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VOLUME I. NUMBER 24.
WINS OVER GOWBOYS
Tenderfoot Captures Western
Girl From Many Rivals.
Preacher Who Was an Unsuccessful
Suitor for Her Hand WlllOffl- i
elate at Nuptials—Other
Swains Also Present.
Grand Junction, Colo. —For two
years scores of suitors have sought the
hand of pretty Molly Reese, queen of
the cowpunchers of three states. She
has cast aside the proffer of titles, has
looked with scorn upon wealth if she
had to take it with a husband and now
announces her engagement to a S3O
--month “tenderfoot” cowpuncher.
Hal Hanson of Boston is the lucky
“cattle wrangler” who will lead the
beautiful cowgirl of the plains to the
altar. A former suitor whom the girl
discarded will perform the ceremony,
and the wedding party will include
fourteen or more ardent swains who
had their "Innings," but failed to cap
ture the prize, while the scene of the
marriage will be the home of D. G.
Graden, cattle baron.
Hanson’s proficiency with the mouth
harp won him his financee. The melo
dious strains from the little wind in
strument with which he surreptltluos
ly serenaded the object of his dreams
nightly turned the tide in his favor
over almost a score of other active
suitors.
The most determined rivals for the
pretty cowgirl’s hand in marriage were
four cowboys from the same camp.
Jim Hadley, Weston Hayes, Chris
Johnson and Bill Groves took turn
about each night for four months until
they learned it was no use. Henry
George James, a schoolteacher in the
Midelbow school, next tried his luck
and failed. Rev Henry Austin, a
Free Methodist preacher, was the next
victim, but he progressed no further
than four nightly calls and two sage
hens. Wilbur Jens, a schoolboy friend,
was next turned down to make room
for W. Li. Henselman, a real estate
dealer of Gateway, Utah. Another
schoolteacher, a German nobleman,
going under the title of Baron von
Brudenecker, three ranchers and
numerous cowboys from the plains of
Colorado, Utah and Wyoming, who/
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RING SPREADS WOE
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Misfortune Befalls Possessor of
Beautiful Diamond.
Man Takes Solitaire From Wofnan’s
Finger and Pawns It —Constable
Defies Gim and Carries
Circlet to Court |
Denver, Colo. —Misfortune has be
fallen each for the last three, posses
sors of a beautiful diamond rii® which
now rests in the safe at the office of
the district attorney.
One married woman mourns the loss
of the ring and loss of .. gentleman
friend; the aforesaid gentleman mourns
the fact that he will have to stand trial
on a charge of larceny; a pawnbroker
mourns the fact that the ring was
snatched from him by violence by a
constable and the constable, although
he is not doing any particular mourn
ing, declares that he came near losing
his life in an effort to capture the
ring.
It all started in a private dining
room of a downtown hotel. Jack
Chandor held the bejeweled hand of
Mrs. Estelle Croxson in his own. In
a playful mood he is alleged to have
slipped off the diamond ring and
placed it on his own finger, after
which he was unable, it is alleged, to
get the ring off. The lady waited for
several days and the ring was aot re
turned. Chandor was arrested and a
pawn ticket on the Newton Loan com
pany was found in his pocket.
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LEAGUE SELLS MANY EGGS
Philadelphia Women’s Body Meets
Big Demand at 24 Cents Dozen —
War Against Merchants.
Philadelphia, Pa.—One hundred and
fifty thousand dozen eggs were sold
one day recently at stations In vari
ous sections of the city by members
of the Housekeepers’ league In the
first day of their campaign to break
the corner which they assert has been
maintained by retail dealers. Eggs
that have been selling for from 27
cents to 49 cents a dozen were sold
by the women at 24 cents. Such was
the demand at the/^0 stations in op
eration that only ^'ability to secure
enough candUrs prevented even a
larger number being disposed oi. An
extra force of candlers was engaged
to work all night to have a supply
ready *or the following day.
As a rule, the retailers maintained
their former prices for eggs. The
wholesale price for “strictly fresh”
eggs has dvanced here from $9.30 to
49.60 a crate of 30 dozen. ■ \
We JUnOdh
AUTOMOBILE KILLS A DEER ON ROAD
11 I ’Os IbIIPRHIIS
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A most unusdal accident on a road near Newcomb, N. Y., resulted in
the killing of a Jeer by a small runabout The car, which was going at
a good pace, stijek the deer when the animal tried to cross in front of it
The car was upjet, the gasoline tank exploded and the machine was burned.
rode miles on tlpir cow ponies to bask
a'while in the/light of Miss Reese’s
sidles, were numbered in the long list
or rejected applicants for the hand
oJ the girl before the Engagement of
Miss Reese ('nd Hanson was an
nounced. J
And even then they would not stop,
for, despite / the fact that Hanson’s
horseshoena^l engagement ring en
circled her l^ft third finger, the beauty
dharms proved too much for an east
ern correspondent of a producs jour
faal who spent two weeks here cover
ing the outlook in western Colorado
and eastern Utah for stock marketing.
He vainly Attempted to prove that life
as the wife of a special- writer beat
that of darning socks for a cow
puncher.
Papers to get the ring wdre sworn
out and a constable started tq the shop
to get the ringi The constable says
he was refused \the possession of the
ring and that when he tried tl> get out
of the safe the son of the proprietor
of the shop drew a gun on him. After
considerable skirmishing he I declares
h_ succeeded In disarming the pawn
broker. 1
Upon the refusal of the pawnbroker
to open the safe the constable deliv
ered an ultimatum to him Either the
the safe must be opened and the ring
delivered to him or he wjould go
for a moving van and transport the
entire safe to the court of. Justice
Mills.
