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THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1921.
THE WEEKLY TIMES-RECORDER.
UNDER 7,000,000
BALES INDICATED
0F You Can MakeBlisiness Boom!-Put America's Crops
American Cotton Asso
ciation Issues Estimate
For 1921
ATLANTA. May 27—The official
report of the American Cotton Asso
ciation on cotton acreage planted in
1021 made nubile today, show* a to-
Btiniated acreage of 24,500,485.
th a reduction of .*10.70 per cent
* cotton acreage this year, and
with seasons similar, to those of last
year, and disregarding reductions in
the use of commercial fertiliser and
pstimated abandonment of acreage
„ Sifter-planting this year, the eqtimat.
ed yield of the 1921 crop wfculd be
9,142.098 bales.
Allowing a deduction in production
this year of 12 per cent on account
of the reduction of 51.17 per cent
in the use of commercial fertilizers,
added to the acreage reduction of
30.73 per cent, making an estimated
total of 42.73 per cent t> the forecast
of production for 1921, as compared
with the 1920 crop, would be 7,558,-
365 bales.
If the estimated abandoned acre
age after planting of 4.95 per cent
(due to inability of farmers to se
cure credits, and to adverse weather
conditions) is added to the estimate,
making a gran total percentage of
47.68. the estimated production for
1921, compared with the produc
tion in 1920, would be 6.905,075
hales.’
Should the estimated percentage
of reduction in acreage of 30.73 am
12 per cent allowed for the 51.17
per cent reduction in the use of com
mercial fertilizers, making a total of
42.73 per cent, be applied to the five
year average of production amount
ing to 11.808,389 bales, the estima
ted production for 1921 would be
6.762,664 bales.
The estimated reduction in cotton
acreage for 1921 to 24,563,486 acres
ns shown by cotton association re
ports, closely approximates the acre
age of 1897 when there was planted
24.319.594.
In Reach of Starving Millions, Says Noted Writer
BY HERBERT QUICK .! People who could pay for them if
WASHINGTON, May 27.—Whatj they had the. chance are droppin;
PLAINS SCHOOL
ENDS FINE YEAR
Graduation Exercises
e Place Monday—
ommunitv News
May 28.—Plans Consoli
dated iRjgh school has just closed a
most successful year. The music
class of Miss Berta Will Clark pave a
recital on Friday evening, doing
teacher and pupils much credit and
giving an evening of pleasure to an
appreciative audience. .
The commencement sermon deliv-
^^ered by Dr. Foster..of Bessie Tift.
Mwas « gem of word ’hd thought. The
^^textwas from Psalms 90*17, “And
let the beauty of the Lord our God be
upon us; and establish thou the
work of our hnnds upon us.” Dr. Fos
ter made his hearers desire “the
beauty of the Lord” as he clearly and
forcefully presented the subject. The
music for the occasion was unusual
ly good.
On Monday evening the great ex
ercises were given. The program as
follows: \
Hong—High School Girls.
1 -Invocation—Rev. Phillips.
Class. Song.
Class Salutatory—-Loy Bowen.
. Clefts History Jeanette Carter
!^>wery. _.
Class Prophecy—Belle Wiggins.
Butterfly—Annie ’Bell Wiggins.
Class Historian. - K d ni o n d s
Thrasher.
Class Poem—Mary Edna Jen
nings, - ' --i’j
Class Will—Annie Belle Wise.
Music. 2nd Value—Lucille Thomas.
Class Oration—John B. Clark.
Class Characteristics — Lucille
Thomas. - "wf
Class Valedictory — Evelyn
ter*.
Presentation of Diplomas.
Announcements—Rev. L. B. John.
Miss Langston, the advance agent
for the Radcliff Chautauqua, was
here Thursday for a conference with
the guarantors. The outlook is for,»
fine chautauqua at a financial suc
cess. Three days, June. 1,2 and 3,
are tho dates set for the chautauqua.
Mis* Langston accompanied J. B.
Clark and daughters to Richland to
attend the graduation exercises
Thursday evening, and to advertise
the coming chautauqua. They visit
ed Mr. and Mrs. Will Spann on the
way also, taking tea at their honu*.
A letter from Misses I’earl ami t,y-
thia Langford, at Woodville. brings
news that their father is critically ill
with little hope of recovery.
/ Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Morgan nn-
nounce the bilth of a daughter. Fran
ces Whiteside, at the home of Mrs.
Morgan’s parents in Macon.
Mrs. Crook and little daughter.
Mary, of Macon, are guests of Mr.
