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puy AT HOME
AND HELP
DAWSON PROSPER
ks, £. L. RAINEY
WHISKY SHIPS OVER D
AND LOOTED BY B
NEERS. NO VESSEL SAFE.
pEATH WINS IN BOOZE WAR
piracy Slayings and Fights at Sea
Mark Escapades in Rum Traffic.
Thirty-Three “Dry” Agents Slain
Enforcing the Law.
piracy and murder are writing
aces picturesque and violent in the
ooze history of America. No com-
Jete statistics are available of this
rowing crime phase, yet thrills sur
assing fiction are found even in a
rief and casual survey.
Thirty-Three Agents Slain,
Smugglers, pirates, “hi-jackers,”
mmen, bootleggers and bandits to
v supply more battle, blood and
olor than were ever found between
ne covers of yesterday’s dime novels.
nirtv-three federal “dry” agents
ave been sfain since enforcement be
an. not to mention police and other
v, county and state officers.
\fany bootleggers and rum-runners,
Lowever, have lost their lives in con-\
icts with the officers of the law, but,‘
i course, the total death rate is un
sown. Unlisted numbers have died
i poisoned liquor. Whenever and
herever an unidentified body s
und the specter of booze hangs
rominently over the mystery of thel
Disaster in Wake.
Disaster has overtaken schooners,
otor boats, airplanes and automo
iles smuggling liquor. The rum-run
er< are battling with a corps of the
enest and bravest men in the fed
al service, and the government us
llv comes out victorious. The long
ast line is the salvation of the smug
er, for the federal forces are yet too
all to keep a watchful eye on all'
the border lines.
Explosions of stills and barrels and
ttles of booze have caused some
aths, much damage by fire, and
enaced many lives. Several serious
¢s in some of the larger cities were
lieved either the result of explod
¢ stills or the deliberate attempt
hootleggers to cover their tracks.
undreds of automobiles have been
len, wrecked and deserted in the
otleggers’ attempts to evade the
- 3
There is no chivalry nor “honor
ong thieves” spirit among the rum
ates, A few weeks ago a battle at
between a rum ship and a rum
ate was reported from Vineyard
ven, Mass. The conflict was noisy
wugh to. be heard on shore. The
kt day eight bodies washed ashore.
The pirates’ vessel got away in the
. but the steamer, John Dwight,
ded with bottled ale, sank after|
r boilers had blown up. [
Prey of Pirates. l
River pirates, afloat in motor boats
nning in and out among the piers
every port along the Atlantic, have
en responsible for even more kill
vs and battles than rum pirates who
il the 12-mile limit. Ocean liners
d at piers and cargo ships anchored
harbors are the pirates’ prey.
A fatal duel in the Hudson river
s the latest of many scrimmages.
eviously there was a killing in a
w York harbor smuggling plot, an
er when detectives descended up
pirates looting a ship at Hoboken,
battle in a Florida port when one
ng betrayed another to government
ents, a pistol fight in which 20 men
re seized as they boarded a schoon
in New York Bay, and a gun fight
en pirates attacked a rum runner
a New Jersey port.
Rum Ships Armed.
Rum ships are heavily armed, ready
repel any invader, but sometimes
modern Capt. Kidd comes along with
en more powerful armament. Death
ks not only at sea, where the first
nsfer of booze is made, but even
er the small boats reach shore. It
not unusual for one smuggler to
n on another with deadly aim. And
oughout it all the small band of
vernment agents, daring and re
urcciul, are making heavy inroads
the ranks of the older and more
perienced rum-runners, with - the
ttle between the opposing forces
har' mlly about breaking even for
1 sides,
corgia Negro Pensioner
Was 40 Years a Slave
ark Thrash, Claiming to Be 102, on
U. S. Payrolls for 28 Years.
WASHINGTON,' D. C.—The old
eniploye on the retirement rolls
the government is Mark Thrash, a
&0, of Rossville, Georgia, who, ac
'ding to the bureau of pensions, is
< vears old and has been in the fed
‘ employ for 28 years. He was re
'-'l‘ last year as a laborer in the
Ckamauga and Chattanooga Na
nal Military Park, at Chattanooga.
