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•VtERICUS;
HEART OF DiyiC»^
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER-3, lswl
BATTLE RAGING ON 20 MILE LINE
HARDING
I-Declaration of Martial
- Law Delayed By
Hardinc
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 (By Assy-
dated Press)—Orders for iaimcdinto
entrainment of troops, tor the Wcif
Virginia strike rune were issued very
cariy today hy Major General Hof*-
bard, assistant chief of staff. Ac
tion on the order was postponed,
however, on the question of declaring j
martial law, ending conferences be
tween Secretary of War Weeks snd
other officials with Prgisdent Hard
ing. The proclamation >9d betn
signed and required only issuftnee
to beconio effective. i
The orders were issued as a result
of a telegram from Brigadier General
Baudholtr. who was sent hy Secretary
Weeks to report on tho situation, .*
Tim troops, which will mbve Int-
mediately, arc threo regin|cnts of In
fantry from Camp Dix and Camp
Sherman, Qhio. General Bandholtz
will assume command.
Declaration of martial law was ntili
awaiting arrival of troops and Gen
eral Umidholt/.V, further rccommen-j
datioii when Secretary Weeks went to
tlic regular Cabinet meeting today.
"ONE CONTINUOUS ROAR”
ON 20-MILE LINE.
LOGAN. W. Vn., Sept. 20.—After
a morning of uncertainty, it wan of
ficially announced at noon that
•"heavy firing" was taking place'on
Blair Mountain, Mill Creole add
Reports indicated the heaviest
fighting since the line was established
on Spruce Fork Ridge, which is now
about twenty miles long.
Reinforcements continued to reach
Logan, bringing automatic rifles nnd
machine guns. ■ -
Early reports from Spruce Fork
Ridge told little about the situation
on tho Logan county border where
firing from cither side was sporadic
during the night. *
Colonel Eubanks,'commanding the/
Logan county forces, had no state
ment. to make and SltBrilT Challn was
equally reticent, - „ ; y .;
Threo prisoners were taken bj^ipag
MARKETS
AMERICUS SPOT COTTON.
Good middling cotton, 17 cents.
3 him instantly,
2 Firing was resumed along the
| ridge points between Mill Crook and
4 it was nothing but nn exchange of
0 shots between outposts. Over/ Blair
0 Mountain comparative quiet, pro.
0 vailed, at last reports, .
0 It was officially announced that
) three were killed and one is missing
L of the defensive force,
i PLAN TO "SWAMP" '
DISORDERLY ELEMENTS.
I CHARLESTON, W. Vs., Sept- 2—
I The. recommendation' that Federal
troops lie sent into the disturbed
■ area having been granted. Brigadier
> Bandholtk, who will bp in command,
, busied himself today working out
" Hie details for placing iho soldiers
) at strategic points. r
, No official informnt'on Was re
ceived from Boone and Logan coun
ties by the military and etato au-
; Ihoritics. .which are concentrating all
, the efforts to get troops in quickly,
i "Wo arc going right in and swamp
the disorderly elements," said a high
authority.
Itpporl.j from Madinon said men
word still passing through to Join,
those opposing the peace officers.
Amcricus Ice Rate
Cut lOcPer 100Lbs
Effective Thursday, Americiis , jes
consumers began to enjoy a .reduction
in rate from 00 cents pit 100 pounds
to 50 cents, put into cited by.lhe
Atlantic lee and Coal. Corporation'in
ail of its plants, including this city
This was the first deercaso in the
price since the war..,", . , ; V-.
The reduction was; made possible,
recording tq the aqrtouncoment of
the corporation, "through tho cffici-
faces and economies effected both i
by large wale production ami hearty,
Ir «0UK help, of an organisation."
Fulton . .
G:Jmcr
Glasscock
Glynn ....
Gordon
...'17 Oconee
50 Oglethorpe
:il Paulding _
10 Pickens
4k Pierce
DP Pike
20 Polk
47 Pulaski ....
.8;! Putnam ....
lot Quitman
27 Randolph
52 Richmond
21 Rockdale
54 Schley ...
.55 Screven ..
