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AUGUSTA COTTON MARKET
Middling closed today at
13%c.
Tone steady.
Middling last year 12%c.
CLOSING QUOTATIONS
Good ordinary 11 5*2
Strict good ordinary 12
Low middling 12 3-4
Strict low middling 13 3-8
Middling 13 6-3
Strict middling 13 7-8
Good middling 14 1-8
First tinges 12
Second tinges! 11 1-2
(Previous Day’s Figures)
Good ordinary 11 1-2
Strict good ordinary 12
Low middling 12 3-4
Strict low middling 13 3-8
Middling 13 6-8
Strict middling 13 7-8
Good middling 14 1-8
First tinges 12
Second tinges 11 1-2
Receipts For Week
Sales Spin. Ship'*.
Faturday 1133 695 2596
Monday 406 182 679
Tuesday .... ....
Wednesday .... ....
Thursday .... • • • •
Friday .... ....
Totals ..... 1588 877 3175
Oomparative Receipts
1913 1914
Faturday 864 1142
Monday 653 435
Tuesday ....
Wednesday ....
Thursday ....
Friday ....
Totals 1237 1377
Stocks and Receipts
Stock In Augusta, 1913 96,847
Stock !n Augusta, 1914 83,706
NEW YORK_COTTON
New York. —Cotton opened steady, un
changed to five higher on firm Liverpool
cables. Active months sold five to six
points net higher during the early trad
ing on covering and scattering support
encouraged by bullish Southern spot ad
vices. There was considerable realiz
ing and the market later eased off to a
shade under Saturday's closing. Private
cables reported a steady market In
Liverpool and the early demand was also
promoted by reports of Increasing ac
tivity in the Steel trade but some of the
large spot Interests who were heavy
buyers last week were credited with
selling on the early advance.
After showing a net loss of three or
four points the market steadied on cov
ering and further bullish spot advices
from the South. Active months ruled
two or three net higher at midday but
trading was very quiet.
There was no fresh feature of Im
portance during the middle of the after
noon and the market remained steady
with active months about 3 to 4 point*
net higher.
Cotton futres closed barely steady.
Open. High. Low. Close.
January . ..1240 1240 1230 1234a36
Feb 1238 1235a38
March 1258 1263 1253 1256.158
April ... ......... .... .... 1237a40
May . . . .1238 1241 1233 1235a38
lone . . . .1236 1240 1240 123«a36
july 1232 1237 1228 1232aTtl
August • ..1210a13 1213 1211 1210a12
September . 1175 1170a72
October . . 1163 1166 1161 1163a64
December . .1160 .... .......
LIVERPOOL COTTON
Llvecpol.—Cotton spot, good business
done; prteps steady; middling fair 7.79;
good middling 7.45; middling 7.17; low
middling 6-81; good ordinary 6.15; ordl
nary 5.81. "■*
Sales 10,000, Including 9,700 American
and 1.000 for speculation and export.
Receipts 5,000, Including 4,500 Ameri
can. Futures closed steady;
January ... ■ *■*}
February March »
March-Aprll
AfTll-May 6-80*4
May-June ••S'
june-July *4
July-August S 'l
August-.Septemoer 6.56*4
September-October 6.89 £
October-November ®-3»V4
November-December 6.25
December- January 6 -3*4
Jaruary-February 6.23*4
hourly temperature
DeflT»«*
6 a. 45
7 a m. 44
8 a. 43
9 a. 4 ®
10 a. H
11 a. np »o
12 noon “9
1 P- “7
2 p. m. 67
Keo. since Sept. 1, 1913 293,50,
Rec. since Sept .1, 1914 818,783
Xitimates For Tomorrow
Today Est. mates Lt. Tr.
Galveston
Houston
New Orleans
Augusta Daily Receipts
1913 191*
Georgia Railroad 89 59
Sou. Railway Co. 69 68
Augusta Southern ... 29 3
Augusta-Aiken Ry
Cen. of Oa. R. R 16
Georgia and Florida
C. and W. C. Ry 33 77
A. C. L. R. K. 33 101
Wagon 15 27
Canal
River
Net receipts 334 436
Through 219
Gross receipts 553 435
Port Receipts
Today Last Yr.