4 2tms December 15, 1820, as his
Ndavy,
Mark was born in Louisa county,
"Cnia, and for more than forty
4TS was a slave, the property of a
- Lhristopher Thrash. Way back in
© lorties” Mark was sent with a
"€ 1o clear land on a plantation
gLt by his master in Meriwether
'V, GLeorgia, and there had many
winters with the Indians, After the
. War Thrash went to Arkansas
- Icturned again to Chattanooga,
CUt the time the Central of Geor
-4 s road was under construction,
r.onere he got a job.
;4tr he hecame a watchman in the
ero Tk Hotel” in Chickamauga,
. 4rd joming the government ser
oy laborer in the park. He was
¢ 100 the payroll for 28 years be-
IS retirement,
THE DAWSON NEWS
Florida Is Now After
Big Confidence Men
CINCINNATI, O.—Two alleg
ed confidence men, Fred C, Paul,
of Detroit, known under a number
of aliases, and William Woodward,
Baltimore, arrested here recent
charge of having obtained
a Cleveland, Ohio,
clo urer on a fake
race hors ere given prelim
inary hearings today before Unit
ed %Itates Commissioner Thomas
Gregory. Paul was held on $lO,OOO
bond and Woodward $3,500.
Paul’'s counsel consented to their
client’s return to Florida to face
an indictment charging him with
having swindled Ramon Tuch, of
Newark, N. J., out of $60,000 on
a fake horse racing scheme.
' OF “ABIDING PEACE”
WAR CLOUDS IN FAR EAST
DISSIPATED WHILE TRADI
, TIONS ARE PRESERVED.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—America
has ‘“every assurance of' abiding
peace,” so far as ‘“cur relations with
other peoples are concerned,” Secre
‘tary Hughes said tonight in an ad
dress before the national conference
of social work.
“The clouds which two years ago
darkened the Far Eastern sky have
been dissipated,” he said, “and to the
disappointment of those who makei
bitterness the test of patriotism we!
have been able to associate the great
powers of the Pacific in a friendly
accord supported by mutual confi
dence, while at the same time we
have carefully preserved the sound
American tradition of freedom from
alliance and the principle of equality
of opportunity.”
Mr. Hughes said this had been ac
qomplished by achieving *“a disarma
ment of thought” and that the Wash
ington arms conference ‘“had man
ageds to scrap distrust as well as the
vessels of war,” and to end wasteful
competition, “which spelled not se
curity but suspicion.”
Reason for Encouragement, l
“Today, notwithstanding the grav
ity of unsettled issues,” he continued,
“we find throughout the world ample
reason for encouragement in the ear
nest ‘efforts to remove the economic
evils following the great war in the
exhibition of enhanced industrial ca
pacity in the swift repair of damaged
areas, in the extraordinary extent of|
recovery despite all difficulties.” i
GIVES MILLION DOLLARS IN
CASH. PLANS EXPERI
MENT FARMS.
A gift of $1,000,000 and 16,000 acres
of rich timber lands from E. O. Rob
inson, capitalist of Fort Thomas, Ky,
to be used in the educational, agricul
tural and economic development of
the mountains of eastern Kentucky,
was announced a few days ago by
Edward C. O’Rear, of Frankfort, pres
ident of the board of trustees of the
newly incorporated E. O. Robinson
mountain fund.
No “Strings” to Gift.
The University of Kentucky, at
Lexington, will take active charge of
the work of development, according
to Judge O’Rear. No “strings” are
tied to the gift, he said, and the trus
tees are at liberty to spend it as they
see fit.
The program, now only in embry
onic form, calls for development of
the entire mountain section of the
state on a scale heretofore undreamed
of. Immediate plans contemplate set
ting aside 15,000 acres as a reforesta
tion project and the utilization of the
remaining 1,000 acres for experiment
station farms. :
Sought to Aid Countrymen.
