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Waycross Evening Herald
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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF WAYCROSS ANb WARE COUNTY AND COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION
VOLUME XVII
WAYCROSS GA SATURDAY APRIL 3» 1911
NUMBER 237
BE SURE YOU
WHAT IS OUR READY FOR KING’S
READY TO AID
DID THE CENSUS
GET IN CENSUS
POPULATION?
DON'T PAIL TO OCT YOUR NAME i $10 IN GOLD IF YOU GUESS COR-
IN TO ENUMERATORS. RECTLY.
Have you been enumerated. There In much Interest In Waycross
If not. why not? | to (he probable result of the 1910
Civic pride should cauae you to; government census. To add to that
stretch a point and get bua.v In this) Intercut the Secretary of the Hoard of
respect. I Trade will give Sin to the person who
Waycross will Ik* placed in a com-jllrat aenda In the population or the
paratlve table with all Georgia cities j flgurea neareal the population an-
aft»i the 1910 cenatia flgurea ary an-1 non tired this year when the cenaua
nounced. and It testa with the citl-1 flgurea are compiled,
tu na as to what showing Waycroaa j This will give you a chance to exer-
makes. j else your gueaa work and It may pay alons nre to lie held In the Indepcn
The enumerators are supposed to • you. In case more than one i*eraon dent Presbyterian Church the format
have made the first call at all homes I give the correct figures the one first I opening taking place on Tuesday eve-
!n the city. If for any reason you have! sending In tho guess will be declared J nine at eight oVIotk. The State ofll
not seen an enumerator make known : the prise guesser. The letters must | cers are; Allow Kate Hall of Bruns-
this fact at once either to the board | lie addressed to the secretary. Hoard • wick. State Secretary: Mias Kather-
DAUGHTERS CUN
WHICH WILL CONVENE HERE
TUESDAY. MRS. P. A. BATES
OP WAYCROSS ON EXECUTIVE
COMMITTTEE.
Savannah. (la.. April 3d.—Savannah
Is ready to ••lit.-Main the State Con
vention of the Kings Daughters when
It convenes here on Tuesday of next
week. The visiting Daughters will Ik*
given a most cordial reception and
will he welcomed by om* of the prom
incut (it|/c*lis of the city. The
of Trade or to the Herald, and the' of Trade. Waycross. They will l*e
enumerators will tie given your name, j dated, and turned over to a commit-
Thla |s a mater of the utmost lm-1 tee. When the government announce-
portance. and must be done now to* ment is made the correct guesss gets
l»e of value, lie sure you enumerate, j the ten spot.
and lie sure you do so emmcdlately. — \
BAND CONCERT IN
PARK TONIGHT
Terncst's Hand will give their reg
ular weekly concert tonight In the
hand stand, weather permitting.
Thla concert was |>ostponed on Wed
nesday night on account of the indent
ent weather, hut It Is sure to be giv
en tonight. Conic out and get your
share of free music.
There will lie lots of good preaching
In Waycross tomorrow.
BE FAIR DAY
TEMPERATURE WILL BE HIGHER
THAN TODAY.
Pair and warmer Is, in terse form,
tho substance of the dope on the
weather for today and Sunday. That
this prediction will hold good seems
assured. With the weather elements
lchavlng It la quHe certnln that nil
churches will have large congrcga-
(Iona tomorrow.
Inn luitliaiu oi Savannah. Recording
Secretary; Mrs. w. A. Kennon of
Brunswick. Treasurer; Mrs. C.
Itowland. of Augusta, member of Cen
tral Committee. Executive Commit
tee: Mrs. F. A. Hates of Waycroaa;
Mrs. .1. ER. (iancey, Augusta; Mias
Viola Kenedy, Savannah and Mra. C.
It. Clark, Augusta. During the two
days the convention laata there will
be several forms of entertainment pro
vided for the visitors. One of the
events of the week will be an add-
dress to organised labor to be deliver
ed at Ijiwton Memorial Tuesday night
by Mrs. K. II. Smith of Atlanta. Mra.
8mlih Is a union labor leader being
an expert telegrapher and the lecture
Is said to bo n splendid one.
The census enumerators for Way-
cross are requested to drop Into Cen
sus heiidquaiterM at the Herald office
as often as they can liud It conven
ient without respect of business,
tho Supervisor muy have some Infor
mation for them.
Get Some Of The
Bargain Shirts
before they are
all gone.
Your Choice For -
■ ==AT=
H. C. SEAMAN
ttMM
SATLANTIC COAST LINE
SPECIAL TRAIN.
