VOL. XXIV. THOMSON, GEORGIA, RIDAY, JULY 20, 1923 (
DEATH OF MB. J.
EDGARWILSON
In the death of Mr. James Edgar
Wilson, Sr., Thomson loses one of
its best and most Influential citi
zens. Death came Tuesday after-
no-on shortly after four o’clock and
was not unexpected, as for the
past year he had been in failing
health incident to a stroke of paral
ysis sustained last summer. All
was done for him that could be
done by the best physicians in the
State.
Mr. Wilson was one of the best
known and most influential men
in McDuffie county. He usually
took a leading part in politics and
has served a number of times on
the McDuffie County Democratic Ex
ecutive Committee. He was an in
tensive farmer and a successful one.
besides having an extensive rea$
estate and proprty investment in
Thomson. He was always ready to
back any enterprise that was start
ed for the betterment of Thomson
and McDuffie county.
Possibly no man in the county
had more friends than Mr. Wilson.
He was a hale fellow well met in
the true sense of the word. He al
ways had a pleasant word for those
with whom he came in contact.
One of his annual pleasantries was
to give a barbecue to his friends,
and it was well said of him that
few men knew how to act the host
as well as he on these specital oc
casions. He was loved by all classes
of people and his benefactions were
an integral part of his character
istics.
Mr. Wilson was 63 years of ago.
He had been married three itmes
and left a large, family to mourn
his passing. His first wife was
Miss Kate Neal, who lived only
about a year after their marriage.
Several years after her death, Mr.
Wilson was married to Miss Delle
Gibson, of Columbia County, and
from this union six children were
born, five of whom survive. They
are, Mrs. J. B. Boyd, Mrs. W. W.
Downing, of Thomson; Mrs. W. H.
McManus, of Birmingham, Ala.;
Mrs. Frank Hoe"y, of Shelby, N. C.;
and J. E. Wilson, of Thomson.
On June, 18th. 1 886, Mr. Wilson
married Miss Dixie Printup of Dear-
ing, who survives him. From this
union three children were born as
follows: W. P. Wilson, of Thomson:
James B. Wilson, of the Medical
College at Augusta, and Boykin
Wilson. He is also survived by n
number of grand children. Also
two sisters. Mrs. Cora Harrison, of
Thomson, and Mrs. C. N. Churchill
of Augusta.
Funeral services were held at the
home on Main Street Wednesday
afternoon at 5 o’clock, conducted
by Rev. J. T. Robins, pastor of the
Methodist church, of which he was
a member assisted by Rev. C. C.
Kiser of the Baptist church. In
terment was at West View ceme
tery and was attended by one of
the largest gatherings that was ever
witnessed at a funeral in Thomson.
A gorgeous array of floral offerings
attested the large number of friends
of the deceased from Thomson and
the surrounding community.
During the funeral services at
the home the house wag filled to
overflowing and the yard was filled
with the sorrowing friends many
of whom had known Mr. Wilson
all his life.
Following were the friends and rela
tives attending the funeral from out of
town.
Mr3. J. B. Davenport, Mr. and Mrs.
D, L. Printup, Mrs. Dan Printup, Mr.
J. W. Gibson. Mr. J. R. League, Mr.
and Mrs. C. N. Churchill, Mr. and Mrs.
H. L. Cheeves, Mrs. J. H. Righnon,
Mr. G. H. Embree, Miss Josie Shea,
Miss Kathleen Fisk, Mrs. Alva Watson,
Mr. Godfrey Pheiffer, Mr. H. B. Jenk
ins, from Augusta; Mr. H. I. Bowen,
Crawfordville; Mr. C. P. Savage, Wal
lace, N. C.; Mrs. C. E. Scott. Miss S.
Scott, Mr. Marsh, Columbia, S. C.; Mr.
and Mrs. Jack Paschal, Charlotte, N.
C.; Mr. anti Mrs. Frank Hoey, Shelby,
N. C.; Mrs. Collier, Montgomery, Ala.:
Mrs. Parker Smith, Elberton; Mr. and
Mrs. Yancey Lowe, Washington; Miss
Miriam Harrison and Miss Hayes, Can
ton; Mrs. Bailev Jones, Mr. Hugh Pas
chal, Mr. Clem Bailey, Harlem; Mr. C.
