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HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, 0A„ SUNDAY, AUGUST 24, 1013.
Divorced Wife of Millen Judge,
Who Killed Him and Young
Bride, Shows No Remorse.
Planned Shooting With Care.
Trouble Alleged to Have Started
Twenty Years Ago Over Prison
er’s Property—Jurist Is Said
to Have Slain Brother-in-Law.
MILLEN, Aug. 23.—Convinced that
Bhe has been an instrument of jus
tice, satisfied that the work she had
planned for days has been well per
formed, Mrs. Edna Perkins Godbee.
In her cell in the Jenkins County jail,
to-day calmly and confidently awaits
the hour when she will face a court to
answer to the law for the slaying of
her former husband. Judge Walter M
Godbee, and the bride who had taken
the slayer’s place in his affections.
Mrs. Godbee saw life pass from the
body of the man with whom she had
lived for years, and there was no re
morse shown on her face. While im
prisoned for his slaying she was told
that she must also answer to the
-charge of having murdered his wife.
She did not blanch.
She had determined on the death of
both. She had planned her deed care
fully. She believed that she was jus-
ti r ed in resorting to arms to avenge
hei real or fancied wrongs, and per
sons who know her best declare she is
ready to meet the consequences.
No effort to obtain ball has been
made by her. She has waived the
right of preliminary trial. She is con
tent to remain in jail until her time
of trial comes.
Started Twenty Ye«rs Ago.
The attitude of this woman, who
has passed her fiftieth year, is one of
the most remarkable features of this
remarkable tragedy.
Twenty years ago, when Judge God
bee and his second wife found they
were mismated, the foundation for
the double slaying was laid. The cli
max came Monday morning in the
Millen postofflce, when Judge Godbee
was almost ingtantly killed and his
young wife fatally wounded by pistol
shots fired by the woman from whom
he had been separated by the courts.
Both Judge Godbee and the woman
held as his slayer are of prominent
Jenkins County families. Godbee had
been prominent in politics. He had
been married three times.
His first wife died many years ago,
but, at his request, he is buried at
her side in the cemetery at Waynes
boro. Soon after her death he mar
ried Miss Edna Perkins, daughter of
the late Mills Perkins, and heiress to
considerable property.
They lived in apparent happiness
until the early nineties, when the first
signs of trouble came. At this time
Judge Godbee acquired rights to cer
tain properties which belonged to his
wife before their marriage. It Is
charged that the judge afterward sold
this property and reinvested the pro
ceeds for his own personal benefit.
Shot Brother, Is Rumor.
Then there is an old story that
years ago in Burke County Judge
Godbee became involved in a difficul
ty with a brother of the woman he
afterward married, and killed him.
He pleaded sel^defense and was ac
quitted.
There is no record., though, that
this trouble had any bearing on the
marital differences of the couple.
Friction between the coupie reached
a critical stage ten vears ago, when
Mrs. Godbee filed suit for divorce In
Jenkins County, charging cruelty on
the part of her husband.
She declared that the judge had hu
miliated' her before her children, had
driven her from his room and had
nailed the entrance between the two
chambers in which they lived.
Even after this suit was filed there
was a reconciliation, but the trouble
cropped out again about five years
ago, when Mrs. Godbee again entered
suit. She was granted absolute di
vorce, but the judge was successful
in resisting her plea for alimony. Mrs.
Godbee was also given the custody
of her minor child, Miss Sarah God-
bee, with whom she lived at the time
of the tragedy.
Divorce Didn't End Trouble.
The divorce decree did not end the
troubles of the pair, however. Mrs.
Godbee always contended that the
money on which Judge Godbee was
living luxuriously after the decre*
rightfully belong to her.
It is certain that she was In strait
ened circumstances at the time of the
killing, and it is believed that the
sight of another woman enjoying the
fortune she believed hers, while she
virtually was living In poverty, had
no little to do with # her determination
to take justice into* her own hands.
' For after the divorce Judge Godbee
married again. His third wife was
Miss Florence Boyer, 25 years old,
of Youngstown. Ohio. After their
meeting at the sea shore Judge God
bee continued his courtship at her
home, and little more than four
months ago he brought her to Millen
as his bride.
A crisis was reached. Soon after
the Judge’s return, it is declared, he
received demands from his former
wife that he contribute to the support
of her and her daughter. In these
demands she cited the fact that she
was entitled to at least part of the In
come he derived from property which
had originally been hers.
