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ITKARST-S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATT. A NT A, OA,, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14. 1913.
ALL THE LATEST, LIVELIEST NEWS OF FLORIDA
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GROOM A FORMER ATLANTAN
Duval County Commissioners Fail
to Get Together on the
Question of Style.
OLD BUILDING OVERCROWDED
Fund of $250,000 To Be Raised
by Special Assessment of 2
Mills for Five Years.
JACKSONVILLE, Sept. 13.—Inabil
ity of the County Commissioners and
other parties interested to agree upon
plans is halting the enlargement of
the county courthouse, which is over
crowded, as a result of the increased
legal business of the city and county.
Several of the Commissioners fa
vor enlarging the present courthouse
at Market and Forsyth streets by
building to the sidewalk lines. There
are others who urge that an annex
be built on a plot of ground owned
by the county fronting on Forsyth
•street to the west of the present
structure.
There will be a fund of $250,000
available for courthouse improve
ments, this amount to be raised by
the levying of an assessment of tw’o
mills, for a term of five years, on
the assessed valuation of county
property, w’hich is $25,000,000.
Plans by Architect.
It was hoped that some decision
would be reached in the matter early
this week, when W. 13. Talley, the
architect chosen by the Board of
County Commissioners, presented
plans for consideration. This hope
was blighted when Carroll D. Judson.
an abstract man, and others came
forward with new suggestions.
To remodel the present structure
by building it to the sidewalk lines
would entail an expenditure of ap
proximately $250,000. while it would
cost $60,000 to build an annex, and
connect it with the present struc
ture.
Those who oppose the annex
scheme argue that to put an annex
on the vacant lot adjoining the pres
ent building would destroy the value
of the lot and that the annex would
eventually have to be torn down in
order that an entirely new court
house might be built on this property
and the present site.
At present the courthouse is so
overcrowded that Frank Brown, Clerk
of the Circuit Court, has barely
enough room in which to work, while
real estate men w'ho wish to examine
the office files are obliged to sit in
the vault.
W, J. Clark, President of Way-
cross Baseball Association,
Declines to Enter Race.
WAYCROSS, Sept. IS.—It devel-
oped here to-day that YV. J. Clark,
president of the Waycross Baseball
Association, kept out of the race for
Mayor of the city when virtually
promised his election, in order to give
Waycross a winning baseball team in
the Empire State League next year.
In other words, he'd rather have a
pennant than be Mayor.
Mr. Clark won’t admit that base
ball kept him from running for May
or. but those who are close to him
have gotten next to the fact that but
for his Interest in baseball he would
have announced over a week ago for
Mayor instead o fdeclinlng to become
a candidate. Had his statement been
made as he really felt he would have
had the newspapers say, “For base-
Country Schools
Are in Fine Shape |fc RolllettWas NewYork Belle
Increase in Value of Buildings
Reaches $30,000—Local Taxa
tion the Cause.
WAYCROSS, Sept. 13.—Through
local taxation, which has been voted
In almost every district of Ware
County, schools in the country dis
tricts have been greatly improved in
recent years.
The last report of the State Su
perintendent show’s that the value of
school buildings in Ware, not includ
ing YVaycross, jumped from $1,800 m
1908 to $30,000 in 1913. The gain was
made by the co-operative work ot
progressive YVare County citizens.
The school term in Ware has been
lengthened by the increased fund3
raised by local taxation, and the aver
age school In Ware is open for seven
and a half mouths, as compared to
six weeks and two months of a few
years back, when the funds would
not permit long terms.
FIGHT STARTS FOR CHILD
IN HARRISON TRAGEDY
SAVANNAH, Sept. 13.—An echo of
the Harrison-Hester tragedy has
reached the court of the Ordinary in
the form of a petition for the cus
tody of Ruth Hester’s 3-year-old
child, Howard Bernice Hester.
J. S. Harrison, a farmer, asks the
court to require the child's grand
mother, Mrs. Daura E. Exley, to sur
render the child to him on the ground
that the Hester woman. Just before
she died, gave the child to him.