Mr. Robinson, who was character
ized by Judge O’Rear as a man of
great modesty, sought some method
of disposing of the money and lands
whereby the greatest good could be
accomplished and the greatest num
ber of persons helped.
He outlined the information of a
corporation of foremost men of the
state, and the matter of development
of the mountains through the Uni
versity of Kentucky was taken up
with the board of trustees.
WOMAN GENIUS OF NOTED NEW
ORLEANS CAFE HAS PASSED AWAY
NEW ORLE'ANS.—Bon vivants of
the old guard here were to attend to
day in spirit if not in person the fun
eral of one of the most lovable char
acters of old-time New Orleans, the
woman who presided over a restau
rant world famous for its food and
Yecause no woman customer or visi
tor was permitted to enter its portals.
She was “Mrs. (Wldow.) _Hypolite
Esparbe, nee Marie Souission,” and
known as “Madame.” |
For many years “Madame” was the
presiding genius at the restaurant of
Maylie & Esparbe. It was noted for
its breakifasts, but hardly less for its
few are known to have violated the
iron-clad rule. Ruth Law, the q’latrix,
attired in the masculine clothing she
donned for flying, is said to have
been the first one. Miss Doris Keane,
the actress, is saiq to_have gone there
‘once at the special invitation of the
‘management. s '
. “Madame” was born in Lacave,
KEROSENE LAMP OVERTURNS
WITH APPALLING RESULT
DURING SCHOOL PLAY.
ENTIRE FAMILIES WIPED OUT
Not a Home Left Without a Vacant
Chair When 300 Are Trapped on
Second Floor as Explosion Starts
Flames afnd Panic.
‘CAMDEN, S. C.—Grim tragedy
stalking in the wake of mirthful com
edy has turned Kershaw county into
a community of mourning.
The climax of the commencement
play of the Cleveland school, a rural
institution eight miles from here, had
been reached shortly after 9 o’clock
Thursday night when an oil lamp on
the little stage was overturned and
exploded. In an instant the stage was
a mass of flames. Panic seized the
audience of parents, brothers, sisters
and relatives of the graduating class
who had come proudly to honor the
youngsters that had crowded the lit
tle auditorium. Some 300 were in the
room,
There was a concerted rush for the
single exit that led to a narrow wood
en stairway. The weight of the mass
was too much for the steps and they
collapsed, hurling scores in a tangled
mass and numbers being crushed to
death. ; & ;
Happened in a Breath. |
In a breath it seemed to pcrsons‘
who escaped the entire building was
wrapped in flames. And within an hour!
the building was little more than a‘
heap of smoldering ashes, the funeral
pyre of more than three and a half
score of Kershaw county citizens be-‘
ing wiped out. Scarcely a home in
Kershaw county but that was affected
by the disaster. ‘
The death list reads ‘like a roster of
families of the community. In almost
every instance where parents are list-i
ed as dead from one to four children
perished. Seventy-three known dead,
men, women and children, and one
missing, together with dozens more‘
or less seriously injured was the ter
rible toll. |
Forty young. children, sixteen men{
and fifteen women, including a ne
gro nurse, were burned to death and
two young ‘white men are missing.
Entire families were wiped out, and
in some cases there are no relatives
left to claim the bodies.
Each wrapped in a sheet, the bod#
ies of the seventy-three dead lay Fri
day in a long row within a few yards
of the place where they met their
death. Some of the fragments of
bodies were so badly burned that the
rescue workers could not tell wheth
er they had whole bodies or just sec
tions.
Hearse Makes Trip After Trip.
Camden’s only hearse made its de
liberate way down the streets here
Saturday, loaded, trip after trip, with
parts of the burned bodies.
One trip the hearse carried the
bodies of the entire B. J. MecCloud
family. There were three of them—
father, mother and child. One casket
held the remains of all three.
Identifications were vague, ' not
more than half a dozen being certain,
but relatives were eager to claim the
charred bodies, seeking some little
comfort in the fact that their loved
ones were given ordinary burial and
were not dropped into that great pit
which received three score of the vic
tims Friday night.