F. Printup, Mr. C. T. Printup, Mrs. E.
H. Wilson, Mrs. Will Adams, Mr. T.
E. Morgan, Atlanta; Mrs. T. P. Reville,
Jeaup; Mrs. J. R. Printup, Mr. and
Mrs. B. R. Printup, Mr. and Mrs. Earl
Printup. Dearing; Mr. and Mrs. Marion
Felts, Warrenton.
House Votes
For Tax Repeal
Wednesday the House of Representa
tives of the Georgia Legislature voted
on the Stovall bill to repeal the tax
equalization law, which was voted al
most unanimously in the Senate last
week. This is considered in the light
of a te3t voie in both houses, and while
it does not actually repeal the tax
equalization law, it shows that the
membership of the Legislature is ready
to kill the law, so it is understood.
The Senate on Wednesday passed
the Mundy bill, which calls for biennial
sessions of the Legislature.
JOHNSON WINS IN
MINNESOTA RACE
FARMER-LABORITE GETS SENA 1fc.
SEAT BY VERY LARUE
MAJORITY
IS TEST 6F ADMINISTRATION
Had Lead Of 26,588 Votes Over Preus
With Less Than Half Of I he
Precincts Tabulated
St. Paul, Minn.—Magnus Johnson, a
practical farmer, of Kimball, Minn.,
was elected United States senator
from Minnesota in succession to the
late Ivnute Nelson. Johnson Is a
farmer-laborite and a follower of Rob
ert M. La Follette.
When 1,729 of the state s 3,520 pre
cincts had reported, Johnson had a
lead of 26.688 over Governor Preus,
the count standing: Johnson 169,521;
Preus 142,933 and Carley 13,620. This
vote—309,6615—was belioved to repre-
sent about three-fifths of the total
cast.
Johnson’s plurality probably will ex
ceed 40,000 returns indicated, with
Governor J. A. O. Preus, Republican,
in second place and James A. Cartey,
Democrat, trailing far behind. Preus
had announced his intention to sup
port the Harding administration.
Tho main issue in the special elec
tion held in Minnesota to elect a suc
cessor to the late Knute Nelson, as
viewed by the country at large, was
Harding or La Follette. issues inject
ed into the contest, making it clearly
regarded as a test of the present ad
ministration.
Governor J. A. O. Preus, twice gov
ernor of Minesota, and who was de
feated by Magnus Johnson, was an ad
herent of the Harding administration.
He was nominated in the June 18
primaries from a field on nine candi
dates.
Johnson during his campaign an
nounced his intention of affiliating
with the La Follette group in congress
If elected and he will support the farm
bloc.
Preus, the defeated candidate, last
fall was re-elected chief executive of
Minnesota over Johnson by a plurality
of 14,000 votes.
Umpire Released; Strike Is Probable
New York.—W. J. Phyle, an Inter
national League umpire whose last as
signment was the Baltimore-Rochester
series at Rochester, has been released
by John Conway Toole, president of
the circuit. Jack Manley, secretary
of the league, in announcing here the
news of Phyle’s release, said he had
heard nothing of an umpire’s strike at
Rochester or anywhere else in the In
ternational wheel. The report of the
strike apparently came from Balti
more. Manley said he couldn’t explain
it but suggested that it may have pro
ceeded from a misunderstanding of
Phyle’s release.
Conviction Of Garvey Is Resented
Washington,—A united protest from
many negroes throughout the country
against the recent conviction in New
York of Marcus Garvey, head of the
Universal Negro Improvement asso
ciation, was voiced in scores of tele
grams addressed to the Washington
office of the Associated Press. Each
of the messages reported sentiments
said to have been expressed at a
negro mass meeting. They came from
nearly every state, and were identical
except for the number of persons re
ported as in attendance at each local
meeting.
French General Guest Of U. 3. vets
Chicago.—Gen. Henry J. F. Gou-
rand, commander of the Rainbow di
vision in the Champagne, will be the
guest of the 149th field artillery when
he arrives here. He recently has
been the guest of the Rainbow nivi-
sion at its convention in Indianap-
lis.
