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Try a bottle of Redding'* Liver Till* for blllounneu. Alway* aeaaon- at.le. Phone no»’,.(305>*H. 8, Red; dhfcy .. :. ; £S «.« EGOS MARKED DOWN. HARDY BROTHERS HAVE pNE. THOUSAND DOWN TO GO AT 17 1-2o. 29 2t 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