Ruth Hester was killed by Hugh
Harrison, with whom she had been
living. He has been convicted of the
slaying and sentenced to life impris-
Who Had Spent Several
Winters in Florida.
TAMPA, Sept. 13.—A wedding of
interest to Tampa society this week
was that of Miss Gregory Walker, a
popular young society girl of New
York City, to Dr. William M. Row
lett, a prominent young physician of
T%.mpa, which took place Wednesday
evening at the Cathedral of St. John
the Divine, New York.
Caius Rowlett, of Tampa, brother
of the bridegroom, acted as best man,
being the only attendant. Hewitt Hill
Walker, brother of the bride, gave
her away.
Immediately after the wedding the
young couple left for Canada and
other points for a visit of several
weeks. They will be at home to their
friends after October 1 at No. 825
South Rome avenue. Suburb Beauti
ful
Mrs. Rowlett is a niece of Mr. and
Mrs. Hewitt Hill and has spent sev
eral winters in Tampa with her moth
er. Last winter they were at the
Padgett place on the Boulevard for
several months.
Dr. Rowlett is a very successful
and well-known young physician who
has practiced in Tampa for four
years. He is a graduate of the At
lanta College of Medicine and has
taken post-gTaduate courses in the
North. Before coming to Tampa he
was for some time house surgeon at
the Presbyterian Hospital, Atlanta.
LDVE "CALIFORNIA
cun ILL
SYRUP BE FIGS"
Harmless “Fruit Laxative"
Cleanses Stomach, Liver
and Bowels.
delicious cure for constipa-
i, biliousness, sick headache,
r stomach, indigestion, coated
gue, sallowness—take “Cali-
lia Syrup of Figs." For the
se of all this distress lies n a
lid liver and sluggish bowels,
tablespoonful to-night means
constipation, poison, waste
iter fermenting food and sour
. ge'ntlv moved out of your sys-
i by morning without griping.
Please don't think of "California
Syrup of Figs” as a physic. Don’t
think you are drugging yourself
or your children, because this de
licious fruit laxative can not cause
injury. Even a delicate child can
take it as safely as a robust man.
It is the most harmless, effective
stomach, liver and bowel regula
tor and tonic ever devised.
Your only difficulty may be in
getting the genuine; so ask your
druggist for a 50-cent bottle of
•'California Syrup of Figs." Say
to your druggist, “I want only
that made by the ‘California Fig
Syrup Company.’ " This city has
many counterfeit "fig syrups," so
watch out.
FOR STATE GUARD
Jacksonville Lawyer Saves For
mation of First Regiment
Being Disbanded.
ball reasons,” instead of “For busi
ness reasons.”
Hard Worker.
Ever since his election to head the
local association Mr. Clark has been
a hard worker for the local organiza
tion and he has strong hopes of Way-
cross making a much better, showing
mother year. To be Mayor of Way-
rosg is no small honor, and to de
line the position to help Waycross
in a pennant chase is certainly some
indication of the interest that is be
ing taken this far in advance of the
1914 season.
The reserve list which has been
forwarded to National Secretary Far
rell includes the names of McManus
Jones, Shuman, Fenton, Anderson,
Clark, Rafferty. Coveney was given
his release, it being understood that
this would be done when he joined
the team.
JACKSON YTLLE, Sept. 13.—To
Lewis Landes, a young Hebrew law
yer of this city, belongs the credit
for saving the regimental formation
of the First Regiment, National Guard
of Florida, from being disbanded.
When orders were issued by the
War Department at Washington re
cently, that unless the regiment were
enlisted up to the required strength
it would be disbanded, Landes, who
is a recent comer to Jacksonville and
has had military experience in the
National Guard of New York, deter
mined to enlist a company, composed
entirely of members of his own race.
His efforts to secure recruits met
with immediate success and at a re
cent meeting at the Armory, called
for the purpose of arousing renewed
interest in the military organization
of the State, a number of men came
forward and signed their names to
the muster roll.