Galveston 16360 11670
New Orleans 7068 3308
Mobile 833 467
Savannah 5091 3659
Charleston 196
Wilmington 130
Norfolk 3509 901
Total ports (est.) 35000 26106
Interior Receipts
Today Last Yr.
Houston 25799 10867
Memphis 2727 1140
Bt Louis ....
Cincinnati ....
Little Rock
Weekly Crop Movement, End
ing Friday, Jan. 23, 1914.
1914. 1913. 1912.
Receipts . . 213,986 114,998 189,68*
Shipments.. 220,098 189,191 221.60 J
Stock . ... 967.200 798,941 829,576
came in St. 334,055 232,066 391,167
CTop in St. 10,462,173 10,190,525 10.865,935
Vis Sup.... 6,235,675 6,162,786 6,884,688
NEW ORLEANS COTTON
New Orleans. —Cotton opened for the
week with a steady tone and at an ad
vance of two to three points. A more
cheerful feeling regarding the Mexican
situation and reports of Improvement In
the Steel trade brought In a moderate
volume of buying orders on which prices
went five to seven points up. This small
advance was quickly met by determined
selling which made buyers cautious
Gossip of the market was to the effect
that Btrong interests were working for a
material reaction downward. Half an
hour after the opening the trading
months were unchanged oontpared with
Saturday's close.
After the early trading the market
became quiet although a slow strength
ening of values took place. The demand
was moderate but offerings were scanty.
The market was stimulated by reports
of easier money abroad and In this
country while telegrams from the belt
said that banks were more eager to re
new loans against cotton than at any
previous time this season. The crop was
spoken of as financed for the season
with holders very firm In their views
regarding prices.
Local factors were reported to be ask
ing from one-sixteenth to one-elghtli
higher than hoard prices generally and
advances of as much as one-quarter on
choice lines.
LIVESTOCK MARKET
Chicago, Ills. —Hogs: Receipts 87,0"0.
Strung. Bulk of utiles 835a850; light 820-
847 1-2; mixed K25a855; heavy 825u867
1-2; rough 825a836; pigs 676aH10.
Cattle: Receipt* 25,000. Good, strong;
others weak. Beeves 680a905; Texas
stems 690a810; Stockers and feeder* 640-
a*2o; cows and heifers 360a860; calves
750a11.00.
Sheep. Receipt* 33,000. Blow, na
tive 455i600; yearlings 680a720; lambs,
native 690a810.
CHICAGO CASH GRAIN
Chicago, Ills.—Cash wheat: No, 2 red
96 1-2197 1-2; 2 nard 91 l-4a5-8; No. 2
northern 90 l-2a91 1-2; No. 2 spring 89
l-2a90 1-2.
Corn No. 2 white 68: No. 2 yellow 68.
Oats standard 39 l-2a49.
Rye No. 2, 61.
Pork 21.40.
Lard 10.82 l-2a10.85.
Ribs 10.87 l-2a11.32 1-2.
MONEY MARKET
New York.—Call money steady, 1 3-4a
-2: ruling rate 1 3-4; closing 1 3-4a2.
Time loans weaker; 60 days 2 3-4a3;
90 days 3 l-4nß 1-2; six months 4.
Mercantile paper 4a4 3-4; sterling ex
change firm; 60 days 483.35; demand
486.25.
Commercial bills 483,
Government bond* steady; railroad
bonds firm.
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA.
NEW YORK STOCK MARKET
New York. —There was a slight down
ward drift at the opening of tile mar
ket today. Heavy proflt-taklnfc sale*
were renamed Imt lovhoh were lhuitcU to
amall fraotlonn. except In the oaa« of
ilaltlinore and Ohio which opened off
3-4. In a few cases higher prices were
registered. Sea hoard (Tcferred gained
u point.
