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TTTTC ATI ANT A GEORGIAN AND NEWS
THAT SHE SHIT
Gainesville Bride to Repudiate
Confession When Taken Be
fore Grand Jury.
GAINESVILLE. July 22.—Repu-
dialing her confession as to the shoot
ing of her ball player husband. Tom
Wood, and charging a man with fir
ing the bullet will be the sensational
testimony of Mrs. Pearl Thomas Wood
before the Hall County Grand Jury
this afternoon. This man comes from
a prominent family and his arrest is
expected.
This man was an old friend of Mrs.
Wood’s, and when she was told by
her husband that he was going to de
sert her, It is said, she appealed to
him. He came to the Wood home on
Athens street, where a quarrel began,
ending in the probably fatal wounding
of Wood.
Gainesville is greatly excited over
the shooting. The statement this
morning that Mrs. Wood would com
pletely repudiate her confession and
charge the man with firing the shot
aroused intense interest. The Grand
Jury is in session, and the Solicitor
announced this morning that an im
mediate investigation would be held.
At a local hospital Tom Wood lies
in a dying condition, a bullet hole in
one of his lungs and with but two
days at the most in which he can pos
sibly live. At the county jail is his
bride of a few months, completely
prostrated Tuesday night nhe con
fessed to the killing, declaring that
she had determined to kill her hus
band rather than have him desert her.
She declared that he had decided upon
a separation and was preparing to
leave Gainesville.
Quarrel Precedes Shooting.
According to the account of the
shooting, which, it is said. Mrs. Wood
will make to the Grand Jury, her hus
band, another man and herself were
In the Wood home when a quarrel en
sued, during which the other man
drew' a pis»tol. Wood ran from the
house and as he darted out the front
door the other man shot. Wood falling
fatally wounded upon the porch
Neighbors rushed in and found
Mrs. Wood weeping over the body of
her youthful husband. An automo
bile was obtained and the wounded
man placed in it. Mrs. Wood accom
panied him to the hospital, holding
his head tenderly in her lap. while
her cries drew the tears from others
in the machine. In contrast to her
piteous condition the husband
charged her time and again with
shooting him. His protestations that
“She shot me!” “She shot me!” con
tinued after he had been placed upon
the operating table.
Bride Goes to Jail.
A few moments after th e wounded
man was taken to the hospital Sher
iff Spencer arrived there. Mrs. Wood
surrendered to him and • admitted
that she had done the shooting. She
begged to be allowed to remain with
her husband, but owing to his con
dition and his continual charges that
she had done the shooting, it was
thought best to remove her. She
was taken to the county jail, where
she spent the night weeping and pit
eously declaring her love for her hus
band.
“He was preparing to desert me.
and was going away at midnight,”
she told the Sheriff. “He came to the
house to tell me good-bye. I made
up my mind I would rather kill him
than have him desert me.”
Mrs. Wood is a bride of but a few
months. Wood has played with the
Gainesville ball club for a long while.
The courtship began a few months
ago. when he was introduced to her
at the ball park. She was Miss Pearl
Thomas, and comes from a highly re
spected family, which has been living
In Gainesville for ten years. She was
extremely popular and a host of her
friends called at the county jail this
morning.
Wood’s home is in Nashville and
his parents are expected to arrive
to-day. Doctors state there is no
chance for his recovery.
Senator’s Daughter
On Socialist Stump
WASHINGTON, July 23.—Mrs.
Nina Lane MqBride, daughter of Sen
ator Dane of Oregon, is in Washing
ton visiting her father. Next month
she will commence a tour of the East
ern States, speaking from street cor
ners and in workingmen’s halls on the
Socialist propaganda.
Mrs. McBride met her husband, who
also is a Socialist worker, at a rally
of the party in Portland. Oreg. She
met him the second time at a hoboes'
convention in New Orleans. They
were married by a Magistrate.
“BUSY
~AS~
BEES”
Little bees make
the honey;
little 44 Want Ads”
make the
money
Read for Profit
GEORGIAN
"WANT ADS"
Use for Results
RIVALRY, MINUS DISCORD, ABOUNDS
IN BOOSTER BUTTON BEAUTY RACE
Candidates
for sponsorship
of 500,000
Club growing
numerous.