ENUMERATORS GET YOU?
Feiring that the fire on the dorks I
at Brunswick last night might assume
such proportion* that additional help
Ik* necessary and appeal from
Ilrrnswick for nx-iNtanre was receiv
ed last night by Mayor J. M. Cox.
Coast Line ofll rials woe notified Im
mediately, and in twenty minutes a
pet hi train of two Mat cars and n
ouch was ready to depart, having
bout 2,«NW feel of hose. In charge of
C Met Joiner, of the fire department.
»•! volunteers.
TK* news that r big lire was rating
Brunswick spread over the city
tapldly. and hundreds of people gath-
PLENTY OF
COTTONSEED
PROVIDED BY GEORGIA OIL MILLS
FOR REPLANTING.
Atlanta, (la., April 30.— -<8peclah—
Plenty of cotton seed have been pro
vided by the potion mills of Georgia
for re-planting, according to Secre
tary. W. M. Hutchinson, of the Cot-
. . . i ton Heed Crushers' Association ol
•,rU.tth e d.p„, l „w. l c 0 ,l,.prrp.r.. j )lrari(| , Th| ,
tlon. to help the .later city. Jnat a. MpoB , h . repor| , rwt>od „ y h|m
the train »a. ready leave . from |k( mmhun .uori.tioa
npe w„ received ...Inn that Ik. lire >r , |t< . r(d lhrwl(lhou , 0wita . whrD
waa under conlrol. Hhortly After ward. | mrn , nld c , rae OB h ,
out an official telegram advising the
| lias an enumerator called on >ou,
lor the head of your family? If not,
\ kindly fl| out the roti|ton following
I this, and mall to the Hoard of Trade
| giving a list of persons sleeping at
■ X°ur home on or since April 15, last.
. ,f «ny are temporarily absent, Include
} them in the list.
Illead of family first.)
a second message stated that outside
help was not ne«uled.
Waycross has been called upon lie-
fore to aid neighboring cities, send
ing help to Jacksonville someyeara ago
when the largeat portion of that city
was destroyed. The promptness with
lilch the Coast Line and city acted la
to he commended.
MRS. A J. KNIGHT
PASSES AWAY
END CAME THIS AFTERNOON
SHORTLY AFTER ONE.
After a lingering Illness of aeveral
eeks Mrs. A. M. Knight died thla af
ternoon at 1:10 o'clock at her home
on Gilmore street.
For some time It has been known
that Mrs. Knight's condition was crit
ical, hut hope was held out for her
recovery. In the past week her con
dition took a turn for the worse, and
everal days ahe had h«*en gradu
ally growing weaker. Her death came
great shock to her friends In
Wa> cross, and in their sad bereave
ment the husband and family hava
the heartfelt sympathy of hoata ot
friends not only in Waycroaa
throughout the state.
Besides her husband Mrs. Knight
survived by three sons. Dr. J.
Knight, A. M. Knight. Jr., and Ger
ald Knight. Her mother, Mra. J. J.
Daniel, of Jacksonville, also survives
her. as do three sisters. Mrs. M. H.
Horton, Mra. Herbert I aim son, and
Miss K. I. Knight, and two brothers,
II. A. Daniel and R*. P. Daniel, all of
Jacksonville.
There will Im> no funeral aervlceu
conducted In Waycroaa. The
mains will be carried tomorrow morn
ing at tf:40 to Jacksonville for Inter
ment. The following will act as pall
bearers: V. L. Stanton, J. G. Stein-
heiiner, H. II. Burnett, C. K. Host-
:, 8. T. Wright and T. J. McClel
lan.
Mrs. Knight had been a resident of
Waycross for many years. She was
oman of lovelv character, loved
and liked by all with whom she came
In contact.
mills to shut down their crush until
the situation Qf the Georgia cotton
qrop could tie ascertained, definitely.
This haa l»een done now and where-
ever re planting haa been found nec
essary cotton seed have lieen furnish
ed. at a reasonable price, by the oil
mttla who had them on hand.
With this accomplished, a full cot
ton crop thla fall la assured.
With the large number of oil mills
In the State, nearly 150 there has been
created a ready market for the cot
ton seed grown In thla atale. The d*
maud haa been made even greater,
by the Increased consumption of cot
ton seed product a, not only In Georgia
and throughout the South. Cotton
seed ninnl and cotton seod hulls has
become a standard ration, not only
for cattle raisers hut dairymen, ns
well. Nor Is tills all. The planter
hna come to approclate the splendid
results to In* obtained through feed
Ing tils work stock with a well balanc
ed ration of cotton a«*ed Wal. The
consumption of meal la rapidly
creasing, now. with the farm at Ita
height. It la for this reason that the
mills and planters have I wen equally
anxious to have the cotton seed re
planted as quickly as possible In or
der to insure a full yield, thla fall,
not only of cotton, but cotton need,
The manner In which the oil mills re-
turned their cotton seed to the farm-
era Is greatly appreciated by tho
plan:* :s who needed th seed, sorely.
