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VOLUME V. NUMBER 49.
COTTON CROP OF
11,637,000 GALES
U. S. Departmint Os Agriculture An
nouncis figures Based On Esti
mates On September 25
SHORTEST CROP ON RECORD
Storms And Insects In The Cotton
Belt Cause Loss Os Three
MiHion Bales
Washington.—Storms and insect
damage have wrought havoc with the
cotton crop this year gnd caused a
loss of almost 3,000,000 bales through
out the growing season.
This year’s crop will be approxi
mately 11,637,000 equivalent. 500-pound
bales, according to the department of '
agriculture’s forecast made basjng; its
estimate on the condition ot the crop
on September 25. In its first forecast
of production made from condition^
existing June 25 the quantity was es
timated at 14,266,000 bales. The con
dition of the crop on-September 25
was 553 per cent of a normal, which
is the lowest condition on record for
that time of the year. A report giving
Its final estimate wHl.be-made by the
department on December 11.
Cotton this year was planted on the
fourth largest acreage eVer recorded—
-35,994,000 acres. In 1911 when 36,045,-
000 acres were planted the crop was
15,693,000 bales; in 1913 when there
were 37,089,000 acres, the crop whs
14,156,000 bales, and in 1914, when the
acreage was 36,832,000, the crop
amounted to 16,135,000 bales.
- Indications are that this year's crop
will yield only 156.3 pounds per acre,
compared with 207.7 pounds in 1911,
182 pounds in 1913 and 209.2 pounds in
1914. - "
In a statement old conditions exist
ing .September 25, the crop reporting
board said: ■. .
“There was. heavy deterioration in
cotton agairi this month in. the central
cotton states. 801 l weevils in Texas,
Arkansas, Alabama, Louisiana and
. Florida have taken a heavy toll, punc
turing and destroying grown bolls to a
larger extent than ever ’before known.
This insect has,in addition, Keridtfsly'
damaged the. crop in portions of Okla
homa, Georgia and Tennessee. Cater
pillars have injured the late cotton in
southern Texas and eastern Florida.
Cool nights caused a cessation of fruit
ing and the plant shed its fruit consid
erably in the northern portion of the
cotton belt.* : ■ * *
“There-is considerable late cotton in
the Carolinas and some in northern
Georgia which wifi need a late killing ,
frost to reach anything like full ma
turity.” ’
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BULGARIA. IS INVADED
BY ROUMANIAN TROOPS
’
Danube Crossed By The;Roumanians
Between Fortified 'Towns Os .
Rustchuk And Turtukal
• . ‘ '
London.—The Roumanians have in
vaded Bulgaria, a
On the upper reaches-of the Danube
between the fortified towns of Rust-’
chiik and Turtukal, ..where the river
begins its bend northeastward, leaving
Bulgarian territory and separating
Roumania proper from Dobrudja, the
troops of Roumahia’'hhve made- their
way to the Southern.bankof the
stream. 7
Just how many men were thrown
across ; ls' pot dfsclowd .in
either the'jloupianian or German offi
cial commirtU.batlons, .but the strategic
value of tW maneuver seemingly is
two-fold. .^’i. - .V t
Ninety miles eastward from. Turtu
kai, which.« at the wesfein Extremity
of eouthertr Dobrudja, Is Vartq, Bulga
ria’s chief seaport on the Blaek sea..
If sufficient men have been sent across
the river and are sent along the Do
brudja-Bulgarian frontier toward Var
na, not alone would the seaport be in
danger, but the move would consti
tute a serious menace toward the iso
lation of the German, Bulgarian and
Turkish forces operating against the
Roumanians .to the north.
Simultaneously with the announce-,
ment of the_ crosßing pf tty^b^ubA
comes a report from Bucharest that a’
fresh attack along the entire front in
Dobrudja has resulted in the defeat of
the center and right flanks ot the
troops of the central powers-
g —
Lemberg Menaped/By Russian Troops
Petrograd.—The fighting along the
southwestern front *hS> reached An
other of its periodic- climakes, Which
has turned in favor of the Russians,
yielding them a large number of pris
oners and has again threatened Lem
berg from two important directions—
along the main railway from Brody
to Lemberg from Braezany. Thus
along a 60-mile front the Russians ip
pear to be closing in again orithe
Galician capital, but the absence'of
supplementary details leaves the ex
tent problematical.
the Uullvtin
GREECE TO ENTER THE WAR
- «
WITH HIS THRONE TOTTERING
KING OF GREECE YIELDS TO
WILL OF PEOPLE
Former Premier Says He Is Not Mov
ing To Overthrow The King
e ’ -s,. Nor The Dynasty
London.—The council of dreek min
isters has decided in agreement with
King Constantine upon military co-op
eration with the entente powers, cays
a dispatch from Athens.
The Greek battleship ' Hydra has
joined the allied fleets according to re
ports.