Since then. Landes has been un
ceasing in his efforts to secure enough
men for a full company, and the com
mand was mustered into the service
last Friday.
Landes has been elected captain
of the company, with Samuel R.
Herscovitz and Clarence H. McDon
ald as lieutenants. Members of the
company are showing considerable
aptitude for military life and Captain
Landes expects the command to be
come the crack company of the State, j
Trial by Jury in
Bankrupt Case Is
First in History
Involves One of the Largest Concerns
In South Georgia—Company
Claims Solvency.
WAYCROSS, Sept. 13.—Consider
able interest is being shown here in
the approaching hearing by a jury at
Savannah of the Beach Manufactur
ing Company’s case, scheduled for
Monday.
Besides being the first bankruptcy
petition to be passed on by a jury
in the United States Court, Southern
District of Georgia, the case involves
one of the largest concerns in South
Georgia.
W. R. Beach, president of the com
pany that creditors have been en
deavoring to place in bankruptcy, has
made his home in Y\ T aycross for a
number of years. Waycross attor
neys, with attorneys from Baxley and
Macon, represent the Beach Manu
facturing Company. Creditors are
represented by Macon attorneys, and
the legal tight is being anticipated
with more than usual concern. Sev
eral hundred thousand dollars is the
amount involved in the case.
In resisting the bankruptcy pro
ceedings the Beach Company has con
tended that it was a solvent concern
and not in the condition aJleged by
the bankruptcy petition.
GEORGIA EXPERTS TO
FIGHT BOLL WEEVIL
SAVANNAH, Sept. 13.—State agri-
cultural experts are preparing for the
Invasion of the Mexican boll weevil,
which, it is predicted, will reach Geor
gia in two years. J. Walter Hen
dricks, district agent of the Boys’
Corn Clubs and connected with the
State College of Agriculture, at Ath
ens, is now in Louisiana and Missis
sippi, where the pest has already
worked havoc.
MAJOR LAWTON GIVEN
THE FIRST BATTALION
Woman Celebrates
Her 104th Birthday
Direct Descendants Number Nearly
500—Remarkable Mental
Faculties.
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SAVANNAH, Sept. 13.—Having re
ceived his commission. Major A. R.
Lawton, Jr., of the First Infantry
Regiment, has been assigned by Colo
nel M. J. O’Leary, commanding, to
the command of the First Battalion.
MOULTRIE, Sept. 13.—Mrs. Delilah
Drawdy, of Berrien County, who re
cently celebrated her 104th birthday,
Is remarkable not only for her longev
ity and multldunious progeny, in that
she is one of the very few’ who have
lived to attain great age that has no
rule for others to follow in order
that they may cross the century mark
hale and hearty. She explains her
long sojourn on this earth by saying:
“I just didn’t die.”
In spite of the weight of her years.
Mrs. Drawdy still has remarkable
possession of her mental faculties, her
sight is as good as it was when she
was a girl and she spends long hours
quilting, this being her chief diver
sion.
Her direct descendants number
nearly 500, all of whom live in this
section of the State.
Farmers’ Union Has Agreed to
Furnish Posts if Citizens
Will Construct Fence.
WAYCROSS, Sept. 13.—The great
wall of China is going to have a rival
Waycross is going to be "w’alled in. ’
or to be more explicit, is going to be
fenced in to keep the country cows
and hogs and goats from making
bankrupts of their owners who have
to dig for stockade costs Just as often
as the aforesaid cattle roam in Way-
cross.
Fencing the city Is going to be an
easier proposition than was first
thought, too, but it is going to cost
not less than $2,500. The Farmers’
Union has discussed the question at
length and has tentatively agreed to
furnish the ^osts for the “city fence.”
People in the city who want to help
the farmers and who have cattle they
would like to stop paying fines on will
endeavor to raise the necessary
money to construct tb« fence.
Eight Miles in Lsngth.
