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BEN HILL THIRD IN GROWTH IN GEORGIA 1910-1920
STORM SWEEPS SOUTHEAST: ONE IS KILLED HERE
Lightning Strikes T. E. Walker
As He Stands Guard l
HAIL IN ABBEVILLE ‘
Windstorm Tears Roof Off Wil
cox Countian’s House
A terrific storm swept the
Southeast last night and late yes
terday afternoon took a toll of
one life in Ben Hill county and’
thousands of dollars in crop dam-!
age throughout its course.
The storm was marked here by
a tremendous electric display and
the only life reported lost up to
this afternoon was T. E. Walker,!
a convict at the Ben Hill county |
convict camp who was instantly!
killed by lightning at 8:15 o’clock*
while standing guard at the Benl
Hill convict camp, just out of the!
city limits on the Dixie Highway.‘
Walker, who was committed to
the gang for hog stealing was a‘
trusty. ‘
The body of the dead man will!
be sent today to his home in
Montgomery Co. where is sur-!
vived by daughter in Uvalda and‘
brother in Vidalia. He was an
exemplary convict and his death |
was not only a blow to his fellow |
prisoners but the guards and war
den who had grown close to him
during his imprisonment. .
The storm swept through all|
South Georgia. In Abbeville tre—l
mendous hail stones fell, the |
greatest in the lifetime of the old-|
est inhabitant. Oscar Cannon, a|
farmer and prominent citizen of |
Abbeville measured one of the lar-]
ger stones that fell on his place. |
It was five and one-half inches in |
length. l
The force of the wind that ac
companied the storm in Abbeville
was so great that it tore the roof
off the home of Jim Walker, a
farmer located between Rochelle
and Abbeville in Wilcox county.
In places the giant hailstones drif
ted fifteen inches and more deep
against fences.
Crop damage was not estimated
this afternoon but it is known to
have been large. Many beds of
tobacco, not yet transplanted,
were saved from the fury of the
hail storm by their protecting cov
er. Very little of the crop damage
is irreparable as most of the crops
in the section which suffered most
heavily can be replanted. Far
mers throughout the region vls
ited hy the hail were busy today
replanting and repairing the hav
oc wrought by the storm.
Ben Hill County suffered very
little. The heaviest hail barrage
missed even the northeast sections
and, with the exception of the
death of Mr. Walker, the worst
thing the storm caused, little
damage was done. |
The coroner’s jury impanelled
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l NO COURT RECESS
I WOMEN TO USE POWDER
| (By International News Service.)
| LONDON, March 17.—N0
- special concessions for the appli
f cation of complexion aids are to
be granted to British women jur
l ors as in the case of a woman
~jury in lowa, when the Judge sol
emnly announced that time would
be given for the women to pow
der their faces during the sitting.
A law court official said- that
such concessions were quite un
necessary.
“In the first place the women
chosen are not of the powder puff
and rouge stick type. When
flappers are chosen for juries #
will be time enough to think of
powder puff intervals.
“This would not he granted.
however. All these matters could
be seen to out of court. Besides,
the light in most courts is of the
kind that conceals shiny noses™
-
Atlanta Business Men
* - "3y
To Fight Crime w.v
ATLANTA, March 17 —Members
of the Chamber of Commerce today
are planning to form a viligance com
mittee and other means of action
against organized criminality, follow
ing Solicitor Boykins sensational
statement yesterday naming detec
tives and other “higher up” police of
ficials as connivers in aid of bunkoing.
Several of those named made heated
answers today.
this morning to officially determine
the cause of Mr. Walker’s death re
turned the following verdict:
GEORGIA, Ben Hill County:
We, the undersigned jurors, having
been sworn in to serve as jurors by
Coroner W. H. F. Lee, to investigate
the death of T. E. Walker, and after
having been sworn in and having in
vestigated the death of T. E. Walker,
we, the jury, find that T. E. Walker
came to his death by a stroke of light
ning.
This the 17th day of March 1921,
D. P. Adams, Foreman, T. I. Grif
fin, Geo. C. Player, R. O. Stephens,
W. C. Bussell, S. O. Minshew.
BOLSHEVIKS CAPTURE
FORTRESS NEAR MOSCOW
(By International News Service)
RIGA, March 17.—The Russian
Soviet troops have captured the For
tress of Kronstadt from the rebels
says a wireless today from Moscow.
