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Journal is the Official Organ of Ware County, and County Board of Education and Trades and Labor Assembly No. 1 of Wayeross.
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VOLUME FIVE.
WEEKLY EDITION
WAY0R0S8, GA, FRIDAY, OOT. 24, 1918. WEEKLY EDITION
PRICE $1 PER YEAR.
WICKS Will ST 'IS:
FRANCHISE sSSilll TO III
WHS START WORK DECEMBERl
Plant Will be
Erected Here
Without Delay
In record time city council last
night granted c' 33 year gas fran
chise to the Scott Investment
Company and W. II. Harrison
Jr., of Montgomery and Birming
ham. Ala.
Work on the gas plant which
the franchise holders will erect
here starts about December 1,
Mr. Harrison stating las; nis»t
that ho believed material couid
he gotten here in time to com
wonoe orrations on that date. lie
declared that plans for the Way-
cross plant had been prepared.
The estimate on the cost of the
plant is given at $125,000, but it
is estimated that probably
much as $25,000 more will be
Rpcnt on the plant by the owners,
Between 25 and 30 miles of
mains will be placed in the city
and they will reach all sections
whore there is any prospect of
business.
Excepting in two particulars
the franchise granted the Ala
bama people is practically the
samo franchise over which there
has been so much haggling before
council for Several years. The
holders of the franchise have giv
en the city the right to purchase
the plant at the^expiration of 26
years, and have agreed not to en
ter into a combine with the elec
tric light company. Voluntarily
the petitioners for the franchise
offered to give the city a bond of
$5,000 as evidence of good faith.
The offer was accepted.
It is possible thst the gas plant
can be «completed within four
months from the start of work,
but unfavorable. weather condi
tions will delay the construction
work beyond this period. Mr.
Harrison left Wayeross today for
Florida, and will return within a
few days. From new on he ex
pects to spend much of his time
in Wayeross and it is reported
that this city will undoubtedly
gain several important enter
prises because of the connection
just established with the Scott
Company and Mr. Harrison. lie
as much as told council last night
that the erection of a gas plant
was but the first of several prop
ositions.
“The oftener I visit Wayeross
the more am I impressed at the
opportunities here and with the
bright future of your city,” he
informed-Mayor Reed and mem
bers of council last night "I am
glad I am here and I trust that
your people will be glad to have
us enter business in Wsyeroas."
Besides the plant to be erected
here Mr. Harrison will have other
interests in Georgia and baa prac
tically decided to make Wayeross
his headquarters for operations
in Georgia and Florida. During
hia lifetime he has built a num
ber of successful gss plants and
the one that will be built in Way-
crosa is by no means sn experi
ment “In our plant Wayeross
it going to have the best money
can buy,” said Mr. Harrison last
night.
Before council received the re
port from Chairman Brewer of
the gas committee, in which
CAPTAIN BARR
Captain Burr cdmmandl tbs Cunird
liner Cements; which was the Drat
reaael to reach the burning iteamei
Volturno in reaponse to wlrelaei calls
for help. Ten other eteamere helped
In the reecue work.
CI1Y EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE TO
MEET T0NI6H1
Tonight at 7:30 o’clook at the
city hall the newly elected city
executive committee will meet to
plan for the 1913 primary,
i Plans for the primary will bo
(jiscussed and rules for the hold
ing of the primary may be form
ulated and adopted. The date for
the primary as well as the assess
ments against candidates may be
fixed at tonight’s meeting.
FELIX DIAZ
NO ARRESTS VET IN
No arrests have been made to
day in the Joiner murder case
and it begins to look, like none
will be made in the near future,
if at all. Officers have not found
any clues in the case end so far
the identity of the men who caus
ed the death of Mr. Joiner Tues
day night remains unknown.
It is believed that the men who
shot Mr. Joiner are the same men
who earlier Tuesday night held
up a negro in Reidaville and rob
bed him, and who last , week held
up a white man on Albany avenue
extension.
