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VOLUME XVIII
WAYCROSS, GA., TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1911
NUMBER 179
surface.
party In Texas as a candidate (or
"In making tbla announcement I
am not unmindful of tbe groat re-
sponelbllitlea that attach to.that Ugh
office, and am Impelled solely by a
determination to meet ever/ Issue In
the open end ’ to battle with all my
mlgl^t tor tbe maintenance of he
great principles and policies of our
| party and for tbe honor, welfare and
happiness as my public duties permit
11 will more fully present to the publls
tbe Issues Involved In this contest."
' Mr. Rsodell, If elected, would suc
ceed Senator Bailey.
PUTTJNO MbNBT
Messrs Elkins, W. M. Johnson, b.
U Norvel and Prof. Zelgler, who com
pose the Y. M. C. A. Quartett will
leave on Saturday morning (or Jack
sonville to attend tbe Y. M. C. A.
convention. The quartett Is at work
preparing new songs for tbe conven
tion and no doubt will be heard with
pleasure at the convention.
BEGINNING FROM THIS DATS,
MARCH 10TH. ALL ACCOUNTS
MUST BE PAID MONTHLY OR ORE.
DOIT WILL NOT BE EXTENDED.
a R. BRINSON.
I AVIATOR
ANSWER TO TELEGRAM SAYS MR.
LAOIS LEWKOWICZ 13 ALL
‘ RIGHT.
Several gentlemen In Waycrosa
who were desirous of giving absolute
ly fair play to Mr. Ladia Lewkowicz,
the aviator, who is being so much
discussed in Waycrosa today, last
night sent the following telegram to
the Secretary of the Aero Club of
America, and the reply appearing be
low unquestionably exonerates Mr.,
Ladle Lewkowicz from any charge, of
fake. And we now hope he will be
given full opportunity to demonstrafe
bis ability.
Let the committee prepare the
grounds for him and let him fly.
The following is the telegrams:
Aero Club of America, To The Sec
retary,
25 W'. 39th Street, New .York City.
• Will you wire information regard
ing Ladls Lewkowicz, Aviator. Thero
1s a controversy in this town regard
ing my ability to fly. This is wired
to you at his request. Wire fully, col
lect, to E. B. Wooten, LaGrande Hotel,
Waycrosa, Ga.
(Signed) Ladls Lewkowicz.
LYCEUM SECURES
MEETING TO DISCUSS DEBS SPOKE AT
NATIONAL HIBHWAY!
Fitzgerald, Ga., Maroh If, 1911.
| Hon. J. M. Cox, Waycroas, Ga
AS AN EXTRA NUMBER FOR j Dear Mr - Mayor:—We have arranged
MARCH 24TH.
j to have a meeting in thia city at the
court house at 2:30 p. m., on the 10,
The great friend of Theodore for the purpose of discussing
the matter of the proposed highway
Roosevelt and a classmate (of his
while at Harvard has been secured
as the next Lyceum attraction. Mr.
Brigham Is an extra and comes with
out extra cost to the holders of Ly
ceum tickets as the managers have
COURT HOUSER
MADE A VERY POWERFUL
SPEECH TO A LARGE CROWD.
Mr. Eugene V. Debs addressed o
very large crowd at the court house
last night. His speech was a most
powerful and foreeful pronouncement
New York, March 14..
E. B. Wooten, LaGrande Hotel,
Waycrosa, Ga.
Ladls Lewkowicz, Russian, born
Petrokow, July twelfth, 18S0. Licens
ed aviator aero club of Prance No.
32/,* passed tests last July, received
lbense .November 23rd. Has flown
Blerlot monoplane extensively In
from Atlanta to Jacksonville, and wo
•wouid be pleased to have you and as
many of .your people wJb us on that I of the tenets and principles of So*
date as possible, as it is highly ini- j ciulism. The chairman of the meet-
portant that we get together now and j ing was Mr. M. H. Connor, and he
decided’ to give eleven number. In- something. I believe -that we can, In a tow very appropriate remark.
get it. and ( we must have it by all introduced the speaker of the even*
ni^ans. ing. Mr. Debs without any preparn-
Yours truly,
. Drew W. Paulk,
- Mayor.
