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About The Augusta daily herald. (Augusta, Ga.) 1908-1914 | View Entire Issue (July 23, 1909)
THE AUGUSTA DAILY HERALD VJLUME XIV., No. 205. s AUGUSTA: CITY FOR CUM ATE AND COTTON CAROLINA LADY WON THE PRIZE IN SLOGAN CONTEST Mrs. N. G. Martin Was the Successful Contestant for the Twenty Dollar Prize. COMMITTEE MADE DECISION THCSSDAY Many Suggestions Were Sent in. Five Qthei's, Be side Mrs. Martin’s, Were Given Favorable Mention Aiken carried off first honors in The Herald slogan contest, Mrs. N. G. Martin of that city being 'the success ful contestant. Mrs. Martin was awarded the twenty dollars prize given by The Herald and the Cham ber of Commerce, Thursday afternoon at a meeting of Messrs. T. I. Hick man, Albert Von Kamp and William Martin, who composed the commit •tee appointed by the Chamber c-f Commerce to decide upon the winner Mrs. Martin's slogan was sent in on July 9, six days after the contest commenced. She offered but the one suggestion, “Augusta, City for Climate and Cot ton.” This was adjudged by the commit tee after careful consideration to be the best of the several hundred re ceived, and the prize was awarded ac cordingly. A check for S2O has been mailed Mrs. Martin. There were a number of other slo gans which were adjudged to be of considerable merit. The contest nar rowed down to six slogans, the com mittee finally by unanimous vote de ciding that Mrs. Martin’s sugges tion was the best of these. The fiVe contestants whose slogans were final ly weighed by the committee in com petition with Mrs. Martin’s slogan were Mrs. Thomas Bird, of Monroe, in the state of Washington, formerly Miss Hilda Gherken, a well-known Augusta lady who was married a short time ago and moved to Wash ington; Mr. H. D. Griffin, of the signwriting and advertising firm of Griffin & Grabowskii; Miss E. M. Patterson, of 117 Greene street; Mr. F. M. Smoak, of 845 Broad street; and Sergeant G. D. Buchannan of the police force. The slogan of Mrs. Bird which C'riie all the way across the conti nent to make a brave fight for first place was, “You’ll Like Augusta.” This conveys a very pleasing thought and was on a somewhat dif ferent line from every other slogan offered. Mr. Griffin submitted several sug gestions. The one which survived the ordeal of the judges scrutiny up to the final decision was, “In Georgia—lt’s Augusta.” Miss Patterson’s suggestion for a slogan was, “A Solid City of the Solid South.” Mr. Smoak suggested, “The City Beautiful.” Sergeant Buchannan’s suggestion which was in the running until the final elimination was, “The Tourist City.” Many of the slogans which fell out early in the contest were of merit ex cept that they did not fulfill the re quirement that they should be short. Some of those sent in covered more than a page of letter paper written on typewriter. Some were in prose and others in verse. One contestant sent in a poetic effort of sixty lines. Others enumerated at length and in detail all the advantages of the city, and threw in statistical information in addition. These of course while showing considerable thought and merit could not properly be called a slogan and had to be discarded. Some of the slogans were Illustrated with drawings intended to be used in con nection with them. Over a thousand suggestions in all were sent in, and the committee had a laborious and exacting task to sort them out and finally select the one they thought was best. In selecting Mrs. Markin's slogan "Augusta, City for Climate and Cot ton,” the committe was governed by the fact that she had hit on the THE WEATHER Forecast for Augusta and Vicinity: Showers tonight or Saturday. For South Carolina: Unsettled weather with showers tonight or Sat urday; slightly cooler tonight, brisk and possibly high southwest shifting to west win Is. For Georgia: Partly cloudy with showers In south portion tonight or Saturday, slightly cooler in north por tion tonight, moderate to brisk south west and west winds. About 11 o’clock Friday morning It staffr-a to rain, and frequent show ers havj* Q.f an falling ever since. Tllere i-- prospect of more rain dur ing the nay and night, as it is cloudy r-d the weather man says it will be so. Atntusta’s minimum and maximum t»* iperatures Thursday were 72 and degrees, rt "was hottest at Wlnne mucca, with a maximum of 96 de gree Tfowstone was the coolest, with a minimum of 50 degrees. ConstdrfStMe rainfall was reported from Carolina points Friday morning, a d torrential downpours fell In west ern Texas yesterday. th e precipitation at Del Rio reaching 3.38 inches. j H SENSATION IN SUTTON CASE NOW PROMISED Counsel For Sutton Says Eye-Witness To Be Call ed Will Tell Entirely Different Tale of Death. ANNAPOLIS, Md.