Facing the possibility of losing a
safe the pawnbroker surrendered the
ring, and it was turned oven to the
district attorney. Providing Ino fur
ther misfortune overtakes. those in
possession of the stone, it yIU be
used as evidence In the l Chandor trial.
PLANS A MARRIAGE CURB
Helen R. Robinson to Introduce Bill
In Ne*t Assembly Requiring
Health Certificates. ,
Denver, Colo.—Helen Ring iLtinson,
who was elected Colorado’s "’st wo
man state senator at the last elec
tion, will introduce a bill at the next
assembly requiring health certificates
before marriage. It is understood that
Mrs. Robinson has the backing of
prominent woman club members, j
DID PIGEON FLY OVER SEA?
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Chicagoans Believe Bird, Reported to
Have Made Trip, Must Hava
Crossed on Ship.
Chicago.—Did a homing pigeon fly
across the Atlantic ocean? If it did.
how? These are questions for which
pigeon fanciers of Chicago are seeking
answers.
The debates arose from a press dis
patch received in Chicago The mes
sage read:
"Montreal. —Ernest Robinson of
Westmount received word that a
pigeon he imported and which escap|ed
has returned to England. It apparent
ly took twelve days to make the jour
ney."
No pigeon has ever been known to
remain in air anything like the num
ber of days that would be required to
cross from Canada to England, ac
cording to members of the Lake View
Flying club, 2136 Fremont street
The club has had a great deal of ex
perience with ’champion pigeons. A
member now owns Chicago’s champion
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IRWINTON, WILKINSON COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1913.
Hanson came here two years ago
from Boston. He worked in a stuffy
office as copyist until his health
broke down. Fearing tuberculosis, he
secured work in a cattle camp on
Pinon Mesa about the time Miss Reese
attained the age of twenty and was
declared by her parents to be old
enough to receive the attentions of
men if she desired.
After the wedding Hanson and his
bride will live in a cabin in the moun
tain ranges on his S3O a month as cow
boy and what rabbits and small game
they can shoot Later they will come
to Grand Junction, where Hanson will
continue the study of law in a local
office. Miss Reese is a beautiful ex
ample of the typical western plains
girl-
WOMAN FOOTPAD FOR FUN
Great Sport, She Says, to Watch the
Faces of Her Victims, When Gun
Is Pointed at Them.
Kansas City.—A woman arrested at
No. 118 Independence avenue Is be
lieved by the police to be a bandit.
An informer who caused the arrest
quoted her as follows:
“Oh. It’s lots and lots of fun. I put
on men’s clothes, and go out and ‘stick
up’ people. It’s great sport watching
the funny faces they make when I
shove a gun under their noses and
tell them to stick their hands up or
I’ll perforate them. I like the
game."
The prisoner is twenty-eight years
old. She gave her name as Mrs. May
Auhmann.
GOTHAM POVERTY GROWS
Relief Association Shows Increase In
Number of Poor Despite General
Prosperity.
New York.—Despite general pros
perity, there was an increase in pov
erty In New York during the last year,
according to the annual report of the
Association for Improving the Condi
tion of the Poor. The Increased cost
of living is charged with most of the
responsibility for an increase in the
expenses of the association. It is
shown that 30 per cent more money
was spent in relief work, although the
number of families served was prac
tically the same as in the previous
year.
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"homer.” This bird. Guardsman, be
longs to Thomas Roell, 935 Webster
avenue. It was the only one of eigh
teen turned loose at the Johnson-Flynn
fight at Las Vegas, N. M., on the
Fourth of last July, to reach its home
in Chicago. The distance was 1,119
miles. Roell’s bird was in its loft on
the morning of August 2.
It is the opinion of members of the
club that, the Canadian pigeon must
have crossed the Atlantic? on a ship.
Chicago pigeons have been noted
for long-distanCe flights; so far as rec
ords show none has ever performed
a feat in any way similar to that cred
ited to the English bird.
Among Chicago’s pigeon fanciers
are many women. Mrs. Julia Banedt,
1102 Webster avenue, last year offered
a handsome loving cup for the winner
in a 300-mile race for old birds, the
course being from Bucklin, Mo., to
Chicago. M. L. Simon’s entry. Lady
Banedt, won the cup from a field of
551 birds, making an average of 1,357.-
58 yards a minute.
The W. S.
Myrick Co.
MILLEDGEVILLE, GA.
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Special Clothing Sale
Our Semi-Annual Sale of Men’s
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our store. DolM fail to take ad
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Remember one-fourth
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Odd Trousers and
Fancy Vest
A REQUEST
WE WAF T EVERY PERSON IN WILKERSON COUNTY, WHO
WOULD liiKE TO HAVE THEIR NAMES PLACED ON OUR MAIL
ING LIST TO SEND US THEIR NAME AND ADDRESS AT ONCE.
What it will Mean to You
THAT EVERY TIME WE HAVE A SPECIAL BARGAIN, WE WILL NO
TIFY YOU OF THE FACT—THAT WE WILL KEEP YOU POSTED ON
ALL OF THE NEW GOODS AND LATEST STYLES.
THAT YOU WILL RECEIVE SAMPLES OF ALL THE NEW DRESS
FABRICS. THAT WHEN WE HAVE SPECIAL VALUES TO OFFER
IN ANY KIND OF PIECE GOODS—YOU WILL BE DULY INFORMED
—WITH SAMPLES OF GOODS, ITS WIDTH, ETC.
The W. S. Myrick Co.
INCORFDRATED
MILLEDGEVILLE, GA.
SI.OO A YEAR.
