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MONEY TO LOAN
On Farm Lands
and City Property
Joseph Law
Attorney-at-Law
Waynesboro Georgia
ED BARRETT HIES SUD
DENLY IN BIRMINGHAM
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Former Au#uMtrian and Editor of the
Birmingham Age-Herald Suc
cumbs to Heart Attack.—Was in
Swimming At Country Club.
Birmingham, Ala., July 9.—Edward
W. Barrett, editor and proprietor of
tlie Birmingham Age-Heraid died sud
denly tonight of heart failure at the
Roebuck Country Club.
.Vlr. Barrett' had complained for sev
eial days of not feeling well. How
ever, this evening he accepted an in
vitation for himself and Mrs. Barrett
to a dinner party at the Roebuck
club and it was while surrounded by
a group of friends there that he sud
denly expired.
JVIr. Barrett had just entered the
swimming pool and began to swim in
very shallow water. A member of
the party saw him gasp and seized his
band. Before others could lift him
from the water he was dead.
Mr. Edward W. Barrett was former
ly of Augusta, and a brother of the
Hon. Thomas Barrett, Sr., and the
late H. Gould Barrett. He was a man
of great personal magnetism and was
greatly admired by Augustans and
his many friendh | throughout the
Souht, He moved away from Augus
ta over a score of years ago, but at
various times returned to keep up
friendships in his home town and o
see his brothers. He was born in
Athens, Ga., on September 6, 1866,
and was the son of Thomas Glascock
Barrett and Grace Arrington (Ware)
Barrett.
He received his early schooling at
the Richmond Academy and took a civ
il engineering course at Washington
and Lee University from 1881 to 1885
His newspaper training began on The
Chronicle .where he learned to set
ype ,and later filled the position of
telegraaph and city editor.
In 1888, Henry W. Grady apponnted
Mr. Barrett .Washington correspon
dent of the Atlanta Constitution, a po
sition which he held until 1897. He
was sent "to Japan and China in 1985
to cover the close of the Chino Jap
anese war for The Constitution and
the New York World.
It was was in 1897 that he went to
Birmingham and purchased practical
ly all the stock of The Age-Herald,
and he had been editor and active
head of the newspaper since August
Ist of that year.
Mr. Barrett while in Washington,
served as political secretary to
Charles P. Crisp, of Georgia, demo
cratic speaker of the house of repre
sentatives from 1891 to 1895. He was
delegate from Georgia to the demo
cratic national convention of 1892 and
served as delegate to the democratic
national convention from Alabama in
1900, 1904, 1908, 1912 and 1916.
Hes is survived by his wife, form
erly Miss Lewis Butt, of Augusta;
one brother, Hon Thomas Barrett,
Sr., of Augusta, two sister, Mrs. Mag
gie Dugas, of Baltimore, and Mrs. An
ne Butt of Boston, and three children.
Funeral arrangements have not been
announced—Augusta Chronicle.
CON. OVERSTREET
VISITS WAYNESBORO
Popular Member of Congress Stopped
1 ver In City For Few Minutes Wed
nesday to Speak to Friends —Will
Visit City Soon—ls Actively in the
Race for Re-election.
Wednesday Congressman J. W. Ov
erstreet, from the First District, of
Sylvania was a visitor in the city.
While here for only a short time he
saw as many of his friends as possi
ble and will make ta return trip to
see them all.
Mr. Overstreet is looking well and
hearty and does not wear a worried
look over the situation in his district
regarding being sent back to Con
gress from the First despite the fact
that his opponent is R. Lee More, of
, Statesboro.
Mr. Overstreet is an active member
of the Georgia delegation in Congress
and is well known and well liked by
his colleagues. He is also well
known and liked in his district and
will be a hard man to defeat.
He is squarely in the race for re
election and will appreciate the sup
port of his friends thruout the dis
trict.
BANKRUPT SALE OF N. SPERLING’S STOCK
WAYNESBORO, GA.