—The fifth day of the inquiry into the cause of the death of Lieutenant James N. Sutton, of the United States marine corps, open ed with Sergeant of Marines James Dehart, whose cross-examination was continued from Thursday, on the wit ness stand. The government so far has called six witnesses and ten or twelve oth ers remain to be examined. The counsel f/ r the Suttons said they would cn I; an eye witness to the shoot'•* who would throw an entirely different version on the affair. The counsel would not disclose the name of this witness but it i 6 thought it might be Private Charles Kennedy of the marine corps, now stationed at Norfolk, Va. Kennedy has been sub poenaed at the request of the Sut tons. Mrs. Rose Sutton Parker, the sis ter, is not expected to testify before next week. When the cross-examination of De hart was concluded Wm. I. Owens, the chauffeur who drove Sutton and his brother officers out in the car on the night of the shooting testified that Lieut. Adams sat on the seat with him and Sutton and the other two officers were in the back seat. He said when they go't across the cemetery bridge some one told him to stop. Lieut. Adams jumped from his seat threw off his coat and col lar and made a hush for Sutton as the latter got out of the car. The other two officers grabbed Sutton and the witness heard Sutton say "Go away Adams, I don’t want any trou ble.” Then some one told the wit ness to “Beat it.” He said he saw Adams make a second rush at Sut ton and heard Sutton say “If he wants to fight I’ll fight him.” He did not think any of the officers had been drinking. TO BEGIN BRIDGE MONDAY MORNING Work will start on the Center street bridge Monday morning. Beginning on the Carolina side the first span will be suspended, and in the mean time a desperate effort will be made to finish the second pier in time to allow the work to go ahead without interruption as soon as it is finished. The bridge will rest on seven piers and two abuttments. The abuttment.s are finished. Three piers were left intact by the flood. They have been built higher and are ready. Of the four remaining piers, three are built already abov e the highwater line, and work can be pushed ahead on them without delay. But the second pier, from the Carolina side, has not been built above the water line, and on its speedy erection depends the pro gress of work on the bridge. Friday morning the full force of hands was set to work on this pier and Commissioner Wingfield thinks the contractors will be able to finish it above the water line by next Tues day, if there is not another rise in tne river between now and then. MAIL CLERK ON THE AUGUSTA SOUTHERN Beginning next Sunday a mail clerk will work the Augusta Southern train between here and Tennille, making up a poucn for every station on the line, and distributing mail dispatched between intermediate points. Hereto fore there has been no clerk on the Sunday train, the important stations having been supplied with special pouches. greatest business interest of the city and section, and at the same time put forward Augusta’s claim as a health resort. The committee was of the opinion that the combined thought as expressed was deserving of first place. Outside of the selection of a slo gan which thus advances Augusta’s business and health claims, the con test has been worth while. It has put many people to thinking of the city in which we live. It has caused them to review its advantages, its re sources and its purposes as a city. No one who read the many hundred suggestions which came in, some se rious, some gay or flippant, but near ly all earnest thoughts of Augusta, but had it impressed upon him, even more strongly than before that Augus ta is a good place in which to lire. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 23, 1909. SCENES OF RIOT AT M’FEE’S ROCKS STRIKE i Here are two photo graphs showing scenes in the strike riots at Mc- Kee’s Rocks, Penn. In the upper picture mounted -state police are shown lined up for strike call, and below a couple of state constables are hand-enff ing a rioter. SEBITE IMS UNTIL NEXT IMMI WASHINGTON.—In hope that a conference committee on tariff may he able to report by that time, the senate adjourned until next Monday instead of Tuesday, as would have been necessary under the unanimous agreement for three-day interims pending the report of conference com mittee. SHEA IS SHI SENTENCE IB Jill NEW TCTRK.—Cornelius P. Shea, the former Chicago labor leader, who was found guilty on Wednesday of attempting to murder Alice Walsh, the former Chicago waitress, with whom he had been living here, was sentenced to not less than five nor more than twenty-five years in prison. TIFT Will ALSO VISIT COLUMBUS WASHINGTON. President Taft has added Columbus, Ga., to th e list of places he will visit in the fall. He made this promise Friday to a committee from the Board of Trade and the City Council of Columbus, who were escorted to the White’ Hous e by Representative Adamson. BALL GAME IN NORTH AUGUSTA SATURDAY Augusta Amateurs Will Play North Augusta Team. There will be a game of baseball Saturday afternoon at 5 o’clock in North Augusta on the regular North Augusta