IRWINTON BULLETIN
Official Organ 0( Wilkinson County.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
ÜBSCRUTION A YEAR IN
ADVANCE.
SAM W. HATFIELD. Editor,
LEE P. HATFIELD. Assistant,
Advertising rktes furnished on Ap
plication.
Ei sered at the Irwinton post-office a*
second-class mail matter
BATTLE RAGED MANY
HOURS ON BORDER
Cost Important Engagement
of Mexican Revolt.
SEVERAL AMERICANS WOUNDED
In Spite of the Warning of the United
States, Bullets Poured on the Amer
ican Town of Douglas, Ariz. —Seven
Ncn-Combatants Wounded
The most Important battle of the
Mexican revolution thus far was
lought at Agua Prieta, Monday, be
tween 1,600 federate, under command
of Lieut. Col. Diaz, and 1,000 rebels,
uncer Balasaric Garcia, and resulted
In the repulse of the former.
The battle, however, .was not finally;
decisive. It lasted from 6:30 a. mJ
until sundown. At nightfall two fed-j
eral machine guns were in the posses
sion ot the rebels and the federate
had sustained a loss estimated by the
rebels as at least 200 killed and
wounded. The rebels gave their own
loss at 20.
From the beginning of the battle,
regardless of the warning given by
the United States government to the
leaders of both forces, a rain of bul
lets po ted into the American town
of Douglas, and when the day was
over, it was found that seven non
combatant residents of that city were
wounded. It was a day almost of ter
ror in Douglas.
Taft Plays Last Card.
A Washington dispatch says that
President Taft felt that he had done
personally all that can be done by a
chief executive to control the situa
tion along the Mexican border. He
and his advisers believe that now
congress must say whether the situa
tion is grave enough to warrant inter
vention and its consequences.
Through the state department the
administration played what might be
regarded as its last card. It reiterated
in no uncertain fashion the represen
tations made to Mexico a few days
age, that affairs like that at Douglas
and Agua Prieta last week must not
be repeated.
Instead of awaiting the customary
period for a formal reply from Mex
ico, the department asked for imme
diate assurances that there be no
more fighting that endangered Ameri
cans in the border towns. Informa
tion was requested also as to what
measures the authorities had taken
to prevent future combats of this
kind.
A few hours after the department
announced that it had Issued this sec
und demand the dispatches from
Douglas began to come into the war
department, showing that the second
battle of Agua Prieta had begun.
Demands Investigation.
Searching inquiry into the situation
in Mexico is demanded in a resolution
offered at Washington by Senator
Stone, of Missouri. The resolution
calls on the senate committee on for
eign relations to undertake an inves
tigation because of the dangers to
American Ilves and property.
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LATIKG W
HAS BEM
The laying of the track has
really begun on the Irwinton and
Mclntyre railroad. The laying
of the steel started last Tuesday
morning and they have, about
one-half of a mile of track put
down. Mr, Barfield, of Abbe
ville, has the work in charge and
if they can get the cross-ties, it
will not take but a few weeks to
bring it right on in to Irwinton.
Labor is so hard to get in this
section that it will take consid
erable longer on account of be
ing unable to get sufficient
hands.
The committee that has the
work in charge has secured
enough steel to lay the track, but
are having trouble in securing a
locomotive, but they think that
they will get one in the course of
a few days.
Famous Lecturer
io be Here Soon
Prof. W. A. Tison has arranged,
at great expense, for the famous New
York lecturer, Dr. Southern, to pre
his lecture “if I Were the Devil” at
the Court House here next Wednes
day right.
Dr. Southers is known on the plat
form all over North America and
parts of Europe, having among his
auditors some of the most learned
men in the woHd, and can certainly
give any one their money’s worth of
good solid intelectual entertainment
interspersed with spice, wit’ and
humor.
Come out and hear him. You
perhaps will never get such another
opportunity as long as you Lvo.
TAX NOTICE.
Second Round:
Irwinton on Tuesday, May 2,
from 10 a. m. to 3 p. m.
High Hill—May 3, from 2 to
3 p. m.
Griffin—May 4, from 10 a. m.
co 3 p. m.
Turkey Creek —B. C. Arnold’s
store, on May 5, from 1 to 3 p. m.
Bethel—Brook’s old store, on
londay, May 8, from 1 to 3 p. m.
Gordon—May 9, from 10 a. m.
to 3 p. m.
Ivy—May 10, from 10 a. m. to
2 p. m.
Bloodworth— 11
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FACTIO ' I IGE 1 NG.
Rival Clans of D. A R. Seeking Con
tra of O"gan‘zation.
With the lines closely drawn for
what is expected to prove the most
sensational battle the Daughters of
the American Revolution have ever
had, the twenty-first annual conven
tion of that organization began its ses
sion at Washington, D C., in Conti
nental Memorial hall.
President General Mrs. Mathew T
Scott presided. Right Rev Alfred
Harding, bishop of Was' ington, read
the Scriptu e and prayer, and Presi
dent Taft t- en delivered an address
of welcome.