.1. B. Clark and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Oliver and
little daughter, of Worcester. Mass-
stands in the way of better times?
The, great thing which keeps us
poor and idle and miserable is the
failure of the farm crops to move.
I am going to tell you how to move
them. To move them now. Not in
1922, not in 1923, but In this year
of grace 1921.
Busines* has a log-jam just across
the stream of recovery. 1 am going to
tell you how we may climb down the
face of the jam and cut the key-log
that hokls the rest back and prevents
thg, great raft of products from float-
down to market.
Don’t stop reading. This is real
goods. It is not mine. I am merely the
instrument through which.this paper
is to tell you about it.
But first let me say why I call
farm products tho key-logs in the
business jam.
First, farm products lead^all oth
ers in value ami tonnage. And they
are stopped dead in their tracks.
They lie on the farmers’ hands like
an ice crop in Greenland—just ar.
if nobody wanted them. And the
world is starving for them!
d5\vn by tho roadside and dying for
them. Women are pressing starved
infants to dry breasts.
People arc eating bark of trees,
and' filling • their agonized stomachs
with day and earth to deaden the
«pnngs of starvation. They go naked
and barefooted for lack'of them. God
neve/looked down on this world so
agonized, so dead to hope, so lost j
to prortiise as iiowi
Meanwhile America’s Crops Rot
could he fed and “clothed, tlfc idle
could be set to work, the ■ farmers
could begin to buy and build and pay
their debts, the facloiics could begin
to operate, the mines could start up,
the railways could begin ' to haul
loaded trams—the wnole frozen
stream of human functions would he
thawed, afUt things would move not
only in our country, but in all the
world.
This thing can be (nought about by
a simple act of Congress which will
liable us to what everyone
This means cotton, wool, pork, corn,
oat-i, wheat, rye and like staples.
The demand is there in Europe.
European peoples have got used to
consuming our producs. The farmers
lort year-gave to Europe under the
"gift-corn’ • project conic 500 tons of
corn. Up to that time most* of the
European peoples did not think that
eorn was fit for human food. But
Howard,, the. head of the American
Farm Bureau Federation, started the
movement to give away the corn to
Europe’s starving peoples, am! Carl
Vrooman, formerly assistant secre
tary of agriculture, took hold of the
movement and .carried it through to j
a certain level of success. i
Europe learned to eat corn!
Hoover started grinding eo
Belgium in 1915. His little
And our crops are rotting on our! knows we child and ought to do.
hands, our farmers ure* unable to pay | The plan I am advocating, and
their debts, many of our fields are] which I want twery community In the
going untilled, our wonderful farm-1 United Slates to advocate in public
ing class are beginning to doubt the! meetings, petitions, r.ml resolutions,
Divine guidance of the world, be- so that congress may know that they
cause nobody can buy their Wheat! have the command from the people
and eorn and fat stock and cotton I to act, is to pass a hill which will
and wool. j by the time this js read, or very
If the devil had had the making soon thereafter, will lie introduced
of things all to his own infernal J in congress, to establish an Agrieul-
will, he couldn’t have schemed out : tuial Foreign Trade Financing Corp-
a worse fix for the world. For it] oration In extend proper credits to . ..
is ruining the WQfld financially, moral | nations, to corporations, to co-opera-j take 1000 tons of corn u week, if
jy, and spiritually. live societies, or to individuals wishr they can only be given credit along
And if the farm crops could move! ing to buy our surplus farm products j the lines which might with perfect
to market, the hungry and naked land having real security to offer. 1 safety he extended, through the Ag
ricultural Foreign Trade Financing
Corporation—which congress is going
to set up if there is a mass meeting
in every agricultural school district
ip the United St&tes in the last week
in May and the first week in June,
and in every city and precinct where
the business, church and labor people
open thoir eyes and see what this
thing would do for them/ Start this
thing ami it will grow beyond imag
ination!
. To return to Poland. It will take
almost anv amount of cotton and
spin it and take its pay in tho cloth
it, spins. And the densest and nak-
edest. population in the world is in
Poland anil at Pound’s doors.
The farmer* of the United States
] in their “gift-corn” project gave of
in i their land and labor to the starving;
mills! the railway laborers worked gratis
ground a few hundred tons a month.' to ship it; the railways hauled it free.