TJie market easily absorbed orfers of
the trading element at the outset and
subsequently advanced despite some
pressure against Heading Purchases of
stocks with an investment rating were
a few. National Biscuit gained three
points.
Prices moved narrowly after 12 o'clock
but the undertone was firmer In ud
quarters.
Closed easy.
Buoyancy of Steel, which evlended Us
gain to two points, intimidated shorts
Into buying all around and prices rose
arid further. Some of the earlier weak
features, including Uniting' and Ohio,
were hid up rapidly. At Trie end prices
off sharply under weight of heavy
iMifit-taking sales.
«IEW YORK STOCK LIST
Last Sale.
Amalgamated Copper 75
American Heet Sugar 27%
American Cotton Oil 4J
American Smelting and Refining... ti!i%
American Sugar Refining ........ 108**
American 'lei. and Tel 123%
Anaconda Mining Company 36%
Atchison 100
Atlantic Coast Line 125%
Baltimore and Ohio 95%
Brooklyn Rapid Transit 01%
Canadian Pacific 210%
Chesapeake and Ohio 47%
Chicago and North Western 135
Chicago, Mil. and St. Paul 105%
Colorado Fuel and Iron 34
Colorado and Southern 2H
Delaware and Hudson 159
Denver and Rio Grande 18%
Erie 31%
General Electric 147%
Great NcA*thern pfd 129
Great Northern Ore Ctfu 38%
Illinois Central 115
Interborough Metropolitan 16
Dd preferred 61%
Inter Harvester 11l %
Louisville and Nashville 139%
Missouri Pacific 29%
Missouri, Kansas and Texas 23%
Lehigh Valley 155
National Lead 52
New Ycrk Central 95%
Norfolk and Western 104%
Northern Pacific ... ... ... 115%
Pennsylvania 114%
People s Gas 123
Pullman Palace Car 158%
Reading, ex.-dlv 168%
Rock Island Company IJ>%
Do preferred 23%
Southern Pacific 98%
Southern Railway 26%
Union Pacific 161%
United Stales Steel 66%
Do prefert*ed 112
Wabash 4
Western Union 64
New Haven 76
CHICAGO GRAIN MARKET
Chicago, Ills. —Wheat tended to case
off on mild temperatures and a general
snowfall in the winter belt. Lower ca
bles counted against, the bulls. Opened
firm 1-Sal-4 to l-2u6-8 lower and wna
f'-llowed by a slight additional decline.
Increase of country offerings had a
bearish effect, on corn. Prices started
1-8 to 1-4 down and suffered a further
a further setback.
Oats weakened wlth'other grain.
In the provision crowd selling by pack
ers offset tho Influence of bight* quota,
tions for hogs. First transactions ranged
from 7 1-2 decline to in advance of 2
l-2ao. Later the market sagged all
around.
Danger from a freeze southwest help
ed to check wheat’s decline. Closed
steady 1-2 to l-2af,-8 net lower. Predic
tions of enlarged shelling operations
brought about more pronounced corn
weakness. Closed steady at a loss of
3-8 to l-2a6-8 net.
WHEAT—
Open. High. Low. Close,
May .... 98% 93% 93? 93%
July .... 88% 89 88% 88%
CORN--
May .... 66% 66*4 65% 66%
July .... 65% 65% 64% 65%
OATS —
May .... 39% 39% 39*4 39%
July .... 39% 39% 39% 39%
T.ARD —
May . . . .2175 2177*4 2160 2162%
PORE-
May . . . .1125 1127% 1115 1120
July . . . .1137% 1137% 1127% 1139
RIBS—
July . . . .1190 1190 1175 1175
May . . . .1173% 1180 1165 1165
BODY OF NEGRO WAS
FOUND IN THE CANAL
The body of Josh Johnson, an old
negro, was found In the canal yes
terday afternoon. He disappeared
several weeks ago and it was tho’igh*
that he had been murdered. Th© po
lice even went so far as to arrest a
negro suspected of being the murdere-,
but was released by lack of sufficient
evidence.