Three Murdered By Knife Mena
New York.—A knife fiend entered
the home of Morris Briggs and cut
the throats of Mrs. Briggs and her
two daughters, Marie and Grace. The
husband, 35, returning from work,
found the bodies on the floor in sep
arate rooms.
Allies And Turks Reach Agreement
Lausanne, Switzerland.—An agree
ment was reached on all the outstand
ing difficulties in the near east con
ference and nothing remains in tne
way of signature of peace. Ismet Pa
sha, head of the Turkish delegation,
and the allied delegates discussed for
several hours the questions of conces
sions and evacuation by foreign
troops of Turkish soldiers, and when
the sessions were resumed the atmos
phere was electrical, recalling the
night of February 4, when Lord Cur-
zon delivered his ultimatum and left'
Marked Great Railroad’* Completion.
The hist spike, thus completing the
milding of the Canadian Pacific rall-
vay, was driven November 7, 1880.
OPPOSE REPARATION PLAN
Premier Says Government Is Agalnsi
Any New Body To Replace The
Reparations Commission
Senlis, France.—Premier Poincare
proclaimed the French government’s
unalterable decision resolutely to
stand for the complete execution of
the Versailles Peace Treaty with the
German debt at 132,000,000,000 gold
marks as agreed upon by the allies at
the London conference and against
any international financial committee
to replace the reparation commission.
M. Poincare said France had done
with making concessions to Germany.
She was tired of temporizing with
that country. The premier’s strongly
worded address, while carefully re
fraining from mentioning the speech
of Stanley Baldwin, the British prime
minister, in the house of commons,
last week, Is considered as the French
government’s prelimniary answer to
the British position with regard to the
occupation of the Ruhr.
M. Poincare chose for his pro
nouncement this town, which marks
the farthest advance of the Germans
and where the latter executed hos
tages, placed civilians in the line of
the French fira^- and burned part of
the town in reprisal against alleged
civil resistance. The premier based
his conclusions on France’s legal right
under the treaty “signed by 28 na
tions and which cannot be considered
after four years as an antedeluvian
fossil.’’
M. Poincare professed to have no
hatred and no spirit for revenge for
the devastation, the traces of which
wero visible from where he spoke.
“W should like no longer to talk of
devastation or to think of it,” he de
clared. “We should like to forget—
even to forgive.”
France, said M. Poincare, had been
no better treated in reparations than
in the concessions wrong from her
and the security denied her.
"In the reparation commission, un-
established under the treaty,” he
said, “we are in the minority, al
though ours is the major interest.
Nevertheless it has been sought for
four years to relieve this commission
of its powers, to replace It with In
ternational financial committees so as
to attempt to coalesce against inter
ests opposed to ours.”
“White Rose” Miller Gets Sentence
Jackson, Miss.—Dr. S. D . Miller,
negro physician, who, when he had a
supply of narcotics wore a white rose
in his lapel and when he had none
substituted a red rose, was under
sentence to spend the next four years
and eight months in the federal prison
in Atlanta. The federal court of ap
peals a few days ago sustained his
conviction for selling narcotics and
Federal Judge Holmes passed sen
tence. Miller was known generally
as “White Rose” Miller after he
adopted his system of signals.
Man Ends Life After Shooting Wife
High Point, N. C.—The body of
Grady Taylor, 22, who, according to
the coroner, committed suicide after
shooting and seriously wounding his
wife, Mrs. Jennie Taylor, was being
held to await arrival of relatives from
Greer, S. C. Mrs. Taylor reacted
favorably from an operation, it was
said at the hospital and is expected
to recover. The double shooting at
the Taylor home here followed domes
tic troubles police said.
Injunction Halts I. W. W. Activities
Sacramento, Calif.—California’s war
against the I. W. W. and its activities
passed to a new stage following the
issuance by Superior Judge Charles
O. Busick, of Sacramento county, of
a sweeping temporary injunction pro
hibiting virtually all activities of the
organization and affiliated bodies in
this state. Hearing of making the
Injunction permanent was set for the
25th of July.
Loss In Big Fire Set At $1,500,000
Wallace, Idaho.—Fire that swept
up Burke canon recently, destroying
tl\e little mining town of Mace and
all except the eastern residence sec
tion of Burke, Idaho, was brought un
der control, after having wrought
damage estimated at $1,500,000.
