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From Douglas County Sentinel.
It is said that youth lives in
ti e future, and that old age
lives in the past. And as we
grow older our minds naturally
turn to the past.
And Saturday’s rally calls to
our minds recollections of past
visits to Douglasville.
Well do we remember many
y?ars ago when quite a youth
oleos Georgia’s most brilliant
statesmen was billed to deliver
an address on the political issues
o the day, on July the fourth.
I sing of a studious nature we
cl erished a very laudable ambi
tion to better inform ourself
on the science of government so
t .at on that memorable morn
t ith our hair filled with unripe
] ay seed and two bits in our
] ockets we set out on the cross
< >unty drive, arrived tired, hot,
; id thirsty, went at once to the
j Treshment stand and ordered
r lemonade and was duly short
< nanged. And right then and
t tere reached the conclusion
t tat we were as well acquainted
i ith Douglasville as we cared to
Is.
Vowing that should we ever
] ave a dollar to spend that we
would spend it elsewhere. So
you see for the loss of one lone
■ git” we had condemned every
< tizen of the place. Again we
• >rmed one of a party to attend
I ie commencement exercises at
1 e Douglasville College and
< ijoyed the occasion as only an
i ^sophisticated young man can
i hen in the company of a lively
widow, until the class prophet
prophesied a rosy-hued future
y>r all her classmates, except
t ne, who according to the proph
< t was to become a purveyor of
< ountry produce.
Our conclusion being that this
• irl was singled out for the un
) ind prophecy because she was
; new resident, perhaps from
1 ie country, and our dislike for
1 e prophet was equaled only by
( ir sympathy for the chicken
I ‘ddler.
And again we left the town
, ith an unfavorable opinion of
i s citizenry. Again after a
1 pse of several years, we again
' isited Douglasville on the oc
casion of a soldiers’ reunion,
j aving married since our last
i sit (Oh, no, not to the widow)
i ie mother not being able to go,
e carried the little boys (there
1 ling only three then) to see the
< d soldiers and hear the speech
< ; and music, and when dinner
i ime came we repaired to the
• rove near the edge of town
where we left the jolt wagon
that served us as an automobile
to eat our humble lunclj that our
good wife had prepared.
And soon the little fellows
wanted water, but with the
memory of our former experi
ences rankling in our mind and
heart we would die of thirst
rather than ask a drink of wat
er of a citizen of the place. Our
situation being observed by the
people who lived just across the
street, the lady of the house
sent a little girl with a pitcher
of cool fresh water. Right then
our mind changed, and we be
gan to realize what an injustice
we had done the good people of
the place, just because one or
two young people had acted in
discreetly.
Thus by one little act of kind
ness this good Christian lady
redeemed the honor of her town
in our eyes. A quiet inquiry re
vealed her identity and we are
sure that her friends will not be
surprised to learn that it was
the good lady who presides over
the home of Rev. Marvin Wil
liams. And we beg that she ac
cept our belated thanks. Our
inborn modesty prevented our
tendering them at the time.
J. A. Shirley.
FIFTY GIRLS LOSE
LIVES IN FLAMES
THE FIRE SPREAD .SO RAPIDLY
THAT IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE
FOR GIRLS TO ESCAPE
LARGE NUMBER INJURED
At First It Was Thought the Alarm
Was for Fire Drill and the Girls
Continued at Work.
Binghampton, N. Y. —Fifty persona
were killed, and as many injured, a
dozen or more fatally, in a fire which
swept the four-story factory building
of the Binghampton Clothing company.
The victims were chiefly women and
girls. Twenty-two bodies have been
recovered. In the city hospital and in
private institutions are thirty injured.
Some two score persons are known to
have escaped, as if by a miracle, from
the building, which burst into flame
like a tinderbox and became a roaring
furnace almost in no time after the
first alarm was sounded.