62 Buried in One Grave.
Bathed in the glory of a setting
South Carolina sun sixty-two bodies
that less than twenty-four hours be
fore had been fun-loving men, women
and children late Friday were placed
in one big grave in Beulah Methodist
church yard. The grave was 33 feet
long.
The bodies were those burned be
vond all possible recognition. Twen-,
ty or twenty-five had been either
wholly or partly identified, and these
were to be cared for by relatives.
Three thousand South Caroliniaus,
led by Gov. Thomas G. McLeod,
gathered from all parts of the state to
pay a last tribute. |
Fund Being Raised. |
A plan for a fund to insure the edu
cation of the children left motherless
and fatherless is being worked out,
and work on farms where the head
of the family perished will be super
vised and aided by men designated
or employed out of the fund by the
chamber of commerce. |
France, and came to New Orleans fif
ty-three years ago.
dinners, and there was no limit to the
quantity of wine one was served with
the meals—until prohibition came.
There was no real reason why wo
men were not admitted, but only a
President Harding Warns Against Factionalism in U. S. |
WASHINGTON, D. C—Standing
before the statue of Alexander Ham
ilton, which he had just unveiled,
President Harding Thursday after
noon uttered a plea for the erasure
of factionalism in the United States,
which he asserted is developing now
as never before in this country.
Recalling Hamilton’s definition of
factions as a body of men “united
by some common impulse of passion
adverse to the rights of other citi
zens,” the president said: oo
DAWSON, GA., TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 22, 1923
1,000-Y ear-Old Trees
Cut for Aulo Industry
CHICAGO. Hardwood trees,
ranging from 100 to 1000 years,
are being cut ever{ year by fores
ters for the manufacture of tables
and chairs, parts of automobiles,
interior trimming for houses and
other buildings, Landon C. Bell, of
Columbus, Ohio, said today in an
address prepared for delivery be
fore the conventiom of hardwood
manufacturers’ institute. Mr. Bell
is .chairman of the institute’s com
mittee on forestry.
WANTS $70,000,000
GOOD ROADS ASSOCIATION
WILL ASK LEGISLATURE TO
SUBMIT AMENDMENT.
MIACON', Ga.—Unanimous endorse
ment was given the proposed amend
ment to the constitution of the state
of Georgia, prepared by Attorney
Edgar Watkins, of Atlanta, and four
representatives of the Georgia Good
Roads Association, providing for a
bond issue in the amount of $70,000,-
000 for permanent roads connecting
each of the one hundred and sixty
county seats of the state, at an ad
journed meeting of the Good Roads
Association held here.
The proposed plan calls for the is
suance of the bonds in five ten mil
lion dollar installments, the sixth in
stallment being for twenty million
dollars. The first issues would be
made in 1925 and the last in 1930.
The amount of bonds issued each
year, however, is not fixed in the bill
other than a limitatien to “such an
amount that the interest thereon, if
computed at the rate of four and one
half per cent per annum and an an
nual contribution to a sinking fund
sufficient, with accumulation comput
ed at the rate fixed as aforesaid. com
pounded annually, to retire such in
debtedness in thirty years, would ex
ceed the amount of the motor fuels
tax and the motor vehicle ligense tax
hereinafter referred to for the preced
ing year.” |
The amendments would place a;
tax of two cents ver gallon on gaso
line, limiting the tax to be levied on
gas, however, to three cents a gallon
in addition to levying a special motor !
vehicle tax. A state property tax “suf
ficient to pay the interest on such
debt and to provide an adequate sink
ing fund for the payment of the prin
cipal when it becomes due”. would al
so be levied, this be_igiawlimited to five
mills on the dollar.
SPIRITED DEBATE OVER PRO
HIBITION AT CONVENTION.
FAVORS REPEAL DRY LAW.
NEW YORK, N. Y.—A spirited
debate over prohibition and its en
forcement today marked the close of
the annual convention of the Protes
tant Episcopal Diocese of New York,
which finally adopted a resolution re
questing Governor Smith not to sign
the bill which would repeal the pro
hibition enforcement act.