Judge F©ar©d for Life.
Intimate friends of the Judge say
Chat from that time on he feared, not
only for his own life, but for that of
hi® bride.
So alarmed did he become that on
receiving a threatening letter Sunday
he refused to take his bride to church,
although he was a steward of the
First Methodist congregation, and re
quested the pastor, the Rev. E. E.
Roue, to come to the Hotel Estelle,
where he had apartments, to conduct
private prayers.
It evident that on, that same day
J UDGE WALTER M. GODBEE and his third wife, whom he
married four .months ago, and who, with her husband,
was slain by Mrs. Edna Perkins Godbee, divorced second wife
of the jurist, now awaiting trial in the Jenkins County jil.
Victims in Millen tragedy,
„ ... who are buried side by side at
HEHT TOLL FIR
Detectives Shadowing Mail Thief
Believed to Have Cached $40,-
000 After Robbery.
Mrs. Godbee No. 2 decided on the deed
she comnlitted Monday. She got into
communication with Marshal P. T
Foote and requested him to call on
her at her daughter’s home.
There, the marshal says, Mrs. God
bee showed him a .32-caliber pistol.
“Will this kill as quickly as a .38?"
was the surprising question he was
asked.
“It will if It hits the right spot.” he
replied. She seemed satisfied with
the answer and the Interview closed
This same pistol was in Mrs. God-
bee’s handbag Monday morning when
she went to the Millen postofflce. She
knew that each day the judge visited
there early in the forenoon to inquire
for mail. She was seated writing as
he entered the building, accompanied
by his young wife.
Tried to Save His Bride.
Eyewitnesses declare that the
Judge saw her and immediately
seized his bride and hastened to leave
the place.
His retreat was too late. The
woman who had divorced him was on
her feet. Her pistol was in her hand
and she leveled it steadily. The first
shot struck him in the body. The
wound was mortal, but with his last
strength he threw' himself between
the piMtol and his wife, acting as a
shield for her.
Another shot sent a bullet through
his brain. lie died instantly. Mrs.
Godbee stood frozen with horror. One
look at the judge’s body told his for
mer wife that she had done her work
there well. Again the pistol was lev
eled and as the young woman cried
hysterically two shots were fired into
her body. She sank to the floor, then
attempted to rise. A third shot lef.
her lying helpless.
The divorced woman then turned
and without haste left the postofflce
and returned to the home of her
daughter and calmly t.ld her what
she had done.
She was found there a few minutes
later bv Sheriff M. G. Johnston, who
placed her under arrest.
Mrs. Godbee died Tuesday night in
the apartments in which she and her
husband had lived during the two
months of their married life. Mrs. G.
W. Boyer, mother of the slain bride,
was en route from Williamsport to
Millen when her daughter died.
An interesting legal point now
'irises. It was at first contended that
as the shooting took place in the
postofflce, a Government reservation,
the United States Court would have
jurisdiction in the case.
Now', however, the point is advanced
that the Government merely leases
the postofflce property and that ac
cordingly the case will b.e tried in the
Jenkins County Circuit Coijrt.
Bulk of Estate to Daughter.
The will of Judge Godbee has been
found in the possession of W. B. Wal
lace, a merchant, and one of the
dead man’s closest friends. The val
ue of the estate is between $45,000
and $50,000. He bequeathes the bulk
of his property and securities to his
daughter by his first wife, formerly
Miss Maggie Godbee, now' married
and living in Augusta.
Small portions of the estate are left
to Frank Mills and King Godbee, sons
of the divorced wife, and Miss Sarah
Godbee, also an issue of the second
marriage. The divorced wife is not
provided for in the instrument. Frank
Mills Godbee has been appointed tem
porary administrator of the estate of
Judge Godbee. and A. S. Anderson,
temporary administrator of the estate
of Mrs. Florence Boyer Godbee.
The third Mrs. Godbee has been
burfed beside her husband and his first
wife in Waynesboro. The condition of
Mrs. Boyer, the slain bride’s mother,
is said to be somewhat improved fol
lowing her collapse upon first seeing
the dead body of her young daughter.
Her two sons have come from Penn
sylvania and will remain with her un
til she returns to her home at Wil
liamsport.