Always try to do
you
'MED NOT
TO START ROW
WILL BE THROWN IN JAIL
MOMENT HE ATTEMPTS A
DEMONSTRATION AGAINST
PRESIDENT HUERTA.
By Wire to The Journal.
Vera Cruz. Oct. 23.—Felix Di
az was placed under military ar-
est today and warned that any
attempt to lead a demonstration
against Ilucrta will result in his
being thrown into jail. The en
tire suite of the returning presi
dential candidate was arrested
last night.
Twelve men composed the par
ty arrested. Nine of them arc
charged with disobeying Huerta’s
orders and three with plotting to
kill the provisional president.
Unless Diaz agrees to leave the
country voluntarily he probably
will ie taken aboard a gunboat
and carried hack to Havana. He
seems completely cowed by meas
ures taken by Hneria.
HUERTA SURE
OF HIS ELECTION.
Mexico City, Oet. 23.—General
Huerta has accepted Great Bri
tain’s refusal to follow the policy
of the United States in Mexico as
an indorsement of the Huerta ad
ministration.
Already preparations arc un
der way for a coup d’ ctat by
which he will be “legally” elect
ed president October 26. The
plan is to have Gamboa, the. Cath
olic party candidate, to withdraw
the last moment. Then
Huerta’s name will be submitted
and he will be declared elected.
The constitutional provision
barring a president succeeding
himself will be disregarded.
Washington, D. C., Oct. 23.—
State Department officials yestcr
(Continued on Last Page.)
EUHU ROOT, JR. ’
LANIER MOTION
HAS BEEN ARGUED
BEFORE HIGH COURT
Motion for new trial in tho ease
of state versus W. C. Lanier, un
der life sentence for murder, hss
been argued before the Supreme
Court of Georgia. Attorney John
S. Walker, who with Attorney
Andrew It. Estes, appeared before
the Supreme Court in behalf of
Lanier, has returned to Wayeross.
It is not known how long the
court will take to decide what to
do in the Lanier case, but it is
quite probable that a decision
will be handed down before the
end of the year.
Report on Local Postoffice
.Expected by November 1
It is reported thst several dif
ferent charges were included in
the paper filed in Washington
and that the inspection has been
made along each line. Whether
Oie charges have been sustained
by the investigation made here re
mains to be seen.
One rumor sqyi the effort to
have Mr. Murphy removed on the
— „ a'charges made will fall down,
recommendation that the fran-1 while another says any one of the
rhlie be granted was contained, several Charges will give the de-
- I part men t sufficient cause to ask
(Continued on Last Page.) I for bis resignation.
Elftu I
Senator
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t. Jr., ton ot United State*
ot, Is one of the brltht
young members of the New York bar
of whom much It expected. He hee
been one ot the eeeoclate counsel In
the Impeachment trim ot (lovernor
Suker.
By Wire to The Journal.
New York Oct. 23.—The Su
preme Court grand jury today re
ported a blanket indistiuent
against Harry K. Thaw and four
others charging conspiracy in
connection with Thaw’s escape
from Matteawan. Bench war
rants for the arrests were issued.
O.S. READY TO
DUSK FORGES
MEXICO,
OUTBREAK FEARED SUNDAY
—BOTH ARMY AND NAVY
READY FOR MOVEMENT
INTO MEXICO.
By Wire to The Journal.
Washington, Oet. 23.—Fearing
nnti-forcign outbreaks during the
Mexican election to he held Sun
day the administration today
completed plans for mined inter
vention in Mexico. Both army
any navy are in such form that
they can be moved instantly and
with the least possible loss of ef
ficiency.
Troops within easy resell of the
border have been supplied with
a lot of ammunition and prepara
tions have been made to rush sup
ply trains into Mexico in the
event intervention is found neces
sary.