Six Months' Session Of Assembly Ends
Madison, Wis.—The 56th regular
session of the Wisconsin legislature
adjourned sine die recently, ending
a session that has extended over six
months.
Tax Measure Fails On Requirements
Fargo, N. D.—North Dakota’s 1923
income tax, designed to raise $1,400,-
000 annually, is now in effect. The
first income .tax of the state was
levied by then-non-partisan regime,
but was more mild than the 1923
law, as it raised only about $50,000
annually. Exemptions in the state
law are similar to those in the na
tional—$1,000 for single persons, $2,-
000 for married couple, $300 for each
child. The rate of taxation is 2 per
cent for the first $1,000 to 6 per cent
on $10,000. **
And Few Escape.
The average amount of Illness In
human life la nine days out of the
year.
WOULD DISSOLVE
HARVESTER FIRM
ATTORNEY GENERAL DAUGHER
TY DEMANDS SEPARATION OF
BIG CORPORATION
FEAR COMPLETE MONOPOLY
Action would separate into I nree
Distinct Corporations—Trade Com
mission Behind Move
Washington.—Separation of the In
ternational Harvester company into
at least three distinct corporations,
with wholly separate owners, stock
holders and officials, was demanded
by Attorney General Daugherty in a
petition filed in the federal district
court at St. Paul, Minn.
Such a step is necessary, the attor
ney general’s petition declared, be
cause the dissolution decree originally
entered against the company in 1918
had proved "inadequate’’ to break up
restraint of trade and restore compe-
tion in the production of harvesting
machines and other farm implements.
Unless steps are taken to effect a
real dissolution, the petition contin
ues, “the monopolistic control, exerted
by tiie defendant, will increase and
the vision of complete monopoly,
which the organizers of the company
had in 1902, will be completely real-
ized,’’ to the detriment of the farm
ers of the country in their purchases
of farm machinery.
The action of tho attorney general
was taken after prolonged conferences
among government officials and fol
lows the line suggested by the federal
trade commission in a report to tho
senate in 1920. The petition declared
that a reasonable “test period" has
been given the corporation since the
close of the >vorld war, as provided
in the original decree, to rearrange
its organization in the interest of the
public. That period having passed,
it is added, the United States now
has the right to such further relief as
may be necessary to restore competi
tive conditions.
Specifically, the petition cited tho
International Harvester company, the
International Harvester Company
of America, the International Flax
Twine company, the Wisconsin Steel
company, the Wisconsin Lumber com
pany, the Illinois Northern railway,
and the Chicago, West Pullman and
Southern Railroad company and the
officers and directors of all these con
cerns, as parties to the alleged combi-
uation.
The number of independent manu
facturers, it is declared, steadily is
shrinking because of their inability to
compete with the International. In
1918, it was asserted, the Interna
tional produced by 64 per cent of the
harvesting implements manufactured,
while during 1922, the percentage was
sixty-six.
Chicago.—Prices of harvesting ma
chinery are the result of vigorous
competition, which the Sherman law
was enacted to preserve, and are
fairly comparable with the price of
other implements fixed by normal
competition. Alexander Legge, pres
ident of the International Harvester
company, says, In a statement com
menting on the government’s suit
against the company filed in federal
district court at St. Paul.
The suit, Mr. Legge said, is a con
tinuation of the government action
brought against the company eleven
years ago. The Harvester company,
he says, was acquitted by court
findings and the attorney generai’s
admission of any wrongful dealings
3r unfair practices towards customers
or competitors, but in 191S a decree
was entered to insure fullest com
petition, requiring the company to
sell to competitors certain complete
lines of harvesting machinery and
limiting sales representatives to a
single dealer In any one city. That
decree, he said, provided that at the
snd of a test period which has now
sxpired, the government might ask
the court to determine whether or not
the competition contemplated by the
Sherman anti-trust law exists in the
farm implement industry. This step
the government is now taking, the
statement says.
Three Acquitted In Small Case
Waukegan, 111.—Charges that Gov
ernor Small was acquitted by a cor
rupted jury in his trial in the Lake
county circuit court here last June
were swept from the slate when the
jury hearing the trial of John B.