Watch paper for Double Page Advertisement and Circulars. $25,000.00 Stock of
Merchandise must be sold Regardless of Cost. Sale opens July 21st at 9 a. m.
Dixie Salvage CoOwners,
R. E. RICHARDS, Manager
WANTED 25 Sales People. Apply to manager. 2S Sales People. Apply to manager-WANTED
VOLUME 41.
GOV. HARDWICK SAYS '
THE HOODS MUST GO
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Klan Mask Must Co, Governor Says
Unless Ku-Klux Uncover, Hardwick
Favors Action To Outlaw Their
Regalia. |
If the Ku-Klux Klan will not dis
card the mask voluntarily Gov. Hard
wick will ask the General Assembly
to make wearing of masks criminal.
The Governor’s position was made
clear in a letter sent to W. W. Rainey
of Columbus, publicity manager in
Muscogee County of Clifford Walker’s
first campaign for Governor .accept
ing Mr. Rainey’s pledge of support and
renewing the Governor’s earlier
stand for law and order.
The text of the letter read:
Hon. W. W. Rainey,
Care National Show Case Co.
Columbus, Ga. *, t i*
..ly Dear Mr. Rainey;
Pressure of public business and a
slight illness have combined to de
my my reply to your letter of the
fourt instant. Please accept my ex
cuses for the delay, which has been
unavoidable, in the circumstances.
First and foremost of all let me
assure you of my deep and sincere
appreciation of your letter. It is
.he letter of a real man, and I value
t and respect it as much.
So far as past differences of opin
ion between us are concerned, they
do not count at all with me, and I
am so glad to see that they do not
with you.
Individual judgment is the crown
jewel of liberty, and it is the glory
of this republic that its citizens may
honestly differ with one another,
without losing either respect or re
gard for each other. I never have
bitterness of either mind or heart on
questions of this sort. I am never
concerned about honest past difference
es of opinion. The question with me
is, not the quarrel of yesterday, but
the duties of today and the responsi
bilities of tomorrow.
I quite agree with you also that
we should not be intolerant, even to
wards honest, law-abiding members
of the Ku-Klux Klan. There are ma
ny honest people who are in it and
wha went into it with the highest and \
most patriotic motives, for its creed»
and principles are patriotic and un-1
assailable; outrages by mobs of mask
efl men are growing in number in this
state, howeved, and these performanc
es must be checked. It is my earnest
hope that the leaders of this organi
zation may promptly realize the neces
sity for discarding the mask and for |
removing all secrecy about their mem ,
bership list.
Unless they do, it wlil be neces- 1
sary, in the interests of the public
and of law and order, to take strong j
steps to make the Wearing of masks ,
criminal in this state and I shall un ;
hestita.tingly advise and recommend .
such a course to our General Assem- i
bly. j
We have no room for invisible
government in this state. So long
as I am Governor and can prevent
it we shall not have it, either from
the Kimball House, or the klan pal
ace, or the United States Capitol at
Washington. At any rate, I shall do
all in my power to combat it from
whatever source it may come. What
ever were the excuses for the first
Ku-Klux Klan— and they were strong
and numerous—there are none for
any klan of a similar character op
erating to enforce their own opinions
and to execute their own desires out
side of the law and courts of the atte
It can not be tolerated by the honest
men and women of this state and I
do not believe it w r ill be tolerated by
them. •
Permit me, in conclusion to again
express my earnest and sincere appre
ciation of your letter and of my ear
nest purpose to continue to make
Georgia the very best Governor of
which I am capable, to stand for law
and order and decency, and for busi
ness methods in the administration of
our state’s affairs at any poltical risk
..bsolutely regardless of all political
i consequences.
Very sincerely yours,
i (Signed)
THOMAS Wl HARDWICK
[ Governor.
i —Atlanta Georgian.
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Because of its tonic and laxative effect, LAXA
TIVE BROMO QUININE (Tablets) can be taken
by anyone without causing nervousness or ringing
in the head. E.W. GROVE’S signature ou box. 30c.
