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Augusta Cannot Afford to Fail to Pass Bonds
Polls Open at Eight A. (If. and Close at Three P. M. — 2,009 Votes Are Needed—To Fail to Finish the Levee
Would Be Like the Htan Who Built His House Upon the Sand
NO BUSINESS TO GO ON IN AUGUSTA MONDAY
FROM 12 UNTIL 4; BUSINESS HOUSES CLOSE
SO EVERYONE CAN VOTE FOR THE BONDS
Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association, Realizing the
Tremendous Importance of Carrying the Bond Election,
Secures Consent of Members to Close the Stores
CITY EMPLOYES WILL ALSO GET
A RECESS DURING SAME HOURS
Splendid Co-Operation From Merchants Who Comply With
Request of Bond Committee to Close Up So All Em
ployes May Voto For Bonds.
From 12 o'clock tomorrow until 4
there will Im no buslnes* going ou on
Broad street, or In tho business din
trlct anywhere, lor tho merchants
liave agreed to cloao tlher doora ho
that lhoy and their employes may
vote for tho bonds. Tho Merchants
and Manufacturer*' Association Itavo
been especially active In working for
the bonds and have aaaured tho com
mittee In ehargH of the election that
eevry one of their more than 350
members will vote for the bonds.
The Herald is (printing below u Hat
of the inerchuntH who have agreed to
cloae their store*. Alnioat all agreed
to close from 12 to 4, Homo to close
from 1 to 4, and the special commit
tee to ask tho merchants to cl.me
met with the most oordial co-opera
tion in almost all Instances.
Those proprietors who were unable
to be seen ire asked to close their
stores the same as the ones who were
seen.
In speaking of the co-operation
which was received frqpi the mer
chants, Mr. j. A. Hood, chairman of
the committee to see the mercliantH
on 10(H), 1 luO and 1200 blocks of
ltroad, and tho manager of the T. U.
Maxwell Furniture Company, says:
"It was a real pleasure to take (he
petition of the Merchants and Manu
facturers' Association on the 1000,
1100 ami 1200 blocks of Broad Street,
asking the merchants to close their
stores on Monday, the best day or the
week for bustness, from 12 to 4
o’clock.
"On these blocks the merchants re
sponded almost to a man, and were
glnd to think they could do something
that might help In successfully pass
lug the bonds, besides voting. ' There
wede a few that live in North Au
gusta and have no vote in this elec
tlon, although their business Is In Au
gusta and they pay taxes In Augusta
would say yes sir, we are with you,
w-e will close Our stores or do any
thing that the M. and M. calls on us
to do that might help cum the bond
Issue."
Have Worked Hard.
Chairman James M. Hull, of the
■pedal bond committee of the M. and
la., and the members of his commit
tee have worked tirelessly on the
bond issue and they believe that suc
cess is In sight. It la understood that
the mills nod lumber companies of
jthe city will either close between 12
end 4 or give their employee plenty
of time to vote during the day.
The city employee will have a
yocess In all departments from 12
until 4 and every one is expected to
go to the polls and vote for the bond
issu. Work will be suspended In each
department between the hours men
tloned.
The wholeeale grocers and tho
packing houses or the city have
agreed to allow their drummers,
wherever registered t.S stay In the
cty Monday to vote (or the bonds.
1 he Contract to Close.
The following Is the contract which
the merchants In the business district
signed to close their stores tomor
row-:
We, the undersigned members of
KILL TWO BIRDS WITH ONE STONE:
VOTE FOB THE BONOS UNO THEN
RECISTER FOR THE CITY PRIMARY
Registration Offices Open in All Six Wards Tomorrow Morn
ing For City White Primary For Naming of Councilraen
In Most Cases Voting Places For Bonds and Registration
Offices Close Together.
The registry offices for the city
white primary election for the choos
ing of councilraen will open on Mon
day morning and continue open
through the last Saturday In June.
So far there la opposition In only one
ward, the Sixth, where Meaara 8 A
Portion and Geo. W. Summers are the
candidates.