diamond, between the North Augusta team and the Augusta Ama teurs. Admission to the game will be free. The game will probabiy be a holy contested and very interesting one. LANDSLIDE BROKE LABORER’S LEG Negro Working on Augus ta-Aiken Railway Work Sustains Peculiar Ac cident. H. B. Bailey, colored, was brought to the Lamar hospital' Friday morn ing with a broken leg received while working on the Augusta-Aiken rail-! way about a mile above Clearwater. | It seems that while working on’ some extension work of the Augusta-1 Aiken railway, being carried on by the A. J. Twiggs Contracting Co., Bailey was caught in a landslide and sustained a broken leg- The land-; slide was caused by the undermining) of a cliff by the steam shovel, I IV CO ID CIO IT ST.JiiONS After drill Thursday night the offi cers of the Third Battalion, National Guard of Georgia, held a meeting at which much Important business was discussed, particularly the arrange ments for a probable encampment for the Augusta companies, including the Richmond Hussars, who will in all probability accompany the infantry aggregations. It was generally supposed that the Infantry companies would encamp at Wrightsville Beach, N. C., and that all arrangements had been made for the men to leave on the 7th of Au gust for that resort, but it develops that it is most advisable for the Third Battalion to encamp at St. Si mon’s Island. Major Eillott will get in communication with the adjutant general and something definite will probably be decided before night. According to a bill that has recent ly been passed, unless a man has been in the servic fi for six months or over, he is not permitted to go on an en campment. This will embarrass a number of the companies as a great many of them have recently secured discharges for a larg e number of un. desirable members and filled their ranks with recruits, the majority of whom have not seen over two months services and should these members be barred from going on the encamp ment no company will be able to take a full company and In many in stances It will be Impossible for them to take twenty men. Major Elliott, hopes to be able to arrange It with the adjutant tp take the men, but nothing definite has as yet been decided. TWENTY KILLED US BUILDING PELL ST. PETERSBURG.—Twenty work men were killed and a larger number injured by the collapse oi a building In course of construction on Ratyess haya street. GAMBLER CONVICTED Charles Bailey, a negro, was found guilty of gambling by a jury in the city court Friday morning. Bailey and three other negroes were arrest ed for gambling last Saturday night and bound over to the city court by the recorder Monday morning, 'f'he three negroes in company with Bailey have not as yet been tried- WOULD STOP USE SPAIN’S WAR NEWS Authorities Confiscate En tire Edition of Paper and Close Republican Clubs. MADRID, via. Badajos, on Portu guese frontier. —The Spanish authori ties are exercising rigorous censor ship over the publication of news re garding the war between the Span iards and Kabyle tribesmen on the Riff coast of Morocco. Nothing ex cept official despatches are allowed to be printed and communication by telephone to provincial newspapers has been stopped. The entire edition of El Pais was confiscated Friday and all republican clubs were closed. MR. C. A. STEED WAS MADE RECEIVER Judge Wm. F. Eve has officially appointed Mr. C. A. Steed to be re ceiver of tax returns. Mr. Steed will fill the position pending the special county electon. REUNION AT DOUGLASVI LLE. DOUGLASVILLE, Ga.—On Friday, July 80, the Thirtieth Georgia regi ment of Confederate veterans will hold its annual reunion at this place and a large crowd is expected to be in attendance. The “Bloody Seventh” Georgia regiment will also unite with the Thirtieth in making this a gala day. Welcome address by Mayor Hutcheson with response by members of the regiment and an address by Colonel A. J. West, of Atlanta, will be the main features of the program. * . M hi - LITTLE .JOHNNIE ROWLAND DEAD Johnnie Rowland, the Infant son! of Mr. C. H. Rowland, died at the residence of his parent at 212 Per kins avenue at 3:30 o’clock Thursday afternoon. The body will be shipped to Matthews, Ga., for Interment. The mother died at the time of the child's birth about two weeks ago. FARR SPECIALS BEAT THE HEBREW STARS In a fast and exciting game thej Farr Specials defeated the Hebrew] Stars by the overwhelming score of 9 to 0. Wells, the premier pitcher of the Stars, was hammered to a pulp, j vf< !