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TTEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA„ SUNDAY, JULY 27, 1913.
Athens
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Latest News of North Georgia
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Crawford'Wieatly I'StS
of the appropriations bill, passed by the Georgia House of Rep
resentatives last week.
TO RELATIVES
Occult Powers of Country Lass
Arouse Interest of Psycholo
gists and Physicians.
ATHENS, July 26.—Scientists, doc
tors, professors and ministers again
have become deeply interested in*the
weird actions and mysterious mani
festations of Sue Mae Burgess, the
14-vear-old Green County girl who
has startled all who have seen her
by her uncanny doings and unac
countable predictions, the strangest
of which all have come true.
This little country girl, who is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Bur
gess, living near Farmington, where
the counties of Green and Oconee join,
became subject to repeated attacks
of what were pronounced by the
country physicians as cataleptic fits,
and while undergoing these attacks,
her body became rigid and she was
unconscious of what was being said
or done around her.
However, she was able to speak oc
casionally in a whisper, and after a
few minutes she would whisper to
some member of the family what
could be done to relieve her.
Weird Remedies Effective.
The commands the mother, sister,
brother or perhaps father received
were of the strangest kind, and it was
not until they were convinced that j
she was really relieved in this way
that they had faith in what she
said. It might be to touch her fore- |
head lightly or rub her hand, then
again it might require a visit to a
neighbor’s house so that some one not
of the immediate family could min
ister to her.
These facts, along with the abil
ity she had of predicting when she
would be attacked, even days ahead,
caused the family and neighbors to
regard her and her actions in a dif
ferent way, for it began to seem she
must possess superhuman traits.
Then came the climax. During one
of her ‘spells,” she told of a strange
root in the grave of old Governor
I’eter Early, which was not far dis
tant. and which would glow like fire,
and if prepared into a tea would cure
her.* What happened during the next
few days reads like a story from the
“Arabian Nights.”
During her next “fit” she repri
manded her brother for not following
her instructions, and finally the phy
sician, Dr. Harrell, was persuaded to
go to the old grave in search of the
glowing root that possessed such
wonderful properties.
Finds Wonderful Root.
He did. He found the locust tree
beside the grave and the loose rock
as the girl had said, and was not long j
in finding something that startled
him. It was the root, and he could
hardly believe it when he noticed
that it shone and gave out a soft
golden light. Pieces of it were brought
to Athens and exhibited here without
explanation. Prof. D. L. Earnest, of 1
the State Normal College, one of the
best authorities on psychology in the
State, visited the home and on re
turning to Athens in the night used
a piece of the root to look at his
watch, without ever striking a match.
The lotion from the root was pre- j
pared as the girl directed and ap- |
plied, and for a month it seemed that (
it would be the means of restoring
good health again.
Hornet Breaks Spell.
But the spell was broken last week \
and as the result of the sting of a
hornet, the girl against is having
cataleptic fits. Everything had gone
well since the application of the mys
terious root lotion until she was at
tacked and stung by a large hornet, j
The only relief possible now is the
instruction she gives those around
her as to what to do, and it is pre
dicted that she again will suggest
something strangely unusual as a ;
permanent cure.
Many visitors from Watson Springs, |
Crawfprd, Athens and other nearby
planes have heard when she would be
under a “spell” and have gone to the
home to see her in one of her rigid
and unconscious states.
Normally she is a very pretty girl
with light hair and brown eyes and
is admired.
NEW HOTEL FOR ROME
NOW IS A CERTAINTY
Important Murder
Trial Due This Week
Special Jury Expected to Probe Hat
field Slaying—Three Men
in Jail.
DALTON, July 26.—When Superior
Court meets here Monday morning
for the regular July term it is prob
able Judge Fite’s first action will be
the drawing of a special Grand Jury
to investigate the recent killing of
Will Parrish in North Dalton for
which three men, Dan Hatfield and
John and Tom Nicodemus. are in
Jail, the former charged with the
murder and the other two as acces
sories.
Hatfield is confined in the Floyd
County Jail, where he was taken after
being brought here, owing to rumors
of contemplated mob violence. Par
rish, the man killed by Hatfield, was
well liked by his associates, and after
the killing the feeling all turned
against Hatfield. When he was
caught in Cleveland, Tenn.. and
brought here, the Sheriff telephoned
Judge Fite and obtained the necessary
order for transferring him to the
Floyd County Jail.
If indictments are returned against
the three men the trials will occupy
a big portion of the week.
ROME, July 26.—Rome is to have a
new hotel. It will be one of the hand
somest structures in the State, and
work will begin ou it about Septem
ber 1.
During the last "ew weeks a com
mittee composed of M. S. Lanier, J. D.
McCartney and L. S. Dauie! has been
canvassing the city for subscriptions. '
The committee had little difficulty in ]
raising enough to clinch he project, i
At least $150,000 will be expended. The |
hotel will be at Broad street and ]
Fifth avenue, Ahere now stands the
historic Choice House. It will be six
or seven stories in height.
FORMER DALTON FARMER
KILLED IN LONE STAR STATE
DALTON, July 26.—Henry J.
Cucksee, a farmer who left this coun
ty in 1902 to locate in Texas, was
struck by an automobile and killed
near Hereford. Texas. His body was
brought to Dalton and taken to Su
mach Cemetery for interment.
The dead man had a wide acquaint
ance in this section, being* before
leaving here a prominent farmer of
this county. He is survived by three
sisters and two brothers.
THREE MILES OF CEMENT
SIDEWALKS FOR DALTON
DALTON. July 26.—Thornton ave
nue, Cleveland, Selvidge. McCamy and
North Hamilton are the residential
streets in which the City Council will
take immediate steps looking to lav
ing cement sidewalks.
The initial work as mapped out con
sists of about three miles of side
walks.
STATE GAME REPORT PRINTED.
DALTON, July 26.—The annua! re
port of the State Department of
Game and Firh, consisting of 91 pages,
is off the press of n Da ,f on printing
company and will be ready for distri
bution within a few days
DISTRICT CONFERENCE MEETS.
GAINESVILLE, July 26—About 100
preachers and laymen of the Gaines
ville District Methodist Conference
have been in attendance upon the
session at Flowery Branch this week.
There are 28 pastoral charges In this
district.
Sorority Girls Camp
Beside Lake Warner
Alpha Delta Phi Party First, but
More Are Expected From
Athens Organization.
GAINESVILLE, July 26.—Young la
dies of the Alpha Delta Phi Sorority,
25 in number, of Wesleyan College
Macon, will arrive in Gainesville Fri
day for a two weeks’ camp on Lake
Warner.
It Is likely that other parties, prob
ably from Lucy. Cobb, Athens, sorori
ties, later will be added to the num
ber of pretty, lively campers on the
shores of the beautiful lake.
There now are in camp over 200
people. For several years Chattahoo
chee Park has been the scene of ani
mated camp colonies each .summer.
There are more this summer than ever
before.
DALTON FIREMEN TO
TAKE TWO-WEEK OUTING
DALTON, July 26.—More than a
score of the members of the Dalton
fire department will leave here on
the morning of August 9 for a fort
night’s* outing at St. Simons Island.
The firemen are already making
preparations for the trip, for which
the railroads will grant special rates.
MEETING AT LA GRANGE
TO TALK COUNTY FAIR
LA GRANGE, July 26.—A mass
meeting will be held at the court
house here next Thursday night* at
the time of the regular session of the
Chamber of Commerce. The Troup
County Fair Association will meet
with the chamber in the interest of
the coming county fair.
Birmingham Man Starts Move
ment to Rear Monument Over
His Grave Near Rome.
ROME, July 26.—The inventor of
the typewriter, John Jonathan Pratt,
once lived within a few miles of
Rome. Pratt’s body now rests near
the old loghouse that was his home,
on the Center-Leesburg road, prac
tically unknown and unnoticed by
passersby.
Necessity was the mother of the
invention, because from his duties as
Clerk ^of the Court he developed
typewriter’s cramp and invented the
machine to relieve it. Claude M. Hail
of Birmingham, has lately inaugu
rated a campaign to revive interest
in the memory of the inventor, and
hopes the result will be the rearing
of a monument over the lonely grave
of the genius. His plan involves
small subscriptions by users of the
typewriters throughout the nation.
There are two or three other claim
ants for the distinction of inventing
the typewriter, but the honor really
belongs to Pratt, who died in Chatta
nooga June 24, 1905, at the age of
75 years. A few years before his
death Pratt lived in Brooklyn.
December 19. 1857, Pratt was ap
pointed Register in Chancery of Cher
okee County and held this place until
February 22, 1864. While working
here Pratt got writer’s cramp and
decided to invent a typewriter to save
suffering. He made a machine that
worked earlier, but did not begin the
active sale of his invention until 1867,
in London, England.
From an aunt, Miss Elizabeth Hern
don. of South Carolina, he borrowed
$10,000 in 1867 to finance operations
and perfect patents both here and in
Europe. He went to England in the
sixties and his machine attracted
considerable attent m. Immediately,
the manufacture of at ypewriter in the
United States was started by Milwau
kee capitalists. Through the breaking
of a contract by Memphis men Pra.t
encountered trouble, but later a
wealthy man by the name of Ham
mond agreed to defeat the Memphis
men on the condition that the ma
chine could be manufactured under
the name of Hammond. Pratt stayed
in Hammond's employ until his death,
receiving $2,500 per annum and a roy
alty on all typewriters sold.
Although the grave of the inventor
lies within 200 yards of the Leesburg-
Center road, hundreds of visitors pass
by it every year without paying any
attention to it.
WOMEN TO MEET MEN
IN SUFFRAGE DEBATE
Three Stills Found
In White County
Owners Offer No Resistance When
Destroyed—Revenue Officers All
Ordered to Chattanooga.
GAINESVILLE, July 26.—Deputy
Collector Cooley and Revenue Officers
Bush, Barney Richardson and Hymen
Richardson, in a raiding tour through
White County, found and destroyed
three illicit stills, meeting no defiance
from the owners.
Al one of the stills there were two
negroes, and the officers report that
upon their approach the negroes
‘‘burned the wind” in escaping. Many
gallons of beer and mash were de
stroyed, and at one place the officers
smelled the refuse from the sill from
a stream where it had been poured,
and, traveling up the stream half a
mile, found the still.
Officers Cooley and Bush this week
were called to Chattanooga and ad
vised to comep repared for a long trip
and be well armed. It Is said that
the “revvies” from many of the dis
tricts have been ordered to this point.
It is thought moonshiners in the
mountains of Tennessee have banded
together to fight an effort to take their
distilleries.
A, J, Patterson Puts
More ‘Air’ in ‘Fair’
Tells Griffin the Exhibit This Year
Will Be “the Biggest and
Best Ever Held.”
GRIFFIN. July 26—A. P. Patter
son, president of the Spalding County
Fair and the man who put the ”air”
in “fair,” says the county fair of
Spalding this year will be the biggest
and best ever held here.
Contracts are to be let for the erec
tion of a poultry house and also a
live stock building. In addition to
these, some of the present buildings
will be enlarged, and other improve
ments made. The race track is to be
regraded and a new grandstand built.
It is expected that this year’s fair
will have a larger number of farm and
domestic exhibits than formerly and
that the newly organized Boys’ Corn
Club will take an important part in
‘the exhibits.
TO CONDUCT
BICJM
London Preacher to Hold Services
in Accordance With Wishes
of Dead Evangelist.
ROME SOCIAL CLUBS
ESCAPE INDICTMENT
ROME, July 26.—Although Judge
Moses Wright recommended in his
charge to the Grand Jury that th*
locker clubs of Rome be investigated,
no indictments were brought, which is
I believed to mean that these organiza
tions are abiding by the law. How-
! ever, a number of true bills wore
brought against individuals for sell-
j ing whisky.
CARTERSVILLE. July 26—For
some twenty years the late Rev. Sam
P. Jones conducted annually a meet
ing at the tabernacle In this city and
in this historic building, thousands
cajne from far and near, during his
lifetime, to hear him. At the last
meeting just about a month before
he died, he appointed a tabernacle
committee and requested that the an
nual meetings continue after he died.
One meeting was held the year aft
er his death and then the meetings
were abandoned until last year, when
the Rev. Bob Jones, of Montgomery,
Ala., was invited to come and hold a
revival meeting at the tabernacle.
Next Sunday morning. August 3.
Rev. “Gypsy” Smith, of London. Eng
land, will preach at lLp’clock. At 3:30
Rev. John Callahan* * Water
Street Mission of Newrurk City, will
have charge of the services and at 8
o’clock the Rev. Mr. Smith will preach
again. Throughout the ten days there
will be three services each day, the
morning and evening services con
ducted by “Gypsy” Smith and the
afternoon services by John Callahan.
Rev. Boh Jones will be platform
director and will take an active part
in the meeting, but. it 1s said, will
not preach. He will arrive Friday
night. The Rev. Mr. Sellers, of the
Moody Bible Institute, of Chicago, will
accompany him. The Rev. Mr. Smith
and John Callanan will reach here
next Saturday.
A fine singer has been secured and
there will be a large choir organized
from the ranks of the young men
and ladles of the city and county.
Large crowds are expected. The
railroads have given reduced rates
The Sam Jones Tabernacle is sit
uated in a beautiful grove about one
half mile from the city and hasp a
seating capacity of 6,000. A.® many
as 10,000 people have heard Rev. Sam
Jones at one time preach from that
pulpit.
TROUP SUNDAY SCHOOL
ASSOCIATION TO MEET
LA grange; July 26.—The Troup
County Sunday School Association
will hold a two days' session next
week. The first meeting will be held
at Pleasant Grove Church, a few
miles in the country, on Thursday.
The second will be at the First Bap
tist Church of LaGrange on Friday.
REUNION AT REDWINE.
GAINESVILLE, July 25.—Colonel
B. P. Galllard, of this city will be
orator of the day at the reunion of
Confederate veterans at Redwtne
Church next Saturday. There will be
band music and a basket dinner. The
reunion is for Company D, Twenty-
seventh Georgia Regiment.
BALTIMORE, MD.
$20.85 Round Trip $20.85
Tickets on sale August 1,
2 and 3. Return limit Au
gust 15. Through electric
lighted steel sleeping cars.
Dining cars on most con
venient schedules.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY.
GAINESVILLE, July 26.—A most
interesting occasion will be the de
bate in Bretiau Auditorium Monday
night on “Woman’s Suffrage,” in
which a number of prominent local
men and women w ill take part. It is
to be held under the auspices of the
United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Miss Ella Powell will deliver a lecture.
PASTOR GIVEN VACATION
BY LA GRANGE BAPTISTS
LA GRANGE, July 26.—Dr. A. B.
Vaughan, pastor of the First Baptist
Church, has been voted a month’s
vacation by his church, and during
his absence repairs to the amount of
$2,000 will be made on the church.
ELBERT COUNTY SATISFIED
WITH NEW LAW CHANGES
ELBERTON, July 26.—The bill
which passed the House this week
changing the County Commissioners
of Elbert from three to one, provid
ing for the employment of a compe
tent supervisor and engineer and
making other changes in this most
important county office, is satisfac
tory to the people of the county.
FOUR IN SAME FAMILY
APPENDICITIS VICTIMS
100 ODD FELLOWS ENJOY
DAY’S OUTING AT CLERMONT
GAINESVILLE. July 26.—A special
train over the Gainesville and North
western Railway carried about 100 to
the twentieth division meeting of the
I. O. O. F. at Clennont this week.
There was a big dinner and a number
of addresses by prominent Odd Fel
lows. The degree work of the order
was exemplified.
ELBERTON, July 26.—Alonzo Bow
en, 14-year-old son of Ed Bowen, was
oj>erated on for appendicitis. He is
doing well and will recover. This is
the fourth operation in the Bowen
family for appendicitis.
ROME DROUTH BROKEN.
ROME, July 26.- -Rome was vis
ited by a heavy rain, ending a drouth
that has existed since June 7. The
precipitation lasted for more than
three hours and is worth thousands of
dollars to this section.
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WAR ON BLIND TIGERS.
GAINESVILLE, July 26.—Chief of
Police W. E. Smith is determined to
rid the city of blind tigers. Eight
have been convicted the past week.
Two came clear on tri.iJ.
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