and Lord Kitchener, head of the war office, are both now out of favor on account of recent losses on land and sea. A coa lition cabinet Is expected to be form ed that will embrace all parties. Ar thur J. Balfour, former premier at the time of the Boer war, is considered Churchill's probable successor and Bo- nar Law Is mentioned to succeed Kitchener. Fierce, fighting Is going on in the Dardanelles, but no decided gains are reported on either side. While on his way to dinner at the Spanish embassy, the Italian ambas sador to Berlin was attacked in the street by a patriotic German young ster, who knocked off his hat. The boy was arrested and the imperial government apologized. Three heads of the Bonaparte fam ily in France, Belgium and Portugal, all grand nephews of Napoleon the great, have volunteered their personal services to Italy in case of war. The archbishop of Canterbury has announced no candidates -for the cler gy in the Church of England who are of military age will be ordained dur ing the war; that all must enter the government’s military service. The Austro-German forces, recently under personal supervision of Emper or William, have driven the Russian armies, stretching for a length of two hundred miles In the Galician hills in northern Austria, back into Poland ac cording to fidvices from Vienna and Berlin. The report was somewhat con firmed by the hasty departure of -Em peror Nicholas from Petrograd to the front The Teutonic forces claim to have crossed the San river. Emperor William himself narrowly escaped death from a Russian shell in Galicia, according to a Budapest dispatch. The imperial chauffeur was killed. I The London and Paris war offices claim the Anglo-French forces and fleet in the Dardanelles are; gaining daily. An Athens dispatch states the Turks have been out of ammunition for a fortnight, but have been plenisbed with an ample supply of war stores from Berlin. Another English merchantman, the Drumcree, has been sunk by a Ger man submarine, torpedoed in the Eng lish channel. The English parliament shows a re- luctancy in passing a conscription act which is being urged by Lord Kitchen er and the Asquith ministry. Italians have clashed with Austrian troops at Pola. Both the Austro-Hun garian and German ambassadors at Rome have asked for their passports. Declaration of war is expected any moment It has been definitely an nounced that the old triple alliance is now shattered. The German imperial chancellor, in addressing the reichstag, said all had been done by Austria to keep peace between Vienna and Rome, but with out success. The London admiralty office ad mits that an Australian submarine, making its way into the Sea of Mar mora, was sunk by the Turks, crew pf thirty was lost Domestic The West Virginia state senate adopted a joint resolution petitioning Governor Slaton of Georgia to com mute the death sentence of Leo Frank to life'imprisonment. A concurrent resolution was adopt ed by the Pennsylvania legislature begging Governor Slaton of Georgia for clemency in the case of. Leo Frank. . Former President Taft, in an ad- dresB at Painesville, Ohio, declared there was too much competition among the churches and not enough unity. The Southern Presbyterian General Assembly is in session at Newport News. Governor Manning of South Caroli na lias ordered the "tiger" laws of that state enforced which means a war against some of the municipal govern ments of the state. Gen. Thomas H. Hubbard,-prominent New York attorney and railroad mag nate, is dead. He was a Civil veteran. Governor Walsh of ' Massachusetts has issued to all state governors his official invitatibn for the conference of governors to convene In Boston September for their annual meeting. The conference last year was held ' Madison, Wls. The jury in the Baraes-Roosevclt li- bol suit at Syracuse Is deadlocked. A conditional verdict-was returned for Colonel Roosevelt which Justice An drews refused to receive. Eleven ju rors wore fuvorable to the, former president and one, a Syracuse .motor- man, wns for Mr? Barnes. An import ant question raised Is-the division of court costs, which have been' propos ed to be. split, equally between plain tiff and .defendant. . . . The So’utbern Presbyterian . General Assembly, in session at Newport News, haB been greatly stirred .by the prohibition agitation started in the proceedings. Judge Arthur Powell of Atlanta, Qa., an intimate friend of the late Judge S. Roan,, who presided over the Frank trial, has written an open let ter to Governor Slaton of Georgia In which he stateB Judge Roan never be lieved Frank was guilty. The Texas legislature 1b the fourth 1 American legislative body to adopt resolutions of appeal to Governor Sla ton of Georgia, begging for clemency for Leo Frank. At the international arbitration con ference at Mohonk Lake, N. Y., Pres. Wilson’s stand was indorsed by unani mous vote amid enthusiastic cheers. The Northern Baptist conference, in session at Los Angeles, ndopted res olutions indorsing President Wilson's administration and peace policies. In his argument to the jury at the close of the Barnes-Roosevelt libel suit nt Syracuse, Colonel Roosevelt’s counsel, John M. Bowers, begged the jury not to destroy the former presi dent's power in America by deciding against him, but to let him continue in following President Wilson ns a guide of the nation. UNITED STATES REMAINSNEUTRAL President Wilson Issues Proclamation Declaring Neutrality Of America In Mediterranean Ports AMERICA REPRESENTS ITALY Expected U. 8. Ambassadors Page And Gerard Will Act For Pow ers At Rome And Berlin Washington.