Buy from Waynesboro firms.
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CONGRESSMAN J. W. OVERSTREET
Member of Congress from First District Was a Visitor in Waynesboro A
short While Wednesday—Will Be candidate for Re-election.
GETTER HARVESTS ARE
PROMISED THIS YEAH
Bumper Crops in Sight. Corn Ac
reage in Corn Belt Slates.
Washington, D. C., July 10.—Crops
in general promise better harvests
this year than their average for the
last five years, forecasts of the De
partment of Agriculture, based on Ju
ly 1, conditions issued today indicate
Bumper crops of white and sweet po
tatoes and tobacco are forecast andi
most, of the crops are large than
last year’s. With the exception of
wheat, corn and oats/ acreages this
year range from 1 to 22 per cent,
larger than those of 1921.
Corn acreages are increased this
year in most of the corn belt states
but in the cotton states decreases are
shown while in lowa largest corn
producing state, there is a 2 per cent
decrease and in Missouri a 3 per cent
decrease. The crop in general made
good progress to July 1 except n the
Southeast, where it has been neglect
ed for cotton. Growth has been slow
east of the Mississippi, but stands
are good and fields fairly well culti
vated. Farther West rapid growth
has been made.
Winter wheat production forecasts
show a decline of 38,000,000 bushels
compared with June forecast. Severe
damage has been reported fr mi heat
waves and hailstorms in Kansas;
from drought, high temperatures and
; winds in Nebraska, andi from shrivel
: ing Oklohoma and black chaff and take
ail in some sections. Wheat remain
ing on farms July 1, is 31,661,000 |
bushels, or 25,000,000 bushels less ;
than stocks a year ago.
The large crop of white potatoes j
forecast this years is due largely to [
increased acreages in Western and
Northwestern states, While all impor j
tant producing states show increases |
of from 5 to 10 per cent.
A 45 per cent, increase in tobacco
1 acreage in Kentucky, and increases of
. 36 per cent, in Maryland, 25 per cent
iin Virginia, 13 per cent, in North
Carolina, 35 per cent, in Tennessee,
24 per cent, in Ohio and 25 per cent
in Indiana account for the large to
bacco crop. Wisconsin, Pennsylvania
and New England however reported
decreased acreages.
The nineteen leading crops have a
total area of 341,753.000 acres this
year compared with 345,140,000 acres
last year, a reduction o f 1 per cent.,
due principally to winter wheat and
oats.
Waynesboro, Ga., July 15. J. 922
NEGRO MAN REATSIFE
FODNOTBUDNINGHOME
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Robert Wilson Now Regaling Himself
on County Gang Instead of! Spend
ing His Wife’s Money in Missouri
—Judge Davis “Shows” Him the
Road.
The session of police court held
Tuesday was an interesting one and
Robert Wilson, a negro man, regrets
ever having met Policeman Odom.
Wilson was arrested for beating up
his wife, who is one of the best
colored women in the city, for not
burning up her home according to his
orders. Not satisfied with beating her
up he threatened her life by cutting
her throat and she ran away from
home and notified Policeman Odom
who responded very quickly and ar
rested the “gentleman of color” at
their home at 917 Doyle street. He
made no resistance.
At the trial Tuesday he was given
two months on the streets by Mayor
Palmer and bound over to the Su
perior court. In the mentime Judge
Davis, of the City Court, had him
sent to the county chain gang to com
plete a suspended sentence, which
will have to be served before he will
be triedi. It seems the Wilson be
came angry with his wife because he
had received a ticket to Missouri, and
did not have any money to spend
while he was gone, so he ordered her
to burn her home to get the insur
ance money for him.
A rocky road stares Wilson in the
face for his misconduct, and it will
be some little time before he can go
to Missouri.
ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC TEA
COMPANY TO OPERATE HERE
We learn from, the Augusta Chroni
cle of today that the Atlantic and
Pacific Tea Company will soon op
erate a store in Waynesboro in addi
tion to opening several more in Au
gusta We are pleased to make this
announcement and will give details
of their opening later.