Fields, Edward Kaufman and Edward
Courtney returned a verdict of not
guilty for all three defendants. The
jury reached its verdict in one hour
and ten minutes. A thunder of ap
plause from the crowded court room
greeted the verdict when the Jury
returned to the court room .
Thought for the Day.
Too many of us are generous with
our brickbats and stingy with our bou
quets.
Is Reported H. are
Barrett Co. Fails
Although nothing has been seen In
the Augusta papers about the matter,
it is persistently rumored in Thomson
that the Barrett Co., cotton factors of
Augusta, have failed and that a meet
ing of the creditors was to be held this,
Friday morning at 10 o’clock.
Eighty-Ninth Anni
versary.
Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Scott and son and
Col. Earle D’A. Pearce, of Atlanta,
will arrive Saturday to spend the week
end. Col. ,:> earce has recently arrived
from Seattle, Wash., to take up his
duties as Commander of R. 0. T. C.
and the Georgia School of Technology.
Monday, July 23rd, is the eighty-ninth
birthday anniversary of Mr. R. H.
Pearce, and three of his four children
will spend it with him.
In May Furman University conferred
the Master’s Degree upon Mr. Pearce,
fifty-five years after he was graduated
from the institution.
Knights of Pythias to
Have Annual
Barbecue.
The Knights of Pythias will serve
their annual barbecue Tuesday, July
24th, 6:30 P. M. at Mr. B. F. Johnson's
grove. Members of the Order are re
quested to see J. D. Baston for ticket*.
After the barbecue all members are re
quested to meet at the lodge room for
the purpose of installing officers and
conferring the third degree.
O. F. MONTGOMERY.
Pasture Demonstration.
A pasture demonstration will be Held
at 10:30 A. M., August 2nd, at the test
pasture of Mrs. Ira E. Farmer. A
representative of the Georgia Railroad
and specialist from the State College of
Agriculture will be present. All inter
ested in pasture improvement are cor
dially invited to come.
Young People’s Rally.
There will be an ail day rally, especi
ally for young people of the Kilpatrick
Association, on Wednesday, July 25, at
Thomson Baptist church.
Mrs. E. E. Lee. leader of young
peoples work, has arranged a splendid
program.
Every church in this association
should be represented.
MRS. CLYDE HUNT, Supt.
THOMSON WATER.
Atlanta, Ga., July 17.
Mr. S. F. Neal, City Clerk,
Thomson, Georgia.
Dear Sir; I wish to make the
following report on samples of wa
ter collected on July 9:
Samples Nor. 2584 to 2586,
from mains on White Oak, Rail
road and East Hendricks Streets,
all show at this time a very excel
lent water.
I amenclosing result of analysis.
H. C. Woodfal,, Director.
INCOME TAX BILL J ASSES
SENATE.
By a vote of 45 to 1 the State
Senate Tuesday passed an income
tax bill in which the constitutional
ad valorem maximum is reduced to
4 mills from 5, and $200 worth of
household and kitchen furniture is
exempt from all taxation. The vic
tory of this, the Lankford measure,
was far more decisive than its ad
vocates had hoped for.
The bill goes to the House with
two amendments which are intend
ed to broaden and perfect it, and
will probably be acted on this week.
MINNESOTA ELECTION WORRIES
REPUBLICANS.
The election of Magnus Johnson,
of Minnesota, to the United States
Senate Tuesday over Governor Pre
us a strong Republican, is taken
by" the seers to indicate that there
is going to bo a revolution in polit
ical circles coining soon. The results
were considered as the voice of the
farmer-labor element in protest
against present conditions, and is
spoken of as the shot that will be
heard all over the country as the
voters voice their sentiments.
SHERIFF GOES FOR PRISONER.
Sheriff Adkins left Wednesday
for Bainbridge to bring back to
Thomson, Thomas Elliott, who es
caped from the McDuffie county jail
about two months ago, where he
was confined on a liquor charge.
He was taken in custory a* Bain
bridge and Sheriff Adkins notified
to come after him. The Sheriff will
probably arrive in Thom so.a Satur
day with his prisoner.
NEW DRUG STORE OPENS.
The new drug store of Messrs.