—Up to a late hour the Italian and Austrian embassies here, as well as the state department, were without official notification of Italy’s declaratin of war on Austria, but offi cials began the preparation of a neu trality proclamation to be issued at once by President Wilson, when Am bassador ’ Thomas Nelson Page advis ed the American government of Italy’s action. It is token for granted in diplomatic quarters here that as a result of the declaration of war against Austria, Germany and Turkey, as allies of that country, will announce a state of war with Italy. Switzerland will look after German interests in Rome, while the United States is expected to take charge of the Italian interests in Ber lin and Constantinople. Washington Assistant Postmaster General Ro per has granted all postmasters who were ex-Confederate soldiers in the Civil war leave of absence to attend the Confederate reunion at Richmond. At the conclusion of five days of ar gument between counsel in the injunc tion suit of the Riggs National bank against Secretary McAdoo, Comptrol ler Williams and United StateB Treas urer Burke, Justice MCCoy of the Co lumbia supreme court took under ad visement the dismissal of the case. He sharply criticised the methods of the Riggs institution for persistent viola tions, and stated from the bench Sec retary. McAdoo and’ his associates'had not shown any malice. Frank D. Walsh, chairman of the federal industrial- relations commis sion, now conducting an investigation of the Colorado strike situation, gave John D. Rockefeller, Jr., a .rigorous grilling on the witness stand which greatly provoked the latter’s resent ment. President Wilson has issued a com plimentary statement regarding the New York police service, praising its great efficiency in handling great crowds. President Wilson, who is back at the White House from New York, where he went to review the fleet, empkaticaly announced there would be no bartering with Germany over his recent note, that he meant fully all ho said. Rev. Eugene S. Gaddis of Denver, former head of the Rockefeller’s Col orado corporation’s sociological de partment, testified before the federal Industrial relations committee that the Colorado miners were justified in re belling and that the strike was caus ed by brutes and bullies. Rev. Mr. Gaddis waB later let out by the Rocke feller Interests, he said, and made an unsuccessful appeal to be reinstated. Secretary of Agriculture Houston has received an extensive report from the British agricultural office on the first experimental cotton crop raised in New South WaleB on the Australian, continent. Clarence Darrow, counsel for the McNamaras, stated to the federal in. dustrial relations commission that, in bis opinion, the McNamaras, in being sent to San Quinten prison for life and fifteen years, respectively, for blowing up the Los Angeles Times and killing 120 people- and blowing up bridges and other properties were martyrB. Foreign The Swiss federal authorities view with displeasure the sinking of the Lu sitania and have made suitable rep resentations of disapproval to the Ger man imperial government at Berlin. The Canadian government steamer, Christine, was rammed in the St. Law rence river by a Canadian, submarine, causing the loss of eight lives. Six of the crew were' saved. Some Americans residing at San Diego report that they were fired on while in their private fishing launch, the New Ancono, while on a fishing cruise in Mexican waters in one of the harbors of Lower California. They report their craft waved the American flafe. Marriage by proxy has been made legal’ in France by a special act of the chamber Of deputies. The'first to avail themselves of the new law' wore Alfred Lorin, a Paris attorney, now a soldier at the front, and Mile Marie Martigny. The bridegroom was repre sented at ih'e ceremony by a close friend. Americans in ' Mexico recently at tacked by Yaqui Indians in an upris ing in the state of Sonora have been protected by American marines land-' ed from the Pacific fleet and by Villa troops which immediately were rushed to the scene to quiet the Indians. GREEK KING WORSE Relapse Suffered By King Constantine. Specialist Hurries From Berlin To Athens Paris.—An Athens dispatch to the Havas agency says that after a con ference of the Greek cabinet ministers with the physician treating King Con stantine, it was decided to telegraph to Berlin for a specialist. The king’s fever increased and. an urgent opera tion was considered‘necessary. Premier Gournaris, it was added, has given up his contemplated voyage to Saloniki. . An Athens dispatch to the Intran- Bigeant says that Prof. Friedrich Kraus of Berlin, who is familiar with the king’s condition, has been request ed to go immediately to Athens. The latest bulletin from the sick chamber, indicating that the tempera ture of the king had risen, caused the greatest anxiety in Athens. Croivn Prince George is at his father’s bed side. VILLA MEETS OBREGON Outlaw Chieftain Claims- To Have Crushed Carranza General At Celaya Washington.