Uncertainty Regarding Frank
Trial Results in Delay Until
Next Monday.
U. S. Promises Aid to
Akin's Drainage Plan
A fight for a favorable feport on
his bill appropriating $5,000 to drain
swamp lands in Georgia will be made
by Representative L. R. Akin before
the Appropriations Committee of the
House when the bill comes up for
consideration Thursday afternoon.
The amount requested is to be mot
by an equal amount from the Federal
Government. The Government also
will furnish engineers and all other
details. According to Mr. Akin the
Secretary of Agriculture has agreed
to all this.
TO PROBE SLAYING.
COLUMBUS. — When the Da^f
and Equity Court of Dee County
Alabama, convenes on August 4 the
Grand Jury will take up the case of
Homer Carmack, charged with en
tering the store of J. J. Folk re
cently and hacking him to death with
a butcher knife.
Because of the uncertainty regard
ing the trial of Deo M. Frank, Audi
tor James L. Anderson Wednesday
postponed the hearing of the Craw
ford will case until next Monday, at
the request of Reuben Arnold, counsel
for Mrs. Mary Belle Crawford, who is
aiso connected with the defense of
Frank
Mr. Anderson announced that
should the Frank trial again be post
poned the Crawford case will be called
at that time, but shhuld Judge Roan
decide to call Frank’s trial for Mon
day morning the hearing of the will
I caf-«e will be indefinitely postponed, its
resumption to be governed entirely by
the disposition of the Frank case.
Plan to Explode Poison Claim.
The postponing of the hearing on
Wednesday morning prevented the
introduction of what Mrs. Crawford’s
attorneys claim is their most convinc
ing evidence in Mrs. t’rawford's denial
that she had killed her husband.
Joshua B. Crawford, by poieoning
him. It is understood that they had
planned to place Dr. J. W. Hurt,
Crawford’s family physician, on the
stand.
Dr. Hurt, Mrs. Crawford’s attorneys
claim, will testify that while attend
ing Mr. Crawford during his last ill
ness. he frequently gave him mor
phine and other drugs to allay the
pain. These drugs given by Dr. Hurt
the defense will claim, are what Dr.
Harris found in Crawford’s stomach
when the body was exhumed and a
; post-mortem made.
It is probable that Dr. Hurt will be |
! one of the first witnesses when the
hearing is resumed, which, unless the
Frank trial is postponed, probably
| will not be until about the middle of
ugust.
Search On For Barber.
Attorneys for the heirs-at-law stat
ed Wednesday that they will continue
the search for Fred Dumb, the barber
who is charged with being Mrs. Craw-
! ford’s accomplice in the alleged pois
on plot. Unable to locate Dumb in
New York, where he was last heard
of, it is planned to extend the search
I all over the United States.
Attorney J. S. James, chief of coun
sel for the heirs, said that Dumb has
! lived in different parts of the L T nited
' State? under various names, all of
which are known. It is suspected
that Dumb is living under one of the
names he has formerly used, and ef
forts will be made to obtain trace of
i him.
^{fWWWWWWWWW Great July Pre-Inventory Sale at
f M. RICH & BROS. CO.
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IA “Let-Go” of Fine Linens
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§ Prices Drop to Half and Less for This
Most Extraordinary Clearaway
“Clean Stocks” is our slogan—our rigid Pro-Inventory Policy is not to
carry over any soiled merchandise nor odds and ends.
That’s the reason for the finest linens in the South being offered at a frac
tion of their value.
To our certain knowledge no Southern store ever offered linens of such qualities at these
near-half and less-than-half prices.
The left aisle table and counters are heaped high with values. Though the sale is sched
uled for three days—Thursday, Friday and Saturday—it is plain that the best Bargains will
be snapped up Thursday. Selling starts at 8:30 with these unprecedented values.
Student Dedicates
Chinese Restaurant
Miss Maud
Steele,
new entry of
brunette type
and one of
prettiest
in contest.
WELTNER PUSHES
Secretary of Crusaders Urges In
determinate Sentence as Best
for Convicts.