•*■'■' a bloated total of nine hits, while Slade was Invincible to the Ile-i brew*. V DAILY AND SUNDAY, $6.00 PER YEAR. PROHIBITION FIGHT REOPENS AND WILL BE BATTLE TO FINISH Second Reading of Near-Beer Bill Was First Sign of the Impending Fight. Desperate Battle is Promised Between the Forces of the Opposing Sides. Prohibitionists Are Push ing the Fight. (Special to The Herald.) ATLANTA, Ga Within live space of u single day the State of Georgia has awakened to the fact that all unwarned, it' is about to be precipitated again into the field of prohibition strife. The sun rose Fri day morning upon the pitched tents of tlie two big armies that once more Ser a truce of two years are about to march forth to a battle to the tth. NEAR-BEER BILL STARTED FIGHT. The first 'skirmish, the first Interchange of fire between the pickets was witnessed in the house Friday morning when the near-beer bill came up for seco.Ll reading. Low the battle is impending closer every hour. When the big guns will begin their roar is almost a question of moments. Two prohibitionists are equipped for an aggressive cam paign. They are pushing '(lie fight. They are determined to drive, if they can, the last vestage of the opposing army from the soil of Geor gia. "A light to a finish,” was the slogan that Mr. Anderson, of Chat ham county, hurled over the heads of the house Friday morning when lie had been smilingly taunted and goaded to the point of desperation by Mr. Alexander, of DeKalb. 'Do I understand the gentleman fro m Chatham to say that this Is to be a fight and not a filibuster,” Mr. Alexander had asked. “A fight to the finish, fighl, filibuster, anything you choose to call it, all along the line." The filibuster was still on when the house adjourned for the day. SCORE KILLED II WILD STORM OVER TIE HE Reports Show Great Dam age Done Out of Galves ton. Besides the Dead Many Were Injured. HOUSTON, Texas. —Galveston be gan rebuilding the structures razed In the s.orm of Wednesday, wires are down, hut, later reports from the in terior show greater damage and loss of life than were sustained at Gal veston. Such points as have report ed tell o fa score killed, serious in jury to half as many more, and dafn age to property estimated at $750,000. Graphic tales are told by those who were swept, from Tarpon Fishing Pier, off Galveston, into Hie gulf and res cued clinging to bits of wreckage along the beach near Morgan’s Point. Ray C. t’eetshorn of Houston says it, was shortly after midnight of Wed nesday that first real alarm for safe ty of Bettison’s pier was felt. Ten hours later the pier gave way and a party of ten was cast into the water. “Shortly before the building sank we went to the roof,” said Mr. Teet shorn. “tne building went down easy —in fact, simply crumbled Into the water. Everybody scrambled for him self. [ think all of us started off on some wreckage and wind and tide carried us through the water, while the high sea beat, us and rollers broke over and beneath us.” REYBURN CHARGED WITH LARCENY Alleged that He Got Sixty- Five Dollars From Per son. of W. A. B. Brown. Jailor Plunkett returned to th<, city Thursday from Charleston, bringing with him E. B. Reyburn, who is want ed l n Augusta for larceny from tli/ person. It is charged that in the latter part of last week Reyburn lifted $55 from the person of W. A. Brown, of this city, and made a get away from Char leston. Mr. Brown had a warrmit is sued and Reyburn was arrested by a member of the Charleston detetive force. Jailor Plunkett was notified of the arrest and brought Reyburn back to answer the charges brought, against him. Reyburn proclaims his innocence. Advertising insures to you an established price that you can count on and a fixed profit jou can count up* : : : : : EH WANT EDUCATION TO BE COMMST President of National Farmers’ Union C. S. Bar rett Advocated Movement in Speech at Convention. Special t,o The Herald. MACON, Ga.—Compulsory eduea cation was advocated by National President C. 8. Barrett, Friday morn ing at the convention of the Georgia Division of the Farmers’ Union. Over 800 farmers were present. The reso lution committee will probably pass favorably upon a resolution that will ask the state to relieve the farmers of taxes upon crops for the first year after they have been harvested. James L. Lee, of DeKalb and J. T. McDaniel, of Rockdale, were elected president and secretary. The con vention will continue through Satur day. DDHRIDGERS MATCH WAS BEGUN The final round of singles in the South Atlantic tennis tournament was started between Bridgers, the Caro lina champion, and Jim Dawson, of Augusta at 10 o'clock Friday morn ing, on the Country Club courts, but was stopped by a shower in the third set. It will be finished Friday after noon. Dawson wo n the first set, 6 —4, and Bridgers won the second, B—6.8 —6. The score stood 5 —3 in favor of Bridgers when the rain came. Despite its being a morning match ther i was (pilte a gallery present to see the two experts clash for the championship of the tournament, and they were amply repaid, us it. proved to be the closest, fastest and most brilliant of the week. As usual, Bridgers started leisurely and allowed his opponent to take the first set . Then he tightened up, and started after the second, but Dawson was after him from the jump and th Hot went to B—68 —6 before Bridgers could beat him. In the third set Bridgers seemed to have the advan tage. s