20 Seminole
;tli Spalding
07 Stephens
.55 Sumter
52 Stewart
,7:; .Talbot
37 Taliaferro
23 Tattnall
12 Taylor
10 TrlfAfr-
40 Trirbll
20 Thomas
53 Tift
70 Toumln
75 Trnutlin .
tfi Troup
71 Tprper
•ment
opening rendily in'Uiel
Clnjiton .4. 21
Cohh >...,42
I of fee 45
Colquitt .! 53
Columbia 20
Cflok 15
Coweta ,75
Crawford . ns
f-rikn
Daijf 08
Itajjrkon ,88
Deeatur .70
tli-Hidl, !so
Dodge 3711
Dbbloy .37!
Daiighnly 5101
Echols 25i
Effingham ....661
Elbert ;..43l
Rnamwl -,291
Kvaps .,.42
Fayette 31
Floyd .........41
Forsyth
Franklin —...#2
Upson
Waiter
Wo It nn
Ware
Warren
Wa(h|ng;
Sumter County
Remembers
FORTY-THIRD YEAR.—NO.-3S.
GENERAL BANDHOLTZ AT WHITE HOUSE-
t the wom °n, M ami “Good
n> r Gobi), ’ were the expressions of
ntepnen Pace, general chairman of
tne Sumter county soldiers memorial
campaign, when the nsuits of wo-
m^n'.. day in the campaign to raise
for the memorial to Sumter
county s soldiers in the great war had
been rrporte.! by Treasurer W. M.
. number. The list was much the long
est for a single day, bringing the
total lo well over $1,200 and adding
new life to the campaign. Twenty
Jive contributors wes fronr Cobb, lb
fust from outside of Amcricus. To
dny waa chMdrcn’s day, and another
long list, but with smaller amounts,
was expected for publication
Saturday.
The following letter from a form
er Amcricus hoy, who served in th
navy during the war, was received
with a contribution by Treasure
Ifumber:
Johnstown. Pa. Aug. 30, 1021.
Mr. VV. M. Ilumber,
Amcricus, Ga.
Dear Mr. Humber: I am sure
proud of Sumter county and al
ways will be. 1 think that memo
rial will be just wonderful and I
consider it an honor to give the
enclosed live dollar** ($5.00). Just
wish it was so I could give lots
. more.
r‘/jr 1 wish you lots of success nnd
\ t hope that the fund will soon “go
over the top,” Just like our Sumter
county heroes did.
’ Sincerely,
THAD B. REESE, j
Today’s list of contribution*! fob
POUT WORTH. Tex.. Sept. 2.
The Confederate Veterans will hold
their 1021 annual convention jjt
Chattanooga, October 25 to 27. .'Gen
eral Van Zandt, commander-in-chief,
Previously acknowledged $1,080.30 I ann 0UIlced todjay,.
UTENm NATION’S SAFETY
WU£TINS IN ENDING MOBS
Mrs. J. W. Harris, Jr.
Mls.i Rachael Scro~gs
Miss Mariah Hcrrold
Miss Mary Davenport
Mrs. IT. C. Statham
Harvev Mathis
Mrs. Dosia v Mathis Murphy .
Cash ..
Cash ......
J. M. Prance
Rev. Silas Johnson
Mr. and Mrs. J.E.Hightower
Miss Ruth Hightower
Mrs. If. B. Mashhurn
T?. B. Mashhurn
Mrs. G. R. Ellis
Henry Stanfield
Mrs. J. S. Mathews
Mrs. E. T . Carswell
Mrs. F. J. Shcahan
Miss Clara Roebuck
Miss Essie Roebuck
Mrs. T. A. Graham
Mrs. Q. W. Puller
Mrs. J. P. Bolton
J. E. Gyles
Thsd B. Reosn
Wihle Marshall
Mrs. S. II. McKee
Mbs Francis Sparks
Walter Stapleton
Haul Westbrook
Mrs. C. A. Wade. Obb tin.
Mrs. G. C Thomai. f’obb
Mrs. I. I Howard. b
Mrs, W P Kf’nnington.Cobb
Mrs. Ida C. Statham, Cobb
Mrs. Homer Wade, Cobb
Mrs. R. E. Statham. Cobb
Mrs. J. J Cocke, Cobb
Mrs, W. J. Hill. Cobb
Mins Vera Cocjee. Cobb
Mrs, J. A. T.nramcre, Cobb
Mrs. H. A. Jfa‘ley, Cobb
Mrn. r. G. Fo-ter. C-ibb
Mi, *4 Bennie pinkfta*', Cobb
R E. Statham. Cobh
W. If. Wsdc. Cobh . . .....
k W C. llill. Cobb
J. Hill. Jr.. Cobb
E. B. Worrell, Cobb ...
G. Poster, Cobb
liodges, Cobb
C. A. Grant, Cobb
R. A, Grant,, Cebb
H. Lee Boggs, Cobb
G. C. Thomas Cobb.. :
Mrs. Emma King. Plains
Mr"*.. M. E. Raines ... ...
