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VOLUME XVIII
WAYCROSS, GA, TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1911
NUMBER 144
HANDS
BUYS OUT THE
INTEREST OF W. D. O’QUINN
IN THE MARVIL & OTJUINN’S
UNDERTAKING FIRM.
, J. STEWART, WIFE AND NURSE
MIRACULOUSLY ESCAPE-ONE
BABY INSTANTLY KILLED
AND ANOTHER DIES LATER.
The firm of Marvil & O’Quinn is Tils-
solved, Mr. Marvil buying out .Mr. W.
D. O'Quinn’s interest in the undertak
ing business The business will- be
Tim by Mr. Marvil, In this connection
The Herald dedTres to say that Mr.
TMarvil has made himself very popu
lar with the citizens of Waycross and
this entire section. It has been said
that Lester Marvil makes a model
Undertaker and the Herald believes
that the statement is correct. His
management and his conduct of. mat
ter* -connected with bhf profession laj
excellent and always appropri-1 fully five minutes. His little sister,
ate. We do not care to see Mr. Mar- j Doiothy, was hurled some HO feet
▼il's bwsiness increase very rapidly or J and so badly injured that she died at
to any very great extent, but we wish j the Elkin-Goldsmith sanitarium at
Atlanta. Ga„ April 25.—Two babies#
the eldest two years old on the day
o.’ her deaths were killed. • when At
lanta and West Point passenger
tivin No. IS, from Columbus to Atlan
ta struck an automobile owned and
driven by A* J. Stewart, of 44 Nor-
crosss treet, father of the infants,
a crossing two blocks beyond the end
of the carline in College Park, at
9:50 o’clock Sunday morning.
George Wesley Stewart, four
months old, was hurled 60 feet by
the Impact, instantly killed, and his
tiny body lost to ajl searchers for
SUN GOES INTO
ECLIPSE APB. 28
Mm 'success on general principles.
STORES MAY HAVE
HALF HOLIDAY
It is expected that nearly all the
etotes will have a half holiday to-
morrow/on account of Memorial Day.
Th6 Herald will not issue any paper,
this has always been the custom of
tijJs' paper.
3:56 o’clock Monday morning, almost
at the hour of her birth just two
years ago. The father of the dead
children and driver of the car was
uninjured, although the machine was
completely demolished. The mother,
hurled many feet by the .impa.ct, es
caped as by a miracle,.and although
it now prostrated, it Is more the
shock than from the bruises. A nc-
gr i nurse was slightly hurt.
One of the longest nights of the
year will be experienced next Friday
April 2S, when a total eclipse of the
will occur late in the afternoon;
Waycross will be in the track of the
eclipse and it will begin at 5:12 o'
clock in the afternoon and before the
usual time for the setting of.the sun
the groat light will bo totally eclips
ed. The whole progress of the eclipse
u Ue watched from this section and
PACIFIC MAIL
STEAMSHIP ASIA
18 LOST OFF FINGER ROCK.
Wireless Brings ‘•America’’—Passen
gers and Crew Saved By
Chinese Vessel.
AN INTERESTING
BIT OF HISTORY
Tokio, April 25.—The Pacific Mail
steamship Aisla, bound from Hon:
Kong for Sun Francisco, has sunk
off Finger Rock, south China. The
pysaengers are reported rescued
t’.io mails saved.
Tlie Asia struck Sunday morning
while feeling her way cautiously thru
tin re will be ample time to see the a thick fog, In the direction of Shang-
run bidden and darkness will settle in hat. Her wireless signals of distress
supernatural splendor over the earth, wue picked up by the steamer Ain-
Chickens will go to roost and remain erica of the Toyo Kisen company,
there throughout the long night, for which was en route from Shanghai
it will be actually night time for quite for ' Hong Kong. The America Im-
awhile during the last portion of the mediately replied:
POST OFF.ICE TO
CL08E ON 8UNDAY8
Complying wlh Instructions from
ti c- Department at Washington, the
day.