Neither of the boys expresses any
animosity toward the slayer of their
sister and her husband, but both join
their mother in hoping that exact
justice will be done. Archibald and
I.eRoy Boyer, the brothers, have not
yet decided whether they will attend
the trial of the second Mrs. Godbee.
African Chieftain
Is Harvard Student
Begins Stupendous Task of Reduc
ing His Own Language to
Written Form.
CAMBRIDGE. MASS., Aug. 23.—A
full-blooded African chieftain has just
passed his entrance examinations it
Harvard with flying colors and will
enter the university next September
as a member of the class of 1917. He
Is P. Gbe Wolo, and his people, 300,-
000 strong, are the Kru® of Liberia, on
the west coast of Africa.
They have no written language, so
that the only way he can communi
cate with his family is through trad
ers on the coast, who send the mes
sage by word of mouth along the
trail. He has begun the stupendous
task of reducing his language to
writing.
Woman Works as
Circus Roustabout
Breaks Down While Handling Heavy
Tent Pole and Her Secret
Is Revealed.
LA CROSSE, WIS., Aug 23.—Mrs.
Ada Broughton, unable to support her
two children and Invalid husband on
wages paid a woman, donned a man’s
attire and labored beside farm hands in
Dakota wheat fields. She broke down
under the strain and catpe to La Crosse
to seek lighter employment, becoming
a circus roustabout. Lifting heavy
poles and canvas resulted in her com
plete breakdown. Then she told her
story to the police and collapsed. She
was taken unconscious to a hospital.
Relatives are on the way from her
home at Rice Lake*
‘Star Baths’ Latest
Complexion Remedy
Young Women Campers Take Night
ly ‘Plunge’ in Milky Way Beams
on Tower.
NEW YORK, Aug. 23.—Star baths
are the fad at, the summer camp of
the Young Women’s Christian Asso
ciation in Blauvelt, N. Y. Miss Mar
ion Hopkins, the camp leader, is given
credit for the innovation. The baths
are taken on top of a hip*. tower in
the center of the camn. It will ac
commodate a dozen bathers.
There is a long waiting list of young
women campers who are anxious to
enjoy the reported benefits of imnier-
sion in starlight. Chief among these
is said to be the “star-shine complex
ion.”
Veering of River
Threatens Farms
Every Laborer Available Is Rushed
to Head Off Flow of
Missouri.
KANSAS CITY. Aug. 33.—Charles
Savage, a negro man robber, released
from the penitentiary in Leavenworth,
is being shadowed by three detectives.
He will be kept under watch con
stantly because somewhere is hidden
$40,000 of the $50,000 In currency he
stole five years ago from a registered
mall pouch, and nobody except Sav
age knows where it is.
When Savage was released he was
met at tfie door by his mother and a
young woman to whom he was en
gaged before he was sent t6 prison.
They came at once to Kansas City
to see an uncle, who is dying.
“They needn’t watch me,” he said.
“If they think I’m going to dig up
$40,000 they’re mistaken. I wish I
knew where thei£ was $40,000 buried.”
“Isn’t it queer that $2,000 in $20
gold certificates of the same series
as stolen from the mail sack were
found blowing around in the wind
near your mother’s home in South
Leavenworth this spring?” Savage
was asked.
“Yes, that’s queer. I don’t under
stand.” he answered. “I read about
that, and I figured it out that some
person who lived in South Leaven
worth had stolen that mail sack and
hidden the money there, and the rain
had washed away the dirt where ir
was buried, and the wind got at it and
blew it away.”
Tents Only Shelter
For Toledo Families
City Is Growing So Rapidly That
Builders Can Not Construct
Houses Demanded.
TOLEDO, Aug. 23.—Because the olty
has not enough houses to rent and build
ers are not able to construct houses as
rapidly as they are desired tents are
being used as homes in Toledo.
Two tent colonies have been estab
lished in the city. In both districts oc
cupants of the tents are owners of lots
on which the temporary homes have
been erected. The lots have been pur
chased as home sites and tents are
serving as temporary homes.
The tent homes consist of living
rooms, dining rooms and kitchens. Each
has a flower and vegetable garden and
one is equipped with a chicken nark, a
stable and outbuildings. Diving rooms
are convertible into bedrooms, and ham
mocks, stretched in the open, are used
day and night.
College Professor
Seeks Laborer’s Pay
Unable to Make Both Ends Meet.