Reports which are being rccciv-
ed here today from Mexico tell of
a steady growth in the feeling
against all foreigners and it is
thought that the crisis will be
reached Sunday. The United
States will no lodger take half
way measures in dealing with the
situation. The next movo is go
ing to be the decisive one and
numerous officials hero anticipate
intervention upon tho least dis
turbance against foreignrt-s.
Further Strained Relations
Washington, Oct. 23.—The re
lations between the United Statos
and Mexico kocamo more strained
than ever today when tho state
department cabled Charge D
Affairs O’Shaughncssy to use Ills
good offices to adopt n fair-and
open trial for Daniel and Evar-
dis Madcro, brothers of tho late
President Madero. The two men
have been arrested ot Montorey.
The compliance with this de
mand is apt to increase tho ten
sion between the two govern
ments. ,1
M.L ML SIMM SOON
HERO OF THE VOLTURNO
Chief Engineer Dower of the Are-
•wept Volturno who, by ■ticking to
bla poet regardless of the death star
ing him In the face, aared many and
lodt his own Hfe.
WHITE WAY PROPOSITION
IS JOED BEFORE
GUT COOOCIL
By Wire to The Journal.
Dawson, New Mexico, Oct. 23.
Between 200 and 245 men are
still entombed in the llighline
Coal mine, wrecked by an explo
sion late yesterday. Fourteen
bodies were igcovercd this morn
ing and 23 men brought out alive.
Those entombed have equal
chances ot being found deal and
alive. Minn experts arc direct
ing the rescue work, and as many
as 500. miners, are aiding them.
E8SFUL HEW GARAGE TO BE
BUILT or SCRUGGS
According to reports current
here, based, so it is thought, on
information obtained from Wash
ington, it is believed the Postof-
flee Department will shortly, pos
sibly- before the first of Novem
ber, receive s detailed report from
the inspector sent here during
September to investigate charges
made against Postmaster C. E.
Murphy.
The nature of the charges TURPENTINE MARKET
which have been made and which gjr Wire to The Journal,
caused the department to send an ~ ~ ~~
inspector to Wayeross has not
been disclosed.
ITOHT BEING MADE ON
MOBMONISM BY WOMEN
By-Wire to The Journal.
Washington, Oet. 23.—Legisla
tion prohibiting polygamy and
abolishing the orraon Church in
the United States was asked of
President Wilson tpday by the
Woman’s Home Missionary Sec
retary, representing 2,000 women
of the Methodist Church. "
They sent a letter to the exec
utive transmitting a resolution
offered by the secretary of the
Utah conference and pined unan
imously by the society in its clos
ing session in convention here.
New York, Oct. 23.—Turpen
tine firm, 44 cents; rosin steady,
$3.95.
Arrongemriitu have been matin
h.v It. O. Scruggs for the erection
of n garage on Tebeu.il street, at
the corner of Tcbeaii ami Isabella
streets, work to begin within a
short time on the building.
Tile new garage will he 40 by
60 feet, of sheet iron with con
crete floor. Inasmuch as it will
occupy a site within the fire lim
its Mr. Scruggs appeared before
council last night and asked for
a permit to creet the garage.
Council granted the request.
Acting on a proposition made
by Vico President Bomeisler of
tho Ware County Light nnd Pow
er Company, promising white way
lighting at $4 per post instead of
$8 and installing white posts on
throo year lighting contracts freo
of charge, conncil Inst night vot
ed to drop tho white way matter.
Previous to last night council had
before it a proposition from mer
chants interested in the present
while way, who besides donating
the posts tlioy paid for subscribed
to n fund to purchase for the city
u dynamo to be used in supply
ing current for the white way
system.
The discussion on tho white
way question was u lengthy ono,
and besides tho representative of
tho Ware County plant tho-clty
electrician, L. B. Boggs, and a
representative of the Westlug-
honso Company were heard from.
Council did not act on the matter
because of cost figures but merely
because nt this timo the city is
not in a position to tnko on any
more expense in lighting.