WORK BEGUN ON ELEVATOR.
Contractor Moore ,of Dublin, has
arrived and begun work on rebuild
ing the grain elevator Monday. We
are pleased tt> make this announce
ment as it will mean much to the farm
ers of Burke county.
OTIS M'CATHEON DEAD,
L. E TINLEY WOUNDED
Result of Shooting Affray Thursday
Afternoon in W. G. Johnson’s &tore
—McCathern Buried Friday After
noon—Tinley in Hospital.
Otis McCathern, is dead and Lawton
Tinley, is seriously wounded follow
ing a shooting affray Thursday after
noon about four o’clock. The shoot
ing occurred in the rear of the store
of W. G. Johnson, Mr. Johnson, was in
front writing a letter and several
men were also there but left when the
shooting commenced when the shoot
ing ended one man was lying on the
fleor mortally dying in
about twenty minutes, and the other
had walked out of the store and up
the street to Drs. Morton and Lewis,
offices. The two men are brothers-in
law, McCathern having married the
sister of Mr. Tinley, and the shooting
was caused by McCathern’s treatment
of his wife at Goldberg Bros store a
short while before the killing. Mic-
Cathern entered GSoldberg’s store
brandishing a pistol and grappling
with his wife who held on to his gun
until help came; then she left the
store
Lawton Tinley, who is one of the
Waynesboro pOlicenuVi hearing of
the affair investigated and found
McCathern jn Johnson’s store on
Sixth street where the shooting be
gan ending in one being killed and
the other seriously wounded. Both
are well known citizens of the city
Tinley is in the hospital in Augus
ta, and the last; reports from him
state that he was getting along very
well.
McCathern was interred at the old
cemetery Friday afternoon at five
o’clock.
STATE CONVENTION OF
LEGION AT WAYGROSS
Meeting Begins Monday and Lasts
for Three Days—Alivn Neely and
Howell McElmurray Delegates
From B. L. L Post.
Alivn Neely and Howell McElmur
ray together with several other mem
hers of B. L. I. Post 120 American Le
gion will attend the state convention
in Waycross next week. This will
be an important meeting and large
delegations Qf service men wil be
present on this occasion. Waycross
is ready for the boys and will give
them a royal time.
Savannah will carry a delegation
of about 150 boosting their town for
the 1923 convention. Columbus will
be present with something like 200
and Atlanta, Macon, and Augusta will
be represented by large delegations.
'Savannah also wants the state com
mander and state adjutant; Augusta
is going to ask for the state comman
der. Dr. Craig Barrow, of Savannah
is the man urged by Savannah and
Mr. Rodney S. Cohen, of Augusta is
urged by that post. It is going to
be a rip-snorting, rip-roaring meet
ing and general get-together for the
men who saw service in the worldi
war.
New Orleans, July 13th—American
Legion members from all parts of the
worlds are expected to attend the nat
ional convention in New Orleans next
October as a result of a fifty percent
reduction in passenger rates announc
ed on vessels of the U. S. Shipping
Board.
A letter received from W. B. Keene
traffic manager of the United States
1 Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Cor
1 poration. states that the fare reduc-
I tion will be granted on single ojc
rouid trip tickets to those Legion mem
I bers and families, who show conclu
sively that it is their intention to be
present at the New Orleans conven
tion.
The fare will also prevail
on the United States lines, operating
passenger service in the North At
j iantic, and on the Munson Steamship
1 Line, operating between New York
and East coast of South American, pro
vided accommodations are available.
Convention officials believe that the
reduced fare will increase the delega
tions to the convention from cities on
or near the Atlantic coast and the
Gulf of Mexico, as well as from twen
ty-one foreign countries where Le
gion posts are organized. _____
NUMBER 17
TAX EQUALIZATION LAW
WILL NOTJtt REPEALED
Advocates of Repeal Fail by One Vote
Necessary to Strike Law from
Statute Books —Rule One Hundred
Was Invoked an,i Doors to Senate
Chamber Locked.