The following are the other candi
dates who have announced and who
ere so far unopposed: First Ward,
Mr. Gordon l-amhack; Second Ward.
Mr. Wilbur Boswell; Third Ward,
Dr. Geo T Horne; Fourth Ward. Mr.
L. C. Davis; Fifth Ward Mr. J :i.
Koon.
The following Is a list of the regis
try clerks and the places where the
registry offices will he located-
First Ward, 21S Fifth Street.
Smith's meat market. Henry n . Good
rich.
Second Ward, Greece and Klghth
Street*. Boston Confectioner*, John
U Sheehan ,
Third Ward, Bread Street, Planters
tho Merchants and Manufacturers'
Association believing that the pas
sage of the bond election on June Ist
is essential to the security, continued
progress and development of Augusta,
do hereby ledge ourselves to close
our respective places of business ou
the llrst duy oT June, 1914, between
tho hours of 12 o'clock, noon, and 4
o'clock p. m., In order that we and all
persons In our employment may have
an opportunity to visit the polls and
vote In fuvor of Hiiid bonds.
Those Who Will Close.
The following Is a list of those
who will close;
J. A. Mullarky J. 15. Tarver
Company, Alexander Seed
Win O. White, Company,
L. J. Hchaul, Model Grocery
Hire ft O'Connor. Company,
Shoe Co., Armour ft Co.,
Mulberin & W. B. Brigham
Marks Hhoe Co.. ft Hon,
l/oula P. Spelh, Tunt ft Co.,
Andrews Bros., Sulzerherg ft
H. L. Sulsbury, Hons,
broker, Morris A Co.,
Ratcher ft Nixon, Hmlih Bros.,
J. W. Creasy, Swift ft Co.,
Byon ft Kelly, ,T. U Janes ft Co.
N L. Willett T R. Maxwell
Seed Co.. Furn Co.,
Burum ft Co., Parlor Market,
Co., H. H. Claussen
M K. Kelly Dry Company,
Goods Co., Scott ft Davis,
Gas Bight Co., H. J. Markwalter
Walk Over Boot I). Slusky,
Shop, Cohen Bros.,
Florshelm Shoe Culpepper Bros.,
Store, Marks Gro. Co.,
Commercial Of- Whitney-Eve Co.,
flee of the A. Wingfield Hwd
• A lly Co., Company,
Richards Sta- The Jones Furn.
tlonery Co., Company,
McCreary ft Co, Caple ft '''o,
Ferris ft Arring W O. Rountree,
ton, Croft ft O’Connor
The Bootery, I. Ruhcnsteln,
T G. Bailie ft Wallace ft Her-
Company, man,
A. J. Renkl, W. R. Jones,
Phoenix Printing K. M Crosier Co.
Company, M. Tanenbaum,
Wm Schwelgert •M. Bern,
ft Co.. Maloney' F. Co.,
W. R. Munday & M. Grossman
Company. J. H. Wilhelm,
Imperial Tea Kubanka Bros.,
Store P. C. Ktuanue’l,
Chas A. Meyer, Hightower F. Co.
M. Shoron ft Co., W. M. Holr.iann,
J. P. Dill ft Co., J. K. Hefner.
The Mentor Co., Silver Block Fur.
Cook MrKte Shoe Company,
Company, More ft Hints,
J, 1,, l.ovell, Golden Bros.,
I. Handler. A. G. Rhodes
T. F. Cuthbert, Furn. Co..
Guarantee Shoe Dietz Bros,
Company. The Great East-
Plxie Repair ern Shoo Co.
Works. Wise D. u. Co.,
Augusta Auto VonKamp,
Oil Co, Vaughn ft Oer-
J. Kdelstein, • aid,
W B. Toole & J. B. White ft
Company, Company,
Masters ft Agee Mcßlwee ft
Company, Thomas
Hotel. J. B Selgler
Fourth Ward. 126 S Broad Street,
Chapman Drug Co.. J. F Reeder.
Fifth Ward. 1770 Broad Street, Wil
liam Williamson.
Sixth Ward, Police Barracks, on
Walton Way, j R Pollock.