NOTICE TO THE
ETAILMERCHANTS
All tho Retail Merchants of the city
are requested to meet at the Board
5 YEARS, MAYBE
FOR CHAS. MORSE
Augusta, Ga., March 14.—President
Taft was early on the links of tho
of Trade rooms at 7:30 o’clock to- Country Club today and played tho
night. Mr. Jno. Bratton, Secretary of full 18-hole course. Secretary Nor-
the Retail Merchants Association of-ton also got out his golf clubs this
Georgia, will be with us. Matters of [morning and went over the course
much Importance affecting every mer- with three friends from Chicago.
In conformance to the above in vita-
stead. of the ten advertised. j
On Friday evening, March 24th Mv.
Brigham will give one of his great!
illustrated lectures about the golden j
west. Perhaps It will be “The Apa-I
che Warpath” or “The Men Who Won (
the West,” or “From Coronade to Kit
Carson” but whatever it be you may/ion I would be glad that *11 who can
be sure that it will be a revelation wl ” attend the above mentioned con-
from the standpoint of those who ™tion. The invitation la general,
know no the thrilling history of the the ob ** ct lB Ot « reat t0
great west of which Davy Crockett. ™». ‘he request Is to you Individually
Daniel Boone, Kit Carson, Lewis. Fre- to Let me urge that you do 80 ’
ment and Clark, formed so large a John W. Cox,
part. The lectures given by Mr. * Mayor.
Brigham are not only Informational j ’
and highly educational but are thrill- The Waycross Herald Thursday,
ing In the extreme. Do not forget i morning before the airships struck a
the date of this extra-number, Friday
March 24th.
CITY COURT IN 8E83ION.
The City Cpurt Is to session today
and Is fast grinding out tbe business
of the term.
Francp, Holland and Hungary.
J. Campbell Wood, Secretary,
Aero Club .of America.
stump was wishing for Valdosta to
keep them company. As misery lov
es company Valdosta would have
been much better pleased if she had
been on hand later in the day.—Val
dosta Times.
The Herald’s job office is running
on full time. We have new type and
new material and we propose to turn
out satisfactory- worts reasonable
prices. *
tory remarks in a simplo informal
manner at once launched into tho
subject matter so near to his heart
and for nearly two hours entertained
the largo gathering. Nothing revolu
tionary in his talk, simply an appeal
to. tbe, commonsonse Intelligence, of
his hearers and bis conservative ex
planatory and hopeful outline of what
Socialism is and means, created
profound impression, and will leave
lasting results behind him, not ne
cessarily in making more Socialists,
but in encouraging a more intellec
tual consideration of the economic
problem of our government. -
There are no frills on Debs. He is
Just a plain unassuming man, bui
with a most striking personality and
magnetism, and Waycross has gained
in knowledge by reason of his visit.
In conversation with Mr. Debs he
stated that he is delighted with his
Southern trip, Is meetiug with great
encourgaments and flqds a general
awakening of Interest and a feeling
of unrest against the present system
of . government that promises better
days for the South and her workers.
chants individuai interest will come
before the meeting.
J. W. S. Hardy, President.
DR. THRASHER'S FUNERAL.
200PAIRS OF PANTS
To Close at
FIERY GASOLINE DRIVES
BACK 1Y. FIREMEN
$600,000 FIRE HOLDS TWO FIRE
BOAT8 AND FIREMAN AT BAY
New Yhrk, March 14.-r-A 1500,000
Are which started on Saturday in tho
plant of the Standard Oil Company
lc still burning today and a force of
two Are boats and three companies
of firemen are engaged In nn endeav
or to keep tho blaze confined to tho
wharvCs and storage plant.
The firemen are hampered in their
Ashburn, Ga., March 14.—The fun
eral services of the late Dr. T. H.
Thrasher, who died here Saturday
night, were conducted from the home
yesterday afternoon by his pastor,
Rev. J. G. Brooks, pastor of the Ash
burn Methodist church, and tho inter
ment was at Rose Hill Cemetery.
Dr. Thrasher camo to this place
about twenty years ago from Oconee
county, where he was born and rear-
ed. Dr. Thrasher was a member of
tbe Board Qf Trustcos of tho Ash
burn High School, and also Turner
county’s member of tho board of trus
tees of the agricultural college of
Reports reached Augusta today
from New York thqt President Taft
would today sign a ffardon for Char
les W. Morse, the convicted banker,
serving a term of 16 ycarB in tho
federal prison at Atlanta. They wero
entirely eroneous. The president has
not so much as glanced at the pa
pers in tho Morse case.