—Complete victory for the Villa forces over the Carranza army under Obregon in another battle near Celaya was claimed by the Villa agency here on the strength of a dis patch from Diaz Lombardo, minister of foreign affairs at Chihuahua. Dispatches from Vera Cruz made public by the Carranza agency said the Villa forces left behind 2,000 killed, wounded and prisoners when they evacuated Monterey and that fourteen troop trains with complete equipment fell Into the hands of the victorious Carranza army. The Villa generals, Pereyra and Carrera Torres, it was said, were captured at Paredon and ex ecuted. LITTLE NEWS ITEMS OF STATE INTEREST CALIFORNIA VOLCANO Hat Creek Valley Threatened With De struction By Eruption Of Lassen Peak Redding, Cal.—Hat Creek valley, which was threatened with destruction by the eruption of Lassen peak, has been saved. .The flood which followed the disturbances changed its course for only a short distance, the main mud flow being carried out into the old lava fields. The entire valley was shaken by a strong earthquake just previous to the eruption. No damage from this sourco Is reported. Clouds hid the volcano for a while. Residents of the valley began mov ing back into their homes, from which the volcano had driven them twice within forty-eight hours. When they found that the tremendous flood of' mud which poured down the mountain side had been deflected, many held services of praise and thanksgiving. British Claim Victories Paris.—An offioial note regarding operations in the Dardanelles says that a British-submarine has sunk two torpedo boats and two transports, one of which waB loaded with troops. In the Dardanelles the two Turkish di visions commanded by Gen. Liman von Sanders in person, have delivered a furious attack against the British troops near Kaleh Tepe. They were repulsed, and suffered heavy losses. At the same time our allies have won another success in the sea, where one of their submarines sunk two ships, Pan-American Union Washington. — The Pan-American financial conference, in which admin istration officials put high hopes for a closer union of commercial, financial and industrial interests, of this hemi sphere, have begun. President Wilson welcomed the visitors. Although nei ther the visiting delegates nor the ad ministration has authority to go be yond the spoken word, those who have planned it expect to see come from it something more tangible than speeches or promises—a union of in terests and purposes. Valdosta.—S. W. Sargent, Valdos ta’s oldest citizen, died here at the home of his son. Mr. Sargent was in his nInety-Becond year. Athens.—Roosevelt T. Walker, a for mer Macon boy, now a member of the faculty of the University pf Arkan sas, was elected adjunct professor of English of the University, of Georgia. Macpn.—The indicted' officials of the Commercial National Bank ap peared before Judge -Emory Speer in the United States district court and secured their release under bonds of $2,000. Dublin.—The Sunday schools plcnic- ed at Idylwlld, a resort near this city. The First Methodist and the Presby terian schools celebrated together. The public schools of the city gave holiday. Athens.—Horace McCall Clements, junior school civil engineering, was elected captain of the University of Georgia baseball team for 191$. His home is in Buena Vista. He has been named on two all-Southern teams. Thomasville.—One of the first Im portant matters that has been taken up by the recently organized Commer cial Association of Thomasville is the establishment of a .canning factory for Thomasville and Thomas county. Macon.—Sentence on Green H. Har ris of Macon county, the oldest moon shiner ever tried in the United StateB district court here, was deferred by Judge Speer until the next term of court, antf the defendant was permit ted to return to his home. Andersonvllle.—As a Toledo, Ohio, concern has completed the Clara Bar ton memorial in Prison park, it is now assured that a large delegation of prominent Northern people and Grand Army veterans will visit An- dersonyllle May 31 to dedicate the monument. Macon.—The fact that Recorder T. J. Cochran backed his automobile over a motorcycle belonging to R. F. McCowan was not a violation of the rules of the road, but an accident, ac cording to the ruling of Acting Re corder Eden Taylor, who presided at the trial of the regular recorder in his own' court. Savannah.—At the closing session of the Knights of Pythias grand lodge the following officers were elected : Grand, chancellor, Rev. Troy Beatty 1 , Athens; grand vice chancellor, George C. Cchaufele, Augusta, grand prelate, Joseph D. Smith, Barnesville; grand keeper of. records and seal, William H. Leopold, Savannah; grand master of exchequer, R. C. Norman, Washing ton. Acworth.—A large tent was used for a union revival under the auspices of all the churches here. ' Americus.—Americus made exten sive preparations to entertain the tour ists of the Seeing Georgia delegation. Columbus.—When an automobile, driven by J. F. Slaughter, burst a tire and turned turtle, five occupants of the car were injured. Macon.