Teacher Resigns Chair in
University.
BERKELEY, CAL., Aug. 23.—Un
able to make both ends meet on a
salary of $900 paid him by the Uni
versity of California, Paul Boehncke,
an instructor in the German depart
ment, has withdrawn from the fac
ulty and is seeking a position in
which he can support himself and
family of two children.
During the last few summers Boeh
ncke has managed to augment his
meager salary by working as a plas
terer at from $5 to $7 a day, or near
ly twice the amount he was paid by
the university.
Goes to Cemetery
Instead of Ball Park
Fan Mistakes Funeral Hack for Om
nibus on Its Way to
Diamond.
MONTGOMERY, MO., Aug 23.—A
baseball rooter came here from a
distance to attend the St. Charles-
Montgomery game, and by mistake
he got into a hack at the depot filled
with pallbearers going to a funeral.
As he had crepe on his hat, the
ballbearers thought Vie had come .xs
a mourner and he was taken to tie
cemetery instead of the ball park.
Finding himself in a funeral pro
cession, he woke up and escaped. He
got to the ball grounds Just in time
to see the home team win.
Rector Denounces
Paid Choir Singers
Clergyman Declares There Is No
Worship in Their Strange and
Unutterable Music.
FREEMONT, NEBR., Aug. 23.—Every
laborer available is being sent by the
Burlington Railroad to Folsom to fight
the Missouri River, which is again eat
ing into the valuable farm lands of
that section and threatening to cut its
way to the railroad tracks. Many car
loads of stone have been dumped into
the river.
The river suddenly began veering from
its channel a few days ago. Inside of
two days it had swamped 30 acres of
lan<l. Fear is now felt that the river
will cat its way back to the extensive
put in within the last year at a cost
of more than $500,060.
BRIDGEPORT, CONN , Aug 23.—The
Rev. E. J. Craft, rector of Christ Epis
copal Church, caused a sensation while
addressing a meeting of the parishioners
of Calvary parish by telling them what
he would do if he were entering upon a
new pastorate.
For one thing, he said, he did not be
lieve in paid singers for church choirs
"The service of the church was designed
for the people as a whole and not alone
for the choir,” he said. “These modern
choirs take the worship away from the
people of the congregation and do all
the worshiping themselves. They sing
In wild and strange "ways and in unut
terable tongues the praises of God.”
BERI BERI CAUSED BY
RICE DIET, SAYS EXPERT
Special Cable to The American.
BERLIN, Aug. 23.—The Berlin Med
ical Association reports that the well-
known investigator of beri beri, Dr.
Max Moszkowskl, finds, after a re
markable experiment, that the disea.se
is caused by the use of rice.
Dr. Moszkowskl for 138 days sub
sisted almost entirely upon rice. All
the symptoms of beri beri manifested
themselves.
At the close of the experiment an
injection of serum containing an ex
tract of rice resulted in a complete
recovery.
Tame Trout Craves
Petting; Fed by Hand
Feel® Insulted if Food Is Not Served
in Manner to Which He Is
Accustomed.
Colonel Gailliard, of South Caro-
lina, Breaks Down Under
Tremendbus Task.
More than any other section of
the country, the South is expected
to realize in prosperity and develop
ment by the opening of the Panama
Canal. But the South is to pay its
toll and pay for it dearly.
Just when the canal was an as
sured fact, Senator John T. Morgan,
of Alabama, father of the Isthmian
Waterway idea, died as a result of
his years of ceaseless labor impress
ing the necessity of rthe canal on
Congress.
Nok Lieutenant Colonel David Du
Bois Gailliard, of South Carolina, the
army engineer who dug the Culebra
Cut, has had to abandon the scene of
his triumph and return to the United
States to give his nervous system
shattered by his work, a rest which
it has needed for months.
And that is not all. From the zone
the advices come that Colonel Wil
liam L Sibert, of Alabama, the army
engineer in charge of the work on
the great Gatun Dam, is on the point
of a breakdown and it is extremely
doubtful if he will be strong enough
to stay in the zone to see his work
completed.
Careers of Two Similar.
The careers of Colonel Sibert and
Colonel Gailliard have been remark
ably similar. Gailliard was bora in
South Carolina; Sibert, in Alabama.
They entered West Point the. ,same
year and both graduated in 1884
among the first five men in their
class.