New these same people have their* It was bread east upon the waters,
own maize mills anil are eating 6900 j-and it will return after not very
tons a month. many days—If you,-and you, and you
start the Thing and Watch It Crow, i get busy and mix common sense with
Now Poland has already agreed to ’energy n about eqilal portions, sea
son it with the holy spirit of enlight
ened selfishness and get busy on this
bill which will pass if you ask for
it and command it. Morb tomorrow.
CHILDRENSTAGE
to dance about fairy land in a mazy I /If HIfHf* Vtl IIU
whirl that was superbly beautiful. B I ||K\ rrjlY 8 SB
Following the butterflies were the 1 Llil a a \f
! little visitors from Japan, who pro-
f 1 A VTI17 I) A f*T} A MT i Claimed their nationality
r A1KY rAbtArl 11 ^
the Japanese.” ’The lilt!
; wore flowered kimonos of their coun-
e i i n try, and carried chrysanthemums.
Beautiful bpectacle rut The Empress of Japan was brought
! In on a rickshaw, which was fitted
''-Jit *pV urammar out j n p a j c i,| Ut . u „,j yellow, and c«v-
School PuDlls cred with white chrysanthemums.
This as drawn by a little page, also
Three hundred or more children! in costume,
participated in the May Festival pro-1 The last act presented a tableau
Rented Friday morning at 10 o’clock j of all the costumed children surround-
in the Rylander theater, under the! mg the throne and singing their fare-
direction of Miss Ella Polk, director well to the king and queen of Fairy-
of music in the city schools. i ]and before they went back to their,
The large auditorium was filled to; flower homes,
its utmost capacity with parents am!
friends of the children, while the
balcony was reserved for the. use of
the students of Qic High school and
the pupils of the grammar school
who were not in the play.
The stage scenery was arranged to
represent a woodland scene in the
Flower Kingdom, and a green throne
the]
DYKESHEADOF
SCHOOL BOARD
stood out conspicuously from the C lirr# ™J Q Arthur Rv an*
background, formed of ferns and oUCCeeOS /\rmur^tVyian
palms and flowers. As the curtain] <jer, Who Declined
, a soft light fell on little King; Re-election
Violet, who lay sleeping on the car
pet of green at the foot of his throne.
He was clad in regal robes of pur
ple and gold, apd on his head rest
ed a crown of gold surrounded with
royal purple petals, the insignia of
tho flower represented. Springing
up suddenly at the sound of sweet
music, King Violet sang, a cherry
greeting to the audience, after which
he ascended his throne and awaited
his queen, who came dancing in,
singing a hnjqiy response to his greet
ing. King Violet met Queen Butter
cup at the foot the lhront\ and
together they seated themselves
among the ferns and flowers, and
awaited Ihe arrival of their other
subjects, the pretty woodland flow-
ToU Ctmc Trooping.
Girls and boy* came trooping in
and grouping themselves about the
throne, they sung n sprightly welcome
to the Jfcing and queen.
Four little flower girls' came in
from the bowers near the throne, and
sang und danced boforo their majes
ties. They Were followed by Al»P» c
Blossom, whose costume was com
posed of pink petpls and green leaves,
wearing on her head a dainty env
formed of lapple leaves and blos
som*. Sho sank o merry little lay,
and took her place on the throne be
side the king and queen.
Next appeared the little dandelion,
his costume.being made of fringes of
yelhiw which represented the fluffy
blossom of the flower impersonated,
and on his head was a hat made en
tirely of yellow fringe. As he sang,
he also went to the thtone and stood
at the left. ' v . .
The brown-eyed daisy came next,
his costume being the most unique
of all those displayed. With a black
ened face, which was surrounded with
large yellow petals representing the
real daisy, and with close fitting
trousers of brown and green, he was
the hit of the morning and brought
forth thunderous applause as he sang
his little sou# .of welcome and took
his place at the foot of the throne.
He sang that .everybody picked him
because he was born with a black
face.
The Cat Tails Arrive.
Six little girls ami hoys, represent
ing cat tails, came out and sang-and
danced and waved wands of yellow
fluff as they beat time to the rythrn
of the music.X Hovering over the
king and queen, they waved their cat
tails about and directed the orches
tra of fairyland.
At a recent meeting of the Board
of Education held itf’Americus. the
following officers were elected to
serve during the ensuing term: W.
W. Dykes, president; George R. Ellis,
vice president; E. B. Everett, treas
urer, mid J. E. Mathis, ex-officio, sec
retary.
Mr. Dykes was chosen president in
the place of Arthur Rylander, who
resigned because, of ill health and
the pressure • of-other duties and in
terests. Mr. Dykes was very reluc
tant to accept the place, and would
consider it only after nn urgent in
sistence on the part of Mr. Rylander
that he did not desire re-election and
would not accept the place even *if
forced on him.