—Rather than be sent to the chaingang for stealing cabbages, Rob ert MorrlB, a negro youth, chose death by drowning in the Ocmulgee river. Americus,,—G. W. Saxon and S. A. Belcher, commissioners of the Dixie highway from Florida, passed through Ameridus and met with a royal recep tion. Commerce.—At a recent meeting of the city board of education, the teach ers were chosen for the coming year, with Prof. H. B. Carrewer as super intendent. Madison.—Judge John W. Burney died at his country home near this city. The deceased was over eighty years of age, and was a well known citizen throughout the state. Columbus.—R. A. Amerson, aged 20, died at the city hospital- from injur- ries received when he fell while en deavoring to board a passing freight train about two miles east of Opelika. Calhoun.—At the last regular meet ing of the city school board here, Prof. C. C.' Wills, who has headed the Calhoun schools for the last six years, was re-elected superintendent for the next year. Augusta.—The new University hos pitals, connected with the'medical de partment of the University of Geor gia, and largely supported by the city of Augusta, will be formaly , dedicated on Tuesday, June 1.. Tifton.—Just what diversification in farming ineanB to the farmers -is well illustrated in Tift county, where the farmers who grow potato plants are having to return money and refuse or ders because they are already sold out. Blackshear.—Commencement exer cises at Pierce Collegiate institute were excellent this year, and of an exceptionally high order. Rev. Charles R. Jenkins, president of Wes leyan, preached the baccalaureate ser mon. Thomasville.—A marriage of roman tic interest that recently came to light here was that of Miss Dorothy Taylor of this city to Scott Wimbush Youngblood of New York. The mar riage took place about" a year ago in New York. Thomasville.—That the county will furnish material and labor for build ing twelve dipping va,ts for cattle, provided the government authorities will send a man to supervise the work and have the vats built according to government specifications, has been agreed by the county commissioners of Mitchell county. Macon.—Over one hundred mem bers of the Southeastern- Bill Posters’ association attended the annual con vention of the organization' here. A big barbecue Tuesday was held at the old Log Cabin club. The convention lasted three days. WAR ON PUBLIC NUISANCES American Civic Association Condemns 8moke, Poles and Wires, and Bill boards as Among Them. From itB very institution, the Amer ican Civic association has devoted It self to the protection of the public against three great nuisances—smoke, poles and wires and billboards. At the annual convention of the association in Washington one of the important subjects discussed was billboards, with a principal address, entitled "The Passing of the Signboard,” by Jesse Lee Bennett of Baltimore, in which he recounted the steps that had been taken for the legal control of the bill board in all parts of the United States. Concerning the sentiment against the billboard, Mr.,Bennett said "The feeling against the signboard has be come nation-wide, and in the laBt few years the agitation of civic organiza tion has been so successful as to awaken resentment against it so widespread that from coast to coast, and in almost every state and city, there are now, or have been, vigorous movements seeking the abolition or regulation of these unnecessary and disfiguring objects. There has been much agitation, and from it there haB been distilled one thing—the recognition of the fact that what is called the signboard problem is a question more complex than the mere removal of the signs. The signboard has been found to be in extricably intertwined with two ques tions of even greater importance—the awakening of civic sentiment and the recognition by legislators and judges of the validity of arguments based upon esthetic considerations.” Commenting on what ought to be the attitude of the law and the courts toward the billboard he added: “It would take our psychologist but a few minutes to show that it is not a question of ear-or nose or eye, but a question of the brain and of the very consciousness that is life itself. No law should permit any man to intrude or force himself or his business into another man’s consciousness to the extent that outdoor advertising has come to permit, an intrusion immedi ately increased by the fact that, it is impossible to avoid seeing sign boards.” REMARKABLE CASE of Mrs. HAM Declares Lydia E. Pinkham’s. Vegetable Compound Saved Her Life and Sanity. Shamrock, Mo.— “I feel it my duly to tell the public the condition of my health before using your medicine. I had falling, inflamma tion and congestion, female weakness, pains in both sides, backaches and bear ing down pains, was short of memory, nervous, impatient, passed sleepless nights, and had neither strength nor energy. There was always a fear and dread in my mind, I had cold, nervous, weak spells, hot flashes over my body. T had a place in my right side that was -0 sore that I could hardly bear the weight of ihy clothes, I tried medicines and doctors, but they did me little good, and I never expected to get out again. I got Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and Blood Puriflerj'nnd I cer tainly would have been In grave or in an asylum if your medicines had not saved me.