These papers arc -exceptionally vol
uminous and tho president makes it
a practice to go over every detali of
the available evidence in all appli
cations for pardons or commutation
of sentence.
Tktie is little likelihood that any
action will be taken on either the
Morse or WalBh cases until after Mr.
Taft returns to Washington next week
The papers wero brought along to be-
gone over if the president might feel
.so disposed, but thero was no specific
purpose of taking action at this time.
the Second congressional district.
Dr. Thrasher was widely known forj The most favorablo recommenda-
his groat charity and kindness ofjtion tho friends of Morse have ex-
heart. In him the friendless and des-[pected, according to* reports they have
tituto found one ever ready to re- j received from various sources, is a
spond to their needs. No one was commutation of sentence to five
more -ready to oncourago and h-elp
the young man Just starting In life
than he, and a great many owe their
success to his advice, encouragement
and generosity.
He Is survived by his wife who, be
fore her marriage, was Miss Janice
Teagle, of Merriwother county, and
four daughters, Kathleen, Ahnollo,
Opal and Louise.—Macon News.
Dr. Thrasher was an uncle of Rev.
J. B. Thrasher of Trinity church. Mr.
Thrasher was called to Ashburn last
week and has not as yet returned
RANDILL ANNOUNCES
FOR TEXAS SENATOR
THE TEXA8 REPRESENTATIVE IS
SUES STATEMENT THAT HE
WI8HE8 TO BE SENATOR.
Washington, March 14.—Represent-
$3.00 A PAIR
work by (he constant explosion °' otlve c . n „ n< lell, of Texas, announ-
flvt gallon cans of naptha whfch were' b|m , 0 „ „ candidate for .the Uni
atoretl oh “tho pUM. , r ,j state*, aenato from Texai*. t
According to official* of tho oil com- „„ „ gned atatenlenti M r. Ran-
pany the lire started when a tug man dtl| gi
threw a shovelful of hot allies Into!
"Knowing that tbe enemy have not
the river, close to the dock Uniting I , been roulcd rron , tbe ionate and
Worth From
some oil which was Boating on the
that the light for supremacy there is
all Important and being painfully
The firemen txpect to have the «re of tbe pomioa , , Uuatlon
$4.00 to $6.00
under control by tonight. Several M aJJd ^ Tlul lmporUnc . of the
hundred men are at work on the un-' conteU ther „ ^ to otlr and
burned portlonr of the .11 company 1 . ^ „ hole caunty> ', bave dec ldea
pier* today, loading-on lighter, thou. ' my nama w ths DemocraUe
AMlIe 'a# Vena A# ...nil.. H, LI aL lIlA
and* of 'cans of gasoline which the
AT
H. C. Seaman
fire ha* not yet retched. ’nomination to the poeitlon of United
The fire boats keep a stream of gtatei aenalor ;
water paying constantly oyer the
workmen and the stacks of cant,
ACCUSED -BOY SEES DEAD FACE3
OF HIS MOTHER AND 8I3TE|
^ Stratford, N. Y„ Match 14.—After
looking Into the faces of his mother,
Mrs. Georgo Dean, and his Bister,
Nina, who were shot and killed at
Maidstone, Vt„ hursday Arthur Dean,
the 18-year-old son and brother, who
!e charged with the murders collapo •
ed and almost fell across the one-
kets. :<
The yout$ had been permitted to
attend the funeral, but when the ser
vices were over was taken to tho
family home In Maidstone anl locked
up for another night with his guard*.
Throo daughters and one other son
of Mrs. llcnn also attended the fun
eral, hut no sign of recognition was
exchanged between tbe aceuxed and
the rest of the family. 1
IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE MU8IO
ACT AT THE MAJESTIC TONIGHT,
ASK FOR YOUR MONEY BACK. 13 3
Suttcrlbo for the old reliable
Waycrosa Evening' Herald,
keeping the latter cool to prevent
dancer of exploeion. As soon aa. all
the available can* have been remov
ed the burning atorage tanka will be
ol eried by the use of a (mall cannon
and the burning oil allowed'to flow
IN A Housa
la a good Investment If tb# bouse to
wlerly chosen. The ordinary mas
cannot be okpeeted to bo an export
on sneb matter*, but
WE ARB.
So If yon' think of baying, better
let a* help.' We will help you eboon*
tbe right location, the right bonae,
and at tbe right price. Our service*
wilt be worth many dollar* to you,
both now and In tb* year* to com*.