SUITS FILED ARE
FOR £30,000
Citizens & Southern Bank
Suing Irish American Bank
and Messrs. J. P. and P.
Armstrong.
Suits aggregating $90,000 were filed
today by the Citizens & Southern
Hank against the Irlsh-Amerlcan Bank
and Messrs. ,1. P. and Paeriek Arm
strong. Two suits, one for SIO,OOO
and another for $36,000, wer filed
against the bank and .1. P. Armstrong
and another suit for $43,500 was filed
against Messrs. Patrick and .las. P.
Armstrong and the hank. Of course,
the receiver for the bank Is now the
hank itself the Irlsh-Amerlcan hav
ing been declared Insolvent.
The $90,000 represnts money loan
ed to the lrish-American, and a por
tion of it Mr. Patrick Armstrong and
Jas. P. Armstrong both endorsed, so
It 1s said.
MARKET GOSSIP
TO DOREMUS_4 COMPANY
New York. —Aftar the opening dip on
cHhli-H mill stop orders the market ral
lied mid in the lust liulf hour turned
strong on reports of continued good spot
demand Smith. Mitchell, Gwathmey,
rone. Weld and I lent* were the leading
huyitrs on the closing, while McFaddeti
and Carpenter, brokers, bought early.
Springs, Wall street and th* local crowd
sold at the start hut the latter were
run in over .62 for March. The particu
lar 'ltem of news contributing to the
strength was a number of replies to
querrles sent out last night by Jenks,
Gwynne, all of which said both high unit
low grades were In good demand. There
was little no Increase, however, In
general speculation. Sentiment hero I.
considerably mixed on tho clos.—Cleve
lenbreg.
DOREMDB t CO.
TO COBB BROS. & CO.
N«w York. —Market rallied early on
huying said to be by McFadden, thin
support slackened and market eased off
on general selling, it was said McFad
den interests turned sellers on the bulge,
Bchlli continues seller also Wall street
brokers, buying scattered. Anderson.
COMB II HOB At CO.
TO FRANK H. BARRETT
New York.—Liverpool at 2 p. m. Is as
good ns due and sales are liberal enough
to call that market finally over its
grouch. Our market has an Idea that
It wants to go up hut the li«iul«lltIon of
some scalping lines hns thuH far pre
vented it doing Its "very best," this
scalping cotton has about been taken
care of and It Is only spot cotton that
can now pour Itself upon Increased
prices, and there Is an observable In
crease In demand for spots. We think
cotton will do better. J. C. Hill.
58 Children, 16 Women
Are Trampled to Death
Batavia, Dutch East Indies.—Fifty
eight children, 16 women end one
man were killed today In a panic dur
ing a fire at a moving picture show
on a plantation In the Dutch residen
cy of Surabaya.
Must of the victims were trampled
to death or suffocated.
Eternal Youth in Mental Change.
The secret of eternal youth la
a very simple one; let those who
are not musicians, learn to whltle,
even one great aria; let those
who are not voters, brave the
thrilling labyrinths of political
history and economies, and those
to whom sports arc unknown,
or fancy skating, or even croquet;
and let those without artistic
education train these eyes to see
the shades of exquisite violet
which tinge the expanses of snow
commonly supposed to be white,
or the Intricate beauty of line
down the perspective of a dirty
city street —for It Is only the ac
tivities of our leisure that can
keep us young. Most of us are
both losing youth and missing the
best of the brilliant show of life
because we Imagine that our holi
days and our education ended to
gether at our majority.