By using fences on or very nea r
the city limits it has been found that
a fence of eight miles will accomplish
what is desired. Automatic gates
have been proposed for all main high
ways. so that people entering or leav
ing the city will not be put to any
great trouble in getting out of the
fenced-in city.
A committee from those interested
in the fence question has aroused the
interest of the County Commissioners,
and members of the board are now
investigating the matter before mak
ing a report on a petition for assist
ance of a financial nature. It is be
lieved the fence will be built without
delay, as many favor it as an easy so
lution of not only the cow question
but also the goat and hog troubles.
‘Everybody Tango/
But Two Orchestras
Couldn't Stand Pace
Musicians Fall From Exhaustion, but
Tampa Dancers Cry for More.
Just Couldn’t Get Enough.
TAMPA, Sept. 13.—Had the tango
pedometer been attached to the an
kles of any of the buds who took
part in the dance given by J. C. Mc
Kay at the Country Club Wednesday
night they would have broken all
records.
“For once we’ll have Just all the
dancing we want,” said Mr McKay.
Consequently he engaged two or
chestras instead of one, with orders
to relay when the pace got too hot,
so that there whs continuous music
for three straight hours.
Then the two orchestras played out,
hut still there were cries for more
music.
“Never let it be said that I didn't
do my best,” said Collins Qlllett, and
he went to the pianola.
Collins is something of an athlete,
but he played out In less than an
hour, and there were still shouts for
“Encore.” They didn’t get 1t.
FORMAL OPENING OF
WAYCROSS COUNTRY CLUB
Can Serve No Quail
In Restaurants or
Hotels in Florida
Game Laws Have Practically Retired
Game Birds From Markets.
May Change Name.
WAYCROSS. Sept. 13.—Grading of
the approaches to the handsome new
home recently erected for the Way*
cross Country Club will be rushed
next week so that everything will be
in shape for the formal opening of
the home on October 1. This date
has been fixed for the opening, and
there is every indication that the
grounds and buildings will be ready
for the big event.
Work on the gounds about the
home will be continued until the en
tire tract surrounding the home is a
beauty spot.
JACKSONVILLE. Sept. 13.—Quail
have been practically retired from the
market in Florida because of the
strict State laws now In force for the
protection of the game birds.
Under the law. not only may hotel
proprietors w r ho serve quail be pros
ecuted, but any person who buys and
eats a prohibited bird at a hotel or
restaurant* out of season may be
prosecuted, according to D. J. Her
rin. who was recently appointed Game
W arden in this ciunty by State Game
W arden E. Z. Jones
In order to avoid prosecution, it is
said, the hotel men will serve the
toothsome birds under another name,
but as Herrin anticipates this trick,
arrests are expected when they try it.
REFUSES TO POSTPONE
FALL TERM OF CITY COURT
WAYCROSS, Sept. 13.—Judge John
C. McDonald has refused to listen to
the numerous requests sent him by
local and out-of-town attorneys ask
ing that the September term of City
Court, due to open Monday, be post
poned a few weeks. Judge McDon
ald has informed Clerk Bern,’ that
court will open Monday on scheduled
time, 10 a. m.
Much business will be continued
because of the illness of Senator J.
L. Sweat.
c&j
Hondo Society
Tampa
T AMPA, Sept. 13.—The wedding of
Miss Olivia Moody and Mr.
Karl Errol Whitaker Wednes
day night was one of the affairs of
the fall season in this city. The
young couple were married by the
Rev. J. B. Mitchell at the Hyde Park
Methodist Church. Miss Cora Hen
derson was maid of honor and the
other maids and groomsmen were
Miss Sophia Whitaker. John Moody,
Miss Gladys Grose, Albert Mellon.
Miss Louise Paul, Charles Clewls,
Miss Margaret Collins. Joe Knight,
Miss Frances Kiggln of Bradentown,
Joseph Grable. Miss Adine Fuchs and
Fred DuPree. The young couple left
after the ceremony for New' York.
They will spend several weeks.