After their graduation, both were
sent to Willets Point and in 1908,
when the canal w’ork was put in the
hands of the army engineers, Colonel
Goethals immediately picked the two
Southerners as his chief aides. Sibert
was put In charge of the work on
the Atlantic side, which included the
building of the Gatun Dam. while
Gailliard was in charge of the work
In the interior of the zone.
That Lieutenant Colonel Gaillard
had suffered a nervous breakdown
w r as known only to a few of his inti
mate friends in the army. A few
weeks ago w-’hen his condition be
came serious the matter was brought
to the attention of General Bixby,
the chief engineer in Washington, and
by General Bixby called to the at
tention of Secretary of War Garrison,
who immediately granted the strick
en engineer a long leave of absence.
Lieutenant Colonel Charles F. Ma
son, Medical Corps, U. S. A., the di
lector of the Ancon Hospital, in the
Canal Zone; Mrs. Gaillard and Lieu
tenant Colonel Gaillard’s young son
came with him and weht with him to
Baltimore, where he will enter the
John Hopkins Hospital. There he
will be under the care of some of the
most eminent specialists in nervous
disorders in this country.
Leave Did Not Aid Him.
Colonel Gaillard was in New York
less than two months ago after a six
weeks’ leave of absence that he had
taken in the hope that the rest would
benefit his health to the extent that
he would be able to remain in the
Canal Zone. He sailed from New
York on June 27 last, again to take
charge of th e work in the Central Di
vision.
Those who talked with him at that
time remember that he expressed a
desire to get away from the Isthmus
as soon as his work was finished, but,
he added, with a touch of sadness in
his soft Southern voice, “When I do
leave it will be with deep and sincere
regret.”
Lieutenant Colonel Gaillard is the
first of the famous army engineers'
employed In the construction of the
Panama Canal to be stricken as a
result of his work. A few weeks
ago Colonel William M. Black, Corps
of Engineers, the chief of that branch
of the service in this part of the
United States, the officer who was
head of the engineering board which
solved the problem of raising the old
battleship Maine, was in Panama and
was Gaillard’s truest.
Close Friends for Years.
The two officers have been inti
mate friends for years. During his
stay at Empire, the headquarters of
Colonel Gaillard, Colonel Black noted
and realized that the builder of Cu-
lebra Cut needed a long and cqmplete
rest.
“Gaillard,” said Colonel Black last
night, “is one of the most wonderful
organizers the army has developed.
His work in the Canal Zone has been
little short of marvelous. He laid out
his plans in such a way that he got
the maximum out of everything, es
pecially in the handling of the rail
road part of the work. He was also
able within a few months after he
took charge at Empire to double the
work accomplished in a specified
time. Some of the things that he
did experienced railroad men had
said were practically impossible.”
Woman Given Job
Of Cleaning Up State
Success In Making Tacoma a Spot
less Town Causes Promotion
In Service.
TACOMA, Aug. 23.---Because of her
successful efforts to transform Tacoma
Into a “Spotless Town,” Miss Arizona
B. Wimple, food and market inspector,
is to be rewarded with a bigger Job—
the cleaning up of the State of Wash
ington.
This was the advice received here to
day from the Governor’s office In Olym
pia, where It is said Miss Wimple is to
be appointed State bakery and sanitary
inspector.
tier methods in cleaning up Tacoma
were simple and direet and Included
publicity as an aid In bringing about the
desired reforms.
Frequent inspections of bakeries and
other food dispensing establishments
were made and the score announced in
the newspapers.
Miss wimple, who is young and pret*
ty, will receive $4,000 a year from the
State.
She is a graduate of the University
of Michigan.
ESTES PARK, COLO., Aug. 23.—
Sunbeam, the pet speckled trout in
the fish hatchery at Este.s Park, has
Just recovered from an indisposition
caused by stomach trouble or rheu
matism, and is again able to take its
place as the only pet trout in cap
tivity.
The fish, now a 3-year-old and
about eleven inches long, is as good
an example of gentle and loving
trouthood as it is possible to find.
Fed from the hand from the time it
was hatched, it feels insulted now un
less its food is given to it in that
way.
It is very fond of being stroked
and petted, and will swim around and
rub itself against a person’s hand
whenever a chance is given It.