Mr. Dykes has been acting presi
dent for some time past, owing to Mr
Rylandcr’s feeble ligalth, and tho
duties are not new to him.
HONORS SHOWER
ONMISSM’MATH
Miss Ansley’s Name On
Teachers’ List Again
SAVE CHINESE
/
Hixon Saves A "Few
Quickly—-Mayor Res
cues Two
Friends Of Class Hear
Numbers At High
Auditorium
In printing the names of the teach
ers who were re-elected to fill their
positions ut the Grammar school here,
the name of Miss Annie Ansley was
inadvertently omitted from the Jist.
Prof. J. E. Mathis, superintendent
•if the city schools in Americas, in
noticing this fact, said that Miss A ns-
; ley has for so many years been n
valued member of the Grammar
Americus druggists report a run school facultv, and had given' at ail
on liniments and lotions last night times such excellent service that he
ami today as a result of the -Lions-< felt that the school could not be an
Kiwanis baseball game at the play- : adequate institution without her in
grounds Thursday afternoon for the her accustomed place in the class
benefit of. the relief fund for the rooms. The Times-Recorder takes
starving Chinese. After he had hit 1 great pleasure in making this, state-
the bull and circled, although put out! ment, knowing well the very great
three times, Judge Hixon, of the ; esteem in which Miss Ansley is held,
Liuhs aggregh'tibn, announced that he * hot only by the pupils she teaches,
had saved his Chinese and retired to but among patrons of the cchool,! . n * c j agg bistorV f>y Eugene Gam
the sidelines to eijjc/y the fun as a*, and other friends. ( ittaec ,
tutor, dud in overalls and corn; . j The class alphabet was read by
! Miss Nell Hamilton, and the Mahdo-
| j lin club, composed of MWs Sara Oi-
! Elver, Miss Elizabeth Sheffield and
-J j Mbs Frances Sparks, gave several
selections. Courtney Ivey rehearsed
MRS. CAR71E BALL. the jokes of the year, and Miss Mary
ANNUAL SENIOR
PROGRAM GIVEN
The High school Senior program
was gtfen this morning at \ 8:30
o’clock in the school auditorium by
the members of the*Senior class who
render a series of interesting num
bers.
The first number on the program
was a bright Senior son, “Oh, A. H.
S.,” by the class, followed the read
field haj. Mayor Sheppard, of the
Kiwanians, h*»wvver, had a bit more
staying power and had played first
base two innings in jamb-up style,
slugged the ball a ft-w times to, the
outfield, and scored u.healthy run be-
he made the announcement that
v\ ‘““ w " t'7 ■. Many friends aUende dtiie funeral i Godwin delivered the class prophecy.
he had saved two‘ .Chinamen andi Wednesday in IMains of Mrs. Carrie The solemn last will and testamentof
tluught he could retire with a good, who at her home there ai- the Seniors was proclaimed by Miss
conscience. ' * ter a brief illness. Funerul services Louise Bragg, and Rajand Broadhurst
The /rowd appeared to be limited ] wcro con< j U cted by Rev. W. H. Jumes, pronounced the'Senior farewell,
largely to member* of tnc two clubs. of PrQfl€on with interment in the The program was heard by a num ;
mu titudir.ous small boys, and girls, ^etery at Macedonia In Webster! her of friends of the Seniors, tr *
and three or four Rotanans. 'n'“ 1 county. the morning was nleasantly spent
unnunt realized for Chinese fund wa.- gh ( , ^ survived by two sons, Ev- rendering the various numbers.
Ii'portcil liy the local treasurer, jj a |] am | Kutfcnr Bull; her jmr-
K M«lii. K a. ja*. . after the ,. n t s , Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Everett; one'
< °st of the ball. h»m«ered to piece* hrolhpl . j, w, Everett, Jr., of Ptaina,
had. been deducted. ! and five sister*, Mrs. B. E. Tilon,
Ihe contest really, watt a double Mr , , „ Tjg|)ni Mrg . n N , Sootti
header, the first played by the more „f Albany, and Mrs, 'Liston' Black
mature members, of thf clubs in many ( ,f Preston.