There is an unconfirmed report, the
dispatch adds, that the Greek battle
ships Spetsai and Psara and four
Greek destroyers have* also joined the
combined Anglo-French naval forces
under Vice Admiral du.Fournet in the
Mediterranean,
King Constantine received an * ex
haustive report from General Moscho
poulos, c|»ief of the general staff, de
tailing the chaob in the military or
ganization of the country caused by
the departure of so many officers, to
join the Anglo-French allies and ad
vising- the immediate declaration of
war by Greece without waiting either
the assistance or the insistence of the
entente powers, as the only way to
save the situation.
Greece Facing Great Crisis
Athens. —Despite the profound popu
lar belief that the Country is facing
the greatest crisis in its history, calm
expectancy reigns in Athens. The
Venizelist papers publish declarations
which -the former premier left prior
to his departure^ in which he says
the. movement he heads is not revolu
tionary, but purely of national char
acter, and, that he has no design upon
the integrity pt the actual government
of the country. M. Venizelos declares
that his course is the only way by
which national unity may be preserv
ed .and that h« will struggle for the
salvation' of GteeCp without the aid
of the constituted government, if the
government will not act. But if the
king decides to defend Hellenic soil
against the invaders-he will be glad
tq turn over the forces he has gath
ered to co-operate in a common effort
to save the country.
japa£ to demand
ADMISSION OF JAPS
Nipponese Government Insists Re
moval Os Restrictions 1s Necessary
To Her Statehood
Washington.—Japan's purpose to re
‘ new after the European war her con
tention for the right of her people to
emigrate to and own land - in the Unit
ed States, suggested in New York
by Baron; Yoshiro Sakatani, former
finance minister in the Tokio cabinet,
was frankly admitted at the Japanese
embassy. Negotiations over these
questions, which came.to a deadlock,
two years ago, are not regarded by
Japan as concluded, it was explained,
blit,merely postponed while The larger
.issues of the war are being, dealt with.
The deadlock followed a long series
of conferences between former Secre
tary Bryan and Baron Chinda,. then
the Japanese ambassador, and an ex
change of notes between the two gov
ernments over the alien land legisla
tion exacted by California. After the
state department had pointed out that
under . its constitution the United
States governmentcould do po more
than seek such legislation
, aqd that persons affected by it had
recourse to the federal courts, Japan
closed the exchanges with a note Sa
ying her complaint had not 'been an
«wered and reserving “for the present
further , discuseion of the issue?’
Position Os Japan
It has been generally assumed that
the issue .would remain in abeyance
only Whilp Japan was occupied with
the war, but until now no one in a po
sition to speak with authority has said
so. There will be no formal discus
sion of the subject at least until the
; Arrival of the new ambassador. Dr.
Amofo Sato, who. was appointed when
Baron Chinda was transferred to Lon
don, and who is expected in Washing
ton in a few months.
—... .
Gang Loota N. Y.-Chicago , Train
■, ^Detroit— Mt^igah'-ijentral passen
train No ^1 4 * knowji as the New
Vark-Chicago Express, bound from
i Chicago to Detroit, was held up by a
' ga»g of robbirs near Dearborn, eigh
। teen miles west of here, late at night,
and robbed it. >
v iM|.
i Thousands pf Germans , Captured
i Pafifi;—The twenty-mile imitle-arc
• running from tM Ancre rlyer.to the
i Somme is rSJiiar^ being transformed
, by the great offensive of the entente
■ allies into an irregular triangular
• wed« Ist the Gei^uan ll»e, with the
• bases respectively In front ot Thlevpal
' and west of Peronne, and the point
i projecting across the Bethune road
■’ anti into, the St. Pierre VtaSt wood.
> Ten thousand prisoners have fallen
! into the hands pf the British in the
• last fortfilkht's fighting on the Somme
front, accosting to Lohfion.
IBWINTON, WILKINSON COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1916.
BLAZING AIRSHIP
FALLS IN LONDON
German Aerial Fleet Attempts To Raid
The Metropolitan And The East
Coast Os England
i
ZEPPELIN FIRED BY SHELLS'
The Fourth Airship To Be Brought
Down On English
Soil
London. — Another Zeppelin raid i
, against London and the east coast of
, England was made in progress.
An airship was brought down in'
i flames north of London, according to:
the official statement issued shortly
after midnight.
Great crowds cheered the spectacle '
■ of the burning Zeppelin as it fell in ;
■ the London district. The great flare I
from the burning aircraft was visible
1 for a long distance.
Graphic accounts of the manner in '
' which the Zeppelin—the fourth to be
brought down on English soil—fell a j
। victim to Great Britain’s anti-aircraft
defenses have been received from Lon
don’s suburbs.
Although the Zeppelin crashed to
• earth almost due north of London, the
: spectacle was witnessed by thousands
i of Londoners.