OF FATHER LOST BLOCKSWEDDING
IB IGF M YEARS OF PI
Employees’ Pension
Measure Approved
Pennsylvania Cities Are Permitted
to Establish Fund for Faithful
Municipal Workers.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 23.—Under
the provisions of an act passed by
the Legislature, which Governor Ton
er has approved, this city is given au
thority to establish a municipal pen
sion fund for employees. The act ap
plies to all city employees who have
given twenty years of service to the
city.
The act provides that in the event
of the creating of the fund every em
ployee will be compelled to pay Into
the fund 1 per cent of his yearly
salary.
The pension to be allowed the bene
ficiary will be equal to one-half of the
average yearly salary received by him
during the last two years before his
retirement.
Apache War in ’80’s
Is Cause of Divorce
Husband Deserted Thirty Years Ago
by Wife Who Didn’t Like
Wild West.
CHICAGO, Aug. 23.—Geronlmo and
his wild hordes of Apaches, who ter
rorized New Mexico in the eighties,
were the direct cause of a divorce suit
which Allen L. Eaton begun yester
day in the Superior Court against
Zuma E. Eaton.
The Eatons were married in Silver
City, N. Mex., in 1886, when the
Apache uprising was on. Mrs. Eaton,
who hailed from Pittsburg, did not
enjoy the wild Western life her mar
ried life entailed, and she deserted
her husband.
Common Laborer
Strikes Big Gold Vein
Ore Will Run $60,000 to Ton and
Mine Is Largest In Southern
Oregon.
MEDFORD, OREO., Aug. 23 —What
is reported as the biggest gold strike
made in Southern Oregon has been
been reported by Elmer Higginboth
am on the mine owned by him and
M. G. Womack on Kane’s Creek. The
ore will run $60,000 to the ton, ac
cording to assays of samples made
here.
Higginbotham had been a common
laborer for many years until Womack
offered to “grub-stake” him on a
prospecting trip up Kane's Creek.
Miss Edith Randall, of Boston,
Expects to Find Corpse on
Glacier at Foot Mt. Blanc.
BOSTON, Aug. 23.—Miss Edith Ran
dall, of this city, has gone to Cham
onix, Switzerland, one one of the
strangest errands known. She hopes
to find in the glacier there the body
of her father, who lost his life climb
ing on Mont Blanc forty-three years
ago. Ten others were lost with him
in a snowstorm near the summit.
All told, two Americans, one Scotch
man and eight guides and porters
died.
F’lve of the bodies were recovered.
It is expected by guides that the six
others will be delivered up by* the
glacier this year.
Scientists are interested as it may
supply evidence to prove their theo
ries on the speed of the annual march
of glaciers toward the valleys.
Miss Randall’s father, John Ran
dolph. a Boston banker, was fifty-four
when he lost his life In 1870.
Last year Miss Randall came to
Chamonix, as the ice axe and several
small articles relonging to Mr. Ran
dall had been found by guides at the
foot of the Glacier des Bossons.
Many Americans and English Al
pinists, a* well as guides, joined in the
search for the body, but without re
sult. All hope for better luck this
summer.
Dweller in Desert
Sees First Pine Tree
Full Grown Woman Is Mystified by
Foliage—Also Takes Moun
tain Snow Bath.
Young Engineer Kept From Lova
by Succession of Revolu
tions in Republic.
DENVER, Aur 33.—What rhe.no®
has a little fellow like the god ol
love in a mix-up with a big bully Ilka
the person who hold® down the Job
of god of war?
The young man if* Arthur N. Zwo-
tow, a mining engineer employed la
Mexico. He and the young woma.1^
Miss Mildred Lowln, have tried to
get married five times, to use thetr
own expression, and eaoh time that
god of war person has “butted In” and
dealt Cupid a knock-out Now.
Young Zwetow is in Concepcion del
Oro, a mining camp near the border
of the State of CoahullA. Six month®
ago he wrote his betrothed that ho
had obtained a leave of absenco and
the wedding balls would ring any^
time she ®aid. The young woman got'
her trousseau ready and sot the wed
ding day. But the bridegroom did not
come. A letter from him said the
Fed era Is had started a war, the rail
road had quit running, bullet® were
flying and he had to stay.
So it has been for five euoce®stv%
attempt®.
Stranger Is Son,
Gone for 20 Years
Father Turns Wanderer Away, bu*
Mother Call* Him Back, and
Reunion Follow*.