Around the scene of tlje catastro
phe, the greatest this city has ever
known, thousands watched the res
cuers work in the glare of three big
searchlights, many in the great throng
being restrained only by the closely
drawn police lines from rushing into
the ruins to seek the bodies of rela
stive or friends.
As the ruins were cooled slightly,
from time to time in a spot upon which
the streams were centered, men went
forward to dig as long as human
endurance would allow them to work.
Occasionally a body was found and
quickly taken away.
The big outstanding fact of the cata
strophe is its suddenness. In this the
disaster bears a stronger resemblance
to the Triangle Waist company hola
caust in New York city, where 147
lives were lost, when the inflammable
material upon which the employees
were working and the waste littering
the floors biazed up with inconceivable
rapidity and set the Imprisoned work
ers jumping from the windows to their
death. The parallel here fails only
in the lesser height and different con
struction of the building and in the
length of the list of dead and injured.
MAY INVOLVE THE POWERS
Action of Turkey in Reoccupying Ter
ritory Threatens War.
London. —The European concert is
faced by a most delicate and difficult
suitatlon, requiring the exercise of
the utmost diplomatic tact, if Europe j
is not to be plunged into a general i
war by the Turkish reoccupation of :
Adrianople and Kirk Kilisseh.
Burgaria, helpless, sees the fruits
of her dearly won victories snatched
from her hand, and, while negotia
tions for an armistice are proceeding
in a leisurely manner at Nish, the
Greeks and Servians continue to push
th^ir advantage.
The official announcement made at
Constantinople that the Turkish
troops had reoccupied Adrianople
created the worst possible impression
in diplomatic circles, and the powers
immediately began an exchange of
views to find the best means of check
mating Turkey’s action, wahich is
looked upon as a clearcut defiance of
all Europe.
The next few days are likely to de
cide whether forces hitherto unen
gaged shall enter the Balkan cockpit.
Russia is understood to be ready to
accept the mandate of Europe to com
pel the porte to respect the treaty of
London, and the British cabinet will
consider whether this government
shall consent to active intervention by
Russia.
Good Business Men
Know the convenience and
value of a bank account. It
protects their funds against
burglary and fire, besides ma
king a convenient record of
their business.
We appreciate the accounts
of individuals, firms and cor
porations, and extend to you
every courtesy consistent with
sound banking.
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W. A. JONES, President, J. E. BELL, Cashier.
J. W. BROOKS, Vice President J. T. STOKES, Assistant Cashier.
THE BULLETIN, IRWINTON, GEORGIA.
PREDICT HUERTA DOWNfALL
ADVICES RECEIVED INDICATE A
CONCLUSION WILL BE REACH
ED IN MEXICO.
Conflict Between Huerta and Oppon
| ents Has Reached Point where
Explosion Cannot Be Avoided.
। Washington.—Reports of conditions
' surrounding the Huerta government
I in Mexico have put administration of-
I ficials in an attitude of keen apprehen
। sion towarrd the situation there.
Advices which officials believe to
be perfectly trustworthy seem to indi
cate that the strife between the Huer
ta regima and the revolutionarry ele
ments is nearing a point where some
definite conclusion is to be reached.
Information of this situation which
was permitted to become known was
coupled with the authoritative state
i ment that the United States was mak-
I ing no additional naval or military
I preparations.
Reports of impending collapse of the
Huerta regime are being talked over
freely in officials circles, though no
' official of the administration will per
mit his name to be coupled with them.
All information made public was with
the stipulation that it should not be
represented as reflecting the views of
the administration.
$500,000 CASH FOR TEXAS
Standard Oil Company Pays Half Mil
lion Dollars to Stop Suit.
Greenville, Texas. —Half a million
dollars as a penalty and the transfer
of 21,596 of the 24,500 shares of stock
in the Magnolia Petroleum company
of this state from the individual con
trol of H. C. Folger, Jr., and John D.