positions, ami the second By the M| ; s wns 4 ., yem of ^ am |
swiftest youthful athletes both suic. g eonsisteift member of the
.•oultl trot out. The first consisted Methodist church, with which she
of tw.. innin K s an*,b was won by the uni( „, wh , n v „ y ydu „ K . she was
Lions 2-1. The second, of fooui | | 1( .i, lv ,.d In her consnunily for the
and-one-half innings, went to the Ki- Ilinnv lnvfdtf' frnitK «»f I , harnctnr which
many lovely traits of character which
lie manifested, and for her beauti-
wamun.i 14-7, the Lions bring too ( ., |(l inan jf c ,;*teil, and Tor her heauu-
fagged j«i taku their turn at the I at Ghirstiaif life which was ex-
!? / IS fra TrhinV Pt< iht ' ^Simplified in her every day living,
that they were behind. 1 f She was a resident of Sumter conn-
The Kiwanis bneup .for the opt-H' UI1 tj| f ow ycar« ago, when she
| n K 2.in n i n ^nu. ! W^ l_^Vftlis.; Wt . llsU „. to
Ellis.
p; BrmHey Hokk. c: Mayor Sheppard, -jj- husbani | preceded her to the
n b: Itfiiu.J‘c.mih H v y pSk’ b rav< ' lhr ‘’ c months ago, and a younn-
lb. Wilbur smith, fib, J. A. nnk- 1 r « n a y tar n u . K rief over
Fton, Sr., If., Ed Andrcwb, tf., Tom jj pr f am jj y producing an
illness from which she did hot recov-
liudson, rf.
! The Liens lined up this way: Post-
master Davenport, p; Dan Ghappell.i * ,
e; B. P. Boyd, lb; Saunders. 2b;;
Doe Carswell, es; Will Dupree, 3b;h LONIE FAZIER.
Piggly Wiggly Snow, If; Parson |,EHLIK, May 28.—l.nnie Frazier,
Brookshire, cf; Nat LeMasler, rf. , ron of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Frazier,
Dugan Lane relieved. Ellis in the^|; (M | M t the U. S. I*. II. Imspital,
box in the second inning und the Greenville, S. C„ May 21. He had
Miss Frances Mi Math, of Ameri-
c-us, who has been a student during
the past three years at Bessie Tift
college, a*; Forsyth, will be graduat-—„ „ —
d from that institution next Tuck-I first man up, Dupree cracked out been jn bud health • for two years
•lay night, having won the distinc- j a home run, whereup the populace ah a u^ult of bis war experience,
tion of being first honor graduate j set up the cry of “Take him out.” ||<> was • 31 years of age; Most
sophomore. She is u (laughter of Dr.
and Mrs. John F. McMath, and lia.s a
large family connection in Ameri*
eus and Sumter county.
Miss McMath, during her study pe
riod at Bessie Tift, won hinny hon
ors. During the past year she served
as president of the Theta (’hi Omega
honor sociiHy. This organization is
constituted entirely of honor stu
dents, the first honor graduate
being ehosen annually as its
president. In that capacity Miss Mc
Math presided Friday night at the
unnual initiatory meeting, when'next
year’s seniors are taken into the so
ciety. 'Saturday night she presided
at the annual banquet for the mem-
among n large class of young ladies, i But he wus not taken out and that (l f his useful life was spent in Sum
She will receive the A. B. degree, j was the only run scored on Dugan. ter county and his death has caused
Miss tMcMath is a graduate <if j The lineups for the second game n p„|| 0 f sorrow' over the vicinity
Americus High school in the class j follows: of his home.
of'*18, and began her studies ut Bes-! Kiwnnipns—Murray, n; Fqrt, e; . jj t . j ft sum veil by three sisters and
sle Tift immediately following her,Cogdell. 1b; Pare. 2b; Hogg, ss and j three brothers. Mrs. A. K. Perry,
graduation here, matriculating as alp; Smith, 3b; Mathis, rf; Tiedeman. svj,.,. E. P. Bass and Mrs. W. A.
...... cl.. .. .1 u*.._ ii.. j| 0 it 0WR y > |f, Bruy; W. A. Frazier. F. E. Fraziei
Lions—Williams, p;-Chappell. c;j ail d T. J. Frazier, of Savannah.
Clark lb;,D. Jennings, 2b; T. Jen- The pallbearers were J. R. Hen
nings, s*; Saunders, fib; McNeill. rf;i n j n gt„ n , Ed Kinard, Arthur Tomlin-
Cutlejr, cf; Snow, If. ‘on. T. I.. (!ox, J. T. Bolton and Carl
Slribing, of Savannah. The funeral
t»iok place at the Pleasant Grove
llaptist church Thursday at 2 p.’ in.