The announcement of the re
duction in white way lighting was
made the moment council • voted
to drop the white way project
and representatives of the light
compuny will immediately get
busy and secure as great an
tension ns possible of the present
white way. It is proposed to
furnish the ornamental five lamp
posts free of charge to all respon
sible people, who sign •s-theco, year
.contract for lighting at the new
rite of $4 per fast.
Page Termed Traitoi in
U. D. C. State Meeting
Moyftrie, Qa., Oct. 23.—vMra.
W. D. Lamar of Macon, president
of the Georgia Daughters of the
Confederacy in her annual ad
dress to the convention yesterday
scored Walter H. Page, American
ambassador to England. The at
tack on Mr. Page waa because of
his reflections on people of the
South in a book he recently wrote
entitled “The Southerner.”” '
The general convention of the
United Daughters of’The Confcd-
ploits opinions concerning the
South and her people that should
bloat hia high hopes and blight
hia future before any salf-respect-
ing people. Ho is a Southern man
Carswell Ave. and
Riverside Subways
Now a Certainty
Following council’s approval
last night of tile contracts for the
onatriiction of subways for the
extension of Cantwell avenue and
for connecting Riverside Drive
and Screven avenue nt a point
near the home of Mrs. Fannie L.
Sharpe on Plant avenue Mayor
Heed this morning signed the con
tracts and line! them forwarded
at mice to Supt. It. A. McCranie,
of Hie Atlantic Coast Line.
The contracts were submitted
a few weeks ago and referred to
tho city nttorney for investiga
tion. Last night the city attor
ney made a report on the con
tracts and council voted to ap
prove them.
Some of the work on tho Cars
well avenue subway has been
done nnd the Rivorsidc Drive
subway cau be constructed with
in a very short time.
By tho constnietion of the
Carswell avenue subway tho plan
for extending Church and Cars
well streets to Plant avenue will
be carried into effect. Tho two
streets will join north of the ca
nal near tho Wilson Stcun laun
dry. The enrth that the city will
rnmovo from the Carswell subway
will be used in filling in ap
proaches to the now concrete
bridge near the laundry.
Alderman Benton has been at
work on the extension and sub
way proposition for aomo time
oud he as well as Mnyoi* Reed is
highly plcasod at tho successful
termination of tho matter. The
opening of the extensions will
prove n great convenience to
ninny people and will undoubted
ly catiso tho immediate develop
ment of the land in what has been
generally referred to as the
“bottom."
The Carswell avenue subway
will bo 32 feet wide and the Riv
erside Drive subway 26 feet wide.
It is understood that the Cbast
Line will start work on tho: tWo
subways at an early date and it
is probable that both will be com
pleted before the end of the year.
FUNERAL OF LUCIUS
Today at Blackshesr the funer
al services of Julius Joiner, form
er Wayeross policeman, who iris
killed by unknown negroes Tuek-
day night in WaycroA, was held.
The tidy was taken from W*^-
cross at 9 o’clock.
Besides His wife,-who was be
fore marriage a Mias Sweat, mem
ber of a prominent Pierce coilnty
family, the deceased la survived
by six children, ranging in 4ge
Mn. Lamar said iq part i from four mouths up to fourteen
“In a book Walter H. Page ex- yean. Ilia parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Samuel Joiner, of Quitman, (me
sister, Mrs. Minnie Guess, and
two brothers, Enoch and Morton,
of Quitman, survive. Mr. Joiner
was in his fortieth year when kill-
educated at Harvard and under ed and hid made hia home
the alias of Nicholas Worth he
reviles hia own people, advocates
miscegenation, ridicules the glori
fication of those gnat Christian
gentlemen, Lee and Jackson;
I
eracy will be asked tty Mrs. La-'jests at Daughters of the Confed-
mar to pass resolutions condemn-j i
ing Mr. Page. (Continued bn Page’Five.)
Wayeross for ten years. W. D.
Younuns, T. H. Miller and J. A.
Youmans were among those at
tending the funeral.
Thera are 20 •pounds of blood
in thybody of sn avenge grown
up person.
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