As originally submitted by the com
mittee on miscellaneous business the
resolution opposed signing of the re
pealer “In the interest of law and or
der.” This phase was stricken out
after one speaker had asserted that
he would not vote for a resolution
which would brand every member of
the legislature who had voted for the
repealer as not being a supporter of
law and order.
' During the debate one clergyman
‘asserted he favored repeal of the
state dry law, because under present
conditions persons were compelled to
‘be hypocrites as far as enforcement
'was concerned.
~ “I go among my firiends,” he said,
“many of whom are at this very con
vention, and find wine upon their
tables. I like a glass of wine myself.
Many persons, including good Epis
copalians, are.busy making their own
wine.” !
After one speaker had deplored the
fact that the question of prohibitioni
had come before the convention at all|
and another had termed prohibition
a dismal failure, Bishop Manning ask-‘
ed permission to speak .one word. “I
would not feel quite content if I should
sit in silence without expressing my
views,” he said. “I-stand where I did
last year before this convention.. I
said then and I say now that I have
never been a prohibitionist, but havc’
always stood for upholding the law.
“It would be most sad and serious
if this great state of New York' should
stand before the pcople of the land
as inclined to oppose the federal law.
It would be sadder still if this con
vention, representing the greatest dio
cese of the country, should take that
position. T hope that the governor for
the credit of the state will see fit to
veto this law.”
The resolution then was amended
and adopted.
“Can any student of our times in
America, or the world, doubt for a
moment that factionalism is develop
ing as never before? 1
Factions of Hatred.
“We thave our factions which seeck
to promote this or that interest with
out regard to the relationship of oth
ers, and without regard for the com
mon weal. We have the<factions of
hatred and préjudice and violence.
We have our coalitions which would
invade the cofstitutional rights of
DROUTHS OF THE PAST TWO
YEARS LAID TO SUN STRIKE.
HEAT FALLS 14 PER CENT.
FREAK SEASONS BEGAN 1920
Abnormalities of the Present Year
Are Recounted. Recent Reports
More Encouraging, But the Farmer
Is by No Means Qut of Danger.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Govern
meént scientists, whose interest has
been awakened by the startling find
ings made by Dr. C. Abbot, of the
Smithsonian Institution, that the earth
is receiving from the sun from three
to four per cent less heat than 15
months ago, are centering their atten
tion on the crop report put out by
the department of agriculture,
Basis for a “freakish” season was
seen in this report, although condi
tions are regarded as more encourag-'
ing than a few days ago. Serious
doughts have been broken in western
Nebraska and Kansas, but in the lat
ter state doubt is expressed as to
whether the wheat previously affected
can recover. In. Nebraska consider
able acreage has been abandoned be
cause of lack of rain. |
~ Reports Somewhat Encouraging.
~ Too much rain is reported in some
southern sections while the soil is de
scribed as too cold and wet in Utah
for planting and warmer weather is
an admitted need in the central Rocky
Mountain states. Up to this time the‘
late frosts have not caused material‘
damage to vegetation, but if they;
should be repeated widespread dam-l
age would be incurred.
Weather bureau officials and other‘
pgovernment scientists, while encour
aged by the tavorable report, which
by no means declares the farmer out
of danger, remains conservative in
predicting the result of the sun strike
on the rest of the summer, |
\
Began in 1920. :
Experts today pointed out that in
the past striking abnormalities of
weather and climatic conditions have
usually preceded an exceptionally bad
year and the past few annual periods,
it is pointed out, have been excep
tionally notable in this respect.
These abnormalities in seasons, the
department of agriculture’s records
'show, began in 1920. In that year the
southwestern cattle belt, in the Unit
ed States, was burned over because
of lack of rain, and the government
had to extend aid in bringing about
one of the greatest cattle migrations
in history in order to save the herds.