The phenomenon will be watched
with great interest throughout the
south and many are hoping for a clear
sunset' in order that the change may
bo more fully realized. Don’t forget
the eclipse occurs next Friday after
noon shortly after 5 o’clock, for If
you fofget you may think something
elso is happening "along about that
time.
p.-*Irons of the* Post Office are noti
fied that on Sunday April 30th., the
General Delivery, Carriers’ and Stamp
Windows will be closed and on every
Sunday thereafter.
24 6t ^C. E. Murphy, Postmaster.
Advertise In the Evening Herald.
A Gentleman’s Haberdasher
It’s the natty little “Fixings” that
lend grace and elegance to the
summer man’s apparel, nobby
shirts, ties, pretty hosiery, with a
dainty line of underwear.
To look and feel “summery’* is an easy matter
to a man who trades here.
No matter what a man’s size is, or
what his taste may be, we can
fit him in suits.
H. C. Seaman
“We are coming to your assist
ance’’.
No further message was received
by the America, which pushed hard
j;t the direction of the Asia.
The America arrived at Finger
rock nt 3.o’clock yesterday afternoon,
but owing to the fog which continued
heavy, was unable to discover the
whereabouts of# the distressed steam-
T he America laid to until the
her cleared, when she found that
tup Chinese vessel Shang Siu, of the
Tuku steamship- company had gone
to the aid of the Asia, and rescued
her passengers.
The latest report received by the
agents of the Pacific Mail steamship
line says the Asia sank, but it is be
lieved that her passengers and mall
fftt safe.
Finger rock is a remarkable pro
jection from the Heau Chu Islet, the
southern of the Talchu group of is
lands, which lie about 200 miles south
of Shanghai. The ship was on her
way to Shanghai, her regular port
of call.
- The Asia sailed from Hong Kong
Friday and was due in San Francis
co May. 19. She operated regularly
Let ween those ports. The vessel
tui’t in 1K83 and registdred a 111 tlo
1.8* than 5,000 tons gross.
GUILTY OF FRAUD
SO DECIDES U. 8. COMMISSIONER
W. R. HEWLETT.
Savannah, Ga., April. 25.—J. 8.
Kergter, the man 'who has been hav
ing so much trouble with Uncle Sun;
and the public because his flying ma
chines would not fly lias not violated
any law against the national, govern
ment by claiming to have “World’s
Greatest ^Aviators" in. his employ.
This .was decided by Mr. W. R.
Hewlett United States Commissioner
last night After bearing from the
gevernment witnesses on the subject.
I terser Is still having trouble now to
ralghten out his affairs with others
who seem to have, a greater claim
upon him than Uncle Sam had. Ho
has not been able to meet his obli
gations in Savannah and bis creditors
are getting* rather insistent.
It would not be surprising It he
left a couple of flying machine^ per
cent ly located in Savannah- when
* departs, although he *ays he is
arrow we celebrate Memorial
Day, a day that exists largely as a
result of the loyal work and memor
ies kept alive by these ladles who
form the membership of the Daugh
ten- of the Confederacy. The follow
log little story of their formation In
Waycross may be interesting. Is is
clipping taken from The Waycro
Hf * aid of March 13th, 1897, ami w
show how loyally these good ladies
have lived up to the objects of their
organization:
Daughters Of Tht Confederacy.
The Waycross Chapter of this
gut. I/.at ion has recently been coniplet-
A meeting of the ladies who ap
plied for the charter was called last
May, but several of them were ab
sent from the city during the sum
mer, and on account of the election
of new officers In the Georgia Divis
ion and the United Daughters of the
Confederacy there was some*delay-
in getting the charter.
The objects of this association are
educational, memorial, literary, social
benevolent: to collect and pre
serve the material for a truthful his-
A BEAUTIFUL
WORK OF LOVE
D. O'Quinn'* window
may he seen a very beautiful and un
ique table cloth, the work of Mrs.
Walter F. Eaton. It is a linen drawn
work table cloth, • presented to the
Illustrious Potentate, A. E. Cutts, du
ring the visit of the Shrlners ti Way-
cross. It was presented at the meet
ing of Alee Temple, by Rev. J. A.
Smith of Macon, and expressed Mrs.