Atlanta, July 12. —There will be no
repeal of the tax equalization law.
By a vote of just one that law was
wri> ten on the statute books of the
stare, the then speaker oi the house
casting tne necessary vote to get for
it the requisite majority in the House
Today, by the lack of just one vote
the advocates of repealing the law
failed to get the requisite vote of 26
in the senate.
Absentees at the time the bill was
on passage in the House some years
ago endangered the passage of the
bill, and it is recalled a hurry trip
in a hack had; to be employed to
drill up to one member necessary to
bring the bill to passing point. Ab
sentees today saved the bill which
sought to repeal it, thought the pre
siding officer put himself on record as
favoring the repeal, and a t the same
time declared himself in favcr of the
adoption of a luxury tax, a soft drink
tax and any form of taxation that
will* reach “invisible” property, but
opposed the so-called equalization
law.
The record vote when the roll call
was completed stood 25 for the re
peal of the law, 20 against it. It re
quires a vote of 26 to pass the bill.
Those voting to repeal the law'
was Senators C. N. Bond, J. H. Boy
kin, J. M. Collum, A. G. Golueke, Pat,
Haralson, J. C. Hollingsworth, T. M.
Hunt, J. B. Jackson, G. A. Johns, Sam
Kimsey, W. M. Lassiter, J. H. Mills,
O. A. Nix, D. F. Pope, Dr. C. L. Ridley,
J. L. Rountree, R. H. Sheffield, E. B.
Stovall, R. O. Tarpley, G. W. Taylor,
Jas R. Thomas, B. F. Walker, Wiley'
Williams, M. D. Womble and Presi
dent Clay.—2s.
Those voting against the repeal
were Senators L. R. Akin, J. M.
Bellah, L. C. Brown, R. W. Campbell,
E. W. Childs, Howell Cone, C. D. Col
son, A. B. David, K. C. Ellis, Dennis
Fleming, W. O. Fleming John E. Foy,
Robt. H. Holmes, J. H. Jones, O. K.
Jones, C. H. Peacock, Russell, E.
Snow, E. M. Thorpe, Dan. Wall and
Eo. Wholwonder. —20.
Those not voting and absent from
the senate were Senators J. E. David
son, H. C. Hutchens, Will Richards,
Frank C. Mason and J. E. Palmour.
The break in the senate filibuster,
which had lasted since last Thurs
day, came apparently by agreement,
when the rules committee of the
senate reported on the resolution by i
Senator John H. Jones, one of the
anti repealist, that the main question ,
be ordered on the bill without debate
or further delay of any nature what
soever, at 11 o’clock, that reported
being adopted by the senate with but
one dissenting vote. President Clay
took the floor and, speaking to the ;
resolution and report of the rules com
mittee, before it was put to a vote,
1 asked that the senate let the majori
ty rule, whatever that majority mal
be, inasmuch as he was satisfied ev
ery member of the senate has long
since fully made up his mind just how
he intended to vote when the final
passage of the bill should be reached
When the fixed hour arrived rule
100 of the senate was invoked, which
requires the presiding officer to call
in all senators, lock the doors and
permit no member to leave without
consent of the senate. That was done
but before the order was made effec
tive two or three of the senators left
the chamber and were not present
when the vote was being taken on the
bill.
While no definite declaration has
been made to that effect, the speech
es, in explaining votes, by several of
the senators indicates almost conelu
; sively that there will be further ef-
I fort at tax reforms before the end of
! the session, and the stronger indica
i tion is that these efforts will likely
: center around a measure to impose
some form of luxury tax for the pur
pose of immediately raising addii
tional revenue as an emergency mas
ter. It is known, too, that such a pro
position is under consideratipn by a
special sub-committee of the House,
who are expected in the next four or
five days to report such a bill. That
will in all likelihood provide for tax
ing amusement tickets, ball games,
races and other similar forms of non
essential entertainment and the lessen
sing by the state of all soft drink
places and the collection through
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VoPTOMETRISV^S#\pPTOMETRISTy
v y 9se nL y
Eyes Thoroughly Examined
Eyeglasses and artificial
eyes, correctly fitted. _For twenty font
years the leading sight speciaUsts of
\ugusta. (la.