Famines in Russia and China. |
Both 1920 and 1921 saw large areas'
effected by drought, years which wit—‘
nessed the failure of the Russian grain
crop and a famine which probably
only American aid saved from prov
ing one of the most destructive to
‘human life on record. The winter of
that year was notable for a warm
Arctic winter and unusually light
snows in the northern regions.
The year 1922 produced another se
ries of abnormalities which the weath
er experts have noted but are unable
to analyze, The Russian famine was
carried over, while China suffered se
verely in a famine which extended
from 1921, :
Abnormalities This Year.
The first weather event out of the
ordinary in the United States in 1922
was the great snow storm which
swept the south and middle Atlantic
region January 27-28; Richmond re
ported 18 inches of snow, and Wash
ington had 28 inches. In the year fol
lowing, a great storm swept the At
lantic in December of 1923, reaching
Europe and causing much grief to
sea captains. 2
After January in 1922 there was a
series of freakish winter thunder
storms ranging between Milwaukee
on the west, to New York and Wash
ington on the east, causing an ap
proximate damage of $15,000,000. In
March there was a cold wave which
damaged the citrus belt of California
and Florida, and another in May
which did damage from New York to
Virginia. Serious droughts have pre
vailed in the trans-Mississippi section.
During the past winter, in addition
to the abnormality of an unusually
mild winter, followed by heavy snow
falls in the late season and a delayed
spring, the Atlantic ocean has known
the stormiest weather in its history.
STANDARD OIL COMPANY'S NET
PROFITS TWENTY MILLION DOLILARS
NEW YORK, N. Y.—The Stand
ard Oil Company of New York earn
ed net profits in 1922 of $19,434,734,
as compared with $9,698,972 in 1921,
it was announced today. The corpora
tion increased its capitalization from
£75,000,000 to $225,000,000 in Novem
others or subvert the constitution it
self. We have our factions challeng
ing both civil and religious liberty,
and without them both being made
everlastingly secure there can be no
real human liberty. We have the fa
tal factionalism which contemplates
obstruction to the execution of law.
“No nation will survive where this
factionalism is endured.”
President Harding coupled with
his denunciation of factionalism an
other l;:lea—-—for more “honesty of
Jeadership” in public affairs.
Lion Bites Off the
Hand of Attendant
PHILADELPHIA, Pa—While
several hundred persons looked on
a lion in the menagerie of the Bar
num & Bailey circus bit off the
hand of an attendant. He is John
Dooly, 40 years old, who has been
with the circus many years. He is
in*a serious condition in St. Luke
hospital. The hand was severed
nearly to the wrist and his left arm
is broken. Dooley was feeding the
animals through the bars of the
cage when the lion sprang at him
and fastened its teeth in the at
tendant’s forearm, the hand in his
mouth. Dooley wrenched himself
free and fell to the floor uncon
scious as ‘other attendants and
trainers rushed to the scene,
TWO YEARS' WORK IN OIL IN
VESTIGATION. PEOPLE LOSE -
SEVEN MILLIONS.
- The United States government has
not yet reached the half way mark in
its investigation of fraudulent oil spec
ulation in Texas and other parts of
the seuth and west, It probably will
be two years before the last of the
speculator companies is examined, ac
cording to United States District At
torney Zweifel, in charge of the work,
At least 700,000 victims have contrib
uted $7,000,000 to the coffers of the
fakers, it is charged.
Loss in Nine Figures.
With indictments made against 92
Texas operators so far it is consider
ed likely that a postoffice fraud order
will be asked. This order will make it
impossible for suspected companies
to receive any mail. All letters for the
companies are marked “fraudulent”
and returned.
Although it is still too early in the
campaign to estimate accurate figures
it is known that the loss to, American
people through oil swindles will reach
nine figures. i
SEABOARD AIR LINE TO CO
OPERATE WITH DAWSON
CITIZEN IN TESTING.
To assist the cotton farmers along
its line in combating the boll weevil,
}thc development department of the
Seaboard Air Line has just issued a
circular on an “Improved Method” of
fighting the boll weevil.
No claim is made that the ‘‘Florida
Plan” is a perfect boll weevil reme
dy. It had been found practicable and
economical in Florida by both scien
tific men and farmers on their farms.