NO TALKING ALLOWED.
The Supervisor of Cenaua for Ike
I Hb Georgia District baa received*the
following telegram from Director Dur
and:
Washington. D. C., April 3$, 1910.
Alexander I*. Perham, Cenatia Super
visor, Waycroaa, Ga.
Nelthej: yourself, xpcclal agents,
rlcrka nor enumerators are permftted
to furnish Information or estate of
population for any purpose.
(Signed) Durand,
Director.
The census enumerators are supoeed
to have made the first call at every
home In Waycroaa. If they have miss*
ed you, please notify the Hoard ol
Trade, which, In turn, will send your
nnme and address to the census enum
erators. Civic pride should prompt
you to naslat In obtaining the beat pos
sible showing for Waycroaa In the fed
eral census of 1910.
PLEASE NOTIFY Ufi.
If there la any family or Individual
In Waycroaa who has not been enum
erated by (he cenaua man. I aak aa
a special favor that they elthfr notify
me In peraon or by postal card of the
fact. This Is not only a duty bnt
should he a pleasure to every good
clllxen In our town, or If you know of
any such family or person please pat
ua on his track.
A. P. PBHIIAM. fill.
Supervisor 11th Georgia DiatrlrL
S. A. R. Annual Matting.
Toledo, O., April 30- With delegate*
and visitors from almost every State,
the twenty-first annual congress of
•be national sorlety. Sons of the Amur
Iran Revolution, began In this dly to
day with a meeting of the executive
ftmimittee at Hie Hotel Scott To
morrow the delegates will attend pa
triotic services In Trlnty Methodist
church. The business sessions wilt
begin Monday. San Kranclaco, In
which city the society was flrfst or
ganized, Is an applicant for the next
meeting of the national congress.
CENTAL BAPTIST TABERNACLE
Kvangcllst llaniber is preaching
some magnificent sermona af Central
Tabernacle, his icrtnoa last evening
on "Ought There to be a llell.** Is
pronounced by all who heard It the!
strongest they have ever heard on the
subject. At the 11:00 o'clock service
tomorrow he will prearh oo 'The Sec
ond Homing of Christ" Don’t fall lo ,
hear him. In (he afternoon at 3:30^
Just after Sunday school Mr. Ilamber
speaka to the ladles of the city. At
Fer County School Commissioner!.
The lotem of Ware county will nuy
por: J. R. Bourn for reflection In the
Democratic Primary. Mr. Bourn has
ted in Ware county and has taught
bool for eight years successfully, lie j D **bt at 7:30 there will Ik* special aei
is caused great Improvement in the v,r * for M “ 0 Kev extends-
rural schools during Lie nine months j * 1,10,1 cordial welcome to the pub!!* .,
since he waa elected to the office. I
Friends. ( Ftnn'a Big Relay Carnival.
Philadelphia. April 3»>.—Before thou
Historic Site of Auction.
New York, April 30.—One of tho
laxt of the historic sites In tills vicin
ity of the metropolis fell before the
march of population today when flat-
f.c Hill Park, at White Plains, waa
a'irttoned off for building lots. It was
«»n tl lv memorable ground, on Octolier
:•*. I77«. that Washington, after de-
amis of spectators, the chosen rep
resent stives of over 2«n> schools and
colleges of the country tuet under the,
auspices of the University of Pennsyl-.
vanla on Kranslln field, this atiernoon |
fu the sixteenth annual Interciifleglat*
and Inlet*tholistic relay race meet
ing . f t»« entry list was mm exception
ally fr»e one, comprising over 1,900
A.IH.
Knight
&
SON,
t Real Estate,
Renting
tmhlC;! » tearrlaon of 3,000 into fori! — former*. .Nearly all of tho
tint defenae of Fort Waatlnatoo, »*.■ <<■!lfn-« of ih. Kart .ml rtottlt worn
t.rwf with tire remainder of the force I i»t roaented. The Institution, of the
Into' a spirited action with the Brit. I middle Went alao had n rood mpre-
iah under General Howe and loaf I atnlatlOh. Including Michigan, llllnola.!
ne&tly foO of hia men. i Indiana and Kansas. J