Another gun in the campaign of
the bill providing indeterminate prison
sentences, which has been favorably
reported by both House and Senate
Committees, has been fired by Philip
Weltner, secretary of the Prison Re
form Association, which is responsible
for the bill.
“The enactment of the bill will not
only improve convict conditions in
Georgia," Mr. Weltner declares, “but
it will increase the efficiency of the
convicts in road building. The in
determinate sentence i-s based on jus
tice and common sense rather than
sentiment and mercy; and wherever
it has been tried it has tended to em
barrass the crook by keeping him in
up to the limit, yet holding the door
of opportunity open to the occasion
al offenders whom kind treatment and
hope can reform.
“To give a convict a fixed term of
imprisonment means that the law be
lieves it can foretell the length of
time it will^take to discipline him
Wrong doing gets the perpetrator in
to prison; right doing ought to be his
only means of getting out.”
Ex-Postmaster at
Memphis Drowned
MEMPHIS, July 23.—L. W. Dutro,
until recently postmaster, a promi
nent Republican and business man,
was drowned late Tuesday afternoon
in the Mississippi River while at
tempting to rescue Mrs. Frankie Brad
ford Gwynne, daughter of a Mrs.
Bradford, of Brownsville, Tenn. Mrs
W. F. Brooks, wife of a Selma, Ala-
railroad mechanic, a third member of
the party, did not go in wading. A
step-off in the river bed caused the
death of Dutro and Mrs. Gwynne.
Mrs. Gwynne, a handsome brunette
worked circulation contests on va
rious Southern papers.
MANAGES GROCERY HOUSE.
WAYCROSS.—M. R. Oatherwood has
been made manager of the Waycross
wholesale grocery business of the Joseph
Hull Company, succeeding James Knox,
who resigned to engage m other busi
ness in Waycross.
L
SUIT CASE THEFTS
Miller, Caught Robbing Store,
Confesses When Accused by
Detective Who Posed as Pal.
R. W. Miller, held by the police on
a charge of breaking into Goher’s
store, at No. 30 Carroll street, con
fessed to numerous thefts of ?ui$
cases from passenger stations when
confronted with a member of the de
tective force who had been masquer
ading with him as a pal. according
to the police
P. W. ‘Reeves, captured with Mil
ler. grew sullen during the grilling
and would say nothing. Chief Dan-
ford told of the new evidence Wed
nesday.
When Miller and Reeves were
trapped Monday night a third man
escaped through a window. At the
police station the pair denied all guilt.
Then the detective, whose name Chief
Lanford refuses to disclose, confront
ed them. Reeves branded the de
tective a liar. For a moment violence
was feared.
Miller’s home, near Red Oak, was
searched Tuesday afternoon. A suit
cas'p and a pair of white canvas shoes,
stolen from the Terminal station on
July 4. were found.
Miller and Reeves will be arraigned
before Recorder Broyles Thursday.
SEEKING SHERIFF S PLACE.
SAVANNAH.—Robert S&ussy has
qualified as a candidate for Sheriff of
Chatham County in the primary elec
tion of July :J0 The time for qualifying
has expired, leaving the race between
Mr Saussy and Colonel Merrett W.
Dixon.
Veritable Shower of Coupon Votes
Received, Showing Enthusi
asm in Competition.
"If people would look about them
and learn from others, the world
v.ould be better," declared Timothy
Tingfang Lew. a young Chinese stu
dent of the L T niversity of Georgia, in
an address at the opening of a new
Chinese restaurant at 86 1-2 North
Broad street Tuesday night.
“Everybody can learn something
from those about him,” he continued.
“And every nation can learn some
thing from the study of the customs
of oth^r nations. If people would
study other people they would know'
more.”
A Beautiful Face
S with clear eyes—unwrinkled skin
ZZ and vivacious manner comes to the
3 girl who is freed from the nervous
ST tension—the headaches, backaches
3 and pain that sap her strength at
5 irregular intervals and make her old
S before her time. She can be res-
3 cued from such slavery by taking
3 the right remedy.
Dr. Pierce’*
Favorite Prescription
5 has been sold by druggists for
3 over forty years aud always givea
3 satisfaction.
Rivalry in Atlanta's booster button
beauty contest threatens to equal that
immortal mythological event in which
Ate. Goddess of Discord, dropped a
golden apple at the feet of Paris
marked for the fairest one.
But no such disastrous result as
the destruction of Troy is expected
unless Birmingham or Memphis
should steal Atlanta’s prettiest girl
and then outrank the Gate City in the
census of 1920.
Atlantans fell sure that the girl
elected the sponsor of the “500,000
Booster Club” will glory in her lead
ership and be present to act as queen
of the celebration when the 500,000
population is counted in 1920.
One of the fairest candidates nom
inated Wednesday is Miss Maud
Steele, of 9 Venable street. She is
a brunette, though not extreme, and
gives the brunette almost an equal
place with the blondes In the number
of candidates.
Each day brings in- new' candidates,
and a snowstorm of coupon votes for
the favorites. It is a wonderful con
test Indeed. But Why shouldn't it be.’
The prettiest girl in Atlanta! Just
think of it.
Clip the coupons that appear each
day in The Georgian. Nominate your
candidate. VOTE.
Usury Is Charged to
Columbus Mill Man
COLUMBUS, July 23 —G. W. Mad
dox, a cotton mill man. of this city,
has been arrested on a warrant
charging him with usury, the warrant
having been issued in Justice McCro-
ry’s court, and the charges made by
T. A. Youngblood, a mill operative.
It is alleged that Maddox, under
whom many people were employed,
would lend them money, charging the
operatives 5 per cent per week.
Finest Table Linens
at Exactly Half Price
French table linens—acknowledged the
finest in the world. Oddments—only one pat
tern of a kind. Two or more patterns, how
ever, at the same price :
$20 doth, 2x21-2 yards, at $10.00.
$25 cloth, 21-2x21-2 yards, at $12.50.
$30 cloth, 21-2x3 yards, at $15.00.
$25 dozen napkins, 27 in. size, $12.50.
Fine Lunch Sets
Beautiful qualities of high grade linens. Cloths
are hemstitched or scalloped. Dozen napkins to
complete each set. Just about a dozen sets In all.
to clear them, we make these pre-inventory prices:
$12.50 Linen sets, $6.90.
$15.00 Linen sets, $8.50.
Napkins in the Sale
| $2
J $5
QOdoz., 22 1-2 in. size,
• *30 values $4 and $4.50.
QOdoz., 27-inch size,
values $7.50 to $9.
Scalloped Table Cloths
A few odd scalloped cloths that are a little soiled.
Sizes are 2x2 yards, 21-4x2 1-4 yards, 2 1-2x21-2
prices:
$8.50 Scalloped cloths, $4.90.
$10.00 Scalloped cloths, $5.90.
$12.50 Scalloped cloths, $6.90.
$15.00 Scalloped cloths, $8.90.
Soiled Table Cloths
Though these linens need a tubbing, they
will emerge with their “bloom” and “finish”
intact. High grade linens; full 100 per cent
flax; honest to the last thread ; the grades you
would gladly buy at full price. Here’s how
they go to-morrow:
$6.50 to $8.50 Cloths at
Sizes are 2x2 yards, 2x2 1-2 yards.
2x3 yards, 2 1-4x2 1-4 yards, 2 l-2x
2 1-2 yards, 2 1-2x3 yards.
* QQdoz., 27-inch size
; q) / «a70 values $10 to $15.
_ $5 German Damask (Pi AO
| Lunch Sets Only «pl«*F0
All linen damask lunch sets in various colored de-
ej signs. The cloths are 63x68 inches, neatly hem-
stitched. Half dozen 14-inch napkins complete the
<2 set.
$3.9
$8, $10 & $12.50 Cloths at
Sizes are 2x2 yards, 2x2 1-2 yards, tf* A QA
2x3 yards, 2x3 1-2 yards, 2 1-4x2 1-4,
2 1-2x2 1-2 yards, 2 1-2x3, 2 1-2x3 1-2 yards.
$13.50 to $16.50 Cloths at
Extremely line tablecloths in all ^ Q f\/\
sizes up to 2 l-2?4 yards. q) . 1/ U « ■
Pre-Inventory Pencil Pushes Down
Prices on Rich ’s Staple Black Silks
§ Standard $1 and $1.25 Black Silks at
59c
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TALCUM PUFF COMPANY
Hlaer* uid **nuf*«turen», Bosh Terminal Bldg.*
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
Rich’s blank silks in a sale. And at an average half price! It
is almost as if a grocer sold sugar at half. For Rich’s black silks
are as staple and as standard.
You can choose from soft, lustrous black LOUISINE; the fashionable black FAILLE i
FRANCAIS; the gracious ever-wearing GROSGRAIN; a magnificent MOURNING SILK; the '
beautiful SATIN BENGALINE. Widths range from 20 to 27 inches. Regularly $1.00 and |
$1.25 a yard; to-morrow at 59c.
Prices on $1.00 to $2.00 Silks Slashed to
You will be astonished at the values; the quantities; the varieties; the lovely
$1.00 to $2.00 silks that are offered at 49c.
You have choice of 42-inch all-silk chiffons; flower silks, odd silks; 27-inch
chiffon taffetas in changeables and solid colors; novelty silks, including many de-
Lengths from 3 to 30 yards. Not a yard worth less than $1.00;
at $1.50 to $2.50. Choice 49c.
55c
sirable weaves and patterns,
most of them formerly priced
for 85c to $1.50 Silks—
the 85c and $1.00 silks
are spot-proof foulards, in choice
patterns and favored colors. The
$1.50 silks are Dolly Madison
patterns, pretty floral designs,
new this season.
for $1.00 Messalines—
choice of our entire
stock of $1 yard-wide Messa
lines. except black or white.
: 79c
$1.19
for $1.50 silk and
wool Poplins — the
beauty of silk wedded to the
strength of wool. Soft and
sheer, with classic grace.
Leading shades of navy and
Copenhagen, also black and
brown. 42 inches wide.
for 59c Silk Foulards—
navy grounds, with neat
33c
pin and polka dots
23 In.
$1.39
25c
for $1.75
Crepe de
to $3.50
Chines—
includes our entire stock of $1.75
Crepe de Chines in full pieces,
except black or white, and all $2
to $3.50 Crepe de Chines in dress
lengths.
for ,50c to 85c silks
solid color messalines
and wash silks and short lengths
of staple and novelty silks. The
yard, 25c.
(Silk Annex—Main Floor, Left)
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u I II U n H Ol JUI1UUL J t0 make Men 0 f Boys. Asheville climate
world renowned. Organization Military. Two details from U. S. Army at
lowed to N. C. The A A M. College has one, Bingham the other. Target and
Gallery practice, with latest "T. S. Army Rifles. Lake for Swimming. Sum
mer Camp during July and August. Tuition and Hoard tloO per Half Term
Col. R. ~ * -
$300 a year. Address
Bingham, Boa I, Asheville, N. C.
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Newly contracted end .hrunic Cases of Burning. Itching and Inflammation
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Pitas awd Fistula aad all Marvaue, Chronfe and
■temped In 34
and xp
i Broad Street, Atlanta, Ga.
To Sell These Stockings
Quickly, We Have
Slashed the Prices
Nothing wrong with the
stockings, save that they
are odd lots and broken
lines that we won’t in
voice. So we empty the
boxes and group the dif
ferent lots on.three tables
at 29c, 49c and 59c.
Stockings are variously of
lisle and silk lisle, lace and
embroidered. Black, tan and
a few white aud colors. All
sizes at each price.
29c; values to 50e.
49c; values to 75c.
59c; values to $1.25.
(Main Floor, Right)
A Parasol Sale at
$1.98
Choose any summer
parasol in stock,i
whether its former
price was $2.50, $3,
$2.50 or $4, at $1.98.
Something like four score in all, in solid
colors; Roman stripes; solid colors with floral ]
or Persian borders; plaids and other fancies.
Novelty and regulation shapes. Leading
colors and combinations. Select the parasol
vou like—there’s a saving of about half at
$1.98.
Half Price Sale Toys, Games, Etc.
Final outclearing Friday and
Saturday of all kinds of dolls, doll bug
gies, children’s furniture, toys, vehicles
and games. Most of the articles are at
half price; some even less than nau.
(Toy Annex—Main Floor, Right)
fl uMii M. RICH & BROS. CO. M. RICH & BROS. CO.