CHICO, CAL.. Aug. 23.—Mias Ilene
Looey, of Visalia, cousin of Frank
M. Moore, of this city, a grown worl-
an, saw her first pine tree when she
went with the Moores for an auto
trip to the mountains.
She has resided long In the desert
southland, and was not only pleased
but mystified fit the foliage and the
fact that she could reach the snow
bound regions of the Sierra Nevadas
inside of an hour's time.
The party left here especially to give
Miss Locey an idea of the diversified
climate of the Sacramento Valley and
a snow bath In the higher altitude.
GLASGOW. KT, Aug. 23.--V!Tgtl
Huffman had been away from hom®
twenty years, seeking hi® fortune in
Alaska, and the father and mother,
Mr. and Mrs. James Huffman, w«r®
sitting in a room of their home near
here discussing him and wondering
if he would ever come back.
There was a knock at the door and
Mr. Huffman opened it to see a dusty
traveler, who said he was tired and
was seeking lodging for the night. Mr.
Huffman thought he could do noth-*
ing for him, but Mrs. Huffman “reck
oned” they could manage somehow.
Then they led him into the haJJ, un
der the swinging lamp, and as th®
light fell on his face the aged oouple
recognized him as their son.
Husband in Prison;
Wife Willed $20,000
Richmond Woman Given Share of
Estate After Helpmate Is Sen
tenced for Embezzlement.
RICHMOND. VA.. Aug. 23.—Mrs.
Maud Kent Rowley, whose husband,
William J. Rowley, formerly connect
ed with a hotel here, was recently
sentenced to serve two years In State
prison for embezzling $8,000 from the
Jeffereon Hotel in this city while au
ditor there, inherits $20,000 from the
estate of her aunt, Mrs. Junius A.
Morris, of Richmond, who died Au
gust 3 at Atlantic City.
The value of the estate is placed at
$496,000.
FRECKLES
Don't HW® Thom With a Vail; Re
move Them With the Oth4ne
Prescription.
Till* prescription for the rsznovai
* of freckles was written by a prom-
| tnent physician and is umuuly so .,
successful in removing freoVries and •
giving a clear, beautiful oornplexton
that It is eokl by Jacobs' Pharmacy
under an absolute guarantee to re
fund the money if It fails.
Don’t hide your freckles under a
veil; get an. ounce of othine and re
move them. Even the first few ap
plications should show a wonderful
Improvement, some of the lighter
freckles vanishing entirely
Be sure to ask the druggist for
the double strength othine; It I® this
that is sold on the money-back guar
antee.
Here is the Very Newest
in Home Lighting Fixtures
It is one of the very newest Indirect Lighting Ideas of Lighting Fixtures,
generally conceded nowadays that diffused light is by far the best for home.
It is
CANDLES BURNING AT
WAKE SET HOUSE AFIRE
CALGARY, ALBERTA. Aug 23.—A
fire which started from candles set
about a coffin at a wake, at the house
of J. Selar, here burned the hair a?id
eyebrows off the body of an aged wom
an Portions of the face were charred.
Firemen extinguuibetl Lite blaze.
The fixture shown in the illustration
is highly artistic and one of the
very newest designs that has been pro
duced and is exclusive at the J. E. Hun-
nicutt & Co. store.
And you are buying it—not only
from the finest and most exclusive
stock of fixtures in Atlanta, but from
a firm who absolutely guarantee you
an EXPERT INSTALLATION.
$15.00 and Up
Come and look at this highly attrac
tive fixture that is shown in this ad
vertisement. Equipped with four lights,
ready to switch on the current for the
price above.
Lighting Fixtures of Character and Distinctiveness
to the Home are Found in Greatest Assortments Here
If the Lighting Fixtures are well designed and executed, they form an important part of the
interior decorating—if they are of the ordinary showy kind, the entire effect of a room may be
easily destroyed.
OUR EXTENSIVE LINE OF LIGHTING FIXTURES
embodies a large and varied range from the simplest to the most elegant, but even the simple, less
expensive fixtures show correctness of design and careful workmanship.
The special designing of lighting fixtures appropriate for your particular requirements Is
one of the strong features of this concern.
J. E. HUNNICUTT & CO.
53-55 N. Broad St.
“Look for the Tfie Store Front 1