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Waycross Evening Herald ' 1 > — 11,1 ■" —— 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