Floyd Montgomery and Ernest
Smith, which will be called the
Palace Drug Store, has been opened
to the public and is ready for busi
ness. They have a handsome place
and are well fitted up.
As soon as the seats arrive the
Palace Theatre will be moved to
the same bulling In the rear.
NUMBER 80
Honors Paid Mrs*
Alice Louise Lytle
Honors seldom coming to a woman
were paid Mrs. Alice Louise Lytle on
her visit to the capitol last week. In*
deed, never before has a woman been
accorded the privileges shown her by
both House and Senate on this occasion.
She was granted the privileges of the
floor in both houses, which she visited
during the day.
Speaker Neil had her escorted to the
speaker’s stand where she sat with him
as long as she remained in the house.
This was rather a pleasing compliment
to a visiting woman. She was liberally
applauded as she was escorted down
the aisle and took her seat beside the
speaker.
Mrs. Lytle, as everyone knows, i>
managing editor of The Columbia Sen*
tinel, the nationally known publication
established and edited by the late Sen*
ator Thomas E. Watson. She is indus*
triously endeavoring to keep alive the
principles for which Mr. Watson stood,
and possiblv no other person is so wel]
fitted for this task as Mrs. Lytle. She
was his close associate and secretary
during the heighth of his busy career,
and no one understood or could appre
ciate his aims and ambitions as she.
Her ambition now is to carry on and
keep alive those things for which Mr,
Watson fought so valiantly and was 00
admirably rewarded by his people.
Thomson Lady
100 Years Old
Our town has the distinctive honor
of having in it a lady who is one hun»
dred years old, Wednesday, the 18th of
July. She is Mrs. Sarah Ellen Johnson,
and was born July 18th, 1823. She
lives with her daughter, Mrs. Ophelia
Arnett and son, Mr. Addie Johnson out
on Gordon street, near Mrs, Ellington's.
It had been planned to celebrate her
birthday with a family reunion and
barbecue, but because of the serious
illness of Mrs. Arnett it had to be post
poned. Mrs. Johnson is remarkably
well preserved for one of her age and
stays up around the house attending to
light household duties, and can go Up
and down steps to walkout in the yard.
Her maternal grandfather lived to bO
one hundred and fifteen years old.
Dr. Hughes Locates
Offices In Thomson
Mr. W. H. Hughes, chiropractor,
with headquarters in Augusta, hai
located offices in the Knox building id
Thomson, where he will have hours itl
the afternoon on Mondays, Wednesdays
and Fridays of each week.
Dr. Hughes comes to Thomson with
fine recommendations in his profession,
Those who have taken treatment under
him speak in high praise of the efficacy
of his service.
Camp Meeting
Whiteoak Camp Meeting will open
Wednesday night, August 1st, and
close Monday morning, August 6th.
Since the encampment is incorpor
ated and remembering former experi
ences, precautions will be taken to pre
vent and deal with whiskey selling and
drinking, as well as other foims of dis
order.
Arrangements have been made for
good preaching at each service. Every
body is invited. Come, praying God's
power to rest upon the meeting.
J. W. QUILLIAN, P. E.
Attend Barbecue.
Among the Thomson people attend
ing the barbecue given on Wednesday
afternoon by Mr. and Mrs. B. C.
Hatcher, were Mr. and Mrs. E. C,
Hawes, Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Curtis,
Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Johnson, Misses
Effie and Mary Ruth Johnson, Mrs.
Tom Lewis and children, of Miami,
Fla., Mr. Bob Johnson, Mr. Harry
Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Dunn,
Messrs. Eugene and Neal Dunn, Mr,
George Lokey, Misses Clara Mangum
and Dell Lokey, Mr. B. Rainy Wall,
Mr. and Mrs. Spence and little Laneir
Spence, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Hatcher.
MONSTER FISH.
Mr. Sam Neal, of Dearing, with'
a party of seiners, last Saturday
caught a rock fish, which' Is similar
to trout, in Headstall creek, a small
stream below Dearing. The flsn.
weighed 31 1-2 pounds and was
about four feet long. How a fish
of that size came to be in such a
small stream which occosionally
runs dry, is a mystery, but It Is
thought it must have come up Briar
Creek from the Savannah river, an$
then to Headstall creek.
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