ABOLISH COUNTY
FEE SYSTEM, IS
ROTARY DEMAND
Civic Club Calls, For
Action By Copiing
Assembly
» , ai me annual ounquei wir me mem-
Twelvc Dutch girls ! bers of the new senior class. Mrs.
menced the second, part of. the festi-j jj, ^ Maynard, who is her guest dur- i»k nvr luuim «•» •■*■«*
val, who came out and sang the folk! ; n g commencement week, also uttend-l hack porch, under the influence
songs of their countrv, while dancing] t . ( j this function. . «... «»—t-u l.„,
the native steps. The girts wore i | n addition to specializing in Eng-
white caps and snowy skirts with blue j am | Spanish in preparation for
kilts, while the little boys wore the j jj cr career as a teacher, Miss McMath
bloc trousers and white skirts of their - hus^een prominent in numerous col-
quaint country. lege* activities. She was secretary of
Twelve little Indians presented] c jai.s of ’19; cuptain of the basket
themselves, arrayed in war paint and ^ n i| team in ’20-’21 a member of
the garb of native tribes, and aimed. Journal staff during ’19-’20; edi-
their bows and arrows at the birds ] tor-in-chief of the Journal, the col-
in the trees as they sang their j lc*iro mont|ily publication, and busi-
dian legends. % ness manager of Chiaroscuro, the
Italian girls and boys, arrayed in college annual this year. She was
red and black of their country, ap- also a. member of the Grand Cattle ]
pearetl and gave their songs and ,, r student governing body, hnd of;
dances. The boys wore red kerchiefs j the Y\ W. C. A. cabinet during the
* The fee rystem in Stimler county
came in for condemnation at the
weekly luncheon of thb Americus
Rotary club Thursday.
Carr Glover introduced q resolu
tion requesting the Sumter county
deh*gation in J.he .legislature to in
troduce and vigorously push push a
hill abolishing the fee system for of
ficials in this county and In it« stead
putting the county officials on ade
quate salaries. The resolutions fur
ther provided that the offices of tax
collector and tax receiver be com
bined and the office of treasurer be
abolished. .
The resolution further requested
the grand jury now in session to take
similar action,, as well as the board
of county commissioners and aH dvir,
organizations in the county.
“If necessary this club, the com
missioners and others should see that
a delegation goes to Atlanta and
fights for *he passage of thik bill,”
paid one of the Rotarians. ’“No
body 1 knows how much the fee sys
tem is costing the county, directly
and indirectly. The solicitor of the
circuit is on a sn^ary, the judge of
the superior court is bn a salary and
there Is every reason why all other
county ocicials should he placed on
salary. The office of county treas
urer can easily be abolished, thus
raving the county $3,000 that is now,
I umj?rstand. paid that official.
‘‘Some bahk, or banks, could be
ther Field Purchase
Money Is Recommended
WASHINGTON, May 27. — The
ThnvsH nv' fiivo ra W v ^reno rf ed T he hi 11 "Bout their necks in Tyrolean style, j past year. In addition, she visited
T,!lv!no , ' y lro| l rii 1 ,iriations < for nurchns<'. while the dresses of the cirls were, Atlanta. Macon and other places as
!1*Y'55 ?ir“Kv flenots and other fashioned with red skirts nnd black the representative of Bessie Tift at
of land for suppl) depots and Pine , oV( , r white wnis „. lh( , inv !;,, llion „ f the faculty, besides
reservations. . ; , _ 0 .- nts arc Yellow and Cold. visiting Cordeie and Bobei ta, where
Some of the P"!! f c j hja B»lti The third scene was iinusttally at.! she went as u dnleeate from the coi-
New Orleans, 'J‘j a [J Cumber- trartivc, presentine tho butterflies in j hue B. Y. r. .11. and missionary con-
more Abenleen, Md.. New t-umts > e „t^. oa , costumes of yellow ...nil— fl “
lanil Middleton nnd Bethlehem. To ,p ver an<1 ^een.their
n 'r! v V '':. v7" SelmnecUdv N Y. *P«tted v. i*» • flectimr . thousand
Port Niws, V«.. Sell ... q lights in the blue and pink shadows
Charleston, S. C„ and Americus, oa. ^ >howered upHn thcm
„ . i„ i. under. They were hqverimr dose on the
The purchase telorred t _ ground »br it the throne while the
Stood to be a tract of B -^—Mion (dries and. Hewers san,; n “wake-up. ericas, amt win spenu some «»r n.r.
n?n«r^j n /-5°. lll - ll " r -• rrnrbaee and Buttcrfliei. ’ sonc, and nn they raised .with her parents at their home on
' llirfiMirunr utthoir Wiua. from the ground, heganFurlow itreet.