AUGUSTA QUOTATIONS
GROCERIES. PROVISIONS
I>. S. Bellies, 25-lb A. 13 l-2o
Pen,l Grit*. !l«-lh. nil size 12.05
Ga. Belle Meal, 96-Ib (I NI
Juliette Meal, Sti-lli 14.85
Seven Sisters, self-rising ,5
Japan Head Rica 3 l-2c
Fancy Green Onffen 14 l-2o
Choice Urecn Coffee 140
'Percent Roasted Coffee, 100 pkgi 7 l-i!e
parch Coffee, 50-lb. hags 13c
Arbuekle's Coffee pr cs 100-lt> ..$20,80
N. Y. Or. Sugar, Mils, or hulk bags $4.40
N. Y. Gr Sugar 4-25 hags $4.45
Purina Hen Feed (100-lb.) $2 20
C. 8. Feed Meal $27.75
Pure Wheat Middling $1.60
Pure Wheat Bran $1.50
M. & 1.. Slick Candy SO-lb. boxes ..7c
Hlme Brand Milk $4 10
Peerless 5s Kvnp. Milk, 6 rtnz $3 00
Palsy Cheese, full cream (22-lb.) 19 l-2c
1-3 Pt. Jelly, per doz 45c
I-lh. Tomatoes 700
3-lh. Tomatoes 030
Package Kvap Apples, 50 pkgs .. ..$3.75
California Kvnp Peaches 50-lb 8c
Cocoa 6-lh. l-sth 36c
Bid. 100 3-lti. pkt. Salt $2 05
OrunltevUls Mfg. Co 125 138
John P. King Mfß- Co «2 N 5
John P. King Mfg Co. pfd. ..104 106
Bangley Mfg Co 70
Seminole. 2nd pfd 30
Seminole. 2nd pfd 46
Warren Mfg. Co. pfd 104
Warren Mfg Co. common .... 75 80
AUGUSTA SECURITIES.
BONDS AND STOCKS
<Corr*«tod W#*ktir tor Th* Au
gusta Herald by Martin ft Garrett)
Bank Brock.
Bid Ask
Augu.ta Savings Bank 150
Merchants’ Bunk 220 225
National Exchange Bank of
Augusta 180 186
Planters Loan & Having.
Bank (pur value 10) 40 43
Union Savings Bank (par
vulua 26) .... 71 85
Railroad atnrvs
A. A W P R R Co ..146 160
Augusta ft Savannah Ry C0...103 104
Chattahoochee & Gulf R. R.
Company 104
Oa. R R. ft Banking Co 252 255
Seaboard pfd stock 50 69
Soa board common stock .. . 20 22
Southwestern R. U Co 103 105
factory Sanaa
Augusta Factory, lsi us. I*ls
M AN 98 89
Engle ft Phoenix Mills Co.
Ist ss, 1826, J. ft J 95 100
Enicrprl.e Mfg. Co.. Ist. 5s
1928, M. ft N 90 92
Sibley Mfg. Co,, Ist. 55.. 1923
J. ft J ... 90 92
rectory stock.
Aiken Mfg Co 25 35
Augusta 9>ctory ——• 36
Enterprise Mfg Co. ftu 65
Eagle A Phoe-ili Mills 115 125
WALL STREET REVIEW
New York. —Lae! week's buoyant rlae
In tbo stock market pointed to definite
Improvement of the Investment poslilon.
Foreign financial market were swept
declsvlcly Into the movement New
York's shipments of gold to Paris proved
to bo tin. key to the situation, as the
greatest capital requirements converged
on the French financial center.
Authoritative estimates of short term
obligations of various govermnenle
walled to be funded In the French mar
ket were of a total from a billion to a
billion and a half dollntra In New York
there will mature 111 Ih. present year
half a. billion dollars of short term notes
of railroad and other corporation*.
Success of the sale of *61,000,000 of
New York state 4 1-2 per cent bonds
gave clear Indication of trend In the In
vestment market.
President Wilson's message to con
gress on anti-trust legislation wss taken
to mark a culmination In the adjourn
ment Of relations between corporation
and government. The voluntary com
pliance with the Hherman law of cor
poration* recently fortified the Presi
dent's position.