Pensacola
P ENSACOLA. Sept. 13.—Mr. and
Mrs. Aubrey Saunders, whose
marriage a few weeks ago was
of interest to a wide circle of friends
in this city and elsew’here. left on
Monday night for Atlanta, where they
will be the guests for a few days of
Colonel Woodward, president of the
Georgia Military Academy. from
w’hich Institution Mr. Saunders was
graduated a year ago
Miss Valerie Reese, the young
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Reese,
who leaves for Raleigh, N. C., where
she will enter St. Mary’s College, was
given a surprise party Tuesday night
by a large number of her friends at
her home on North Hill. Mrs. Reese
and children will accompany Miss
Valerie to Raleigh.
Mrs. H. M. Chandler, of Atlanta, is
the guest of her sister, Mrs. S. P.
Rozear.
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Miami
|V/| I AM I. Sept. 13.—Society interest
J I this week centered in the mar
riage of Henderson Dale Mil
ler, of this city, to Mis9 Jean Rein-
hard, of Cumberland, Md., which took
place Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock
at the home of the bride on Green
street, Cumberland. The ceremony
was private and w r as performed by
the Rev. Father Benedict Capuchin,
of SS. Peter and Paul Roman Cath
olic Church
Mr. and Mrs. Charles F Cushman
have returned from their wedding
journey, and will be at horns in their
new cottage after September 15. Mrs.
Cushman was formerly Miss Mable
Beatrice Rorem, of St. Paul, Minn.,
and the ceremony took place at their
home in that city on August 22.
Miss Helen Comstock entertained
Tuesday night at an informal dance
at her home.
Mr. and Mrs. George Romfh were
among those who entertained during
the week. They gave a dance at the
Tarpon Club.
Miss Christine Worley and Miss
Hilda Raile were hostesses at tea at
the Worley home on the Boulevard.
acKsonville
ACKSONVILLE, Sept. 13.—One of
most interesting social events
of the past week was the marriage
Tuesday evening of Miss Eula Powell,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. YV. G. Pow
ell, to Lawrence S. Adams. The cer
emony was performed in the Main
Street Baptist Church, the pastor.
Rev. W. L. C. Mahon, officiating.
FEL HEADACHY, DIZZY, BILIOUS?
CLEAN YOUR LIVER! A DIME A
Sick headaches! Always trace them
to lazy liver delayed, fermenting
food In the bowels or a sick atom-
ach. Poisonous, constipated matter,
gases and bile generated in the bow
els, instead of being carried out of
the system, is reabsorbed into the
blood. When this poison reaches the
delicate brain tissue, it causes con
gestion and that dull, sickening head
ache. Casearet9 will remove the
cause by stimulating the liver, mak
ing the bile and constipation poison
move on and out of the bowels. One
taken-to-night straightens you out by
morning—a 10-cent box will keep
your head clear, stomach sweet, liver
and bowels regular, and make you
feel bright and cheerful for months.
Children need Cascarets. too.
CATHARTIC
Result in Ware County Is Such as
to Arouse the Enthusiasm
of Citizens as a Whole.
WAYCROSS, Sept. 13.—Waycross
people are so enthusiastic over the
good road work being done in Ware
County that it is very doubtful if
the City Council requests the Coun
ty Commissioners to bring the chain-
gang Into Waycross for the month
and a half’s work made compulsory
under the amendment to the act cre
ating the county board.
Under the law the gang must be
worked in Y\ r aycros» on main streets
46 days of this year and 90 of each
succeeding year. But the gang is at
present working on a road all of
Waycross is interested in and hopes
to see completed from the city limits
to the Coffee County line.
To demand the gang would put an
end to this work, and because of this
it is reported that the county will be
urged to continue the hard surface
road construction.
Highway Nears Completion.