Neffro Merchant’s jtrv. T. Brookshire, or the Ceil-
.Slaver Freeti Ouicklv trul Buplist ehureit of Americus, of-
jiayer rreea v»uii.n.iy ji(ti . ltin( , The h01 | y WBa )aill tu rt . B t
MACON. May 27.—It'took a Ma- »> "‘e cliurch cemetery.
con jury only one hour Thursday!;
night to acquit Rome Herring, white! HUGH C. PATTERSON,
of murdering Lee Hart, a negro gro- j The funeral of Hugh C. Patterson,
ccr, last August. The evidence was who dicd Saturday, May 28, at the
strong against Herring, a deputy ,,, a | ns Hospital, was attended by aumc uollK> or „„„ ut .
sheriff testifying that after the kill-. man y relatives and friends as the I appo j n ted treasurer of the county,
ing her louml Herring on the ne-Bro s buii wtl , l.ud to rest in the cemetery JuBt in other Georgia counties. One
back porch, umler the influeni.0 orj at Heston Sunday. - j -
whisky, and that Herring told him he. Surviving relatives are his wife,
had killed Hart that that the body Mrs. Rena Patterson, 6 daughters, 1
would he found in the front part of pother*. 2 sisters and his mother,
the house. Mr. Patterson, who was 48 years
Herring’s statement on the stamP nKt% ^ a< | j|| on jy a short
was the only defense offered. H°i(inic, death followimr an operation at
declared he killed Hart when the nc- j| Je Dospitnl which had been too long
gro attempt ed to shoot him, nceusmg
him of htealilig hi* whisky. Evidence was one |j egt i ;nown men
in rebuttal showed thnt only one gun j n Weston, having, been bom and
was found at the scene of the killing * w earec | j n that community. He scrv
mill a search of the premises reveal-1 r< | 'city as marshall for severti!
ed po other. years and was employed in that ca-
ipacity at the time of his death.
■ A member of the Baptist church,
good man can perform the offices of
tax collector and tax receiver.”
The resolution was unanimoUsl)
passed, there not being a dissenting
voice in the club. _ i
Mayor’s Pistol Falls,
Breaks Man’s Leg
vent ions. Only vecently Miss Mc
Math was tendered n place ns a mem
ber of the faculty of her Alma Mater,
this being regarded as an especial
distinction.
Following the graduation oxereistfs
Mis. 1 McMath-plans to return to Am
ericus. and will spend some time here
n MomW be was identified closely with the ac-
oryan liecomec iviemper Uv|Ueji of that conRrwtiont ani j was
Of- Capital Law Firm;also prominent infcivic and social uf*
j fairs of Weston.
WASHINGTON, May 27.—Wil-j ; —
I in ui Jennings Bryan will become a | w* • ‘s. A J CL
law partner in the Washington firm rl&lFCUtS /Vim OliaVeS
of Dougins, O’Bear and Douglas, June j Reduced In Savannah i
jl. lie will he the counsel in intemb-1
lional nmttcrt and it is said will taki SAVANMA1I, M.iv II..
rhargp rprciilciiily of a numpvr «M (,»ve dr.,; * I ihoni
clmms in M.'Xico. ’ , ' -r
Kor t!iv nrvsi'tit Mr. Bryan will
divide bis time between Washington,
and Miami. Florida, where ho has his
Ikjiup. but he will spend the neM win-
COLUMBUS, May 27—It is leant-
ed that Mayor J. L. Crouch figured
prominently in an accidental shoot
ing which took place in the office of
■I. H. Lewis Motor company, in At
lanta Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock
when a pistol carried in the hip
pocket of the mayor's trousers acci
dentally fell to the concrete floor,
discharging. The bullet entered the
right Teg of J. I), Lowjs, breaking the
bone.
The gun wns
gun
DORSEY PI
TO COST $30,
Estimate Of Expense Of,
Pamphlet Investiga-
■ tion Outlined
ATLANTA, May 27.—Wli.-it will
an investigation of the pamphlet on
"The Negro in Georgia," if made by
tie- legislature, cost the' state? . ,
-The Bahnsefi “probe" in the last
session of the general assernldy,
wliicli would lie a minor affair in
comparison to wliat the negro oucs-
tion would precipitate under probe,
called forth a special appropriation
of $7,BOO. Of thal amount there
lias been paid out to date, on the
bills so far submitted for expenses,
witness fees, etc., $3,050,25. The in
quiry made into tile state yeterinariap
covered all told, a period of less than
ll.ree weeks’ working time,' though
the trunsnript of testimony was not
completed by tile timo the session
adjourned.
