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VOLUME 11. NUMBER 8.
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New Yorkers Join Search For
SSOO Diamond.
Broadway Denizens Dig in Excavation
. f6r Valuable Jewel for Which Re
ward of SIOO s Offered by Wom
an—Lost. During Accident.
New York.—Workmen are diamond
hunting in an excavation at Broadway
and Thirty-ninth street. Every hand
ful of earth they pass carefully
through ther fingers. Scores did the
same thing and there was an amusing
contest between the police and the
crowd. For there is a SSOO diamond
somewhere in that hole and there is
a SIOO reward for the finding of it.
The big gem belongs to Mrs. Ed
ward B. Walker, who owns the Knick
erbocker line of sight-seeing automo
biles. About 9 o’clock at night Mrs.
Walker's private car nearly dropped
into the hole. She saved her life, but
one of her biggest diamonds fell into
the dirt.
As her chauffeur, Edward Regan,
dodged a pedestrian crossing Broad
way, the automobile skidded on the
pavement, just wet by the shower,
and before he could regain control
the front end of the car had plunged
over the mouth of the pit. But for
some pipes and scaffolding, the car
would have dropped ten feet to the
bottom of the hole. As it was the ma
chine hung suspended in most remark
able fashion over the edge of the ex
cavation.
Neither Mrs. Walker nor Regan was
hurt, nor was the car much damaged.
But in the shock of the impact Mrs.
Walker had grabbed one of the stays
of the cover of the machine, and the
diamond had been jerked from its set
ting. & 3
Shorily after they had started Mrs.
Walker happened to notice her ring.
‘With a cry, she explaimed: “Oh, I do
declare, I've lost my solitaire!"
Byway of proof she held up her
hand and showed the ring, which had
SWIMS ACROSS BAY]|
Young Girl Makes Half a Mile in
Record Time.
Six-Year-Old Covers Long Distance at
Doveg in Nineteen Minutes—Cuts
,_éer Way Though Waves
. 7 A Like an Expert.
Dover.—Visitors to Dover and prom
enaders on the harbor piers were
astonished recently to see a little
mite of a girl, barely more than a.
baby, take the water with all the ease
. and aplomb of a channel swimmer,
and proceed to swim half a mile
__across the bay in the record time of
-19 minutes,
And the sight was'in truth a re
markable one. The diminutive swim
mer, looking the merest speck on the
~ sunlit waters, cut her way through the
waves with -a businesslike, sturdy
breast stroke that would have done
credit to a Wolff or a Holbein.
Swimming by her side with watch
ful eyes was Mrs. Jack Weldman, the
channel swimmer. But the little
record-maker neded no guardianship.
Instead, the little girl finished her
half mile as fresh as a cricket with
out aid of any kind, and this although
the sea was anything but smooth. By
. some people it would have been con
sidered choppy.
The plucky little girl who achieved
this novel performance is Freda Pick
ett, a six-year-old pupil of Miss Jar
vis, sister of the English champion
swimmer.
The part of Dover bay covered by
MISER VICTIM OF POISON
Farmer, Worth $200,000, Dies, and
Housekeeper Made Il From Drug
Placed in Coffee.
Richmond, Va.—Strychnine was the
poison placed in the coffee of George
M. Nicholas, a wealthy Rockingham
county farmser, who died suddenly.
. This fact was determined by a
chemical analysis of the stomach by
the state chemist, Dr. W. H. Taylor.
The motive for the crime is a mys
tery, Jane Hopkins, who was his
housekeeper for 25 years, drank from
the same pot of coffee and was des
perately ill. She may die. These
two- were the only occupants of the
house. 5
Although Nicholas was worth more
than $200,000, he lived like a miser
and dressed in rags.
: : Man Dles of Fright.
Baltimore.—Joseph Brown was lit
erally scared to death when two po
licemen began to question him about
a woman he was in company. with. He
dropped dead from sheer fright. |
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MEMBERS of President Taft’s family recently. had an enjoyable visit to
the Glacier Naticnal park and Robert Taft, son of the president, be
came very chummy with Big Top, chief of the Piegan Indians. Our pho
tograph shows them in happy converse.
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a yawning, excavation big enough to
take a fair-sized filbert. Then display- |
ing another ring with a large stone,
she cried: ;
“Boys, the lost diamond {s larger |
than this one. It cost me SSOO and
I'll give SIOO cash right here to him |
who'll find it for me.” ]
It wa3 some scramble that followed.
All Broadway wanted to be in on that |
diamond ring. | ‘
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the child is that which lies betweenl
the Prince of Wales pier to the Prom
enade pier, a distance of half a mile,
which she covered in the extraordi
nary time of 19 minutes.
The child’s parents belong to Mar
ket Harborough (Leicestershire). Jack
Weidman is enthusiastic about her
hPTOWESS,
Little Freda is a merry-looking
child, just over three feet high, and
slightly built.
In a chat which I had with the lit
tle swimmer she said: “I love the wa
ter and always look forward to my
swimming lessons. I swim at Mar
ket Harborough and go over to Leices
ter once a week for my lesson from
Miss Jarvis.