COTTON THIS WEEK
New Orleans —There will be no bu
reau reports In the cotton market this
week and the trading probably will not
give as much consideration to statistics
as It has been giving It Is likely nt
tenton will be centered on the spot sit
uation, and that developments In Hie
spot markets of the South will be the
main Influence In the market for con
tracts Spot* hsve attracted a great
deal of Interest of late. This week an
Intpoiteat nolnt In connection with this
demand will he settled. Beals have
claimed that the Inquiry hns come chief
ly from those exporters who had Jan
uary commitments to fill; bulls, on the
other hand while acknowledging thut
January shipments had much to do with
the situation, hive claimed that a fresh
demand was being created arid that mill
men were coining to a realisation that
supplies this season, at the best, can he
only moderate.
With 'January shipment* out of tho
way, they expect buying to fill March
engagements, which would mean that
Feoruarv would not he the dead month
H usually Is.
Another question that probably will
cause in ifrn or less discussion tide week,
Is that Of the seed supply for the com
ing planting season. Information fr m
the belt all winter, has been to the ef
fect that unfavorable weather conditions
during the fall. Injured the planting
value of seed greatly and that over a
large part of the belt farmers have noth
lug but Inferior seed. Information con
cern l*g It Is expected this week.
Judge Sturgis Gives 'em Each Four Years
in Reformatory, Then Suspends Sentence
Judge fitly Sturgis of the Juvenile
Court tried and convicted this morn-
Inf all hut throA of an even dozen
small negro hoya, each charged with
rock-lhrowing. The eases were heard
In the recorder’* court immediately
after the regular morning session of
Judge Irvin.
The scared within an Ineh-of-thelr
life negroeH were strung out in a line
In front of Judge Sturgis, who spvike
sternly as he arraigned them all on
the "very serious" charge. Kaeh
"swore’’ against the other, and It la
alleged that the majority of them
spoko regardless of the truth.
AFTERNOON NEWSPAPERS
The Louisville (Ky.) Post says:
Three Influential newspaper*—two
In the United Mates and one In (’an
ada—refer In approximately the same
lerms to the steadily widening Influ
ence of the afternoon newspaper and
the Infinitely more valuable service
rendered tho advertiser by the paper
that Is published during the day than
the paper that is published, read and
put aside before the day's work be
gins.
The Duluth, Minn., Herald reviews
the newspaper situation In a number
of cities of 250,000 population and
over snd concludes that the field of
the morning newspaper la narrowing,
while the expansion of the afternoon
newspaper hys Just begun.
The Huffalo, N. Y., News continues
the discussion, and says with muon
force:
There wne a time when the morn
ing newspaper dominated the field,
but the means of communication ari
now so admirable and so prompt that
the evening newspaper gets tho news
of the day on the day of Its happen
ing, and tho busy citizen going to
work early, or hla wife getting busy
In tl*u household, has not the time
at command for a careful and thor
ough rending of the morning news
paper.
The Toronto, Canada, Dally Mar,
reprints the article from the Ruffa'o
newspaper as conclusive of the sub-
Jcct under consideration
Tho rna.tter Is, Indeed, ono that tho
ASSETS $400,000 AND
LIABILITIES $600,000
(Continued from page one.)
a former employe of the Irlsh-Amerl
can Bank, have been discovered.
Boatwright resigned his position sev
eral weeks before the Jours of the
Institution were closed.
The last published atutement of Iho
Irlsh-Amerlcan, rna/le last fall, allow
ed the deposit* to bo $309,000.
THE JUDGE'S REMARKS.
In appointing Mr. Alexander re
ceiver Judge Hammond said:
"Several names have been suggested
for thlg position. All or them excel
lent. men. While the responsibility for
the appointment reqts upon tho court
still the court has requested all
parties at Interest to express their
views In the premises. In the discus
sion It was a generally expressed opin
ion that while all the names mention
ed were worthy of the appointment
that It would, under all the circum
stances, be most advantageous to *e
cure the services of a member of the
bar. Because of his high standing
In the community his general fttness
and his legal ability I shall appoint
Mr. Irvine Alexander.
BEGIN SECOND WEEK OF
SPEER INQUIRY
(Contluned from Page One.)
house said that It probably would re
quire another week to aomplete their
work,
Counsel Present.