The Waycross-Millwood highway
is rapidly nearing completion, and
while two months’ work will be nec
essary to finish the job. people of
the city who have inspected the road
are of the opinion that it is worth
all that has been put on it
The policy of the-county board has
undergone a radical change so far as
road work is concerned. As little
opening up of roads as possible is
being done, the main efforts being
devoted to the hard surfacing and
improving of the principal highways
of the county. YV’hen the Millwood
road is finished it is quite probable
that the next one to be tackled will
be the road leading to Manor, in the
western part of the county. The
Commissioners are being compliment
ed on all sides for the road work and
citizens generally are pleased to
know that Ware is at last getting
good roads.
FAILED TO PAY ALIMONY.
SAVANNAH, Sept. 13.—For failure
to comply with the order of the court
which granted Mrs. Beulah Kelly a
divorce from her husband, G. J. Kellv,
with alimony. Judge Walter W. Shep
pard has ordered the husband to «ir>-
pear in the Superior Court at Hines-
ville on September 18 and show cause
why he should not be adjudged in
contempt.
W ENTER RACE
Waycross Office Attracts ManJ
Patriots—J. E. T. Bowden De
clines to Run for Place.
WAYCROSS, Sept. 13.—With tw|
candidates already in the race fod
Mayor, two others about to announced
and two or three more well-known
citizens seriously considering thf
matter, the fall city campaign is no*
open and is destined to be one of thq
warmest known in years. The ean^
didates who have announced are Did
H. A. Cannon and J. YY r . Strickland*
The latter was for eleven years clerH
of City Council, and has many friendi
throughout this section who will
watch with interest his campaign.
J. E. T. Bowden, who was slated tq
become a candidate, has issued q
statement declining to run. He sqjnf
he wants to iead the fight against the
city charter amendments which wil|
he voted on at a special election in
Waycross in October. Mr. Bowden
has been considered one of ths
strongest men discussed for the of*
flee of Mayor, and in view of tbq
splendid showing he made when hf
ran against A. M. Knight and J. M*
Cox a few years ago, his friends feel
confident of his election. His refusal
to run has caused a lot of disappoints
ment. James Sinclair, former Alderf
man from the First, haa said he will
not be a candidate.
Two citizens who will likely an*
nounce shortly are W. J. Clark and
Alderman Scott T. Beaton. The lat*
ter’s announcement may be road#
next week. Others considering thj
matter are Dr J. Tv. Walker and J. L«
Crawley. The last-named is one of
the Representatives of Ware.
No Aldermanh announcements
have appeared s«> far. but by the enq
of the month it is expected that af
least fifteen candidates will be In th«
field.
SAVANNAH MAIL CLERK
GETS NATIONAL OFFICE
SAVANNAH. Rppt. 13.—SavannaH
w’as given recognition at the national
convention' of the United National
Association of Postoffice Clerks*
which has just (dosed its session in
Cleveland. Ohio, by the election ol
A. J. Gannon, a mailing clerk in tbs
local postoffice, to a place on th4
national finance committee.
Souvenir Night and Fall Frolic
AT THE
Piedmont Hotel
"We Grow Better By Associating
With Better People”
Feeling the presence of good-times and the conse
quent good-fellowship now so prevalent throughout the
Southland this glorious Fall month of September, the man
agement of the Piedmont Hotel has inaugurated for Mon
day night, September 15th, beginning at 10 P. M.,
A Fall Frolic for Fastidious Folios
We intend to usher in the coming of Fall and the
Oyster season and (he return of our folk_s from the Sum
mer resorts, with a real get-together evening of
Merriment and Good Footing
And we count you one of the live ones who should enjoy
the occasion With us. We have specially engaged for the
occasion singers who will please you during the evening,
and our own
5-Piece Orchestra
H' ill mate its bow for the first time this season to our guests.
For this Fall Opening on Monday evening, Septem
ber 15th, We announce
Souvenirs Special Singers
Extra Service Good Fellowship
And a Royal Good Hme For All
Tables Should Be Reserved at Once
Telephone Ivy 600
Guests desiring wines served should have same delivered
to the steward at the Piedmont in advance.
Reasonable cordage charges.
Don’t Miss Atlanta’s First
Fall Frolic
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