In order to test out and demonstrate
this method the Seaboard develop
ment department is carrying on a
large number of demonstrations on
growing cotton, using the Florida
plan to control the weevil. These
demonstrations have been located
with farmers along the Seaboard in
Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina
and South Carolina.
The following demonstrations will
be carried on this year in Georgia:
John T. Dennis, jr, Elberton; Har
old Hume, Athens; j. F. Howell,
Bogart; ‘H. C. Paul, Comer; M. R.
Maynard, Winder; G. W. Giles, Ash
burn; J. F. McHaffy, Lawrenceville;
W. F. Byrd, Dallas; B. J. Edmond
son, Cedartown; C. M. Brdnnon, Co
lumbus; E. W. Childs, Omaha; Fred
Ward, Lumpkin; R, J. Dixon, Rich
land; Clint Bruce, Brooklyn; E. L.
Kimbrough, Kimbrough; C. H. Ped
dy, Dawson; Dr. Bowman Wise,
Plains; N. A. Ray, Americus; A. E.
Hines, Leslie; 1. -G. Williams, Cor
dele; W. F. Cross, Rochelle; T. E.
Minhinnett, Albany; E. T. Dunn,i
Fitzgerald; W. F. Whatley, Helena:
W. T. McArthur, jr, Asley: J. B.
Brewton, Vidalia; S. & W. Eastroff,
Lyons; R. F. Garner, Dublin; S. E.
Jones, Jeffersonville, W. G. Middie
brooks, Macon; W. A. Jones, Dor
chester; C. B. Jones, Riceboro; B.
F. Helmly, Rincon; S. T. Metzger,
Clyo; W. F. Freeman, Claxtoh; Dr.i
G. W. Ellerbee, Daisy; Wm. C. Cod
man, jr., Telfair Farms; Savannah; J.
1.. Tucker, Ways Station; F. C. Park
er, Statesboro. i
This work will be supervised by
the development agent of the Sea
board, and will be available for the
benefit of every cotton farmer in each
locality, T.ocal announcements will be
made, 'giving the date on which the
squares will be removed and poison
applied.
ber, 1922, by issuance of a 200 per
cent stock dividend and closed the
vear with a surplus of $103,909,469,
as compared with a balance on hand
January Ist of $167,295,389. The net
appreciation of capital assets and in
vestments during the year is placed
at $79,179,236.
In addition to the capital stock dis
tribution of $150,000,000 the corpora
tion paid cash dividends of $12,000,-
000. Directors today voted the regular
quarterly dividend of 35 cents a share
on the present shares of the capital
stock of the par value of $25 each and
issued a call for a special meeting of
stockholders to be held on the same
day as the annual meeting May Ist
next, when a proxosition to increase
the capital stock from $225,000,000 to
$300,000,000 will be submitted.
" The average yield ot potatoes to the
acre in the United States varies from
about 60 bushels in Texas to more
than 200 bushels in Maine. |
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VOL. 40.—N0. 38
NON-STOP DANCE MARATHON
AND OTHER CRAZES BEING
CONDUCTED BY MANY.
THE GERM SEEMS CONTAGIOUS
Champion Pie Eater Hjas Rival in
Man Who Ate 27 Feet of Sausage
And Girl Who Washed Dishes for
31 Consecutive Hours.
The desire for “fame,” which
brought about many freak éndurancc
tests in Europe during the last few
months, is now sweeping the United
States like wildfire, and all sorts of
unusual Stunts are being recorded.
Perhaps the most prevalent craze is
that of the non-stop dance attempts.
This fad has spread so far and wide
that many city officials are banning
such tests.
Began in Paris.
The non-stop dances began in Paris
when a young man set the record
with 13 hours. An Englishman then
danced for 15 hours. A Frenchman
returned with a 17-hour record. Miss
Alma Cummings, dance teacher in a
small New York city hall, read the
press dispatches and bega;n a mara
thon of her own. She danced for 24
hours without stopping.
