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FOUR
GERMANS IN BIG
HURRY IB THE
ANTWERP FORTS
Pound Away Desperately With
Artillery. Estimate Killed
in Present Engagement at
Eight Thousand.
London, 2:16 a. m.—Tho Tolosraph'a
Antwerp correspondent, telegraphing
about fighting tgrmind Antwerp under
date Saturday, say* In part:
"The Germans continue their des
perate efforts to rapture Antwerp.
They are In ft desperate hurry to ac
complish It, pounding away unceas
ingly with (lh«lr artillery st Forts
Waelhem and Wavre-St, Catherines
and flinging th>*U lntantry forward In
frantic efforts.
••Their losses have been enormus nnd
the numbera killed are estimated as
high as 8,000 during the present move
ment.
Clover ,Ruee.
"The Belgians udopvted u clever ruse
at Waelhem. After the bombardment
had lasted several Hours the fort
ceased to reply wher«M|.‘On the Ger
man staff, thinking the Jfort out of
action ordered the Infantry *o advance
In close formation. The Belklan gun
ners waited unlll they could See the
whites of their eyes und then .opened
a murderous fire.
"Thus far the fort* in the outer .rlr.it
of the Antwerp fences have sunv»; d
little barm from the German bombard*
mrnt. The German big guns are not
being worked by regular soldiers but
by men In citizens clothing.
Krup Employes.
"Undoubtedly these men nre em
ployes of the Krupp factory, hastily
stimmonrd to replace the losses among
the regplar gunlayers. The heaviest
German guns are located north of VII
trorde, where foundations of reinforced
concrete have been prepared.
"The German shells have practically
wiped out most of the little villages
and hamlets In tho outer circles of the
Antwerp defences. The Germans still .
bold Maltnes, although nt a heavy cost
as the town Is subject to a constnnt
bombardment from the Antwerp forts."
PRODUCTION OF
FOOD COOPS IN
SOUTH, THEBE
Opening Session of South
eastern Congress in Atlanta.
Probable Request for Procla
mation by President.
Atlanta, Colton grower*. whole
sale merchant*. bankers, rommls
aloner* of agriculture and others vit
ally Interested In the campaign for
Increasing tha production of food
crop* In the South mot horn today at
the opening of tha Southeastern Food-
Crops Congress Tho congrr** which
will adjourn tomorrow, was called by
tho Georgia Chamber of commerce to
devise means to Induce southern far
mers to plant food crops sufficient
for their own use, so that whatever
profit they may derive from their cot
ton will not he expended for meats
and provisions.
Request to President.
Charles J. ltuden. president of the
Georgia Chamber of Commerce, said
today that President Wilson probably
would be requested to Issue a proc
lamation asking that the people of
each cotton producing county organ
ise for the purpose of adjusting the
matter of diversified props so that
sufficient food crops will be produced
to satisfy the demands of the South
Atlantic States, thus protecting the
cotton crop for the next .year. Mr.
Haden also stated that the president
prohahlv would be petitioned to re
quest the governors of the cotton
states to appoint five commissioners
In each county for the purpose of ef
fecting the proposed organisation.
The Initial meeting of the congress
was held In the state copilot.
FEAST OF TABERNACLES
OBSERVED IN AUGUSTA
Service* at the Telfair Street
Synagogue Sunday Night and
Monday Morning.
The Feast of the Tabernacles which
lasts for eight days, was observed at
the Telfair Street Synagogue at *:SO
o'clock Sunday night and again at 11
o'clock Monday morning. The first
•nil last days of the Feast of the
Tabernacles are observed by the Jews
with holy services In the synagogues.
A description of this festival In
RIIIohI days Is found In the Hook of
Nehemlsh. vtll, 15. It Is similar In
many ways to a thanksgiving festi
val. It Is understood that it Is a fsaat
after the type of which the American
Thanksgiving Day of the present time
was fashioned The observance of
the festival In this country has great
ly chngcd In the course of time For
merly It was the custom for the Jews
to dwell In temporary huts or booth*
to remind them of the wandering of
their ancestors In the wilderness Fur
themioore. It was to remind them that
Ood has kept them safely through the
year. A few of the urthtalgx Jews
•till observe this custom.
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NEWS FROM NEARBY TOWNS
N. 0. BARKSDALE DIES AT
HOME IN WASHINGTON, GA.
Washington. Gs.—After a llnsering
Illness of nearly eight year* caused
by a stroke of paralysis as the result
<»f overwork, N (1 Barksdale, one of
Wilke* County's West known ctttxens
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mill of Mr. M. H. Preacher of this
place.
The little fellow was standing near ;
the shaftin* playing with a whip 1
which became entangled with the
xhnfttng carrying him with It. The
machinery waa stopped as soon as
possible and It waa found that one
arm waa broken at the elbow, the
bone protruding several Inches; the
skull fractured, several riba broken
and Injured internally. The physi
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DYINgT AS HE THOUGHT.
SAID HE STOLE $20,000
New York,—Herbert Baton, the
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young clerk, who thinking he was on '
his death bed, confessed, according
to the police, to thefts involving about
$20,000, probably will live to stand
trial. That was the opinion express
ed today by physicians On Saturday
it was thought Eaton had only a few
days to live. He had been shot by a
detective.
Eaton began to show signs ot re
covery. the physicians stated, after
his wife had visited him and prom
ised to make a new start with him as
soon as his troubles are over.
ALL-SAINTS’ DAY.
Gray skies and wind-blown rain and
far
MONDAY, OCTOBEV
From sound of shop and street,
A tranquil hill and grass-grown gravoa
Where town and country meet.
And silent throngs with flower-tilled
arms
And mem'rles bitter-sweet
Violet* and tears for them who sleon.
Faith that some fairer day I
Will give them hack, but our beloved -A
Whom life has swept away
Ftir these a bitter, hopeless grief
And lips that cannot pray
—Adel.. E. Shaw, in Southern A'oman a
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