Mrs. ,Small Schutmicrt
2.00
2.00
5.00
2.00
5.00
5.00
5.00
2.00
5.00
5.00
3.00
5.00
5.00
2.50
2.50
2.50
1.00
J'JJJ at Inverness, Scotland.
DECLARES IRISH
PEACE IS SURE
LONDON, Sept. 2 (By Associated
Press).—Premier Lioyd George has
sent the reply of hJimonn dc Valera
to-his latest communication to Lon
don for circulation among the mem
bers of the cabinet and summoned ft
cabinet meeting for next Wednesday
I I ’ iclurc llt left-fSecretary of War Weeks anw General Bandholtz, snapped at the White House, where thov
CiNCINNATI, Ohio, Sept. 2.—Im-'conferred with President Harding on the West Virginia mine war. General Bandholtz had Just returned from
ir„d•• hu ?! is r ,rip< *rt 8 * Uun ,i nw r Mm «•*>«*«*££*
whal ,a generally railed mob sni.itI lu “ " p ' rBC g0 ,lom '' 0n lhc rl S ht « r<! Picture from the West Virginia mine war area, showing min-
, is tl. j only guaranty at nntionsli '‘ ni “'’HF ur k’ cd hy nunc union leaders to go home, and deputy sheriffs (below) starting out to' meet
SKtJ^w.ic , Ro f c ,!; JS ror " ,nen, iS? y tmy> ” whkh was ordered,by President Harding to disperse nnd go home. Tho top picture was
Srs;; tSSt * • - —« * c -
1.00
2.50
2.50
1.00
1.00
1.00
5.00
5.00
5.00
2.50
1.00
1.00
1.00
By MILTON BRONNER.
LONDON, Sept. 2.—Irish pcacu js
here today.
Lynching, he said, would cease only!
SiSiElSsS! GEORGIA COTTON CROP
they can restrain themselves in favor
of tho law. l(
C. A. Severance, of St. Paul, was
elected prcaident of the American
Bar association today.
Fireman Loses Coat
In Answering Alarm
Soot burning from n jVimney of a
negro house on Dudley street, owned
by R. C, Moran, called the firo de
partment out at 0:35 o’clock Thurs
» dainty. ’ Talk of feaumption of ^ d.VlTw^
the old state of hostilities between
SHORTEST SINCE 1892
State Reporting Service Analyzes Figures-
Twenty Cents Probable And 25 Cents
Possible, Is Forecast
Sinn Fein and British is idlc^chatter.
This is the message brought to me
from Ireland by a famous American
who got his information from source.'
close to Dail Kireann.
President Eamonn de Valera's de
fiant answer to the British govern
ment, Tefuging anything less than
l.iH) co mp|e»c independence, will not close
tho door to negotiations.
The Sinn Fr.in leaders are 'i-
denl a satisfactory agreement will
9 rn'l * ,c reat '* u ’d'
^ '1:1 The great army of bureaucrats,
j clerks, constables and black nnd tans
■ *2JJI in Dublin admit their tenure is s|ort % _
1 *00 J l ,u t expect the British government to j including coppt
1.001 -
.50
ATLANTA, Sept. 2.—The United conducive to boll weevil activity, and
State Bureau uf Markets and Crop| this weather has followed protracted
, Estimates nnd the Georgia Depart-t drought earlier in the season. Weevil
pelt lined cont owned by Fireman ment of Agriculture, co-operating on a, c devava ing fre .1 one end of
"z“i th r yr nti ri G ^** t ° a *« i '-
the outside, similar to those worn by , ' t P ort ' n K Scrv.ce for Georgia,j many a.: one to four arc^/ound to the
. ofTicnrsi in the army in the recent E avc P re * today through their j l.lorni. Excessive shedding of
war, and a s ick pin nnd collar pin agricultural statistician, John S. Den- Fr^ares and'young bolls j K H big
were rontained in one of the pock- nee, (he following statement concern- rnuso of cofhnlriiut In mnnv conn
nts. Mr. Hallman offers a mwnrd fo- in,e «i,^ .. . r compiaini, in many conn-
the return or these articles. j * hc r * orgl * cotlon at thc
| close of the governments fourth con-
r ™ 7 r'—“V*— ‘ difio” period.
plscr them m jobs o sewhere I "There is excellent reason to I,q , ,,,.1 lo ,. allv Th ,
r d. hu mess men told my inform- lievc. from present indications that' awlieatten of fe?UM»r' islhowi e Us
ant that as soon ns peace is arranged Georgia Is on the threshold of har-l had res.X“ There are nwmv fields
Ireland wdl rare the greatest era of vesting the shortest cotton crop in. presentingfine «m.ema c? but t
prospenty ... nlj Us Instory. | the post thirty years. Not since 1832: , l w d and no hlnc n it
MiHion« of Amorican money a ha.s Gcoririii trmwu m . m-.ii ,, c <• K w< r n aim noinjng on it.
waiting <mly on.i, the peace pact is ,£? ^hale," j fuTky uThoy ge h«“ck thcT^d"
Mgned to develop I <land s resources, output, and the staple commanded onj Amln.lt a f.w tonwra arc Offering
NEW YORK FUTURES.
Oct. Dec. Jan.
Prov. Close ....17.34 17.68 17.68
Open .' 17.56 17.96 18.0.7
10.15 a.in, 17.85 18.25 18.22
10.30 a.m 17.83 18.17 18.141 tr<d« during tile night.
>0.46 a.m 17.77 18.18 18.13 r« ul , Comlskey, who was arrested
11:00 a m 17.72 18.03 1.8.02' y “ len,ay ’
11:15 a.m 17.80 18.15 18.1.3
tics the weevil arc attacking thc larg
cr holla. No top crop iu expected
the farmer;; say. Sl.nie boll rot and
t mentioned locally. The .tifjteH
iiml coal minca.
.50
2.50
.50
1.00,
1.00!
5.00
1.00
1.00
.5(1
1.00
1.0(1
Mina- Mary Belle Van $ w ,»er
i.op
George Van Riper
1.00
Mrs. Arthur Rvlander
5.00
Miss Harriet Rytnnder
and Mrs. John T. Taylor
4.00
.'44jp» T. Taylor, Jr. . ,
1.00
Stephen Pace
1.00
Miss Martha Pare ,
1.02
Mi .in Alice Worthy .
1.50
‘ laire Harris
1.00
Hal Harris .. .. ..
1.00
TOTAL *1.24«.i>7 I
Ye»itrrd«>’.\ g'ft of $10,-credited ;
f o Mra. W. H. Dudley, should have'
been credited by the treasurer to Mr.!
^' <1 Mrs. Dudley.
WF.ATH fTI? .
FOIIFCA8T FOR OEOPOIA—ron-(
• inucfl warm and generally fair
weather tonight and Saturday.
AMERICUS TEMPERATURES
fFurnished Rexall Pharmacy *
4 pm
6 pm . .....
97
95
4 am
6 am
8 pm
88
8 am
10 pm
85
10 am
Midnight ...
82
Noon ..
2 am .......
.....81
2 pm
INTO THE NIGHT
THp following poem written by William E. Brooke, in The Independ
ent may.help tome of us to remember in the campaign to erect m monu
ment to Sumter county's soldiers in the great war, some of who died,
many of whom have since been living death:
Nights when the old pain will not let me sleep,
And watch the swaying light upon the pavement,
Where the arc-lamp cn*t» its white and glaring circle,
While I live over again those solemn midnights,
• When they used to march full-packed to the waiting trains.
Par olT I’d h4*ar them coming through the ^larknes*,^
On thefr way from the little camp outside the city,
Hear the heavy tramp of their hob-nails on the pavement;
Ami 1 would wheel my chair where 1 could see them,
As they rwung into thc circle of the arc-light.
Long straight lines of brown, with gleaming face«.
Paces rtern und strong with mighty purpose, i
Going forth like knights to high adventure.
Ged! How I wanted to go, hut the old pain held me.
When I wanted to*march away as they werv marching.
To the train, to the ship, to the fields where glory waited,
I would follow their lines as far as 1 could see them.
Follow the round of their feet aft«fr their lilica had vanished.
The click, click, click, click, of their hob-nails oti the pavement.
Till it tco died away, and into the night they’d gone.