Archbold to a trustee mutually agreed
upon was accepted by the state of Tex
as in settlement of the $102,000,000
penalty and ouster suit instituted
here recently by the state attorney
general against the Magnolia and Cor
sicana Petroleum companies of Texas,
the Standard Oil companies of New
Jersey and New York and 28 indivi
duals. Judge F. A. Williams of Austin,
was named as trustee for the stock in
question.
The penalty was paid under tele
graphic instructions from the Stand
ard Oil company of New Jersey. The
agreed verdict holds the Magnolia com
pany, the chief Texas interest in the
suit, not guilty of anti-trust law viola
tions and it is privileged to do business
with the proviso that the stock owned
by Messrs. Folger and Archbold shall
be administered by the trustee un
der guarantee by the trusteeship of
complete and independent operation
of the company. The Corsicana com
pany is also given the right to continue
operation.
Mutinuous Chinese Terrorize Ship.
New Orleans. —Mutiny of 26 Chinese
on the steamship Comus arriving from
New York resulted in a panic among
the passengers, the probable fatal
shooting of one of the mutineers, the
wounding of three others and slight
injuries to First Officer M. L. Proctor
of the Comus. The general fight oc
curred on the forward deck of the
steamer. Proctor owes his life to the
bravery of Mrs. Florence Shaw, a
stewardess, who saved him from be
ing thrown overboard by the infuriated
Chinese.
Cotton Growers Lose $108,000,000.
Washington.-^-Federal experts esti
mate that a Iqss of almost $108,000,000
a year to cotton growers in Altbama,
Georgia, Tennessee and Florida would
result frrom the adoption of the plan
proposed recently by Senator Smith of
South Carolina, which contemplated
the establishment of a belt in which
the growth of cotton should be pro
hibited by law, in an effort to keep the
cotton boll weevil from spreading
eastward into the Atlantic coast states.
This conclusion has been reached by
the department of agriculture.
Carnegie'*' Bomb Ju*t Juicy Ch****.
Nek York. —The mystery of the
bomb sent to Andrew Carnegie in
care of the seecretary of the Carnegie
corporation was solved. It was a juicy
cheese inclosed an a smell-proof case
of zinc, a Scotch cheese, according to
an expert called Into conference after
the bureau had definitely determined
that the bomb contained neither nitro
glycerin, dynamite or other deadly ex
plosives. On a vacant lot officials of
the bureau of combustibles fired four
bullets from a safe distance through
the box before they opened it.
Wil*on’«,C*ndld«t* Wine.
Sussex, N. J.—Archibold C. Hart,
Democrat, was elected to the house
from the sixth congressional dis
trict of New Jersey to succeed the
late James Martin. Hart had the sup
port of President Wilson. The Re
publican candidate, S. Woods McClave,
who was mentioned in the Mulhall
testimony before the senate lobby in
vestigators, ran second, and Herbert
M. Bailey, progressive, third, the re
turns are incomplete but indications
were that Hart ran ahead of McClave
by more than 5,000 votes.
Shafting, Pulley*, Belt*, Repair* an
Files, Teeth, Leek*, Etc.
LOMBARD IRON WORK*, AUGUSTA, Ck
Ctt Mr circular trfcriyai bau.
YES YOU ARE
You are just like the rest of us.
You want all you are entitled to—and it is right that you
should have it. ,
Self-interest is still the mightiest law of human nature. »
It is not the spirit of philanthropy that prompts us to
cling so tenaciously to that splendid standard of quality and fin
ish set by us when we began business. It is simply self-interest.
It is only good-business that we sell you jewelry that we
can stand back of.. .Our customers demand quality and finish of
us, and we pass the demand on to the manufacturers from
whom we buy, and you cannot asy that FLOURNOY &
VAUGHAN jewelry ever disappointed you.
So, “Quality First” is our motto, and “Jewelry That Sells
Without Effort” comes next.
It seems to us That this creed should interest you.
Jewelers.
FLOURNEY & VAUGHAN
Jewelers
“Quality First”
370 Second Street. 1 Next Taylor-Bayne's.
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