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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 ay ; «