WELCOME SERVICE FOR
DR. W. MJNDERSON
New Baptist Minister Welcomed to
Waynesboro by Union Meeting at
Baptist Church Sunday Night—
Large Congregation Present and
Splendid Program Carried Out.
The welcome service to the newly
arrived minister at the First Baptist
church last Sunday night was one of
the most pleasant events in the
history of Waynesboro. It was in
the nature of a union service in which
all of the pastors and congregations
of Waynesboro assembled to greet Dr
W. M. Anderson, formerly of the Quit
man Baptist church who had arrived
to take up his work here. Mr. George
,P. Kilpatrick was master of
monies and the first speaker of the
evening was Rev. J. E. Seals, pastor
of the Methodist church, whose re
marks was in a very happy strain.
A prayer by Dr. J. P. McFerrin
was followed by a solo by Mrs. Hamp
Hickson. •
Rev. T. M. Stribling, of the Presby
terian church, followed with words of
welcome after which Mr. Kilpatrick
introduced Dr. J. P. McFerrin “as the
pastor of Waynesboro.” Mr. Kilpatrick
stated that “Dr. McFerrin had served
the Methodist church here for the al
lotted four years and that in order to
keep him in Waynesboro amended
the constitution of the conference and
sent him back for two more years.
Then for fear that he might be sent
elsewhere, they had him superannua
ted so as to always have him here and
since that time he has been pastor
of the people of Waynesboro regard
less of their church affiliations.”
Dr. Anderson responded very hap
pily to all of the welcomes from the
other churches and afterwards delix
ered an able sermon from the text
“the things which are seen are tem
poral, but the things which are not
seen are eternal,” In glowing terms
he depicted not only the realities of
this temporal life with its blessings,
showing the love of God for His crea
tion but in a most eloquent manner
showed the reality of eternal life with
the glories to those who so lived in
this temporal life so as to attain to the
eternal.
Dr. Anderson is a most pleasant*
speaker and easily won the hearts of
his congregation at both services Sun
day.
WAYNESBORO WINS
TENNISJURNRMENI
Good Fast Garnet Staged on Wiaynes
boro Court Last Wednesday.
The Waynesboro Tennis Club in
vited Messrs. Screven Farmer and
James Polhill, Jr., over for a match
game last Wednesday. Messrs Arthur
Evans and Joe Reynolds played for
Waynesboro. Three sets were played
Waynesboro winning all of them.
Many spectators were present, and
all say that a good game was played
and interest kept up until the last
ball passed over the net, though at
no time did it seem likely that the
Louisville team would win. The
Louisville boys had seldom, if ever
played a stiff game together, and pos
sibly went into the tournament, with
too little preparation. Louisville
boasts only two court, and only cour
tesy lets one of these get by by that
I name. It may be that Messrs Farm
i er and Polhill had stage fright at the
I sight of the wonderfully smooth hard
1 court on which the game was played
Waynesboro has promised a return
! game at an early date and we trust
the loulso-ille players will go In aud
i \vin sliow’'ng to better advantage the
! rei lv g( od stuff that in them—
Louisville News and Farmer.
I
' them of a small tax on soft drinks.
✓ That, it is said, will raise a sufficient
fund to wipe out the pension deficit
and provide for the deficiencies, all
cf .which will amount to approximat
ly two millions of dollars. Almost
'to a man, each of the senators who
made explanation of his vote, declar
ed himself in favor of some immediate
action discover and put into effect
some plan whereby the “invisibles”
owned in the state may be reached
and a tax collested out of them: