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JEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, CA.. SUNDAY. AUGUST 10. 1013. 8 A Columbus M L Latest Southwest Georgia News Albany FIGHT FIR [IFF \ lrs. I:, c Braswell IB THIS VEEK Prominent Young Alabaman Is Ac cused of Slaying Confederate Veteran Near Columbus. COLUMBUS. Aug. 9.—The fight to save the life of Homer Carmack, a member of one of the most prominent families of East Alabama, from the gallows will begin Tuesday. Carmack will be put on trial » t Opelika, the county site of Lee Coun tv, Alabama, on a charge of murder ing J. J. Koike, an aged Phenlx City merchant, on Sunday night, June 25. The body of Folke, who was a Con federate veteran, and who lived In his store alone, was found early on the morning of June 26 when cub-' tomers went to the store to make purchases. At first glance it seemed that there was absolutely no clew to the slayer but before noon officers had succeed ed in arresting Carmack and had traced the greater part of an amount which the old man had and which it li believt d < !arma< k got to w • t Carmack had paid debts. He was ar- ; rested at the Union Depot in Colum- ( bus as he was preparing to leave th* ; city. The crime was one of the most re- ! volting ever committed in this sec- j tion. ns the aged veteran was literally j hacked to pieces. Indignation rtn high for several days, but Carmack was taken to Opelika, where he has i been held in Jail pending his trial. ID, belongs to one of the oldest and most ' prominent families in this section ills father having been a county official for many years. Ho has already been . indicted and able counsel has been | employed to represent him. Grade Crossing Row Continues to Bob Up Columbus City Council and Railroads Unable to Settle Eleventh Street Problem. COLUMBUH. Auk 9 The Eleventh street grade crossing, in this city, like Banquos ghost, lias bobbed up again. The city and railroads can not agree on the manner in which the grade crossing ran he eliminated A proposition has be. n submitted for building a viaduct at | a cost estimated at $200,000, but the ; Central of Georgia is not favorably in clined to the. proportion, because it j would have to pay about half of the amount Another proposition baa been j to build an underpa u but ibis is not considered advisable. Mavor Chappell has been of the opln | ion that by properly engine, ring the j scheme, he could force the railroads to i build It without the city being com pelled to do its part, but it seems that the railroads do not propose to fight such a move. Manufacturers Say Roads Act Unfairly Columbus Brick Makers Appeal to Railroad Commission, Charging Discrimination. guest of Miss Corinne Conyers, in Atlanta, one of the most popular matrons of her horn graph hv Stephenson.) Popular Southwest Georgia matron. Mrs. Braswell is city. (Photo- UTS CHILE Lee County to Build Colony Tract Roads Eight Miles of Highways To Be Constructed Through Central of Georgia Property. $40,000 in Bonds Has Already Been Voted for Improvement, but Complications Arise. COLUMBUS. Aug 9.—A number of local brick manufacturers and dealers have filed complaints with the State I Kail road Commission, alleging that the! railroads of Columbus are discriminating ! against them to the injury of their busi ness. September 2 has been named by the commission for tin manufacturers t«> j present their argument. Another case of alleged discrlminntiT.n by a Columbus manufacturer is that of j the «’olumhus Iron Works Company, one of tin largest concerns <»f the kind in | the South, which alleges that the com pany has been forced to pay a higher freight rate on three cars of plow points to Tyler. Texas, than was charged on ; the same class of goods from Wfimlrig- j ton. Del., to Tyler. COLUMBUS FAIR SUFFERS LOSS OF BEST SUPPORT COLUMBUS, Aug. 9.—Columbus j probably will not hold a fair the com ing fall. The merchants hail express- ; ed themselves favorably toward the proposition, but in tin effort, to reor ganize the ol<\ Georgia-Alabama Fair j Association, the officers failed to i arouse any enthusiasm, and it may j be that the entire matter will be al- i lowed to drop. STRIKING PLUMBERS NOT GUILTY OF INTIMIDATION COLUMBUS, Aug. 9.—At a prelim- j inary hearing before Judge Philip j Eifier. four plumbers Charles Stoffel. Mark Garr tt. C !v Cooper and J. B. Forbes, all charged with intimi dating plumbery, who refused to I strike with them, were released. Tin ! trouble grew out of a demand made i by the plumbers for a $5 scale, ai increase of 50 cents per day. COLUMBUS SCHOOL FUND SHOWS HEALTHY BALANCE COLUMBC8, Auk. 9—Th? anmiil report of Henry It. Goetchius. p- s dent of the board of trust* ■«•«: »,f th Columbus public schools, shows tho*. the total receipts of the puhli school fund during the year ending Julv 1, 1913, were $81,367.13, leaving a ba’- anee on hand of $1,100. TRADE‘BOARD SECRETARY GIVES CITY NEW SLOGAN COLI'MM’S. Auk. 9 A new si >- gan has been adopted by Columbus, having been suggested by William B. Powell, the new secretary of the Co lumbus Board of Trade The slogan is: "The Place With the Push and Power.” LEESBURG, Aug. 9 The Board of Commissioners of Lee County have decided to build modern sand-clay roads through the 4.000-acre tract of land, near the Dougherty line, recent ly acquired by the Central of Geor gia Railroad for colonization pur poses. The proposition was present ed to the Lee County commissioners by representatives of the Albany Chamber of Commerce. This ac-tioc is the last preliminary step in the de velopment of this tract of land. The railroad will divide it into small farms to be sold to settlers from the North and Northwest. I The roads to be built will be about eight miles in length. They will tra verse the tract in various directions, connecting with the main road be tween Albany and Leesburg. CORDELE, Aug. 9.—The delay in getting the streets of Cordele paved, for which $40,000 of bonds were voted fourteen months ago, may be pro longed by a complication which is expected to arise over making the street gradings to provide this im provement. The total amount to be expended for street paving is $120,000, of which $80,000 Is to be paid by the property holders. It appears that because of the lack • if proper Judgment of a former city engineer in setting out the grades for i he streets several years ago will ause the new grades to work a hard ship on the property holders. It is j claimed that if th., grades are made Councllmen Urge Improvement Be according to present plans, some side walks will have to be raised, while others will have to be lowered by sev eral feet. The Streets Committee of the City Council was named at a recent meet ing of that body to act with Mayor Harder in getting a profile showing the proper grade, which work, the Bond Commission claims, is already being carried on by their engineer. LAD LEARNS WHETHER STEAM CAN HURT HIM AMERICUS, Aug. 9.—Curiosity as to whether scalding steam issuing from an engine pipe of a construction plant would hurt him caused the rather pain ful injury of little Willie McNeill, son of W. W. McNeill, to-day. The boy placed u foot on the escape pipe and the hot steam scalded the limb to the knee be fore be could remove it. Want Street Paved At Albany Station fore New Depot Is Opened—Now Unsightly Thoroughfare. ALBANY, Aug. 9.—That North street should be paved before the new terminal station is opened is the consensus of opinion of members of City Council. The Atlantic Compress Company some years ago was allowed to build side tracks in North street and the side walk was moved out to the center of the street to make room for the tracks. The ijew compress north of town was completed almost a year ago. and the old plant abandoned. The tracks have been removed, but the city has never moved the sidewalk or graded the street as it should be. $100,000 Fertilizer Plant Is Under Way Contractors Begin Work at Albany in Twenty-four Hours After Swift Makes Award. RECOVER FROM NEGRO'S ATTfiCK Victims of Cairo Tragedy in Hos pital at Thomasville.Anxious to Return Home. THOMASVIL.LE, Aug. 9.—The two Boddiford girls. Mary a # nd Rhoda, who were among pie victims of the at tack of the negro Ed LeConte near Cairo last week, are Ill here at the City Hospital and are Improving. Both girls when brought here had high temperatures and their condition seemed serious, but it is believed now’ that they will recover and be able shortly to return home. Mary, the older girl, whose nose whm partly cut off. will, of course, suffer from some disfigurement. Sne also lont six fru it teeth and had some slight scalp wounds. Rhoda. the young girl, who suffered a severe scalp wound and was con sidered in a more serious condition than her sister, is also recovering. Both are very anxious to get back to their parents and the young chil dren that they feel need their care. Reports from the bedside of Mr. and Mrs. Boddiford, at Cairo, show them still holding their own, but with no certainty of recovery. The skulls of both have neen trepanned and upon the outcome of the operation within the next few days will depend their chances for recovery. The younger children are being eared tor by some of their neighbors. $57,357 Increase in Tift Comity Returns Tax Receiver Fletcher Finds 6,000 Acres of Land Not on the Books. Albany Bankers Ask Part of $50,000,000 Want Government Money to Aid in Moving Southwest Georgia Cotton Crop. ALBANY, Aug. 9.—That the Al bany banks should receive a portion of the $f»0,000,000 Government money that is to be placed for the market ing of cotton in the South is the gen eral feeling among Albany bankers. | Two banks here are United States depositories and an* called upon to furnish money for the marketing of cotton several weeks earlier than the banks in Macon. Atlanta and Savan nah. J. S. Davis, vice president of the Citizens First National Bank, has re quested L. U. Hillyer, president of the Georgia Bankers’ Association. to make a personal appeal to the proper authorities in Washington for a por tion of this money to be used in Southwest Georgia. Albany Sees Value in River Improvements Chamber of Commerce Committee Named to Keep in Touch With Work. FIFTON, Aug. 9.—Tift County tax returns for the present year show an increase of $57,357 over the returns of last year. Figures were compiled by Tax Receiver George W. Fletcher. Three districts. Chula. Omega ant 1 Eldorado, show increases, while five Tifton. Tvty. Brookfield. Brighton and Dosia. show a decrease, will be cleared in four days. ALBANY, Aug. 9.—With the purpose of keeping close tab on the work that is done to improve the Flint River and to see that money appropriated and spent is used to the best advantage. President J. A. Davis, of the Albany Chamber of Commerce, has appointed a committee to look after the matter. The committee Is composed of H. A. Tarver, J. E. Toole and T. M. Tieknor. The Chamber of Commerce and the people '»f Albany have been brought to a realization of The importance • t the rlint River in its influence on freight rates, and is determined that it shall no longer be neglected as it has in the past Farmers Organize For Tift County Fair Planters Take Lead of Project Given Up by Merchants and Former Promoters. ALBANY, Aug. 9.—Ground has been ! broken and work is progressing on the new fertilizer plant of Sw ift & Co. At a i meeting in Atlanta this week, the con tract was given the Griffin Construc tion Company, of Atlanta. Within twenty-four hoifrs workmen were on the job and teams were hauling dirt, ex cavating for the foundations. The new plant will be located just north of Albany, on the 10-acre site re cently purchased. The Investment of the company in site and factory will be returs was considerably more than *100.0,0. ,, 18 tta TRUCKERS ORGANIZE TO books. This in part accounts for the increase in returns. The increase in 1912 was $15,945. I AD RULETINS- 1 ^» TIFTON. Aug. 9.—At a meeting of Tift County farmers to-day the holding of a Tift County fair this year was, discussed and with great enthusiasm. Permanent organisation was effected and the matter will be pushed by the farmers. The fair association which has lost money on two fairs held in Tifton was unwilling to undertake another and us the merchants were slow about raising the money, the farmers Movement to Take Albany Out of Present Judicial Circuit Will Come Up Again. ALBANY, Aug. 9.—That the move ment to take Albany out of the Al bany Judicial Circuit was not entire ly abandoned when Senator For*! withdrew his county removal bill from the Senate has become quite ap parent since that time by the discus sion of those who attended the com mittee hearing in favor of the bill among other friends of the movement here. A plan is now on foot w’hereby an effort will be made to create a new superior judgeship for Doughertv County alone, the idea being to abol ish the City Court of Albany, ani have the new court judge tt> do the work of both courts. Those who favor the movement contend that Albany is large enouga now to have a court of its own. It is argued that Albany and Dougherty County have enough court business to justify such a move. It is proposed, in the event this plan meets with favor among the people of Albany, that a bill to create the new judgeship be introduced in the Legis lature at its next «sion, as there id hardly time to perfect the plans ant get such a bill through at the present session. It would be necessary to have a a election, or at least a petition signed by a majority of the voters of ths county, and that also will require con siderable tlnie. LEAVES LIGHTS BURNING AND GASOLINE EXPLODES ALBANY, Aug. 9.—As Sam Jay, an employee of the Standard Oil Com pany, was filling a tank of a run about on which the tail lights were burning, the can, which contained about five gallons, exploded. Jay was severely burned about the arms. He saws he knows now that lamps should be extinguished before the fiery li quid is handled. An interesting fact concerning the j t6ok the matter in their own hand that nearly 6.000 acres of I For social news of the South see page 10 of this section and the society section. stated. Snap Bean Farming On Big Scale Planned ^ Fiancee EXPLOIT SOUTH GEORGIA Family Sees Woman 2 States Co-operate Drain Poison Bottle For Fair in Valdosta Little Credence Given Her Despond ent Threats to Take Her Own Life. VALDOSTA, Aug. 9.—Mrs. Will McDonald, of this city, took an over dose of a narcotic last night, it in be lieved, with suicidal intent. She had been In a despondent condition and had threatened to kill herself, though her family and friends seemingly at tached little importance to her threats. She was seen by members of her family to swallow the poison, and a physician was hurriedly summoned. Her condition was very grave, but the doctor succeeded in arousing her from the stupor, it is believed to day that she will recover. BANKRUPTCY SUIT FILED AGAINST BREWING PLANT SAVANNAH. Aug. 9. — An involuntary bankruptcy suit lias been filed against the Consumers’ Brewing Company The moving creditors are M S and D. A Byek. the Herman Coal and Wood Com pany and J. A Rimes. The Consumers’ Brewing Company was organised about a year ago to take over and operate the old brewing plant left by Herman Winter, near the Cathedral Cemetery The company started off with elaborate plans, and in tended making a stupendous amuse ment park of the grounds, but busi ness was disappointingly bad. ACQUITTED OF HOMICIDE, HELD ON WEAPON CHARGE SAVANNAH. Aug. 9—When La- throp George, slayer of Henry Mc Clelland, the man whom he charged with despoiling his home, walked out f the Superior Court a free man with all MISS LINDA M'LOUGHLIN TO WED N. A. ANDERSON AMERICUS, OA„ Aug 9 Mr and Mrs s P. Arthur to-day announced the engagement of their sister Miss I £ Mi l \. Al bert A^*»rson. of Albany, the wedding to tak^filace in October. his troubles nt an end, as he thought, he reckoned without those whose duty it is to enforce the law, as a warrant has been taken out charging him with carrying a revol ver without a license. George was unable to arrange bail and was recommitted to jail. 50 MARKSMEN COMPETE FOR LABOR DAY SHOOT SAVANNAH, Aug 9. About 50 men from th* First Regiment Infantry. Na tional Guard of Georgia, are taking daily rifle practice in an effort to se cure ten men to compete in the Labor Day shou< at the Rose Dhu Range SeveraJfcjfc’H 1 liable trophies are offered. The Deltnmie t:-«*ph>, valued at $3,000, is the most coveted. Lowndes County Organization Or ganizes and Plans for Yearly Festive Week. VALDOSTA, Aug. 9.—The formal organization and election of officers for the Lowndes Cpunty Fair As sociation was completed at a meeting last night. G. YV. Yarn is president; S. L. Dowling, vice president; J. M. Ashley, secretary and manager; l’aul Myddleton, treasurer. The association will hold the Geor gia-Florida Fair in this city from No vember 4 to 8. The association is a regularly chartered institution anti was incorporated with the idea of holding fairs in this city every year. MOTHER-IN-LAW; TROUBLE; SLAPPING; DIVORCE SUIT SAVANNAH, Aug. 9.— Too much mother-in-law was a disrupting ele ment in the marital affairs of Mrs. Kmma K. Chance and R. E. Chance, who have projected their disagree ment into the divorce branch of the Chatham Superior Court. The suit is filed by the wife. One of her grounds of complaint is that her husband forced her to allow his mother to live with them. But that wasn't the worst of it. She charge's that her husband on one occasion held her while her mother-in-law slapyed her for some alleged dereliction of wifely duties. Cordele Tan- T rots Other CORDELE, Aug. 9.—The bunnv hug, tango, turkey trot and other modern dances are entirely too im modest in the opinion of the fair se.: of Cordele who are accustomed to the waxed floors. Like the slit skirt. Pensacola Merchants Agree to Aid in Finding Most Profitable Marketing Points. PENSACOLA, Aug. 9.—At an en thusiastic meeting of farmers of the Roberts-Gonzales community, this county, last night, at which experts made addresses, it was decided that an experiment will be made in the cultivation of snap beans on a large scale in that locality. Several farm ers agreed to plant a certain number of acres each on the co-operative plan and ship to Northern markets. The crop will be planted during the pres ent month. Business men of this city agreed to aid the farmers in securing a market. It is thought that this will prove Injured in Runaway' iXtHSTf. til i-u. v J zation will be pe . Miss Emma Lou Hilsman, Driving With J. C. Edmunson, Thrown From Buggy in Albany. THOMASVILLE, Aug. 9.—The adapt ability of South Georgia soil and cli mate for truck farming is being shown more and more every year and there is no doubt that in the near future there will be great developments in this sec line. A truckers’ as- , , g planned. The organi- f< perfected in a short time j and its officers and plans made public. SEABOARD OFFICIAL IS PREPARING FOR REMOVAL such dances will probably not come j one Q f the most successful crops for in popular favor at any early time j t hj s section, as experts say the soil in this city. j s peculiarly adapted and that cli- Uhaperons at local balls recently ma tic conditions are ideal. have positively forbidden the new dances, and the young folk, no ma t - _ r»rr*T .. q PITV MAV ter how ardently, but perhaps se- ULUloI U. o. 01 I Y lYlAY cretly, they may desire to introduce them, must let the waltz and two- sten still suffice. ALBANY, Aug. 9.—As J. C. Ed munson, of Atlanta, and Miss Emma Lou Hilsman, of Albany, whose en gagement has been announced, were driving through an alley, taking a short cut from Jackson to Washing ton street, near the Albany Produce Company’s warehouse, the horse be came frightened at an automobile and ran away. The buggy crashed against a telephone pole and Miss Hilsman wfos thrown out, her head striking the pole. It was at first thought she was seriously hurt, but later she was found to be only bruised. She was carried to a doctor’s office and later to her home. AMERICUS. Aug. 9.— H. B. Crimshaw. I superintendent of this division of the j | Seaboard, is in Americus supervising the ! i renovation of the offices which he will ! occupy here beginning August 16. The j | offices will be re-established in the Sea- \ ! board shops, whence they were removed j to Savannah several years ago. CLEAN ENTERTAINMENT AT BOHEMIA THEATER, 100 WHITEHALL STREET ; If you enjoy a clean, good show, go to the Bohemia, 100 Whitehall street, where there Is the cleverest and prettiest bunch of show girls to be found anywhere. They can sing and dance and the costumes are new and pretty. The Come dians are good, too.- Manager Glenn has a stock company that is making the Bo hemia the most popular little playhouse in Atlanta. Every com fort—every care. ADOPT COMMISSION FORM FARM H E A R Y S A ^ K F E 0 ^ E N R EY C ^PS CHATHAM ARTILLERY TO ORGANIZE NEW BATTERY SAVANNAH, Aug 9.—Steps looking to the organization of a second battery of ** Chatham Artillery have already been taken. First Lieutenant Ed G. Thomson will command the new bat ery and Lieu tenant E D. Wells the old one Cap tain Richard J. Davant, Mayor of Savan nah, and at present commanding officer of the Chafchams, will be chosen for the tuajoralty. SEABOARD SPECIAL AGENT RESIGNS HIS POSITION SAVANNAH. Aug 9.—Thomas Bal- lantyne. former chief of the Savannah fire department, but for several months special agent of the Seaboard Air Line Railway on the Hutchinson Island ter minals. has resigned, and .1 U. Whitten, of New Orleans, has been named to succeed him. It is understood that Bal lantyne will accept a position as chief of a department in a neighboring city. LATE REGISTRATION FOR LABORERS TO QUALIFY SAVANNAH, Aug 9.—Beginning on Thursday, the registration books for the j auditorium bond election will be kept open until 4 o’clock In the afternoon, until they are Anally closed on August 15. An order to this effect has been is sued by Mayor Richard J. Davant. The request that the books he kept open until a late hour in the afternoon * aim* from the Chamber of Commerce in order that working men might have a better opportunity of registering. Here tofore they have been closed at 2 o’clock each day. FORT SCREVEN BAND TO PLAY FOR SAVANNAHANS SAVANNAH, Aug. 9.*—Arrangements have been made lor public concerts Monday and Thursday evenings each week by the hand at Fort Screven. Because of objections raised by the Musicians' union, the Fort Screven band has been prevented from playing dt Tybee this summer, previous simi lar objections not having been effective. '1 his year the band was permitted to give only a few concerts at the pavil ions ST. AUGUSTINE. Aug. 8.—Senti ment has suddenly focused in St. Augustine upon commission form of government for America’s oldest city. A wrangle in City Council which re sulted in some Aldermen nearly coming to blows and in which one said he was "in a crowd of sharps" was the final straw, and a movement is now on foot to call an election to vote upon a charter change. St. Augustine voted down such a change two years ago, but other lo cal issues at the time beclouded the main question. CONFESSES TO SLAYING WHEN REFUSED PARDON SAVANNAH, Aug. 9.—Frank Col lier, a negro whose application foi pardon was refused by tin* Prison Commission in Atlanta, to-day broke down and made a complete confes sion of bis responsibility in the mur der of Lewis Robinson, another ne gro. pleading only that Robinson was attempting to cut him with a knife. Collier has heretofore maintained in nocence. SAVANNAH WIVES SUE BROTHERS FOR DIVORCE SAVANNAH, Aug. 9.—Alleging cruel treatment and statutory causes, Mrs. Frances Zipperer has filed suit for divorce against Robert Zipperer in the Superior Court of Chatham Coun ty. Thi« is the second divorce peti tion tiled by a Mrs. Zipperer in two weeks. Mrs. Aline Zipperer. a sister- in-law of Mrs. Frgjices Zipperer, filed the other. HOME OF CUBAN LIBERTY AT TAMPA TO BE RAZED TAMPA, Aug 9 —The old Criterion Theater, famous during the period pre ceding the Spanish-American war us the place where many of the Cuban plots j against Spain were hatched, is to be torn down to make way for a new vaudeville theater, announcement just being made by Lee DekJe. The old 1 Criterion was u great gat liering place for the Cuban patriots in the early nine ties and was famous or infamous even as far as Madrid. CAMPHOR TREE RAISING TO BE TRIED IN FLORIDA BRADKNTOWN, Aug 9 Two 20- acre tracts have been donated to the United States Department of Agricul ture and an experimental farm will be established here. Professor Stockberger and Professor Hood have been here and the Board of Trade has made arrange ments for money to aid in the experi ments Experiments in growing cu»i- phor trees, which it is believed can be made a profitable industry in Florida, will be among the first made. THOMASVILLE. Auer. 9.—This is fodder pulling time in South Georgia and .n Thomas County the crop is the largest known in many years. The corn crop is almost unprecedented. Farmers who have finished fodder pulling have begun on their hay cut- : ting, and that crop, too, is a good i one. In view of th*- high prices of Western hay tht= larmers in this sec- j tion have devoted more time and land to growing hay than formerly. IN PRISON SEVEN HOURS; SUES FOR $300'DAMAGES SAVANNAH. Aug. 9.—Charging that he was arrested without justification, j j.. Rushin has filed suit for $300 dam ages in the Superior Court of Chatham County iiKainst Patrolman C. If, I-ong, of the local force, and W. It. Warren, of Washington County. Rushin was exonerated in Police Court on a cheating and swindling charge, but he had already been Incarcerated seven hours. AUGUST 15TH Is the Last Day On Which It Is Possible to Buy BEST JELLICO LUMP COAL * T S4.SO PER TON Henry EVieinert Coal Co. Phones 1787 for TAMPA WANTS BRANCH OF COLORADO SPRINGS HOME TAMPA. Aug. 9.—Tampa will try for the establishment of a branch of the Union Printers' Home at Colorado ! Springs, the union typos being anxious to have a sea level branch somewhere The City Tax Assesor. a former lino type operator, will lay the matter be fore the convention in Nashville. JOINS TAMPA TEAM. TALLAHASSEE. Aug. 9—Newt Mabrv. one of Tallahassee's fast amateur hall players, left this week for Tampa, where he has accepted a position on the Tampa team Another of Tallahassee's players, Ira Watson, is playing in that city. MARKETS 1912 COTTON AFTER '13 SEASON IS ON AMERICUS. Aug. 9.—Just to show how independent many farmers of this section are, Farmer Hart, of Schley County rolled into Americus to-day on a wagon loaded with four hales of last year’s cotton. Though the first bales of the season are coming in fast. Mr. Hart brought a load that he had not been compelled to sell and received an extra good price for it. CONGRESSMAN R0DDENBERY REGAINS HIS STRENGTH THOMASVILLE, Aug. 9 —Congress man S. A. Roddenbery. who was re ported ill in Washington, has about recovered from bis indisposition, which was only temporary. Mrs. Roddenbery and the children are at home here and will be joined by Mr. Roddenbery when Congress shall have eventually decided to adjourn. WRIG-HTSVILLE BEACH EXCURSION $6 round trip. Saturday. August 23. Special train leaves 6 p. ip. SEABOARD. MADE SAME DAY YourTeeth Examined WITHOUT CHARGE DR. E. G. GRIFFIN’S GATE CITY DENTAL ROOMS 24£ Whitehall St. Over Brown & Allen's Telephone M.1708 Hours: 8 to 6; Sundays, 9 to 1 TWICE EACH YEAR CROWN AND BRIDGE WORK You should have your teeth examined at least once every six months, to see that they are kept healthy. They may or may not need treatment. WE MAKE THESE EXAM- INATIONS FREE. OUR PRICES, WITH FULL GUARANTEE: SET OF TEETH . GOLD CROWNS BRIDGE WORK $5 GOLD FILLING . . $1 $4 AMALGAM FILLING, 50c up $4 PLATES REPAIRED. 50c up TEETH CLEANED, NEW PROCESS $1 up