Records have since gone jumping—
-27 hours, 36, 59, 100, 107, 167—and
the end is not yet. The marathon
dance craze continues, and inter-city
contests are now suggested, and dur
ing these attempis will be made to
lower the distance record traveled by
the dancers during a/certain period of
time.
A Few Championships.
In addition to the dance grinds,
Americans hold these championships:
staying . under water, piano playing,
beefsteak, pancake, crawfish, sausage,
egg, pie and banana eating, skating,
dish washing and walking. The danc
ing craze, the latest, will die of itself
when no more spectators can be in
terested Sufficiently to pay the admis
sion. Then a new fad will probably
spring into being.
A unique endurance test was the
recent perambulator race in England,
when five English mothers set out to
race from ILondon to Brighton, 52
miles, pushing perambulators in
which were their babies. They suffer
ed greatly from their exertions but
"kept omn, Mrs. Lily Groom winning
the race in 12 hours and 20 minutes.
Bowls 2114 Tons.
When Bob Wilson, bowler, of
Cleveland, Ohio, heard of the dance
competitions he adapted the endur
ance idea to his own favorite sport-and
made a record which he claims enti
tles him?*to the non-stop bowling
honors. Hé bowled 135 games in 25
hours, averaging 155 a game, and lift
ing a total of 2174 tons of balls during
the bowling.
In the national gallery of limelight
grabbers a prominent place will have
to be given to champion eaters. Last
August H. B. Chase, of New Orleans,
La., was crowned ‘“champion craw
fish”eater of the world” after winning
over nine other contestants by eating
five bucketfuls, 60 pounds in the
shells, of this species of seafood
Champion Sausage Eater.
At West Hammond, a Chicago sub
urb, an enterprising promoter put on
a sausage-eating contest in which it is
thought all records' for consuming
linked ground meat were broken. John
Bongo put away 27 feet of pork sau
sages, five pounds of raw beefsteak,*
three eggs, four smoked herrings and
one gallon of home brew.
.- At Greensburg, Pa., a banana-eating
contest kept the sporting population
in suspense. George W. Brown won
by getting away with 34 in the rec
ord time of ten minutes. Another hero
of the table was Herbert Sibert, 16
years old, of Knoxville, Tenn., who
ate 37 soft-boiled eggs at one sitting.
The feat inspired another young man
of the same city to seek fame for,
himself, and he consumed 16 cans of
potted ham without stopping.
Skates for 50 Hours.
Leo Harman, of Houston, Texas.
won the roller skating record of the
world, when he went 50 hours with
out stopping. Another Houston man,
T. J. Kennedy, jr., made. a new
world’s record of 66 hours and 22
minutes’ continuous piano playing.
The former record was 29 hours, and
was held by Howard Roth, of Tole
do, Ohio.
Marathon dancers will also step
aside and permit Susie Hetnock, of
Covode, Pa., to absorb a little lime
light. Susie, 22 years old and employ
ed as a domestic in a hotel, washed
dishes for 31 consecutive hours. No
one helped her, she did not use a
dish-washing machine, did not stop
for one moment’s rest, and sang
through the entire performance. She
washed all the dishes used at a ban
quet with 400 diners and demurred at
resting after her feat.
- Other Seekers of Fame.
A mayor of New York city, Rob
ert A. Van Wyck, won a champion
ship for eating beefsteak. A Hoboken -
longshoreman ate 31 mince pies. Ed
ward Payson Weston walked 1,937
miles in 1,000 consecutive hours. Dam
Goldsmith, New York city pianist,
played ragtime 48 consecutive hours;
without missing a note.
One kind of tournament as yei un-.
known in this country is the reester
crowing competition, a form o# sport
popular in certain parts of Belgium.
Every year loud voiced chanticleers:
are pitted against others of tireir Kindt
at Brackel, : <
The lure of the dance marathon;_
gastronomic championships, and" oth--
er freak contests seems to-be whelly
one of recognition and newspaper-no--
toriety. Few of the contestants ever
receive any monetary .recognitions,