It will be the most convenient
thing for e\ery man who goo# to the
polls tomorrow to vote for the bonds
at the same time to qualify to vote
In the city white primary for couttell
tnen. In roost cases the |tolls for the
bond election and the registration of
fices will he located close to each
other and In the Sixth Ward thev
will be In the same place.
In the First Ward the bond election
will be held at 46S Broad and when
one votes for the bonds he ean step
around the comer of Filth and regis
ter for the city primary.
in the Second Ward one may vote
at 313 Rlgfith and walk a few steps
and register for the city white pri
mary at Klghth and Greene.
In the Third Ward one may vote
for the bonds at Tenth and Telfait
and walk across to Broad and register
at. the Planters Hotel registry office.
In tho Fourth Ward, while one is
off from Ills work he may aH well
leave 1341 Greene Street, where he
votes fo r tho bonds, and go to 1268
Droud and register for the city pri
mary.
In the Fifth Ward one inay vote at
1810 Broad Street ai d come on down
to 1770 and register for the city elec
tion.
In the Sixtli Ward all one has to
do Is to walk across the room, after
he vote* for the bonds, and register
for the city primary.
places for tho bond election:
First Ward. 408 Broad Street, south
side, just, below Fifth Street..
Second Ward, 313 Eighth Street,
west side, between Ellis'and Greene
Streets.
Third Ward, 956 Telfair Street,
southeast corner of Telfulr and Tenth
Street*.
Fourth Ward. 1341 Greene Street,
north side, near Margaret Wright
Hospital.
Fifth Ward, 1810 Broad Street, Just
■west of Crawford Avenue.
Sixth Ward, Police Barracks on
Walton Way, former Village of Sum
merville headquarters.
CARS 10 SIOP SO
PEOPLE MAY VOTE
For Convenience of Voters of
the Sixth Ward Cars to Stop
Between Eight and Three
O’Clock and Wait For Voters.
For the convenience of voters of the
sixth nwrd, those persons who are reg
istered on Walton Way between eight
». m. and three p. m. tomorrow. The
car will wait a short time so that each
person may voto and hh the ticket Is a
short one and it requires hut a mo
ment to vote, not much time will be
lost. This will he quite a convenience
to large numbers of people who live
on the Hill.
of course'she KNEW.
The accomplished and obliging pian
ist hud finished several selections In
the hotel parlor, and the guests were
discusing other numbers. One turned
to an elderly lady and said: "Now, for
Instance, there Is a Mozart's Twelfth
Mass. You remember that, Mrs. Ills
comb?"
'Remember It? I should say so.
Why my husband served through the
war in that very regiment!"—Argo
naut.
A Plea From a Union Man For
the Ponds to Be Voted Monday
Augusta. C.a., May SO, 1914.
To the Editor of the Herald: Sir—
Will you allow mo a short space to
express my sentiment In regards to
the coming election, which I feel will
bo for one of the most Important things
that Augusta bus ever undertaken, and
will bo for the cause, which we should
all feel proud of and the up-bullding
of our beautiful city, and the suc
cessful completion of that great hos
pital as great a monument as any city
can boast of.
Now here, wo hoar of a great many
claiming thut they would not vote for
the bonds. You ask why. They tell
you because there Is too much graft
and way down 1n thetr heart s they
urn as anxious for It as we urc. They
say that taxes will Increase Well 1
believe that taxes will doubly in
crease If we lose it. Now for in
stance. you who were in the park the
other night could see, and tell from
the looks of Mr. Pope that Augusta
or any other city could not have se
lected a more faithful Intellectual or
a more honest looking gentleman than
the one they have seleeted for the
chairman, and you will see at the
winding up of affulrs, that he is a
man, that you will commend and
praise to the highest.
And then again suppose tt Is lost.
Drummers Urged to Vote For
Bonds Before Leaving the City
A Vote Not Cast is Equivalent to a Vote Against the Bonds.
Every Person Who is Registered Earnestly Urged Not to
Go Out of City Before Voting For Bonds Tomorrow.