- But now I can work all day, sleep well at night, eat anything I want, have no hot flashes or weak, nervouB spells. All pains, aches, fears and dreads are gone, my bouse, children and husband are no longer neglected, as I am almost entirely free of the bad symptoms I had before taking your remedies, and all is ileasure and happiness in my home.”— Mrs. Josie Ham, R. F. D. 1, Box 22, Shamrock, Missouri. If yon want special advice write Lydia E. Pinkliam Medicine Co., (confidential) Lynn, Mass. NEW WAY TO WATER TREES German City Official Seems to Have Hit Upon Method That Should Be Effective. A very ingenious and practical de vice for assuring the trees on city sidewalks a sufiiclent supply of wa ter, no matter how dry the season and how hard baked the earth, has been put In operation in Strassburg by Mr. Sauer, the city tree inspector. It con sists of a tube of iron or lead bent Into the form of’a ring large enough to encircle the stem of the tree. The earth is removed so that this ring may be placed Just above the roots, and is then filled in again, leav ing the end of a pipe connecting with the ring projecting above the surface of the ground. The top of the ring is pierced with a large number of small holes, and a tin cover or shield prevents these from becoming stopped up with earth. ,By means of a funnel in the pro truding end of the pipe apy_ desired amount of water may be, supplied to the roots without waste or' loss of time. A further advantage, according to Prometheus, is the ventilation thus secured of the earth in the vicinity of the roots. Flower/City of Germany. The marked industrial developments in Erfurt are of comparatively recent date, and in spite of the Increasing importance of its manufacturing es tabllshments the city is still best known for the Immense horticultural establishments found there. Erfurt is appropriately called the “Blumen- stadt” or Flower City of Germany. Al most 3 per cent of the population is engaged in commercial horticulture. While vegetables and flowers for sale are grown on a large scale, of much vaster proportions is the business in flower and'vegetable seed. The larger Erfurt seed firms ship to almost all parts of the world, the United States importing larger quantities of Erfurt horticultural products than from any other city in Europe. Baltimore Sets Good Example. About a year ago certain ownerB of real estate in Baltimore decided to create small parkB In the rear of their houses by tearing down division fences, and laying out the lots on each side of the midway alley on a definite ly arranged and uniform scheme of landscape gardening. In many blocks the fences were replaced by a continu ous flower garden. Hundreds of house owners have co-operated in this Inter esting effort'to beautify what were for merly bare and forbidding wastes, and the city forester haB given them ev ery assistance. Many other citieB might well emulate this example. Youth’s Companion. Our “JITNEY” Offer-This and DON’T NIISSTHIS. Cut out this slip, enclose with So to Foley & Go., . 2843 Sheffield Ave., Dept. A, Chicago. 111., writing your name and address . clearly. Ypu 1 will receive in return a ■ package containing Foley's Honey 1 — Tar Compound, for coughs, colds and croup; Foley Kidney Pills, for pain in sides and back, rheumatism, back* ache, kidney and bladder ailments; and Foley Cath artic Tablets; a wholesome and thoroughly deans* ing cathartic; especially comforting to stout peopla IF YOU HAVE, no appetite, Indigestion, Flatulence, Sick ’ Headache, “all run down” or losing flesh, you wUlflnd Famous Royal Artillery Band. One of the most famous bands is that of the Royal artillery. Many per sons who have attained distinction in the musical world have been connect ed with the Royal artillery or its band. Among them was Sims Reeves, who was the son of a bandsman, and who, in his boyhood, Bang ,ln the military choir at Woolwich. It is. perhaps, not well known that the Royal artillery band is fifty years older than the Philharmonic society, having been formed in 1762. It has done much for the advancement of music in England, and has always enjoyed the advantage of having a succession of-eminent mu sicians as bandmasters. It has always been double-handed; that 1b to say, the players are as proficient on stringed instruments as on wind, and can at any time assume the character of an orchestra. 1 The Human Touch. There must be the sensitive touch. A visitor to a manufactory saw a man; molding clay into pots. Noticing that! all the molding was done by hand, he said to the workman: “Why do y.oul not use a tool to aid you in shaping the clay?” The workman replied:! "There :is no tool that can do'this work,' We have tried different ohe'8, but- somehow it needs the human touch ” And how true it is that in shaping lives for God- there is need, of the human touch. 1 We cannot do the Lord’s work,-by -machinery. Jesus touched men, imparting health, 1 cleans ing and salvation.—Biblical-' Recorder* No Great Wealth. : Tom—She .hafi a wealtii of hqlr. Bess—Oh, I don’t -know. You! can buy those switches, new for $6,' with cream or good milk, supplies the food elements in excellent proportion for build- ing brain and muscle tissue. 1 “Thertfs a Reason”