The following, of Judge Speer’s
counsel, are In attedanee:
Former Associate .Justice Andrew
J. Cobb, of Athens for many years a
member of the state supreme court;
W. H. Howard, of Augusta; Orville A.
Park, of Macon, and E. H. Callaway,
of Augusta
Witness Lawrence.
That In his opinion Judge Rpeer had
never selected a Jury according to law
By “Bud” Fisher
All were convlrted except three by
the names of Henry end Jesse Shew
niake and Henry Moaley. The con
vleled oneg were Warren laicc, Bow
Hunt'll, Charlie Roberson, Frank (Jap
liug. Bogan t Tapp. Willie Ri: per.
Robert (iladtnan, L. Leonard and
Chas. Redder.
Their sentences were four years
each in the reformatory and were all
suspended on condition that they
never again in their lives come be
fore his honor on any charge. In
case they did they would be made to
serve their time —four years.
Mr. Sturgis, formerly probation offi
cer, WJM recently mad.- judge.
average citizen can see for himself.
Board a street ear In the morning snd
notice the morning newspapers as
they are going away from the home.
Their circulation Is limited to the In
dividual who reads. There Is no time
for anything but a hasty perusal, and
then the paper Is laid aside.
Turn to the end of the day. The
street cars are filled with men and
women With, newspapers In their hupds
and every one of those news[>apers Is
going to the home. They contain the
news of the day that hns ended and
all of Its news. They are read on tho
street cars and they are read by the
ottier members of the family in the
evening.
The same principle of necessity
holds true of tho newspapers deliv
ered In the home In the morning and
In the evening. The headlines may
he scanned at the breakfast table,
but not In one household In fifty !a
there an opportunity for careful news
paper reading nt the beginning of tho
day. On the other hand, there are
few homes Into which tho afternoon
newspaper goes where three or four
times the amount of time Is not given
to Its perusal than to Its morning
competitor.
All of this Is bringing about a great
change In Amerlrnn Journalism. Tho
function of the morning newspaper
will be more and more that of tho
bulletin board; the afternoon newspa
per will he prepared to he read from
cover to cover.
was the charge of Alex A. Lawrence,
a local attorney, first witness today.
Mr. Luwronee, a former member of tho
general assembly of Georgia who wan
employed as counsel by the defendants
In the Oreene-Gaynor case. "It would
be Hn unusual thing to see Judge
Speer draw a Jury In open court" said
Mr. I-awrenee. "only when counsel
lrslsts does he drHW Juries In open
court, snd then not always."
Something "Going On.”
Mr, Lawrence testified that he had
Inard something mysterious was "go
ing on” In connection with the draw
ing of the grand Jury that Indicted
Greene and Gaynor. "I made an In
vestigation and aacertalned that Judgo
Speer hud given an order to T. F.
Johnson, clerk of court, carrying »ug
gcstlona for the preparation of the
Jury llsta" the wltneaa teatlfled."
In reply to questions from Chair
man Webb, Mr. IxiWrence stated that
he had been fined SIOO by Judge
Speer for contempt for charging the
latter with "fixing up” the special
Greene-Gaynor grand Jury.
Peonage Css*.
Testifying concerning a peonage case
tried before Judge Speer the witness
said:
"Word wae brought to me the day
before the trial that the defendant had
better plead guilty. I understood
Judge SReer sent this word and thut
he stood ready to be lenient with them
If they would plead guilty, but If thev
did not lt would go hard with them.
They paid no attention to the message
and as a result Judge Speer Intimi
dated the defendants and two of thetr
lawyers In court In the presence of the
Jury. Later they did decide because of
Judge Speer’s attitude to plead
guilty, notwithstanding they were In
nocent. Fines of SSOO were assessed
against each of them.”
RE3ENTENCED TO HANG.
Gainesville, Ga. —Today In H&11
County Court, Judge Jones,
Jim Cantrell, for complicity wit/
Sylvia Hawkins, and Bartow Cantre/
In tho murder of Arthur Hawkl/
was re-sentenced to hang "by ti ,
neck till dead" Friday February 2Z.
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