If the legislature should decide to
go into "Tlie Negro in Georgia,” -it
would, front such records.as are now
available, cull for all of fifty times
as many witnesses, no-tel|ing; how
much more traveling,' and a world i
more of clerical work than in the
Bahnson case.
The time it would occupy has been
variously estimated at front two
months to all the summer. The same
form of calculation places the .com
parative cost at from $30,000 to
$35,000. . ...... 4
In view, therefore, of the fact thnt
practically every member of both
bouse anil senate who lias been heard
from on the question of economy ami
appropriations—none have been ask
ed about “The Negro in Georgia!’—
expresses earnest conviction that no
appropriation of any kind should be
made this year that is not an actual
necessity, there doesn’t scent much
real foundation for belief that the
assembly is going to run off into the
woods nftor' nn agitation, and par
ticularly one which would'undoubtod-
ly lie up malty of its members long
after the time, for adjournment o.
the session. • ' ; ,
There is no real way to tell,
though, what may bo decided when
the crowd gets together and some
body starts the fireworks, for it has
not been foreign to tho characteris
tics of the legislature to be : tnkcn on
tile stick of a skyrocket. ,
BROTHER SLAYS
WRONG MAN
iz
NORCILOSS, May 27. j— Eddie
Womack, 17ryear-old boy of Dun-
woody, DeKalb county, was arrrsted
and brought (here Thursday on
charge of being responsible for the* ^ i
ii! ^ iiiflirti'il «*11 l.iicile Reeves,
.ear-old sister of Gus.s Reeves, of
Atlanta, whose condition was the di
rect result of Ulc killing of Lee Clark
by Rgeves near here Wednesday af
ternoon, Clark was Reeves* brolher-
in-law, and tho killing occurred after
Reeves had accused Clark of being
man guilty of wronging his sis-
Tho Womack lad (was arrested,
after a warrant lmd been sworn out
ist him by, Mrs. Lee Clark,
f the wronged girl and wife of
nan killed by her brother.
Reeves. Mrs. Clark ckuinH
husband was not res pc
juring Lucile Reeves j
the blame on young
whose house the Reeves gii
last August The Reeves girl signed
affidavit to the effect thaf the
boy nnd made her bis victim last
An;n i.
Daughter Cut Swath;
Father Bank President
SAVANNAH. May 27f—Miss Una
K. Tuylor, 1 H-ycur-oM girl anti
daughter of J. K. Taylor, bunk
president, of Sarasota, Flai, spent
Wednesday night in the.city prison
here, having been brought from Rich
mond, Vn., back to Savannah to un-
swer. to charges of having passed
worthless checks on the hotel Sa
vannah.
Her father, apprised by Wii'd'of her
trouble, cunic to Savannah, mid
- -- vm
Thursday after a private hearing be
fore the recorder, who let,the young
lady off with a fatherly lectfire.
"dad” paid up the bills, made good
the "bail checks," and took the young ■
lady home. In tears she tojd the re
corder that she could not imagine
what possessed her to issue checks
that might not be honored.'
Miss Taylor, while at boarding
school, decided that life was too prO-'
‘Oic, nnd determined to go ’ home.
Reaching Savannah, she changed her
mind, and planned a little whirl
about the country. Money? That was
easy! Wasn’t dad president of the
Sarasota Bank nnd Trust eompanv
Bnd interested in several other
hanks? One of tho “other", banks
was all right, and the checks were
drawn and signed with .her father’s
name, "per his daughter Unnhut
the "other” bank’s cashier did not
foci sure about cashing them, and
they came back to the hotel lure,
where she liad obtained funds nn
them for a trip to Richmond.
Alexander Defends
Governor’s Pamphlet
from fifty to foriU .cents .mil i
from two-bits to twenty
n'-n-union
••-have.r
ills an
ATLANTA, May 27.—Strongly «
fending Governor Hugh M. Dorse.,
position in the peonage situation
Georgia, United States District A.
tornt‘y Hooper Alexander has issued
a statement declaring that c onditions \
described in the governor’s 'p.-Unph-
U t really do exist in Georgia an *
fi ring to furnish nam-s of witn
who will testify in a number of
••; not even listed by
Mi Alexander said he f