The special bond committee of she
Merchants and Manufacturers' Asso
ciation, ns well a* the special bond
committee of the River and Canal
Commission urge that all of the trav
cling men who are registered to vote
for the bonds before leaving tlve city
tomorrow morning. If it will Require
missing a train to stay here atid vote
then the traveling men should be wil
ing to do so, because the election Is
of the greatest Importance to Augusta
and it Is assumed that lie w ill be will
ing. for drummers are a city's great
boosters. It Is believed that the great
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA.
MEETING LIBOR
MEN ON SUNDAY
Dr. Littleton Will Make Ad
dress. Expected That the
Bond Issue Will Be En
thusiastically Endorsed.
There will be a meeting of the union
laboring people of Augusta at Gabor
Hull tills afternoon to discuss the
bond issue. Hr. J. -dt. Littleton and
others will make addresses and It is
qxpeeted that a large number will
attend. It is believed that tho labor
men will endorse the bonds enthusi
astically and that they wit poll a large
vote for them on Monday.
The bond issue question is of vital
Importance and Dr. Littleton’s address
will be listened ao with the most in
tense Intcres.tt
REV. DR. THIOT
LEAVESAUGUSTA
Pastor of the Curtis Baptist
Church Leaves For Newbern,
N. C., Tomorrow Afternoon.
Re--. R. w. Thlot, for more than
four years pastor of Curtis Baptist
Church, Broad .Street, this city, will
leave tomorrow afternoon at 2:40
o'clock, via of the C. and VV. C. Rail
road. Mr. Thiot has done a most won
derful work iu Augusta, and his folks
are sad that he has seen fit to leave
them. In the years of his minister)'
he has touched almost every phase <>f
the city's life, and his departure will
be a great loss to the church and the
community.
Mr. Thiot has done a most unusual
thing within the last two weeks. Find
ing his church in most mellow mood,
he decided to hold a protracted meet
ing. He began two weeks ago, and
preached at night only. The result
has been twelve additions with oth
ers to follow.
Mr. Thiot will leave the church
free of ull debts for current expenses,
and the debt on the church building
has been provided for by guilt-edge
notes, which will be paid as they fall
due. Mrs. Mason will retnainFwith the
church as missionary, and the work
will he conducted as under the pastor
ate of Mr. Thiof.
Christian Htrvka, a paper pub
lished in the interest of Curtis Church,
will be continued, both here and in
New Bern. The. Tabernacle church
at New Bern has agreed to stand by
the pastor in this department of pub
licity. v
Mrs. Thiot will not go at once to her
new home, but will remain for a few
weeks' rest at her mother’s, Mrs. P. B.
Mondays off Grovetown.
The new pastor, Rev. A. J. Smith,
of Louisville, Ky., will arrive some
time this week, and will preach his
first sermon Sunday.
you lose J2'>o,ooo from the govern
ment. and then this present crowd you
have in office may go ahead and
borrow the money anyhow, and have it
to pay hack probably in five years.
Well, what will he the consequence?
You will probably have to pay streqt
taxes, house rent taxes, the grocery
man taxes Who pays it? Why the
common people, and then you know
that It will fall to the next mayor and
council and they will have to raise It.
So you see if you vote against It you
will be voting hardships on your next
administration, and If it Is lost, 1 doubt
If Dr. Littleton or any other sauo
man, would w-ant to be mayor or
councilman.
Then again, can't you se that or
ganized labor has a better foot-hold
today, than they had B year s ago,
and don't you think we will be in a
better positon In 20 or 30 years from
bow to pay It back, than we are now,
because we are paving a good open
road so that our children will get
more out of life than we are and let
us all Union men, go to the polls and
put one 'n for something we know- w ill
benefit us now and our
to come.
Yours truly,
WII.LIAM L COFFEY,
1438 Walthon Way.
Member B. R. C. of A. laical.
majority of the traveling men will not
be Inconvenienced because they can
either get a later trnlu or secure an
automobile.