“I wanted to do this swim from pier
to pier, but when I was out a little
way I felt lonely. Then Mr. Weidman
came along.
“He has swum with me in the bay
for several days past, and I feel all
right so long as he is near.
.“He is so big, you see,” added the
mite, “and he takes me on his back
when I feel tired.”
Asked if she meant to try and swim
the channel when she grows up, the
little fairy responded with enthusi
asm. Y
“I should like to,” she said, "but 1]
should wont Mr. Weidman to come |
with me.” w
Little Freda mainly relies on the
breast stroke in her swimming, and
her head is well out of the water. She |
changes to the side stroke at times,
and when she is tired she turns on
her back and floats. ‘
She was as merry as could be|
throughout the swim. When she had '
‘I LOWER TAX ON SPITE HOUSE
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Declares She Purposely Decreased
Property Value in Revenge for
Neighbor's Wall.
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| For when a woman will she will, you
i may depend on’t:
And when she won’'t she won’t. and
there’'s an end on't.
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.| Chicago.—Mrs. A. Spiskel, of 526
| Aldine avenue, asserted in the office
.| of the board of review that she is the
| sort of woman who will; also she
| prophesied with some emphasis that
| the owner of a flat building next door
|to her apartment house at 4447 North
| Paulina street will discover, to his
financial sorrow, just what degree of
{ will she possesses. The bone of con
.| tention in this case is a rough brick
wall, which Mrs. Spiskel says her foe
put up facing her property, greatly to
its detriment. X
.{ “He broke the building line and now
+1 am going to break him it I have to
| take in washing to do it,“ said Mrs.
| Spiskel, and her lips became a thin
'line as she uttered the threat. Re
IRWINTON, WILKINSON COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1912,
“l see it!” yelled a man, diving for
a glittering object under the car.
“Get back out of this everybod¥;
all of you get back,” ordered the po
lice.
“Hi, hold your foot there for 2 mo
ment,” cried one of the policemen as
he jumped at a piece of glass.
But despite all, Mrs. Walker had to
go home and leave that SSOO diamond
in the dirt on Broadway.
got about half way and was asked
how she felt, she laughingly replied:
“1 feel fine.”
WATER WAGONS I[N PARADE
Louisville Catholics Try an Innova.
tion Which Works Well on
a Hot Day.
Louisville, Ky.—An innovation in
parades was started here when 24 wa
ter wagons were scattered at inter
vals in the pageant of the American
Federation of Catholic societies. The
wagons were provided with distilled
water and individual drinking cups, in
which water boys carried drafts to
participants and spectators. On ac
count of the intense heat many of the
marchers took advantage of the water
supply to keep wet handkerchiefs on
their foreheads. Even these precau
tions did not prevent several heat
prostrations among marchers and par
ticipants.
BOY LOVER HANGS HIMSELF
Hoboken (N. J.) Youngster Couldn’t
Give Up Infatuation for Grown.
us Cousin.
Hoboken, N. J.—lnfatuation for his
pretty ‘twenty-year-old cousin, Mary
Bussanich, is believed to bave led
James Bussanich, twelve years old, to
commit suicide by hanging in his fath
er's carpenter shop. )
The young woman herself found the
body when she was searching for the
boy to take him home. For some time
the boy had displayed a violent liking
for the cousin, and no amount of talk
ing would cause him to refrain from
a display of his infatuation, which she
tried to repel. : |
| l viewer Thomas Webb, who was listen- |
ing to her plea for a lower assess~i
ment, felt no doubt of her sincerity.
“That man just laughed when I pro- .
| tested against that wall,” said Mrs.
Spiskel, “and so I advertised for negro |
‘| tenants and now my house is full of |
them. I'm getting less rent and so is }
| he. I'll fight him as long as I live |
| Eventually my house will be a home
| for superannuated colored people.” }
' Mrs. Spiskel had photographs of
| both buildings with her and she final- I
|ly succeeded in having the valuation |
| of her home reduced from $6,650 toi
| $5,800. ; ‘
| Fears Hydrophobia From Fish Bite.
' Brooklyn, N. Y.—Fred Henry, while
| fishing in a boat in his bare feet,
| landed a three-pound pickerel. The
fish, when thrown to the bottom ot
the craft, fastened to one of Henry's
toes. The toe started to swell, and
Henry, much alarmed, has forwarded
the head to the Pasteur institute far
symptoms of hydrophobia.
FIROM
The W. S.
Myrick C
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w ® ,
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. We wish that we could talk to each
and every one of you faceto face, but we
can’t do that, so we want every one of
you to read this advertisement.
Our President and buyer, Mr. W. S.
: Myrick, is back from New York, and re
ports that he has bought the highest
grade line of merchandise ever seen in
this section of the state.
| New goods are now arriving daily-
We want you to see them. ~™= S ITr
We want every person in Wilkerson
County to start now to make their plans
to come to our opening, which will occur
sometime in September. It will be the
greatest fashion show ever seen in Cen
tral Ceorgia, not excepting the larger cit
ies. Music, Decoration and Souvenirs,
which will be worth coming miles to see.
Date will be announced later.
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prise to you.
The W |
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Incorporated
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- SI.OO A YEAR.