And into the night they’re gone! Their glowing story
Is as an old tale; the quests thnt called them,
Selflrh. secure, content, lust-mad, gold-mncl. pagan,
Forgotten as are their deeda hy a narrowed people.
Piling as barrier walls about its isolation
The very seas they trod to high adventure.
I envy the ones who died, believing!
| December 1 n farm prit Ml
cents. It is now beginning l«» look, their fertilizer bill. According to*
probably,^ and who f.-rmer:<’ report*; a very large pdr- 1
11:30 a.m.
11:4tt
12 noon ....
12:30 p.ht.
12:45
p.m.
on p.m
1 :tfi
...17.89 18.15 18.12
...17.83 18.15 18.11
.17.85 18.19 18.14
.17.81 18.12 18.10
17.70 17.75 17.70
.17.75 18.00 18.00
. 17.00 17.92 17.90
...17.59 17.90 17.90
.17.64 17.00 17.91
.17.50 17.4(5
.17.34 18.12 18.05
17.G1 17.93 >7.91
...17.85 18.20 18.04
17.88 18.20 18.2.7
If 20 cent
cun ray with'certainty that 25 cent ti„„ „f the crop m il pattitiR on fruit! iiXraham
cotton 75 of th*» <»i«rr n«i /)p>inr>i«i ..rt.,*. I nanersaam
stuff that dreams J aft i*r July.
Jptimu.m is .lie dominant notaj jujutli^rinand .slowly in \be Northerni Harolson
« n he forms of Georgia today. I he! portion of the state. . Many-: 'first j n«rr •
goal ret by the^ farmers last spring'bales' pre 'already 'reported
seems about to bo
“Since the Issuance of our July'
condition report the crop in Geor i
gia ihows nn alarming degree of di* I
teriorallon,—18 pointx to he explicit.! rilfl( „.,
The ten-yeur average (1911-I920T j Chattahoochee Hv
-v, 1--- —j TTi’e j ffart .....
northern tier of cotiatifkS has Clip hes' i Heard
retidifion. Rut the rr<}> there will go j Honey
rage not over *54 per ceht. BotinUm *:.'
Ami this Is Gcn-iaV’licst cotlonij ofl r crsull
aica. Iras Ilian mic-Uurit nf a t^op|. _
Is in right there tho estimate bomg; .tnhnsnn •
::2 per cent. In the southern tferl&ni*?
of counties about 44 per cent ut ai Lamar'
, ■* - crop is looked for."'/ " 4 v • f^inier* 4
- an compnrr,! I Tbe ncreenta^e eUlfealb by ^oun-{ f^upeiu
with 59 on July 25. 1921, 58 on Au- tics follow: 1 -‘f- *■
of change July 25 to August 2
onlv six (6) points.
“Gondition on August 25, as re
ported by • thousands of our corres
pendents, many engage t actively ii
growing this 4 *tton crop, averaj*
•11 per cent of a normal, an
. , follow
gust 25. 1920. and 09 the average Appling
on August. 25 of the past ten years. Atkinson
1 41 per rent on August 25 pegs a new ; Bacon
low record for Georgia, the lowest 1 Baker
since the government has been keep I Baldwin
ing tab* oil the crop in this state. jHankd
Many farmers are saying that they 1 Barrow
expect to be .ilono with picking by .Bartow
October 1. ^ , j Ben Hill
“A condition of 41 per cent on Au- Berrien
gust 25 forecast* a yield of about; Bibb
110.pounds of lint cotton per acie 'Bleckley
and a total production of about 827,- j Brantley
000 bales of 500 pound gross, Ac-! Brooks *
cordipg as conditions hereafter are‘Bryan
! better or worse than average, the fi- Bulloch
nal outturn will be larger or smaller 1 Burke .
| than this amount. Last year produc-- Butts ...
' t : oh waa 1.4id,652 bales, two years Calhoun
ago 1,659.629, and the average an
nual production durblg boll weevil
. infeatatioei is M02,000 bales. The
ten-year average for Georgia (1911-
19201 is 2,038,000 bales.
“The weather has been decidedly
i unfavorable for the moat part—too
‘ wet and too cold, a »t9te of things
The rnfi’m! counties Imd .skni»e. | r w|n
very hipl shape, across ffoih 'the J a ,*kson
til the Savannah j ff Davi*;
Campbell 18
Candler 39
Carroll ,...43
Chatatioochee 38
Chattooga 48
Cherokee 04
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