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RAISE RAIL RATE éi
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(By International News Service)
WASHINGTQON, March 17—Inter
state Commerce Commission today
decided that certain freight rates pre
scribed by the Railroad Commission
of Florida on imtrastate basiness were
unduly prejudicial to the interstate
commerce shippers and ordered the
rates rassed to meet the level of inter
state rates, offective April 235th. It
rendered the same decision on rates
on cottom fimters and brick in Georgia
and issoved a similar order effective
April 23rd.
SEES CONSPIRACY
~ (By International News Service)
- COLUMBLUS, Ohio, March 17—
Accusmg the National Chamber of
Commerce and organized employers
with being responsible for the present
business depression, Michael D. Gain
| president of the Columbus Federation
of Labor, addressing a local audience
oi unemployed workers, declared that
~a conspiracy existed “to bring labor
to its knees.”
i President Cain said it was the first
time during his twenty-five years’
connection with organized labor that
he talked to an audience of unem
ployed.
“The very men who preached Amer
icanism and democracy to labor dur
ing the World War suffered a change
of heart and started to grind organ
ized labor into the dust before the ink
was dry upon paper used to draw up
the armistice,” continued President
Cain.
The only solution to the problem,
he said, is to be found in organiza
tion and co-operatjon.
(By International News Service)
MEXICO CITY, March, 17.—The
American Chamber of Commerce has
issued this warning: “Mexico is not a
poor man’s country. Laborers from
outside cannot compete with the
Mexican labor. Professional men
without a knowledge of Spanish and
money take a long chance in com
ing here. There is an oversupply of
school teachers, stenographers, bank
clerks and such. Please advise peo
pie to this effect and save many heart
aches.
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if you take no pleasure in living, if
your appetite is poor, your complexion
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A.B. & A. WAGE CUT
Attoreny for Men Is Absent 3
Hearing To Be Saturday - ‘
LABOR BOARD MONDAY
S ——————— l
Men Prepare for Final Appeal to
Law Before Board
(By International News Service)
" ATLANTA, March 17—On ac
count of the absence of one of the
l‘a:mmeys for the employees, the hear
ing before Federal Judge Sam H, Sib
ley on the petition of the striking
iunion brotherhoods for revocation of
the Court’s order authorizing a reduc
lxion in salaries and wages on the A.
|B. & A, scheduled for today was
postponed until Saturday morning.
I *A. B. & A. officials state train
schedules continue to improve and
are now running on five divisions.
Receiver Bugg said this afternoon
- that service was restored practically
con all branches of the system except
- the Waycross division where connec
| tion is made from Sessoms with Jack
sonville and Florida points.
Col. Bugg stated that sufficient men
are now in the shops at Manchester
la.nd Fitzgerald to do light repairs.
Beginning today the train from At
lanta to Cordele will be run to Fitz
gerald on a daily schedule.
Another important development ap
proaching is the hearing before the
Railway Labor Board in Chicago
Monday, when representatives of the
strikers will present their side of
the controversy. It was announced
lby Val Fitzpatrick, chairman of the
fourteen brotherhoods committee,
Wednesday that G. W. Marshall, in
ternational officer of the shop crafts
unions, and C. J. Goff, vice-president
'of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
. Enginemen and Firemen, ‘will appear
ibefore the board on behalf of the un
ions.,No announcement as to who will
lgo for the railroads has beeh made.
| Receiver B, L. Bugg announced ad
ditional train service effective Wednes
day. He also said that the service be
tween Atlanta and Cordele will be
come a daily service, effective Thurs
day.
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WILL NOT PROSECUTE
ACCUSED BALL PLAYERS
(By International News Service
CHICAGO, March 17.—Pros
ecution of eight White Sox in
dicted in connection with the
1919 world series was dismissed
when the case was called today.
The Chicago players had been
charged with “throwing” games
to the Cincinnatti teams in order
to enable gamblers to win large
sums from those not on the
“inside.”