The election tomorrow Is of tre
mendous Importance to Augusta No
one who Is registered should fall to
vote, because a vote not cast at all is
equivalent to a vote against the
bonds The bonds must carry tomor
row. but they will not be able to do
so unless there Is the most earnest
an l most realous Interest taken In
the election and every one who Is
registered Is urged to vote before
leaving the city.
IT S UP TO AUGUSTA TOMORROW,
HER PEOPLE MUST VOTE BONDS
MUST'BE 2.009
PRO BOND VOTES
Total Registration is 3,013.
The Registration By Wards.
Remember That Two-Thirds
of Those Registered Must
Vote For Bonds to Win.
There are 3,013 persons registered
to vote in the bond election. It will
require 2,009 votes for Che bonds to
win. There are always numbers of
deaths between the time the registry
oT[lces clase and the date of the elec,
tlon.
There are always a certain num
ber oT people who are ill on election
day and unable to vote, while some
are carried out of the city providen
tially because of illness among their
relatives elsewhere.
So it will thus be seen that It is up
to every man to vote tomorrow. If
this was to be like other elections
there would be no cause for worry,
because it is certain a majority of
Augustans favor the bonds. Unfor
tunately it must be two-t'birds of the
registry list and 2,009 votes must be
cast for the bands in order for them
to win.
Here is the registration by wards;
First Ward 503
Second Ward 436
Third Ward .. -. 375
Fourth Ward 632
Fifth Ward 656
Sixth Ward 411
Total 3,013
Necessary to win 2,009.
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Finish the Levee and Her Future is Assured—She Must Not
Take a Backward Step By Failing to Vote the
$750,000 Bond Issue to Finish Levee
WORK HAS ALREADY PROGRESSED
A LONG WAY TOWARD COMPLETION
Man Who Votes Against the Bonds Assumes a Fearful
Amount of Responsibility, Says Dr. J. R. Littleton
Augusta is to decide tomorrow whether she is to go forward or back
ward. If she votes the *750,000 bonds with which to continue the levee,
her futi ) is assured. If she does not, the people of this city will blush
With shame, for the news will go out to the world that Augusta has started
a levee to protect herself from floods, has. advertised to the world that she
offers inventors protection and has fallen down.
For weeks the bond question has been agitated in Augusta. At first there
were some people who did not incline to the Idea and thought that a spe
cial tax or a raise in taxes, sfliould be the means used to get the neces
sary revenue. However, after all. the plans had been threshed out, it
was decided that to Issue bonds was the best plan. In this manner suc
ceeding generations will have to solve the problem, for it will be up to the
City Fathers of the future to provide for paying the bonds. To issue the
bonds will require no raise in the tax rate. It will be just the same
Augusta voted *1,000,000 of bonds in 1912 to build a levee, and this sum
was not enough. There were people who opposed building a levee, but
since it was decided to build one, then It is up to the city to finish it.
As Hon. William H. Fleming said, in his address In Allen Park Friday
night, it is up to the people of Augusta to vote bonds to finish that which
she has started. He said that it would be an almost Identical case with
the Biblical character who built his house upon the sand and “the rains
descended and the flood* came ana beat upon that house and it fell.”
Mr. Fleming pleaded with Augustans to build upon a rock and the oniy
way to do it is to vote bonds to finish the levee.
It is like a man building a house and putting no roof to it, if Augusta
starts the levee and does not finish It.
As Dr. Littleton stated Friday night, the. man who votes against the
bonds, takes on himself a fearful re sponsibility, for he, himself, would
not think of voting against a proposition which might cost the life of a
single citizen of this splendid city. city.
A flfinancial statement of the disbursements of the River and Canal
Commission has been prepared under the direction of Mr. Frederick B.
Pope and it has been pronounced absolutely satisfactory. The people know
that the money has been expended wisely and Judiciously. The earth
work portion of the levee from the point where It croses the canal near
the Warwick Mill, to a point below the North Augusta bridge, Iras been
built, gates have been put In wherever needed, and now the city needs
money to continue the work. No aid can be secured from the government
if the city does not vote the bonds. If she does vote them, then it may
reas mably be xpected that he government will help with an appropriation
of *250,000, with which to pave the levee next to the river.
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