Wnlter Eaton's esteem for the Shrln-
cr* and her devoted Interest in her
church. Mr. Cutts accepted the gift
glowing speech of appreciation
and made Mrs. Eaton an honorary
life member of the Shrlners. The
cloth hears upon It the names of
about 180 Shrlners in their original
signatures embroidered by Mrs. Ea
ton—representing thirteen states. On
the one corner is Mr. Cutts name, sur
rounded by the emblem and crescent
of the Aloo Temple of Shrlners and
In the orescent Is embroidered the
Salutam of the Shrlners. Each name
represented has contributed a cer
tain amount to the Central Baptist
Church building fund, ami when the
full list Is complete will probably
represent moro than $100. At the
request of the Shrlners It will -be sent
fory of the war between the Confed-ttc Savannah for exhibition on Friday.
rate States and the United States of*
America; to honor the memory of^
those who served, jund fthqpe who
fell In the service of the Confederate
States and to record tho part taken
by Southern women, as well In the
untiring effort after tho war In the
reconstruction of tho South, as in tho
patient endurance of hardships, and
patriotic devotion during the strug
gle, to cherish the ties of friendship
nmong the members of the society,
and to fulfil tho duties of sacred char
Ity to the survivors of the war.
Those women entitled to member
ship are the widows, wives, mothers,
sisters, nieces and lineal descendants
of such men as served honorably in
the Confederate Army, Navy and
Civil Service, or of those persons who
loyally gave material aid to tho cause.
Also women and their lineal descen
dants, wherever living, who cni) give
proof of personal service ami loyal
to the Southern cause during the
1 NASTY BLAZE
CALLED OUT
FIRE ROYS
The following nre the officers ami
charter members, ami the Ladles’
Corps, soon to have a largo member-
hip:
Mrs. Fr*»pk C. Owqns, President.
Mrs. J. H. Redding, First Vied
President.
Mrs. a. VV. Hitch, Second V’lco
csident.
Apparently a deflective flue, caus-
I a blaze in thb roof of n house
owned by Judge Sweat on Elizabeth
street this morning
Tho roof was badly damaged and
the water caused a good deal of ilam-
av to the walls, etc.
The .bouse was occupied by Mr.
ami Mrs. II. Arnett and Mr. and Mrs.
C. If. A11c7^ Mrs. Arnett has a
little Imby about a week old, and
waflying quite 111 In one of the
rooms. After n good deal of delay
>ho was tenderly carried out to a
n< .glitters house, nnd it is hoped will
npt suffer seriously from the alarm-
in, experience.
The furnlturo was nearly all re
moved safely.
The meetings of tho Stewards *of
1st Methodist church wljlch was to
Mrs. Frank \V. Hawkins, Recording’have boen hold tonight is postponed
Secretary. # %
•Mrs. E. A.,Pound, Historian.
Miss Jennie Covington, Corres
ponding Secretary-
Mrs. J. E. Wadley, Treasurer.
Miss . Blanche Hessoms. Chairman
of Committee on Credentials.
Mrs. A. P. Brantley, of Blackshear,
an associate member. m
The following ladies are the char-
-jr members:
Mrs. A. P. Perham, Mrs. Elliott C.
Johnson, Mrs. L. Johnson, Mrs. A.
Scssoms, Miss Blanche Sessoms, Mrs.
. Wadley, Mrs. J. H. Redding,
Mrs, Eugene McCall, Mrs. B. A.
>und, Mrs. 8. W. Hitch, Mrs. P.
C Owens and Mrs. Henry Covington,
the last named since deceased.
The following, gentlemen are the
Advisory Board:
Cspt. C. C. Grace, Capt. L. John
son, Judge Perham, Dr. J. H. Red*
until Wednesday night at seven-forty-
five atHhe church.
Suing fo fly or know why before he ding, Messrs A. Sessoms, E. A
is through with the city.
Pound, Frank Hawkins and F, C.
Owens. —Waycross Herald, March 13
1897.
PUT IT IN OUR HANDS.
if you have property for sale or to
rent. We are constantly receiving
Inquiries fir desirable houses, stores
and building sites.
WE HANDLE REAL ESTATE
for some of the largest holders In ths
city and "will be glad to refer you to
them as to our method of conducting
business.
A.. M. Knigkt
and Son
REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCi
AGENTS. .
Ha