N. G. & St. L. CALLS
(By International News)
ATLANTA, March 17—Reduction
in wages of semi-skilled and common
labor has been proposed to the men
on the Nashville, Chattanooga and
St. Louis, effective March 26th.
General manager Bruce called a
conference with the men for next
Monday at Nashville. The percent
age of the reduction is unspecified. In
‘_case of failure to reach an agreement,
the matter will be taken to the Rail
way Labor Board. s
Seas s S T Sl
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Whiskey Fraud Finds
Atlanta Topers Easy
(By International News Service)
ATLANTA, March 17.—Police here
have been asked to investigate a
shrewd swindler in Canada who has
been advertising he would send sam
ples of whiskey for a small sum. He
has “roped in” in over one hundred
Atlanta people.
The scheme was unearthed when
a man complajned that he had sent
six dollars for samples over a month
ago without results.
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FARM BUREAU HOLDS
BIG HOG SALE TODAY
Seven competitive bids were re
ceived on two car loads of Ben Hill
county hogs at the first co-operative
hog sale of the Ben Hill Farm Bureau
Federation. About fifteen farmers
offered hogs for sale, most of them
being Class A animals. The sale was
not over as the Leader goes to press
today.
Abbeville, Rochelle,
Douglas and Ocilla
Readers Attention:
If a general strike is called on all railroads in the
Southeast, the Leader Publishing Company will
start two automobile routes with its daily paper
out of Fitzgerald the day it is called. One route
will carry six hundred papers to Ocilla and Douglas
and one will carry four hundred papers to Abbe
ville and Rochelle. We want to get in touch AT
ONCE with a live wire man in each place who will
be competent to handle the local distribution of the
Daily Leader.
Should a general strike be called, mail service
will be cut off entirely, no big city dailies will reach
this section, and the Leader, by automobile, carry
ing the telegraphic news of the world by Interna
tional News Service, will be your only reliable com
munication with the outside world.” The demand
will be large enough to enable a hustler to make
considerable money as agent for them, -
The following schedule will be put in effect in
case a general strike is called and the out of town
circulation of the paper will be limited as specified
in order to conserve our supply of newsprint paper :
Arrive Ocilla, 300 eopies, 4:15,
Arrive Douglas, 300 copies, 4 45,
Arrive Abbeville, 200 copies, 4:30,
Arrive Rochelle, 200 copies, 4:45,
Responsible parties should wire or write AT
ONCE giving at least two references in order that
contracts and instructions may be forwarded and
the organization for a satisfactory distribution Sy s~
tem perfected, immediately, No applications after
Friday.
ADDRESS—
CIRCULATION MANAGER,
LEADER PUBLISHING COMPANY,
FITZGERALD, GA. %
Complete U. S. Census Makes It
~ Second Farming County
EXCEEDS IN DENSITY
Colquitt and Ben Hill Surpass
All Others in State
Complete United States Census
returns for 1920 that reached the
Leader last night, place Fulton,
Colquitt and Ben Hill counties,
in the order named as showing
the largest per centage of increase
in population in their rural dis
tricts of any in Georgia.
Fulton increased 37.4 per cent;
Colquitt increased 37.1 per cent;
Ben Hill increased 27.4 per cent.
As Fulton’s “rural” population
is in reality an overflow urban
population, Colquitt and Ben Hill
stand first in agricultural devel
opment.
Ben Hill county’s population
increased from 11,863 in 1910 to.
14,559 in 1920. Colquitt increased
from 19,789 to 29,332, Ben Hill
was, however, more thickly pop
ulated than Colquitt, having 57
persons per square mile to Col
quitt’s 54. The population
in neither county is compar
able, as far as denseness is
concerned, to that in older sec
tions of the state where Spald
ing, for instance, has 104 people:
per square mile with no big city.
The proportion of urban, ot
Fitzgerald population, to rural
population decreased from 48.8
per cent to 47.1 per cent, consid
ered an evidence that Fitzgeral
has developed better support f‘g
its commercial enterprises duri
the last ten years than it ha
during the previous ten. Colquitt
county has only 23.1 per cent ur
ban population, cansidered as ev
idence that Fitzgerald needs bet
ter agricultural support than it
has now. ;
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