The offlcial Btatement regarding the
raid says:
' "A number of hostile airships cross
ed the east coast between nine o'clock
■ and midnight. A few bombs were drop
ped near the coast, but no damage is
yet reported.”
Four Zeppelin raids on London and
; the east coast have been carried out
in the last month, the more recent at
■ tacks being made by airships of the
: newer and bigger types. On September
2 one Zeppelin was struck while flying
। over the London district and fell in
■ flames. ’
Two Zeppelins were destroyed in the
I raid of September 23. On that bcca
• sion the raiders killed thirty-eight per
■ sons and wounded 125. The following
night in another raid in which the air-
Ships apparently escaped without dam
age, they killed thirty-six persons and
' wounded twenty-seven.
In the raid of September 2 only two
■ persons suffered death and thirteen
were injured.
3,000 ROUMANIANS TAKEN
PRISONER BY TEUTONS
' Thirteen Guns And Lot Os War Sup.
plies Are Captured By The
Germans
■ Berlin.—More than three thousand
! prisoners have been taken by the Ger
-1 mans in the battle near Hermannstadt,
> Transylvania, where the first Rouman
' ian army was defeated and dispersed.
• Thirteen guns and a large quantity of
war supplies also have been captured.
■ Roumanian attacks have been repuls
l; ed. The following is the official ac
■ count of operations in the Transylva
-1 nia theater:
“On the eastern front Roumanian at
■ tacks in Maros valley were repulsed.
• In Georgeny valley and farther south
: our vanguards partly evaded the ene
‘ my’s thrust. The booty taken by Ger
-1 man troops in the fighting south of
I 'Henndorf has been increased by eight
1 cannon. Northwest of Fogaras the en
l einy has 'ceased to attack.
1 “As a result Ofthe battle of Herr
■ mannstadt more than three thousand
• prisoners and thirteen guns were
■ brought in up to yesterday. One han
gar, two aeroplanes, ten locomotives,
300 railroad care laden with munitions,
: more than 200 munition wagons, mote
i than 200 loaded baggage wagons, sev
( enty transport wagons and one hos
. pital train also have been taken. Fur
[ ther material la being brought in
. gradually from the woods. Rother
( thurm pass is filled with vehicles
blown to pieces by qur fire.” ,
i Russians Resume Drive In Galicia
Petrograd.—The Russian drive at
- Lemberg was renewed. Atter . a pe
riod of comparative Inactivity, the
Russians inaugurated qtrqng offensive
i movements north and south of the Ga
- liclan capital According to war of.
i flee report .maUrial auccesses have,
i been won ; Rls said Austro-German
l positions wqre penetrated and that
- more than four thousand prisoners
, were taken. The Teutonic forces are
offering- bitter resistance.
■ —
I Senator Clarke Passes Into Beyond
• i Ll^Te Rock, Ark.—Senator Jantfes ,P f
■ Clw^B pt Artansaal president : pro
I tempofe of the United States senate,
> died at his home here. Senator Clarke
- first complained ot feeling ill when
> be. returned to^his home from his of
-1 ffbe/but It was thought at the time
t that he. was suffering from indiges-
I tion, and his illness was not regard
. ed u serious. Ne.w» of hia death
i was a shook to tW whole country.
i He had been sick only a few days,
i and the serious nature of hie illness
wu n« generally known.
COMING!
THE TWELFTH DISTRICT
FAIR!
Dublin, Ga., Oct. 23rd to 28th
A PROGRESSIVE FAIR FOR
A PROGRESSIVE PEOPLE IN
A PROGRESSIVE DISTRICT
One Whole Week of Exhibition, Entertain
ment and Amusement
A Big Show of Live Stock and Agriculture, Poultry and
Products of the Home
A UVE MIDWAY
Full of Amusements
AND
FREE ATTRACTIONS
Morning, Noon and Night. FIREWORKS Each Night
New Grounds, New Features, New
Attractions
Get Ready to Begin to Visit Dublin During the Big Fair
E. ROSS JORDAN, General Manager
N. G. BARTLETT, Secretary, Dublin, Ga. |
Reduced Rates On All Railroads to the
1916
GEORGIA STATE FAIR
Under Auspices Georgia State Agricultural Society
MACON, GEORGIA
November 2 to 11
AGRICULTURE AND LIVE STOCK EXHIBITS PAR EXCELLENCE.
THE 1916 GEORGIA SHOWS OF ALL STANDARD BREEDS OF POULTRY.
THE BEST HORSES RACING ON THE FASTEST TRACK IN THE SOUTH.
FIREWORKS AND CIRCUS ACTS EVERY DAY AND NIGHT AND THE BIGGEST
MIDWAY.
A FAlft IN EVERYTHING THAT THE NAME IMPLIED
MAKE YOUR PLANS NOW TO COME.
JULIUS H. OTTO, HARRY C, ROBERT,
President Secretary and General Manager
CHAS. B. LEWIS, Treasurer
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