When Mrs. Scott’s gavel fell at
10:30 o’clock, nearly 1,000 delegates
were gathered in the magnificent flag
draped and garlanded hall. Insur
gents and regulars are already aligned
for the coming struggle between the
Scott and Story factions for the pres
ident generalcy. The lines are drawn
and each faction of the great organiza
tion is, or professes to be, confident ol
electing its choice for president gen
era] for the ensuing term. The battle
centers about Mrs. Mathew T. Scott
president general, and Mrs. Willlan:
Cummings Story. Mrs. Scott is seek
ing re-election, and Mrs. Story is de
termined that she shall be elected
president general. Friends of both
candidates are fighting vigorously foi
their choice.
JAMES A. O’GORMAN.
Former Judge Chosen to Succeed
Depew as Senator From New York.
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PUBLICITY BILL PASSES.
Second Important Measure for the
Democrats.
The passage of the campaign public
ity bill by the house Friday by the
overwhelming vote of 303 to 0 makes
the second important measure passed
the past few days.
The party, however, met Its first
serious trouble fn the house Friday.
At the close of a session marked by
insurgency in the democratic ranks,
by reason of which the republicans
narrowly missed scoring a triumph,
the house passed the Rucker bill.’
But for the vigorous use of the dem
ocratic party whip an important, re
publican amendment extending public
ity to the individual receipts and ex
penses of candidates for congress
would have been retained in the bill
when it finally passed.
DEMOCRATSAMAZE
GRAND OLD PARTY
Quick Work in House Surprises
Republicans,
LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM RUSHED
The Democratic Leaders Plan to Put
All Their Measures Through the
House in Short While and Then
Watch the Senate Wrangle
The house democrats are now talk
ing about completing the enactment
of their entire legislative program by
the first of May. It is not by any
means certain that they will do it,
and they have not definitely set that
date as a time limit, but among them
selves they have made it a mark at
which to aim. Many of them are
firmly convinced that they will have
passed and sent over to the senate by
that time every legislative proposal
which they h^ve declared in advance
world go .through the house at this
special session.
The celerity with which the demo
crats in the house have started to en
acting bills on the legislative program,
now that the preliminaries of organi
zation are out of the way, has simply
amazed and confounded the republi
cans.
The strategy of the democratic ma
jority in the house with their plan of
campaign is now clearly disclosing it
self. They purpose sending over to
the senate in rapid succession all of
the legislative measures on which they
have reached an agreement. The at
tention of the country will be diverted
to the other end of the capitol and
away from the house when the sena
tors begin to quarrel over Canadian
reciprocity, direct election es senators
and the proposal to make campaign
contributions public before, as well as
after, election.
FIVE MEN MEET DEATH.
Great Kettle of Molten Metal Over
turned on Iron Workers.
Five workmen were killed, two were
fatally injured and twelve others se
riously hurt at the Midvale Steel
works, at Wayne Junction, Pa., when
a huge container filled with molten
steel gave way, the fiery liquid pour
ing or splashing over more than a
score of the employes.
The accident occurred in what is
known as the “open hearth No. 1.”
Several tons of the molten steel had
been poured into a huge container,
and it was being slowly propelled
along a traveling crane across the
shop to waiting Tnolds.
More than twenty men were under
and around it guiding the huge vessel
with long tongs, when, without warn
ing, a plug in the bottom of the con
tainer burst out and the molten steel
instantly began pouring through the
hole. It spluttered aind splashed over
some of the men, and they were com
pelled to. let go of the-tongs. In thus
releasing their hold, the huge kettle
became unsteady, and in the next in
stant it tilted over and poured down
a solid stream of Ue molten steel.
• In Memory
Little Tommie Madge Parker,
the second daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. C. H. Parker, Irwinton, Ga.
was born Oct. 20,1905, died Jan.
20, 1911; aged 5 years, 2 months
and 24 days.
Few towns, large or small,
have been called on to make a
larger contribution to the heav
enly gathering than was old Ir
winton when God asked for dear
little Madge.
Five years, two months and
twenty-four days seem a short
time for the dear little girl in
this world, but it was long
enough to live an unstained life
in two worlds* and long enough
to link heaven and earth, for
mamma and papa, as nothing
else could have done. Such seems
to have been the mission of the
dear, sweet child.
Having filled her mission, her
little life can justly lay claim to
the lines:
“Life’s race well run,
Life’s work well done,
Life’s crown well won,
And then comes rest.”
as the old and faithful servant
of God.
To her memory the family
dedicates the following lines:
“We had a little treasure once,
She was our joy and pride;
We loved her, ah! perhaps too
well,
For soon she slept and died.
All is dark within our dwelling
Lonely are our hearts today,
For the one we loved so dearly
Has forever passed away.”
P. A. JESSUP,
Pastor Irwinton Baptist Church
Special Notices.
' B. C. POD
Physician and Sur
geon,
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$20.00 THE HIGHEST
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